Following the recommendation of the Distinguished Fellows Committee  
consisting of the three past presidents - Mary Morgan (chair), E. Roy  
Weintraub, and Kevin Hoover - the History of Economics Society is very  
pleased to announce that its 2006 Distinguished Fellows are:  
  
Professor Donald A. Walker, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Indiana  
University of Pennsylvania  
  
and  
  
Professor John K. Whitaker, Georgia S. Bankard Professor of Economics  
Emeritus, University of Virginia  
  
The two Distinguished Fellows will be honored at the 33rd Annual HES  
conference to be held at Grinnell College in Grinnell Iowa, June 23-26,  
2006. Following the meeting, appreciations of the Distinguished Fellows  
will be posted on the HES website <http://eh.net/HE/HisEcSoc/fellows.shtml>  
  
D. Wade Hands  
President  
History of Economics Society