In his report on the activities of the Executive Committee, Dr. Robert M. Gilliland, Secretary, noted that much of the work involved financial issues. The Auditors Report of December, 1980, showed that, for the first time in the history of the Association, expenses exceeded income.
Dr. Arnold Cooper, President, announced the retirement of several committee chairmen and their successors. Dr. Warren S. Kennison has retired as Chairman of the Committee on Insurance Programs. His replacement will be Dr. John McGrath. Dr. Sydney E. Pulver, retiring Chairman of the Program Committee, will be succeeded by Dr. Richard Isay. Dr. David Dean Brockman is retiring as Chairman of the Public Information Committee.
Dr. Gerald Freiman, Chairman of the Committee on Affiliate Societies, recommended that the Oregon Psychoanalytic Study Group be officially accepted as a Study Group of the Association. Approval was unanimously voted by the Council.
Dr. Rebecca Solomon, chairing the Exploratory Subcommittee of the Nominating Committee, presented the following slate of recommended nominations, which were accepted. For President-Elect, Dr. Edward Joseph and Dr. Nathan Segel were proposed. For Councilors-At-Large, Dr. Jerome Beigler, Dr. Paul Gray, Dr. Doris Hunter, and Dr. Austin Silber were recommended. No additional nominations were made from the floor.
Dr. Harold Blum, on behalf of the Editorial Board of the Journal, presented a slate of eight names from which the following four were elected to that Board: Drs. Robert Emde, Paul Gray, Melvin Scharfman, and Calvin Settlage.
Dr. Cooper announced that next month Mrs. Helen Fischer, Administrative Director of the Association, will celebrate her twenty-fifth anniversary with the Association. Another birthday occurs on the same day—that of Sigmund Freud.
The Limited Voting Rights proposal was read to the Council, and further discussion ensued. A vote on this proposal is anticipated possibly at the next meeting, as a preparatory (though not necessary) step toward submitting it to the membership. A proposal, recommended by the Executive Committee, was introduced to initiate an annual stipend for each of the two highest officers, the President and the Chairman of the Board on Professional Standards, to start immediately. The motion was unanimously passed.
The issue of feasibility of non-medical training (the Calder Report) was discussed at length with evident disagreement. It was noted that societies and institutes would need to discuss the proposal more thoroughly at the local level. Copies of the panel summary of the Philadelphia Association will be sent to societies as a point of departure for discussion, and comparable efforts by other societies were encouraged.