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An American Sociometric Association has been founded and its first officers were elected by means of a sociometric poll. Officers of the Association are: President, J. L. Moreno; Secretary, Helen H. Jennings; Treasurer, George A. Lundberg; Counsellors, Gardner Murphy, Ronald Lippitt and Zerka Toeman.
The Association has at this time 100 charter members, and 175 new applicants for membership. The aim of the Association is to provide a meeting point for the various social science associations as a center in which their mutual research interests can be promoted. Its charter membership consists of a cross-section of sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists, social workers, and so forth.
Annual membership fee is $5.00, including subscription to the journal Sociometry. Communications and applications for membership may be addressed to: American Sociometric Association, Room 327, 101 Park Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.
The urgent need for communities to provide clinics for psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation of returned veterans is stressed in the 35th annual report of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, distributed today. Neglect of this obligation will result in the call for payment of compensation awards “in the billions of dollars,” states the report.
Most of the resources of the Committee, used for activities connected with the war for the last few years, are now being directed toward veteran rehabilitation, the report says. At the end of 1944 more than 1,500,000 men had been rejected for service, and 500,000 veterans had been discharged, for psychiatric reasons.
“These figures reveal a staggering need for the creation of psychiatric facilities for the care of mentally disabled veterans.”
The current annual report is the first issued during the administration of Eugene Meyer as Pre