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annual report INDUSTRIAL HTG1ENE FOUNDATION MELLON INSTITUTE WO Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh. Pa. 15213 INDUSTRIAL, HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, INC. MINUTES MEETING OF MEMBERS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 21, 1964 The Annual Meeting of the Members of the Industrial Hygiene Founda tion of America, Inc, was held at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, October 21, 1964, at 11:20 a.m, pursuant to notice. Mr. E. K. Davison, Chairman of the Board of Trustees presided. Mr. T.C. Waters, who had been previously appointed by the Chairman to examine the proxies, reported that there were 155 companies represented by proxies that were in proper form and fully executed. On motion made and seconded, the proxies were approved. The member companies represented by proxy or in person constituted a quorum. A list of the member companies represented by proxies and a copy of the notice of the meeting and proxy sent to all members of the Corporation are on file in the Minute Book. Since there were no objections or corrections to the minutes which were mailed to all member companies following the October 23, 1963 meeting, a motion was passed to dispense with the reading of the minutes. The Chairman stated that the Minute Book was available and open at the meeting for inspection by members. Mr. Andrew Fletcher read the following statement in memory of Dr. A. J. Lanza: "In Memory of Anthony J. Lanza Industrial Hygiene Foundation 19 35 - 1959 It is a privilege to be asked to honor the late Dr. Anthony J. Lanza by presenting a Resolution for adoption at this 29th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation. "Tony" Lanza, as he was affectionately known by his many friends, was one of the original founders of the Air Hygiene Foundation. Professor Philip Drinker, who is also to be honored today, participated with Dr. Lanza in the early discussions as to the advisability of forming an association for the study and lessening of the hazards of silicosis and other airborne diseases. We should not, however, overlook the active part and constructive help so freety extended by Dr. Roy Gardner of Saranac Laboratories, and by Dr. Edward R. Weidlein, President of Mellon Institute, without whose guidance and financial assistance the Air Hygiene Foundation would not have been organized in 1935. The name of this Association was changed in 1941 to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation. / Meeting of Members. October 21, 1964 WHEREAS The Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc. , which was incorporated in 1941 as a nonprofit research association of industries for the advancement of industrial health, improvement of working conditions and human relations of the people who work, traces its origin to the Air Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc. ; and WHEREAS Dr. Anthony J. Lanza was among the prime movers in estab lishing the Air Hygiene Foundation as a fellowship of Mellon Institute in 193 5; and, - WHEREAS It was Dr. Lanza's outstanding accomplishment in identifying the etiology of silicosis (also called Lanza's Disease) which lead to his being in volved, and his concern with preventive medicine which resulted in Professor Drinker's being consulted in the identification, evaluation and engineering control of environmental hazards from silica; and WHEREAS It was Dr. Lanza's leadership as Chairman of the Foundation's Medical Committee which led to the publication of the first Medical Series Bulletin of the Foundation entitled: "Silicosis and Allied Disorders" in 1937, and numerous other contributions until his retirement in 1952; and WHEREAS The health of the people who work has also been greatly advanced through application of the principles of occupational health, in which Dr. Lanza i pioneered, to the control of hazards other than those related to silica in industry; and WHEREAS We of the membership and Board of Trustees have lost a highly esteemed associate and congenial, admired and valued personal friend through the death of Dr. Lanza, who served as Trustee of the Foundation from 1942-1959; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED In this 29th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc. , that we regret the loss of our friend and founder and commend his high character and integrity as an ideal of personal conduct and as an example in the management of this enterprise; and BE' IT FURTHER RESOLVED That out of respect for the memory of our deceased friend and in recognition of his valued services to the Foundation, we do now direct that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this meeting and a copy of them be sent to the family of Dr. Lanza as a token of our sympathy. A motion was made, seconded by Mr. Waters, and unanimously carried that this resolution be adopted. Dr. Anna M. Baetjer read the following resolution proposing Professor Philip Drinker for election as Trustee Emeritus: "Professor Philip Drinker was one of the farseeing men who were respon sible for the formation of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation (originally the Air Hygiene Foundation). He organized and chaired the Preventive Engineering Com mittee from its beginning until October, 1959 and he was a member of the Board of Trustees from October, 1942 to October, 1959. During the early period, Pro fessor Drinker was in close contact with the day-to-day work of the Foundation and participated actively in developing its program. Undoubtedly, Dr. Drinker's reputation was the basis for the confidence of the Foundation membership in the early industry studies which were made on the control of silicosis. 2. ua Meeting of Members. October 21, 1964 Dr. Drinker brought to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation the mind of a critical scientist, a background education in chemical engineering, and above all, an interest in applying his knowledge and techniques of engineering for the benefit of the working man. His activities in the application of engineering prin ciples to medical problems were already famous because of his invention of the Drinker Respirator and his distinguished editorship of the Journal of Industrial Hygiene & Toxicology. In the formation of the Foundation, as in this Journal, Professor Drinker emphasized the importance of bringing together the chemical, physical, engineering, and medical disciplines. Dr. Drinker was associated with the Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health, beginning in 1922. In 1936, he became Professor of Industrial Hygiene, a position which he held until his retirement in I960. Through his teaching, he has had a great influence in setting high standards of education and high ideals in the field of industrial health which were reflected in the acti vities of the Foundation under his direction; and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT The Board of Trustees and the membership of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation wish to honor Professor Drinker and to express their appreciation of the important contribution which he made to the organization and work of the Foundation by nominating him as Trustee Emeri tus of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation; and IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED THAT This resolution be placed in the minutes of meeting and that a copy be sent to Dr. Drinker. " A motion was made, seconded, and unanimously carried that this resolu tion be adopted. Mr. Andrew Kalmykow read the resolution proposing Mr. Theodore C. Waters for election as Trustee Emeritus: "Theodore C. Waters has, for many years, performed outstanding ser vice for the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc. and he was one of the original incorporators and directors of said Foundation and has served as its General Counsel since 1941 and a member of its Board of Trustees ; and WHEREAS He is and has been a member of the Legal Committee of said Foundation and its predecessor, the Air Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc. , since-1936-and Chairman of its Legal Committee since 1941 ; and WHEREAS He is a distinguished member of the Maryland Bar which he has graced both as an active practitioner and a professor of law and has long been one of the outstanding authorities in the United States on the subject of occupa tional disease legislation and litigation and has written widely on these subjects. He has served as a member of legislative and gubernatorial commissions dealing with these subjects having been Chairman of the Maryland Occupational Disease Commission and presently being a member of the Governor's Committee on Workmen's Compensation and has otherwise distinguished himself both in his home state of Maryland and others; 3. Meeting of Members, October 21, 1964 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That Theodore C. Waters be honored by being designated Trustee Emeritus of the Industrial Hygiene Foun dation of America, Inc.; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Annual. Meeting as a permanent record of said Foundation. " A motion was made, seconded, and unanimously carried that this resolu tion be adopted. The Chairman then called on Dr. Joseph Treon, Chairman of the Nomi nating Committee, to report on this Committee's recommendations pertaining to: (1) The number of members of the Board for the year 1965, and (2) A slate of nominations for members of the Board to serve during the year 1965. Dr. Treon moved that the number of Trustees be set at 30. This motion was seconded and passed. He then submitted the names of the following persons as nominees for election to membership on the Board of Trustees: Earle T. Andrews Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp. W. G. Hazard Owens-Illinois Glass Company Dr. Anna M. Baetjer Johns Hopkins University Andrew Kalmykow Assn, of Casualty & Surety Companies Robert D. Blasier Westinghouse Electric Corp. Harold S. McFarland General Motors Corp. Lawrence A. Coleman Allied Chemical Corp. Dr. Robert B. O'Connor United States Steel Corp. E. K. Davison Davison Sand & Gravel Company Robert T. Ross Ford Motor Company Dr. Robert T. P. deTreville Industrial Hygiene Foundation Elgin D. Sallee American Can Company Andrew Fletcher St. Joseph Lead Company Dr. O. A. Sander Marquette University Theodore F. Hatch University of Pittsburgh, GSPH Dr. Ralph F. Schneider Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Ernst P. Hall Consolidation Coal Company Dr. H. H. Schrenk Mine Safety Appliances Company J. S. Harrison Aluminum Company of America Dr. John F. Shronts General Mills, Inc. Meeting of Members, October 21, 1964 Dr. G. R. Simmons Western Electric Company Dr. Joseph F. Treon Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Johns-Manville Corporation General Arthur G. Trudeau Gulf Research & Development Co. Dr. Henry F. Smyth, Jr. Dr. G. Arthur Webb Mellon Institute (Union Carbide Fellowship) Mellon Institute Douglas Soutar American Smelting & Refining Co. Paul S. Wise American Mutual Insurance Alliance Leo Teplow American Iron & Steel Institute Dr. John A. Zapp, Jr. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. There being no other nominations, a motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously that the persons named in the report of the Nominating Committee be elected to serve on the Board of Trustees for the year 1965. The Chemical-Toxicological Chairman, Dr. Treon, reported that the Chem-Tox Committee has assisted in preparation of the Management and ChemTox Conferences of the 29th Annual Meeting and has also assisted in programs designed to develop improved reporting of industrial clinical toxicological experi ence arising out of use of toxic materials in industry. An example of this is the discussional on phosgene held on September 17 at Mellon Institute, out of which need for further research in the field and laboratory were identified. Representa tives of the Medical and Engineering Committees were invited and participated in this meeting. Plans are also underway to attempt to develop short-term exposure information and to validate threshold limit values, including that for phosgene, under conditions of use. During the year, Dr. Emil A. Pfitzer of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and visiting fellow of Mellon Institute was appointed secretary of the Chem-Tox Committee. Mr. James M. McNerney, former secretary, left the Foundation to accept a position in industry. Dr. John Zapp was appointed co-chairman of the Committee. Membership of the Committee now includes: Dr. Charles P. Carpenter Union Carbide Corp. H. H. Fawcett General Electric Company Harold R. Hoyle Dow Chemical Company J. C. Radcliffe Ford Motor Company Elgin D. Sallee American Can Company Dr. H. H. Schrenk Mine Safety Appliances Company Dr. Herbert E. Stokinger U. S. Public Health Service Meeting of Members, October 2 1, 1964 The Engineering Committee Chairman, Dr. Cralley, reported that his Committee had assisted in preparation of the Engineering Conference of the 29th Annual Meeting. In addition, the Engineering Committee met to re-evaluate its activity in line with the responsibilities suggested by the Policy and Planning Committee. It was the Committee's consensus that additional emphasis should be placed on holding small informal meetings among Industrial Hygiene Foundation members to discuss problems of special interest. Accordingly, the Engineering Committee sponsored two such meetings, one relating to air pollution problems associated with oven exhaust, and the other to the need for additional normative data for different age groups in order to compare noise-exposed populations to non-exposed populations. In addition to the above, the Engineering Committee has undertaken the sponsorship of a yearly discussional of about two days' duration to deal with the topmost industrial hygiene engineering problems at the time. It will be limited to member companies. The program subject material will vary from year to year and care will be taken to prevent any conflict with the objectives of the annual meeting. The first discussional, which will be held in January or February of 1965, will cover select areas in air pollution, noise and heat stress. Other officers of the Engineering lommittee are: H. Wilbur Speicher, co-chairman, and William J. Schreibeis, secretary. Membership includes: R. J. Beaman, Jr. The Procter & Gamble Co. W. H. Kingsley Sandia Corporation Kenneth M. Morse United States Steel Corp. A. C. Pabst Socony Mobil Oil Company Kenneth E. Robinson General Motors Tech. Cent' Samuel H. Thomas Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Herbert T. Walworth Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. George M. Wilkening Bell Telephone Laboratories Donald H. Winn Johns-Manville Research & Engr. Center The Legal Committee Chairman, Mr. Waters, gave the following response to the action of the membership in electing him Trustee Emeritus: "May I respond to the very kind note that Mr. Kalmykow presented to this meeting. The Founda tion has always been close to my heart and I deeply appreciate the thought of the membership and Mr. Kalmykow's remarks. To state that I have appreciated my relationship with the Foundation since its organization, is indeed an understate ment. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. " Mr. Waters reported that the Legal Committee had assisted in the prepara tion of the Management and Legal Conferences of the 29th Annual Meeting. The Committee had also cooperated with other Committees in preparing the Emphysem. Symposium and a discussional on industrial conservation of hearing. The Legal Committee secretary is Mr. Andrew KaLmykow* and member ship incLudes: =5= Note: Mr. Kalmykow has subsequently been appointed the additional duty of -'^iman of the Legal Committee. Meeting of Members, October 21, 1964 Oliver Clayton Humble Oil & Refining Co. Lawrence A. Coleman ' Allied Chemical Corp. W. C. Hartman Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Theodore Hetzler, Jr. Natl. Assn. Mutual Cas. Cos. James L. Hill Ford Motor Company Edward E. Kuebler Kuebler & DelDeo Robert B. Rady Republic Steel Corp. C. L. Sheckler Johns-Manville Corp. Douglas Soutar American Smelting & Refining Co. D. W. Stitt Continental Can Company, Inc. Frank C. Wachter Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp. Paul J. Winschel Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay The Chairman of the Medical Committee, Dr. Braun, reported that the Medical Committee had assisted in the preparation of the Management and Medical Conferences of the 29th Annual Meeting and has also assisted in the Emphysema Symposium, and discussionals on conservation of hearing, and phosgene. Out of each of these meetings have come indications for needed research in the laboratory and/or the plant. The Committee also assisted in the NISA Health and Safety Seminar, out of which has developed several areas of possible Foundation assis tance to small plant occupational health programs. The Medical Committee has also lent support to the Foundation's nursing education experiment and toward the development of a fellowship program in occupational medicine at Mellon Institute. Dr. Dernehl is co-chairman and Dr. Gross the secretary; other members of the committee are: Dr. Roy L. Gibson Gulf Oil Corp. Dr. Lee B. Grant Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Dr. Robert J. Halen Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Dr. James P. Hughes Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Dr. E. M. Kline General Electric Company Dr. George Roush Ethyl Corporation Dr. O. A. Sander Marquette University Dr. S. D. Steiner General Motors Corporation Mrs. Jean W. Gray reported for the Chairman of the Nursing Committee, Mrs. Jane Lee. The Nursing Committee was formed in 1963 to help supervise performance of a single but significant task: To explore means for improving competence of nurses in counseling workers with emotional problems. An experi mental.course entitled: "Employee Mental Health and Industrial Nursing Practices" was developed and conducted in 1964.. Supervisory nurses from member companies of the Foundation were invited to attend. There are nine participants; eight from industry and one from the National Institutes of Health. The course consisted of a continuation of study which began with a six-day group session in June. Study ma terials and project work were applied on-the-job by participants between June and October. A final group session of two days will be held here, at the Institute be ginning tomorrow. From visits by the faculty with each member of the course in 7. Meeting of Members, October 21, 1964 her work situation and from evaluation of written project materials, there are many evidences of change in nursing practices and knowledge. ,: A remarkable feature of the project has been that of voluntary contribu tions of many talents and time squeezed out of fully committed schedules of people with other full-time jobs. Through cooperative efforts of the Managing Director of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation and the Chief, Division of Occupational Health, U.S. Public Health Service, I have been assigned the task of planning and directing the course with the administrative assistance and support of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation. Consultation, actual teaching, and hours of developmental work have been contributed by members of the Nursing Committee, the faculty of University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Western Psychiatric Institute, Ameri can Institute for Research, and psychiatrists from U.S. Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel. Encouraging these efforts, and sometimes counseling or listening to us were Trustees of the Foundation and other executives of its member companies. An immediate beneficial effect of the course is the interest of its partici pants, some of whom are also members of the Nursing Committee, in more de finitive identification of functions of nurses related to employee mental health and in developing methods to improve practice in those functions. In other words, mem ber companies of the Foundation now have a nucleus of nurse leaders who, in sharing one approach to the solution of a problem, may continue to combine their talents in a more effective problem solving. Results of their efforts would be potentially avail able to all member companies. Belief in worth of the tasks undertaken has been the principle source of support, for we have had no visible budget. We are now confident of having defined an approach that will merit far greater effort--and indeed, more visible and tangible support. Miss Bedonna Jacobs has served as secretary of the Committee and mem bers other than myself and the chairman are: Dorothy L. Dean Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Vivian M. Hatfield Trans World Airlines Jeanne T. Healey Western Electric Company Helen K. Kunzler United States Steel Corp. Winifred McLanahan University of Pittsburgh, GSPH Adele C. Miller General Electric Company Alda H. Sica United States Steel Corp. In the absence of the treasurer (because of illness), Mr. Davison present< the treasurer's report. He reviewed the estimated financialpicture for 1964, call attention to the need to balance the Foundation's budget in 1965 if the programs of research and education planned are to proceed. In 1963, it was noted that we shot, anticipate an operational deficit in 1964 to allow Dr. deTreville to help the Founds make the transition into more active programs of research and service for the be' Meeting of Members, October 2 1, 1964 of its members and of industry generally. The 1964 budget anticipated a $15, 000 deficit unless the money could be developed from dues. It appears that there has been only a slight increase in dues; also expected income from Engineering ser vices has materialized only about 15%, so that the combined deficit may be well over $20,000. With limited financial reserves, obviously the Foundation cannot tolerate such deficits over another year or two. It would be impossible to further reduce the Foundation's professional and technical staff without greatly curtailing functions of the Foundation. Additional factors include pension benefits and com petent "back up" for certain of the present Foundation's staff. These important matters will be discussed in a meeting of Trustees later in the day. The member ship will be advised of progress and of ways in which it may be of help. Mr. Davison announced that a year's end financial report will be made to the Board of Trustees after the first of the year. (See page 10). Mr. Davison next called on Dr. deTreville for the Managing Director's report: Dr. deTreville read from a proof of a Guest Editorial on the Foundation from the Journal of Occupational Medicine (JOM), to illustrate widespread recog nition of the importance of programs planned for the Foundation from 1965-1970. (This editorial appeared in the December, 1964 issue of JOM. A reprint is attached). He further stated that each of the programs planned had been suggested by management representatives in the Foundation's membership and that the work outlined is expected to produce considerable benefit to the Foundation's member ship and to industry generally. He indicated his intention to ask member companies to provide support for introduction of the new programs beginning in 1965. With a firm basis of sup port in its membership, the Foundation can make even greater contributions to the advancement of healthful working conditions in industry in the future. There was no discussion, and no further business. The meeting was adjourned at 12:10 p.m. by the Chairman. H. H. Schrenk, Ph.D. Secretary 9. Editorial Reprinted from Journal or Occupational Mxdicini Vo). 6, No. 12. December 1964 Copyright (> by Industrial Medical Association Hoxbrr Medical Division or Harper & Row. Publishers Printed in U.'&.A. ' Industrial Medicine: The Captive Specialty n the words of Ward Darley: "The revolu Foundation, a nonprofit research association of I tion in medical education that followed The industries for the advancement of occupational Flexner Report of 1910 was really precipitated health and the improvement of working condi by the fact that the then developing body of sci tions and human relations in industry. Through entific knowledge was not being translated into the resulting association of top industrial man medical practice by the then existing system of agement, industrial medicine, industrial hy medical education." The specialty of occupa giene, the corporate legal representatives of in tional medicine is actually a modern-day "cap dustry, universities, colleges of medicine, and tive specialty" of a similar system, and the through liaison with governmental agencies, captivity is perpetuated and accentuated by many of the pressing problems of silicosis pre governmental project research grants of un vention and compensation were effectively re precedented magnitude, which have almost solved. tripled in the past 3 years. The problems to which the membership of The future of the field of occupational medi Industrial Hygiene Foundation is addressing it cine is thus increasingly clouded by a question self as this issue of JOM goes to press are far of availability of applicants for training. As more serious than was silicosis at its worst. At pointed out by Ashe, "Preventive aspects of oc its 29th Annual Meeting of the membership on cupational medicine must and will be practiced October 21-22, Foundation plans were outlined only by specialists in the field"--but no plans whereby it may be possible to take the follow for training adequate numbers of physicians in ing steps. occupational health have been successful to 1. Introduce a greatly increased number of date, despite limited efforts of government and young, well-oriented, career-minded physicians r : still more limited efforts of industry. Programs into industry (perhaps as many as 25 the first of occupational health are hence often staffed year) supported by educational grants of the by individuals poorly trained in preventive Foundation's membership. This should be ac medicine and this is the bottleneck inhibiting complished by means of active recruitment development of the specialty. (chiefly from among physicians completing ob Breaking of bottlenecks usually lies within the ligatory military service) into a newly formed province of good management, whether in pro in-plant training program jointly sponsored by fessional or operational matters. In 1913, the Industrial Hygiene Foundation and the Grad Mellon Institute was founded to break a bottle uate School of Public Health, University of neck. In accordance with the concepts of Rob Pittsburgh. kkr- ert Kennedy Duncan, university-type research was brought to bear on practical problems in in 2. Apply the latest advances in teachinglearning methods, such as programmed instruc dustry: e.g., "How do you make a skinless wien tion, to the transition of occupational health er?" The research involved in answering such service personnel presently employed in indus questions had important side benefits. New try from "care of injury" into improved preven knowledge of polymer chemistry derived there tive programs related to health and research. from has resulted in the establishment of new 3. Build the needs of industry into an exten industries--e.g., Union Carbide and Chemicals sive university research program designed to Corporation and Gulf Research & Development, develop normative data on the United States both of which grew out of Mellon Institute fel population in such a way that improved audio lowships. metric and other control procedures may be in In 1935, the Mellon Institute applied a simi troduced into industry through the Foundation lar approach to the problem of silicosis, with the as rapidly as possible. resulting formation of the Industrial Hygiene 4. Mobilize industry-wide support for re- 499 EDITORIAL Journal of Occupational Medicine search in an attempt at validation of threshold limits and. short-term exposure tolerances on ' industrial materials used, such research being "done through improved epidemiological and clinical toxicological studies from which sound er atmospheric standards for purposes of air pol lution control may possibly be developed. 5. Provide improved laboratory support for resolution of problems related to emphysema and other conditions of questionable industrial etiology. 6. Provide improved motivation toward in dustry-wide application of existing knowledge and techniques for health conservation, regard less of company size, through a more meaning ful program of plant certification in environ mental and occupational health than has pre viously existed, in the hope that such certifica tion may provide government at all levels with a tool to implement effectively the health and safety aspects of Walsh Healey or similar legis lation without resorting to a federal-inspection system for minimum standard compliance. All of the above goals are of the greatest im port to the nation, to the specialty of occupa tional medicine, and thus to the readers of JOM. The Industrial Hygiene Foundation deserves the best wishes and support of all, as the com panies which it represents attempt to exercise control over a management bottleneck, and, in cidentally to liberate our "captive specialty" and to press ahead in the accomplishment of much needed work in the field of occupational medicine. R. T. P. deT. OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman: Vice Chairman: Vice Chairman: T reasurer: Secretary: Managing Director: E. K. Davison Dr. Anna M. Baetjer Andrew Kalmykow Theodore F. Hatch Dr. H. H. Schrenk Dr. Robert T. P. deTreville EARLE T. ANDREWS Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp. DR. ANNA M. BAETJER Johns Hopkins University ROBERT D. BLASIER Westinghouse Electric Corp. LAWRENCE A. COLEMAN Allied Chemical Corp. E. K. DAVISON Davison Sand & Gravel Company DR. ROBERT T. P. deTREVILLE Industrial Hygiene Foundation ANDREW FLETCHER St. Joseph Lead Company ERNST P. Hall Consolidation Coal Company J. S. , HARRISON Aluminum Company of America THEODORE F. HATCH University of Pittsburgh, GSPH W. G. HAZARD Owens-Illinois Glass Company ANDREW KALMYKOW Assn, of Casualty Sc Surety Companies harold s. McFarland General Motors Corp. DR. ROBERT B. O'CONNOR Udited States Steel Corp. ROBERT T. ROSS Ford Motor Company ELGIN D. SALLEE American Can Company DR. O. A. SANDER Marquette University DR. RALPH F. SCHNEIDER Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) DR. H. H. SCHRENK Mine Safety Appliances Company DR. JOHN F. SHRONTS General Mills, Inc. DR. G. R. SIMMONS Western Electric Company DR. KENNETH W. SMITH Johns-Manville Corporation DR. HENRY F. SMYTH. JR. Mellon Institute (Union Carbide Fellowship) DOUGLAS SOUTAR American Smelting & Refining Co. LEO TEPLOW American Iron 8c Steel Institute DR. JOSEPH F. TREON Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. GENERAL ARTHUR G. TRUDEAU Gulf Research 8c Development Co. DR. G. ARTHUR WEBB Mellon Institute PAUL S. WISE American Mutual Insurance Alliance DR. JOHN A. ZAPP, JR. E. I. duPont deNemours 8c Co. Trustees Emeritus ----------- Dr. Philip Drinker, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire Theodore C. Waters, Baltimore, Maryland OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF TECHNICAL COMMITTEES CHEMICAL-TOXICOLOGICAL DR. JOSEPH F. TREON. Chairman Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. DR. JOHN A. ZAPP, JR.. Co-Chairman E. I. duPont deNemours & Co. DR. EMIL A. PFITZER, Secretary University of Pittsburgh, GSPH DR. CHARLES P. CARPENTER Mellon Institute (Union Carbide Fellowship) H. H. FAWCETT General Electric Company HAROLD R. HOYLE Dow Chemical Company J. C. RADCLIFFE Ford Motor Company ELGIN D. SALLEE American Can Company DR. H. H. SCHRENK Mine Safety Appliances Company DR. HERBERT E. STOKINGER U. S. Public Health Service ENGINEERING DR. LESTER V. CRALLEY, Chairman Aluminum Company of America H. WILBUR SPEICHER, Co-Chairman Westinghouse Electric Corporation WILLIAM J. SCHREIBEIS Industrial Hygiene Foundation* R. J. BEAMAN, JR. The Procter & Gamble Company W. H. KINGSLEY Sandia Corporation KENNETH M. MORSE United States Steel Corp. A. C. PABST Socony Mobil Oil Company KENNETH E. ROBINSON General Motors Technical Center SAMUEL H. THOMAS Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. HERBERT T. WALWORTH Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. GEORGE M. WILKENING Bell Telephone Laboratories DONALD H. WINN Johns-Manville Research it Engr. Center LEGAL THEODORE C. WATERS, Chairman Miles & Stockbridge ANDREW KALMYKOW, Co-Chairman and Secretary Assn, of Casualty & Surety Companies OLIVER CLAYTON Humble Oil it Refining Company LAWRENCE A. COLEMAN Allied Chemical Corporation W. C. HARTMAN Squire, Sanders it Dempsey THEODORE HETZLER, JR. National Assn, of Mutual Casualty Companies JAMES L. HILL Ford Motor Company EDWARD E. KUEBLER Kuebler it DelDeo ROBERT B. RADY Republic Steel Corporation C. L. SHECKLER Johns-Manville Corporation DOUGLAS SOUTAR American Smelting & Refining Co. D. W. STITT Continental Can Company, Inc. FRANK C. WACHTER Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp. PAUL J. WINSCHEL Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay > / ~ Pchreibeis joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. MEDICAL DR. DANIEL C. BRAUN, Chairman United. States Steel Corp. DR. CARL U. DERNEHL, Co-Chairman Union Carbide Corp. DR. PAUL GROSS, Secretary Industrial Hygiene Foundation DR. ROY L. GIBSON Gulf Oil Corporation DR. LEE B. GRANT Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company DR. ROBERT J. HALEN Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. DR. JAMES P. HUGHES Kaiser Aluminum St Chemical Corp. DR. E. M. KLINE General Electric Company DR. GEORGE ROUSH Ethyl Corporation DR. O. A. SANDER Marquette University DR. S. D. STEINER General Motors Corporation NURSING ADELE C. MILLER, Chairman General Electric Company ALDA H. SICA. Co-Chairman and Secretary United States Steel Corp. BEDONNA JACOBS Allegheny County Health Department DOROTHY L. DEAN Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. JEAN W. GRAY U.S. Public Health Service VIVIAN M. HATFIELD Trans World Airlines JEANNE T. HEALEY Western Electric Company HELEN K. KUN2LER United States Steel Corp. WINIFRED McLANAHAN University of Pittsburgh, GSPH MEMBERS Date Joined 1937 1937 1956 1964 1936 1940 1956 1936 1937 1947 1937 1944 1957 1937 1944 1964 1936 1936 1937 1936 1961 1938 1960 1936 1944 1937 1937 1955 1961 1956 1946 1952 1936 1961 1953 1937 1952 1937 1937 1954 1944 1951 1963 1954 1958 1936 1953 1961 1955 1937 1962 Company Abrasive Grain Association Abrasive Products Company Acme Abrasive Company Acme Quality Paints, Inc. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal Co. Allied Chemical Corporation Aluminum Company of America American Abrasive Company American Can Company, Inc. American Emery Wheel Works American Iron and Steel Institute American Metal Climax, Inc. American Mining Congress American Optical Company American Potash & Chemical Corp. American Smelting & Refining Co. American Zinc Institute, Inc. American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Co. Anaconda Company Armco Steel Corporation Association of Casualty & Surety Companies * Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. Automobile Manufacturers Assn. Ball Brothers Company, Inc. Bartlett-Collins Company Bay State Abrasive Products Co. Beryllium Corporation Bleached Board Division West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. Boeing Company Brush Beryllium Company George H. Bullard Company, Inc. Bunker Hill Company Butler County Mushroom Farm, Inc. Can Manufacturers Institute, Inc. Carborundum Company Celanese Corp. of America Central Silica Company Chicago Wheel & Manufacturing Co. Cincinnati Milling Products Division Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. Robert F. Coleman, Inc. Colonial Abrasive Products Co. Comalco Aluminum (Bell Bay) Ltd. Commonwealth Sanitation Company Companhia Siderurgica Nacional Consolidation Coal Company, Inc. Continental Can Company, Inc. Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Corn Products Company Cortland Grinding Wheels Corporation Creole Petroleum Corporation Date Joined 1961 1937 1937 1952 1939 1937 1937 1962 Company Davison Chemical Division W. R. Grace & Company Deckers Creek Sand Company A. P. de Sanno & Son, Inc. Diamond Alkali Company Dow Chemical Company B. F. Drakenfeld & Co. , Inc. Dravo Corporation E. I. duPont deNemours & Co. 1963 1943 1945 1956 1937 1937 Edmar Abrasive Company Electro Refractories & Abrasives Co. Eljer Plumbingware Division The Murray Corp. of America Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Ethyl Corporation Exolon Company 1949 1964 1937 1947 1936 1963 1943 1943 1958 1937 1947 1937 1951 1942 1954 1937 1937 1950 1964 1937 1937 1937 1961 1959 1956 1961 1937 1957 1947 1947 Ferro Corporation FMC Corporation Foote Mineral Company Ford Motor Company Foundry Facings Manufacturers Assn. Freeport Division Nalco Chemical Company Fuller Merriam Company Gardner Machine Company Geigy-Werke Schweizerhalle A. G. General Abrasive Company, Inc. General Electric Company General Grinding Wheel Corp. General Mills, Inc. General Motors Corporation Georgia Kaolin Company Glenshaw Glass Company, Inc. Grinding Wheel Institute Gulf Oil Corporation Gypsum Association Hall China Company Hamilton Emery & Corundum Co. Hampden Grinding Wheel Company Hanley Company Hazleton Laboratories Honeywell Inc. Hughson Chemical Company Huntington Alloy Products Division International Nickel Company Ingersoll-Humphrye's Division Borg-Warner Corporation Inland Steel Company International Business Machines * Multiple Membership (126 member companies) Date Joined 1936 1960 1963 1960 1953 1942 1937 1964 1936 1958 1962 1937 1950 1940 1937 1964 1937 1936 1957 1956 1945 1937 1947 1937 1937 1937 1964 1945 1938 1947 1962 1964 1963 1937 1953 1936 1954 1954 1937 1937 1956 1964 1960 1936 1951 Company Johns-Manville Corporation Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Jowitt & Rodgers Company Kaiser Refractories Division Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp. Kennecott Copper Corporation Koppers Company, Inc. Lava Crucible-Refractories Co. Laverack Si Haines, Inc. Lead Industries Association London Transport Board Louisiana Ordnance Plant Remington Rand Division Sperry Rand Corporation Macklin Company Manhattan Rubber Division Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. Maryland Self-Insurers' and Employers' Compensation Assn. J. S. McCormick Company Merck 8z Co. , Inc. Mid-West Abrasive Company Mine Safety Appliances Company Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. Jesse S. Morie & Son, Inc. National Association of Mutual Casualty Companies* National Crushed Stone Assn. , Inc. National Glass Sand Corporation National Grinding Wheel Co. , Inc. National Industrial Sand Assn. National Lead Company National Ready Mixed Concrete Assn. National Sand and Gravel Assn., Inc. National Slag Association National Steel Corporation Nederland duPont deNemours N. V. Newport Division Heyden Newport Chemical Corp. Osborn Manufacturing Company Ottawa Silica Company Owens-Coming Fiberglas Corp. Owens-Illinois Glass Company Pacific Grinding Wheel Manufacturing G. H. Packwood Manufacturing Co. Peninsular Grinding Wheel Division Wakefield Corporation Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp, Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Assn. Casualty Insurance Company Perkin-Elmer Corporation Petroleo Brasileiro S. A. Phelps Dodge Corporation Philadelphia Quartz Company * Multiple Membership (27 member companies) Date Joined 1964 1937 1955 1938 1961 1937 1950 1957 1952 1945 1937 1956 1939 1937 1950 1956 1937 1946 1937 1937 1956 1949 1941 1964 1962 1937 1963 1953 1952 1946 1946 1938 1937 I960 1936 1936 1936 1937 1960 1938 1937 1937 1937 1962 1937 1961 1937 1937 1937 1937 Company Pittsburgh Activated Coal Company Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Pittsburgh Steel Company Portland Cement Association Powdered Products Company Process Air Division American Air Filter Company Pullman-Standard Reaction Motors Division Thiokol Chemical Corporation Red Hill Grinding Wheel Corp. Republic Steel Corporation H. H. Robertson Company Robertson Manufacturing Company Safety First Supply Company St. Joseph Lead Company Sandia Corporation Sauereisen Cements Company Claude B. Schneible Company Scott Aviation Corporation Simonds Abrasive Company Simonds Worden White Company Soap and Detergent Association Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. Standard Lime and Cement Company Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Stauffer Chemical Company Sterling Grinding Wheel Company Stiffler Industrial Lubricants Co. Sugar Beet Products Company Tata Industries Limited Taylor, Smith & Taylor Company Tennessee Copper Company Division of Tennessee Corp. Texas Gulf Sulphur Company Titan Abrasives Company Toms River-Cincinnati Chemical Corporation Union Carbide Corporation United States Potters Association United States Steel Corporation Valley Mould and Iron Corporation Van Straaten Chemical Company Vesuvius Crucible Company * Waltham Grinding Wheel Company Washington Mills Abrasive Company Wedron Silica Company Western Electric Company, Inc. Westfield Grinding Wheel Company Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, Limited Westinghouse Electric Corporation Whitehead Brothers Company Willson Products Division Ray-O-Vac Company Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company I 29th ANNUAL MEETING The 29th Annual Meeting of the Membership of Industrial Hygiene Foundation was held as usual during the third week of October, to review pro gress of Foundation programs and to elect the Board of Trustees. The 30th such meeting will be held on October 20-21, 1965. At the Meeting, as a means of aiding its members in keeping abreast of important progress in all phases of occupational health, conferences are scheduled. Speakers are outstanding representatives of management, specialty fields of occupational health or compensation law. Transactions are published in the American Medical Association Archives of Environmental Health and distributed free to members or sold at cost by the Foundation. The Annual Meeting, which is open to guests as well as members, is intended to help disseminate useful information to assist in the advancement of occupational health programs throughout industry. In addition, it serves as a means of interesting potential members in supporting Foundation programs of ^research and education in occupational health. IV :V i Dr. Roy L. Gibson, Gulf Oil Corp.; E. K. Davison, Chairman, IHF Board of Trustees; Dr. Donald j. Birmingham, U. S. Public Health Service; and Dr. R.Ti P; deTreville, anaging Director, IHF. At the Medical Conference , Dr. Gibson discussed "Medical roblems in Overseas Operations" and Dr. Birmingham presented a paper on "Skin Hygiene and Dermatitis in Industry". J Dr. Robert B. O'Connor; Vice'President for Health Services, U. S. Steel Corp. , was moderator of the Session on "Chronic Disease in Industry". Shown with him is Dr. Stanislav V. Kasi who spoke at this Session on "Illness Versus Illness Beha vior in Industry". Dr. H. H. Schrenk, Mine Safety Appli ances Co. , Chairman of the Session on "Application of Toxicological Thresholds" with the Speakers: Lawrence A. Cole man, Allied Chemical Corp: ; Dr. D. D. Irish, Dow Chemical Co. ; and Dr. H. J. Magnuson, University of Michigan. Ik 19. Dr. Joseph F. Treon, Atlas Chemical Industries, Chairman of the Chem-Tox Conference, shown with some of the speakers: Dr. E. W. Ligon, Jr. , Food & Drug Administration; W. J. Wiswesser, Crops Division, Fort Detrick, Maryland; Dr. R. G. Smith, Wayne State University; and Dr. H. E. Stokinger, Threshold Limits Committee, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Speakers at the Joint Professional-Tec* 'h*TP nical Conference along with the Confer^-,, ence Chairman. Roy F. Weston, Roy F. Weston, Inc. ; Arnold Arch, Air Pollu-L tion Control Association; Roger Cald- ^ well, Nuclear Materials & Equipment ;j Corp. ; Dr. Anna M. Baetjer, The Johns Hopkins University, Chairman; and [. Harry M. Donaldson, Brush Berylliumv. Corp. /' J; Participants at the Legal Conference were: Andrew Kalmykow, Association of Casualty and Surety Cos. ; Floyd E. Frazier, American Mutual Insurance Alliance; James L. Hill, Ford Motor Company, Moderator; and Robert B. Rady, Republic Steel Corp. Dr. Daniel C. Braun, U. S. Steel Corf Chairman of the Medical Conference a three of his speakers. Dr. Joseph F. Novak, Pittsburgh, Fa. ; Dr. Carl U. Dernehl, Union Carbide Corp. ; and D Sidney Shindell, University of Pittsbu j -> r\ Members of the Panel on "An Industrial Emphysema Claim." Dr, Mario C. Battigelli, University of Pitts burgh, GSPH; Dr. George W. Wright, St. Luke's Hos pital, Cleveland; Dr. Paul Gross, IHF; Paul J. Winschel. Panel Moderator, and W. L. Standish, both of WReed, Smith, Shaw & McClay; Daniel T. Doherty, orkmen's Compensation Commission of Maryland; and Edward,E. Kuebler, Kuebler & Del Deo. Participants at the Engineering Conference were: 0. C Thompson, Union Carbide Corp. ; Robert R. Balmer, E.I. duPont deNemours & Co.; H. Wilbur Speicher, Westinghouse Electric Corp., Co-Chairman; W.J. Schreibeis, IHF; Dr. Lester V. Cralley, Alcoa, Chairman; Dr. Paul L. Michael, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Milton M. Zaret, The Zaret Founda ) tion; and Kenneth E. Robinson, General Motors Corp. ki2JL nnuniiimunuiiiiunuHnnimiimimini PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 31, 196* Scientists Hunt the Cause of Lung-Destroyer \V/ITH ATJ- the hullabaloo over dgareta and IT cancer, another n**' r disorder linked with smoking has b*- order is emph'" , over. The dia!STny doctors think token than cancer physema has been developed by another scientist. Dr. George Wright director of medical research at St Luke's Hospital In Cleveland. Dr. Wright exposed entire rats to nitrogen dioxide for about a year. Some, bur not all, of the rats developed ^rnphysema. resents a net-' idous problems, so common, ;'s so little doc Mild emphy* among* pen:, many vtc f have it men ! leao&ig ` . dCsa* brighter, thanks to a Pittsburgh scientist Dr. Paul Gross, director of the research laboratory at Mellon Institute's Industrial Hygiene Founda tion. Dr. Gross has developed a ray to produce emphysema In laboratoiy anims'^w^- findings and those of-Dr. George WrtgtiCf^fe *-ra- searcher, may give scientists theb^r ^Gir on the problem. ^ ** J A major aim of research now, Dr. Gross says, will be to try to find some way to detect emphy. sema in its earliest stages. One of the most in* addlous characteristics of the disease is its failure to show symptoms unci! the disease process is fairly far advanced. Detailed studies of changes in.lung function early In the disease will how be possible, however, since, scientists can-seats em physema Themselves and examine It from the From this,- tests: msy be developed that can J^snphywma at a- stage when it can be Yit .. id O** .V. : DR. GROSS. STUMBLED on 1 accident*about a year ago while i a different 'disease, silicosis, und' 7 the U. S.1 Public Health .Senders 1* P*. air ira tissue, . sacs loa* tog cHlet lapaewhA *901 Tt o_W,avoT l.,,01vo*\ ^**_ papain, an enzyme derived fro in an attempt to modify theu laboratory rats. . Dr. Gross was getting j success In his silicosis stu/ totally unexpected finding./ vddped emphysema. >W0/ Repeated expstmen^ flow o1 ah ault Papain, It ep jreat many of esap O'A 2a Papaa doesn't go' ^ votved. the p hale. The alii past Severe c. . Treating ei Doctors don't to alone how to pn that oxides of m eigaret smoke,' to contact with molxtv to play a Mg part smokers. human lung.. that impress' disease In'tir * vs&S-T*. no defenslr. *0 completay*^ th?***, it." Thl i, lmporUi... tu &&&*" v lungs don't show any ue destruction either. -tr I*, /?S*CQ/ *Uu But the research tltyfAiCbiT METHOD foe produdnj UHHnummimiuiimimu, ?*** see SiSS* /sSfc-ftS, "* Pittsburgh Post Gazette October 23, 1964 5^T ^>V 'Afi?ho'~ Can't Be Sued for Volunteer Aid Good Samaritan Lau Safeguards Doctor By HEVBY W. PIERCE tai-Gw^ lu, vnur 11 a doctor volunteers his services at the scene at an accident in Pennsylvania, he can't be sued tor malpractice by the accident victims even though they didn't ask for his help. He is protected by what's known as a "good Sunultan law," pined In] Penniylvenla Ust yew. cumulative effect, of these But suppose an industrial | bem5-" ht Mid."5 romPlc,e 15worker la hurt on the ` Job i rt*c,in ""*"' If the company doctor treats He *l-<0 n0IKl ,hat doc, him without his consent, can!do not kn3w how la"" ,fcct cells. "Industry Is work ing with one ol its bigeesi A University of Pittsburgh 1 unknowns (lasers) as far as (professor, who U both a law- health is concerned," he said\yer and a doctor, said yester day ha doesn't think so. Hired by Company Tht physician-lawyer. Dr. Sidney Shlndell, told a group of doctors and scientists at Mellon Institute: PUBLICATIONS 1964 Natural Occurrence of Lead. deTreville, R.T.P. Arch. Environmental Health IB, 212-221 (Feb. 1964). Pulmonary Adenoma: The Fibrogenic Potential of Its Epithelium. Gross, P. and Poel, W. Arch. Pathol. 77, 424-428 (April. 1964). Lung Lesions Observed One Month After Intratracheal Injections of Not QuartzFree Coesite (1.5% Quartz). Brieger, H. and Gross, P. Beitr. Sili -- kose-Forschg. H. 81 (1964). Pulmonary Deposition and Retention of Inhaled Aerosols. Hatch, T.F. and Gross, P. Academic Press, New York (1964). Environmental Stress and the Aging LungrThe Pulmonary Effects of Air Pollution. Gross, P. Aging of the lung, pp 217-226 (1964). Editor: L. J. Cander. Enzymatically Produced Pulmonary Emphysema. A Preliminary Report. Gross, P. , Babyak, Mary Ann, Tolker, Ethel B. , and Kaschak, Marianne. J. Occ. Med. 6, 481-484 (Dec. 1964). Editorial: Industrial Medicine: The Captive Specialty. deTreville, R.T.P. J. Occ. Med. 6, 499-500 (Dec. 1964). The Processes Involved in the Biologic Aspects of Pulmonary Deposition, Clearance, and Retention of Insoluble Aerosols. Gross, P. Health Phys. TO, 995-1002 (1964). Transactions of the 29th Annual Meeting of Industrial Hygiene Foundation. Arch. Environmental Health 8, 361-436 (March, 1964). Industrial Hygiene Digest 28, Nos. 1-12, (1964). 23.