PEDIATRICS has great pleasure to announce that Dr. Francis F. Schwentker has been appointed a member of its Editorial Board. Dr. Schwentker is Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Chief-of-Staff, Harriet Lane Home, Baltimore, Md. He succeeds Dr. C. Anderson Aldrich, deceased. His appointment brings the Board membership to full complement. His experience and ability should strengthen further the influence of the Board in service for Pediatrics and the Academy.
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Pediatrics in San Francisco from Nov. 14 to 17, 1949, was an outstanding one. The plans for the meeting were well made and location at the Palace Hotel was most satisfactory.