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1938

For the first time in 50 years, the Annual Meeting was cancelled due to directives from the Office of Defense Transportation to reserve bus and plane seats and hotel rooms for military personnel in the later days of World War II redeployment.

Academy Secretary Harry Gradle, MD, suggested the development of Home Study Courses.

The first members of the Honor Society were announced.

1939

The Board recommended that eligibility for the Honor Award be extended to those who contribute to, or serve in, any major category of Academy activity. The award was reinterpreted as “a recognition of merit in scientific achievement,” and a point system was devised whereby credit toward the award could be earned on an equitable basis.

1945

1953

A membership category of Associate Fellow was added to extend membership to distinguished scientists and physicians who were not ophthalmologists or otolaryngologists but who were working in allied fields.

1957

The Academy began supporting yearly fellowships in pathology. They were offered through 1968 when the Academy discontinued funds for individual fellowships.

Francis E. LeJeune, MD, presented the Academy’s original gavel with the names of presidents through 1967. A replica was made with room for inscribing presidents’ names through the year 2020. The tradition

1958-1968

1967

The American Council of Otolaryngology was established.

of gavel transference was switched from being passed on to the next president to being replicated and engraved with incoming president’s name.

1968

The Academy produced its first videotape, a Continuing Education television series.

1972

The American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology separated into two new organizations: the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Otolaryngology. This also marked the first time in 82 years that the Academy’s ophthalmologists and otolaryngologists were meeting separately for the Annual Meeting.

The Ophthalmology Study Guide for Medical Students was first published.

1975

1978

The American Academy of Ophthalmology moved its headquarters to San Francisco, California, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology retained the headquarters office in Rochester, Minnesota. The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) and the American Council of Otolaryngology (ACO) voted to merge. The new association, the AAO-HNS, began operations January 1, 1982. The scientific and education functions of the Academy combined with the advocacy functions of the Council to provide the comprehensive services of the AAO-HNS, which initially operated from the AAO-HNS office in Minnesota and the ACO office in Washington, DC, during the transition to Washington, DC, in 1982.

April 15, 1979

The American Academy of Otolaryngology added Head and Neck Surgery to its name to become American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery .

1980

The first Annual Meeting of the newly formed American

1981

1982

Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. The picture shows Bobby R. Alford, MD, getting ready to pass the gavel to Loring W. Pratt, MD.

The Board of Governors (BOG) was created to give private practitioners a voice in the new organization. The BOG held its first meeting in 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, with Marvin Singleton, MD, as the first chair.

The Academy changed the name of its journal to what it is known as today, Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery .

The Academy’s Perceiver and the ACO’s newsletters were combined to form the new AAO-HNS Bulletin .

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