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STtf t iHmttaua Alumnus MAIN HALL Published by the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Missoula Montana VOL. 6 O CTOBER, 1927 NO. 2 . | ♦ iHontana Alumnus: VOL. 6 NO. 2 Entered as second-class matter November 1, 1922, at the postoffice at Missoula, Montana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WINIFRED FEIGHNER .................... Editor GERTRUDE BUCKHOUS ................................................................................Associate Editor CARL McFARLAND.......................................................... ManagingEditor J. B., SPEER....................................... Business Manager The Montana Alumnus is published in October, December, March and June by the Alumni Association of the State University of Montana. Subscription: 75c a year; subscription and annual dues of Alumni Association combined, $1.50 a year. Table of Contents, October, 1927 Page Alumni Cooperation in Securing Financial Support .. 4 University Growth Noted............................................. .. 7 Changes in Constitution Proposed.............................. .. 8 The Classes ..................................................................... .. 11 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Executive Committee, 1927-28 WILLIAM J. JAMESON, JR., ’19. ....................President JOHN PATTERSON, 20................ .......... Vice President E. K. BADGLEY, ’24........................ ....................Secretary MORRIS McCOLLUM, ’23.............. .Three Year Delegate MARGARET RONAN, '02.............. .Three Year Delegate GEORGE SHEPARD, 21................ .Three Year Delegate SOLVAY ANDRESEN, ’24.............. ....One Year Delegate GEORGE DAHLBERG, ’25............ ....One Year Delegate RAY NAGLE, ’22............................. .....One Year Delegate Only One Third o f the Alumni HAVE FILLED OUT THE CARDS SENT THEM LAST SPRING. The Alumni Association has gone to a great (leal of trouble and expense to plan and pre­ pare a complete filing system in order to improve the efficiency of the Alumni service. Besides, with the rapidly growing body of Alumni, the new system will be almost in­ dispensable in editing and mailing THE MONTANA ALUMNUS. IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO BE SURE TO FILL OUT AND RETURN THE RECORD CARDS IMMEDIATELY This file should be complete before the next issue of THE MONTANA ALUMNUS is distributed. THE FOLLOWING ALUMNI HAVE BEEN “LOST.” DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE? We have no addresses for these graduates of the University. If you hap­ pen to know where they may be reached, help us complete our files by send­ ing in their names and addresses. It will help the person whose address you send as well as us for then he or she will get the Alumni announcements and bulletins. Marvin W. Black, *21 Aaron A. McDougall, *22 Cornelius Bol, ’14 Mamie McJilton, T6 Morris L. Bridgeman, T6 Mrs. Glen E. McKay, T6 Matthew V. Carroll, ’18 Mrs. A. B. Maxwell, TO Ching-Han Chen, T6 Mary Evelyn Mechling, ’25 H. R. Dewell, TO Paul L. Mitchell, ’09 James A. Ditman, ’01 Mrs. Laura Dwelle Moore, *21 Dales A. Dunbar, T6 Millard F. Nesbit, T5 L. J. Fischl, T4 Mrs. Chas. Pierre, ’ll J. W. Graham, T7 Bertha S. Ries, ’21 Paul Harper, T6 Edward M. Roberts, ’25 T. S. Huston, ’08 Regina I. Seifert, T7 Thos. B. Irvine, T7 Leo W. Stewart, ’21 J. Arthur Johnson, ’21 Ethel M. Van Vliet, T7 Solomon B. Korman, ’22 Sidney E. Walker, ’00 Oliver E. LaRue, ’24 Harry S. Wenzel, T6 Lucile Lenon, ’22 Henry Gury Woodword, T5 Ralph M. Lewis, T5 YOUR COOPERATION WILL ENABLE US TO IMPROVE THE ALUMNI SERVICE 4 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS Cooperation of Alumni with University to Secure Financial Support OAKLEY COFFEE, ’23. Report to Alumni Association, October 15, 1927, at the Homecoming Meeting. Seven years ago the question of ade­ arms and to impress upon the people quate state support of higher educa­ of the state the necessity for cool- tion was an issue of paramount impor­ headed consideration of this problem. tance in Montana. A crisis had arisen Properly therefore your president has over night occasioned by the greatly seen fit to appoint a committee to sur­ increased attendance and the depleted vey the situation and to report at this revenues following the war. The pass­ meeting. It has fallen to my lot to age of initiative measures Nos. 18 and act as chairman of this committee. Due 19 providing for a five million dollar to lack of time and the impossibility building program and a mill and a half of personal investigation on the part general tax levy for the support of the of most of the committeemen this re­ state institutions was imperative if port must be somewhat superficial and these institutions were to be properly rather than being in itself final can but maintained and equipped. Fortunate­ point the way to further work along ly or unfortunately, as the case may these lines. prove, the financial measures passed It occurred to me when I first un­ were of a temporary nature. The mill dertook this task that the average citi­ and a half tax law becomes void De­ zen has but little conception of the cember 31, 1930, and unless it is re­ reasons and policies that have resulted placed by some similar legislation the in the state of Montana going into the financing of the five units comprising business of furnishing higher educa­ the University of Montana will be im­ tion. I knew that the University was possible. At the present time the state established in 1895. I had heard in a constitution provides for a maximum vague way about democratic ideals and levy of two mills for state support and free education but until the last few this is but barely maintaining the state weeks I had no idea of the fundamental government. Although the state tax whys of state education and I imagine would automatically become 2% mills most of us are in the same predicament. after the lapse of the present 1% mill In so far as I can determine the tax, only about % a mill would be reasons for the establishment of a state available for the support of the Uni­ institution such as our own are three­ versity. Thus it becomes necessary to fold. First, the firm conviction that carefully develop a method of finan­ higher education is worth while; sec­ cial support that may be presented to ond, a recognition that in a democratic the people of the state prior to 1931. state equal opportunities for education Before such a plan is presented it is must be provided everyone and there­ desirable and necessary that the alumni fore the state must support and furnish of this institution, the members of the such education free; third, a further state legislature, and the citizens of recognition of the dollars and cents Montana be acquainted with the true value to the state of institutions of cul­ facts concerning the needs, the present ture within the state boundaries, that efficiency, and the cost of maintenance such institutions may give knowledge of the five units of the University of not only to the students but to the Montana. Montana has a large and people at large, laying stress on the rapidly increasing body of alumni. In problems peculiar to the state. With many respects they are the best fitted the growth of state education the wis­ group in the state to judge the work dom of such establishments has been of the University. Certainly they form more than vindicated until now the the proper body to sound the call to state which finds itself without a prop- THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 5 erly equipped university of high stand­ is about 20% under the average. From ing is losing and will continue to lose such information as is available, the the best blood of the state. It is a administrative cost seems to be as low recognized fact that when students as the average if not somewhat lower. leave the state for their education they In the case of the University of Mon­ tend to settle near the location of their tana this is particularly significant for school. Thus if the state of Montana a great deal of detail is handled by the does not properly support its state in­ administration that in other institu­ stitutions it will find itself drained of tions is left to the individual instruc­ the best young blood which it pro­ tor. If this were not done in Montana, duces, and cannot hope to continue to the faculty would have to be consid­ progress and maintain a high standing erably increased and the size of the among its sister states. classes decreased. In studying the The State University becomes in fact scale of the wages paid in Montana, it a public utility obligated to the state must be remembered that the wage to furnish instruction to all who may scale shows but one-half the picture. apply, providing they are properly Suppose, for example, that there was equipped; to afford the citizens of the only one instructor on the university state opportunities for advancement campus and that he received $10,000 through extension and correspondence a year.