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4 RYDER
is through standardization that we gain the universal and world-wide market which we enjoy for our product.
The Society and the newly constituted Motion Picture Research Council have established definite co-operative procedures of handling technical problems of mutual interest. As of this writing, joint committees exist in the fields of sound, standards, and test films. There is now no overlap between the test-reel activity of the Society and that of the Research Council. The efforts of one organization augment and supplement without conflict that of the other, which is very gratifying.
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers having outgrown its previous quarters has now moved into a new suite of rooms in the Canadian Pacific Building, 342 Madison Avenue, New York 17. The entrance-room number is 912 and the telephone number is Murray Hill 2-2185. The staff of the Society includes Boyce Nemec, Executive Secretary, William H. Deacy, Jr., Staff Engineer, Helen M. Stote, JOURNAL Editor, Sigmund ]\1. Muskat, Office Manager, and secretarial help, Helen Goodwyn, Dorothy Johnson, Thelma Klinow, Ethel Lewis, and Beatrice Melican.
We are proud of this staff and the work that they are doing. We want you to know that you can call upon them and your Society whenever the Society or our staff may assist you.
The JOURNAL of the Society has taken on a new format and a policy of giving to our readers in so far as possible the knowledge and information they are interested in reading. Our editorial staff has done an excellent job, and I am happy that the journals are now being issued on schedule which was not always possible during the war years.
Mr. John A. Maurer is continuing to do a colossal job as Engineering Vice-President. Both through committee and by personal effort his activity and accomplishments must -have reached all of you.
The convention in Chicago emphasizing 16-mm and 8-mm motion pictures, the convention in New York with a theater engineering conference and exhibit, and the Hollywood convention with emphasis on motion picture production in television have all been most successful and a record of which we are justly proud. I know that the Washington convention will be remembered along with these other successes of our Society.
I want to thank you all for the support which I have received. It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve the Society, and as I change my status from that of President to that of Past-President, I shall carry on with you to aid and serve you in whatever way I may.
Respectfully submitted, LOREN L. RYDER, President