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Exhibits to be Open Every Day at Convention
Banquet Last Day NAMM Directors Decide
A T the annual mid-year meeting of
-^*- the Board of Directors of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants
which was held in New Orleans on Feb-
ruary 20th and 21st, two important
changes in the schedule for the National
the Hotel New Yorker rather than the
detached facilities of Manhattan Center.
There will be a minimum of 23 booths
an elected member at the time of his
assignment.
The Board of Directors received the
mid-year reports of the President, the
Treasurer and the Executive Secretary.
C. AL JACOB, Jr.
WM. R. STEINWAY
HARRY J. SOHMER
Convention which will be held at the
Hotel New Yorker on July 28th, 29th.
30th and 31st were made. The exhibits
will not be closed during the annual
meeting of the N.A.M.M. members, as
has been the practice in past years, and
the banquet will be held on the last day
of the Convention on Thursday, July
31st, at the Waldorf-Astoria. Last year
the banquet was held on the night be-
fore the last day of the Convention, and
it has been customary for the past few
years to close the exhibits while the
annual meeting of the N.A.M.M. mem-
bers was taking place. There has been
considerable criticism regarding these
activities in the past, which has finally
persuaded the Board of Directors to
make the above changes.
The following persons have been
nominated by the Board of Directors to
serve as members of the 1952 Trade
Show Committee. A. F. Zeisler, Krakau-
er Bros., Chairman; Clarence M. Pettit,
Wm. Knabe & Co.; William R. Stein-
way. Steinway & Sons; Frank Conner of
Carl Fischer. Inc.; C. Albert Jacob, Jr..
Mathushek Piano Co.; Harry J. Sohmer.
Sohmer & Co., Inc.; John A. Weser.
Weser Piano Co.; P. R. Bowers, Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co.; Chas. W. Paul.
New York and Percy H. Templett of
Campbell-Templett Piano Co., Paterson.
N. J.
All Exhibits in the Hotel
All arrangements for the 1952 trade
show were approved. Manhattan Center,
used previously for booth exhibit space,
will not be used this year. This elimina-
tion was brought about through the pre-
ference of booth exhibitors to use sam-
ple rooms on the 9th and 10th floors of
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A. s. ZEISLER
on the Mezzanine Floor of the Hotel
New Yorker.
Proposed Constitutional
Amendment
The Directors unanimously voted to
submit to the N.A.M.M. members at the
annual meeting during the Convention a
constitutional amendment which would
FRANK CONNER
C. M. PETTIT
provide a full directorship with all
rights and privileges of voting for the
N.A.M.M.'s elected trustee on the board
of the American Music Conference. The
N.A.M.M. trustee to the American Mus-
c. w. PAUL
PERCY TEMPLETT
ic Conference is an important liaison
assignment and. therefore, should auto-
matically become a member of the N.
A.M.M. Board of Directors if he is not
JOHN A. W E S E R
All were received and accepted with
commendation.
Membership Promotion
The Board received the Membership
Promotion Report prepared by Mr. Wil-
liam N. Herleman, Chairman of the
Membership Promotion C o m m i t t e e .
This Report outlined details of the
membership contest open to all travel-
ing sales personnel within the music in-
dustry. Photographs of the silver hol-
low-ware prizes were shown, which will
be awarded at the Music Industry Ban-
quet in the Grand
Ballroom of the
Waldorf - Astoria
in New York in
July, to the first,
second and third
place winners.
Other campaign
details described
and presented,
were approved.
p. R. B O W E R S
In the absence of E. R. McDuff, the
NAMM Trustee to the American Music
Conference, his report outlining the
past accomplishments of AMC and its
projected activities, was submitted to
the Board of Directors by L. G. LaMair.
President of AMC.
Committee Reports
George H. Beasley, Chairman of the
Sales Training Committee, reviewed his
recent discussions with Mr. Walter -1
Shaw, Director of the U. S. Office of
Education, concerning various addition-
al projects which the Association might
undertake in the Sales Training field.
Emert S. Rice, Chairman of the Trade <
P r a c t i c e Committee, submitted his -!
report, a copy of which was dis-
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1952