The American Pediatric Society announces election of the following officers for the coming year: President—Jean V. Cooke, St. Louis; Vice President—Lawson Wilkins, Baltimore ; Sec'y-Treas.—Henry G. Poncher, Chicago; Rec. and Ed.—Stewart H. Clifford, Brookline, Mass.
Chairman of the Council will be A. Ashley Weech, and the newly elected member to the Council is John D. Lyttle.
The Society's 1949 meeting will be in Atlantic City, May 3. It will be a joint meeting with the Society for Pediatric Research.
Newly elected members to the Society are: John M. Adams, Minneapolis; James M. Baty, Brookline, Mass.; Leona Baumgartner, New York, N.Y.; Charles C. Chapple, Philadelphia; John P. Hubbard, Washington, D.C.; Franc D. Ingraham, Boston; Roger L. J. Kennedy, Rochester, Minn.; Edith M. Lincoln, New York, N.Y.; Charles D. May, Minneapolis; Victor A. Najjar, Baltimore; William A. Reilly, Little Rock, Ark.; L. Nelles Silverthorne, Toronto; Myron E. Wegman, New Orleans; and Irving J. Wolman, Philadelphia.
Newly elected officers of the Society for Pediatric Research for next year are: President—Sidney Farber, Boston; Vice President—Francis F. Schwentker, Baltimore; Sec'y-Treas.—Robert Ward, New York, N.Y.