Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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1-AETHE.o191C.l52 The Alumni THE CORNELLIAN COUNCIL The fund-raising agency of Cornell University is the Cor- nellian Council. The Council was organized in 1908 and resulted from a desire on the part of a large number of alumni to make systematic annual gifts to the University. The founders of the Council also had in mind the idea of doing away with the indiscriminate and merely occasional solicitation of the alumni and of having all appeals for the University's needs by one organization vested with authority. The work of the Council is promoted by representatives- one or more from each Cornell Club throughout the world, one or more from all geographical districts where there are no active clubs, a man and a woman from each class graduated, and a number of at-large members elected by the Council. The i Executive Committee and the oflicers of the Council are selected . k from these representatives and constitute the controlling body. 1 a There is a paid executive staff at Ithaca to carry on the active routine work of raising the funds. lt is to these representatives, Prffiflwf or agents, on the Council that Cornell looks for aid in various campaigns for funds. PAUL A. SCHOELLKOPF, '06 Most of the gifts made through the Cornellian Council are unrestricted as to their use and con- stitute the Alumni Fund. lt is this fund which is resorted to when Cornell is faced with the loss of a member of the Faculty whose services are sought elsewhere at a larger salary, and when the Presi- dent and Trustees need funds with which to balance the University budget and to meet emergency needs as they arise. Many gifts have likewise been made to Cornell through the Council for specific purposes, including the gifts of 31,500,000 for Myron Taylor Hall and nearly s5oo,0oo for the War Memorial. During the liscal year which ended June 30, 1930, 10,136 alumni and former students contributed to the Alumni Fund. All annual contributors to the Alumni Fund are members of the Cornellian Council. Paul A. Schoellkopf, '06, the President of the Cornellian Council, has long been prominently identified with the Council's work, and with alumni activities. He is a nationally known figure in hydro-electric power industry, in which the Schoellkopf family has been outstanding for several generations. He is at present the President of the Niagara-Hudson Power Company, and an oflicer and director in many other public utility companies, as well as a director in several educational and charitable organizations. Mr. Schoellkopf has been a member of the Cornellian Council for many years, and in 1919-20, he filled the position of Chairman of the Semi-Centennial Endowment Committee in Niagara Falls. He has been Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Council for two years. ln 1914, Paul Schoellkopf joined with the other members of the Schoellkopf family in making a hand- some gift to Cornell University which made possible the construction of Schoellkopf Field, named for the founder of the Schoellkopf family in this country. The otlicers ofthe Cornellian Council for the current year are: Paul A. Schoellkopf, '06, President, Nlaxwcll Nl. Upson, '99, Edward E. Soule, '88, Allan C. Balch, '89, and William G. Strong, '94, Nice-Presidents, Sara B. Sailor, '09, Assistant Secretary, Louis C. Boochever, '12, Director of Pub- litlrv. Harold Flack, '12, Executive Secretary. The members of the Executive Committee of the Cornellian Council for the current year are: Paul bclioellkopf, 06, ,l. Duljratr White, '90, Robert T. Mickle, '92, Jervis Langdon, '97, Maxwell M, L pawn, 99, XX .tltcr C. Tcagle, '00, Floyd L. Carlisle, '03, Neal D. Becker, '05, Robert E. Trernan, '09, .ind .-Xndrcxx' Xlhinery, '10, Harold Flack, '12, his been Executive Secretary of the Cornellian Council for the past fifteen years. ff ff' 'FK f in . 'f . W K ' . fdf far P' . I E321

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MARTIN J INSULL CORNELLIANQYE- Board Of Trustees OFFICERS FRANK HARRIS HISCOCK, Cbnirrnun JUSTIN DUPRATT WHITE, Vice-Cbuirnzun MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO LIVINGSTON FARRAND .............FY..I.,.FF ,F,..II..I.,,,,,,..,IIF.F,.,F.IF,..,..FEV.EF,..FF. F,.YF.. T n e Prexuienf of the Uneoermgf FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT .I..O.,I ......4...,. T foe Governor of New York HERBERT H LEHMAN .......,..Ew...w..w.. E..,EE..E,.. T be Lreurenunr Governor JOSEPH A MCGINNIES ...,....,I.,,..E .v....... T be Spieuker of the Affernbbf FRANK PIERREPONT GRAVES ,......, ....I..e.....,,I,E,EEE T he Cornrneuioner of Eoiueureon BERNE A PYRKE .............,..,...E,,,e ,e,E,,,ev.....,,..e.., T he Cornrniffioner of Agriculture CHARLES H BALDWIN .....,....... ..,Y... P re fiflent of the Sfezte Agriculfurul Society EBENEZER TOUSEY TURNER ..,,.. ....,....I,...I..I,..IE.,.....,.. ....,,.. L i bruriun of the Cornell Itbueu Liorury STANTON GRIEFIS FRANK H MILLER MARY MERRIT CRAWTORIJ FRANK ERNEST GANNETT BANCROFT GHERARDI AUGUST HECKSCHER FRANK HARRIS HISCOCK LIFE MEMBER CHARLES EZRA CORNELL MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GGVERNOR PETER GANSEVOORT TEN EYCK MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE ALUMNI JAMES XVENTWORTH PARKER JACOB FREDERICK SCI-IOELLKOPE, JR. ROBERT EDWARD TREMAN JOHN BENNETT TUCK MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE BOARD CUTHBERT WINERED POUND EDWIN NASH SANDERSON HENRY RUBENS ICKELHEIMER CHARLES M SCHWAB WALTER CLARK TEAGLE ROBERT HENRY TREMAN GEORGE RIVET VAN NAMEE HORACE WHITE I I MAXWELL MAYHEW UPSON ' SAMUEL WILEY WAKEMAN ALFRED DUPONT WARNER, JR. MYNDERSE VAN CLEEF HENRY HERMAN WESTINGHOUSE JUSTIN DUPRATT WHITE EZRA BAILEY WHITMAN ROGER BUTLER WILLIAMS JARED TREMAN NEWMAN MEMBER ELECTED BY THE STATE GRANGE HOWARD E BAECOCK FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY I HBRMAN DIEDERICHS ERNEST MERRITT Mann Sanderson Merritt Upson Baldwin Pyrl-:e Gannett Grilis Warner Ghernrcli Bosrwick R. E. Tremau Ickelheimer Parker Babcock Ten Eyck Turner Schoellkopf Dicclerichs Newman Van Names Tuck Williams White Crawford Pound Van Cleef Cornell Graves Farrand l-liscock R. HI Treman Whitman v -1 4 N 'I' 'V W 'V - 'U 1 Y K Y T I i q x q fm . 1 WL X q ' si V, t q Y, ll31I

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CORNELLIANQIB.: The Alumni THE coamatt ALUMNI CORPORATION Cornell has several alumni organizations, largely inde- pendent in their fields of action, although naturally interlock- ing to a degree. The Cornell Alumni Corporation is the general alumni association, and has as its object the promotion of the interests of the University and the fostering among its members of a sentiment of regard for one another and attachment to their Alma Mater and the ideal of service to humanity. At a meeting in 1872, representatives of the classes then graduated founded the organization known as the Associate Alumni of Cornell University. As the alumni increased in number and formed local clubs and organizations, the need arose for a more competent and central organization. The Associate Alumni became a corporation in 1903. In 1923 the name of the association was changed to the Cornell Alumni Corporation. All persons who have attended Cornell University as students, whether graduated or not, are members. More than a hundred alumni clubs, in all parts of the world, form the main structure WILLIAM W- MACON '98 of the organization, and the corporation derives its financial Pffffflfnf support mainly from assessments levied on these clubs. Besides the annual meeting in Ithaca just before Commencement, the Corporation holds biennial conventions, generally in the autumn. Until 1930 these conventions were scheduled annually: at Cleveland in May, 1921, at Chicago in April, 1922, at Buffalo in October, 1923, at Pittsburgh in October, 1924, at Detroit in October, 1925, at Philadelphia in November, 1926, at St. Louis in Novem- ber, 1927, at Washington in November, 1928, at Rochester in October, 1929, at Ithaca in November, 1930. Hereafter conventions will be held in the even-numbered years. Fifteen alumni comprise the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Twelve are district direc- tors, elected from twelve districts into which the world has been divided, while three are directors- at-large. The personnel of the Board this year includes the following district directors: Central New York, Thomas I. S. Boak, '14, Metropolitan New York, Weyland Pfeiffer, '16, Eastern New York, C. Reeve Vanneman, '03, Western New York, Floyd Kipp Smith, '94, New England, Chester T. Reed, '03, Middle Atlantic, Douglas S. Dilts, '17, Keystone, L. W. Voigt, '21, Southern, Creed W. Fulton, '09, Great Lakes, Conant Van Blarcom, '08, Central, Frank G. Gardner, '91, Western, Edward Holmes, '05, Pacific, F. E. Yoakum, '12. The three directors-at-large are: Mrs. Walter A. Calihan, '05, William W. Macon, '98, Floyd S. Winslow, 'O6. The officers are: President, Mr. Macon, Vice-Presidents, Mr. Gardner and Dr. Winslow, Treasurer, Archie C. Burnett, '90, Secretary, Foster M. Coffin, '12. THE ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE The central office of the alumni is that of the Alumni Representative. This office was created by the Board of Trustees of the University at the request of the Alumni Corporation, the Association of Class Secretaries, and the Cornellian Council. The Alumni Representative is appointed by the Board of Trustees upon the nomination of the Presidents of these three organizations. He is responsible to a committee composed of three representatives of the alumni organizations and two members of the Board of Trustees. His primary duty is the development of the relations between the University and its alumni. Foster M. Coffin, '12 has been Alumni Representative since the otlice was created in 1920. I fl 'fl ' i n 'ss 'fl . s 'fI fw- . - fl I lI33ll