94 



SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



affinity or association with the manufacture or 

 use of glass or glassblowing equipment as it 

 concerns some branch of the science. Total 

 membership 536. 

 Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Fusion, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 7. $3. Symposium Proceedings, annual. 

 Price varies. 



284. American Shore and Beach Preservation 

 Association. 810 18th Street, N. W., Wash- 

 ington 6, D. C. President: Charles G. Holle. 

 Term expires June 1961. Executive Secre- 

 tary: Francis J. Graling. Term expires June 

 1961. 



History: Organized October 14, 1926 at a 

 meeting called by the Governor of New Jersey 

 at the instigation of the Committee on Shoreline 

 Investigations of the National Research Council, 

 and perfected December 8, 1926 in Washington, 

 D. C. ; incorporated as a nonprofit, educational- 

 scientific association under the laws of New 

 Jersey. 



Purpose: To bring together for cooperation 

 and mutual helpfulness the many agencies, inter- 

 ests, and individuals concerned with the pro- 

 tection and proper utilization of shores and 

 beaches, and in all legitimate ways to foster 

 that sound, far-sighted, and economical develop- 

 ment and preservation of the lands which will 

 aid in placing their benefits within the reach of 

 the largest possible number of people. 



Membership: Individual, Sustaining, Corpor- 

 ate, and Sponsor. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Shore and Beach Magazine, 

 semiannual, current volume : 28, $4. News 

 Letter, monthly, $6. Editor : Francis J. Graling. 



285. American Social Health Association, Inc. 



1790 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Presi- 

 dent: Frank H. Heller, 2100 North Akard 

 Street, Dallas, Tex. Term expires May 1961. 

 Executive Secretary: Conrad Van Hyning. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1913 as American Social 

 Hygiene Association, by the union of the Ameri- 

 can Vigilance Association, organized January 

 1912, with the American Federation for Sex 

 Hygiene, organized June 1910; incorporated 

 1914. In 1918 absorbed the New York Social 

 Hygiene Society, organized 1916. In January 

 1960 name changed to present title. Carries 

 out program in the United States and insular 

 possessions through State and community social 

 hygiene societies. Its division of international 



services works with social hygiene groups in 

 other countries and, through the International 

 Union Against Venereal Diseases, of which it is 

 the United States member-agency and regional 

 office for the Americas, enjoys the privileges 

 of consultant relationship with the Economic 

 and Social Council of the United Nations. 



Purpose: To inform the public about social 

 hygiene and needed community action ; to com- 

 bat syphilis and gonorrhea as dangerous com- 

 municable diseases ; to fight commercialized 

 prostitution and other conditions which lead to 

 sex delinquency among young people ; to pro- 

 mote and conduct demonstrations in family life 

 education for the strengtiiening and improve- 

 ment of the American family. 



MeinhcrsJiip: Open to persons interested in 

 the objectives of the Association. Total member- 

 ship approximately 700. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: William Freeman 

 Snow Medal, awarded annually for outstanding 

 work in the social health field. 



Publications : Social Health News, 10 issues 

 yearly, current volume : 35, free. Editor : Mary 

 Mangan. Social Health Papers, annual, $1. 

 Editor : Mary Mangan. 



286. American Society for Artificial Internal 

 Organs. President: Melvin H. Newman, 

 National Jewish Hospital, 3800 East Colfax 

 Avenue, Denver 6, Colo. Term expires April 

 1961. Executive Secretary: E. Converse 

 Peirce II, Acufif Clinic, 514 West Church 

 Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn. Term expires .April 

 1962. 



History: Organization begun 1954; completed 

 at Atlantic City, N. J., June 1955. 



Purpose: To provide a flexible and current 

 forum for physicians, physiologists, engineers, 

 and associated investigators interested in the 

 general field of artificial internal organs (hemo- 

 dialysis, pump-oxygenators. grafts, plastics, etc. ). 



Membership: Open to any person who has 

 made significant original contribution in field 

 of artificial internal organs. Total membership 

 120. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Transactions, annual, current 

 volume : 5, $8. Editor : George V. Schreiner, 

 Georgetown University. Washington 7, D. C. 



287. American Society for Clinical Investigation. 



Secretary: William J. Harrington, Washing- 

 ton University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 

 Mo. Term expires May 1963. 



