The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-06-04
MEETING OF ALUMNAE AS
ISOLATION.
State Normal and Industrial
College-Plans for Work.

n very 0IlCIluSldSLIc Mo0Llng |
characterized by earnestness and .
loyalty, was held by the Alunme
Association of the State Normal |
and Industrial College on Tues
day afternoon Of commencement |
week. Each of the sixteen class
es that have graduated from the
college was represented at this
meeting, the largest representa-
tiOns being eleven from the class
of 1898, twenty-eight from the
class of 1907, and the entire class
of 1908, numbering forty-seven.
The work undertaken by the
Alunmae at the meeting last year
was that of raising a $4,000 loan
fund as a memorial to DR..
Charles D. McIver, the beloved
founder and first president of the
college. Two field secretaries,
Misses Eta Spier and Lewis
Dull, were sent out for about six
weeks each during the summer.
They organized twenty-five coun-
ties as follows: Buncombe, Burke,
Cabarrus, Caldwell, CataWba,
Cleveland, Edgecombe, Castor,
Haywood, Henderson, 1redell,
Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Mcdowell,
Mecklenburg, Pitt, Rockingham,
Rowan, Rutherford, Surry,
Pennsylvania, Union, Wilkes and
Wilson. They secured ST, $50 in
county pledges, Mecklenburg and
Cabarrus leading with 1000 each.
A number of these counties have
taken up the work with lively
interest and have sent in already
a good per cent. of their pledges.
The fund raised in each county
is available for aiding students
from that county as soon as the
collections have been made.
The students building, ir
which the Alumnae meeting was
held, was erected at a cost Of
$780, 900. The building was made
possible by the determined efforts
of the Alumnae. In 1902 thu
Alumnae undertook to raise ;
l loan and scholarship fund Whicl
within thre eyears ammounted t.
f $15,0 900. Fifty-one students hav
been aided by this fund during
the past year. By help received
from it a large per cent of tn
II graduating classes for severe
n years have been enabled to CON
e plete their course. The fund
on hand are not sufficient for aiC
y ing all who should be helped.
President Foust, who has er
couraged the Alumnae in all the:
efforts, was present at the meet
, ing and made some valuable su2
gestions.
The association decided to en-
ploy a field secretary for all he
time during the coming year an
, to prosecute vigorously the wor
of organizing county association
and securing pledges for II
McIver Loan Fund.
The officers of the associate
for the coming year are: pres
ident, Miss Mary T. Moor
Greensboro; vice-president, Mr.
s. A. L. Harris, Reidsville; secret
(. ry, Miss Laura H, Colt, Green
boro; treasurer, Miss Emily
Austin, Tarboro; member of tt
executive committee, Miss Et
R. Spier, Goldsboro.
1t was decided to offer a pri,
for the best college song submi
7 ted to a committee appointed f
that purpose. Miss Oeland Ba
nett, of Shelby, was made cha
man of the committee.
! 1t was a matter of CONNIE
> among those present that t
spirit which animated the NEE
ing was one of service to the C.
lege and to the State: to the C
lege by furnishing means
es' bright and ambitious young wo
en- who could not without aid
= cure an education, and to t
State by training more work.
for service to the State. This
fitting, since he to whom t
memorial is dedicated gave
life in service for others.
;ry If spirit is substance whe
in thinking, moving, and
aC- power of moving do subsis
w. then the work undertaken by
association must be speedily
vou complished.
MRS. J. A. BROWN,
)e- Chadbourn N.
~ A Grand Family Medicine
1T gives me pleasure to spe
-.@.I mo-d f.,r EIootrio Rifko