Hospital Head

James A. Hamilton '22, director of the New Haven Hospital and former professor at Tuck School and superintendent of Hanover's Mary Hitchcock Hospital, was elected president of the American Hospital Association at the national convention at Atlantic City, N. J., in September. New Haven papers acclaimed him the youngest president the Association has had. Last year Yale, where he is a professor of hospital administration, honored him with its M. A.

Mr. Hamilton reached early prominence in the hospital administrative world by a series of steady boosts upwards from his associates. He was elected president of the New England Hospital Association in 1930 and president of the New Hampshire Hospital Association in 1933. In 1936, he was made a member of the Council on Administrative Practice of the American Hospital Association, which office he held until elected president of the American College of Hospital Administrators in 1939