The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
Seventh Annual Luncheon of
Alumni Club Today.
More Than Forty Former Stu
dents in Attendance.
DR.. FRANK SANDERS SPEAKER
Former President Was RespOn-
sible for Club Interest.
Many Old TOpekans Behind
Gotham IchabOds Now.

me New York Washburn club
nolos its seventh annual luncheon to-
Gay at Keen's- English Chop House in
11mrty-sixth street. More than forty
Aormer Washburn students and fac
ulty members have signified their in
tention of attending
In the last few years the New York
alumni of Washburn have come more
ana more to appreciate these annual
gatherings. They started in a small
way a long time ago, soon after DR..
FRANK Knight Sanders gave up his
place at WaShburn and came east to
engage again actively in missionary
executive work. 1t was around Doc
Tor sanders that the nucleus of the
view York organization gathered and
ms efforts were largely responsible
Tor the launching of a club here seven
years ago.
1t is particularly fitting. therefore,
that he should be the principal speak
er on the luncheon program that has
been arranged this year. He was I'M
able to attend last years luncheon
ana consequently comes back to talk
TO his old Washburn friends here after
a two years absence in which he has
Deen in China and other countries of
the Far East. He is expected to tell
the Missionaries about the activi-
ties of former Washburnites that he
met in his travels. DIR. Sanders gave
a similar account three years ago at
me full list of speakers will include
several former Washburn students
who have been abroad in the past two
years and who have a peculiarly in
teresting story to tell
Keep Up the Interest.
The early organization of the
Washbun crowd here flourished prin-
cipally because of the. activity of Dr.
and Mrs Sanders in keeping in touch
with people they knew a. the college.
AS they grew more and more out of
touch with the college every year, the
club fell into other hands 1t has
grown in size and influence in the last
four years chiefly because of the in
terest taken in it by such men as
Arthur S. Kane, Howard X. Wood, Ed
ward G. auckland and Homer A.
Dunn. All these men were one-time
Topekans. They came here long time
ago and have been successful in bust
ness. Yet none of them is ever too
busy to turn his attention to Wash
burn on the colleges birthday and
they have all been active, too, in help
ing the institution in financial ways.
They were among the men with whom
President Farley p. Womer kept in
touch when he was seeking endow-
ment funds in. this part of the country
Mr.. Wood is president of the Wash |
burn club this year. Despite the fact
that he is the president of the United |
States Corporation company, a, large |
legal organizing firm in Wall Street, |
his spirit and interest in the club has |
been largely responsible for the mark |
ed progress that has been made this !
year.
When the club began seven years
ago, 1t was small group that gather |
ed for the first luncheon. The num- i
bers gradually increased. under DR.. |
Sanders urging, until when Maurice |
p. Gould took the helm in 1916, about |
fifteen or twenty persons turned out |
a club meetings. The next year Don |
NJ NeiswanSer was president, then |
Mr.. Kane and now Mr. Wood. The |
activity OF these men has brought |
the club to its present standing
Despite the fact that there are about |
eighty Missionaries in this vicinity, |
it has been impossible to interest a.
large number of the older persons in |
the club. Their interest n the college |
has been too long dormant. Their lack
of interest is the greatest of stimulants |
to those who insist that no college can !
afford to lose track of its alumni.
New Officers Ticket.
The meeting this year will be the |
largest on record, according to esant !
indications At a business meeting |
which will follow. officers for me new
year will be selected. The ticket nomi- |
mated by a nominating committee in !
cludes: President, Mr.. Dunn; vice
president, Mrs. Judson Fisher; treas
urer, George B. Huron; secretary, Ed
win A. Mehninger.
Mr.. Dunn is the oldest alumnus liv- |
ing here. He left Washburn forty years I
ago. but his interest has not waned |
He is a partner in the important Wall !
street firm of expert accountants that |.
goes under the name of Haskins &,
Sells. Mrs. Fisher is the wife of the |
physician who at one time was ath- |
Ietic coach at Washburn. Mr.. Huron
is in the real estate firm of Cross &
Brown. Mr.. Menninger is with the
New York Tribune.