Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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A d m in i s t r a t i 0 n 16 Rev. Harold C. Phillips W. H. Johnson V. Ernest Field Alumni Trustee Alumni Trustee Alumni Trustee Society of the Alumni F OUNDED in 1846, the Society of the Alumni has for eighty-seven years been an import- ant factor in the development of Denison University. As individuals, alumni have contributed generously in building up our equipment, establishing scholarship funds, and in making gifts of rare value of books, curios, and scientific specimens. As an organized group, the alumni have published the Alumni Bulletin, financed the Alumni Office, established a professorship fund, and cooperated in promoting the interests of the college. Their devotion has, without doubt, stimulated the interest of philanthropic men and wromen with the result that buildings have been erected and endowments increased. Today, twenty-two of the thorty-six members of the Board of Trustees are alumni of Denison. These alumni trustees represent every decade from the eldst member, Jacob R. Davies ' 69, to the youngest, Harold C. Phillips 19. Thus a deep knowledge of Denison, past and present, is assured, and the traditions and standards that have made this college a distinctive institution are preserved and maintained. The significance of the Society is seldom realized by the young graduate until his contemporaries have disappeared from the campus. After an absence of three or four years it is discovered, with a pang of regret, that the personnel has changed; the picture is entirely different and it is at this time that the Society stands ready with open arms to embrace a member who now finally recognizes that his place is in the ranks of those whose college life is in the past. The interest of the seasoned alumnus is in the institution itself rather than an at- tachment to persons. He sees the institution as a living organism. Men may come and