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Since our Association was founded more than forty years ago, many things have happened under the head of political science. Men and women as political animals have supplied scholars with new data sufficient in volume and variety to satisfy the most exacting minds in the profession. At our annual sessions, numerous learned papers have been read and discussed. At our universities, new courses of studies have flowered luxuriantly. From the workshops of the guild, books and articles have poured forth in a copious stream. Several of our members have achieved distinction, indeed renown, in the public services; while, as far as I can discover, none has been sent to prison under the presidential decree of 1947 against that type of lawful dissent stigmatized as subversive activity. As if in testimony to our good works, it should be added that the amount of money now laid out per annum for political science is many times the sum expended long ago when we were young.It might seem, then, an act of temerity even to suggest that anything under the sun has been neglected or less than perfectly disposed of in our golden age, our best of promised lands. Undoubtedly it is temerarious for one like myself, with eyes full of beams, to raise questions about stray motes in the eyes of members who may be properly satisfied with their accomplishments. Yet, on the other hand, there is some authority in our tradition and methodology, no less than in the practice of free enterprise, for occasional surveys or audits designed to find out whether in fact our liabilities are fully covered by assets, fixed and liquid.

Professor Emeritus Robert Lynn Savage, 71, of Fayetteville passed
away January 26, 2011. He was born February 26, 1939, in Fort Worth,
Texas. He served in the United States Air Force from 1956 to 1959.
Savage received his BA degree from Tarleton State College in 1963
and his MA degree from the University of Houston, where he served as
a graduate and teaching assistant from 1964 to 1966. He graduated in
1966 with a thesis entitled "Absurdity and the Political System: The
Political Thought of Albert Camus" under the direction of Professor
John Green. Upon graduation, he served as an instructor before he
continued his pursuit of a doctorate in political science from the
University of Missouri–Columbia. He completed his academic work in
1971 with a dissertation entitled "Sociocultural Change and Policy
Values in the American States." His dissertation chair was Professor
Dan Nimmo, with whom Bob maintained a lifelong friendship. Nimmo's
influence shaped Savage's interest in political communication and
behavior and state politics. His first appointment as assistant
professor brought him to Auburn University at Montgomery, where he
worked from 1971 to 1974, when he started his career at the
University of Arkansas in the fall of 1974. He was promoted to
associate professor just three years later in 1977 and to professor
in 1982. He served as interim chair during that year and eventually
as chair of the department from 1989 to 1998. Bob retired in
2001.

Historians & social scientists too often accept each other's ideas as proven data; this tendency negatively affects research in both areas. Views of the proper relationship between history & the social sciences advanced by spokesmen of both sides, eg, R. Dahrendorf, H. S. Hughes, J. Barzun, S. M. Lipset, & R. Hofstadter, are discussed, & shown to be responsible for many internecine conflicts. Finally, three social science perspectives are shown to have been profoundly influential in historical argument: (1) German historical scholarship, (2) Soviet Marxism-Leninism, & (3) the branch of French historiography known (after its major journal) as the Annales school. Modified HA.