HUNGARIAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 276
• Publication Date: May 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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 HUNGARIAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS
CHIEF OFFICERS CHOSEN -- Budapest, Nepszava, 25 Sep 53
On 23 September 1953, the presidium of the Tarsadalom es Termeszettudo-
manyi Ismeretterjeszto Tarsulat ( Society for the Propagation of Social and Na-
tural Science) met in Budapest to elect a president, two vice-presidents, and
a secretary-general.
The presidium elected Rezso Bognar, Academician and Kossuth Prize winner,
as president. Erik Molnar, president of the Supreme Court, and Pal Gombos, both
Kossuth Prize winners and Academicians, were elected vice-presidents. Sandor
Erdei became secretary-general.
DEPAR'BENT LEADERS ELECTED -- Budapest, Magyar Nemzet, 5 Oct 53
The Departments of Political Science, Biology, and Public Health of the
Tarsadalom es Termeszettudomanyl Ismeretterjeszto Tarsulat held constituent
meetings in Budapest on 7 and 3 October 1953.
The meeting of the new Department of Political Science was opened by Istvan
Kovacs, secreLary -Cenerai of the Magyar Jogasz Szovetseg (Hungarian League of
Lawyers). Sandor Bard.:, member of the Presidential Council and director of the
Magyar Tavirati Iroda (Hungarian Telegraph Bureau) presented a report. Sandor
Gaspar, member of' the Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers Party and secre-
tary of the National League of Trade Unions, was elected president of the depart-
ment. Sandor Bares and Istvan Kovacs became vice-presidents.
The Departmect of Biology elected Academician Imre Toro as president.
Academician Sandor Javorka, and Istvan Boros, director of the Museum of Natural
Science, were elected vice-presidents.
The society's Department of Public Health elected, Dr Ferenc Kovacs, direc-
tor of the Tudogyo,yaszati Klinika (Clinic of' Lung Therapy), as president, Dr
Bela Horn, director of the No 1 Clinic of' Gynecology, and Dr Bela Wald, director
of' the Oruzagos Onkologiai Intezet (National Institute of Oncology), were elected
vice-presidents.
GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY HEADS ELECTED Budapest, Magyar Nemzet, 16 Oct 53
At a constituent meeting o the Department of Geography and Geology of the
Tarsadalom es Termeszettudomanyi Ismeretterjeszto Tarsulat, Academician Elemer
Szadeczky Kardos was elected president. Academician Elemer Vadasz, and Bela Bulla,
university professor, were elected vice-presidents.
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