News of Institute and related activities: 52D Annual Summer convention successfully held at Pasadena, Calif.

ALTHOUGH the Institute previously had held summer conventions as far west as Denver, Colorado (1928) and Salt Lake City, Utah (1921) the Fifty-Second Annual Summer Convention, held June 22–26, 1936, at the Huntington Hotel at Pasadena, California, was the first to be held on t he Pacific Coast. Judging by the full and widely representative attendance, by the active participation in technical and social affairs, and by the comments overheard in lobbies and meeting halls, the convention was unquestionably a success in every department and a credit to all who planned and conducted its several activities. Organized under the leadership of former Vice President R. W. Sorensen, and directly sponsored by the Los Angeles Section, the convention was actively supported by the other Pacific Coast Sections at San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, and Salt Lake City. Inspired by the Pasadena success, the San Francisco Section has launched an effort to obtain the 1939 summer convention for San Francisco in connection with the Exposition with which San Francisco expects to celebrate the completion of its 2 record breaking bridges, the Trans-Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate span.