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40 J. Kan. B. Ass'n 2 (1971)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0040 and id is 1 raw text is: From the erPrsiden t IN THIS, the last issue of the Bar Journal for which I will provide a message from the President, I want to suggest to the membership a change in procedure for the election of officers of the Associa- tion. At the outset I want to make it clear that the views I am about to express are entirely my own. I have neither sought nor obtained support for them. I also wish to acknowledge that I have been one of the principal beneficiaries of the very system that I propose be changed. I want especially to make it clear that my proposal does not imply any criticism or lack of confidence in the men I expect to be officers of the Association at the time of this publication. Neither does it imply that we have had bad administrations in the Bar Association prior to my time of service. My desire to change the system is motivated by two considerations only: first, the belief that the Bar Association has an obligation to adhere to the best traditions of democracy in selecting its officers; and second, the general assembly or annual business meeting ought to be more than a formal convening of the membership simply to ratify the report of a nominating committee. What I propose is quite simple: Appropriate changes should be made in the Charter and By-Laws of the Association to provide that the nomi- nating committee must nominate at least two but not more than three candidates for each of the offices of President-Elect, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer and that not more than one candidate for each office shall be a member of the Executive Council at the time of his nomination. In all other respects, I believe that existing election procedures should be retained. Specifically, I am convinced that the President-Elect should automatically be elevated to President; he needs a year of close association with the President to get acquainted with his responsibilities and decide what activities and programs he will continue and how he will administer them; I believe the membership should have the right, as it now has, to nominate additional candidates from the floor in the general assembly; the present method of selecting a nominating committee is sound, but it is based in part upon tradition and the current practice of requesting THE JOURNAL OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS

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