An essay about the creation and purpose of this site will be written eventually, I hope.

In a nutshell, however, I decided to create this site because the material developed by the "committee of five" and Renewing the Promise of Mensa seems to me to be as relevant to Mensa today as it was nineteen years ago--if not even more so.  The Web makes the dissemination of information much easier than it was nineteen years ago and offers the opportunity finally for a nationwide discussion of Renewing the Promise of Mensa to take place.
 
All the material included in the committee of five's "Background Readings" has now been posted here.  Darrell Bross has keyed in a large amount of material from newsletters between 1980 and the present that I haven't yet had a chance to look at. Just about the time I got the Background Readings finished, I got sidetracked in the current International Mensa Chairman race.  When I finished my stint as AMC Chairman, I swore that I wasn't going to get involved in Mensa politics again, but the situation with the International Election Committee and its single candidate for Chairman was so reminiscent of the 1993 race for AMC Chairman that I couldn't let it go--and part of what moved me to action was, I think, consideration of some of the ideals expressed in Renewing the Promise of Mensa.

Meredy has promised to write a piece about the committee of five and the original intent of the Background Readings and the few meetings that were held around 1980.  I will presently catch up with what Darrell's sent me.  We need to move this from the past to the present, and on into the future.  And I have for weeks been letting "Dick's Theory" evolve in my mind.
 
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for articles that might be published, please email them to dick@amyx.org.  Depending on what the mail brings, perhaps we can start a letters page.

I ask your patience.  Labors of love sometimes progress slowly.

—Dick Amyx
    March 19, 1999