University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Alumni Council Activities HE past year has witnessed marked progress in the activities of the Alumni Council. In the development of the Alumni Office, in the work of the six Associations-CollegeV Commerce and Administration, Divinity, Doctors of Philosophy, Law, and School of Educationeand in the membership, the progress has been exceptional. There are now well established alumni clubs in every section of the country, and in several foreign countries. a total of forty-eight clubs in all. The Reunion of 1921, which observed the Thirtieth Anniversary of the University, was the most representative and succeseful alumni gathering held thus far. Many classes that formerly had little or no organization have been brought together and strengthened. The Alumni Fund. which was started, practically. January 1, 1920, is now beginning to show its helpful influence in placing alumni activities and the Magazine on a stable basis. The Fund has subscriptions amounting close to $110,000, and there is paid in and invested almost 3.70.000. It should be remembered that there was no great campaign for this Fund, as compared with the campaigns recently conducted by other alumni associations for memorial stadiums and similar purposes; not is there any campaign in progress at this time. Subscriptions, with a fifty d-ollar Life Membership as a minimum, can he made at any time, and subscriptions are coming in constantly. As the years pass there will become available an income from this steadily increasing fund that will prove an unfailing assistance to the University and to alumni activities in many ways. A new association, the Commerce and Administration Alumni Assoeiation, has been organized within the past year. The Alumni of this group have started out with an enthusiasm that promises to make their Association one of the strongest of the six now established. No doubt, when the Medical School is situated on the Midway, and associa- tion of the alumni from that school will be organized, thus completing representative alumni associations for all of the divisions at the University. ' The work and functions of the Alumni Council have grown rapidly. No one can measure the results or value in concrete terms. To keep thousands of graduates and former students in some much with each other and with the University, to develop and sus- tain interest in, and loyalty to Chicago, and to finance and carry on the varied means for accomplishing such purposes, is a large responsibility. Among the definite ttways and meansil a few may be mentioned. Maintenance of a well equipped, central alumni office; maintaining a necessary working force; keeping up alumni records in six different files; publication and distribution of a representative magazine, and other literature; organizing and cooperating with alumni clubs; periodically compiling and distributing an Alumni Directory; conducting annual June reunions; advancing the Alumni Fund; holding numerous regular and special meetings of officers and olfieial bodies; and carrying on such related work as would naturally come to an alumni office. The Council has accepted this responsibility with typical Chicago Spirit and visionelike our City Gray our nAlumni University must become the best. The Alumni Council has noted with keen pleasure the class spirit and the promise of the Senior Class. June, 1922, will see this Class initiated into the great body of the Alumni, and from then on will come the real test of what they think of. and how sincerely they appreciate Alma Mater. It will be our largest Class in numberSewe want it to be equally large in Chicago Spirit, reunion activities, and sustained loyalty. We have confi- dence that tt1922li will be a sllucky numberl, in alumni and class history. 23

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Alumni Council Activities OFFICERS THOMAS J.HAIR,!03 . . . . . . . . Chairman ADDLPH G. PIERRET, ,07 . . . . . . Secretary-Trcasurer i921-1922 COUNCIL From the College Alumni Association, Term expires 1922: Clarence Herschberger, 438; Harold F. Swift, 07; Elizabeth Bredin, H3; Hargrave Long. HZ; Lawrence Whiting, H3; Walter Hudson, 02. Term expires 1923: Elizahath FaulknerKBEmlice Greenacre. 08; William H. Lyman, H4; Marion Palmer, HS; Lee F. Wormser, 05; Thomas J. Hair, 03. Term expires 1924: Mrs. Warren Correll, 98; Charles S. Eaton, 00; Frank McNair. 103; Mrs. Geraldine B. Gilkey, !12; Paul S. Russell, U6; Margaret V. Monroe, WT. From the Association of Doctors of Philosophy: Henry Chandler Cowles, Ph.D., 98; Herbert E. Slaught, Ph.D., 98; Katherine Blunt, -Ph.D., 08. - From the Divinity Alumni Association: Guy C. Crippen, TH; E. J. Goodspeed, 0.3., 97, Ph.D., '98; Oscar D. Briggs, 6x309. ' From the Law School Alumni Association: Frederick Dickson, ex-'05; Charles F. McElroy, A.M., T16; J.D., 15; Chester 5. Bell, H3, J.D., HS. From the School of Education Alumni Association: J. Anthony Humphreys, A.M., 20; Mrs. F. Larkin, 21.; R. L. Lyman, Ph.D., WT. From the Commerce and Administration Alumni Association: Frank E. Weakly, 14; Joseph R. Thomas, 920; John A. Logan, '2!. From Ihe Chicago Alumni Cfub: James M. Sheldon, 03; Charles F. Axelson, ,07; Ralph W. Davis, ,16. From the Chicago Alumnae Club: Mrs. Howard Willett, '07; Helen Norris, 07; Grace A. Coulter, ,99. From the University: Henry Gordon Gale. 96. Ph.D., 99, mudm.mnmmnuu -W-!llml .muuunu- MIMI. .nmulmla IIIIIIIIIHIPAIINHIIHLO IIIIllIIIHCJLHIIuluiivuunnnlIIn- nInIn-n-pw .1 u- - F;

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The June Reunion tme the University of Chicago Magazinei HE 1921 Reunion was in many respects the best reunion ever attended by the Chicago Alumni. It had all the elements of color, variety, and informal, happy good-fellow- ship of previous reunions. Indeed, it was characterized throughout by a manifest out-of-doors, get-together, happy-to-be-home-again spirit. Three thousand alumni came back to witness the various attractions. On Thursday night, June 10, the best i'C dinner ever held took place in Hutchinson Cafe. President Judson and Mr. Stagg addressed the large crowd, while the presence of the 96 baseball team lent color to .the event. The Sing was held Friday night, over one thousand five hundred taking part before a great throng of spectators. Hutchinson Court was most beautifully lighted. Among the itch trophies awarded, came the special blankets presented to the C men of earlier days. The Sing closed with the singing of Wave the'Flag and the Alma Mater. From the Sing the crowd repaired to the Street Dance held on University Avenue be- tween 57th and 58th Streets. This was a new feature and one that pleased the hundreds of dancers and spectators. The new class umbrellas lined the street as gathering places. Much merriment was enjoyed in this informal mode of dancing. Alumni Day, Saturday, June 11, was started auspiciously with the Alumni Breakfast in Ida Noyes Hall, at which over two hundred alumni enjoyed an interesting program. At one-thirtyr the Midway was the scene of the formation of the parade; the classes appeared in the costumes they had adopted, and each class carried its unmbrella. From the Midway the paraders proceeded to Stagg Field where they watched the Chicago-Waseda Game which the former won 7-5. 24