Editor's Comments

Gamma Theta Upsilon prospers. This is written after the recent board meeting held at the Association of American Geographers' convention in Salt Lake City. We had eleven in attendance at the board meeting . including two student representatives. It was a productive session. Among other things, plans are getting underway for the celebration of our 50th anniversary. It is a milestone year. It is always good to see students at our meetings, one of which is held in the spring at the time of the A.A.G. Annual meeting. The other is held in the fall at the time of the N.C.G.E. meeting. The latter will meet in St. Louis in November; the former in New Orleans in April, 1978. Why not plan to join us there for two N.C.G.E. celebrations? The A.A.G. meeting this past April was large, diverse, and worthwhile. Just understanding the diversity of geographers' interests is a full time task. We all share that basic question of "where?", but we certainly ask it in a variety of ways. That diversity is our real strength. Not long ago there were those who feared that the "quantifiers" would take over the discipline. They, of course, did not, but they did add a valuable dimension to our efforts of understanding. There have been other threatened "take-overs." They all add and we all benefit. There are those who fear the over emphasis of planning and other applied aspects of the field. A view of the program and abstracts shows that diversity overwhelms any small sub·field.