Abstract :
IN ANTICIPATION of a possible vacation from the usual August meeting, the AIEE Board of Directors tackled one of the heaviest agendas ever attempted in a one-day meeting on Friday, June 28, 1957, in Montreal, Que., Canada. So great has become the demand for meeting rooms and the scheduling of meetings of subcommittees, conferences, and Departments at the Summer General Meeting that the Board has abandoned its traditional Thursday meetings to make room for the growing need for accommodations for those intent on doing Institute business on this convenient occasion. It was only a few years ago that the Board frowned on the intrusion of too many technical sessions on what were intended to be primarily social summer meetings. Not only the technical sessions, but also the administrative business of the Institute has now crowded aside golf, tennis, and other attractions of the pre-war summer meetings to a degree that would have been considered distressing a generation ago. Maybe there is cause for alarm in this mad pace but if so, nobody seemed to be worried about it at Montreal.
