This paper offers the reflections of three past presidents of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) during the year of the American community college's 100th anniversary. President emeritus Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr., describes some of the changes that altered the AACC during the years 1951-1981. In 1951, when Gleazer was hired as executive director, there were 400 community colleges with total enrollments of 869,000. When he retired as president, there were 1,219 community, junior, and technical colleges with enrollments of 4,887,675. President emeritus Dale Parnell, who was with AACC from 1981-1991, reflects on AACC's relations with funding agencies, members of Congress, and employer and labor groups. Parnell describes the efforts, beginning in 1980, to develop foundations for private funding of community colleges. Parnell also discusses the community college curricula, faculty, staff, and mission. President emeritus David R. Pierce discusses the years 1991-2000. Pierce credits the Clinton administration with increasing public awareness, and public policy shapers' awareness, of the importance of community colleges. Pierce also addresses the issue of the attitudes of university faculty toward the community college academic education. Pierce sees the problem stemming partly from the lack of investment in institutional research at the community college level. Pierce describes the ways in which this problem has begun to be addressed. (NB)