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< ' .. : . - * -- - "7 J,h-- i*. . . *4*-v- -V - ----- j. ' ^ - Z?y 5*rT;g*f " LIA23194 '; " : 1' ' "-, 1 LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION i 4*0 LEXtNOTON AVENUE n e w t o n e 17. K. V. Jamiary 15, JL9LS '! To Members of the Lead Industries Associations 8OBJECTi APPor.TVr? or DIRECTOR Of HEALTH AMD SAF5TT I an pleased to announce the appointment of kr. Kanfred Bowditch to the newly created position of Director of Health and Safety of the Lead Industries Association. Ur. Bonditch will asruse his new duties Shout February 1, 19lt6. i This appointment should enable the Association to Increase its usefulness to the members, to industry end to the public generally through full-tin* Investigation and education in this important field. Kr. Bowdit1' a graduate ef Harvard College and cooes to the Association from tr:nac Laboratory 'here he has been Field Director slrare 1?L6. Prie.- i .hat kr. Bowditch .as Director of the Division of Occupational Hygit: t c' the Department cf Labor and Industries of the Cocnorwnalth of ;j.r'ac.iusetts for twelve years, r.hich position he assumed after a number of years as industrial hygienist for the same department and for the Oeneral Electric Company, where, it is believed, he was the first full-tine industrial hygienist employed by any V. S. Industry. - For a nurfcer of years Kr. Bowditch wss lecturer and instructor on industrial hygiene st tha Harvard School of Public Health and was Professor of Industrial Hygiene at. the Tufts Colloge Itcdical School. In addition he served as .-.ember, secretary or chairman of various state and natlond industrial hygleru. and code coenltu.** too numerous to mention, and is widely known in the field of industrial hygiene. . J i He is author of nusr.rous articles on industrial health and safety i subjects and has lectured at -Any meetings of leading organisations in those fields. He is a Berber of the American Public Health Association, a charter j member and a Director of the American Industrial Hygiene As.'->ci*iion, ' aeober of the Copcdttee on Toxic Dusts and Fume* of Cm* \rtrlcan Standards Association, and of many other professional orccniaatlon*. I feel that Ilr. Bowditch'* background of experience will enable the Association to do out*tending worr: in the field of lead hygiene and safety. --N^ary truly yours, --. ^ ua, atom , ih j i wiwunjpeii.a Secretary ! nj'W III ' m aiyinw I .JEM* a* /' / ^ 1688