Annual Reports 



■ Report of the Board of Trustees 



The Board of Trustees held seven meetings, as follows : the annual meet- 

 ing on May 23, 1914; an adjourned annual meeting on May 28, 1914; stated 

 meetings on October 3 and December 5, 1914, and February 6, 1915 ; a post- 

 poned stated meeting on April 7, 1915 ; special meetings on January 9 and 

 May 10, 1915. The executive committee met, when necessary, and trans- 

 acted all ad interim business of the Board. The standing committees and 

 officers of the Association transacted all business entrusted to them, so that 

 none of the routine business of the Association remains unfinished; and 

 the women's auxiliary committee attended to the social features of our 

 meetings with its customary grace^representing and tendering to our 

 guests the hospitality of the Association. 



The only change in the personnel of the Board during the year was that 

 which resulted from the appointment by the Board of Education of James 

 J. Reynolds as district superintendent of schools for the borough in place 

 of William A. Boylan — Mr. Reynolds thus becoming our new ex-officio 

 member. 



From time to time during the year nominations to active membership 

 in the Association were acted upon and the following nominees were 

 elected : Miss E. Alice Austen, Charles W. Barnaby, Warren R. Borst, 

 Miss H. Louise Britton, William R. Britton, William E. Burkhardt, Harold 

 S. Butler, Eberhard Faber, Daniel D. Feldman, Mrs. Jerome A. King, 

 Walter W. King, Mrs. Ethel L. Kraft, Thomas Letts, Russell H. Loines, 

 Henry J. Lurye, Samuel D. McComb, John W. McKay, Frank C. Mebane, 

 Stephen L. Mershon, Henri Monrensal, Henry P. Morrison, Frank A. 

 Muth, William J. Noonan, George K. North, Christian E. Olsen, William 

 B. Redgrave, Dane E. Rianhard, Charles Rosenberg, Mrs. Anton L. 

 Schwab, Charles R. Scott, Elting C. Stillwell, Howard H. Sutherland, 

 Courtland Van Vechten, David Varon, Frank J. E. Weatherdon. 



Miss Bessie E. Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, Eberhard Faber, Stephen 

 L. Mershon and Christian E. Olsen qualified as life members. 



The Board records with regret the deaths of the following members : 

 Ralph Bainbridge, Read Benedict, Frank D. Rieff, W. Allaire Shortt and 

 Sanderson Smith. 



In July 1914, application was made to the Board of Estimate and Appor- 

 tionment for an appropriation of $9,878.00 for salaries and general main- 

 tenance of the public museum of the Association. The appropriation 

 granted was $9,022.00. 



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