THE American Academy of Pediatrics this year lost the full time services of Dr. John P. Hubbard who has accepted the chair of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Pennsylvania.
To many members of the Academy it will seem strange not to have the mailman occasionally present them with a letter from John, urging them, more or less gently, to direct or indirect action furthering the interests of the Academy and the cause of child health. In the past four years he has carried through the enormous task of directing the Academy Survey of Child Health Services and subsequently sweated through the formative stages of the ICH Committee and the efforts to follow up the Study with constructive action.