Mr. Hershey also approved the idea of getting out a news letter or progress report. The President suggested that one thousand members would settle the whole question. Mr. Jay Smith stated he thought the Association should advertise in some way, especially in sportsmen's magazines.
A motion on the part of Mr. Stoke to raise the dues by fifty cents per year was lost.
The nominating committee made the following nominations for officers for the ensuing year, 1946-47:
Clarence A. Reed, President
Dr. L. H. MacDaniels, Vice-President
Miss Mildred M. Jones, Secretary
D. C. Snyder, Treasurer
The nominating committee also, through its chairman, Mr. Weber, recommended that appropriate steps be taken at the next annual meeting to amend the Constitution to consolidate the offices of treasurer and secretary so that they can be filled by one person, and that the remuneration of the secretary-treasurer be fixed at fifty cents per member.
Mr. Stoke moved that the report of the nominating committee be approved, and that the nominees be declared elected. Motion was seconded and carried.
Mr. D. C. Snyder offered the following resolution:
"Because of the great and enduring service that Dr. William C. Deming has rendered the Association, I move that he be named Dean of the Association and be given an honorary life membership, without payment of dues."
The motion was seconded, and carried with applause.
On being called to the chair, the newly-elected President, Clarence A.
Reed, spoke as follows: