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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
This is the first issue of The Journal of the American Academy ofChild Psychiatry} the official publication of the American Academyof Child Psychiatry. The history of its development will be found onpp. 196-202 of this issue. The history summarizes facts, but does notindicate the real dedication of those originally most closely involvedin planning for the Journal.
For mechanical reasons this issue appears under the names of thepresent editor and editorial board. The members of the EditorialFounding Committee-Dr. George Gardner, Chairman, Dr. JosephWeinreb, Dr. Eveoleen Rexford-were its true creators. It was theywho urged Dr. Pavenstedt, who had actively participated in planningthe Symposium on Research in Infancy and Early Childhood, heldin Boston on January 29 and 30, 1960, and those people who presented papers at that Symposium to submit the material from it forpublication in this Journal. It was they who contacted leaders in thefield of child psychiatry suggesting they consider submitting articlesto this Journal} thus, long before the Journal was ready for publication, publicizing its anticipated birth. It was also they who struggledwith the question of how to publish the Journal and worked out acontract with the International Universities Press. They are thetrue editors of this issue. Because they also accepted other papers forpublication they provided the present editor and editorial boardwith both a nucleus for the first volume and more importantly animplied standard for the selection of papers for future publicationsthat has been an invaluable guide.
As editor I wish to acknowledge the role, beyond the responsibilityof a member of the editorial board, which Dr. Pavenstedt has playedin bringing to fruition this first issue. It is she who carried the burden, usually carried by an editor, of organizing the papers, the discussions of the papers, and the many details that are involved ineditorial work.
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1 Editorial Policy
The editorial board and the membership of the American Academyof Child Psychiatry are indebted to those who participated in thesymposium; they agreed, at a time when the Journal was still only afantasy, to allow these important papers to remain unpublished untilthe fate of the Journal was clear. They thus made it possible for theneonatal Journal to enter life with optimally valuable nutrition.