First, as a teacher of social and community psychology, the author thinks it is important to differentiate the Journal of Social Issues from SPSSI itself. The journal's editor is selected by a search committee appointed by SPSSI's president. The committee reviews possibilities and makes a recommendation to the full council, which votes on the recommendation. The editor then has considerable autonomy over the content of the issues. It is informed that from a historical point of view, Vicky Steinitz and Elliott G. Mishler based their overview of SPSSI's past on several of the important contributions to one of SPSSI's 50th anniversary issues. However, in that same issue, a paper by Doris Miller represents another view of SPSSI's "radical promise." Miller, a long-time activist psychologist and SPSSI member, chose "to discuss and contrast its accomplishments, and its continuing attention to economic and social concerns." She argued that at the beginning, SPSSI was alone as an organization in "screening people in instead of out" of economic opportunities. In the 1940s and 1950s, the organization and several of its key members took positions on racism and blacklisting that were quite significant in the U.S. She then argued that SPSSI, in the 1960s and 1970s, served as a positive model for later groups, some of which she participated in directly, and that these groups often went beyond SPSS l's own internal and public positions. Miller was referring to groups such as Scientists on Survival, Psychologists for Social Action, Psychologists for a Democratic Society, the Association of Black Psychologists, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility, which took positions SPSSI was unwilling to take.