Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1920 — PURDUE ALUMNI RAISE $20,000 [ARTICLE]

PURDUE ALUMNI RAISE $20,000

Indianapolis, Oct. 5.-—lndianapo-lis alumni of Purdue university at a meeting tonight subscribed $20,000 to the million dollar fund being raised for a student memorial building at Purdue. The meeting was designed to inaugurate the campaign among local alumni and former students who have a quota of $68,000. It was estimated that local citizens had subscribed at least $30,000 as many of themhave sent in subscriptions to the campaign headquarters at Lafayette. The campaign inaugurated here tonight is similar to that being carried on in many other cities and counties of the state and which will be inaugurated among Purdue alumni in every state during the next month. The pledging of funds tonight came following addresses by Professor T. F. Moran, of Purdue, and David E. Ross, a Lafayette manufacturer, who is leading the campaign in Tippecanoe county.