8 The Sixties

The thirty-ninth annual meeting was held on April 1 and 2, 1960, at the Wade Hampton Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina, with the University of South Carolina acting as the host institution. The invited speaker was John a. Kemeny of Dartmouth College, who spoke on ``Markov Chain Theory-Expository Treatment''. At the business meeting, a committee was formed to propose a plan for splitting the Section. There were 176 persons registered at the meeting, including 140 members. A total of 27 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The fortieth annual meeting was held at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on April 7 and 8, 1961. There were 139 persons registered at the meeting. The invited speaker was R.M. Thrall of the University of Michigan, who spoke on ``Double Description and Duality in Linear Systems'' on Saturday morning. There did not appear to be any planned banquet on the program. At the business meeting, two motions were passed: one, that the term of office of the Secretary-Treasurer be changed from one year to three years and no holder of the office be re-elected for more than one term, and two, that the present boundaries of the Section be maintained.

The forty-first annual meeting was held on March 30 and 31, 1962, at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina. There were 198 persons registered at the meeting. The invited speaker was Magnus R. Hestenes of the University of California at Los Angeles, who spoke on ``An Algebra for Rectangular Matrices'' at the Friday evening banquet. A total of 23 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The forty-second annual meeting was held on March 29 and 30, 1963, at the Hotel Patten in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with the University of Chattanooga acting as the host institution. The three invited speakers were M.A.A. Past-president G. Baley Price of the University of Kansas, Edwin Hewitt of the University of Washington and A.D. Wallace of Tulane University.There were about 260 persons registered at the meeting. A total of 29 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The forty-third annual meeting was held on March 20 and 21, 1964, at the Frances Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, with The Citadel acting as the host institution. The major addresses were given by Section Vice-chairman M. Kirk Fort of the University of Georgia and by R.P. Agnew of Cornell University, who spoke on ``Counting Up'' at the Friday evening banquet (cost now $3.75). There were 242 persons registered at the meeting. A total of 26 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The forty-fourth annual meeting was held at Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, North Carolina, on April 9 and 10, 1965. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President R.L. Wilder of the University of Michigan, by E.E. Floyd of the University of Virginia, and by L.W. Cohen of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. There were 308 persons registered at the meeting, with 236 members. A total of 36 contributed papers was shown on the program, including one by Tomlinson Fort, a Founder of the Section, now at Emory University. Professor Wilder spoke at the Friday evening banquet.

The forty-fifth annual meeting was held on March 25 and 26, 1966, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The invited speakers were Paul Halmos of the University of Miami and Leonard Carlitz of Duke University. A total of 32 contributed papers was shown on the program. There were 340 persons registered at the meeting, including 268 members. At the business meeting, there was considerable discussion on the question of splitting the Section, particularly with respect to the possible formation of a separate Florida Section of the Association.

The forty-sixth annual meeting was held at Florida Presbyterian College in St. Petersburg, Florida, on March 31 and April 1, 1967. The invited speaker was once again F.A. Ficken, now at New York University, who spoke at the Friday evening banquet. The Section Vice-chairman, A.D. Wallace of the University of Miami, also gave a major address. A total of 36 contributed papers was shown on the program. There were 278 persons registered at the meeting, including 196 members.

The forty-seventh annual meeting of the (new) Southeastern Section was held on March 29-30, 1968, at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. The three invited speakers were Victor L. Klee, Jr. of the University of Washington, Trevor Evans of Emory University, and Herman Meyer of the University of Miami. The film ``Fixed Points'' with Solomon Lefschetz was shown after the Friday evening banquet. There were three special sections of the meeting devoted exclusively to students. There were 313 persons registered at the meeting, including 194 members, and a total of 39 contributed papers was shown on the program. Since the last Section meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Florida Section has been officially formed, so there were no speakers from the state of Florida (except for Professor Meyer). Abstracts of the papers at meetings were no longer printed in the MONTHLY.

The forty-eighth annual meeting was held at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on March 28 and 29, 1969. Major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Gail S. Young of Tulane University and by Section Vice-chairman Emilie Haynsworth of Auburn University. There were 265 persons registered at the meeting, including 175 members. A total of 20 contributed papers was shown on the program. At the business meeting, the membership voted to (a) elect a second Vice-chairman to represent the community and junior colleges in the Section, (b) to charge a registration fee of $1 at all future annual meetings of the Section, and (c) to establish an award of $25 for the student in the Section who scores highest on the Putnam Examination.