The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-06-12
OLD GIRLS TO RETURN IN 1914
Mrs. Mabel Kilbourne Hutchinson Named
President of Organization to Have
Charge of Raising Endowment Fund
and $21oo is Pledged by those Present

A movement Tor the endowment OF
Kemper Hall, the school under the di-
rection Of the Sisters Of st. Mary, was
inaugurated at the annual meeting of
the Kemper Hall Alumnae Society held
on Thursday evening and it is certain
that the new movement will be a sue
cessful one. With the gathering of forty
of the best known of the former stu
dents of the school the plan for the
permanent endowment was launched,
and as a result Of an appeal for initial
pledges from members of the associa-
tion 5000 was pledged
Kemper Hall has never had an en-
dowment. In past years the alumnae
association has raised small sums which
have been placed in special funds to
provide scholarships for worthy stu
dents and several large gifts have been
made to the school in order to make
possible the completion of buildings and
for other special uses, but no formal
endowment fund has ever been started.
The school is now supported entirely
through the monies earned by the Sis
tiers in charge. The need of an endow
ment fund which would make possible
the extension of the work of the school
is now keenly felt and it is thought
that the move of the Alumnae associa-
ton will meet with high favor not only
from the members of the association
and former Kemper Hall girls, but also
from men and women who have watched
with interest the development of the
school during the past half century.
A systematic effort will be made to
raise money for the new endowment
fund. N. A. Rowe, cashier of the Mer-
chants & Savings bank has aided the
young women in outlining the plan for
the collection Of the endowment snd he
has been named as trustee of the 4und.
In the coming year a system%GIc effort
will be made to secure money for the
fund and a pledge system has been
adopted which provides for the payment
of pledges within five years. This plan
met with favor from the members of
the Alumnae association and it is ex-
pected that pledges will be received
from practically all of the women who
have received their education at KEN
per Hail. Mrs Mabel Killbourne
Hutchinson of Aurora, ILL.,, who was
named as president of the association is
one of the most ardent supporters of
the endowment plan and she is plan
ming to give considerable of her time
to the urging of the plan.
In order TO awaken greater interest
in Kemper Hall an effort will be made
this year to secure the addresses of
every young woman who ever attended
the school regardless as to whether or
not she was graduated. Every one Of
these young women will be asked to
come back to Kenosha in 1914 and at
tend a great homecoming of the KEN
per Hall girls at which time an effort
will be made to interest all in the en-
dowment plan.
The gathering of the alumnae proved
very interesting event. Mrs. William
| 3 &
S. Forrest of Chicago, retiring president
of the association, presided at the ban
quet and at the business sessions. There
were short speeches by Mrs. Forrest,
Miss Florence Wells of Racine, Mrs.
Hutchinson and Mr.. Rowe. Mrs. Ada
Ferry Gray of Milwaukee was named
as secretary of the organization.