Am.  Joun  Pharm.  |   ^^^^^^^     President  R.  P.  Fischelis.  509 
in  the  college  building  has  been  procured  by  the  Alumni  Association 
and  will  be  dedicated  at  our  annual  reunion  to-morrow  evening. 
I  want  to  express  the  thanks  of  the  Association  to  the  committee, 
consisting  of  Messrs.  J.  S.  Beetem,  W.  H.  Gano  and  F.  P.  Stroup, 
for  their  prompt  and  untiring  efforts  in  making  possible  the  dedica- 
tion of  this  memorial  to  our  alumni,  who  served  and  those  who  made 
the  supreme  sacrifice,  at  this  early  date.  The  funds  required  were 
made  available  by  the  contributors  to  the  Alumni  Sustaining  Fund. 
Surely  these  contributors  will  feel  proud  to  have  made  this  lasting 
memorial  to  our  boys  possible. 
Our  college  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the  enlargement  of  the 
scope  of  its  charter.  It  is  now  legally,  what  it  has  long  been  prac- 
tically, The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science. 
I  recommend  that  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Alumni  Associa- 
tion be  empowered  to  change  the  name  of  the  Alumni  Association  to 
correspond  with  the  new  legal  title  of  the  college  and  that  our  con- 
stitution and  by-laws  be  so  revised  as  to  make  them  conform  with 
the  new  name. 
I  further  recommend  that  we  establish  two  classes  of  member- 
ship in  the  Alumni  Association,  active  membership  and  associate 
membership.  Active  members  shall  be  those  who  graduate  from 
any  of  the  pharmaceutical  or  science  courses  of  our  college  and  have 
a  degree  conferred  upon  them.  Associate  members  shall  be  those 
who  attend  and  complete  special  courses  in  our  college,  for  which 
no  degrees  are  awarded  but  certificates  are  given.  Associate 
members  may  be  appointed  upon  standing  or  special  committees  of 
the  Association  but  shall  not  have  the  right  to  vote  or  hold  office, 
nor  to  occupy  the  chairmanship  of  committees. 
The  object  of  this  recommendation  is  to  include  in  the  Alumni 
Association  all  former  students  of  the  college  no  matter  what  courses 
or  partial  courses  they  have  taken  and  at  the  same  time  restrict  the 
active  management  to  those  holding  the  degrees  of  the  college.  The 
latter  procedure  is  necessary  in  my  estimation  in  order  to  maintain 
the  prestige  of  the  college  among  institutions  of  the  highest  grade. 
In  years  gone  by,  the  Alumni  Association  depended  in  a  large 
measure  upon  the  college  for  its  financial  support.  In  the  past  two 
years  an  earnest  attempt  has  been  made  to  make  the  association 
self-sustaining.  This  is  as  it  should  be.  So  far  we  have  depended 
■entirely  upon  volunteers  for  our  sustaining  fund.  This  has  resulted 
in  placing  the  burden  upon  the  few  for  the  benefit  of  the  many.  I 
