The President-elect of Division 34 of the American Psychological Association is PAA member and environmental psychologist George Cvetkovich, Western Washington University in Bellingham 98225, Phone: 360.650.3544, FAX: 360.650.3693, Email: CVET@NESSIE.CC.WWU.EDU .
Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association chair is PAA member Susan Newcomer (NewcomeS@hd01.nichd.nih.gov ), and the program chair for the upcoming annual meeting in New York in November is Ross Danielson, Box 374 University Station, Portland OR 97207.
Past issues of Demography and Population Index from 1964 through 1995 are available for the cost of shipping. Some issues are missing. Please send your request to Joan Naymark, Research & Planning, Dayton Hudson Corporation, 777 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Include your daytime phone number.
Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy over Census Undercounts, by Harvey Choldin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been chosen by Choice Magazine for its list of Outstanding Academic Books, 1995. The book is published by Rutgers University Press and is available in paperback.
Emma Clark Mairson (Emma-Rose) was born on November 3, 1995 to Rebecca Clark (Urban Institute) and Alan Mairson, weighing in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces.
Samantha Maria Lee was born to Rose Maria Li and Albert Lee at 1:16 p.m. on April 1, 1996, weighing 8 pounds, 1½ ounces. The new mother returned to work (as co-editor of PAA and NICHD staff member) in June.
Deborah Phillips is the proud mother of Elijah Henry Lawrence. Elijah came into the world at 9:50 a.m. on May 16 weighing 7 pounds, 4½ ounces and stretching from head to toe at 21 inches.
Joining Penn State's Population Research Institute in the fall: Rukakody Jayakody (Ph.D., U. of Michigan); Valarie King (Ph.D., U. Penn; UNC post-doc); and Martina Morris from Columbia University.
Robert Hummer moves from Louisiana State University to UT-Austin in the fall.
Kimberly Boller starts as a Visiting Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) on July 1 to work primarily on the national evaluation of Early Head Start, after spending three years with NICHD working on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, among other projects.
Tim Waidmann, currently at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, will be starting July 29 in the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute. He'll be working on Medicaid, Medicare and issues involved in turning over federal programs to the states.
Moye Wicks Freymann died March 30 in Chapel Hill at the age of 70. Moye was professor of health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the first director of the Carolina Population Center. He was born in Omaha, graduated from Yale, and got his MD from Johns Hopkins in 1948. When Moye came to Chapel Hill in 1966, the Population Center had a policy board, a grant from the Ford Foundation, no offices and no staff. But the policy board had already established a concept of a population center as an inter-disciplinary pan-university institution. Moye embraced this concept with enthusiasm. Within no time at all there were faculty associated with the center not only from sociology, economics, and biostatistics, but from almost every department in the school of public health, from religion, urban planning, journalism, anthropology, and departments in the medical school. Within four years the Center's budget in constant dollars was as big as it is today. By 1970, there were population center activities from North Carolina in every corner of the world.
Moye knew how to make things happen. Institution-building was his passion. Moye never squelched an idea. He always said, let's try it. But he always had ideas for improving my research design. No grant proposal went out of the Center during Moye's tenure without his rewrite.
We used to say that he Freymannized every application. He organized his life around the principle that population research should be used to improve the human condition. Moye Freymann knew every one in the population world in the heady days of the sixties and seventies. He worked for and with every agency. He made friends with prime ministers in third world countries. His knowledge of the population field was encyclopedic. Maybe this is because whatever meeting he attended, he always took copious notes. If his spirit is with us today, he is sitting in the back row there, scribbling, scribbling notes on what I am saying. His memory was the repository for the world's largest collection of population-related jokes. In the mid-sixties he laid on me my first sex education joke. Two six-year olds. The boy says to the girl, "I found a condom on the verandah." The girl says, "What's a verandah?"
After he stepped down from the directorship of the population center, Moye devoted himself to teaching and research on population policy. His legion of students now occupy positions of leadership in the population program community in the U. S., in international agencies, and throughout the world in developing countries. During recent years he was a regular consultant to foundations, USAID, the World Bank and international agencies. The Carolina Population Center today is a testament to his concept of population research as an interdisciplinary enterprise.
(Remarks presented by J. Richard Udry, Carolina Population Center, at a memorial service held at the PAA meetings in New Orleans, May 9, 1997.)
Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg died on Friday, April 3 at the age of 54, after a 10-year battle with cancer. Her career in population was long and varied. After graduating from Radcliffe College in 1964, she founded and headed the Information Service of the Population Council. She then became a demographer, receiving a PhD from Princeton. She subsequently was a consultant to the UNFPA and a contributing editor at American Demographics, Parents Magazine and Working Women Magazine.She later became Editor-in-Chief of Family Planning Perspectives and International Family Planning Perspectives. When she died, she was Director of the Publications Division of the Alan Guttmacher Foundation. Those of us who have published in these journals or who read them have much reason to be grateful to Olivia. Her demographic training enabled her to respect and preserve the scientific substance of our field's research, while her skills at editing brought a clarity and economy to our writing that made our research accessible to a world beyond our walls. At the same time, she maintained her life-long interest in family planning through service on the Planned Parenthood of NY board. She gave her friends tremendous hope and strength--leavened with a demographer's hard-nosed assessment of the odds. A Fund has been set up in her memory at the New York Community Trust, 2 Park Avenue, New York NY 10016. (A condensation of remarks by Jane Menken and Susan Watkins of the University of Pennsylvania and Linda Waite of the University of Chicago, at the annual meetings of PAA in New Orleans, May 7, 1996)
Jack Beresford died of cancer at the age of 65 in Alexandria Virginia. He was a founding member of the Association of Public Data Users, and played a significant role in the creation of the first widely used public use microdata sample files from the 1960 census. Jack was, starting when he joined the Census Bureau in 1958, through his later work at DUALabs, a tireless advocate for broadening access to census data. (Obituary notice from Amstat News)