126 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



V. Helped Organize and Visited Local M. A. G. Associations. 



Seventeen new M. A. C. Associations have been organized or revived 

 during the year with increased interest and activities in all of them. 

 Seven visits have been made to these associations by the secretary and 

 assistant secretary at special meetings. Fewer visits to local associa- 

 tions have been made by this office this year because of the many visits 

 by members of the faculty for special Memorial Building campaign 

 meetings. 



In general, the progress and expansion of the alumni work during 

 the past year has been most encouraging. We have supporting us several 

 thousand loyal M. A. C. folks who have the first interests of the College 

 at heart. Our Alumni and former students have a deep love for M. A. 

 C. They are loyal and believe in her, and we know that during the next 

 few years, with proper organization, they will be a powerful factor in 

 pushing forward the work and the field of the College and increasing 

 her popularity and effectiveness jn Michigan and in other states. This 

 year's commencement reunions, attended by nearly 600 alumni were 

 unfailing evidence of this new spirit of alumni service to alma mater. 

 Never have we beheld such enthusiasm and spirited interest in the Col- 

 lege and her problems as was manifested at the annual meeting of the 

 M. A. C. Association at the noon luncheon Commencement Day. 



Alumni thought and opinion regarding future policies and the develop- 

 ment of the Michigan Agricultural College were expressed in the fol- 

 lowing resolutions adopted by unanimous action of the M. A. C. Asso- 

 ciation at its annual meeting June IG, 1920. 



"Be it resolved, That the M. A. C. Association is strongly op{)osed to 

 any movement tending toward the removal of men from the dormitories 

 at M. A. C. and be it further resolved that the Association favors the 

 promotion of some plan which will require that all freshmen be lioused 

 in dormitories under proper supervision and that the necessary pro- 

 visions be made therefor." 



"Resolved, That the M. A. C. Association endorse the action of the 

 faculty in recommending to the State Board of Agriculture that under 

 suitable conditions the ban on National Fraternities be lifted." 



"Besolved, That due to increase in the cost of printing, paper, and 

 office administration that the M. A. C. Association dues be raised from 

 ^2.00 per year to |2.50 per year." 



"Resolved, That the Secretary of the M. A. C. Association establish in 

 his office a system for bringing the superior advantages of M. A. C. to the 

 present attention of prospective college students. This is to include 

 the possible employment of a Field Secretary and the interesting of 

 alumni in furthering the object." 



"Resolved, That the M. A. C. Association solicit the State Board of 

 Agriculture for an appropriation to carry out the work of the alumni 

 office in bringing students to M. A. C. and that a Committee of three be 

 appointed to handle the matter." 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. AV. McKIBBlN, 



Alumni Recorder. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1920. 



