Years ago I was on the Annual Meeting Planning Committee for the National Association of Teacher Educators. The hair brained idea was that the host of the convention should come from where the convention would not be. This sounds as dumb as it was, but the Baltimore, (I think it was by city but it could have been state) Maryland Chapter was in charge of the Atlanta meeting. I know we knew nothing about Atlanta, but it really was about the hotel and the meeting so I guess it didn’t matter.I was on the committee because they needed an artist to be in charge of the signs. Now this is crazy as well, but I can’t argue with history, and it got me to the meeting,so it was good.
The Saturday luncheon included a presentation of the Researchers of the Year Award, an award for doing the most innovative research in teacher education. The award that year (somewhere in the 70’s) went to two men who had a presentation of their research scheduled for 2:00 p.m., following the luncheon.
They came to us and said they had two hundred copies of their research abstracts, and did we think that would be enough. We had scheduled them for a main ballroom presentation, and given the honor of this prestigious award, we thought it would be better to do three or four hundred more copies. They went off to the business center at the hotel to arrange for several hundred collated copies of their abstracts.
We were busy at the convention central room, and at about 2:30 p.m., the researchers appeared. They were less than happy. They handed us 800 abstracts and said if anyone wanted them we could distribute them. It seems that Saturday afternoon, between the awards luncheon and the evening banquet, was not the best time to do a presentation.
No one attended!
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