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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Professional activities: General Foods Fund, 

 Inc., graduate fellowships, $12,000 annually; 

 Florasynth Fellowship, graduate, $1,000 an- 

 nually ; Samuel Gate Prescott Fellowship, 

 graduate, $1,000 annually; Gerber Baby Foods 

 Fund, Inc., undergraduate awards, $6,000 

 annually ; Dodge and Olcott Scholarship, under- 

 graduate, $1,000 annually; Alexander E. Katz 

 Memorial Scholarship, undergraduate, $1,000 

 annually; Nicholas Appert Award, $1,000 and 

 bronze medal for pre-eminence in and contri- 

 bution to field of food technology ; Babcock- 

 Hart Award, $1,000 and engrossed plaque for 

 contributions to food technology which have 

 resulted in improved public health ; Institute of 

 Food Technologists International Award, en- 

 graved silver salver for member who has made 

 outstanding effort to promote international ex- 

 change of ideas in field of food technology; 

 Food Technology Industrial Achievement 

 Award, bronze plaque to company or institution 

 for significant advance in application of tech- 

 nology to food production successful in com- 

 mercial operation, and engrossed plaques to 

 individuals who have made major contributions 

 to that achievement. 



Publications: Food Technology, monthly, cur- 

 rent volume : 14. Food Research, bimonthly, 

 current volume : 25. Editor, both publications : 

 M. S. Peterson. 



784. Institute of Management Sciences. P. O. 



Box 273, Pleasantville, N. Y. President: A. 

 Charnes, Technological Institute, North- 

 western University, Evanston, 111. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. Executive Secre- 

 tary: George Kozmetsky, 300 Bellino Drive, 

 Pacific Palisades, Calif. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized December 1, 1953; incor- 

 porated in California September 2, 1954. Chap- 

 ters in fifteen cities, including Paris and Tokyo. 

 Colleges : Business Computer and Data Sys- 

 tems, Decision Processes, Management Com- 

 munications, Management Controls, Management 

 Games, Managerial Economics, Measurements 

 in Management, Organization Theory, Planning, 

 Psychoanalytic Processes, Research and Devel- 

 opment, Simulation. Committees : Education. 

 Development, Professional Relations, Publica- 

 tions, Research. 



Purpose: To identify, extend, and unify 

 scientific knowledge that contributes to under- 

 standing and practice of management. 



Membership: Requires interest in promoting 

 practice and growth of management sciences. 

 Members in forty-four countries ; individual 

 members include 100 students and twenty mem- 

 bers of the United States Armed Forces. Total 

 membership 2,720. 



Meetings: One or two annually. 



Professional activities: Research through 

 above named colleges ; financial assistance for 

 research projects ; annual methodology sym- 

 posium. 



Publications: Management Science, quarterly, 

 current volume : 6, $10. Management Tech- 

 nology, current volume: 1. Editor, both 

 publications : C. W. Churchman. 



785. Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Presi- 

 dent: E. L. Lehman, Department of Statistics, 

 University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 

 Term expires August 1961. Executive Secre- 

 tary: George E. Nicholson, Jr., Department 

 of Statistics, University of North Carolina, 

 Chapel Hill, N. C. Term expires August 

 1961. 



History: Organized September 12, 1935, at 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. Regions : Central, Eastern, 

 Western. No formal division ; regional classifi- 

 cation is only for regional meetings. 



Purpose: To encourage development, dissem- 

 ination, and application of mathematical 

 statistics. 



Membership: Requires interest in mathemati- 

 cal statistics. Present membership is representa- 

 tive of colleges, industry, and government, and 

 includes people from all continents. Total 

 membership 2,300. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Rietz Lecture, bien- 

 nial. 



Publications: Annals of Mathematical Sta- 

 tistics, quarterly, current volume : 3, United 

 States and Canada $12, elsewhere $10. Editor: 

 William Kruskal, Department of Statistics, 

 LTniversity of Chicago, Chicago 37, 111. 



786. Institute of Medicine of Chicago. 86 East 

 Randolph Street, Chicago 1, 111. President: 

 Walter L. Palmer, 950 East 59th Street, 

 Chicago 37, III. Term expires January 1961. 

 Executive Director: Edna Nicholson. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Established 1915; incorporated. 



Purpose: To serve as a nonpartisan, represent- 

 ative body of medical and allied persons to 

 which profession and public can look with 

 confidence in matters affecting mutual interests ; 

 to initiate and cooperate in medical surveys 

 and reforms ; to coordinate medical with social 

 and civic aspects of community efforts concerned 

 with public welfare ; to encourage and promote 

 advancement of medical sciences ; to inform the 

 public on topics of current medical interest, and 

 to interpret to them the significance of recent 

 developments in research. 



