University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Organized several decades ago, it was not until five years ago that an Alumni Office on the campus with a full-time executive secretary and staff was established. This office now is located on the first floor of Purnell Hall. Membership in the Alumni Association is auto- matic for all gradvates of Delaware College and for all former students who completed at least one year and whose classes have graduated. There are no dues. The association is financed by means of voluntary contributions made by alumni each year in the period during which a Fund Campaign is conducted. During the past few years the amounts contributed in response to the Fund Campaign appeals has increased annually, clearly demonstrat- ing ever-increasing alumni interest in Old Dela- ware. Four times each year an alumni magazine is pub- lished containing news of the University, of fel- low alumni, and of the athletic teams. This mag- azine is sent without charge to all alumni for whom the Alumni Office has mailing addresses, Some of the benefits and aims of the Alumni Association may be set forth as follows: It is the one and only way of uniting the great body of alumni scattered throughout the United States of America and other parts of the world into a purposeful group working in behalf of the University. It is the only way in which alumni can be kept informed about the development of the University its functions, faculty, and buildings. It serves as the best means by which alumni can be kept informed about, and in touch with classmates and other friends, It contributes wvitally, as it has through the years, both morally and financially, toward the support of the University and the development of its prestige and high academic standing. It assists alumni in obtaining positions or in being advanced to positions of greater responsi- bility. The spirit that has been engendered in the general body of alumni through the united efforts of the Association has helped make it possible for individual alumni to obtain assistance for the Uni- versity from non-graduate friends, It is hoped that it will be in a position before many years go by, to function as an integral part of the general University set-up, the double pur- pose of which will be a to unite even more closely the alumni in their interest in their Alma Mater and b to serve as an active organization to present year after year to the alumni the press- ing financial needs of the University,

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