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much firmer basis than formerly. There is now a total of thirty-six local 

 associations. A numljer of the larger organizations hold weekly meetings 

 and nearly half of them have regular monthl^^ meetings. There seems to be 

 a greater interest to do something for M. A. C. 



Besides the regular Home Coming, Farmers' Week, and Commencement 

 meetings of alumni at the College, M. A. C. Associations in different parts of 

 the country have held sixty-five meetings of graduates and former students 

 during the year. This does not include the regular weekl}' luncheons of the 

 Central Michigan or the Detroit Clubs, nor the monthly and semi-monthh' 

 meetings of Grand Rapids, Flint, Chicago and Saginaw M. A. C. people. 

 The commencement reunions just past were attended by nearly 800 graduates 

 and former students and it is thought to be the largest reunion since the semi- 

 centennial in 1907. This commencement reunion and the large number 

 of meetings held during the year are something of an indication of the interest 

 that alumni are taking in the College. 



Because of the financial situation during the past year, nothing has been 

 done by the M. A. C. Association on the Union ]\Iemorial Building campaign 

 fund which was started last year. It is expected however, that it will be re- 

 resumed during the coming fall and winter. The committee however, have 

 determined that the building shall be worthy of the efforts of M. A. C. men and 

 women, and have determined to build a building to cost S500,000. They 

 have engaged the firm of Pond and Pond, architects of Chicago, to construct 

 the building, in cooperation with the college architect. 



Following are the resolutions of the M. A. C. Association, passed at the 

 annual meeting June 15, 1921. 



RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY M. A. C. ASSOCIATION AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 



JUNE 15. 



The alumni reunion of 1921 brings its train'of important events. The old 

 College never looked better, and its future was never brighter. We feel more 

 proud of being Michigan Aggies now than ever before. Yet we realize that 

 the College cannot be operated on the methods of the past, just as it cannot 

 with the money of the past, and that the administrative and teaching force 

 must be continually changing. In this connecticn we greatly dislike to bid 

 farewell to President Kcdzie, who has devoted some faithful years to the dis- 

 charge of the most important of all the college offices. We are sensible of the 

 fact that he accepted the office of president only under strong pressure, and 

 that he undertook its duties only for a few years. The Kedzie smile will be 

 much missed from the corner room of the Library Building, and we only wish 

 it might have been housed in more spacious quarters, while discharging the 

 presidential duties. To students of the past, "Uncle Frank" vnW always be 

 his favorite title. Seldom is it given to mortal man to have such an aggrega- 

 tion of nieces and nephews. We hope that he may in some way continue to 

 be associated with the College in clays to com.e-. 



We have no favorite candidate to promote for the office of president of the 

 College. Yet we express our conviction that, whoever he may be, he should 

 be a man of wide experience as an educator and administrator. We believe 

 he should be a man of strong religious convictions, in common with other 

 college and university leaders of the day. In this we are l:;ut reflecting the ex- 

 pressed beliefs of not a few memlDcrs of the faculty. Man}" alumni remember 

 with deepest pleasure and gratitude the hours spent a^the home of the presi- 

 dent and other faculty members in social converse, and this suggests to us 



