News and Proceedings of Affiliate Societies and Institutes

Correspondent: Joseph J. Michaels. Re-elected Officers: Elvin V. Semrad (Vice-President), Edward M. Daniels (Secretary), Jacob Swartz (Treasurer), John C. Nemiah (Librarian), Robert H. McCarter (Chairman, Board of Trustees), Arthur F. Valenstein (Councilor), Malvina Stock (Alternate). Re-elected Officers of the Education Committee: Beata Rank (Chairman), James Mann (Secretary). Fellows to the Board on Professional Standards: Samuel Kaplan and Helen H. Tartakoff; Alternates: Alfred O. Ludwig and Paul G. Meyerson. Newly Elected Members: Rolf Arvidson, Irving Chase, Pierre Johannet, Joel Ordaz, Edmund Payne, John Porter, Robert Reid, Peter Wolff; Affiliate Member: Dorothy Huntington.

Admissions Committee reports that this year thirty-five (thirty men and five women) applications were processed as compared with twenty-four the previous year and forty-seven the year before. Nineteen were accepted in the various categories and sixteen were rejected; of the latter three were reapplications. A special group of nonmedical applicants, Ph.D.s in allied fields (Class "C"), are now interviewed by a member of a special ad hoc committee to determine their eligibility for application prior to further processing by the Admissions Committee. Some studies are under way on application and admission rates and dropouts. Committee on Child Analysis has graduated and certified three members in child analysis: Abraham Fineman, Robert T. Long, and Ernest R. Tetreault. It has inaugurated scientific meetings in child analysis to be held two or three times a year. At the first meeting on January 28, 1963, Dr. Tetreault presented "A Case of Obsessive-compulsive Neurosis in a Nine-year-old Boy." There has been better integration of the child development courses with theoretical seminars in recent years. Committee on Institute Analysis reports an increasing number of referrals with a proportionate increase in placements due in par