ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION AND THIRD REUNION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY HELD IN BOSTON, OCT. 16, 1894. PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY SANFORD H. DUDLEY ALBION M. DUDLEY DUDLEY R. CHILD Publication Committee. The Proceedings. The second annual meeting of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, was held at the Hotel Vendome, Boston, on Tuesday, October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, a mild clear day attending this third reunion of the family. The morning business meeting was called to order at eleven o'clock by President S. H. Dudley, of Cambridge. The call for the meeting was read as follows, and the record of the last meeting was read and approved. THE GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSO CIATION. ANNUAL MEETING. The Annual Meeting of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association will be held at the Hotel Vendome, Boston, on Tuesday, October sixteenth, at half past ten o'clock, A. M., to elect officers for the ensuing year, to consider amendments to the constitution as per notice given herewith, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED: Article III. Honorary Members. Add "The Board of Directors may at any time, by a two-thirds vote, elect to honorary membership any person, and persons thus elected shall have full privilege of membership in the Association without payment of fees or dues." Article VIII. Annual Dues. Strike out the word "one" and substitute "two." (The regular publications of the Association will be sent to members without charge, in consideration of the above increase in dues.) At the morning business meeting, a full attendance of the members is desired, RECEPTION AND BANQUET. In the afternoon a reception will be held in the parlors of the hotel from two until five o'clock, affording opportunity for extended social features and repetition of the pleasant and interesting family reunions of 1892 and 1893. At five o'clock a banquet will be held as in the previous years. The price of tickets will be two dollars and fifty cents for each person. Orders for tickets should be sent as early as possible to the Treasurer, L. Edwin Dudley, 50 Bromfield street, Boston. Addresses will be delivered by prominent speakers, names and subjects to be announced. At the reception and at the banquet, descendants of the Concord, Mass., and Guilford, Conn. branches will be welcome. Provision will be made for the receipt and proper care of any relics, antiquities, &c., which members of the family may desire to bring or send to the Hotel Vendome. Please address to the Secretary. Arrangements will be made for visits on the following day to the tomb of Governor Thomas Dudley at Roxbury, to Harvard College, and to other points of historical and family interest. Membership in the Association may be obtained by filling out and sending to the Secretary, the attached application blank. Through its Committee, the Association has prepared and issued reports of its proceedings in attractive form and containing matters of interest to all members of the family. These are offered at prices barely covering cost and may be ordered on the blank attached. SANFORD H. DUDLEY, DUDLEY R. CHILD, Secretary. 30 High St., Boston, September 15, 1894. President. It was then voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair to prepare and present a list of officers for the coming year, and the Chair was also instructed to appoint two Auditors. The report of the Historian was read, accepted, ordered to be printed and to be read at the banquet. The Secretary's annual report was read and accepted, and ordered to be printed. |