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...ALFRED ROELKER...
Because the early records of the Harvard Alumni Association are "as bare as the proverbial widow's cupboard," it took William G. Roelker '09 to prepart the history of the Association's first stormy years which will be published in the May 24 issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...Gentlemen, Who Shall Oversee the Overseers?" Roelker describes how the Association was founded and how it wrested control of the Board of Overseers from the Massachusetts legislature...
...Roelker first became interested in the early difficulties of the Association when he ran across a letter from Edward Everett written to the president of Brown University shortly after the founding of the Association in 1840, complaining of the lack of constructive alumni support...
Although the Alumni Association was founded in 1940, it was not until 1865 when the University was divorced from political control and the Alumni were given the right to elect the Board of Overseers that the Association became an active force, Roelker says...