5 The Thirties

The ninth annual meeting was held on May 2 and 3, 1930, at the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The invited speakers were recorded as G.C. White and E.R.C. Miles of Duke University. A total of 10 contributed papers was listed on the program, of which 3 were delivered by secondary school teachers. This was apparently the first time that the program included talks by secondary school teachers. The usual Friday night banquet was apparently held, with a talk by G.C. White. No attendance records were located.

The tenth annual meeting was held at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on April 24 and 25, 1931. The invited speaker was R.D. Carmichael of the University of Illinois, who spoke on ``The Nature of Mathematics'' at the Friday evening banquet. A total of 12 papers was presented, including a second talk by Professor Carmichael on ``Recent Researches on Number Theory''. No attendance records were located.

The eleventh annual meeting was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, on March 18 and 19, 1932. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past-president Dunham Jackson of the University of Minnesota, who spoke on ``The Study of Mathematics'' at the Friday evening banquet, as well as on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. A total of 9 contributed papers was shown on the program. There were 48 persons registered at the meeting, including 17 members.

The twelfth annual meeting was held on April 7 and 8, 1933, at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The invited speaker was Frank Morley of the Johns Hopkins University, who spoke on ``The Old Order Changeth'' at the banquet on Friday evening. He also spoke on either ``Regions and Paths'' (from the MONTHLY) or on ``Algebra and the Plane'' (from the program). There were 68 persons registered for the meeting, including 16 members. The program showed a total of 10 contributed papers. The banquet cost was 50¢.

The thirteenth annual meeting was held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 30 and 31, 1934. The invited speaker was M.A.A. President Arnold Dresden of Swarthmore College, who spoke on ``The Mathematical Association of America and American Mathematics'' at the Friday evening banquet, and on ``Some Aspects of the Logical Foundations of Mathematics'' on Saturday morning. There were 128 persons registered for the meeting, including 29 members. A total of 21 papers was delivered. The banquet cost rose to 75¢.

The fourteenth annual meeting was held at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, on March 22 and 23, 1935. The invited speaker was K.P. Williams of Indiana University. This meeting was held in conjunction with the Georgia Academy of Science, the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society and the Southern Section of the American Physical Society. The banquet speaker was Nobel Prize winner (Physics, 1927) Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago, who spoke on ``Cosmic Rays''. A total of 159 persons registered for this meeting, including 37 members. Overnight accommodations at the nearby Candler Hotel in Decatur were advertised as $1.50 for singles and $2.50 for double rooms.

The fifteenth annual meeting was held on April 17 and 18, 1936, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The invited speaker was Walter Bartky of the University of Chicago, who spoke on ``The Expanding Universe-Pro and Con'' at the Friday evening banquet, whose cost remained at 75¢. A total of 24 papers was delivered. A timely paper entitled ``An Analysis of LITERARY DIGEST Polls'' was delivered by Pope Hill of the University of Georgia.

The sixteenth annual meeting was held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 16 and 17, 1937. There were 150 persons registered for the meeting, including 48 members. The invited speaker was once again the M.A.A. Past-president R.D. Carmichael of the University of Illinois, who spoke on ``Discovery of the Freedom to Inquire'' at the Friday evening banquet, and on ``Abelian and Tauberian Theorems'' on Saturday morning. Nearby hotel accommodations were advertised as $2.50 to $4 at the Sam Davis and as $1.25 to $2.50 at the Tulane. A paper entitled ``Examining an Examination'' was delivered by H.M. Cox, University System of Georgia, who later became the Director of the Annual High School Mathematics Examination co-sponsored by the Association.

The seventeenth annual meeting was held on April 1 and 2, 1938, at the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past-president F.D. Murnaghan of the Johns Hopkins University, who spoke on ``The Basic Ideas of Arithmetic and Algebra'' at the Friday evening banquet. There were more than 250 persons from 55 institutions registered for the meeting, including 73 members. While the cost of the banquet remained a modest 75¢, nearby hotel prices had risen to $2 to $5 at the Georgian Terrace and to $3 to $7 at the Atlanta Biltmore, both within walking distance from the campus.

The eighteenth annual meeting was held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 24 and 25, 1939. The invited speaker was W.B. Carver of Cornell University, who spoke on ``The Mathematical Puzzle as a Stimulus to Mathematical Work'' at the Friday evening banquet, as well as on ``Closely Packed Spheres'' on Saturday morning. There were about 140 persons registered for the meeting and a total of 29 contributed papers was shown on the program.