Other societies: AIME elects young as 1949 president

Pittsburgh, Pa., as president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers for 1949 was announced at the meeting of the board of directors in New York, N. Y., on November 17. Doctor Young is a consulting mining engineer and from 1927 to 1939 was vice-president of the Pittsburgh Goal Company, which has been consolidated with a number of smaller companies to become the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, of Pittsburgh. Doctor Young has been active in the AIME for a number of years, having been elected a director in 1937 and serving as vicepresident from 1942 to 1945. He has written numerous technical papers on mine mechanization and mining practice for technical societies and engineering periodicals