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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY SCHOOL

ASSOCIATION NEWS LETTER Number 13 March, 1930 To the Association

DEAR FELLOW MEMBERS:

[ When you chose as President some one living at the far western point of our wonderful country, perhaps you thought that she would be so crushed by the duty of obtaining the forty life memberships that are still needed that she would plunge in despair into the Pacific and that there would be an end of this "ever-with-us drive" at least for the present year. But, dear friends, for fear you do not know it, your President is not the kind that plunges into the ocean when difficulties assail her. Besides the Pacific is very wet and cold at present and she is filled with optimism. She is quite certain that the forty additional Life Members, that are needed before the Scholarship Fund is completed, will be brought into the fold. However, do not think that your President, or your Secretary, or your Vice-Presidents and Trustees alone are going to bring in these new Life Members. They must ask you all to help them, to let them go over the matter with you for a few minutes. Do you realize that nearly four years have passed since the Association decided to establish an Endowment Fund of $5000, the minimum amount needed for a scholarship. Hopefully the goal was set at 200 Life Members out of an alumni body of over one? thousand. That seemed a moderate number to ask to back the project. After four years of hard work and solicitation, only 160 have evidenced their interest. Can you tell "what is wrong with the picture" ? Just how hard have you ever thought about becoming a Life Member? Have you ever considered that it would be a comfort to belong to an organization for the rest of your life and never be bothered by due notices? Have you ever realized that it is an investment? The annual dues equal the interest at the rate of 4% on the amount of a life membership. Why not twenty-five dollars now and no interest to pay? Have you ever reasoned that it might be your professional privilege to help your school establish scholarships, so that promising young people might be helped to advance in the profession. Just think that if each of the thirty-two classes obtain two additional members from their number, the goal will be reached! The older the class the more affluent they must be; the younger the class the