Wednesday, 31 January, 1962

Tom Erickson in with a report on the annual meeting last night at Park Street. The annual mtg. itself was over at 8:30 PM, and then an hour was devoted to the problem of expansion. Expressions from the congregation seemed to affirm. A panel put in selected arguments for expansion, Mr. Kenney, Mr. White, Ken Olsen, etc. To my surprise, Dr. O. came in at 5:45 PM for 20 minutes. He had two proposals, one to buy the bank, the other to buy H-M & put up a 6-story building, leaving part of it to them, with 4 stories for the use of the church. I had concluded after talking to Tom A. that it would do well to try to buy the bank first & the H-M property second.