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It is once again time for all members of the Bertrand Russell Society to vote for representatives to the BRS Board of Governors. Voting has been simplified this year – you have eight votes to cast and seven candidates to choose from. You can’t go wrong! Originally, there had been eight nominees, but Laurie Endicott Thomas withdrew her nomination, as she has not been feeling well for a while, and was not sure that she would be able to serve if elected. However, she reports that she has been feeling much better recently due to a new treatment she has been trying. We hope that she continues to improve and that we will see her at the 2004 Annual Meeting this summer in New Hampshire. To continue with election news, those desiring a more competitive race may write-in for candidates who are members of the BRS in good standing. Ken Blackwell has proposed David Blitz, a research fellow at the Russell Archives at McMaster University who is on leave this year from Central Connecticut State, as a write-in candidate. David has agreed to serve if elected. His biography is listed below with those of the regular nominees. Other write-in candidates are similarly acceptable. Ballots are located in the center of this issue. Please return them to Tom Stanley, Box 434, Wilder, VT 05080 USA or email your vote to Tom at tom.stanley@valley.net. Tom is this year’s election committee. Each member of a couple with joint membership is entitled to vote. All ballots must include the name and (in the case of written ballots) the signature of the member voting, and must be received by December 31, 2003.
The nominees for the 2004-2006 term of the BRS Board of Directors are: Kenneth Blackwell (nominated by Chad Trainer), Dennis Darland (nominated by Chad Trainer), David Henehan (nominated by Warren Allen Smith), Stephen Reinhardt (nominated by Chad Trainer), David White (nominated by Chad Trainer), Tom Stanley (nominated by Peter Stone), John Lenz (nominated by Peter Stone). Kenneth Blackwell, a founding member of the BRS, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and has hosted several Annual Meetings of the Society at McMaster University. He edits the academic journal Russell. Dennis Darland graduated from Augustana College with a B.A. in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Since then, he has spent most of his life as a software engineer, and has independently pursued the academic subjects he studied at Augustana. In philosophy, he is particularly interested Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, Whitehead, and Dennett. He has served both as Board member and as Society Treasurer for many years. David Henehan has been a practicing lawyer for over 36 years. A graduate of Hamilton College and Cornell Law School, he thinks it is important for the Board of Directors to consist not only of academics but other interested persons with business experience. He further believes that lawyers are uniquely qualified to serve on non-profit boards. He has been a BR admirer and member of the BR Society for many years and has attended many annual meetings. He is a longstanding member of the BR Society of Rochester. He has been a secular humanist since childhood and currently serves on the Center for Inquiry, Inc. and its affiliated corporate boards as well as on a local Rotary handicapped children’s camp board. In the past, when he was a Unitarian-Universalist, he served the First Unitarian Church of Rochester as a board member, Vice President, and President. He would be honored to serve if elected. John Lenz is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at Drew University in Madison, NJ. A former President of the BRS (1995-99), host of the 1996 Annual Meeting, presenter of papers and author of a little article in Russell, he has been an officer or board member since 1984. He is currently the webmaster of the BRS webpage, but is in the process of turning this over to someone else. Although he would be willing to serve, he also welcomes new blood. Steve Reinhardt is the only BRS member to have attended every Annual Meeting to date. He is retired from the legal staff of Dupont. He is a long time Board member, and has served as Treasurer and on the Society’s Bylaws Revision Committee. Tom Stanley has been the Society librarian since 1984, and a director since 1985. He and his wife operate Stanley Books, specializing in the fine arts. David White holds a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University and has been teaching philosophy at St. John Fisher College in Rochester for twenty-five years. He has been reading Russell since the fall of 1966, is a founding member of the Greater Rochester Russell Set, has served as an editor of the BRS Quarterly, and is now Chair of the BRS Board. Most recently, he did a promotion of the BRS at the World Congress of Philosophy in Istanbul, and over the past few years, he has organized sessions on Russell for the American Philosophical Association. White was the “cover-boy” for the August 2003 issue of the BRSQ. David Blitz, whose name has been put forward by Ken Blackwell as a proposed write-in candidate and who has agreed to serve if elected, is a Philosophy Professor at Central Connecticut State University who focuses on Russell’s views on war and peace. He is also editor of volume 30 of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. He is currently on sabbatical leave at the Russell Research Centre and Archives at McMaster University.
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