1923

The decision of the Rockford College trustees to develop its 15 million campus relocation program without turning to the federal government for assistance has received widespread and enthusiastic praise in newspaper editorials and letters from prominent people throughout the United States. karl Williams, chairman of the college board of trustees, said the school had opindependently with nothing but pri- nts support throughout its 114-year history. St are bound to lose that independence and support if we seek federal subsidies,' William? said. _

Presidents of many of Americas leading orations, editorial writers on scores of corners throughout the United States, "mstanding men in the Congress, all combed Karl and his Board of Trustees for {heir decision to raise the 15 million dollars the hard way.

Bill and Dottie Kimball have disposed of their home in Hinsdale, Ill., and are now living at Sum Sollitt's Flor-A-Mar Gulf Harbors' in bors in New Port Richey, Fla. The Kimhalls' new home adjoins that of Sum and Bettye Sollitt. Their address in Gulf Harbors is: Gulf Harbors. P. O. Box 1176, New Port Richey, Fla. Dot and Bill are the official host and hostess of Sum Sollitt's 3000acre ultra-modern water front community on the Gulf of Mexico. 34 miles north of St. Petersburg and 18 miles north of Clearwater.

Flor-A-Mar stretches East to West in one uninterrupted piece for over two miles from US 19 to the Gulf of Mexlco- It will have seven miles of beach when completed. ,

When complete Flor-A-Mar will have 10,000 homes in three price ranges, three yacht clubs, two boatels, 120 miles of waterways, an 18-hole golf course designed by R. Albert Anderson, a shuffieboard clubhouse, a lighted putting green adjacent to this clubhouse, and a huge thirty-acre shopping center.

Truman Metzel has hand written 83 letters to members of the class in his activities as chairman of our Bequest and Estate Planinng Program. A reply to one of these letters advised that he had made a will Providing an amount running up to seven figures for the College. We would say this justified T. T. M's writer's cramp.

Henry Hudson mailed in a very original Christmas card to the secretary which even at this late date should be included in this column:

"Now as we blend a Christmas mix Let us raise a toast to Bix, And Babe and Irish and the Metzel.

We must include in Season's Wassail Zimmerman, too, for these stout hearts Do the work and play their parts In leading us to pay the bill We owe the college on the hill."

Bob Hage has written Bud Freeman, chairman of our national scholarship committee, on the Class of 1923 Fund the sad news that John Krumme has been suspended from college on account of marks which have been mediocre and for a serious car driving violation of the scholarship rules. In the early summer it will be Bud's duty to name a new 1923 scholar from the list of those who have accepted this honor.

Heinie Barrett who has diligently followed the law profession since his graduation from New York Law School in 1926, first with his father, H. R. Barrett, and then with the firm of Bleakley, Piatt, Hart and Fritz, 120 Broadway, New York City, on January became a member of this firm.

Ray Billings' widow Maude writes that the "boys" on the "Tulsa World" started a scholarship fund in journalism in Ray's name. The personnel in the office of the World pay ten cents a cup of coffee instead of five cents and this is continuously being added to the fund.

Skinny Grevatt, D.D.S., recently achieved a remarkable record in soliciting funds for the U. of Penn Dental School. Eddie approached 187 alumni and obtained gifts of $36,593.00 from his list which comprised Essex County, New Jersey, dentists.

On Monday February 19 Louis VanOrden appeared on the TV panel show "To Tell the Truth."

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Class Agent, 218 Wells St., Westfield, N. J.