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Professional activities: Willard O. Thompson 

 Memorial Award, presented each June. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 8, $10. Editor : Edward Henderson. 



188. American Goiter Association, Inc. 702 



Madison Avenue, Albany 8, N. Y. President: 

 Alexander Albert, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 

 Minn. Term expires May 1961. Secretary: 

 John C. McClintock. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized December 1923 as Ameri- 

 can Association for Study of Goiter. Name 

 changed to American Goiter Association in 

 1948, and to present title in 1959. 



Purpose: The acquisition and dissemination of 

 knowledge of the thyroid gland and its diseases. 



Membership: Open to individuals with medi- 

 cal training who have demonstrated by five years 

 of professional work an interest in the thyroid 

 gland and its diseases. Total membership 242 

 (limit 250). 



Meetings : Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual Van Meter 

 award of $300 to stimulate research, especially 

 as to basic cause of goiter. 



189. American Group Psychotherapy Associa- 

 tion, Inc. 1790 Broadway, New York 19, 

 N. Y. President: Maurice E. Linden, 500 

 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Term 

 expires 1962. Executive Secretary: Helene 

 Papanek, 1 West 64th Street, New York, 

 N. Y. Term expires 1962. 



History: Organized 1942 in New York. Ten 

 local and regional affiliate societies. 



Purpose: To promote exchange of knowledge, 

 and stimulate practice and research ; to develop 

 new methods of prevention and treatment to 

 meet mental health needs ; to formulate and sup- 

 port suitable standards of education and train- 

 ing; to unify efforts of psychiatry, psychology, 

 and social work toward understanding and appli- 

 cation of the therapeutic group process. 



Membership: Psychiatrists, or qualified clin- 

 ical psychologists and psychiatric case workers 

 with at least three years' experience in psycho- 

 therapy under approved supervision with psy- 

 chiatrists participating. Total membership ap- 

 proximately 1,200. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: American Journal of Group 

 Therapy, quarterly, free to members. Editor: 

 Harris Peck. 



190. American Gynecological Society. Presi- 

 dent: Albert H. Aldridge, 899 Park Avenue, 

 New York 21, N. Y. Term expires May 31. 

 1961. Secretary: Andrew A. Marchetti, 3800 



Reservoir Road, N. W. Washington 7, D. C. 

 Term expires May 31, 1961. 



History: Organized 1876. Committees: Emil 

 Noval Ovarian Tumor Registry ; American 

 College of Surgeons ; Care of Women in the 

 Armed Forces. 



Purpose: To advance knowledge in the field 

 of obstetrics and gynecology. 



Membership: Candidates for all classes of 

 membership must have graduated at least ten 

 years previously from medical school, and must 

 be proposed by two Fellows of the Society. 

 Active Fellows, 93 ; Life Fellows, 34 ; Honorary 

 American Fellows, 4; Honorary Foreign Fel- 

 lows, 5. Total membership 136. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Transactions, annually, current 

 volume: 82, $15. Editor: Andrew A. Marchetti. 



191. American Heart Association. 44 East 23rd 

 Street, New York 10, N. Y. President: 

 Oglesby Paul. Term expires October 1961. 

 Secretary: William F. McGlone. Term ex- 

 pires October 1961. 



History: Organized 1922; incorporated 1924. 

 Reorganized as voluntary health agency in 1948. 

 The Association includes fifty-five affiliates in 

 fifty States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto 

 Rico. These have 296 local chapters under their 

 jurisdiction. Sections: The Assembly of the 

 Asosciation is the national representative body 

 composed of approximately 400 delegates elected 

 by affiliated Heart Associations and forty chosen 

 by the various councils of the Association. The 

 scientific program is conducted by the Associa- 

 tion's Councils. Their work is coordinated 

 through the Central Committee for Medical 

 Community Program, on which each of the 

 eight Councils is represented. There are Coun- 

 cils on Arteriosclerosis, Basic Science, Cardio- 

 vascular Surgery, Circulation, Clinical Car- 

 diology, Community Service and Education, 

 High Blood Pressure Research, and Rheumatic 

 Fever and Congenital Heart Disease. The lat- 

 ter, previously the American Council on Rheu- 

 matic Fever and Congenital Heart Disease, be- 

 came an American Heart Association Council 

 in 1944 to coordinate the Association's interests 

 in this area with that of a number of other 

 national medical and professional societies. The 

 Council for High Blood Pressure Research was 

 formerly the American Foundation for High 

 Blood Pressure Research which merged with 

 the American Heart Association in 1950. The 

 Council on Arteriosclerosis, formerly the 

 American Society for the Study of Arterio- 

 sclerosis, joined the Association in 1959. 



Purpose: To support research as the principal 

 means of expanding scientific knowledge of 



