1950-12-28City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 12/28/1950
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Lawrence E. Foster,
Philip Rowe, and Robert O. Small
Board members absent: John C. Birmingham, Thomas J. Casey, Louisa V. Conrad, and B.
Frederick Yoffa
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, December 28, 1950
The last Trustees meeting of the year was held on Thursday evening, December 28, at 7:30
P.M., with Mr. Delaney, Chairman, and Messrs. Boyden, Foster, Rowe, and Small in attendance.
The records of the Meeting of November 20, as well as the Resolutions on the death of Mr.
William A. Rowe were read an approved.
The report of the Finance Committee, giving a summary of expenditures for the year was also
read and approved.
Mr. Delaney reported, for the Administration Committee, that it had been necessary to make
some repairs to the boiler at the Farms Branch, but that no other such work had been necessary
during the month.
The Circulation Committee recommended the purchase of 71 new titles - This was approved.
The Librarian' s report, telling of the activities during December was presented and placed on
file.
In response to a request from Mrs. Sydney Baum of Beverly Farms that the Trustees allow
the hall at the Beverly Farms to be use for a dancing class over a week, the Trustees voted to
authorize Miss Stanton to write Mrs. Baum that though they regretted refusing her request, they did
not feel - because of the noise of the music and the sound caused by sixty or more children - that this
would be a proper use of a public library hall.
The Trustees then voted to adjourn until the last Thursday in January
Marjorie H. Stanton
Clerk
1865 William A. Rowe 1950
IN MEMORIUM
William A. Rowe of Beverly was born in Gloucester eighty-five ears ago. He acquired
international fame as an athlete, then engaged in the sporting goods trade, which led him naturally
into the automobile industry.
Over a period of forty-five years he established, built up, and became a key man in this
business on the Noah Shore.
For fifteen years "Billy" Rowe has been a faithful and devoted Trustee of the Beverly Public
Library.
In his passing, November nineteenth, 1950, the community as a whole suffers and the
Library loses the service and directive wisdom of a true and tried man.
In honor of William A. Rowe, exemplary citizen, prominent business man, supporter of
civic organizations, and, in particular, Trustee of the Beve~y Public Library, his associate members
of the Board of Library Trustees, with keen regret at their loss and deep sympathy for the bereaved,
cause this official statement to be spread upon their records, a copy to be sent to the Press, and a
transcript to be presented to his family.