June 15, 1946

Justice Hugo Wedell and Memorial Trustees:
I would like to present a report of progress on the Memorial Campaign:
We have obtained something over $50,000 in the first nine months of activitye

We have set up local organizations in many counties and citiese Ken Postle-
thwaite will give you the details on that.

We have spent $10,387 getting all this under waye

Some terrible sins of omission and commission have been committed not a one of
which will we admit for a minute as our fault. Here are some:

The campaign has been without benefit of big gifts obtained and an-
nounced in advance, except in a few localities.

We have not had adequate art work and promotional literatures
We have not had enough people officially connected with the campaigns

The campaign was not started promptly enough after the memorial was
adopted, especially on the campuse

Here are some obstacles to overcome and circumvent, over which this board of
trustees has no controle

The condition of affairs generally is disturbing and distracting. To
carry on a campaign for anything, particularly something centered at a dis=
tant.point,; is like holding 4 picnic in. a thundog-torms

There is a great multiplicity of other campaigns in competitions

As in the case of any memorial, our particular choice is not unanimouse
Furthermore, the campanile and driveway does not have the help of any special
interest such as the sports enthusiasts, the journalists, and the like. It
does not have the motivation that is sometimes built around oa single person-
ality.

Here are some of our suggested remedies and means of getting
the job done:

(1) Create a finance committee which shall mect and give
special attention to campaign techniques.

(2) Make an effort to streamline central office expense
and set up, if possible, o close policy on expenditures which
shall work in addition to the budget now in usée

(3) Set up a committee on publicity which shall give
undivided attention to that field.

(4) Disobuse our minds of the idea that the campaign can
be carried through in a few months. People seem to want consid-
able time to let the idea soak into their consciousness, and we
find that it is soaking ine