MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY HELD IN THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OFFICE AT WASHINGTON 1, D. C.

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• Publication Date: February 10, 1955
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EINJTIO OF METING OF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE AMERICAN socim OF PHOTOGRAHMETRY .
Held in the National Headquarters Office at
Washington 10 D. C. '
February 100 1955
ATTENDANCE: A. C. Lundahl, Pres.
W. S. Park, Vice.Pres,
C. E. Palmer, Secy.Treas.
T. W. Norcross, Editor
A. O. Quinn
M. K. Linck
J. T. Pennington
R, E. Altenhofen
C. E. Kowalczyk
D. Whitmore
G. T. McNeil
W. E. Harman, Jr.
Dr, F. E. WaOher
A, If, Nowicki
14, A, Radlinski.
II, CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by President A, C. Lundahl
at 7:55 13.14, Upon a motion made by N. Linck and seconded by G. T.
McNeil, the minutes of December 16, 195k were approved as read.
III. PRESIDENT UTNDARL MADE THE FOLLOWING GENERAL ALTOUNCEMENTS:
1? Letter of appreciation was read from The Photogrammetric Society of
Great Britain to ASP for its recent letter of congratulations on
rapid progress to date.
2. Receipt by ASP of check for $1000 from Talbert Abrams for II Series
Talbert Abrams Award,
3. Letter of thanks from Central New York Section for rebate.
4. D. C0 Council of Engineering and Architectural Societieso Hinutes of
January 7, 1955 Meeting was received which contained report of
Education Committee Chairman, Mr. W. S. Higginson.
5. Announcement of the Society of Photographic Engineers? Meeting at
West Point, New York, Hay 24.27, 1955 with invitation to ASP to
present one or more papers.
Letters were read from Brigadier General E. M. Day USAF and Mr. Archer
Wilson of Hdqtrs. Air Photographic and Charting Service, Orlando, Florida.
7. Letter of thanks from Southern California Section for ASP Program
help on December 30, 1954.
8. Letter of thanks from Puget Sound Section for ASP Program help on
January 5, 1955.
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9. Letter from American instrument Corporation praising Wall Street Journal
article on photogrammetry and suggesting that help be given to UCLA and
Pasadena Junior College in establishing their courses in Photogrammetry
and that committee on public relations be established to spread the
gospel of this type of publicity.
10. Announcement and invitation to attend VIII International Congress for
Photogrammetry to be held at the Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, July 17.26, 1956.
11, Letter from Bycon Manufacturing Co. re: President A. C. lundahl'Is
trip to Pasadena and the question of help in staffing a new geophysical
division. This was referred to T. W. Norcross for review.
12. Letter from AAAS forwarding schedule for International Arid Lands
Meeting at Albuquerque and Socorro, New Mexico, April 26 . May 4 and
acknowledging Dr. H. T. U. Smith as official representative of ASP.
13, Response from Mrs. Mary Louise Johnson, daughter of the late Mrs. Webb,
to ASP for its memorial contribUtion to the American Cancer Society.
14. Letter from Mr. H. S. Allier regarding Photogrammetric Engineering.
15. ACLos trip to Berkeley, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle,
and Denver to speak to the Western Sections of ASP.
16. ASP assistance to the National Research Council ire the organization
and execution of a Symposium on Color Photography at NRC on 25 January
1955.
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Annual Meeting Chairman
rapidly.
REPORTS OF CENTRAL COMMITTEES:
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14? ANNUAL MEETING -W. A. Radlinski presented a general review of the
plans and organization for the consecutive meetings indicating that
exhibit arrangements were complete and that there were approximately
78 booths, consisting of 59 easnercial with the balance Made up of
government and academic activities. Be informed the Beard that the
committee expected a gross income of appOoximately $150715 which mould
net about $11?000 to the two Societies. Itre Radlinski also informed
the Beard that the Chairman of the Publicity Committee had been called
out of town unexpectedly at a critical time which left the organization
without a chairman and that it would probably be necessary to appoint .
a new one or temporary substitute until he heard from the present
chairman.
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2. PDBLICATIONS . J. T. Pennington informed the Beard that there was
nothing ntee to report on the Publications Committee. Mr, T. We
Norcross stated he was having some. difficulty with two or three
advertisers in the Journal on the publication of production epeci.
fications for their particular ads to appear in these issues.
3. MANUAL SALES ...President Lundahl suggested that the Secretary-Treasurer
contact Mi. Dave Landen to confirm the acceptance of his report on
manual sales.
4. MEMURSHIP . The Secretary...Treasurer reported on the membership
standing as of January 1, 1955 in lieu of Ken Reynolds presence and
indicated that the membership with the addition of the new members
accepted after October let had definitely gone over the 3000 mark
to a total of 3059 members.
Nr. Palmer informed the Board that he had made arrangements with
the auditors to start their review of the books on Wednesday of the
current week and that they expected to finish by Tuesday. February 14th;
also that the final statement would be available for review by the
Auditing Committee on or about March 2nd,
5,, LOCAL SECTIONS - C, E. Kowalczyk informed the Board that all of the
local sections had submitted their reports except the Columbia River
Section and that he expected this report to be received before the
annual meeting. 114 stated that President Lundahl had fhrnished copies
of Mi. Whitmoreps recommended policy on the formation and operation of
local sections together with his own recommended plan of area juris-
diction to the 5 Western sections on his recent tour of the West Coast,
including Denver. Also, that the Sscretary.areasurer was sending the
same material to the other seven local sections in time for their
delegates to come prepared to discuss these matters at the local section
meeting during the annual convention.
WEPOP2S OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES:
e. pN011A1Cf MEMBSRSHIP. President Lundahl indicated that the final report
of the honorary membership committee would be made by Capt. Reading at
the Board Meeting to be held on March 6th and that if Captain Reading
was not available to do so, Mr. M. Wright, Sr. would make the report.
2.t...._Jail,17.3.1i0TO.RP- President Lundahl informed the Beard that he
had received word from Dr. R. R. Colwell that his final report would
be made at the annual meeting.
3. AESEARCH - Randall Eaten and Amron Katz were preparing a questionnaire
to be sent to a selected list of agencies and organizations in an
effort to compile a complete report on research and that this would
be made later.
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4, PROFESSIONAL STATUS . Mr. Dickerson was not present and no report was
made. In the absence of Mr. Dickerson, past president George Whitmore
informed the Board that a committee of three had been selected to
explore and make recommendations relative to the professional status
problem now confronting the various State licensing boards on the
broad scope and phases of photogrammetry. He indicated that the
committee would consist of a member from a governmental agency, one
from the industrial field and one from the academic organizations and
that he had been selected to represent the governmental agencies,
A, O. Quinn to represent the commercial interests and Brother Austin
Barry of Manhattan College, to represent the academic organizations.
Mr. Whitmore stated there probably woad be a .breakdown into 5 branches
under the classification of surveying and mapping. These would be
(1) construction surveying, (2) land surveying, (3) geodetic surveying,
(4) mapping and charting . topographic ...hydrographic and (5) cartography
maps for purposes other than above. He also stated that the committee
could not, under any possible circamstances, indicate when they could
come to any definite conclusion or make a formal final report. Br. A.
Nearcki stated that George Washington. University had been working on a
etmilar type of investigation and that this report would be available
shortly.
5. CIVIL SERVICE . Mr. Phil Dill presented a written report through C. B.
Kowalczyk and whichowas given to President Lundahl for review but,
because the report was not submitted in sufficient time for President
Lundahl to make a digest, it was suggested that this report be held
in abeyance and presented at a fftture Board meeting.
STI, OLD BUSINESS:
1. Proposal to increase dues rates for Sustaining Memberships Gamer T.
McNeil reported that he had done some hurried research among local
sustaining members and found no Objections; he moved that the Sustaining
Membership fee for 1956 be increased 50, or from $50 to $75. This
motion was seconded by W. S. Park and unanimously approved.
Mr. T. W. Norcross at this point brought up a technical question relative
to the current membership of the Beard of Direction and stated that
Officially the five members whose terms had expired for 1954 were no
longer members of the Beard and that five vacancies existed. Whereupon
Br, J. T. Pennington moved that these existent vacancies be temporarily
filled by the five incumbent members, namely, D. Kennedy, 144 Linck,
B. Lane, Jr., Laurence Brundall, and G. T. McNeil, until the March
meeting convenes. This motion was seconded by Dr. Washer and
unanimously approved.
2. To requests for final rebates from the Puget Sound and the Columbia
River Sections, even though received after the time specified in the
ByeLaws, upon e motion made by R. E. Altethofen and seconded 107
A, Quinn, were approved for payment with the understanding that the
remittance would not exceed $50 for each section. The motion was
unanimously approved by the Board.
3, President Lundahl read a final report from Mr. F. Doyle concerning
the Society participation in the International Science Foundation
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and. although Mr. Doyle recommended we accept a participating membership,
the Board considered there was very little to gain but were agreeable to
famishing copies of the Journal. It was suggested that either Ni'. Doyle
or the President write Ni', Mogenson to inform him of the Beard's action.
4. T. W. Norcross reported on the PAIGH letter of December 16th and said
the Society was not involved in this situation and, therefore, all
papers were turned over to President Lundahl for disposition.
VII. NEW BUSINESS
1. The Secretary-Treasurer presented the, names of the nine companies who
had made formal applications for sustaining memberships, four of these
namely American Instrument Corporation, The Kelsh Instrument Company,
Karl F. Tuttle Engineering Co. Inc., and the Item Group . upon a
motion made by G. T. McNeil and seconded by J. T. Pennington were
unanimously approved because their membership fee had been included
with their application, The other five . Semler Associates, Inc..
Senler Industries, Inc., Boothe Company, Inc., Virgil Whitworth &
Associates and Trans World Air Corp. -were approved on a notion made
by G. T. McNeil and seconded by A. Quinn on the contingency that the
approval be confirmed and accepted upon the receipt of their $50
membership fee.
2. An invitation from the Rocky Mountain Section to hold the ASP semi-
annual meeting in Denver was received for Board consideration but
was turned over to Vice-President V, S. Park, for farther consideration
and to be placed on the agenda for the next Board meeting under his
administration.
3. A letter of Dr. Ferdinand Reichel of Wirtschaftsberichte. Hinchen,
offering to screen and provide abstracts of Russian and. Eastern Earopean
technical papers dealing with maps and photogrammetry was presented but
it was suggested the Secretary write to Dr. Reichel to ascertain farther
details and to see if there was a Charge for this service.
4. A request from Richard RiMbach for ASP's subscription to "Instruments &
Automation" was rejected.
50 The suggestion of ASP assistance to ISP in extending an invitation to
mapping agencies in the Western Hemisphere to participate in an inter-
national comparative mapping test has been handled by President Lundahl
with an appropriate organizational set-up and questionnaire which he
has prepared to be sent to a selected list of commercial organizations
and governmental agencies who do aerial surveying and mapping. when
these questionnaires have been completed and returned, a final report
will be prepared and submitted for Board consideration.
Thom being no farther business to come before the meeting, the Board
adjourned at 11:00 PX.
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SECR3TAMTREASURER
PRESIDENT
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