Abstract

spondence with NCTE officials raising questions about programming, attendance, and conventioneering. To Dwight Burton, program chairman in 1966, I suggested that NCTE might adopt a general policy of eliminating all section meetings in which the number of people on the program outnumbered the audience. He replied: Since the convention has featured Saturday afternoon programs only for the past two years, some people have not yet gotten in the habit of attending the D programs.... Boston was an improvement over Cleveland, and I am sure Houston will be a definite im-