ADE Bulletin Number 157, 2019 3 ADE and the Association of Departments of En glish are trademarks owned by the Modern Language Association. See the interesting historical timeline of the association posted at www.mla.org/About-Us/About -the-MLA/MLA-Archives/Time-Lines/MLA-History. Paul Lauter came to his first MLA convention 101 years after March was named professor of English at Lafayette, and he received the March Award another sixtytwo years later.