Historical news and notices

At the close of the Association's seventieth meeting in Memphis on November 6, 2004, Charles Joyner of Coastal Carolina University succeeded Wayne Flynt of Auburn University as president. Since there were no additional nominations, those proposed by last year's Nominating Committee and published in the May 2004 issue of the Journal were declared elected: VICE PRESIDENT: The award is shared by Professor Betty Gardner of Coppin State College in Baltimore, in recognition of the thousands of students she has mentored both in the classroom and beyond over the course of her more than thirty-year career there, and Professor Sterling Stuckey, in recognition of both his considerable scholarly contributions to African American history and his long record of teaching, mentoring, and directing the graduate work of many students at both Northwestern University and the University of California, Riverside. Valinda W. Littlefield, University of South Carolina, chair; Cathy Adams, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Jonathan M. Atkins, Berry College; Eva S. Bahama, Southern University; Patricia Bellis Bixel, Maine Maritime Academy; J. Duane Bolin, Murray State University; Frank S. Byrne, State University of New York at Oswego; Ann Short Chirhart, Indiana State University; Edward R. Crowther, Adams State College; Christopher M. Curtis, Iowa State University; Thomas M. Downey, Princeton University; Gary T. Edwards, University of Memphis; Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University; Paul William Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Jerry Hopkins, Panola College; Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University; Roger J. Jungmeyer, Lincoln University of Missouri; Cynthia A. Kierner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Anna Evans Lamikanra, West Virginia State College; Ronnie Law, San Jacinto College South; Ernest M. Limbo, Tougaloo College; Andrew M. Manis, Macon State College; Andrew F. McMichael, Western Kentucky University; Julia Huston Nguyen, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Craig Steven Pascoe, Georgia College and State University; Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Diane Miller Sommerville, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Robert A. Taylor, Florida Institute of Technology; Kara Miles Turner, Morgan State University; James H. Tuten, Juniata College; and Robert J. Vejnar II, Emory and Henry College. The center's holdings include the papers of many former members of Congress, such as Robert S. Kerr, Fred Harris, and House Speaker Carl Albert of