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The sixtieth annual meeting was held on April 10 and 11, 1981, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Richard D. Anderson of Louisiana State University, by the Section Lecturer, Daniel D. Warner of Clemson University, and by B.F. Caviness of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Company. There were 35 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A total of 174 persons registered for the meeting, including 156 members. A memorial resolution for Henry A. Robinson of Agnes Scott College was adopted by the membership.
The sixty-first annual meeting was held on April 9 and 10, 1982, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. This time is about three weeks short of the sixtieth anniversary of the first (organizational) meeting of the Section and this location is within five miles of the planning meeting and of the first meeting. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. First Vice-president Lynn A. Steen of St. Olaf College, by the Section Lecturer, C. Ray Wylie of Furman University, and by Marshall Hall, Jr., of California Institute of Technology and Emory University. A total of 294 persons registered for this meeting, including 248 members and 35 students. There were 49 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A memorial resolution for Andrew Sobczyk of Clemson University was adopted by the membership.
The sixty-second annual meeting was held on April 15 and 16, 1983, at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Ivan Niven of the University of Oregon, by William T. Trotter, Jr., of the University of South Carolina, and by the Section Lecturer, John D. Neff of the Georgia Institute of Technology. A total of 255 persons registered for the meeting, including 232 members and 21 students. There were 48 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A memorial resolution for Nell Gentry was adopted by the membership. This meeting had, for the first time, a formal session for Department Chairman and a formal session for M.A.A. Departmental Representatives. The meeting registration fee was raised to $4.
The sixty-third annual meeting was held on April 6-7, 1984, at the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. Treasurer Leonard Gilman of the University of Texas--Austin, by the Section Lecturer, Carl D. Meyer, Jr., of North Carolina State University, and by Garrett Birkhoff of Harvard University and Georgia Institute of Technology. There were 38 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A total of 223 persons registered for the meeting.
The sixty-fourth annual meeting was held on April 12 and 13, 1985, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. Finance Committee Member Donald F. Kreider of Dartmouth College, by Michael F. Barnsley of the Georgia institute of Technology, and by the Section Lecturer, John W. Kenelly of Clemson University. There were 34 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A total of 326 persons registered for this meeting.
The sixty-fifth annual meeting was held on April 11 and 12, 1986, at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. The three major addresses were given by the M.A.A. Publications Committee Chairman, Alan C. Tucker of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, by Carl Pomerance of the University of Georgia, and by the Section Lecturer, John V. Baxley of Wake Forest University. Professor Baxley dedicated his talk to Professor Robert H. Kasriel of the Georgia Institute of Technology, which created a very widespread favorable reaction in the audience. A total of 246 persons registered for the meeting, including 226 members and 20 students. There were 36 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers.
The sixty-sixth annual meeting was held at Armstrong State College in Savannah, Georgia, on April 3 and 4, 1987. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. Secretary Kenneth A. Ross of the University of Oregon, by the Section Lecturer, Mary F. Neff of Emory University, and by Henry Frandsen of the University of Tennessee--Knoxville. A total of 290 persons registered for the meeting, including 277 members and 13 students. There was a record high of 55 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. This meeting saw the first Short Course offered by the Section. It was given by Colonel Frank Giordano of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the topic ``Teaching Mathematical Modeling''. Registration fee is now $5.
The sixty-seventh annual meeting was held on April 15 and 16, 1988, at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Leonard Gilman of the University of Texas--Austin, by Stephen Puckette of the University of the South, and by the Section Lecturer, F. Lee Cook of the University of Alabama--Huntsville. The second Short Course, on ``Teaching Calculus with an HP-28 Calculator'' was given by John Kenelly of Clemson University. This meeting saw the first ``T.A. Rush'', which attracted a number of university representatives and potential graduate students. There was a new high of 56 papers presented at the section for contributed papers. A total of 333 persons registered for the meeting, including 291 members and 42 students.
The sixty-eighth annual meeting was held at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee on April 7 and 8, 1989. The 361 persons registered for the meeting included 298 members and 63 students, a large increase due to the second ``T.A. Rush''. The three major addresses were given by MONTHLY Editor Herbert S. Wilf of the University of Pennsylvania, by the Section Lecturer, Charles C. Lindner of Auburn University, and by Harold Reiter of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The sections on contributed papers saw a new record of 63 papers for the annual meeting. A Short Course on ``Microcomputer Use in the Mathematics Curriculum'' was given by Larry Husch of the University of Tennessee--Knoxville. The registration fee was raised to $7.