NEAFC 32nd Annual Conference.pdf - New England Association of ...

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........ i d~r;’t-b-eli~v~ the purpose will be-obi~ained b~ d~i~J:-iia~ ~i~e ’s~:ar-tha~ ~:[
the CdrT~erence until Tuesday, because you are going to increase a situation that
is already bad.
I have been coming up here a good many years, and I have been paying
my own expenses, and I have been getting very poor accommodations, because
I must assume, primarily, it is because I do not arrive here until Monday.
Now, what is going to be the result :[or these Chie:[s when they arrive here
on " Tuesday? They are not going to be at The Wentworth; they’re going to be
at a motel distantly removed :[tom here.
I see no reason why the convention cannot start Monday morning
promptly at 9:00 or 10:00 o’clock, instead o:[ on Tuesday. And start promptly,
and not an hour or so late, as wehave done in some years.
CHIEF DESLAURIES O:[ Ware: I have been coming to these Con£erences
since 1931. This morning, Iwent to the desk and I paid them $112.00 :[or
room accommodations t~or my wi:[e and mysel:[. Now, :[or next year, it will
mean digging down in my pocket :[or another $24.00, or coming up here on a
Monday. I like to come up on a Sunday and then get back home and take care
o£ things on Friday and Saturday.
CHIEF _ADAMS; I don’t know that the spot o:[ the Con:[erence has. been
decided, but I would offer a motion that the 1955 Con:[erence start on a Monday.
And, those who wish to come prior to that, all right. And terminate
on Thursday. .In other words, the first £our consecutive days: in which the
hotel can accommodate us.
CHIEF SLAMAN: Just a minute, Mr. President, as I remember our meet- -
ing over at the Rockingham Hotel, Mr. Smith came in to us and asked us if
there was any way possible that we could start our Con:[erence on Tuesday,
in 1955; that is why those dates were given here this morning. I believe that it
is £or 1955, only. Am I right, John?
SECRETARY O’I-~A~N: I believe so, unless. I misunderstood it. The best
thing to do is to have Jim Smith answer the question.
CHIEF AI)A~i Reg~irdless o:[ the conversation carried on at the Rockingham
between our officers and the Management o:[ this hotel, I don’t believe that
this is the proper place, now, £o.r Mr. Smith. This. is a matter £or us. to deter-
.mine and decide.
1, CHIEF GROTE: I am one o:[ those volunteers who. sends in his reservations
early: I must disagree with my brother Chic:[ who spoke about, the eaxly ones
getting the ~ream o:[ things-here. I:[ there is. anything like that, I’d like to know
about it. This year, I’ll admit that I did get a better room than-I had las.t year.
Now, I know it isn’t going to make any difference to me whether you
start 6n Md~day 6r Tuesday. I am still~6ihg to send in my reservations, early.
I know I’m going back this ,time, satisfied that I got treated better this year
~ than last year. i.:~- ’-
CHIEF A~AMS: Let ,me say .that. my reservations were in the hands o£ the
Committee equally as :[astl I know that every one cannot have the best accommodations.
I know that the people who come in on Monday are going to have
poorer accommodations than~t~e_people who come in on Sunday, and I expect
that.
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