During the preceding year, the committee has worked on four projects:
l) The Society Clearinghouse. This project is designed to enable each of the societies to learn of, and benefit from, the various study aids and multimedias and other materials which other societies have available, through a catalogue. David Kulieke is in charge of this project, which is now virtually complete.
2) The Library Gift Book-Program. Prior to the end of 1982, we had exhausted our allocation of books for this volunteer placement project. We received Executive Committee permission to dip into 1983's allocation, and up to the writing of this report, we have distributed 287 books with 160 confirmed placements. Tom Allen is the co-ordinator of all of the volunteer activities for this project.
3) The Study Group-Fellowship of Urantia-Brotherhood. This is the project concerning which your opinions were solicited last fall, a large majority of-which were favorable. The Executive Committee approved the project and letters were sent out to the membership in late February. So far, the response has been very encouraging: in the first two months we have received applications from 75 groups representing a little over 600 individuals who have committed to meet with their group on a regular basis. It is our hope that the Study Group Fellowship will contribute to a strengthening of our existing groups, and to the formation of many new ones. A listing of the groups which have joined so far is attached.
4) The Summer Study Seminars. This year our committee is again privileged to be one of the sponsors of our summer study session. Inasmuch as it has not yet taken place at the time of this writing, I can only thank our two members Mary Schlueter and David Kulieke who are working on it for us, and who did such a good job at last year's.
The committee has enjoyed the opportunity to serve the Brotherhood during the preceding year, and always welcomes any suggestions for new projects or improvements in existing projects. I wish to specially thank our members Geraldine Hahn, Mary Schlueter, CeCe Forrester, David Kulieke and Tom Allen for their labors during the past year.
Respectfully submitted, Harry McMullan, Chairman