University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Ex Students Association Today 40,000 ex-students of The University can be reached through the directory service of the Ex- Students ' Association. Commencement Day, June 17, 1885, the Alumni Association was organized to keep graduates of The University in touch with each other and in touch with The University; the entire graduating class of 22 students joined that year. In 1914 the name was changed to Ex-Students ' As- sociation, and in 1919 self-supporting, independent status was attained. Membership in the Association for 1931-32 was 2,900; an average of 350 students join each year. All ex-students who have been honorably dismissed from The University are eligible to membership. Services and duties have accumulated with the years. Some of them today are: fostering of donations for scholarships, libraries, collections; furthering of campus improvements; sponsoring of Annual Round- Up; assistance in public relations work of The Universi- ty; provision of $80,000 in student loan funds; publi- cation of the Alcalde, ex-student magazine; keeping up- to-date files on 40,000 ex-students; maintenance of more than 100 local ex-student clubs; and sponsoring ex-student banquets. Outstanding concrete examples of the work of the Association in its co-operation with students are: Gregory Gymnasium, Women ' s Gym- nasium, Student Union Building and Auditorium. An Executive Council of 23 members plans and directs the work of the Association. Officers are Charles I. Francis, president; Ralph C. Goeth, first vice-president; W. G. Swenson, second vice-presi- dent; James B. Marley, third vice-president; C. M. Bartholomew, treasurer; John A. McCurdy, executive Charles I. Francis President, ExStuimts ' Association secretary. Main University members are: E. E. Bewley, Dr. Ghent Graves, H. J. Lutcher Stark, Miss Eunice Aden, Ed. L. Gossett, Edleen Begg, Lloyd Gregory, R. W. Blalock, John A. Lomax. Medical School members: Dr. Joe Gilbert, and Dr. J. C. Thomas. Ex-officio members: Orville BuUington, D. C. Bland, Rhodes S. Baker, T. W. Gregory, (deceased), William L. McGill, and Ireland Graves. John A. McCurdy is executive secretary of the Association. Members of the office include: Misses Ray Perrenot, Lola Jones, Anne Fichtenbaum, and Catherine Wharton. Jones Perrenot Fichtenbaum McCurdy Page 18

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The Medical Staff Because enrollment in The University was steadily increasing, and because students ' slowness in con- sulting doctors sometimes caused the spread of contagious diseases which might have been averted by timely medical treatment, the Regents in 1909 provided for medical service on the campus by ap- pointing two physicians to spend two hours a day in an office in the Main Building. Dr. Margaret Roberta Holliday for women, and Dr. Joe Gilbert for men were the two physicians who guarded the health of the 1,566 students of the year 1909-10. Expanding with The University, the Health Ser- vice has grown to a staff of 10: Dr. Joe Gilbert, director; Dr. Caroline Crowell, physician for w o- men; Dr. H. L. Klotz, physician for men; Dr. S. N. Key, eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist; Dr. G. M. Graham, director of the laboratory; Ola Mary Hobson, technician; Annie Gaffney, Ludma Marie Kopecky, and George LaRue, clinical nurses; Mary Anice Jenkins, secretary. The staff now cares for 6,697 students. The facilities of the Health Service include a sun lamp, cautery and fulgurator machines, and a labora- tory equipped for pathological work. Contracts with Austin Roentgenologists make X-Ray ex- aminations available to students recommended by University physicians. Similar contracts v ith Seton Infirmary and St. David ' s Hospital afford hospital- ization for students for a period of ten days or less for a very small fee. In keeping with its purpose of maintaining proper health conditions and preventing contagion, the Health Service inspects all University buildings and Dr. Joe Gilbert Director, University Health Service grounds, boarding houses, dormitories, swimming pools, and other public places frequented by stu- dents. In addition it offers nine services to stu- dents: vaccinations; physical examinations; class- ification for physical training, consultations with physicians during office hours; home and hospital visits; minor surgical operations; ear, eye, nose, and throat examinations and treatments; and ambulance service. During 1931-32 the Health Service treated 21,689 patients in the clinic and 1,940 in the dormitories, gave hospitalization to 645 students, and made 1,500 physical examinations and 2,594 laboratory examinations. Klotz Crowell Key Page 1 7

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The Students ' Assembly Authorized by the Board of Regents, the students of The University in 1902 met in convocation and formed the Students ' Association, of which every student is a member. A constitution was drawn up and adopted, and by this act definite form was given to the student self-goverment that had existed in The University to some extent since 1883. The constitution named as the legislative body of the Association, the Students ' Assembly, the members of which are: the president, the vice-president, the secretary-treasurer, who are elected in the spring, and 22 other students elected in the fall by and from the various departments, schools, and colleges of The University. The Students ' Assembly meets once a month. Records of its proceedings are bound an- nually; the first bound volume of records dates from 1926-27. In addition to its rights over its members the main powers of the Assembly are; to elect a repre- sentative to the Athletic Council, to elect two members of the Publications Board, to appropriate all monies of the Association and apportion the Blanket Tax proceeds amcng the organizations that receive a share in them, to control arrangements for student celebrations and functions of a general nature, to enact laws for the welfare of the student body, and to prepare amendments to the constitution of the Students ' Association. Important accomplishments of the Student ' s As- sembly are the creation of the Student Publications Board in 1921, formation of Cultural Entertainment Allen Shivers President, Students ' Association Committee which uses an appropriation from the blanket tax proceeds to bring to the campus note- worthy plays, speakers, and entertainers, assumption of control of the AU-University dances and of the Thanksgiving Ball. Ninety-five per cent of the proceeds from dances were appropriated for furnishing the recently com- pleted Student Union Building where the student governmental bodies will have their new quarters. In the spring of 1933 the Students ' Assembly as- sisted in the organization of the Texas Union which took definite form at that time with the election of a board of directors for the Union. 1?. Top Row: Clewis, Walker, Morrison, Lockett, Latimer, Sutton, Harbinoton, Kubricht Second Row: Lockart, Forsman, Parkinson, Hall, Hoffman, Dunlap, Brydson, Sheppard Bottom Row: Yarborough, Neal, Birdwell, Brannon, Bankhead, Williams, Hodges, Shivers, Fair Pagt 19