Sigma Pi Sigma Council meets

Sigma Pi Sigma, the national Physics Honor Society, was founded in 1921 and now lias 130 active chapters and some 25 000 members, about 15 percent of whom are associated with a chapter while the rest are alumni. The Society is governed, between national conventions of delegates from the chapters, by an executive council that consists of the regional administrators or supervisors of the 19 geographical zones in which the several chapters are located, and the national officers. This group of some 25 persons met at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies on June 15 and 16 for an annual consideration of the present status and future plans of the Society. Presiding was L. Worth Seagondollar, new chairman of the Physics Department at North Carolina State in Raleigh. The recently elected National Vice President is Raymond J. Seeger of the National Science Foundation. Executive secretary of long tenure is Marsh W. White of the Pennsylvania State University: recent past presidents are Vincent E. Parker, deputy director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Sciences, and Stanley S. Ballard. Physics Department chairman at the University of Florida.