Abstract :
An open meeting of the AIEE membership committee was held January 28 at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh during the 1948 winter general meeting for the purpose of reviewing membership objectives, activities, and procedures. In addition to Chairman Tomlinson Fort (Pittsburgh), Vice-Chairman F. S. Black (Washington, D. C.), and Secretary F. A. Norris (AIEE headquarters, New York), the 40-odd persons who attended and took part in the conference included President Blake D. Hull and Presidential-Candidate Everett S. Lee; also, vice-presidents or District secretaries representing five Districts, in addition to five out of the ten District vice-chairmen of the membership-committee; eight of the 21 members-at-large of the membership committee, and chairmen or membership chairmen representing ten local Sections; the chairman and secretary of the AIEE Sections committee.
