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Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe has been made an Honorary Member of the Dutch Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Howard W. Potter, professor of clinical psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, has been appointed clinical professor in the department of neurology and psychiatry at Long Island College of Medicine. Dr. Potter graduated at Columbia in 1913. He served as assistant physician at the New York Hospital, Westchester Division, from 1916 to 1920, and at Hudson River State Hospital from 1920 to 1921. From 1921 to 1929 he was clinical director at Letchworth Village, Thiells, and for the next five years was assistant director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital. Since 1934 he has been attending psychiatrist at the Neurological Institute and consulting psychiatrist at Nyack, Englewood and Rockland hospitals. He has been president and secretary of the American Association on Mental Deficiency and is a member of various other special societies.
Dr. Conrad S. Sommer, Chicago, director of the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene, has been appointed to the newly created post of state superintendent of the division of mental hygiene. The new division is in the state department of public welfare and was created on the recommendation of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. In his new capacity he will supervise medical care and treatment of the 30,000 patients in the ten state mental institutions, and will be responsible to the state alienist. He was resident psychiatrist at the Illinois Research Hospital from 1932 to 1933 and fellow at the Institute for Juvenile Research from 1935 to 1937. For the last three years he has been connected with the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Loyola University School of Medicine.