SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

The Southern Sociological Society held its Seventeenth Annual Meeting at the Atlanta Biltmore, Atlanta, Georgia, March 25-27, 1954. Section meetings, with their presiding officers, were: Theory and Methodology, Abbott L. Ferriss and Homer L. Hitt; Social Work and Public Welfare, Dorothy Jones; Race and Culture Contacts, Edgar T. Thompson; The Teaching of Sociology, Marion B. Smith; Social Psychology, Robert C. Stone; and Population and Ecology, Lorin A. Thompson. Guy B. Johnson delivered the presidential address, "A Sociologist Looks at Racial Desegregation in the South." Officers elected for 1954-55 were: President, Morton B. King, University of Mississippi; President- Elect, Irwin T. Sanders, University of Kentucky; First Vice-President, Edgar T. Thompson, Duke University; Second Vice-President, Lorin A. Thompson, University of Virginia; Secretary-Treasurer, Melvin J. Williams, Stetson University. James S. Himes, North Carolina College, and Meyer F. Nimkoff, Florida State University, were elected to serve three-year terms on the Executive Committee; C. A. McMahan, Maxwell Air Force Base, was elected to serve out a vacated two-year term as a member of the Executive Committee; and William E. Cole, University of Tennessee, was elected representative to the American Sociological Society.