Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONVENTIONSource: Sigma Xi Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3, SEMI-CENTENNIAL, ITHACA, JUNE, 1936(September, 1935)Published by: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27824583 .

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THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONVENTION

The thirty-sixth Annual Convention of the Society will be held in St. Louis

Tuesday, December 31. The executive officers will meet at two o'clock in the

afternoon of that day for the second meeting of 1935. The business session

will convene at four o'clock, and the fourteenth annual lecture under the

auspices of the A. A. A. S. and Sigma Xi will be given in the evening by Mr. John Bellamy Taylor of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric

Company. No one knows better than the National Officers of the Society that it may

he difficult for chapters and clubs to send delegates both to the Annual Conven

tion at St. Louis and to the Semi-centennial at Ithaca. Both events are of

great importance. It is earnestly hoped that all chapters and clubs will be

represented at Ithaca by a large delegation. There can be only one Semi-cen

tennial in the history of the Society, and the arrangements for that important event present such a brilliant program that all who are present are bound to

receive profound impressions about the Society and its purpose?namely, the

promotion of research.

On the other hand, business of considerable importance is to be presented to the Convention. There will be a number of formal printed petitions for

charters, upon which the Convention will be asked by the Executive Committee to take action. Copies of these petitions will be distributed to the chapters well in advance of the Convention in order that chapters may have ample time to

acquaint themselves with the scientific conditions at the institutions involved.

Officers of the Society are to be chosen for the ensuing biennium, as well as

members of the Executive Committee and the Alumni Committee for the

succeeding five-year period. The nominating committee appointed by President Parker to present candi

dates for these offices is as follows : Prof. Joseph K. Roberts, University of

Virginia, Chairman; Prof. B. F. Kingsbury of Cornell University; and Prof.

Walter L. Upson of Washington University. Chapters may make suggestions direct to the members of the committee, or through the office of the National

Secretary. Alll suggestions will be given careful study by the committee.

It is therefore hoped that chapters and clubs will make an effort to send

delegates to the St. Louis meeting. Chapters are entitled to a delegation of not more than three members. Clubs are entitled to one delegate who has the

privilege of the floor. In case chapters or clubs are unable to send its own

members, they may appoint members of any other chapter as representatives.

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