From the Board Meeting
The Board approved the Code of Conduct that was presented and reviewed at the March Board meeting. It is available on the website. It will be put in place beginning with Convention 2019. Note: The impetus to create this came from a few members who suggested to the Board that most organizations have this type of code in place and it’s important that we do as well.
Based on the agreement at the Board Retreat held in March, we amended our budget to cover the expenses to refurbish and reorganize the OrigamiUSA storage space and our headquarters (Home-office) located in the AMNH. The first part (the storage area) is scheduled for the weekend of April 27-29, 2019.
From the Operating Committee Reports
Membership
This month (Total): 1652 Last month: 1650 Last Year: 1636
Online Members:
This month: 431 Last month: 430 Last Year: 403
Election
To date, no nominations received. The deadline for nominations is April 23, 2019.
Origami Collection – Publications
The 2019 book is in the finalization stage. Nathan Zeichner has completed a lovely cover. We were able to resolve the all the technical issues of moving from CreateSpace to KDP. The full inventory of prior Collections are again available.
The Paper
Issue 129 has been provided to the printer.
Online Presence
Convention and PCOC website pages are in development and testing continues.
Convention
Convention website pages updates are in progress. The go-live is planned for May 6, 2019. A lovely logo has been designed by Melissa Mohamed.
Scholarship Committee
Scholarship recipients have been notified and plans are being made for travel to the June 2019 Convention. The recipients for the June 2019 Convention are:
- Sophie Usherwood, 16 years old from New Hampshire
- Divya Iyer, 16 years old from North Carolina
The recipients for the September 2019 PCOC are:
- Melina Sarion, 13 years old from New Jersey
- Brendan Perez, 17 years old from Washington State
Reference Library
Added to periodicals:
- Tanteidan Magazine 174
- NOA 525 May
- NOA 524 April
- Orison Jan 2019 No. 1
Added to Research Library
- Esteve, ‘Stop Thinking Start Folding’
- Kobayashi, Toshiko, “Brain Therapy Origami”
- Kirschenbaum, ‘Origami Puzzles’
- Kirschenbaum, ‘Origami Humans’
- Kawahata, ‘Insects in Origami - Origami Land +
Two boxes of ‘Imagiro’ copies received from Robert Lang will be sorted and shelved in the future.
One box of books and papers received from Robert Lang was sorted and given to Heidi for the Convention.
Lending Library
Two Library Excerpt Requests:
- Model name: Pink - Designer: Tomoko Fuse - Origami Tanteidan Magazine No.136
- Model name: Elephant - Designer: Fumiaki Kawahata - Origami Tanteidan Convention 5, 1999
Reviewed 41 books to be considered for the Lending Library from the Louis Cooper Collection and duplicate from both Lang and Momotani.
Volunteer Appreciation
AMNH’s Annual Recognition of volunteers on June 11, 2019 will acknowledge 20 years of volunteering by Kathy Wallace and 25 years of volunteering by Aldo Putignano. Aldo will also be OrigamiUSA’s “Volunteer of the Year.”
Social Media
Several posts were made this month about:
- Youth Scholarship to Conventions
- Origami By Children
- OrigamiUSA Teaching Award
- Folding Sundays
- Special Sessions
Work has begun on creating rules for a Facebook Group (community).
Awards
The committee will have a phone meeting on April 15th to determine the OrigamiUSA Teaching Award and the Temko Innovation Award.
Origami by Children
Judging for the 2019 OBC is in progress. There are 75 participants from 8 countries and 22 states.
Holiday Tree
In advance of the storage space reorganization later this month, Tree model storage needs to be addressed.
Permanent Collection
Talo Kawasaki and Wendy Zeichner visited the storage space in Long Island City where the permanent collection is stored. Talo has volunteered to undertake an inventory of the models in the permanent collection.
Origami Connect
There were 41 registrants for Mike Naughton teaching his Ornamental Star on March 31st. Janet Yelle will teach the Prismatic Star on Sunday, April 14, 2019.