Reports on 14 technical conferences held during the Summer convention at Ithaca

Abstract

That any Section holding at least 6 technical meetings per year shall not be obliged to return any expended balance of funds in its treasury. "2. That traveling expenses in connection with District and national meetings shall be considered as outside of local Section activities and therefore should not be incurred by a Section. "3. Inasmuch as '2' directly above will tend to limit attendance of delegates to District and na tional meetings, we urge restoration at the earliest possible date of traveling expenses to the former level of 10 cents per mile one way. "4. That expenses for social meetings shall not exceed 15 per cent of total expenses for the year."After rather extensive discussion as to whether or not it was advisable to recom mend permissive action whereby local Sec tions could spend for convention delegates' traveling expenses any portion of the fund allotted to the local Sections for carrying on their local activities, the committee's report and recommendations were turned into a resolution and adopted as follows : RESOLVKD 1. That any Section holding at least 6 technical meetings per year shall not be obliged to return any unexpended balance of funds in its treasury.2. That we urge restoration, at the earliest possible date, traveling expenses to the former level of 10 cents per mile one way. Thus, this became the conference's recom mendation to the board of directors in re sponse to the questions referred to the Sec tions committee by the board for an expres sion of opinion. RECOGNITION OF SECTION COMPETITIONSConcerning the question of "national recognition of Section competitions to the extent of offering some sort of a prize," a special committee appointed the previous day by Chairman Stein (CD. Brown, Mil waukee, R. L. Frisby, Kansas City, F. A. Hamilton, Schenectady) presented for dis cussion and consideration, the following resolution: RESOLVED, that acceptable competitions conducted by the Sections, particularly for their younger members, result in many benefits to the Sections and to the Institute as a whole, these benefits comprising among others (1) increased membership, (2) increased participation in Section and Institute affairs, and (3) increased opportunity for selfdevelopment; and believing that Sections not now conducting competitions would be encouraged to do so by some form of national recognition, it is recom mended to the board of directors: