Three out of four of the hundreds of teachers responding to the TENES nationwide questionnaire in 1965 asked for a journal that would help them in their work of teaching English to non-English speakers. The proportion was only slightly smaller among college instructors than among elementary teachers. But a journal without a membership organization to support it can never quite adequately reflect the hopes and desires of its readers; it never can quite satisfactorily meet their needs. A subscription list is not a membership list. Without the implicit and explicit participation of an organization in the affairs of a journal, that journal never quite becomes the collective voice of its readers. Nor without an organization can a large number of people with common interests effectively further those interests. Without an organization, teachers having a common discipline and a common subject matter will not easily come to consider themselves a professional group. Now, within a year, we have both the organization and the publication. We have TESOL and we have its journal. Better: we are TESOL and we have our journal. Not often has an association been