1	A Brief History of the Mountain Plains Management Conference Richard L. Vail Mesa State College, Grand Junction October 2008
2	Questions to consider What do we know about the Mountain Plains Management Conference? Is this information the life blood of this organization?
3	What is history? If this is the 50^th Mountain Plains Management Conference, the 1^st was in 1959?
4	Anecdotes? My vague recollections? The 39^th
5	Proceedings?
6	Sessions at the 18^th Conference A Bicentennial Assessment of Management Organization Theory Small Business Administration Management Education Student-Teacher-Classroom Management Research Industrial Relations Business Policies
7	At the 18^th Conference
8	Library Holdings?
9	Google “Mountain Plains Management Conference” Mountain Plains Museum Conference Many Resumes A few contradictions?
10	A Hazy Picture
11	A Googled Gem In 1973, the College of Business and Administration of the University of Colorado hosted the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Mountain-Plains Management Conference. The theme of the meeting was “Management Education: Past, Present, and Future.” Paul A. Hanle
12	Conference Locations
13	Locations
14	The Association From 1959 to 1999 the Mountain Plains Management Conference survived as a mobile regional conference.
15	My e-mail achieves From Professor Jerry L. Geisler At the October 1999 Mountain Plains Meeting, I made a presentation entitled: “Assuring Survival, Achieving Quality, and Increasing Participant Satisfaction.” … Fortunately this time Casimir Barcyzk took the initiative and made a motion to allow me to create a board to formalize the organization.
16	By-Laws Were drafted by a small group from Metropolitan State College; New Mexico State University; California State University, Sacramento; Mesa State College; Purdue University Calumet; Southern Utah University. And adopted at the 2000 Conference. And we have been amending them ever since.
17	How do we measure success? Number of Papers and Abstracts
18	Papers and Abstracts
19	How do we measure success? Number of Papers and Abstracts People Listed in the Proceedings, and where they are from
20	MPMC 2003 People
21	MPMC 2007 People
22	From The MPMC Website
23	Breaking News On Tuesday I got a copy, perhaps, the copy of the proceedings of the 9^th Annual Mountain Plains Management Conference.
24	The 9^th Conference Future and Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Management Management Education in Latin America Comparative Management Education Management Education in American Subcultures Anticipated Programs and Organizations in Future Colleges of Business Administration
25	A quote from the past “The world as we know it has indeed changed, and there is promise that it will change even more rapidly between now and … … 1985.” Joseph W. McGuire, 1968, 35
26	Some Modest Suggestions Put your proceedings in your library! Do we need an historian? Might we develop a wiki? Tied to the SUU based website?
27	Abstract A misty outline of the history of the Mountain Plains Management Conference generated through a modest exploration of the artifacts gathered by an appeal to current members confronts the theme of this fiftieth conference. Is information the lifeblood of organizations? A modest suggestion for clarifying the history is proposed; but is clarification necessary?
28	Sources Conference Proceedings 9,18,34,39,40,41,43,44, 45,46,47,48,49 WorldCat search Google search Hanle, Paul A., Editor, SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN AIR AND SPACE - NUMBER 3 e-mail Jerry Geisler, March 1999 http://www.mountainplains.org/businesscard.html