Review of the XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Division

REVIEW OF THE XXVlII ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DIVISION The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers was held November 18-20, 1973, at the Center for Continuing Education in Boone, North Carolina. The host institution was Appalachian State University. H. Daniel Stilwell was in charge of local arrangements. James O. Wheeler was chairman of the program committee. There were 245 persons registered for the meetings. After the Division membership was welcomed by Herbert W. Wey, Chancellor of Appalachian State University, a program of 55 papers occupied two days. Preston E. James, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Syracuse University, addressed the banquet on the subject, "The Southern Studies Project: A Paragraph in the History of American Geography." In the honors competition, the winner was Jeffrey T. Lutz, University of North Carolina. PROGRAM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1973 8:00- 6:00 Field Trip: Geomorphology of the Appalachians Led by Fred Webb, (Appalachian State Univ.) 12:30- 8:00 Registration ______________________________Lobby 12:30- 5:00 Field Trip: The Recreation Resort Complex of the BooneLinville -Banner Elk Area Led by H. Daniel Stilwell and L. L. Nicholls (Appalachian State Univ.) 3:30- 5:30 Executive Committee Meeting 7:30- 9:30 Steering Committee Meeting MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1973 8:00- 5:00 Registration 8:45-9:15 OPENING SESSION _______Northwest Carolina Room Presiding: James F. Woodruff, (Unit;, of Georgia) Chairman, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers Welcome: Herbert W. Wey, Chancellor, (Appalachian State Univ.) Vol. XIV, No. 1 55 9:15-10:30 SOUTHERN STUDIES SESSION ___________________Northwest Carolina Room PlenaryChairman: James S. Fisher, (Univ. of Georgia), SessionMember, Southern Studies Committee, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers Charles S. Aiken, (Univ. of Tennessee), "Migration from the Cotton Fields: Tractors vs. Sharecroppers During the Depression" Sanford H. Bederman, (Georgia State Univ.), "The Stratification of 'Quality of Life' in the Black Community of Atlanta, Georgia" Clifton W. Pannell, (Univ. of Georgia), "Recent Metropolitan Growth in the Southern United States" Discussants: Dorothy S. Mason, John Catau, and Clyde E. Browning 10:45-12:30 GEOMORPHOLOGY ___________________North Room ConcurrentChairman: Charles F. Lane, (Longwood College) Session A Stanley W. Trimble, (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "The Erosional Hazard of Terrain: Or How to Distinguish the Upper Piedmont from the Lower" James F. Coffman, (Univ. of Georgia), "Landforms in Dynamic Equilibrium: The Kentucky Knobs" Jacques L. G. Emplaincourt and Charles C. Wielchowsky, (Geological Survey of Alabama), "Detection of Shoreline Changes from ERTS-I Data" Richard A. Stephenson, (East Carolina Univ.), "Spatial Patterns of Shoreline Profiles on the Tar-Pamlico Estuary in North Carolina" Discussants: Richard Witmer, Donald H. Poole, and Edwin H. Hammond 10:45-12:30 REGIONAL ECONOMIC ANAYLSIS ______West Room ConcurrentChairman: Stephen S. Birdsall, (Univ. of North Session B Carolina) Ole Gade, (Appalachian State Univ.), "Economic Boom in North Carolina Mountains: The Overly Optimistic Reaction in Watauga County" Jeffery Bassett, (Univ. of Kentucky), "Poverty Regions in Central Appalachia" Ronald D. Garst, (Univ. of Kentucky), "A Factorial Ecology of Kentucky" Richard Silvernail, (Univ. of South Carolina), "South Carolina's Income Combination Regions" Discussants: W. T. Mealor, Edgar Bingham, Wayne Hoffman, and Terry E. Epperson 56 Southeastern Geographer 10:45-12:30 Concurrent Session C LATIN AMERICA -Carolina Room 1:45- 3:30 Concurrent Session A 1:45- 3:30 Concurrent Session B 3:45- 5:30 Concurrent Session A Chairman: Allen D. Bushong, (Univ. of South Carolina) Robert J. Tata, (Florida Atlantic Univ.), "Population Geography of Argentine" Edward P. Leahy, (East Carolina Univ.), "The Dynamics of Change in the Selva: The Prainha-Jacareacanga Sector of the Transamazonica" Eugene M. Wilson, (Univ. of South Alabama), "Eastern Llanos and Guiana Highland Savannas" Discussants: Ralph H. Alderman and Ralph O. Fullerton „North Room AGRICULTURE AND MARKETING _ Chairman: Ralph H. Alderman, (Univ. of Miami) G. H. Stopp, Jr., (Louisiana State Univ.), "A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of Soybeans on the Agricultural Landscape of Louisiana" L. Arnold Siniard, (Memphis State Univ.), "Dominance of Soybean Cropping in the Lower Mississippi River Valley" Sidney R. Jumper, (Univ. of Tennessee), "The Wholesale Marketing Structure for Fresh Vegetables" C. A. Weber, (Univ. of Tennessee), "Tests of the Predictive Power of Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation" Discussants: Merle C. Prunty, Paul...