While the remote location (“This is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.”) may have prevented many members from attending, the 27th Behaviorology Anniversary Convention, which TIBI concluded on 23 May in Canton NY, featured 20 participants in 17 events led by ten presenters over three days. Of the registrants, seven are new members. Participants from outside New York State came from Arizona, West Virginia, Ottawa, and Montreal. This appreciative audience included seven new members, four of whom are BCBAs who explicitly recognize the importance, and significance, of denoting behaviorology as the name for the independent natural science discipline that provides the basic scientific principles and practices behind the interventions of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Also appreciated were the books and media that were available at the convention. The ten books that were available included the three for which TIBI distributes “TIBI Bookmarks”: Fraley’s General Behaviorology, O’Heare’s The Science and Technology of Dog Training, and Ledoux’s Running Out of Time. (Each one is listed on the BOOKS page.) Fraley’s book and Ledoux’s book each had a bookmark distributed at previous conventions, while O’Heare’s book and bookmark were new for this year’s convention (and several new bookmarks are in process for next year’s convention).

In the media category, the CD of the public radio interview of the organizers of the first behaviorology convention, in August 1988, was also available at this convention. The interviewees addressed a number of questions pertaining to radical behaviorism and the scientific study of human behavior. (As with other still available media, you can find details on the MEDIA page.)

As part of the business meeting, the TIBI Board elected Dr. James O’Heare to membership on the Board based on his work in support of behaviorology and TIBI. Also, recognizing that a healthy organization enables many members to develop organizational skills by serving in various capacities, the Board thanked Dr. Philip Johnson for serving a three year term as Journal Editor, during which he has done a wonderful job editing Volumes 15, 16, and 17, for which the Board is most appreciative. The Board then appointed Dr. James O’Heare as the Editor of Journal of Behaviorology for Volumes 18, 19, and 20.