Monday, 6 March 2000		ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING
		The Society shall hold its Annual Meeting in the Lincoln Memorial Room of the Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street. In accordance with the Bylaws of the Society, the following will be the Order of Business: Prayer by the Chaplain Reading of the Minutes of the 1999 Annual Meeting Reports of Officers and Committees Unfinished Business New Business Elections and appointment by the President of a Judge and two (2) Tellers to count the votes and declare the results The Society is pleased to announce that Eric Thomas Slauter has accepted an invitation to speak to the membership at the conclusion of the business meeting. Mr. Slauter is the Sons of the Revolution / Society of the Cincinnati Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a doctoral candidate in English at Stanford University and his dissertation is titled "The State as a Work of Art: Politics and the Cultural Origins of the Constitution." He expects to complete his dissertation this semester and receive the Ph.D. degree in June. The Society congratulates Mr. Slauter on the news of his appointment to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the College at the University of Chicago, effective 1 July 2000. The McNeil Center for Early American Studies was established by the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 to facilitate research into the history and culture of the mid-Atlantic in general and the Delaware Valley in particular from the beginnings of European settlement to 1850. The Center is named for Robert Lincoln McNeil, Jr., a member of our Society and from 1969 to 1972, a Manager of the Society. In recent years Mr. McNeil's gifts have tripled the Center's endowment and enabled its faculty to expand the Center's program significantly. In advance of the Annual Meeting, members may learn more about the McNeil Center by visiting its web site: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/mceas In 1993 the Society initiated its financial support of dissertation fellowships at the Center and was immediately joined by the State Society of the Cincinnati in Pennsylvania. Mr. Slauter is the eighth recipient of the Sons of the Revolution / Society of the Cincinnati Dissertation Fellowship. Mr. Slauter will address the Society on the subject: "The Cultural Origins of the Constitution." Refreshments will be served in the Meade Room following the business meeting. For those members wishing to stay for dinner, there will be a charge of $30.00 per person. Please indicate your plans, using the enclosed card, and post the card to the Office of the Society no later than 7 April 2000. If you are staying for dinner, please also enclose payment in the amount of $30.00, payable to "PSSR." The President requests the presence of those members admitted during the past year, in order that he may confer upon each one of them the Society's rosette and welcome each man to membership. The President requests all members to wear the Society tie.   Theodore Clattenburg, Jr. Secretary