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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1A, AL UMNI RECORD of Rollins College MAY, 1925 ' Contents: ODD Commencement June 5 Presbyterian Conference June 23 Congregationalists Endorse Financial Plans Rollins Club at Daytona New York Regents Recognize Rollins Parker President Student Association; LoFroos Football Captain volume IV Number 5 Published monthly, on the first of each month, by The Alumni Association of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Printed by The Rollins Press, Hamilton Building, Winter Park, Florida. :-m- Winning the West Irrigation by electrically driven pumps has made hundreds of thousands of acres of desert land in the Intermountain West blossom like the rose. For a few cents a month per acre, electricity—the giant worker—brings the life-giving water from distant lakes and rivers to rainless valleys, producing rich harvests of fruits and vegetables, cereals and forage. The General Electric Com- pany provides for agricul- What electricity is doing for the farmer is only a counter- ture little motors that do the farm chores and great part of what it is doing for Industry, Transportation, onesthat operate the City and Country life or any of the professions. It is a mammoth pumps to irri- gate vast stretches of arid tool ready for your use and which, wisely used, will make valleys. the impossible of today an accomplished fact tomorrow. If you are interested in learning more about what How electricity does these things is important to the electricity is doing, write student in a technical school—but what electricity can do for Reprint No. AR391 containing a complete set is important to every college man or woman, no matter of these advertisements. what their life's work may be. 7-17f BL GENERAL ELECTRIC GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. SCHENBCTADY, NEW YORK The AJu mm Association of ROLLINS COLLEGE, {Founded 1898) WINTER PARK, FLORIDA Annual Membership, $10.00 Life Membership, $100.00 OFFICERS CLARA LOUISE GUILD, '90, Founder and Honorary President R.W. GREENE,'23, President NANNIE D. HARRIS, '24,Vice-President C. E.WARD, '23, Secretary F. H.WARD, '21,Treasurer ALUMNI TRUSTEES F. J. FRANK, '96 T. W. LAWTON, '03 SEXTON JOHNSON, '20 D. A. CHENEY ARTHUR SCHULTZ H. A. WARD E. A. BREWER L. W. TILDEN THE ALUMNI COUNCIL Officers of the Association, Editor and Business Manager of the Alumni Record, and SEXTON JOHNSON, '20, Chairman, W. M. INGRAM, '22, Vice-Chairman, FLORENCE BUMBY, '23 HELEN MCKAY,'24, K. C. WARNER,'24 COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS REX BEACH, EX-'96, Honorary Chairman 0. L. SUTLIFF, '24, Chairman A. MAXWELL SLOAN, Ex-'23, Vice-Chairman COMMITTEE ON ACCREDITIZATION NANNIE D. HARRIS, '24, Chairman W. B. HATHAWAY,'09, Vice-Chairman LIFE MEMRERS MYRA G. WILLIAMS, FRITZ J. FRANK, E. E. MISSILDINE, H. A. NICKERSON, T. W. LAWTON, MARGARET BURLEIGH, SUSAN T. GLAD WIN, CLARA LOUISE GUILD, F. P. ENSMINGER, M. A. BRETOS, NANNIE D. HARRIS, A. J. HANNA. PROGRAM OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Adopted at the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, 1925 TO SECURE FOR ROLLINS 1 More effective co-operation from the alumni and former students in assisting the trustees finance the College. 2. Familiarization of alumni with the needs and opportunities of their alma mater. 3. Complete permanent records of former students. 4. A selected enrollment of five hundred students. 5. Membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and other high accrediting organizations. 6 A building for the Baker Museum, with botanical garden, toward which several hundred dollars have already been contributed. 7. Dyer Memorial Amphitheatre, toward which several hundred dollars have already been contributed. 8. Memorial Stadium, toward which several hundred dollars have already been contributed. 9. A Chapel, toward which several hundred dollars have already been contributed. 10. Publicity of its unique location and its unusual advantages. 11. ENLARGEMENT OF ENDOWMENT TO ONE MILLION DOLLARS. 12. Development of the general curriculum so that it will particularly serve the state of Florida and And a place among the South's foremost, small, high-grade colleges of liberal arts. The A1 umm R ecor d Established IQI8 of ROLLINS COLLEGE Published Monthly A. J. HANNA, '17, Founder and Editor J. H. HILL, '20, Business Manager Printed monthly by The Rollins Press at Winter Park, Florida. Entered as second-class matter, November 17,1923, at the post office at Winter Park, Florida, under the Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription included in Alumni Association dues. Subscription price to non-members, $2.00 per year. Life members of the Alumni Association are entitled to receive the Record with- out further cost for life. MEMBER OF: National Editorial Association, Alumni Magazines, Associated: South Florida Press Association, Florida Press Association Volume IV May, 1925 Number 5 EDITORIALS FLORIDA'S FINER AND BETTER DAYTONA'S TRIBUTE TO ROLLINS THINGS "It shall be the special purpose of this Florida leaders are beginning to realize Society to place before coming generations that there is a more subtle appeal to pros- the example of the beautiful character of pective homeseekers than the glamour of Miss Lucy A. Cross and the force of her material possibilities. life work by the erection on the Rollins America's problems are becoming so com- College campus in Winler Park of the Lucy plex that parents are casting about for the A. Cross Hall of Science," reads the pur- more ideal locations in which to rear their pose of the Daytona Institute Alumni So- families. If Florida is to continue to at- ciety, an organization composed of some of tract her share of good citizens from other the leading men and women of the Halifax states, there must be assurances that spirit- Country. These pupils of a great leader ual and educational advantages are superior have dedicated themselves to erect a last- to other commonwealths. ing memorial and they have chosen Rollins as the ideal medium for an expression of It is heartening to get the following mes- their debt of gratitude. sage from President Taylor of the Florida Senate as a keynote of the deliberations What a tremendous responsibility is thus of the Legislature: "I am interested in the thrown upon Rollins—her administration, her material progress of this wonderful land faculty and her students. To be worthy of of sunshine and flowers, but I am also such profound confidence is incentive interested in its moral uplift, and in out- enough to urge Rollins men and women to prosperity I do not want us to overlook the the greatest possible service. finer things of life. We want to attract good citizenship into our state, and to do COMMENCEMENT JUNE 5th this we must see that our spiritual and moral life keeps pace with our material With the coming of the country's most progress." distinguished leaders, Robert Shailer Florida must keep her moral and cultural Holmes, Litt. D., as the principal speaker, beauty in line with her physical beauty. and with the plans for one of the largest Her colleges are the training ground for alumni reunions recorded, the success of leaders of the next generation. What Flor- the fortieth commencement seems assured ida invests in her colleges she will reap in beyond all question of a doubt. the "finer things of life." If sufficient in- With Dr. Holmes will come from the Hal- vestment is made in these institutions the ifax Country, whose interests are now so peninsula state will be the mecca for those closely allied with those of Rollins, many who seek the ideal moral and educational of those who have been actively engaged conditions. (Continued on page 3) THE ALVMNI I1ECORI) CONGREGATIONALISTS ENDORSE ROLLINS MOVEMENT By W. C. WEIR, LL. D., President of Rollins College Recently I had the pleasure of helping rehabilitating present plant, $30,000; for observe, in Jacksonville, the fiftieth anni- athletic field, $35,000; for increase in sal- versary of the work of the Congregational aries for heads of departments next three Church in the state of Florida. It had ■» years, $25,000; for deficit in budget next tremendous appeal to me because it was three years, $35,000; totaling $750,000. We the Congregational Church that founded learn that the general education board has Rollins College forty years ago, after the invited the college to make application for first decade of their endeavors in this state aid before its May meeting. The college and because the largest financial contribu- plans to ask for $250,000, leaving the sum tions made to Rollins during these forty of $500,000 to be raised in and by Florida. years have come from those holding the As a conference, we back this request for Congregational faith. help from the general education board and I might point out in this connection that hope for favorable response. And we urge it has been the Congregational Church the bringing to this state of outstanding throughout the country that has blazed the men like Secretary Burton and Dr. Cadman trail to church unity, especially with regard to reinforce our present efficient workers to the support of institutions such as Rol- in a speaking tour for this and other Con- lins.