Under the bylaws pursuant to Article VIII, Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the constitution, the executive director invites all members of the Association to submit to him, on or before December 15, recommendations for the following offices: president-elect; vice-president of the Teaching Division; three Council members; one member each for the Professional, Research, and Teaching divisions; one member for the Committee on Committees; and three members for the Nominating Committee. All suggestions received will be forwarded to the Nominating Committee for consideration at its meeting next February.
Terms expire in December. Present membership of the Council and elective committees is as follows with open positions indicated by the year and name in bold italic lettering:
Council
1988 Natalie Z. Davis (Princeton University), president
1989 Akira Iriye (University of Chicago), president-elect
1987 Carl N. Degler (Stanford University), immediate past president
1987 Mary Beth Norton (Cornell University), vice president, Research Division
1988 Patricia A. Graham (Harvard University), vice-president, Teaching Division
1989 John J. TePaske (Duke University), vice-president, Professional Division
1987 Bernard Lewis (Princeton University)
1987 George B. Tindall (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
1987 Louise A. Tilly (New School for Social Research)
1988 Peggy K. Liss (Washington, DC)
1988 Robert Forster (Johns Hopkins University)
1989 John F. Benton (California Institute of Technology)
1989 Richard H. Kohn (Office of Air Force History)
Divisional Committee Members
Professional
1987 Clara M. Lovett (George Washington University)
1988 George M. Fredrickson (Stanford University)
1989 Albert Camarillo (Stanford University)
Research
1987 Rudolph Vecoli (University of Minnesota)
1988 Anna K. Nelson (American University)
1989 Joseph C. Miller (University of Virginia)
Teaching
1987 Marjorie Wall Bingham (St. Louis Park Public Schools)
1988 Sharon Harley (University of Maryland College Park)
1989 Philip B. Scranton (Rutgers University, Camden)
Committee on Committees
1987 Gail L. Bernstein (University of Arizona)
1987 David Brody (University of California, Davis)
1987 E. William Monter (Northwestern University)
1988 Linda L. Peck (Purdue University)
1989 Ingrid Winthur Scobie (Texas Woman’s University)
Nominating Committee
1987 William H. Chafe (Duke University)
1987 Susan M. Socolow (Emory University)
1987 Robert O. Paxton (Columbia University)
1988 Richard S. Dunn (University of Pennsylvania)
1988 Suzanne D. Lebsock (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
1988 David K. Wyatt (Cornell University)
1989 Giles Constable (Institute for Advanced Study)
1989 Darlene Clark Hine (Michigan State University)
1989 Suellen Hoy (Indiana University, South Bend)
See also the ballot material for the 1987 elections that was mailed to the membership last month, the slate of which was published in the April Perspectives.
Suggestions should be submitted to the Executive Director, AHA, 400 A St. SE, Washington, DC 20003. Please specify academic or other position and field of the individual; include also a brief statement of his or her qualifications for the particular position for which you are recommending the person.