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Vita dell'Istituto
Cammett of Rutgcrs University to serve àfi onr tiew Executive Secretary-Treasurer, The-se two noiuinees were thoreupon elccted unanimously. They wero ùistructed to coordi­nate their A>'ork and to seek the couuse! of Professor Marraro during tbeir initìation imo the responsibilities of their offices. President Lopez was bistro cted to appoint a pro­gram chairman to propare plana for next year's session.
The Society exprcssed its unaniraous desire that Professor Norman Kogan of the University of Connecticut he porsuaded to contìnue as Editor of the Newsletter. It in* strneted Professor Cammett and Lopez to work to this end.
On bchalf of the Prize and Citation Conunittee* Professor Catherine Boyd reported that this year's prize for the ontstanding article is to he awarded to Professor John P. Diggins of Diablo Valley College in California for his FJirtation with Fascismi: American Pragmatic Liberals and Mnssolini's Italy . This article was puhliahed in The Ameriean Bistorìcal Rovinio, VoL LXXI, No. 2 (January, 1966), pp. 487-506. The committee deci-ded not to award a Distingutshed Scholar citation this year.
Professor Grecnfiéld brought to the attention of the Society a letter from Mx. Fre­derick P.Mascioli of 1940 Biltmore Street, N. W., Washington 9, D. G..in wliich he raised the suggestion of organizing a possible locai chapter of the Society in the Washington arca.. After some discùssion, it was decidcd that Professor Cammett should writc to ME. Mascioli and explain the serious problems that would. he entailed.
It was brought to the attention of the society that Mr. Stuart Woolf of the Univer­sity of Reading in England has organized an Italian Insti tute and a Politicai Insti tue? that may he of interest to some American graduate students whó wish to go abroad but who cannot stndy in Italy.
It was also noted that Professor Gustavo Mab-ofthe University ofTurin has just helped organize an Institut Universi taire d'iÉtiides- iÈuropéennes de Turin located et Corso Vittorio Emanuele 83, Turin. It offers scholarships to a considerable number of foreign graduate students, inclnding Americans. Detailed information can he obtained directly from Professor Malan.
Professor Rudolph J. Vecoli of the University of Illinois cireulated to the members a modest proposai regarding the importauce of gathering data on the history of Ita­lian immigra tion into the United States. Professor Salomone and others suggested to him the desirabuity of exploriug this prohlem with such people as Professor Giorgio Spini of the University of Florence, Professor Oscar Handlin, and the Organista tion of American Studies (the forxner Mississippi Valley Historieal As3ociation).
The meeting was adjourned about 5:30 p. ni.
L'Istituto si associa al rammarico della Society for Italian Historieal Studies, per l'abbandono, da parte di Howard R. Marraro della carica di Segretariotesoriere. Non possiamo dimenticare l'attività svolta del nostro antico amico per creare un comitato del nostro Istituto negli Stati Uniti, comitato che si sviluppò a tal punto da divenire l at­tuale Society. Prima di pubblicare l'elogio alla sua opera tributatogli dalla Society ricor­diamo che il 16 marzo il Console generalo d'Italia, con. solenne cerimonia, ha consegnato a Howard R* Marraro le Insegne di gr, uff. al merito della Repubblica,
At its umiliai meeting in San Francisco on 29 December 1965, the Society for Italian Historieal Studies having with regrci taken note of the formai resignation of Pro­fessor Howard R. Marraro as Executive Secretary-Treasuter of the Society, submjtted by him as reguired by his sta tutor y retirement as Professor in Columbia University, una­nimously rcsolved that an expression of its senso of indebteduoss, and of its warm appreciation of his servite to the Society, he presented to Professor Marraro and exteu-ded on the Minute* of the meeting.
The meinbers of the Society who bave buen closely ussociated with Professor Marraro nnd it hard to imagine its suecesBes and. progress during the ten years of its existcnce tvithoat Professor Marraro* work in its behalf. He lias been Ureless in maiu-