SUNIAY, OCTOBER D,12 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
The ii. of 11. Club have dinner, report progress, discuss publication in The Gothamite, includ- men at home and abroad, printing their
T methods and spill hot air. ing particularly the names, officers, whereabouts whenever we could get
of N ew York City President Riegelman appointed a and addresses of organizations through the information. We made a feature
(Continued From Page One) committee consisting of Allen Broom- which patriotic service could be given. of printing short sketches of our men's.
in onthed Nioa ne w hal, chairman, R. L. Bigelow, and the Through the Gothamite we endeav- service records-long sketches if we
sg only the National dinner whic is writer, to compile war information for ored to keep in touch with our Service (Continued on Page Seven)
sui generis, and doesn't count. How-
ever, we listened to Chancellor Elmer
Brown, Regent Junius E. Beale, Dean
Cooley, Dean Effinger, Dr. Copeland,
and our old and valued club member,
"Fighting Colonel" J. H. Elliott, '62.
They told us of things of Michigan, and
some other things, but somehow they
always drifted back to Michigan.
Meeting at many different places
for many years, is it any wonder that
the idea of a permanent club house
or club rooms should crop up peri-
odically? And with the club rocking
along comfortably on dues of three
dollars a year and having a bully time,
is it any wonder that the idea was
just as periodically allowed to fade REG US.PAT. OFF. D. .S.Co
away? Many were satisfied with the
club as it, was. For many others the S H O E S
idea of, a permanent home for the
club had a strong appeal, and in the
presidency of Charles A. Riegelman
during 1916-17 the IDEA made its
strongest fight for life.
In response to a strong demand for
a show-down, President Riegelman or-
ganized a committee to investigate the
whole matter and report to the Board.
Brown University Club in New York
was selected as an example of the
least that would be worth while and
the most that could be expected at
the time. This club had a ground
floor apartment in an apartment house
in the forties. The house ran through
the block having front entrances on V
two streets and had a good restauarnt
attached. The apartment correspond-
ing to that of the Brown Club but on
the other street was available. The
cellent shape, showing just what could
cmitedrew up its, plan In ex- selosae hwngjs htcudbAsons fPorot1j ijodjtiiu4
be done by raising the modest dues
of three dollars per year to something
over twice that amount and furnish-
ing the apartment by subscription. 7 m fnf
The -plan was submitted to the 1 s ji i y s o s o
Board, and the Board submitted it to
a referendum of the club members by
mail. Approximately half the memb- -
ers returned answers and of these
nearly all were strongly in favor of , w a
going ahead. The Board, thereupon
authorized the .committee to arrange
details and carry out the plan, but we
never got our club rooms. The IDEA them is toIno o the preemin
received a life at first when the Board
approvedit, stole second on the refer- n
endum, was bunted to third when the
committee was told to go ahead-but
THE WAR crouched at the plate and
no more safe hits were made in the
inning. So the IDEA was held on
third. It was not dead, but sleepeth.
The 1915-16 Union Drive for the
million dollar all-department club
house will long be remembered by its ---
participants in the New York district.
Those were strenuous days indeed,
but through it all we had a good time
and were glad we came.
Of course the Union Drive was an
alumni proposition and not a club af-
fair, but the club organizations furnish-
ed a good list of names and addresses
to begin on. When we went out into
the highways and byways we found
more Michigan men outside the club
than in-It.
While the drive was on, the commit-
tee-men, team captains, and some of
the workers met every Friday night at
Keen's. A large private room was as-
igned to us, and there we met to --