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The President has the honor to submit the first annual report of the operations of the Institute under its new constitution completed and approved on June 15, 1949. Within this past year the Board held eleven meetings and called four meetings of the membership of the Institute. The membership on that date consisted of the following:
Members: Doctors Karen Horney, Muriel Ivimey, Harold Kelman, Elizabeth Kilpatrick, and Alexander Reid Martin.
Associate Members: Doctors Valer Barbu, Paul Lussheimer, Frederick A. Weiss and Antonia Wenkart.
Auxiliary Members: Doctors Sara Breitbart, Eleanor Crissey, Ada C. Hirsh, Norman Kelman, Emy Metzger, Hugh Mullan, Julius Nelson, Isidore Portnoy, Ralph Rosenberg, and Bernard Zuger.
Up to December 1946 and from the date of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in May, 1941, the Institute had operated under the auspices of the Association. In order to make it possible for veterans to receive the benefits of the G.I. Bill of Rights (Public Law 346) to be used toward their training, the Institute became a separate corporation in December 1946 and was granted a provisional charter by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. Under Section 22 of the Commissioner's Regulations, the course of study offered by the Institute was approved for a period of five years.
The interim Board of Trustees that formed the corporation and asked for and received the provisional charter were Doctors Valer Barbu, Karen Horney, Charles R. Hulbeck, Harold Kelman, Elizabeth Kilpatrick, Muriel Ivimey, Alexander Reid Martin, Paul Lussheimer and Frederick A. Weiss. They elected the following pro-tem officers: Dr. Harold Kelman, president; Dr. Elizabeth Kilpatrick, vice-president; Dr. Valer Barbu, secretary; Dr. Frederick A. Weiss, treasurer. The Board then elected Dr. Karen Horney dean and Dr. Muriel Ivimey assistant dean, both pro-tem. The constitution formulated by this board was accepted on June 15th, 1949, afte