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REPORT OF THE TREASURER January 1, 1961 - June 30, 1961 PERMANENT ACCOUNT — Poughkeepsie Savings Bank Balance on hand, January 1, 1961 $8,709.90 Life membership 25.00 Interest 153.15
Balance on hand, June 30, 1961 $8,888.05
CHECKING ACCOUNT—DUtCheSS Bank and Trust Company Receipts Balance on hand, January 1, 1961 Received from dues Received from sale of books $ 104.23 855.00 153.00
Disbursements $1,112.23
Editing year book (1959) 8 200.00 Rhinebeck Gazette, printing year book 575.00 Lansing-Broas Printing Co., binding year book 25.40 Mailing year book 15.00 Postage on year book 40.50 Copyright on year book 4.15 Envelopes 18.35 Secretary 50.00 Treasurer 50.00 Office supplies 38.50 Guest luncheons 4.50 Hyde Park Historical Association, membership 1.00
1,022.40
Balance on hand, June 30, 1961 $ 89.83 THE HELEN WILKINSON REYNOLDS MEMORIAL FUND POUGHKEEPSIE SAVINGS BANK Balance on hand, January 1, 1961 $2,508.14 Received from sale of books (Family Vista) 9.00 Gift 20.00 Interest 44.20
Balance on hand, June 30, 1961 $2,581.34
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER July 1, 1961 - December 31, 1961 PERMANENT ACCOUNT — Poughkeepsie Savings Bank Balance on hand, July 1, 1961 $8,888.05 Gift, in memory of Mr. Harry T. Briggs 100.00 Interest 156.56
Withdrawn for checking account $9,144.61 350.00
Balance on hand, December 31, 1961 $8,794.61 CHECKING ACCOUNT — Dutchess Bank and Trust Company Receipts
Balance on hand, July 1, 1961 Transferred from Permanent Account Received from dues Received from sale of books $
89.83 350.00 94.00 50.16
Copyright for year book Editing year book Mailing year book Treasurer Secretary Speaker at spring meeting Guest luncheon Glebe House expenses Office supplies Disbursements $ 583.99
$ 581.32
Balance on hand, December 31, 1961 $ 2.67 THE HELEN WILKINSON REYNOLDS MEMORIAL FUND Poughkeepsie Savings Bank Balance on hand, July 1, 1961 $2,581.34 Gifts 19.00 Interest 47.09
Balance on hand, December 31, 1961 $2,647.43
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OUR PRESIDENT SAYS:
The two regular meetings of our society were well attended and provided our members with two entirely different but interesting and attractive programs. At the spring meeting, on May 13, Mr. and Mrs. Holdridge who had made several visits to the county, told of their search for portraits painted by Ammi Phillips and showed a number of slides. Several of our members were able to locate for them some few portraits, the work of Phillips. At the fall meeting, October 27, we were happy to have Mr. Enoch Squires with us to tell about the drawing of Andersonville Prison, made by Thomas O'Dea, and to show us detailed sections of the map with a description of conditions prevailing in prisons, both north and south, at the time of the Civil War. We were also pleased to have with us Mr. Harry Rigby, an authority on Hudson valley history, whose broadcasts many of us have enjoyed.
On June 3, a number of our members were privileged to attend the ceremonies held in connection with the unveiling of the statue of Sybil Ludington, at Carmel, by the Enoch Crosby Chapter of the D.A.R. The life-size bronze statue was made by Anna Hyatt Huntington of Bethel, Connecticut, and has been placed in an attractive setting with Lake Gleneida in the background. The road, over which Sybil Ludington made her famous ride on the night of April 26, 1777, when Putnam County was still a part of Dutchess, passes in front of the statue.
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Some of our officers report a very pleasant occasion attending the dedication of the Boscobel Restoration. The site is ideal and the restoration has been wonderfully well done. It is a monument to the purposeful manner in which a dedicated group has worked on its project. One of our trustees, Mrs. Steeholm, is there on Saturdays and Sundays giving historical talks and conducting guided tours through the building.
Our society was well represented at the several programs conducted by the New York State Historical Association: the annual seminars on American Culture, at Cooperstown, July 2-15; the annual meeting of the association, July 14; and the Local History Workshop, Septem-
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