Proceedings of the Society SPRING MEETINGS OF THE GSA COUNCIL The Council of The Geological Society of America met on February 23-24, 1962, and on April 20-21, 1962. Significant actions taken at these meetings include the following: (1) The Council voted to appoint Joe Webb Peoples as a member of the Council until the Annual Meeting in November, to fill the vacancy that exists because of the resignation from the Council of Frederick Betz, Jr. Mr. Peoples has accepted the appointment. (2) The Regular Ticket for Officers and places on the Council to be filled at the Annual Meeting in November is as follows: For President, Harry H. Hess For Vice-President, Francis Birch For Secretary, Joe Webb Peoples* For Treasurer, }. Edward Hoffmeister For Councilors: For 1963, M. King Hubbert (Past President) For 1963-1965, Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. Herbert E. Hawkes, Jr. John Rodgers John T. Rouse (3) The following 31 Members, whose names had been circulated to the Fellows on December 4, 1961, were elected to Fellowship: Adams, William M. Lakeman, Rienk Reesor, John E. Brand, John Paul Lee, Hulbert A. Rogers, John J. W. Byers, Frank M., Jr. Leech, Geoffrey B. Sabins, Floyd F., Jr. Childs, Orlo E. Lemish, John Savage, Carleton N. Decker, Robert W. Maxwell, John A. Shenkel, Claude Wesley, Jr. Dellwig, Louis F. McLaren, Digby J. Smedes, Harry Wynn Eschman, Donald F. Neale, Ernest R. W. Stalker, Archibald M. Freeman, Val L. Nickell, Frank A. Vorhis, Robert Carson Friedman, Irving Norns, Stanley E. Wilson, Harry D. B. Grose, Lucius Trovvbridge Perry, Vincent D. Kaye, Clifford Alan Pollock, Clement P. (4) On the recommendation of the Committee on Membership the Council elected the following persons Members of the Society: Acosta Arteaga, Carlos Eduardo Bell, Richard Thomas Buttner, Peter Joseph Adams, Rodney Dreux Bhattacharji, Somdev Burch, Stephen H. Adams, Samuel S. Blackerby, Bruce Alfred Calvert, Stephen Edward Alexander, Charles S. Bock, Charles Mitchell Calvert, Warren Lytle Anderson, Gerald Edward Bond, Thomas Alden Campbell, A. Richard Angell, Glenn Trygve Borst, Roger Lee Carlson, Paul R. Appleman, Daniel Everett Bradbury, James C. Carver, Robert Elliott Ayrton, William Grey Brew, Douglas Crocker Chapman, Rodger Hale Barnes, Ivan Britt, Terence Le Grand Clark, Armin Lee Barrett, Edward Brown, Delbert Wayne Clemons, Russell Edward Beckman, Walter Arnold, Jr. Brown, Delmer LeRoy Clifton, H. Edward Beitzel, John Edward Brune, Gunnar Cole, J. Glenn * In September the Council will present to the Fellows a proposed change in Bylaws that will redefine the office of Secretary and will separate the two functions of the Secretary of the Council and the Executive Officer of the Headquarters. It will be recommended that the office of Secretary shall be, in general, as now defined in the Bvlaws but shall carry with it no responsibilities for the administration of the Headquarters office; these administrative functions will be the responsibility of an Executive Director, who will be a full-time employee but will not be a member of the Council. P39 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/73/7/P39/3427516/i0016-7606-73-7-P39.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 P40 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY Coleman, James Malcolm Hopkins, Roy Marshall, Jr. Raymond, Richard Howard Cooke, Horace Brooks, Jr. Humphrey, Fred James Reade, Harold Leslie, Jr. Corbett, Marshall Keene Hutchison, David Malcolm Rector, Richard James Cranson, Karen Rodney Jennings, Albert R. Renz(-Indergand), Hans Herman Crary, Albert Paddock Jizba, Zdenek Vaclav Reshkin, Mark Crawford, William James Page Johnson, Alvin C., Jr. Riecken, Charles Christopher Croacker, Marvin C., Jr. Karig, Daniel Edmund Riseman, Louis Dalrymple, Gary Brent Keeler, Charles Martyn Rose, William D., Jr. Danehy, Edward Allen Keller, Daniel James Rostoker, David Darling, Richard Graydon Kelly, John Martin Rutherford, Malcolm J. Davis, James Frazier Kent, Harry Christison Salver, Henry Arthur DeGrosky, Fred J. Kirchner, James Gary Sandvik, Peter O. Denison, Robert Howland Kline, James Edward Schetter, William Cameron Dobbs, Robert Otto Knochenmus, Darwin Dale Schock, Robert Norman Dolan, Homer Kindred Leavitt, Frank Grant Scoates, Reginald Francis Dosch, Earl F. Lebauer, Lawrence Robert Sealy, Brian E. Douglas, Robert Guy Lefebvre, Richard Harold Seely, Donald Randolph Ebbett, Ballard Eugene LeMasurier, Wesley Ernest Sheets, Martin Meredith Emery, Philip Anthony Lobjoit, William Michael Shykind, Edwin B. Eroskay, Salih Okay Londot, Rolland Ray Siebert, Harry Louis Erwin, James Walter Lounsbury, Richard Edwin Sirkin, Leslie A. Ethridge, Frank Guide Lumbers, Sydney Blake Skapinsky, Stanley Alfred Everett, Ardell Gordon Lustig, Lawrence Kenneth Skinner, Brian John Feden, Robert Henry Lyons, Wilfred Alexander Slentz, Loren William Ferguson, Laing Mapel, William Jameson Slipp, Robert Munro Fernow, Donald Lloyd Mayo, Lawrence Ralph Slover, Nancy Lincoln Finlayson, Carroll P. McDowell, Stewart Douglas Smith, Alan Gilbert Foster, Julian Mead McGehee, Richard Vernon Smith, Jan G. Freers, Theodore F. McGregor, Jackie Delaine Smith, Peter H. Frost, John Elliot Mclntyre, David H. Smith, Robert Baer Fulton, Robert J. McMullen, Patrick Joseph Soregaroli, Arthur Earl Gardner, Charles Harwood Melson, William Gerald Soward, Kenneth S. Garlick, George Donald Meyer, George L. Stenstrom, Richard C. Cass, Alfred Allen Milici, Robert Calvin Stephenson, David A. Gibbons, John E., II Miller, Don Eugene Stewart, David Benjamin Gilhs, John William Morse, Steams Anthony Stewart, Lyle White Godfrey, Timothy John Ross Mull, Donald Sherwood Sutcliffe, Horace, Jr. Gold, David Percy Murphy, Daniel Lawson Swe, Wm Gonnason, Walter Lawrence Murray, Frederick Nelson Taylor, James Barton, Jr. Gorman, Donald Robert Muncaster, Neil Kibbe Thorns, John Alroy Gwmn, Vinton E. Mutis-Duplat, Emilio Thrailkill, John Vernon Hale, William Ernest Nayudu, Y. Rammohanroy Totten, Stanley M. Halpern, Martin Nelson, Clifford Melvin, Jr. Urbanec, Don Alan Hamilton, Douglas Holmes Noble, James Eugene Van Altena, Peter James Hamilton, Wylie N. Oakes, Edward L. Van Atta, Robert O. Haney, Warren Dale Oaks, Robert Quincy, Jr. Vedder, John G. Hanson, Henry W. A., Ill Odom, Ira Edgar Vehrs, Robert Alan Harris, William H. Ogier, Stephen H. Wadsworth, William Bingham Hart, Richard Royce Orr, Harold D. Waldrop, Henry A. Hawkins, William Maxwell Osborne, David Herbert Walker, Kenneth Ridley Hedberg, Ronald Murray Pessagno, Emile Anthony, Jr. Waltz, James Patterson, II Hendry, Charles Walter, Jr. Polhemus, Robert Benjamin Watkins, F. A., Jr. Henry, Vernon James Pollack, Gerald Douglas Watkins, J. Lloyd Herdendorf, Charles Edward Potter, Noel, Jr. Wayland, Russell G. Heubusch, Carol A. Pushkar, Paul D. Wehrman, Ken C. Heylmun, Edgar Baldwin Ragle, Richard Harrison Wertz, Jacques Bernard Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/73/7/P39/3427516/i0016-7606-73-7-P39.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY P 41 West, Lawrence James Williams, Roger Bennett Yon, James William, Jr. Weyl, Peter Klaus Wilson, Edward N. Youash, Younathan Yousif White, Bert Lee Winfrey, Walter Michael, Jr. Zantop, Half Whitlow, Jesse William Wingard, Norman Zurflueh, Ernst Gottfried Widmier, John Michael Woodward, Lee A. Williams, James Jerome Wvlie, Ernest Truman (5) The Council voted to elect no Correspondents this year. (6) The Committee on Projects had considered 77 applications for grants, requesting a total of $94,425. The amount budgeted for grants was $25,000. On recommendation of the Committee, the Council ap- proved 41 grants totaling $30,040. The following grants were approved: Name Subject Amount Upton, Brian G. J. Petrological-geochemical investigation of alkaline rocks, % 800 California Institute of Technology south Greenland Potter, Donald B. Stratigraphic and structural study of area within Taconic $ 550 Hamilton College region of eastern New York State Williams, Thomas E. Study of Stratigraphic position of five key Wolfcampian $ 500 Southern Methodist University fusulines, West Texas Cook, E. F. Field and petrographic study of volcanic rocks of Hiko, $ 800 University of Idaho Pahranagat and Delamar Ranges, Nevada Welby, Charles W. Stratigraphy of Chazyan Group, Taconic region, New York $ 550 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Vermont Lowell, Wayne R. Field study, petrography, and ages of lava flows in southwest $ 700 Indiana University Montana Bird, John M. Stratigraphic and structural study of quadrangle in Taconic $ 800 State University of'New Yorl{ region, New York Barshad, Isaac Rate of weathering as measured by soil formation on volcanic $1200 University of California at deposits dated by Carbon 14 Berkeley Motts, Ward S. Field and laboratory investigation (petrographic, X-ray and f 800 University of Massachusetts DTA) of carbonate variations in a Permian bed, Carlsbad, New Mexico Theokritoff, George Regional Stratigraphic study of the northern part of the $ 700 Red Bank., N. J. Appalachian geosyncline in Vermont and Quebec Garlick, George D. Study of oxygen isotopes in coexisting pegmatitic and hydro- $ 700 California Institute of thermal minerals from Boulder Batholith, and Coeur d'Alene Technology mining districts Woodrow, Donald L. Stratigraphy and paleoecology of some Upper Devonian University of Rochester rocks in central Pennsylvania Ratcliffe, Nicholas M. Structural and petrographic study of Taconic Lower Cam- Pennsylvania State University brian and Ordovician metasedimentary rocks, southwest