MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

The first meeting of the American Sociological Society Executive Committee was held on December 27 at 10:00 A.M., with Talcott Parsons presiding. Members present were Kimball Young, Raymond Bowers, Donald Young, Conrad Taeuber, Cecil North, Harrington Brearley, Franklin Frazier, Alvin Good, Philip Hauser, Louis Wirth and Dorothy Thomas. Parsons reported briefly on several developments which had occurred during the year: The election of a new 1950 Reorganization Committee by mail ballot of the Executive Committee, on the basis of the recommendation of the 1949 Reorganization Committee. The 1950 committee is larger and more geographically representative; the events leading up to the moving of the Society's office to New York, and the establishment of the Executive Office with a part time paid Executive Officer; the request by the Society to Carnegie Corp. for a grant to support reorganizational activities of the Society. This request was granted by Carnegie Corp., and $10,000 was appropriated to the Society for this purpose; the events leading up to the decision to hold the 1949 meetings in conjunction with the AAAS.