[From Mensa Bulletin #228, July/August, 1979.]

. . .The Mensa family welcomed us as individuals and granted us something very rare:  opportunity, challenge, and excitement, to ignore or enjoy, a we wished.  It offered us the opportunity to meet with kindred souls, the challenge of stretching our minds, and the excitement of expanding our capabilities.  Thus it offered us a world beyond our individual selves and all our boundaries--a world where men and women gifted with high intelligence could communicate and share with one another. . . .

Looking, ahead, I want to stimulate within Mensa a climate of intellectual excitement in which concepts can be explored, dialogues can be started, and ideas can be generated that will move us in new directions. . . .

Looking ahead, I want to see us grow--not for the sake of numerical growth itself, but because from growth will come flow, from flow will come change, from change will come continued vitality, and from vitality will come strength:  strength for Mensa, strength for all groups within Mensa, and strength for each individual member.

This atmosphere, this environment, is something very special--something we should nurture and cherish, something we should protect from any who would destroy it for their own selfish reasons.

Let us preserve this grand experiment that is Mensa by practicing reason, by practicing consideration, by practicing tolerance--in short, by practicing intelligence.
 

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