Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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F I . Wll.KIKSON Ki'ui trnr ©)c Registrar £ Office

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na Cljc SMimini Office The Alumni Office was established bv vote of the Board of Trustees in September, 1923. Its personnel consists of an Alumni and Field Secretary and a full-time clerk, together with several students who are given part-time employ ment. The purpose of the office is to collect and preserve records of graduates and former students, to act as a link between the alumni and the University, and to provide headquarters for field activities in the interest of the University and the alumni, together with the publishing of an alumni magazine and other literature of interest both to the alumni and to the University. The functions of the office, by experience, has been extended to include promotion and co-operative effort on behalf of financial campaigns. the preparation and the conduct of various forms of exhibits, cooperation with a special committee charged with securing nominations for Alumni Trustee, and the promotion of student concert tours. During the four years of its existence, the office has been a steady growth until at the present, the time and energy of the personnel are taxed to the very limit. Plans for further development include close attention to the details of alumni organization, the development of proper alumni concepts among the student body, the publication of an alumni directory, and the inauguration and development of an alumni fund, together with the raising of an appropriate student-aid fund. Our own office is a pioneer in its held among colored educational institutions. and it is the only colored member of the Association of Alumni Secretaries. Alumni Magazines Associated, and the Association of Alumni Funds, the work of the office being governed by the rules of these associations. ■tzassa

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Ak.kk.non r. Jackson DirtN'tor bc Department of public ibcaltl) The immediate purpose of the Department of Public Health is to make a careful study and analysis of the student’s health, with the idea of guarding, guiding and maintaining the same to the end that physical efficiency and mental efficiency may be so correlated as to influence the scholastic and after-life of our students. A complete physical examination is given every student each year upon his entrance to the undergraduate college of the University, and for those who are abnormal, an attempt—in so far as is possible with a somewhat limited staff—is made to correct such abnormalities and so direct the life and habits of the student that he may more thoroughly realize the aims and ambitions which have brought him to us. The Clark Hall Clinic, held daily in the gymnasium, conducts a health and welfare sen-ice which strives to answer not only the health needs of the student, but also the many perplexing social problems which creep into his life. A regular course of lectures dealing with personal hygiene and open to all first year students, tends to effect a closer and more practical understanding of this department’s relation to the student and university life. This deparment attempts (in a too-limited way) to serve as a clearing house for facts, statistics, data, and advice regarding the larger health problem of the 12,000,000 Negroes of this country. The limitations in this field of work are all too embarrassing and must remain so until we are sufficiently endowed to help answer this tremendous and all-consuming American question. S525SSS