Bulletin, Lycoming College, January 1949

              BULLETIN LYCOMING COLLEGE, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNA.
January, 1949 Vol. n, No. 1
DEAR ALUMNI:
This edition of the Alumni Bulletin contains the
most important announcement made to Alumni in
recent years. I hope you will read the entire Bulletin
carefully and make your plans promptly to be with
us on Friday, February. 25.
With the resignation of Rev. Frank W. Ake,
'27, as alumni secretary, the outbreak of World War
II and the time necessarily given to the expansion of
the college since the close of the war, it has been im-possible
to do the work w^hich a healthy condition
among the Alumni requires.
It is the intention of the Board of Directors and
the college to promote greater Alumni activity. With
this purpose in mind and as the first step, the execu-tive
committee of the Board of Directors at the De-cember
20 meeting, directed that Miss Katherine
Woolever serve on a part-time basis in the handling
of Alumni activities until an over-all program is
adopted by the college. Miss Woolever has handled
local publicity for the college for nearly a year and
will continue to do this work. She has her desk in the
office of the business manager of the college. J.
Milnor Dorey w^ill continue as editor of the Alumni
Bulletin.
A four-fold program of alumni activities is to be
presented to the Alumni at the banquet in February
as follows:
1. To induce as many of the Alumni as possible
to come back to the college on important occasions.
2. To promote Alumni Club organizations.
3. To promote living endowment.
4. To develop increasing interest among the
Alumni in the college.
The college is fortunate in having in Williams-port
a splendid group of young alumni who are deep-ly
interested in the college and are ready to co-oper-ate
in a forward looking program in the interest of
the institution. They feel this is the appropriate
time to begin more intensive activities, since next
June the first class will be graduated with appro-priate
degrees from Lycoming College.
In the past our graduates, both from the prepar-atory
school and the junior college, have attended
other schools for part or all of their college work,
and consequently the interest of many has been w^ith
the institution from which they last graduated.
The class graduating in June from Lycoming is
the first class which will have had all of its college
w^ork here and should be the group to lead in the for-mation
of a strong and growing body of alumni for
Lycoming College. The larger body comprising more
than 4,000 alumni of Williamsport Dickinson Sem-inary
and Junior College will co-operate toward that
end.
Faithfully yours,
JOHN W. LONG
COLLEGE READY TO WELCOME ALUMNI
AT 1949 GREATER LYCOMING BANQUET
I How many Alumni haven't
ponged at one time or another to
come back to the campus to re-jlive
some of those best-times-of-f
heir-lives? Well, if it's a feeling
ike that, or just curiosity as to
how things are going, now that
the school is a four-year institu-tion,
a "return engagement" has
been planned for you on Friday,
jFeb. 25, the date of the Greater
!|Lycoming Banquet.
This year's banquet is intended
'to bring to the college key Alumni
who will help lay the plans for
Iclass reunions in June. Two si-multaneous
programs are sched-uled—
one for the Alumni and one
for the student body. The visiting
graduates will meet in the college
dining room at 6:30 p.m. for the
dinner, and to hear a talk by a
prominent alumnus, and the stu-dent
body will be served in the
gymnasium and will hear the ad-dress
over a loud speaker system.
At the conclusion of the program,
the Alumni will have their choice
of attending a dance in the gym
with the undergraduates or visit-ing
with former classmates in the
Clarke building.
The separate meal plan was
adopted as a means of accommo-dating
on campus the more than
900 students and the returning
Alumni. While the school was still
a junior college and the enrolment
had not yet out-distanced the
building program, it was custom-ary
to hold the student-alumni
banquets (known then as the
Greater Dickinson Banquets) at
the college. The large attendance
in recent years forced the dinner
committees to seek larger dining
facilities in downtown Williams-port,
but Alumni interest in cam-pus
brings the initial Greater Ly-coming
event back to the college
grounds.
The Alumni Council's advice to
those planning to attend the ban-quet
is this: Buy your tickets in
advance. The dining room capa-city
is 375 and tickets will be sold
until that limit is reached. Use
the order form below or write a
note saying how many tickets you
want and enclose your check. Tic-kets
are $1.75 each. We urge you
to make your reservation now.
LYCOMING COLLEGE ALUMNI COUNCIL
GREATER LYCOMING BANQUET
FEBRUARY 25, 1949 6:30 P.M. CLARKE DINING HALL
Please reserve for me tickets for the GREATER
LYCOMING BANQUET at $1.75 each.
I enclose my check for $ .
Name _ Class
Send checks to Katherine Woolever, Lycoming College