Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, 1959.

The article presents minutes of the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, 1959. The meeting was called to order by President Harold Hoffsommer with the following Committee members present: Ward W. Bauder, Olaf F. Larson, Charles R. Hoffer, Walter C. McKain, Herbert F. Lionberger, and Charles F. Ramsey, Managing Editor. President Hoffsommer announced the appointment of William Reeder, Chairman, and Stephen Brower as an Auditing Committee, and Leland Tate and Francina Nolan as members of a Resolutions Committee with the former as chairman. A motion by C. R. Hoffer that the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society for 1960 be held at Pennsylvania State College on August 25-27, was seconded and unanimously approved. Larson indicated that he had been advised by the appropriate New York State authorities that the Society would not be required to register as a charitable organization in the State of New York. However, he stressed that it would be necessary for future officers of the Society to refrain from any activity that could be construed as fund raising, to maintain this position. Lionberger reported that action to establish tax-exempt status of the Society with the Internal Revenue Service had been taken but that no notification of action taken by the latter had been obtained. Three proposals by the Board of Editors to the Executive Committee were considered.