Footnotes 1985

January 1985 (Volume 13, Number 1)

• 1986 Program Committee Announces Theme: “Social Structures and Human Lives”
• Enjoy Capital Culture During 1985 Annual Meeting (Ruth Thaler)
• Editor Sought for New Teaching Journal
• Public Relations Program Features Multi-faceted Efforts (Carla Howery)
• NIH Offers Funding Opportunities for Sociologists (Janet M. Cuca)
• Nominations Open for ASA Scholarship Award
• Observing: ACLS/COSSA Meetings (William V. D’Antonio)
• Sociologists Receive NSF/NIMH Grants
• Upcoming Teaching Workshops
• TRC Seeks Ideas on Advising for Monograph
• Teaching: Sociology in High School (Carla Howery)
• Salary Update: 1983-84 Figures for Academics (Bettina Huber)
• Everett Hughes Collection Dedicated in Paris (Arlene Kaplan Daniels)
• Obituaries: Aida K. Tomeh, Dwight W. Culver, Joseph T. Klapper, Cheryl Allyn Miller
• Nominations Open for ASA Family Section Award
• SSSP Seeks Executive Officer
• Sociologists Participate in African Seminar
• Sociologists Attend Symposium in China

February 1985 (Volume 13, Number 2)

• No ASA Petition Candidates Likely
• 1985 Annual Meeting Plenary, Thematic Sessions Deal with Facets of Work (Kai Erikson)
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Sherry Turkle Honored by Ms. Magazine
• National Peace Institute Update (Ruth Thaler)
• Teaching: Preparing Graduate Students to Teach (Carla Howery)
• Pennsylvania Sociological Society Announces New Officers
• Ford Program Funds Minority Scholars (Laure Sharp)
• Observing: In Praise of Excellence (on Henry Quellmalz) (William D’Antonio)
• Professional Workshops for March 1995
• Two Views of German Sociology (Dean Gerstein and Jiri Kolaja)
• Editor Sough for New ASA Teaching Journal)
• Robin M. Williams, Jr., New Editor of Sociological Forum
• Conrad Taeuber Looks Back Over 50 Years of Demography (an interview by Carla Howery)
• New Insurance Available to ASA Members
• Deaths: Anita Kassen Fischer, Robin Williams III, Linda Keller Brown, Rex M. Johnson, Bell Boone Beard, Dorothy D. “Dee Dee” Vellenga, James S. Davie, Janina Adamczyk
• Obituaries: Ch’eng-K’un Chung, John H. Mabry
• Special Prices on Rose Monographs and Other Publications
• ASA Committees and Representatives
• Contributions to ASA Programs
• Letter to the Editor: On letters of reference as opposed to names of referees (D. Katongo-Male)
• Minutes of August 30, 1984, Meeting of ASA Council

March/April 1985 (Volume 13, Number 3)

• Special Election Issue: Candidate Biographies
• D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, Jr., Extends Welcome to Sociologists
• 1986 ASA Annual Meeting Site, Dates Changed (to New York City)
• Community Surveys Train Students, Provide Service (Carla Howery)
• William Ewens Named Teaching Services Program Field Coordinator
• Editors Sought for ST, ASR, CS
• Spring 1985 Regional Meetings
• Teaching Materials Sought for Sex and Gender
• Observing: Council Actions/Mario Brajuha (William D’Antonio)
• Libraries Seek Donations
• Nominations Sought for ASA Medical Sociology Section Dissertation Award
• By-Laws Change Proposed: Program Committee composition
• Job Clinic and Workshop on Federal Jobs Offering During 1985 Annual Meeting
• “The Sociologist’s Song” (a record)
• Publishing Options Available Again
• Teaching: Rewarding Effective Teaching (Carla Howery)
• Workshop on Evaluations to be Offered May 1985
• ASA Needs Information on Using Libraries
• Professional Workshops Aid Career Growth and Change
• AKD Awards Presented
• Kinsey Awards Open
• Clinical Sociology Review Seeks Editor
• Obituaries: Anita Kassen Fischer, Mildred Kornacker
• Committee Reports
• Representative Reports
• Minutes of September 1, 1984, meeting of ASA Council
• 1985 Guide to Graduate Departments Available
• How ASA Committees Are Chosen (and application form for committee service)

April 1985 (Volume 13, Number 4)

• Lionel Maldonado Joins ASA Staff
• Council Takes Action on Multifaceted Initiative on Certification and Licensure
• New ASA Award for Distinguished Career in Practice of Sociology
• Greetings from DC Congressman Walter Fauntroy
• Rockefeller Foundation Minority Group Scholar Fellowships Awarded
• State Licensure Monitors Appointed
• S. Frankl Miyamoto Named to HHS Advisory Council
• Discount Air Fares for Annual Meeting Travel
• Three Yugoslav Sociologists Sentenced
• ASA Workshop on Strengthening Graduate Education
• Observing: The Federal Budget for FY1986 (William D’Antonio)
• Dispute Resolution Gains Ground (Maria R. Volpe)
• Summer Internships Available at ASA Office
• ASA Commission Proposes Policy-Related Research Directions (Bettina Huber)
• Teaching: Team Teaching Benefits Faculty, Students, Curriculum (Carla Howery)
• Three Committees Present Proposals to ASA Council
• Minority Sociologists and Their Status in Academia
• Sociology Around the Globe
• NCSA Establishes Tomeh Award
• C. Matthew Snipp Is American Statistical Association Fellow
• Eight Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded
• Travel Grants to Annual Meeting Available to Foreign Students
• Good Ideas Column
• Promote Your Book in ASA Journals
• Committee Reports
• Representative Reports
• Editors’ reports

May 1985 (Volume 13, Number 5)

• Mario Brajuha Fieldnotes Case Resolved; Scholars’ Rights Supported (Ruth Thaler)
• Membership Committee Initiates System of Area Representatives
• A Tribute to Paul Williams (Robert B. Hill)
• Lively Plenary Sessions Set for Annual Meeting
• Everything You Need to Know About the 1985 Annual Meeting
• Getting Students Involved in the Annual Meeting (Carla Howery)
• Annual Media Media Relations Shaping Up Well (Ruth Thaler)
• Observing: ASA’s Budget in Balance (William D’Antonio)
• 1984 Audit
• Sociology Series Wins Public Affairs Honors
• ASA Contributors
• Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (George Dowdall, Ross Koppel, Arthur Shostak)
• NEH Funding Guide Available
• Teaching Endowment Fund Gets Boost from Undergraduate Education Section
• Daniel Ross and Robert Reimer Are Leaders in Asian Universities
• Open Forum: “Social Science Research and Congressional Policy” (Richard M. Levinson)
• Sociology Theory Becomes ASA Journal
• Employment Patterns in Sociology Available
• Obituaries: Robert Cooley Angell, Theodore M. Newcomb, Romolo Toigo
• ASA Medical Sociology Section Graduate Internship Program Seeks Input
• Section Reports
• ASA Workshops on Using Computers

August 1985 (Volume 13, Number 6)

• Election Results: Melvin Kohn is ASA President Elect; Mayer Zald, Vice President Elect; Michael Aiken, Secretary-Elect
• A New Look: New Design for Footnotes
• American Sociological Foundation Established by Council
• 1985 Annual Meeting Update
• Secretary’s Report: 1986: A Year of Accomplishment (Theodore Caplow)
• Executive Officer’s Report: Pursuing Short and Long-Range Goals (William D’Antonio)
• 1985 Annual Meeting: Discover and Rediscover Washington, DC (William Martineau)
• Microcomputer Users to Meet at Annual Meeting
• Letter to the Editor: Whyte on Whyte (William F. Whyte)
• Annual Meeting Presenters: Keep It Short
• Wingspread Conference Focuses on Teaching (Carla Howery)
• ASA Purchases Teaching Sociology from Sage
• Teaching Endowment Fund Established
• ASA Summer Interns
• NSF Changes Submission Dates
• COSSA to Meet
• 1986 Professional Development Workshops
• 1986 World Congress to be Held in New Delhi (Ann Kremers)
• Clifford Clogg New SM Editor
• Open Forum: “Sociology Outside the Academy” (Melvin Kohn)
• New ASA Major Medical Insurance Plan Offered
• The Status of Minorities and Women in ASA (Bettina Huber; first in a series)
• Membership Committee’s 80% Club (Departments with 80% or more faculty being ASA members)
• Profile of the ASA President: Matilda White Riley: Of Her Times and Ahead of Her Time (Anne Foner)
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Focus on Social Structures and Human Lives; Sessions, Organizers Announced
• New 1986 Dues Structure
• Deaths: Rue Bucher, George Dixon, Isaac Franck, Eileen H. Hepburn, Betty Irish, Sylvia Lasser, Don Martindale
• Obituaries: Leonard Slater Cottrell, Jr., James P. Earp, John A. Kinneman, Paul Meadows, Adolph S. Tomars, Dorothy D. Vellenga, Eugene Weinstein
• Minutes of February 2, 1985, meeting of ASA Council
• Committee Report

October 1985 (Volume 13, Number 7)

• ASA Major Award Recipients: Reinhard Bendix, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Duncan Gallie, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Joan Huber and Judith Stacey, Jessie Bernard Award
• A Good Meeting that Almost Wasn’t (on the switch of locations due to Hilton fire) (Stephen C. Warren)
• ASA Council Censures University of California-Santa Cruz
• IIS International Congress to be Held in Portugal
• Problems of the Discipline Grants Open
• New TS Editor: Theodore Wagenaar
• New SM Editor: Clifford C. Clogg
• Nominees Sought for SOE Editor
• 1987 ASA Candidates
• New ST Editor: Norbert Wiley
• Thank You to ASA Staff (Kai Erikson)
• Peter Rossi Receives Common Wealth Award
• Council Briefs
• Observing: Notes from the Washington, DC Convention (William D’Antonio)
• 1985 Annual Meeting: Retrospective (photos)
• Three Sections Present Awards During Annual Meeting
• New Sessions for 1986 Annual Meeting
• Clinical Sociology Syllabi Set Available
• MFP Announces Fellows for 1985-86
• 1985 Exhibits Called Successful (Karen Gray Edwards)
• MFP Receives Cornerhouse Grant
• Teaching: Teaching Using Discussion (William Ewens)
• Attend Dallas Workshop on Teaching Applied/Clinical Sociology
• SPQ Evaluation Stresses New Submissions (Bettina Huber)
• Open Forum: “On Neofunctionalism” (Charles H. Page); “War & Peace” (William A. Gamson and James M. Skelly)
• Two Sociology Associations Celebrate First Decade: Gay Caucus (Meredith Gould)/Association for Humanist Sociology (Stuart Hills)
• Passing On Sociology Back in Print
• Mark Abrahamson, Stanley Presser Head NSF Sociology Program
• Sociology Around the World
• Hans Zeisel and Harriet Zuckerman Elected to AAAS
• Deaths: Rose Goldsen, Reuben Hill, Paul H. Landis
• Obituaries: Rue Bucher, Don Albert Martindale, John Seidler, Francis Montgomery Sim
• 1986 Guide Listings Due

November 1985 (Volume 13, Number 8)

• 1987 Program Theme: “Cross-National Research in Sociology”
• Lenore Weitzman’s Research Plans Key Role in New Research
• MFP Task Force Begins
• Norbert Wiley: Profile of the New ST Editor
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Sessions on Uses of Sociology New Feature
• Wohlers Offers New Disability Income Insurance Plan
• Fulbright Grants Still Available
• Observing: Your Voice Counts (William D’Antonio)
• Sociological Practice Notes: Ronald Lippitt Receives Clinical Sociology Association Career Award
• ASA Contributors: Thanks!
• Indiana University Sociologists Celebrate 100th Anniversary
• Sociologists Demonstrate at South African Embassy
• Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (Ross Koppel, George Dowdall, Arthur Shostak)
• Employment Bulletin Fees to Increase
• University of California-San Francisco Sociology Celebrates 25 Years
• The Status of Minorities and Women in ASA (Bettina Huber; second in a series)
• Sociologists Receive Brazil Merit Awards
• Open Forum: “A Walk on the Applied Side: Ideology and the Celebration of Applied Sociology” (Gregory D. Squires, Thomas A. Lyson); “The Pricking of a Sacred Cow” (Cecil L. Willis, Richard H. Wells, J. Steven Picou)
• Mark Granovetter Wins Theory Prize
• Section on Aging Honors George Maddox
• SSRC Appoints Francis X. Sutton President
• David Jenness: COSSA Director Discusses Plans (an interview by Carla Howery)
• Reference Format for ASA Journals to Change in 1986
• COSSA’s “Breakfast on the Hill” (John Hammer)
• Teaching Program Sponsors Workshops
• COPAFS Reports on Activities and Accomplishments (Kathy Wallman)
• Ilene Nagel Appointed to New Sentencing Commission
• TRC Offers 12 New Products
• Accuracy in Academia Group Targets Radical Faculty
• New Asia/Asian America Section Holds Sessions, Elects Officers
• GSA Presents Kleemeier Award to George Maddox
• Obituaries: Paul M. Houser, Paul J. Landis, Arthur Liebman

December 1985 (Volume 13, Number 9)

• Nominations for 1986 Elections
• American Sociological Foundation Off and Running
• The Outcome of the Mario Brajuha Case: Legal Implications for Sociologists
• President’s Report: Recollections and Gratitude (Kai Erikson)
• Capital Comment (column)
• ISA World Congress Travel Arrangements
• House Task Force Holds Hearings on Social Science
• 1986 Regional Meeting Schedule
• Sociological Practice (column)
• ASA Contributors
• Teaching: Applied Curriculum Can Enhance Liberal Arts Learning (Kathryn Grzeldowski, Jim Mitchell)
• Sociologists Honored with NSF/NIMH Awards
• Gary Hamilton Touts Fulbright Experience
• ACLS Awards
• Fulbright Awards
• GSA Awards
• ASA/ACLS Conducts Survey of Scholars
• Mark Abraham, Stanley Presser Share Plans, Advice: NSF’s Sociology Program Spearheads Research (an interview by Carla Howery)
• Open Forum: “Whyte Revisited: Further Thoughts on Improving Annual Meetings” (Gary S. Foster); “Barriers Between Sociology” (Amitai Etzioni); “Communicating Sociology as a Useful Humanistic Science at the State Level” (Catherine T. Harris)
• Alice Rossi, Daniel Gallego Appointed to Council on Aging
• Obituaries: Rose K. Goldsen, Reuben L. Hill, Werner Stark

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