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381 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. iii (1969)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0381 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ACADEMY DIPS ITS COLORS TO DR. SELLIN December 31, 1968, was the end of an era for THE ANNALS. On that date Dr. Thorsten Sellin retired as Editor, after 39 years of service. During his stewardship, our journal continued to grow in scientific-yet-popular substance, in circulation, and in national and international prestige. Its concen- tration on a single topic for an issue was maintained, the distinctive color of its cover was adopted and adhered to, and its enviable record of never missing an issue was sustained. There are three principal qualifications required of an Editor of THE ANNALS- he must be known as a prominent and competent social scientist in his own right, he must know what other social scientists are doing and how well they are doing it, and he must be aware of social and political developments in the United States and foreign countries. An appraisal of ANNALS titles and the quality of contributors through the years attests abundantly to Dr. Sellin's possession of the last two attributes. Let us, then, tell the story of his academic, professional, and personal life. He was born in Sweden in 1896, and he came with his family to Canada when he was 17. He attended Augustana College in Illinois and got his bachelor's degree when he was 19. The next year he received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he taught in secondary schools in Min- neapolis for four years. Then he returned to the University of Pennsylvania, and earned his Ph.D. degree when he was 26. At the same time, he was made an assistant professor of sociology. After two years, he went to Europe and for two years studied criminology, mostly in Paris. On his return to the University of Pennsylvania, he resumed his teaching of sociology and began his concentration on criminology. He was made a full professor when he was 34, and he served as chairman of his depart- ment from 1944 to 1959. He has been visiting professor at Princeton University, and at the University of California at Berkeley, and Fulbright Lecturer at Cam- bridge University, England. He has received honorary degrees from Augustana College and from the Universities of Uppsala, Leiden, Pennsylvania, and Copen- hagen, and has been decorated by the Swedish and French governments. But his achievement has been more than academic. He has served in many international organizations, to advance the science of penology. This is a list of some of the positions he has held: Consultant to the Penal Code Commission of Sweden; Secretary-General of the International Penal and Penitentiary Com- mission; President of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation; Presi- dent of the International Society of Criminology; member or chairman of the first five ad hoc United Nations international committees of experts in the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders; and general rapporteur of the first World Congress on such matters sponsored by the United Nations. Also, he has assisted in the preparation of the Model Youth Correction Authority Act and Model Penal Code of the American Law Institute, and he drafted the Uniform Criminal Sta- tistics Act adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State iii

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