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passing of the goal set last commencement. At that time it was voted 

 to raise |150,000 to erect a Union Building as a memorial to our M. A. 

 C. men who took part in the World war. The executive Committee pre- 

 sented the following report as of June 13 : 



MEMORIAL BUILDING FUND. 



Amount subscribed by Alumni .^10:3,000 



Amount subscribed by students 38,403 



Amount subscribed by faculty 9,100 



Total 151,103 



At the annual M. A. C. Association meeting, resolutions were passed 

 to increase the fund to .1^300,000 and possibly |500,000, and continue the 

 campaign next year. 



II. The College War History. 



Collecting of material for the College War History has gone on during 

 the year, and we now have about half of the material ready for the press, 

 or something over 500 reports complete. Work on this will continue 

 during the summer, and we hope the volume will be ready for distribu- 

 tion in the fall, if paper and printing conditions are not too abnormal. 



III. Bringing of liccorils Up To Date. 



During the past year we have gradually been bringing onr recor<ls 

 up to date. Besides the "base" or history cards for all graduates, Ave 

 now have such cards for over 2000 former students who did not finish. 

 These cards give home address, class and course, college activities, ami 

 changes of occupation and address since leaving college. We hope be- 

 fore the present year is over, to have a base card for every student who 

 finished one term at M. A. C. The Memorial Building campaign, which 

 has necessitated circularizing every former student at least three times, 

 has given us authentic addresses for over 5000 former M. A. C. people. 



Besiides having all students filed alphabetically and by classes we have 

 them arranged geographically or according to location. By aid of our 

 addressing machine and individual name plates for each person, we are 

 able to furnish lists on very short notice. Alumni moving into new fields 

 ask for these lists, and local M. A. C. associations ask for them when 

 holding meetings. We have furnished them to different departments of 

 the college, and they may be utilized in college publicity work. 



IV. Editing the M. A. C. Record, the Official Organ of the M. A. C. 



Association. 

 The M. A. C. Eecord has been issued forty times during the. year, with 

 an average of seventeen inches more of reading matter over the i>re- 

 vious year. We now have a membersliip list of 2700. As in the past the 

 publication of the M. A. i\ llecord as well as considerable of the expense 

 of maintaining the Alumni office is paid for by the M. A. C Association 

 and our efforts lo make it self supporting are more nearly successful 

 than thev have ever been. 



