Question: According to Rutherford, what happened at the meeting?
About the article "Proton", section "History".

Candidate passages:
  Whenever I Stop (Mike Rutherford, Paul Carrack) – 3:38  Now That You've Gone (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:47  Ordinary Girl (Rutherford, Carrack, Paul Young) – 3:50  All The Light I Need (Rutherford, B.A.
Robertson) – 4:36  What Will You Do (Rutherford, Robertson) – 3:15  My Little Island (Rutherford, Robertson) – 4:05  Open Up (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:04  When I Get Over You (Rutherford, Christopher Neil) – 4:10  If Only (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:42  Asking (For The Last Time) (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:16  Always Listen To Your Heart (Rutherford, Carrack, Young) – 4:16  Did You See Me Coming (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:04  Look Across At Dreamland (Rutherford, Robertson) – 4:14  
Rutherford is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and 0.44% is water. 
By 1916 Rutherford had become one of the seven directors of the Watch Tower Society; when Russell died on October 31, 1916 he joined vice-President Alfred I. Ritchie and Secretary-Treasurer William E. Van Amburgh on a three-man executive committee that ran the Pennsylvania corporation until a new president was elected at the annual general meeting the following January.
He also joined a five-person editorial committee to run "The Watch Tower" from the December 15, 1916 issue.
Russell's will, drawn up in 1907, had named the five people he wished to run the magazine after his death; Rutherford appeared only on a second list of five alternative members to fill any vacancies that arose.
Bible Student Alexander H. Macmillan, who served as an aide to the executive committee, later wrote that tensions at the Watch Tower Society headquarters mounted as the day for election of the Society's officers approached.
He wrote: "A few ambitious ones at headquarters were holding caucuses here and there, doing a little electioneering to get their men in.
However, Van Amburgh and I held a large number of votes.
Many shareholders, knowing of our long association with Russell, sent their proxies to us to be cast for the one whom we thought best fitted for office."
Macmillan, who claimed he had declined an offer from an ailing Russell months earlier to accept the position of president after his death, agreed with Van Amburgh that Rutherford was the best candidate.
According to Macmillan, "Rutherford did not know what was going on.
He certainly didn't do any electioneering or canvassing for votes, but I guess he was doing some worrying, knowing if he was elected he would have a big job on his hands ...
There is no doubt in our minds that the Lord's will was done in this choice.
It is certain that Rutherford himself had nothing to do with it."
Rutherford is located at (40.268039, -76.772220).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km²), all of it land.
Rutherford holds its own school, which is part of the Central Dauphin School District. 
The protagonist is Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave, who flees from New Orleans on a ship called the "Republic" to escape being blackmailed into marriage by Isadora Bailey, a schoolteacher who convinces Calhoun's creditor to whom he owes large sum of money, Papa Zeringue, to demand Calhoun pays him all he owes if he will consent to marrying Isadora.
After meeting the drunken cook of the "Republic" while drinking to forget his troubles, Calhoun stows away aboard the ship (and is later found after the voyage begins).
The ship travels to Africa to capture members of the Allmuseri tribe to take back to America to sell as slaves.
Although an educated man, Rutherford is at first self-absorbed and thus initially unable to grasp the hardships of slave life.
During the voyage, Rutherford becomes humbled, learning lessons that teach him to value and respect humanity which includes identification with his own country, America.
The ship eventually sinks due to various factors, including the sailing inexperience of the ship's passengers, following the Allmuseri take over.
There are many survivors, and a nearby ship named the "Juno" rescues them.
Rutherford discovers that Isadora is aboard the "Juno" and is about to marry Papa Zeringue, who has partial ownership of the "Republic."
Papa learns that Rutherford has the ship's log, documenting Papa Zeringue's immoral and illegal dealings,and he bargains with Rutherford to get possession of it.
Rutherford brings up the fact that the ship was illegally dealing in slave trade and uses his Santos', Papa's black servant, ties to the Allmuseri to get what he wants, namely Isadora in marriage.
Isadora, who is knitting booties for her cats and dogs whom Papa is making her give up, leaves Papa and marries Rutherford.