President    Thomas H. Burford, St. Louis

                              Vice-president    John W. Strieder, Newton Lower Falls, Mass.

                                       Secretary    Thomas B. Ferguson, St. Louis

                                      Treasurer    Paul C. Adkins, Washington, D. C.

                                            Editor    Brian Blades, Washington, D. C.

                         Council    Hiram T. Langston(1971), Chicago

                                                            Duane Carr(1971), Memphis

                                                            David C. Sabiston(1972), Durham, N. C.

                                                            Donald L. Paulson(1973), Dallas

                                                            Wilfred G. Bigelow (1974), Toronto

             Membership Committee    Watts R. Webb, Chairman, Syracuse

                                                            Jay L. Ankeney, Cleveland

                                                            Anthony R. C. Dobell, Montreal

                                                            James R. Jude, Miami

                                                            Thomas F. Nealon, Jr., New York

                                                            Benson B. Roe, San Francisco

                                                            Harold C. Urschel, Jr., Dallas

      Association representatives    Rollin A. Daniel, Jr., Nashville

The Board of Thoracic Surgery    James V. Maloney, Jr., Los Angeles

                                                            J. Gordon Scannell, Boston

                                                            Herbert Sloan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

                    Board of Governors    F. Henry Ellis, Jr. (1971), Boston, Mass.

American College of Surgeons    William W. L. Glenn, (1972), New Haven, Conn.

                                                            Lucius D. Hill III, (1973), Seattle, Wash.