Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
OWNERS DIVISION
MEETS IN BOSTON
First Session of Newly Form.
ed Branch to Be Held
at Convention.

The twenty-first annual convention
Of the National Association of Real
Estate Boards to be held in Boston,
Mass, June IS to %. will be the oc-
casion of the first meeting of the prop
erty owners division, established at the
most recent meeting Of the board of
directors of the association, as the
logical basis for associating the prop
erty owner and the realtor in their work
of solving civic and economic prob
lens
Albert W. SwaYne. chairman of the
new division, will preside at the meeting.
which will be held the forenoon Of
clude: why Board Should Have
Property owners Division 1.-The
Three-Way Plan for Property Owner
Membership" and What the National
Property Owners Division Can Do for
It's Membership"
The subject of property owner mem
bership in real estate boards will not
be confined to the meeting of the prop
erty owners division, but will likewise
come before the general session of the
entire convention delegate body and will
be discussed by the realtor secretaries
in their division meetings. Leonard
Reaume, Detroit. g member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards, will dis
cusS property owner membership at a
general convention session. and Mr..
Swayne. who is president of the Chicago
Real Estate Board, where strong prop
erty owner membership is forming, will
speak before the realtor secretaries
division on ways In which property
owner membership can function effec-
n
| its activities with certain phases Of
board work which are peculiarly the
function of the realtor.
That the establishment OF property
owner divisions in local real estate
boards has been felt as community
need is indicated by the great number
of boards in which some basis of such
membership is being formulated or con-
templated since the action of the asso-
citation at its mid-Winter meeting in
Birmingham. when the establishment
of property owner membership in local
boards was definitely approved and
recommended to the local boards.
Before the Birmingham meeting four
member boards already have property
owner divisions within their organi-
zations-New Orleans. Portland, Ore;
Norfolk, Va. and Madison, wis. Since
the Birmingham meeting such divisions
have been created within the real
estate boards of Pasadena, Salt Lake
City. Pittsburgh and Macon.
State associations are active in the
organiza ton of property owners within
the local groups. The Ohio Association
of Real Estate Boards has created a
property owners division, and plans to
start an intensive drive for member
ship in the early Fall. The Florida,
Pacific Northwest and California State
- t.
creasing the property owner member
ship of the local groups and the fol-
lowing boards have made preparations
for some provision to bring property
owners and realtors into association in
work of mutual interest: Washington,
Chicago. Evansville and Fort Wayne,
Ind. Atlanta, Bellingham. Wash: Fort
Worth. Beaumont and Dallas. Tex; st.
Louis, Birmingham, Toledo and Youngs-
town, Ohio; jackson. Miss; Fullerton,
Calf; Kalamazoo and the board Of
The Oranges and Maplewood, N. j.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of
Harvard University. and Alexander
Bing, founder and builder Of Radburn.
N. j.. are among the prominent men
who will be heard on the programs
for the general sessions OF the Boston
convention. These sessions will con-
vene Tuesday. Thursday and Friday
afternoons. June 70, II ana 2S. Mr..
Bing's project is uniquely built resi-
6ence community adapted to this mo-
tor age. where pedestrians walk in parks
and keep away from motor highways
and where front" porches face the
back of the street or the garden.
The services which the local board
should be prepared to render its
members will be described by Arthur w.
Gelston. executive secretary Of the
Brooklyn Real Estate Board. at the
meeting Of the realtor secretaries divi-
sion. e. A. Sander. executive secre-
tary of the Kansas City. Mo. board will
lead a round table discussion following
Mr.. Gelston's talk.
Pierce w. Jones. executive secretary
of the Chicago board. will conduct
discussion on the various activities in
which a real estate board should en-
gage in order to be of the greatest bene-
fit both to its members and the COM
munity in which it exists. The secre-
taries plan to study the achievements
possible for the small board. Burgon
E. Vaughan, executive secretary OF the
Little Rock, Ark. board will speak on
this subject. william E. Herren. direc-
tor Of extension for the national asso-
citation, will discuss the qualifications
needed for a real estate board secretary.