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Proposed Bylaw Amendment
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the Society's Bylaws that appears on the following pages was approved by the Board of Governors at its January 31st meeting, and is now ready for consideration by the voting members of the Society. At a Business Meeting now scheduled for the Opening Session of the 67th Convention in Chicago on April 24th, members will be asked to submit their comments or criticisms of the proposal and then vote on the adoption of the Amendment. If approved, the Amendment will take effect at once and will be published with the Constitution in the May issue of the JOURNAL.
This is the second basic alteration of the rules governing the Society to be considered as a result of a three-year study of the Constitution, Bylaws and Administrative Practices. The first, developed early in 1949, produced the Constitutional Amendment, including the change of the Society's name, discussed at the Annual Business Meeting on October 10th in Hollywood, and subsequently approved by the voting membership for adoption as of January 1, 1950.
A special Committee on Revision of the Constitution and Bylaws was authorized by the Board of Governors and first appointed on January 23, 1947, by then President, Loren L. Ryder. It has been continued by President Earl I. Sponable and will now turn its attention to the task of preparing a parallel revision of the Administrative Practices.
The guiding principle in this work has been that of eliminating excess verbiage, together with a careful defining of committee procedures and responsibilities, where necessary. Examples of the effect of this reappraisal are the recent changes in organization of certain engineering committees, adopted on recommendation of J. A. Maurer, former Engineering Vice-President, and F. E. Carlson, Chairman of the Standards Committee. Greater responsibility for preparator3r work on standards has been placed on members of the Standards Committee, which is now made up largely of chairmen of the several engineering committees.
Members are urged to compare the following proposed Amendment with the present Bylaws, last published in the JOURNAL in April, 1949, p. 463. The recent Constitutional Amendment, including the change of name, last appeared, in the form as finally adopted, in the September, 1949, JOURNAL, p. 306. All voting members who can arrange to attend the April 24th Business Meeting are encouraged to do so and are invited to discuss freely the merits of the following proposal :
MARCH, 1950 JOURNAL OF THE SMPTE VOLUME 54 367