Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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460 SOCIETY NOTES [j. s. M. P. E. SOCIETY NOTES The Spring Meeting. — Mr. W. C. Kunzmann, chairman of the Convention Committee, reports that arrangements for the Spring Meeting, which is to be held at the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D. C., May 5th to 8th, inclusive1, are almost complete and a preliminary program will be circulated to the members very shortly. The Acoustical Society. — The Acoustical Society will hold its convention on May 9th and 10th in the auditorium of the Westinghouse Lighting Institute in Grand Central Palace, New York, N. Y. The technical sessions will be devoted to symposiums on "noises" and loud speakers. This convention was previously scheduled for May 8th and 9th but President Fletcher made arrangements to delay the convention in order to permit our members to proceed from Washington to attend this convention. The Secretaryship. — After almost two years of efficient and faithful service, Secretary R. S. Burnap has resigned. The Society hereby extends its appreciation and thanks to Mr. Burnap for his valuable services and expresses its deep regret that his associations with the Society have been severed. The Society has been extremely fortunate, however, in that Mr. J. H. Kurlander o'f the Westinghouse Lamp Company has accepted the appointment of temporary secretary to conclude the fiscal year. Mr. Kurlander is well known to many of the older members of the Society and has been active in the motion picture field for many years. Board of Governors Meeting. — At the Board of Governors meeting held on February 4th at Rochester, New York, a large number of business matters were transacted including the following. 1. Resolved, that papers presented at the regular meeting shall not be published or circulated and shall be considered the confidential property of the vSociety prior to their appearance in the JOURNAL, except that in case a paper is not published in the JOURNAL within six months after its presentation, the author is free to use it in whatever manner he sees fit. 2. The President was instructed to write to the Secretary of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expressing a desire and willingness on the part of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers to collaborate with them on technical matters and especially those dealing with standardization and the preparation of nomenclature lists. 3. Sections of the proposed revision of the By-Laws of the Society were modified further as follows: BY-LAW 7, Section 3, was revised to read as follows: The annual dues