B. OFFICERS
Allen, Dr. Gordon - Director 1954-75, 1980-85; v.p. 1972-75; Member 1986
Personal:
b. 1919; d. between 1986-1989; MD Columbia 1951; National Institute of
Health (National Institute of Mental Health, research geneticist 1952-76;
medical statistician 1976; division of grants for intramural research
1952-); New York State Psychiatric Institute; Member, American Society of
Human Genetics 1954, 1986; AAAS; International Society Twin Studies
(Pres. 1977-80)
Publications:
1977 Twin Research. Proc. of Second International Congress on twin
studies, Washington, DC (associate editor), 3 Vol. (New York, Liss); 1965
"Random and non random inbreeding" Eugenics Quarterly 12: 181-198;
"Statement of the eugenic position" 1961, Eugenics Quarterly, 8: 181-84;
"Frequency and types of mental retardation" w/ F. J. Kallmann q.v.,
American Journal of Human Genetics 1955, 7, 15-20; biology of twins
Source: EQ 1954-68; SB 1969-75, 1980-85; AMWS 12th Ed.; Membership list,
American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954; Osborne list; AMWS 1986
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Armstrong, Lillian - Corresponding Secretary 1928, 1929
Source: AESM 1928; Eugenics, Feb., 1929
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Andrews, George Reid - Exec. Secretary 1935
Source: AESM 1935
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Bajema, Carl Jay - Secretary 1969-72; Member 1974
Personal:
b. 1937; Grand Valley State College, Michigan 1969-76; Senior Population
Council Research Fellow in Demography and Population Genetics 1966-67;
Population Research and Training Center, University of Chicago 1967;
Harvard Center for Population Studies 1967; biological anthropology
Publications:
1991 "Garrett J. Hardin (q.v.): Ecologist, educator, ethicist, and
environmentalist - a biographical note" Pop. Environ. 12(3):193-212; 1991
article on Garrett Hardin in Buzzworm, Jan./Feb; 1984 Evolution by
Sexual Selection Theory: prior to 1900. (Ed.) New York; 1983 Natural
Selection Theory: from the Greeks to the quantitative measurements of the
biometricians. 1983 (Ed.) Stroudsburg, PA, Hutchinson Ross; Eugenics:
then and now. 1976 (Ed.) Stroudsburg, PA, Hutchinson Ross; Natural
Selection in Human Populations: the measurement of ongoing genetic
evolution in contemporary societies. 1971 New York, Wiley; 1967 "Human
Population Genetics and Demography: a selected bibliography", Eugenics
Quarterly p. 205; "Relation of fertility to educational attainment in a
Kalamazoo public school population" 1966 Eugenics Quarterly 13:306-15;
"Estimation of the direction and intensity of natural selection in
relation to human intelligence by means of the intrinsic rate of natural
increase" 1963 Eugenics Quarterly 10:175-87; used by Jensen
Background:
In 1969 Arthur Jensen published an article which argued that
African-Americans have a genetically based intelligence deficiency which
makes it useless to attempt to improve their average academic achievement
to white levels. ("How much can we boost IQ and scholastic achievement"
1969, Harvard Educational Review, vol. 39, pp. 1-123) Controversy has
raged ever since. (see The Mismeasurement of Man. by Stephen Gould and
Not In Our Genes. by Richard Lewontin)
From the point of view of this list, the interesting thing
is that Jensen relied on eugenicists at all key points in his argument.
And, furthermore, he was most effectively attacked and refuted by other
eugenicists - namely, Richard Lewontin q.v. and L. S. Hearnshaw q.v. of
the English Eugenics Society (Cyril Burt: psychologist. 1979). Thus,
much of the debate was, and still is, framed by the eugenic societies.
Jensen continues to advance his point of view in the racist, eugenicist
magazine, Mankind Quarterly. His later work uses articles published by
C. J. Bajema. (see W.P. Draper)
Source: EQ 1967 p. 205; SB 1969-76; Jensen's bibliographies; Osborne
list; AMWS, 14th ed.
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Belknap, Chauncy - Director 1937-41; Secretary 1942-45; Treasurer 1946;
Secretary/ Treasurer 1947-51; Treasurer 1952-59; Director 1960-61;
Member, 1974
Personal:
b. 1891; Legal secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes 1915-16; Member,
Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler 1920-1980; Frederick Osborn's personal
lawyer; Member: American Law Institute, NY (Pres., 1960), Bar
Association, NYC (Pres. 1957)
Source: AESM, April 1936; EN 1940-53; EQ 1954-61; WWWIA; Osborne list;
Mehler, p. 313
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Bertheau, Rudolf C. - Secretary 1936-41; Editorial Committee, Eugenical
News 1939-41
Source: AESM 1936-39; EN 1939-41
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Bigelow, Prof. Maurice A.- Member 1925; Pres., 1940-45; Director 1946;
Acting Executive Secretary 1948-51; Secretary 1952; Hon. Secretary 1953
Personal:
b. 1872, Milford Ohio; d. Jan. 6, 1955; Teachers College, Columbia
University 1899-1955 (instructor in biology 1899-1903, adj. prof.
1903-07, Prof. 1907-39, Prof. Emeritus 1939-); Ohio Wesleyan, BS 1894;
lived Croton on the Hudson; Fellow, AAAS; Founder and Exec., American
Nature Study Society 1908-10; American Social Hygiene Assn (Chmn. of
Exec. Cttee 1925-39, Chmn., National Education Cttee 1940-41 and 1943-45,
Secretary 1942); educational consultant, US Public Health Service 1939-45
Editorial Cttee, Eugenical News 1940-52 (managing editor 1944-45)
Publications:
1937 Love and Marriage: Foundations of Social Health. (ed.) w/ H. Judy
Bond q.v.), Thomas Walton Galloway, National Health Series; Adolescence:
educational and hygienic problems. 1924 National Health Series; Health
for Everyday. 1924 w/ Jean Broadhurst, New York; Sex Education: A Series
of Lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to everyday life.
1916; Introduction to Biology. 1913; Applied Biology 1911; Teaching of
Zoology in Secondary Schools. 1904
Quote:
1917 Sex Education and Eugenics: "Some of the chief facts of eugenics
should be a part of every well organized scheme of sex instruction, and
taught through biology" from "The Educational Attack on the Problems of
Social Hygiene", EN 1917
Source: 1925 list; WWWIA; EN 1917, 1940-53; EQ 1954
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Blizard, David - Secretary/ Treasurer 1982-83
Source: SB 1982-83
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Burch, Guy Irving - sec. 1931-34; Director 1931-32, 1935-46
Personal:
Washington, DC; Founder/Director, Population Reference Bureau 1946 (see
R. Cook); charter member, Population Association of America; Mem:
Coalition of Patriotic Societies till 1942 when it was indicted for
pro-Nazi sedition in DC Federal Court; lobbyist for National Committee on
Federal Legislation for Birth Control; Lasker award in planned parenthood
1952 (ARTW, Jan. 1952); The United Nations, the Washington Post and other
organizations and papers use the Population Reference Bureau as an
impartial source on population matters. There is a picture of Guy Irving
Burch in the PRB in Washington, D.C.
Publications:
1945 Population Roads to Peace or War. 1945, reissued as Human Breeding
and Survival. 1947 (foreword by Prof. Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia
University); "The Past and Future Growth of World Population -- A Long
Range View" from the Population Bulletin #1 of the Population Reference
Bureau, published by United Nations, Department of Social Affairs,
Population Division; editor, Population Bulletin from Population
Reference Bureau;
Quotes:
--Racism:
Burch supported Margaret Sanger and birth control because
"I have long worked .... to prevent the American people from being
replaced by alien or Negro stock, whether it be by immigration or by
overly high birth rates among others in this country" (quoted in Chase p.
367)
--Eugenics and National Security:
"... if we are willing to keep the focus on undesirable
parentage ... then sterilization can play a rather large part in the
attainment of the peace goals" (from Human Breeding and Survival. 1947
quoted in Chase p. 369)
--Peace Through (White) Trash Disposal:
" What are the social bases on which sterilization might be
indicated in the program to attain peace goals ... Looking toward a
possibly economic test, are persons who are on relief to be encouraged to
reproduce while they are on relief as they have been? ... Are their
children more likely to be social burdens than are the children of those
who are in better control of their own environment? ... Is it reasonable
to ask other citizens to pay more in order that relief recipients may
reproduce? Is it reasonable to impose the heavier tax burden when that
additional pressure on many tax payers will be just enough to prevent
their own reproduction?" (from Human Breeding and Survival. p. 97 quoted
in Chase p. 369) According to Chase, Burch means that the whites who lost
their jobs in the Great Depression should be sterilized. Will Clinton
make similar proposals?
Source: AESM 1931, 1932; EN 1940-46; Chase; personal communication from
E. Sobo; Mehler, p. 317
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Campbell, C. G. - Pres. 1931; (Member, Eugenics Research Association 1938)
Personal:
1935 resigned March 1931 when Society decided to move to
New York; President Eugenics Research Association 1935
Quotes:
--Support for Nazi Policies as Eugenics:
1935 "Adolf Hitler ... guided by the nation's
anthropologists, eugenists and social philosophers, has been able to
construct a comprehensive racial policy of population development and
improvement ... it sets a pattern ... these ideas have met stout
opposition in the Rousseauian social philosophy ... which bases ... its
whole social and political theory upon the patent fallacy of human
equality ... racial consanguinity occurs only through edogamous mating or
interbreeding within racial stock ... conditions under which racial
groups of distinctly superior hereditary qualities ... have emerged" (The
New York Times, August 29, 1935)
--Aryans and Jews:
"the German Press quoted Dr. Campbell by the yard. Abroad
excited Jewish editors tried to dig up something against him ...
Socialite Campbell's boldest dicta: `The difference between the Jew and
the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that between black and white'" (Time,
Sept. 9, 1935, v. 26, #11, p. 21)
Source: AESM 1931; ERA list 1938; The New York Times, August 29, 1935
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Crampton, Prof. Henry E. - Secretary/Treas. 1922-25; co-incorporator,
American Eugenics Society 1926; Director 1926-27; Advisory Council
1926-35
Personal:
Barnard Univ. 1900-1941
Source: AESM 1926; Mehler p. 327
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Davenport, C. B. - founding cttee, 1921; Vice Chairman, Eugenics Cttee
of the United States 1923-26; v.p. 1926; Director 1926-30; Advisory
Council 1931-35
Personal:
AAAS, v.p.; American Zoological Soc. (Pres.); Eugenics Research
Association (Hon. Pres. 1937); Galton Society (Pres. 1918-1930);
International Federation of Eugenical Organizations (Pres. 1927-32);
Third International Congress of Eugenics (Pres.)
Davenport is a very significant figure in eugenics. But he mainly worked
through the Eugenics Research Association, The Eugenics Record Office and
the IFEO. This history is well covered in most eugenics histories. The
point I am trying to make is that the kinds of things Davenport did in
the Thirties continue to be done by the American Eugenics Society.
Histories that cover Davenport include In the Name of Eugenics, Kevles;
The Legacy of Malthus, Chase, Not In Our Genes, Lewontin; The
Mismeasurement of Man, Gould; The Nazi Connection, Kuhl)
Publications:
Eugenical News, Editorial Cttee (1921-1938); 1928 "Crime, heredity and
environment", Journal of Heredity, v. 19, p. 307; 1911 Heredity in
Relation to Eugenics, Holt, New York
Source: AESM 1926; Mehler p. 329-30
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Dobzhansky, Theodosius - Director 1964-73; Chairman of the Board 1969-75
Personal:
b. 1900; Dept of Genetics, University of California at Davis 1971, 1974;
Rockefeller University 1969-71; Rockefeller Institute 1964-68; Columbia
University 1954; Member, American Society of Human Genetics 1954
Publications:
1983 Human Culture: a moment in evolution; 1977 Humankind: a product of
evolutionary transcendence. w/ F. J. Ayala, Johannesburg, Witwatersrand
University Press for Institute for the Study of Man in Africa (1977
Raymond Dart Lecture); 1977 Evolution w/ F. J. Ayala, L. Stebbins, J.
Valentine; 1976 Man and the Biological Revolution. (Toronto, York
University); Studies in the Philosophy of Biology. 1974 w/ F. J. Ayala,
Berkeley, Univ. of California Press; Genetic Diversity and Human
Equality. 1973 New York, Basic Books; Genetics of the Evolutionary
Process 1970 New York, Columbia University Press; The Genetic Effects of
Radiation. 1968 w/ Isaac Asimov, US Atomic Energy Commission; The Biology
of Ultimate Concern 1967 New York, New American Library; Evolutionary
Biology. 1967; Heredity and the Nature of Man. 1964 New York, Harcourt
Brace; "Evolutionary and population genetics" 1963 Science, vol. 142:
1121-1135; 1963 "Genetics of race equality", Eugenics Quarterly;
Hereditie, Race and Societe par L. C. Dunn and Th. Dobzhansky Bruxelles
1964; Mankind Evolving. 1962 New Haven, Yale Univ. Press; "Genetics and
Equality" 1962 Science, vol. 137:112-15; "The Present Evolution of Man",
Scientific American, Sept. 1960; "Human Nature as a Product of
Evolution", 1959 in New Knowledge in Human Values, Abraham Maslow,
Harper; Radiation, Genes and Man. 1959 w/ Bruce Wallace, New York, Holt;
The Biological Basis of Human Freedom. New York, Columbia Univ. Press
1956; "On Methods of Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology", 1957
American Scientist, v. 45; "What is an adaptive trait" 1956 American
Naturalist vol. 90: 337-47; Evolution, Genetics, and Man. 1955 New York,
Wiley; "A review of some fundamental concepts and problems of population
genetics" 1955 in Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.
20: 1-15; "Strangler Trees", Scientific American, Jan. 1954; "Genetics",
Scientific American, Sept. 1950; "The Genetic Basis of Evolution",
Scientific American, Jan. 1950; Heredity, Race and Society. 1947 w/ L.C.
Dunn, New York, Penguin; Genetics and the Origin of Species. 1937 (2nd
edition rev. 1941, 3rd edition 1951) New York, Columbia;
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Source: SB 1969-72, 1974-75; Membership list, American Society of Human
Genetics, AJHG 1954; Osborne list
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Duncan, Otis Dudley - Director 1967-72; v.p. 1969-72; Member 1974
Personal:
b. 1921; Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson 1974; Dept. of
Sociology, University of Michigan 1967-72; used by Jensen
Publications:
1967 The American Occupational Structure; 1965 "Marital Fertility and
size of family of origin", Demography, vol. 2:24-49; 1965 "Farm
background and differential fertility", Demography, vol. 2:240-49; 1965
(1961) Occupations and Social Status
Source: EQ 1967-68; SB 1969-72 (March); Osborne list
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Eckland, Bruce K. - Pres. 1972-75; Director 1968-82
Personal:
1982-1968 Dept. of Sociology, University of North Carolina
Publications:
1967 "Genetics and Sociology: a reconsideration", American Sociological
Review, vol. 32:173-94; 1965 "Academic ability, higher education and
occupational mobility", American Sociological Review, vol. 30:735-46;
used by Jensen
Source: EQ 1968; SB 1969-82; Osborne list
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Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Prof. L. - Director 1971-72; Secretary 1972-73;
Director 1973-75; Pres. 1976-78; Director 1979-84, 1992-1993
Personal:
1992 New York State Psychiatric Institute (1960-(1992) Director, Division
of Developmental Behavioral Studies 1978- (1990)); an associate of
Kallmann q.v. (which shows that Kallmann's influence continues in the
'70's and 80's); Columbia University, Prof. of Psychiatry and Genetics
1978-(1990)
Publications:
1979 Life Span Research on the Prediction of Psychopathology. ,(ed.) w/
Nancy Miller, Proc. of a conference in New York sponsored by the Society
for the Study of Social Biology, Society for Life History Research in
Psychopathology, and Center for Studies of Mental Health in Aging at NIH;
Differential Reproduction in Individuals with Mental and Physical
Disorders. 1971 (ed. w/ Irving Gottesman q.v.) Proc. of a conference
sponsored by the American Eugenics Society and the Bio Medical Division
of the Population Council held at Rockefeller University 1970, published
for the American Eugenics Society by University of Chicago Press;
Genetics and Mental Disorders. 1971 (ed.) International Arts and Sciences
Press, White Plains, NY; "Genetics and intelligence: a review" 1963 w/ L.
Jarvik, Science 142:1477-79 (see also Science 146:80); "Selection and
schizophrenia" 1966 American Naturalist 100:651-66; "Mating and Fertility
Trends in Schizophrenia" in Expanding Goals of Genetics in Psychiatry.
1962 by F. J. Kallmann q.v.
Source: SB 1971, 1972 (December), 1973-84, 1992-1993; Osborne list; AMWS
1989-90
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Fairchild, Prof. Henry Pratt - sec./treas. 1926-28; v. p. 1926-28; Pres.,
1929-31; Director 1926-1932, 1935, 1939-51
Personal:
b. 1880; d. 1956; Marxist; PhD; Yale (sociology 1910-12; Science of
Society 1912-18); assoc. director, personnel department, War Camp. Comm.
Service 1918-19; New York University (Bureau of Community Service and
Research, director 1919-24; Prof. of Sociology 1924-51; Chmn., Dept. of
Sociology in graduate school 1938-45); National Research Council and
special investigator on immigration for the Dept. of Labor 1923;
Population Association of America (First Pres. 1921-25); Town Hall Club
(Pres. 1934-40); American Sociol. Society (Pres. 1936); Planned
Parenthood of America Federation (a.k.a. Birth Control Federation of
America till 1942; Bd. Dirs. 1932, v.p. 1939-48, after Fairchild joined
the BCFA they formed a Committee (1935) on Birth Control and Eugenics;
Fairchild asked the Eugenic Society for permission to join the BCFA);
American-Soviet Friendship Club (National Council)
Publications:
1947 Race and Nationality as Factors in American Life; Immigration. 1913;
The Melting Pot Mistake 1926; The Alien in Our Midst. 1930 (contrib. w/
Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard, Harry H. Laughlin, Charles Davenport,
Paul Popenoe, Henry Fairfield Osborn, all of the American Eugenics
Society); General Sociology. 1934; Birth Control Review, Consulting
Editor 1939; People: The Quantity and Quality of Population. 1939; gave
keynote speech on "Race Building in a Democracy" to Birth Control
Federation of America (BCFA) and the National Committee on Planned
Parenthood during 1940 annual meeting of BCFA; Economics for the
Millions. 1940 ("the book is really a critique of our capitalist economy
from a Marxist point of view" from the Book Review Digest. 1940 p. 291
quoting Books. March 17, 1940 p. 19);
Background:
--Immigration:
The Alien in Our Midst supported the Johnson Act, the act which, for the
first time in American history, set immigration quotas.
"The Johnson Act quotas were kept inviolate until Pearl Harbor Day, 1941.
At least nine million human beings of what Galton and Pearson called
degenerate stock, two thirds of them the Jews Dr. Stoddard had
malignantly mislabeled as Central Asiatics posing as Semitic Hebrews,
continued to be denied sanctuary at our gates. They were all ultimately
herded into Nordic Rassenhygiene camps, where the race biologists in
charge made certain that they ceased to multiply. And ceased to be."
(Chase p. 360, commenting on The Alien in Our Midst)
--Marxism and eugenics by Engels:
"The whole Darwinist teaching of the struggle for existence is simply a
transference from society to living nature of Hobbes' doctrine of bellum
omnium contra omnes and of the bourgeois doctrine of competition together
with Malthus' theory of population. When this conjurer's trick has been
performed ... the same theories are transferred back again from organic
nature into history and it is now claimed that their validity as eternal
laws of human society has been proved. The puerility of this proceeding
is so obvious that not a word need be said about it" letter to P. L.
Lavrov, 12-17 November 1875 cited in Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology
and Human Nature. 1984 by R. C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon Kamin,
New York, Pantheon, p. 309
--Planned Parenthood and Race Building in 1940:
"The Annual Meeting [1940]
"The ANNUAL MEETING of the Birth Control Federation of
America ... will be in effect a three day forum on Race Building in a
Democracy. It will also mark the opening of the 1940 campaign of the
Federation under the auspices of a National Committee for Planned
Parenthood. ... The program includes the presentation of papers showing
the relationship of birth control to other efforts to improve the quality
of people in the United States....
"RACE BUILDING IN A DEMOCRACY: A SYMPOSIUM
"Seven vital phases of this subject, each of major
importance, will be presented on Tuesday afternoon, January 23rd.
Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild ... will preside. Mrs. Louis deB. Moore
is in charge of arrangements for this part of the meeting...
LUNCHEON AND OPENING OF CAMPAIGN
The luncheon on Wednesday, January 24th, will be an
outstanding event of the ANNUAL MEETING. ... [at this luncheon] Professor
Henry Pratt Fairchild will discuss further the subject of "Race Building
in a Democracy" and Dr. Woodbridge E. Morris will speak on the subject of
"A National Program for the United States" The meeting will mark the
opening of the Federation's 1940 financial campaign...
"Professor Fairchild, summarizing the addresses of the Symposium
presented January 23rd, will evaluate the significance of a birth control
program in relation to other important social efforts to improve the
general welfare.
"Dr. Morris, speaking on the national program, will discuss how the
Federation is prepared to assist in the application of the principles of
planned parenthood to the broad program of Race Building....
"CAMPAIGN NEWS
"... A new development of the [Birth Control Federation of America]
campaign this year ... is the effort now under way to enlarge the
Citizens Committee into a National Committee for Planned Parenthood. ...
everything promises an auspicious public launching of the effort [to
enlarge the Citizens Committee into a National Committee for Planned
Parenthood] at the annual luncheon to be held at the Hotel Roosevelt,
Wednesday, January 24th" [the luncheon where Professor Fairchild and Dr.
Morris were to speak on race building and planned parenthood] (Birth
Control Review, January 1940, pp. 39-40)
Source: AESM 1926, 1927, 1929, 1935; Eugenics, Feb., 1929; EN 1939-51; F.
O. Hist; Chase; Birth Control Review 1940 #3; BCR, Nov. 1939
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Fisher, Prof. Irving - Society Founder 1922; Pres., 1922-26; v.p. 1929;
Director 1926-1932, 1939-40; Member 1946
Personal:
1867-1947; Economist who worked on capital and monetary theory; Yale
University (BA 1888, PhD 1891, taught mathematics 1892-95, taught
political economy and economics 1895-1935) ; 1910 card file system made
him rich; developed idea of 'commodity dollar' 1912-35; Chmn., Board of
Scientific Directors of Eugenics Record Office; Pres. of Eugenics
Research Assn. 1920; representative to International Federation of
Eugenic Organizations (elected 1922 Brussels); League of Nations;
cofounder, Remington Rand 1926
Publications:
1932 Booms and Depressions; The Theory of Interest. 1930; Mathematical
Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices; The Nature of Capital
and Income. 1906; The Purchasing Power of Money. 1911; The Making of
Index Numbers. 1922
Background:
1924 When the American Eugenics Society began it was called the Committee
on Eugenics of the United States. Irving Fisher wrote to Katherine Davis
q.v. that the purpose of the Committee was to "stem the tide of
threatened race degeneracy" and to protect the United States against
"indiscriminate immigration, criminal degenerates, and race suicide"
(quoted in Mehler, Sources in the Study of Eugenics, Mendel Newsletter,
Nov., 1978)
Source: AESM 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932; EN 1920, 1934, 1940; F. O. Hist.; EN
1946 December p. 50, 51; Encyclopedia Britannica 15th edition 1987
"Irving Fisher"
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Folsom, Prof. Joseph K. - Director 1939-54; v. p. 1947-49; Member 1956
Personal:
b. 1893; Professor of Sociology, Vassar College 1939-45, 1954
Publications:
Plan for Marriage: an intelligent approach to marriage and parenthood.
proposed by members of the staff of Vassar College. An extracurricular
series of lectures, all the authors are associates of Vassar either as
regular faculty or the summer Institute of Euthenics (see chapter by J.
K. Folsom "Finding a mate in modern society")
Source: EN 1940-1953; EQ 1954, 1956
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Fuller, John Langworthy - Member 1974; Director 1978-80; Pres., 1982-83
Personal:
b. 1910; State University of New York, Binghamton 1974, 1978-1980
Publications:
1987 book review of Progress or Catastrophe: The Nature of Biological
Science and Its Impact on Human Society by Glass, Social Biology, v. 34,
1-2; 1986 Perspectives in Behavior Genetics. (Ed.) w/ Edward Simmel) L.
Erlbaum Assoc.; "The Genetics of Alcohol Consumption in Animals" 1985
Social Biology, v. 32, 3-4; Behavior Genetics: principles and
applications 1983 Ed w/ Edward Simmel) L. Erlbaum Assoc.; Book review in
Social Biology, 1983, v. 30, 3 of Biology and the Social Sciences: An
Emerging Evolution by Wiegele; Foundations of Behavior Genetics. 1978 w/
Robert Thompson, Mosby; Journal of Heredity, 65, 33, 1974; Genetics and
the Social Behavior of the Dog. 1965 w/ John Paul Scott q.v. Univ. of
Chicago Press; "Suggestions from Animal Studies for Human behavior" 1965
in Methods and Goals in Human Behavior Genetics. (ed. Vandenberg);
Motivation: a biological perspective. 1962 Random House; Behavior
Genetics. 1960 w/ Robert Thompson, Wiley; Nature and Nurture: a modern
synthesis. 1954 Doubleday; "Heredity and Learning in Infrahuman Mammals"
Eugenics Quarterly 1 (1) 1954
Source: SB 1978-83; Osborne list; SCI
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Goodsell, Willystine - Director 1931, 1932, 1939-46; v.p. 1937
Personal:
1939-41 assoc. prof. of education, Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York, NY; (retired 1942)
Source: AESM 1931, 1932, 1937; EN 1939-46
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Gottesman, Prof. Irving I. - 1969-75; v.p. 1976-81
Personal:
b. 1930; PhD Univ. Minnesota 1960; Institute of Psychiatry, London
1963-64; Univ. of North Carolina (assoc. prof. of psychiatric genetics
1964-66); University of Minnesota (Prof. Dept. of Psychology 1966-80);
Washington University, St. Louis (Prof., Dept. of Psychiatry 1980-85);
Univ. of Virginia (Prof. of Psychology 1985-); NIMH (Cons. 1975-79, 1992;
NIMH National Plan for Schizophrenia 1988-89); Commission on Huntington's
Disease (Pres., 1977); Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral
Sciences 1987-88; Minnesota Human Genetics League (v.p. 1967-71);
Behavioral Genetics Association (Pres. 1976-77); American Society of
Human Genetics, (editorial board 1967-72); Society for Research in
Psychopathology (Pres. 1992); 1992 "Divided Selves", Discover, v. 13, p.
38, Sept. (about Gottesman)
Publications:
1991 Schizophrenia Genesis: the origins of madness. w/ Dorothea Wolfgram,
New York, Freeman ("For anyone who has ever had an interest in
understanding schizophrenia {this} is the definitive book" from
publisher's blurb by fellow eugenics society member, L.
Erlenmeyer-Kimling, in Scientific American, August 1991, p. 12, reviewed
by Philip Morrison, Scientific American, v. 264, March, 1991, p. 122);
Demography and Schizophrenia. 1989; "Premorbid psychometric indicators of
the gene for Huntington's disease", J. Consult. Clin. Psychiatry
45:1011-22; Schizophrenia: the epigenetic puzzle. 1982 w/ James Shields
(ES), Cambridge University Press ("what behavioral genetics tells us
about the origins of schizophrenia" from review in Social Biology 1983 p.
341); Schizophrenia and genetics: a twin study vantage point. 1972 w/
James Shields (ES) New York, Academic Press; Man, Mind and Heredity:
selected papers of Eliot Slater (ES) on psychiatry and genetics. 1971
(Ed w/ James Shields (ES)) Johns Hopkins Press; Differential Reproduction
in individuals with mental and physical disorders. 1970 (Ed w/ L.
Erlenmeyer-Kimling q.v.) from Conference sponsored by American Eugenics
Society and Bio Medical Division of the Population Council held at
Rockefeller University 1970, pub. by the Univ. of Chicago Press for the
American Eugenics Society; "Schizophrenia in twins: 16 years consecutive
admissions to a psychiatric clinic." 1966 Diseases of the Nervous System
(Supplement) 27(7):11-19 w/ James Shields (ES); "Personality and Natural
Selection" 1965 in Methods and Goals in Human Behavior Genetics. (Ed
Vandenberg); "Heritability of Personality: a demonstration" 1963
Psychological Monographs 77(9):1-20
Source: SB 1969-81; Osborne list
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Grant, Madison - co-incorporator, American Eugenics Society Inc., 1926;
Director 1929
Personal:
Yale 1887; law degree Columbia 1890; one of founders of New York
Zoological Society, the Bronx Zoo (Pres. after H. F. Osborn q.v.,
succeeded by H. F. Osborn Jr.), Save the Redwoods League; Treasurer:
Second (1921) and Third (1932) Eugenics Congress; Pres: Eugenics Research
Assn., Bronx Parkway Comm.; Immigration Restriction League; Charter
Fellow, Galton Society; obit NY Times May 31 1937
Publications:
1936 Eugenical News, Advisory Board; 1916 The Passing of the Great Race.
(preface by H. F. Osborn q.v., ideas of Count Gobineau on Aryan
supremacy); wrote preface to The Rising Tide of Color Against White World
Supremacy.; contributed to The Alien in Our Midst. or "Selling Our
Birthright for a Mess of Pottage" 1930 w/ others, pub. by Galton
Publishing Co. Inc. (see H. P. Fairchild q.v.)
Quotes from The Passing of the Great Race
--Race and Immigration:
"... the New England manufacturer imported the Irish ... the immigrant
laborers are now breeding out their masters and killing by filth and
crowding as effectively as the sword ... Associated with this advance of
democracy and the transfer of power from the higher to the lower races,
we find the spread of socialism and the recrudescence of obsolete
religious forms" (from The Passing of the Great Race. quoted in Chase p.
167)
--Religion, Philanthropy and Eugenics:
"... Indiscriminate efforts to preserve babies among the lower classes
often results in serious injury to the race ... Mistaken regard for what
are believed to be divine laws and sentimental belief in the sanctity of
human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and
the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the
community" (from The Passing of the Great Race. quoted in Chase p. 171)
--Eugenics and the Jews:
"... the Polish Jew, whose dwarf stature, peculiar mentality and ruthless
concentration on self interest are being engrafted upon the stock of the
nation." (from The Passing of the Great Race. quoted in Chase p. 172)
--The real goals of sterilization:
sterilization could "... be applied to an ever widening circle of social
discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased and the
insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings
rather than defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types"
(from The Passing of the Great Race. quoted in Chase p. 172)
Source: Eugenics, Feb., 1929; WWWIA; The Legacy of Malthus. Chase; F. O.
Hist.; EN, May/June 1936
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Guttmacher, Dr. Alan F. - Director 1955; v.p. 1956-63; Director 1964-66
MD; d. March 18, 1974; President, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America 1962-1974; Mount Sinai New York 1952-66 (Director of Obstetrics
1952-62; Director Emeritus 1962-); Association for the Study of Abortion;
Chmn., Lasker Committee 1961; Founder, American Association of Planned
Parenthood Physicians 1963; International Planned Parenthood Federation
(Management and Planning Committee (196263, 1964); Medical Committee,
(1961-62, Chmn., 1964-68); Regional representative, Western Hemisphere
(1962-63, 1964); Council 196162; consultant, IPPF medical publications
and IPPF newsletter when Dorothy Brush was editor 1952-56; Western
Hemisphere Regional Council 1955); in 1968 IPPF was assigned to assist
the government of Botswana in developing family planning following visits
by A. Guttmacher according to ARTW, Dec. 1968
Publications:
1973 Pregnancy, Birth and Family Planning; 1970 Understanding Sex; 1969
Birth Control and Love; 1967 The Case for Legalized Abortion, Diablo
Press, Berkeley; Babies by Choice or by Chance? 1956 w/ E. Mears (ES);
"Heredity Counseling" Eugenics Quarterly 1954 (Compare with arguments in
The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law. 1957 G. Williams (ES))
Quotes:
--Conception:
1961
"Fertilization has then taken place; a baby has been
conceived" Birth Control and Love: The Complete Guide to Contraception
and Fertility, 1961, MacMillan, p. 12 quoted in Abortion, Krason
1968
"My feeling is that the fetus, particularly during its
early intrauterine life, is merely a group of specialized cells that do
not differ materially from other cells" 1968 Symposium: Law, Morality and
Abortion, 22 Rutgers Law Review, 436, quoted in Abortion, Krason
Source: EQ 1956-66; Annual Report, IPPF 1959-61, 1962-62, 1964, 1974
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