PEDIATRICS Vol. 17 No. 1 January 1956, pp. 141-145
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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, INC. PROCEEDINGS AND REPORTS

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

Crawford Bost M.D.

IT Is twenty-five years since the founding of the American Academy of Pediatrics. I doubt that any medical specialty society has had so great an influence in its field or contributed more widely to activities of allied organizations as has the Academy. Our earlier history has been understandably and finely recorded in the volume written by Marshall Pease published in 1951. Since the period covered in this book, as before, each president has described in his own fashion the achievements and activities of the Academy during his year. Such phenomenal growth has occurred that the president's message has come to be a way of bringing into focus for the members the broad field of activities that constitutes the Academy program. In each recent year we have learned of the transactions of the Evanston office, the Executive Board and the National Committees and liaison representatives. With increasing experience communications regarding the many efforts and vast influence of State and local committees are being reported. One day will be found the way to record the important contributions by those members who individually work for Academy objectives. Theirs is an equal devotion. So many are the activities of the organization that it is increasingly difficult to keep our members accurately informed. Since this is a year which marks a special milestone in the lifespan of the Academy, it seems fitting to parade before our minds some of the structures we have built in these years. With this reminder freshly before us, each then in his own way can evaluate our present position and help to plan our future.