ABSTRACT
This chapter turns the author's impressions of the combinatorial research atmosphere in the late 1960’s, including his situation about that time. It provides brief biographical sketches of the folks associated with hosting the conferences and some facts about the conferences. The chapter recalls some of the social programs and some of the participants’ non-conference activities at conferences and discusses some “firsts” of the conferences. It resuscitates some mathematics from the fifth conference. The chapter describes some memories and recollections connected with previous occurrences of this conference, mainly those ten occurrences at Louisiana State University, where the conferences originated in 1970, but also about some developments. It begins by making some comments to compare the combinatorial mathematical environment in the late 1960’s prior to the first of the Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing’s with the environment of the rich and varied present.
