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committee have this list to report (see front of this volume). 



PRESIDENT MARGESON: You have heard the re- 

 port of the Nominating Committee, what will you do with 

 it? 



A MEMBER: I wonder if the Nominating Committee 

 were aware that Everet E. Derby of Leominster had enlisted 

 in the service of his country. 



MR. STEVENS : We were told so, but any member of 

 our Association who has gone across, deserves to be re- 

 tained. 



PRESIDENT MARGESON: What will you do with 

 this report? 



A MEMBER : I move it be accepted. 



PRESIDENT I\IARGESON: You have heard the re- 

 port 0^ the Nominating Committee, which is now before you 

 of officers to serve you for the next year. Those in favor of 

 accepting the report, please manifest by raising their right 

 hand. Contrary minded. (Motion carried.) 



I would like to say again in regard to the stationery, 

 that your Secretary, Mr. Brown, has a cut which was spe- 

 cially prepared for the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, and anybody desiring it^ may obtain stationery from 

 him at a reasonable price, by which you will advertise your 

 Association. You can use it in your correspondence. Any 

 member can have it adapted to meet his needs. 



MR. MANN: I want to offer one suggestion. You can 

 decide the value for yourself. On this list of directors, there 

 is only one ex-president, — the retiring President. Now, my 

 idea would be that after a man has been through these of- 

 fices and held the position of president two years, he is much 

 more valuable as a director than many of the rest of us. It 

 seems that we should increase that list, and keep three ex- 

 presidents on the board of directors. I just offer that as a 

 suggestion. 



MR. MARGESON: Being an ex-president, I don't want 

 to say much on it. 



