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Haldor E. Rosvold as Chairman and Karl Frank as Secretary. Rosvold

selected an interim committee that consisted of Marian Yarrow, Richard

Bell, Herbert Posner, Sanford L. Palay, and Michelangelo Fuortes, which

prepared a draft of a constitution for the Assembly and arranged for

an election of officers.^43 In addition to the principles mentioned above,

the draft also specified that the officers should include a president, a

vice president, and a secretary, elected annually by the assembly mem­

bers. The council would consist of these officers and eight councilors,

four selected by assembly members for two-year terms and the remain­

ing four elected annually. No administrator at the scientific director or

above level was eligible for such office. The assembly meetings would

be held on a yearly basis, in October.^44

At the June 1959 meeting, Rosvold, Frank, and Palay were elected

by secret ballot to be president, vice president, and secretary of the

Assembly of Scientists, respectively, and Yarrow, Posner, Fuortes, Paul

MacLean, John Clausen, Seymour Kety, Edward Evarts, and Giulio

Cantoni were elected as the eight council members.^45

The NIMH intramural research program chiefs, collectively and as

members of the Assembly, proceeded to study NIH personnel policy

Officers of the Assembly of Scientists, 1959. Left to right: Sanford L. Palay, Secretary, from the



Laboratory of Neuroanatomical Sciences, NINDB, Karl Frank, Vice President, from the Laboratory of



Neurophysiology, NINDB, and Haldor E. Rosvold, President, from the Laboratory of Psychology, NIMH



Courtesy of the Office of NIH History