THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY We wish to call to the attention of all libraries—public, academic and special collections—the fact that the sub-title of our publication The Report is Journal of German-American History. By making this announce- ment again, we hope this will be noted in the public catalogs of each respective library. This sub-title was added to our publication, beginning with The Report 33. Since the publication of our last Report in 1975, two of the long-time members, Otto H. Franke, Former President of the Society, and C. William Schneidereith, Sr., President of one of Baltimore's fine publishing com- panies, passed away. Both men made outstanding contributions to the Society for many years. We stated in the last Report that the German Baroque collection of our President, Harold Jantz, had been made available to the world of research through microfilm publication. A three volume printed bibliography of the Jantz collection on microfilm also appeared in 1974. In 1976, the Library of Duke University received the entire European and German Baroque collection of Professor Jantz who has since moved to Durham. After his retirement from The Johns Hopkins University, Professor Jantz was invited to give seminars and courses at a number of universities. He will carry on his research and give at least one seminar per year at Duke University. Since the publication of our last Report, the guest speakers at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Society, traditionally held in February of each year, were: 1976 KLAUS WUST   (Editor, The Report), "The Germans in the American Revolution." 1977 PROFESSOR ERICH ALBRECHT,   (Founder of the Max Kade German-American Docu- ments and Manuscript Center, University of Kansas at Lawrence), "Eduard Dorsch and the Civil War." 1978 PROFESSOR   WILLIAM   H.   McCLAIN    (The   Johns   Hopkins   University),   "Professor William Kurrelmeyer Collection of Manuscripts and Books in the Milton E. Eisen- hower Library of The Johns Hopkins University." M.H.P. [7]