Nominating Committees Select Candidates For ASCAP Board Elections The Writers and Publishers Nominating Committees met on December 17 and 19, 2002 and nominated candidates for election to the ASCAP Board of Directors. The Writers Nominating Committee must select a minimum of 12 non-incumbent writers, and the Publishers Nominating Committee a minimum of 6 non-incumbent publishers, to stand for election. All incumbent Directors have been renominated in accordance with ASCAP's Articles of Association. The Writers Nominating Committee consisted of Kevin Briggs, Jay Gruska, William E. Steinberg, Wendy Waldman and David Zippel. The Publishers Nominating Committee consisted of Ree Guyer Buchanan (Wrensong Publishing Corp.), Kenny Cordova (Santander Melodies), Stephen Culbertson (Subito Music Corp.), Bob Fead (The Burt Bacharach Music Group) and Stanley Mills (September Music Corp.). Members of the Nominating Committees are not eligible to run for election to the Board. The Nominating Committees selected candidates in accordance with the requirements of the Articles that nominees be chosen "mindful of the diversity of the Society's membership and repertory." The Committees obtained the consent of each nominee to stand for election. Together, the Nominating Committees constitute the Committee on Elections. As such, they selected Morrow and Co. to be the official Teller of the election, and approved the forms of ballots and accompanying letters to members. Ballots will be mailed on Friday, February 14, 2003 and must be returned by Friday, March 14, 2003. Under the Articles, all members with performance credits during the 2001 fiscal survey year (i.e., ending with distributions through March, 2002 for publishers and April 2002 for writers) may vote. The ballots will be tallied on Tuesday, March 18. Those elected will serve for a two-year term beginning April 1, 2003. The Committee on Elections stresses the importance of the election to the ASCAP members, as ASCAP is the only United States performing rights organization run by its writers and publishers, and so urge all eligible members to be sure to vote. View profiles of candidates.