Puerto Rico Four Christmas Carols ALLEGRETTO VILLANCICO CO-MO ES DIOS. EL NI - ÑO LE RE-GA-LO IN CIEN - SO PER-FU-ME CON AL-MA QUE SU-BE HA-CIA EL CIE - LO. 1. Como es Dios el Niño que sube hacia el cielo. 2. San José y la Virgen 3. La Virgen lavaba, San José tendía, María Cadilla de Martínez, Juegos y canciones infantiles de Puerto Rico. San Juan, 1940. Arr. by Charles Seeger. Pan American Union NOTES THE GOVERNING BOARD Election of Officers On November 10, 1947 Dr. Juan Bautista de Lavalle, Representative of Peru, was elected chairman of the Governing - Board for the year 1947-48, and Dr. José A Mora of Uruguay was chosen vicechairman. (The next number of the BULLETIN will describe their respective careers.) Internal reorganization of the Pan IN THE October number of the BULLETIN it was mentioned that by decision of the Governing Board the activities of the Union were to be distributed among five departments; that Mr. Lowell Curtiss, Treasurer of the Pan American Union since 1921, had become Chief of the Department of Administrative Services as well as Treasurer; and that Dr. Charles G. Fenwick had been appointed Chief of the Department of International Law and Organization. In October 1947 Dr. Amos E. Taylor assumed the position of Chief of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Dr. Taylor came to the Union from the Department of Commerce, where for the past four years he has been Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. His new assignment was made possible by an exchange of letters between the Secretary of Commerce and the Director General of the Pan American Union in accordance with which Dr. Taylor took leave from his duties as Director of the Commerce Department's Office of Business Economics. A distinguished economist of inter national renown, Dr. Taylor was born in Glenville, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1893. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College in 1915, his master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1920, and his degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1924. He also took a special course in economics and international law at the University of Paris after service in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. As Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance Dr. Taylor was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and of Northwestern University. Dr. Taylor's service with the Department of Commerce dates from 1930, when he became associated with the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. He served as Assistant Chief, then Chief, of the Finance Division (1931-39 and 1939-40 respectively); Chief of the International Economics Unit (1940-42); Chief of the Division of Research and Statistics (after December 1942); and in August 1943 was appointed Director of the Bureau. During his government career he has specialized in the field of international finance and economics and written extensively for economic and scientific journals. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the Academy of Political Science. The Chiefs of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Information have not yet been announced. LECTURES The scholarly lecture on O Aleijadinho and Brazilian Colonial Art delivered by Dr. |