Presidents Message
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The Board is pleased to report that the recent restructuring has been successful in giving AACE a stronger business focus, and the ability to make decisions more efficiently. The real strength, however, resides in the AACE membership. Those of you who have been very long standing members appreciate how the Ray Jewison Award recognizes this every year. Those of you who are both long standing and relatively new members, may want to consider contributing your time, energy and expertise to AACE by joining the Board this year.

The annual conference and general meeting presents an invaluable opportunity to network with other AACE members, get a glimpse of the future vision for adult education in Alberta, as well as meet your current Board members.

Thank you for your involvement and contributions to AACE this past year, and for your continuing support and participation in the year ahead. And, see you at the annual conference in Kananaskis in April!

Sincerely, John Melicher

Angela McNeill Joins the AACE Secretariat

Every year AACE hires someone on a six month contract to help with the spring conference. This year, Angela McNeill will be working with AACE in the capacity of Conference Co-ordinator for the 1997 spring conference in Kananaskis.

Not able to complete her high school program, Angela entered a secretarial program in Edmonton through the GED route. She recently graduated from this program and is now concentrating on obtaining work experience in an office environment. While still interested in finishing her high school diploma by correspondence, she is a busy single mom of two active children! Angela enjoys spending as much time as possible with her children and hopes to also become more active in community recreational activities when they get old enough to participate and learn new sports skills along with her.

You will have a chance to say hello to Angela in Kananaskis in April. In the meantime, hers is one of the many voices on the other end of the AACE phone line when you call about AACE membership renewal, conference registration, etc.

BOOK REVIEW

"FutureWork: Five Rules for a New Game" by Tom Payne
(1996), Performance Press, 153 pages.
Reviewed by Freddi Dogterom

As I opened Tom Payne's latest book, I was expecting an interesting, personally challenging and fun reading experience. Approximately one hour later, I was not disappointed.

From the first page "FutureWork is not a time; it's not a place; it's not a structure; FutureWork is a state of mind" to the last, "these Five Rules are natural to us all. Farms to factories to farms. Independence to dependence to independence. We've played the game before, and we can play again and now we have the ticket" I just couldn't stop reading. In addition to being easy to read, each page contains a nugget. As Payne says, it is futile to look at current work and attempt to determine where we'll fit in the future. Rather we should look at what we want our work to look like in the future and create our own fit.

These phrases set the stage for the Five Rules: "Jobs lost for non-economic reasons are gone forever"; "If business does not accomplish its bottom line, there will be no customers. Without