CHAIRMAN'S CORNER Candidates Required SIGDOC '88 Elections are being called for early summer, 1989. We are looking for candidates for all positions. Duties are not onerous in any of them. A Commentary on Half the Sessions The Sixth International Conference on Systems Documentation was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 16th - 19th, 1988. There were two stems, so that no one could hear or see it all. The following are some insights and comments on half the papers and workshops presented. R. John Brockmann gave the Joseph T. Rigo Award I.,ecture which presented some examples from the history of technical writing from the U.S. Civil War to the present, commenting on significant contributions. The paper was very well supported by slides, and John delivered it in his inimitable style that evokes authority and engages the audience. Brockmann's paper was not only entertaining but important; his point was that technical writing as a field has sufficient history that those of us involved in it should stop reinventing wheels, and obscuring the contributions of our sources. We must further the progress of our science by knowing the past so that we can relegate it to the prologue. Russell Kahn,
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