After dinner, the meeting of the Council of Presidents was held 
in the large room in the swimming-pool Casino. 
Meeting of the Council of Presidents of the Garden Club of 
America of the Session of 1920. 
The meeting of the Council of Presidents was held on the evening 
of July 29th, at the residence of Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr. It was 
moved, seconded and carried that the Minutes of the meeting of the 
session of 1919 be omitted. The President stated that this meeting 
was called for the purpose of creating informal discussion among 
the Presidents in regard to their work, and to get from them an 
expression of opinion which would be helpful to the Directors in 
outHning the policy of the Organization. The question of correspond- 
ence between the National Office and the Member Clubs was dis- 
cussed. It was moved, seconded and carried that hereafter all cor- 
respondence should not only be directed to the Presidents, but should 
be answered by them rather than by the Secretaries of the local Clubs. 
That hereafter the Secretaries of the local Clubs should attend only 
to the forwarding of corrected addresses and the names and addresses 
of new members to the National Office. It was moved, seconded, 
and carried, after much discussion that a trial of one year be given 
to the following plan: That Member Clubs should send in their 
corrected addresses in type-written form, on standard card catalogue 
cards, according to a formula which would be sent to them, by the 
National Office. 
The question of the distribution of the Bulletin was again 
brought up, and the plan of bulk package distribution to the Clubs 
was generally disapproved. It was decided that the present plan of 
distribution be followed for the present. Mrs. Brewster requested 
that all correspondence be signed by the married, as well as the 
Christian name of the correspondent, and that in all cases, the name 
of the Member Club be included. The Secretary asked that the same 
plan be followed in the correspondence with the National Office. 
The Presidents were asked to bear in mind the following interests 
of the National Organization: to suggest candidates for the Medal 
of Honourary Award. These candidates would probably not be mem- 
bers of the Garden Club of America. To appoint Committees 
to search out Historic Gardens in the vicinity of their Clubs. 
The question of the Emily D. Renwick Medal was then discussed. 
The President stated that through the generosity of Mrs. Charles H. 
Stout, of the Short Hills Garden Club, the funds received for the 
Dahlia Prize of 1919 had been diverted to the selection of a Medal 
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