At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Branch, the following officers
were elected: President, Dr. Herbert L. Burrell; Vice-Presidents, Hon.
W. Murray Crane, Dr. Henry P. Walcott, Hon. Charles C. Washburn, Justice
W. C. Loring, Dr. Arthur T. Cabot and Dr. J. F. A. Adams; Executive
Committee, Lieutenant Governor Eben S. Draper, Most Rev. W. H. O’Connell,
Dr. Alfreda B. Withington, Gardiner M. Lane, Katherine P. Loring;
Treasurer, Gardiner M. Lane; Secretary, Katherine P. Loring; Directors,
Mrs. Zenas Crane, General Francis H. Appleton, Dr. Homer Gage, George
D. Pratt, Dr. Cheever, Richard Saltonstall; Delegates to the National
Convention in Washington, Miss Amy Alexander, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.
The Stamp Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Walter E. Kreusi, has
done very active work. The Berkshire and Hampton County Divisions have
both interested themselves in the sale of the stamp for their local
tuberculosis work. The latter Division at its annual meeting elected the
following officers: President, George Dwight Pratt; Vice-Presidents,
Richard Hooker, Miss Harriet Bacon, of Longmeadow, and Mrs. Charles
Blaisdell, of Chicopee; Treasurer, Ralph P. Alden; Secretary, Miss Amy B.
Alexander.
At the same meeting the Division voted to make an appropriation from
its local treasury of $50 towards the salary of a visiting nurse for
tuberculosis cases.