Last May the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics appointed Mr. M. H. Ahrendt as our new Executive Secretary. Mr. Ahrendt assumed his duties at our headquarters office at 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington G, D. C., on July 1, 1951. Prior to this date, this position had been filled temporarily by your President, during our first year as a Department of the National Education Association.