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Atlanta
E. R. Dryden was elected treasurer of
the Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia
Society of CPAs for the year 1962-63.
Robert E. Minnear was appointed
chairman of the Attendance Commit­tee
and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Atlanta Chapter of
the Georgia Society of CPAs. Mr.
Minnear is also a member of the
Finance Committee of the State So­ciety
of CPAs.
Boston
On May 14 Donald C. Wiese par­ticipated
in a panel which appeared
at a dinner meeting of the South Shore
Fuel Dealers' Association. The subject
was "Estate Planning."
Donald M. Keller spoke before the
Norfolk County Chapter of the NAA
in Dedham, Mass. on May 23, his sub­ject
being "Profitability Accounting."
Chicago
During the month of June Robert
Trueblood addressed three gatherings.
On June 5th he spoke at the 59th
Annual Meeting of the Illinois Society
of CPAs in Chicago on "Looking
Forward —The Profession in 1970."
On June 8 he spoke at a luncheon of
alumni of the Graduate School of In­dustrial
Administration of Carnegie
Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh
on the subject "An Employer Looks
at GSIA Graduates." At the Annual
Meeting of The California Society of
CPAs held in San Francisco June 18
he presented a speech entitled "Man­agement
Services and the Future of
the Profession."
On June 14 and 15, Mr. Trueblood
attended the American Institute of
CPAs Long Range Objectives Com­mittee
Meeting in San Francisco, and
on July 9 an American Institute Ex­ecutive
Committee Meeting in New
York City.
Justin Davidson addressed the meet­ing
of the Associated Merchandising
Corporation Controllers held in Wil­liamsburg,
Virginia on May 14 on the
subject, "Retail Applications of Sta­tistical
Sampling." He spoke to the
University of Detroit Accounting
Conference June 8 in Detroit on
"Statistical Sampling in Managerial
Decisions." On June 22 he attended
the 39th Annual Conference of CPAs
of the Pacific Northwest in Seattle
where he spoke on "Statistical Sam­pling
in Accounting Procedure."
Mr. Davidson recently co-authored
a book entitled "Statistical Sampling
for Accounting Information" with
Richard Cyert, Dean of the Graduate
School of Business Administration of
Carnegie Institute of Technology. To­gether
with Mr. Cyert and Mr. G. L.
Thompson, he wrote an article on
"Estimation of the Allowance for
Doubtful Accounts by Markov Chains"
which appeared in the April 1962
issue of Management Science.
John Van Camp was recently ad­mitted
to membership in the American
Institute of CPAs.
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