Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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X estern Swartl)more (Tlub Tlie Western Swarthmore Club was organized in December, 1903. It started at an informal dinner where about a dozen former Swarthmoreans had gathered to listen to ex-President Magill. A happy suggestion resulted in the immediate formation of the Chicago Swarthmore Club. Upon electing Francis E. Broomell, ' 93, Secretary and Treasurer, the Club began to take on a larger aspect. It was reorganized and named the Western Swarthmore Club, with the membership now over four hundred. Each year the Western Swarthmore Club sends a scholar to Swarthmore. This scholar must be a graduate of a well-established school of the college preparatory type, located west of the Allegheny Mountains. The scholarship is competitive and is given to the applicant who best fulfills the requirements of (1) excellence and force of character, (2) capacity as shown by success in studies and other school activities, and (3) good physique and excellence in exercises and sports. President Vice President Secretary Treasurer (Bovcrnlng oar6 c. rroll h. sudler, ' 88 Fred M. Simons, Jr., ' 09 Harry A. Olin, ' 19 Arthur G. Hoadley, ' 02 William T. Battin, ' 96 Francis G. Blair, ' 97 Francis E. Broomell, ' 93 Howard S. Evans, ' 03 Roland B. Flitcraft, ex- ' 99 Russell C. Hoadley, ' 10 T. Atkinson Jenkins, ' 87 William V. Kerns, ' 13 William S. Marshall, ' 88 Marshall Pancoast, ' 99 James J. Schock, ' 13 Feed M. Simons, Jr.. ' 09 Ralph Stone, ' 89 Carroll H. Sudler, ' 88 Mrs. William E. Sweet, ' 88 Newton E. Tarble, ' 13 Mark Thistlewaite, ' 01 James E. Verree, ' 83 I. Daniel Webster, ' 89 Conrad A. Wickam, ' 11 Edith M. Winder, ' 01 18

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For many years the Alumni business meeting was lield on tiie aflerntjon of Commencement Day, and the banquet which velc(jmes tiie graduating class to the company of Alumni occurred the evening of the same da) ' . Occasionally, when there was some special reason for doing so, an invitation was extended to all ex-members of graduated classes, as well as to the graduates of the college, to attend this Alumni Banquet, and in 1905 it was decided to extend this privilege each year. In 1906 yVlumni Uay was established. This day belongs wholly to Alumni and ex-students, and all the activities of the day are carried on by them. Class reunions are held, class gifts are presented to the College, there is a business meeting where many things pertaining to the welfare of the College are considered, games are played, the Senior Play in the outdoor auditorium is repeated, and last but not least, there is the dimier in honor of the graduating class, where most inspiring speeches for the betterment and advancement of the college are delivered, as there are among the Alumni and ex-students many men and women who possess the happy faculty of expressing their loyalty and the loyalty of the whole body of Swarthmoreans in a most effecti ' e and delightful way. e Swartl)more (ToUege .-Alumni .-Association Officers for 1920-21 President Francis W. D ' Olier, ' 07 John R. Sproul, ' 17 - Nora Stabler Worth, ' 03 Maurice E. Griest, ' 04 Vice Presidents Moorestown, N. J. Chester Bryn Mawr Hamilton, Ohio Secretary and Treasurer Abby Mary Hall Roberts, ' 90 - - - Swarthmore Directors Term Expires June, 1921 Charles Palmer, ' 82 Charles T. Brown, ' 98 David D. Rowlands, ' 09 George H. Brooke, ' 93 Channing Way, ' 97 - Helen S. Brown, ' 00 Term Expires June, 1922 Chester Moorestown, N. J. Sheboygan, ' is. Philadelphia West Chester Moorestown. N. J- 17

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(Tlub 5cl)olars 1906 — MuKAT Louis Johnson, Ky. 1914 — Jess JIalsteau, Wis. 1907 — Clyde Insley Blanciiard, Mo. 1915 — Allin Hugh PrEucE, Iowa. 1908 — Alice Elizabeth Masten, IikI. 1916 — Mary Alexander Campbell, Ky. 1909 — James Jacob Schock, Okla. 1916 — Francis Arthur Jenkins, 111. 1910 — Edwin Adams Lucas. 111. 1917 — Lanta I-L stings, 111. 1911 — Lelia Eloise Vest, Iowa. 1918 — Walton Canby Ferris, Wis. 1912 — John Ewing Orchard, Neb. 1919 — Silas Marion Warner, Ind. 1913 — Clarence Gates Mmirs, Iowa. 1920 — William Leigh Early, S. D. I)e i)ila6elpl)ia Swartl)more (Tlub Although the Philadelphia Swarthmore Club is not a perfected organization, the attendance of its annual meeting and banquet shows the increasing interest and enthusiasm of its members. Instead of a president and officers, a committee, varying from ten to fifteen, arranges the club ' s afifairs, including the yearly meeting. The members of this committee are appointed by the retiring toast- master each year. Gerritt E. Weaver, ' 82, the first chairman, instilled the spirit of goodfellowship which still binds the club together. After his death, Howard Cooper Johnson, ' 96, managed the club for ten years until 1916, when lie retired. Percival Parrish, ' 96, has since headed the committee. 19