With increases in membership, advertising, and activities, the 1960s brought about positive changes within NABT. The publication of two BSCS versions (Green and Blue) had a significant impact on biology education, and NSF was promoting teacher professional development experiences throughout the country. These changes are reflected in both ABT and News & Views.

With NABT growing, and the work distributed to volunteers across the country, organizing the “28,000 pieces of correspondence, processing of over 8,000 memberships and subscriptions, selling back issues of the journal and dozens of other responsibilities” became unmanageable. In response to the “chaos,” President Muriel Beuschlein (1962) asked Dr. Jerry Lightner, a teacher in Great Falls, Montana, to become acting secretary-treasurer. With Lightner in this position, structure came to NABT. However, it was not until 1 July 1965 that Lightner began his tenure as the full-time Executive Secretary of NABT. For 27 years, volunteers – most of...

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