Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-11
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
BY Directors Of Augusta General Hos
pitaI on Death of Clarence 3. Burleigh.

| The directors of the Augusta Gener-
i'll Hospital at q meeting held Monday
evening. May 9. elected George f. Ma
| Comher to act as president pro
temporc of the board until the annual
meeting of the corporation next jan
nary This action became necessary by
reason of the death of Clarence b.
| Burleigh. president Of the corporation.
The Following resolutions We're unan
| imouslH adopted:
| Clarence f. Burleigh, president of
the Augusta General Hospital, passed
away suddenly on Monday evening.
| May ,. and we, the directors. desire to
| place upon our records memorial of
his services to the hospital and
| through il to the public for whose BEN
eft it was established.
| Mr. Rurleigh became an associate
| member at the meeting to organize
| the corporation held Jan. 9. 1893. In
January. 1887. when the first Opportu-
nifty to establish the hospital was pre-
Scnted he was elected president of the
corporation and continuously re-clect-
cd served as president to the end of
his life. No one has had larger part
in the building up of the institution
from its first small beginning to its
present position of strength and merit
than he. His splendid public spirit and
generous sympathetic nature found
here . welcome field for cndCaVor. He
CAV" To the work of the hospital free"
~ his hours of day and night alike
kneninG in close touch with every part
Of it. His advice and Judgment We're
continuously sought. TO every nues-
tion he brought that tact. fairness
:tpd kindly consideration which made
him 81 influential and successful in
whatever he undertook. Many a rough
place was smoothed and frightened,
many a difficulty was overcome by
him.
In the presentation of the needs of
the hospital to the public and the peo
plo of the State he was wonderfully
efficient and it is largely due to him
that the public became convinced that
no better place was presented for an
investment of public funds for tho
greatest public good than here. a con-
viction evidenced by generous assist
ance. He loved the hospital and was
proud of it, nodestly overlooking. how
| ever, the large part he had in its
growth. TIL" loss of his powers and in
huence will be keenly felt by the in
| sttut;On.
| We, his associates, particularly feel
the loss of the personality which drew
tn" atfectionate regard of all the mem
| DerS ct the board to him and eStab-
Eshed tie of strong personal friend
| snip between him and each of his as
socrates. The influence of his person
| a'ity viii continue to be felt in the
| futur" life Of the hospital and he will
| always be remembered with sincere
respect and affection by the present
| directors and their successors
| AS a token. therefore. of our appre-
citation of Clarence +. Burleigh as an
official Of this corporation and as "
! man. be it
| Resolved. That this memorial be
| spread upoh our records that it be
| published in our next annual report
| and that the secretary be instructed to
send q copy to his family together
with an expression of the deep sym
| pathy of each member of the board
| Of directors for their great loss.