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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



scientific and engineering knowledge relating 

 to plastics. 



Membership: Senior, those qualified by pre- 

 vious technical training, experience, or present 

 occupation to conduct or direct design, engi- 

 neering, chemical or physical research relating 

 to plastics, to exercise technical supervision of 

 the production of plastics materials or prod- 

 ucts, or the manufacture of equipment connected 

 therewith, to impart technical instruction in the 

 chemistry, physics or engineering of plastics, 

 or the design and fabrication of plastics prod- 

 ucts ; Associate, those qualified as Senior Mem- 

 bers except having less experience qualification, 

 or engaged in the plastics or a related industry 

 in a responsible commercial, financial, or manu- 

 facturing capacity, or connected with the plastics 

 or a related industry and competent to cooperate 

 technically with plastics engineers and scien- 

 tists; Junior Member, those qualified to fill 

 subordinate technical positions in the plastics 

 or a related industry, and less than thirty years 

 of age; Student Member, those regularly en- 

 rolled in a technical course at a recognized 

 college or university, and less than twenty-six 

 years of age ; Distinguished Member, those who, 

 at the time of election, are members in good 

 standing who have attained professional emi- 

 nence in the plastics field, who have made a 

 significant contribution to the plastics industry, 

 who have given outstanding devotion and serv- 

 ice to the Society, or who have served the So- 

 ciety as President; Honorary Member, those 

 who have been non-members but who, by virtue 

 of outstanding achievement or professional emi- 

 nence, may be deemed worthy of this status. 

 Total membership 7,679. 



Meetings: Annual; 7 Regional; 400 Sectional. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume: 16, $6, domestic, $10 foreign. Editor: 

 Melvyn A. Kohudic. 



1375. Society of Protozoologists. President: 

 William Trager, The Rockefeller Institute, 

 New York 21, N. Y. Term expires December 

 1961. Secretary: John O. Corliss, Department 

 of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 

 111. Term expires September 1962. 



History: Organized December 1947. 



Purpose: To promote closer association of 

 persons interested in research which will ad- 

 vance protozoological science. 



Membership: Open to any individual, includ- 

 ing non-Americans, interested in the science of 

 protozoology. Regular Members ; Graduate Stu- 

 dent Members; Honorary Members, 10, persons 

 who have rendered highly meritorious service in 

 the field. Total membership 675. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Journal of Protozoology, quar- 

 terly, current volume : 7, $12, free to members. 

 Editor : William Trager. 



1376. Society of Public Health Educators, Inc. 



President: Norbert Reinstein, 153 East Eliza- 

 beth Street, Detroit 1, Mich. Term expires 

 October 1960. Executive Secretary: Ruth F. 

 Richards, 42 Broadway, Room 900, New York 

 4, N. Y. Term expires October 1961. 



History: Incorporated 1952. 



Purpose: To contribute to the advancement of 

 the health of all people by improving standards 

 in the field of public health education. 



Membership: Two years experience and mas- 

 ter's degree in public health. Total membership 

 360. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Monograph, quarterly, current 

 volume : 8, $3. Editor : H. Weddle. 



1377. Society of Rheology. c/o American Insti- 

 tute of Physics, 335 East 45th Street, New 

 York 17, N. Y. President: John H. Elliott, 

 Hercules Powder Company, Research Center, 

 Wilmington, Del. Term expires November 

 1961. Secretary: William R. Willetts, Titani- 

 um Pigment Corporation, 99 Hudson Street, 

 New York 13, N. Y, Term expires November 

 1961. 



History: Organized December 1929. Member 

 society of the American Institute of Physics. 



Purpose: The development of the science of 

 the deformation and flow of matter. 



Membership: Open to chemists, physicists, 

 engineers, and other professional scientists. Per- 

 sonal Members, 421 ; Company and Institutional 

 Members, 30; Sustaining. Total membership 

 approximately 550. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Bingham Medal, 

 award annually to a scientist who has made a 

 notable contribution to rheological knowledge. 



Publications: Rheology Bulletin, three times 

 yearly. Transactions, annual, current volume : 4, 

 both free to members. Editor: E. H. Lee, De- 

 partment of Applied Mathematics, Brown 

 University. 



1378. Society of Soft Drink Technologists. 1128 

 16th Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. 

 President: Melvin Helin, Infilco Inc., Tucson, 

 Ariz. Term expires April 1961. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Harry E. Korab. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized July 1953; incorporated 

 1954. 



