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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



by regularly constituted standardizing bodies ; 

 to encourage significant additions to the litera- 

 ture of standardization and its formal study ; to 

 maintain a high professional standing among 

 standards engineers and professional criteria 

 therefor. 



Membership: Member, 795, at least twenty- 

 four-years of age, an engineer in standardiza- 

 tion or allied fields who has demonstrated com- 

 petence in standards engineering or allied tech- 

 nical work of a professional character and has 

 been in active professional practice for at least 

 three years, or a teacher of basic or applied 

 physical science or of industrial engineering who 

 has occupied such position for at least three 

 years in school of recognized standing and has 

 contributed to standardization or the advance- 

 ment of its principles, or an executive who, for 

 at least three years, has directed important 

 technical or research work in standardization 

 or allied technical fields, or a person regularly 

 employed in standardization or allied technical 

 work for at least six years who, by experience, 

 education, and contribution to the advancement 

 of standardization or the technical literature 

 thereof, has attained a standing equivalent to an 

 engineer ; Associate, 187, at least twenty-one 

 years of age, shall be engaged in work of a 

 type required for eventual qualification for the 

 grade of Member; Student, 13, a registered stu- 

 dent in basic or applied physical science, engi- 

 neering, or industrial management in a school 

 of recognized standing; Honorary Life Fellows, 

 4; Fellows, 18. Total membership 1,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Joint Standards Engi- 

 neers Society-American Society for Testing 

 Materials award ; various awards for papers on 

 standardization ; supply free subscriptions of 

 "Standards Engineering" to colleges ; prepara- 

 tion of a Standards Handbook. 



Publications: Standards Engineering, six times 

 a year, current volume : 12, $5. Editor : C. J. 

 Eiwen, 4042 North 3Sth Street, Arlington 7, Va. 

 Proceedings of Annual Meetings, annual, $4.75. 

 Editor : C. J. Eiwen. 



1436. State Medical Society of Wisconsin. 330 



East Lakeside Street, Madison, Wis. Presi- 

 dent: E. D. Sorenson, 104 South Wisconsin 

 Street, Elkhorn, Wis. Term expires May 

 1961. Secretary: C. H. Crownhart. Term ex- 

 pires January 1, 1961. 



History: Established by the Territorial Legis- 

 lature, 1841. Districts : The state is divided into 

 into thirteen councilor districts, composed of 

 several county societies. The House of Delegates 

 is the legislative body of the Society. The Coun- 

 cil is the Board of Trustees with full authority 

 and power of the House of Delegates between 



annual sessions. Committees : Standing commit- 

 tees : Council on Scientific Work ; Council on 

 Medical Service ; Committee on Medical Educa- 

 tion and Hospitals ; Committee Hospital Re- 

 lations ; Committee on Cancer. Council Com- 

 mittees : Blood Banks ; Civil Defense ; Military 

 Medical Service ; Veterans Medical Service. 



Purpose: To federate and bring into one com- 

 pact organization the entire medical profession 

 of the State of Wisconsin, and to unite with 

 similar societies of other states and territories 

 of the United States to form the American Medi- 

 cal Association ; to extend medical knowledge 

 and advance medical science ; to elevate the 

 standard of medical education, and to secure the 

 enactment and enforcement of just medical laws ; 

 to promote friendly intercourse among phy- 

 sicians ; and to enlighten and direct public opin- 

 ion in regard to the great problems of state 

 medicine, so that the profession shall become 

 capable and honorable within itself, and more 

 useful to the public, in the prevention and cure 

 of disease, and in prolonging and adding comfort 

 to life. 



Membership: Members must be licensed to 

 practice medicne in the State of Wisconsin. Full 

 dues-paying members, including regular mem- 

 bers, life members, affiliate members, associate 

 members, educational members, and members 

 whose dues are waived or remitted by official 

 action of the Society. Total membership 3,600. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Council Award granted 

 to physician who has distinguished himself in 

 the field of medicine, served in some outstanding 

 capacity or been of service to his profession 

 through organized medicine. President's Award 

 to outstanding non-medical person who has made 

 a major contribution to public health. Char- 

 itable, Educational and Scientific Foundation of 

 the State Medical Society supporting medical, 

 scientific and socio-economic research, loans to 

 medical students and postgraduate scientific 

 education. 



Publications: Wisconsin Medical Journal, 

 monthly, current volume : 59, $5. Managing Edi- 

 tor : C. H. Crownhart. 



1437. Structural Engineers Association of Cali- 

 fornia. President: J. Albert Paquette, 417 

 Market Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. Secretary: Harold 

 S. Kellam, 251 Kearney Street, Room 202, 

 San Francisco 8, Calif. Term expires Decem- 

 ber 31, 1960. 



History: Organized 1932. Sections: Struc- 

 tural Engineers Association of Northern Cali- 

 fornia, San Francisco; Structural Engineers 

 Association of Central California, Sacramento ; 



