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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



651. Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. 



9711 West Forest Park Drive, Hales Corners, 

 Wis. President: Paul H. Poberezny. Term 

 expires August 1963. Secretary-Treasurer: 

 Robert E. Nolinske, 11433 West Sunset Lane, 

 Milwaukee 20, Wis. Term expires August 

 1963. 



History: Organized January 1953. Association 

 now has members in twenty-six other countries. 

 Affiliate organizations in Canada, Australia, 

 New Zealand, and Union of South Africa. 

 Eighty-six chapters in the United States and 

 Canada. 



Purpose: To encourage development of any 

 type of aircraft by individuals through experi- 

 mentation and home engineering ; to foster close 

 fellowship through exchange of ideas of mutual 

 interest ; to provide our air arms with personnel 

 having aviation incentive by encouraging youths 

 to participate in aviation projects (model build- 

 ing, gliding, flying, and aircraft construction). 



Membership: Open to any person interested 

 in research and experimentation for improve- 

 ment of any type of aircraft. Total membership 

 approximately 8,500. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Sport Aviation, monthly, current 

 volume : 9, $6. Editor : Paul H. Poberezny. 



652. Explorers Club. 10 West 72nd Street, New 

 York 23, N. Y. President: Charles B. 

 Hitchcock, American Geographical Society, 

 Broadway at 156th Street, New York 32, N. 

 Y. Term expires April 1961. Secretary: Earl 

 R. Allyn, 14 Cathedral Avenue, Hempstead, 

 Long Island, N. Y. Term expires April 1961. 



History: Organized 1904; incorporated 1905. 



Purpose: To further general exploration and 

 spread resulting knowledge ; to acquire and 

 maintain a library for exploratory research. 



Membership: Candidates for active member- 

 ship are required to have contributed to advance- 

 ment of knowledge of the world ; Associate 

 members shall be persons who have aided, 

 encouraged, or taken active interest in explora- 

 tion. Total membership 1,061. 



Meetings: Bimonthly, October through May. 



Professional activities: Exploration Fund; 

 Explorers Club Medal. 



Publications: Explorers Journal, quarterly, 

 current volume : 38, $5. Editor : Daniel D. 

 Streeter. 



Library: 13,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Exploration. 



653. Federal Sewage Research Association. 



President: Bernard B. Berger, Robert A. 

 Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, 4676 



Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati 26, Ohio. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. Secretary-Treas- 

 urer: Ralph H. Holtje, Division of Water 

 Supply and Pollution Control, U. S. Public 

 Health Service, Washington 25, D. C. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized February 1930; affiliated 

 with the Water Pollution Control Federation. 



Purpose: To encourage the study of waste 

 water problems and promote improved and 

 effective water quality management. 



Membership: Members, 91, must be in the 

 employ (or on retirement status) of the Federal 

 Government, with salary paid all or in part by 

 Federal funds. 



Meetings: Annual. 



654. Federation of American Scientists. 1700 

 K Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. 

 Chairman: M. Stanley Livingston, Cambridge 

 Electron Accelerator, Cambridge, Mass. Term 

 expires April 1961. General Counsel: Daniel 

 M. Singer. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized November 1945 as the 

 Federation of Atomic Scientists ; incorporated 

 and name changed January 1946 to present title. 

 Branches : Berkeley, Boston, Cleveland, Hous- 

 ton, Iowa City, Madison, New Haven, New 

 York, Pittsburgh, Rochester, St. Louis, and 

 Urbana. Chapters : Brookhaven, Chicago, Los 

 Alamos, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Schenectady- 

 Troy, Stanford, and Washington. Committees : 

 Atoms-for-Peace, Disarmament, Education, 

 Loyalty- Security, Nuclear Test Ban, Outer 

 Space, Passports, and Science Department. 



Purpose: To promote the welfare of mankind 

 and the achievement of a stable world peace ; 

 to study the implications of scientific develop- 

 ments; to disseminate facts necessary for intel- 

 ligent conclusions concerning the social im- 

 plications of new scientific knowledge ; to safe- 

 guard the spirit of free inquiry ; to promote 

 public policies which will secure the benefit of 

 science to the general welfare ; and to strengthen 

 and extend the international cooperation tra- 

 ditional among scientists. 



Membership: Chapter members ; Members-at- 

 Large; Students; Sustaining Members; Patron 

 Members; two-thirds of the membership must 

 be working scientists or engineers, or students, 

 teachers or supervisors in science or engineer- 

 ing; the other third must have a bachelor's 

 degree or equivalent, but need not be closely 

 associated with scientific fields. Total member- 

 ship 2,000. 



Meetings: Council meets two or three times 

 a year. 



Publications: Newsletter, ten times a year, $2, 

 free to members. 



