This address by Lilla Belle Pitts was prepared for a joint symposium session of the convention of the California-Western School Music Conference and the California Secondary School Principals, held in San Francisco, March 1937. The symposium theme was "Music Education in the Secondary Schools." Pitts said in this address that it was…

Roger Brown, Diana Deutsch, Warren Benson, and Ruth Day comment on the similarities and differences between verbal language and music as forms of communication. This discussion occurred at the first session of the National Symposium on the Applications of Psychology to the Teaching and Learning of Music, Ann Arbor. (SJL)

The president of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) argues that general music can be the vital center of the music program if educators reevaluate its objectives and emphasize music instead of other things. This article is derived from a speech given at the MENC Inservice Conference in Minneapolis. (Author/SJL)

In separate articles, the authors urge administrators to carefully consider what is essential to education before making budget cuts. Both articles are speeches delivered at the 1981 American Association of School Administrators convention in Atlanta. (Editor/SJL)

In October 1970, the MENC (Music Educators National Conference) National Executive Board officially adopted two goals for MENC, four for the profession, and 35 objectives. The goals and objectives, and the progress made toward obtaining them, are summarized. (KC)