USiraSlTY OF ILLINOIS UBU Ml > \ The Middlebury Gymnasium VOL. I. NO. 3 . [Supplement to the Middlebury College Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 5.] FURTHER PROGRESS. The number of alumni contributors is now 204. This is a gain of 69 since May 16, the date of The Middlebury Gymnasium. No. 2. The Fund now stands at $43,412, leaving $16,588 still to be secured. THE GYMNASIUM AND THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD. The grant of the General Education Board changes materially the present campaign for funds among the alumni and friends of Middlebury. Before, we were try- ing to raise $60,000 for one building : now we have in view $200,000 for the general expansion of the College. The Board pledges $50,000 toward a total of $200,000. Of the $200,000, one half ($100,000) must be reserved for general endowment, a permanent trust fund, and $100,000 may be expended in buildings and equipment. Under the terms of the Board’s offer, any part of the $100,000 can be put into a gymnasium, but in the circum- stances it will be wise not to expend more than $50,000 for a gymnasium, leaving $50,000 for another building. For the sum named we ought to be able to erect and equip a substantial and commodious gymnasium, useful for Commencement gatherings, dramatic representations, and college entertainments, as well as for physical exercise. It is not proposed to inaugurate a second general alumni subscription, in addition to the gymnasium fund. The alumni will be asked to complete the $60,000, and individuals among them will doubtless come forward with substantial contributions toward the $90,000 which will still be needed to meet the conditions imposed by the General Education Board, but anything like general class contributions will not be relied upon for anything more than the present goal of $60,000. The present McCullough Fund, therefore, is the opportunity of the alumni at large to help the College toward $200,000. The appeal of the College certainly comes with much greater force in this situation. Here is an opportunity to strengthen the College all along the line, physical equipment and endowment, adding more than one-fourth to our present resources. What graduate or former student would not bear some part in such an undertaking ? TIME FOR PAYMENT. By the terms of the General Education Board’s offer, $150,000 must be subscribed before December 31, 1911, and all subscriptions must be paid on or before December 31, 1913. All pledges on the McCullough Fund made on blanks heretofore sent out will count. We have there- fore a year and a half to get subscriptions and two years more to make collections. But Governor McCullough has given us only until Commencement to secure his $25,000, and it is therefore of the utmost importance that $35 > 000 be pledged by June 22 . Nearly seventeen thousand dollars is still needed. Are there not enough alumni and friends to promise that amount by that time, allowing themselves as much time before December 31, 1913, for payment as may be necessary ? One would say that a very large proportion of the former students would be able to see their way to making a substantial donation to their alma mater, under the liberal terms for payment allowed by the General Education Board. A BIT OF GOOD NEWS. On June 4 Mr. A. Barton Hepburn, ’71, who gave $30,000 towards the Pearsons Fund, announced his inten- tion to give $25,000 for general endowment to meet the conditions of the General Education Board’s grant. He is entitled to deepest gratitude from every friend of Mid- dlebury. This means that we have only to complete the McCullough fund and secure $65,000 additional, in order to get the $200,000. It places this large benefaction within our reach, provided we all rally to do our utmost. A GOOD EXAMPLE. Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., has recently com- pleted an endowment fund of $500,000. They have 875 living alumni, about the same number as Middlebury. Five hundred and ninety-five were contributors, or 63 per cent. They gave in all $223,471, or 44.1 per cent, of all contributed. Every class beginning with 1848 contrib- uted, and in eleven classes eyery living member gave. Shall Trinity do better than Middlebury ? Thus far 25 of our classes with living members have not given a dollar, and not a single class has secured a contribution from every member. 3 THE DAYS REMAINING. Only eleven days remain before Commencement. Even in ordinary times they are the most crowded of all the year. Your president must gather up the facts concern- ing a year’s work for report to the Corporation, attend to a multitude of last duties in preparation for Commence- ment, confer with a large number of students on plans for the coming year, and in addition meet five school com- mencement appointments made months ago, before the present crisis could be foreseen. Individual solicitations are out of the question, and it may be impossible even to reply to all individual correspondents. Most earnestly he appeals for the co-operation of each and all, in order that the offer of half the cost of a gymnasium and one-fourth the General Education Board fund, may not be lost. Remember the question is, — What can you do for Middlebury in the next three years? Write your answer on the enclosed pledge form. THE RETURNS BY CLASSES. Before i860: Geo. N Boardman, ’47, W. A. Farnsworth, ’48, E. J. Matthews, ’50, C. M. Mead, ’56, H. M. Barnum, ’58, Brainerd Kellogg, ’58, A Friend, 1860-1870: Joseph Battell, ’6o, E. B. Sherman, ’60, Henry F. Walker, ’6o, George E. Plumbe, ’6i, R. S. Holmes, ’62, D. E. Boyden, ’63, L. H. Hemenway, ’64, $100 14 5 20 500 500 25 #1,164 # 5 ° 100 1,000 25 25 5 30 T. M. Chapman, ’66, E. W. Howe, ’69, 1870-1880: A. B. Hepburn, *71, W. E. Howard, *71, C. C. Gove, ’74, G. M. Wright, ’74, J. W. Abernethy, ’76, W. I. Brown, ’76, James M. Gifford, ’77, W. I. Twitchell, ’77, 1880-1890: Julius G. Linsley, ’8o, H. Olin Cady, ’81, 100 100 £ 1.435 $ 1,000 100 10 1,000 100 25 1,000 20 £3.255 £10 2 4 Frank C. Partridge, ’8i, F. D. Proctor, ’81, 25 1,000 Frank A. Walker, ’82, 100 John C. Miller, ’82, 5 ° James Ten Broeke, ’84, 10 E. P. Miller, ^4, 15 E. L. Allen, ’88, 100 Seymour Edgerton, ’88, J. J. Hassett, ’88, 100 5 ° $M 97 1890: Geo. P. Hitchcock $2$ A. A. Lavery IOO A. D. Mead 50 L. H. Ross IOO J. M. Thomas 200 #475 1891 : F. L. Bell # 5 ° E. W. Benedict 30 E. C. Bryant 25 C. A. Mead 25 T. H. Noonan IOO I. E. Pinney 10 Mrs. J. M. Thomas IOO #340 1892: B. D. Colby *150 Alexander Macdonald 5 ° J. F. McNaboe IOO # 3 °° 1893: D. H. Agnew #25 E. R. Brown 25 C. E. Hesselgrave 25 B. C. Miner 25 E. R. Sturtevant 10 $110 1894: S. S. Eddy #25 C. B. Toleman 1 VO 1 0 * 5 = 1895: C. A. Adams $1 0 John Barlow 5 ° E. L. Cushman 3 ° C. R. Dunton 5 W. H. Eldridge IOO E. J. Fullam 25 W. S. Grant IOO George D. Scott 25 Blanche A. Verder 10 George S. Wright 5 ° R. 0 . Wooster 5 #410 1896: H. E. Foster #10 Guy C. Lamson IOO Mary 0 . Pollard 50 C. W. Prentiss 30 E. M. Roscoe 50 #240 1897: L. A. Brown #10 J. A. Cadwell 15 Ellen C. Gordon 15 B. L. Haydon 10 # 5 ° 1898: Florence C. Allen $6 W. H. Botsford 20 B. M. Bristol !5 W. B. Dunton 25 J. A. Peck 20 H. E. Sessions 10 H. L. Skeels 30 Luella Whitney Dunn 50 H. 0 . Sears 20 #195 1899: Mrs. Boyden $20 F. W. Cady 30 Augusta M. Kelley 15 F. W. Noble 25 George W. Stone 15 Annis M. Sturges 10 R. L. Thompson 2 i E. J. Waterman io $160 5 1900: William T. Barnard $20 S. B. Botsford 25 W. H. Lane 20 J. E. Stetson 10 Florence M. Andrews 5 Florence M. Hemenway 10 $90 1901: Walter M. Barnard $20 Lemuel R. Brown 30 Reid L. Carr 25 Bert L. Stafford 25 Roy S. Sterns 35 H. C. Tong (and Mrs. Tong, ’00) 30 Cecile Child Allen 50 Gertrude E. Cornish 10 Fannie Smith Nye 100 Mildred A. Weld 5 $3 3 ° 1902 : O. K. Collins $25 George R. Drake 25 John R. Duffield 50 Frederick A. Hughes 20 John E. Thompson 20 Charles A. Voetch 25 Julius A. Willcox 10 Percival Wilds 25 F. A. Simmons (and Mrs. Simmons, ’oi) 50 $250 1903: Charles W. Allen $25 M. V. Drake 10 C. F. Lesrter 10 Learned R. Noble 20 Duane L. Robinson 25 J.T. Weed 10 $100 1904: E. T. Duffield #25 A. W. Eddy 40 W. H. Hammersley 25 LeRoy F. Hovey 15 R. W. Jocelyn 10 H. G. Lynde 10 C. D. Simonds 25 E. W. Willcox 5 ° Florence E. Perley 5 Maude M. Tucker 10 #215 1905: S. L. Abbott $5 S. H. Lane 20 Percy L. Roberts 40 Charles B. Weld 10 Bessie M. Bump 5 Florence Giddings Gates 5 Alice J. Potter 10 Fannie L. Milliken 5 $100 1906: Angus E. Burt $40 David A. Hooker 100 George E. Kimball 20 Gordon D. McQuivey 35 Charles B. Parker 5 Justin M„ Ricker 20 Inez Stevens Abbott 5 Vermce Lovett 5 ° Pauline A. Smith 5 Anne F. Smith 5 $2$$ 1007 : W. L. Barnum $ 5 Thomas H. Bartley 5 R. I. Haseltine 20 Bernard J. Mulcahy 5 Wm. J. Shanahan 5 *° Chester M. Walch 10 Agnes F. Murdoch 5 $100 1908 : George G. Duff $25 George H. Learned 10 Ivan E. Winslow 100 Marie L. Chaffee 5 Rachel Pike 5 6 1909: Carrie E. Damon 5 C. H. Beane $80 Cora M. Derby 10 E. J. Bjerry 25 Edith V. Fay 10 C. H. Carey 20 Winifred W. Fiske 5 J. A. Chalmers 2 5 Fannie M. Gates 2 Rufus Crane 5 Olive E. Getman 10 R. B. DeLano 10 Hazel McLeod 10 F. A. Farnsworth 15 Bertha 0 . Stilson 10 W. T. Fiske 10 The Class 38 H. L. French 20 — C. S. Hadley 20 $721 I. D. Hagar 10 W. V. Hagar 2 5 Friends : H. M. Hall 20 Mrs. A. W. Boardman $ 200 R. C. Holt 5 “ P. D.” per J. M. T. 200 C. S. Martin 2 5 John G. McCullough 26,477 E. H. Martin, Jr. 40 Charles F. Mathewson 100 J. W. McCormack 10 In Memory of Harrison Sfc W. Sanford 40 Prindle, ’63 40 H. A. Severy 20 Dr. M. Allen Starr 1,000 D. M. Shewbrooks 2 5 Edward A. Burt 5 ° L. D. Smith 2 5 Wm. W. McGilton 50 R. A. Stevens 5 ° Myron R. Sanford 50 L. B. Tobin 2 5 Charles B. Wright 100 J. A. Viele 20 Joseph A. DeBoer 100 H. S. White 16 A Friend 1,000 0 . J. Williams 15 A Friend, New Haven, Ct. 10 Clara M. Buffum 5 A Friend 2 5 Caroline H. Clark 10 InezC. Cook 5 $29,402 THE RESPONSE OF FORMER STUDENTS The following table is based upon the list of former students, graduates and non-graduates, who are still living. NO. OF NO. STILL TO CLASSES AMOUNT CONTRIBUTORS HEAR FROM Before i860 #1,164 7 39 1860-1870 1.435 9 no 1870-1880 3. 2 55 8 97 1880-1890 1.497 1 1 114 s, 00 w 475 5 16 189I 340 7 10 1892 300 3 3 7 CLASSES AMOUNT NO. OF CONTRIBUTORS NO. STILL TO HEAR FROM 1893 no 5 15 1894 SO 2 IS 1895 410 II l6 1896 240 5 26 1897 So 4 15 1898 195 9 21 1899 160 8 24 1900 90 7 30 1901 330 11 *5 1902 250 9 19 I 9°3 100 6 34 1904 215 10 28 1905 TOO 8 35 1906 285 10 19 1907 IOO 7 3 i 1908 X 4 S 5 47 1909 721 37 26 INCREASED SUBSCRIPTIONS. In the first few hours after the announcement of the $ 200,000 fund, George M. Wright, ’74, who had pledged $1000 for the gymnasium, sent a card for $4000 additional. Thomas H. Noonan, ’91, and Guy C. Lamson, ’96, in- creased their subscriptions from $25 to $100 ; Fanny Smith Nye, ’oi, changed the figure opposite her name from $20 to $100, and Carson H. Beane, ’09, made his pledge $80 instead of $50. These first responses on the General Ed- ucation Board subscription are mentioned simply to show that the grant of the Board is recognized by the alumni as constituting an entirely new situation. , JOHN M. THOMAS. ; Middlebury College, June 11, 1910.