News and Notes

Published date01 June 1960
Date01 June 1960
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/106591296001300256
Subject MatterArticles
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NEWS AND NOTES
The 1961 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association will
be held on the University of Colorado Campus, at Boulder, Thursday and Friday,
March 30-31, 1961.
The Pacific Northwest Political Science Association held its annual meeting
on May 13-15, 1960, on the University of British Columbia campus, Vancouver,
British Columbia.
The Northern California Political Science Association held its annual meet-
ing jointly with the Western Political Science Association at the University of
California, Berkeley, on April 15-16, 1960. The Presidential Citation Award for
teaching, service to the profession, community service, and research was conferred
upon Burton R. Brazil of San Jose State College. Officers elected for 1960-61
were: president, Alexander Smetana, University of San Francisco; vice president,
Benjamin C. Franklin, Chico State College; secretary-treasurer, John M. Selig,
City College of San Francisco. The following were elected to the council: Gilbert
Abcarian, Humboldt State College; Charles W. Black, Modesto Junior College;
John H. Bunzel, Stanford University; Bernard Kronic, University of Santa Clara;
Paul Murray, Sacramento State College; Peter H. Odegard, University of Cali-
fornia ; and Frederic A. Weed, San Jose State College.
The University of California, Los Angeles, had an evening session on &dquo;Cul-
tural Exchange and Asian-American Relations&dquo; as part of a two-week Festival of
Asian Music and Related Arts, held May 8-22.
The Eighth Inter-American Municipal Conference will be held at San Diego
State College October 16-22, 1960. It is anticipated that five or six hundred
mayors and other municipal officials will attend, two or three hundred from
Latin-American countries. Dr. Robert F. Wilcox of San Diego State College is
executive secretary of the planning committee for the Congress.
An inter-American University seminar will be held in conjunction with the
Congress. The topic is not settled but the subject of...

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