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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



27. Albany Society of Engineers. 25 South Allen 

 Street, Albany 8, N. Y. President: Louis B. 

 Calcagni, East Greenbush. N. Y. Term ex- 

 pires December 31, 1960. Executive Secretary: 

 John F. McColl, 20 Glendale Avenue, Delmar, 

 N. Y. Term expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized 1905-06 as Albany Society 

 of Civil Engineers ; name changed to present 

 title April 25, 1922. 



Purpose: Advancement of engineering 

 knowledge and practices, maintenance of high 

 professional standards, and welfare of engineers. 



Membership: Requires active engagement in 

 engineering or kindred professions. Total 

 membership 320. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



Publications: Yearbook, biannual. Editor : 

 John F. McColl. 



28. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the 

 Deaf, Inc. Volta Bureau, 1537 35th Street, 

 N. W., Washington 7, D. C. President: 

 George T. Pratt, Clarke School for the Deaf, 

 Northampton, Mass. Term expires January 

 1961. Executive Secretary: Jeanette Ninas 

 Johnson. Term expires January 1961. Secre- 

 tary: June Miller, University of Kansas 

 Medical Center, Kansas City 12, Kans. Term 

 expires January 1961. 



History: Organized and incorporated 1890 

 as American Association to Promote the Teach- 

 ing of Speech to the Deaf. National Forum on 

 Deafness and Speech consolidated with the 

 Association. Name changed to present title 

 June 1953. 



Purpose: To promote the teaching of speech 

 to the deaf and to help educators of the deaf in 

 their efforts to teach speech and lip reading; to 

 furnish information to those interested in any 

 of the problems occasioned by deafness. 



Membership: Regular, Sustaining, and Life 

 members, 4,000; open to all who are interested 

 in the objectives of the Association. 



Meetings: Business meetings, annual ; National 

 Program meetings, biennially in even years ; 

 Regional Program meetings in odd years. 



Publications: Volta Review, monthly except 

 July and August, current volume : 62, $5, free 

 to members. Editor : Jeanette Ninas Johnson. 



Library: The 20,000 volume John Hitz Me- 

 morial Library. 



29. Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity. 5503 East 

 Washington Street, Indianapolis 19, Ind. 

 President: Frank J. Zvanut, Country Club 

 Road, St. Charles, Mo. Term expires June, 

 1962. National Secretary: Roy W. Loan. 

 Term permanent. 



History: Founded 1902 at the University of 

 Wisconsin. At first a professional collegiate 

 organization, it was divided in 1922 into col- 

 legiate and professional branches : forty-nine 

 chapters in universities or colleges ; thirty-one 

 professional chapters. Incorporated under the 

 laws of Wisconsin. An associate of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Purpose: To advance chemistry as a science 

 and profession ; to aid members by every honor- 

 able means in the attainment of their ambitions 

 as chemists throughout life. 



Membership: Satisfaction of academic degree 

 and competence in chemistry and/or chemical 

 engineering, with the usual personality require- 

 ments of fraternities. Total membership, Col- 

 legiate and Professional, 29,750. 



Meetings: Biennial. 



Professional activities: National fund to 

 finance grants-in-aid ; local awards, usually 

 for scholarships, among various chapters ; two 

 national traveling efficiency cups are awarded 

 biennially to outstanding collegiate chapters that 

 best represent the organization's ideals as well 

 as its value to the chemistry department and 

 institution ; a traveling scholarship is awarded 

 biennially to the highest-rated collegiate chapter ; 

 the Reserve Trust Funds approximate $141,000; 

 the professional branch of the organization 

 finances annually the American Chemical So- 

 ciety Award in Pure Chemistry, $1,000, to be 

 given to a chemist not over thirty-five years of 

 age who contributes to. the literature the most 

 outstanding research in pure chemistry ; the 

 collegiate branch of the organization operates 

 a national safety program in the interest of 

 safe practice in chemical laboratories, in con- 

 junction with the National Safety Council, with 

 which the national fraternity and all of its 

 collegiate chapters are associated. 



Publications: Hexagon, quarterly, current 

 volume: 50, $1.25 to professional members. 

 Proceedings, annual, free to members. 



30. Alpha Epsilon Delta. 7 Brookside Circle, 

 Bronxville, N. Y. President: Norman F. 

 Witt, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 

 Term expires 1962. Secretary: Maurice L. 

 Moore. Term expires 1962. 



History: Founded April 28, 1926; incor- 

 porated August 2, 1949. Seventy-five chapters 

 in accredited colleges throughout the United 

 States. 



Purpose: To encourage excellence in pre- 

 medical scholarship ; to stimulate appreciation 

 of importance of premedical education in study 

 of medicine ; to promote cooperation and con- 

 tacts between medical and premedical students 

 and educators in developing an adequate program 



