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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



565. Connecticut Society of Gerontology. 165 



Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Conn. President: 

 Harold S. Barrett. Term expires January 1, 

 1961. President-Elect: Miss Ruth Olson, 

 Superintendent, New Britain Memorial Hos- 

 pital, 2050 Corbin Avenue, New Britain, 

 Conn. Term begins January 1, 1961. 



History: Organized November 1953 as first 

 state society in its field. 



Purpose: To stimulate awareness, interest, 

 and community activity in the problems of an 

 aging population ; to foster scientific investiga- 

 tion of these problems ; to provide for an 

 exchange of knowledge and information per- 

 taining to gerontology ; to give advisory and 

 consultant services to interested organizations 

 and agencies. 



Membership: Open to any professional or 

 non-professional person interested in the aims 

 of the organization. Regular Members, persons 

 elected by the council upon the recommendation 

 of the Membership Committee ; Sustaining 

 Members, groups, unions, or corporations elect- 

 ed by a three-fourths vote of the council. Total 

 membership 160. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual conferences 

 planned for senior citizens of Connecticut ; 

 periodic conferences and meetings held for pro- 

 fessional workers from organizations and agen- 

 cies serving senior citizens ; sponsors confer- 

 ences to assist in the preparation of needed 

 legislation. 



566. Connecticut Society of Pathologists. Presi- 

 dent: George B. McAdams, Hartford Hos- 

 pital, Hartford, Conn. Term expires Septem- 

 ber 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : Donald King, 

 Brady Laboratory, Grace-New Haven Hos- 

 pital, New Haven, Conn. Term expires 

 September 1961. 



History: Organized 1935. 



Purpose: To maintain and improve service of 

 pathologists to physicians and patients ; to 

 provide periodic conferences for mutual assis- 

 tance. 



Membership: Graduates from recognized 

 medical schools specializing in practice or 

 teaching of pathology. Active members, 48. 

 Total membership 60. 



Meetings: Bimonthly. 



567. Connecticut Society of Professional Eng- 

 ineers. P. O. Box B, Devon, Conn. Presi- 

 dent: Stefan L. Grapnel, Putnam, Conn. Term 

 expires June 1, 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 Llewelyn M. Reed. Term indefinite. 



History: Incorporated 1934; one of first four 

 State Society members of the National Society 

 of Professional Engineers. 



Purpose: Advancement of the pubUc welfare 

 and promotion of the professional, social, and 

 economic interests of the professional engineer. 



Membership: Open to registered professional 

 engineers in the United States or its territories, 

 or Canada ; open also to registered engineers- 

 in-training. Total membership 700. 



Meetings: Two or three a year. 



Professional actiz'itics: Scholarships in eng- 

 ineering ; Engineer of the Year Award ; twenty 

 and twenty-five year membership awards ; 

 awards for outstanding service. 



Publications : New England Professional Eng- 

 ineer Magazine, bi-monthly, published jointly 

 by all six New England State Societies. 



568. Connecticut State Medical Society. 160 St. 



Ronan Street, New Haven, Conn. President: 

 John N. Gallivan, 400 Main Street, East 

 Hartford, Conn. Term expires April 1961. 

 Secretary: Orvan W. Hess, 79 Trumbull 

 Street, New Haven, Conn. Term expires 

 April 1961. 



History: Incorporated May 1792. Com- 

 mittees : Arrangements ; Postgraduate Educa- 

 tion ; Hospitals ; Industrial Health ; Medical 

 Education and Licensure ; Program ; Public 

 Health ; State Legislation ; Public Relations ; 

 Cancer Coordinating ; Professional Relations ; 

 Mental Health; Third Party Payments; Eye 

 Care ; Editorial Board of Journal. 



Purpose: To extend medical knowledge and 

 advance medical science, to promote friendly 

 intercourse among physicians, to enlighten and 

 direct public opinion in prevention and care 

 of disease, and in prolonging life. 



Membership: Members, 3,243, licensed to 

 practice medicine and a years residence in 

 Connecticut; Associates, 12, not licensed to 

 practice medicine ; Student Members, 500, can- 

 didates for degrees of Doctor of Medicine, 

 whose families reside in Connecticut, or those in 

 that State's medical schools, or interns and 

 residents in Connecticut hospitals. Total mem- 

 bership 3,755. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Connecticut Medicine, monthly, 

 current volume: 24, $10. Editor: Denis S. 

 O'Connor. 



569. Connecticut State Psychological Society, 

 Inc. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. 

 President: Philip W. Morse, 560 South Main 

 Street, Hartford, Conn. Term expires August 

 31, 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Edith S. 

 Lisansky, 134 Wakefield Street, Hamden, 

 Conn. Term expires August 31, 1962. 



