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Dr. Myron E. Wegman, Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatrics at Louisiana State University, School of Medicine, and Pediatrician-in-Chief of the LSU at Charity Hospital of Louis-iana at New Orleans, has resigned these positions to accept appointment as Director of the Division of Education and Training of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, the Regional Olhce of the World Health Organization for the Americas. The responsibilities of this position will include working with the schools of medicine, schools of public health and other professional schools in the Americas connected with health activities, in order to better the general preparation of professional personnel having to do with health and medical care. Responsibility will also cover graduate training and fellowship programs sponsored by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and the World Health Or-ganization. It is planned that the program will develop in cooperation with other international agencies working in the field of public health and medical education. Dr. Wegman’s headquarters will be at the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, 1501 New Hampshire Avenue, NW., Washington 6,
D.C. He- will assume his new duties at the end of the academic year.
Dr. Nelson K. Ordway, at present Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Louisiana State tTniversity, will succeed Dr. Wegman. Dr. Ordway was graduated in medicine at Yale, interned at the New
Haven Hospital and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the War Gas Research Project at Yale from 1941 to 1945. Subsequently he was an instructor in Pediatrics at Yale until he joined the faculty at Louisiana State University in 1947 as Assistant Professor, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1950. Dr. Ordway is a member of the Society for Pediatric Re-search and the American Pediatric Society.
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The American Pediatric Society held its sixty-second annual meeting at Hotel Chamberlin. Old Point Comfort, Va., May 7, 8 and 9, 1952.
The following members were elected for officers for 1952-53: President, Dr. Irvine McQuarrie, Minneapolis ; Vice President, Dr. Ernest J. Caulfield, Hartford, Conn. ; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Aims
C. McGuinness, Philadelphia ; Recorder-Editor, Dr. Stewart H. Clifford, Boston ; Member of the Council, Dr. Henry G. Poncher, Chicago.
The following candidates were elected to active membership in the Society: Drs. Charles Bradley, Portland, Ore.; Albert Dorfman, Chicago; Gilbert B. Forbes, Dallas; Walter Heymann, Cleveland; Robert B. Lawson, Winston-Salem, NC. ; Sherman Little, Buffalo ; Donald Patterson, Vancouver; John C. Peterson, Nashville; Alan S. Ross, Montreal; Roland B. Scott, Washington; William M. Schmidt, Boston ; Margaret H. D. Smith, New Orleans ; William M. Wallace, Cleveland; Tyree C. \X’yatt, Syracuse.
The following were elected for honorary membership in the Society: Richard W. B. Ellis, M.D.,
Edinburgh ; Professor Sir James Spence, Newcastle.on-Tync.
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The Society for Pediatric Research held its annual meeting on May 5, 6 and 7, 1952, at Hotel Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort, Va. The following officers were elected to serve for the year 1952-53: President, Dr. Robert Ward, New York; Vice President, Dr. Milton Rapoport, Philadelphia; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Sidney S. Gellis, Boston. Members of the Council: Dr. Edward L. Pratt, New York; Dr. Nelson K. Ordway, New Orleans; Dr. Charles D. May, Minneapolis; Dr. Gladys
J. Fashena, Dallas; Dr. Herbert C. Miller, Kansas City, Kan.; Dr. John F. McCreary, Toronto. The following were elected to membership in the Society: Drs. Robert A. Aldrich, Portland, Ore.;
Barton Childs, Baltimore; John F. Dammann, Jr., Santa Monica, Calif.; Floyd W. Denny, Jr., Minneapolis; Lloyd J. Filer, Rochester, N.Y.; Gordon E. Gibbs, Baltimore; David Gitlin, Boston; Bruce D, Graham, Ann Arbor; Robert H. High, Philadelphia; Solomon A. Kaplan, Cincinnati; Gerald Miller, Rochester; Frederick C. Moll, Seattle; Erwin Neter, Buffalo; William Obrinsky, New Orleans; James J. Quilligan, Jr., Dallas; Helen S. Reardon, Philadelphia; Andrew J. Rhodes, Toronto; Irving Schulman, New York; Roland B. Scott, Washington; Edna H. Sobel, Cincinnati.
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The following candidates were certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, Inc.:
WASHINGTON, D.C-MAY 2, 3 and 4, 1952
Adams, Frederick F., Jr., 157 Pine St., Spartanburg, S.C.
Armstrong, William Bennett, 702 First Avenue South, Fargo, ND. Arnold, Herbert L., Jr., 507 First National Bank Bldg., Tuscaloosa, Ala. Baggs, Wade H., Jr., 81 1 Citizens Bldg., Tampa, Fla.
Baldwin, Ruth Workman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University Hospital. Baltimore. Blinski, Maurice, 123 5. W. 37th Ave., Miami
Bost, Roger Browning, Ochsner Clinic, Prytania & Aline Sts., New Orleans Brandt, Ira Kive, 1 535 Sunset Drive, Coral Gables, Fla.
Bruch, William M., 307 Ramsey St., Bluefield, W.Va.
Butler, Robert Elliott, 920 Winton Road, South, Rochester, N.Y. Chasler, Nicholas Louis, Municipal Hospital, Pittsburgh Childs, Barton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Chisoim,
James
Julian,
Jr., 4424 Underwood Road, Baltimore Cohlan, SidneyQ.,
8 Gramercy Park, New York City Crane, Norman T., 1025 Park Ave., Plainfield, N.J. Crawley, Eugene Harvey, 1417 W. Sixth St., Little Rock, Ark. Dick, James, 2 Nassau Place, Hempstead, N.Y.Dougan, Hubert Taylor, 1832 Monument Ave., Richmond, Vi. Epstein, Nathan, 5217 Lebanon Ave., Philadelphia
Eriksen, George Norton, 706 Phillips Ave., Wilmington, Del. Finberg, Laurence, 4940 Eastern Ave., Baltimore
Frazier, Claude Albee, 806 City Bldg., Asheville, NC. Graub, Milton, 4623 Spruce St., Philadelphia
Greenspan, Herbert S., 4629 N. Broad St., Philadelphia Harris, Irwin Lee, 1 167 Virginia St., Far Rockaway, N.Y. Harris, Robert Otis, III, 1 5 14 Government St., Mobile, Ala.
Jackson, Harold Pryor, Children’s Clinic, Durham Bldg., N. Main St., Anderson, S.C Jenkins, Melvin Earl, Jr., 1829 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C.
Joseph, Clifford, 342 Main St., Torrington, Conn.
Kahn, Robert E., Harriet Lane Home, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Karzon, David T., 1 161 York Ave., New York City
Kravis, Lillian Panzer, 44 Haverford Road, Philadelphia Lace, Richard Edward, 208 Corbet St., Tarentum, Pa. Lippi, Frank A., Jr., 6261 Gardenia St., Philadelphia
Luhby, Adrian Leonard, Department of Pediatrics, New York Medical College, 1 E. 105th St.. New York
Lyles, Clarence C., 187 Oakland Ave., Spartanburg, S.C. Lynch, John F., Jr., 641 N. Main St., High Point, NC.
McGovern, John Phillip, 2202 Colston Drive, Silver Spring, Md. McLeod, Robert N., Jr., Somerset Clinic, Somerset, Ky.
McPherson, Thomas Coatsworth, 20 Fourth St., NW., Atlanta Myers, Morris, 35-03 157th St., Flushing, N.Y.
Nichols, Myron McCall, University of Virginia Hospital, University Station, Charlottesville. Va. Ogborn, Richard E., Box 2, U. S. Army Hospital, Fort Bragg, NC.
Olshaker, Bennett, 4435 35th St., NW., Washington, D.C. O’Rear, Harry Barron, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.
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Prentice, Stanley E., 10 Hamilton Place, Tenafly, N.J. Rauber, Albert Paul, 153 Ridley Circle, Decatur, Ga. Riepenhoff, John P., 2998 Sullivant Ave., Columbus, Ohio Rosen, Sydney Irving, 548 Lawrence Ave., West, Toronto
Rosenblum, Herman, 201 Fairfax Ave., Nashville, Tenn. Ross, Lucille-, J., 801 W. End Ave., New York City
Seidel, Henry Murray, Harriet Lane Home, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Seiler, William C., 311 W. Washington St., Sandusky, Ohio Skinner, Richard Green, Jr., 3241 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Fla. Small, Leon 1., 250 Millburn Ave., Millburn, N.J.
Smith, Alan Eugene, 2010 E. 102 St., Cleveland
Smith, Martin Henry, 118 N. Green St., Gainesville, Ga. Steinberg, Stanley Herbert, 4214 16th St, NW., Washington, D.C. Tilley, John Allen, 126 Harding Road, Red Bank, N.J.
Vargas, Dharma L., Ave. Gonzalez 1106, Box 825. Rio Piedras, P.R. Waldman, Sydney, 455 5. 48th St., Philadelphia
Walker, Lewis Harry, 513 W. Market St., Akron
Weber, John Richard, 347 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne, md.
Weyland, Charletta Kathern 638 Chestnut St., Lebanon, Pa. \X’oodruff, Calvin Watts, Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, Tenn. Young, Latimer Gorsuch, 3311 St. Paul St., Baltimore
Zupanc, Edward, Lt. (jg) MC USNR, U. S. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
