Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Laying Cornerstone of Commerce Building of $100,000 for the summer project and set July 19 as the day to open actual solicitation. As in the first student campaign, the period of solicitation was opened with a gigantic mass meeting, this time beneath the beeches in the amphitheater. Senator Samuel M. Ralston and Mrs. Ralston were the principal speakers. A group of alumni and student speakers completed the program. Following the meeting the student so- licitors took the field for contributions. They worked hard and long for more than two days. The result of their labor was $50,000 raised, to be added to the grand total of the fund. The task before them was great, and the results they achieved were very gratifying. From far and wide came words of congratulation. Presi- dent Bryan, traveling in the west in the interest of the Memorial, telegraphed his greetings upon the success of the Summer Session movement. The campaign ended with a Memorial dance m the amphitheater. [Page 16 ]

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J ' lie Mcinofiat I ' ayiant from $1,000,000 to $1,600,000. Their action was a significant step in the fund ' s annals. By many it was taken to mean that an adequate auditorium for campus needs would be built as a part of the Memorial project. Old grads and young, all joined in pronouncing the 1922 Commencement the best in years. The third chapter in the great book of the Memorial was written in blazoned letters by the students of the Summer Session of 1922. Not to be outdone by students of the regular year, they seized the opportunity offered them to become a part of the Memorial movement. Early in June, 1922, the project ' s officials decided on a campaign among the Summer Session students similar to the one conducted in the spring of that year. More than two-thirds of the summer students had not been here during the regu- lar session. Convinced by the success of the March campaign among the student body that there could be little if any improvement over the method of organiza- tion used then, the Summer Session students were organized just as the students of the regular session had been. Arthur V. Coulter, ' 23, of Robinson, 111., and Frieda Herbst, ' 24, of Indianapolis, were named student directors for the Sum- mer Session campaign by President Bryan about June 10. They chose as their assist- ants, Horace B. Upham, ex ' 24, of New- castle, and Mary Welborn, ' 23, of Alexan- dria. Through the hot months of the sum- mer they toiled, organizing their campaign and directing their workers. The general men ' s and women ' s committees set a quota Page 15]

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