Abstract :
Lawrence W. Wallace has been re-elected president of the Eye Sight Conservation Council of America, which is conducting a nationwide movement for better vision in industry and education. Mr. Wallace is Executive Secretary of the American Engineering Council, and a Past-President of the Society of Industrial Engineers. Other officers for 1929 have been chosen as follows: Vice-President, Bailey B. Burritt, New York; General Director, Guy A. Henry, New York; Treasurer, William R. Wall, New York. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, was named a member of the Board of Councilors. The following were also elected to the Board: Dr. Arthur L. Day, Director of the Geophysical Laboratories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Prof. Charles H. Judd, Director of the School of Education, University of Chicago; Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, President of the College of the City of New York; Prof. Joseph W. Roe, head of Industrial Engineering Department of New York University, G. E. Sanford, Schenectady, New York, past president of the American Society of Safety Engineers; Richard E. Simpson, Associate of the Institute and research engineer of Hartford, Conn.; Dr. John J. Tigert, former U. S. Commissioner of Education; Dr. Thomas D. Wood, Teachers College, Columbia University.