Review of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee

Southeastern Geographe¡ Vol. 23, No. 1, May 1983, pp. 54-5; REVIEW OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE fames S. Fisher The Department of Geography, Memphis State University, served as the host institution for the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association ofAmerican Geographers held November 21—23, 1982, at the Holiday Inn-Rivermont, Memphis, Tennessee . The Local Arrangements Committee, chaired by Arnold Siniard , included all members of the Department of Geography at Memphis State University and several members of the Memphis Geographic Society. The registration count for the meeting was 330 persons, of which 108 were student registrants. A considerable number of participants were colleagues from outside the Southeastern Division. The Sunday evening opening session was presided over by President Neal G. Lineback. The attendees were greeted and welcomed to Memphis and Memphis State University by Dr. Thomas G. Carpenter, President , Memphis State University. Mr. Kemmons Wilson, Chairman of the Board, Kemmons Wilson Companies, Inc., and Co-founder, Holiday Inns, Inc., provided the keynote address, "I Have Always Been a Business Geographer, But Never Knew It." Among the total of 25 sessions included on the program, two consisted ofpapers submitted for the M.A. and Ph.D. Honors competition. A special session was arranged by Peter O. Müller on current directions in economic geography. Three special sessions were arranged by Charles S. Aiken, W. Theodore Mealor, and James S. Fisher in honor and memory of Merle C. Prunty. Other presentations included sessions on historical geography (2), economic and industrial geography (2), physical geography (2), resources and regional geography, resource use and impacts , migration, development problems in India, cultural geography, political and social geography, and cartography. Special activities included a demonstration of the use of microcomputers in geography (arranged by Charles Traylor and John Matson), a workshop on careers Dr. Fisher is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA 30602. He served as Vice-President and as Program Chairman of the Division during 1982. Vol. XXIII, No. 1 55 for geographers (arranged by Susan Moorlag), and two discussions and slide presentations. Stanley Brunn, Gerald Ingalls, and Julian Minghi provided focus on Israel's military landscapes, while E. B. Dyer examined Chinese agriculture. The Committee on the Status of Women in the Southeast sponsored a lecture and held its annual business meeting. Other scheduled committee meetings were held by the Committee on Professional Career Development, and the Departmental Chairpersons. Four field trips were available in Memphis and its environs . At the Tuesday morning Business Meeting it was announced that Charles Aiken, University of Tennessee, and Lisle Mitchell, University of South Carolina, were elected Vice President and Secretary, respectively , for 1983-1984. Bob Wales, Lydia Pulsipher, and Wayne Hoffman, Chairperson, were elected to the Nominating Committee for 1983. The newly elected Honors Committee includes Susan Brooker-Gross, John Winberry, and Louis De Vorsey, Chairperson. The Honors Committee did not offer a nomination for Honorary Life Membership. Marcia Castro, University of South Carolina, was announced as the winner of the Student Scholarship awarded by the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. It was noted that Merle C. Prunty, an Honorary Life Member of the Division, passed away on October 5, 1982. Sidney Jumper presented memorial commentary. Sallie Ives, Chairperson of the Honors Committee, announced at the Honors Luncheon that Gerald R. Webster, University of Kentucky, won the award for the best Ph.D. paper and that Linda Ethridge Hammons , Memphis State University, won the award for the best M.A. student paper. John S. Adams, University of Minnesota and President of the Association of American Geographers, presented a thoughtful and timely luncheon address, "American Geography: Inventory and Prospects." ...