UNITED STATES 



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Donald Pratt, 7227 Geary Boulevard, San 

 Francisco 21, Calif. 



481. California Medical Association. 693 Sutter 

 Street, San Francisco 2, Calif. President: 

 Paul D. Foster, 1216 Wilshire Boulevard, 

 Los Angeles, Calif. Term expires May 3, 

 1961. Executive Secretary: John Hunton. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized March 12, 1856, as Medi- 

 cal Society of the State of California ; reorgan- 

 ized 1870; name changed to present title 1923. 



Purpose: To advance scientific medicine. 



Membership: Requires authentic degree of 

 doctor of medicine, and license to practice as 

 physician and surgeon in California. Active 

 members, 17,000. 



Meetings Annual. 



Publications: California Medicine, monthly, 

 $6. Editor : D. L. Wilbur. 



482. California Pharmaceutical Association. 701 



South St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles 5, 

 Calif. President: Nat Lippman, 7200 Pacific 

 Boulevard, Huntington Park, Calif. Term 

 expires May 31, 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 Cecil A. Stewart. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1868; reorganized 1906; 

 incorporated 1933. Composed of two metropoli- 

 tan and thirty-seven county and local phar- 

 maceutical associations. 



Purpose: Securing of higher professional 

 standing for pharmacists ; support and en- 

 couragement of pharmaceutical education by 

 more thorough preliminary schooling, and of 

 greater scientific requirements for practice of 

 pharmacy ; dissemination of information per- 

 taining to pharmaceuticals and drug laws. 



Membership: Requires registration as phar- 

 macist licensed to practice in State of California. 

 Full Members, pharmacists, 4,000; Associate 

 Members, pharmacy school students, members of 

 women's auxiliaries, and pharmaceutical sales- 

 men, 500. Total membership 4,500. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Scholarship Loan 

 Fund, to render assistance to worthy applicants 

 attending pharmacy schools, available to soph- 

 omore, junior, and senior students, capital 

 $7,200. $500 cash scholarship awarded to a high 

 school senior who will attend pharmacy school. 



Publications: California Pharmacy, monthly, 

 current volume : 6, $3. Editor : James W. 

 Gentry. 



483. California Science Teachers Association, 

 Northern Section. 2082 Center Street, Berke- 

 ley 4, Calif. President: William F. Dresia, 



107 Santa Margarita Drive, San Rafael, Calif. 

 Term expires June 1961. Secretary: W. 

 Keith MacNab, 10 Morningside Drive, San 

 Anselmo, Calif. Term expires June 1961. 



History: Organized 1941. Affiliated with 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and National Science Teachers Asso- 

 ciation. 



Purpose: To stimulate, improve, and coordi- 

 nate science teaching at all levels of instruction. 



Membership: Open to all science teachers. 

 Total membership approximately 400. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Northern California 

 Science Curriculum Committee. 



484. California Society of Anesthesiologists, 

 Inc. 39 North San Mateo Drive, San Mateo, 

 Calif. President: John P. Howard, 3585 4th 

 Avenue, San Diego 3, Calif. Term expires 

 1961. Executive Secretary: Norman Catron. 

 Term indefinite. Secretary-Treasurer : Charles 

 D. Anderson, 439 30th Street, Oakland, Calif. 

 Term expires 1962. 



History: Organized 1948; incorporated 1954. 



Purpose: To advance science and art of 

 anesthesiology, and to stimulate interest and 

 promote progress in scientific, cultural, and eco- 

 nomic aspects of the specialty. 



Membership: Active Members, physicians 

 licensed to practice in California, who are mem- 

 bers of American Society of Anesthesiologists, 

 Inc. ; whose specialization or special interest is 

 in practice of anesthesiology ; who are members 

 in county medical society. Total membership 

 789. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Residents Award. 



Publications: Bulletin, quarterly, $4. Editor: 

 T. W. Mcintosh. 



485. California Society of Professional Engi- 

 neers. 22639 Main Street, Hayward, Calif. 

 President: Willard A. Holt, 1759 Claridge 

 Avenue, Arcadia, Calif. Term expires June 1, 

 1961. Executive Secretary: Leroy Martin. 

 Term expires June 1, 1961. 



History: Incorporated September 18, 1947. 

 Twenty-seven active chapters. 



Purpose: To advance public welfare; to unite 

 all professional engineers of the State in one 

 organization ; to advance interests of engineers, 

 professional and in training; to promote high 

 standards of engineering education, ethics, and 

 practice; to improve public relations and de- 

 velop civic consciousness in the profession. 



