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& Morticians Association, Inc. MIAMI, FLORIDA Wednesday Registration, 8:30 A.M. Devotional Hour General Session Business Meeting Educational Program Review of Exhibits Dinner & Show, 7:00 P.M. Thursday Registration, 8:30 A.M. Devotional Hour General Session Business Meeting Committee Reports Election of Officers Executive Committee Meeting Board of Directors Meeting Review of Exhibits Presidents Ball • Formal Attire, 10:00 P.M. [[image - photograph of a man]] [[caption]] PERRY J. BROWN President North Carolina [[/caption]] [[image - photograph of a man]] [[caption]] H. H. KING Louisiana [[/caption]] W. HOLLIS PLINTON New Jersey LAWRENCE A. JONES Maryland VERNON JACKSON California OSCAR J. HILLMAN Florida [[continued from previous page]] casket manufacturers, Clergymen, Civic, State and Federal Representatives. Members are serving on various State Boards of Examiners, and we are represented by one President of a State Board of Examiners. While we read history, we are making history. While we are pleased to have people recall our past, we are concerned with people knowing what we are doing today while we are making history. The objects and purposes of this National Association are: To maintain a membership of licensed morticians, Funeral Directors and Embalmers in the United States, its territories and dependencies; to cultivate the promote the art of science of funeral directing and embalming; to elevate and sustain the professional character and education of funeral directors and embalmers; to promote and further ethical practices; to encourage mutual improvement, social intercourse and good will; to enlighten public opinion in relation to funeral service and to the necessity and desirability of enacting and enforcing proper, just and uniform laws pertaining to funeral directing and embalming in the several states and territories; to hol conventions to assist its members in their problems, local, district and state, to encourage buying from merchants and representatives of commodities that will advance business; to enact rules and regulations for its members which will improve the profession of funeral directing and embalming, aid its members and promote the association; to establish and supervise local, district and state associations; to acquire property for purposes for which this corporation was organized, by purchase, deed, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, and to hold and administer the same; to publish reports, treaties, and collectively, to represent and safeguard the common interests of its members and to foster among them high professional ideals of public service. [[logo]] [[logo - NFDMA INC.]] OFFICERS President ..... Perry J. Brown, 909 E. Market St., Greensboro, N.C. 27401 General Secretary ... Robert H. Miller, 734 W. 79th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60620 Asst. General Secty. ..... Lacy Kennedy, P.O. Box 225, Marianna, Ark., 72360 Chairman, Board of Directors ..... Leon Harrison, 1839 Firestone Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90001 Treasurer ..... Handy B. Beckett, 5618 Baynton Street, Phila., Pa. 19144 Vice Chmn. of Board ..... E. Perry Palmer, 304 S. Main Street, Sumter, S.C. 29150 Secretary of Board ..... C. J. Clark, 1802 N. Washington St., Dallas, Texas 75204 1st Vice President ..... Charles R. Law (Md) 2nd Vice President ..... Camie P. Bragg (N.J.) 3rd Vice President ..... C.E. Lightner (N.C.) 4th Vice President ..... Catherine A. Payne (N.Y.) Chaplain ..... J. R. Weatherly (Ala) Sergeant-At-Arms ..... Terrell C. Chapman (N.Y.) Asst. Sergeant-At-Arms ..... Jasper W. Williams (La.) Financial Chairman ..... W.H. Jefferson (Miss.) Asst. Financial Chairman ..... Carl Miller (N.J.) Lay Member Executive Board ..... H.D. Wilson (La) Lay Member Executive Board ..... Fulton E. Culkin (Mo.) Chairman Executive Board ..... Malverse H. Mack (N.Y.) DISTRICT GOVERNORS District 1 ..... W. Hollis Plinton (N.J.) District 2 ..... W.A. Kent (Va.) District 3 ..... Hobert Martin (Tenn) District 4 ..... Wendell Stewart (Ohio) District 5 ..... Oscar I. Hillman (Fla.) District 6 ..... H. H. King (La.) District 7 ..... Lawrence A. Jones (Mo.) District 8 ..... Vernon Jackson (Calif.) PAST PRESIDENTS C.W. Lee (Ala.) Theodore Hawes (Ill.) Felton Purnell (Texas) R. H. Halle, Jr. (S.C.) John W. Delaney (Ky) Duplain Rhodes (La.) C.L. Dennis (La.) Taylor C.D. Hayes (Tenn.) O.P. Chiles (Va.) Jenifer W. Renfro (Ohio) Malverse H. Mack (N.Y.) Benjamin McFall (Mich.) Charles Crook (Ill)
