294 Medical Brotherhood [June-September 



B. Fester, William J. Gies, Samuel J. Meltzer and Robert T, Morris. 



Dr. Meltzer took the chair, called the meeting to order and re- 

 quested Dr. Gies to serve as temporary secretary. Dr. Meltzer 

 stated the object o£ the meeting to be the Organization of the Medical 

 Brotherhood for the Furtherance of International Morality, in har- 

 mony with formal authorization to that end on behalf of the 150 

 men and women whose votes designated the membership of - the 

 executive committee assembled at this meeting. 



Dr. Meltzer then stated that the colleagues named below, who 

 favored the Organization of the Medical Brotherhood, had been 

 designated, by pluralities of the votes cast in accordance with the 

 terms of his invitation dated July 3, 191 5 (as copied above), to 

 serve as an Executive Committee and to proceed with provisional 

 Organization of the proposed Medical Brotherhood : 



Robert Abbe J. A. Fordyce Graham Lusk 



S. Josephine Baker Nellis B. Foster Samuel J. Meltzer 



J. W. Brannan Wilham J. Gies Robert T. Morris 



Harlow Brooks S. S. Goldwater William H. Park 



Ruf US Cole Abraham Jacobi John A. Wyeth 



It was voted that a provisional Organization be effected by the 

 election of officers to serve for a term of one year, or until the elec- 

 tion of their successors. The following officers were then elected : 



I. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 (Residents of the City of New York) 



A. Active Officers 



PRESIDENT: S. J. Meltzer, Member, Rockef eller Institute. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS : Rufus Cole, Director, Rockef eller Hospital; 

 S. Josephine Baker, Director, Bureau of Child Hygiene, De- 

 partment of Health. 



FIRST SECRETARY : Wm. J. Gies, Professor of Biological Chem- 

 istry, Columbia University. 



SECOND SECRETARY: Harlow Brooks, Professor of Clinical 

 Medicine, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. 



TREASURER : Robert T. Morris, Professor of Surgery, Post-Grad- 

 uate Medical School. 



