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appropriate and dignified action whenever necessary. In fact, as the 

 collective spokesman of an important profession whose usefulness is 

 rapidly becoming appreciated, it could not well do otherwise. 



E. R. HoDSON, Secretary. 



Report of Nominating Committee 



The Nominating Committee reports a list of nominations for the 

 several officers for the ensuing year, 1919, as follows: 



President: Treasurer: 



A. Gaskill E. E. Carter 



B. P. Kirkland A. F. Hawes 

 F. E. Olmsted C. G. Smith 



Vice-President: Member of Bxeciitive Council: 



W. W. Ashe S. T. Dana 



A. K. Chittenden J. H. Foster 



R. Headley b. R. Tillotson 



Secretary: 



P. D. Kelleter 

 W. N. Sparhawk 

 J. W. Stokes 



These selections were made without direct consultation between the 

 members of the committee, each member submitting to the other two a 

 list of candidates, to the number of five, for each office, arranged in the 

 order of the member's own personal choice. Final selections as above 

 were then made. In 13 out of 25 preliminary choices of candidates, 

 agreement among the members of the committee was unanimous, which 

 left a margin of candidates to select from where certain men declined 

 to accept nomination. In every case two of the three members agreed 

 on each final selection. 



The committee in making its selections endeavored to be gttided by 

 the following general principles : 



1. To nominate the maximum number of candidates allowable under the con- 

 stitution to provide as wide a latitude of choice as possible as well as to avoid 

 having it appear that the new officers were being hand-picked by the committee. 

 In order to do this, it was necessary 



2. To make as large a number of choices of possible candidates as practicable 

 to whom we could write to know if they would agree to accept nomination. Defi- 

 nite information as to this, it seemed to us, was particularly essential at that time, 

 since doubtless many men would find it necessary to decline for one or another 

 war reason. 



