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The 71st Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, May 12-16, 1982. 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 Fifty-seventh Street, New York, N.Y. 10022.
The Business Meeting of Members was held on Saturday, May 15, 1982, at 8:30 A.M. with Dr. Arnold M. Cooper, President, officiating and Dr. Richard C. Simons as Secretary. Dr. Cooper announced the presence of a quorum. The Proceedings of the December 19, 1981 Business Meeting of Members were adopted as published as the official Minutes.
Dr. Cooper congratulated the entire membership for "bringing to the office of the presidency a person with the stellar qualities of Morton F. Reiser."
Dr. Cooper reviewed Dr. Reiser's professional history and experience. By 1969 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale, a post he still holds as the B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and he has distinguished himself in that post. He has achieved an outstanding career in psychosomatic medicine in this country, combining a deep and active knowledge of psychoanalysis with an active knowledge of the best of current