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

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
MAJOR SMITH: They have 50 or 60 rooms.; they are practically all double.
_And I might say that your key men would have the s~me rooms which they
have year after year.
CHIV.F KIMBALL: On this matter of the Round Table Discussions, if
we start Tuesday, we Chiefs who pay our own way certainly want more time
for the Round Table Discussions., and that is the reason that we wanted Monday
morning for the Memorial Service.
MR. SMITH: All right. I don’t want this to stand in the way of you
Chiefs; the Chiefs come first; they still come first with us.. I£ you vote to come
on Sunday and Monday, we will have to work out some other arrangement with
the Jewelers.
I)RESIDENT FORTIER: I am willing to entertain another motion, and we can
discuss it.
CHIEF ADAMS, Of Marblehead: I don’t know that I have the courage to
withdraw the motion. I simply .mentioned that we did not know about the confusion
and the difficulty. -
PRV.SlDENT FORTIER: Then, will you repeat your motion for us?
CrtlEF ADAMS: I made the motion that we open the Conference on a
Monday, and terminate on a Thursday.
This motion was duly seconded by several of the members present.
(The question was then called for.) o .
PRESIDENT FORTI~.R: We haven’t voted the place, yet.
All those in favor of opening the Conference on a Monday, and terminating
it on a Thursday, will please manifest by raising their right hands. Those
opposed?
A majority raised their hands for the Monday meeting, and the motion
was carried.
PRESIDENT FORTIER: I declare the vote is carried, that we open tl~e meeting
on. Monday.
CHIEF KIMBALL: I move that we accept the invitation to come tO the
Wentworth.
This motion was duly seconded by Chief Wells and others present and was
carried. ~. ,
PRESlD~.NT FOr[TIV.R: The next order of business is the Election and Installation
of Officers.
SECRETARY O’I-IEARN: First, let me say that we have "received a telegram
from Chief Kirwan, that Fire Chief James W. Barker of Middletown, Rhode
Island, passed away this morning.
Mr. President, I move that we rise in silence fo,,r a moment, out o~ respect
to thememory o~ the late Chief. ’
(The audience then rose in silence for a moment, in reverent memory of
the late James W. Barker of Middletown, Rhode Island.) ._
PR~.SIDV, Na ~ FORTiER: For the election of officers, I am going to ask, first,
for nominations for the office of President.
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