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Show THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THE University of Utah has just completed another great year of progress, and the Alumni rejoice with their Alma Mater. Alumni interest in the University was sponsored during the past year by considerable activity on the part of the Association. The officers, elected at the annual business meeting in June, 1929, were: Richard A. Wilson, '21, vice-president; Thomas Hull, treasurer; and Douglas O. Woodruff, executive secretary. Lisle Smith, '13, Wallace F. Bennett, '19, and John S. Boyden, '28, were elected to the Board of Control; Dr. George Thomas and Charles R. Mabey are ex-officio members of the Board. It is believed that the desire to serve is alive in every alumnus, but formerly the opportunity has been offorded to relatively few. The underlying purpose of the present Board of Control of the Association has been to open the way for active expression of the high motives of alumni generally. The Association started active work early in the fall by asking all standing committees as constituted the previous year to serve again duiing the year 1929-30. These groups are: the Membership Committee, with Herbert Schiller as chairman; the Committee on Athletics, with Don Ray as chairman; the Public Relations Committee with E. W. Kelly as chairman; and the Committee on Memorials, with J. P. Goddard as chairman. The Alumni Association through its officers worked in close cooperation with the Union Building Corporation. Much of the time of the officers was spent in promoting the interests of this project. The Utah Alumnus edited by Theron S. Parmelee, was published four times throughout the year and mailed to all affiliated members of the Association. More than ten class reunions are fostered annually at commencement time, bringing back to the campus scores of former students of classes from one to fifty years old. The active interest of the alumni this year in all the university functions has inspired the confidence and admiration of the entire student body. At the time' of the Homecoming celebration, another annual event sponsored by the alumni organization, thousands of former students returned to view a thrilling football game and to renew memories and acquaintances of years gone by. R. A. Hart President of the Alumni Association insssii/ "~.0'"liiHlj MMDWMW'j ft lf!«^S!« mr'% When the Class of '29 became members of the Alumni Associatioin irfrt*r> Page 125 |