BUSINESS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY (BCQ), as our readers know, is published by the Association for Business Communication (ABC). I attended my first annual meeting of the organization in Chicago, in 1985. What struck me then was how welcome I was made to feel. For those of us who have participated in other organizations and attended other conferences, welcoming is not always the right word to describe the experience of entering an academic profession. At recent ABC-sponsored international conferences, in Japan and in Belgium, I met scholars who are new to ABC, and they also noted how welcome they felt.
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