Registration, sight-seeing tours and a reception highlighted the opening-day activities of the 23rd annual national convention of the American Society of Medical Technologists Sunday at the Jung hotel.
More than 1500 medical technologists from the 48 states, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii are expected to attend the six-day meeting at which pathologists, technologists and scientists will address the group a registration spokesman said.
The convention will officially get under way Monday at 9 a. m. with Miss Patricia Sallas, medical technologist at Charity hospital presiding. The invocation will be delivered by the Rt. Rev. Charles J. Plauche, chancellor of the archdiocese of New Orleans, and an address of welcome to the city is scheduled to be delivered by Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison
Other welcoming addresses wil be delivered by Dr. Emma S Moss, president-elect, American Society of Clinical Pathologists Dr. Albert L. McQuown, Baton Rouge, president of the Louisiana Pathology Society; Miss Ruth Hovde, Minneapolis, Minn., president, ASMT; Miss Lucille Godelfer, convention general chairman, and Sister M. Emerita Ohmann, little Falls, Minn., representing the Catholic Hospital Association Committee on Medical Technology.
