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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
Thursday Morning Session, June 25, 1953
The Ttiursday Morning Session convened at 10:30 o’clock, with President Molloy
presiding.
PR~.SID~.NT MOLLOY: The meeting will please come to order.
.Our first order of .business this morning is the report of our Secretary,Treasurer
John O’Hearn.
S~.CR]~Ta~Y O’H~.a,~N :
TREASURER’S REPORT
1953
June 1953
Following the custom, of past years, your Secretary,Treasurer presents for your
approval, a brief summary report covering membership and financial standing since
our last annual report to closing of the books on June 1, 1953.
The Treasurer’s books ’show in detail all receipts and expenditures during the past
twelve months as testified to by the Auditing ’Committee, appointed by the President,
as per By-Laws.
The entire financial report is not published as part of our annual report, but it .is
available to any member who may desire further information than what is reported
here. A further breakdown of receipts and expenditures is furnished the Directors.
The total membership reported on June 1, 1952 was 1240, of which 735 were
active members and 505 were associate members.
During the ,past year we lost by .death, 22 members, one of whom was a Past President.
Twenty-two members resigned and 41 were dropped as per By-Laws for nonpayment
of dues, all of whom owed $6.00 each. Membership losses totalled 85 f~r
the year. We admitted a total of 118 new members, giving a net increa,se for the year,
of 35. At the present time, there are 50 members who owe $6.00 each (2 years’ dues)
as of June 15. This is about the average annual report and is not considered too bad
when the total membership is taken into consideration. They, too, like those who have
gone before, must be dropped from membership after the conference and final notice
is given them. Of the total mem’bership, 692 have paid 1953 dues before the ~conference.
During the past year we have held’ but three meetings,, one in Hartford, Oonnecticut,
on Dec. 13, .1952, one in Boston in Mar&, and the third and final meeting was
held May 13 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when, we were again the guests of our
genial host, Mr. James Barker Smith. Every o~icer and committee member was present
at these meetings and the business transacted at these meetings will be printed in the
annual report.
It was the aim of your secretary to report a membership of 1300 at this conference
but we fell slightly short of this total. You will note that we only accepted a
total of 118 new members during the past year whereas we accepted 164 in 1951. How-
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