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Program for N.A.M.M. Convention Includes
Clinics, Sales Conferences and Elections
HE 44th Anuual Convention of
the National Association of Music
Merchants will open on Sunday,
July 14th, at the Palmer House in
Chicago with a meeting of the present
Board of Control
of the Associa-
t i o n at 3 p. m.
This will be held
in Dining Room
No. 4 on t h e
Third Floor. Reg-
istration will also
take
place
throughout Sun-
day as well as
M o n d a y , July
E. R. McDUFF
15th, and on each
President
following day the exhibitors will re-
ceive a complete list of those registered.
Election of Directors
Contrary to the usual procedure, but
in accordance with the new by-laws
which were adop-
ted last year, the
election of direc-
t o r s will t a k e
place at the open-
ing l u n c h e o n
w h i c h will b e
held in the Red
Lacquer Room on
Fourth Floor of
the hotel at 12:30
on Monday, J[uly
15th. Preceding
R. B. WELLS
the luncheon, the
MUJIC Promotion
ballots w i l l be
distributed in the foyer adjoining the
Red Lacquer Room. There will be a
ballot box into which the ballots are
to be placed by
each member af-
ter a report by
L. G. LaMair,
Chairman of the
Nominating Com-
mittee. An op-
portunity will al-
so be given for
nominations from
t h e floor which
will be listed in
plain view on a
blackboard. The
W. H. BEASLEY
Expense Control
polls will be op-
en for one hour after the luncheon,
after which the votes will be counted
by the tellers and three copies of the
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results will be prepared by Secretary's
office, one copy to be distributed to
the members, one to be posted in hotel
and one to be kept by the Secretary.
Twenty-four board members are to
be elected. For the purpose of super-
vising the distribution, collection, and
counting of the ballots, President Mc-
Duff has named the following Com-
meetings of various committees such
as the Trade Practice Committee, the
Public Relations Committee and others.
Merchandising Clinics
Tuesday, July 16th, has been set
aside for the Mer-
chandise Clinics
w h i c h will be
held between the
hours of 9:00 and
10:30 a.m. The
Clinic on Music
P r o m o t ion, of
which Russell D.
Wells, president
of the Charles E.
w A MILLS
Wells Music Co.,
..
/ - i
Executive Secretary
Denver. C o l o . ,
is Chairman, will be held in Private
Dining Room No. 9 on the Third
Floor. The Clinic on Expense Control,
of which W. Howard Beasley, presi-
dent of the Whittle Music Company,
Dallas, T e x . , is
Chairman, w i l l
be h e l d in the
Red L a c q u e r
R o o m on t h e
F o u r t h Floor.
The C l i n i c on
Phonograph
HUGH W. RANDALL
Chairman, Convention Committee
Group Records,
of which Harry
mittee of Tellers: S. H. Almanrode.
Callaway, v i c e
J & S Music Co., Shreveport, La.; C.
president of the
F. Cowan, Hockett-Cowan Music Co.,
Thearle M u s i c
R. H. SCHMITT
Fresno, Calif.; T. R. Huston, Huston-
Company, Santi-
Sheet Music
Baldwin Piano Store, Milwaukee,
a g o , Calif., i s
Wis.; Miss Francis Jones, Homer L. Chairman, will be held in part of the
Kitt Co., Washington, D. C ; James Ballroom.
Meiklejohn, The Meiklejohn Company,
Press Luncheon
Pawtucket, R. I.;
On Tue s d a y
VI. S. Philpitt, S.
noon in the Red
Ernest Philpitt &
Lacquer R o o m ,
Sons, M i a m i ,
t h e Association
Fla.; and Eugene
will entertain the
Smart, S m a r l^s
members of t h e
Manseld, Ohio.
press a t lunch-
The officers of
eon. The guests
t h e Association
will include rep-
will not be elect-
r e s e n tatives of
ed u n t i l Thurs-
national m a g a -
day, J u l y 18th,
zines, t h e daily
when the election
and trade press.
RAY ERLANDSON
HARRY CALLAWAY
will
take
place
at
Ladies' Tea
Phonograph Records
School Cooperation
a meeting of the
At .3 p.m. there
will be a ladies tea, which will be
newly elected directors on that day.
On Monday afternoon at 4 p.m., ar- held in the Ballroom, and the ladies
(Turn t o p a g e I S )
rangements have been made for the
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 1946