Lois Lane wrote:

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The SACS website shows the following persons were registered to attend the 2005 Annual SACS Meeting in Atlanta on December 3-6: Mrs. Michell Anderson, Dr. Joan Exline, Dr. Jay Grimes, Dr. Joy Hamilton, Dr. Aubrey Lucas, and Dr. Shelby F. Thames.

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That should be Mrs. Michelle Arrington, Director of Institutional Research, I believe. She was not in attendance, however. I heard she was ill.

Dr. Lucas presided at the "President's Day Activities" on Monday. Although Invictus spied AKL in the company of Drs. Exline, Thames & Grimes on one occaision, for the most part he cut his own path. AKL has many friends in the association & is highly respected throughout the region. I did not see Frances Lucas, but I didn't go out of I's way to locate her. And I certainly didn't see any "secret meetings" in quiet corners (Truth is, with 3200 attendees, quiet corners were a bit difficult to come by.)

Invictus had the privilege of meeting Dr. Belle Wheelan, the new SACS president, & chatting with her briefly. She promises to be an excellent leader for the organization. Also visited a while with the inimitable Dr. Margaret Sullivan, but I was more concerned with I's own institution & not USM. (Margaret's always good for some off-the-cuff sage advice about almost anything SACS-related.)

Derek Bok was the speaker at the first General Session on Sunday. Interesting.