. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Meet the Executive Secretary Of Cranberry Institute Alden C. Brett Has Held Many, Many Important Positions Alden C. Brett, who was re- cently elected executive secretary of the Cranberry Institute is a resident of Belmont, Massachu- setts, where the office of the In- stitute will be maintained. He is a principal partner in the Colonial Cranberry Company which owns and operates eighty acres of cran- berry beg at Green, R. I. This, he says, is adequate reason for his interest in promoting a sound, profitable cranberry industry. Mr. B
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Meet the Executive Secretary Of Cranberry Institute Alden C. Brett Has Held Many, Many Important Positions Alden C. Brett, who was re- cently elected executive secretary of the Cranberry Institute is a resident of Belmont, Massachu- setts, where the office of the In- stitute will be maintained. He is a principal partner in the Colonial Cranberry Company which owns and operates eighty acres of cran- berry beg at Green, R. I. This, he says, is adequate reason for his interest in promoting a sound, profitable cranberry industry. Mr. Brett was a visitor in Wisconsin last month, where he attended cranberry meetings and met a number of growers. His forbears had at least a speaking acquaintance with cran- berries as his great grandfather and grandfather resided in the Carver-Rochester area, the former as a Congregational minister and the latter as a country store- keeper, while his father as a teen- ager drove the stage between Wareham and New Bedford. Mr. Brett, graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- lege in 1912 as a fruit grower. He was em'ployed for a time by the Massachusetts Department of Agri'julture and later became agricultural agent for the Plym- outh County Trust Company of Brockton. During this time he studied at night at the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance and in due time graduated, equipped to become a certified public account- ant. He chose to enter industry, however, and took employment with the Hood Rubber Company of which he became treasurer in 1929. Later, when Hood was merged with the B. F. Goodrich Company, he continued as treas- urer of the Hood division serving for a time in Washington as legislative assistant to the presi- dent of the B. P. Goodrich Coni'- pany. During World War II he served in Washington as Assistant Direc- tor of Purchases of the War Production Board and assisted in the reorganization of the pur- chasing activities of the United States Navy to acco
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