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The article presents commentary from the executive secretary of the American Finance Association (AFA). AFA depends upon the efforts of volunteers, and opportunities are available to those who might like to serve as a reviewer or co-editor, be a discussant at the annual meeting, or serve on the Board of Directors. Owing to space limitations, the 1999 AFA Annual Meeting to be held in New York CIty will involve ten percent fewer sessions than in previous years' meetings, and this number is expected to stay stable for the next three years.

This article presents information on the annual business meeting of the rural sociology section of the American Sociological Society. The meeting was held at the Commodore Hotel, New York city on 29 December, 1935. In the meeting, Mr. B.L. Hummel, Chairman of rural sociology section of the American Sociological Society, described the problems he had encountered in preparing the program for the rural section. He emphasized the difficulty of obtaining an adequate number of sessions because of the regulations of the general society concerning section meetings. Several members of the section suggested the need for improved publication facilities for rural sociologists and for an improved and enlarged annual program to include material of interest to teachers of rural sociology as well as the research and extension personnel. It was also agreed upon in the meeting that those who are interested in discussing the promotion of rural sociology research in the experiment stations and those interested in the development of the research program in the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life will meet later at Room A, of the Commodore Hotel for an informal afternoon discussion with Dr. Carl Taylor.

On September 31, 1968, young men in their 20's and 30's assembled at the Syracuse University Conference Center at Lake Minnowbrook in the Adirondacks to assess the contemporary dimensions of public administration. The participants, representing 27 different universities and agencies across the country, devoted three-and-a-half days to free and essentially unstructured discussion. The papers and some additional readings from the Public Administration Review were mailed in advance. Topics included normative theory, empirical theory, comparative public administration, administrative decision making, organizational theory,, collective negotiations in the public service and higher education for public service. The focus of public administration has been and remains public-administered organizations, but much greater emphasis and analysis should be devoted to the political and public context in which these organizations function. Public organizations must find additional supporters and resources to cope with the multiple revolutions now shaking them.

Reports on the issues discussed at the 1961 meeting of the New York State Federation of Foreign Language Teachers. Summary of the paper entitled 'Programming Modern Foreign Languages'; Issues discussed by Mary E. Hayes.

Highlights the Society for Research in Child Development conference in New York on December 29, 1949. Theme of the congress; Topics discussed; Participants of the event.

The article reports about the fourth biennial course on Current Methods of Immunologic Research and Diagnosis, offered by the Center for Immunology of the State University of New York, held at Buffalo, New York, in July, 1975. It also reports about the fifth International Congress of Lymphology, held at Buenos Aires, Argentina and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between March 23 and 29, 1975. Some of the sessions that have been presented are, lymphomas; lymphatic dissemination of cancer; lymphoedema and chylous refluxes; medical and surgical treatment; and basic lymphology.