University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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can do that for you, but she cannot force you into any field, nor will she. 1 hat’s for you. We, as alumni, like to reach back to you who are tramping about upon the grounds we know so well and invite you to come prepared and willing to help us in our duties. Yours very sincerely, W. A. Tarr, ’08. Inst, in Economic Geology University of Missouri. We are glad to hear from Miss Post, whom we have all come to know. Miss Post is on of the best rooters at our games, she is always ready and willing to help .. and back student activities. She tells us something of the members pf her class, and their life work. We are indeed proud that they are Alumni of the L. of A. Mr. F. R. Abbott, Alumni Editor “The Desert” My Dear Mr. Abbott: On looking over the roll of the class of 1909 it seems rather remarkable that of the five who are living, four arc residents of Tucson. Miss Wilkerson has been deputy county recorder since her graduation and as she makes her home on Olive Road with Professor and Mrs. Forbes, she is still a familiar figure on the campus. Burrell Hatcher of Hatcher and Carpenter, assayers and mining engineers, is too busy attending to his rapidly increasing business to take a very active part in the present school life, but he is as always, a loyal supporter of the University. The work of “Moss” Ruthrauff, our worthy president, as City Engineer of Tucson, has been highly commended by resident and visiting engineers and reflects credit upon the city and upon the University. Perry Thompson after a course at Columbia University Secured a good position in the geological department of the Anaconda Copper Co., and is held in high esteem by the chief geologist of that company. He has been assigned some special work recently, and will probably publish the result of his investigations. I am indebted to J. Clyde Hoyt ’10 who is at present with the North Star Co., at Tonopah, for infarmation about Mr. Thompson. After four years experience in the High School at Yuma, it has been my good fortune to obtain a position in the Department of Romance Languages under Professor Turrell. During the year I have been glad to observe the business-like way in which the Students have conducted their affairs and that the Spit it of the Student-Body is deepening and developing with the passing years. Anita Post ’09.

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Alumni The officers of the University of Arizona Alumni Association arc as follows: President, Warren A. Grossetta, ’10 Pice-President, Miss Anita C. Post, '09 Secretary, Miss Marie Purcell, '12 Treasurer, J. Moss Ruthrauff, ’09 There has been established in “The 1914 Desert” a new department, and one that we hope will be one of the most important departments in all succeeding annuals, a department devoted to the interests of the alumni of this University. The alumni, more than any others, make for the reputation and upbuilding of a college or I niver-sity. Every effort, therefore, that can be made to bring them nearer together and bind them more closely to their Alma Mater will tend to advance the University and render more permanent its ideals and traditions. We have not been able to reach all our alumni. In fact we have not tried to. The task would have been stupendous, inasmuch as our graduates are scattered to the four corners of the earth; but out of the number from whom we have requested letters we have received several replies, which we take great pleasure in printing below. We believe that these letters indicate a loyalty to the University of Arizona and a loftiness of ideals in our alumni which must be encouraging and inspiring to all who are interested in the success and growth of this institution. Alumni Editor of “The Desert”: The plan to have some reference made to those who have taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the University of Arizona 1 regard as a step which should draw them closer to those who are coming after. Our relations, as five or ten year old alumni, to the undergraduates, are those of the pioneer. We, too, were fre.hmcn, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, once, so we have trod the same path as all of you and you may perchance recognize some of the landmarks there we made. Hut we finished our work there and have now spent some years as pioneers. And what is the message we send back to you ? It is a message which tells that there is work, glorious work, ahead, that we find our plans to accomplish great things involve far more of that element than we anticipated. Of course you must have pluck and perseverance. You will recognize that. Rut the real force which will lift you fastest is work. The University has given you a scholastic training and has pointed out possible lines of advance. Your alma mater

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Frank R. Abbott, U. of A. Dear Sir: I wish to say regarding your new department devoted to the alumni that 1 think your idea a very good one in general and would do all I can to help the cause along. However, you state you wish “letters from some of the more prominent among them” which by no means includes me. But I must correct your address of my letter by-stating that I am no longer at Anaheim, California, but have returned to the state of my Alma Mater and am enjoying the sunshine and hospitality of Phoenix and incidentally putting in some strenuous licks, endeavoring to give a practical turn to the educational bent of the youth of the Phoenix High School. In fact, there are four of us “grads” of U. of A. domiciliated here and we modestly contend that we are giving a decidedly Arizona tone to the busy hum for which this institution has long been noted. We are keeping in as close touch as possible with the University and arc coming down there with the biggest crowd you have ever seen, not only University-Week, but next fall when a new Freshman class lines up. As to our work here, the others will speak for themselves. Personally, I am endeavoring to pass along sonic of the ideas and principals for which Professor Henley so ably stands. We are fairly well equipped for bench and mill-work and are hoping for a new and permanent building to properly house the increasing number of young people taking this line of work. Put me down as a subscriber to this year’s annual for which I wish you every success. Very truly yours, R. Izer Turner, ’10. Instructor, Shop and Drawing, P. H. S. lytx us now hear from one of the biggest boosters that the University has, on the subject of Student Boosters”. “Groussey” is known by everyone and is a familiar figure at all of the football games in his red and blue” vest and Claxson horn”, Arizona has no better well-wisher than Warren Grossetta. Editor of “The Desert”: I am more than pleased to see the class of 1915 take such active interest in the alumni of the school, for as a rule when a man graduates he is forgotten. But the graduates do not forget their Alma Mater by any means. I will get down to business at once. 1 wish to speak about the “Student Booster”. The pessimist does not come within this class, he is a knocker. He is a crank of the first water with many imaginary grievances, who lacks the moral courage and backbone to follow the dictates of his better judgment, and who is inclined to be envious of successful men; who allows the “Grandstand” to come before his eyes which keeps him from seeing the thousands and thousands of things that the wide awake “Student Booster” is doing around him every day. The knocker is a disgrace and a curse to any institution, and the quicker he is told to move on the better.