On March 17, 1957, Dr. Earl D. Bond became THE MENNINGER FOUNDATION'S FIRST ALFRED P. SLOAN VISITING PROFESSOR IN PSYCHIATRY. He planned to remain in Topeka for several weeks, spending most of his time meeting informally with individuals and small groups of Fellows in the Menninger School of Psychiatry. The visiting professorships were established by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Their purpose is to bring to Topeka, for varying periods of time, men and women of outstanding achievement in psychiatry in order to enrich the professional education of the nearly one hundred and fifty physicians studying in the Menninger School of Psychiatry. Doctor Bond, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, is now in his forty-ninth year in the profession. During the past forty-four years he has been actively associated with Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital, for the past twenty-one years as its physician-in-chief and as director of training for the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine.