Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-06-26
THE ASSOCIATE ALUMNI
Military Service Committee to Continue
work--RcpOrts Presented

The annual meeting of the University
Alumni association was held in the coll
lege chapel, beginning about 1890 o'clock
Tuesday morning. Frank II. Clapp, Sc.
Of North Grafton Mass. presiding in the
absence of Judge Seneca Haselton of
Burlington. president of the association,
who is not in good health.
During the meeting, a resolution was
introduced by John NJ Evans, '93, and
adopted by the association, authorizing
the executive committee and the Senate
committee on military affairs to go for
ward with the publication in appropr-
ate form of a record of the part which
the University of Vermont and her sons
played in the great war, also to take
up the proposition of erecting a memorial
tablet to keep In permanent form the
names Of the university men who went
into the service during the war.
Officers We're elected Cor the coming
year, as reported by the nominating
committee. made up Of Frank R. Wells,
'93, chairman, James D. Tanner, 81, and
Thomas j. Mulcare, 90.
The new officers are: President f. H.
Clapp. SO; vce-president. Charles c.
Farnham, 49, secretary, r. l.. Patrick.
90; treasurer. F. w. Kehoe, 'o9 obituary
committee, W. B. Gates, 81, the Ri Rev.
George Y. Bliss, 's9, Robert Roberts go.
f. s. Isham 80; athletic committee.
Z. s. Towne, '05, Lymon Allen '03, r. W
Collins '09; trustee nominating committee,
the Rt. Rev. George Y. Bliss, 80, j. II.
| Macomber, go; executive committee,
H. E. Gray, '0S, ]. o. Baxendale, IL
A. H. Grout, '0l. Edward S Abbott 90.
and w. H. Wilson. '09; breakfast com
mittee, H. r. Watkins. 20, NJ L. Powell,
80. Mrs. H. f. Gray, 'O6. and F. b.
| Wright, 05
Other business done at this meeting in
Guided the reading and adoption of the
following reports: Report Of the military
service fund of the associate alumni of
the university; report Of F. w. Kehoe.
| treasurer. to the associate alumni Of the
university; report of the obituary com
mittee, submitted and read by w. B.
Gates, chairman. These reports are
given below.
UNIVERSITY MEN IN THE WAR
Prof. s. f. Bassett, reporting the work
Of the military service committee, said
that one man in every five Of the alumni
was in the service during the war A
committee of five, including Professor
Bassett, Prof. F. X Jackson, Prof G. f.
Eckhard, F, w. Kehoe and W. H.
Crockett, have been investigating the
matter of keeping in touch with the men
in service during the war and carried
on that work to great advantage during
the latter part Of the war.
Three lines OF activity have been car
ried out in this connection: U TIC
secure news regarding the military serv-
ice OF all men from the university by
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filled out and returned to the committee
(2) to supply the men in the service with
news of home and home affairs through
personal letters and bi-weekly letters
from the university; (3) war records OF
all the Vermont men who have been In
the service put into permanent form, the
first draft of which is the war service
list issued by the committee this spring
which will form the basis of a more
complete list to be issued later.
Professor Bassett urged that the Alumni
association stand behind the military com
mittee in this work. and to make a new
appropriation TO carry on the work O
getting together the material for a per
manent record. After the financial repor
OF the military committee had been givei
by Mr.. Kehoe, the resolution, giving tn
executive committee and the senate mill
tary committee authority to go aheat
with the this project. was adopted.
TREASURER REPORT
Report of r. w. Kehoe. treasurer to tn
Associate Alumni of the Universit,
of Vermont.
RECEIPTS
, Cash on hand May g. 1918. ......... S487 A
) Dues from Alumni for 1918 ......... $50
Int sl66o and exchange $40 ........ 1871
) Total Receipts .....................SlO 1901.
EXPENDITURES
Credited to Military Service Fund 5000
!, Free Press Association Postal Card
Hecelpts OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1O.t
Printed Stamped Env. .............. 49,:
Neurology Record .................. 36.S
, Ballots Observation-Disclosures. 10.4
, Printed Stamped Env. .............. 110,(
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Discount on checks .................,. .:
Total Expenditures .....,.......... S510.'
( Cash on hand Juno 20. 1919. $685.