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Presents the title and abstracts of papers presented during the 1934 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Increasing significance of geographic conditions in the growth of nation-states; Erosional history of the wind river range, Wyoming; Long-lot farm and economic in public services.

The article presents summaries of papers delivered at the 125th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association. The meeting took place on September 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the paper "On the Construction of Stochastic Working Life Tables," by Haskel Benishay, stochastic working life tables are constructed and evaluated. The essence of the construction of stochastic rather than the traditionally deterministic working life tables is in the utilization of the realistic assumptions that the number of births, the number of entries into the labor force, the duration of life, and the duration of working life, are random variables. The end result is a working life table with a double entry in each cell rather than the single traditional one. The implications of this approach for the evaluation of fluctuations in various subcomponents of the labor force are evaluated. Another paper "Measuring Elasticities of Air Travel," by Samuel L. Brown, summarizes research on the response of demand for air travel to differences of fares, incomes, and elapsed travel time. There are three kinds of studies. Multiple regression studies of time series of air traffic, fares and income in the national domestic market yield short-period fare elasticities and income-elasticities. A quarterly first-difference model stands well the usual statistical tests.

Presents abstracts of papers presented during the 44th annual meeting of the Association of Americal Geographers, held in Charlottesville, Virginia. Statistical cartography; Progressive grading of communities for maps and statistics; Some problems relating to the accumulation of geographical statistical information.

The article offers information on the Third Annual Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America held in New York City from June 3 to 4, 1955. The secretary reported on the status of membership in the Society. Several local sections of the Society have been authorized by the Council for the Los Angeles, California area. Non-member subscriptions to the "Journal of the Operations Research Society of America" have increased from 467 to 834. An election of officers and council members was held during the Business Meeting of the Society on June 3, 1955.

The article presents information on the 49th annual meeting of the American Economic Association, lists people that have been added to the American Economic Association since August 1, 1936, and reports about appointments and resignations in different U.S. universities. The American Economic Association's meeting that will take place from December 28-30, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois, will see economists presenting papers on varied economic topics. Some people who became members of the association include: W.C. Bagley, H.B. Baker, W.D. Barlow and E.C. Burris. Laurence J. Ackerman has joined as an instructor in insurance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. James P. Adams has been made the acting president of Brown University.

The article offers information on the American Educational Research Association 2007 Annual Convention Call for Proposals. The convention which will be held on April 9-13, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois will have "The World of Educational Quality" for its theme and will focus on the issues of attending to educational systems and education research outside the United States. The call for proposal encourages research that applies novel methods or integration of such methods to educational problems.

The article presents several official reports and proceedings of various societies of the U.S., published in the December 1940 issue of the journal "American Sociological Review." The report of the "American Sociological Society," provides a very good answer to the question of what is possible in the way of making a living by taking sociology. The census of membership has revealed that sociologists who are members of the Society are employed in nearly 250 different types of occupations. Alfred McClung Lee, chairman of "Committee on Public Relations," is anxious that all papers to be given at the annual meetings should be in his hands. The Committee needs these papers early in order to aid newsmen in the proper selection and presentation of material and thus lessen the danger that the society and persons on the program may be presented to the public in a bad light because of hasty, ill-considered or out-of-context reporting. The press is only too happy to cooperate in this matter, but it cannot be done to the best advantage unless the Committee can get copies of the papers early. Every paper read at annual meetings becomes the property of the society, chairmen of divisions and sections should so inform the participants on their programs and collect and turn over to the secretary or editor all papers presented.

By vote of the executive committee of the American Sociological Society, the 1951 Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago on September 5, 6, and 7, 1951. This will overlap, on September 5, with the meeting in the same city of the American Psychological Association. The hotel which will serve as headquarters for the annual meeting has not yet been selected. Those who are interested in presenting papers at the 1951 meeting of the American Sociological Society are invited to make known their interest by following the procedure outlined below. The Committee on Contributed Papers will handle submitted papers in one of two ways. If a paper appears to fall in an area covered by one of the sections of the meeting, it will be forwarded to the chairman of that section for his consideration otherwise it will be considered for inclusion in one of the three sessions of this committee. In general, the Committee on Contributed Papers is interested in research reports which can be read in fifteen minutes.

The article focuses on the seventy fourth annual meeting of the American Economic Association to be held in New York from 27 to 29, 1961. Executive Committee dinner meeting will be held on December 26, 1961 at 6:00 p.m. On December 27, 1961 there would be a seminar on systems of economic accounts and analysis for urban region. Edgar D. Hoover of Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association would be the chairperson of the seminar. Discussants would include — Meredith B. Givens of Institute of Public Administration and Frederick T. Moore of The Rand Corp. Seminar on rural poverty and national policy would be held at 2:30 P.M. on December 29, 1961. Professor William H. Nichols of Vanderblit University would be the chairperson for the seminar. Papers to be discussed in the seminar include — "Economic Security for Agricultural Labor," by Louis Levine, "Relation of the Low Income Farm Problem to Major National Economic Problems," by Leonard P. Hendrix. Discussants include — professor Leonard P. Adams of Cornell University and John G. McNeely of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.

The article presents the American Finance Association's executive secretary and treasurer's annual report. The 1990 Annual Meeting is announced, and will be held on December 27-30 in Washington, D.C. The "Journal of Finance" costs will be higher in 1991 due to the addition of their "Shorter Papers" section. The article discusses the use of credit cards in the payment of membership dues. The number of members for 1987, 1988, and 1989 are compared. The financial position of the American Finance Association is noted as having sufficient cash flow.

SYNOPSIS: A concurrent session at the 2011 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting featured the panel discussion "Financial Market Regulation and Opportunities for Accounting Research." Structuring their comments around their unique interests and expertise, the panelists covered diverse topics on the regulation of financial markets and financial institutions, including current activities of the primary financial market regulators responsible for accounting and auditing oversight, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the financial regulation of financial institutions from an economist's perspective. This paper summarizes the panelists' prepared remarks, which were followed by questions and comments from the audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents upcoming meetings and calls for papers by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in the U.S. from 2006 to 2008. 2006 TMS annual meeting on March 12 to 16 in San Antonio, Texas; 2006 Electronic Materials Conference on June 28 to 30 at University Park, Pennsylvania; 2008 TMS annual meeting on March 9 to 13 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Presents information about various papers presented in the 33rd annual business meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association held on June 28, 2003 at Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Proceedings of this meeting; Abstracts of papers presented in this meeting; Contact information of authors of these papers.

The article offers updates on the Operations Research Society of America. The second annual meeting of the Society will be held in Chicago, Illinois on May 21-22, 1954, which will be inviting papers on topics in Market and Sales Research, Inventory Control and Scheduling of Purchasing and Production. The Society will be holding a national meeting in Washington, D. C. in November 1954 with John L. Everett as the Program Chairman. The Society's Washington Section was organized and approved by the Council during its meeting in November 1953.

The article presents updates concerning the Operations Research Society of America as of November 1960. The Lanchester Prize Committee presented its report to the council of the society in May. The Ninth Annual Meeting of the society will take place in Chicago, Illinois from May 25 to 26, 1961. The council of the society took a number of actions about the operation of the society, including an arrangement approved under which the society would receive a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The article offers minutes of the annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 3, 2015. It outlines reports on topics including the election of the incoming officers of the organization, its 2015 budget, the performance of its various publications in 2014, and trends in the number of jobs for economists. Resolutions of thanks to David Autor and John Leahy, outgoing editors of the two of the group's journals, are cited.

This article focuses on the book "Beyond Shocks: What Causes Business Cycles?," edited by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and Scot Schuh. This book contains thirteen papers from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's forty-second annual conference, convened in June 1998, consider economic explanations for the sources of cyclical fluctuations. Papers examine whether the business cycle is dead as some have suggested, the causes of U.S. business cycles over the past century; historical evidence on business cycle fluctuations within and across a large set of countries,changes in the financial markets and in financial and economic behavior and implications for policy, a view of recessions from the automotive industry.

The Executive Committee has voted to cancel meetings scheduled to be held in Chicago on November 30, 1945.

Sections planned for the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Society in December 1945 are Social Research, Social Theory, Social Psychology, Population Sociometry, Community and Ecology, Family Criminology, Political Sociology, Educational Sociology, and General Sessions. In addition to these formal sections, members may submit papers for possible inclusion under a special category, "Contributed Papers." The membership the Committee to be in charge and the final date for submitting proposed papers will be announced in a subsequent issue of the journal "American Sociological Review."

The article presents history of science-related news briefs on topics including the History of Science Society Annual Meeting which was held in 2018, Science History Institute Haas Postdoctoral Fellow Ingrid Ockert's receipt of the 2018 2018 HSS/NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History. It states that historian Owen Hyman's won the Ronald Rainger Prize for his essay "Anxieties of the Plastic Age: Cotton Culture, White Supremacy, and Tenant Forestry in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, 1935–1953."

The 16 the annual meeting of International Association for Business and Society (IABS) will be held in California wine country from March 31 to April 3, 2005. The conference theme is "The New World of 21st Century Labor." Conference details are provided in the announcement following these editor comments and on the IABS web page. The 2001 Best Paper Award in the business and society field was announced at the recent IABS conference. The winning article was published in "Business & Society" in the December 2001 issue.

This article presents proceedings of the 108th annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) held in San Francisco, California from January 5-7, 1996. The John Bates Clark Medal for 1995 is awarded to the economist David Card in recognition of these impressive achievements. Card has largely defined and developed the currently dominant methodology in applied labor economics. This approach sets out a testable hypothesis, searches for exogenous variation in the key determinants, and leads to the labor and time-intensive development of an appropriate data base. He has successfully applied this methodology to the most important issues in labor economics, and his research papers have achieved the status of standard references in many areas. The one hundred and eighth annual meeting of AEA was called to order by President Victor Fuchs on January 6, 1996. The first item on the agenda to be considered was minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in Papers and Proceedings issue of the journal "The American Economic Review."

This article presents information on various meetings, conferences and other special events, related to economics that would be organized by various associations in the United States. The Employment Center at the 1977 annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations in New York City will begin operation on December 27, the day before sessions begin. Applicants and employers will be able to attend more sessions with a day set aside entirely for labor market transactions. The Division of Social Sciences of the National Science Foundation announces a Law and Social Sciences Program to support basic social science research on the operation, impact, and use and change of legal and law-like systems of social control. Raymond J. Doll, senior vice president and director of research got retied on, February 28, 1977. The Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research invites applications for membership by interested universities. The Committee holds a meeting once a year on a topic selected by the members. The conference proceedings, which now include thirty volumes have been published as a series by the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1949.

The article focuses on the twenty-sixth annual convention of the American Accounting Association that was held in New York from December 29 to 30, 1941. The first session started on December 29, 1941. The topic for the first session was related to accounting principles underlying corporate financial statements. Some of the papers discussed were — "The Cost Principles," by Walter A. Staub, "The Revenue and Income Principles," by James L. Dobr and "The Capital Principle," by Samuel J. Broad. The second session was held on the same day. Six years ago in this city at the twentieth annual meeting of the American Association of University Instructors in accounting the association was reconstituted as the American Accounting Association. At that time many felt that what was accomplished at that meeting was only a streamlining of name and only a few recognized the change as particularly significant. For some years prior to 1936 a small group of members were attempting to awaken the association to its opportunity to render a real service.

The article presents commentary from the executive secretary of the American Finance Association (AFA). AFA depends upon the efforts of volunteers, and opportunities are available to those who might like to serve as a reviewer or co-editor, be a discussant at the annual meeting, or serve on the Board of Directors. Owing to space limitations, the 1999 AFA Annual Meeting to be held in New York CIty will involve ten percent fewer sessions than in previous years' meetings, and this number is expected to stay stable for the next three years.

This section presents the minutes of the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association held in Toronto, Ontario, on December 29, 1972. The meeting was called to order by President John Kenneth Galbraith in the Canadian Room of the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, at 10:15 p. m. on December 29, 1972. It was voted to approve the minutes of the meeting of December 28, 1971, as published in the American Economic Review, May 1972, pages 470-74. The Secretary presented the report of the Committee on Elections and the certification of the new officers for 1972. Reports were made by the Secretary- Treasurer and the Managing Editors of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature. In the discussion that followed a member suggested that in the future copies of the reports be made available near the registration desk at the convention in advance of the Annual Meeting so that they can be read by interested members. The President-elect asked the Secretary to implement the suggestion. Discussion of the Statement of Editorial Policy in the report of the Managing Editor of the Review centered on the question of whether certain kinds of manuscripts are discriminated against, particularly policy-oriented papers and those challenging the neoclassical paradigm.

The article presents news and announcements related to the field of sociology that appeared in the February 1967 issue of the journal "American Sociologist." American Orthopsychiatric Association will be holding its 44th annual meeting on March 20-23, 1967 in Washington, D.C. The American Public Health Association has invited contributed papers for the Medical Care Section Program of its 95th annual meeting. The Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, University of Arkansas, and Arkansas State Rehabilitation Service offers a symposium on "Effective Interpersonal Relationships that Produce Behavior Change." The Department of the Army has established a Personnel Research Division within the Directorate of Personnel Studies and Research. Association of Specialist Libraries has formed a Criminology Group to bring together those concerned with documentation in the field of criminology. The Sociological Consultants Group of North Attlehoro, Massachusetts, an interdisciplinary firm of behavioral scientists is providing research and consultation services for the analysis of human behavior for industrial, commercial, and civic purposes.

This section offers news briefs on issues related to biology. The "Conservation Genetics Symposium" sponsored by the Third American Genetic Association (AGA) will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A cash prize will be included in the Stephen J. O'Brien Award for best student paper to be given at the annual meeting of the AGA. AGA president Michael Lynch will host the 2007 meeting of the society titled "Mechanisms of Genome Evolution" in Indiana.

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The one hundred and ninth annual meeting of the American Economic Association was called to order by President Anne Krueger on January 5, 1997, in the Grand Ballroom of the New Orleans Hilton. President Krueger began the meeting by reminding the audience that copies of the agenda and the printed reports of the various officers were available. The first item on the agenda to be consider was the minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the "American Economic Review." After an extended discussion covering such topics as the curriculum, placement of students, selection of students, success rates, the structure of previous programs, and so forth, it was voted to accept the committee's re- quest and increase American Economic Association's funding of the 1997 summer program by $25,000. The committee was encouraged to consider carefully whether another vehicle might be a better means of accomplishing an increase in minority participation in the economics profession.

The article presents minutes of one hundred and fourth annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA), which took place on January 4, 1992 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The president William Vickery began the meeting by reminding the audience that the agenda and the printed reports of the various officers were available. He noted that this meeting would have been chaired by the outgoing AEA president, Thomas Schelling, but for the move in the date of the meeting from December 1991 to January 1992. The first item on the agenda to be considered was the minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in the "Papers and Proceedings" section of the May 1991 issue of the journal "The American Economic Review." No corrections were offered from the floor. The minutes stood as published. The first meeting of the 1991 Executive Committee was called to order at 10:10 a.m., March 22, 1991 in the Sheraton Washington Hotel in Washington D.C. Members present were Thomas Schelling, Henry Aaron, Oeley Ashenfelter, Michael Piore, Susan Rose-Ackerman. Schelling opened the meeting by reviewing the agenda and welcoming Michael Piore and Gavin Wright, new members who had been unable to attend the December 27, 1990, meeting. He then asked for any corrections to the minutes of the previous meeting. None was offered, and the minutes were approved as circulated prior to the meeting.

The article presents information on an annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) which was held in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 19, 1949. AAS president Samuel Eliot Morison was re-elected and AAS members Paul Beagary Morgan and George Sumner Barton were elected as AAS vice-presidents. Papers on medicine in America during the 18th century and clipper ship sailing cards were presented.

The article presents information on an annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) which was held on October 21, 1925 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Waldo Lincoln was re-elected as AAS president and Arthur Prentice Rugg and Clarence Winthrop Bowen were elected as AAS vice-presidents. A provision of the society's by-laws regarding membership dues was eliminated. A paper on the reception of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in Massachusetts was presented.

This article focuses on conferences and meetings related to economics in the United States. In accordance with the notice in the September issue, the forty-fourth annual meeting of the American Economic Association will be held In Washington, December 28-30, 1931 with headquarters at Hotel Washington. The meeting will be on the topics--Economic history, Economic theory, Quantitative Economicsm, Institutional Economics, Marketing, Insurance, Recent Changes in Banking. The American Statistical Association at its New York meeting September 29, discussed the topic of Methods of Analyzing Consumer Attitudes. At the conference of agricultural economists, held at the University of Chicago in September, a committee of five was appointed to cooperate with the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Experiment Stations, Farm Organizations, and other similar associations concerning a regional planning program for agriculture. Members of the association especially interested in the subject of marketing with wish to know of the work of the National Distribution Council, which was organized a year ago by men in the field of marketing research in the various governmental bureaus and departments in Washington.

The article reports on the seventy-third Annual Business Meeting of the American Economic Association held on December 28-30, 1960 in Saint Louis, Missouri. At the meeting the financial condition of the association was briefly reviewed and the chief sources of income and of expenditure were explained. Although most expenses have continued to rise, some economies have been affected and regrettably some of these involved postponement of directory materials. It was seen that some unexpected income from the annual meeting in Washington D.C., interest from the investment of unemployed foundation funds, the profit on sale of securities, increases from a larger membership in dues and subscriptions and from advertising and from the sale of the use of mailing list transformed an anticipated deficit into a wholesome net operating income and a gratifying increase in surplus. Attention was called to the interpretation given in the treasurer's report, which should be read in connection with the auditor's report to clarify the status of foundation funds shown on the liabilities side but intermingled with investments on the assets side.

The article presents the report of the official act of the American Economic Association. The article presents a summary of the year's operations, with comments and interpretations concerning the Association's activities. The second meeting of the 1957 Executive Committee was held at the Westchester Country Club, Rye, New York, on March 29-30, 1957. The managing director B.F. Haley presented suggestions for the regular replacement on the Editorial Board and all names were acceptable to the Executive Committee. The final panel is to be presented to the Executive Committee at the December meeting. Haley expressed a desire to send out a questionnaire to 300-500 people to get opinions and criticism of the various aspects of the American Economic Review. He outlined a proposal to have two survey articles a year for a period of four years, to be published as part of the Review or as separates, the author paid an honorarium. The President was authorized to submit a proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation for the sum of $13,000 to finance this series of survey articles, this proposal to be drawn up by the Editor in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee on Research and Publication.

The business session of the sixty-second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) was held in Hotel Commodore, New York City, at 5 P.M. on December 29, 1949. President of AEA, Howard S. Ellis presided. President Ellis, after a few words of welcome, presented a brief review of the Association activities of the past year, commenting particularly upon matters of program building, publications, and the work of committees. Of primary interest are the accomplishments of the Committees on Republications, Teaching, Research, Public Issues, Honors and Awards, International Cooperation with Foreign Scholars, and Aid to Foreign Scholars. Reports of these committees are published in the journal "Proceedings." Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were then summarized by another executive of the Association, J. W. Bell, who called attention briefly to the continued growth of the Association, the large and active participation of its members in assuring the success of its publications and annual programs, and to the sound financial condition of its affairs.

Conference reviewed in this article: 102nd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 19–23 November 2003, Chicago [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents news briefs relative to persons and associations affiliated with the Academy of Management. The Western Division of the Academy of Management will be holding its Tenth Annual Meeting at the Edgewater Inn in Long Beach, California from March 27-29, 1969. The 1969 annual meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the AACSB Assembly will take place at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in Detroit, Michigan from May 9-14, 1969.

The Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS) is an annual meeting held since 1970, usually in the U.S.A., on timely topics in the field of geomorphology. A special issue of this journal presents the papers from each meeting and provides an opportunity to disseminate to the international community research relevant to that year's theme written by key people in that field. In this paper, we review the history of the BGS, examine the academic disciplines of each year's organizers, compile a list of the researchers who have made multiple contributions to BGS, note the citation impact of papers published in the annual proceedings, map the spatial distribution of the meeting locations, and categorize the gender distribution of the contributors to the symposium. Contributions from female authors to the BGS have steadily increased since the 1970s; however, from 2003 to 2013, females still only accounted for 23.6% of the proceeding's papers, an increase of 16.4% from the 1970s. These numbers are not surprising when compared to the gender distribution of the top positions in specialty groups in the U.S. Between 1989 and 2010, over 7000 citations were from articles published in BGS special issues, indicating their contributions to the geomorphology field. When normalized by the number of years the articles have been available, papers from BGS whose themes combined geomorphology with other fields (i.e., natural hazards and geomorphology), rated higher numbers of citations. The dispersion of the location of BGS meetings illustrates how the series is maturing by moving away from its origin in the U.S. northeast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1962 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) will be held at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., between August 29 and September 1, 1962. Sessions and chairmen have been arranged by president Paul Lazarsfeld and the 1962 program committee. The ISA will hold its Fifth World Congress of Sociology at the Hotel Shoreham, Washington, D.C., between September 2 and 8, 1962, at the invitation of the ASA and under the auspices of UNESCO. In the conference, two plenary sessions will be devoted to "The Sociology of Development: The First Stages of Growth" and "The Maintenance of Growth." The Research sub-committees of the International Sociological Association (ISA) are collaborating with the secretariat in the organization of session open to all participants in the congress. Some contributors to the congress will be, T. Agersnap, R. Axon, G. Balandier, A. Bergstrasser, N. Birnbaum, T.B. Bottomore, F. Braudel, A. Briggs, S.D. Clark, R. Clemens, A.N.J. den Hollander, S. C. Dube, S.N. Eisenstadt, F. Fernandez, G.P. Franzev, F. Fromm, O. Friedmann, H. Frils, and E. Gellner.

The article focuses on the report by the representatives of the American Economic Association submitted in December 1951. According to the report the Social Science Research Council at its September meeting had sponsored a comprehensive discussion of areas of economic research in which the council might fruitfully concentrate its energies. At the council's annual meeting in September, 1953, it devoted a session to the progress which bas been made in the last two years. It is clear that the council is pushing ahead vigorously in several areas of great concern to economists. The Committee on Economic Growth has been active in promoting research in this area both in the U.S. and abroad. It is planning a series of four small conferences to be held in 1954 dealing with the topics, the influence of cities on economic growth and on cultural change in underdeveloped countries, economic criteria in the selection of investment plans affecting economic development, strategic factors in periods of rapid economic growth, and entrepreneurship and economic growth. The Council established during the year a new Committee on Agricultural Economics which is actively at work.

The article presents news briefs related to the Academy of Management in the U.S. The honored books cited at the 1963 McKinsey Foundation Book Awards include "Business and Society," by Joseph W. McGuire, "Information Economics and Management Systems," by Adrian McDonough and "Management Science in Action," by William T. Morris. The Eastern Division of the Academy plans to organize its first annual meeting in May 1964. The seventh Annual Midwest Management Conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on April 24-25, 1964.

Plans are now being definitely made to hold the next meeting of the American Sociological Society at the Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland on March 1-3, 1946. In this connection, a proposal is made to devote a session to contributed papers. Katharine Jocher at the University of North Carolina, is chairman of the committee to select which of the papers submitted should appear on the program and she requests that any papers intended for that session be in her hands by January 1, 1946.

The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Society was held at the University of California, Berkeley, December 28 to 30, 1938. The conference opened with a luncheon at noon Wednesday, when Constantine Panunzio, University of California at Los Angeles, spoke of his experiences in Italy. Prepared papers and discussions given at the four sessions devoted to the program were, Elon H. Moore, University of Oregon, "Patterns of Age, Sex and Direction in Net White Mobility Streams," discussions by Carl F. Reuss, State College of Washington and Paul Walter, University of New Mexico. Papers will be published in the March-April issue of the journal "Sociology and Social Research," as volume 10 the Proceedings of the Pacific Sociological Society. Glenn B. Hoover, Mills College was elected president for the year 1939. Other newly elected officers are Richard T. LaPiere, Stanford University, first vice-president, David E. Henley, Whittier College, second vice-president; Carl E. Dent, State College of Washington, Third vice-president, Paul H. Landis, State College of Washington, Secretary-Treasurer and Emory S. Bogardus, University of Southern California.

The article presents information on a notice concerning the 1956 annual meeting of the American Sociological Society, to be held at the Statler Hotel, Michigan, as of September 7, 1956 to September 9, 1956. Joint sessions will be held with the American Statistical Association, the Rural Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The article includes details of sections and chairmen as have been arranged by the president of the American Sociological Society, Herbert Blumer and the 1956 Program Committee. Members may submit papers directly to chairmen or if there is any doubt as to the appropriate chairman, to the Program Committee, in care of Joseph B. Gittler, department of sociology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Papers should not exceed 1500 words in length and must be received by February 1, 1956, at the latest. A limited number of sessions will be devoted to critical analyses of problems of theoretical importance. These sessions will complement the usual sessions presenting reports on research.

The article offers information on the activities and developments undertaken by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) in the U.S. The society's new online library will be integrated into www.sportsmed.org and will be accessed by its members for free. AOSSM is now accepting abstracts for its 2009 annual meeting which will be held in Keystone, Colorado on July 9-12, 2009. It is proud to announce that it has named physician Douglas W. Brown as leader for the Asia-Pacific Traveling Fellows in the spring of 2009.

Two plenary sessions featuring big names in the digital world will highlight a conference program focusing on Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts, at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, from November 12-17, in Providence, Rhode Island. The first of the two plenary sessions is Sunday, November 14, when J.C. Hen, principal of Joystick Nation and a noted journalist and lecturer, will discuss the application of complex systems and game design to products, services and learning systems. The second plenary session at the 2004 Annual Meeting features keynoter Tim Berners-Lee, widely regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee currently serves as director of the World Wide Web Consortium. While the two general sessions provide a great deal of sizzle and substance to the meeting, the real meat and potatoes is contained in the six dozen or so contributed paper and panel sessions covering virtually every aspect of information science. These sessions have been sorted into seven major tracks: disciplinary issues, digital libraries, user behavior, system design. information organization, knowledge management and use, and resources and services.