Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT

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a Alumnae Association President MAUDE E. GRAY Vice-President MARY P. BERKLEY Secretary and Treasurer RUBY L. VENABLE vUR Alumnae Association was organized June 23, 1887. Since that time it has met bi-annually, and has usually added a banquet to the Commencement fes- tivities, entertaining the Board, Faculty, and the graduating class. The two great aims of the Association are to promote social intercourse among its members, and to further the interests of its Alma Mater. Our last meeting was held in June, 1901, at which meeting it was decided to have yearly dues of fifty cents, and an additional charge of one dollar for the banquet. We greatlv desire to publish the minutes of each meeting, and to send a copy to every alumna, but lack of funds has so far prevented this, together with the fact that we know the addresses of comparatively few of the old girls. Each girl is urged to send her address to some one of the officers of the Association. Our last meeting was varied by the presentation of a Cunningham Memorial Tablet, and an address by Dr. E. H. Harding on The Life of Dr. Cunningham. This tablet was presented by the Alumna; of Farmville, and had no connection with the Cunningham Scholarship Fund, the statement for which follows : Amount desired $2 500. 00 Amount promised 443.00 Amount on hand 282.00 This looks rather depressing, but if more interest could be aroused, if each alumna would contribute one dollar a year to this fund, in four years we should have the desired amount. This ought not to tax our purses very heavily, and we should only be doing our dutv bv the old Normal.