A new Chairman of the Board on Professional Standards was announced at the Annual Meeting in San Diego. Shelly Orgel will commence a three-year term in May, 1985, when the term of the current Chairman, Homer C. Curtis, is completed. Three major committees of the Board now have new chairmen. Irwin Solomon succeeds Justin Krent on the Committee on Certification, Richard M. Greenberg succeeds Leonard L. Shengold on the Committee on Membership, and Leo Sadow succeeds David M. Sachs on the Committee on New Training Facilities.
Six members have been elected to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association for a three-year term commencing January 1, 1985. Drs. Adrienne P. Applegarth, Aaron H. Esman, and Milton H. Horowitz will serve their first term. Drs. Virginia L. Clower, Stanley I. Greenspan, and Theodore J. Jacobs were reelected to the Board.
In recognition of the generous contribution toward the creation of the Freud Room in the new APA headquarters building, the Association has been designated as a Modern Founder of the APA.
In addition to receiving an official certificate, the Association will be entered on the permanent Modern Founders' plaque, to be located in a prominent place in the new APA building. Also, when the Freud Room construction is completed, appropriate acknowledgment will be made of the Association's special role in the creation of that project.
At the Annual Meeting of the Association held in San Diego, May, 1984, a new Arizona Psychoanalytic Study Group was approved and the former Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Study Group was approved for Affiliate Society status. The Wisconsin Study Group was affiliated with the American in 1978.
Dr. Eugene J. Kinder is President of the Arizona Psychoanalytic Study Group. Dr. Samuel B. Black is President of the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society.
The Executive Council approved the recommendation of the Executive Committee to institute a meeting registration fee for members of the Association beginning with the December 1984 meeting. The recommendation, based on consideration of ways to increase revenues, reduce meeting deficits, and anticipate future higher costs sets the December, 1984 Member Registration Fee at $25.00 for advance registration and $35.00 for on-site registration. As in the past, spouses of members will be able to attend without additional cost.