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CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION

Elections

May 26,            Leon Eraser was elected a Director to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Jackson

E. Reynolds.

December 8,      Carl P. Dennett was elected a Director to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
T. Jefferson Coolidge.

Losses by Death

March  17,        Arthur E. Lloyd, Assistant General Manager, Cleveland, Ohio.

April 25,           Eric E. Wright, Assistant Vice-President, Chicago, Illinois.

December 12,    Francis Boardman, Assistant Terminal Manager, New York, N. Y.
 

Retirements

January 31,
May 31,
June 30,
July 31,
October 31,
December 31,
 

David E. Gelatt, Assistant to Vice-President, Freight Traffic, New York, N. Y-

Clive C. Handy, General Attorney, New York, N. Y.

George H. Clark, Assistant to Freight Traffic Manager, New York, N. Y.

John B. Hammill, Assistant General Manager, Boston, Mass.

Rudolph P. Ahrens, Treasurer, New York, N. Y.

William F. Schaff, Vice-President, Chicago, Illinois.

John J. Monks, Assistant Freight Traffic Manager, Pittsburgh, Pa.
 

Appointments

March  1,
April  1,
 

Charles S. White, Manager, Purchases and Stores, New York, N. Y,

George H. Harris, Assistant to Vice-President, Chicago, Illinois.
Edward A. Dougherty, Assistant General Manager, Cleveland, Ohio.
Frank J. Jerome, Chief Engineer, Chicago, Illinois.

June 1,              Lawrence W. Horning Vice-President, Personnel, New York, N. Y.

Frederick L. Wheeler, General Attorney, New York, N. Y.

July 16,             Charls F. Wiegele, Assistant to Vice-President, Chicago, Illinois.

Chester A. Raymonda, Assistant General Manager, Syracuse, N. Y.
Walter G. Abriel, Manager, Personnel, New York, N. Y.

August 1,          John G. Castle, Assistant to Vice-President, Personnel New York, N. Y.

November 1,    Gustave H. Howe, Treasurer, New York, N. Y.

Edward Coles, Assistant Treasurer, New York, N. Y.
Henry A. Dahmer, Assistant Treasurer, New York, N. Y.
Ray F. Hoppenstedt, Assistant Treasurer New York, N. Y.

November 24,  Jesse L. McKee, Vice-President and General Manager, Detroit, Michigan.
Fredolin F. Riefel, Vice-President and General Manager, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gustav Metzman, Vice-President and General Manager, Cincinnati, Ohio.
 

PENSIONS

There were 653 retired officers and employes receiving a supplementary pension under the Company's
supplementary pension system at the close of the year, payments by the Company in these cases representing
the amount by which the pension computed under the Company plan exceeds the maximum of $120 per
month allowable under the Railroad Retirement Act. The total amount paid by the Company in supple¬
mentary pensions during the year was $434,104.49.

STOCKHOLDERS

At the end of the year 1943, the capital stock of the Com.pany was registered in the names of 63,000
holders (an average holding of 102.34 shares), an increase of 684 holders as compared with December
31, 1942.