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Responding to the 1944 invitation, seventeen organizations sent a total of 32 representatives to the first meeting of the Council, held in the Board Room of the ASME in the Engineering Societies Building of New York City on September 25 and 26 of 1945. In addition, H. E. Wessman was present as an observer for Engineering Foundation. A complete verbatim transcript (5) of this meeting is on file at the Council headquarters at Lehigh University. Those present and the organizations (a list of abbreviations appears as Appendix 1, at the conclusion of this paper) they represented were (1) H. E. Wessman, Engineering Foundation; (2) C. A. Ellis, S. C. Hollister, and B. G. Johnston, ASCE; (3) J. L. Beckel, R. N. Brodie, G. M. Magee, and E. J. Ruble, AAR; (4) L. H. Donnell, and H. L. Whittemore, ASME; (5) O. H. Ammann, S. Hardesty, H. C. Tammen, and F. M. Masters, AICE; (6) F. H. Frankland, H. D. Hussey, and J. Jones, AISC; (7) R. Archibald, Public Roads Administration; (8) H. G. Schlitt, AASHO; (9) W. R. Osgood and H. L. Whittemore, National Bureau of Standards; (10) H. Marcus Bureau of Yards and Docks; (11) D. F. Windenburg and H. R. Thomas, Bureau of Ships; (12) R. L. Hankinson and A. E. Dubin, United States Coast Guard; (13) E. P. Trask, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; (14) M. Male, AISI; (15) R. L. Templin and B. J. Fletcher, ALCOLA; (16) J. O. Jackson, Steel Plate Fabricators Association; (17) J. S. Newell and E. E. Lundquist, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; and (18) T. I. Coe, AIA. (Messrs. Hollister, Beckel, Hardesty, Masters, Frankland, Archibald, Whittemore, Windenburg, Templin, and Newell were members of the initial Executive Committee.)
The adopted plan of organization followed closely that proposed by the organizing committee. The Executive Committee, made up of nine elected members, would not be concerned with technical matters. The Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Council would also hold the same offices on the Executive Committee on which they would be ex officio members. Every member of the Council would be assigned, according to his preference, to a "category group" that would represent his primary field of interest. These groups were not to be organized as committees but would proclaim the broad scope of the Council and would provide a liaison with various specification writing bodies. The following category groups were proposed:
- Railway bridges
- Highway bridges
- Tier buildings
- Industrial buildings and hangars
- Machinery
- Derricks and cranes
- Military structures
- Fixed and floating marine structures
- Towers
- Aircraft
- Ship structures
- Mobile equipment
Reporting to the Executive Committee would be a Technical Board that would include representation of all category groups. Under the Technical Board there would be a Committee on Research and a Committee on Recommended Practice.
Officers elected were: (1) Chairman: S. Hardesty; (2) Vice-Chairman: H. L. Whittemore; (3) Chairman, Technical Board: S. C. Hollister; (4) Vice-Chairman, Technical Board: H. Hussey; (5) Chairman, Research Committee: B. G. Johnston; and (6) Chairman, Committee on Recommended Practice: J. Jones. A committee on finance (S. C. Hollister, Chairman) and a committee to prepare bylaws (F. H. Frankland, Chairman) were established.
Following its initial meeting on September 26, 1945, the Committee on Research proposed that four subcommittees be set up at once, patterned after the column project of the ASCE Committee on Design of Structural Members. These were as follows:
- Mechanical Properties of Materials
- Initial Eccentricities of Compression Elements
- Local Buckling of Compression Elements
- Columns in Structural Frames
This organization provided for the recommendation to the ASCE Structural Division that the Committee on Design of Structural Members be disbanded and its work taken over by the Column Research Council through its Research Committee.
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