EDITORIAL
Question demands analysis
1Dresident-elect Joyce Erdman asked me a difficult question: What is
v. the relationship between the goals I set for the Review and those
of the Academy? The easy answer was that the primary goal of the
Academy is to disseminate information about sciences, arts, and letters
in Wisconsin and that the Review specifically takes original research
and makes it available to readers outside that field, in addition to
providing a forum for Wisconsin authors and artists. But Joyce meant
something more specific: how do I coordinate the long-term planning
of the Review with the plans of the Academy.
  The Academy runs many programs, which we inform members
about in the bimonthly newsletter, "Inside the Academy."
Foremost
is the annual conference held in April. At this meeting the Academy
presents citations to persons, groups, or institutions for outstanding
contributions to the life, culture, and welfare of Wisconsin and the
Gordon MacQuarrie award for distinguished achievement in
environmental communications. The Academy also announces the
elections of the Fellows of the Academy, now numbering twenty-five,
Wisconsin citizens who have made outstanding contributions to the
intellectual and cultural life of this country through their professions.
The conference programs usually have some direct connection with the
Review: last year in Beloit the exhibit of painters and printmakers
featured in the March 1983 Review opened at the conference; this year
the conference ran a symposium on nineteenth century material
culture with speakers who had written for the March 1984 issue on
that topic. The annual conference papers and speakers, too, always
furnish ideas for Review articles.
  The topics for special issues of the Review often come from the
Academy Council. Another Academy program, the monthly art exhibit
at the Steenbock Center Gallery, provides occasional subjects for
Wisconsin Photographers' Showcase.
  The question Joyce Erdman asked was useful, because it forced me
to reconsider a relationship I had taken for granted, to look for new
ways to coordinate Review articles with Academy programs.
                                                         Patricia Powell
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          PRESIDENT
     Kenneth Dowling, Madison
       PRESIDENT-ELECT
       Joyce Erdman, Madison
  IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
     Martha Peterson, Madison
       VICE PRESIDENTS
   Brock Spencer (Sciences), Beloit
Warrington Colescott (Arts), Hollandale
Menahem Mansoor (Letters), Madison
    SECRETARY-TREASURER
       Jerry Apps, Madison
    COUNCILORS-AT-LARGE
      TERM EXPIRES 1988
      James Crow, Madison
      Roy Saigo, Eau Claire
      TERM EXPIRES 1987
   James R. Johnson, River Falls
   Daniel 0. Trainer, Stevens Point
      TERM EXPIRES 1986
  Margaret Fish Rahill, Milwaukee
       Gerald Viste, Wausau
       TERM EXPIRES 1985
     Nancy Noeske, Milwaukee
     F. Chandler Young, Madison
COUNCILOR-AT-LARGE EMERITUS
      John Thomson, Madison
      EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
          LeRoy R. Lee
          LIBRARIAN
      Jack A. Clarke, Madison
            EDITORS
Kay and Philip Whitford, Transactions
      Patricia Powell, Review
    Typeset by Impressions, Inc.
 Printed by American Printing, Madison
 Second class postage paid at Madison.
Copyright a 1984 by the Wisconsin Academy of
       Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
          ISSN 0512-1175
          REVIEW STAFF
          PUBLISHER
            LeRoy Lee
            EDITOR
          Patricia Powell
     CIRCULATION MANAGER
            Sue Davis
        EDITORIAL BOARD
      Warren Moon, Madison
      Peter Muto, River Falls
    Ray Peuchner, Milwaukee
      POETRY CONSULTANTS
      Barbara Fowler, Madison
      Arthur Hove, Madison
      Mary Shumway, Plover
On the Cover: Madison area (ca. 1873-79). Andrew Dahl, photographer.    
         Courtesy State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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