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research associates, and the like. Tt also set up a few subcommittees, 

 such as the ill-fated ones cm research and on the Pacific survey to be 

 described later. At the request of the Director, the Board named an 

 executive committee, composed of members permanently or fre- 

 quently in Washington, who could be called on short notice for 

 advice and approval. This committee, of four members, held some 

 six official meetings at which minutes were kept, but served the 

 Directorate with far greater frequency than this would imply. Inso- 

 far as the Board was intended to be merely an advisory group, all- 

 Washington membership would have been desirable. 



Directorate 



The Ethnogeographic Board's Washington office, the only one it 

 had, was located in the Smithsonian Institution. From two rooms 

 at the start, four more were added as business increased. All these 

 were supplied, serviced, and partly equipped by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. The first Director, William Duncan Strong, served from 

 June 15, 1942, to July 31, 1944, on leave of absence from Columbia 

 University, and since his resignation, Henry B. Collins, Jr., of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, has been 

 Director. The salaries of both were paid by the Smithsonian. 



The professional staff consisted of a Director and several "research 

 associates," defined as full-time workers, with or without compensa- 

 tion from the Ethnogeographic Board. Without was more common 

 than with, since only Miss Elizabeth Bacon received compensation 

 from the Board's funds. The others, William N. Fenton, Frank H. H. 

 Roberts, Jr., Homer Barnett, and Henry B. Collins, Jr. (later entitled 

 Assistant Director), were all on loan from the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. The Smithsonian provided some secretarial assistance, 

 in particular the service of Miss Mae W. Tucker, but the Wash- 

 ington office also had one or two full-time secretaries of its own. 

 These include, for the period covered, Mrs. Ethel C. Ford, Miss Anne 

 Fromme, Miss Elizabeth P. Clark, and Mrs. Mary Jane Miller. 



All members of the professional staff assisted in the information 

 service, and many of the reports show their collaboration. However, 

 each research associate had a particular assignment. Dr. Collins was 

 in charge of "research," by which was meant bibliography and other 

 sources used in preparing reports and supplying information. 

 Dr. Fenton was first in charge of the area roster, and later of the 

 survey of area studies in American universities. Dr. Roberts was 

 editor of the Board's survival reports, including the booklet "Survival 

 on Land and Sea." Miss Bacon assembled the area (and language) 



