Proposed Amendment to the Constitution

64 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION slavery agitation and the activities of the underground railway, and upon the educational efforts of Friends. There are sketches of Reuben Dorland (1816-1852), who came to Salem to start Dorland Seminary in 1845, and of D. Sands Wright (1848-1926), who came to Whittier College in Salem in 1872. The editor adds in a note the names of several other Quaker schools in Iowa. Salem is said to be the first Quaker settlement west of the Mississippi. "The very name Salem indicates that these settlers were Quakers. A list of Salems in various States establishes the trail of the Quakers from New Jersey, through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and even as far west as Oregon." For much older periodical accounts of Iowa Quakerism reference may be made to journals of visits paid by Robert Lindsey, first without and then with his wife, which were published in full in vol. xii of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics in 1914 by Louis T. Jones, under the titles "The Quakers of Iowa in 1850" (p. 262-286), and "The Quakers of Iowa in 1858" (pp. 394-439). The informative and detailed journals are printed verbatim, but the whereabouts of their manuscript source is not reported. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION AT A MEETING of the Directors of Friends' Historical Asso-» dation, held Fourth Month 9, 1937, it was suggested that Article III of our Constitution be amended, in order to simplify the method of electing new members. The Board approved of this suggestion, and the Secretary was directed to give the required two months' notice so that the proposed amendment may be considered at the annual meeting of the Association in Eleventh Month. Therefore, this is to notify all members of Friends' Historical Association that it is proposed to amend the first paragraph of Article III of the Constitution, which now reads as follows : Any person interested in the objects of the Association is eligible for membership and may be elected thereto by a majority vote at any meeting of the Directors, or by the written assent of the President, Secretary, and Chairman of the Membership Committee. Under the proposed amendment, it would read : Any person interested in the objects of the Association is eligible for membership and may be elected thereto by a majority vote at any meeting of the Directors, or with the approval of the Secretary and one other member of the Association. ...