The University of Arkansas announces the acceptance of a gift of $500,000 from the William Buchanan Foundation of Texarkana, Ark., to the Department of Pediatrics of the School of Medicine principally to construct an additional 100 pediatric beds in the new University Hospital. This will be known as the William Buchanan Pavilion for Children. Construction will probably start before the end of 1950.
The following members were elected officers by the American Pediatric Society at its Annual Meeting at French Lick Springs, Ind., on May 8-10, 1950: President, Dr. Bronson Crothers; Vice President, Dr. Stanley Gibson; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Henry G. Poncher, 1819 W. Polk St., Chicago 12; Recorder and Editor, Dr. Stewart Clifford.