The 1949 Annual Meeting

On May 20, 21, 22, 1949, the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held at the Hotel Windsor, Montreal, Canada. It has been the custom in the past for the Bulletin to abstract the proceedings of the Business Sessions as well as the Scientific Sessions. In this issue we are reproducing the reports of the Business Sessions and we plan to publish the reports of the Discussion Groups in the next issue of the Bulletin.

1) Meeting of the Executive Council

The Executive Council met at Montreal under the chairmanship of Dr. Kaufman. The first report was from the Executive Assistant, Mr. Whitney, who reviewed the progress of his office for the past year. The work in his office has grown enormously and the Central Office has become an entity in itself with lines of communication extending in many directions. The Executive Assistant summarized some of the responsibilities which his office has assumed and these are manifold: the processing of applications for membership; the expediting of administrative details for the various Committees of the Association, of which there are 18 exclusive of the Sub-Divisions of the Board of Professional Standards; the distribution of the Bulletin as well as the assembling of membership rosters and distributing them. Among the important functions of the Central Office has been its activity as a relay station for the Program and Arrangements Committee. The work has grown to such proportions that Mr. Whitney felt it necessary to ask for a part-time Assistant and this was authorized by the Executive Council. An appropriation of $4,000 for the current fiscal year was made for the office of the Executive Assistant.

The Treasurer's report for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1949 was presented by the Treasurer and approved and accepted. At the present time we have a cash balance of $1,078.28.

Dr. Helen V. McLean's resignation as Councilor At Large necessitated the amendment of the By-Laws “to provide that