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No. 2 Vol. V. t!Jay 1952 NEWSLETTER Vol. V May, 1952 No. 2

Published in the interests of the Alumni at intervals during the school year by the Division of Field Services Michigan State No rmal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Publication Conmittee: Donald M. Currie ('47) Ilda Goodall Lord ( '32) Lucille A. Marshall Alunni Adviso ry Corrmittee: A. A. Riddering ('10) H. Z. Wilber ('02) MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE and its ALUMNI ASSOCIATION request your presence on Alumni Day Saturday, June 14 Nineteen hundred fifty-two at Ypsilanti, Nichiean

ALUMNI DAY EVENTS

The following will take place at Charles McKenny Hall

10 a. m. Registration and Reception Emeritus Club Meeting 11 a. m. Informal Meeting of Classes and Election of Directors 12 M. Alumni Luncheon with Pro gram and Business Meeting 2 p.m. Emeritus Club Meeting 4 p.m. Commencement Exercises

Address - Dr. Mark Bills, Superintendent of Schools, Flint, Michifan

CLASS REUNIONS: 1902, Golden Anniversary; 1927, Silver Anniversary; 1907; 1912; 1917; 1922; 1932; and 1942.

Tenth Annual Track Alumni Club Meetinf Friday and Saturday

- 1 - ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES OF ALUMNI INTEREST

The Detroit Alumni The alumnae of Theta Chapters of Delta Sigma Ep­ Lambda Sigma will have an silon plan a Delta Sigma opportunity to renew old Epsilon Michigan Day on May acquaintances on Saturday, 24 with a luncheon at 12:30 May 17. At this time, the p.m. at the Dearborn Coun­ Fortieth Anniversary will try Club. All Alumni mem­ be celebrated and the ac­ bers of Delta Sigma Epsilon tive chapter has made plans as well as all college mem­ for a busy day. The sched­ bers are urged to set aside ule includes: Initiation, this day. 10:00 a.m. ; Luncheon, 12 Secretaries for the noon; and Tea, 3:30 to 5:00 two Detroit Alumni Chapters p. m. The activities will are: Miss Marguerite Sher­ be held in Charles McKenny man, 25 Highland Ave.,High­ Hall and the luncheon will land Park 3; Miss Margo cost $1.50 per person. The Baker, 3000 Bennet Road, members would appreciate Dearborn. it, if the alums would not­ ify them as to the func­ The Alpha chapter of tions they will be attend­ Alpha Sigma Tau sorority ing on that day. Reply to: cordially extends an invi­ Julie Juracek, King Hall, tation for alumnae to at­ Ypsilanti. tend the annual Candlelight Ball which will be held on May 24, 1952 at 6 p. m. in McKenny Hall. For further Sigma Tau Gamma will hold its Alumni Picnic at 1 details please contact 1 3 1 , Lorraine Welch, Home Man­ P y mouth Pa r k on May 1952 at 11 a.m. agement House, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsi­ lanti, Michigan.

Kappa Mu Delta Soror­ May 31 is the tenta­ ity will spend a weekend at t iv e date for the Annu a 1 the lake starting May 30. Founder's Day Picnic for the alumni of Iota Chapter of Alpha Gamma Upsilon The Stoic Society will hold its Annual May Morning Breakfast at the home of President and Mrs. Eugene On May 22 the Business B. Elliott on Sunday, May Department, under joint 18. At this meeting the sponsorship of Pi Omega Pi recipie11ts of the 1953 and Business Club, will scholarship awards will be honor graduating seniors at announced. A cordial invi­ a banquet. All alumni of tation is extended to all either organization arej Stoic alumni. welcome. I

-2- THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION by E. R. Isbell, Dean of Administration

There has probably never been more lip-service to the importance of good teaching than during the last decade. Nation-wide concern over juvenile de­ linquency; amazement and consternation over the rev­ elations of widespread lack of understanding and even disaffection for our form of government indeed to our way of life; the des­ perate need for enough teachers to staff our pub­ lic schools; dissatisfac­ tion with the effectiveness of teaching of the three In the process of growing R's; hotly-disputed issues up, the teachers• college over the provision of moral has experienced the same and spiritual training for feeling as the teen-age boy our youth - all have com­ who cannot wait to be look­ bined to focus the national ed upon as a man. Some attention on the fundamen­ colleges have even shown a tal importance of good desire to drop the word teaching. "t:eacher" or "education" The teachers' col­ from their name; others leges, on the other hand, notably in Ohio have have been experiencing taken on the name "uni ve r - pressures that tended to a sity." de-emphasis of the teacher­ Perhaps because she training function. Through­ has been a degree-granting out the nation, the teach­ institution for half a cen­ ers' college has been going tury; perhaps because her through a transformation distinguished roster of from the two-year normal great teachers sparkles school to the four-year with the names of those degree-granting college; whose deepest convictions and from the four-year col­ placed the teaching profes­ lege to a four-year college sion at the summit - Michi­ plus a year of graduate gan State Normal College work leading to the Mas­ has consistently and with ter's degree. Accompanying enthusiasm remained true to this, very naturally, has her essential function - been a strong emotional the education and training urge for greater prestige.

-4 - COLLEGE HOST TO NATIONAL CONFERENCES

Michigan State Normal sense the three hundred od d College will play host this teachers attending will summer to two educational join us as alumni of Michi­ conferences of national im­ gan State Normal College portance. The N.E.A. De­ and we are happy to welcome partment of Classroom them. Mr. Benjamin Klager, Teachers will hold its an­ Controller, and James E. nual workshop on the campus Green, Assistant to the from July 6 - 18. The bi­ President, are handling ennial School for Execu­ local arrangements for the tives of the American Asso­ conference . ciation of Colleges of The School For Execu­ Teacher Education will be tives of the A.A.C. T.E. held at the college from will bring over three hun­ August 17 - 22. dred administrators of col ­ The Department of leges for teacher education Classroom Teach ers work­ and th eir families to the shop, which will be under campus for a five-day work­ the direction of Miss Hilda ing-over of their mutual Maehling, Executive Secre­ problems. For that period tary of the department, of­ the administrators will be fers college credit to in almost sole possession teachers from all over the of the college campus. Like country, but more impor­ the classroom teachers, tant, gives them an oppor­ they will be housed in the tunity to exch ange ideas dormitories and will use and procedures under the classroom buildings and the direction of leaders in the library for th eir delibera­ teaching profession . Pro­ tions . John R. Emens, fessors Roman Young and member of M.S.N.C. class of Ronald Slay of the educa­ 1926 and President of Ball tion department of the col­ State Teachers College at lege will act as discussion Muncie, Indiana, is chair­ leaders at th e workshop. man of the planning commit­ Other members of the fac­ tee for th e conference. ulty are also cooperating President Elliott and Mr. in many capacities. The Gr een, along with Mr. te achers attending the Klager, are handling local workshop will be housed in arrangements. Lloyd Olds dormitories and will ac­ is in charge of setting up tually make th eir home on the local recreational pro­ campus for the two-weeks gram. session. In a special

-5- AL UMN I GRAMS .....On March 1, 1952 the Mary D. Mitchell School was opened to 188 pupils of Pittsfield District No. 9 near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The new building, modern in every detail, was named in honor of Mrs. Mary D. Mitchell (MSNC Golden Anniversary Class of 1902), who served the school district for nineteen years as teacher, principal, and superintendent until her retirement in 1949. At that time she was guest of honor at a dinner and program at­ tended by approximately 300 of her close friends and associates. At the present time she is living at 3325 Platt Road, East Ann Arbor ...... Thomas J. Gunn (Life '21), for many years principal of Detroit' s Central High School and a veteran of the city's school system, will retire at the end of the pres­ ent school year. '23; '32) .. ... Wil liam Arbaugh (Life A.B. will assume his new duties as Assistant Principal of Central High School, Detroit, in September when the fall semester opens .

.... . Irvin G. Wolf (Life '26 ; B.S. '28) has been named to head Denby High School, Detroit, at the beginning of the fall semester. While he was a student at Detroit's East­ ern High School and MSNC , he excelled in football and track. In 1928 he returned to Detroit as a coach and in that year his football team won the City championship. Later he left coaching to become a grade school princi­ pal, counselor, assistant principal and finally princi­ pal.

.Mrs. Pearl M. Gray Dunn (Life '26) of Port Huron, Michigan, has recently returned from a month's vacation in Hawaii. Teachers may recall reading her poem "Life" which was p.iblished in 1950 by the National Poetry Asso­ ciation in their National Poetry Anthology for Teachers...... Grace E. Tyler ( '39), formerly one of our Detroit Alumni, was married to John R. McGowan in June 1951, and since that time has been making her home in Shannon, Georgia ...... Ruth Skinner (B.S. '30), formerly a resident of Ypsilanti, was married to Albert W. Perry in March 1950, and they are now residing in Chicago, Illinois. After her graduation, Ruth became a member of the faculty of the MSNC Conservatory of Music where she taught piano until March 1948 ...... John Grant (B.S. '42) and llrs. Grant (nee Helen Katon, B. S. '41) are now living in Washington, D.C. We all wish·John the best of luck in his new position as Administrative Officer and Director of the National Ser­ vice Unit of the Cenus Bureau.

-6- A L U M N I G R A M S (Continued) .Mar gar et J. Jean Augustus ('48) of Ypsilanti and Wayne Haushalter of Pontiac, Michigan, were united in mar­ riage on Friday, March 7. Margaret is teaching at the Estabrook School in Ypsilanti and Wayne is associated with the Diesel Company, a Division of General Motors Corporation, Detroit. At the present time they are liv­ ing at. Mr 589. DubieMrs Street,. Ypsilanti, Michigan . . . . . and Donald Eby (Lois Vet al ) proudly an­ nounce the arrival of son Craig Donald on February 17. Lois graduated with the B.S. degree in '48 and Don in '50. They are residing in Whitehall, Michigan, ...... Ber nar d Miller, Jr . '51 graduate of MSNC in Busi­ nes� Education, and a member of Kappa Phi Alpha, has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement as the Outstanding Soldier of Co. C, 61st . Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AW) Bat�alion, 6th Armored Division at Fort Leonard Wood. "Bernie" was awarded a sterling silver identification bracelet by his officers on February 16, 1952 ...... David Clair Porter ('51) recently received a commis­ sio:1 in the United States Navy, after completing work at the U. S. Navy Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island. He was a Physics major. . . .• . Nancy Joan Sutton (B. S. '51) of Detroit, Michigan, recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, is studying work for the deaf at the University of Manchester in England during the present school year. ME MORIAL TRIBUTES

...Halstead Harley Seeley (attended MSNC 1895- 96), former president and co-founder of the King-Seeley Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan, died at his home in Ann Arbor on April 19. His remarkable career as an industrialist in­ cluded the manufacture of gasoline lamps, automobile winrlshields, dashboard fuel supply indicators and many oth�r automotive parts . . . . Mar shall Lyman Byr n ('23) Professor of Vocational Edu­ cation and Head of the Department of Industrial Arts at the University High School, died in Ann Arbor on November 23, 1951. Besides his scheduled duties as a teacher, Pro:essor Byrn was sought constantly to conduct evening cla�ses for University students and adults. His shop was a fascinating exhibit of educational devices, of varied explorator� processes, and of ingenious inventions of his own . Mr s. Oscar Water ­ .. ('48) Richerson, Jr. , nee Betty Charlotte son died at her home in Peoria, Illinois, on Janu­ ary 8, 1952. Betty majored in Occupational Therapy while on �he campus and was a member of the Y. W. C. A.

- 7 - P LA I\- TO RE T UR N TO T HES E �

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-8- ILIAR SCENES 0� ALUMNI DAY

-9 - GOLDEN ANNI VERSARY ROSTER

The following members Brewster, Mary Dot of the Clas s of 1902 will (Mitchell, Mrs. Mary Dot) receive notices of their 3325 Platt Road GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY reunion East Ann Arbor, Michigan on Alumni Day, June 14. Briggs, Virginia If you should discover (Be s t , Mr s . V. ) errors in names or ad­ Marshall, Michigan dres ses , we will appreciate it very much if you will Brown, Ethel Lynn send us the correct inform­ (Bottoms, Mrs. J. S. ) ation for our records . R.F.D. Hl Pineville, Louisiana Adair, Kathryn Buck, Neva (Freeland, Mrs . Joseph) (Pe abody, Mrs. Neva) Three Rivers, Michigan Lake Od�ssa, Michigan Alden, Kate A. Burnett, Phoebe (Choate, Mrs . Kate A.) 4128 North Crawford Avenue 511 West Cass Street Chicago, Illinois Greenville, Michigan Burt, Rose W. Aulls, Jessie N. Box 488 (Urguhare,Mrs. Jessie N.) Bes semer, Michigan 3203 Carlin Avenue Detroit, Michigan Carrick, Mrs. Ada S. Charlotte, Michigan Baker, Estella E. Montclair Normal School Chambers, May East Montclair, N.J. (Brewster, Mrs. May) 705 West Michigan Bailey, Lillian Lansing, Michigan (McCall, Mrs. Lillian B. ) 7 05 Oak land Clark, Helen Etta Ann Arbor, Michigan Merrill, Michigan Bignell, Lillian Cooley, Harriet Bernice Portland, Michigan (Dovey, Mrs . Robert) Rout e HS Bixby, Ida L. Coldwater, Michigan 1147 West Lovell Craig, John A. · Kalamazoo, Michigan 239 Monterey Avenue Bliss, Franc N. Highland Park 3, Michigan (Wyman, Mrs. Franc) Jonesville, Michigan Craig, Mattie T. 2109 East Eighth Street Duluth, Minnesota

-10- r=ER (Continued)

Cross, Mabel C. Frank, Mau9 Ella Leland School (Johnson, Mrs. Claude W. ) Detroit, Michigan 14811 Penrod Dobbins, Anna Detroit, Michigan 532 Rich Fribley, Katie L. Ionia, Michigan 144 Glendale Dcty, Helen J. Highland Park, Michigan (Majors, Mrs. S. D. ) Fritz, Frances Helen 14 East Powell Avenue (O'Brien, Mrs. Frances) Evansville, Indiana 1257 Niagara Drake, Nellie Winifred Denver, Colorado Sherrill School Fuller, Jennie A. Detroit, Michigan Hudson, Michigan Ecdy, Lela E. Gibbs, Clara M. (McLaughlin, Mrs. Lela) (Allen, Mrs. James) 629 Plymouth 1211 West Michigan Missoula, Montana Jackson, Michigan Edwards, Bessie B. Graham, Genevieve E. Alamo, Michigan McKinley School E:dred, William C. Kalamazoo, Michigan 427 Thompson Greeley, Gertrude Ann Arbor, Michigan Albion, Michigan E�liott, Erma Rose Green, Clarence E. Iosco, Michigan 709 East Forest Elwell, Ruth Ypsilanti, Michigan (Lentz, Mrs. Ruth) Green, Florence S. R.F. D. 1'3 Northern High School Standish, Michigan Detroit, Michigan Falconer, Mertie I. Green, Loa Lakeview, Michigan A. L.Donaldson School Fogg, Lucie E. Mt. Clemens, Michigan Jonesville, Michigan Gross, Matilda L. (teaching)Trumbull Manistee, Michigan School, Jackson, Mich. Gulde, Clara L. Foley, Mrs. Mary Agnes (William s, Mrs. C.D. ) 1807 5 Oak Drive 19810 Farmington Roan Detroit, Michigan Farmington, Michigan

-11- RO STER (Continued) I Handeyside, Anna Jacobs, Grace E. R. F.D. 12 220 West King Wa yne, Michigan Owosso, Michigan Hayden, Vera Jennings, Clarence M. (Da vis, Mrs. Vera ) Lawrence, Michigan 223 North O'Keefe Keal, Harry M. D. Cassopolis, Michigan 241 Tuxedo Hayward, Ella Highland Park 3, Michigan (Deal, Mrs. Ella ) Kennedy, Katherine 4119 Asbury Drive Hancock, Michigan Toledo, Ohio Kilbourne, C. Louise Herr, Gertrude County Norma l, Prin. 511 Pa rmenter Menominee, Michigan Menominee, Michiga n LaBounty, Orvice Hiatt, Florence Magnolia Springs, Ala. Ba rbour Intermediate Sch. Detroit, Michigan Leland, Bernice Mae 120 Glynn Court Himebaugh, Gertrude Psychology Clinic (Holz, Mrs. Gertrude) Publi c Schoo1 s 112 East Pearl Detroit, Michigan Coldwa ter, Michigan Lindsay, Margaret Hinkle, Radia S. (Brigham, Mrs. M. ) (Brumfield, Mrs. Frank) Decatur, Michigan P. O. Box 141 Mendon, Michigan Lockwood, Edna (Sheete, Mrs. Edna B.) Hogue, Arthur L. 866 Ionia 1021 W. 11th Avenue Akron, Ohio Spokane 9, Wa shington McCarthy, Agnes M. Holmes, Florence E. Hancock, Michigan (Arthur, Mrs. Florence E. ) 1021 West Eleventh Ave. McCormick, Jennie Spokane, Washington Public Schools Albion, Michiga n Hoppe, L. Dorritt (Hauer, Mrs. Dorritt) McGee, L. Mabelle Woodland, Michigan Mason, Michigan Hulsa rt, Virginia McGeorge, Bess (Sharf ie, Mrs. D. B. ) Box 351 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1621 South Prairie Kalamazoo, Michigan

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L ROSTER (Continued)

McKay, Christina Osborn, Hugh 512 Townsend ElCentro, California Midland, Michigan Maddock, Sarah Parent, Anna .P. 21½ Davis 22146 West 7 Mile Road Wyandotte, Michigan Detroit, Michigan Mahn, S. Agnes Pariseau, Marie A. 2519 Wilson Iron Mountain, Michigan Chicago, Illinois Petit, Louise Major, Louina (Hamilton, Mrs. Louise) 444 Charles Street 711 Seventh Street Muskegon, Michigan Jackson, Michigan Martindill, J. W. Piatt, Lida M. Springerville, Arizona (C lark, Mrs. P. N. ) Melody, James B. Prattsburg, New York 1418 Beach Pilcher, Leonora Fl int, Michigan Albion, Michigan Merriett, Gardia Preston, Maggie B. (Russel 1, Mrs . G. M.) Route 113 217 West Tenth Grass Lake, Michigan Michigan City, Indiana Rawson, Elizabeth E. Mitchell, Florence M. (T eaboldt, Mrs. Chas. R. ) 5333 Helen 422 South Huron Street Detroit, Michigan Ypsilan ti, Michigan Mowrey, Meta Belle Reinburg, Alida (Tombaugh, Mrs. M. B. ) McBain, Michigan 2031 Commonwealth Reineke, John F. Boston, Massachusetts Union City, Michigan Nelson, Mary M. Reinelt, Bertha Hudson, Michigan Harbor Beach, Michigan Nimo, Rea Reisinger, Cora E. (Braidwood, Mrs. W. J.) 941 Bellclair 551 Melbourne East Grand Rapids, Mich. Detroit, Michigan Ribblet, Donna O'Keefe, Eva (Wegner, Mrs. Donna R. ) c/o Public Schools Riverside, California Cleveland, Ohio

-13- Santee, Nellie, M. Thomas , Anna P. Charlotte, Michigan 301 Belleville Schmitt, John J. Bloomfield, New Jersey c/o Piney Ridge Hotel Thompson, Bertha E. Ludin gton, Michigan Union City, Michigan Skentelbury, Mabelle Thompson, Elizabeth L. ,M.D. Lake Odessa, Michigan Instruction, Medical Dept Slocum, Howard E. University of Michigan 109 Goodhue Ann Arbor, Michigan Owosso, Michigan Thompson, Laura Smith, Callie L. Plainwell, Michigan Saline, Michi gan Thompson, M. Irene Smith, Edi th (Tagget, Mrs. Irene) 129 Eas t Emmons Blvd. 1421 Merril Wyandotte, Michigan Kalamazoo, Michigan W. Smith, E. Lozette Townsend, Emilie Newton School 238 Logan Street S. E. Toledo, Ohio Grand Rapids, Michigan A. Smith, Jennie R. Ungers, Gertrude Carson City, Michigan Madison and Lenox Hotel Madison Avenue Smith, Josephine M. Detroit, Michigan 145 Woodland Avenue Obe r1in, Ohio Van Allsburg, John E. R.R. , Northeast, Penn. Sprague, Birdell� M. 1028 Woodbridge Vandenbosch, Harriet Jackson, Michigan 1346 Teaneck Road West Englewood, N.J. Squires, Evalyn F. 125 Harrison Van Houten, George E. Coldwater, Michigan Grass Lake, Michigan Steimle, Clemens P. Vliet, Clarence 317 S. Huron 416 West Brown Street Ypsilanti, Michigan Birmingham, Michigan Atty. Stevens, Arthur J. Walton, Martha Alva, Oklahoma Plainville, Michigan Tench, Sidney W. Waltz, Bess Lawton, Michigan or (Reading, Mrs. Harry) c/o Beckley Cardy Co. 1234 Prospect Chicago, Illinois Ann Arbor, Michigan

-14- L ,-ROS TER (Continued) Watkins, Cecelia Brown, Alice L. Petoskey, Michigan Childs, Ethel Wheeler, Effie J. (Kom, Mrs. Ethel) 720 Jeffery Corson, Martha Chicago, Illinois Cummings, Lillian Cope Wilber, Horace Z. 809 Congress Davis, Bernice Gail Ypsilanti, Michigan Davis, Florence H. Wolfe, Dr. Charles Dixon, Jennie L. 1017 Washtenaw Ellsworth, Agnes Ypsilanti, Michigan Gardner, M. Eola Wood, Grace Jean Char�otte, Michigan Giddings, Mary M. Woodhams, Bertha C. Gill, Joseph (Ellis, Mrs. B. ) Greene, Myrtle B. Moores River Drive Gross, Anna M. East Lansing, Michigan Herkimer, Carrie E. Woodruff, Sarah M. (.Mayer, Mrs . M. ) Hickox, Elva H. Fair Avenue Hinkle, Elva L. Benton Harbor, Michigan Hinkle, Olive E. Witte, Ethel H. Huston, Jason D. (R ood, Mrs. Frank B. ) Box 802 Johnson, Kathryn •••••••••••••••••••••••Coos Bay, Oregon • Lockhart, Alma (Wees, Mrs. Alma) MacArthur, Beatrice We do not have the ad­ dresses for the following McDonald, Almeda people. If you can provide Marble, Ira A. them for us, please let us Morrisey, Evangeline hear from you. Parmater, Emma J. Arnot, Mabel Rice, Franc Ave�y, Lawrence Gordon Sharpe, A. Gertrude Bierkamp, George A. .Shaw, Myrtle M. Blanchard, Edith Smith, Harriet E. Margaret Brems, Edna Spencer, Roy E.

- 15- ROSTER (Continued) NOMIN EES FOR ANNUAL ELECTIO N Stevens, Mary W. Stevenson, Arna C. As provided in the Stover, Lillyan L. Constitution of the Alumni Association a five-member Thomas, Mary E. nominating committee met Waldron, Zoe Ione and prepared the following Walton, May Elodia slate of candidates for the annual election to be held Ward, Frances on Alumni Day, June 14. The Watkins, S. I. Constitution also provides for nomination by petition Westland, Nellie M. signed by any ten members Weyant, Emma Theresa of the Association. Such Whitmoyer, Clinton petitions must be presented to the Secretary of the Wolvin, Bertha E. (Sates, Mrs. Joel E. ) Alumni Association before June 5. Wood, Lena W. Three-Year Term Norman Borgerson '21 * AMENDMENT PROPOSALS Ruth Boughner '23 Leslie A. Butler '00 * The proposals to amend Ruth Richards Colgate '24 the Constitution of the James Lieberman '39 Alumni Association, which Virginia Mack McKeachie'4 were summarized in the last Carleton H. Runciman '11 issue of the NEWSLETTER, Allen F. Sh erzer '10 * will be voted upon at the Claude Snarey '26 * annual meeting of the Asso­ Irvin Wolf '28 ciation on June 14. To fill two years of unex­ Briefly stated th e pired term of Helen Katon amendments provide: Grant. (1) Voting fo r Alumni Pauline Fisher '45 Board members by mail in Clara Wild Isbister '26 addition to present system. * indicates incumbent (2) Creation of life mem­ NOMINATING COMMITTEE berships. S. A. Blackburn, '31 (3 ) Creation of contribut­ Donald M. Currie, '47 in g mem be rsh i ps . Bertha Warner Davis, '16 Ann Hood Meech, '45 Harold 0. Oliver, '30

-1 6- ALUMNI MEMO RIAL CHIMES REPORT

The Alumni Memorial Chimes Committee has been hard at work during this pa st year. The Committee wishes that this br ief report could be better than ;he following facts indicate;

Total amount of money received $3, 664. 00 Total number of contribu tions 400 Amount of balance due on note * 500. 00

* Three member s of our loyal Alumni were co-signer s on a note to advance the money for the purchase of the Chimes. The $500.00 balance due on th is note does not take into account the many additional obligations of the Association in connection with mailing expenses, etc. Four hundred alumni have done their part to pay tribute to those who served our Country in the World Wars. Contributions are still being received by Alumni Treasurer C. P. Steimle at 317 South Huron Str eet, Ypsi­ lanti. If you are not numbered among the faithf ul four hundred, could you mail your contribution today? Sec. 562, P. L. and R. Division of Field Services U. S. POSTAGE Michigan State Normal College PAID Ypsilanti, Michigan Ypsilanti. Mich. Pumu No. J l9

PO s TM AST ER: If not deliverable as addressed, notify sender on form 35117. Forwarding postage guaranteed.