Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-02

issue of the following day. Last
year the chairman of the COM
mittee contributed every week a
news letter to the Sunday issue of
the Public Ledger. This letter APP
peared in the college section. This
year, however, the Public Ledger
has discontinued it's college de-
partment, and although we have
repeatedly sent news letters to the
paper, none of them has been
printed. We believe that it is
practically impossible for small
college like ours situated at dis
lance of forty miles from Phil
adelphia to get space in news
paper of that city for anything but
athletic news unless that college
advertises heavily in the paper or
unless it's correspondent has in
fuential friends upon the staff.
Delaware College is peculiarly
fortunate in this respect in that
Mr.. E. N. Vallandigham, a loyal
alumnus and writer of ability, is
and has been for years an intimate
friend of the editor Of the Sunday
Record" (who is also graduate
Of the College) and is therefore
able to secure the publication in
that paper of his extremely inter
esting and Illuminating Delaware
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profit of his Alma Mater. Let us
add that every athletic event of
Importance at Delaware College is
reported to the Philadelphia
papers, but that these accounts of
athletic events are nearly always
condensed and often omitted al
together.
1t is only fair tolthe alumni to
say that the comEnittee has been
greatly handicapped in its work.
We have no power to require men,
bers of the College faculty to give
us their news, and as a result we
sometimes find ourselves in the
embarrassing position of the man
ayers of an Exchange" organized
by group of farmers in certain
section of our state for the pur-
pose Of selling their produce in a
manner that would be mutually
beneficial. Some of the farmers
chose to dispose of their best pro-
duce in way that would be most
beneficial to themselves, though
often not most beneficial to the
members of the association as a
whole, and to ship through the
Exchange" the produce which
they could not otherwise dispose
of. If the committee were invested
with the power to command al
college news, we feel strongly thai
it's work would be more effective
and that the College would benefit
greatly. Again, we have beer
handicapped by lack of funds. NJ
sum of money has been set apar
for our work, and the COMMITTEES
for a long time not only collected
and edited the news, but also made
the stencils, printed the sheets
and attended to the actual mail
ing. Recently the authorities o.
the College have given us the ser
vices of stenographer for lin
tied period of time each week, anC
as result we have been enabled
, to report events in the life of thu
college more fully and completely
Since the alumni have shown al
increasing interest in the publicit.
work of the College, may we no
be permitted to suggest means b.
which they can cooperate with u!
in our efforts to make our college
better and more widely known
An alumnus could greatly facil
itate our work if he would prepare
card catalog of graduates of thu
College similar to that which w,
have prepared of the students
Other alumni could aid us great.
by constituting themselves clip
ping bureau and sending us news
paper clippings concerning thu
activities of graduates. These W.
should rewrite and forward to tn
paper. Parents of prospective stu
dents are very often just as much
interested in what the graduate!
of a college are doing as in wha
the undergraduates are doing; ant
through these clippings they coult
be kept informed of the activitie
of former Delaware men. Again
the members of the Alumni Asso
citation, either collectively or in
dividually, would be of great hell
to us if they would devise mean
by which we might secure suf