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AMENDMENTS ADOPTED

   Amendments to the constitution of the Alumni Association, University of Nebraska, providing for the election of officers and members of the Executive Committee by mail ballot and accepted at the General Alumni Meeting, May 30, follow:
ARTICLE V

OFFICERS

   Section I. To be amended to read as follows: "The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Board of Directors. Election of officers shall be as provided in Section VI."

   Section II. To be amended to read as follows: "The President and Vice-President shall be elected for a term of one year. They shall take office at the beginning of the fiscal year of the association following their election and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified."

   Section III. To be amended to read as follows: "The Board of Directors shall consist of twelve members, two from each congressional district in the state, and each shall be elected for a period of two years. Six members of the Board of Directors shall be elected each year. The Board of Directors shall act as an advisory body to the Executive Committee."

   Section V. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer and three members of the association elected by the association, one or more of whom shall be alumnae. The term of the three members so elected shall be three years, one new member to be elected each year. The officers shall serve upon the Executive Committee for the term of their service as officers.

   Section VI. All officers and members of the Executive Committee of the Association except the Secretary-Treasurer shall be elected by mail ballot in accordance with the following plan:

   Annually at the meeting of the Alumni Council the President shall designate a Nominating Committee composed of five members of the Council. This committee shall select two candidates for each office to be filled at the next general election.

   On or before the first of February following their appointment, the members of this committee shall submit to the Executive Committee the names of their nominees.

   Nominations may also be made by petitions where such petitions carry the names of twenty- five members in good standing of the Association. Petitions must be filed with the Executive Committee not later than one month preceding the date of the next ensuing annual meeting.

   In all cases the nominees selected must have signified a willingness to serve in the respective capacities for which they are being nominated.

   The report of the Nominating Committee and any nominations by petition shall be announced in the first succeeding issue of the Alumnus following February first, and not later than one month preceding the date of the annual meeting a ballot shall be prepared by the Secretary and mailed to each alumnus in good standing.

   Balloting shall cease at noon on the day preceding the annual general meeting and the result of the mail vote tabulated by the Executive Committee and announced at the general meeting.

   The nominees for the offices of President, Vice-President, and member of the Executive Committee receiving the highest number of votes shall in each case be declared duly elected to their respective offices. The candidates in each Congressional District receiving the highest number of votes for membership on the Board of Directors shall be declared elected a member of that Board.


   Rose Bogdanoff, an experienced stage director, has been engaged by the dramatic department of the University to give a practical four weeks' course in stage craft. She will also give a series of lectures Saturday afternoons which will be open to the public. Her first lecture will be "The History of Theater Architecture." Miss Bogdanoff has been art director of the Greek theater, Berkeley, Cal. She comes to Lincoln from Chicago where she has been studying stage craft. In California she has assisted Garnet Holmes in out-of-door pageants.


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A Peep Into the
    Daily Lives of
    Nebraska Alumni

How old they are
How much they make
What cars they drive
What games they play
What jobs they hold

ALUMNI TELL ABOUT THEMSELVES ON QUESTIONAIRES
   To secure data of value to its advertising representatives, THE NEBRASKA ALUMNUS recently sent out 492 questionnaire cards to that number of alumni picked at random from the magazine's mailing list. To date, 261, (53 per cent) of the information blanks have been returned and from them the ALUMNUS has compiled a statistical analysis.

   In sending out the questionnaires no effort was made to select the alumni to whom the cards were sent and alumni were asked not to sign their names. The mailing list was run through from beginning to end, one person in twelve being sent a questionnaire, without regard to location, age, sex, occupation or date of graduation. The cards were received by some of the earliest and some of the latest graduates and by alumni in every state of the Union.

   This analysis may not reveal an exact situation throughout the entire alumni body but it is at any rate as near a cross section as it is possible to obtain. It is probable that in certain respects another list of five hundred alumni would have yielded somewhat different results, but the information received from the 261 who filled out the cards is interesting and because of the wide distribution in the mailing it is believed that the information is for the most part accurate and valuable.

Business or Occupation
TEACHERS:

Public school

39

College

15

Superintendents and principals

6

Physical directors

3

Deputy state superintendent

1

County Superintendent

1


ENGINEERS:

Civil

8

Chemical

1

Structural

1

Mechanical

3

Radio

1

Electrical

6

Methods

1

Architect

1

Contractor

2

Telephone

1

Construction

1

Valuation

1

Not indicated

5

     AGRICULTURE:

Farmers

9

Farmer's wife

1

Rancher

1

Dairying

2

Planter

1

Walnut grower

1

     MISCELLANEOUS:

Lawyers

17

District Court Clerk

1

Investments and loans

4

State manager life insurance

1

Title insurance

1

Exporter and importer

1

Assistant national bank examiner

1

Importer

1

Banking

8

Life insurance

4

Physician

18

Surgeon

1

Medical student

1

State mental examiner (Psychologist)

1

School nurse

1

Social worker

2

Filling station partner

1

Y. M. C. A. secretary

1

Ice cream manufacturer

1

Automobile dealers

8

Sugar

1

School supplies

1

Army officers

2

Agricultural Extension Service

2

Editors

3

Railroad

1

Manufacturing manager

3

Newspaper reporter

1

Tobacco salesman

1

Scientist

1

Students

3

Retailers

2

Director government experimental work

1

Wholesale grocer

1

Attorney and oil operator

1

State chemist

1

Druggists

3

Lumbermen

2

Building supplies

1

Bookkeeping and accounting

1

Building

1

Office secretary

1

State manager college endowment board

1

Assistant branch surety manager

1

Certified public accountants

3

Geologists

3

Realtors

3

Groceries and bottling works

1

Sales manager

1

Logger

1

Clergyman's wife

1

Housewives (wives and mothers)

10


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Dentists

4

Salesman

1

Film distributor

1

Manufacturers

3

Wholesale hardware

1

Office supplies

1

Stenographer

1

Clerks

2

U. S. Forest Service

2

Dietician

I

Wholesale lumberman

1

Chemist

I

Not indicated

I

     Total occupations

266

     Alumni indicating two occupations

5

GRAND TOTAL

261

Ages 

20-25

47

26-30

43

31-35

49

36-40

43

41-45

25

46-50

22

51-55

14

56-60

2

Over 60

2

Age not given

4

Youngest alumnus reporting

20

Oldest alumnus reporting

62

Average age of 257 alumni reporting

35.51

Married and Unmarried 

Total alumni married

147

Total alumni unmarried

112

Information not given

1

Widower

1

Widow

I

Per cent of alumni reporting married

56.32

Number of Children

Number of married alumni having no

   children

29

Number of married alumni having

   children

108

Number of children reported

233

Largest number of children to one

   alumnus

9

Average number of children per mar-

   ried alumnus

1.52

Average number of children per parent

   alumnus

2.06

Average number of children per

   alumnus

.85

Approximate Total Income 

Number of alumni reporting in-

   comes

238

Total income of 238 alumni

$1,195,120.00

Average income of 238 alumni

5,021.51

Alumni reporting incomes from

   investments

128

Total income from investments

140,323

Average annual income from in-

   vestments

1,096.27

Average annual income from in

   vestments for all 261 alumni

537.59

Highest income

50,000.00

   (Two men receive that amount)

Own or Rent Home 

Total alumni owning home

115

Total alumni renting home

78

Live with relatives

6

Information not given

62

Percentage of alumni owning homes

.59

Makes of Automobiles Owned 

Ford

49

Buick

31

Dodge

24

Hudson

6

Oldsmobile

5

Hupmobile

6

Chevrolet

5

Nash

5

Packard

5

Studebaker

5

Oakland

4

Essex

4

Overland

3

Reo

2

Willy-Knight

2

Lincoln

2

Velie

2

Miscellaneous

14

No car reported

99

Total cars owned

174

Number owning two cars

12

Alumni car owners

162

Percentage of car owners

62

Life Insurance Carried 

Number of alumni carrying life

    insurance

215

Percentage of alumni carrying

    life insurance

83

Total life insurance carried by

    215 alumni

$2,975.858.00

Average amount carried

13,841.16

Highest amount carried by single

    alumnus (by the president of

    a building supplies company)

200,000.00

One alumnus carries

125,000.00

Four carry

100,000.00

Average insurance for all 261

    alumnus

11,445.60

Other Insurance Carried

Number of alumni carrying other

    insurance

134

Percentage of alumni carrying other

    insurance

51

Number carrying other insurance

    but riot stating amount

17

Total carried by 117 alumni

$1,070,310

Average amount of the 117 alumni.

9,148

Purchases Controlled

Annual amount of personal pur-

    chases controlled by 124 alum-

    ni reporting

$ 323,300.00

Average controlled by each

2,628.45

Annual business purchases con-

    trolled by 96 alumni reporting

18,948,970.00

Average controlled by each

197,385.10

Highest amount of business pur-

    chases controlled by one alum-

   nus

3,000,000.00

(A construction engineer and a manufac-

turer each reported business purchases of


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$3,000,000 controlled. Two alumni reported

themselves as controlling $2,500,000, and one

reported $2,000,000.)

Employees Supervised 

Number of alumni supervising em-

   ployees

128

Total number of employees supervised by

    128 alumni

4,397

Average for each alumnus

34

Games Played 

Golf

96

Tennis

81

Baseball

23

Cards (Poker, 3; Bridge, 18)

40

Bowling

5

Chess

8

Basketball

14

Handball

8

Volley ball

3

Football

3

Miscellaneous

28

Play no game

25

No game listed

44

Hobbies 

Reading

13

Fishing

15

Handwork

4

Gardening

13

Swimming

6

Raising chickens

6

Music

13

Flowers

5

Hunting

9

Photography

6

Radio

8

Hiking

6

Golf

9

Miscellaneous

101

Sports

4

None

104

General Magazines Read 

Literary Digest

109

American

86

Saturday Evening Post

81

Collier's

16

Good Housekeeping

13

Ladies' Home Journal

11

Review of Reviews

18

National Geographic

38

Woman's Home Companion

10

Harper's

9

Nation's Business

8

Atlantic Monthly

18

World's Work

21

Liberty

7

Golden Book

6

American Legion Weekly

4

Survey

4

Current Opinion

5

Century

5

Mentor

5

Cosmopolitan

11

Time

4

Pathfinder

4

Mercury

6

Outlook

9

Scribner's

4

Professional Magazines

39

Miscellaneous

121

None indicated

32

   Two hundred fifty-eight alumni read THE ALUMNUS regularly, 190 of them at home, 51 of them at their offices, 17 at both places. Three reported that they did not read the magazine regularly.

   These 258 alumni reported that 673 persons read their copies. The largest number to read any single copy was fifty reported by a physician. A surgeon reported fifteen readers, another physician reported ten, a teacher reported ten or twelve, while a third physician reported that the magazine is "always on visiting room table." The average number of readers per issue of THE ALUMNUS is computed as 2.6 persons.

Part Most Interesting

   One hundred forty-seven alumni reported "News of the Classes" as their favorite section of THE ALUMNUS. Thirty-eight said "all" of the magazine was "most interesting." Thirty-two prefer athletics, eighteen "Who's Who," forty-one general University news, ten the "Chancellor's Corner," seven "Marriages, Births, Deaths," five the editorials, two each advertising, past history, and faculty, while one each prefer alumni clubs, scholarship, and fraternities.

Membership in Organizations 

Chambers of Commerce

29

American Legion

24

A. O. U. W.

10

Professional organizations

44

University clubs

21

Eastern Star

20

Masons.

76

Picture
Nebraska's Memorial Stadium from the air. Chemistry Hall, Bessey Hall, and the tennis courts are seen
at the right of the picture. Old Math and Nebraska Halls are in the lower right hand corner.

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Country clubs

19

Elks

21

Rotary

16

I. O. O. F.

9

Golf clubs

11

Local alumni clubs

10

Athletic clubs

7

Shriners

8

Scottish Rite

5

Dramatic and art clubs

5

National Educational Association

5

D. A. R.

5

Kiwanis

6

Lions

6

Miscellaneous clubs listed

121


Average Income and Insurance by Ages

Life

Other

Income

Insurance

Insurance

Over 60

$13,500

$10,000

$35,000

56-60

3,750

8,750

9,000

51-55

10,158

14,464

8,035

46-50

8,707

18,765

6,875

41-45

5,873

18,140

5,040

36-40

5,626

17,034

4,949

31-35

4,519

7,373

3,861

26-30

2,845

7,816

1,858

20-25

1,757

3,819

1,243

   Two alumni reported incomes of $50,000 per year - one a lawyer, the other a logger (president of a lumber company). Both men carry $100,000 worth of life insurance. One is 49 years old, the other 52. Both are married. One has two children and the other three. Both own their homes. One owns a Hupmobile, the other a Lafayette and a Chandler. Both control $20,000 worth of personal purchases per year. One controls $1,000,000 of business purchases, the other $10,000. Both enjoy bridge, while one likes to dance and the other enjoys golf. Both read THE ALUMNUS regularly at their offices.

   The two oldest alumni are both physicians, one with an income of $12,000 per year and the other of $15,000. One is married and has three children. One owns his home; the other rents. One drives a Buick, the other a Franklin. One carries $20,000 of life insurance; the other none. One carries $20,000 of "other" insurance; the other $50,000. One's hobby is fishing and hunting and the other's is auto touring. Both read THE ALUMNUS regularly at their offices.

   The youngest alumnus to send in a card is twenty years old, has an income of $2,000, is a newspaper reporter, is unmarried, owns no automobile, carries no insurance, plays cards (bridge) and tennis, and reads THE ALUMNUS regularly at his home.

   Among the alumni in the 20 to 25 year old class, eight own Fords, four own Dodges, and one each a Durant and an Oakland. In the 26-30 class there are also eight Ford owners, while four Buicks and four Dodges are owned by these alumni, one alumnus owning one of each make of car. In addition there is a Packard, an Overland, a Chevrolet, an Oldsmobile, and a Hupmobile. In the 31-35 class can be found nine Ford owners, two of whom - a physician and an auto dealer - placed "Fords," indicating they possess more than one flivver. The Dodge finds favor with six of these alumni, the Hupmobile and the Chevrolet with three each, the Buick with two, while a third alumnus writes "Studebaker, Buick, and others," and the Hudson, Oldsmobile, Dort, Overland, Nash, Lincoln, and Essex are each owned by one alumnus in this group. In the 36-40 group are eleven Ford owners, ten Buick owners, two Hudson owners, four Dodge owners, two Essex owners, and one owner of each of Oakland, Packard, Jewett, Studebaker, Maxwell, Chevrolet, Willys-Knight, Lincoln, and Velie. Five alumni in this group own two cars each, one a Hudson and an Essex, one a Velie and a Ford, one a Buick and a Hudson, one a Buick and an Essex, and one two Buicks. In the 41 to 45 group are six Ford owners, three Dodge owners, five Buick owners, two Studebaker owners, and one owner of each of a Packard, Oakland, Auburn, Apperson and Willys-Knight. Two alumni in this group own two cars, one an Apperson and a Ford, and the other two Buicks. In the 45-50 group are five Ford owners, five Buick owners, three Nash owners, two Dodge and two Oldsmobile owners, while one each owns a Standard, Hudson, Hupmobile, Oakland, Essex, Packard, Reo, Paige, Peerless, and Stephens. One alumnus owns two cars - a Standard and an Oldsmobile. In the 51-55 group are three Ford owners, two Hudson owners, and one owner of each of Packard, Dodge, Hupmobile, Buick, Reo, Studebaker, Lafayette, Chandler, Nash, Oldsmobile, and Velle. Four alumni own two cars each, one a Lafayette and a Chandler, one a Ford and Reo, one a Studebaker and Ford, and one a Packard and Hudson.

   Probably the most successful of the younger alumni, from a monetary standpoint, at least, is a geologist, 31 years old, who has an annual income of $20,000. He is unmarried, owns a Buick, carries $11,000 of life insurance and $10,000 of "other" insurance, plays golf and tennis, and reads THE ALUMNUS regularly at his home.



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