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Aspinwall
Neighborhood Association
Contacts
Aspinwall Neighbor. Assoc.
Co-Chairs:Lee Cooke Childs 617-566-6761 & Anne Myerson 617-232-2046
We welcome you to join the Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood Association. Receive updates and
participate in issues that affect YOUR neighborhood. Dues are $5.00/year per person.
Please send your name, address, phone number and email, and a check for $5.00 payable to
A.H.N.A., to:
Eric Buehrens,
Treasurer, 135 Winthrop Road
Brookline, MA 02445.
If you have questions about membership or the Neighborhood Association in general feel
free to contact the co-chairs at the numbers above or the Executive Committee through
email at:
AHNA@RCN.com
AHNA Officers and Executive Committee-2005-2006
Co-chairs: Lee Cooke Childs & Ann Myerson
Treasurer: Harry Friedman
Recording Secretary: Barrie Wheeler
Membership Secretary: Eric Buerhens
E-Mail Secretary: David Cotney
Flier Design: Beth Klein
WebSite: John Gregoire
Executive Committee:
Marga Dieter
Paula Steen
Karen Halvorson
Peggy Ueda
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The
neighborhood boundaries depicted in this map series are based on information in the
Brookline Geographic Information System which was provided by the individual Neighborhood
Associations. These boundaries are subject to
periodic updates and changes and should not be used for any legal purposes.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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| NATURAL HISTORY |
| Drumlin: |
| If you live on Aspinwall Hill (Geographic
Map) you live on a drumlin. A drumlin is a geological landform created during the last
ice age when an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick moved over this area. The last glacial
period ended about 12,000 – 10,000 years ago. Generally, most drumlins are oval or
ovoid in shape and trend northwest to southeast (the direction of glacial advance). They
can have a length as much as three times their width ranging from a few hundred feet to
nearly a mile. In height they can range from tens of feet to over one hundred feet, and
they generally have steep sides. Aspinwall Hill is a “classic” drumlin
approximately 220 feet in elevation above sea level, one mile in length, and just under ½
mile in width (although some of the periphery of the Hill has been trimmed by development
and through the creation of Washington and Beacon Streets). While there is not a consensus
on the exact mechanics of drumlin formation, most agree they are formed on the advance of
the ice sheet.  |
| Hard Digging: |
The tremendous weight and movement of the ice compressed the
soil and rock beneath into compact stony glacial till. What we see today is a thin veneer
of topsoil (organic and mineral soils) up to 10 inches in thickness on top of the compact
till. Also called basal till or “hardpan,” this compact till is comprised of an
unsorted and wide particle size distribution of material including clay, silt, sand,
gravel, cobbles, stones and boulders. Anyone who has attempted to dig by hand shovel on
the Hill can attest to the difficulty in excavating the material, although a backhoe can
easily perform the work.
Drumlins can be found throughout the Northeast and many are prominent in Brookline
including Aspinwall Hill, Corey Hill, Fisher Hill, and Chestnut Hill to name a few larger
ones. The diagram below shows the locations of area drumlins. |
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Kaye, U.S. Geological Survey, 1976
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| MASSACHUSETTS
HISTORICAL COMMISSION FILING In 1978-9, the Brookline Historic Commission
made a filing with the
Massachusetts Historic Commission concerning the history and character of
the Aspinwall Hill neighborhood. BHC commissioners C. Benka, G. Kapstein, L.
Larkin, C. Marine, C. Wetherbee, J. Vosmik compiled the summary below of the
historic and architectural importance of the area:
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The Aspinwalls were one of the early families to settle in Brookline, Peter Aspinwall
having bought land from William Colborne in 1650, and built a house near the present
intersection of St. Paul St. and Aspinwall Ave.
In 1788 his great-grandson, Dr. William Aspinwall, bought land on what is now Aspinwall
Hill; to quote from Theodore Jones in Land Ownership in Brookline, "At the death of
the Hon. Benj. White (1790)...his estate was insolvent; 87 acres of it on the left side of
Washington St. (formerly Cotton land) went to Dr. William Aspinwall, who now moved from
the old Aspinwall farm and built a new house on what is henceforth called "Aspinwall
Hill".
Dr. William Aspinwall was born in 1743 and died in 1823. He received the degree of Doctor
of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, about 1768, and returned to Brookline
where he opened a successful practice. During the Revolution, he was appointed an army
surgeon at various hospitals in Boston and its suburbs. Soon after the death of Dr.
Zabdiel Boylston, the first inoculator of smallpox, in order to control the disease,
Aspinwall established hospitals on his own land on Aspinwall Ave. for the purpose of
preventive medicine. He soon became famous for his treatment of smallpox, and continued it
until the introduction of vaccine innoculation.
Dr. Aspinwall was nine times elected Representative to the Great and General Court between
1790 and 1800, and was 3 times elected Senator. The History of Norfolk County refers to
the doctor's land "...including the prominent and high hill on the south side of
Washington St., upon which he erected the present mansion?house in 1803, and the same has
been occupied by his children and grandchildren since his decease, and is now in
possession of his grandson and namesake, Hon. Wm. Aspinwall."
Dr. William Aspinwall's son, Col. Thomas, served in the War of 1812 and was appointed
Consul to London, where he served from 1815 to1853, and where his son William was born in
1819. Dr. William's other son, Augustus, lived in the Aspinwall Hill house until his death
in 1865, at which time his nephew William inherited it, since Augustus left no children.
William was admitted to the bar in 1841, served as town clerk from 1850-52, Representative
from 1851-52, and State Senator in 1854. He was also Selectman, Assessor, and Water
Commissioner. His law office was at 76 State St., Boston. He died in 1902, and the house
on Aspinwall Hill was torn down shortly thereafter. A copy of it ? not exact was
built at 14 Hawthorne Rd. in 1897 by his son Thomas A. Aspinwall, who was one of the
partners in the civil engineering firm of Aspinwall & Lincoln (Edwin H. Lincoln).
The only other house on the Hill until about 1885 was the house built by Lewis Tappan in
the late 1820's, near the present Gardner Road, on land bought from the Croft farm. After
Tappan moved to New York, the house was owned by two other families, and then was bought
in 1847 by George Baty Blake, first an importer and later a banker, who enlarged the stone
house and turned the land into a showplace. Blake owned almost all the land from Gardner
Road south to Greenough, and from Winthrop to Tappan in the other direction. The land
continued in the family to his son Arthur W. Blake, and then to Arthur's widow, and was
not sold off till the late 1920's, so that most of the Blake property was developed after
the cut-off date of this survey.
Aspinwall Hill, like Corey Hill and most of the other hills in Brookline and Boston, is a
drumlin: a hill composed of boulders and debris that had been accumulated as a result of
the progress of a glacier, and then deposited all in one place when the glacier melted.
This description of Brookline's hills comes from the History of Norfolk County: "If
we penetrate to the centre of Corey, Aspinwall, or the other hills near by, we should find
a mass of clay, pebbles and bowlders mixed in the most confused manner, the matter
remaining to this day just where it was left ages ago". Also, Charles K. Bolton
writes, “Corey, Aspinwall, Fisher, Singletree and several smaller hills, are of the
same shape and have a common northwest southeast trend (due to the glacier's direction in
passing through the area) their longer axes being parallel to one another and to the
striae on the rocks".
Various descriptions of the Hill exist; Bacon writes in 1903, “To our left we see
Aspinwall Hill rise sharply, its sides here and there showing open patches of pleasant
lawn among the tree-embowered estates ... Gardner Road, the first of the series of streets
partly encircling the hill. Many others there are, in sweeping curves or crescents,
entering upon and continuing short bits of highway. The landscape architects have happily
avoided the mistake of trying to lay out a swelling hilltop in rectangles... Ascending to
the top of the hill, if we desire, by a sort of switch-back arrangement of curving and
gradually rising roads, we pass many attractive residences, mostly new, our highest point
being reached on the S-shaped Addington Road, 240 feet above sea level. From here, so far
as the breaks between the rows of apartment houses will permit, we catch glimpses of
country hills to the south, and of the village at our feet.”
William D. Paine, talking in a Men's Panel before the Brookline Historical Society in
recalling his childhood in the 1870's and 80's, stated "I had the pleasure of living
a little bit in the country, in an old farmhouse up on Washington St. just beyond what was
the Gasometer, which is now a garage, and across the street was the cow pastures way up to
the top of the hill. That means that it took in University Road, Winthrop Road, Addington
Road, and all those streets way up and there was a beautiful lookout for Boston that our
Brookline people used to go to". And the History of Norfolk Co., Mass., 1892, states
"The next prominent elevation is that well known as the Aspinwall Hill, of little
less height than some of the other eminences of the town, but none the less
beautiful...Recent enterprise is developing portions of this hill, by building superior
streets and laying out the lands for residences, which we notice are now coming into
market through the Aspinwall Land Company, an association organized for the purpose of
placing some of the best land, for the erection of fine buildings, to be found in the
town. The surface of this hill is well covered with wood, consisting of the sturdy oak,
chestnut, and walnut."
At some time before 1866, 29 acres of the Aspinwall holdings were sold off - the tax lists
do not make it clear what year the land was bought up, but by 1870 the Boston Theological
Seminary, later to become BU, owned 14 acres on Washington St. and 15 acres along Beacon
and Tappan Streets. It is a matter of record that the land was a gift from Isaac Rich, a
fish merchant, who, along with Lee Claflin, a Hopkinton tanner, and Jacob Sleeper, a Maine
man who prospered in the manufacture of ready-made clothing, was responsible for the
establishment of what was to become Boston University in 1869.
They were three self-made Methodist laymen. Claflin expanded his business into making
boots and shoes; his son, William Claflin, went into the shoe business in 1838, and became
Lt. Gov. of Mass. in 1868-69, Gov. in1869-72, and U. S. Senator, 1877-81. He was President
of the Board of Trustees of BU; "Like his father he is philanthropic, the best-known
of their public benefactions being the endowments of Boston University..." (from
Mass. of Today). Claflin Road could have been named for either one or both. Isaac Rich was
born in Wellfleet in 1801. He moved to Boston and became a partner of Edward Snow and
"their firm became extensively known as very enterprising, fortunate, and
progressively enlarging their means. Their business increased so rapidly they were induced
to go into navigation, and built some very fine ships. They also owned a line of packets
to New Orleans" (N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register). Rich became one of the wealthiest
men of his time, and left the greater part of his fortune to BU, of which he was one of
the incorporators and a trustee from 1869 until his death. Isaac Rich & Co. was listed
in the Boston Directory as "Dealers in salt and pickled fish, at Gray's Wharf (481
Commercial St.) and with an office at 70 Kilby St., Rm. 80.
In the 1880's the decision was made to subdivide the Hill, and a number of firms were
hired for that purpose. According to the private memoirs of Ernest W. Bowditch, the
landscape architect and civil engineer, a general scheme for a joint development of
Aspinwall Hill had been prepared by F. L. Olmsted, but his plan had perhaps ignored all
boundaries, and was not accepted by the recently formed Aspinwall Land Co. The great fire
of 1872 had wiped out a large portion of the improved real estate deeded to Boston
University in Boston, and without an income from this property, the Corporation decided
not to use the land on Aspinwall Hill for their college buildings. Therefore it was
developed and sold off in lots, although this took a long time before all the land was
sold.
William Aspinwall, meanwhile, being, according to Bowditch, "hard up
financially", sold his land to a group of men who organized the Aspinwall
Land Co. The 1884 Brookline Directory lists William L. Candler, a Brookline citizen, and
John W. Candler as treasurer and director of the Aspinwall Land Co.; undoubtedly the
Aspinwalls were also directors.
About the same time Henry M. Whitney had organized the West End Land Co. and was buying up
land along Beacon St. in preparation to laying out the West End Street Railway, and
widening Beacon Street in the process. Bowditch, representing BU, and Aspinwall &
Lincoln, representing the Aspinwall Land Co., finally came to terms and agreed to a scheme
for the development of Aspinwall Hill and to the elimination of all rights of way, and the
building up of the Hill proceeded apace.
By 1885 the Aspinwall Land Company had sold a number of lots on Sullivan (now Rawson)
Road, and houses were built there. (See Plan of Land owned by the Aspinwall Land Company
on Aspinwall Hill in Brookline, Oct. 1885). By 1888, some houses along Gardner Road had
been built and by 1893 there were houses on Addington and Winthrop Roads, as well as
Colbourne Crescent and University Road had been platted, although the part between
Winthrop and University Paths had not been developed. All of the Aspinwall Land Company
lots had been sold by 1893 except for a few on Addington Road.
1892-93 represented one of the best periods for building on the Hill: many of the large
Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses were erected then, and people who purchased lots
hired well-known architects to design their houses - beside those surveyed, there were
houses built in 1890, ‘91 & ‘92 that were designed by E.A.P. Newcomb,
Brigham and Spofford, two by Winslow and Wetherell, and another by Cram. Unfortunately all
of these have been demolished. In 1894, due to the recession of that year, very few homes
were built, and those that were built that year and thereafter tended, with a few
exceptions, to be smaller and simpler than the earlier ones.
By 1897 apartments were being built on Addington Road; by 1908 two family houses were
constructed on Rawson Road, and in 1914 a group of three deckers appeared there. Many of
the biggest and most architecturally significant houses were torn down - some, in the
1930's, in order to erect a series of smaller houses, as on Gardner Road, and one, the
house of Clarence Houghton Estey, a manufacturer and lawyer, which was perched at the very
top of the Hill (see attached picture), to create a town park in the early 1940's.
The naming of the streets on Aspinwall Hill is of some interest - Claflin Road is named
for one of the founders of Boston University and the origin of University Road is obvious.
Gardner Road is probably named for Isaac Gardner, great grandfather of William Aspinwall,
who was the only Brookline man killed in the pursuit of the British troops from Concord on
April 19, 1775. Winthrop and Garrison are almost certainly named for John Winthrop,
Governor of the Mass. Bay Colony, and the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Colbourne
Crescent is probably named for William Colborne, one of the proprietors of Muddy River in
1636, and the man from whom Peter Aspinwall bought his land in 1650. The origins of
Addington and Rawson Roads can only be guessed at - we do know that an Isaac Addington was
Secretary of the Mass. Bay Colony from 1692 to 1714, and that an Edward Rawson held the
same post from 1650 to 1686, but why those names were chosen for streets on Aspinwall Hill
is unknown.
Aspinwall Hill is significant as an area both topographically and in the history of its
development. It was built up after the West End Street Railway was extended out Beacon
Street in 1888-89, and represents, over a forty year period, the growth of part of a
streetcar suburb, containing both large and small single family houses, as well as
multi-family housing.
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Bibliography and/or
references such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.
Bacon, Edwin, Boston, A Guidebook, Ginn & Co., 1903 p. 114
Bolton, Charles K, Brookline, a History of a Favored Town, C.A.W.
Spencer, Brookline, 1897 , p. 166
Brookline Historical Society Proceedings, Men's Panel, Jan. 17,
1954, p. 22
Brookline Chronicle, May 26, 1900
Brookline, the Chronicle Souvenir of the Bicentennial, Riverdale
Press, Brookline, 1905, pp. 22, 51, 60
Curtis, John G., History of the Town of Brookline, Houghton
Mifflin, 1933
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Brookline, by Bradford Kingman, edited by
Heard,1892, pp. 785, 786, 790
History of the Town of Brookline, Riverside Press, 1906
Jones, Theodore, Land Ownership in Brookline, Brookline Historical
Society, 1923
Massachusetts of Today, Thomas C. Quinn, ed., Colonial Pub. Co., Boston
1892, p. 36
New England Geneological and Historical Register, Vol. 30, 1876, pp. 242-3,Vol. 84, 1930,
p-0 51
Tucci, Douglass Shand, Built in Boston, N. Y. Graphic Soc., Boston, 1978
Vogel, Susan Maycock, Hartwell and Richardson, An Introduction to Their Work, Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians, pp. 132-146
Webster, C. B., Brookline, A Collection of 35 Prominent Residences, etc.,
Boston, 1888, p. 11
Who's Who in New England, A.N. Marquis, ed., A. N. Marquis & Co., Chicago, 1916
Plan of Aspinwall Hill, Aspinwall & Lincoln, Aug1885 , Engineering Dept.
Plan of Land Belonging to the Aspinwall Land Co., June 1892, Ernest Bowditch Engineering
Dept.
Brookline Atlases, 1874, 1927, Building Dept. permits, 1891-1926, Blue
Books, 1885, 1905, Directories, 1887-1928, Maps, 1844, 1855, 1858, 1871,
1880(Aspinwall Land Co.), Street lists, 1910-1926, Tax lists, 1885-1910,
Boston Directories, 1889-1928
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| STREETS IN OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOW THEY GOT THEIR NAMES |
| With a little research
we’ve been able to find the historical origin of most of the street names in the
Aspinwall Hill neighborhood. This information is drawn MA Historic Commission filing, the complete
version of which is above . Readers with
additional insight and information are invited to submit corrections, comments and
information to us. |
mailto:AHNA@rcn.com
From the AHNA By-Laws, Section III (Membership): …The Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood
includes: |
| Beacon Street (south
side) from Regent Circle to Washington Street |
| Washington Street
(south side) from Beacon Street to Gardner Road |
Gardner Road
Gardner Road is probably named for Isaac Gardner, great grandfather of William Aspinwall,
who was the only Brookline man killed in the pursuit of the British troops from Concord on
April 19, 1775. |
| Hancock Road
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| Weybridge Road
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University Road
The great fire of 1872 had wiped out a large portion of the improved real estate deeded to
Boston University in Boston, and without an income from this property, the Corporation
decided not to use the land on Aspinwall Hill for their college buildings. Therefore it
was developed and sold off in lots, although this took a long time before all the land was
sold. |
Winthrop Road
Winthrop and Garrison are almost certainly named for John Winthrop, Governor of the Mass.
Bay Colony, and the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. |
| Royal Road |
Rawson Road
The origins of Addington and Rawson Roads can only be guessed at - we do know that an
Isaac Addington was Secretary of the Mass. Bay Colony from 1692 to 1714, and that an
Edward Rawson held the same post from 1650 to 1686, but why those names were chosen for
streets on Aspinwall Hill is unknown. |
Addington Road
The origins of Addington and Rawson Roads can only be guessed at - we do know that an
Isaac Addington was Secretary of the Mass. Bay Colony from 1692 to 1714, and that an
Edward Rawson held the same post from 1650 to 1686, but why those names were chosen for
streets on Aspinwall Hill is unknown. |
Colbourne Crescent
Colbourne Crescent is probably named for William Colborne, one of the proprietors of Muddy
River in 1636, and the man from whom Peter Aspinwall bought his land in 1650. |
Claflin Road
At some time before 1866, 29 acres of the Aspinwall holdings were sold off - the tax lists
do not make it clear what year the land was bought up, but by 1870 the Boston Theological
Seminary, later to become BU, owned 14 acres on Washington St. and 15 acres along Beacon
and Tappan Streets. It is a matter of record that the land was a gift from Isaac Rich, a
fish merchant, who, along with Lee Claflin, a Hopkinton tanner, and Jacob Sleeper, a Maine
man who prospered in the manufacture of ready-made clothing, was responsible for the
establishment of what was to become Boston University in 1869.
They were three self-made Methodist laymen. Claflin expanded his business into making
boots and shoes; his son, William Claflin, went into the shoe business in 1838, and became
Lt. Gov. of Mass. in 1868-69, Gov. in1869-72, and U. S. Senator, 1877-81. He was President
of the Board of Trustees of BU; "Like his father he is philanthropic, the best-known
of their public benefactions being the endowments of Boston University..." (from
Mass. of Today). Claflin Road could have been named for either one or both. |
Garrison Road
Winthrop and Garrison are almost certainly named for John Winthrop, Governor of the Mass.
Bay Colony, and the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. |
| Beaconsfield Road
from Regent Circle to Tappan Street |
Tappan Street
from Beacon Street to Gardner Road
The only other house on the Hill until about 1885 was the house built by Lewis Tappan in
the late 1820's, near the present Gardner Road, on land bought from the Croft farm. After
Tappan moved to New York, the house was owned by two other families, and then was bought
in 1847 by George Baty Blake, first an importer and later a banker, who enlarged the stone
house and turned the land into a showplace. Blake owned almost all the land from Gardner
Road south to Greenough, and from Winthrop to Tappan in the other direction. The land
continued in the family to his son Arthur W. Blake, and then to Arthur's widow, and was
not sold off till the late 1920's, so that most of the Blake property was developed after
the cut-off date of this survey. |
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| LETTER TO OLMSTED |
Wm. L Candler
40 Water St.
P.O. Box 1025
Boston, March 13, 1880
Mr. Fred. Law Olmsted
209 W. 46th St.
New York
Dear Sir,
The land I referred to consists of 56 acres in Brookline – 3 miles from the State
House in Boston – and comprises what is known as Aspinwall Hill. It belongs to the
Aspinwall Land Co. of which I am treas. No roads other than old farm roads have been laid
out and as the property is well located and has many natural advantages, we wish to get
the best advice possible as to its management.
I should be pleased to consult with you at as early a date as many be convenient as we
wish to get at work as soon as we can – and – should you undertake the work
– it is possible you might have suggestions to make about adjoining properties which
would require negotiation before work actually began.
Yours truly,
Wm. Candler
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| BY-LAWS OF THE ASPINWALL HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION |
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| I. Name |
| This organization shall be known as Aspinwall Hill
Neighborhood Association. |
| II. Purpose |
| The purpose of this association is to foster and promote the
common interests of residents, property owners, businesses, and others interested in the
welfare of the Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood Association.
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| III. Membership |
All persons whose dues are paid and who live, own property or
have a business in the Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood Association and are 18 years or older
shall be members of this Association.
The Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood includes Beacon Street (south side) from Regent Circle to
Washington Street, Washington Street (south side) from Beacon Street to Gardner Road, all
of Gardner Road, Hancock Road, Weybridge Lane, University Road, Winthrop Road, Royal Road,
Rawson Road, Addington Road, Colbourne Crescent, Claflin Road, Claflin Path, Garrison
Road, Beasconsfield Road from Regent Circle to Tappan Street and Tappan Street from Beacon
Street to Gardner Road. |
| IV. Dues |
| A contribution of $5 constitutes annual dues for each voting
member. |
| V. Meetings |
| There shall be at least two general meetings of members each
year and such other meetings as the Chairs or Executive Committee shall call. The
Executive Committee shall call a meeting of the Association at any other time upon the
written request of ten members. Elections shall be held at the first meeting within each
calendar year. The best practicable notice of each meeting, whether by telephone, fax,
e-mail, publication, delivery or otherwise shall be given and shall be sufficient. |
| VI. Quorum and Voting |
| Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business by the Association. Decisions shall be made by consensus when possible or by a
majority vote of those represented in person at any meeting duly called, unless otherwise
prescribed by these by-laws.
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| VII. Executive Committee |
| There shall be an executive committee composed of the officers
and not fewer than (5) nor more than seven (7) other members of this association who shall
be elected for terms of one year (or until the election of their successors if longer than
one year) and shall be eligible for re-election. Vacancies cam be filled by the Executive
Committee or at any meeting of the members. A majority shall constitute a quorum. |
| VIII. Officers |
The officers of this Association shall be:
Co-Chairs, who shall preside at meetings of the membership and of the Executive Committee,
make such appointments of delegates and committees as appropriate and generally shall
execute the policies of the Association. Co-chairs may decide their division of labor
between themselves.
Secretary, who shall keep the records of the Association, including records of the
membership and the Executive Committee and shall be responsible for giving notice of the
meetings.
Treasurer, who shall collect, maintain and disburse the funds of the association and keep
accurate records thereof. |
| IX. Nominating Committee |
| Each year after the adoption of these by-laws the Executive
Committee shall, at least 30 days before the meeting at which elections will be held,
appoint a nominating committee of three members, to bring nominations for officers and
Executive Committee members to the next meeting, one for each position. At any election
meeting other nominations may be made from the floor and need not be in writing but
require a second. Voting need not be secret or written ballot and shall be conducted in
such manner as the presiding officer shall determine. |
| X. Amendments |
| These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of those
present at any duly called meeting. |
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| Annual Meeting 2003 |
The Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood Association held its Annual Meeting at the
Runkle School on March 31, 2003. We gave a presentation to our neighbors
about our activities over the past year: our Spring Picnic at Schick Park,
the yard sale we held, the Path Walk in the fall over our neighborhoods'
collection of rambling paths, and the website that you're look at. We have
over 130 members, and over $400 in our bank account, so we're growing and
solvent thanks to the interest and contributions of so many of our
neighbors.
Our special guest for the evening was Town Administrator Richard Kelliher.
With Brookline and other municipalities facing cutbacks in local aid,
residents were able to hear from Mr. Kelliher about consequences that the
state's financial crisis would have on Brookline and on Town services and
operations. Mr. Kelliher was very candid in his assessment and responsive to
questions from the audience on a range of topics of neighborhood concern.
We signed a number of new members and re-signed members from the past year,
elected a slate of officers for Executive Committee (including some new
faces), and enjoyed refreshments and hospitality.
Annual Meeting
presentation PDF
Want to become a member? Send your name and contact information (address,
phone and email) plus a check for $5 annual dues per person (payable to me,
please) to:
Eric Buehrens, Treasurer
Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood Association
135 Winthrop Road
Brookline, MA 02445
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Spring Picnic:
About 40 residents of the neighborhood gathered in sunny but cool weather in
Shick Park for the annual Spring Picnic on June 8, 2003. Meeting new
neighbors and reconnecting with old friends was the order of the day.
Neighbors enjoyed a potluck meal and a break from the rainy weather. There
were a number of residents new to the neighborhood who came out to meet and
enjoy.
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