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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2
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• _.-> .t*..^y **£*?* Student Stadium Executive Committee Top Row: Milton Marx—Kenney Williamson—Justine Pritckard—Robert Preble—Harold Babbitt Middle Row: Gladys Pennington—Clara Dunseth—David Malcolmson—Jeanne White—Ann Williams Bottom Row: William Lockwood—Nellie Holt—Reuben Carlson—Anna Coolley—Paul Cornelison—Lois Wine In a fever of excitement came thousand-dollar offers from Princess Tarhata Kiram of Sulu, from J. C. Aguilar of Tampico, and five-hundreddollar offers from everywhere in the foreign sections, and then from the American parts of the hall. A messenger came from the auditorium, where "Prof." Russell was officiating, to announce that the students from Cook and Champaign counties, there assembled, had pledged themselves for $300,000. One wondered how the gym annex could hold all t h a t sound, but within ten minutes one marveled more, when Zuppke announced that we had in pledges altogether $700,000 from the undergraduate body. This achievement may be credited almost entirely to the efforts of the students themselves. "Two thousand five hundred of them were on committees," said Elmer Ekblaw, "and, under Reuben Carlson and Ann Coolley, they seemed to work as many business men would love to have their employes work. Day and night they lived and breathed Stadium, and the success of the drive is their legitimate reward/' We wish we could reproduce for you alumni who have relinquished the joyful undergraduate life for the grimmer struggle for existence the great sounds and sights of t h a t memorable April 25, the surging exultation on every face, the buoyant talk from all lips, the serious-eyed, proud faces of the streaming lines of students—co-eds and ags, engineers and L. A. & S., commerce and education—as they left those halls. Somebody took movies of the mass meeting, and when we saw them last Saturday night, we got the "kick" all over again. BOB ZUPPKE BLAZED THE TRAIL T H E memorial, said Bob Zuppke, should be an honor court; and, since one hundred and eighty-three Illini were killed in the war, there should be one hundred and eighty-three columns in the honor court. People should enter the honor court first, he said, and then the Stadium. The entrance should be a long, open colonnade with two flanking towers, One of the towers should be a memorial to the soldiers* the other to the sailors and marines; and there should be a memorial and trophy room. More details, many more, were decided upon. And Bob Zuppke, chairman of the Stadium executive council, told the world about these details. He told the world in his own way. The towers, he said, "will be so high t h a t if a searchlight is placed on top, they will illuminate the name of Illinois from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate." This is not academically precise, b u t it renders faithfully Bob Zuppke's spirit—the spirit which gave Illinois, in his second year here, victory over every team in the Conference, and the championship; the spirit which battled Minnesota to a tie the following year, which won another championship in 1919 and which battled the Conference to the finals in almost every other year, losing the championship, in 1920, only in the last minute
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