Member News

The Population Reference Bureau recently inaugurated the Conrad Taueber Chair of Population Information. The first to hold the chair is Carl Haub, PRB s senior research demographer. Dr. Taueber, now retired, was PAA's 12th President (1948-49). He is perhaps best known for his leadership as associate director for demographic fields at the Census Bureau, a position he held from 1951 until 1973, and for having helped to build the demography program at Georgetown University.

Births

• Adrienne Mihelic and her husband, Mark, had a baby boy on December 24. Noah Francis Mihelic weighed in at slightly over 10 lbs and has beautiful red hair. Reports from the new mom are that all of the Mihelics are a little tired, but otherwise doing very well.

• John Martin Cohen was born on December 5 to Christine van Reenen and Barney Cohen, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces and measuring 21 inches. John is currently the principal investigator on a study, which his parents fervently hope will remain costless and unpublished, on the long­term consequences of parental sleep deprivation on small boys.

Migration

• Lori M. Hunter, has completed studies at Brown University and joined the faculty at Utah State University as Assistant Professor. Her new address is: Dept. of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322­0730, Phone: 801­797­2941, Email: lmh@wpo.hass.usu.edu

• Effective January 6, David A. Swanson resigned from Portland State University to become a Senior Social Scientist with Science Applications International Corporation, Yucca Mountain Project Office, Las Vegas, Nevada, where he had been a continuous, part­time consultant since 1988. His new address is: Science Applications International Corporation, 101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 800, Las Vegas, NV 89109.

• After 30 years at the University of Michigan, Reynolds Farley will become Vice-President at Russell Sage in the fall. One of his duties at Russell Sage will be to think about their support for immigration projects and their new census research project focused around the enumeration in 2000.

• Carol De Vita leaves the Population Reference Bureau in March to join the staff of the Urban Institute's Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy where she will be a senior research associate.

• Marta Tienda has accepted a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and in Public Affair sat Princeton University, to begin in the fall of 1997.

• Meredith Burke (MereBphd@aol.com) has received visiting scholar status at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

• Dominique Meekers has left Penn State s Sociology Department to become Research Director at Population Services International, 1120 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, Phone: 202.728.4214, Email:DMEEKERS@PSIWASH.ORG

• Kristen N. Robinson will become a Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, working with Dr. Gooloo Wunderlich, Study Director, in conducting and managing the study to review Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research.

• Ronald Kessler has moved to the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Deaths

E. Walter Terrie passed away suddenly and unexpectedly from a massive heart attack on January 23 in Tallahassee, FL at age 50. Walt was a social demographer and computer specialist, with a 1979 PhD from Florida State University. His principal affiliation was with the Center for the Study of Population at Florida State University, where he assisted an enormous number of faculty, students, and government agency personnel with computer problems, as well as having a successful career in applied demography. He was widely published, with his latest article appearing in the December, 1996 issue of Population Research and Policy Review on the implications of several recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions for political redistricting. Those of us included as Walt's friends, and there are many, will miss him greatly.
(Charles B. Nam, Florida State University, and Bob Weller, NIH)