University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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( - ' - 1 ' V 3i-. ' ' - d ' x iif - f f f J ' Z C- My RYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. j ' ' » ' ' ; - -Ti A - (§f[x(tvB of tlfr Alumni Asfinrtattun Henry Holzapfel, Jr., ' 92, President Hag-erstown, Md. Wellstood White, ' 05, rice-President Washington, D. C. C. G. Church, ' 00, Sec ' y-Treasitrer 403 6th Street, N. E. Washington, D. C. mpmbfra uf Kttntxw (Eommtttrr Henry Holzapfel — Ex Officio Wellstood WnrrEi — Ex Officio C. G. Church — Ex Officio ]. N. Mackall, ' 05 Baltimore, Md. F. P. Veitch, ' 91 College Park, Md. Alumtti Urgislatttif Qlnutmittr? W. W. Skinner, ' 95, Chairman Washington, D. C. Wellstood White, ' 05 Washington, D. C. J. E. Ray, ' 92 Washington, D. C. J. Marsh Matthews, ' 03 Baltimore, Md. Major A. S. Gill, ' 97. Baltimore, Md. C. G. Church, Secretary Washington, D. C. 13

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in Mpmnrtam To E. GITTINGS MERRYMAN Died April 9th, 1913 CHARLES H. STANLEY Died December 20th, 1913 12

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- -iy, { ' )) j) ( Jf ' f 1 . -i ■n,, THE 1914 REVEI LLE A ik Wi t Alitmm ■ gl CARCELY anything means more for a college than a large and enthusiastic body of alumni, who make it their business to get behind every progressive move in the life and extended usefulness of the institution. In past years we have never lacked of loyal support from both the older and younger members of the Alumni organization, but it has only been more recently that the Association has felt its responsibility in directing broader development of the Institution. Their annual and semi-annual meetings have more and more become not only times for good fellowship and pleasant reminiscenses, but an occasion for the serious consideration of the afifairs of the College as well. We have never at the J I. A. C. had t he athletic facilities to which we are entitled. We have produced winning teams in spite of conditions rather than because of them. Through the combination of good material and first-class coaching we have produced from time to time, as in the past fall, championship teams that have reflected no little credit on the Institution. It was with the idea of encouraging as much as possible our athletic efforts, as well as giving the institution the full benefit of the advertisement that successful teams give a college that the Alumni took it upon themselves to inaugurate the May Interscholastic Track Meet in 1910. Financed in part by the Alumni, and in part by the Trustees, this Meet has become established as an annual feature. In the recent camipaign of the College for a greater institution equipped for a far wider sphere of usefulness, the Alumni organzition, in arousing favorable interest and in meeting adverse criticism, has been the backbone of the fight for the Greater M. A. C. Thanks to the able leadership of Henry Holzapfel, President of the Association, and to W. W. Skinner, Chairman of the Legislative Committee, every county in the State organized its M. A. C. Booster Organization and rendered effective work in pledging legislators to the appro- priation and in securing substantial backing from leading citizens. In every case where the opposition could be genuinely enlightened as to the scope of the work of the College and the part it is fitted to play in the life of the state, but little an- tagonism to Its proper endowment remained. The results obtained in even the brief time allowed suggest that possibly a permanent organization of these local committees into M. A. C. Welfare Associations, which should find time to meet to discuss means of advancing the interests of the Institution and be prepared to act in their support on short notice, would be most desirable. This would undoubtedly place an additional burden on the Secretary or Chairman of the 14