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Socially, the annual meetings of the American Historical and American Political Science Associations at Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia, December 28-31, 1908, were notably successful. The hotel arrangements, permitting the great majority of members to live for the time being under one roof, facilitated the personal conference which forms so large a part of the value of these meetings; for it must be admitted that the obligation to listen to papers and discussions sits less and less heavily upon the members as the years go by. The program of papers and conferences, while, as usual, full of variety and information, developed fewer distinctive excellencies than has sometimes been the case, or than the announced titles would in some cases lead one to suppose.

This paper offers a look at ideas generated by the Speech Communication Association (SCA) conference held in Arlie, Virginia, on September 6-10, 1972. The conference was opened with a special presentation on institutional long-range planning by Darrell T. Piersol, personnel director of IBM. It is the belief of those involved in the Arlie conference that some such review of the where the SCA is, where it is going and where it should be going and how SCA is going to get there should be done on a regular basis. The Educational Policies Board should appoint a committee to develop an Interpersonal Communication Instruction package for speech communication teachers from kindergarten through grade twelve. SCA should give high priority to establishing at least minimum certification standards for teachers of speech communication in the secondary schools. The SCA National Office should find out what is now being done by those professional associations conducting accrediting programs, which associations have such programs and how they go about it. Forensics, debate and theatre activities should be considered workshops or laboratory activities supporting the objectives of the speech curriculum and not become ends in themselves. The Administrative Committee should establish a mechanism by which congressional and other governmental actions affecting the profession are regularly reported to the Legislative Council to the membership.

Deals with the preparation of Charlottesville Negroes in Virginia for school integration of the whites for massive resistance, as of August 1958. Scheduled opening of Charlottesville's schools; Possible implication of the response of Charlottesville to the demands of massive resistance; Reason for the move of the Byrd Organization to adopt massive resistance.