The Board on Professional Standards, meeting in Miami on April 30, 1969, elected Dr. Francis McLaughlin to the position of Chairman-Elect of the Board. Dr. McLaughlin will take office as Chairman in May, 1970, at the conclusion of the term of the current Chairman, Dr. Jacob A. Arlow.
Meeting as a Nominating Commitee the following day, the Executive Council selected nominees for offices in the Association to be filled by election next December. For President-Elect, Council nominated Drs. Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin and Robert S. Wallerstein. For Councillor-at-Large, Drs. Herbert H. Herskovitz, Charles Kligerman and Seymour L. Lustman were named.
Council called attention to the fact that under the By-Laws members of the Association may make additional nominations by mail.
Dr. McLaughlin has been a member of the A.Psa.A. since 1946 and was a Fellow of the Board on Professional Standards from 1954 to 1960. He has held a variety of positions in the Association — he was on the Planning Commission for the Survey of Psychoanalytic Education, on the Executive Council, on the Ad Hoc Committee on Revision of Standards and on the COPE Study Group on Training Analysis. From 1962 to 1966 Dr. McLaughlin was a member of the Committee on New Training Facilities and became the Chairman of that Committee in 1966.
A graduate of the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. McLaughlin has been a Training and Supervising Analyst there since 1952. He was Director of the Institute from 1953 to 1959, and President of the Baltimore Society in 1955-56. He has been a member of the Faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1961, and was President of the Maryland Psychiatric Society in 1967-68.
In addition to theoretical studies, Dr. McLaughlin has published a number of papers on problems of psychoanalytic education.
The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, which was held May 2-5 at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, was well attended by the standards of annual meetings of the Association. The scientific activities drew large audiences. A highlight of the meetings was a series of interdisciplinary seminars instituted by the Program Committee.
At the Meeting of Members, Dr. Samuel Ritvo turned the gavel over to the incoming President, Dr. Royden Astley, and Dr. Albert J. Solnit began his term as President-Elect. Dr. Burness E. Moore took over as Secretary from Dr. Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin; Dr. Edward D. Joseph, Treasurer, began his second term.