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986. National Association of Practical Refrig- 

 erating Engineers, Inc. President: John N. 

 Mariakis, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Tex. 

 Term expires December 31, 1960. Executive 

 Secretary: J. Richard Kelahan, P. O. Box 

 1162, Oak Park, 111. Term expires December 

 31, 1960. 



History: Organized January 10, 1910; incor- 

 porated April 16, 1954. Regions : Four, each 

 headed by a regional vice president. Chapters : 

 Thirty-nine. 



Purpose: To further the education and en- 

 lightenment of members in the art and science 

 of refrigeration engineering. 



Membership: Active members, actually en- 

 gaged in operation, servicing, or erection of 

 refrigerating equipment ; Associate, identiiied 

 with refrigerating industry as owners, manu- 

 facturers, suppliers, students. Total membership 

 2,795. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: H. G. Venemann 

 Memorial Loan Fund, for assistance to students 

 pursuing refrigeration and air conditioning 

 subjects in trade schools, technical institutes, or 

 engineering colleges ; basic refrigeration courses 

 by chapter instructors, or in cooperation with 

 local high school districts, trade schools, or 

 technical institutes. 



Publications: Operating Data Monthly, cur- 

 rent volume : 1-3, $5. Editor : J. Richard 

 Kelahan. 



987. National Association of Sanitarians. Uni- 

 versity of Denver, Denver 10, Colo. President: 

 R. D. Railing, 146 Forest Avenue, Fond du 

 Lac, Wis. Term expires July 1961. Execu- 

 tive Secretary: Nicholas Pohlit. Term in- 

 definite. 



History: Organized as California Association 

 of Sanitarians, 1930 ; name changed to present 

 title June 25, 1937; incorporated November 5, 

 1937. Sixteen sections, fourteen committees, and 

 nineteen project committees. 



Purpose: To provide specific services in the 

 field of environmental sanitation for official and 

 voluntary agencies, and other people concerned ; 

 to uphold and increase standards of the sani- 

 tation profession ; to search continually for 

 truths, and disseminate findings ; to strive for 

 knowledge, and to be fully informed of develop- 

 ments in the field of public health ; to cooperate 

 fully with allied public health agencies. 



Membership: Active members, professionally 

 engaged in environmental sanitation, but not 

 certified for registration; Registered Active, 

 professional competence certified by National 

 Academy of Sciences ; Associate, persons with 

 interest in objects of this Association; Student, 



working toward degrees in public health, sanita- 

 tion, or sanitary science ; Sustaining, corpora- 

 tions wishing to contribute financially to promo- 

 tion of public health. Total membership 

 approximately 3,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Walter S. Mangold 

 Award, annual, for outstanding contribution to 

 professional status of the sanitarian ; scholar- 

 ships, $500 each, to junior and senior students 

 of sanitary science. 



Publications: Sanitarian, bimonthly, current 

 volume : 22, $5. Editor : Milton M. Miller. 



988. National Association of Science Writers, 

 Inc. President: Earl Ubell, New York Herald 

 Tribune, 229 West 41st Street, New York 36, 

 N. Y. Term expires June 1961. Secretary: 

 Victor Cohn, Minneapolis Tribune, Minneap- 

 olis, Minn. Term expires June 1961. Ad- 

 ministrative Secretary: Mrs. Howard W. 

 Blakeslee, 5 Longview Road, Port Washing- 

 ton, N. Y. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded September 1934. 



Purpose: To foster dissemination of accurate 

 information regarding science, and interpreta- 

 tion of science to society. 



Membership: Active Members, 144, actively 

 engaged, for one year or more, in preparation 

 and dissemination of science news ; Associate 

 Members, 218, persons who have been active 

 members, and persons closely associated with 

 preparation of science news ; Honorary Mem- 

 bers, 10; Lifetime Members, 10. Total mem- 

 bership 382. 



Meetings: Biennial. 



Publications: Newsletter, quarterly, current 

 volume : 8, free to members. Editor : Patrick 

 M. McGrady. 



989. National Audubon Society. 1130 Sth Ave- 

 nue, New York 28, N. Y. President: Carl W. 

 Buchheister. Term expires November 1961. 

 Secretary: Ernest Brooks. Term expires 

 November 1960. 



History: Organized 1901 as a federation of 

 State Audubon societies ; incorporated 1905 as 

 National Association of Audubon Societies for 

 the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals ; 

 name changed to present title 1940. 



Purpose: To arouse, through education, pub- 

 lic recognition of the value of and the need 

 for conservation of wild birds and other ani- 

 mals, plants, soil, and water, and of the inter- 

 dependence of these natural resources. 



Membership: Open to persons with active 

 interest in conservation of natural resources. 

 Membership in eighty-five branches. Nearly 

 10,000,000 children in Audubon Junior Clubs. 



