Handbook Committee

Purpose:    To maintain an updated handbook for the use of the
officers, Executive Board, committee chairmen and the membership.

Duties:     1.  To revise the Handbook biennially for updated
information.
            2.  To expand the information included where needed
to make the Handbook a useful document for new officers and
chairmen.  It should include history and duties of each
office/committee and the Conference Handbook with the duties of
personnel involved in conference planning.

History:
            The Handbook was created by a special Handbook
Committee chaired by Mary Louise Rheay during the 1970-72
biennium, incorporating an operational manual, developed by
President Hoyt Galvin and Executive Secretary Ann Cobb in 1963. 
Afterwards, the committee was called the Handbook Revision
Committee.  A name change to Handbook Committee and standing
committee status were approved by the Executive Board in 1981.
            The 1982 Handbook was published and distributed to
the entire membership.  The 1982 Handbook Committee included a
new history that was extensively researched, and sections were
revised and expanded to reflect changes made in the 1980 revised
Constitution.
            The 1988 Handbook Committee updated information and
designed a handbook that could be added to without a complete
reprinting of the main content.  Because of extensive changes and
additions in the next few years, another revision was created in
1992, with the same flexibility designed into it.