The appointment of Dr. Kenneth Alexander Hamilton of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as the tenth Alfred P. Sloan Professor in the Menninger School of Psychiatry has been announced by The Menninger Foundation. Dr. Hamilton is Chief of Medicine at Colonel Mewburn Pavilion at the University of Alberta Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. In addition to his distinguished career as an internist, Dr. Hamilton also has achieved a high reputation as a teacher. An interest in psychiatry grew out of the necessity of understanding problems with patients referred to him as an internist. For some years he taught first year medical students the psychoanalytic concept of psychosexual development, a pioneer undertaking in Canadian medical schools. He has been particularly influential in motivating a number of young Canadian doctors to take up training in psychiatry in Topeka.