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HISTORY
While, over the years Alpha Rho alumni had given "aid and assistance to
needy active members" the first recorded move toward a student aid program
was in 1933 during the depths of the great depression when in order to keep
a senior in college the Trustees of the Alpha Rho Alumni Association
appealed to the alumni members of Alpha Rho for contributions to a Student
Aid Fund. The same year, 1933, marked the introduction of the Insurance
Program which the Trustees urged the Alpha to adopt. While student aid was
not a prime purpose of the Insurance Program, it was a stated objective
that, once the mortgage was liquidated, funds would be set aside for student
aid. The Insurance Program which provided for a pledge of $250 to be made by
each member was approved unanimously by the Alpha and was continued as a
mandatory condition of membership until the adoption of the Alpha Building
Program of Chi Psi approved by the 121st Convention of the Fraternity in Ann
Arbor, June 1962. The program adopted by the Alpha in 1933 provided a
substantial base for student aid.
The desire to provide additional funds for student aid was enhanced by
the members of the 1931 delegation when they made the first group effort to
establish a fund in memory of their classmate, G. L. C. Strieder, P 1931,
"for the purpose of establishing additional means of student aid." This
initial effort, during 1939, was increased by contributions from members of
the 1931 delegation and friends in the years that followed and particularly
several gifts in memory of John R. Armstrong, P 1931. In 1978 these gifts,
along with the Strieder Fund, formed the core of the 1931 Delegation Fund.
During 1940, a modest legacy from Mrs. D. W. Skellenger in memory of her
husband of the class of 1882, was received by the Association Trustees and
was set aside as the Daniel W. Skellenger Fund. The Strieder and Skellenger
Funds, modest at their inception, were increased by dividing the 1933
Student Aid Fund, which had been repaid, between them.
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