CHAPTER XXVI 

 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



THE sixteenth annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis 

 Association was held at the Hotel Statler, St. Louis, Mo., 

 April 21 to 24, 1920. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock on Thursday after- 

 noon by the president, Dr. Victor C. Vaughan. Following a few 

 brief remarks of welcome by Archbishop Glennon, of St. Louis, 

 the address of the president was presented and filed for publica- 

 tion in the Transactions. The report of the executive office for 

 the year ending April 20, 1920, was read and ordered filed and 

 published. 



The report of the nominating committee, which had been ap- 

 pointed in March, was presented by the chairman, Dr. Vincent Y. 

 Bowditch. The committee placed in nomination 12 directors to 

 fill five-year terms, and two directors to fill vacancies caused by 

 resignation. The report of the nominating committee was ap- 

 proved and the names were forwarded for formal election to Port- 

 land, Me., where the corporate meeting of the members of the 

 National Tuberculosis Association was held on Friday, April 23, 

 at 10 A. M. The following directors were duly and legally elected 

 for terms of five years each, unless otherwise indicated: Dr. Wil- 

 liam N. Anderson, Omaha, Neb.; Dr. A. C. Bachmeyer, Cincin- 

 nati, O.; H. R. Cunningham, Helena, Mont.; Dr. George Dock, 

 St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. Livingston Farrand, Washington, D. C.; 

 Homer Folks, New York; Dr. David R. Lyman, Wallingford, 

 Conn.; Dr. James A. Miller, New York; Henry B. Platt, New 

 York; J. V. A. Smith, Seattle, Wash. ; Prof. Reed Smith, Colum- 

 bia, S. C.; Dr. Allen H. Williams, Phoenix, Ariz.; Miss Mary 

 Beard, Boston, Mass, (three years in place of Mrs. F. G. Hodg- 

 son); Dr. Walter J. Marcley, Minneapolis, Minn, (one year in 

 place of Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs). 



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