Word: membership
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...That the course's distinguished membership includes David Rockefeller '36, Hasan Mohd Khan '58, and the "talented" Ethel Waters...
Second, the new, uniform membership application used at all four stores for the first time this year did not adequately identify the various classifications. Many applicants inadvertantly checked the wrong box. Since these mistakes in no way affected billing, they were not discovered until the complete check. "As part of its total review of the election process, the By-Laws Committee is looking into ways of assuring accurate, up-to-date membership lists," Brown promises...
ANOTHER major aspect of the whole who-gets-to-vote-and-how problem concerns the fairness of not allowing almost half the membership to vote. For this reason the committee is considering alternate election procedures. Not only do they want to make it simpler, but they also want to make it fairer. Because the committee is still in the process of weighing different possibilities, Brown is reluctant to say what changes are likely to come about. "I can't believe we won't recommend at least some changes, but I don't know yet what those will...
...annual meeting to vote. Coop members would receive a ballot by mail with the stockholders' slate and any other slate which had gathered 25 signatures. Voting eligibility might expand to include all current Coop members. Although this plan would make the voting more indicative of the entire Coop membership, it would diminish the chance of electnig an alternate slate. After the last annual meeting, Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law and Coop vice-president and general counsel, admitted that proxy voting actually helps entrenched management. Stockholders generally tend to re-elect successful management...
MAKING the Board of Directors more reflective of the membership deeply concerns the By-Laws Committeee. The question of who gets elected in many ways embodies the other questions. Brown said, "We're trying to figure out a way to make our directors more representative of the entire membership. Let me put it this way, the fact that a thousand people showed up at the last meeting indicates that there is a strong interest on their part. There ought to be some representation of group as large as that, even if they are a minority in terms of the total...