How it started

On March tenth, 1922, at seven o’clock in the evening, at 202 First Street, a meeting took place for the purpose of electing the various Boards of the Portuguese Club, which will have full authority to obtain a building, furniture, lighting, and everything else they consider necessary. These Boards are provisional until the President schedules a new meeting to carry out the official electoral process for a one-year term.

**Board of Directors of the Portuguese Social Club – 1926**

**Directors and Members of the Portuguese Social Club – 1933**

After various discussions and selecting among the members, the following Boards were approved, which will exercise their positions on an interim basis until a general election takes place, as follows:**

General Board:
President – Alfredo Lima
Vice-President – António Oliveira
First Secretary – Alfredo Botelho
Second Secretary – João Montes
Treasurer – Guilherme Enes

Audit Board:
President – Joaquim Conceição
First Secretary – Manuel Carvalho
Second Secretary – José Lourenço

General Assembly Board:
President – João Pedro
First Secretary – Alípio Lopes
Second Secretary – Belarmino Fonseca

There being no further matters to address, the President declared the proceedings closed, proposing a date for the next meeting, which, in his opinion, should be on the twenty-sixth of the current month, to hold the general election. It was ten-thirty at night when the President adjourned the session, as there was nothing else to discuss.

Elizabeth, N.J., March twelfth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

President: J. Pedro
1st Secretary: Alípio Lopes
2nd Secretary: Belarmino da Fonseca