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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



stuffs, mineral feeds, livestock remedies, pesti- 

 cides and fertilizers ; officials of state and federal 

 experiment or research agencies and such dep- 

 uties as shall be duly designated. Total member- 

 ship 60. 



Meetings: Annual. 



434. Association of State and Territorial Health 

 Officers. 1330 West Michigan Street, Indian- 

 apolis 7, Ind. President: Wilson T. Sowder, 

 State Health Officer, State Board of Health, 

 P. O. Box 210, Jacksonville 1, Fla. Term 

 expires October 1960. Secretary-Treasurer : 

 A. C. Offutt, State Health Commissioner, 

 Indiana State Board of Health, 1330 West 

 Michigan Street, Indianapolis 7, Ind. Term 

 expires October 1962. 



History: Organized March 23, 1942. Com- 

 mittees : Federal Relations ; Environmental 

 Sanitation ; Infectious Diseases ; Long Term 

 Illness ; Maternal and Child Health ; Special 

 Health and Medical Services. 



Purpose: To facilitate compliance with the 

 statutory requirement that the Surgeon General 

 of the United States Public Health Service and 

 the Chief of the Children's Bureau shall confer 

 with said executive officers at least once each 

 year ; and, further, to facilitate consideration of 

 policies of any public or private agency dealing 

 with human health, especially in its interstate 

 or federal relationships. 



Membership: Members, 54, executive officers 

 of the departments of health of the several 

 states, territories, and possessions of the United 

 States. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: McCormick Award. 

 Publications: Proceedings, annual. Editor: A. 

 C. Offutt. 



435. Association of State and Territorial Public 

 Health Nutrition Directors. President: 

 Frances Shoun, State Department of Public 

 Health, Nashville, Tenn. Term expires 1961. 

 Executive Secretary: Margaret A. Dunham, 

 Division of Health Education, State Board of 

 Health, Indianapolis, Ind. Term expires 1961. 



History: Organized December 9, 1952. 



Purpose: To constitute an official body with 

 whom other professional groups in public 

 health and related fields can work on nutrition 

 problems and programs of mutual concern, and 

 to serve as a channel through which directors 

 of nutrition programs of the states, territories 

 and possessions of the United States may ex- 

 change and share methods, techniques and infor- 

 mation for the improvement of public health 

 nutrition services. 



Membership: Members, 45, limited to the 

 directors of nutrition in the health departments 

 of the states, territories and the District of 

 Columbia. 



Meetings: Biennial. 



436. Association of Teachers of Mathematics in 

 New England. President: Rev. Stanley J. 

 Bezuszka, S. J., Boston College, Chestnut 

 Hill 67, Mass. Term expires May 1961. 

 Secretary: Barbara B. Betts, D. C. Heath 

 and Company, 285 Columbus Avenue, Boston 

 16, Mass. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized April 1903. 



Purpose: To increase interest in the science 

 of mathematics ; to secure improvements in the 

 methods of mathematical teaching and in the 

 selection of subject matter; and to establish 

 close relations with cognate lines of work. 



Membership: Interest in mathematics and in 

 the teaching of mathematics at any level, elemen- 

 tary through college. Total membership 1,050. 



Meetings: Five meetings during the school 

 year and a week-long Institute in August. 



Publications: Newsletter, 5 times a year. 

 Editor : Geraldine D. Smith. 



437. Association of Teachers of Preventive 

 Medicine. President: William L. Fleming, 

 University of North Carolina School of Medi- 

 cine, Chapel Hill, N. C. Term expires Octo- 

 ber 1960. Secretary-Treasurer: Milton Terris, 

 Tulane University School of Medicine, New 

 Orleans, La. Term expires October 1960. 



History: Founded in 1942 as the Conference 

 of Professors of Preventive Medicine ; name 

 changed in 1954 to present title. Committees : 

 Medical Care Teaching ; Research and Training. 



Purpose: The development of instructional 

 and scientific skills and knowledge in the field 

 of preventive medicine. 



Membership: Members, 382, persons who are 

 engaged in instruction of medical students, or 

 who have interest, skill, or special training in 

 preventive medicine. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Newsletter, 3 times a year, 

 current volume: 7. Editor: Duncan Clark. 



438. Association of the Schools of Public 

 Health, Inc. President: James Crabtree, 

 Graduate School of Public Health, University 

 of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Term expires 

 April 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Vlado 

 Getting, 3520 School of Public Health, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Term 

 expires April 1961. 



