Board of Directors Meeting, November 6, 1952 2
is copied after one put on in Indiana which worked well there. Dr. Manning felt this could prove to be of interest. Dr. Steen remarked that seminars had been held in past years, but not many doctors could be got together. Dr. Cogswell wondered if enough men would get together here. Dr. Manning thought that the men in smaller communities would go for it, since it gave them a chance to sit down together and have a discussion. He felt that if this is what the committee wants it would not hurt this Society to cooperate. Dr. Steen wondered if the members of the Board of Directors are aware of how things are done in Phoenix, citing as an example the Public Relations Committee, the chairman of which had said to him that the President decided on having a group of television programs and have a doctor to speak, that the program was all arranged and asked him what did he think of it! The chairman said "We have this money and we have to spend it." Dr. Beaton remarked that apparently this has been very good public relations in Phoenix. Dr. Steen said that apparently everything is for Phoenix, that Phoenix apparently has control of Council and the State Medical Society. He said that he is not defending it or speaking against it, merely stating a situation. Dr. Manning said that he can see that there might be objections to any group going ahead and doing something without consultation, but that they are organized in Phoenix and can go ahead and do these things better than we can--they have a manager for the Maricopa County Society. He said that he has heard lots of excellent comments from the newspapers on their program, and repeated that he felt it would not hurt to cooperate, even thought he conceded that they do set things up and expect us to follow through. Dr. Cogswell remarked that he did not want them to spend his money without consulting him. Dr. Manning said that Council had told him the committee to go ahead and arrange the Seminars or any other means of education of the outlying districts, and he thought they have done very well. He said that he did not think it is a question of money, but of trying to get the thing set up, but that we should see that we have representation before any decision is made. Dr. Lesemann wondered if this did not run into a large sum of money. Dr. Manning then called Mr. Robert Carpenter, Executive Secretary of the Arizona Medical Association on the telephone, and reported the following--"The Professional Board, which has representation throughout the State, there being none here at the moment except Dr. Kinkade, arranged for three seminars for groups of doctors from Utah, and this has already been held throughout the state. Two more are proposed. This telephone arrangement is a pure experiment of education process to bring to the men a type of program of roundtable discussion in order to get to more people. $200.00 is expected to cover the cost, and each individual share would be about $.50. It consists of two tape recordings of two meetings held in Indiana, and will be broadcast for one hour to all five cities. The only expense to the Society is to provide a place of meeting." Dr. Manning said that he head mentioned the vacancy on the Professional Board to Mr. Carpenter, and that this will be filled on Sunday at the Council meeting. Dr. Bernstein wondered if this could not be held at the County Hospital meeting. Dr. Manning thought this should be talked over with the program chairman, Dr. Pasternack. Dr. Lewis thought this should be advertised so that a large group could be present; that it would be a good way to test it out. Dr. Engle wondered if there were enough lines at the County Hospital so that it will not matter is one is tied up for an hour. This is to be looked into.
The Secretary read letters of complaint from Dr. Ludwig Lindberg and Dr. F.A. Shallenberger concerning two instances of advertisements in the classified section of the telephone book which are in boldface type. He suggested that the Board of Censors might write the telephone company a letter regarding out objections to this. Dr. Beaton moved that this matter be referred to the Board of Censors. Motion seconded by Dr. Kuhlman and carried.
