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1970

• Bylaws changed to remove lame-duck period for elected officials. (They take posts immediately.)
  
• Bylaws also changed to provide for the election of a president-elect.
  
• Dr. Henry Fox made official lobbyist.
  
• AEDS national convention held in Miami Beach. It was the most successful in AEDS history to that point.
  
• Membership around 250 individuals.
  
• FAEDS drafts resolution in support of the SIRS(?) Project which was in jeopardy due to budget cuts.
  
• Mary Esther Raker elected president.
  
• Alton R. Kindred elected FAEDS first president-elect.
  
• Sims Scholarship changed from a loan to a grant.
  
• Fall Conference held in Sarasota.
  
• Everett Yarbrough given Sims Memorial Award.
  

• First Sims Scholarship grants given to Diane Rupert (Hillsborough Community College) and David Cooper (Tallahassee Community College).
  
• Dr. William R. Odom elected president-elect.
  
• Spring workshop held in Daytona Beach. Fall workshop held in West Palm Beach.
  
• Sims Memorial Award presented to Dr. Alton Kindred.
  

• Production of the Job Stream newsletter moves out of the State D. O. E. and becomes an in-house operation.
  
• Sims Scholarship awarded to Louis Gonzalez (Miami) and Pamela Brock (New Smyrna Beach). Pamela Brock later declined scholarship, and it was instead given to Douglas Hill (University of Florida).
  
• Membership over 250.
  
• Dr. Archie Johnston elected president-elect.
  
• Fall workshop held in Cocoa Beach(?).
  
• Sims Award(?)
  

• Randy Johns elected president-elect.
  
• Sims Award to Raymond Parker.
  

• Dave Daniels elected president-elect.
  

• First attempt at preparing a manual explaining the responsibilities of each elected office.
  
• Jack Kelly elected president-elect.
  
• Fall Conference held in conjunction with FASBA (Florida Association of School Budget Administrators) in Orlando.
  

• Summer conference held at Treasure Island.
  
• President-elect was Ray Parker.
  

• Charles Lee elected president-elect.
  
• Sims Award presented to Randall Johns.
  

• First mention of FAEDS coordinated Installation Profile in extant minutes.
  
• First year of conducting elections by mail-in ballots.
  
• Membership back up to around 250 after a slight decrease in previous years.
  
• Summer Conference held in West Palm Beach.
  
• Sims Scholarship awarded to Karen Ann Oaks (Edison Community College) and Stephen Slessinger (Seminole Community College).
  
• William English awarded the first FAEDS Honorary Lifetime Membership.
  
• Jack Kelly elected chairman of the AEDS Council of Geographic Affiliates.
  
• Fall Conference held in Orlando.
  
• William English brought on as the FAEDS Executive Secretary.
  
• President-elect was Mike Staggs.
  
• Michael Staggs awarded Sims Award.
  
• July 23, 1978 - first written documentation of Ray Parker (now past-president) making his famous motion to adjourn.
  

• FAEDS receives AEDS ÒOutstanding Geographic ChapterÓ Award.
  
• Membership over 260.
  
• Orlando chosen as site of 1982 AEDS National Convention.
  
• Spring Conference held in St. Petersburg.
  
• Sarasota host of Fall Conference.
  
• Motion passed to conduct only one conference per year. It will be held in the Fall (beginning in 1981).
  
• FAEDS president or designee to sit on FECN (Florida Educational Computing Network, precursor to FIRN) Steering Committee.
  
• President-elect was Ronald McCord.
  
• Honorary lifetime memberships awarded to Dr. Henry Fox, Dr. Robert Gates, Shirley Molen, and Everett Yarbrough.
  
• Sims Award to Laymon Grays.
  
• Aid to FAEDS Award to Jack Kelly.