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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



90. American Association of Medical Record 

 Librarians. 840 North Lake Shore Drive, 

 Chicago 11, 111. President: Elizabeth Price, 

 Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, 

 111. Term expires October 1960. Executive 

 Director: Doris Gleason. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized October 1928, in Boston, 

 Mass., under sponsorship and guidance of 

 American College of Surgeons. 



Purpose: To improve quality and efficiency of 

 medical records in hospitals, clinics, and other 

 health and medical institutions ; to establish 

 standards and criteria of competency and pro- 

 mote the education of medical record librarians ; 

 to improve and develop teaching and practice 

 of medical record library science. 



Membership: Active: registered medical rec- 

 ord librarians. Associate : persons engaged in 

 medical record work who are unregistered, or 

 student medical record librarians, or student 

 medical record technicians. Inactive : members 

 no longer engaged in medical record work. 

 Honorary. Total membership 4,486. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Institutes for medical 

 record personnel approximately six times a year ; 

 annual workshop for directors of approved 

 schools. 



Publications: Journal, bimonthly, current vol- 

 ume: 31, one year $3, two years $5. Editor: 

 Doris Gleason. 



91. American Association of Museums. Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington 25, D. C. 

 President: Froelich G. Rainey, University 

 Museum, Philadelphia, Pa. Term expires May 

 1961. Director: Joseph A. Patterson. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized May 1906 in New York; 

 headquarters established at Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Washington, D. C, May 1923. Six regional 

 conferences. 



Purpose: To promote the welfare of museums 

 and the the museum profession ; to increase and 

 diffuse knowledge relating to them, and to pro- 

 vide national representation ; to provide useful 

 services for the membership and for those 

 interested in museums. 



Membership: Institutional membership, 711, 

 includes all types of museums, art centers, his- 

 toric houses and societies, planetariums, zoos, 

 aquariums, botanical gardens, and libraries hold- 

 ing special collections and exhibitions other 

 than books. Individual membership, 1,679, open 

 to museum trustees, members of the museum 

 profession, and individuals interested in 

 museums. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Museum News, ten issues an- 

 nually, $10. Editor : Edward T. McClellan. 



92. American Association of Neuropathologists. 



President: Richard Richter, Division of 

 Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago 

 Z7, 111. Term expires June 1961. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Leon Roizin, 722 West 168th 

 Street, New York 32, N. Y. Term expires 

 June 1961. 



History: Organized 1924 as the Club of 

 Neuropathologists, name changed to present 

 title 1932. 



Purpose: To advance the science of neuro- 

 pathology. 



Membership: Active, 130, graduates in medi- 

 cine who have specialized in neuropathology and 

 who have contributed meritorious work in neuro- 

 pathology ; Associates, 16, persons who, though 

 not graduates in medicine, have meritoriously 

 contributed to the scientific field of neuro- 

 pathology; Honorary, 1 distinguished investi- 

 gator in neuropathology. Total membership 

 147. 



Meetings: Annual. 



93. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. 



3010 Prudential Plaza, Chicago 1, 111. Presi- 

 dent: Mrs. Evelyn E. Auld, 1800 Forest Road, 

 Durham, N. C. Term expires September 1961. 

 Secretary: Florence A. McQuillen. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized June 1931, in Cleveland 

 as the National Association of Nurse Anes- 

 thetists ; incorporated in Ohio March 1932. 

 Headquarters moved from Cleveland to Chicago 

 in 1937. Incorporated in Illinois and name 

 changed to present title in 1939. Comprises 

 forty-nine state associations and eight assem- 

 blies, following groupings of the Hospital Asso- 

 ciation Assemblies. 



Purpose: To advance the science and art of 

 anesthesiology and to develop educational stand- 

 ards and techniques in the administration of 

 anesthetics. 



Membership: Active, 8,841, active registered 

 nurses who have taken a 12-montli course with 

 qualifying examination; inactive, 1,205, with 

 the qualifications for active membership but not 

 engaged in work with anesthetics ; honorary 

 member, 1. Total membership 10,047. 



Meetings: Annual, concurrently with Ameri- 

 can Hospital Association. 



Publications: Journal, bimonthly, current vol- 

 ume : 28, $5. News Bulletin, bimonthly, current 

 volume: 14. Editor: Bernice O. Baum. 



