WELLINGTON COLLEGE OLD BOYS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 11

WELLINGTON COLLEGE OLD BOYS

ANNUAL REPORT, • Tlie annual report of the Wellington College • Old Boys' Association §tates that during the .year only twenty-live now members were enrolled, but already for the -year 1917 thai number has boon' exceeded. ' Tho finances of tho association aro in a satisfactory condition. Thp War Memorial Fund, account shows at tho present' time a balance of £227 Is. Id., of which £200 has been placed on .fixed deposit. There has also been £821 Is. promised towards this fund. Although' the swimming club was unable to resume operations, the cricket and football clubs again took part in . the iom-. petitions, with .very creditable, results.. With'tho exception of tho Old Boys' War Memorial. Service 'no functions were held by the association during the year.. "Old .Boys' Day" of tho year 1916 .was -made a. "Memorial Day" in the be.st and-truest sense of the. word. 'Old .Boys and their: friends met on the - collego grounds on the afternoon of' Saturday, -Decomber 2,' and took part in a most-'impressive memorial servico to. tlioso Old Boys who have fallen in'tho war.-Last vear a special appeal was made to Old-Boys to subscribe to an- "Old Boys' War Memorial 'Fund," tho, idea being to obtain photos of all Old Boys who had enlisted, to ■ ompanol them '.in a' convenient • room in the old \school,. andto erect a suitable tablet witli the names of our fallen comr.-ules inscribed thereon. Since then ' various suggestions ■ of how to commemorate tho" deeds of Old Boys in the War were discussed, and, your - committee camo' to tho. conclusion that the best form for a memorial would bo a groat Assembly Hall at the college, wherein the boys would meet, every day and have before them tho records- of iho sacrifice and heroism 'of their predecessors. With this end in view subscriptions were incited, tho intention beiig to lav the' foundation: stoiio sonni -time during tho vear 1917 to' celebrate tho school jubilee vear, - and -eventually to complete the-hall as a lasting memorial to the gallant deeds.of Old Boys. The sum asked for is £5000. Tlie" committee regrets that .the appeal has so far not been responded 'to a,s they hoped; a further appeal will therefore bo made.