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missing for the first time from these sessions - our bona de
philosopher par excellence, Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff. What an
adornment to our Society - and to Society generally!
There is a much worn, but - after last night's bombings at the
University of Kansas - pertinent story regarding a faculty advisor
who asked a seemingly unmotivated freshman advisee to be specific
about what he intended to take. The answer: "I plan to take the
ROTC buildings, the administration offices, and the computer center,
probably in that order." This is a common type of modern, poten-
tially destructive criticism, in which I do not plan to indulge. I do
want to examine our Society, and constructively criticize in a non-
critical fashion - if that is possible. As Emily Dickinson once
wrote "- truth, like ancestors' brocades, can stand alone -." She
was right about truth, of course, but the Society's ancestral brocades
may need some starching before they can stand completely erect.
Early this year President Harris Leon Kempner appointed an
ad hoc committee to study the membership and the By-Laws of the
Society with a view toward their possible refurbishing. The com-
mittee membership was, as follows: Dillon Anderson, Jacob W.
Hershey, William Kirkland, and Carey Croneis, chairman. Harris
Kempner and Herbert Gambrell served, ex officio. As so often hap-
pens with ad hoc groups, we met but once, but the views exchanged
were very helpful. Meanwhile I have examined the records directly
available to me - which are limited - and have carried on a cor-
respondence with Messrs. Kempner and Gambrell, the latter of
whom could provide us with perhaps more than we would want
to know about our Society.
In order that we may properly discuss our strengths and weak-
nesses, however, let us consider some Society data on which any
informed decisions for action, or inaction, will have to be based.
Current Membership
Membership statistics reasonably current for June of this year
reveal a total of 203 members. This number has been reduced by 13
deaths; eight in the active category, five in the inactive group.
Therefore earlier this fall our membership presumably stood at 188.
Generously stretching several points, of the 188, 125 could be con-
sidered "active," but 63 would actually have to be listed as "others."
Even with our nine newly elected members, the total membership
today has declined to not more than 197. Unfortunately it may be
a few less. Our membership data are not, for various good andsufficient reasons, always precisely up-to-date.
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