Contents - IADR/AADR

e signed by the President or President-Elect or Vice-President and the Secretary-Treasurer or Assistant
Secretary-Treasurer.
2. Expenditures from the funds of the Journal of Dental Research of the Association shall be made by checks
each of which must be signed by the Editor, and the President, or President-Elect, or Vice-President.
SECTION H. Definitions
1. Members of this Association for purposes of notice or other communications or actions are those persons
who are members according to the latest information possessed by the Secretary-Treasurer at the time of
mailing of the notice or communication, or the time of the action.
2. Notice shall be considered to have been given to a member when written statement of the notice has been
mailed to the member at the last address for the member known to the Secretary-Treasurer or Assistant
Secretary-Treasurer at the time of mailing.
Parliamentary procedure is used at all meetings, although in small informal gatherings it is largely truncated.
Robert's Rules of Order was used as a guide, but very recently, the Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary
Procedure 3 was adopted as the official manual for consultation.
To understand the IADR as a functioning organization, a flow diagram can provide the most lucid and concise
explanation. A display of such an organizational chart was exhibited at the 1970 New York IADR meeting. 4
As has been explained in an earlier chapter, basically the Association consists of the large general
membership which approves major decisions and elects the officers annually. The membership at the end of
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