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NATIONAL FUNERAL
DIRECTORS AND
MORTICIANS ASSN.,
CHASE PARK SHERATON
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

AUGUST 15, 1971

The National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association is composed of some 2,000 funeral directors in 32 states, Africa, Jamaica, West Indies, Nassau, Bahamas and Bermuda. The Organization was formed with the expressed purpose of promoting a closer relationship between the practicing funeral directors across the country and in those foreign areas where we have Black representation. 

This relationship has been implemented through educational seminars conducted in the eight districts into which our Association is divided. In addition, an annual convention is held the first week in August at which time new technical skills and improved methods of funeral service are presented to the members in a continuing effort to render better service to the public.

[[image - black & white photograph of Carnie P. Bragg, Sr.]]
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CARNIE P. BRAGG, SR., PATERSON, N.J.
Chairman of Executive Board
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Annual Convention

Sunday

Registration
Convention Committee Meeting, 2:00 P.M.
Executive Committee Meeting, 3:00 P.M.
Board of Directors Meeting, 4:00 P.M.
Memorial Services, 7:30 P.M.

Get Acquainted Reception

Monday

Registration, 8:30 A.M.
Devotional Hour
General Session
Business Meeting
Review of Exhibits 
Dinner Dance, 7:30 P.M.

Tuesday

Registration, 8:30 A.M.
Devotional Hour
General Session
Business Meeting
Educational Program
Review of Exhibits
Annual Awards Banquet

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
President's Ball . Formal Attire

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"A PEOPLE'S MEMORY IS HISTORY: AND AS A MAN WITHOUT A MEMORY, SO A PEOPLE WITHOUT A HISTORY CAN NOT GROW WISER, BETTER." The same is true of an organization which involves human action ... action by men who make history.

Although history is past, over the years it has been found that many old events have modern meanings. With respect to history, people live in the present - hope and work for the future. Thus, it has been and it is with our organization.

It has been nearly forty-one years ago when our organization had its beginning as the Independent National Directors Association in Chicago, Illinois. This group became an official plenary body in May, 1925.

After the merging of other such organizations throughout the United States, the changing of names, and other constitutional amendments, we now have this Great Association. Thus, in 1957, the present National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association was incorporated under the Laws of State of Illinois.

With unity in efforts, numerically and geographically, the Independent National Funeral Directors Association attracted the attention of the United States Government. Our organization from that time, became the official representative body of the Funeral Directors: and so recognized by the United States Department of Commerce. 

The National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, Inc. has an outstanding professional trade body with National Status. The membership represents over three thousand progressive morticians and embalmers. Through the years, these men and women have raised the standards of the mortuary profession. 

Many of the licensed memberships of this great Association includes individuals who are also widely known and recognized as lawyers, bankers, business-men,