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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY The year 1968 has seen an extraordinary growth in numbers and participation of members in the affairs of the Rocky Mountain Modem Language Association . A membership of 400 in June 1967 has become 600 at the end of June 1968. The 21st annual meeting , in Albuquerque, brought together somewhat over 300 persons of whom 50 read papers on special detailed studies in 14 sectional meetings and five addressed themselves to the whole membership on topics of general concern to the profession. In financial terms the net returns of the Association have doubled during the year so that against cash on hand in June 1967 of $2150.50, the fiscal year 1968 ended with cash on hand of $4354.29, which does not count $1200 returned to the University of Colorado as a token of intention to arrive at an independent existence sometime in the distant future. The Association must acknowledge the support of the University of Colorado during the year to the extent of something over $15,000 in addition to the provision of offices and services not budgeted. It has also enjoyed a grant of $200 from the University of New Mexico in aid of the annual meeting and a grant of $400 from the Modem Language Association of America, which also subsidized meetings of the officers of the five regional groups in which RMMLA is numbered. Four issues of the Bulletin have been published on schedule, carrying seven special and five general papers, in addition to sketches of four past presidents, the first of a projected series of campus portraits, a directory of useful regional addresses, general news, and for the first time a membership list arranged both alphabetically and by postal address with at least the beginnings of analysis by instructional specialties . Articles in the Bulletin are now indexed both in the MLA International Bibliography and the MHRA Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Also, looking towards a better conception of the province of the Bulletin, the Executive Board has begun to assemble a few members on a Board of Editors whose membership and responsibilities are at the moment wholly tentative. As a start towards clearer definitions, an experimental Newsletter has been launched to appear with greater frequency and with greater dispatch than is possible in a quarterly Bulletin of exacting standards. The Newsletter affords the opportunity for circulating timely campus news as well as making provision for relatively tentative proposals and commentaries of a less than timeless relevance. It is hoped that members will take advantage of the Newsletter to communicate their ideas to the membership on lively and even controversial subjects. There is no reason why the pertinence of the humanities to the present should not be as lively as that shown by the scientists in their publications. The Newsletter will be on trial this year. Prompted by the address of 1967 MLA president, George Winchester Stone, given at the Albuquerque meeting and published in the Bulletin for December 1967, the Association now has in operation four important committees , one each on Developments in Language and Literature, National Legislation , State Education Liaison, and Foundations. From these committees the Association may reasonably expect tangible returns in planning research projects, curriculum changes, and professional relations with government and private foundations. The extent to which these returns are to be realized will depend of course on the uses to which the committees are put by direct contact with the membership at large. All members are urged to take them into account and to address themselves 160 RMMLA BtJLLETiN December 1968 to the committees on any matter within their purview without hesitation or the necessity of further solicitation. The Association now has a large stable membership throughout the Rocky Mountain region, substantial outside support, permanent organization , a Bulletin for reports of studies, a Newsletter for stimulating discussion, a group of committees for channeling affairs into action and altogether a professional competence that seems to be awake to the current opportunities and responsibilities as students and professors of the world's languages and literatures. Respectfully submitted, Henry Pettit Executive Secretary FROM THE SECRETARIAT 22nd Annual (1968) Meeting USAF Academy / Colorado College Under the leadership...

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