During the business sessions held earlier in the afternoon, the following were elected to the M.M.H.S. board: Henry Ens, Bert Friesen, Otto Hamm, Irene Kroeker, and Alf Redekopp. They join Abe Dueck, Adolf Ens, Helene Friesen, Marianne Janzen, Lawrence Klippenstein, Ken Reddig, Conrad Stoesz and Richard Thiessen in comprising the board of directors for 1996.
The major item of businnes involved the approval by the membership of the sale of the society's inventory of published materials to Brandt Family Enterprises, the owners of Mennonite Books. As part of this agreement, Brandt Family Enterprises will now be the society's official distributor of its publications. The society will also continue to distribute its publications if it wishes to. This arrangement allows the society to focus its efforts on publishing without having to worry about the storage and distribution of its books.