University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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ALUMNI HALL

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The University of Georgia welcomes at all times the generous financial assistance of its alumni, welcomes every effort they make to enlarge its facilities and secure to it advantages that money alone can give, welcomes the vigorous, enthusiastic college spirit that arouses the interest of the people in the work that is being done hen , welcomes the broad acres and the magnificent buildings that have come from the loyal hearts of her faithful sons to enable her to give to the present generation and to generations yet to come advantages she could not give to those who have already gone forth from her halls, but above all these she prizes the upright, cultured, shining liv« s that illustrate the true value of her loving can and faithful work and pointing to these, she may well exclaim, like the mother of the Gracchi, “these arc my jewels.” Hut. along with lives of faithful service and high ideals goes an abiding interest in the material welfare of those who have extended a helping hand in time of struggle. The true son attends to every material want of his parents, not as a duty hut as an act of filial affection. So do the alumni of the University of Georgia count it not only a duty and a privilege to contribute in money, in time, and in effort to the material advancement of the University, but also an opportunity to show their real love and affection for the institution whose care and training were responsible in largest measure for their success in life. The past twelve years have ! een years of special activity along this line among the alumni of this institution. The administration of Chancellor Ilill witnessed remarkable interest on the part of the alumni, tin rallying of tin; University cohorts around the standards of the institution in the great battle for the advancement of the cause of higher education in Georgia. Thc administration of Chancellor Barrow has witnessed a steady increase in this feeling of interest and a great addition to the forces that are making the University one of the greatest educational institutions in the entire country. The Georgia alumnus of to-day delights to stand shoulder to shoulder with the great Georgian and great educator who presides over this venerable institution of learning and to give freely of his time and money and effort whenever the best interests of that institution demand the service. The alumni of Georgia, several years since, realizing the need for more generous financial support, raised an endowment fund of nearly fifty thousand dollars and decided to invest it in an alumni Y. M. C. A. building on the campus, where students might get the best gymnasium training, where they might he placed under tin most careful moral supervision, where college organizations might make their headquarters, where visiting alumni might go as they would to their own homes, where the alumni of the institution might hold their rallies

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and keep alive and burning the spirit of the University. Subsequent gifts of the alumni and friends of the institution have swelled this sum to larger figures and the magnifieent building, when eomplcted. will cost, not fifty thousand dollars, but more than double that amount. When the plan for the enlargement of the Campus was evolved, the alumni eame forward generously with their contributions, and. aided by the City of Athens and other friends, have given to tin 1 Diversity a campus of nearly one thousand acres, a princely domain upon which in the future millions of dollars will be spent in erecting a plant, the superior of which w.ill not la found in the United States. For the improvement of athletics, the alumni have contributed nearly all the money with which the present magnificent ball grounds were secured. For the improvement of scholarship they have offered handsome prizes as incentives to closer and more effective study. For the assistance of worthy young men in their efforts to secure an education they have offered scholarships. For providing la tter facilities for the students they have added hooks to tin library and equipment to the departments. It is not difficult now to enlist their aid. for they arc alive with enthusiasm and realize the good that is being done in every field of activity by the University. The aroused interest of the alumni is making itself felt in state legislation, not as a lobby, but as a convincing force that is moulding public opinion. Largely through their efforts the state has been brought to see tin immense advantages flowing from ample and adequate appropriations, and the support of the institution by the state is more liberal than it has ever been. The University of Georgia, with all its glorious record, does not consist of historic old buildings or magnificent new structures; does not consist of library or laboratory or any other material equipment ; does not consist of endowment funds or financial balance sheets. The alumni, the men who are turned out as the product of the institution, the lives they live, the contributions of a lasting kind they make to civilization—these constitute the University, and in them Georgia is richer far than the famed mines of Golconda or the fabled treasures of all the ages.