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ANNIVERSARY 
 
 THE HAMPTON NORMAL AND 
 
 AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE 
 
 HAMPTON, VIRGINIA 
 
 PROGRAM 
 
 WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 
 
 — Arrive at Old Point 
 
 THURSDAY, MAY 11 
 
 — Inspection of Trade School and Agn- 
 cultural Buildings. Battalion drill. 
 Luncheon at the Mansion House. 
 Laying cornerstone of the Robert. 
 C. Ogden Auditorium. Trustees' 
 evening 
 
 FRIDAY, MAY 12 
 
 — Meeting of the National Hampton 
 Association in Museum at 10:30 a. m. 
 Battalion drill. Luncheon at the 
 home of Mrs. Purves. Anniversary 
 exercises in the Gymnasium 
 
 SATURDAY, MAY 13 
 
 — Guests leave Old Point 
 
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THE NATIONAL HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 
 
 IH^a^S a revelation of the spirit of Hampton's friends and their work through 
 ^^^^ organized effort, the brief notes of the growth and accomplishment of 
 ^^^^ the Hampton clubs and associations will be of immediate interest to all 
 ^^Qg members of the National Hampton Association. 
 
 The brief accompanying reports were dispatched at short notice by re- 
 quest of the Executive Secretary, and although not intended for publication they 
 prove so clearly the value of associated effort in Hampton's behalf, and throw 
 such helpful light upon the problems and methods of organization, that we print 
 them in the present form strictly for use among Association members. 
 
 In no case was it the object of the Associations to give a full report for the 
 present pamphlet. Following the National Hampton Association meeting at 
 Hampton during Anniversary week it is hoped to publish a full report of the 
 meeting with suggestions for future organization, reports from each Association, 
 and a brief history of each society. 
 
 The Hampton Associations, as requested, have sent now only the briefest 
 account of their beginnings, their growth, and their work. 
 
 In these modest statements of work done for Hampton by her Associations 
 the half has not been told. Yet in them there are inspiration and suggestion for 
 all those who read of the devotion of those who have labored that Hampton shall 
 not go down. 
 
 THE BOSTON HAMPTON COMMITTEE 
 
 MRS. DUDLEY L. PICKMAN, President 
 
 MRS. JAMES MEANS, Secretary 
 
 MISS ALICE P. TAPLEY, Treasurer 
 
 MRS. WM. B. EVERETT, Assistant Treasurer 
 
 THE following clipping from the Boston Herald of April 18, 1893, immedi- 
 ately after General Armstrong, Hampton's founder, was stricken with para- 
 lysis, gives some idea of the manner in which Boston friends rallied to the support 
 of the school :— 
 
 " The meeting at the Old South Meeting House yesterday afternoon was a 
 success from every point of view. Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided. The 
 chairman read a letter from Governor Russell in which he expressed his appreci- 
 ation of the work of the Institute and his sympathy with the meeting. 
 
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"Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott was introduced and said it was a peculiar 
 satisfaction to him to give his own testimony regarding the work which the 
 school was doing. Mr. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, a graduate of 
 Hampton, now teaching at Tuskegee, told what Hampton and similar schools 
 had done for the Negro in the South and contrasted the Negro uneducated with 
 the Negro educated. Rev. H. B. Frissell, General Armstrong's right-hand man 
 in the work of the Institute, was next introduced. 
 
 "The old friends who first ralHed to General Armstrong's help are dying off 
 and others must be found to take their places. Dr. Hale, before dismissing the 
 audience, announced that to the committee for raising money for the present needs 
 of the Institute, consisting of Rev. Samuel Eliot, Henry Woods, R, H, Stearnes, 
 Elbridge Torrey, Edward G. Porter, Edwin B. Mead, Frank Wood, Joshua W. 
 Davis, Mary Hemenway, Mary B. Claflin, Ellen F. Mason, Alice Freeman Palmer, 
 the following names had been added : Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., Prof. 
 F. G. Peabody, Rev. Philip Moxom, Rev. George A. Gordon, D. D., Mr. S. B. 
 Capen, Mrs. James T. Fields, Mrs. S. H. Bullard, Mrs. Charles Fairchild, Mr. 
 A. M. Howe, Mr. George Henry Quincy, Lieut-Gov. Roger Wolcott, Mrs. H. W. 
 Foote." 
 
 Of its subsequent growth the Treasurer writes as follows :— 
 
 The Boston Hampton Committee was formed in 1893 by Mrs. Stephen Bullard, 
 who invited a selected number of ladies to become members. It has always been 
 a very informal organization. In the early days the money was raised by enter- 
 tainments or by personal solicitation. One year we divided the Committee into 
 groups of three members, who tried to raise $70 scholarships, one for each group. 
 After a few years it was decided to try sending out a printed appeal, which has 
 been our method of raising money since then, although this has been supple- 
 mented by entertainments, lectures, and summer meetings. 
 
 We began by raising $16.40 and the sum has increased by degrees. We 
 have sent to Hampton as much as $11,084.40 in one year, but this and another 
 contribution of $11,006.92 were our largest. This year we shall exceed this sum. 
 In two instances, sums towards the endowment fund have helped greatly. 
 
 In the beginning we sent out a small number of appeals, but are now send- 
 ing out 5000. Our method is to enclose a return envelope and a slip, and, in the 
 case of a former contributor, another special slip. This year our meetings have 
 been especially interesting as we have had speakers at almost every one. We 
 have a President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and a large commit- 
 tee. In the beginning each member ( our committee numbered 30 ) paid $2.50 
 so that we might send down a Committee Scholarship, but that has been discon- 
 
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tinued. We meet once a month from November to April, with one omission this 
 year. We find it very interesting to have a paper at our meetings from one of 
 the Committee on any matter connected with Negro and Indian affairs, whether 
 related to the Institute or not. At Christmas time and again in the spring we 
 send boxes to Hampton with clothing, pictures, toys, bric-a-brac, and money. 
 
 The following is a brief statement of the Secretary regarding the work of 
 the past year :— 
 
 During the past year the work of the Boston Committee has gone steadily 
 on. It has held regular meetings, where reports have been made, and there 
 have been most interesting discussions of the different phases of work for the 
 Negro and Indian. The Committee arranged a course of lectures by Mr. Alfred 
 W. Martin, whose thoughtful work is known to many people. These lectures 
 helped to increase the sum sent to Hampton. 
 
 As usual, at Christmas time and in the spring, generous gifts of clothing 
 and other things have been sent to Hampton to be most gratefully received 
 there, and given to many people. A few weeks ago the Committee was glad to 
 bear its part in helping to make a success of the public meeting in Symphony 
 Hall which was under the charge of the Massachusetts Hampton Association, 
 where a large audience listened to stirring addresses and sweet music, and must 
 have gone away with renewed interest in the work of Hampton and the wish 
 to help it. 
 
 FINANCIAL STATEMENT 
 
 Receipts 
 
 Balance Jan. 1, 1915 
 
 Subscriptions and donations . . . . 
 
 From Magnolia and Nahant meet- 
 ings 
 
 From Mr. Martin's lectures . . . 
 
 From meeting at Women's City 
 Club 
 
 For the Christmas box 
 
 Sent for use in 1916 
 
 Interest on deposits 
 
 $2.79 
 9,035.00 
 
 428.00 
 436.50 
 
 14.25 
 35.00 
 30.00 
 10.41 
 
 $9,991.95 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Printing and postage . . . . , 
 
 "Palace of Delight" 
 
 Packing, freight, and collecting 
 
 checks . 
 
 Sent to Hampton 
 
 Balance 
 
 $251.12 
 50.00 
 
 9.71 
 
 9,650.00 
 
 31.12 
 
 $9,991.95 
 
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THE BROOKLYN ARMSTRONG ASSOCIATION 
 
 FRANK L. BABBOTT, President 
 
 MRS. WILLIAM OILMAN LOW, Vice President 
 
 HENRY SHERMAN ADAMS, Secretary 
 
 HENRY B. VAN SINDEREN, Treasurer 
 
 MRS. CHARLES W. IDE 
 
 GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY 
 
 WALTER H. CRITTENDEN 
 
 THE foundation of the Brooklyn Armstrong Association in 1907, for the 
 purpose of stimulating interest in the work of Hampton Institute in 
 particular and the uplift of the Negro and Indian races in general, was 
 due primarily to geographical reasons. Brooklyn, through its absorption by 
 the greater city, became some years before a part of the field covered by the 
 New York Armstrong Association, but the influence of the latter had extended 
 very little across the East River and it was felt that the vast population 
 of the borough called for independent effort. The results have in every 
 respect quite justified this feeling. 
 
 The activities of the Association, aside from the routine work of collecting 
 membership dues and subscriptions for Hampton scholarships and the general 
 fund of the Institute, are concentrated in a biennial public meeting to keep 
 public interest alive, with a gathering of the members, usually at a private 
 house, in the alternate years. The public meetings have had, as their special 
 Hampton features, industrial exhibitions and motion pictures, with songs by 
 either a quartet or a choir of the students ; in one instance there were 
 Indian and African dances as well. Aside from the addresses by Dr. Frissell, 
 Major Moton, and other representatives of Hampton Institute, there has usually 
 been an outside speaker known to take particular interest in the work of 
 the school. One of the largest of such meetings was in Plymouth Church, 
 when Hon. William H. Taft was the principal speaker. The attendance has 
 ranged from twelve hundred to more than two thousand. On one occasion an 
 exception to the general plan was made and a nativity play was presented, 
 while another year there was an organ recital. For the play, tickets were sold. 
 In the other cases all the seats were reserved but the tickets were distributed 
 gratis to members and other applicants. Our policy is not to give any 
 entertainment for which tickets are sold, and it is not likely to be departed 
 from again. In recent years, however, we have taken up a collection at these 
 meetings and have found it a very satisfactory way of adding to the 
 
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contributions of the Association to Hampton Institute. Such collections go 
 intact to the school, as all the expenses of the meetings are met through 
 the voluntary generosity of a few of the members. 
 
 At the alternate gatherings there are one or more informal addresses on 
 Hampton's work and some songs by the students, the evening's program 
 being followed by an hour or so of social intercourse. Light refreshments 
 are served and the very moderate expenses of the affairs are paid privately. 
 
 The main strength of our financial aid to Hampton Institute lies, of 
 course, in its membership dues and the subscriptions made through the 
 Association. We are happy, and certainly more than fortunate, to be able to 
 say that every penny of such collections goes to the school; for here again 
 all the expenses — which are never very heavy, as there are no salaries or 
 office expenses— are met privately. Until two years ago there were three 
 classes of paying members— annual at $2.00, sustaining at $5.00, and life 
 at $50.00. There were also honorary members, who were exempt from dues. 
 The plan now is to make any contribution, from two dollars up, constitute 
 membership for the current year. No bills are sent out, but a contribution 
 blank is forwarded with the booklets containing the annual reports. Thus 
 far the change of plan has been satisfactory. While new members are 
 frequently added to the list by personal solicitation, the fixed rule of the 
 Association is to make no direct appeals for contributions; the idea is to arouse 
 interest to a point where donations shall be a voluntary matter. 
 
 The active work of the Association is conducted by an executive committee, 
 which consists of the officers and twelve others, and meets at the home 
 of one of the members as frequently as occasion requires. The committee 
 is always represented on the annual spring excursion to Hampton Institute 
 for the Anniversary exercises. Although this excursion is not a Brooklyn 
 Armstrong Association affair, some of our most active members participate in 
 it regularly and we feel that as a source of fresh inspiration it should be 
 looked upon as an incidental factor in our work. We make a strong effort 
 to induce members and others who have never been to Hampton, but who 
 might perhaps become generous contributors if they had first-hand knowledge, 
 to go down and see things as they are. 
 
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The amounts forwarded to Hampton Institute by this Association are as 
 follows: 
 
 1907 - - . . 125.00 
 
 *1908 ----- 6000.00 
 
 1909 - - - - 1700.00 
 
 1910 ----- 1940.00 
 
 1911 - - - - 2870.00 
 
 1912 ----- 3315.10 
 
 1913 - - - - 3000.00 
 1914 3900.00 
 
 11915 . - - - 43,465.00 
 
 3,315.10 
 
 * Includes special gift of $6000 
 
 t Includes special ^ft of $40,000 for the Robert C. Ogden Scholarship Fund 
 
 Henry Sherman Adams, 
 
 Secretary 
 
 THE HAMPTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK 
 
 WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN, President 
 ELBRIDGE L. ADAMS, Chairman Executive Committee 
 MISS MARY N. POPHAM, Secretary 
 
 THE Armstrong Association was founded in 1893 in the City of New York, 
 by an earnest group of the friends of Hampton, to help the school, 
 in the most trying period of its history, shortly after its founder. General 
 Armstrong, was stricken with paralysis, when the institution for which he 
 had practically given his life was most sorely in need. 
 
 The object of the organization was expressed as follows: " The Armstrong 
 Association is formed in aid of Hampton Institute, to organize and extend 
 public interest in its important work. In adopting General Armstrong's name 
 it starts at once with the strongest element of personal enthusiasm, and it 
 hopes to aid in making the school an enduring monument to his consecrated 
 service." 
 
 Its membership has grown to almost a thousand. Only a small part of 
 the benefit to Hampton and the Negro have been the direct donations of 
 the Association to the school. It has increasingly realized its object to organize 
 and extend public interest in the work of Hampton. 
 
 The Hampton Association of New York, to which the original name was 
 
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changed after twenty years of service, is unique among the Hampton Associations 
 in that it has helped to build up a large constituency for the school without 
 endeavoring to direct the flow of funds through its local office. The original 
 dues of two dollars per annum, recently changed to voluntary subscriptions, 
 from its large list of members, have maintained an office and paid secretary, 
 while the gifts which go direct to the school from members of the Association 
 are more than ten-fold the average amount of the income of the society. 
 
 Another unique feature of the New York Hampton Association has 
 been its interest and support of other organizations for the Negro, including 
 Tuskegee, the Music School Settlement of New York, and an employment 
 bureau for worthy colored workers. 
 
 It has annually spread the knowledge and principles of Hampton and 
 Tuskegee to thousands by the great meetings held in Carnegie Hall, New 
 York. These have become almost annual events, which, because of the 
 loyal support of a large membership, seldom fail of success. Under the auspices 
 of this Association, many of the leaders best known to America have championed 
 the cause of Hampton and Tuskegee from the platform of Carnegie Hall. 
 Upon the programs of the Association meetings have appeared such names 
 as Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Choate, 
 Booker T. Washington, Charles Eliot, Andrew Carnegie, and Seth Low. 
 
 During the past winter, the New York Hampton Association undertook 
 the management of the Booker T. Washington Memorial Meeting which 
 proved such a remarkable tribute to the famous leader of his race. Through 
 the past year the Association has also been the headquarters of the Ogden 
 Memorial Fund, to aid which it has given its offices and the services of its 
 secretary. 
 
 THE ORANGE HAMPTON CLUB 
 
 MRS. CLARENCE H. KELSEY, President 
 MRS. A. H. LAMSON, First Vice President 
 MISS ANNIE TAYLOR, Second Vice President 
 MISS SOPHIA WALLACE, Recording Secretary 
 MRS. LORENZO BENEDICT, Treasurer 
 
 YOU asked for data of the Orange Hampton Club. It was founded April 13, 
 1887. There were eight ladies present at the first meeting. From the begin- 
 ning, Christmas boxes have been sent every year to the schools taught by 
 Hampton graduates. The number has varied, but at present we send four, 
 
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We must have sent about one hundred and fifty of these boxes during all these 
 years. We sew at the monthly meetings, and make articles for the boxes, 
 principally workbags, aprons, dresses, etc. We also buy toys and games and 
 other small articles for them, and ask for donations of second-hand clothing. 
 
 We have both active and associate members. The active members attend the 
 monthly sewing meetings. The associates pay dues of one dollar a year. We 
 support two seventy-dollar scholarships, and this year, through the generosity 
 of one of our members, we have a third. We have had about twenty-eight 
 students under our care, and their records have been good. I had them looked 
 up and presented at the annual meeting last year. Our active list is limited to 
 thirty-five members, as we meet at a private house; we have thirty-three at 
 present and an associate list of about one hundred and ten. 
 
 I think it is really quite remarkable that this little club has lived so long in a 
 place where there are so many local charities as in Orange. At times I have 
 feared its days were numbered, but just now it seems to be in an unusually good 
 condition, financially and otherwise. The meetings have been more largely 
 attended this winter than ever, and the treasurer's report will be the best, I 
 think, that we have ever had. 
 
 We have never raised money for the Club by entertainments or by soliciting 
 in any way, and in that I think we are unique. The other day one of our associate 
 members, in paying her annual dues, sent a check for ten dollars instead of one. 
 
 Elizabeth B. Kelsey 
 
 President 
 
 THE PHILADELPHIA HAMPTON COMMITTEE 
 
 DR. CHARLES T. HATFIELD, Chairman 
 MISS MARGARET MELLOR, Secretary 
 
 SOME years ago, a Friend from Philadelphia, a young man of wealth and 
 social position, went to Hampton and spent a year there as a teacher, 
 learning its methods and becoming familiar with the conditions and needs of 
 the Negro race. He then returned to his native city and is devoting his life to 
 studying and helping the Philadelphia Negro— the class which, perhaps, most 
 needs help in the City of Brotherly Love. He opened an office and formed an 
 organization to help members of that race to better schools, better opportunities 
 of service, better cooperation with one another. He felt that Philadelphia 
 ought to know more of Hampton's work and to help more towards its support. 
 
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A few citizens of Philadelphia have for years been loyal supporters of the 
 school, but it was felt that a local committee with a paid secretary and an office 
 in the city would help to make Hampton's work better known. The Committee 
 has been formed. The young Friend has allowed his office to be used as head- 
 quarters; appeals have been sent out; meetings have been held; and a successful 
 beginning has been made. 
 
 The work was started just when the financial condition of the country 
 was at a low ebb, and this crisis was followed immediately by the war. In 
 spite of this the number of Philadelphia subscribers has increased fifty per cent 
 during the past year (1915). 
 
 Meetings have been held at the following places:— 
 
 Parlor meeting at the home of Miss Coles 
 
 Parlor meeting at the home of Miss Esther Lloyd 
 
 University of Pennsylvania Y. M. C. A. 
 
 Haverford College 
 
 Swarthmore College 
 
 The Misses Shipley's School 
 
 Friends' Select School 
 
 Durham School 
 
 The Woman's Club, Swarthrtiore 
 
 Franklin Inn Club 
 
 Chestnut Hill Academy 
 
 Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia 
 
 First Presbyterian Church, Germantown 
 
 First Presbyterian Church, Doylestown 
 A play given by Negro and Indian Hampton students was presented twice 
 on the campus of Haverford College. 
 
 A rally was held in January at St. Stephen's Parish House for all Hampton 
 graduates and ex-students who live in or near Philadelphia. The interest taken 
 in the work of the Philadelphia Hampton Committee was indeed gratifying ; and 
 the Philadelphia Hampton Alumni Association has been formed with the object 
 of keeping in touch with the work and of maintaining a scholarship at Hampton. 
 A delegation of sixteen Philadelphians was secured for the special Hampton 
 Trip in April. The trip as usual was a great success, and the party of over one 
 hundred representative men and women from New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, 
 Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and other cities was delightfully entertained at Hampton, 
 finding much of interest during their few days' visit. 
 
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 
 
 Balance on hand June 1, 1914 . . . $106. 11 All contributions, receipts from meetings, 
 
 Received from Hampton for current etc., forwarded intact to the Treasurer of 
 
 expenses June 1, 1914 to June 1, 1915, 450.00 Hampton Institute, have been in summary as 
 
 $556.11 follows :— 
 
 Paid out by cash 31.72 Balance receipts from June meetings, $534.32 
 
 Paid out by check 420.62 Receipts from January meetings . . . 700.66 
 
 Total expenditure for current expenses Receipts from donations and 
 
 June 1, 1914 to June 1, 1915 . . . 452.24 subscriptions 727.24 
 
 Balance on hand June 1, 1915 .... 103.77 
 
 $556.11 
 
 $ 1962.22 
 
 THE HAMPTON CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 MRS. WILLIAM B. MEDLICOTT, President 
 MRS. CHARLES W. BURT, Treasurer 
 
 THE Hampton Club of Springfield, Massachusetts, began its existence in 1881— 
 thirty-five years ago. The first meeting was held at the home of Mrs. 
 George Howard, with twenty-one members. Mrs. Howard became its first pres- 
 ident and continued in office for twenty-five years. No record was kept for the 
 first year, but in 1882 Miss Ida Southworth, now Mrs. Solomon Griffin, became 
 its first treasurer. 
 
 During twenty-four years the club has sent to Hampton $12,821.77, to 
 Tuskegee, $800, to Miss Georgia Washington, $625, and to the Dixie Hospital, 
 $600, making a total of $14,846.77 or an average of about $650 a year. 
 
 The active membership of the club is limited to 100. The honorary member- 
 ship is now 96. At the present time ( 1916 ) the meetings are held every two 
 weeks in private houses. 
 
 The Springfield Hampton Club has now at Hampton two permanent academic 
 scholarships called, in memory of a valued member of the club, the Elizabeth 
 Mitchell Ames Scholarships, We send every year two academic scholarships, 
 and another is added by a charter member of the club, Mrs Solomon Griffin. 
 
 In 1912 we were able to send $200 to Hampton to be used for special needs, 
 such as a drive press for the blacksmith shop ; for the agricultural department 
 two farm levels for surveying for drainage; a new typewriter for the Publication 
 Office and an up-to-date dictionary contributed by the G. C. Merriam Company. 
 
 We also gave a radiopticon for the Shellbanks farmhouse. In the same year 
 the club sent $200 to Miss Georgia Washington to enable her to pipe her laundry 
 for convenience in washing. 
 
 Interest in the club has been stimulated by sending delegates on the 
 Hampton Trip to attend the Anniversary exercises. 
 
 Grace Harding Medlicott, President 
 
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THE TAUNTON HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 
 
 MRS. HERBERT FISHER, Secretary 
 MISS EDITH B. SEIBEL, Treasurer 
 
 A LADY of Boston stimulated an interest in the Taunton Branch of the Hamp- 
 ton Association, organized in Taunton January 25, 1900. A board of offi- 
 cers was appointed at that time. 
 
 The Association began by supporting an academic scholarship of $ 70, assess- 
 ing each member of the Association $1.00 annually. It is called "The Harriet 
 Beecher Stowe Scholarship," The following year, in 1901, it was raised to a full 
 scholarship of $100 and has thus been maintained. 
 
 A meeting of the Hampton Association is held each year in February, when 
 members are invited to pay dues; it is preceded by a business meeting of the Board 
 of Directors. The entertainment of the annual meeting is varied, but generally 
 has a bearing on the colored race. A speaker tells of the need of uplifting the 
 Negro, and of the efforts of the Institute at Hampton in that direction. Letters 
 from the recipient of the scholarship are read, and music is often furnished in a 
 sympathetic and artistic manner by the Hampton Quartet. 
 
 The Association has arranged for public meetings in behalf of Hampton In- 
 stitute, where plantation songs were sung, a graduate gave a history of his life, 
 and a speaker from Hampton described its work, illustrating his talk with the 
 stereopticon. A collection was taken for the benefit of Hampton Institute. 
 
 The records show the death of one scholarship student. Miss Georgia Elliott. 
 Another, Miss Linnie Lumpkins, married the instructor in agriculture at the 
 Penn School. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Scholarship is now paying the tuition 
 of its fifth student. 
 
 Mrs. Herbert Fisher, Secretary 
 
 THE WORCESTER HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 
 
 MRS. FRANCIS A. KINNICUTT, Chairman 
 
 THE Worcester Branch of the Massachusetts Hampton Association is so very 
 new that I feel there is little of interest to report. 
 
 A Hampton meeting was held on January 21 in Central Church, Worcester, 
 with an attendance of about five hundred people. No special appeal for money 
 
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was made at the meeting, as two campaigns to raise $50,000 each were being 
 carried on that week, and we did not feel that it was at all a wise thing to make 
 an urgent request for money. A collection was taken and amounted to $115. 
 
 After that meeting a permanent committee was formed consisting of Mrs. 
 Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Chairman, Mrs. F. F. Dresser, Mrs. Ira N. Hollis, and 
 Mrs. Leonard Wheeler. This committee agreed to serve with the understanding 
 that no active work be done until next autumn. Mrs. P. W. Moen gave her an- 
 nual subscription of $50 through this committee in March, and we have sent 
 Hampton $165.49 in all. Worcester people have given individually to Hampton 
 for many years but there has been no organization until this winter. 
 
 Mrs. Francis A. Kinnicutt 
 Chairman 
 
 IN connection with the reports of the various Hampton organizations at the 
 annual meeting, which will be published later, it is hoped to include brief his- 
 torical sketches of the Massachusetts Hampton Association and the Armstrong 
 League of New York. 
 
 THE NATIONAL HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 
 
 IN active aid to Hampton, the past year has been a record one for the groups 
 comprising the National Hampton Association. In addition to the suc- 
 cessful meetings held in the largest halls of the greatest centers of the Eastern 
 Seaboard, including New York, Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia, every 
 Hampton organization has been visited by a representative from the school. 
 
 The statements which precede this report bear witness to the activity and 
 enthusiasm of each group of workers for Hampton. In addition to their 
 activities and donations, which have been in part recorded, the members have 
 taken a large share in the National Memorial to Mr. Ogden, which marks a new 
 period in the growth of the school. 
 
 Fully fifty per cent of the amounts received to date for the Ogden Memo- 
 rial Auditorium has come from members of the Hampton Associations. Omitting 
 altogether the aid to the school from the local appeals to their communities, the 
 brief statement of the winter meetings aided by the clubs of Boston, Phila- 
 delphia, Brooklyn, Taunton, and Worcester alone, shows over $8000 as their 
 immediate result. 
 
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The value to the school of such advocates of its work as ex-President Taf t, 
 Governor McCall, Major Robert R. Moton, Congressman Montague, Honorable 
 Seth Low, and Honorable George McAneny, who spoke in behalf of Hampton in 
 the same chain of meetings arranged by the Associations, can hardly be esti- 
 mated. 
 
 The New York Hampton Association paid a fitting tribute to Booker T. 
 Washington by arranging the memorial meeting in Carnegie Hall, from which 
 more than three thousand people were turned away, as speakers of two races 
 from the North and South bore witness to his greatness. 
 
 In view of the unusual activity during the past winter within the Hampton 
 organizations and within the school — activity which augurs solid growth for both— 
 the efforts of the officers of the National Association have been given to meet 
 immediate needs, and little opportunity has been afforded to organize new 
 fields for the future. 
 
 Through the columns of the Southern Workman, the Executive Secretary 
 has endeavored to keep in closer touch with the members. Letters have been 
 sent to the various Associations requesting information and suggestions. In 
 the case of several, closer contact between offices at the North and the school office 
 has been effected. Whenever possible, the Executive Secretary has visited the 
 officers. Material for appeals has been supplied from the Hampton office, and 
 on one occasion it was privileged to send an emergency speaker for a special 
 meeting of an Association. 
 
 By the kindness of their leaders the Executive Secretary has been enabled 
 to publish the accompanying notes upon the history and growth of the present 
 Hampton Associations. These brief outlines of their growth and work have 
 both interest and inspiration. They should prove a basis for discussion of future 
 plans, and growth of new alliances. 
 
 Suggestions as to methods and organization have been requested of the 
 Executive Secretary and may not be out of place here. A thorough appreciation 
 of the spirit and work of allied groups would cement each club into a 
 more effective alliance. The publication of the annual reports made at each 
 Hampton Anniversary, with sketches of the history of each organization 
 and stories of the lives of those Negro and Indian men and women whom 
 each Association has sent, through Hampton, to help their people in the 
 South or West, would have fresh interest each year. To the workers and 
 students at Hampton the stories of the Hampton clubs would be an inspiration. 
 The publication of the history of several of them in the Southern Workman 
 would strengthen the hands of the Faculty and of other workers. Also friends 
 
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of the school in other cities would thus be interested to form similar alliances. 
 
 A service to the school and its graduates might be given and a strong 
 basis of appeal made by sending letters from each Association to the graduates 
 who are beneficiaries of its scholarships. By cooperation with Hampton's 
 record offices, the life stories of the graduates helped by these scholarships 
 could be obtained. Their records could be made the subject of interesting 
 discussion at monthly meetings, and would be valuable material in the files 
 of the National Association's headquarters as well as for publication in the 
 Southern Workman. An inventory every fall of the human investments of each 
 Association would prove of no small value and interest. 
 
 Owing to the proposed plans for the executive offices of the school, it 
 has been impossible to secure suitable space for the National Hampton 
 Association this year. A large, airy office with files for each organization 
 and with a reference library, is planned as headquarters of the National 
 Association and of its members while at Hampton. 
 
 A list of one hundred of the most prominent friends of the school whom 
 the Associations may invite to speak at semi-annual meetings has been prepared. 
 To avoid straining the good will of such true friends of Hampton, careful 
 cooperation with the home office is strongly urged. 
 
 The success of the appeals and pamphlets mailed by the Committees of 
 Boston and Brooklyn is worthy of note. It is suggested that other Associations 
 may extend their influence and membership by this means. 
 
 Although the past year has been marked by intensive cultivation of 
 the present field of Hampton organizations, the time is ripe for the formation 
 of several new Associations. A glimpse at the history of the several clubs 
 of Hampton's friends is proof that each has worked out its own salvation in its 
 own manner with a splendid devotion to the school. To request a set standard of 
 organization, ignoring the local traditions and needs of the loyal groups of 
 Hampton's friends who give so freely and untiringly of their time and means 
 to aid the school, would prove disastrous. The imposition of an artificial 
 organization upon certain distant cities which contribute largely to the school 
 would defeat its object by dividing the constituency of Hampton in those 
 communities into groups consisting of those without and those within the 
 organization. 
 
 Where there is little intimate knowledge of Hampton the task of rallying 
 different elements and social groups to the support of a distant institution is 
 next to impossible. To successfully establish a new organization, the most 
 painstaking, personal work should be given, and only such an Association 
 
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as may grow spontaneously and naturally from a small group of Hampton's 
 friends contains the germ of success. Much should be gained from discussions 
 and decisions regarding extension work at the annual meeting of the National 
 Hampton Association. 
 
 By small beginnings, with select groups, the Executive Secretary would 
 strongly recommend the founding of Hampton Associations in Richmond, 
 Virginia; New London and Hartford, Connecticut; Syracuse, New York; 
 and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Sydney Dodd Frissell, 
 
 Executive Secretary 
 
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