The ASA Executive Office is responsible for scheduling panels and private receptions, for registration, for exhibits, for the International Visitors Program (though the Panels Chair will place a Visitor on a panel when appropriate), for printing the preli minary and final program, for managing the Annual Meeting on site, for audio-visual arrangements for panel sessions, and for planning the banquet. The secretariat collects meeting papers an d makes them available to members.

Both the Panels Chair and the Program Chair need funding: the Panels Chair for released time, secretarial and communication expenses, and the Program Chair for sponsoring exhibits, receptions, performances and so on. The ASA President will write to the institution employing the Panels Chair urging that institution to provide the time and financing necessary. If desired, the ASA President will also write to the sponsoring institution to support the Program Committee's request for funding.

The ASA will provide partial funding for one meeting of the Panels Committee, to be set by the Chair, so that the Committee can arrange panels and put together a program draft. Otherwise the National Panels Committee will meet twice at the ASA meetings: the first meeting two years ahead of the meeting year for which it is preparing and the second, one year ahead of that meeting. The first meeting will allow the Committtee to begin pl anning the set of innovative/creative panels that are to b e arranged by the Committee itself.

In an effort to provide institutional memory and to facilitate the work of Program and Panels Chairs, the Board recommends that past, present and future chairs meet as a group at each Annual Meeting. By decision of the B oard in spring 1992, the panels chairs for the current calendar year and the following Annual Meeting are invited to attend the Spring Board Meeting. The Association covers the costs of travel to report on these occasions. In addition the Board asks the pr ogram and panels chairs for th e current year to report at the end of the Annual Meeting and invites the program and panels chairs named for future meetings to observe reporting sessions.