Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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if- how a little excuse for a man, merely a backbone grown high and covered with hair, made me furious by ridiculing Birmingham-Southern as a second-class college. And, if you will permit me frankness, that attitude is permitted by too many of the fellows who have gone from its walls, and who know better, but who are silent in the face of ignorant accusers or who lack the nerve to speak up and tell what he Ifnoms. If your vision of Birmingham-Southern is large, including a desire for all the depart- ments necessary to meet the needs of all boys who would attend it, and including alumni support that would build up a spirit of loyalty that would hold the fellows, once they attended, then the school will in lime rank with the larger attended institutions of the state — in the mind of the prospective student. And here is where the alumni, through its association, might do the best work on a small scale. But what have iou given to date to help the plans of your association mature? You have been made conversant with these plans by mail, and yet the alumni have not backed us with sufficient funds to thoroughly popularize the institution among the high school seniors of the state. This message is not desired to leave you pessimistic. Your president is not pessimistic. He believes that, in time, the alumni generally will awaken, as have a few, and then — but not until then — will we be a force in the building up of a great educational plant in the great industrial region of our great state. With all of us fellows doing everything that the association asks, there is no telling what might be done. The question is. Have jiou or are ijou going to do our part? The editor-in-chief asks that this article be along the line of prospects of Birmingham- Southern. The prospects of Birmingham-Southern are its alumni, in large measure, and to them the old school would seem to say: I ' ve knocked around amazin ' in this world of calm and storm; I ' ve had some hard old battles, but I ' ve kept a-ploddm ' on. And my spirit ' s just as cheery as it ever was, you bet; I ' ve had my tribulations, BUT 1 AIN ' T DEAD YET! And it ain ' t going to die; but just how live a thing it is depends on you. Yours cheerfully and hopefully, C. M. Dannelly, President Alumni Association. Page lIDenl], '

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MR. C. M. DANNELLV To Our Alumni: It mighl be better form to make of this statement, requested by the editor-in-chief, a general editorial en the value of active alumni to their Alma Mater. This is almost an axiom and needless of further comment than to say that no college can well succeed that does not have the hearty and active co-operation of those whom it sends forth into the world. ( largely depends on vou as lo what kind of institution Birmingham-Southern College is lo be. So permit me to take this space and make of it an agency of appeal for the support of those men and women who have attended this institution. If you are cool and luke- warm, what opinion will men of other colleges hold of that which ought to be dear in your memory? If you are warm and enthusiastic, what opinion will men hold of that which is dear in your memory? It is on the opinion of men and women and boys and girls that we hope to secure future students. Are you doing your share in driving among your acquaintances with active loyal propaganda? If not, get hiisv! If your vision of Birmingham-Southern — only now in the making, despite its years of previous existence as two different institutions — is limited by what either institution was in the past, then Birmingham-Southern College will continue lo be a small, struggling college looked upon by prospective students as a second-rater. I shall never forget Page nineteen

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