Review of the XXIX Annual Meeting of the Division

REVIEW OF THE XXIX ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DIVISION The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers was held November 23-25, 1974, at the Sheraton-Biloxi Motor Inn in Biloxi, Mississippi. The host institution was the University of Southern Mississippi. Jesse O. McKee was the chairman of the local arrangements committee. James O. Wheeler was chairman of the program committee. There were approximately 300 persons registered for the meetings. After the Division membership was welcomed by William D. McCain , President of the University of Southern Mississippi, and William M. Roberts, Chairman of the Department of Geography, University of Southern Mississippi, a program of 72 papers occupied two days. James J. Parsons, President of the Association of American Geographers, addressed the banquet on the subject, "Mound-Builders and Ridged-Field Farmers as Pre-Columbian Landscape Engineers." In the honors competition, the winners were Richard E. Lindenberg , Georgia State University, and Steven W. Engerrand, University of Georgia. ___________________________PROGRAM___________________________ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1974 8:00- 5:00 Mississippi Council for Geographic Education 8:00-12:00 Field Trip: Port of Pascagoula Led by James W. Gladden, Jr., (Univ. of Southern Mississippi ) and J. Lucien Gilbert, (Port of Pascagoula) 2:00- 3:30 Executive Committee Meeting 4:00- 6:00 Steering Committee Meeting 12:30- 8:00 Registration 1:30- 5:00 Field Trip: Earth Resources Observations Systems (EROS) Program Office Led by W. T. Mealor, (Univ. of Southern Mississippi) and Gary North, (EROS Office) 7:00-7:30 OPENING SESSION __ _____ _________West Ballroom Presiding: Sidney R. Jumper, (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville) Chairman, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers Welcome: William D. McCain, President, and William M. Roberts, (Univ. of Southern Mississippi) 64 Southeastern Geographer 7:30-9:30 GEOGRAPHY IN SMALL COLLEGES: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALITIES ____West Ballroom Special Panel Session Arranged by James O. Wheeler, (Univ. of Georgia) Chaired by Merle C Prunty, (Univ. of Georgia) Panel Members: Alice C. Andrews, (George Mason Univ.), Fred Payne, (Georgia Southern College), Harry J. Schaleman , (Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg), Dennis L. Spetz, (Univ. of Louisville), Charles L. Sullivan (Gulf Coast Junior College, Perkinston, Mississippi), John C. Upchurch, (West Georgia College), and Burke G. Vanderhill, (Florida State Univ.) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1974 8:00- 5:00 Registration 8:30-10:15 SOUTHERN STUDIES SESSION ________West Ballroom PlenaryChairman: Clyde E. Browning, (Univ. of North Carolina, SessionChapel Hill) Member, Southern Studies Committee, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers Carl W. Spurlock, (Univ. of Florida), "Forecasting Spatial Demand for Heating Fuel" Howard G. Adkins, (Marshall Univ.), "The Historical Geography of Extinct Towns in Mississippi" Don L. Gary, (NicholL· State Univ.), "Crawfish Aquaculture in French Louisiana" W. T. Mealor, (Univ. of Southern Mississippi) and Merle C. Prunty, (Univ. of Georgia), "The Disappearance of the Open Range Ranch in Peninsular Florida" Discussants: Dennis Lord, Sam Hilliard, Harlon G. Hawkins , and L. Arnold Siniard. 10:30-12:00 AGRICULTURE AND LAND USE _______Oxford Room Concurrent Chairman: H. G. McDowell, (Univ. of Tenn., ChattaSession A nooga) Donald W. Davis, (Nicholls State Univ.), "Trainasses, Trapping , and Landscape Change" Larry A. Brown, (Troy State Univ. at Fort Rucker) and Arthell Kelley, (Univ. of Southern Mississippi), "Changing Patterns of Land Use and Human Occupancy in the Piney Woods-Gulf Coast Fringe—The Case of Mississippi Route 53-603" Ralph H. Alderman, (Univ. of Miami), "The Impact of Vol. XV, No. 1 65 Beef Exportation in Central America: The Case of Honduras , the Home of the Whopper" Edward C. Babin, (Univ. of South Carolina, Spartanburg Regional Campus), "Typal Comparisons of Louisiana Sugar Cane Agricultural Units Controlled by Black and White Operators in 1969" Discussants: David Icenogle, William W. Chester, Edward P. Leahy, Ennis L. Chestang, and Raymond Crist 10:30-12:00 ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS _______Gulf Room A-B Concurrent Chairman: Nelson R. Nunnally, (Univ. of North CaroSession B Una at Charlotte) Earl J. Baker, (Florida State Univ.), "Loss Management in the Evaluation of Hazard Zone Land Use Policies" Robert E. Lloyd, (Univ. of South Carolina), "Information and Environmental Preferences" Ernest D. Metivier, (West Georgia College), "Potential Indicators of Urban Environmental Quality" Roger W. Pearson, (Univ. of Georgia) and Daniel W. Smith, (Univ. of Alaska), "Fairbanks, Alaska: An...