Committees at Work

By this time most of you have already received an announcement from the Program Committee about the Spring Meeting to be held at the Hotel Statler in Washington, D. C., May 14 to 16, 1948. The meeting is to be organized around several small discussion panels, the results of which are to be reported to the general body. Also some selected individual papers are to be presented. Dr. Ives Hendrick has asked us to reemphasize his request to members who wish to contribute original scientific papers to submit titles and abstracts to him in quadruplicate before March 1, 1948, and manuscripts before April 1, 1948. Any ideas or suggestions you may have about the meetings will be welcomed by Dr. Hendrick.

Some of the Chairmen for the panels have already been selected. Dr. Nathan W. Ackerman has been appointed Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Social Issues. Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman has tentatively accepted the Chairmanship of the panel on Psychoanalysis in Shock Treatment and Lobotomy, but whether this panel will be held depends upon a preliminary investigation of what material could be offered. Mr. E. Homburger-Erikson has accepted the Chairmanship of the panel on Indications for Child Analysis. The other Chairmen have as yet not been selected at the time of going to press.

We have received a message from Dr. Robert T. Morse who is the Chairman of Arrangements for the Washington Meeting:

"It is imperative that room reservations be made immediately by writing to Mr. Austin Davies, of the American Psychiatric Association, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. The convention will be held at the Hotel Statler but there are only a very limited number of rooms available there. A number of good hotels are close by and those who cannot be accommodated at the Statler will be accommodated elsewhere. When writing to Mr. Davies please state date and time of arrival, length of stay, single or double room, with or without bath.