A DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY
Abstract
ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers Volume 69 March, 1979 Number 1 EVENTY-FIFTH anniversaries are just a bit a salutary effect at this time. This special issue S awkward. Seventy-five years is a sort of features twenty-seven of our better-known prac- poor-man’s centennial, not a real milestone, titioners who graciously consented to share some of their thoughts and recollections gained not a nice, round number of years, but rather along the journey to 1979. There should be a point reached in passage. Following closely something in this issue to warm the heart of behind the nation’s bicentennial, a seventy- every geographer and, I suspect, there are pas- fifth birthday for the Association of American sages contained herein that will offend nearly Geographers seems almost trivial. There is, everyone. however, a good reason to seize upon this oc- casion as a brief respite from the here-and-now PROLOGUE for a look back at some of what has been im- The inside back cover of every issue of the portant to geographers over seven and one-half Annals reminds us that the Association of decades. At age seventy-five, American geogra- American Geographers was organized in Phila- phy may be ready for a