BULLETIN BOARD

BULLETIN BOARD

NOTES ON MEMBERS AND THEIR RESEARCHANDPUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to Scott Thompson on the publication of The Price of Achievement in the Reagan Years (Castle, 1994). H. John Rogers of West Virginia is probing the confessions of murderers. James Huffman of Fredonia University of SUNY is writing a book on American culture with considerable emphasis on Walt Disney and others Robert Chaikin has been analyzing the African American student “Freaknik” migration to Atlanta for a week in April.

CONGRATULATIONS: To Peter Petschauer, Greer Professor of History at Appalachian State University, who has been elected to chair the North Carolina State Universities Faculty Council. After living in the beautiful Mountains, last year Peter and Joni bought a hide-a-way-house in the Tidewater. At Ramapo College Margaret (Peggy) McLaughlin has been strongly recommended for promotion to associate professor and Paul Elovitz received a second Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Extracurriculum. Leyla Rzakulieva won the first Psychohistory Forum Student Award for her article “My Experience with Nationalism” in our December issue. Leyla is a scholarship student from war-torn Azerbaijan and an economics honor student. She plans to go to graduate school at Columbia University, majoring in international relations.

MOVES: Alex Jasnow gave up his lovely home and psychology practice in New Jersey to enjoy Provincetown and paint. Norman Simms will be leaving the University of Waikato in New Zealand to assume a new position at Ben Gurion University in Israel.

MEETINGS: The fall program of the Forum will start on September 16 when Rutgers professors Virginia Yans McLaughlin and Ted Goertzel will, respectively, present on the psychobiography of Margaret Mead and Linus Pauling. On November 4 James Huffman will present “In Sickness and in Health: A Psychological Approach to American Culture.” At the June conference of the IPA the Forum will sponsor workshops on Teaching Psychohistory (“Overcoming Students’ Resistance to Psychohistory” led by David Beisel on June 7) and of the War Peace and Conflict Resolution Research group (June 8) as well as a luncheon. Presentations of our Presidential Personality and Childhood Research Group will also be on June 8. The ISPP meetings are scheduled in Washington, July 5-9. The International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations will be meeting in London, July 7-9. The International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education invites Forum members to attend its sixth annual conference at the Toronto Hilton Hotel in Toronto, October 13-15. For details call Leon Cahan, IFPE Administrator in San Antonio, TX 78256-2304, Tel. (210)698-2311.

CONDOLENCES: To Mary Lambert on the death late in 1994 of her husband George who had struggled for many years with ill health.

BIRTHS: Congratulations to Peter Loewenberg on the birth on February 2, 1995, of Jonathan Alexander who weighed in at seven pounds, eight ounces and twenty inches in length and is doing fine. Jonathan’s father recently travelled from UCLA to Austria to lecture on “Dehumanization and the Final Solution.” Mel Kalfus is adding Elderhostel instruction to his regular teaching at Lynn University in Boca Raton.

WELCOME to new members Jeff Gustin, Diane Perlman, and Charles Seitz.

OUR THANKS to our members and friends for their support which makes Clio^’s Psyche possible. To Patrons — Herbert Barry and an anonym; a Sustaining Member — Ralph Colp; to new or renewed Contributing Members Rudolph Binion, Andrew Brink, David Felix, Paul Elovitz and Alberto Fergusson. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Brian D’Agostino, John Caulfield, John Demos, David Felix, Baruch Halpern, Harry Keyishian, Henry Lawton and Howard Stein. Also to Anna Lentz and Pauline Staines for their assistance in producing this newsletter and to Darryl Garvin, Darla Silverman and Professor Sue Adrion for proof-reading. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Sidney Halpern.

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