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tions to reinforced concrete design practice. 

 Henry L. Kennedy Award, established 1958 by 

 the Institute to be given only for outstanding 

 technical or administrative service and is not 

 mandatory each year. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume: 56, $18. Editor: William A. Maples. 



152. American Conference of Governmental 

 Industrial Hygienists, 1014 Broadway. Cin- 

 cinnati 2, Ohio. Chairman: Allan L. Coleman, 

 Connecticut Department of Health, 345 Main 

 Street, Hartford 1, Conn. Term expires April 

 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : Charles D. Yafife. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1938 as the National 

 Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygien- 

 ists. 



Purpose: To promote industrial hygiene in all 

 its aspects and phases ; to coordinate industrial 

 hygiene activities by ofificial Federal, State, 

 local, and territorial industrial hygiene agencies ; 

 to encourage the interchange of experience 

 among industrial hygiene personnel in such 

 official organizations ; to collect and make acces- 

 sible to all governmental industrial hygienists 

 such information and data as may be of assist- 

 ance to them in the proper fulfillment of their 

 duties ; to hold annual and such other meetings 

 as may be necessary to eiTectuate the purpose of 

 this organization. 



Membership: Regular members, persons pro- 

 fessionally engaged and regualarly employed by 

 official governmental units responsible for full- 

 time programs of industrial hygiene in any of 

 its aspects and phases ; Associate members, 

 personnel of educational institutions engaged in 

 teaching or research in industrial hygiene, and 

 governmental personnel in allied activities but 

 not responsible for full-time programs in indus- 

 trial hygiene. Total membership 509. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Development of mater- 

 ials through work of numerous standing com- 

 mittees ; annual award presented to a member 

 or group of members for outstanding recent 

 contributions to the field ; development of in- 

 dustrial hygiene standards and technical liter- 

 ature in such fields as ventilation, analytical 

 methods, air sampling, and medical and nursing 

 records. 



Publications: Transactions of Annual Meet- 

 ings. $5. Manual of Analytical Methods. $5. 



153- American Congress of Physical Medicine 

 and Rehabilitation. 30 North Michigan Ave., 

 Chicago 2, 111. President: Donald A. Covalt, 

 Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabili- 

 tation. 400 East 34th Street, New York, N. Y. 



Term begins August 1960. Executive Secre- 

 tary: Dorothea C. Augustin. Term indefinite 



History: Organized in 1921 as American Con- 

 gress of Physical Therapy. 



Purpose: To promote and advance the art and 

 science of physical medicine and rehabilitation 

 through the diagnosis and treatment of disease, 

 defects, and injury by physical means and 

 restoration to the fullest physical, mental, social, 

 vocational, and economic usefulness possible. 



Membership: Active members: graduate in 

 medicine and surgery, legally qualified to prac- 

 tice medicine in the United States or in foreign 

 countries. Associate : physiologist, physicist, bio- 

 physicist, electrical engineer, mechanical eng- 

 ineer, chemical engineer, research worker, in- 

 vestigator, teacher, or any other expert in the 

 field of physical medicine and rehabilitation 

 who is invited by the membership committee. 

 Honorary : eminent individuals interested in 

 physical medicine and rehabilitation who are in- 

 vited by the membership committee or who hold 

 the Gold Key. Affiliate : persons actively enrolled 

 in an approved residency or fellowship in phys- 

 ical medicine and rehabilitation. Total member- 

 ship approximately 750. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Gold Key Award; 

 annual awards for scientific exhibits ; annual 

 essay award ; Baruch essay award. 



Publications: Archives of Physical Medicine 

 and Rehabilitation, monthly, current volume : 

 41, $8.50. Chairman of Editorial Board: Paul A. 

 Nelson. 



154. American Congress on Surveying and 

 Mapping. President: M. Arnold Karo, Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey. Department of Com- 

 merce, Washington 25. D. C. Term expires 

 March 1961. Executive Secretary: Walter S. 

 Dix, 430 Woodward Building, Washington 5, 

 D. C. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized June 1941. Sections: 

 Arizona ; Colorado ; Great Lakes ; Hawaii ; 

 Louisiana ; New Mexico ; North Carolina ; 

 Northern California ; Oregon ; St. Louis, Mo. ; 

 Southern California ; Texas ; Utah. Affili.a.tes : 

 East Bay Council ; Florida Society of Pro- 

 fessional Land Surveyors ; Georgia Association 

 of Registered Land Surveyors ; Illinois Register 

 of Land Surveyors ; Indiana Society of Land 

 Surveyors ; Kansas Society of Land Surveyors ; 

 Massachusetts Civil Engineers and Land Sur- 

 veyors ; Michigan Society of Registered Land 

 Surveyors ; Minnesota Land Surveyors Associa- 

 tion ; Nassau-Suffolk Civil Engineers, New- 

 York ; South Carolina Society of Land Sur- 

 veyors ; Survey and Map Section, Florida Engi- 



