The Dean

In the past year we have continued with our objective of improving our training program, building on the past experience and efforts of many, adding and revising according to the ever-changing needs of the Institute. Personnel changes in the Faculty Council have lost for us the wisdom and experience of older members and gained for us the new and fresh viewpoints of younger colleagues. It also has helped toward broadening the base of participation and diminishing the burden of work that some have been carrying in the Institute and in our affiliated organizations. This is a policy we are attempting to effect in the Institute so that there will be more time available for creative efforts and leisure and for communicating our ideas to others. I refer here to participating in the scientific programs of other organizations, acting as staff members in other institutions, and writing for other publications than our own Journal.

Broadening the base of participation requires opportunities for supervised and cooperative experiences. Within the Faculty Council we have been attempting more delegation of functions among its members. In preparing the curriculum we have delegated to the Chairman of each course the responsibility for contacting his co-workers, working with them in the preparation of the written material to be included in the curriculum, the supervision of the course when it is being given, and the submission to the Faculty Council of a report on the course after it has been completed. We hope these reports will add valuable supplementary information to the course evaluations made by the candidates.

At the same time, to add substance to the feeling of cooperation, the chairmen of courses and their co-workers have participated with the Faculty Council in the preparation of the content, organization and the spirit in which the course is to be conducted.

Within the Faculty Council we have rotated as members of the Admissions Committee so that all might gain experience in t