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N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 2 I 2 1 Stage Manager Dency Nelson refl ects on his 40-year career in live television (The Kennedy Center Honors, Academy Awards, Emmys) and his numerous years of Guild service on the Western AD/SM/PA Council and Negotiations Committee. Nelson on encouraging others to serve the Council and the Guild: "I encourage my members, if you show up, if you have logical suggestions and are willing to demonstrate your willingness to participate, you will be heard here. You're not gonna' be shut out here. It truly does try to fulfi ll the obligation of the collective of all of us. And I'm proud of it. As I was acting as [Western AD/SM/PA Council Membership Committee] Chair, and the day after our meetings when we welcomed new members to our ranks, I would make those calls and say, 'Besides my family, my most valuable possession is my Guild membership.' I also said, "We will be in an age where unions are having less and less participation, and fewer and fewer of working people are represented by collective bargaining and unions. We will be the last union standing." View more excerpts and interviews in the Visual History Collection via the link on the homepage of www.dga.org. Recent Visual History Addition Dency Nelson interviewed by Brian McAloon The DGA's Visual History Program website contains hundreds of hours of videotaped interviews with directors and director's team members discussing their careers and refl ections on all aspects of the creative process in fi lm, television and other media. These interviews are indexed for quick retrieval of segments pertaining to specifi c topics of interest within a particular interview or across the entire collection. MEMBERSHIP REPORT WESTERN REGION ADDITIONS Demetrius Anderson, SM Griffi n Churchill, SM Yani Gutierrez, 2AD Tomi E. Hutton, SM Johnathon L. Johnson, 2AD Joseph Laporte, 2AD Jackson S. Moseley, 2AD Jennifer Ricci, UPM David Robles, 2AD Katherine H. Tibbetts, UPM Michaela V. Walton, 2AD PRIMARY CATEGORY CHANGES Peggy Eng to DIR Stephen Clarke to 1AD Shahrzad Davani to DIR Samuel Randolph Foster to 1AD Daniel Hamilton-Lowe to UPM Kevin Lum to 1AD Tony James Nahar to DIR EASTERN REGION ADDITIONS Juliette Barry, PA Drew Blau, 2AD James Boisvenue, 2AD James Carter, 2AD Isabel Cervantes, 2AD Christina Chow, 2AD Molle DeBartolo, UPM Alessia Donato, UPM Alex Haubenstock, AD Mohammad Z. Khan, 2AD Danielle A. Korman, 2AD Brandice D. Lawson, 2AD Cameron Lawther, 2AD Jackson Lipps, 2AD Gabriela L. Mason, 2AD Ryan Mason, AD Eric J. Nussbaum, 2AD Tim O'Hanlon, 2AD James P. Peretzman, AD Kirsten Pfeifer, 2AD Sarah A. Selinger, 2AD Jared T. Sumner, AD Yaba Tuffour, 2AD Gregory J. Walsh, 2AD Soslan Zangiev, AD IN MEMORIAM Russell F. Brownley, DIR Brian Cummins, DIR W. P. Fowler, DIR Charles D. Hyman, DIR Gene Kraft, DIR Paul Leaf, DIR Anton J. Maillie, UPM Gayle Maffeo, DIR Mike R. Moder, UPM Jeffrey Nagler, SM Karen Prindle, DIR Hank Saroyan, DIR Melvin Sokolsky, DIR Daniel Wells, 1AD