Applause; Alumni;

              Applause. . .
Boston—At the Annual Awards Dinner of the Massachu­setts
Society of CPAs, James M. Lynch was awarded a
desk set for writing the best article in the "Mass. CPA
Review" during 1965-1966. The article, "Internal Budg­etary
Controls; An Independent Accountants' View" ap­peared
in the June-July 1965 issue.
Buffalo—Robert P. Schermerhorn received the second
award made by the New York State Society of CPAs for
serving as seminar discussion leader for the Buffalo
Presentation of Special Reports.
Chicago—Ted David has been appointed a member of
a Book Review Committee of the Journal of Data Man­agement.
He will review from two to three books a year
in the areas of EDP, modern business and industry man­agement.
Mr. David also attended a seminar this sum­mer
at Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. to discuss
the economic impact of the Federal Budget. The semi­nar
was sponsored by the Brookings Institute and the
President's Commission on Budget concepts.
Denver—Russell E. Palmer has been appointed a mem­ber
of the board of directors of Colorado Society of
CPAs. Other appointments include the following: Clar­ence
Hein, vice chairman and Russell E. Palmer, board
representative—Accounting and Auditing Procedure;
Charles Husted, chairman—Computer Education and
Basic Management Advisory Services; Ronald S. Fiedel-man,
vice chairman—Federal Taxation; Leo R. Smentow-ski,
secretary—Governmental Accounting; Robert L.
Stamp, chairman—Meetings-General; Frederick A.
Fuchs, secretary—Meetings-Technical; Carleton H. Grif­fin,
chairman—Planning; Russell E. Palmer, board rep­resentative—
Practice Review; Earl E. Marcus, vice
chairman—Relations with the Bar.
Leo R. Smentowski has been elected president of the
Colorado Springs-Pueblo Chapter of the NAA.
Detroit—Richard A. Patterson has been elected to the
1967-1968 board of directors of the Detroit Chapter of
the NAA.
Donald H. Waterman is a contributing editor to "Fed­eral
Income Taxation of Banks and Financial Institu­tions"
published by the Banking Law Journal.
Dale R. Ellery was elected treasurer of the Trenton
Junior Chamber of Commerce for the year 1967-1968.
Executive—In July Robert M. Trueblood attended a
meeting of the International Study Group in Oxford, Eng­land.
This group is involved in the preparation of com­parative
studies on certain major accounting issues as
among Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. Mr.
Trueblood has been appointed chairman of the United
States delegation for another year, and will continue
to act as chairman of the International Study Group.
Marjorie June has been elected secretary of the
American Women's Society of CPAs for the year 1967-
1968.
Fresno—Brenton B. Bradford has been elected treasurer
of the California Society of CPAs.
Grand Rapids—Eugene R. Doom was elected vice chair­man
of the West Chapter of the Michigan Association of
CPAs.
Richard E. Herrinton has been elected to the 1967-
1968 board of directors for the Grand Rapids Chapter
of the NAA.
Los Angeles—Bernard Mulvey taught at the University
of San Fernando Valley College of Law this summer.
Memphis—The Memphis Chapter NAA has made the
following appointments: Don Stark, director—Member
attendance; Jim Tansey, director—Membership; Don
Stark, Long-Range Planning Committee.
Minneapolis/Saint Paul—The following committee ap­pointments
were made by the Minnesota Society of
CPAs for the coming year: Ronald Curtis, chairman-
Auditing; Einar Ross, chairman—Membership Consulta­tion
Service; Jerald Grande, chairman—Taxation—Fed­eral
and State: Carl Pohlman, vice chairman—Coopera­tion
with Bankers and Other Credit Grantors; John
McFarland, vice chairman—Estate Planning. Committee
Members: Ingvar Aaseng—Accounting & Auditing Pro­cedure;
James Ascher—Tax Conference; Ronald Bach-
Publications; Richard Beck—Accounting & Auditing Pro­cedure,
Professional Ethics; Martin Beckman—Account­ing
& Auditing Procedure; Craig Blanchard—State and
Municipal Accounting & Auditing; Karen Chaplin—Tax­ation—
Federal & State; Clarence Holtze—Professional
Development; John Honzl—Membership; Richard Kost-both—
Tax Conference, Taxation—Federal & State; Allan
Murphy—State & Municipal Accounting & Auditing; Dow
Nelson—Management Services.
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