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CAROLINA ALUMNI PLAN GREAT THINGS Drive Against Illiteracy to be Inaugurated The alumni of the University of South Carolina, living in Rich land County, held an enthusiastic meeting after a luncheon at the Jefferson Hotel several weeks ago when they discussed the mat ter of establishing an alumni ex ecutive secretary at Carolina at the opening of the session. The campaign to . raise Richland County's apportionment of the fund with which to employ the secretary and pay the expenses of his office was gotten under way at the meeting, which sur passed in enthusiasm and inter est any similar gathering of the Richland alumni in recent years. The alumni propose to raise $4,000 a year among the alumni living in Richland County, this amount to be contributed this year, and in 1920 and 1921. Af ter the meeting. Chairman William S. Nelson dis tributed pledge cards in lots of 10 among alumni who agreed to act as solicitors and canvassers. The alumni who are to procure the pledges were asked to re port within three days to Albert Ehrlich, member of the Richland alumni committee, at 904 Pal metto Building. Governor 'Cooper and Presi dent Currell were guests of the alumni at the luncheon. There were nearly 100 Carolina men present. Means Greater Carolina. "I would not be here today," declared Dr. Smith, "did I not believe with my whole heart, that given the chance, the alumni will rally to the University, and that just around the next turn in the road lies a greater Carolina, with a noble destiny to achieve and a high purpose to serve, toward which this meeting today means a great forward step." Dr. Smith summarized the work of the alumni executive secretary at Carolina as follows: to prepare an alumni catalogue and record of alumni achieve ment; to edit an alumni maga zine; to organize alumni throughout the State by coun ties; to administer the alumni loan fund ; to assist in campaigns for students; to keep every alumnus in immediate touch with the plans of the University; to bring to the executive head of the University, the faculty, and the trustees the views of the alumni, and finally, to focus the energy and influence of the Uni versity behind a progessivee policy for a greater Carolina. Explaining the method of se lecting the alumni secretary and the direction of his work, Dr. Smith said that this officer would be chosen by the alumni coun cil, appointed at the last annual meeting of the alumni associa tion, and by the officers and finance committee named at that meeting. The secretary would work under the supervision of these men until their successors were chosen at the next annual meeting of the alumni associa tion. Dr. Smith announced that President Currell had placed three large offices in Legare Col lege at the disposal of the alumni executive secretary. Dr. Smith asserted that the greatest unused asset of the Uni versity of South Carolina was the united, intelligent and sym pathetic aid of its alumni. "The best, quickest and only way to get this aid and utilize this asset," said Dr. Smith, "is to establish a full-time alumni executive secretary as a member of the college family. Such an officer would be on the one hand the channel through which the University could voice to the alumni its aims, hopes, and ideas and on the other hand a field agent to organize the alumni in county groups and express to the University their views, and con structive criticisms. In short, he would be an intake and outlet valve for alumni energy." To Wipe Out Illiteracy William D. Melton followed Dr. Smith with a brief and grace ful speech in which he stressed the importance of organizing the alumni of the University and told of assistance they might lend, once they were organized, to wiping out illiteracy and in creasing the salaries paid to teachers in South Carolina. Dr. William Weston talked to the meeting about the impor tance of improving the physical condition of students, as illus' trated by the experience of the United States when it started to raise an army, and the neces sity for uniting on a program which will give renewed life and larger opportunities for service to Carolina. Gov. Cooper promised his aid to any movement which would result in making the University serve the State more efficiently and in'broader fields. The gov ernor asked the aid of the alumni in putting through the policy to which he is pledged of improv ing all phases of education in South Carolina. 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