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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



1508. Vermont Society of Engineers. 80 Pleas- 

 ant Street, Bar re, Vt. President: Roderic J. 

 Maynes, 47 Bellevue Avenue, Rutland, Vt. 

 Term expires April 1961. Secretary: Richard 

 J. Nicholls. Term expires April 1961. 



History: Organized March 8, 1912 at Burling- 

 ton, Vt. Section : Engineers Club of Rutland 

 County. Affiliated with Engineering Societies of 

 New England. 



Purpose: The professional improvement of 

 members, the encouragement of social inter- 

 course among engineers and men of practical 

 science, and the advancement of engineering. 



Membership: Members, 326, civil, mechanical, 

 mining, or electrical engineers, or other persons 

 belonging to a technical profession, not less 

 than twenty-four years of age, who have been 

 in the active practice of their profession for at 

 least four years, with graduation from an engi- 

 neering school of recognized standing considered 

 as equivalent to two years of active practice; 

 Juniors, 3, not less than eighteen years nor 

 more than thirty years of age, in active practice 

 in some branch of engineering, or other technical 

 profession, or students in, or graduates from, a 

 school of engineering of recognized standing ; 

 Associates, 52, other persons interested in the 

 objects of the Society; Honorary, 2; Life, 20. 

 Total membership 403. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Annual Engineering 

 Scholarship, $300. 



Publications: Vermont Engineering, 3 times 

 a year, current volume: 17, free. Editor: R. J. 

 Nicholls. 



1509. Vermont State Medical Society. 128 



Merchants Row, Rutland, Vt. President: 

 Frederick W. Van Buskirk, 360 Main Street, 

 Burlington, Vt. Term expires October 7, 

 1960. Executive Secretary: Getty Page. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized and incorporated 1813 by 

 special act of the Vermont Legislature. Ten 

 component county societies. Sections : Surgery, 

 Internal Medicine, Radiology, General Practi- 

 tioners and Pediatrics. 



Purpose: To coordinate the medical activities 

 of the State. 



Membership: M. D. Degree, licensed to prac- 

 tice in Vermont, accepted by county society. 

 Total membership 445. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Clinical meeting in 

 May for postgraduate work. Distinguished 

 Service Award. 50-Year Club Awards. The 

 Society finances occasional State-wide medical 

 research projects. 



Publications: News Letter, monthly, free to 

 members. Editor : Getty Page. Annual Report, 

 free to members. 



1510. Virginia Academy of General Practice. 



4205 Dover Road, Richmond 21, Va. Presi- 

 dent: Boyd H. Payne, 205 Professional 

 Building, Staunton, Va. Term expires May 

 1961. Executive Secretary: Mrs. Louise B. 

 Greiner. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized in Roanoke, Virginia, 

 October 1947. Local Chapters : Richmond 

 Academy of General Practice, Tidewater Acad- 

 emy of General Practice, Northern Virginia 

 Academy of General Practice, Hampton Roads 

 Academy of General Practice, Blue Ridge 

 Academy of General Practice. 



Purpose: To promote and maintain high 

 standards of the general practice of medicine 

 and surgery in Virginia ; to encourage and assist 

 in providing postgraduate study for general 

 practitioners in medicine and surgery, and to 

 encourage and assist practicing physicians and 

 surgeons to participate in such training ; to 

 encourage and assist young men and women to 

 prepare, qualify, and establish themselves in 

 general practice ; to protect the right of the 

 general practitioner to engage in medical and 

 surgical procedures for which he is qualified by 

 training and experience ; to advance medical 

 science and private and public health ; and to 

 maintain private patient-physician relationship. 



Membership: Active, 372, physician engaged 

 in the general practice of medicine and surgery 

 duly licensed to practice in the state of Virginia, 

 and a member in good standing of the Medical 

 Society of Virginia; Associate, 40, graduates 

 of approved medical schools; Inactive, 17, active 

 members who are incapacitated by reason of 

 illness, accident, age, or infirmity, and who for 

 this or any other reason are unable to engage 

 in active practice, and members who are called 

 to temporary active duty with the Armed Forces. 

 Total membership 429. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual Scientific As- 

 sembly, fifteen total hours postgraduate study, 

 commercial and scientific exhibits ; certificates of 

 award to two best scientific exhibits. Lectures 

 on general practice of medicine and surgery to 

 medical students at two State medical schools. 



Publications: Virginia General Practice News, 

 bimonthly, current volume: 11. Chairman, 

 Editorial Board : W. Fredric Delp, Pulaski, Va. 



1511. Virginia Academy of Science. P. O. Box 



1420, Richmond 11, Va. President: Wilson 

 Bell. Term expires May 1961. Secretary: 

 Paul M. Patterson, Hollins College, Hollins 

 College, Va. Term indefinite. 



