At the May meeting of the Board on Professional Standards in San Juan, Homer C. Curtis, M.D., was elected to the office of Chairman. He will assume the office in May, 1982, for a three-year term, when Dr. Laurence B. Hall completes his tenure.

Dr. Curtis became a member of the Association in 1957 and has since served in a number of capacities. In addition to being a member of various committees, he has been an Executive Councilor, Councilor-At-Large, Chairman of the Committee on New Training Facilities, and Chairman of the Committee on Prerequisites for Training. A Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis since 1962, Dr. Curtis has been Chairman of the Education Committee of that Institute since 1976. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Hahnemann Medical College and a member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

His numerous publications include a chapter in the International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis on “Formation of New Institutes” and a penetrating analysis of “The Concept of the Therapeutic Alliance,” published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.