President: Johanna Leovey
Vice President: Melanie Halpern
Secretary: Haleh Shoa
Treasurer: Jeff Thompson

This committee is in charge of planning the entire Production and Traffic Achievement Awards presentation with the exception of the judging responsibilities, which are handled by the APALA Executive Board. The committee is in charge of producing all printed materials from concept to delivery, including the Call to Entries, the Invitation and Tickets of the event Program. Since the Awards event is held in June, work does not usually commence much before January and can get very hectic in May.

Chair: Paurvi Trivedi Co-Chair: Jeff Thompson

The Employment Committee supports the Print Production and Traffic volunteers and reports to the Board of Directors.

Chair: Bob Schock Co-Chair: Neil Prehmus

The Hospitality Committee is dedicated to welcoming all members, new and old, to our monthly meetings. In addition, at each meeting, we'll continue to have the "split the pot" raffle. We do a really hard sell on this because the proceeds go into our charity fund. The committee calls new members and invite them to the monthly meetings. Working on this committee is a nice way to get to know other members of your club and help out at the same time. Also, in June the chairman is responsible for organizing the Hospitality Thank You Dinner that is held in July.

Chair: Tara Kelley Foster

The duties of those on the membership committee include soliciting new and past members, tracking memberships and producing the annual directory. Soliciting new members consists of sending out renewal notices and tracking responses, with follow-up phone calls. New members can be solicited through mailing that target non-members or past members. Membership tracking is done through the APALA offices. Counts have been provided to the Blueline in the past for publication. Producing the directory consists of a lot of proof- reading and coordination with the printer and paper companies.

Chair: Theresa Campbell

The Newsletter Committee publishes the monthly Blueline. On an annual basis, we determine a budget, solicit advertising and determine the ad/issue schedule. On a monthly basis, publishing the Blueline entails searching for material to publish, collecting copy for the regular features, organizing materials for the Mac artist, arranging for film prep, printing, and mailing. In past years, advertising has paid for paste-up, envelopes, postage and a few miscellaneous expenses. The vendors have generously donated photographic, pre-press, paper, printing and mailing services.

Chair: Jorge Velasquez

The Online Committee is responsible for publishing the APALA Online website. Much of the editorial content will come from the Blueline. Production schedules must be maintained and updates coordinated with any design or programming entities. Relations must be maintained with the website hosts, Net.Intensive and GTS Innova Graphics.

Chair: Johanna Leovey

This committee is in need of volunteers! The Program Committee plans topics for the nine monthly meetings; determines the program format (single speaker, Q & A forum, panel discussion, facility tour); recruiting professional speakers and creating budgets for each program; briefing speakers/tour guides on intended goals of the meeting/tour and helping to shape the content of the program; providing the editors of the Blueline a summary of the upcoming meeting; and writing and producing the monthly meeting announcement. If you work on an event you receive complimentary admission to the event.

Chair: Eva Quan

The APALA created this committee so that it could offer its members special programs and events in addition to the regular meetings. This committee also organizes the Client/Vendor Showcase.

Chair: Melanie Halpern Co-Chair: Jorge Velasquez

The Vendor Advisory committee is responsible for advising the APALA Board, from a vendor's perspective, about various issues that are client/vendor related. These issues can involve what is happening in the industry technically, helping to build the association's image, membership, employment, education, etc.

Chair: Nancy Lesney

Editor/Design - JIV Design

Reporter - Maryvonne Fent

Photographer - Veronica Thompson