Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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The Cornellian Council The President of the Cornellian Council for the current year is Jervis Langdon, '97, of Elmira, New York. Mr. Langdon has been actively interested in Cornell since he entered in 1893. While in college, he was editor-in-chief of The Cornellian, a speaker on the '86 Memorial Prize Stage, chairman of the Class Day Committee, and a member of Kappa Alpha. He was a member of the Semi-Centennial Endow- ment Committee in Elmira in 1919 and 1910, has been the representative of his class on the Cornellian Council for five years, a member of the Council's Executive Committee for five years, and for the past two years he has been president of the Cornell Alumni Association in Elmira. His son, Jervis Langdon,Jr., '17, was editor of The Camel! Daibf Sim last year. Mr. Langdon is a member of the firm of J. Langdon and Company of Elmira and of the Chemung Coal Company, and a direc- tor of the Thatcher Manufacturing Compa- ny and the Shamokin Company. He belongs IJERVIS LANGDON7 '97 CO the Zlfld. Country of Elmira, and University and Cornell Clubs of New York. He is a nephew of Samuel L. Clemens CMark Twainb and a brother-in-law of E. E. Loomis, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Prericient Mr. Langdon is giving generously of his time and his resources toward promoting the success of the Cornellian Council. He is an ardent Cornellian, and the service he is rendering Cornell is typical of the devotion which many other successful Cornellians are showing for our Alma Mater. The class of 1918 is identified with three of Cornell's most significant anniversaries. The University is celebrating its sixtieth birthday this year, it is the rooth anniversary of Ezra Cornell's arrival in Ithaca, and the Cornellian Council will have given twenty years of loyal service by the time the members of the Class of 1918 join the ranks of the alumni. The Cornellian Council, founded in 1908, is the alumni organization which has for its purpose the stimulation of alumni interest in the financial support of the Univer- sity. The founders of the Council had in mind the idea of doing away with indiscrimi- nate and spasmodic solicitation of the Alumni and of having all appeals for the University's needs made by one organization vested with authority. The wisdom of this plan is now acknowledged by the faculty, trustees, and alumni, and the soundness of the plan has been shown in other universities as well as Cornell. As a mark of success of the Cornellian Council, it may be said that no other university exceeds Cornell in the amount of money furnished annually by its alumni, with the exception of Yale whose organization is some fifteen years older than Cornell's. 18

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Board 0 f Trustees MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE BOARD GEORGE F. BAKER WALTER P. COOKE FRANK H. HISCOCK HENRY R. ICKELHEIMER JARED T. NEWMAN IRA A. PLACET HENRY W. SACKETT - CHARLES M. SCHWAB C. SIDNEY SHEPARD WVALTERCC. TEAGLE CHARLES E. TREMAN ROBERT H. TREMAN MYNDERSE VAN CLEEE HENRY H. XVESTINGHOUSE ROGER B. WILLIAMS MEMBER ELECTED BY THE STATE GRANGE WILLIAM F. PRATT FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES VERANUS ALVA MOORE FRANK THILLY GEORGE FREDERICK WARREN XDiedfm1zzary 24, 1928. I FRANK H. HISCOCK, '75 Chairman 1 J. DUPRATT WHITE, '9 Vice-Clmirfmm

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The Cornellian Council The activities of the Cornellian Council are centered in the building up of the Alum- ni Fund which represents the combined contributions, large and small, of a large group of alumni. The alumni fund is making it possible for the University to meet situations for which the income from the endowment of Cornell does not provide. Small gifts to the University are made valuable by reason of their large number and solidarity of purpose and at the same time interest is created which can be created in no other way. he larger part of the gifts to the Alumni Fund are unrestricted and are available for appropriation by the Trustees where most needed. Gifts to the Cornellian Council may, however, be allocated for special purposes, and when so allocated are used for these purposes only. The membership of the Cornellian Council is made up of one representative from each class, forty at-large members elected by the Council, and an unlimited number of honorary and geographical representatives. Payments of subscriptions to the Alumni Fund, as soon as received by the Executive Secretary of the Council, are immediately forwarded to the Treasurer of the Univer- sity. More than 51,000,000 has thus been contributed by alumni of Cornell to Cornell University through the organization of the Cornellian Council since 1908. The Cornellian Council undertakes from time to time to raise funds for special projects. Under the able leadership of Robert E. Treman, ,O9, the War Memorial Committee, of which he was chairman, last year raised over S300,000 for the towers and cloisters which will soon be erected in commemoration of Cornell's heroic dead. The past year also saw the completion of a fund of S7.00,000 for the John E. Sweet Distinguished Professorship to be used to endow a professorship in mechanical engi- neering, with which college Professor Sweet was so intimately connected for many years. Other similar projects are now under way. One of the principal reasons for the gratifying increase of the Alumni Fund has been the whole-hearted support accorded it by succeeding graduating classes. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Jiznvis LANGDON, ' 97 . . ......,.. Prefidenf of :lac Council ROBERT ELIAS TREMAN, '09 .... , . , Vine-Prerident of the Council JUSTIN DUPRATT WHITE, ' 90 MAXWELL MAYHEW Ur-soN, ' 99 ROBERT THOMAS MICKLE, '91 NEAL Dow BECKER, '05 FRANK ERNEST GANNETT, ' 98 ANDREW JOSEPH WHINERY, 'To EDWARD GAUL MACARTHUR, ,II 7-9