Institute activities: Role of engineers in war keynote of North Eastern district meeting

A successful wartime technical meeting of the North Eastern District was held in Pittsfield, Mass., April 8 and 9, 1943, with headquarters in the Wendell Hotel. Eight technical sessions and conferences and a general session were held during the two days of the meeting, which was preceded by a tri-Sectional technical-paper competition for younger engineers on the evening of April 7. The presentations at each of the sessions and conferences exemplified the part taken by electrical engineers in aiding the war effort. The total registered attendance was 318, as analyzed in the accompanying table.