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September 23, .1944 Mr. Warren A. Cook, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Zurich General Accident and Liability Insurance Co., Ltd., 135 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 3# Illinois. Dear Mr. Cook* . +r^ Please accept my thanks for your usual^rmanner of dealing with the meeting vith representatives f A.A.I.P. and S. in Chicago last week. Also I am grateful forthe full minutes vhich you forvarded to me. One can see from all of this Information just hov things are shaping up. It looks to me as though the tentative outline of the program should be reasonably satisfactory from our point of vlev. Che next thing nov is to get at the formulation of the program. In this connection I think your suggestion is very good, that ve promptly get In touch vith all of the agencies that are carrying on vork, investigative or othervise, in Industrial hygiene. We must also consider the problem of scientific exhibits, for I think ve should be able to get some exhibits together. The preparation of a good exhibit Is a time consuming affair, and it may be that none of our people have had time for this kind of vork. On the other hand, ve should look Into It carefully. I think the test vay to handle this is to have a single individual on the program committee (un less there Is some other means already set up for the purpose), vho vill send cut questioneires and at the same time make himself responsible for giving all of the information that is necessary as to space, etc. Inasmuch as the latter Informa tion can be obtained only In Chicago, I think that a Chicagoan ought to be designated for this job. If it vill be of any help, I vill be glad to provide all of the information on hov ve vent at It when ve had the job to do here In Cincinnati. I think It vould be highly desirable If ve were to have a meeting of our committee In Chicago on the 2nd or 3rd of October. I have to be in Chicago at another meeting on the 2nd, but I shall be entirely free on the morning of the 3rd, and if ve N24899 Mr. Varren A. Cook - (2; - September 22, 1^44 could get together 3 0 as to concentrate our Ideas at that time, I vould appreciate it very much. I? you vould be so good as to let me knov vhether this could be done, I shall knov hov to arrange accordingly. At such a meeting ve should be able to decide definitely just about vhat ve are going to do and hov to parcel out the vork among ourselves to get It done vlth the greatest dispatch and the least Inconvenience. In connection vlth the program Littlefield expressed a very good idea in his recent letter, in that he suggested that the papers bo shortened somewhat by the elimination of unnecessary details. Quite a number of the papers at the St. Louis meeting were unduly long and tedious . This year I am sure ve shall have to require speakers to provide us with a resume of vhat they are going to say and hov they are going to present it. On the basis of this together with cur ovn ideas on the im portance of the subject, ve 3hall have to assign time to the speakers and to hold them rigidly to their allotted time. It Is time our speakers learned that when they are given twenty minutes, they cannot take three quarters of an hour. I almost exploded during the session for vhich I vas responsible on finding out that nobody had any idea of the length of time he vas supposed to 3peak. 'The result vas that if I had not arbitrarily and almost discourteously speeded up the urogram, ve vould still have been at it at dinner time. I think in connection vlth our technical session there might be a considerable interest in giving a little time to the demonstration or display of certain types of special apparatus. Obviously this can be done in most instances by satisfactory lantern slides, but there are instances vhen a piece of appara tus on hand vill illustrate a point very nicely. Therefore, ve might suggest that this be done and find out vhat response is obtained. If there is justification, ve might provide a little time at vhich this can be done. A little time spent at this vould be almost equivalent to an intermission in providing a little diversion between papers. Again my thanks for your efforts. Sincerely your3, FAX ef Focert A . ehoe, M. 6