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THIBTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING Fresno, California June 15-18, 1975 The Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association, hosted by the Department of Geography at California State University, Fresno, attracted some 280 registrants to the Fresno Hilton and its view of arborescent Courthouse Park in downtown Fresno. On Sunday, June 15, a backyard picnic at the John Crosby residence preceded alfresco reports on agricultural land use in Fresno County by Chester Cole, Donald Morgan, and Stanley Norsworthy of the CSU Fresno faculty, and by Bill Johnson of Westlands Water District. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 92 papers were presented in regular and special program sessions; paper titles and selected abstracts appear in the subsequent pages of this Yearbook. Mike Biechler was chairman of the local arrangements committee. Program sessions were chaired by Homer Aschmann, Robert Christopherson, Tim Dagodag, Christopher Exline, Barbara Fredrich, Richard Haiman, Charles Irby, R. Keith Julian, William Loy, Melinda Meade, Donald Morgan, Stanley Norsworthy, John Passerello, John Rees, Robert Richardson, Lester Rowntree, Christopher Salter, James Scofield, Jerry Towle, Gerald Tyner, Judith Tyner, and Barbara Weightman. A Monday afternoon excursion to Fresno's agrarian environs, featuring dairy farm, citrus packing, and enologie inspections, was led by Max Cox, Deputy County Agricultural Commissioner, and Jim Steiner of the National Weather Service. Also augmenting the Meeting were aerial flights over Yosemite Valley, arranged by Wayne Irwin of Merced Community College, which dodged clouds from the frontal passage bringing unseasonably moderate daytime temperatures to the Fresno region. The annual business meeting was held Monday afternoon. On Tuesday evening in the North Ballroom, the annual banquet was presided over by Chris Field and addressed by outgoing president Robert W. Durrenberger on the subject of "Our Solar Energy Resource," the text of which appears as the first article in this Yearbook. 110 ...

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