Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1951

• Author: Ernest Minor Patterson,Stephen B. Sweeney,Jerome J. Rothschild,Thorsten Sellin,J.P. Lichtenberger,M. Albert Linton,Alfred H. Williams,Otto T. Mallery,F. Cyril James,Charles J. Rhoads,C.A. Kulp
• DOI: 10.1177/000271625228000121
• Published date: 01 March 1952
• Date: 01 March 1952
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Report

of

the

Board

of

Directors

to

the

Members

of

The

American

Academy

of

Political

and

Social

Science

for

the

Year

1951

SINCE

the

depression

of

some

twenty

years

ago

the

Academy

has

steadily

grown

in

membership.

From

fewer

than

8,880

our

members

have

increased

until

at

the

end

of

1951

the

total

was

16,806.

MEETINGS

On

January

26,

1951

a

meeting

of

the

Academy

was

addressed

by

Mr.

Thomas

B.

McCabe,

chairman

of

the

Board

of

Governors

of

the

Federal

Re-

serve

System,

and

by

Professor

Lester

V.

Chandler

of

Princeton

University,

the

topic

being

&dquo;Financial

Controls

During

Crisis.&dquo;

On

April

6

and

7,

1951

there

was

held

the

Fifty-fifth

Annual

Meeting.

During

the

six

sessions

of

the

two

days

the

addresses

and

the

discussion

were

on

the

topic

&dquo;Lessons

from

Asia.&dquo;

Con-

ditions

in

the

Far East

were

the

reason

for

the

choice

of

the

topic

and

explained

the

special

interest

shown

in

the

meet-

ing

and

in

the

July

1951

issue

of

THE

ANNALS

which

contained

the

addresses.

PUBLICATIONS

Last

year

attention

was

drawn

to

ris-

ing

costs.

These

increases

affect

all

or

nearly

all

phases

of

our

work.

The

steady

increase

in

membership

brings

larger

receipts,

and

there

is

a

gain

also

from

the

sale

of

copies

of

THE

ANNALS

in

addition

to

the

copies

which

go

to

members.

During

1951

special

efforts

were

made

to

sell

earlier

issues

still

on

hand.

The

results

were

gratifying,

the

total

of

these

special

sales

of

pamphlets,

indexes,

and

copies

of

THE

ANNALS

amounting

to

9,708

copies.

Since

each

issue

of

THE

ANNALS

is

a

symposium

of

from

fifteen

to

twenty-

five

articles

on

a

topic

of

current

public

interest,

many

teachers

use

THE

AN-

NALs

as

a

text

or as

required

supple-

mentary

reading.

It

is

difficult

to

fore-

cast

this

demand,

and

frequently

we

find

that

we

must

have

extra

copies

printed.

Also

it

is

worth

noting

that

our

material

has

interest

and

value

for

years

after

its

original

appearance.

Re-

cently

we

publicized

a

number

of issues

that

have

been

published

during

the

last

ten

years

or

so,

and

as

a

result

re-

ceived

a

gratifying

number

of

orders.

During

1951

the

titles

of

the

six

issues

were:

January

Medical

Care

for

Americans

March

Labor

in

the

American

Economy

May

Civil

Rights

in

America

July

Lessons

from

Asia

July

Le~OtM

/~C)M

~4~a

September

Report

on

China

November

The

Search

for

National

Security

MEMBERSHIP

We

enrolled

3,473

new

members

in

1951.

This

may

be

compared

with

3,538

in

1950

and

3,549

in

1949.

Each

year

there

are

a

considerable

number

of

losses,

but

we

closed

1951

with

a

mem-

bership

of

16,806,

which

is

a

net

gain

of

730

over

1950.

FINANCES

Members

of

the

Academy

presumably

understand

that

it

is

a

self-supporting

organization

and

meets

its

expenses

out

of

its

own

activities.

Gifts

are

few

and

small.

This

calls

for

a

persistent

ef-

fort

to

maintain

or

increase

member-

ships

and

sales.

The

results

for

1951