The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-14
EDISON ID ADDRESS LOCAL M.L.T. ALUMNI
 AT GOLDEN JUBILEE
Alumni Association Will Take Part in the Trans continental Telephone
 Reunion

| More than 2GO Birmingham men tonight | will take part in the Transcontinental Telephone reunion of the Massachusetts
 Institute of Technology, held in honor of the golden jubilee of the institution, and in connection with the dedication of the new buildings. Forty alumni associations of Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, in the larger cities throughout the country, will be connected with Symphony hall in Boston, where thou sands of former students will he present The various cities, and each alunnus and guest at the different meetings, will
 be connected by telephone and will hear
 the addresses and greetings exchanged from cities all over America.
 The local gathering is 10 be held in the ballroom of the Southern club, and q test was made yesterday of the telephone receivers which will be used by each per- son present. In addition to listening to
 brief talks from prominent officials of the institution and by prominent alumni from different parts of the country, the guests will have the pleasure of hear ing Thomas A. Edison, Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company; Alexander Graham
 Bell, Orville Wright, Frank Vanderlip, and others whose names are known in- terna tionally.
 About 50 alumni of the institution in the Birmingham district will be present at the meeting tonight and their guests will include at least 150 men prominent in business, industrial and commercial af- fairs of Birmingham. It is urged that everyone be present at 745 o'clock sharp, as some little time will be required for seating the crowd and for the roll call of the alumni, which will have to be ar ranged prior to o'clock The programme begins promptly at that hour, and will
 be run strictly according to schedule, the
 meeting coming to a close at 1O45 p. m. in Boston, which will be 9:45 o'clock cen- tral time A brief intermission will take place in the programme, at which time light refreshments will be served by the various alumni associations. It is an-
 nounced that Palm Beach suits will be in order.
 Arthur Mohan will preside at the meet ing tonight, and F. J. Weiss, secretary of the Southeastern Alumni association, is in charge of the arrangements for the affair. Similar gatherings are to be held in Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Nash vile, Houston and Little Rock in the south.
 we have received information that the celebration in Boston, which has been in progress for the past several days, is attended by 5000 former students
 and graduates said F. J. Weiss yester-
 day. "The institution is dedicating s. GOO of new buildings which have just been completed. The present site of the school is in Boston proper, but the new
 buildings are located in Cambridge, where the institution will be conducted in the future. Among the bequests which made the building of this great school of technology possible was one from an anonymous contributor amounting to 8, ,O00- O0o Although this money was given some years ago, the name of the donor has never been made public. He will be one of the men heard over the telephone by all the alumni and guests throughout the country at this reunion. but his name will not be made public"