A special meeting of the Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics was held at Hotel Statler, Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, April 29, 1948. The meeting was called to order at 7:50 P.M. by the President, Dr. John A. Toomey. There were present Drs. Toomey, Sisson, Pease, Martmer, Grulee, Stringfield, Beaven, Barba, London, Wishropp, Munns, McElhenney, Spickard, McLendon, Snedeker, and by invitation, Drs. Joseph S. Wall, Coursen B. Conklin and John P. Hubbard.
It was moved, seconded and carried that when speakers are asked to appear on programs at meetings, they should receive 7½¢ for travel, and ten dollars a day for the time in service at the meeting. When they ask to appear on programs at meetings, they should not be reimbursed.
The Board went into executive session and after due deliberation the following resolution was adopted: "A committee of three members of the Executive Board shall be appointed to confer with the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association and place before them the proposal, which has been passed by the Executive Board of the Academy, that there should be Federal subsidy for the teaching of pediatrics in the medical schools."
The President appointed the following Committee: Drs. Beaven, Sisson and Munns. Dr. Harvey F. Garrison, representing the Academy as liaison officer to the American Medical Association, was added to this Committee.
The meeting recessed at 11:50 P.M. and was called to order at 9 A.M. April 30, 1948, by the President.
It was moved, seconded and carried that any statements being made public by the Committee for Improvement of Child Health should be reviewed and approved by Drs. Wilson, Hill and Webb.
It was moved, seconded and carried that a representative of the Academy be empowered to place before the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association our resolution opposing S-1290 as written in the action taken at the February 1948 meeting.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the Committee to the American Medical Association be empowered to ask Dr. Harold H. Mitchell, Chairman of the Academy Committee on School Health, to accompany the Committee as an adviser during the conference with the Trustees.
A motion was made and seconded that Dr. Hubbard, as Director of the Committee for Improvement of Child Health, be encouraged and empowered to go ahead and seek funds for the Committee.
Governance system of the American Medical Association
