Since the surface of water can reflect a moment, let's each examine our professional society and ourselves during this coming year.
Reflection can create a vision, a brilliance.
This year AFS celebrates its 130th birthday. That landmark comes at a time when our general society's existence is focused on the immediate, ever more so because of the rise in electronic communications that link people worldwide. We move minute to minute, swept up in the glory of instant transmission of messages and thoughts. However, a side effect of this speedy information exchange is the temptation to look only ahead instead of taking time to pause and reflect. During this year I hope to share with you some perspectives of our past, both as a science and a professional society.