Abstract :
For the sixth general meeting of the Great Lakes District, held at the Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis, Minn., September 27–29 inclusive, the Minnesota Section served as host. Although a majority of the approximately 90 members of this Section reside in the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area, the Section territory embraces not only all of the state of Minnesota but a double tier of the ten northwesterly counties of Wisconsin. The District itself embraces the six states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and its “center of gravity” of membership in so far as members are concerned is in the vicinity of Chicago, some 400 miles south and east of Minneapolis. Considering this factor of distance, and considering also the American Legion convention in Chicago and the utilities convention in Indiana held the same week, the total attendance of 230 at Minneapolis, including 141 from outside the Section territory, constituted a worthwhile achievement in the opinion of observers, especially in view of the unusually high percentage of attendance at the several very active student and technical sessions.
