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to make this award without undue strain. As of December 22, our funds were as follows: N.O.W. Account: 3,580.51; Money Market Certificate: S 10,000 (Marraro bequest). The report of the Award and Citation Committee was presented by its Chairperson, Ira Glazier. The Society's "Award for the Best Unpublished Manuscript by a Younger Scholar" was presented to Douglass C. Day, for his manuscript, "The Shaping of Postwar Italy, 1945-1948", The Citation to a Senior Scholar was presented to Emiliana P. Noether.
Since the Chairperson of the Marraro Prize Commiuee, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, could not attend the meeting, the committee report was read by Emiliana P. Noether. The Society's Marraro Prize was awarded to Clara M. Lovett for her The Democratic Movement in Italy, 1850-1876 (Harvard University Press, 1982).
The report of me Nominating Committee was presented by its Chairperson, Raymond Grew. Clara M. Lovett was nominated to the seat on the Advisory Council; since no nominations were made from the floor, she was elected unanimously.
The meeting was dissolved at 5:45 p.m. The Social Meeting followed, in the Annapolis Room of the Sheraton Hotel, until 7:00 p.m., which was well attended.
The Society's joint academic session with the American Historical Association was held at 9:00 a.m. on December 30, in the Sheraton Hotel: Social Structure and Economie Development in the halian Mezzogiorno from Spanish Viceroyalty to Unification . Chair: David LoRomer; Antonio Calabria: "Genoese Investment and Capital Accumulation in I6th century Naples"; John A. Marino: "Social Stratifìcation and Class Conflict in the Pastoral Economy of the Dogana of Foggia, 1600-1800"; Marion S. Miller: "Southern Italian Society and the Mediterranean World, 1799-1870". Comment David LoRomer.
The Society also held a joint session with the American Catholic Historical Association on December 29, 1982, in the Shoreham Hotel: Catholicism in Italy Since 1943 . Chair: Alan J. Reinerman; Charles F. Delzell: "Catholics in the Italian Armed Resistance"; Peter C. Kent: "The Catholic Church and the Peace Settlement with Italy after World War II"; Norman Kogan: "The Catholic Church and the Christian Democratic Party: A Troubled Relationship"; Comment: Elisa Cardilo .
CITATION FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY ACH1EVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF ITALIAN HISTORY PRESENTED DECEMBER, 1982, TO EMILIANA P. NOETHER. Emiliana Noether has made many outstanding contributions to Italian history and Italian studies in the U.S. Her books, articles and bibliographical work on the intellectual and cultural history of Italy ha ve been well known to practicioners in the field since the 1950's. Beginning with her now classic study of the intellectual foundations of Italian nationalism, to studies of Italian intellectuals under Fascism, the conditions of peasant women in Southern Italyt a biography of Victor Emanuel II, to recent works on Mazzini, she has made notable contributions to Italian historiography continuing a distingulshed tradition in Italian etilica!-political history begun by Adolfo Omodeo and Luigi Salvatorelli.
She has performed outstanding sei-vice to this society and to the historical profession as the editor, since 1958, of the Italian History Section of the American Historical Review. She has been a founding metnber of the Society for Italian Historical Studies and a charter member of the Columbia Seminar on Modem Italy and has served both groups faithfully in a variety of roles over many years. She has been active on numerous committees in the American Historical Association and is currenlly president of the New Engiand Historical Association.