Here is an event or "happening," if you like, which has come to be a tradition since 1988. At the Business Meeting of CANE at Saint Anselm College, April 14, 1988, after the minutes of the meeting at Deefield Academy the previous year were approved, I as President of CANE announced my appointments. For the Resolutions Committee, I presented the following members: Richard E. Clairmont (Chair) and Selma Naccach-Hoff. Little did I expect then that Richard's delivery of the Resolutions would be the beginning of a tradition that everyone eagerly looks forward to hearing at the conclusion of each meeting, namely, his short but eloquent delivery of the Resolutions in Ciceronian Latin. I recall my saying to him, tongue-in-cheek, that he might attempt to write his resolutions in Latin and read them to us. But what surprised everyone and me, in particular, was his presentation viva voce and ex memoria Since that meeting he and Francis Bliss alternate in offering the Resolutions.

-- John Rouman