Forty years ago is not ancient history in the medical field. However, being an eye witness to the emergence of three new infectious diseases in the northeastern United States in the 1970s left a deep impression on this author. I will relate a small portion of the amazing events that caught the attention of the medical establishment and the general public in a roughly 5-year period of medical di...

The decade of the 1970s was an important time for agricultural education. The landmark Vocational Education Act of 1963, which focused “its efforts on those minorities in particular who had been left on the fringes of the labor market” (Grubb & Lazerson, 1981, p. 117) had been discussed and carefully evaluated. The emphasis on civil rights continued into the 1970s and sex equity was added as an...