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Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. 210 24.03.2006 prepare now to be here during the coming commencement exercises in May in order that you may see what is being done at the institution and to meet your former classmates. Already the officers of the General Alumni Association have begun preparations for your welcome. I urge upon you the importance of keeping up the habit Page 288 of study and of reading good books and papers. The accompanying circular on "How to Buy Books" gives valuable suggestions about how to secure the best books cheaply. I take this occasion to inform you that already we are making preparations for our 1913 Summer School. It is hoped that every graduate who is teaching will attend this or some other good summer school. I trust that wherever you are located you will do all that you can for community uplift. Be active in church and Sunday-school work, help to improve the public schools, assist in bettering health conditions, help the people to secure property, to buy homes and to improve them. In doing all these things, you will be carrying out the Tuskegee idea. Very truly yours, [Signed] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. The questions were slightly varied from year to year. The following were those sent out with the 1915 letter-- the last to bear the signature of the Institute's founder. Please favor me by answering these questions and returning the blank as soon as you receive it. 1. Your full name when at Tuskegee? . . . . . 2. What year were you graduated from Tuskegee? . . . . . 3. Your present home address? . . . . . 4. If you are not at home, your temporary address for the winter of 1915- 1916? . . . . . 5. If you have married, your wife's name before marriage? . . . . . Was she ever a student at Tuskegee? . . . . . Is she living? . . . . . 6. Your present occupation? If in educational work, give your position in the school . . . . .
Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. 211 7. How long have you followed it? . . . . . Page 289 8. What are your average wages or earnings per day, week, or month? . . . . . 9. What other occupation have you? . . . . . 10. Average wages per day, week, or month at this occupation? . . . . . 11. Kind and amount of property owned? . . . . . 12. Tell us something of the work you are doing this year. (We will also be pleased to receive testimonials from white and colored persons concerning your work) . . . . . 13. We especially wish to get in touch this year with as many of our former students as possible. Please give present addresses and occupations of all of these that you can . . . . . BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. As previously mentioned the relationship between Mr. Washington and his Trustees was at all times particularly friendly and harmonious. While they were always directors who directed instead of mere figureheads, they nevertheless were broad enough and wise enough to give the Principal a very free reign. PreËminent among the able and devoted Trustees of Tuskegee was the late William H. Baldwin, Jr. In order to commemorate his life and work the William H. Baldwin, Jr., Memorial Fund of $150,000 was raised by a committee of distinguished men, with Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post as chairman, among whom were Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, and Charles W. Eliot, and placed at the disposal of the Tuskegee Trustees. A bronze memorial tablet in memory of Mr. Baldwin was at the same time placed on the Institute grounds. At the ceremony at which this tablet was unveiled and this fund presented to the Trustees, Mr. Washington said in part, in speaking of Page 290 his relations with Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Baldwin's relations to Tuskegee: "Only those who are close to the business structure of the institution could really understand what the coming into our work of a man like William H. Baldwin meant to all of us. In the first place, it meant the bringing into our work a certain 24.03.2006
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