President's Message
Abstract
President's Message SAGE Publications, Inc.1972DOI: 10.1177/001698627201600218 The annual college survey brought responses which were fairly good and the "people" action in the direction of the gifted was exciting, invigorating, industrious and enthusiastic. But through the years the National Association for Gifted Children grew and prospered and the supreme reason was the unusual spirit, enterprise, risk, aggressiveness and most of all the cohesiveness, the cooperation, and contribution of time and money and service of its members and the consistency of Ann Isaacs - which has been envied by many other organizations. Seven years ago this month, a very close friend, stated in a lecture on gifted children: "Special people have made The National Association for Gifted Children their particular object of affection. Having done that, they have made it an organization for others to love and serve. Few organizations in all the world have been able to command the unpaid and sacrificial services of so many able men." Those words are still an accurate portrayal of this organization's character and image. The theme of this year's meeting is: "Promoting Positive Values: A half-century of the Gifted Child Movement." The challenges, the problems, the headaches ahead are formidable. In a