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The article offers insights of various members of the Southern Communication Association on Michael Leff of the communication department at the University of Memphis. It notes that the 2010 convention of the association in Memphis, Tennessee was saddened of Leff. It says that during the convention, brief speeches were offered reflecting on Leff's professional and personal. Michael Osborn reveals that Leff was an accomplished scholar, an effective communication leader, and a consummate teacher.

Controversies over changing the name have arisen three times in the history of the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA). The trajectory of these changes, we argue, has been toward a wider, more inclusive professional identity for our field and for those who affiliate with it. This is the story of how the latest of these changes occurred, as we lived through and participated in the contentious events of 1988 during the SSCA convention in Memphis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the melodramatic controversy that pervaded in Memphis, Tennessee, during the Memphis garbage strike in February 1968. Background information on melodrama; Description of melodramatic characters; Discussion on the first melodrama of the controversy; Examination of the counter-melodrama of the controversy.