Dr. Barre Alan, a member of the APsaA who had been the guiding spirit of the National Candidates' Council (NCC), died suddenly on December 27, 1969, at the age of 43.

While a student at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Alan began to concern himself with the fact that the Internal Revenue Service did not permit candidates to deduct their training analysis fees as a business expense. He contacted candidates in other centers and in time was able to bring his colleagues together in a national organization, with the tax issue as its central focus.

The NCC, under Dr. Alan's leadership, pursued this issue actively. In 1966 he and his colleagues had the satisfaction of seeing a breakthrough, when the U. S. Court of Appeals in Boston reversed earlier opinions and ruled in favor of the candidates. In 1967, the IRS changed its regulations.

Although Dr. Alan had completed his training in 1965, and was no longer a candidate, he continued to lead the NCC. He remained its Chairman, in fact, until just two weeks before his death, when, at the Fall meeting of the APsaA, leadership of the organization passed over to an interim committee of five candidates. With the tax issue largely resolved, Dr. Alan felt that the NCC should not be allowed to go out of existence, and he sought ways to perpetuate it as a vital organization of students, operating in close collaboration with the APsaA. This idea had begun to make some headway and there are indications that it may in time become a reality.

Dr. Alan is survived by his wife, Margaret, and two young sons, Douglas and Eric.