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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



541. Colorado Society of Engineers. 1380 South 

 Santa Fe Drive, Denver 23, Colo. President: 

 Fred Dumler. Term expires March 1961. 

 Managing Secretary: James Eitzen. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Incorporated August 4, 1916 as 

 Colorado Society of Civil Engineers ; name 

 changed to Colorado Society of Engineers, 

 January 11, 1919; largest professional organiza- 

 tion for engineers in Colorado ; recently com- 

 pleted Engineers Building in Denver to serve 

 as engineering and scientific headquarters for 

 the State. 



Purpose: To broaden the social and business 

 relationships of engineers and those in allied 

 interests ; to provide an employment service for 

 engineers and employers of engineers ; to main- 

 tain and improve the full professional status of 

 engineers ; to promote the advancement of 

 engineering knowledge and education ; to pro- 

 mote full and complete engineering knowledge 

 and participation in civic affairs, particularly 

 those of an engineering or public works nature ; 

 to maintain a publication of engineering interest ; 

 to provide an engineering center for correlating 

 and unifying the activities of all local branches 

 of engineering, architectural, and scientific 

 organizations. 



Membership: Registered Member, registered 

 professional engineer; Member, eligible for 

 registration as professional engineer ; Junior 

 Member, less than thirty-three years of age, 

 either a junior or senior undergraduate in an 

 engineering school of recognized standing, or a 

 person engaged in active engineering work and 

 study for not less than three years, ineligible for 

 full membership ; Associate, twenty-five years 

 of age, interested in the advancement of engin- 

 eering, or technical and scientific knowledge, 

 and ineligible for other grades of membership. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual awards to high 

 school students outstanding in the field of 

 mathematics or science (participates through 

 Colorado Engineering Council in most activ- 

 ities of this type). 



Publications: Engineers' Bulletin, monthly, 

 current volume : 43, $3.50. Editor : James Eitzen. 



542. Colorado State Medical Society. 835 Re- 

 public Building, Denver 2, Colo. President: 

 Cyrus W. Anderson. Term expires September 

 21, 1961. Executive Secretary: Harvey T. 

 Sethman. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1871 as Colorado Terri- 

 torial Medical Society ; affiliated with the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association, 1872 ; incorporated 

 1875 ; name changed to present title 1876 ; 

 incorporated October 31, 1888. Twenty-seven 



component medical societies, each representing 

 one or more countries. Committees : Blood 

 Banks, Health Education, Medical Education 

 and Hospitals, Medical Service, Medicological, 

 Public Health. 



Purpose: To promote the science and art of 

 medicine, the betterment of public health, and 

 the welfare of the medical profession, and the 

 similar interests of its component county and 

 district societies. 



Membership: Active Members (Senior, Jun- 

 ior, and Emeritus), 2,031; Associate Members, 

 408, so classified by component societies as 

 ineligible for or not desiring Active membership ; 

 Honorary Members, 7, distinguished persons 

 who have made outstanding contribution to the 

 purposes of this Society. Total membership 

 2,446. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Colorado Medical 

 Foundation, to endow purposes of the Society; 

 Certificate of Service, annual, to an individual 

 for outstanding public service in medicine or 

 public health. 



Publications: Rocky Mountain Medical Journ- 

 al, monthly, current volume : 57, $5. Editor : 

 Harvey T. Sethman. Colorado Medicine (news- 

 letter), monthly, current volume: 13, free to 

 members. 



Library: Joint, with Denver Medical Society; 

 61,409 volumes on medicine. 



543. Colorado- Wyoming Academy of Science. 



President: Sam Shushan, Department of 

 Botany, University of Colorado, Boulder, 

 Colo. Term expires May 1961. Secretary: 

 Richard G. Beidleman, Colorado College, 

 Colorado Springs, Colo. Term expires May 

 1963. 



History: Organized 1927. Sections: Anthro- 

 pology, Bacteriology, Chemistry, Physics, Social 

 Sciences, Psychology, Plant Science, Zoology. 



Purpose: To encourage scientific investigation 

 in the Rocky Mountain region. 



Membership: Open to any individual inter- 

 ested in science. Total membership 400. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Cosponsor of Colo- 

 rado-Wyoming Bistate Science Fair ; sponsor 

 of high school lectureship program (National 

 Science Foundation grant) ; Research Awards, 

 one or more $50 grants annually to high school, 

 college, or graduate students. 



Publications: Journal, annual, current vol- 

 ume : 4, free to members. Editor : R. G. 

 Beidleman. 



544. Columbus Technical Council. President: 

 Owen E. Buxton, Department of Mechanical 



