Word: reunioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanics of the drives was improved. Each year the donations from various members of the classes would be placed in a bank to accumulate interest towards the final campaign goal. At the end of the twenty-five year period, the total accumulation would represent the classes' reunion donation...
...Class of 1930 gave a check for $285,000 to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It is a sizable amount, representing 25 years of fund-raising efforts in that particular class. And yet it is not an unusually large sum; indeed, in the immediate future, each 25th Reunion class will probably give the College no less an amount, and very likely a little more...
...natural that the 25th reunion found should become the backbone of the annual alumni drive, since by 1925 each twenty-five-year class was giving $150,000 to the College. The custom of giving such a large lump sum began officially in 1906 when the Class of 1881 totalled $117,000. An unofficial move in that direction was made two years earlier, however, when the Class of 1879 raised almost $100,000 for the construction of a new football stadium. The following year, the Class of 1880 achieved about the same amount and designated it for specific purposes...
Over the past thirty years, the reunion gift has gradually grown, although it did experience a drop back to the $100,000 level during the depression years. In the last two years, the classes of 1929 and 1930 have given approximately $300,000 each, even though they were originally the "depression classes" which first claimed they were too poor to contribute much to their reunion fund. Present figures indicate that the Class of 1931 is well on its way to reaching the $300,000 goal for next year...
...what was designated for 25th-year gifts, went towards the proposed library. Even special donations from 25-year campaigns were accepted. For $10,000 a graduate could dedicate, with a bronze plaque, one of the book-collection alcoves to the memory of a relative. The College also took the reunion gifts from the Classes of 1921, 1922, and 1923 using them to exceed the original $1,500,000 goal by several hundred thousand dollars...