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Your note received in regard to the appointment of Miss Webster as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. I am pleased to report that I have received a vote from each member of the Committee, and that the action has been the unanimous approval of the recommendation. You have therefore elected Miss Webster as an additional member of the Advisory Committee. The other members will hold office at least until the meeting in October, 1929.
I should like to report progress in the study of key families in Sandgate and Readsboro. The former has yielded especially good results and Mrs. Wadman is now closing a ten days' additional investigation, this being her third visit to Sandgate. Readsboro is to be studied further this fall if weather permits. Otherwise work there will be postponed until spring. During the winter we intend to study families in Lincoln and Pomfret. None of these towns have been officially accepted as loci for the Comprehensive Survey of Vermont, but we can reasonably expect that some of them at least will be so chosen. We shall await their selection of towns to be studied next year before going much farther in the investigation of additional areas. I shall probably ask your advice later concerning the recommendations of the Advisory Committee to the Executive Committee of the Rural Survey on the matter of the choice of towns. The aim will be to select the towns that represent most typically the rural parts of the state as a whole by their history and present condition. Your suggestions will be helpful if you care to embody them in a letter at this time.
I have yours of Monday and am dreadfully disappointed that you are not going to be able to take the Presidency of the Conference. I hate to have that election go by default, and it is almost impossible to get the Executive Committee together. I appreciate your reasons for declining and regard them as valid. If it should seem best under the circumstances for me to continue as President for this year, would you be willing to take the job next October?
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