My first link with IAUP was the 1975 Boston Triennial, where I met Young Seek Choue, IAUP's second President. He invited me to join the 1976 Executive Meeting in Seoul, Korea where he asked me to chair a committee to recommend an organizational structure for IAUP.

The committee proposed Regional Councils for the major areas of the world, and the recommendation was accepted. I joined with some of my US and Canada friends to establish the North American Council in 1977. Two years later, I joined with Luis Manuel Penalver, the Minister of Education in Venezuela, to form the Latin American Council.

At the 5th Triennial in Iran (1978), a general sentiment emerged that IAUP had matured sufficiently to warrant a presidential rotation system. In this way, the honor of leading IAUP could be spread among many countries, and IAUP could avoid being linked to any one country or person..  I became the first President-Elect, with responsibility for planning the next Triennial in Costa Rica (1981). This Triennial was the first to feature a single over-arching theme, the first to give a prominent role for women and students, and the first to encourage lively discussion rather than reading formal papers.

At this meeting, there were a number of Bylaw chances, including the requirement that IAUP have annual audited financial reports and become a tax-exempt organization, so that it could receive grants from foundations and other donors.  At the end of the Costa Rica Triennial, I presented a platform with three planks:

• Establish additional Regional Councils,
• Start a movement to international the undergraduate curriculum, and
• Seek members from the Communist East Europe, arguing that "there will be no peace which excludes these countries."

To make good with the first platform plank, my wife and I traveled through North Africa in 1982. The presidents in Morocco were willing to become IAUP members, but not if the Algerians were involved. The Moroccans and the Algerians opposed Libya, were dubious about Egypt, and wanted Israel to be excluded. But in 1992, as the political climate changed, we finally found Abdel Shalaby, who created an African/Middle East Council in Cairo. God bless him!

The North Americans got deeply involved with the second plank, through three universities: Gonzaga, Central Michigan, and Florida International. At the 1984 Triennial in Thailand, the three presidents rolled out their faculties