World Service Convention
It’s been a very long time since we all got together — 2016 in Boston! (Pandemic, don’t you know?) But it’s happening next summer.
It’s been a very long time since we all got together — 2016 in Boston! (Pandemic, don’t you know?) But it’s happening next summer.
One 7th Tradition was taken Friday afternoon for the entire conference. Delegates donated $9,411 in USD, and $20 AUS. Based on the din that greeted the announcement, delegates were impressed by the figure.
One the last measures the conference considered was to add term limits for trustees. This was offered as a bylaw amendment: “Trustees shall be elected at the annual WorldService Business Conference for a period of threeyears. Trustees may be elected at any annual Conference in order to fill the remaining term created by a vacancy…
R6 Chair Kimberly C asked on Friday for the conference to reconsider its decision of Thursday to consider major religious holidays in the scheduling of future conferences. Her rationale was that nonreligious people could feel as though they had been relegated to lesser status. Indeed, the second pro speaker said as much, quite emotionally. She…
Blair P and Bruce R were affirmed as candidates for election to OA’s Board of Trustees during the Fall Assembly, held Sept. 21 in Albany, N.Y. Both trusted servants are already serving on the board, by virtue of appointments to the board they sought in the aftermath of the World Service Business Conference. Blair P,…
OA’s bylaws state a number of prerequisites for members to be eligible to serve on the board, such as seven years’ membership in the program and having attended at least two World Service Business Conferences. The point of an amendment heard this morning was to specify what sort of experience at the Region level was…
The World Service Business Conference is so committed to information’s getting back to intergroups, meetings, and individual members that the conference manual’s first appendix is a form to be filled out indicating the sorts of information that should be carried back home. The first few blocks of the form are about who attended the conference,…