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Statement read at the APA Plenary Session, 5 January 2008, by David Scourfield, Chair of Council, The Classical Association
The Council of the Classical Association recognizes the enormous contribution made by the American Office of l’Année philologique to the international dissemination of scholarly work in Classics over a period of four decades. All classicists in the United Kingdom appreciate the importance of l’Année in making their publications known to the widest possible readership, and as it is the American Office that gathers and organizes the information on material published in English, it is to the American Office above all that our gratitude is due.
Council fully understands the necessity to place the operation of the Office on a new and sound financial footing, and wishes to support the APA’s campaign to raise an endowment for this purpose. Consequently, Council has agreed that the Classical Association, on behalf of Classics and classicists in the United Kingdom, should make an appropriate financial contribution to the campaign. Subject to agreement on the scheduling of payments and satisfactory reporting, the Classical Association therefore undertakes to contribute, over the period of the Gateway campaign, the total sum of two hundred thousand US dollars. Council hopes that this contribution will be marked through an appropriate naming gesture, the precise details to be agreed between the executives of the two associations.