Tom Ingersoll, the most popular man in Realtydom
JULY 2008 -To REALTORS® he was “Our Tom.”
The first full-time staff hired by the National Association of Real Estate Boards, Tom Ingersoll served as Secretary (Executive Vice President today) from 1911 to 1922. Also referred to as “The most popular man in Realtydom,” everybody associated with the organization knew who Tom was.
It didn’t take him long to win over REALTORS®. Historian Pearl Janet Davies wrote of the 1913 Winnipeg Convention when “Ingersoll was carried around the hall on the shoulders of delegates. (He) had already become ‘dear old Tom.’” At that meeting the National Association's president, Alexander Taylor, praised the hard-working secretary: “We have a man in this organization…whose heart throbs and beats with the work we are doing; who is giving his life, his fidelity, and his strength to the building of this organization. In referring to that man I do not believe I am obliged to use his name. You all know him (cries of ‘Ingersoll’).”
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JUNE 2008 - In 1924 over 500 REALTORS® from the Los Angeles and San Francisco boards gathered at Del Monte for their annual Hi-Jinks celebration. The three-day party included sports, a parade, banquet, and all-around fun. As the California Real Estate Journal reported, “While the Hi-Jinks is in no sense of the word a convention, the Realtors of the two cities reap much benefit from the annual gathering...and everyone went back to his desk a better Realtor for having attended, although some of them painfully admitted that they could not stand it like they could in the olden days.” 
MAY 2008 - This month the National Association of REALTORS® turns 
