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York; H. G. Hall, Pacific Air Lines, San Francisco; R. B. Keele, Bonanza Air Lines, Las Vegas; C. E. Magnuson, West Coast Air Lines, Seattle; J. D. Sims, North Central Airlines, at AMS headquarters Minneapolis; Col. William S. Barney and Lt. Col. Bernard Pusin, AWS, Scott AFB, 111. Some ATA attendees who could not be present at the reception but visited headquarters the next day were: Ralph C. Simmons and Ralph B. Mason, NMCSSC/DCA, D. C.; Dorothy Hall, Pacific Air Lines, San Francisco; Alan Brun- stein, Civil Aeronautics Board, D. C.; Col. E. J. Cartwright and Donald F. Moore, ESSA, D. C.; Capt. M. B. Moreland, On 1-2 September Executive Secretary Spengler was in Dallas USN, D. C.; Truman S. Terry, Southern Airways, Atlanta; for the 5th Western Meeting of the AGU. On his return on William R. Biggers, Eastern Air Lines, Atlanta; and Jim the 3rd he stopped at Scott AFB to call on Brig. Gen. Roy Cook, Dallas. Mr. Spengler represented the Society at the W. Nelson, Jr., retiring commander of Air Weather Service, reception and dinner given by the ATA Meteorological and in St. Louis for a visit with Father Victor J. Blum, S.J., Committee on the 23rd, at which Austin G. Cooley was and a tour of the new Institute of Technology building and honored (see page 750). the science and technology facilities of St. Louis University. Eugene Bollay of E. Bollay Associates, Santa Barbara, Calif., Prof. Fred W. Decker of Oregon State University visited chairman of the AMS Film Panel, spent 26-28 September at AMS headquarters on the 13th on his return from Europe headquarters for discussions on the Educational Film Pro- and briefed the Executive Secretary on his year of travel on gram. On the 27th there was a meeting of film distributors the continent. interested in submitting proposals for the distribution of Gerald L. Shak of the Weather Bureau Regional Office, AMS films. Those represented were: W. F. Kimball, Cambosco New York, and Dr. Oscar Tenenbaum, State user services Scientific Co., Boston; Mark Else, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New representative and MIC, Weather Bureau, Boston, met at York; Leo B. Guelpa and John D. Desmond, United World headquarters on the 14th with three private weather con- Films, New York; David Diederich, Encyclopaedia Britannica sultants and five professional TV meteorologists to discuss Films, Wilmette, 111.; William H. MacCallum, Modern Learn- the interrelationships of the three types of service. The ing Aids, Los Angeles, Joseph E. Lynch of the same firm, private meteorologists in attendance were W. E. Howell, New York, and Jack Langlois, Boston; Victor Keyfetzt and W. E. Howell Associates, Lexington; Marion Hogan Ingram, Jane Kayfetz, Creativision, Inc., New York; Borden Mace, Weather Services, Inc., Boston; and John Wallace, Northeast Heath de Rochemont Co., Boston; E. P. Little, Macalaster Weather Service, Lexington. The television meteorologists Scientific Corp., Watertown; J. M. Abraham, Coronet Instruc- were Roland J. Boucher and Fred Ward, WNAC-TV, Boston; tional Films, Chicago; Leonard Feldman, Sterling Educational A1 Boyer, Bob Copeland and Don Kent, all on WBZ-TV, Films, Inc., New York; James B. Witker and Henry Weldon, Instructional Systems, Inc., New York; David M. Lutyens, The Boston. Ealing Corporation, Cambridge. J. W. Cosman, head of the On the 16th, Dr. Robert D. Fletcher, director of aerospace Distribution Branch of the National Film Board of Canada, sciences, Air Weather Service, visited 45 Beacon Street to talk was also present for the meetings and to discuss plans for the over AWS and AMS matters with Mr. Spengler. Dr. Fletcher's distribution of "Above the Horizon." visit was followed by the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Beckham, Beckham & Whitley, San Carlos, Calif., on the 17th, The AMS Board of Admissions met at headquarters on and Dr. David M. Ludlum of Science Associates, Princeton, the 23rd. Present were Ralph G. Eldridge, MITRE Corp., N. J., on the 22nd. Dr. Ludlum discussed with Mr. Spengler chairman; Charles H. Pierce, Weather Bureau, Boston; Prof. future plans for WEATHERWISE, the AMS library, the next Frederick Sanders, MIT, Cambridge; and Paul F. Twitchell, historical monograph, and AMS matters in general. ONR, Boston. On the evening of the 22nd, the AMS held a reception for Other visitors during September included: Richard D'Ad- members of the Meteorological Committee of the Air Trans- dario, Waltham; Dennis Sullivan, Boston; Walter A. Bohan, port Association (ATA) and their government guests, who W. A. Bohan & Associates, Park Ridge, 111.; Mrs. Louise Wa- were meeting at the Sheraton-Boston. Present for the recep- ters, with Jeanne and Alan Waters, Wakefield; Richard P. tion and tour of the headquarters building were: Mr. and McNulty, Newington, Conn.; Joseph E. Eaton, Hingham; Mrs. E. J. Minser, Trans World Airlines, Kansas City; Mr. James A. Vail, Pepperell; Louis Cima, National Science Foun- and Mrs. D. F. Sowa, Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis; E. dation, Washington, D. C.; Maurice Lawler, Sheraton Hotel, Brewster Buxton, United Aircraft Corp., Farmington, Conn.; A. W. Reavis, Ozark Airlines, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Boston; Allen L. Dow, Boston; Peter Black, Sudbury; Robert Curtis, Continental Air Lines, Los Angeles; Joseph J. George, J. Brust, Milwaukee, Wis.; Nowell E. Miller, Waverly Press, Eastern Air Lines, Atlanta; Ed Mills, Frontier Air Lines, Baltimore, Md.; Felix Knauth, Chestnut Hill; Paul F. Denver; W. G. Osmun, ATA, D. C.; D. G. Rhoades and Twitchell, ONR, Boston; John Latham, University of Man- John R. Kennedy, FAA, D. C.; Norman Rose, Western Air chester, England; Samuel N. Goward, Lowell; David B. Lines, Los Angeles; J. Y. Deen, Braniff International Air- Clarke, Cambridge; C. F. Hoffman, Wellesley; Philip J. ways, Dallas; Austin G. Cooley, Westrex, Torrance, Calif.; Schroeder, Milprint, New York, N. Y.; Wendell B. Chaw- C. L. Chandler, Delta Air Lines, Atlanta; Roger G. Flynn, wick, Mohawk Air Lines, Utica, N. Y.; Sally Fary, Asbury ATA, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. W. Boynton Beckwith, United Park, N. J.; Mrs. James M. Crimmon, Boston; Jack Frost, Air Lines, Chicago; L. R. Ulrich, Pan American Airways, New Needham.

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