Eckerman to Speak Oct 26 We may think that medical writ-ing is a relatively new profession, but for hundreds of years people have been acting as medical communicators by writing down their observations, discoveries, and stories for others to read. Nancy Eckerman, Special Col-lections Librarian at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library of Indiana Uni-versity School of Medicine, will share with us her insights into the practice of medicine and medical communications in the middle

nineteenth-century Midwest, based on evidence of medical books and other medical writing of that time. Please join us for our first chap-ter meeting of the 04-05 year on Tuesday, October 26th from 6:00 -7:30 p.m. at Eli Lilly and Co., the Farris II Bldg, 546 South Meridian in the Monet Salon. The evening will include a brief busi-ness meeting and, as always, SNACKS. Please see page 2 for a map, with parking/ security tips.

Hoosier Writer

A Newsletter of the Indiana Chapter of the American Medical Writers’ Association National: www.amwa.org Indiana chapter: www.geocities.com/hotsprings/villa/9504

Welcome to the new chapter year! Officers were elected at our annual chapter conference, and all of our names and contact infor-mation are listed in this newslet-ter. Some of us are new to chap-ter leadership, while others have either continued in the same of-fice, or moved into a new one. No matter which category we fit into, we all want to bring you useful, in-teresting chapter activities. Please feel free to contact any of us to of-fer suggestions or ask questions.

We have a lot of good ideas, which we hope you’ll like. For one thing, we hope to revive the chap-ter Web site, and we’re also look-ing at ways to bring chapter activi-ties to members who can’t attend meetings easily. If you are attending the AMWA national conference Oct. 21-23, stop by and say “hello” at the Chapter Meet and Greet, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Otherwise, we’ll hope to see you at the next chapter meet-ing on October 26th.

from the Presidentfrom the President

Officers 2004-2005 President: Elaine Crabtree elacrabtree@earthlink.net President-elect: Cynthia Hooper chooper@lilly.com Secretary: Tami Van Meter van_meter_tamara@lilly.com Treasurer: Ingrid E.Hensley hensleyin@lilly.com Education Chair: Diana Fisher fisher_diana_lynnette@lilly.com Program Committee: Deborah Frisby (chair), frisby_deborah_s@lilly.com Peggy Emard, emard_peggy_m@lilly.com Tammy Graves tharris1@iupui.edu Membership Chair: Teresa Wolfe tsw1@lilly.com Newsletter Editor: Cindi Zenkert-Strange cmzenker@stvincent.org

AMWA meeting location, October 26, Faris II Campus of Eli Lilly and Company, 546 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis

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Parking and Security: Parking is available in the visitors section of the Farisparking structure, and also off of Henry St. between Illinois St. and Meridian St. or off Meridian St. south of Henry. Attendees should arrive about 10 minutes early to register and have bags checked by our friendly security staff. Please note that cameras and camera phones are prohibited.

If you have any suggestions or would like to contribute to the newsletter,

please contact Cindi Zenkert-Strange at cmzenker@stvincent..org

Mark Twain, "Comment on Tautol-ogy and Grammar" “I suppose we all have our foibles. I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for pictur-esqueness; but that reviewer cares only for the last mentioned of these things. His grammar is foolishly cor-rect, offensively precise. It flaunts it-self in the reader's face all along, and struts and smirks and shows off, and is in a dozen ways irritating and dis-agreeable. . . . I write good grammar myself, but not in that spirit. . . . This reviewer even seems to know (or seems even to know, or seems to know even) how to put the word 'even' in the right place; and the word 'only,' too. I do not like that kind of persons. I never knew one of them that came to any good. A person who is as self-righteous as that will do other things."