Tjihe Hlotanj^uage^sociation oj America
ORGANIZED 1883 
INCORPORATED 1900

Officers for the year 1952
President: Albert  C. Baugh , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4 
First Vice President: Casimir  D. Zdanowicz , University of Wisconsin, Madi-

son 6
Second Vice President: Henry  W. Nordmeyer , University of Michigan, Ann 

Arbor
Executive Secretary: William  Riley  Parker , New Tor\ University, New York 3 
Treasurer: John  H. Fisher , A[ew Yor^ University, New York 3

Executive Council
For the term ending 31 Dec. 1952

Merritt  Y. Hughes , University of Wisconsin, Madison 6 
Kemp  Malone , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18, Md.

Ira  O. Wade , Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

For the term ending 31 Dec. 1953
Douglas  Bush , Harvard University, Cambridge 38. Mass.

Henry  Grattan  Doyle , George Washington University, Washington 6, D. C 
J. Milton  French , Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J.

For the term ending 31 Dec. 1954
Hayward  Keniston , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
H. W. Victor  Lange , Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Carl  F. Schreiber , Tale University, New Haven, Conn.

For the term ending 31 Dec. 1955
C. Grant  Loomis , University of California, Berkeley 4 

Justin  M. O’Brien , Columbia University, New York 27 
A. S. P. Woodhouse , University of Toronto, Toronto 5

Staff
Associate Secretary: C. Grant  Loomis , University of California 

Assistant Editor: Robert  E. Taylor , New Tor\ University;Research Assistant: 
Kenneth  W. Mildenberger ; Assistant to the Executive Secretary:

Donna  Rowell ; Assistant to the Treasurer: Ruth  Olson ; 
typists: Naomi  Taylor  and  Trudy  Railing

Trustees of Invested Funds
George  Henry  Nettleton , Tale University 

William  Albert  Nitze , University of Chicago 
Le Roy  Elwood  Kimball , New Tor\ University, Managing Trustee

The 1952 Meeting is scheduled to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, 
on 27, 28, and 29 December



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