Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, 1965 Annual Report and Minutes of the Members' Meeting (1965)

The 1965 annual report of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, the industry-funded research body at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, with the minutes of its members' meeting of October 20, 1965. The chairman, E. K. Davison, reported deficits in 1963 and 1964 and said the trustees had weighed whether to "phase-out and dissolve the Foundation" before raising dues by 50 percent instead. The report lists officers, committees and member companies (Johns-Manville joined in 1936), photographs of the 30th annual meeting, including Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, J-M's medical director, as a speaker, and the year's publications, among them a study of "Asbestos Bodies in Human Lungs at Autopsy."

What it shows

Newspaper clippings in the file report that at the meeting Dr. Smith called for closer checking of new materials, but said others had been judged "guilty by association" without proper study, naming asbestos as a special victim. For the Foundation's next reports, see Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, 1966 Annual Report (1966) and Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, 1968 Annual Report (1968).

About this copy

Pages 23 and 24, newspaper and trade-journal clippings about the meeting (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press, National Glass Budget, Safety Journal), are left out as copyrighted publications.