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FILE NAME: American Cyanamid (AMCY) DATE: 1945 Sept DOC#: AMCY001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Published Article from Medical Journal Sept., 1945 ASSOCIATION NEW S STATE PUBLIC HEALTH MEETINGS'. Health Nursing, New York; and 1945 PATTERN ' Reginald M. Atwater, M.D., Executive As announced in the May issue of the Secretary, A.P.H.A. . American Journal of Public Health The meetings organized in Denver. (page 536) a series of state health meet Salt Lake City and Boise, Ida., under ings under the auspices of state public the auspices of the respective state pub health associations was arranged in sev lic health associations, were longer eral of the central and mountain states sessions, one in each state. These were during May and early June, and .was attended by Dr. Townsend, Dr. Wheat attended by a team of speakers organ ley and Dr. Atwater and, in addition, ized under the auspices of the American by Karl F. Meyer, M.D., the Director Public Health Association. This circuit of the Hooper Foundation, University followed to a considerable extent the of California, San Francisco, who is pattern of 1943 and 1944 for wartime President of the Western Branch, meetings and had been approved by the A.P.H.A.; and by Fred T. Foard, M.D., Executive Board of the Association to District Director, U. S. Public Health meet the manifest need for professional Service, Denver; and Ruth Freeman. refresher courses as requested by these R.N., Director of the Course in Public states. Health Nursing, University of Minne Even under the strict limitations of sota, Minneapolis. Other speakers, in the orders of the ODT it was possible cluding Thomas Parran, M.D., Surgeon to hold 9 very successful meetings. The General of the U. S. Public Health circuit began May 16 in Chicago, and Service, attended some of these meet was followed by a meeting in Springfield, ings, together with other representa 111., both under the auspices of the tives of the federal services, among them Illinois Public Health Association. Two Edith P. Sappington, M.D., Regional meetings under the auspices of the Director of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Missouri Public Health Association were San Francisco. held in St. Louis and in Kansas City, In spite of the limitation on travel and two under the auspices of the from a distance, it was possible - by Kansas Public Health Association in arranging these meetings according -to Topeka and Wichita. this schedule to bring the programs The team of speakers, supplementing before an audience totaling more than those from the states concerned, in 2,100 persons. The opinion was re cluded at these first six meetings James peatedly expressed by officers of the G. Townsend, M.D., Director of the state public health associations that this Industrial Hygiene Division, National method had values in it for the future, Institute of Health,. Bethesda, Md.; since a very large proportion of those George M. Wheatley, M.D., Assistant who were able to attend these refresher Vice President, Welfare, Metropolitan courses would be unable, even in peace Life Insurance Company, New York; time, to get to a single large meeting Frank Stafford, M.A., of the U. S. Office either of the Western Branch or of the of Education, Washington, D. C.; Ruth Association itself. I t was the opinion, Fisher, R.N., Associate Director, however, of various state associations National Organization for Public affiliated under the Western Branch that [966] Sept., 1945 ASSOCIATION NEW S STATE PUBLIC HEALTH MEETINGS'. Health Nursing, New York; and 1945 PATTERN ' Reginald M. Atwater, M.D., Executive As announced in the May issue of the Secretary, A.P.H.A. . American Journal of Public Health The meetings organized in Denver. (page 536) a series of state health meet Salt Lake City and Boise, Ida., under ings under the auspices of state public the auspices of the respective state pub health associations was arranged in sev lic health associations, were longer eral of the central and mountain states sessions, one in each state. These were during May and early June, and .was attended by Dr. Townsend, Dr. Wheat attended by a team of speakers organ ley and Dr. Atwater and, in addition, ized under the auspices of the American by Karl F. Meyer, M.D., the Director Public Health Association. This circuit of the Hooper Foundation, University followed to a considerable extent the of California, San Francisco, who is pattern of 1943 and 1944 for wartime President of the Western Branch, meetings and had been approved by the A.P.H.A.; and by Fred T. Foard, M.D., Executive Board of the Association to District Director, U. S. Public Health meet the manifest need for professional Service, Denver; and Ruth Freeman. refresher courses as requested by these R.N., Director of the Course in Public states. Health Nursing, University of Minne Even under the strict limitations of sota, Minneapolis. Other speakers, in the orders of the ODT it was possible cluding Thomas Parran, M.D., Surgeon to hold 9 very successful meetings. The General of the U. S. Public Health circuit began May 16 in Chicago, and Service, attended some of these meet was followed by a meeting in Springfield, ings, together with other representa 111., both under the auspices of the tives of the federal services, among them Illinois Public Health Association. Two Edith P. Sappington, M.D., Regional meetings under the auspices of the Director of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Missouri Public Health Association were San Francisco. held in St. Louis and in Kansas City, In spite of the limitation on travel and two under the auspices of the from a distance, it was possible - by Kansas Public Health Association in arranging these meetings according -to Topeka and Wichita. this schedule to bring the programs The team of speakers, supplementing before an audience totaling more than those from the states concerned, in 2,100 persons. The opinion was re cluded at these first six meetings James peatedly expressed by officers of the G. Townsend, M.D., Director of the state public health associations that this Industrial Hygiene Division, National method had values in it for the future, Institute of Health,. Bethesda, Md.; since a very large proportion of those George M. Wheatley, M.D., Assistant who were able to attend these refresher Vice President, Welfare, Metropolitan courses would be unable, even in peace Life Insurance Company, New York; time, to get to a single large meeting Frank Stafford, M.A., of the U. S. Office either of the Western Branch or of the of Education, Washington, D. C.; Ruth Association itself. I t was the opinion, Fisher, R.N., Associate Director, however, of various state associations National Organization for Public affiliated under the Western Branch that [966] 968 American J ournal of P ublic H ealth Sept., 1945 Tex., Tuberculosis Nursing Consultant, State Dept, of Health Epidemiology Section A rthur E. Dreuth, 309 " C " St., Marysville, Calif., Venereal Disease Investigator, 'Bureau of Venereal Diseases, State Dept, of Public Health Rodolfo A. Gavidia, M.D., Libertad 735, Mag dalena del M ar, Lima, Peru, S. A., Con sultant in the Inter-American Health Service Norman Kramer, Director of Laboratory, Epi demiology Unit Arnold B. Kurlander, M.D., State Dept, of Health, Phoenix, Ariz., Director, Div. of Tuberculosis Control; P. A. Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service School Health Section Verne S. Landreth, A M ., 311 California State Bldg., Los Angeles 12,.Calif., Chief, Division of Physical and Health Education, State Dept, of Education Jose de la Fuente Riveroll, M.D., Obregon No. 90, Hermosillo, Sonoro, Mexico, School Doctor, State Educational Board John H . Shaw, E d U ., Dept, of Athletics and Physical Education, Syracuse Univ., Syra- ' cuse, N. Y., In charge of Teacher Training, Division of Teacher Education . Henry W. VoUmer, M.D., 1531 E. Wilson Ave., Glendale 6, Calif., Dept, of Health Educa tion, Pacific Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists Unaffiliated - John P. Berger, M B ., 509 Brown Bldg., Wichita 2, Kan., Syphilologist Harold B. Gursha, 218 Foster St.,' Brighton, Mass., Veterinary Student, Middlesex Univ. I. D. Richardson, Evadale, Tex., Sanitation Officer, U. S. Navy Anthony J. J. Rourke, M.D., 2235 Laguna St., San Francisco 15, Calif., Assoc. Prof, of Hospital Administration, and Medical Director, Stanford Univ., Medical School APPLICANTS FOR FELLOWSHIP In accordance with the By-laws oj the Association, the names of applicants for Fellowship are officially published herewith. They have requested affiliation with the Sections indicated. Action by the various Section Councils, the Committee on Eligibility, and the Governing Council will take place during the next two months. Health Officers Section George H. Becker, M U ., Director, Bureau of Communicable Diseases, San Francisco De partment of Public Health, San Francisco, Calif. Millard B. Bethel, M.D., M P H ., Health Officer, Cabarrus County Health Depart ment, Concord, N. C. Philip E. Blackerby, M.D., State Health Com missioner, Louisville, Ky. George F. Campana, M.D., State Health Officer, Bismarck, N. D. F. R. Nicholas Carter, M.D., Health Officer and Secretary, Board of Health, South Bend, Ind. Albert C. Edwards, M.D., M.P.H., Director, St. Clair County Health Dept., Port Huron, Mich. Floyd M. Feldman, M.D., Dr.PH ., Health Officer, Rochester City Health Dept., Rochester, Minn. Henry A. Holle, M.D., Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. (on UNRRA assignment abroad) Roscoe P. Kandle, M.D., M P .H , Director, Division of Local Health Service, State Board of Health, New Orleans, La. Jacob H. Landes, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Health Officer, Department of Health, New York, N. Y. . Frederick D. M ott, M.D., C.M., Chief Med ical Officer, Farm Sedurity Administration. Washington, D. C. Frederick A. Musacchio, M.D., M .S.PH ., Director, Laredo-Webb County Health Unit, Laredo, Tex. " Emil A. Palmquist, M.D., M.P.H., City Health Commissioner, Seattle, Wash. Angelo M. Perri, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of Communicable Disease Division, Depart ment of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pa. William A. Powell, M.D., Contra Costa County Health Officer, Martinez, Calif. C. L. Putnam, M.D., M.S.P.H., Deputy Com missioner and Director of Local Health Services, State Department of Health, Des Moines, Iowa Arthur L. Ringle, M.D., C.P.H., Director, State Department of Health, Seattle, Wash. Mason Romaine, M.D., M.P.H., Health Officer, Petersburg, Va. Roy M. Seideman, M.D., DrJP.H., Industrial Hygiene Physician, State Department of Health, Hartford, Conn. Ellis D. Sox, M.D., C.P.H., Chief, Division Vol. 35 Association N ews 969 of Local Health Service, State Department of Public Health, San Francisco, Calif. Major General Morrison C. Stayer, M.C., Chief Surgeon, North African-Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U. S. Army (overseas address) James L. Troupin, M.D., M.S.P.H., District Health Officer, Health Department, New York, N. Y. I. Oscar Weissman, M.D., M JPiL , Surgeon (R ), U. S. Public Health Service'; Director, Muskogee City-County Health Dept., Muskogee, Okla. Maurice S. Whiteside, M P , Health Officer, Cullman County Health Dept., Cullman, Ala. John M. Whitney, M.D., Superintendent of Health, New Orleans, La. Charles L. Wilbar, Jr., M.D., President, Terri torial Board of Health, Honolulu, T. H. Ralph C. Williams, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General and Chief, Bureau of Medical Serv ices, U. S. Public Health Service, Washing ton, D. C. Laboratory Section Claude S. Bryan, D.VM ., Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Surgery and Medicine, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Mich. Irm a L. Comstock, B.S., Principal Biologist, State Board of Health Laboratory, Jeffer son City, Mo. Harald N. Johnson, M.D., Member of Staff and Director of Rabies Study, International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation. Montgomery, Ala. Einar Leifson, Ph.D., Professor of Bacteri ology, University of South Dakota, Ver million, S. D. Benjamin S. Levine, Ph.D., Director, Division of Laboratories, State Board of Health, Pierre, S. D. ' Robert P. Myers, Ph.D., Chief Bacteriologist, Research Laboratory, National Dairy Products Corp., Baltimore, Md. Wade W. Oliver, M.D., Professor of Bac teriology, Long Island College of Medicine, Brooklyn, N. Y. Clarence C. Ruchhoft, B.S. in Ch.E., Principal Chemist, U. S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio Roy Schneiter, Ph.D., Bacteriologist in Charge, Bacteriological Section, Industrial Hygiene Research Laboratory, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md. Lt. Comdr. Frank H . Stubbs, USN, Executive Officer, Duke University N.R.O.T.C., (formerly Director, Branch Laboratory, Georgia State Health D ept.), Albany, Ga. A. Elizabeth Verder, P h D ., Bacteriologist, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md. Vital Statistics Section M arta Fraenkel, M D ., Medical Advisor, Bureau of Research and Statistics, Social Security Board, Washington, D. C. Marjorie E. Gooch, ScD ., Chief, Health Sta tistics Section, Division of Statistical Re search, Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. Iwao M. Moriyama, Ph.D., C P U ., Senior Social Science Analyst, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. Marcelino Pascua-Martinez, M.D., Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of H y giene and Public Health, Baltimore, Md. Elliott H . Pennell, B.S., Senior Statistician, U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md. Engineering Section Col. William A. Hardenbergh, Sn.C , Director, Sanitary Engineering Division, Surgeon General's Office, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. Arthur H. Herberger, C.E., M.S., Director, Division of Sanitation, Nassau County De partment of Health, Mineola, N. Y. Industrial Hygiene Section August Baier, M D ., Medical Director, Des Moines Ordnance Plant, U. S. Rubber Co., Des Moines, Iowa Edgar C. Barnes, B.S., Industrial Hygiene Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Corpora tion, East Pittsburgh, Pa. Rodney R. Beard, M D ., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Stanford Medical School, San Francisco, Calif. Harold T. Castberg, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Adult Health, State Department of Public Health, Berkeley, Calif. W alter E. Doyle, M.D., Chief, Medical Unit, Industrial Hygiene Division, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. John W. Dugger, M.D., Director, Division of Industrial Hygiene and Factory Inspection, State Board of Health, Jackson, Miss. Anna M. Fillmore, R.N., M.P.H., Industrial Nursing Consultant, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, N. Y. Donald O. Hamblin, M.D., Medical Director, American Cyanamid Co., New York, N. Y. Clifford K uh,' M.D., Dr.P.H., Director of Public Health, Permanente Foundation Hos- pital, Oakland, Calif. Hedwig S. Kuhn, M D ., Ophthalmologist; Member, Industrial Vision Institute, Purdue University; Secretary, Joint Committee of 970 American J ournal of P ublic H ealth Sept., 1945 Industrial Ophthalmology, American Med ical Association and American Academy of Ophthalmology, Hammond, Ind. Melville H . Manson, M.D., FA.C.S., Medical Director, American Telephone and* Tele graph Co., New York, N. Y. John M. McDonald, M D ., D.P.H., Director, Bureau of Occupational Diseases, City Health Department, Baltimore, Md. Clarence W. Muehlberger, Ph.D., Toxicologist, State Department of Health, Lansing, Mich. Samuel M. Peck, M.D., Special Consultant on Dermatology and Medical Director (R ), U. S. Pubhc Health Service, New York, N. Y. Crit Pharris, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Medical Director, United Aircraft Corp., East H art ford, Conn. John J. Prendergast, M.D., Medical Director, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Mich. M ark M. Schapiro, M.D., Medical Examiner, M anhattan Life Insurance Company and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Chicago. III. George H. Zerbst, M.D., Director, Division of Industrial Health, State Board of Health. Columbia, S. C. Food and Nutrition Section Anna de Planter Bowes, M A ., Chief, Division of Nutrition, Bureau of M aternal and Child Health, State Department of Health. Harrisburg, Pa. Frank L. Gunderson, Ph.D., Director bf Nu trition, the Quaker Oats Co., and Executive Secretary, Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council, Washington. D. C. Icie Macy Hoobler, Ph.D., Director, Research Laboratory, Children's Fund of Michigan. Detroit, Mich. C. Frances MacKinnon, M.S., Consultant in Nutrition, Unit for Inter-American Co operation, Children's Bureau, Washington D. C. Elsa Orent-Keiles, Sc.D., Principal Nutrition Chemist in Charge of Nutrition Investiga tions, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. . Telford W. Workman, D.VM., Ph.D., Pro duction and Technical Director, Northeast District, The Borden Co., Bridgeport, Conn. Maternal and Child Health Section Samuel R. Berenberg, M D ., Chief, Child Health Services, Health Department, New York, N. Y. L t. Comdr. Tipton M. Jollifie (M C), U.S. N.R., Medical Officer of Health, Epidemi ology Unit No. 21, N.A.T.B., Corpus Christie, Tex. Viktor 0 . Wilson, M.D., M.P.H., Director. Division of Child Hygiene, State Depart ment of Health, Minneapolis, Minn. . Public Health Education Section Theron H . Butterworth, Ph.D., Associate Milk Specialist, U. S. Public Health Service (at present on leave of absence to complete a year of graduate study in Health Educa tion), Chapel Hill, N. C. Donald A. Dukelow, M.D., Director of Public Health Education, State Department- of Health, Minneapolis, Minn. Eleanor Hassell, M.P.H., Assistant Director of Health Education, State Board of Health. Jackson, Miss. Ann W. Haynes, M.P.H., Acting Chief. Bureau of Health Education, State Depart ment of Public Health, San Francisco. Calif. Jean Henderson, Chief, Public Relations and Recruitment, Cadet Nurse Corps, U. S. Pub lic Health Service, Washington, D. C. Raymond U. Hilleman, M A., Health Educa tion Secretary, Ohio Public Health Associa tion, Columbus, Ohio Rosemary M. Kent, M A ., Health Consultant, City Public Schools, Winston-Salem, N . C Adelaide R. Ross, M.Ed., Associate in Health Education, National Tuberculosis Associa tion, New York, N. Y. Alice L. Spillane, M.P.H., Chief, Division of Health Education, State Department of ' Health, Seattle, Wash. Public Health Nursing Section ' R uth Albrecht, R.N., B.S., (formerly As sistant Director, Divirion of Public Health Nursing, Texas State Department of H ealth), a t present working toward M.A. at University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. Adaline Chase, R N ., M.A., Assistant Profes sor, Department of Nursing Education, School of Education, University of Pennsyl vania, Philadelphia, Pa. Beatrice M. Clutch, R.N., M A ., Acting Direc tor, Nursing Education Division, George Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. Pearl P. Coulter, R.N., M.S., Associate Pro fessor of Public Health Nursing, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. Judith A. Davies, M.S., R N ., Director of Public Health Nursing, Santa Barbara County Health Department, Santa Barbara. Calif. Norma B. Eskil, B.S., R.N., Director of Public Health Nursing, Health Department, Flint, Mich. Ella M. H ott, R N ., M.A., Director, Division of Public Health Nursing, State Board of Health, Jefferson City, Mo. Vol. 35 Association N ews 971 Janet Jennings, R N ., M.A., Educational Director, State Department of Public Health, Springfield, 111. Marie L. Johnson, R N ., B.S., Assistant Di rector, Nursing Bureau, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, N. Y. Winifred M. Kellogg, B.S., R.N., Educational Director, Visiting Nurse Association, De troit, Mich. Esther M. Latimer, R.N., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Amy A. MacOwan, R.N., M.A., Assistant Professor of Public Health Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California. Berkeley, Calif. Ida McRoberts, R N ., M.A., Director of Public Health Nursing, Cattaraugus County De partment of Health, Olean, N. Y. Ann S. Nyquist, R.N., Acting Director of Public Health Nursing, State Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minn. Irm a E. Reeve, R N ., M.A., Associate Director, New Haven Visiting Nurse Association, New Haven, Conn. Elizabeth L. Sewell, R.N., M.A.. District Supervising Nurse, State Department of Health, New York, N. Y. Pearl Shalit, R.N., M.S., Executive Director. St. Paul Family Nursing Service, St. Paul, Minn. M argaret S. Taylor, R N ., M.A., Public Health Nursing Consultant, Tuberculosis Control Division, U. S. Public Health Service. Washington, D. C. Grace L. Unzicker, R N ., B.S., Senior Assistant Nurse Officer (R ), Tuberculosis Control Division, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. Epidemiology Section M ajor Claude M . Eberhart, M.C., Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Head quarters United Kingdom Base (address overseas) William W. Frye, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn. John R. Paul, M.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn. Walter B. Quisenberry, M.D., M.P.H., Venereal Disease Control Officer, State Health De partment, Lincoln, Nebr. Erich Seligmann, M.D., Chief Bacteriologist. Beth Israel Hospital, New York, N. Y. I. Jackson Tartakow, M.D., M.S.P.H., Epi demiologist, Nassau County Department of Health, Mineola, N. Y. School Health Section Robert M. Robbins, M.B., Ch.B., Surgeon (R ), U. S. Public Health Service; Assistant Commissioner of Health, Macon, Ga. Benjamin Sachs, M J3., M.S.P.H., Director, Bureau of Maternal and Child Hygiene, City Board of Health, Hartford, Conn. Sue H. Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., Commis sioner of Health, Columbia County Health Department, Hudson, N. Y. Dental Health Section A. Laurence Corbman, D.D.S., Field Public Health Dentist, U. S. Department of In terior, Ann Arbor, Mich. Linwood G. Grace, D.D.S., Chief, Dental Division, State Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pa. Joseph J. Obst, D.D.S., In Private Dental Practice; Editor, Journal of Second District Dental ' Society, State of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y. Unaffiliated M atthew H. Griswold, M.D., D r.P JI., Chief, Division of Cancer Research, State Depart ment of Health, Hartford, Conn. Major M. J. Plishner, Sn.C., Medical Depart ment Equipment Laboratory, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Herbert Ratner, M.D., Director of Student Health, and Associate, Department of Pre ventive Medicine, Public Health and Bac teriology, Loyola Univ., Chicago, 111. Srish Chandra Seal, M.B., D.P.H., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Sta tistics, All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, India Richard G. Soutar, M.D., Director, Depart ment of Health and Development, City Unified School District, Sacramento, Calif. Paul H . Stevenson, M.D., Dr.P.H., Senior Surgeon, Division of Mental Hygiene, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. Major James M. Suter, M.C., 4th Military Government Group, Sth Provisional Bat talion, Civil Affairs Staging Area, Monterey, Calif. John W. Williams, M.D., Surgeon, U. S. Pub lic Health Service, U. S. Marine Hospital, Detroit, Mich.