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A. E. Kennelly (A´88, M´99, F´13, HM´33, Life Member and past-president) professor emeritus of electrical engineering, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been elected honorary president of the U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission. Doctor Kennelly has been honorary secretary for many years and has served on the committees on rating of electrical machinery and as chairman of the committee on electrical and magnetic magnitudes and units. He served 2 terms as vice president of the Institute, 1892–94 and 1897–98, and was a manager 1894–97 and president 1898–1900. In 1933 he was awarded the Institute´s Edison medal for his work in electrical science and engineering. Doctor Kennelly was appointed professor of electrical engineering at Harvard University in 1902, and became professor emeritus in 1930. He has served on the Institute´s standards committee almost continuously since 1906 and on the research committee since 1920, as representative on the U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission since 1907, and as a member of the radio advisory committee of the Bureau of Standards since 1925, as well as on a number of others. He recently became chairman of the newly formed sectional committee on electric and magnetic magnitudes and units under the sponsorship of the electrical standards committee of the American Standards Association, which replaces the former special committee of the U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical commission.