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The fiftieth annual meeting was held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 26 and 27, 1971. Major addresses were given by Frank T. Birtel of Tulane University and by Section Vice-chairman W.E. Jenner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The invited speakers were R.P. Boas of Northwestern University and Donald Bushaw of Washington State University, who spoke on Saturday morning under the auspices of C.U.P.M. A total of 227 persons registered for the meeting and 28 contributed papers were shown on the program.
The fifty-first annual meeting was held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 24 and 25, 1972. The first person to be elected Section Lecturer, C.H. Edwards, Jr., of the University of Georgia, spoke on ``Manifolds, Geometry and Mechanics''. R.D. Anderson of Louisiana State University and John W. Jewett of Oklahoma State University also gave major addresses, the latter under the auspices of C.U.P.M. There were 215 persons registered for the meeting, including 172 members. A total of 25 contributed papers was shown on the program, including some from a special session for undergraduate students. The By-laws discussed at the previous meeting were adopted at the business session.
The fifty-second annual meeting was held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 9 and 10, 1973. A total of 332 persons registered for the meeting, including 247 members, and there were 44 contributed papers shown in the program. The three major addresses were given by the second Section Lecturer, Richard F. Arenstorf of Vanderbilt University, who narrated a film on ``Periodic Earth-Moon Bus Orbits'', by Alex Rosenberg of Cornell University, who spoke on ``The Impact of Computing on Freshman and Sophomore Mathematics Courses'', and by J.R. Shoenfeld of Duke University, who spoke on ``Martin's Axiom''. There was again an active section on student papers.
The fifty-third annual meeting was held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 29 and 30, 1974., A total of 324 persons were registered at the meeting, including 234 members. The major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, John W. Neuberger of Emory University, by Ernst Snapper of Dartmouth College and by R.J. Plemmons of the University of Tennessee--Knoxville. There was a Symposium on Mathematics in the Two-year Colleges. Two M.A.A. films were shown on Friday evening. A total of 50 contributed papers was shown on the program.
The fifty-fourth annual meeting was held at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21 and 22, 1975. This was the first meeting of the Section in conjunction with a regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society. A total of 225 persons registered for the meeting, including 177 members. There was 28 contributed papers shown on the program. The major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Henry O. Pollak of Bell Laboratories, by R. Creighton Buck of the University of Wisconsin and by the Section Lecturer, W. Robert Mann of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The fifty-fifth annual meeting was held on March 26 and 27, 1976, at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the local arrangements responsibilities shared with the University of North Carolina--Charlotte. A total of 265 persons registered for the meeting, including 195 members. The three major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, Joel V. Brawley of Clemson University, by M.A.A. First Vice-president Ivan Niven of the University of Oregon and by Murray S. Klamkin of the University of Waterloo, Canada. A total of 44 contributed papers was shown.
The fifty-sixth annual meeting was held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, on April 1 and 2, 1977. Once again, this Section meeting was held in conjunction with a regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society. The major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, Lida K. Barrett of the University of Tennessee--Knoxville, by M.A.A. President Henry L. Alder of the University of California--Davis, and by Charles C. Lindner of Auburn University. Once again, there was a Symposium on Mathematics in the Two-year Colleges. A total of 269 persons registered for the meeting, including 210 members. There were 32 contributed papers shown on the program.
The fifty-seventh annual meeting was held on March 31 and April 1, 1978, at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The major addresses were given by M.A.A. President-elect Dorothy L. Bernstein of Goucher College, by the Section Lecturer, J. Harvey Carruth of the University of Tennessee--Knoxville, and by Harley Flanders of Tel Aviv University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. There were 35 contributed papers shown on the program. A total of 338 persons registered for the meeting, including 204 members. The 86 students who registered for the meeting reflected the first major effort by the Section and by Clemson University to attract potential graduate students to the meetings. For the first time, there were two winners of the Putnam Prize in the Section and each was given the $25 prize for the highest score.
The fifty-eighth annual meeting was held at the University of Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 6 and 7, 1979. A total of 312 persons registered at the meeting, including 204 members and 60 students. The major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, Trevor Evans of Emory University, by the M.A.A. First Vice-president Peter J. Hilton of Case Western Reserve University, and by Leonard J. Carlitz of Duke University. A total of 30 contributed papers was shown on the program