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*1 . mT[\ <+> \y -*• v- ' / V l P |»»»ints I' aI' several p o i n t s t h r o u g h o u t t lh e U n i t e d States, as yet in the WVsi <•/, i t i r e l \ . g r a d u a t e s «>f (lie U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s h a \ e h a n d e d t o g e t h e r in Vssoeiations for the sake of t h e pleasure d e r i v e d tVinn c o n n n u n i t \ o f i n t e r e s t s a m i a f e e l i n g o f n i u t iual r e l a t i o n s h i p . The A l u m n i Clubs a n d

most i m p o r t a n t o f these A l u m n i Associations are t h e f o l l o w i n g :

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T h i s A s s o c i a t i o n , t h e largest o f t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n s a m o n g A l u m n i o f t h e versity of I l l i n o i s , was i n c o r p o r a t e d u n d e r t h e laws o f t h e state J u n e 2, 1886. UniIf.-

tirst President was C h a r l e s < i. N e e l v . a n d its tirst B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s J o h n Parson,

V. M. McKay, A. 0 . Coddington, Judson F. Going and Charles B. Gibson. The minutes of the Cluh recite that "after a more or less somnolent existence of four years, the Club took a new lease of life. June 14, 1890, a meeting was held in the directors' room of Farson A: Leach's Bank, at which twenty-five new members were enrolled." Regular meetings of the Club are held on the first Saturdays of January, March, May, June and October of each year, and generally an annual banquet is given in March. At present the (dub has a membership of one hundred and fifty, and is quite active. The present officers are as follows: F. M. McKay, President; F. L. Davis, First Vice-President; Miss Augusta Putts, Second Vice-President; Norman II. Camp, Secretary and Treasurer; C. 8. Ponton, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer; H. W. Wilder, Sergeant-at-Arins; and John C. Pley, Lorado Taft. John Frederickson, E. L. Abbot and Charles G. Neely, Directors. The Chicago Club has been instrumental in securing the appointment and election of Alumni of the University as trustees, and in bringing about the change of name from the "Illinois Industrial University " to the " University of Illinois.'' The primary objects of the Club are to promote good-fellowship among the graduates and undergraduates of the University residing in Chicago and vicinity, and to further the interests of the University in every way possible.

t$t £ouf0t»e0fern (^asociafton of f0e ($fumm of f0e Qhrittersttg of Jffinoifi. In the year 1891 a meeting of graduates of the University of Illinois was held in Kansas City, Mo., for the purpose of organizing an Alumni Club. As a result of that meeting, the association bearing the above title came into existence. The charter members were: Roland R. Conklin, '80; Alfred Gregory, 78; Miss Avis E. Smith, 77; Arthur E. Barnes, 75; Arthur Peabody, '82; Grant Gregory, '87; J. H. Davis, '82, and wife (formerly Ella M. Watson, '80); Henry L. McCune, '83; Henry M. Beardsley, 79, and wife (formerly Marietta Davis, '81). These graduates were present at the first meeting. Their purpose in forming the Aaso87