Kudos to HARDI - and to ASA - for putting progress ahead of tradition.
NHRAW and ARWI were fine organizations, but they had little reason to exist as separate entities except for - as ARWI's straight-shooting president Johnnie Drury described it in our cover article - "politics and ego." Politics and ego held sway for more than half a century. Then, in little more than a year, they were swept aside by a tornado of common sense. Harsh necessity no doubt played a role as both organizations were shrinking due to consolidation. Nonetheless, there are other groups in the PHCP industry whose depleting ranks make long-term viability questionable, yet which would rather go down waving their flag than pursue logical mergers.