Optical Society

During its 49th annual meeting in New York City in October, the Optical Society of America announced its slate of officers for the coming year. Seibert Q. Duntley, director of the Visibility Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, will take office on January 1 as president of the OSA for 1965. He succeeds Richard C. Lord, who will continue to serve on the organization's board of directors as junior past president. Dr. Duntley, whose research in environmental optics and human vision has received wide recognition, is chairman of the OSA delegation to the US National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination and member of the Armed Forces—National Research Council Committee on Vision.