Annual Corporate Meeting

Annual Corporate Meeting
3 May 2008

NOTICE

The annual corporate meeting of The Geological Society of America, Inc., will be held at GSA Headquarters, 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, Colorado 80301, 3 May 2008, at 4:30 p.m., for the following purposes:

• To ratify the appointment of JDS Professional Group to audit the financial records of GSA for the 12-month period ending 30 June 2008;
• To ratify the results of the election conducted by electronic and/or paper ballots for officers for FY 2009, three councilors for four-year terms from July 2008 – June 2012;
• To ratify and confirm all acts of the Council taken during the FY 2007; and
• To transact any other business which properly may be brought before the meeting.

OTHER BUSINESS

It is not anticipated that there will be presented to the meeting any business other than the first three items listed above. The executive director was not aware, a reasonable time before the ballot mailing or posting, of any other matters which may properly be presented for action at the meeting. If any other business should come before the meeting, the persons named on the enclosed proxy will have discretionary authority to vote all proxies (unless indicated to the contrary on individual ballots) in accordance with their best judgment. If you choose to vote in person at the meeting, you may sign an affidavit at the meeting and obtain a replacement ballot.

VOTE REQUIRED TO ADOPT RESOLUTIONS

Each matter to be submitted to the membership requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast at the meeting. At the meeting, the tellers and inspectors of election will canvass the ballots and present their report to the chairman.

Your vote is important to our Society. Please submit your ballot electronically, or sign your hardcopy proxy and return it with your paper ballot on or before 13 April 2008, in order to be tabulated in the election.