The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-09
ANNUAL MEETING
Of HOSPITAL
DAKOTA DEACONESS ASSOClA-
TIoN HOLDS MEETING MON
DAY EVENING
OFFICERS ELECTED FOR COMING YEAR
Report Of the Progress O. Ahe Associa-
ton is Made-Many In ,vements
Are Made at the + c,itaI


The following report CT ne annual
meeting of the Deacones; . ssociation
has been handed us: Z
With the first annual 6 Getting of
the Dakota Deaconess Z ISOLATION,
held Monday evening at Il . Methodist
church, the period of BE- ming for
the Deaconess Hospital in Bookings
was merged into the period of estab-
lished existence Uncertainties may
he said to be over and the problems
which remain to be those that are
worked out only through the slow
process of experience and time.
The report of w. M !Cheever presi-
dent of the original board of trustees,
included the statement that the deed
of the hospital property had been
transferred to the Dakota Deaconess
Association and that such financial
arrangements had been entered into
as had put the institution on a firm
DuSlutSS UdSlo. ne SlSnillCu Ii NCICi
mination of the board to meet such
payments on the building as have not
yet been made, keeping faith with
the annual conference and the general
ieaconess board in the pledge that
Brookings will present the property
free of debt.
Eleanor S. Moore. ~deaconess super
intendent, told of the improvements
that had been made on the building,
doubling it's usefulness and making Of
it an institution of which not only
Brookings, but the whole of South
Dakota may be proud. She made
clear the intention of the deaconesses
themselves to raise, outside of Brook
ings, the money put into repairs.
The good will of the local board, the
efficiency of the d%eaconess admins
tration and the quick response OF
Methodism wherever the field dea-
coness has presented it's needs por-
tend only good for the new institution
and it can be prophesied with reason
that succeeding months will disclose
a beautiful exhibition Of these three
forces working in harmony for the ad-
vancement of a worthy cause.
The membership of the Dakota
Deaconess Association, according to
bylaws adopted by the board of
trustees, is made up of the forty-six
persons who previously paid twenty
five dollars Or more into the purchase
fund, the superintendent of the hos
pital, the original board of trustees
and the five superintendent of dis
tricts of the Dakota Methodist Annual
Conference. These members having
power or proper recommendation, to
add to this number some twenty other
interested persons who had been in
vited to be present, were added to
the membership.
The powers of membership in the
association lie in their eligibility to
vote in the elections of board of
trustees and board of managers. The
original board of trustees were re-
elected to serve in classes as follows:
For one year, w. M. Chee-er, r. A..
Larson, T. L. Chappell; for two years,
r. F. Kerr, w. H. Leighty, H. B.. Mat
thauyc. for fhrnn unarc o. r6nnr
r. A. Bruce, l.. G. Borst.
BY virtue Of their Office as trustees
the foregoing nine men are members
of the board of managers. Twelve
other members were elected by the
association to the board of managers,
Rev. o. E. Boyce, Mrs. Frank Sherwin,
Winifred Crouch, E. c. Olson, Mrs. N.
E. Hansen, NJ. G.. Carlisle, Rev. c. F.
Hoffman, Fred w. Cuckow, A. Hoover,
A. S. Harding, c. l.. Hopkins, Eleanor
S. Moore.
Immediately following the meeting
of the association was held the annual
meeting of the board of managers
who elected the following as officers
of the board and the association:
President, w. M. Cheever; first
vic~e-president, R. A. Bruce; second
v~ice-president, H. B. Matthews; Sec
rotary, F. w. Cuckow; treasurer of
general building fund, T. L. Chappell;
auditor, G. l.. Hopkins; superintend-
ent and treasurer current expense,
Eleanor s. Moore.
Standing committees were appoint
ed as follows:
Executive Committee, formed by the
officers of the board of managers.