Annual Meetings and Symposia of the American Society of Andrology 1978-85

              e American Society of Andrology
October, 1984
Dear Member:
The 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology will
be held in Colorado. Although it might be nice to hold the meeting at
a mountain resort, the local committee considers this to be impractical
because of the additional time required for travel to and from the
mountai ns and because of additional expense invol ved. Consequentl y,
the meeting will be held in the Denver area.
The local committee would like your opinion on the most desirable
time of week to hold the annual meeting during March or the first two
weeks of Aprll, 1987. The local arrangements committee is giving
serious consi deration to i ncl udi ng one or both days of the weekend as
meeti ng days rather than havi ng all meeti ng days fallon weekdays as
has been true in the recent past. There are advantages and disadvantages
to any schedule.
Among the advantages of staying Saturday night in the convention
city is that reduced air fares are possible. Furthermore, room rates
at many hotels are cheaper over the weekend than on weekdays. A third
advantage is that a member does not lose as much time from his/her
clinical, teaching or research activities. For those who wish to visit
ski resorts before or after the meeting, lower rates and less crowded
conditions are advantages of skiing during the weekdays.
Among the disadvantages of meeting on a weekend are that it may
impose on family traditions, free time or the Sabbath. Other dis­advantages
may be evident to some individuals.
The local arrangements committee is considering four possible
sequences and is leaning toward utilization of either sequence 1 or 2
in preference to sequence 3 or 4. At this time, no preference has been
established between sequence 1 and 2 or between sequence 3 and 4.
PRESIDENT
Rudi Ansbacher, M.D.
Department of Ob/Gyn
Women's Hospital
U. Michigan Med. Ctr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
VICE PRESIDENT
Anna Steinberger, Ph.D.
Dept. of Ob/Gyn, Reprod . Sci.
U. Texas Med. Sch.
P.O. Box 20708
Houston, TX 77025
SECRETARY TREASURER
Rupert P. Amann, Ph.D. Brian H. Vickery, Ph.D.
Animal Reprod. Lab. Syntex Research
Colorado State U. 3401 Hillview Ave.
Fort Collins, CO 80523 Palo Alto, CA 94304
PAST PRESIDENT
Andrzej Bartke, Ph.D
Dept. of Ob/Gyn
U. Texas Health Sci. Ctr.
7703 Floyd Curl Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78284