The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-16
APPEALS TO ALUMNI
PRESIDENT REESE HAS ISSUED A
CALL
Urges Former Students OF state Uni.
versity to Attend the Annual
Commencement Exercises
This Year.

Selma May 15-(Special. )-Hon. II i.
F. Reese, president of the Society of the
Alumni of the University of Alabama,
is working for big gathering of the
members OF the society during the
commencement week of the University.
The meeting Of the society promises
to be the largest attendance of recent
years and the reunion of the former
students will be a noteworthy one.
The annual address to the society this
year will be made by Congressman
Henry d. Clayton. Besides this ad-
eress, the program Of the exercises will
carry other pleasant surprises for the
members.
President Reese today issued an ap-
peal to the former students of the
/ University Of Alabama, in which Is
named the committees for the differ
The appeal follows: -
THE Alumni and former students of
| the University of Alabama are cordial
/ ly urged to attend the '09 Commence
ment, especially on Tuesday, May rs,
Alumni day. On that day will be the
meeting OF the Society OF the Alumni,
an grafton before the Society by an
alumnus, a man of national distinction,
Congressman Henry d. clayton, the
Alumni banquet, with the entertaining
toasts and short addresses incident. a,
fine baseball game and reunions of the
classes of 40. "a, SO, "a. IA. 10, 80.
| SO. "a, 90, '04 and '0S, and 1t is
especially urged that all of the living
members of these classes attend. and
they are hereby urged to, communi-
cate with the Committee Chairman of
their class. The committees are as fol-
lows:
GLASS of 1s4s-Hon. James Harris
| Fits. Tuscaloosa. Ala. Chairman; Ma
jor Charles r. Bridges. New Orleans
Captain Felix G. Henley. Aberdeen.
Miss. Glass of 1s54-Judge Harry T.
Joseph Hardie, Birmingham, Ala; Hon.
Hilary A. Herbert. Washington. D. C.
Glass OF 1S59-Dr. James T. Searcy,
! Tuscaloosa, Ala, Chairman: Hon. Ed
ward f. ComeRys. GAINESVILLE. Tex. t;
| Captain James e. Webb. Birmingham,
Ala. Glass of 1ss4-rHon. Thomas q.
Bush. Birmingham, Ala, Chairman;
Philip Henry Pitts. Selma. Ala. Glass
of 1s7%--Hon. Frank S. Moody. Tusca-
| loosa, Ala. Chairman; Mr.. Robert Jem-
ison. Sr., Birmingham, Ala; Rev. JEFF
ferson P. Hamilton. Ozark. Ala. Glass
of 1S79-Hon. Richard B. Kelly. Birm-
ingham. Ala, Chairman; Hon. William
H. Simpson, New Decatur. Ala; DR..
George F. Mellin. Knoxville. Tenn.
Glass of 1sS4-Judge Milo B. Abercrom-
bic. Tuskegee. Chairman; Mr.. Milton
Paul LeGrand. Montgomery. Ala; Hon.
Zeli CASTOR. Birmingham, Ala. Glass
| Of 1Ss9--Mr. Samuel friedman, Tusca-
loosa, Ala. Chairman; Colonel Henry r.
| Shorter Birmingham. Ala: Hon. Sam
uel C. Jenkins. Bay Minette, Ala. Glass
of 1S94-Hon. Nicholas e. Stallworth.
Mobile, Ala. Chairman; Hon. C. c Ne
Smith. Birmingham, Ala; Hon. Nor
veIIe R. Leigh. Mobile. Ala. Glass of
1S99-Professor Malcolm C. Burke. Uni
versity Ala. Chairman; Hon. Daniel
Partridge, Selma, Ala. Hon. William F.
Porter, Bessemer. Ala. Glass of 1901
Mr.. Jesse ". Boyles Thomasville, Ala.
Chairman; Mr.. Allen Crenshaw, Anda-
Iusia. Ala; Mr.. Williams Willis Garth.
Huntsville, Ala. Glass of 1S0S--S. F..
Hobbs. Selma. Ala, Chairman; Miss
stella Palmer. Montevallo. Ala: Jeffer-
son G.. Bell, Fort Deposit. Ala: Hubert
B. Dent. Montgomery. Ala: William IL.
Merrill. University. Ala; Jerome Meyer.
Uniontown. Ala: B. L. Noojin. Gadsden.
Ala; w. H. Robertson, Birmingham.
Ala.
They will find the University more
efHcient and effective. and its future
more hopeful than at any period in Its
history.
III. F. Reese,
president of Society of the Alumni"