Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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CDE1 3n fttcmurfam .JOHN DOMINIQUE ■whose life has been an inspiratioti and whose memory icill remain a benediction.

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The Lake Drive

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The Alumni Association AND The Alby L. Smith Loan Fund — + — he Alumni, numbering over three thousand, E 3frj are from the class of 1886 to the classes of iar HQS? 5 1920 inclusive. These graduates have con- tributed largely in placing the Louisiana pub- lic schools in the forefront of the schools of the nation. In nearly every town and village in the state, we find one or more of these earnest workers educating the youth. Of special interest to each alumna and alumnus are the history and work of the Alby L. Smith Loan Fund. This fund was established in 1914 as a result of the merging of the Alby L. Smith Scholarship Fund with the $5000 Alumni Loan Fund, and was called the Alby L. Smith Loan Fund in memory of the Normal ' s first training teacher. The good done by the Alby L. Smith Loan Fund, during the seventeen years of its existence, in paying the entire expenses at the Normal two years for each of nine girls, is eclipsed only by the wider usefulness made of the Alby L. Smith Loan Fund in lending money to needy students at the Normal. From twenty to seventy loans running from $50 to $75 each are made yearly to such students. — — FINANCIAL STATEMENT Outstanding notes of former and present students. $3616.39 Victory bonds 1000.00 War savings stamps 832.00 Cash on hand 3677.19 Total $9125.58 PRESENT AIM $10,000 Now that we have four-year college courses at the Nor- mal, what should be the limit of our Loan Fund? El