Lloyd and his wife are now enjoying seacoast life south of San Francisco. Ellvert and Mrs. Himes are on assignment in New York City for their church. In general, conventions are well-intentioned drags. They go with such mixed expectations, needs and backgrounds that success is difficult to measure. If people show up and don't complain, planners usually judge the convention to be a success.
Systematic evaluation is a rarity.
Continuing Education and Summer Session meetings are different from most conventions. People do not read boring papers about their isolated research concerns. Sessions are fairly well attended, and speakers try to be witty, not boring. Our professional standing, purposes and methods are not so well established that we can be complacent. We need to make sense of our role in higher education and receive some inspiration about the importance of our mission.