Evening star., 1934-12-23
SMITH ALUMNAE
TO GATHER IND. c.
Distinguished Figures in Col.
lege's Life to Join in jan
uary Program.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

larger than any other alumnae organ
ization, will meet in Washington. D.
c.. on January 10, when graduates
from all over the country will gather
in the Nations Capital for the first
association meeting held away from
Northampton since 1929. Mrs. r. M.
Kaufman of Washington is the
chairman in charge Of the Washing
ton meeting.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will re-
ceive the alurnnae at the White House
at noon. The rest of the day will be
occupied with full program of events
for the visiting Smith women. The
day will begin with an especially ar
ranged visit to the Folger Shakespeare
Library at 1890. Mrs. John w.
Guider, president of the Washington
Smith Club, will preside at luncheon
at the Hotel Carlton at l o'clock, at
which Mrs. w. Chaplin Huntington of
Washington, national president of the
Alumnae Association: Miss Marjorie
A. Nicholson, dean of the college, and
Constance Morrow, daughter of Mrs.
Dwight w. Morrow and senior at
Smith and an officer of the Student
Government Association, will speak.
Tea for Secondary Students. y
At $3.50 tea for secondary students
and their parents will be given at the
club house of the American Associa-
ton of University Women, when Miss
Morrow will again speak. as well as
Mrs. Frank Teagle of Cleveland, an
Rlumnae trustee of the college. Mrs.
Huntington will preside at the tea.
Another tea will be given at 4
O'Clock at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank j. Hogan, at which time DR..
William Allan Nelson, president of
Smith College, will comment on the
Hogan collection of rare books.
President Nelson will speak at a
dinner at o'clock at the Hotel Carl
ton for alumnae, parents of students
in college and guests. Mrs. George
B. Ford, resident trustee of the COL
lege, will preside, and William A.
Orton, professor of economics at
Smith, author and authority on inter-
national affairs, will also speak.
Development of Regional Idea.
The development of the regional
meeting is one of many projects which
have grown up since the inception in
1881 of the Alumnae Association, with
a present membership of over 10000.
In 1907 the association acquired an
Office on the campus and full time
general secretary, Florence H. Snow,
who is still serving in that capacity.
The 27 years in which she has directed
the activities of the association have
seen the growth of the Alumnae
Council, the founding Of the Smith
Alumnae Quarterly, the establishment
of the >alumnae fund, the formation OF
the alumnae week end and the ad-
vancement of the association to
foremost position in the field of adult
education with the establishment OF
the Alumnae College.
The Alumnae Council had its be-
ginning in 1907 to fill the need that
was felt to bring about closer rela-
tions between the alumnae trustees
and the alumnae. 1t assemblies In
Northampton in February and over
$50 delegates from the clubs scattered
throughout the United States and the
classes come as guests Of the college
to transact much preliminary husi-
ness preparatory to laying it before
the association meeting in June.
Growth of Magazine.
The Alumnae Quarterly first made
its appearance in October, 1909. and
in 25 years has grown from a maga-
zine of AZ pages and list of 920 sub
scribers to one of more than 100
pages and 1000 subscribers. 1t has
been awarded three prizes and one
honorable mention by the American
Alumni Council, in competition with
100 other alumni and alumnae maga-
zines
The alumnae have made tireless
efforts towards raising funds for the
alumnae gymnasium, the library, the
students building, the chemistry
building, the inirmary the 100000
fund, to build John NJ Greene Hall,
the Sl,000,O00 fund, the $4,000,000
fund, and numerous other funds for
equipment, scholarships, faculty SAL
aries, and other needs of the college.
The total of funds given personally
by the alumnae toward these pro-
jects is at present, so far as the fig
ures are available, over $4,0O0,000.
Use of AIumnae Fund.
The Alumnae Fund was started in
1912 and was to be voted for
specific purpose each year. This en-
terprise was interrupted by the war
during which all available money was
diverted to war work. The Smith
College Relief Unit in France was not
organized originally as AN Alumnae
Association venture, but 1t soon be-
came SO, and the alumnae, through
the association, contributed nearly
$3.50, 900 to its war service fund. The
fund was re-established in 1927 with
Mrs. George B. Ford, resident trustee,
as chairman of the Fund Committee,
and the principle was established of
encouraging the alumna to give once
a year through her class. Each June
the association has voted on a prof.
ect to which the fund would be given
the following year. In the seven
years since reorganization of the fund
faculty salaries, scholarships and
graduate fellowships have received
yearly gifts determined by the need
of the year. The fund each year has
averaged over $4,000.
The Alumnae Weekend was estab-
lished in 1928 in an effort to provide
an occasion when the alumnae can
go back to the college as they knew
it and recapture the feeling of being
in college.
Last October there we're nearly 400
on the campus for this occasion. In
the field of adult education, the Alum
nae Association made its first expert
ment with Alumnae Reading Lists
in 1924, which proved so popular |
that they have been distributed ever
since.
"Alumnae College Activities.
One of the things Of which Smith |
alumnae are most proud Is the par |
ticipation of the Northampton insti- |
tuition in the alumni college move |
ment, most recent development along
the lines of adult and alumni educa-
tion. Lafayette College was the first |
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