News and Notes

• Date: 01 September 1958
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295801100344
• Published date: 01 September 1958
• Subject Matter: Articles

NEWS AND NOTES
The officers elected by the Pacific Northwest Political Science Associa-
tion at its Missoula meeting were Henry Angus of the University of British
Columbia, President, and Robert Fluno of Whitman College, Vice Presi-
dent. Miss Barbara Teeters of Montana State University and Alex Gott-
fried of the University of Washington were named new members of the
executive council for three-year terms.
The Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of the American Society of
International Law in co-spansarship with the Seattle Bar Association, the
University of British Columbia, the University of Washington School of
Law, and the Institute of International Affairs held its Spring meeting at
the University of Washington at Seattle, April 18-19, 1958.
At its Spring meeting, the Southern California Political Science Associ-
ation elected the following officers for the 1958-59 academic term: Presi-
dent, Thompson Black, Los Angeles State College; Secretary-Treasurer, Ben
G. Burnett, Whittier College; and members of the Executive Council, Bill
Buchanan, University of Southern California, David Farrelly, University of
California, Los Angeles, Don Leiffer, San Diego State College, Ray Mc-
Kelvey, Occidental College, and Dave McLellan, University of California,
Riverside.
Two years ago the Executive Council of the Western Political Science
Association established an annual award to be granted for distinguished
research on some aspect of political science in the western states. Studies
dealing with public policies, politics, public administration or other topics,
domestic or international, of particular significance for the western region
of the United States were to be deemed eligible for the award.
The Awards Committe for this year was composed of Professors Ernest
Engelbert, University of California, Los Angeles, chairman; Del Hitchner,
University of Washington; Frederick Irion, University of New Mexico;
Roy V. Peel, University of Utah; and Egbert Wengert, University of
Oregon.
This committee, on behalf of the Executive Board and members of
the Association, granted the award to Dr. Robert Joseph Pitchell, for his
doctoral manuscript entitled &dquo;Twentieth Century California Voting Be-
havior&dquo; completed at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956 under
a doctoral dissertation...