Memo to Board from Sam 1/13/1993, where Sam says: I do have some concerns that we are seen as breaking away from pro-feminism whereas we are really presenting a pro-feminist stand that is open to dialog with other currents in the men’s movement” plus information on 1st AMSA Conf at Stony Brook, NY; This file contains much of Sam’s correspondence from 1991 through 1993 about the split between NOCM/NOMAS/Men’s Studies Task Group and attempts by AMSA to work out a relationship between the two groups including drafts of a proposal for the relationship between Men’s Studies Task Group of NOMAS and AMSA, and which was largely refused. One result was the cancellation of the 1992 MSA Conference in May 1992 at Emory Univ.; Letter dated 1/14/95 from Sam Femiano, Chair of AMSA to Ken Clatterbaugh about the history of Men’s Studies Assoc, a Task Group of NOMAS and the split and subsequent separate incorporation of AMSA in 1992, attached to that letter is a copy of AMSA’s Mission Statement and a copy of a letter from Sam to NOMAS Council Members and MSA Chairs and Planning Committee dated 11/2/1991, Sam also references his article in the Fall issue of Men’s Studies Review (Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 3) outlining the changes due to the split and that the Summer/Fall issue of Brother (Vol. 9, Nos. 2 & 3) also reported the split in similar terms; The Construction of Masculinities Across Time and Culture, AMSA 3rd Conf. 24 – 26 March 1995, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL., and AMSA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 1995; Included is a copy of Reflections on the Early History of the American Men’s Studies Assoc. and the Evolution of the Field by James Doyle and Sam Femiano published in Men’s Studies News, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 1998, pp. 8 – 11; plus much more.