The InterPsych Newsletter 2(5)

 


 

IPN 2(5) Section A: Special Section 2/2

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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5      THE INTERPSYCH NEWSLETTER      JUNE, 1995
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                      *SPECIAL SECTION*
                   SECTION A: APA ELECTION (2/2)

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4.   KURT SALZINGER
     CANDIDATE'S STATEMENT
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       KURT SALZINGER FOR APA PRESIDENT
       
YOUR NEXT APA PRESIDENT SHOULD KNOW SCIENCE

KURT SALZINGER ...

* published 10 books and 100+ articles.

* won the American Psychopathological Association Award for his
research in schizophrenia.

* published research in verbal behavior, Alzheimer's Disease,
electromagnetic fields, history of psychology, aging, animal
behavior, human memory and perception, circadian rhythms,
developmental psychology, etc..

* Fellow of five APA divisions, AAAS, NYAS

* President of the New York Academy of Sciences

* Chair of the Cambridge Center of Behavioral Studies

* Chair of the Board of Scientific Affairs

* Board of Directors liaison to Science Directorate and to
Publications and Communications

* Member of 12 editorial boards

* won the Sustained Superior Performance Award for creating and
managing a program at the NSF

* Chair of The American Institute of Science and Technology
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YOUR NEXT APA PRESIDENT SHOULD KNOW PRACTICE

KURT SALZINGER ...

* directs the Graduate Program in Clinical/School Psychology at
Hofstra University

* works with schizophrenic patients, Alzheimer's patients,
children who are mute, and with the families and caretakers of
these people

* Trustee of AAP

* Member of New York State Psychological Association, Nassau
County Psychological Association, Divisions 42  and 12

* supports lobbying efforts on behalf of practitioners

* liaison to Board of Professional Affairs

* Clinical Fellow in Behavior Therapy and Research Society
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YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT SHOULD BE A LEADER

KURT SALZINGER has held these positions:

* Board of Directors of APA

* Board of Directors Subcommittee on Cost Containment and Non-dues
Income

* Member of Council

* President of Division 25

* Chair of Board of Scientific Affairs

* Chair, Membership Committee

* Co-chair Division Leadership Conference

* President of New York Academy of Sciences

* as NYAS President, negotiated with the Soviet Academy of
Sciences about refusenicks

* Head of a Department of Social Sciences

* Speaker of the Faculty
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YOUR NEXT APA PRESIDENT SHOULD UNITE US FOR THE COMMON GOOD

KURT SALZINGER ...

* supports diversity in APA governance

* Fellow of SPSSI, and a long-time member of Division 35

* initiated and supported efforts to enable women and minorities
to advance in their careers

* is a mediator who can explain practitioner concerns to
scientists and scientists' concerns to practitioners

* helped restore jobs in the mental health system of New York
State

* "...we need to understand each others' problems so that we
support each other rather than warring against each other, all the
while keeping in mind that we act in an ethical manner, taking
into account not only our own welfare but the welfare of
others..."  Kurt Salzinger
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AS PRESIDENT OF APA

KURT SALZINGER will ...

* implement an increased scope of work initiative 

* reduce APA dues

* promote psychology through the media and other means to the
public and to government

* support lobbying efforts on behalf of practitioners and
scientists alike

* increase participation of diverse groups in APA governance

* insist on accountability of managed care companies--a shift from
managed cost to real care

* bring scientists and practitioners together in common cause,
e.g., outcome research

* support basic research and basic researchers
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Support for Kurt Salzinger's candidacy has come from many
quarters, including
    endorsement from the divisions of:
 
       * general psychology 
       * experimental psychology 
       * experimental analysis of behavior 
       * psychopharmacology and substance abuse 
       * psychology of women

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If you wish to help distribute this message,
       * forward it by e-mail, or
       * print it out, and send it by surface or intramural mail,or
       * give them this address on the world wide web:

              http://charlotte.med.nyu.edu/woodr/salzinger.html

  **** after you have read Kurt's literature on the web, you will
find a button to reach:

                       **** the APA home page ****

       * or, ask Kurt for flyers you can send by snail mail:

              psykzs@vaxc.hofstra.edu 

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              SO START SPREADING THE WORD:

            YOUR NEXT APA PRESIDENT SHOULD BE

           ***       KURT SALZINGER          ***

GIVE HIM YOUR # 1 VOTE ON THE BALLOT THIS MAY

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5a.  RICHARD SUINN
     CANDIDATE'S STATEMENT
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"I am pleased to have the opportunity to include a personal
message about my candidacy. Although APA presidential candidates
may have some experiences in common (e.g., some of us served on
the APA Board of Directors), my theme is that I actively 'get
things done', and have done so for all constituencies. Moreover,
having served as mayor of Ft. Collins, a city of 100,000 equal to
the size of APA, I am uniquely experienced in: bringing together
diverse groups, & fitting policy to people concerns. 

Briefly, I do not simply talk about being dedicated to all
constituencies; instead I already have acted on behalf of our
members' diverse interests:

For Science/Academics: 
- engaged in Federal advocacy giving Senate briefing on research
about interventions affecting health care, and control of
aggression; 
- supported research as grant reviewer for NSF, NHLBI, NIMH -
expanded experimental psychology faculty in my Dept as Dept Head
(20 years of service as Head)
- serving as chair, Search Committee, Editor of Psychological
Bulletin; also 1995 chair of PsyINFO Committee of APA (to improve
info systems for researchers)

For Practice/States:
- initiated a new practitioner friendly journal - Convention
chair, Colorado Psychological Association - developed model
licensing bill for states - ASPPB Exam Committee member, writing
the national written licensing exam used by states/provincial
licensing boards
- 1995 chair, APA policy and education committee of Ethics
Committee

Public Interest/Diversity:
- 1995 chair, appointed by the APA President, to lead the APA
Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, Training
producing several concrete resource materials  
- as Head, Dept., increased women from 3 (all of whom left) to 7
all of whom remained and advanced in rank (1 to full professor, 5
assoc. prof.) - as president of AABT and APA search chair,
appointed minorities or women to 6 of 7 national positions.

   Our APA president must: 
- be capable of doing Federal advocacy to bring Psychology into
the forefront and out of the shadows; I have already been doing
this; 
- possess leadership skills to get things done for members
interests; my record confirms that I do 'get things done'; 
- be talented enough to heal our rifts between science and
practice in a way that brings people together; I have served on 6
major research journals and also 2 major practice journals,
published research ranging from cognitive psychology to being
author of a brief therapy for anxiety/anger - together with my
experiences as mayor, Head of my Department, and chair of several
different APA Boards, I am accepted as a true scientist and a true
practitioner.

Finally, I received the highest number of nominating ballots,
confirming the broad base of my support - an essential to be
elected. I have endorsements from diverse APA Divisions, states,
women/minority organizations, and prominent psychologists. I hope
you will help me maintain the momentum by ranking me #1 and
electing me the next APA president. My thanks for the opportunity
to send this message."

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5b.  RICHARD SUINN
     E-MAIL AND TECHNOLOGY
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I appreciate the opportunity to add my observations regarding
e-mail and technology. First, let me say that I established the
e-mail network for the Asian American Psychological Association, a
network which has senior psychologists, faculty, students actively
using it. It started slowly, but has now reached a point of
usefulness for position announcements, sharing of research
interests, conference planning, and networking for
professional/personal support. I act as the "list-server" to
establish this network. So I am fully committed to the initiation
of new technologies.  Second, as a current member of the APA
Publication and Communications Board, I engaged the APA staff in
discussions about the role of new technologies in publications. A
number of us are pushing for a plan laying out the future of
e-mail for journals. Third, since I am chairperson of the APA
PsyINFO committee, I am deeply involved in the advancements with
CD-ROM for computer availability of abstracts of journals/books.
Fourth, as a participant in the APA National Conference on
Postdoctoral Education, I was impressed as the multi-media
demonstrations of technology for the classroom. We have introduced
such for our Intro Psychology course, run some of our labs off
pc's.  Fifth, as chairperson of the Fellows Committee for an APA
division, I used e-mail to communicate with a candidate on leave
in Hong Kong, as a means of completing her nomination and
advancement to Fellow status. I am currently chairperson of the
Search Committee for Psychological Bulletin, and have relied
heavily upon e-mail with my Search Committee members for sharing
information and voting. Finally, I confess at one time being a
person who felt that an electric typewriter was the highest level
of technology needed by me, then was talked into a dedicated word
processor (with the belief that pc's could never be as useful),
then trying out an Apple computer and liking it, then purchasing
Mac computers for all my faculty and secretaries and networking
these (in my position as Head of the Department), and now being
totally enamoured by e-mail (through which I connect daily with
other professionals, as well as my three offspring on the West
Coast - two who work for Apple, and the third who is a
programmer). So, you can count me among the "choir" who believes
in electronic developments, have already committed to enabling my
faculty to profit from having pc's/e-mail, who is stimulating APA
to look to the future, and who already sings the praises of our
electronic world!

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5c.  RICHARD SUINN
     COLLECTIVE LETTER OF SUPPORT
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Dick Suinn received the highest number of nominating ballots for
the APA presidency, and we are supporting his election in May.  We
are providing information about Dick for this network -- it comes
after our names.  Suffice it to say: he gets things done, he
appeals to all constituencies, (science, practice, public
interest, diversity), he has momentum in this election, and he was
actually mayor of a city the size of APA! 

Betsy Altmaier          Ernest R. Hilgard     Lynn Rehm
Andrew Baum             Ira Iscoe             Pamela Trotman Reid
Larry Beutler           Yoshito Kawahara      Irwin Sarason
Mae Billet-Ziskin       John Krumboltz        Robert Singer
Lillian Comas-Diaz      Teresa Lafromboise    George Stricker
Kenneth Craig           Christine LaGana      Derald Wing Sue
Oliva Espin             Frederick Leong       Stanley Sue
Donna Gelfand           Paul Leung            Ethel Tobach
Angela Ginorio          Alan Marlatt          Melba Vasquez
Christine Iijima Hall   Stuart Oskamp         Roger Weissberg
Gordon Nagayama Hall    Ken Pope              Diane Willis
                                              Bruce Sales

Our support for Dick Suinn is based upon his being a fine leader,
being absolutely even-handed, having a quick grasp of issues, and
getting things done actively for all constituents.  The fact of
his high number of nominations attests to his broad appeal, which
is essential for getting elected to the presidency.

He has a proven record of actually getting things done for all
interests: for Science he strengthened and expanded experimental
psychology and neurosciences in his Department over his 20-year
term as Department Head and supported grants through review panels
for NSF, NHLBI, served on 8 scientific journal boards; for
Practice/States he served on the ASPPB exam committee writing the
national licensing exam, the Colorado Licensing Board, two APA
practice journals, initiated a practitioner-friendly journal for
AABT and an AABT task force on Surviving Managed Care, has engaged
in federal advocacy, and was convention chair for the Colorado
State Psychological Association; for Diversity he chairs the APA
Commission on Ethnic Minorities, increased recruitment/retention
of women from zero to 7 women (of 29 faculty) with 6 advancing to
Associate Professor and one now a Full Professor; for Divisions he
has served on the executive committees of two divisions, and
helped found two others.  He has experience as Treasurer and Chair
of the Finance Committee of AABT and was past president of AABT. 
But most significant, he was mayor of Ft. Collins, and has
invaluable experience in forming coalitions, which is much needed
in today's rift in APA.  We truly believe he not only will make a
fine president, but has the momentum to be elected...and you can
help.  Please consider giving Dick Suinn your #1 rank when ballots
are out this month.