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NEw ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
Press Representative: We couldn’t get along without Andy Palmer.
Technical Consultant, Roi B. Woolley.
Our oflficial photographer, who does such a good job, I would like to appoint
Lieutenant Edward J. Carroll of Brookline.
For our Chaplains, I am happy and honored to appoint Father Collins and
Reverend Mr. Fitzsimmons. (Applause) ....
Sv, CRETARY O’H~.ARI~: Mr. President, I am happy to announce that our
Chaplain, Reverend Mr. Fitzsimmons, had to leave to go to Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
where, I understand, he is..t,o become Chaplain of the State Department
of the American Legion. (Applause) ’
A MEMBWR: Mr. President, I move a Committee confer immediately with
Major Smith, and report back to us here.
PRESIDENT GRAHAM: Major Smith is in the room, and I will ask him to
come up to the rostrum.
MAJOR SMITH: Well, gentlemen, we certainly thank you for voting to
come back to the Wentworth. I know that ,t.he Captain at the Balsams is. a fine
friend of ours for many years past; he didn t remember me, but he said:
"Now, I am not going to bid for this Association, unless you miss it."
I said to him: ~’Captain, I wouldn’t miss it a bit more than my right arm!"
So I certainly know how the Captain feels about wanting you there, because
we ;eel very close to the Association. This morning, we heard that they
were going to extend an invitation from Rhode Island. We weren’t so. worried
about that, because we knew they could only assemble 125 rooms under k
one roof down there.
I want to say that it is a wonderful pleasure to have theFire Chiefs: back.
You are the first group we ever had here, and you are a wonderful group
Americans, doing a fine work all over the country, with the respect and admiration
of all of the citizens, in the various communities.
When we have a fire out here and then when we hear the truck coming
over, it is the best sound that we could possibly hear. ~ Fortunately, we have
always been able to quench the fires, by the time the truck gets out here; it is a
little run from Portsmouth. But, it is a wonderful thing to know that you
people are in continuous readiness to help us.
It is so nice to know that the boys are going to b-e back with us, and we
will work out the dates to ~uit your satisfaction, and naturally, if there is anything
else that I can do, I will surely do it. And, thank you again, very much!
(Applause.)
PRESIDENT GttAHAM: IS there any other business to come before this
meeting? -
-Is there any new business: to come before the meeting?
If not, a motion to adjourn is in order.
CHIEF DAGOlXI: I move that we adjourn.
. This motion was duly seconded and was carried.
(Whereupon, the Thursday Morning Session of the 32nd Annual Conference
of the New England Association of Fire Chiefs was adjourned at 12:0i0
o’clock noon, on June 24, I954.)
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