University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Chas. O. Thibodeau. ’08...................... President Lemuel S. Pitts. ’06......................Vice-President Rex W. Henneberry, Ml................Recording Secretary Margaret S. Carman. ’08........................Assistant Secretary Lisa Muntwyler, ’16........................Corresponding Secretary University Park. Denver. Colorado Kent S. Whitford. M2.................Executive Secretary 362 Gas Electric Building. Denver Frank McDonough, Jk.. ’07......................Treasurer 215 McPhec Building. Denver Review of the Year Commencement of 1915 saw one of the best, if not the best, of alutnni reunions in the history of the University. This proved to he a seed which sprouted during the summer in the shape of a desire to have an alumni association that was a real live organization instead of merely a number of people who called themselves alumni. The fall endowment campaign of 1915 was an opportunity for such organization and the alumni seized it. The campaign served in a great way to make the organization effective and laid the foundation for permanency. Several alumni clubs have been organized since that time in various communities in the state and in fact all over the country where there are sufficient alumni to justify organization. These clubs meet frequently to enjoy companionship. talk over old times, university and alumni affairs, and assist in drawing desirable students to the University, and in co-opcrating with the general alumni association in carrying out its plans. Effort has been made to have an organization of each class of the alumni association, and to this end investigation was made which disclosed that the younger classes had selected on graduation an alumni secretary for that class. Secretaries were appointed for such classes as had none, and these secretaries assisted in a large way in making the reunion of 1916 a success, by writing personal letters to their classmates about it. These class societies Page Twenty-four

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Faculty of Warren Academy Owen Bertram Trout Owen Bertram Trout, A.B., A.M. Ohio Wesleyan University and University of Denver. Registrar, University of Denver. Principal and Instructor in Mathematics. Leslie Wiles Scofield, A.B., A M. University of Denver. Instructor in History and Science. E. Estelle Carrier. Ph.B. Cornell College. Instructor in English. Humphrey Gray Owen, A.B.. A.M. University of Denver. Instructor in Biology. Charlotte Fowler Fraser, A.B. University of Denver. Instructor in Latin. Charles H. Wjxce.vdkr, A.B., LL.B. University of Denver. Instructor in Mathematics. Lisa Muntwyler. A.B. University of Denver. Instructor in German. p»»« Twenty.thre

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serve to keep track of the addresses of the membership of the various classes, both for the information of the class members, hut materially assist the corresponding secretary of the alumni association in the work of locating the alumni. Another direction which alumni organization has taken has been the formation of a women’s association in Denver. This organization has been largely social in its nature, hut has served to keep the women together and the association plans many things for the good of the alumni and the University as well. Through the general alumni association assisted by the sub-organizations the reunion of 1916 was such a success that it marked an epoch in alumni reunions. The festivities started at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and lasted until 10 o’clock at night. A crowd of four hundred were present, and all keenly enjoyed it. Prior to the endowment campaign the alumni issued a weekly or biweekly bulletin, which was distributed to all the alumni. Since the endowment campaign the association issues a quarterly which is sent at the expense of the association to all alumni of all departments of the University whether they pay alumni dues or not. This publication brings each alumnus, no matter where he lives, into touch with the association and its plans. The alumni during the past year have erected a “senior fence on the campus which will serve, it is hoped, to establish a new tradition on the campus, of which there are too few. The alumni are slowly becoming educated to the point of habitually paying the alumni dues of one dollar a year. During the first year of our rejuvenation the number paying dues increased three hundred per cent, and during the first half of the second year nearly equaled the total amount collected for the preceding year. The association as a whole has a vision of many fields of usefulness to its own members, to the University and to society as a whole. While it may take many years to accomplish many of our plans, yet a good start has been made, and with our present enthusiasm, and the hope of greater enthusiasm, and persistence, we hope to finally “arrive.” Pa Twcaty-m