The Gazette 1952-1955

The result o f the ballot for the 31 ordinary members o f the Council and the supplemental list was as follows :—• Arthur Cox, 522; Joseph Barrett, 518; Flenry St. J. Blake, 496 ; John Carrigan, 488 ; Louis E . O’Dea, 471 ; Thomas A . O’Reilly, 470; Joseph Tyrrell, 453 ; Dermot P. Shaw, 453 ; Cornelius J. Daly, 450 ; Patrick R. Boyd, 449 ; John R. Halpin, 442 ; John J. Nash, 429 ; Peter E . O’Connell, 421 ; James J. O’Connor, 413 ; William J. Norman, 413 ; Charles J. Dowling, 4 1 2 ; Niall S. Gaffney, 4 11 ; Desmond J. Collins, 405 ; Francis J. Gearty, 403 Sean O hUadhaigh, 402 ; Francis J. Lanigan, 393 ; John J. Sheil, 391 ; Patrick F. O’Reilly, 383 ; Nathaniel Lacy, 362; George A . Nolan, 359; George G. Overend, 350; Francis X . Burke, 336 ; Terence de V . White, 331 ; Ralph J . Walker, 330; John Maher, 328 ; Desmond Mayne, 322 Supple­ mental L ist :—Francis Gallagher, 309; Robert McD. Taylor, 30(5; James R. Quirke, 299. The President declared the foregoing members o f the Society duly elected to the Council and the supplemental list in accordance with the Scrutineers’ report. The following candidates received the number of votes placed after their names :— Denis Greene, 295 ; William A. Lee, 270 ; David R. Pigot, 268 ; Raymond A . French, 245 ; William J. Comerford, 240; John J. O’Dwyer, 220; Lyndon G. Carr Lett, 201 ; Gerard M. Doyle, 177 ; Rowland H. S. Healy, 145. The President moving the adoption o f the report o f the Council said :— Ladies and Gentlemen : Since I last had the honour to address you at the 336th General Meeting in May o f this year, it is inevitable that some o f our members and friends should have died. Amongst them a special mention must be made o f one o f my distinguished predecessors in the office which I now hold as your President—Mr. Roger Greene. In all his activities both inside and without the pro­ fession, Mr. Greene proved himself to be a man of rare distinction. His demise while still in his early forties is a matter o f very great regret to the many who knew him. Others who no longer are with us are :—Henry J. Walker (Athlone) ; Charles A. Cooke (Galway); Rupert J. Fetherstonhaugh (Mountmellick), Charles P. O’Neill (Dublin) ; Cuthbert J . Furlong (Letterkenny), Member of Council, 1 951 - 52; Joseph Morrissey (Cork); David G . Dixon (Belfast); Michael A . Nestor (Dunmore) ; Samuel Reid (Belfast) ; John Wells (Carrickmacross) ; John A. Ryan (Thurles) ; Peter

Arthur P. McLean, Michael Leech, Desmond Moran, J. B, MacGarry, D. Curran, John J. O’Dwyer, T. J. Kirwan, Ernest W. Proud, P. C. Moore, Peadar Cowan, Maurice Veale, John M. O’Farrell, R. M. Wilson, B. J. Daly, J . J. Hickey, E . McCarron, G. M. Doyle, E. J . Crowley, J. P. King, Francis R. Tully, David Bell, John J. Walker, Toirlach de Valera, Leslie Mellon, John M. O’Connor, Ed. H. Byrne, Brendan Wallace, Seamus Kerr, James A. Kelly, Louis Walsh, James Byrne, D. B. O’Sullivan, Francis A . Gibney, Walter Rhatigan, William Synnott, Joseph Glackin, H. B. Fottrell, T. P. Glynn, Brendan T. Walsh, Patrick M. O Gara, C. G. Vanston, Thomas K . O’Connor, M. J . Dunne, Jacob Marcus, Charles Hyland, Fras. J. Keane, (Miss) Stella Webb, J . A. G. Cullen, Donald R. Cullen, R. G. H. Roper, W. P. Roper, Oliver G. Fry, R. B. McConnell, Raymond Kenny, Rowland Plealy, Eugene Gillan, Gerard Lyons, Hyman Tarlo, R. E . Felton, R. A . French, Peter Leon, R. H. Ryan, Mathew Purcell, H. E . St. G. McClenaghan, Michael B. Kelly, Michael G. O’Beirn, Dominick M. Dowling, Joseph J. Hughes, Michael Hayes, Ivan Howe, Roderick J. Tierney, P. J. Walsh, J . J. Kennedy, A. P. Curneen, John L. Burke, T. j. Kenny, James M. Farrelly, T. G. McVeagh, Rodk. O’Connor, John K . Boland, Kevin Burke, John B. McCann, C. Gore-Grimes, Hubert Wine, Joseph P. O’Connell, (Miss) Ellen Beatty, J. G. O’Connor, David Slattery, W. B. Allen, Ed. J. Durnin, John-E. Doyle, Charles J . Starkey. The notice convening the meeting was taken as read. The minutes o f the Ordinary General Meeting of the Society held on 13th May, 1954, and the Special General Meeting held on 24th May, 1954, were read, confirmed and signed. Mr. William J. Norman moved and Mr. John J. Sheil seconded the adoption o f the audited accounts and balance sheet. The motion was adopted and the President signed the balance sheet. Messrs. Kevans & Sons were unanimously re­ appointed as the Society’s auditors. The Secretary read the report o f the Scrutineers of the ballot for the election o f the Council and Provincial Delegates for the year 1954-55. The report stated that for the office o f Provincial Delegate the following had been returned unopposed :—Ulster, Derrick M. Martin Munster, John J. Dundon; Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan; Connaught, Christopher E . Callan. The foregoing were declared duly elected.

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