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The association has completed the third year of its existence. Focused as we are on the development of our organization and what it stands for, this temporal maturity comes as an added gift which some may prize so highly. But maturity is more a matter of constructive creative growth than of chronology. Time is how we use it. We feel we have used it well.
In the very short space of three years we have had many difficult decisions to make. Now, we feel the conclusions we came to, though painful, were in pursuance of the purpose for which we were founded. Only time can further confirm or deny the validity of what we have done.
A group which purports to be founded for the advancement of new or original ideas can expect to do so only with travail. The real criteria for the successful furtherance of our purposes in constructive directions are a clarity of goals, a spirit of cooperation and unity of action. All of these have become undeniably evident in these past three years.
Without these our record of work completed would not be there for all to see. In itself this is a record of no mean accomplishment. It is a beginning which we hope to better, not only in the coming year but in the many years to come.