Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-03-24
NEARLY READY
FOR CAMPAIGN
Meetings of instruction to BE
Held for Solicitors in the
Drive.
SELECT CHAIRMAN FOR ITHACA
RYDER Of Bannister Has Chosen His
Workers and Is Ready to
Start.

All captains under the three divi-
sion leaders for the Alma College
Endowment campaign in Alma have
selected their teams. and Tuesday
meeting of the workers was held at
which time some Of the preliminary
work was gone into. This meeting
will be followed by another next
Tuesday, and the opening banquet Of
the drive a week hence, at which
the final pre-campaign work will be
finished and all will be in readiness
TO start the drive for the $4,000 in
Gratiot county for the memorial
gymnasium to the memory of the
sons OF Gratiot county who went in
to the service of the country in the
World War.
That there should be a memorial
10 the Gratiot county service men
has ben generally conceded since the
days when the boys left their homes
for the training camps. The public
conscience in every county in the
country demands that the names Of
the county's soldiers be inscribed up
on enduring tablets While the boys
are still alive Each county has been
forced to decide whether it would
erect a monument, or building that
would stand as memorial and which
would render broad community
service as long as it endured.
The Alma college project combines
local and county interests in a me-
mortal plan that is of county wide
interest. The college needs a gym
nasium; the county needs an assem-
bly, hall. All interests are united in
the desire TO pay a proper tribute to
the soldiers. The proposed structure
is one that will render service not
20 a local community alone, but TO all
of the young men and women from
Gratiot county who will attend Alma
College in the days to come.
The Alma campaign in Gratiot
county is a part of a statewide ap-
peal for funds being made b. ihe
college. The General Educatiou
Board has pledged Alma $4,000 and
the Presbyterian Educatinal Boa
has pledged $4,000 on condition tina
a total of 100000 be secured. II the
campaign in Gratiot county fs~
$4,000 succeeds the conditions laid
down by the two large contributor
will be met.
The state wide campaign which
will be continued until commence
ment time, has been organized for
the purpose of securing S500,00O ad-
ditional endowment for Alma. How
ever, all Of the funds secured in Gra-
tot county will be devoted to the
construction of the proposed me-
mortal.
During the next few days, the col
lege will send out printed lists bear
ing the names Of Gratiot county's
soldiers Before the names can be
/ inscribed upon tablets it is necessary
to secure lists that are complete and
correct in every detail. The lists
will be distributed in order TO give
the friends and relatives Of eX-
service men a chance to check up and
see whether any name is missing.
Work on the various local organ-
zations in each place in the county
is now proceeding rapidly and it is
expected that another week will see
everything in readiness for the start
of the campaign, which will probably
be the hottest that Alma has ever
experienced.
Clarence Goodrich has beD, select
ed as the chairman for Ithaca and
Friday evening a meeting is TO be
held at the Presbyterian Church
at which time the committee that
will handle the campaign there will
be selected.
Bannister is all ready for the start.
A. +. Ryder is the chairman there
and he has as his workers, II. G..
Smith, F. II. Moulton and Rev. c.
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