Perkins, Prof. Henry F. - Member 1925; v.p. 1931; Pres., 1931-34; Director 1939-45 Personal: Prof. of Zoology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 1940-45; son of distinguished University of Vermont zoologist; Eugenical News, Advisory Board 1936 Source: AESM 1931; EN, May/June 1936; EN 1939-45; WWWIA; EN 1946 December p. 51 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Retherford, Robert D. - Pres. 1991-1993; Director 1989, 1990 Personal: East West Population Institute 1989-90; The East-West Institute was founded and is funded by Congress. It is an agency of the US Information Agency with a budget of $23,000,000. (see US Budget) Publications: 1991 "Birth Order and Intelligence - further tests of the confluence model", American Soc. Review 56(2): 141-158 w/ W. H. Sewell q.v.; 1988 "Intelligence and Family Size Reconsidered" w/ W. H. Sewell q.v., Social Biology, v. 35, 1-2; 1986 Recent Fertility Trends in the Pacific Islands; 1985 Comparison of Fertility Trends Estimated Alternatively from Birth Histories and Own Children; 1975 The Changing Sex Differential in Mortality Source: SB 1989-91; US Budget ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott, John Paul - Member 1956, 1974; Director 1959-63; v.p. 1964-65; 1966-71 (June) Personal: Bowling Green State University 1966-71 (Dept. of Psychology 1966-68); Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Division of Behavioral Studies 1959-65; Member, American Society of Human Genetics 1954 Publications: 1987 review essay "On Genetics and Criminal Behavior" (Crime and Human Nature, by Wilson and Herrnstein) in Social Biology, v. 34, 3-4; 1971 Social Control and Social Change (ed.), Chicago; 1969 "Biological basis of human warfare", in Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Social Sciences Chicago; 1972 Animal Behavior (rev. ed. 1972; 1st ed. 1958); 1968 Early Experience and the Organization of Behavior; 1965 Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog, Chicago Quotes: "Those who control the flow of energy control the basic power by which the behavior of other individuals can be directed. In our society access to energy is primarily regulated through money ... money ... is ... one of the most efficient agents of social control ever devised" Social Control and Social Change p. 224 Source: EQ 1956, 1959-68; SB 1969-71; Osborne list; Membership list, American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shapiro, Harry L. - Director 1947-52; v.p. 1953; Pres. 1956-63; Director 1964-73; Member 1974 Personal: b. 1902; 1990 obit in Current Biography, v. 51, March, p. 61; PhD (anthropology) Harvard 1926 (see Hooten q.v.); American Museum of Natural History 1926-73 (asst . curator to Curator of anthropology 1926-42; Curator of Anthropology 1942-68, following Clark Wissler q.v. of the AES Advisory Council, who trained Frederick Osborn q.v.; Shapiro is one of the people Osborn would have talked to about the Pioneer Fund sponsored Hall Of Human Biology and Evolution); Univ. of Hawaii, Prof., Physical anthropology (1930-35); Columbia Univ., Prof., anthropology 1943-; Member, American Society of Human Genetics 1954; Eugenics Research Association; biological anthropology Publications: 1976 Peking Man.; 1971"Strange Unfinished Saga of Peking Man" , Nature Hist. 80:8-10, 71; 1971 Man, Culture and Society., London; 1960 The Jewish People: a biological history., UNESCO; 1960 The Race Question in Modern Science. 1960; 1939 Migration and Environment: a study of the physical characteristics of the Japanese immigrants to Hawaii and the effects of environment on their descendants., w/ F. S. Hulse q.v., Oxford Univ. Press; 1933 The Physical Characteristics of the Ortong Javanese. 1933 Quotes: 1933 "... it is conceivable, even inevitable, in the future society of which man will be a part that the population will be mated as carefully as the animal breeder now controls his stock" (from Natural History, Nov-Dec. 1933 quoted in Current Biography 1952 "Harry Shapiro" Source: EN 1947-53; EQ 1956-68; SB 1969-73; Membership list, American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954; Osborne list; AMWS 14th ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherrod, Lonnie R. - Treasurer 1984-90 Personal: Social Science Research Council, 605 Third Ave., NY, NY 10158 Publications: 1986 Human Development and the Life Course: multidisciplinary perspectives. sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Council w/ Aage B. Sorensen and Franz Weiner, pub. L. Erlbaum Associates; 1981 Infant Social Cognition: Empirical Theoretical Considerations Source: SB 1984-90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slade, Valeda - Secretary 1989, 1990 Personal: 1990 Population Council, One Dag Hammarskold Place, NY, NY 10017; 1986 Membership Chairman of SSSB Publications: 1986 editor, Studies in Family Planning Source: SB 1989, 1990; Population Council Annual Report p. 57 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snyder, Prof. Laurence H. - Director 1947-49; v.p. 1950-52; Director 1953 Personal; b. 1901; Dean of the Graduate College, Univ. of Oklahoma 1947-53; American Society of Human Genetics v.p. 1948, 1949, Pres. 1950) Publications: Blood Groups. 1973 Minneapolis, Burgess (Basic Concepts in Anthropology); Computer Applications in Genetics: proceedings of a Congress dedicated to L. H. Snyder. 1969 sponsored by University of Hawaii and NIH Division of Research grants, Genetics Study Section, published by the Univ. of Hawaii Press; The Principles of Heredity. 1957 5th Ed (1st Ed 1935); Genetics, Medicine and Man. 1947 by H. J. Muller w/ L. H. Snyder (Messenger Lectures on the Evolution of Civilization, Cornell University 1945); Medical Genetics: a series of lectures presented to the medical schools of Duke University, Wake Forest College, and the University of North Carolina. 1941 Duke University Press; "Strange Sensations", Scientific American, July 1936; "Whose Baby", Scientific American, April 1934; Blood Groupings in Relation to Clinical and Legal Medicine. 1929 Williams and Wilkins Source: EN 1947-53; AJHG, 1952, v. 4, #4 (Historical note) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teitelbaum, Michael S. - Director 1972-79, 1981-83; Pres. 1985-90; Director 1992-1993 Personal: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 1992- 1993; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1981-83; Ford Foundation 1970-1982 (University of Oxford 1976-79; Ford Foundation 1973-75; Princeton University 1972-73); headed undisclosed, undebated US population policy development in the US Congress, according to his own account in The International Encyclopedia of Population. "United States" while at the Ford Foundation, see also Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation, John Caldwell, 1986, p. 78-80 Publications: 1992 "The population threat: international aspects of overpopulation", Foreign Affairs, v. 71, #5, Winter 1992-93 (article "draws on contributions by members of the Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Population and US Policy", p. 63, 1992-93, Foreign Affairs, v. 71, #5); 1990 "New polemics on immigration" (open door policy questioned), Journal of Commerce and Commercial, v. 386, Oct. 18, p. 14A; 1989 Population , Resources and the Environment: The Interplay of Science Ideology and Intellectual Traditions, Cambridge; 1985 The Fear of Population Decline w/ Jay M. Winter; 1984 The British Fertility Decline: demographic transition in the crucible of the industrial revolution, Princeton Univ. Press; 1976 Sex Differences: social and biological perspectives. 1976 (ed.) Anchor Press; 1972 "Factors associated with the sex ratio in human populations" in The Structure of Human Populations 1972 (eds.) G. A. Harrison (ES, q.v.) and A. J. Boyce (ES) Source: SB 1972-79, 1981-83, 1985-90, 1992-1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whitney, Leon F. - Executive Secretary 1925-1932; Director 1932 Source: AESM 1925-32; Eugenics, Feb., 1929 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. MEMBERS ACTIVITIES Source of members' names: names of officers and directors were listed in the Eugenical News (EN + date), Eugenics Quarterly (EQ + date) and Social Biology (SB + date) for the years from 1939-1994 and in "Brief History of the American Eugenics Society", Eugenical News, December 1946, vol. 31 #4, p. 49 ff for the years from 1922-1940 (EN 1946, December) and in Minutes of the American Eugenics Society 1925-39 deposited in the American Philosophical Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (AESM + date); a list of members as of 1925 is deposited in the American Philosophical Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1925 list); a list of members of the Advisory Council appeared in Eugenics, Feb., 1929 (Eugenics, Feb. 1929); a list of members appeared in the Eugenics Quarterly 1956 (EQ 1956); Frederick Osborn wrote to congratulate new members as they joined. the Society and these letters, with other letters to and from members, are deposited in the American Philosophical Society Library's American Eugenics Society collection (AESC + date); Richard Osborne, editor of Social Biology, prepared a list of members for the officers and directors of the Society in 1974 (Osborne list); Barry Mehler compiled a table of the terms served by members of the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors from 1923 to 1940 which he published in his PhD thesis, A History of the American Eugenics Society 1921-1940, UMI Dissertation Services, 1988 (Mehler + page number); other sources as specified.