The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
THEY Are PLEASED
WaShburn Workers Emerge
Happily From Fray.
Continue Campaign Here in a
Quiet Way.

quiet way.
| Members of the board of trustees
of Washburn college have worked
| tirelessly in the interests of the col
| lege Dean d. L. McEachron has
| been constantly Ion the job during
| the recent campaign for 100000, and
his good judgment has been of value
in the campaign.
the meetings as chairman of the cam
paign executive committee. has given
of both his time and his money.
! A. A. GODDARD did some excellent and
effective work. He was chairman of
the committee on advance pledges.
Charles S. Elliott as treasurer OF
the executive committee has attend
ed the meetings regularly and has
been one of the hard workers.
DIR. D. NJ. Fisk was an important
factor in the campaign. There are
many others who deserve special mem
ton, but it would be impossible to in
clude them all
Dean McEachron on Campaign.
Following are comments made to-
day by leaders in the campaign:
Dean D. l.. McEachron: My idea
is to continue in a quiet way in To-
peka the campaign for 100000 and
to organize for the outside work
There is no doubt but what Topeka
will come through with the 100000
by January 1. There are good many
persons who have not been reached or
who have not had the proposition pre-
scented in the right light. We hope
to get the campaign in Kansas under
way next month. The state will be
worked by communities where we
have friends. Later the East will
be given an opportunity to help.
Stone Expresses Appreciation.
Robert Stone, chairman The clos
cAmDAlgn a
subscription of something over $780,
600 is very gratifying to the trustees
of the college. The statement in the
morning paper that the trustees never
had expected to raise the full 100000
is in sense misleading. We had con-
fidently hoped to secure in large
pledges not less than $4,000. If
these had been secured we would have
easily passed the 100000 mark. We
never had hoped that in the absence
of such pledges we would be able to
secure more than the s15O,0OO. The
generosity of the people of moderate
means has been phenomenal and a
splendid testimony of the character of
the college. Some of the well-to-do
people have excused their refusal to
pledge on the ground that the trustees
saw fit to engage an expert to come
here and conduct the campaign. 1t
is only fair to reply that these critics
would not appear to be in good po-
sition to find fault. Without the serv-
ices of Mr.. Barber, or some one like
him, it would have been absolutely
that would approximate the pledges
which have been made. The splendid
cooperation of the workers has
brought to the college not only a
large sum but thousands of Interested
friends 1t ought to- be said that the
one man above all others responsible
for the undertaking of this campaign
and its successful conclusion is DR..
Der of the board of trustees he under
stood the absolute need of Washburn
college and insisted that the campaign
for a larger endowment should not be
postponed. In this as in almost every
other thing connected with the col
lege his judgment has proven sound.
Washburn Made Friends.
A. A. GODDARD: L am pleased with
the Washburn campaign and think the
amount raised is a splendid tribute to
Topeka.
OF course. we are disappointed in
not raising the full 100000 which we
hoped to get That was impossible
these we hope will come in later so
as to make the total given by Topeka
the full amount set as the goal. The
campaign has resulted in a large APP
probation for the institution that is
being maintained in our city and great
numbers of our citizens are now real
izing as never before the utter in
adequacy of the salaries paid at Wash
burn, notwithstanding which an ex-
ceptionally high class of work is being
done and very fine body of earnest
students are fitting themselves for
important positions in life
The people are also learning that
Washburn college furnishes splendid
opportunities to several hundred To-
peka boys and girls who would not
otherwise have them and that it is
bringing a fine class of citizens to To-
peka to live in order that they may
take advantage of the institution and
that the effect of the college on the
life of Topeka is very wholesome.
Remarkable Campaign"-EIIiott.
c. S. Elliott: ''It was a remarkable
campaign in many respects. The in
terest of the people, in Washburn
resulting in extreme iberality, was
very gratifying.
The unselfish, we'll as effective
work of the women. was remarkable
THE team work of the Commercial
club members was only another in
stance of the important part it plays
in the commercial world of Topeka
showing that their thought and work
can be turned in the direction of an
educational institution as well as a
mercantile one"