Anonymous Man Gives HUC $800

An anonymous donor has given the Harvard Undergraduate Council $800 to hire two students to plan and conduct a fund-raising drive. The HUC hopes the drive will elicit $7000 from alumni who were active in student government while they were at Harvard.

The students, as yet unchosen, will spend the next few weeks looking through archives for the names of past members of HUC and its predecessor organizations. They will then ask these alumni for contributions.

The HUC has almost $500 in unpaid bills, some of which date back to 1966. It does not know how many of these were paid, but not marked, or simply forgotten by the creditors. The organization had $200 at the beginning of the semester.

Pete J. Berbaum '71, HUC treasurer, recently discovered that HUC also had over $300 in a four-year-old fund in the University treasurer's office. There had been no HUC record of the money.

The only current source of funds is the annual collection at registration, which netted about $1500 this year. John D. Hanify '71, HUC president, said, "We aren't going to ask students for money because we feel that most of them are aware of the inefficiency of past HUCs."

Bernbaum said that if the drive is successful, he hopes to create the permanent position of a paid HUC-fundraiser.