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

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TSiiB JiMnsiimms d2 ©(iaj ITH the passing of another year in the life of the M. A. C, we have witnessed a continued rapid expansion in its functions as a State-wide influence. Neither has its Alumni Association been backward in recognizing the opportunities that lie before it as an Institution of service to the people of the State. As it grows in power and prestige, every Alumnus is coming to realize that, although years may have passed since his graduation days, he is still an integral part of the College and its influence. He is no longer an isolated man sent out from his Alma Mater to fight his way singly in making his individual success and in paying his debt to the community. No matter what calling he may have taken up, so long as he remains within the State, he is bound to feel that into whatever community he may go, the old College on the Hill is reaching out into its life, giving it new insi)irations and strengthening him in his efforts to make it a community more worth while. The Alumnus of today realizes that whether he is going to be an engineer, a farmer, a teacher, an investigator or pursue his scholastic studies further, he goes out with an obligation upon him to extend the usefulness of the Institu- tion as a community influence and by remaining in close touch with its faculty and field workers, maintain a connecting link that will back his own activities and strengthen his hands in what he has to do. He recognizes that his Alma Mater no longer confines its interests to the teaching of the comparatively few individuals who are fortunate enough to be enrolled as students. He realizes that it is touching from day to day an increasingly larger number of individuals. He sees it reaching the farmer, by bringing to him scientific agri- cultural teaching in the form of neighborhood short courses and farmers institutes, and by demonstrating in his own community and on his own farm better methods of production on a practical scale. He sees this influence about to reach the women of the State through the activities of a system of house- hold teaching much the same in character as that supplied the farmer. He sees it reaching the young people of the country and city through the training of its students for industrial teaching in special courses planned to serve this end. He sees it co-operating with the State Board of Education in giving a country life trend to our instructors in the rural schools of the State. He sees it touch in one way or another every class in the community. The rural ministers and the ministers from the city alike are more vital and effective from con- tact with the influence of the Agricultural College. Every man and woman is the stronger for its help and influence — the men and women who build our roads, who do our banking, who till our farms, who keep our households, who train our children, who make our laws, who minister to our spiritual and physical needs — every one, indeed, who is concerned with the community 27

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mti m B ku. 4 ' ' ' fsw ' ' V Aa.J I ■ liiliiiil lllll ■ lllll fiftllllflHlffffr ' ' • ' • J i. 1 Officers of the Alumni Association OFFICERS. R. M. PiNDiai,, Jr., ' 89 President Baltimore, Md. F. P. Veitch, ' 91 Vice-President College Park. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. W. ' . Skinnkr, 95 Kensington, Md. W. D. Groff, ' OO Owings Mills. Md. WEEKLY STAFF. E. N. Cory, ' 09 Owings Mills, Md. College Park. R. C. Williams, ' 14 Business Manager College Park. 26

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life of Maryland. It is this realization that the graduate of today and the alumnus of tomorrow must bear in mind. It is the realization as well to which those who are already members of the Alumni Association have fully awakened — that and the further realization that they are the centers through which this influence must largely spread, through which an understanding of the needs and purposes of the Greater I. A. C. must come. It is up to them to carry into effect the purposes of the founders of the Land Grant College — to give to the people of the State with whom they come in contact, an understanding that the Maryland Agriculural College is an institution that offers a broad training for citizenship in every industrial pro- fession open to young men in this State — that it was instituted to fill a definite and universal need of our people. In the words of Justin Morrill, The son of a farmer or of a mechanic who desires a liberal education preparatory to a similar vocation or to some different one from that of his father should be able to find it in the Land Grant College of his State, and should not be subjected to the inconvenience and e.xpense of seeking for it in a distant State. The sons of the State, for which they have an ineradicable l irth-right affec- tion, have some right to receive, some duty to accept, within its home borders that instruction which will be of the hig-hest utiliy. Furthermore, now that it has become entirely State property, by virtue of the foreclosure sale of the private stockholders ' undivided half interest, September 23, 1914, the Maryland Agricultural College looks even more than in the past to the active support of its Alumni for its future development and usefulness throughout the State. It has reached an epoch-making period in its history and in the development of the industrial life of the State — a period when the organization of its Alumni into live and influential associations seems both logical and imperative in their own interests as well as that of the Institution. To this end, we should respond whole heartedly and as a unit to the ap- peal of the President of our Alumni Association, R. M. Pindell, Love and gratitude, without an accompanying sense of duty, are impossible, and the duty of the Alumnus to his .Alma Mater is strong and binding in proportion to his possession of those finer characteristics that we find in the man wt)rth while. If we recognize and fulfill that duty, the College will grow and prosper; if we forget the debt we owe, it loses in dignity, in imi3ortance and in usefulness. Let us take pride in the api)reciation that ours is the leading part in the building of a monument to ourselves and to the State. Let us assume the responsibility for the future M. A. C, and in assuming that responsibility, at this time, when she is suing for that support which must be forthcoming, that she may take her proper place among the educational institutions of the land, let each man answer HERE to the roll-call of duty. 28