Annual Meeting—April 30-May 4, 1975

The 64th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, April 30th to May 4th, 1975. An abstract of the Business Meeting of Members, including reports of the Secretary of the Executive Council, the Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards, the Treasurer of the Association, and the Editor of the Journal, as well as other transactions, are published in this issue of the Bulletin. Members who desire to obtain copies of the Official Minutes of any of these bodies may do so by communicating with the Administrative Director, Mrs. Helen Fischer, One East 57th Street, New York, New York 10022.

The Business Meeting of Members was held on Saturday, May 3, 1975, at 8:30 a.m., with Dr. George H. Pollock, President, presiding, and Dr. Martin A. Berezin as Secretary. Dr. Berezin announced the presence of a quorum.

The Minutes of the December, 1974 meeting were adopted as read.

I. INTRODUCTION OF NEW OFFICERS

Dr. George Pollock, after reviewing the achievements of the past year and expressing his thanks to all those who had helped him during his term of office, introduced the new President of the Association, Dr. Francis McLaughlin:

"As President, Francis McLaughlin also brings with him a wealth of organizational and professional experience. Aldous Huxley has noted that "experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves." Dr. McLaughlin has been a member of our Association for almost thirty years. He has served as chairman and member of so many committees it would take all morning to list them all. He was Chairman of our Board on Professional Standards from 1970 to 1973. He has been Director of the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, President of the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society, President of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, and on the