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July/2000 Minutes of the Eugenics Survey Advisory Committee Meeting <author/> <editor/> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p/> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt><publisher/><pubPlace/><date>October 29, 1927</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>October 20, 1927</date> </creation> <textClass> <keywords scheme="#"> <term>WE'LL LET NANCY DETERMINE THESE</term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc></teiHeader> <text> <front> <div1> <bibl> <title level="u">Minutes of the Eugenics Survey Advisory Committee Meeting October 20, 1927 Eugenics Survey of Vermont Papers, General: Advisory Committee Permission required for reproduction. Vermont Public Records. October 20, 1927 ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE EUGENICS SURVEY

There were present at the meeting Professor Flint, Professor Perkins, Dr. Stanley, Mr. Dyer, Miss Farr, Miss Abbott, Miss Conklin and Dr. Allen.

Professor Perkins displayed charts which the Survey had been making and explained the method used in making the charts.

He then gave a report on the work of the past year. (See Page 15, Program of the Vermont Conference of Social Work, 1927).

Professor Perkins then talked of plans for the future. In August, 1927 Professor Perkins attended a meeting of the Social Science Research Council in Hanover, New Hampshire. This Council is composed of members from ten to twelve organizations representing different branches of social science, such as psychology, government, law, economics, etc. Professor Perkins consulted the Social Science Research Council about his plan for a Comprehensive Survey of Vermont, and asked the Council if they would sponsor this. The Council sent an investigator (Mr. Sanderson of Cornell) to Vermont to look over the situation.

The Council spent two of their sessions on the matter of the prospective Vermont Comprehensive Survey. They are to study it further and make recommendations at their next meeting.

This Comprehensive Survey will mean the cooperation of many different organizations. Professor Perkins has already secured the promise of the cooperation of the following organizations who will agree to take part and underwrite the expense up to seventy five thousand dollars for ten years. These organizations are:‐‐ The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, The Institute of Social and Religious Research, The National Child Health Association and the National Country Life Association.

The question may arise as to just what part the Eugenic Survey of Vermont will have in this Comprehensive Survey. We may perhaps be the hub, as heredity is the core of the economic and other life of the community, or we may be considered to be one spoke of the wheel. That is, we may be just one Unit in the Comprehensive Survey.

The Comprehensive Survey will not begin for at least another year.

During the coming year the plan approved by the Advisory Committee was to continue the work in about the same line as at present, possibly making in addition a small area study.

It was also proposed that a study of the better branches of defective families be made.

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