NEWSLETTER
Robert S. Hartman Institute, January 2008
2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE IN MEXICOThe 2008 Annual Conference of the Robert S. Hartman Institute will not be held in Knoxville, TN. Instead, it will be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in association with the inaugural session of the new Iberoamerican Branch of the Robert S. Hartman Institute. More details will be given in later Newsletters, but please put the following dates on your 2008 calendar, and please plan to attend.
October 11-12, OPTIONAL TOURIST ACTIVITIES
October 13, TRAINING COURSE
October 14-16: ANNUAL CONFERENCE, from 9 am on Oct. 14 until 12 noon on Oct. 16.
Oct. 16: BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING, from 1:30 pm until ?.
NEW OFFICERSAt the annual meeting of the Board of Directors in 2007, two new officers were elected.
Our new
Treasurer is:
Darlene Clark
President of Value Partners
P.O. Box 710047
Houston, TX 77271-0047
Phone/FAX: (713)-772-6429
E-mail:
Darlene@darleneclark.com
Our new
Program Chairperson is:
K. T.(Kate) Connor, Ph.D.
OD Specialist
Center for Applied AxioMetrics (CFAAM)
250 Moss Oak Lane
St. Simon Islands, GA 31522
Phone: (912)-634-1302
E-mail:
ktconnor@thinkingpattern.comHereafter, you will need to contact Darlene about financial matters such as dues and royalties and about address changes. You will need to contact KT and about making presentations at our Annual Conferences.
NEW JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICEYou were sent an announcement about this new Journal about a month ago. More details, especially for contributing authors, have now been added. To read them, click on the JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY button on our website. Please consider submitting your research in Hartmanian value theory to us to be considered for possible publication. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THIS JOURNAL ARE INCLUDED IN MEMBERSHIP DUES FOR 2008, as next announced. If you wish to buy extra copies of the JOURNAL to distribute to your clients and friends for $13.00 per copy postage paid (10 copy minimum), please contact Rem at:
remb@bellsouth.net. Extra copies should be ordered at least two months in advance of the publication of each issue.
DEADLINES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLESAn announcement and call for papers for the new JOURNAL... has how been placed in
http://groups.google.com/group/philosophy-updates?hl=en. This announcement was sent out to one thousand philosophers! If we are to get two issues of the new JOURNAL...out in 2008, we have to set deadlines for submission of articles and discussions for possible publication. In order to make time for the blind review process, making revisions, etc., submissions for the mid-year issue need to be in to Rem B. Edwards no later than MARCH 15th, and submissions for the end-of-the-year issue need to be in by OCTOBER 1. Send your stuff earlier if at all possible! Send articles that conform to the requirements specified in our website to Rem (
remb@bellsouth.net) as e-mail attachments. We can’t have a JOURNAL...unless someone is willing to write for it! Look at the criteria for submission on our website in the JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY page.
DUES FOR 2008 ARE DUEExcept for those whose primary membership is in the Iberoamerican Branch, Annual Membership DUES of $80.00 for 2008 are now due. The increase covers your new subscription to the JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICE, the first issue of which we hope to have out by mid-year. Iberoamerican Branch membership dues remain at $50.00 and do not include a subscription to our new JOURNAL; but for an additional $30.00 they may also receive the JOURNAL...
Our annual membership dues cover calendar years, so they should be paid in January of each year, but no later than March 31st, when your listing will be removed from our website if you have not renewed. THIS IS THE ONLY NOTICE YOU WILL RECEIVE FOR YOUR 2008 DUES. Please send your check to Darlene Clark, Treasurer (address above) as soon as possible. Make your check out to the “Robert S. Hartman Institute,” and mark it for “Dues for 2008.” Please go to the “Membership Application and Renewal” button on the left, print out the form, fill it out, and send it to Darlene along with your check. While you are doing this, please check your listing on our website in the "Membership Directory" and, where relevant, in “Consultants in Good Standing.” If anything needs changing or updating, please call these changes to Darlene’s attention. Also, in the future, please send all contact changes to her.
If any of you paid your dues for 2008 late in 2007 and were sent an acknowledgment of this, please do not pay again this year! If you don't remember, ask Darlene at: Darlene@darleneclark.com . If you pre-paid only $50.00, you will need to send Darlene the remaining $30.00. Our friends on our mailing list who are not dues-paying members are encouraged to join and support us. To do so, go to our website, click on the “Membership Application and Renewal” button on the left, print out the form, fill it out, and send it to Darlene along with your dues check. That way, you can also get our new JOURNAL...
ROYALTIES FOR 2007 ARE DUERoyalties on professional uses for profit of any version of the Hartman Value Profile during 2007 are due immediately. If you don't know the rate for royalties, e-mail Darlene at
Darlene@darleneclark.com. Most of you are now associated with a DISTRIBUTOR, who is paying your royalties for you. If so, please give this information where indicated on the “Membership Application and Renewal” form that you send to Darlene with your membership renewal check .
All
DISTRIBUTORS who have not requested a different payment schedule should pay immediately for all HVP uses during 2007. If you are a DISTRIBUTOR, or if you are paying your own royalties, please send a check made out to the “Robert S. Hartman Institute” and mark as “Royalties for 2007” to Darlene Clark at the above address. A minimal royalty payment of $25.00 per year, as well as Membership Dues, are required for being listed on our “Consultants in Good Standing” page.
The Institute does not require payment of royalties for using the HVP for purely non-profit research purposes. However, we would very much like to have a copy of your research report, especially if you have done any validation studies. Consider writing up your research for possible publication in our new JOURNAL...
NEW SOLICITATION AND ENDORSEMENT POLICIESAfter receiving some serious complaints about such practices, in December our Board of Directors officially adopted the following policies on Solicitations and Endorsement claims. Please take heed!
Solicitation policyThe Hartman Institute regards it as unethical to directly contact and solicit already-affiliated Consultants to try to persuade them to re-affiliate with a different distributor or group of Consultants. However, we also recognize that some Consultants may wish to be contacted for such purposes. If you do, please let the Secretary (Rem B. Edwards) know, and "Will accept contacts from other distributors" will be added to your listings on our website. Otherwise, it is unethical to use the names, addresses, or other contact information given below to try to persuade other Consultants to re-affiliate with you and your organization. However, if they approach you first on their own initiative, you may then follow through with them as you see fit.
Endorsement policyWe also consider it unethical and inaccurate to promote your own products, instruments, interpretations, and systems as officially endorsed by the Hartman Institute. The only instrument officially endorsed by the Robert S. Hartman Institute is the unaltered Standard Version of the Hartman Value Profile, as given on the “Hartman Value Profile” page of our website, and we do not officially endorse any particular interpretation of that. Parallel forms that are approved but not endorsed by the Institute will be found on the “Parallel Forms” page of our website.
FORMER BOARD MEMBERS REMEMBERED AND HONOREDDuring 2007, the Hartman Institute contributed some fairly substantial sums of money to the University of Tennessee in memory of, and in honor of, former Board members. The first sum was to the John W. Davis Scholarship in memory of our founding President and longtime Board member who died during 2007. The second sum was to honor Frank G. Forrest upon his retirement from our Board of Directors. The Frank G. Forrest fund will be used to support summer research by a University of Tennessee Philosophy Department member who wishes to learn more about Robert S. Hartman and Hartmanian value theory, and who will be available to direct graduate students in Philosophy who wish to learn more about them.
NEW HARTMAN INSTITUTE VALUE PROFILE TO BE AVAILABLE AFTER VALIDATIONOur Board of Directors has finalized the items to be included in our new Hartman Institute Value Profile, which we believe will be an improvement on the Standard HVP. However, this new instrument needs to be validated before we make it available for use by Consultants and researchers. Presumably, this validation work is now being done, though the Secretary has heard nothing from this since last October. This process may take some time, so please be patient.
RESEARCH SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIESResearch support opportunities and funds in many forms are available from many sources. Many of you doing research with the HVP and Hartmanian axiology should have the ingenuity to develop proposals that would be of interest to the two following foundations, and you may want to acquaint yourself with their websites:
The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love:
http://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org/welcome/index.html.
The Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health:
http://www.dukespiritualityandhealth.org.
If you know of other foundations supporting research to which axiology might be relevant, let Rem know, and they will be listed in future Newsletters and on the “Links” page of our website.
BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTSIf you would like to get announcements about developments in your HVP-related consulting business into our Newsletters, please send them to Rem at
remb@bellsouth.net. Here is an announcement recently received from David and Vera Mefford.
On January 2, 2008 we established a new company to market various new axiological technologies. The name of the new company is: The Value Source Group, LLC. The company is headquartered at 2640 Old Hwy 25-E, Morristown, TN 37813. Our phone number is 423-585-5885. Web sites are coming soon. The Principals are: Greg Woods, CEO & Managing Director of the Charlotte, NC office. Greg’s phone is 980-253-7548. Dr. David Mefford is Chairman and Managing Director of the Tennessee office, and Vera Mefford is President and Managing Director of the Tennessee office.
PAY ON LINE BY "PAYPAL" AND CHARGE IT TO YOUR CREDIT CARD
In order to avoid their fee, we discourage its use and prefer a check, but if this is the most convenient way to pay your royalties and/or annual dues, you may now pay us on line through PayPal and have it charged to your credit card. This is mainly for the convenience of people outside the US. To pay anything to the Hartman Institute using PayPal, you have to open your own account with them if you do not have one already.Just follow these steps:
1. Go to the PayPal website: http://www.paypal.com.
2. Either log in or sign up as a new member.
3. At the top of their page, click on their "Send Money" button.
4. Fill in the form that comes up. Most of it is self-explanatory, but you need two bits of information:
"Recipient's Email": fill in: "remb@utk.edu"
"Note": In the box, write what the payment covers. It may cover any of the following.
Membership Dues
Royalties on HVP
Contributions to the Institute
Registration fee for Annual Meeting
Fees for Seminars, Courses, etc.
Indicate any other reasons for payment
5. Having done the above, hit "Continue" at the bottom of the page and finish the transaction.
6. After finishing with PayPal, please write or e-mail Edwards and tell him what you have done so that he can keep all the records straight.
PLEASE SEND US YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DEGREE
We invite all Members and Consultants who have not already done so to send us a short (a page or two long ) autobiographical statement that we can place with your listing in the "Membership Directory" and/or "Consultants in Good Standing" pages of our website. It should tell something about yourself, your business, and your involvement with the Hartman Value Profile or other aspects of Robert S. Hartman's work. Look at some already-existing autobiographies on our website if you want to see how others are doing it. Autobiographies must be sent to Edwards AS E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS. Send to: remb@bellsouth.net.
If you have not already done so, in which case your listing will not show them, please send your college or advanced degree(s) to Edwards at the above e-mail address. Give exact letters like "BA" or "BS" rather than using general terms like "Bachelors."
BOARD MEMBERS HAVE THEIR OWN BUSINESSES:
Because questions have been raised about this recently, please consider the following. The Hartman Institute is dedicated to the study and promotion of Robert S. Hartman's work in value theory. It is a non-profit organization not affiliated with any business entity, although many business entities and many people in business are members of the Institute. Several board members of the RSHI have their own businesses that use some of Hartman's creations like the Hartman Value Profile. In their business work, they do not represent the Hartman Institute in any capacity - unless specifically asked to do so by the RSHI. The RSHI encourages all Members and Board Members to engage in any business work that they see fit, and we strongly encourage any activities involving Hartman's work or any other innovative work in axiology.
SALE ON HARTMAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Hartman Institute has bought a number of copies of Robert S. Hartman's autobiography, Freedom to Live; The Robert Hartman Story, from its publisher at a significantly discounted price. We can make them available to members of the Institute for $20.00 per copy plus $3.50 per copy for postage and packaging costs. Send your orders to our President, Dr. Stephen C. Byrum, at byrum4@aol.com. Phone or fax him at 423-8886-5587. These would make great gifts for your clients! Editions Rodopi has now returned to copyright on this to us, so when we sell our current stock, we will republish the book at a much cheaper price than Editions Rodopi has been charging.
STATEMENT ON HARTMAN'S FREEDOM TO LIVE
In consultation with former President Leon Pomeroy, Editors Art Ellis and Rem B. Edwards developed the following statement for Hartman's Freedom to Live, and we encourage all sellers and users to photocopy this and include it with the book:
The Robert S. Hartman Institute recognizes that two discussions in Freedom to Live: The Robert S. Hartman Story may offend some people if taken out of context, but we ask for tolerance and understanding and hope that the following remarks will help.
First, on p. 27 Hartman refers to his anti-Hitler article in which he accuses "the Nazi leadership" of being "dominated by homosexuals." A young Robert Schirokauer, who later became Robert Hartman when he escaped Germany and the Nazis, published this article in 1932. It was written at a time when homosexuality was closeted and the Nazis' open practice of it was associated with their general decadence, both homosexual and heterosexual. In this context, it was reflective of the culture of degradation which the Nazis promoted. Hartman devoted the rest of his life to finding ways to organize goodness and to combat evil of all kinds, especially hatred, violence, and intolerance which the Nazis exemplified.
Second, on p. 163 Hartman states that "Jesus was crucified by the powers that were: the Jewish community and the Roman state." Seen in context, this sentence is best understood to be about the "powers" or authorities in the Jewish community, not about the community as a whole. Robert Hartman had a Jewish father, later married a Jewish wife, Rita Emanuel, and fled Nazi Germany for his vigorous opposition to Hitler and Nazism. No Anti-Semitism was intended by his words, rather an explanation that the actual "powers" or authorities who crucified Jesus were operating within the framework of existing law, which can always be used "for either good or evil," in this case for evil. It is a commentary on the dangers of power.
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Dr. Rem B. Edwards
Secretary, Robert S. Hartman Institute
8709 Longmeade Drive
Knoxville, TN 37923