Alabama Society for Histotechnology

If you have any interest in maintaining this web presence for the Alabama State Society for Histotechnology please contact us.  If no one steps forward we will need to take the site down, due to lack of interest.  My recommendation is that someone take the url (http://www.alhistology.org) and create a joomla site, or something equivalent. The present site does not have enough content to worry about. 

I hope each of you will make every effort to attend the NSH S/C. We are very excited to be hosting NSH this year!
We are here to be of assistance and hope that this will be a memorable event for you!
In case you are driving be sure to have your CD’s ready, you may want to add to your list SWEET HOME ALABAMA by Lynyrd Skynyrd and SUMMERTIME ON THE LAKE by Kidd Rock, this will help get you in the right mood!

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We all had a great time in Pittsburgh, PA. The workshops were great. It is always good to visit with old friends. I enjoyed visiting with the vendors. Pittsburgh is a beautiful city and the people are friendly. We all had a wonderful time at the PR booth.  Annie Williams with the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau, Birmingham, Alabama joined us. She provided a wealth of information concerning Birmingham, Alabama for the people visiting the PR Booth. We want to thank our supports as follows; Bud’s Cookies, Peanut Depot, and Royal Cup Coffee.
If you would like to volunteer to assist with the NSH, 2009, contact the NSH office.

We are looking forward to hosting the NSH, 2009 in Birmingham, Al. There will not be a state meeting next year or Region III meeting since we will be hosting the 35th Annual Symposium/Convention October 2-7, 2009, 5 Days, Countless Possibilities.

We have two different tee shirts for $10.00 each:
(1) “SWEET HOME ALABAMA, NSH 2009”
(2) “BIRMINGHAM ,The Magic City” NSH 2009

If you would like to purchase a tee shirt call me at 205-939-9639.

We have lost three wonderful fellow histotechs this year, Lou Anne Raby, Jane Hosmer, and Patricia Lynn Couch.

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hello Alabama!
We are all busy getting ready for Pittsburgh, PA.  This year we are in charge of the PR Booth for Birmingham, AL, 2009!  Everyone is working together to make 2009 the best NSH meeting, ever!
I want to share with you all what great response we have had from the greater Birmingham businesses such as Buds Cookies, Royal Cup Coffee, Peanut Depot, Visitors Center of Birmingham, Visitors Center of Huntsville, Visitors Center of Montgomery, and Mobile Bay, Alabama and others.  Ann Williams with the Birmingham Visitors Center will be joining us in Pittsburgh working the PR Booth. We will have a lot of give-a-ways.
We have two different tee shirts each one in red and orange for $10.00:
one says “SWEET HOME ALABAMA “
the other “BIRMINGHAM ,The Magic City”
NSH 2009
If you would like to purchase a tee shirt call me at 205-939-9685.
We hope to see you in Pittsburgh, PA, September 12, 2008.
Stop by the PR Booth and give us a shout out for Alabama!

Rita Humphrey, HT (ASCP) QIHC, President
Sally Jordan, HT (ASCP), Vice President
Danitra Blevins, HTL (ASCP), Treasurer
Mary Ann Payne, HT (ASCP), Secretary

From the president:
Don’t forget NSH 2009 be ready to party with us!!!
Rita

This organization shall be known as the Alabama Society for Histotechnology, hereafter referred to as the Society.  This Society is organized for educational and scientific purposes and shall function within the structure of the these Bylaws to encourage continuing education in the field of histology; to strengthen communication and to get a prompt interchange of ideas and methods; promote understanding and cooperation between the histotechnologists and the allied professions.

Officers

The Officers of this Society shall be a President; Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and any other officers as may be elected in accordance with provisions of the by-laws.

Membership

See the membership page.

Elections

As per the 1987 Bylaws the Nominations and Awards committee shall present its recommendations to the President for election of officers. The slate will then be presented to the membership, at election time (September, every 2 years), by mail, in the form of a sealed ballot, presenting the candidates running for office. Membership will vote by mail, with the option to write in their candidate for office. Ballots will be returned to chairman of the Nominations & Awards Committee for opening and counting and notifying elected officers. The consent of each candidate shall be obtained before a person’s name can be placed on the ballot.

Qualifications

An officer must be an active member in good standing of both the Society and the National Society for Histotechnology for a minimum of one (1) year prior to his/her election.

Rita Humphrey’s Home can be found here.

PEIR

The PEIR Residents Resources site was created with the purpose of establising a gateway to useful educational resources on the Web in the field of Pathology. The Internet is a very powerful informational tool, but finding specific information can be difficult due to the information overflow on the Web and the considerable “noise” that confounds the character and quality of the matches obtained by using Web search tools. The focus of this site is on Web pages and online documents with an educational content. Emphasis is placed on sites with ample illustrations and sites that can be accessed for free. Links to commercial sites are not included unless the site has clear educational content. In many cases the links are made directly to the educational subdirectories of those sites, rather than linking to the main page. The main categories were intentionally made to illustrate the various kinds of Web resources that are of potential educational value in Pathology. This links database is an ongoing project where the links are classified in numerous subcategories.

Our national organization:  NSH

The Alabama Society for Histotechnology is organized to:

• encourage continuing education in the field of histology
• to strengthen communication with the profession
• to promote the interchange of ideas and methods in histology
• to promote understanding and cooperation between histotechnologists and allied professions.

Membership is open to individuals, organizations and companies who share these goals.
To join our organization simply register on this site, and indicate your desire to be a member.
There are no annual dues.
Yearly membership runs from June 1 to May 31. 
We will ask you to confirm your membership each year.
To register, go to our registration page:  register
If you have already registered on this site, you need only update your profile to indicate a desire to be an ASH member:  update profile