Alumni Club House

ALUMNI CLUB HOUSE

To Be Placed on University Campus.

AT COST OF ABOUT $30,000

Subscriptions Being Raised Among the Alumni.

A Permanent Endowment for Expenses of the Alumni Association is Also Being Raised. - Both Projects Are Well Received.

If present plans are successful a club house costing $30,000 will be built on the university campus as a permanent home for the office of the alumni association and a club house for the entertainment of visiting alumni. The plan is to have it open at all times for the use of the resident alumni as well as the visiting alumni. The movement is in charge of James H. Prentis. the secretary of the Alumni Association and it could not be in more capable hands. Mr. Prentis has been receiving subscriptions from local and faculty members of the alumni and has already about $4,500 subscribed. All subscriptions are contingent upon the whole amount of $30,000 being subscibed. His idea is to get between $5,000 and $6,000 subscribed in Ann Arbor and with that as a starter he thinks that he will be able to raise the balance of the amount needed outside.

The club house would do much towards making it pleasant for the visiting alumni and so tie them closer to their alma mater and would consequently aid in advancing the interests of the university in which we are all deeply interested.

A plan is also being submitted to the alumni of the university whereby with a subscription of $5 for seven years from a large number of them, a permanent endowment may be secured to maintain a paid secretary of the alumni association. The plan was started on an eastern trip to the secretary and has taken well, 100 subscriptions for $35 each payable in the seven years being obtained on that trip and since then a large number of other subscriptions have been obtained. This plan contemplates making the subscribers permanent members of the association and doing away with the $1 annual dues by which the association is now supported. The present system, while realizing sufficient to keep a paid secretary, requires too much labor and so detracts from the efficiency of his other and really more important work. The endowment plan is received with a most universal favor.

The university has done much for the alumni. The alumni can do much for the university.