Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Work of Newcomb Alumnae N 1893, three years after the first class graduated from Newcomb College, the Newcomb Alumnae Association was formed and was incorporated a little later under the laws of the State of Louisiana. From its necessarily small beginning it has grown steadily, and today it is an organization of several hundred members that plays — or should play — a vital part in the life of every Newcomb Alumna. At present the main work of the Alumnae Association is a two-fold one, the Alumnae Loan Fund and the Live Oak Social Center. The loan fund was started a few years ago m response to appeals from various undergraduates for small sums that would permit them to finish their college courses. It is supported from an annual contribution from the dues of the Association, contributions from the members, and some annual entertainment given for its benefit, and since its foundation it has aided twelve students in sums varying from two to ninety dollars, as well as many others with books and clothing. The Live Oak Social Center was begun in 1913 at the public school of that name. Now, at the conclusion of its third year of activity, it is a recog- nized influence in the community where its work lies. With its membership of over two hundred and fifty, it offers unequaled advantages for real social service to the Alumnae who do — and the many Alumnae who do not — support its work. The annual Alumnae-College basketball game makes the College and Alumnae known to each other, as does the annual Alumnae Vaudeville Show given for the benefit of the loan fund, which is always most generously supported by the undergraduates. Last year an Alumnae-College baseball game and an Alumnae-College debate served the same purposes. The Association has, of course, other activities too numerous to be mentioned here. But its main work is, as it has been since its inception, real service to Newcomb in keeping alive the Newcomb spirit in the Newcomb Alumnae, and in keeping loyal to a growing Alma Mater the graduates of its earlier days. (17)

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- •7 ' i r: j NtWCOHiniAlTlJlANE AiyNNABlH ALUNNI EDITH nAWER TULANE ALUMNI OFFICERS Frank William Hart President Miss Nathalie V. Scott Vice-Presideni Edward S. Bres Secretary George W. Robertson Treasurer Executive Committee MuiR Bradbubn Medical Department Thomas Semmes Walmsley .... Law Department William Bullitt Grant . .Arts and Sciences Department George Arthur Seaver . Technology Department William von Phul Graduate Department Miss Fanny Maud Black .... Neacomb College John Joseph Colomb Dental Department newcomb alumnae officers Viola Sirera Ransmeier President Lydia Elizabeth Frotscher First Vice-President Mary Butler Second Vice-President Ethel Perkins Corresponding Secretary Elizabeth Hurt Robinson . Recording Secretary Eleanor E. Reames Treasurer Florence Dymond Director Carmelite Janvier Director Amelie Roman Director Emily Huger Director (16)

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KHI5TOR1 fyNIVERSlTV TUL.ANE UNIVERSITY looks back for its beginning to the Medical College of Louisiana, which was organized in 1834 and chartered in the spring of 1835. It issued its first degree in March, 1 836, the first in medicine or science ever issued in Louisiana. Tulane University as it stands today represents the contract giving to the Tulane administrators perpetual control of the University of Louisiana, which the men lo whom Paul Tulane entrusted his donations entered into ith the State of Louisiana. In the opening of his letter to the administrators, dated Princeton, May 2, 1 882, he wnes: A resident of New Orleans for many years of my active life, having formed many friendships and associations dear to me, and deeply sympathizing wth its people in whatever misfortunes or disasters may have befallen them, as well as being sincerely desirous of contributing to their moral and intellectual welfare, I do hereby express to you my intention to donate to you by an act of donation inter vivos all the real estate I own end am possessed of in said city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, for the promo- tion and encouragement of intellectual, moral and industrial education among the white young persons in the city of New OrleEuis, State of Louisiana, and for the advancement of learning and letters, the arts and sciences therein. . . . Mr. Tulane ' s first gift amounted in value to $363,000, and subsequent donations raised the total value of real estate donated to $1,050,000, wth an annual rental of $75,000. The resuh of other donations since the time of Mr. Tulane ' s generosity have been the Richardson Memorial Building, the Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Building, the F. W. Tilton Memorial Librarj ' , the endowment of the chair of botany by Mrs. Ada A. Richardson, the donor of the fund with ■hlch the present Richardson Memorial Building was erected. A donation of $25,000 by the United Fruit Company has made possible the establishment of the Department of Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, to become the School of Tropical Medicine as soon as a sufficient foundation warrants. The further maintenance of the Department of Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine has been made possible by the gifts of Mr. Edward Wisner, of $500 for the year 1912-13, and a promise of an equal amount for four years thereafter; of $600 by Mr. R. H. Downman, and of smaller amounts, all of which have been of material aid. The College of Medicine has received the sum of $500 anonymously, given for the furtherance (18)