Page Two F I N E SET O F O FFICERS FOR C O M ING YEAR The result of the election of o ffi cer s for the Association resulted in the following : President James H Weaver ............................ 190'8 Vice Presidents Marshall B . Fanning ...................... 1 894 V ance E. Crib b s ........ ...................... 1920 Alva D . Cook ............ .................. ...... 1912 Secretary H elen Ensor Smith ........................ 1 9 1 8 Treasurer James Porter West ........................ 1 897 Trustees Frank 0. Clements ........................ 1 896 Perley H. Kilb ourne ...................... 1 902
COMMENCEMENT BEST IN MANY YEARS
( Continued From P age One.) sity. pr. Phelps was happy in his remarks and held his audience every minute. The class of 1931 and the administration are to be congratulated on the success of this oc,c asion. After the awarding of the diplomas the re cessional took the clas s and p artici pants to the steps of the Asso ciation Building where, after singing the O t terb ein Love S ong and Taps ha-d 'been blown, President Clippinger de clared the 75th Commencement at an end. The ,c eremonies at the "Y" are very impressive and many complimentary r emarks were heard by visitors and alumni on this fact. After the dismissal some time was spent in visitation under the trees on the campus and as we left it was with a feelin g that the 75th Commence ment was one of the :b est which the coll ege has eve•r held. M r. an d Mrs. Ralph W. S tarr ( Lot tie F aye M e ndenhall ) of Tampa, Floria, announce the b irth of a son, Ral ph Waldo, June 1 6 , 1 93 1 . M r s . S t arr graduated in 1 924. Mr. and Mrs. Philipp Charles, '29-Ex, announce the ·b irth of a son, Rich ard Henry, July 2 1 , 1 93 1 . :M r . and Mrs. Charles live in Washington, D. C. where Mr. Charles is in govern ment work. Mr. and M rs. Clifford Bay, '2_3-'25, were bereaved by the loss of one of the twin b oys who were born to them in June. Mr. and Mrs. B ay live in N ova, Ohio, where M r . B ay i s sup er intendent of the schools. B orn to Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Weh ner ( Lucile Lambert) a son, Rodney Lambert, on M ay 30. Mrs. Webner graduat ed 111 1 92 5 . Mr. and M r s.
TH E ALU M N I
N EWS
WE D D I N GS Mr. Lawrence H i c ks '28, was mar ried Satur day, June 27th to Miss Thyra Jane B eVier of Am·b urg, N . Y. Mr. H i cks is a memb er of the faculty of the D epartment of B qtany at Ohio State Univer sity and he is also State Ornithologist for Ohio. Miss Edna Hayes ' 29, who has been teaching in Knoxville, Tenn. was mar ried June 1 3 to Mr. H ans Schroder. The wedding took pla·ce at Cincinnati, O hio. The couple will be at home in Knoxville, T enn. Miss Florence H oward '28, and Mr. Louis Norris '28, were married June 4, in the First United B r ethren Church, D ayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Norris sailed for Europe where Mr. Norris will study the coming year. Miss Oma Moomaw was married to Howard B radley on June 26, at Sugar cre ek, O hio . Mr. Bradley is connect ed with the American Rolling Mills Company at Middletown. Mrs. B r ad ley has ·b e en teaching at Middletown since her graduation in 1 926. Miss M argaret Widdoes ' 26, was married to Mr. Melvin Laub, of Hol gate, Ohio, J une 6. The couple will reside in Bridgep ort, Ohio, where Mr. Laub taught the past year. Mrs. Laub has ·b een doing community work in North Canton since her graduation. Miss La V o nn e Steel of Strongsville, O hio, and Mr. B yron A. Wilson of Westerville, '27-'26, were married June 18. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson left imme diately for M exico where Mr. Wilson attended the University of Mexico. They will locate at St. D avid Arizona, Where Mr. Wilson has tau ght for several years. Professor W. 0 . Lamb ert '00, was mar-r ied to Mrs. Ethel Brown of Ham ilton, O hio, on June 30, at the home of the bridegroom's sister, M rs. J . H. Harris , D ayton, Ohio. Mr. Lamb ert is a teacher at S outh High School, Columbus, O hio. Mr. Bruce LaPorte was married to Louise Wig,t on on June 15, at Woos ter, Ohio. Mr. LaPorte attended O t terbein College. He is connected with the Squire, Sande·r s and D emp sey Law Firm, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. LaPorte will live at 2753 Cleveland Euclid Heights Blvd.,
THE ALUMNI GREET I N G S TO ALU M N I FRO M T H E OLDEST MEMBER Miss Urilla H . Guitner, class of 1 8 65 , the oldest living graduate who no w has the honor o f keeping the Alumni Cane s ent a greeting which was read at the Alumni Luncheon, June 1 5 . Miss Guitner lives in Wash ington, D . C. , at 2 1 0 1 N ew Hamps hire Avenue, N. VI. : "While I ca nnot be with you 111 p e r son, I shall ·b e with you 111 though t and shall feel that, in spirit, I am among my old col lege friends. I wish most earn estly that the meeting may be successful in eve·r yway." Ac companying the latter was the following b eautiful poem : T O T H E ALU MNI O F OTTER BEIN COLLEGE To all the s ons and daughters, fine, Who comprise the alumni of O tter bein, I send a message from far away To greet you on this festal day. O f all the graduates who now survive I am the earliest, and shall strive To -sp eak words of welcome to all that are here Who have followed me from College from yea-r to year. M any h ave passed me on the way, Having risen to fame in life'-s hard fray. I do not envy, but shout acclaim For those who have succeeded in making a name That will ring down the ages and proudly pro claim The glories o f O tterbein, s o dear to us all, From whose high estate she can never fall. While her students fail not to hear ,c alls -o f distress, And e agerly respond from their hearts tenderness. Succes·s to the s tudents who go far and wi de, Success to ,t he alumni in whom brav ery and kindness ever abide , And success, unmeasured, to Otter b ein College, Than which, no school instills mo re God given knowledge. Urilla H. Guitner. B y action of the B oa rd of Trustees the Greek an d Latin de partments were comb ined under the head o f Departm en t of Classics with Dr. N. E. Corn etet as its head. Miss Rut h Men del, M. A. of Ports mouth, Ohi o, has been empl o yed e.s �- ... ... �1c+� n t tn tP� rh T�atin .
TH E ALUMNI NEWS of OTTE�B E I N C O LLEGE •
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No. of Degree Holders
No. Grads Holding Membership in Alumni Association -
Annual Dues
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1 900
300
$2.00
Univ. of A'kron ···-----
1 500
1 400
$2. 00
INSTITUTION
Adelphi FOUNDED
NEWS
Amount of University Subsidy
Other Sources of Income
$ 1 300
$2000
IN 1847 -
Publ ished Qua,·terly by Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio. In the interest of Alumni and Friends. Entered as second class matter at post office in \,V esterville, 0., under Act of August 24, 1912. L. W. Warson ........ .................... Editor W H Y S H O U LD I B E AN ACTIVE MEMB ER? O n e o f the b eautiful things in life is the loyalty and love which an al um nus always keeps for his Alma Mater. M o st grads after a four years residence on th e ca mpus of some col lege-in spired by ,c ontact with great teach ers-having made some great life friendships and be come, in fact, a part of the institution itself a r e al ways interested in the proeress a n d p urpose of t h a t institution. On leaving school their bu dgets con tains some contribution to b e given annually t o show their in terest and loyalty. This t akes the form of Living Endowment which is to be used by the Alum ni Association in promulgat ing publicity and for occasional gifts to the i nstituti on to be used where niost needed. These contributions are made through the association as dues varying from a few dollars to thousands in some colleges. I n fact the number of active memb er s in an association is a good barometer of the interest of the alumni in the suc cess and service of their institution . I nstitu tions diff e r i n their methods of han dli n g th e Alumni Activities. Some are financed e n tirely by t he col l e ge or universit y and some entirely by the Alumni, the ot hers varying b e tween these extremes. In some, all gr aduate s bec o m e m e mbers automatic ally with no due s, a nd raise their en dowme nt thro ug h gifts. Som e have voting memb er s o nly. Annual dues vary from two to five dollars. T he following i s par t of a compar ative study of A l umni activi tie s cover ing 1 3 8 .c olle ge s i n the United States, made about two year s ago by the Uni ver sity of Wiscon sin . A list of a few colleges of about the s;me enr ol l men t as O t terbein are quoted for inform ati.on .
Allegheny College
..
2 5 52
All
B a l dwin-Wallace College -········-· ······-· ·
1 568
All
B aylor C o l l ege ..........
1 500
Dayton Univ. ·······-··· -
2000
1 .l<·. i I\
500 250
2500
1200
Earlham C ollege -·····
1 940
H eidelberg College .. O tterbein College
$600 year in clues ---
$5.00
$3.00 ):'art of salary of non-grads alumni secretary $5.00
.
For present financed by the University
'
D e n ison Univ. ·-····-· · -
\,Vittenberg
Alumni office maintained by college All alumni expense except $2.00 voting cost of mag. an d members minor expenses paid by college $ 1 .00 or more
$5100clues $2500 from sustaining memberships '
$3 .00
$2250
nembership automatic
$ 1 .00
Services of alumni sec'y., clerical service, postage, etc.
1 303
All
None
$1 500
$1500 from living endo wment fund
....
1834
304
$2.00
$2000
$1100 dues
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2 100
All
None ----
$2500
n on e
3 1 50
2055
$3 .00
$7500
$7500
College of Wooster .
All
The plan of the Alumni Council ( composed of President \Ill. G. Clip p inger, D ean F. J. Vance, Dr. J. H. vVeaver, president of the associ ation, Mrs. R. W. Smi th, se cretary of the a s s ociation a n d thre e members elected at large-now being Mi ss Otis Flook, D r. N. E. Cornetet and Mrs. F. J. Res ler) to increase the membership in cludes the following : To have a memb er ship secretary 111 each of the organize d groups and to hav e class mem bership secretaries. In each Alumni News publishe d during the year will be given the num ber of paid memb ers 'by groups and classes. It w ill be interesting to note whether the p er centage of members will b e higher or lower in the recent class es as comp ared with the older classes. The M embership by classe s for the year 1 93 1 -32 up to J uly 1 5 , ( the year is counted fr o m June 1 to May 3 1 ) is here given : No. No. Per Living Memb ercent Grird. Class ship age ' 72 6 2 33 1 '73 0 0 0 4 '74 0
'76 ' 77 ' 78 '79 '80 '81 '82 '83 '84 ' 85 '86 '87 '88 ' 89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 ' 03 ' 04 'OS '06 '07 '08 ' 09 '10 '11
4 4 11 2 5 7 5 14
2
9 5 10 10 6 6
8
20 12 29 15 19 30 23 21 15 30 23 17 20 26 34 31 26 32 45 54
'
Dues-$5U0
1 2 2 0 0 0 1 1
0
1 1 0 1 0 1
2
1 1 1 3 4 2 2 0 1 3 0 0 2 4 2 1 1 2 1 0
25
so
18 0 0 0 20 7 0 11 20 0 10 0 17
25
5 8 4 20 21 7 9 0 7 10 0 0 10 1 .5 3 3 4 6 2 0