A Message from the Conference Planner

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” –Woodrow Wilson

The 34th Annual NWCA Conference at Coeur d’ Alene (April 8-10, 2010) is more than an event to share your scholarship with your peers and to offer your students an opportunity to share their budding
scholarship with everyone; it is a time for seeing old friends and making new ones. It is a time to share your ideas and your passion for your profession. We gather as friends, some close and some distant, but friends we are. We come to promote the well being of our discipline “communication.” No matter whether we study organizational cultures, interpersonal communication, the media or rhetoric, we are all dedicated to the ideal of creating a sustainable present and future. We all know that there has been little if any improvement to the social condition without someone or some group or some organization communicating well.

This year’s theme is “Sustainability.” We are in the process of creating some exciting programs. If you have any ideas about what panels or events that relates to this year’s theme please contact me at lattin@up.edu. And so, friends, be well, be happy and prosperous.

Bohn Lattin, University of Portland