Sharing the front page of Perspectives, members will find the 1987 list of nominees for elective office in the Association, which has been drawn up by the Nominating Committee. Under our twelve-year-old, revised constitution, the elected Nominating Committee of nine members selects candidates for the offices of President, President-elect, and Vice-President for one of the three divisions; and vacancies on the Council, the divisional committees, the Nominating Committee itself, and the Committee on Committees. For each of these positions, except the two presidential offices, the constitution requires that two or more candidates be nominated, so that the electorate will have a choice. For the office of President, only the name of the serving President-elect appears on the ballot, but for the next President-elect, the constitution requires that two names and only two names be proposed.
Our constitution thus requires the Nominating Committee to take on a tough job: it not only must find qualified candidates for offices, it must find two or more candidates for every vacan
