BIRTHS
Karen Carver, a post-doc at UNC and her husband Michael had a baby girl at 11:20 p.m. on January 6. Caitlin Rhys Carver weighed 7 pounds, 5 1/2 ounces and her hobbies are eating, sleeping, and staying up to watch Late Night with David Letterman. Her mother has just accepted a position at Penn State.
Rebecca Wong is shown here with Eliot Wong Robson. Eliot was 10 months old when this photo was taken at a gathering of demographers in the Washington area in early December.
MIGRATION
Bill Axinn, now at Penn State, has accepted a position at Michigan. He will be joining the Department of Sociology, Population Studies Center, and Survey Research Center sometime this summer/fall.
Diane Crispell has left American Demographics magazine for a newly created position as editor-at-large for Roper Starch Worldwide in New York City. She is based from a home office in Burdett, NY; e-mail dcrispell@roper.com
Sam Preston was promoted to Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania on January 12. Jere Behrman is now the Director of Penn's Population Studies Center.
B. Lindsay Lowell will be starting at the newly formed Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University as director of Research. He is joined at the Institute by Susan Martin (Executive Director) and Andy Schoenholtz (Director of Law and Policy Studies) from the US Commission on Immigration Reform which recently finished its work.
Michael Massagli, formerly with the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts -Boston, is now Research and Development Director at the Picker Institute, a non-profit research and educational organization that promotes health care quality assessment and improvement strategies that address patients' needs and concerns as defined by patients. He is developing models of care that make the experience of illness and health care more humane. Phone: 617.667.8497; Email: mmassagl@bidmc.harvard.edu
John F. May, formerly with The Futures Group International, is now at The World Bank, AFTH2, J9-083, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433; Phone: 202.458.7797; Fax: 202.473.8216; Email: jmay@worldbank.org
Audrey Singer joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, International Migration Policy Program in October. Phone: 202.939.2317; Email: asinger@ceip.org
Margaret (Peg) Young is now Chief of Demographic Statistics at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, having moved recently from Veterans Affairs. This is the position previously held by Mike Hoefer, who was promoted to Chief of Statistics for INS. Those needing help with INS statistics can reach her at 202.514.9090.
DEATHS
JULIAN SIMON 1933-1998
On Feb. 8 Julian Simon died of a heart attack. His passing marks the loss of one of the field's most controversial figures. He was well known for waging attacks on the conventional wisdom regarding population control policy and the interaction of population and the physical environment. Using a neoclassical economic paradigm, Julian argued that free markets were able to adjust for increasing populations far better than many prominent demographers and environmentalists would admit. He was optimistic that markets could find ways of using human talent to avoid the famines and environmental degradation often attributed to population growth. He enjoyed the role of iconoclast and often left his colleagues in a high state of agitation. Julian never wavered in the face of criticism and he put his money on the line in a famous series of wagers with his critics. I believe he always won his bets. PAA meetings will be less interesting without him. Submitted by V. Jeffery Evans, NICHD