Let me be the first person to wish a very happy birthday to the Interpreter Foundation. Now, I've heard rumors of recent budget cuts at the Foundation due to spiraling expenses associated with supporting Royal Skousen's Critical Text Project. But tomorrow night will be a wonderful opportunity to let one's hair down at the Foundation's annual intimate gathering. Officers, volunteers, and friends of the Foundation will enjoy unlimited soup,
candle salad (church-approved recipe
here), and nutraloaf, as well as bottomless Tang and Postum--all within the confines of the historic annex of the Garfield County (Utah) Jail in Panguitch. After-dinner entertainment will include two scheduled three-round scraps: one between Dr. Louis Midgley and the one and only Gemli, who plans to attend as Dr. Midgley's guest, and one between Brant Gardner and Stanford Carmack (there's some serious bad blood between the two). I trust that a great time will be had by all.
In honor of the Interpreter Foundation's sixth birthday, I present some statistics for August 4, 2017-August 3, 2018 (last year's numbers are shown in parentheses):
59 (54): number of articles published in
Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture (
IJMS) in the past year.
31 (28): number of articles written by individuals affiliated with the Interpreter Foundation. These 31 articles represent 53% (52%) of the articles published in
IJMS in the past year.
12: total number of articles published in
IJMS by Matthew Bowen and Jeff Lindsay in the past year. These 12 articles represent 20% of the total number of articles published in
IJMS in the past year.
5 (4): number of articles published by women in
IJMS in the past year. These articles represent 8% (7.4%) of the total number of articles published in the past year.
40 (35): number of authors published in
IJMS in the past year.
14 (14): number of authors published in
IJMS in the past year who are affiliated with the Foundation. These authors represent 35% (40%) of the authors published in the past year.
5 (4): number of authors published in
IJMS in the past year who are women. This number represents 13% (11.4%) of the total number of authors published in the past year.
1: number of women who serve on the Foundation's 15-member executive board. This number represents 6.7% of the total number of executive board members.
0: number of women who serve on the Foundation's 13-member board of editors.
3: number of women who serve as contributing editors for the Foundation (out of 16 contributing editors).
Congratulations to the Foundation on another successful year!
“A scholar said he could not read the Book of Mormon, so we shouldn’t be shocked that scholars say the papyri don’t translate and/or relate to the Book of Abraham. Doesn’t change anything. It’s ancient and historical.” ~ Hanna Seariac