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The year 1962-63 saw the continued growth of the Association with the addition of six new Associate Members and three Associate Members who became Full Members. We were gratified at the increasing participation of greater numbers of members in the committee work and administrative activities of the Association. The Executive Council, meeting thirteen times during the year, made particular efforts to stimulate and strengthen our relationships with other psychiatric-psychoanalytic organizations and with the medical community.
The Public Relations Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. B. J. Harte, continued to obtain excellent publicity notices; this was facilitated by the Program Committee having been able to organize and submit the entire year's program at the beginning of the year. A special subcommittee, under Dr. M. Malen, was able to procure a financial grant from a pharmaceutical firm, to extend for two years, for the purpose of expanding our contacts with the medical profession. We were thus enabled to send prior announcements of our meetings to the thirty-thousand physicians, interns and residents in the tri-state metropolitan area. Abstracted or discussion reports of at least three of our meetings appeared in such major medical journals as the Medical Tribune, the Journal of the American Medical Association (Panel on Homosexuality), and the New York Medicine (Panel on Suicide). In addition, the A.M.A. designated the Association as a National Allied Medical Society, thereby exempt from fees for national publicity purposes.
Under the leadership of Dr. N. Levy, the Public Education Committee organized ten lectures to the laity, given by members of the Association in furtherance of our goal of public education. These were so well attended that a limitation on the number of admissions had to be effected. The Ivimey Library continued to grow both in quality and quantity under the Library Committee chaired by Dr. A. Symonds, through the acquisition of many new book