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white flowers—the school colors. It was a happy company o f faculty and former students that was seated around the tables, and memories o f past experiences at the Bible Institute played an important part in the conversation. After-dinner speeches and a fellowship meeting followed. Andrew Johnson, president, made a short and cordial address o f welcome. The part o f the business session that was o f especial interest was the election o f officers for the coming year, as follow s: President—Henry Greenewald, T5. Vice President—Miss Marie Carter, ’ IS. Recording Secretary—John Daniel, T5. Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer —Miss Lula Crowell, T4. Short informal addresses were made, amid much applause, by each o f the newly elected officers. Since the Alumni meeting o f one year ago, Dr. William Evans and H. J. Bald win have been added to the faculty, and they, with their wives, were appropriately received-as honorary members o f the asso ciation. At the request o f the president, the plan for establishing an Alumni Scholarship Fund was presented by Don Donnan, pres ident o f the class o f ’ 16. The idea orig inated with his class, its purpose being to furnish a permanent endowment for assist ing in the support o f worthy students, while taking the course at the Bible Insti tute. A fter some little discussion, the plan was heartily adopted and suggestions were offered for notifying and interesting all former graduates o f the. Bible Institute. The statement as endorsed by the class of 1916 and presented by Mr. Donnan reads as follow s: “ In memory o f our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and to His Glory, we, o f the Graduating Class o f 1916, o f the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, give origin to an endowment fund to be applied to a Scholarship for students who shall fol low in our place in this Institution. “ The fund shall be composed o f an annual gift o f One Dollar ($1.00), or more from each member o f this class. “ This Scholarship shall be given to a
second-year student wha shall be chosen by the Faculty, solely upon merity and capability. “We present this gift" o f love in the hope that all succeeding classess shall fol low this precedent. “May the one who shajl be chosen be taught by the Spirit o f wisdom and under standing and be led in the path o f peace.” Having been officially adopted by the Alumni Association, the fund will hereafter be known as the “Alumni Scholarship Fund,” and will be supported each year by voluntary contributions from the members o f the Association. After a short address by Dr. Torrey, the rest o f the "evening was devoted to a fellowship and testimony meeting, in charge o f Mr. Hunter o f the Faculty. There were testimonies and greetings from students who had been on the foreign field, from others' actively engaged in Christian work at home, and from some who are planning to leave soon for foreign lands. Among those who expect to sail soon are: Miss M. Ruth Kolachny and Miss Edith Harris, to Kijabe, British East A f rica; Miss Elizabeth Foth, probably China; Miss Edith Menzer, Central America; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Morgan, South America. Some o f those who gave interesting accounts o f their work in the home fields were H. O. Anderson, o f Arizona, Ameri can Baptist Publication Society; Cloyd Roark, and Harold Roberts, American Sunday School missionaries in California, and Vernon Morgan, formerly o f South America, but recently at work in New Mexico. Copies o f the Alumni paper, “The Bible Institute Alumnus,” were distributed during the latter part o f the meeting, and “letters from home could not have been more wel come, for the greater part o f the paper was given over to letters from former stu dents now in various parts o f the world. The evening closed appropriately with prayer and song, the entire company being formed into a large unbroken circle, while, with full hearts they sang that beloved old hymn, “Blest Be the Tie that Binds Our Hearts inu Christian Love.”
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