PRESIDENT, WILLIAM F. COLBERT
Vice President. HOWARD LEWIS RUSSELL
Recording secretary, miss estelle king
Corresponding Secty.. MISS ESTELLE KLUG
Asst corresp d g Secty.. miss SARAH williams
treasurer, miss Minnie henkle
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
- OF THE -
MARYLAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Baltimore. Md.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MISS E. V. RICKER
WILLIAM S. LOVE, M. D.
MISS THEORA BUNNELL
MISS IRENE M. CARTER
TO THE ALUMNI OF THE MARYLAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL;
A movement h as been inaugurated to secure legislation for the
erection of a new Normal School Building with dormitory facilities.
As a graduate of the School you must possess a lively interest in
this movement. Therefore, it becomes every alumnus and alumna to
further this movement by hearty action in attaining the results
wished for.
The legislature will be more likely to do something for the
school if the members thereof are made to know that there exists
throughout the state a strong desire for better facilities and ac¬
commodations for training the teachers. You are therefore urged to
write at once a letter to each of the following gentlemen;
Hon. Austin L. Crothers, Governor, Annapolis, Md.,
Hon. A. P. Gorman, President of Senate,
Hon. J, D. Price, Chairman Senate Finance Committee,
Hon. J. Charles Linthicum, Hon. John S. Biddison,
Hon. Peter J. Campbell, Hon. Johnzie Beasman,
Hon. Blair Lee, Hon. Richard S. Dodson, Hon. Edward E. Go3lin and
Hon. L. N. Griffith, members of Senate Finance Committee.
Address the above members to the Senate, Annapolis, Md.
Write also to the following members of the House of Delegates,
Hon. Adam Peeples, Speaker, Hon. Carville D. Benson, Hon, W. F. King
and Hon, J, Lee Marriott, members of the Ways and Means Committee of
the House, Address the last named gentlemen, House of Delegates,
Annapolis, Md. Do not defer writing to several or all of these.
There is but little time left in which bills may be introduced
into the General Assembly,
Make your letter strong, calling attention to these points;
First, The present building being situated on the corner of two busy
streets, i3 subjected to many disturbing noises and much dust.
Second, The building is not fire-proof. Third, It is not ventilated.
Fourth, Several of its class rooms are insufficiently lighted.
Fifth, There are not enough classrooms. Sixth, The corridors are
narrow and badly lighted.
To improve the present building would require the purchase cf
the adjoining property and such additions and repairs as would
nearly equal the cost of a new building, and even then it would not
be a building comparable to similar buildings of other states.
Especially emphasize the need of dormitories where students
can bo comfortably housed with good sized and well ventilated sleep¬
ing rooms, where nutritous feod can be obtained, where there are ac¬
commodations for study outside of sleeping rooms and where the stu¬
dents may be under the supervision at all times of the faculty of the
school. Show the need also of a large
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to any school building
which students > attend from all parts of the state. Situated as the
Normal Sehool^now, in a crowded section of the city, no out-of-door
exercise can be taken by the student, excepting in the streets of
that city. This should not be because the students have come from
sections of the state where open air exercise has been at their very
door.
We hope every former student of the school will enter into
this campaign for a new normal school building with heart and soul
and will bring all influence to bear upon every member of the General
Assembly that can be reached either by self or friends.
Fraternally yours,
William S.Love,M.D.
В.
K. Purdum
Wm., J. Holloway
R. M. Browning
Committee
