Evening star., 1927-05-20
DOCTORS ELECT BALTIMOREAN
OVER CAPITAL MAN BY 4 VOTES
DR.. William Gerry Morgan
Loses PreSidenCy-EleCt
to DR.. W. S. Thayer.
American Medical AssoCia-
ton Ends Conventional Meet
Again in Minneapolis.

After electing DR.. William Sydney
Thayer of Baltimore, president-elect,
and choosing Minneapolis as the next
convention city, the House of Dele
gates of the American Medical Asso-
citation wound up the business OF the
seyentv.eighth annual session yester-
day. Except for section meetings 10
day. the convention is over.
DR. Thayer's election was close
Against him were Dr. William Gerry
Morgan of this city and DR.. Philip mar
vel of Atlantic City. DR.. Morgan was
the candidate of the Medical Society OF
the District of Coiumbla anu WoH
nlaced in nomination by DR.. 5. Roy
who called attention to his position as
professor of gastro-enterologY al
Georgetown and his long practice ana
successful position here.
on the first ballot DR. ThaYer re-
ceived 81 votes. DIR. Morgan 90 ana
DR.. Marvel IA. The name of Dr. Mar
vel dropped and on the second pai-
lot DIR. Thayer was elected, 40 to oo'
He will be installed at the 1928 conVen-
tion. which was voted to Minneapolis
after q close race with Kansas CITY,
Mo.
Other Officers Chosen.
DR. Charles A. Elliott of Chicago,
was elected vice president-elect, with
ont opposition. Other officers were re-
elected as follows: DR.. Olin ID. west
secretary; DIR. Austin y. Hayden
trea surer: DR.. Fred G. WarnShuyst'
speaker of the House Of Delegates
Dr. Allen II. Bunce, vice speaker Lr;
Edward B. Hecken of Pittsburgh and
Dr Rock Sleyster of Waumautosa We're
elected to the board of trustees; Df'
Donald McCrae, jr., of Council BUNS
Iowa. TO the judicial council; Dr. Eill'
met p. North of St. Louis, to the couh
ciI on medical education, ana ~
Frank H. Lahey of Boston, 10 7ile
scientific assembly. oo e.,
The delegates voted S5'ooo 1 loI
nurses education for the year anu
voted not to create a nome LOT III
capacitated and INDECENT physicians
a motion to give the house tne poWeI
10 exnel any member of the American
HTadida1 Association was lost after a
lively fight by a vote of lO3 to =
Three-fourths Of the entire house
would have been necessary to pass
the amendment to the bylaws.
The new president-elect has a as
tineuished record in the medical pro-
fession. He was born June %, 1864,
and was graduated in medicine from
Harvard in 1889. Subsequently he
tudied in Berlin. Vienna and Paris.
He practiced in Boston in 1890, ana
then went to Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, as assistant resident pny--
sician. He was made professor OF
clinical medicine at Johns Hopkins
University in 1900, professor OF medl-
cine in 1918 and emeritus professor IN
1921. During the war he was a
brigadier general in the Medical
Corps.
Has Distinguished Honors.
He is a former president of the
Association of American Physicians,
the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and the Interurban Clinical
Club, and a member of the American
Society of Clinical Investigation, the
Southern Medical Association, the Ma
tionaI Research Council. the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society, the
Washington Academy Of Sciences, the
Maryland Historical Society, the
Therapeutical Society of Moscow
honorary, the Royal Society of Medi-
cine of London, the Association of
Physicians of Great Britain and Scot
land, the Royal Society of Tropical
Medicine of London, the Royal Medl-
cal Society of Budapest. the Academic
de Medicine of Paris, the international
Society of Medicine of Hydrol, Gesell'
schaft fur Innere Medicine. Kinder