| Sumario: | This is an historic occasion. The close of this 1961 Western Joint Computer Conference will signal the change-over in administration of Joint Computer Conferences from the National Joint Computer Committee to the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS), with broader scope and greater flexibility. As you know, AFIPS is a society of societies organized to represent through a single body the professional societies of the American computer and data processing world. The enthusiastic response to the formation of AFIPS is highly gratifying and lends encouragement, confidence and a sense of mission to those whom you have charged with conducting its activities. There are times when the path to the future is best appreciated through a re-examination of the past. I would like to quote from a letter dated December 15, 1959, written by the late Chairman of NJCC, Professor Harry Goode, who contributed so much both to NJCC and to the birth of AFIPS: "I believe the major objective in the formation of the society is to provide for information flow in all other instances than those provided for by the individual societies to their members."
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