Periodically yours...Westward Ho, or East to the future?

Three amigos at the 2002 Film & History League Conference on the West: LFQ editor Jim Welsh at the Kansas City Marriott Award Luncheon, flanked by erstwhile SCS President Don Staples of North Texas State University and John O'Connor, founding editor of Film & History. Plenary speakers were IAMHIST President and archivist Christine Whittaker, cur- rently working with the BBC in White City, and Robert Ray of the University of Florida, who was considerate enough not to express his more inflammatory notions about the sort of adaptation study reflected by LFQ, which, he advises in James Naremore's anthology Film Adaptation (Rutgers UP, 2000), has none the less done "admirable" service by reserving "most of its space for articles by graduate students, junior faculty, and teachers at small, relatively unprestigious colleagues and universities." Peter Lehman (Wide Angle), Jack Nachbar (Journal of Popular Film and Television), Ray Browne (Journal of Popular Culture), John O'Connor and Peter Rollins (Film & History), John Tibbetts (American Classic Screen), and, of course, along with John Tibbetts, Don Whaley, and Jim Welsh (LFQ).