Manuel de la Puente is replacing Gregg Robinson as director of research on Hispanic, foreign-born, and similar special populations at the Census Bureau. Gregg will be working on the 2000 Census on issues of undercount and the effect of possible census sampling on coverage.
Jorge del Pinal is now the Assistant Division Chief for Special Populations Statistics, Population Division, Bureau of the Census. He can be reached at delpinal@census.gov.
Albert Hermalin and his wife Jolene are the proud grandparents of Paul Charles Nemetz, born on May 28 to Anne and Frank Nemetz, weighing 7 lbs. 8 oz. Paul has already been cited by his proud grandfather in a talk at the Population Council for his ability to command intergenerational transfers of resources.
Robert Hummer at the University of Texas, and his wife Dawn, now have a second child, Chelsea Lane, born June 2, 1997, weighing in at 6 lbs and 10 oz. All are well and tired.
Lisa Norling, Steve Ruggles, and Abigail Norling-Ruggles are delighted to announce the safe and healthy arrival of the newest member of their family, Rebecca Jane Norling-Ruggles, born May 29 at 7:36 pm, weighing 6 lbs, 6 oz. Check out her website: www.hist.umn.edu/demograp.htm.
Laura Duberstein Lindberg and her husband Mike are happy to announce the birth of their son, Jacob (Jack) Duberstein Lindberg. Jack was born on July 5, at 6:59 p.m., weighing 6.5 lbs, and measuring 19 inches. The accompanying photograph shows the next generation of PAA members, all of whom attended Jack's bris. From left to right, Hersh (son of Ellen Kramarow and Jared Garelick), Elena (daughter of Timothy Waidmann and Suzanne Duryea), and Samantha (daughter of Rose Maria Li and Albert Lee).
Albert Anderson and his wife Charlotte, both with Public Data Queries, Inc., proudly share a photo of their grandson, Albert ("Bert") F. Anderson IV, shown here at 7 months.
David Jaeger is moving from the BLS to be an Associate Professor in the economics departments at Hunter College and at the City University of New York Graduate School.
Barry Edmonston has moved to Portland, Oregon to be professor and director of the Center for Population Research and Census, Portland State University.
Mary Beth Ofstedal has moved from NCHS to the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. She can be reached at mbo@psc.lsa.umich.edu.
Sharon Sassler is moving from Wellesley to the Sociology Department at Hunter College.
Harold Pollack has changed his institutional affiliation to the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Thomas Steahr died suddenly on June 22, 1997, at the age of 59.
Dr. Steahr was a long time PAA member and, at the time of his death, was
a demographer with the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University
of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. He earned his doctorate in Sociology at the
University of Washington in 1969, and served briefly as a member of the
departments of sociology at the University of Hawaii and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.