During the last month many Journal staff members have been travelingif it is Spring, then there is an NSTA Meeting and an ACS Meeting! Emory Howell talks about his experiences in his column on the opposite page, especially from the standpoint of the high school audience. Emory should be ready to stay at home for a while after attending both the NSTA and ACS meetings with hardly any time between to grab clean clothes. At the NSTA Meeting in New Orleans he and his assistant, Carin Daniel, talked to many teachers at the Journal booth and handed out lots of information. He also sandwiched in attendance at the talks given by chemistry teachers, partly in an effort to bring those ideas to Journal readers in these pages.

The ACS Meeting found John Moore, Jon Holmes, Mary Saecker, Lin Morris, Betty Moore, Ken Emerson, Ed Walsh, Hal Harris, and Emory Howell in San Franciscoalong with more than 17,000 other chemists. All of us spent time at the Journal booth at the Exposition, which was in a good location and was always busy. We enjoyed talking with so many of our authors and subscribers and are happy to say that many other friends stopped by and decided it was "about time to be a subscriber". We were happy that the Student Affiliate Poster Session was close by the Exposition, which meant that we got to talk with a lot of enthusiastic young people who are just beginning careers in chemistry and teaching. That is always particularly stimulating. Both Ed Walsh and Hal Harris seized the opportunity of the Exposition to seek out the booths of publishers of books and other instructional media and talked with those publishers' representatives, all in an effort to have the best and most current information in both the Book Reviews (JCE) and the Chemical Education Resource Shelf (JCE Online).

On Location Photos

Since attendance at the ACS Meeting came just before our deadline for this issue, it seemed a great opportunity to include some photos, which we have done. They were contributed by David Shaw and Maureen Scharberg, both of whom have digital cameras, and Tom Wildeman, who got some good shots with a disposable camera. Tom, who chairs the Division of Chemical Education's program committee, also wrote the brief article with program highlights that begins below and continues on page 619. There is more to tell you about things happening at Journal House, plans for our 75th anniversary celebration, and marking the 10th anniversary of JCE Software. But that must wait until the July issue, when we can give that important news the space that it deserves. This is a first effort at bringing a meeting to Journal readers, and we hope you like it.