Vol. IV-
July, 1938
No. 7.
DISEASES
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Editorial Comment SUCCESSFUL MEETING The fourth Annual Meeting of the AT SAN FRANCISCO
COLLEGE ELECTS Dr. Ralph C. Matson, Portland, Oregon, was OFFICERS
elected as the President American College of Chest Physicians (formerly the Federationof Elect of the American College of Chest PhysAmerican Sanatoria) has passed and it is icians at the Fourth annual meeting of the now history. Much has been accomplished College held at San Francisco, June 12th. during its short life, much needs to be done. Dr. Champ H. Holmes, Atlanta, Georgia, The College has shown a healthy growth who was elected as President Elect last year in its membership during the past year, and at Atlantic City was inducted into office as
the Officers and Fellows of the College face President. He succeeds Dr. Edward W. Hayes, the future with hope and encouragement. Monrovia, California. All of the Sessions were well attended and Dr. Benjamin Goldberg, Chicago, Illinois, the committee reports and scientific papers elected First Vice-President and Dr. Wilwas were enthusiastically received. lard B. Soper, New Haven, Connecticut, was The American Medical Association with elected Second Vice-President. Dr. Robert B. whom the American College of Chest Phys- Homan, Jr., El Paso, Texas, was re-elected IClans affiliates has made a new departure Secretary-Treasurer. r°tti its customary procedure by naming the Dr. Frank Walton Burge, Philadelphia, rties for its annual meetings three years Pennsylvania, was re-elected as the Chairn advance. St. Louis, Missouri, was accorded man of the Board of Regents for four years. the meeting for 1939; New York City for
l 940; and Cleveland, Ohio, for 1941. We trust hat the Fellows of the American College of
The members elected to the Board of Regents and to the Board of Governors will be est Physicians will make plans to attend announced in a future issue of Diseases of °f these meetings. C.M.H. the Chest. F.W. B. 5