News and Notes

• DOI: 10.1177/106591296601900448
• Published date: 01 December 1966
• Date: 01 December 1966
• Subject Matter: Articles

NEWS AND NOTES
Organizations
The Cortez A. M. Ewing Foundation sponsored its first annual lecture at the
University of Oklahoma, April 29, 1966. The speaker was the Honorable Carl
Albert, House Majority Leader, who is a trustee of the Foundation and a former
student of Professor Ewing. He spoke on &dquo;The Legislative Process in Action.&dquo;
The second Ewing lecture is tentatively scheduled for the spring of 1967 at
the University of Oklahoma.
Two seminars were held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a part
of the training program of the Inter-university Consortium for Political Research,
a cooperating group of seventy-five American and foreign universities. Each course
extended for eight weeks (June 28 to August 18). The courses were led by Profes-
sor Harry M. Scoble of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor
Donald E. Stokes, of the Consortium staff.
For the twentieth consecutive year, the Survey Research Center of the Uni-
versity of Michigan held a Summer Institute for Survey Research Techniques.
The Institute was designed to meet some of the educational and training needs of
men and women engaged in business and governmental research and other statis-
tical work, and graduate students and university instructors interested in quantita-
tive research in social sciences. The 1967 Institute was held in two four-week
sessions, June 28 to July 21, and July 2’4 to August 18.
The Board of Editors for the Western Political Quarterly will hold its meeting
in the President’s Dining Room at the Student Union Building, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, during the Western Political Science Association con-
ference March 16,17,18,1967.
A
New post of Agency Historian was established in the Information Resources
Division (IOA/R) as part of the July 1 reorganization of the Agency’s research
and reference activities. Dr. Murray G. Lawson, formerly chief of IRS’s Reports
and Review Staff, has been appointed Agency Historian. To provide him with
&dquo;the advice and counsel of senior officials and to give him a regular Agency-wide
sounding board&dquo; an Agency Historical Advisory Board was created. Its permanent
members are: the Deputy Director (chairman), Deputy Director (policy and
research) , Assistant Director (administration), and Assistant Director (personnel
and training) .
Personal
Robert Berdahl,...