1969 Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1969 June Voice RS | Page 26

THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL BREEDERS’
ASSOCIATION MEETING INDICATES RENEWED
INTEREST IN AFFAIRS OF THE BREED
The air was filled with tension on Saturday, May 24,
as Senator Joe Kelley of Columbia, Tennessee, Presi­
dent of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ Asso­
ciation of America, rapped his gavel to bring the 34th
annual meeting to order. For the first time in memory,
the meeting was held somewhere other than at the
Breeders’ Association headquarters in Lewisburg, Ten­
nessee. Due to the expected overflow of members
attending the meeting it was moved to the Marshall
County Senior High School. The auditorium, which
will accommodate approximately seven hundred peo­
ple, was almost full throughout the two-hour meeting.
Adhering to the by-laws of the association, a general
welfare corporation (non-profit organization) chartered
by the State of Tennessee in 1935, the meeting was
officially called to order at the Association offices at
10:00 A. M. and recessed to reconvene at the high
school.
Present for the annual meeting and representing
the Board of Directors were: Senator Joe Kelley,
President; M. G. Williams, 2nd Vice President; Mrs.
Sharon Brandon, Secretary-Treasurer; M. R. Bess,
Roy Davis, Bob Guinn and DeWitt Owen, Directors.
The missing members were: S. W. Beech, Hugh Gillen,
and Dr. B. S. Henry. Legal counsel for the Association
was headed by Knox Bingham, Lewisburg, Tennessee.
As everyone realizes by now, the major topic of
discussion prior to the meeting was the development
of an opp