The Tracer Study and an Honorary Royal Patron

Abstract

Though Scholars were successfully and consistently recruited to serve on selection committees, they struggled to reach critical mass in many major cities for group-wide gatherings. On one occasion in the late 1960s, a Scholar from the class of 1954 “as an experiment, to try for a reunion” for New York-based alumni, booked a table for 10 at an Italian restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Sadly, only one other Scholar showed. Additionally, as the alumni population grew, and as the annual awards increased to 24 in 1960 and to 30 in 1973, record keeping became too burdensome for a single volunteer operation (aside from some financial assistance from the Embassy, the AMS had thus far been run by a succession of individuals).