Dr. C. Anderson Aldrich, Rochester, Minn., Director of Child Health Study at the Mayo Clinic, died on Oct. 6, 1949. Dr. Aldrich was a Fellow of the Academy and a member of the Editorial board of Pediatrics.
Dr. Katharine H. Baird, Wauwatosa, Wis., died on Oct. 29, 1949, in Milwaukee of bulbar poliomyelitis. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Paul D. White, Chief Medical Advisor to the National Heart Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service, has been named Chairman of the Steering Committee for a National Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases to be held Jan. 18 to 20, 1950, at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.