STATE needs a more compact and a more active alumni organi
zation. The organization and evidence of the Alumni A ssocia-
tion are not such as the growth, character and best welfare of
the college demand while the methods now in vogue do not even
suggest to the alumnus that he has a vital opportunity to further
the interests of the college. This is due to a lack of proper in
formation for, excepting the letter requesting that the annual
membership fees be forwarded to the treasurer, the alumnus
learns little or nothing concerning the Association's existence.
If he be so fortunate as to be able to be present at commence
ment he may attend the Alumni luncheon or the Alumni meeting
and thus, and in other ways, i refresh his memory but these affairs
are entirely too inadequate as a means of sustaining the interest
of the alumnus; they reach but a small number of the alumni.
With the classes of '92 to '9B more men have been graduated
than with all the classes previous, the classes of '6i to '92, and
the next few years will see the graduation of several hundred
more. The alumni are therefore a rapidly growing body. Now
these men, as they leave college, scatter as with the winds and but
few are able to return from year to year. Last commencement
there were about fifty of the alumni present and many of these
were residents of State College or of towns near by. For such
as these, who now constitute the voting part of the Association,
the present methods may suffice, and, indeed, proximity to the
college is alone sufficient to keep renewed their associations, but
it is in the. absent ones, the great majority, that the Alumni As
sociation should strive to fix a continued and active interest.
To do this—to attain one of the objects of the association, " to
promote fraternal feeling and facilitate intercourse "—*-the Alumni
Record is published every five years. This is a very good idea,
and the last register was a very good register, but five years is a
very, very, long time. The Alumni Association, if it wishes to