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tee, consisting of Messrs. Lowry and Svvcnk, was appointed b\ 

 the chair. 



R. K. Wolcott reported briefly for tlie Record Committee. In 

 the absence of the chairman of the Rducational Committee no 

 report of this work was received. 



Election of new members being in order, the names of Miss 

 Laura Evans of Blue Springs and Mrs. Catherine Foley of Goth- 

 enburg were proposed by R. H. Wolcott and S. R. Towne, respec- 

 tively, and duly elected to membership. On her personal request,. 

 Mrs. (i. A. Loveland, who joined the N. O. U. in 1901 but re- 

 signed in 1904, was reinstated by an affirmative expression of the 

 Society. 



August Eiche reported for the Auditing Committee that the 

 reports of the Treasurer for 1913-14 had been examined and 

 found correct, and, on his motion, the report was accepted. H. B. 

 Lowry read the report of the Nominating Committee for officers 

 for 1914-15, as follows: 



President, Prof. T. C. Stephens, Sioux City. 



\'ice-Prcsident, Mrs. G. A. Loveland, Lincoln. 



Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. R. W. Dawson, Lincoln. 



L^pon motion of H. B. Lowry that the rules be suspended and 

 that the Secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of 

 the Society for T. C. Stephens as President, the motion was put 

 and unanimously carried. The motion was repeated for Mrs 

 Loveland as Vice-President by Mrs. Sheldon, and for R. W. 

 Dawson as Secretary- Treasurer by M. H. Swenk, and in each 

 case the nominee was unanimously elected. 



New business being in order, the Secretary-Treasurer pro- 

 posed the following three amendments to the constitution : ( 1 ) 

 That in Article II, Section 1, the words "or adjacent states" be 

 inserted after "Nebraska," and (2) that vt Article Y, Section 4, 

 the words "and to nominate three persons for each of the sev- 

 eral offices that are to be filled annually" be stricken out, and (3) 

 that in Article \T, Section 1, the words "and the Secretary-Treas- 

 urer shall send a list of the nominees of the Executive Committee 

 to each member one month before the date of the annual meet- 

 ing" be stricken out. After explanations by the Secretary-Treas- 



