THE PEN
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ing School and tlie Bishop Tuttle
Training School are all represented
here. But our “Big Family” is lar
ger than tliat. It includes those who
are away from liome, all wlio have
studied liere or have taught here. It
includes the families of our students
and the many friends who are link
ed to us by ties of helpfulness and
sympathy. We would have you all
realize anew and strengtlicn that
common bond today.
We have heard today a St. Aug
ustine’s College Song and College
Hymn composed both as to music
and words by one of our own grad
uates wlio passed away a few months
ago. I refer to William Augustine
Perry of tlie Class of 1902, a noted
educational leader and a man of gen
uine spiritual power. In tlie midst of
his busy and useful life he found
time to enshrine in song and hymn
the ideals of his Alma Mater. As
years go on his influence and pres
ence will thus always be with us.
!May his example inspire all of us to
upliold the best traditions of St.
Augustine’s wherever we may be.
We hope that all of our big fam
ily can visit the old home from time
to time. We would have representa
tives from your families and com-
jnunities come here as members of
our student body. As members of one
l)ig family I again greet you on be-
lialf of the students and faculty and
friends who are gathered here at the
Anniversary Celebration of St. Aug
ustine’s College.
“For seventy years she’s triumphed
As upicard in her flight
She s climbed to he a beacon light
Her banner Blue and White.’’
Alumni Head Speaks
The annual observance of the
founding of St. Augustine’s College
sltould be a signal for rededication
of Iier sons and daughters to the
ideals and purposes for which the in
stitution was brouglit into being,
and so the Alumni Association sa
lutes its Alma Mater on this her
seventy-first birthday.
Tlie graduates of any institution
may serve that institution in tlirce
definite ways: first, tlie most distin
guished alumni, those wlio achieve
peculiar distinction in the world at
large, attract the attention of the
outside world, that they are products
of such a college. Secondly, the
great bulk of tlie alumni, wlio are
making tlieir way in the world in a
more modest way, but who are add
ing a good bit to society by duty
well performed, by their force of
numbers serve as exponents of the
school they represent. The alumni
classified in the third class are those
graduates who are interested enough
in their school to organize for the
purpose of fostering the institution’s
welfare. This class may be called the
active alumni. St. Augustine’s Col
lege boasts perhaps more than her
sliare of the first class and certainly
lias her full quota of the second class
but in recent years tliere has been a
grouping together of the active a-
lumni, commensurate with the total
Alumni strenartli. Tliat is the objec
tive of the Alumni Association of St.
Augustine’s College, to bring about
the conversion of the entire Alumni
.tt-e»iTth into an active Alumni Asso
ciation. During the past five years
our Association has been endeavor
ing to build up a Students’ Loan
Fund, and I am here to report that
we have been greatly encouraged by
the liberal response of many mem
bers of the Association and friends.