Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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The MASSASOIT 23 locating in one community. This wide distribution of “T. S. men” is a source of weakness to the Alumni Association. A plan has been recently formulated to meet this difficulty, which provides for the organization of Alumni Sections in various geographical centers. Sections have been organized in New York and in Boston. Others have been proposed for the Connecticut Valley and for Cleveland. The careful development of this “section” plan will insure a more effective Alumni Association. The alumni who read The Massasoit will render an important service to the school by suggesting and supporting this form of sub-organization. Dinners and various social gatherings held by the sections and attended both by alumni and friends furnish excellent opportunities for extending the financial constituency of the school and for the securing of new students. Without variation, the ground upon which the school must appeal for support is the successful work of its graduates. The worth of the school depends exclusively upon the ability of her “sons” to bring things to pass in their respective fields of labor. The school should have the benefit at least of a small annual contribu- tion from each graduate. Our Alma Mater looks to us for the necessary cooperation in extending its financial constituency among the leading busi- ness men of the country. “Old T. S.” will be best honored by her “sons” if each one keeps constantly in mind the purpose to discover men, who, with adequate preparation, will join the ranks of those who give their lives to the work of “extending Christ’s Kingdom among young men.”