The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-01
FRANK N. MOODY NEW
ALUMNI PRESIDENT.
Tyler Goodwin and w. P. G.
Harding Vice Presidents
ALUMNI FUND GROWING
Including Accumulated Interest, Fund
VIII Go Well Over $4,000 Mark
This Year-University Ex-
tension Urged
ALUMNI FUND GROWING
BY WALTER HARPER

this afternoon for the coming year: Pres
| ident, Frank NJ Moody of Tuscaloosa;
| vice president, Tyler Goodwin of Mont
gomery; vice president. W. P. Harding of
Birmingham; secretary, Fred G. Stickney
of University; treasurer. ]. H. Fits of
Tuscaloosa; registrar. R. T. Majors of
Tuscaloosa.
| The business meeting of the Society of
the Alumni was held at Il o'clock in the
assembly room of Clark hall.
After the reading of the presidents re-
port by President II. F. Reese of Selma
j. H. Fits Of Tuscaloosa made his annual
report as secretary of the society. He re-
ported that As worthy boys had been as
sisted during the year from the alumni
educational fund. The fund now amounts
to $14,02o.49, including cash and notes. In
Guiding the accumulated interest the fund
will go well over the $4,000 mark.
This educational fund was begun "a
years ago with $500. One boy was assist
ed through the university the first year
| with this small nucleus as a beginning.
The fund has been of great benefit IN
helping young men without means of
their own to get university education.
Want University Extension
Hill Ferguson introduced a motion that
the new officers of the society be in
structed and urged to cooperate with the
officers of the university in going before
the next legislature and ask for more
money for university extension. The mo-
| ton was carried with enthusiasm. Mr..
| Ferguson spoke In appreciative terms of
| oil
given by the state administration. but he
said that much more money Is needed to
put the university on the proper footing.
President Reese read a letter from En-
met O'Neal. expressing his regrets that
he could not attend the meeting of the
society. He and his family are In Indi-
ana for a few weeks vacation.
| Report of President Reese
| Following is the report of President
Reese of the Society of Alumni:
ITO the Society of the Alumni of Ala
bama:
"Since your last meeting marked i'm
improvements have been made in the
plant. buildings and equipment of the
university, made possible through the
generous appropriations of your pres
ent legislature. However. judged by
actual results, no considerable enlarge
ment of its field of activity use
fulness to the masses-to the people
for whom it is intended-is apparent
Our university at this time possibly
possesses faculty and advantages of
Iall the non-state schools and colleges
attempting college work In this state,
vet the percent of increase in its stu
dents does not appear to be materially
in excess of thesep rivate institutions
1t must be apparent to us all that the
people of the state generally are not
laware of the wonderful advantages Of
fered by this institution in furnishing
them an educa tion-advantages, as
above stated, which have been in the
past and in the future sh ould be Of
fcred cheaper than elsewhere in the
state 1t is further apparent that the
people generally do not feel toward
their university rs they should feel;
that 1t is their university and intend
ed for their benefit, and in the fu
ture 1t should be the fixed policy of
those In charge of our institution to
go to the people and to make man
fest to them these great advantages
and in every legitimate way induce the
people of the state to patronize their
university rather than the other
schools. Unless this be done. or some
thing r'se which will extend more gen..
erally 'sefulness of the university
IL will Embarrassed In the future
in securihN the aid 1t should have
IT recently read the card of can
didate for the Alabama senate in which
he took the position that the univer-
sity was but of little use to the peo-
pie and entitled only to an approprf-
alton where the money was not need
ed for something else. Those of us who
have mingled much with the politicians
and near statesmen" know that this
feeling is by no means confined to the
{ candidate referred to.
Athletics
"The society at its last meeting lent
It's Enforcement to movement to So
licit ana collect subscriptions with a
view of building an athletic hah at the
university 1 very much EAgret to say
that fer several reasons. including, first,
some division among the alumni relat-
ing to new rules governing the football
club, ana second, the fact that the peo-
pla of the state, including the alumni.
have beer since our last meeting con-
stanty and intensely interested and en-
gagged In political agitation, unparalleled
in the state since the days of 1851, to the
exclusion of all other matters, and 1t
therefore soon became obvious that this
i,1portant and meritorious undertaking
this meeting. Some small amounts have
been donated to this object. and which
are In the hands Of your treasurer. This
meeting, however, In my opinion, should
raise a committee vested with full au-
trcriry to take up and sarry on this
work.
Relations With Polytechnic
.,rhe athletic relations of the university
AMI the A. P. I. were referred at your
last meeting to a committee appointed by
the society This committee has doubt
less performed it's duty and is in full
possession of all of the facts and corre-
spondenoe relating to that matter. and is
i doubtless prepared to make report at
this meeting.
| Our society has been fortunate in the
past in securing as our annual orators
great men, but never in the past have
wc been more fortunate and happy in the
selection of an orator for this occasion
than In the selection of our orator Of the
day, tho distinguished Gov Thomas r.
Marshall of Indiana
ITO have served as president of this
society during the period Of its greatest
expansion and improvement, I shall al
ways regard as the most pleasurable
honor of my life, and l desire to take
this opportunity Of expressing to the Of
| flcsrs or the society who have served with
me- and to the president and officers of
the university. my most sincere thanks
and appreciation of their courtesy and
cooperation, these having made my
duties pleasant and harmonious, and l
sincerely trust that my successor will
accomplish what l have desired to ac-
comrlish, rather than what the society
has attained under my administration
nr11 hrt ,eI.