A meeting of the Executive Board was held at the Hotel Baker, Dallas, Tex., on Friday, December 5, 1947. It was called to order at 11:30 a.m. by the President, Dr. Lee Forrest Hill. There were present Drs. Hill, Stringfield, Beaven, Spickard, Munns, McElhenney, Martmer, Pease, Bruce, Barba, Quillian, and Grulee.
The Secretary read a letter from Katharine F. Lenroot, Chief of the Children's Bureau, F.S.A., asking that the Academy designate a representative to serve in an advisory capacity to the U. S. Planning Committee for the Children's Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, which is to meet in Washington, December 8. Dr. Harry A. Ong of Washington, D.C. was so designated.
The following applicants were approved for fellowship:
District I: Oscar Z. Dashef, Woonsocket, R.I., Eric Denhoff, Providence, R.I., Edward Scott O'Keefe, Lynn, Mass., Ralph D. Sussman, Burlington, Vt., and Douglas W. Walker, Laconia, N.H.
District II: Joseph A. Costa, Bedford Hills, N.Y., Gerti Dooneief, Bedford Hills, N.Y., Bernard Greenberg, Brooklyn, N.Y., Herbert Kahan, New Rochelle, N.Y., Philip Frederick Lustbader, Brooklyn, N.Y., Simon B. Mendelsberg, Brooklyn, N.Y., Peter A. Perillo, Jackson Heights, N.Y., Edward T. Reilly, Brooklyn, N.Y., Alexander S. Rosen, Jackson Heights, N.Y., Bernard Harold Shulman, Brooklyn, N.Y., Saul Starr, Brooklyn, N.Y., David H. Weintraub, Buffalo, N.Y., and Harry Zuckerman, New York, N.Y.
District III: Frederick A. Miller, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Samuel Prince, North Bergen, N.J.
District IV: Juan Basora-Defillo, Santurce, Puerto Rico, Maynard Irving Cohen, Washington, D.C., Lawrence Robert Leviton, West Palm Beach, Fla., Jean McAllister, Greensboro, N.C., Meyer B. Marks, Miami Beach, Fla., Theresa Ting Woo, Washington, D.C., and Lynn W. Whelchel, Miami, Fla.