All members of the Directorate were in Cambridge for the WinterCon, so a face-to-face meeting of he Directorate was held. Several new By-Laws were passed

1) If the post of Vice President becomes vacant, the President may appoint a person to perform all of the duties of the Vice President, except voting in the Directorate. This person serves at the pleasure of the President. If the post of Vice President becomes vacant, a special election for Vice President, using the normal election procedure, shall be called immediately in the American Wargamer.

The President immediately appointed Mark Swanson as Acting Vice President.

2) The Directorate may, by majority vote, reverse any Presidential appointment.

Discussion of the possibility of forbidding the President to immediately reappoint that person followed. It was agreed that: a) this would be an extra complication.

b) if the person were really that objectionable, Presidential appointment of him back to his original post would be excellent grounds for impeaching the President.

Lee Atwood then presented the Directorate with a set of By- Laws which he had prepared. Substantial discussion followed. As a matter of principle, it was agreed that complicated procedures tend primarily to encourage the basically honest to be corrupt. On the other hand, following "Thou shalt not do" with "Thou shalt really not do" is not useful, since two by-laws are unlikely to be more effective than one. The fundamental principle is that this is a voluntary, amateur organization, and that if people don't like what is going on, they can a' ways leave and start a new club. George Phillies was appointed to rewrite the election by-laws. Lee Atwood will cope with writing other by-laws.

3) It was agreed that the Editor be empowered to spend the money necessarily required to print: 1 copy of the AW for each member, Plus 50 extra copies plus another 50 copies in months when the Guide-to Wargaming Periodical Literature is produced (these to be mailed out as free issues with the CWPL.

We have received a merger offer from the International Confederation of Wargamers (ICW) formerly known as Jagdpanzer SS. It was immediately noted that any who want to join this organization, need only send them a name and. address, since the ICW charges no dues. After a prolonged discussion, the Directorate voted against the merger. The major grounds were

a) Any AWA member that wants to join the ICW need only send, them his name.

b) The stability of an organization that charges no dues and claims more than 400 members is questionable.

c) A number of the ICW Brigades (quasi-military organtzation) have a certain amount of German names. The Directorate, members were opposed to being associated with such an organization.

5) A count of AWA members in the different regions shows that we are growing quite uniformly except in New England, :where we have a lot of members. It was agreed that the AWA should try to sponsor conventions in other areas of the country so as to encourage people to join. Since many regions of the country will not have their own regional Directors for some time yet, it was voted to establish: A Regional Advisory Committee for each region, to assist in sponsoring AWA activities in each region. It was understood that the President will appoint the Regional Director as Chairman of the Regional Advisory Committee, if the Region has a regional advisory committee.

6) (Discussed by telephone). The Avalon Hill Company has offered AWA a chance to help run Operation Contact, the AH operation. Apparently Sparta did not want to continue to run Operation Contact on the basis which had previously applied. The Directorate unanimously agreed that we should do so.