Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-04
UNIVERSITY TO RAISE $1,ooo, 900
TO CONNIE MoRArE HEROES
or PAST WARS.
TO CANVASS GRADUATES
OF g. v. !. FOR MONEY
State to BE Organized by countiss--
Plan Suggested by President Jsssup
and 10 Taken UP by Alumni Assoeia.
tion-Frsd sarsssnt Heads Commit
tee In Charge Of Campaign.
Special to Times Republican.

Iowa City. Oct. 4.-Plans were COM
pletsd here today by q committee OF
graduates Of the State University OF
Iowa for the raising OF fund Of ST.
100000 to build the Iowa memorial
union. in memory Of sons and daugh-
tiers Of the university who served
America in the civil war. the Spanish
American war. and the world war. To
raise this sum there will be a canvass
Of graduates, former students, and
friends Of the university, both in Iowa
and elsewhere around the world, wher-
ever they have gons. eliminating In
| the eight days. Nov. 1928, which I'M
mediately following homecoming day,
the big alumni celebration.
Headquarters for this campaign have
already been opened in the old capitol
here. The state will be organized by
counties. with an alunnus in active
charge Of money raising in each coun-
ty and each large community. Nom
residents Of Iowa will be canvassed by
mail, and in communities where there
is a. group Of former residents Of the
SIdLo OI q -uuIIlDSk VI - oOudSSS, SoA~A
mittees will be organized to visit them
personally. ..
The plan for a memorial union was
first suggested by President Jessup. OF
the university, several months ago. II
was taken up by a committee Of alumni
headed by Fred w. Sargent, Of .Des
Moines, president Of the alumni assoc
citation, and including Messrs. w. II.
Bremner. Of Minneapolis: Rush c. But
Ter, of Chicago; Charles M. butcher, OF
this city; w. o. Finkbine, Of Des
Moines; John NJ. Grimm, Of Cedar
Rapids; Carl F. Kuehnle, Of Denison;
Joe r. Lane, Of Davenport, and James
B. Weaver. Of Des Moines. This COM
mittee decided to incorporate The Iowa
Memorial Union and to set about OBJ
tanning the money to erect suitable
memorial to those brave MEN and wom-
en- Of the university who had given
themselves to the service of their coun-
| try in the three great crises in nation
| al life. It was the opinion Of the COM
mittee that the sum desired could be
| obtained better by thorough, con-
centrated campaign than by q long
process Of soliciting gifts from few
| friends at time. Homer A Boushey,
Of New York, has been engaged as
| campaign director. Mr.. Boushey Is an
| advertising man and campaign direc-
! tor Of wide experience. at present one
| Of the executives Of the Roosevelt
Memorial Association. He was mex
ecutiye Of the campaign for funds OF
the Methodist Episcopal church, South,
which started for $35,00o,000 and rails
ed more than $50,000,000. Frederick
w. Crone. who has worked in liberty
loan campaigns and as an executive OF
the Roosevelt Memorial Association
| will be campaign manager in active
charge Of the details of the canvass for
funds. ..N.
Fred w. Sargent, chairman of the
committee, said today that the men re-
sponsible for this project believed 1t
should appeal to every loyal graduate
Of the University Of IoYa, every for
mer student, and every person In the
state interested in the work Of the in
stitution. Il
1.-THE Iowa Memorial Union will ;ex-
press concretely and for all time" he
| said. "our respect and devotion to the
splendid men and women who placed
themselves in the service Of their coun-
try, not alone in the great war SO re-
Gently ended, in which Iowa had fine
record, but In the Spanish American
war and the civil war. They deserve
all the honor we can pay them, and 1t
is debt we should pay without stint.
It Is proposed to have in the building
memorial tablets bearing the names of
those who served and the war records
Of the soldiers, sailors, marines, nurses,
- ~ fhA &f1l.
dent Army Training Corps, and others
connected with the university who con-
tributed to the winning Of the world
war and the other wars In which uni
versity people have participated. A
particularly important feature OF the
plan is to make the union, with all
that it represents in concentrating
fine Americanism, center Of Amer
icanization work-of effort for the
perpetuation Of the highest ideals OF
patriotism and devotion to America.
aside from it's memorial character,
the union will become q Tremendously
valuable part of the equipment Of the
university. It will be q club, social
center for faculty and students ana
graduates Of both sexes, furnishing
meeting place where there viii be built
up a splendid university spirit. This,
It seems to me, must appeal not only
to those who are q part Of the uni
versity life, but to all friends Of the In
stitution and, indeed, to every tax
payer whose money goes to help pay
for tho work Of Iowa. The union Will
make university life richer and broad
er. ana thus will benefit every person
who shares in It's privileges. It Will
enable the university to turn out finer
ana better equipped men and women
into the life Of our state. which our
committee believes to be Z thing worth
striving for and paying for"
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