UNITED STATES 



353 



McKinnie, 208 South La Salle Street, Chicago 

 4, Illinois. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded 1949 as the successor to 

 The Actuarial Society of America (founded 

 1889) and the American Institute of Actuaries 

 (founded 1909). Principal Technical Stand- 

 ing Committees : Education and Examination, 

 Mortality and Morbidity, New Recording 

 Means and Computing Devices, Papers, Stand- 

 ard Notation and Nomenclature. 



Purpose: To advance the knowledge of 

 actuarial science and to promote the maintenance 

 of high standards of competence and conduct 

 within the actuarial profession. 



Membership: Associate, 829, approval by the 

 Board of Governors and the passing of pre- 

 scribed examinations; Fellow, 1,081, Associate- 

 ship and the passmg of prescribed examinations. 

 Total membership 1,900. 



Meetings: Three to five annually. 



Professional activities: Co-sponsors with the 

 Mathematical Association of America an annual 

 High School Mathematics Contest, one $200 

 and eight $100 prizes to nine undergraduates 

 ranking highest in the General Mathematics 

 Examination ; awards a triennial prize for the 

 best paper presented by a member of the Society 

 within five years after his first becoming an 

 Associate of any recognized actuarial society ; 

 special investigative studies, the latest being the 

 Build and Blood Pressure Study (1959). 



Publications: Transactions, quarterly, current 

 volume : 12, $13. Editor : Alden T. Bunyan. 



Library: 2,700 volumes. 



1341. Society of Aeronautical Weight Engi- 

 neers, Inc. President: Clarence E. Kelknap, 

 Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, Akron, Ohio. 

 Term expires May 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 D. Lloyd Smith, Douglas Aircraft Company, 

 El Segundo, Calif. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized in 1939; incorporated in 

 California in April 1941. 



Purpose: To promote recognition of weight 

 control as a specialized branch of aeronautical 

 engineering; to exchange weight information 

 for mutual benefit ; to combine eflfort in reducing 

 weight of purchased equipment; to promote a 

 better understanding among weight engineers, 

 thereby fostering a higher degree of efficiency in 

 weight control procedure and a better informed 

 and more cooperative personnel ; to promote and 

 enhance the professional status of weight engi- 

 neers, and to encourage study of weight engi- 

 neering problems in institutions of higher 

 learning. Twenty-one chapters. 



Membership: Members, persons engaged in 

 weight engineering or allied work ; Senior Mem- 

 bers, persons who are and have been for at 



least five years actively engaged in responsible 

 weight engineering or allied work, or who are 

 at present and have been for at least three 

 consecutive years Members of the Society, or 

 who have been or are officers of a Society 

 Chapter, or who at present and for at least one 

 year past have had responsible charge of im- 

 portant weight engineering work (any two of 

 the preceding qualifications required) ; Associate 

 Members, persons who are engaged in related 

 commercial, financial, or manufacturing fields 

 which maintain relationship with weight engi- 

 neers, or those who have been previously voting 

 members of the Society ; Student Members, 

 undergraduate or graduate students attending 

 accredited schools or universities, and who are 

 recommended by a faculty member; Honorary 

 Fellows, persons who have achieved outstanding 

 recognition in weight engineering, or who have 

 materially contributed to the advancement of 

 the Society, and who have been elected by a 

 three-fourths vote of the Board of the Society; 

 Company Members, manufacturers, producers 

 of equipment, transport operators, engineering 

 schools, controlling agencies, or other related 

 organizations ; Benefactors, persons who have 

 contributed the sum of not less than five hundred 

 dollars. Total membership approximately 1,100. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Weight Optimization 

 Award presented periodically. 



Society of Aerospace Material and Process 

 Engineers. See Addenda, No. 1595. 



1342. Society of American Bacteriologists. 19875 

 Mack Avenue, Detroit Z6, Mich. President: 

 Herald R. Cox, Lederle Laboratories, Pearl 

 River, N. Y. Term expires June 1961. Secre- 

 tary: E. M. Foster, 311 Bacteriology, Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, Madison 6, Wis. Term 

 expires June 1961. 



History: Founded 1899 at New Haven, Con- 

 necticut. Twenty-nine local branches, with one 

 in Puerto Rico and one in Rio de Janeiro. Four 

 Divisions : Agriculture and Industrial ; General ; 

 Physiology ; and Medical, Immunology and 

 Virology. 



Purpose: To promote scientific knowledge of 

 bacteriology and related subjects through dis- 

 cussions, reports, and publications ; to stimulate 

 scientific investigations and their applications ; 

 to plan, organize, and administer projects for 

 the advancement of knowledge in bacteriology. 



Membership: Regular Member, 6,000, an in- 

 terest in the Society's objectives and a bachelor's 

 degree or equivalent in training and experience ; 

 Student Member, 20, enrollment as a bacteri- 

 ology major in a school or college; Sustaining 

 Member, 105, interest in the Society's objectives; 



