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Correspondent: Alvin H. Polatin. Newly Elected Officers: Aaron Karush (President), Richard L. Frank (President-Elect), Alvin H. Polatin (Secretary), Ruth L. LaVietes (Treasurer), Paul A. Bradlow (Councilor), Daniel Shapiro, Alvin H. Polatin (Alternates). Newly Elected Members: Alexander Beller, Shervert H. Frazier, Jr., Victor Goldin, Howard Hess, Stuart W. McLeod, Helen Hendin Meyers, Alvin M. Mesnikoff, Joseph H. Weissberg. Newly Elected Life Member: May E. Romm. Newly Appointed Training and Supervising Analyst: Alvin H. Polatin. Newly Appointed Supervising Analysts: Bernard Holland and Richard S. Ward. Newly Appointed to the Clinic Collaborating Staff: Howard Hunt, Professor, Medical Psychology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Professor of Psychology Columbia University, and Chief, Psychiatric Research (Psychology), New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Hunt will continue his work with the clinic's Committee on Candidate Selection and with the Ego Strength Research Project.
The following candidates were certified in psychoanalysis at the Columbia Clinic during the past year: Alexander Beller, Shervert H. Frazier, Jr., Leon M. Golub, Hagop Mahshikian, Stuart W. McLeod, David Sobel, Victor J. Teichner, Charles Winkelstein, Nathan Wisebord. Eleven students have been accepted for the first-year class 1963-64.
The Association notes with deep sorrow the passing of Henry B. Richardson, a Life Member.
A special meeting of the Association was held on October 29, 1963, at which Lewis L. Robbins, Chairman of the Committee on Organization and Planning of the American Psychoanalytic Association, discussed the work his committee had undertaken. Current legislation in the area of mental health was reviewed by Lawrence C. Kolb, Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute. The Committee on Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Education sponsored a series of discussion group