
Professor of French John O'Neal is scheduled to serve a second term as president of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS). At the society's recent annual meeting, he was elected second vice president for 2005-06. He will become first vice president in 2006-07 and president in 2007-08. O'Neal served previously as president of the society in 1992-93 after six years on the executive board. In 1985 he organized the annual meeting of the society in Utica, which was co-sponsored by Hamilton College and Colgate University.