Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-21

The names of the twelve men eleceeu hv the membership of the re-orsal119U chamber of commerce to serve as eLe board of directors for the ensuing yea were announced Wednesday eVenlhs at meeting of the chamber melnpe[silp III the assembly hall of the GIFTS Coii"rru, n.o nitv Club at No 142 Main street. ne meeting was fairly well attended and was presided over by Adelard MoIlh' chairman of the committee ot arrange ments for the gathering ,-
 The election polls closed at clocN Wednesday afternoon and the result oL tI,e ballot count showed the tollo"hiS elected as directors: r5,
 Charles F. Wells, John NJ. Lee lion Herbert NJ. Lel C, Jacob Munz' Allyn IT IT. Brown. $. B. Palmer, Rev. AIeNanoei T. Abbott, Joseph c. Worth, Cnarles A. saxton. Frederic W. Cary, Nathan A. Gibbs Grosvenor Ely.
 The meeting was opened at ciocN by Chairman Morin and under the leau- ership of Joseph N. Weymouth one Velse of America was sung
 The purpose of this meeting IS to an no11nce inc selection of a board of direc- tors by ballot to serve. the NorW lcH Chamber of Commerce, said MT MoFm in his opening words.
 Mir Morfn said that if the memoer- shin of the chamber will get bacK or tIie newly elected board of directors that the chamber will be a success and that Norwich ought to be better clty. Co- operation is needed or the board or dlrec- tors will be powerless.
 MT. Morin then read the list or the new directors and there was hearty ap- plause after the announcement or eacl' name
 Wells. one of the new directors, for few words
 I thank you gentlemen for the honor conferred upon me, said MT. Wells. would like to see the board of directors all pull together and do something. suppose we have your support. Thai goes without saying.
 John M. Lee, another of the newly elected directors. was called upon for z few words. After expressing his appre citation of the honor conferred upon hin MT Lee went on to say that it is i'm possible for any board of directors tt 1 carry out projects unless they have thu ] support and hearty cooperation of ever. l member who has the welfare of the cit! i at heart.
 1 Rev Joseph 1T. Selden. DID, was mex l called upon. I wonder if there is anyon 1 here who is more interested than I an | in this project? said MT. Selden. Here i for the first time We have body bound | together by a single tie. For the frs l time We have a group or men pledged fo 1 community service
 i Here in town there are a lot of thing 1 that nobody approves. But we haven l done anvthing The Guestionnaire va to me an immensely significant thins 1 You cant carry out all the suggestion 7l,a of -1 0f q
 rectors is to go over the list, classif
 the suggestions and settle on one sue
 gestion that stands number one, and the
 tackle number one If this chamber wi
 tackle just one thing at Q time and clea
 it up, and then tackle numbers two an
 three, things will happen.
 H. NJ Wellott of the American Cit
 Bureau who has charge of the chambt
 installation work, was the next speake
 We are getting to a point whereN1 col
 sider this not now an American City B1
 reau chamber but a Norwich Chamber
 Commerce. said Mir. Weuott. In the fe
 weeks I have been here I could not he
 hearing remarks such as, well, the o chamber never did this or that. The o
 chamber and the men connected with !, certainly aroused the people to the poi where they realized that they want, something better and the result is, u new chamber of commerce. The ne chamber wants the cooperation of e
 cry member. Your board of directors } going to be the steering gear Every i } divdual member will have his place al will be called upon to do his part. At this point in the meeting Mir. M rin spoke briefly of the questionnair } sent out to each member for individu t suggestions as to what should be dol , i to improve tho city. Tho returned que / tionnaires show that suggestions ha f been made as follows: