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This issue of Formulations is the last that will be edited and produced by Richard Hammer. As Rich announced in his letter of resignation (Formulations, Spring 1999), at the end of 1999 he will step aside as the driving force in FNF.

Philip Jacobson has taken a leading role in reassigning the work that Rich has been doing. In four meetings this year, of FNF’s eight-person Board, Phil has led sessions in which the other Directors have divided up responsibility for tasks which Rich will drop.

Starting with the next issue, FNF Senator Robert Mihaly will produce Formulations, doing the desktop publication and getting the printing and mailing done. With the recent Forum, Candi Copas has already started her duties in arranging Forum facilities. Candi has also taken responsibility for fund raising—as people on FNF’s mailing list have surely noticed.

FNF Member James S. Wilson, who is a second-year graduate student in information science at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been assigned to an Internship with FNF. In this role he will work on the FNF web site, and help with other duties.

Rich Hammer will continue keeping books as Treasurer, and in February will produce an Annual Report for 1999. In a regular meeting of the Board of Directors, on 13 November 1999, the Board voted to give Rich the title of President Emeritus. D
 

Foundation News Notes

•  The Free Nation Foundation held its thirteenth semiannual Forum on 16 October 1999, in Durham, N.C.  The topic was “How Do We Get There from Here.”  Eleven people attended.
•  The topic of the next FNF Forum will be “Financial Systems.”  We solicit papers on this topic for publication in the upcoming Spring issue of Formulations (writers’ deadline: 1 February 2000).
• FNF President Richard Hammer presented his paper “An Engineer’s View of Morality, Set in a Model of Life” at the ISIL conference in Costa Rica (see the story by Bobby Emory in the left-hand column on this page).
• In San José, Rich Hammer attended two additional conferences, which immediately preceded the ISIL conference.
First, he attended a leadership workshop, for workers in libertarian think tanks, which was presented by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, of Midland, Michigan, <http://www. mackinac.org>, in conjunction with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, of Fairfax, Virginia, <http://www.atlas-fdn.org>, and INLAP, a Costa Rican think tank headed by Rigoberto Stewart <riggo@attglobal. net>.

Second, Rich presented his paper “A State Can Be Designed to Shrink” at the Global Assembly of Decentralists-Federalists, which was organized by FNF Member John Ewbank- <johnewbank@dffcs.org>.?