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1 2Hyde, secretary of agriculture . Ribbonedby Alpha Tau Omega.Willis Dickinson of Dickinson, NorthDakota, in the college of engineering .The five-thousandth person to enroll thefirst semester, and the first student in thehistory of the university to make the varsity'senrollment 5,000 .Mrs . Anna Laskey of Oklahoma City,in the school of law . Mrs . Laskey representedOklahoma county in the state legislaturelast year.VOX COLLEGIUMShe was a freshman and a rushee andshe was rushing about hither and yon ina raincoat in the women's big fraternityhouse and an old member after about anhour decided to enlighten herself aboutthe matter and so asked :"Dearie why are you wearing that raincoatinside the house?""Why, honey, it's raining outside, isn'tit?"GIFTS TO EDUCATIONVERMONT-By the terms of the will ofMrs . Miriam B . Blake of New York andManchester, a trust fund of $60,000 will beavailable for the University of Vermonton the death of Mrs . Blake's half-sister .The income of the trust fund shall beused thereafter for the maintenance of aprofessionally trained organist at the IraAllen chapel .A total of $3,000,000 is made availableeventually to the University of Vermontthrough the will of the late James B.Wilbur, a trustee of the university . TheUniversity of Vermont has an enrollmentof 1,300 .OKLAHOMA-TO Cameron Agriculturalcollege Oklahoma's civic-minded millionaireLew Wentz, chairman of the statehighway commission, gave $5,000 for astudent loan fund .OKLAHOMA--Four thousand dollars bythe Carnegie corporation and $2,000 froman anonymous donor, were given to theUniversity of Oklahoma in September forart teaching material, President Bizzellannounced . The gift makes available invaluableteaching materials .ASSOCIATION PROGRESSALUMNI COUNCIL AT TORONTOA new type of alumnus was pictured atthe international conference of the AmericanCouncil held at Toronto, Canada,June 25 to 29, an alumnus who is movedless by emotion than by a feeling of concretegood he may receive from his AlmaMater .This new alumnus was discussed amongother problems confronting alumni secretaries. Frank S . Cleckler, '21 bus ., secretaryof the University of Oklahoma Association,represented Oklahoma . It was thefirst Council meeting in several years atwhich Oklahoma was represented .Wilfred B. Shaw of the University ofMichigan association, described the alumniuniversity, as he had observed it intraveling from school to school in thiscountry for the Carnegie foundation-avisit that included Oklahoma . The rah-rahappeal that once sent the old alumnus'blood tingling is more or less absent inNOT RED GRANGEFrigidaire and Kelvinator found solidcompetition last summer in the genialsmile of Tom Churchill, celebrated Soonerathlete, Olympian, basketball captain,footballer, tracker. Iceman Churchill icedin Ponca CityTHE SOONER MAGAZINEour day, hence large universities are enlargingtheir service to interest these alumniin continuing their education after college. Lafayette has an alumni universityweek at commencement time, when alumniattend classes . Several colleges supplygraduates with reading lists recommendedby members of their faculties . Mr . Shawhas not completed his survey, but whenhe has completed it, he will report whatprogress he has observed in the countryand make recommendations as to a feasiblealumni university .The fact that alumni no longer feel theold emotional response to their old varsitieswas regarded by the secretaries attendingthe meeting as symptomatic ofthe times, similar to the falling away fromlodges, churches and institutions generally .Alumni associations must have more tooffer to retain the wavering interest ofmembers .Secretaries representing state universitiesheld a separate session, presided over byFred Ellsworth of Kansas . Their problemdiffers from that of secretaries of endowedinstitutions, in that the latter usually are apart of the faculty, while the former mustobtain funds through memberships .The council will meet next year atNorthampton, Massachusetts, the guestjointly of Amherst and Smith colleges .Secretary Cleckler made many contactswith secretaries representing practicallyevery American alumni organization . Hehad attended earlier in the year a districtmeeting of Missouri Valley secretaries heldin Kansas City .`MY CARD'John Rogers, '14 law, of Tulsa . Herefor freshmen week . Encouraged by improvedfinancial status ofUnion .OklahomaElmer D. Fagan, '20 arts-sc ., Los Angeles,California . Now associate professorof economics at the University of SouthernCalifornia .Maurice Merrill, '19 arts-sc ., '22 law, ofLincoln, Nebraska . Now associate professorof law at University of Nebraska .SAILEDSavoie Lottinville, '29 journ ., Rhodesscholar for Oklahoma, on the Aquitania,for three years of residence at the Universityof Oxford . Scholar Lottinville (edi .for of The Oklahorna Daily last year) willread the honors school of history, econom-ics and politics.ARRIVEDEugene Springer, '27 sc ., Rhodes scholarfor Oklahoma, on the Aquitania after twoyears residence at Merton college, Universityof Oxford . Read mathematics . MathematicianSpringer rowed on the Mertoneight . Reason for return before expirationof scholarship : to read for a doctor ofphilosophy degree at the University ofChicago, where he now is .