Evening star., 1938-08-13
REALTY PIONEERS
TO Be HONORED
80 Attending Organization
Meeting to Be Guests
at Convention.

Tnere are 81 men Stlll IN the real
estate business who attended the meet
ing 80 years ago in Chicago, at which
Was formed the National Association
Of Real Estate Exchanges, now the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards. Those men will be guests of
honor and the accomplishments of the
last 80 years in the establishment Of
standards of practice in the business
Of real estate, for which the associa-
ton is founded, will be reviewed as
dramatic background of its 3lst an
nual convention, to be held in Mil
waukee, Wis, during the entire week
beginning November 7, with the Mil
waukee Real Estate Board as host.
On three fronts plans are already
under way for the convention, the
largest and most important meeting
OF the real estate year.
The Hotel Schroeder will be con-
vention headquarters. Topics now be-
Ing listed for the meetings:
l. Important pending questions of
national. State and local community
policy affecting real estate. These will
be discussed at general sessions of the
convention, to open November 9.
z. Significant new conditions, new
ideas and new business plans in the
fields OF real-estate appraising, financ-
ing. sale, leasing, management and de-
velopment, including home building,
the handling of downtown properties,
industrial housing and farmland
brokerage and management. This
whole great subject matter will come
before staggered" sessions of the as
soclatlons specialized institutes and
divisions covering these fields Each
specialized group will hold three half
day sessions.
3. Entertainment features.
Catharine to Preside.
The associations Board of Direc-
tors and Executive Committee and the
governing boards of its various insti-
tutes and divisions will hold important
meetings preceding the convention
proper. These executive and COM
mittee meetings will fill morning, aft
ernoon and evenings of November 7
and 8.
Joseph w. Catharine of BROOKLYN
president OF the association. heads the
General Convention Committee, and
will preside at all general sessions of
the convention. Plans for these ses-
sions are being developed directly bv
the General Committee.
The specialized institutes and diyi-
sions Of the association, through their
own executive boards acting as pro-
gram committees, are now canvassing
subjects OF the greatest practical i'm
portance to be brought before the con-
Ventlon in their meetings.
The entertainment program. accord
Ing to plans outlined at recent meet
ing IN Milwaukee of the host boards
Convention Committee. will be CHI
NAKED November 10 with Might in
Bavaria" reception to President
Catharine is to be held on the evening
OF November 10. and a pre- convention
mixer is being planned. Special en-
tertainment is to be arranged for visit
ing women.
koepke Represents Host Board.
Emil Koepke. president of the Mil
Taukee Real Estate Board. will renre-
sent the host board on the General
Convention Committee. Ray P. Hitler
past president of the board, will head
It's Convention Committee.
Three past presidents of the asso-
clatlon are among the 80 persons liv-
ing and still active in the real estate
business who were among the 100 DEL
egates assembled in Chicago Nav 12-
IA. 1903, for the associations first con-
Vention. The three:
Edward S. Judd. Chicago, VINO as
president OF the Chicago Real Estate
Board at the time had outlined tho
proposal for a national organization.
alexander S. Taylor, Cleveland. and
N. j. Upham. Duluth, Mimi. and St
Petersburg, Fla
The Milwaukee Real Estate Board
most to the coming convention was
among the real estate boards of 10
cities which took part in the organiza-
ton meeting 80 years ago. Three men
from the host city are among tho a.
VINO will be honored at the old-timers,
party, now being \planned Thev are
r. Bruce Douglas, Ed Porth and EA
Conrad.