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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Professional actwities: Sponsors annual com- 

 petition among residents-in-training for best 

 scientific paper. 



603. District of Columbia Society of Profes- 

 sional Engineers, Inc. President: Leonard T. 

 Crook, 5409 Yorktown Boulevard, Arlington 

 7, Va. Term expires June 30, 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: Louis M. Tierney, 9408 Saybrook 

 Avenue, Silver Spring, Md. Term expires 

 June 30, 196L 



History: Established September 13, 1935; 

 affiliate. National Society of Professional Engi- 

 neers. Secured enactment of District of Columbia 

 Professional Engineers Registration Act, Sep- 

 tember 19, 1950. Employment Groups : Gov- 

 ernment, Private Practice, Industry, Education. 



Purpose: Service to society, state, and profes- 

 sion by promotion and protection of engineering 

 as a vital social and economic influence ; 

 provision of effective forums for engineers 

 grouped by employment as above indicated. 



Membership: Requires license or registration 

 certificate as professional engineer or engineer- 

 in-training issued by a lawfully constituted 

 registration board of a State or other subdivision 

 of the United States or of a province of Canada ; 

 Introductory Members have fulfilled all require- 

 ments but have not applied for Society member- 

 ship. Professional Engineers, 450 ; Engineers- 

 in-Training, 50; Introductory Members, 60. 

 Total membership 560. 



Alee tings: Monthly, winter only. 



Professional activities: Annual award to 

 promising high school graduate who plans to 

 study engineering ; awards for outstanding 

 service to this Society. 



Publications: Metropolitan Washington Pro- 

 fessional Engineer, monthly, current volume : 

 15, free to members. 



604. Duodecimal Society of America, Inc. 20 



Carlton Place, Staten Island 4, N. Y. Presi- 

 dent: Kingsland Camp, Hotel Shelton Towers, 

 New York 17, N. Y. Term indefinite. Execu- 

 tive Secretary: Ralph H. Beard. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized 1935; incorporated 1944 

 in New York. 



Purpose: To educate the public and conduct 

 research in the use of the 12-base in numeration, 

 mathematics, weights, and measures, and other 

 branches of pure and applied science. 



Membership: Open to all who demonstrate 

 competence in duodecimal calculations. Total 

 membership approximately 100. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: An Annual Award 

 (scroll) is conferred upon any person who 

 has made a significant contribution to the 

 progress and development of duodecimals, and 

 of this Society. 



Publications: Duodecimal Bulletin, semi- 

 annual, current volume: 14, $2, free to members. 

 Editor : Ralph H. Beard. 



Library: 5,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Mathematics and Esperanto. 



605. East Bay Psychiatric Association. Presi- 

 dent: Dora Fishback, 2000 Dwight Way, 

 Berkeley 4, Calif. Term expires April 1961. 

 Secretary: Richard E. Turk, 2000 Dwight 

 Way, Berkeley 4, Calif. Term expires April 

 1961. 



History: Organized September 21, 1951, at 

 tlie suggestion of the chairman of the Mental 

 Health Committee of the Alameda-Contra Costa 

 Medical Association. 



Purpose: To speak for East Bay psychiatrists 

 and to promote fellowship among them. 



Membership: Active members must have 

 specialized in psychiatry for three years. 

 Associate members must be practicing or train- 

 ing in psychiatry. Honorary members must 

 have rendered some signal service in the 

 interest of psychiatry. Total membership 116. 



Meetings: Monthly except during summer. 



606. East Texas Geological Society. Tyler, Tex. 

 President: Paul H. Nichols, P. O. Box 2037, 

 Tyler, Tex. Term expires April 1, 1961. 

 Executive Secretary: Jack G. Goodwin, P. O. 

 Box 480, Tyler, Tex. Term expires April 

 1, 1961. 



History: Organized September 10, 1931. 



Purpose: To promote the science of geology 

 as related to East Texas and adjacent regions, 

 and to promote fellowship and cooperation 

 among geologists resident therein. 



Membership: Total members, 243, participat- 

 ing geologists or persons who are actively 

 engaged in some phase of the petroleum industry. 



Meetings: Semi-monthly. 



607. Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society, Dis- 

 trict Branch of the American Psychiatric 

 Association. 5400 Arsenal Street, St. Louis 

 9, Mo. President: Bernard A. Cruvant, 915 

 North Grand Boulevard, St. Louis 6, Mo. 

 Term expires May 1961. Executive Secre- 

 tary: Shael S. Bronson, 100 North Euclid 

 Street, St. Louis 8, Mo. Term expires May 

 1961. 



History: Organized 1938 as the St. Louis 

 Society of Neurology and Psychiatry as sue- 



