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The article narrates the author's experience as an outsider and then inside the American Catholic Sociological Society (ACSS). As an outsider, the author felt that ACSS was intended primarily for persons at Catholic colleges. When the author joined the Catholic college as a college teacher, he joined ACSS. The author found an intensely personal warmth, fellowship, and good humor in the society.

The article presents information related to sociological interest. The tenth annual convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society will be held at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois on December 27-29, 1948. Members of the Society interested in presenting papers before the convention should write the executive secretary. The ACSS committee on Constitutional amendments, pursuant to the directive of the Executive Council of the American Catholic Sociological Society (ACSS), reports the proposed addition of the following sentence to Article VI, Section 3 of the ACSS constitution: "The terms of office of the Book Review and Periodical Review editors of the official organ. The American Catholic Sociological Review, shall be for five years at the end of which time either may again be appointed." Twenty-six teachers came for one full week to discuss and work on the undergraduate sociology curriculum. An additional seventeen teachers took part in the workshop for one or more days. The workshop recommended to the executive council that a similar worship be arranged for next year and be devoted to some specific topic like the college course in the family, or introductory sociology, etc.

Presents news briefs on issues related to sociology in the U.S., as of June 1964. Reactivation of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Catholic Sociological Society; Highlights of the American Population Association annual meeting; Details of a report submitted by the Committee on Awards of the American Catholic Sociological Society during the organization's convention in December 1952.