The South Advances

G OVERNORS and educators, representing the political and educational leadership of the South, took a major step forward at Savannah, on December I3, I948, and another step, six months later, on June I I, I949, at Daytona Beach. At Savannah, meeting as the Regional Council for Education, they unanimously adopted plans for establishing regional-education services in many fields, based on comprehensive, regionwide studies of the needs for professional and graduate education now and in the future. On that day, therefore, regional planning in education grew from sporadic and disconnected attempts to a systematic effort. The meeting at Savannah was only a first step. When the Council met at Daytona Beach, it found that ten legislatures had approved the Compact; contracts between states and institutions were being signed; and funds had been appropriated. The framework of regional action had been established. With understandable satisfaction, the Council dissolved itself and organized the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education under the nowapproved compact. The meeting of the Regional Council at Savannah took place, appropriately enough, in the Crystal Ball Room. Without resort to sorcery, you could feel the future sitting with the Council. What happened was this: The Council agreed to recommend to state legislatures amounts totaling nearly $2,000,000 for the coming biennium to support educational services in veterinary medicine and medical and dental training. It promised to ask Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tuskegee Institute, and the University of Georgia to serve as regional centers in veterinary medical training. It agreed to ask Meharry Medical College and such other accredited medical and dental schools as may wish to participate to provide regional services in medical and dental training. It agreed that gradu

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