2006 APH Conference
Volunteer Help Needed

Your Volunteer Help is Needed During the Conference

You can help in five areas:

• Registration and Conference Store
• Greeters
• Workshop Hosts
• Town Square Coordinators
• Conference Reporters for the APH Newsletter
• Special Thanks to Conference Committee
• Planning Ahead!

Registration and Conference Store
Joy Miller again will be overseeing on-site registration. Volunteer support is needed during the day Wednesday to put together the registration materials as well as Wednesday afternoon and evening as conference attendees arrive. Then throughout the rest of the conference, at break and meal times, and at our exciting Town Square in the Exhibit Hall, Joy will need a cadre of willing volunteers to share in staffing the registration/information/store tables. The store this year will feature not only valuable marketing materials but recent books by our author speakers. Please indicate your interest on the registration form or contact .

Greeters
Laura Blumenthal and former conference attendees will welcome new APH members and those attending their first APH conference, and will facilitate dinner plans for those who want to group together to try one of the town's many excellent restaurants. Being a greeter is a wonderful opportunity to mix, mingle and get to know fellow APHers. Please sign up on the registration form or contact Laura Blumenthal at .

Workshop Hosts
Workshop hosts will introduce the presenter, collect evaluations and assist the speaker to ensure that the workshop runs smoothly. If you volunteer to be a host, we'll make sure that it's for one of the workshops you plan to attend. Please sign up on the registration form or contact Julie Zander at .

Town Square Coordinators
We also need volunteers to help organize the Saturday setup of Town Square. We have a huge exhibit hall for our Town Square and Community Forum, so we'll have plenty of room for APH members to show their products and vendors to offer their wares pertinent to our profession. We're scheduling book signings by APH member authors as well as narrators who published their books with help from Northwest personal historians. To volunteer, please contact Paula Slavens at .

Conference Reporters
Share what you learned at a workshop—or at the conference in general—by writing an article for the APH newsletter. Your colleagues who are unable to attend the conference will benefit from reading about your experiences. If you'd be willing to do this, please indicate so on the registration form or contact Jennifer Campbell, the newsletter editor, .

Special Thanks to Conference Committee
Conference coordinators Julie McDonald Zander and Paula Slavens wish to thank all of the following volunteers who helped with planning the 2006 APH conference: Jeanne Archer, Libby Atwater, Dan Barrett, Sue Bastian, Al Betz, Laura Blumenthal, Nancy Burkhalter, Cathy Cade, Teri Duff, Peter Farquhar, Maia Fischler, Lynne Choy Uyeda Gin, Neal Harmon, Susan Hessel, Sue Knight, Amy Oaks Long, Aura Lee Loveland, Pam Luce, Joy Miller, Margarita Molina, John Morrison, Gloria Nussbaum, Tina Parr, Howard Robinson, Vera Rosenbluth, Shizue Seigel, Paula Stahel, Mary O'Brien Tyrrell, Sharon Waldman, Marty Walton, Joella Werlin and Paula Yost.

Planning Ahead!
Preliminary plans are in the works for next year's conference. Location, theme and conference program chair are crucial elements of any conference, but what makes a conference really work is the corps of APH volunteers who help search for excellent speakers, recruit challenging workshop presenters, and put all the pieces together. To volunteer, please contact Conference Planning Chair John Morrison, , and offer to join in the fun!