Annual Reports 



Report of the Board of Trustees" 



The Board held five stated meetings on the following dates: May 29, October 

 2, December 4, 1915; February 5, April i, 1916; special meetings on July ID 

 and October 26, 1915; and adjourned meetings on January 22 and March 10, 

 1916. The executive committee also met when necessary and transacted all 

 urgent ad interim business. 



The women's auxiliary committee took charge of the informal reception 

 following each of the regular meetings of the Association, as in former years, 

 and to it the Board tenders its thanks for and appreciation of the pleasant 

 and successful social results achieved. 



The work of the newly organized program committee, consisting of the 

 secretary of the Association and the chairmen of the sections, resulted in a 

 systematic apportionment of material at the meetings and the arrangement 

 and delivery of an unusually varied and interesting series of lectures before 

 the Association. In December Mr. Frank W. Skinner spoke on his personal 

 observations in the European war zone; in January Mr. Carl F. Grieshaber 

 gave a descriptive lecture on certain architectural features of the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition: in February Mr. Stafford C. Edwards described his obser- 

 vations and experiences during a trip to Quito, Ecuador; in March Mr. James 

 P. Chapin lectured on his Five Years in Blackest Africa; and in April 

 Dr. James P. Haney talked to us on Lessons from Foreign Industrial Art 

 Schools. All of these lectures were fully illustrated by means of lantern 

 slides and should have been heard by much larger audiences. The October 

 meeting was reserved for the presentation and discussion of miscellaneous 

 communications and brief papers by members; and the November meeting 

 was occupied by a program of communications on items of local historical and 

 antiquarian interest under the auspices of the Section of Historical Research. 

 The annual meeting, in May, was reserved as a business meeting. 



At the annual meeting of the Board on May 29, the officers of the Associ- 

 ation who had served during the previous years were unanimously reelected, 

 viz., president, Howard R. Bayne; first vice president, William T. Davis; 

 second vice president, William H. Mitchill; treasurer, Charles A. Ingalls; 

 secretary, Arthur Hollick. 



A change in the personnel of the Board was caused by the death of Borough 

 President Charles J. McCormack on July 11, 1915, and the appointment on 

 July 29, of Calvin D. Van Name as Borough President — Mr. Van Name thus 

 becoming, ex officio, a member of the Board. 



The following persons were elected by the Board to active membership in 

 the Association during the year: Chester H. Aldrich, George W. Allison, Jr., 

 Louis Bache, William V. Barnes, Sidney R. Bellows, Samuel R. Brick, Jr., 



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