Dates and indexes.

Dates and indexes. We have recently received a bequest from Victor Kay, an IGS memberfrom California, of approximately $460,000. Mr. Kay was a member of theInternational Society for General Semantics for many years and valued GSas an important discipline in promoting human sanity and cooperation.For those of you who feel similarly, we ask that you include the IGS inyour wills. General semantics was well represented at an internationalconference on youth, media, and education titled "MediaConversations VI" that was held June 4-6 at various venues in NewYork City. On the last day of the conference, IGS president Martin H.Levinson, ETC editor Bill Petkanas, and IGS trustee Thorn Gencarelliparticipated in a panel titled "Mapping the Media" at FordhamUniversity. IGS executive director Lance Strate also gave a GS lectureto an information science class at Pratt University and served on apanel dealing with heroes and role models in media that was held at ThePlayers, a club founded by the nineteenth-century Shakespearean actorEdwin Booth for the promotion of social intercourse for those practicingand interested in the arts. IGS literature, which included a call forpapers to the AKML and ETC subscription forms, was distributed toconference participants. On June 18-21, IGS co-sponsored the 10th Annual Media EcologyConference, which was held at St. Louis University. Attendees wereprovided with our promotional material, and MEA members were encouragedto join the IGS and attend the AKML. Executive director Lance Strate andIGS trustee Corey Anton also gave a workshop on general semantics thatwas well attended and well received. On June 27, IGS secretary and trustee Vanessa Biard-Schaefferlaunched a brainstorming meeting in preparation for a September GStraining session in Paris. At that meeting, GS brochures and leafletswere distributed to the participants. News of the September GS trainingsession will be reported in the next issue of ETC. "Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning,"an international conference featuring the 57th AKML by culturalanthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson and dozens of GS and GS-relatedtalks and panels occurred September 11-13, 2009, at FordhamUniversity's Lincoln Center Campus. At this conference LauraBertone received the inaugural IGS Samuel I. Haya-kawa Book Prize and acheck for $1,000 for her book The Hidden Side of Babel: UnveilingCognition, Intelligence and Sense. IGS trustee Frank J. Scardilli wasalso presented with the 2009 J. Talbot Winchell Award in recognition ofhis 55 years of indispensable contributions, accomplishments, andtime-binding efforts in service to the Institute of General Semantics. Speakers at the conference included computing guru Alan Kay;renowned cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner; Denise-Schuman Besserat,the archeologist who uncovered the origins of writing; pioneering videoartist Paul Ryan; filmmaker and Holocaust scholar Pier Marton; poet andsongwriter Robert Priest; author and literary scholar B. W. Powe, mediatheorist Paul Levinson, noted constructivist psychologist KennethGergen; media literacy leader Renee Hobbs, biologist Tyler Volk; andcommunication scholar Thierry Bardini. This was an extraordinaryconference, both in content and organization, and IGS executive directorLance Strate deserves mega-kudos for being the prime mover in puttingthe confab together. On October 1, 2009, the Institute of General Semantics relocatedits central business office, seminar facility, and archival storage to aslightly smaller, less costly, and more efficient location. The newaddress is 3000 Landers Street, on the edge of the Fort Worth, Texas,Central Arts District. The phone number and fax numbers have notchanged, and our dedicated office manager, Judith Clarke, continues toserve the IGS membership at the new location. George Barenholtz has assumed the position of IGS interimtreasurer. Jackie Rudig will remain vice president and also continue toserve on the Finance Committee.