Last week, I looked at the presidential address of Wayne Grover in 1954. He was succeeded as SAA President by Morris Radoff, state archivist of Maryland. In his 1955 presidential address, Radoff also considered the tensions between archivists and the emerging field of records managers. In reflection on professional education in particular, he concluded:
“But above all, we should strive to give our profession the dignity, the unity, the opportunity for service that can come only from the mastery of a body of learning. And this body of learning should by all means include the whole art and mystery of records. This surely will bind us together.”
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