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MEMBERS OF HOO-HOO-ETTE AND GUESTS:

It is really a great honor and pleasure which you have given me as Boss of the Year and I am happy indeed to have the opportunity of saying a few words to you tonight

"The growth and progress of Hoo-Hoo" is appropriate as I know that you ladies of the Hoo-Hoo-Ettes are greatly interested in the same for your own fine organization.

In reviewing the past ten years of Hoo-Hoo history, I can

RoySronton Tells Aims ond ldeols Of Hoo-Hoo Clubs

tell you that we now have around 135 clubs as against about 40 in 1948. Our membership now approaches 13,000 in contrast to approximately 7,0N ten years ago.

This progress is gratifying but still those leaders of our order who are vitally interested in our growth and, above all, our prestige in our industry and oui communities, are far from satisfied. We are tremendously interested in hav ing Hoo-Hoo become even more respected and highly regarded by all lumbermen and members of our industry as time goes on, and we feel that if we can accomplish certair.r goals, that we can add many more chapters and thus members to our organization. Also, just as important will be our ability to hold our membership by a stronger bond.

Norv to accomplish these aims we simply must have a great deal more than the purely social side, and this mearls that every club to be a flourishing chapter must have a worthwhile project in their community which will bring pride and a feeling of real accomplishment not only to the club members but to all the members of their industry in the region where the club functions.

Many of our chapters in the United States and Canada have wonderful projects which, if time permitted, I worrlrl like to tell you about.

Our Supreme Nine this year is featuring as projects :-

1. Wood promotion

2. Youth Program, and

3. Safe Driving Promotion

These are excellent objectives, but for stimulus to indivirlual clubs I would put our Youth Program in first place