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ELECTION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Chairman pointed out that the terms of three members of the
Executive Committee would expire on July 1st and he called for nomina-
tions from the floor.

Mr. Ferebee nominated Mr. G. N. Noble, Mr. Wade Barber and
Mr. R. A. Maynard to succeed themselves for another six-year term on
the Executive Committee. Mr. Yarborough moved that nominations be
closed, and Messrs. Noble, Barber and Maynard were unanimously elected.

Memorial Resolutions

Mr. Kenneth S. Tanner, 1890-1963

Mr. William P. Saunders read the following resolution in memory of
Mr. Kenneth S. Tanner which was adopted by standing vote:

Robert Frost, the great American poet, says in substance that a
liberal education should train a person to know his business and
make good at it. It should increase his knowledge of himself and
of his fellow man and his knowledge of the spirit. Frost is an
artist in words and receptive to all the arts. He says that the function
of the liberal arts in education is not to train professional poets and
prose writers or professional musicians, painters, and sculptors.
Its purpose is to train practical men of affairs and touch them with a
life-long delightful concern with these arts. From this delightful
concern, he says, comes ideas, ideals, and purposes that enrich
his work in his business and practical affairs.

Robert Frost died in 1963. In that same year Kenneth Spencer Tanner
died in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. For every day of his seventy-
three years he lived by insights akin to those of the great poet. They
made his life a joy to himself and a blessing to his fellow man.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was the son of Simpson Bobo
and Lola (Spencer) Tanner. His two brothers and sister were, in
order of birth: Sara (Mrs. R. H. Crawford), Simpson Bobo Tanner, Jr.,
and Jesse Spencer Tanner.

On February 15, 1916, Mr. Tanner married Sarah Huger Bacot of
Charleston, South Carolina. There were born to them three children:
Kenneth Spencer, Jr. (A. B., University of North Carolina 1939; M.D.
Harvard, 1943), Sarah Hugher (Mrs. Robert Haskins), and Ellen Bacot
(died 1961).

Mr. Tanner had a full educational experience of public and private
schools and colleges. His elementary education was in Charlotte City
schools. He was prepared for college at Staunton Military Academy in
Virginia. He attended North Carolina State of the University of North
Carolina at Raleigh, transferred to the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and received there the A. B. in 1911. He completed his
formal schooling in 1912 with a year at the Harvard Graduate School
of Business Administration.

He plunged at once into textile manufacturing, his life work, first in
his father's business and, in 1920, on his own. In 1920 Kenneth Tanner
founded the Stonecutter Mills Corporation. From 1920 to 1940 he was
president of this corporation. From 1940 until his death he was active
chairman of the Board. He was also board chairman of the Sterling
Hosiery Mills. Other textile corporations he was connected with were
the Caroleen, Cleghorn, Florence, Spencer and Spindale Mills, Elmore
Corporation, Clover Mills, Spinner's Processing Company, Henrietta
Mills, and Grace Cotton Mills.