Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Eugenics Survey: a machine readable edition Anne R. Rome Creation of machine-readable version: Nancy Gallagher Additional scanning and OCR: Ben Schacher Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Mary Margaret Welch Additional markup by: Hope Greenberg, Shane Barney ca. 5 kilobytes University of VermontBurlington, Vermont USA

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July/2000 Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Eugenics Survey <author>Anne R. Rome</author> <editor/> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p/> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt><publisher/><pubPlace/><date>September 15, 1931</date></publicationStmt> <notesStmt> <note/> </notesStmt> </biblFull> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc><encodingDesc> <projectDesc> <p>Prepared for the University of Vermont Electronic Text Archive.</p> </projectDesc> <editorialDecl> <p>Scanner: Visioneer 6100 (36 bit, 600x1200). Text OCR by Visioneer. </p> <p>Quote marks retained as data. All "M" and "N" dashes converted to two hyphens or one hyphen, respectively. All unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. Some text realigned to left for purposes of readability, at discretion of editors.</p> </editorialDecl> </encodingDesc><profileDesc> <creation> <date>September 15, 1931</date> </creation> <textClass> <keywords scheme="#"> <term>WE'LL LET NANCY DETERMINE THESE</term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc></teiHeader> <text> <front> <div1> <bibl> <author>Anne R. Rome</author> <title level="u">Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Eugenics Survey September 15, 1931 Eugenics Survey of Vermont Papers, General: Advisory Committee Permission required for reproduction. Vermont Public Records. MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE EUGENICS SURVEY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931

The fourth meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont was held in its new offices at 162 College Street, Burlington, September 15, 1931 at 2:00 P.M. Dr. Stanley, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Bailey, Miss Ross, Miss Webster, Miss Farr and Professor Flint of the Advisory Committee, and Dr. Perkins, Miss Anderson and Miss Rome of the office staff were present.

It was moved, seconded and carried that the budget for the year 1931‐32 be adopted as set up.

M. S. C. that election of members for the Advisory Committee take place at the next meeting and that a plan for term office be presented.

M. S. C. that Mr. Howard Hanson of the Vermont Industrial School and Mr. Francis L. Bailey, Commissioner of Education be appointed members of the Advisory Committee to fill the vacancies left by Messrs. Wilson and Dempsey. The place vacated by Superintendent Walker was left to be filled later.

M. S. C. that Miss Anderson be made Assistant Director.

The work of the Eugenics Survey for the past six years was reviewed. Then a program for the year 1931‐32 was discussed, bearing in mind the original definition of Eugenics given by Sir Francis Galton, that “Eugenics is the study of all the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the unborn qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally."

An Educational program was tentatively drawn up. The plan includes the following: 1. (a) Compilation of a selected bibliography on Eugenics and related subjects (b) Distributing such bibliographies to the libraries of the state and interesting librarians in the subject. 2. Planning and presenting outlines for the study of Eugenics to Women's Clubs and to teachers in secondary schools and colleges, and to other interested groups and individuals. 3. Use of “Rural Vermont", the report of the Vermont Commission on Country Life, as a source book for material of eugenical significance in the state. 4. Spreading information, particularly to the town clerks, concerning the Marriage Laws of the State. M. S. C. that the members of the staff of the Eugenics Survey work out the details of a program along these lines, and decide upon methods of procedure.

The meeting adjourned at 4:30.

Anne R. Rome, Secretary

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