Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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T. D. Sam ford, '88 Alumni President, H)02-’o For five years, Judge Samford piloted the destinies of the Alumni Association as the second president of the organization. Excepting the eight-year term of Thomas Bragg, Judge Samford held the office longer than any other Alumni president. During these early years that much important work was accomplished. Annual meetings were held at which time there was a regular business session, a banquet, and an alumni address. In addition to many other worth-while accomplishments, the Association established the Broun Memorial Scholarship Fund for worthy women students. Also, it was during Judge Samford’s presidency that a movement was started for the erection of a bronze tablet in memory of the members of the old college who gave their lives for the South. In the same year Judge Samford was elected president of the Alumni Association, he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the college, a position he has held continuously since. Judge Samford is a prominent lawyer in Opelika. C. L. Harold, ’00 Alumni President, IQIO-12 During the two years C. L. Harold, 'oo, was president of the Alumni Association much constructive work was accomplished. Several scholarship funds were maintained and regular functions of the Association were performed, including the yearly meeting back at Auburn and the banquet which affords the real enjoyment on these occasions. For a number of years after graduating at Auburn, Mr. Harold was a member of the reportorial staff of the Birmingham News and the Montgomery Advertiser. At the present time, Mr. Harold holds a prominent position with the Brooklyn Edison Company, Brooklyn, New York. 5

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Gen. R. E. Noble, '90 Alumni President, IQ2S Cndcr the direction of General Noble the organization of local Auburn clubs was extended to every county in Alabama and to all sections of the I'nited States where a sufficient number of Auburn men reside. Also, the entire constitution and by-laws of the Alumni Association was revised and rewritten. General Noble has had wide and distinguished service as an army officer, retiring with the rank of Major-General in 1925. I.ater he was a member and finally director of the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Commission to the West Coast of Africa. General Noble now lives at Crowan Cottage. Anniston, Alabama. James V. Brown, A.B., M.S. Exeeufive Secretary Alumni Association Chairman Student Placement Bureau Chairman A thletic Faculty An active alumni office is operated on the campus by the Executive Secretary. Here all affairs relating to the alumni arc handled, including the maintaining of a file of graduates, and the publication of a monthly magazine for the alumni. Through the Student Placement Bureau, all types of local employment arc made available to students. The bureau is constantly seeking new fields of student employment. The office of Chairman of the Athletic Faculty embodies the duties of presiding at all meetings where matters are considered concerning the athletic policy, the eligibility of players and the approving of athletic schedules. 4

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Thomas Bragg, ’01 Alumni President. IQ12-20 When Tom Bragg was invited to Birmingham to become manager of the investment department of the Alabama Power Company in 1920. he had been president of the Alumni Association for eight consecutive annual terms. A few of the outstanding achievements as president of the Association were the founding of The Auburn Alumni Quarterly which is now The Auburn Alumnus, the bringing about of the great Home-coming Reunion of alumni in June, 1913, the raising of funds for the Alumni Gymnasium, and the organization of “The Old Guard’’ among the alumni graduating before 1880. Mr. Bragg is now a vice-president of the Alabama Power Company. J. V. Denson, ’05 Alumni President, 1Q20- 21 John V. Denson was president of the Alumni Association for one year from June ist, 1920, succeeding Thomas Bragg's long and successful incumbency and preceding Charlie DeBardelcbcn’s and the drive for a million dollars for Auburn. 'Though short, Mr. Denson’s term of office is significant. Special effort was made to organize local groups of Auburn men in places where a sufficient number of Auburn graduates or former students made an Auburn Club feasible. T he Auburn $1,000,000 Drive was conceived and planned and for the first time a full-time, well-paid executive secretary was employed. Mr. Denson is a distinguished lawyer in Opelika, Alabama. 16