PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS - THE PROBLEM OF RE-ENTRY

Abstract

Change itself has always been difficult. To change, one must abandon some of the things upon which our identity is based. We must leave the familiar and the comfortable and step out into the world, new and inexperienced. For at least a short time we must suffer the trials of ambivalence and anomie. Our present world is in a ferment of political, moral, sociological, religious, philosophical and scientific change. Perhaps because of this, the characteristics of our world seem to be alienation and search for meaningthe identity crisis. We have changed, and we are changing, which is to our credit, but thus far we have not been overly successful in integrating the
changes into our life patterns. It is the process of re-integration following change that I term re-entry.