The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-08
5OALUMN| STRIVE
 ID REACH GOAL IN
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State Total of $750, ,000 Is Expected Friday at CeIe- bration at State
 Institution

50 alumni of the University of Ala bama are straining to roll up the largest possible total in Birmingham for the university s1,oO0,O0O expan- sion fund. The active drive by the alumni teams will end Thursday and the 50 men who promised to give their time on the last three mornings of the local drive were In many in- stances exceeding their pledges and putting in lover time" for the uni- versity.
 New subscriptions of s6.Ss6 were reported on the first day of the clean-up campaign and the total reached Tuesday was $247,59s. An nouneement was made at the lunch- con at the Tutwller hotel that sim- liar cleanup campaigns are being waged over the state. and all the workers are concentrating their ef- forta upon raising the state wide total to $750,000. or more before the celebration Friday at the university. Bessemer and Ensley alumni are al work this week canvassing the for mer students of the university and others to assist In meeting Jefferson countys quota. At the request of S c. King, chairman of the EnsleY committee, and vice president of the Bank of Ensley. State Chairman Bor- den Burr and 10 of the Birmingham workers will go to Ensley today To assist the alumni living there in the Ensley clean-up campaign. Gifts Increased q I,x. Mcqueen. president of the Sloss- Sheffield company, was announced Tuesday as his personal gift to the university E. B. Teague, Jr one of the alumni team captains announced Tuesday that he would raise his sub~ scription from s750 to $l,000, if nine other alumni would add S250 to the amounts they have previously sub scribed. Another conditional gift by an alumnus has also been announced, Sidney J. Bowie having agreed to raise his subscription from sl,oOO to St 900 if nine other men will also raise their subscriptions to $5,O00 from smaller amounts.
 Dan Pratt of Prattville. trustee of the university. was guest at the luncheon and commended the Bir- mingham alumni on the valuable work they have done for their alma mater.
 Preliminary organization work in Mobile is already under way and the campaign there Is to be started in short time, according to S. l.. Pos tlethwaite. state campaign director, who was guest at the luncheon. T. M. Stevens Mobile chairman. and alumni in that city have postponed their work until after the election Tuesday and will be ready in short time to start an active campaign Tor the university. MT. Postlethwaite said | that local conditions had caused post | ponement of the campaign in certain other centers but that the drive
 would be made state wide before the
 work was halted. l Celebration Friday Indications are that a large number | of alumni and many others will go | to Tuscaloosa Friday for the celebra- | ton in connection with the Louis
 jana State Alabama football game. At exercises to be held in Morgan hall at II o'clock Friday morning, the university will express it's gratitude
 to those who have already com tributed to it's expansion fund. Alabama's three living ex-gover- nors, B. B. Conner and William Dor sey Jelks of Birmingham, and Charles
 
 Musgrove of Jasper, and the other large contributors to the university fund. Victor H. Hanson, publisher of the Birmingham News; William I. Sheehan, editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, and others will be guests of honor at these exercises. Lunch con will be served the visitors at o'clock and the football game will start at o'clock.
 Amounts reported by the cleanup teams at the luncheon Tuesday were.
 Special committee-Hill Ferguson, captain, sl,300.
 Team No. 1-Dr. Joseph Leland,
 Team No. 20. G. Gresham, cap tain, s1.435.
 T Team No. 4-J. R. oden. captain, $465.
 Team No. 5--Anglin White, captain s150.
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