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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Membership: Limited to Associate Members, 

 Members, or Fellows of the American Psy- 

 chiatric Association ; Members (one class of 

 membership only), 57. Total membership 57. 



Meetings: Five times a year. 



Professional activities: Frequent seminars for 

 the profession and laity. 



1442. Sussex Engineering Society. P. O. Box 

 154, Seaford, Del. President: Stanley M. Car- 

 ter. Term expires June 1, 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: Harry L. Holman. Term expires 

 June 1, 1961. 



History: Organized March 1950. Affiliate, 

 Delaware Council of Engineering Societies. 



Purpose: To provide a medium for engineer- 

 ing activities. 



Membership: Registered professional engi- 

 neers, with engineering degrees from recognized 

 colleges or universities, members of national 

 engineering societies, and eight years' approved 

 experience in engineering practice. Total mem- 

 bership 110. 



Meetings: Monthly, September through May. 



Professional activities: High school student 

 guidance; publicity to further engineering pro- 

 fession. 



1443. Sweadner Entomological Society. Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh 13, Pa. President: 

 Robert Surdick. Term expires December 31, 



1960. Secretary-Treasurer: Harry Katz, 2039 

 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Term expires 

 December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized 1951. 



Purpose: To encourage young people in the 

 study of entomology ; to stimulate amateur and 

 professional entomologists. 



Membership: Open to any person interested in 

 entomology, professional or non-professional. 

 Total membership 90. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



1444. Swedish Engineers' Society of Chicago. 



503 Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago 14, 111. 

 President: Earl Viking, 3645 North Wilton 

 Avenue, Chicago, 111. Term expires May 31, 



1961. Secretary: Michael J. Pasternock, 5412 

 West North Avenue, Chicago 39, 111. Term 

 expires May 31, 1961. 



History: Organized October 10, 1908; incor- 

 porated in Illinois June 25, 1912. 



Purpose: To promote engineering education 

 and knowledge. 



Membership: Active members, 200, Swedish 

 descent, technical education or ability in engi- 

 neering; Associate, 100, persons interested in the 



activities and wishing to further the aims of 

 this Society. Total membership 300. 



Meetings: Weekly. 



Professional activities: Fellowship Foundation 

 in Nuclear Sciences ; monthly lectures. 



Library: 3,100 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Technical engineering services. 



1445. Tau Beta Pi Association, Inc. Perkins 

 Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 

 Tenn. President: Donald A. Dahlstrom, Eim- 

 co Corporation, 301 South Hicks Road, Pala- 

 tine, 111. Term expires December 1962. Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer: Robert H. Nagel. Term in- 

 definite. 



History: Established at Lehigh University 

 June 1885 as honor society in engineering col- 

 leges. 103 active chapters and 27 alumni chap- 

 ters. 



Purpose : To mark in fitting manner those who 

 have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by 

 distinguished scholarship and exemplary char- 

 acter, or by attainments as alumni in the lield 

 of engineering ; to foster a spirit of liberal cul- 

 ture in engineering colleges of America ; to pro- 

 mote welfare and advancement of the engineer- 

 ing profession and of engineering education. 



Membership: Undergraduates, who form the 

 chapters, must stand in the highest fifth of their 

 classes to be eligible ; men from the first eighth 

 are elected during their junior years, the balance 

 of the highest fifth are eligible at the beginning 

 of their senior years. Alumni who would have 

 qualified had chapters existed at their colleges 

 may be elected at any time. Alumni who may 

 not have been eligible scholastically, but who 

 have shown merit by their success as engineers, 

 are elected in limited numbers. Total member- 

 ship 106,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Tau Beta Pi Fellow- 

 ships, six to eight annually, awarded to out- 

 standing student members for a year of graduate 

 work; a student loan fund is available to mem- 

 bers for undergraduate or graduate study. 



Publications: Bent, quarterly, current volume: 

 51, 1st four years free to members, thereafter $2. 

 Editor: Robert H. Nagel. Council Bulletin, 

 quarterly, current volume : 2>Z, free to members. 

 Editor : Leonard A. Cohn. 



1446. Technical Association of the Pulp and 

 Paper Industry. 360 Lexington Avenue, New 

 York 17, N. Y. President: James R. Lientz, 

 Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation, Savan- 

 nah, Ga. Term expires February 1961. Exec- 

 utive Secretary: P. E. Nethercut. Term 

 expires February 1961. 



