g Ne x , 4 > fhe Opportunity of North Carolina College Alumni BY Louis R. Wilson, Editor of the Alumni Review of the University of North Carolina Ladies and Gentlemen: At the meeting of the Teachers Assembly at Asheville last year President Wright submitted for the Educational Commission of North. Carolina a report concerning the prblic schools of the State with recommendations for their improvement. D,. Brooks amplified certain phases of the report and outlined, then, and later before the G,neral Assembly, practical plans for carrying into effect the remedial measures proposed, some of which ere since been written upon our statute books. During the past twelve months he has boldly proclaimed the duty of all forward-kooking North Carolinians in this all-important North Carolina question - the better education of all the State's citizenship. Today, after what proved to be a veritable educational crusade has been waged in the State for the State's institutions of higher | learning, and after drives have been carried on by churches of almost every name in the State for increased funds for higher education, - today, | 1 say, Presidents ¥Youst and “ew have set forth the part the higher educa- tional institutions: hope to play in the educational advancement of the State in the next decade. ‘hey realize that educationally this decade can be, and must be, the most important in the history of North Carolina, ‘and to that 6nd call upon all of us to make it so. For the carrying out of the program outlined by Dr. Brooks and Presidents W,ight, Foust and Hew, |! wish to propose that the colleges of North Carolina individually and collectively, utilize, as they have never done before, the rapidly increasing body of college alumni and i selon Stated more explicitly, 1 make five proposas& for the - ‘~ 4 Pomerla, aos [TaN gee yea thon Sa vaLavtes ak Be Beaty Si | “iat CR se gh a a svagaseent toe! ae a eR Doras ye | ge Bis ae vtteserts ei: t4 hui. EmmfA edt to nOdthS , moe Ley 48 Bhod — aa a f Bat Lorem dinate Mian SEC, Cony us age i Hee Ri 1 Tyee % “) aya) ‘ re ( *) : easy. taet af aay oes te ‘yidine se A eredodetl edt to goiteen ent ta c lbs SR ot 6 kine: {nots eoube add rot ped tied ge daighxn sees r dt bye etait? ont oy eformee obtdig eit aitapasau prone s enile at EST eS baits opiias rales a oa . 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Strange as it may seem, it's only within the past ten years that, with possibly one or two exceptions, really effective working alumni organizations have been perfected in North Carolina colleges. Rach institution has its board of trustees, its faculty, its student body, these three constituents of the modern college have been def- initely organized, and all are performing their proper functions. But the fourth, the many thousands of living sons and daughters who have passed through their halls and have gone out into the life of the State and nation, have not been alloted their vroper place in the complete college program. individual alumni, have, from time to time, played their full part in the life of their respective institutions; but general, united alumni effort, until recently and in sporadic anges. has been the exception, rather than the rule. ‘he office of alum- ni secretary, with all that it implies as to thé welding and binding together of large groups to advance particular movememts, has only recently been established in a number of the colleges of the State, and but slight opportunity for systematic, coordinated effort has been given the thousands of Nerth Carolina college matriculates. After organizing their alumni, 1! would suggest in the second place that the colleges keep them informed es to the program which the institution is attempting to carry out. With the exception of ‘he _ Alumnae Record, ofsalem, now in its 45th volume, no other North Rasy ian alumni publication comes to my desk bearing a volume number higher than 10. The alumni aasociation of the University issued two numbers of the Alumni Quarterly in 1894 and then the publication died. Surely a | v an tik es ‘gnome Ae aflis : ey ae aes | : : Ws wae F ay (Pars € Wee gh ae gl ” ; ve ame = Rj a ae ey pers ; : ,anoitgqecre ort 10 eho yidteedr A . a 4 ! 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Tre : t ‘ 6 tas Pe 2 AA te a8 . i mat 2a Pet sae ; its as ed a [POSE CPL | | Sad? velvardil te, Fe mgt ppe yor arodse ‘ q % a Ae yn MD tate f . my Pde gy oem > vt oie VA Semper ceo yh by fail pc Aa! 5 : sce gig TR} CP OMT Ores G E€seTsosS ro" énorgios | DBO x . : j ’ ’ A A fa af ‘ eee PA! 1 1 Ae Mad , ie " 2 Y oe SLEW ee Nee an Lk he ta a . icel sp te ee to ee uf a , ry | > s ~*~ 5 t- *<] tA + ae nA Ang? oA emphasis should be placed upon them. In these fields the alumni Should be made one hundred, instead of forty per cent efficient, and thereby the colleges of North Carolina should be brought to the point that they serve the student bodies enrolled in them as adequately and \ as complete’ as institutions in other parts of the country; that the Opportunity for intellectug#l development and for breadth of view provided here in Nerth Carolina be as great as in any state in the Union. In the fourth place, I would urge that the local alumni associa- tions be given a program that relates to the welfare of the local community, that it be Reread not only to study the interests of Alma Mater, but that it also study the interests of the local community and that the local membership line up solidly to promote the local common good. Ue there is any one thing which has cheered me more than any other i recent years, it is the activity and spirit of the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs. Their mottoes, respectively, are, we build, we serve; whereas; if a motto for alumni associations could be chosen which fairly adequately charactérized their activities it wonld probably be we reminisce! Recently I was fortunate enough/to be the guest of the Rotary lub of Raleigh at a time when it was holding a meeting at which reports were received concerning the educational program of the thirty-five clubs in the two Carolinas and Virginia. Not a single club reported, but that it was urging high school boys to stay in high school or go on to college; and a number of clubs were arranging funds for the assistance of the underprivile@ged ambitious youth who wanted to enter college, put lacked the means. Fifteen months ago it was my privilege to address the Kiwanis club of Burlington on the advisability of estab- ‘lishing a public library. ‘The Library, with an outlay of $11,000 of Bs OES AE inn NR S07 | One esibed sniehuta ed?” avtae:. ye 2 oe ; : ‘ . J ios” ; : ait Th; YF er ce ee 4 Ti Be } i So a x ry nT a < rey Ir f ny ¥ i PRE » ; Note of ( eR - 7 ‘ . ’ * - , - - 4 * i : : CT te » “vn moe: et ae Peer ey tee nT ote y exec . ’ at " — . ? ' pes Beil we WO hee robe ~ 4 hd , , an rr Ys) { : Ad t a r oF t ey > Pui ms a “ t be ayer oe \ oe Sf Re ; J aa ” + fr Ty ‘ woe F rh i’ uv FF how ww tek ww x n.3 « , f "7 ey cy re oe oe 4 ~ ‘ . is foul bE ov FO ae ir * ‘ r ¥ ‘ted ee e ewe J ‘i 4 oe . ' . ! j . ? - @ (2 oh T. 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And in the press from week to week I see where this club has put across a program for the provision of a county tuberculosis sanitorium, or has provided a training camn for boy scoyts, or has done something fine and done it with snap and enthusiasm. I say again, that in this sort of attitude on the part of the alert, openminded leaders in the various communities of North Carolina, I see more that should hearten men like Drs. Brooks and Rankin than in any other single thing in North Carolina. In these I see the answer to the demagogue who, throughout the decades has held North Carolina back by emphasizing the emptiness of our pocket books rather than the abundance of our ability and faith in our splendid qualities of mind and heart. ) To the college presidents of North Carolina, I say that I covet for them informed, well organized local alumni groups who will set themselves the task of making the life of their communities full and complete in every way; that I covet for them the same fine achievement on the part of their sons and daughters in local chapters as that of the clubs mentioned. And finally I would urge that the colleges call upon their entire alumni groups to assist in furthering those public causes which look to the upbuilding of a great State. As intelligent men and women North Carolina college alumni know that if the State is to be great, if it is to take its real place in the sisterhood of states, they must play their full part. Mr. Chairman, I feel that possibly I have spoken of something that was clearly obvious to all of us. 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J ‘ } ’ yt 5 ; nee the alumni publication of the State University, I am just beginning to see what North Carolina has lacked in that the alumni of her higher educational institutions have gone out into the life of their communi- ties and the State not with too small a conception of their duty as citizens, but with too little knowledge of the way in which they can back the program of their foster mothers and of the communities and PeUMEESATLH which they shoulda serve. Poasibly an diineuealia mem make my meaning clearer. In May, 1919, at the call of Dus. Claxton, Brooks, and Foust, North Carolinians a thousand strong met in Greens- boro in the most earnest educational Conference I have ever attended in the State. A fine current of enthusiasm and inspiration ran throughout the purposeful audiences. At the last general aaaiane when the con- ference was ennuciating its program and representatives of the chambers of commerce, of the Rotary Clubs, of the Kiwanis Clubs, of the Womens Clubs, of the higher educational institutions, were pledging their Support, the thought flased through my mind how splendid it would have been had the presidents of the alumni association of the State's colleges both privately and publicly matntained, been present to pledge, each in turn, the hearty support of the program both for themselves and the entire membership which they were privileged to represent, and not only tohave pledged it, but to hage supported it, in season and out, wntil the purpose of that great conference was realized in better education- al opportunities for every school boy and girl in North Carolina. An address delivered before the Department of Higher Education . of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, November 25, 1921, ‘ by Louis R. Wilson, Editor of the Alumni Review. 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