To the Editor:
I have been very much impressed with the Newsletter and I feel it fills an important need. It should be an organ not only for the occasional communication from the top, but also for information from Committees interested in stimulating the interest and response of the membership.
But I wished particularly to respond to the last few paragraphs in the May report of the Newsletter Committee to the Executive Council, referring to your plan to publish feature articles describing the work of the Committees of the American. I would be particularly grateful, for example, for an article on COPE, or for a piece explaining what happens during and after a “site visit” to an Institute. Who brings whose attention to training deficiencies or other problems, and how are exciting new methods appraised and passed on to other Institutes for their consideration?
I believe that many other members would share my interest in being enlightened about these matters.
Irving Burt Harrison, M.D.
(Editor's Note: A series of feature articles describing the work of the key committees of the Association is in preparation and will be published in forthcoming issues. COPE, and the Committee on Institutes, which conducts site visits, are scheduled for early attention.)
Clarification re Dinner-Dance
Dr. Martin Berezin, newly appointed Chairman of the Arrangements Committee, has called our attention to a possible misunderstanding created by a headline in the last issue of the Newsletter, which read “Dinner-Dance to be Dropped.” The story under that headline explained that the Dinner-Dance at the Fall Meeting in New York City was to be discontinued. Apparently readers who did not get past the headline were left with the impression that there would no longer be a Dinner-Dance at any of the meetings of the Association. Dr. Berezin would like it to be made clear that this social function will be continued at the Annual Meetings in the Spring, and that a particularly fine affair is being planned for the 1968 Annual Meeting in Boston.