A Progress Report JOAN R. SAMPEY Furman University, G r e e n d l e , South Carolina
THIRTEEX years ago Dr. E. Emmrt Rcid, upon his retirement from the Johns Hopkins University, offered his semicw as n "trnvclling r w a r r l i consultant" t o ~outliem colleges and u n i r e r s i t i ~ . This significant educntional experiment has hwn clcscrilrd in some d o tail (99,SI). Through the yearn Dr. Reid has continued to work the program ns originally outlined. From the six originnl institutions tlrc circuit hns grown to eleven. Keeping the pnrticipnting institutions down t o n number wl~ich can lu: vinitcrl severnl times a session hns t m n one of the vexing prohlrms of the undertnking. During this past session Dr. Reid visited the following: Riming-
Reid's contacLs have mrnnt to them personally and to t.Iwir tlepart,mrnts. But Dr. Rcid hns ml-lined all refemners to those qualitiw of mind and heart which mntle the program so fruitful and inspiring. After pnrtivip~tingthrsc yenrn in such a venture one cannot hut nsk, "After Dr. Reid, what?" Dr. Charles A. Iirnus, Priestley m~l:ilist for 1050, p r o m some chnllrnging suggentions for larger support. of academic resrawh ( C ~ P I I Eng. L Kews, 28, 320:3 (1'350)). I t is also encournging to note that. :I nntimal fnundntion is currrntly spmding well over 11 million dollam to test out :I progum \vhirh Dr. E. Emmrt Reid has k n working wit 11 mnrked sucrmq for t,liirtren yrnlp.
(50). 45, and anot,her is lending In postwar -arch The reader mny form his own opinion of the quality of the work done after cxnmining the hihliogrnphy 1xlow. Onlv those articles are liuted which acknowlcrlee directly Dr. Reid's participation in the r r ~ n r c h . PUhlicntions do not the surh a venture. S r o m of stuclrnts who participated ss unclergrnduntcs or lIa7telp' cnnclidnter. and who now ocrupy mponrible positions in inrlustrid and academic m.*nr~h h : m w i d trihutc to the man who conceivd and lnhorrcl throueh ., the vean to make his drrnm a rnditv. Such trihutra must claddrn the heart of one a.110 krotc in 1910: "A tearher wit,l~outstudents is dwolnte." Staff membem of the institutions visited have been even mom outspoken in nppmrintion of what Dr.
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