The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1923

Graduates and Past Students' Association

Graduates and Past Students' Association

The Graduates' Association has now become the Graduates' and Past Students' Association, the membership having been enlarged to admit non-graduate past students. It is hoped that the Association will thus gain largely both in numbers and enthusiasm. Any ex-student of a year's standing, who has an interest, past, present or future, in V.U.C. is now eligible for membership. The Association has not half the membership it should have, and it cannot be an influential body until more ex-students join and show an interest in it. The bond between members is loyalty to V.U.C.; gladness to have been there; pride in her traditions, and great hope for her future.

The subscription (Annual 5/-, Life 21/-) is payable to S. A. Wiren, c/o Messrs. Wylie and Wiren, Box 104, Wellington. The Association is taking a very live interest in college matters, and is keeping in touch with its members by holding a number of informal gatherings during the year. Full information as to these can be obtained from any member of the Executive, whose names will be found printed elsewhere.

There has never been any complete record kept of students who attended the College, other, of course, than the Fee Books and Register of matriculated students. The Graduates' Association has on several occasions considered the Want, and is now arranging for a card-index to be prepared. This will show each student's name, his years at College, his degrees and examinations, his address, and, so far as possible, a record of his connection with the various College Clubs. The work involved is very great, but the task will not grow lighter by being left for a few years and should be undertaken at once. Past and present students can help a great deal by forwarding information about themselves and others, and particularly by giving the present addresses of any who should be on the roll. This information can be sent to the Registrar, to Mr. G. F. Dixon, Secretary to the Minister of Defence, or to Mr. S. A. Wiren, Box 104, Wellington.

By the way, Ours is not the only College that has been similarly neglected. We read just recently of the difficulties Harvard is having in compiling a roll of its earliest students somewhere in the seventeenth century. We wonder what Oxford is doing in the matter?