Kappa Alpha Theta Journal, Vol. 34 no. 2
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Kappa Alpha Theta L. Pearle pREEN, Editor . Volume 34 January, 1920 Number 2 GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER CONTENTS Founders’ Toast . 102 Our Founders’ messages . 103 Theta’s fiftieth birthday in District 1 . 104 Some history milestones . 104 Facts about “ inactive” chapters . 103 Cooperative housekeeping at Minnesota . 109 Birthday wishes . 113 Scholarship, 1918-19 . 114 Beta Eta’s Alma Mater . 116 Installations now and then . 117 Who’s who in Theta . . 119 With the editor . 121 Beginnings . 123 Overseas record . 125 Open letter from Scholarship fund committee . 128 Anent the borrowing habit.! . 130 Ourselves in print . 131 A Theta among Southern highlanders . 137 Scholarship honors . 140 Chapter history . 142 In memoriam . 147 Hear, Hear Ye! . . 148 Chapter news . 149 Directory . 200 All manuscripts should be addressed to the Edito*r. L. Pearle Green, 15 Fast av. Ithaca, N. Y. Material intended for publication must reach the Editor by the first day of the months of October, Decembe-. February, April. The Kappa Alpha Theta is published the first of November, January. March, May, at 450-454 Ahnaip «t. Menasha, Wisconsin, by George Jlanta. official printer and publisher to the fraternity. Price 25 cents per copy. $1.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter October 18. 1909. at the postoffice at Mcnasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, 1918.
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OUR FOUNDERS’ MESSAGES With love and greetings to all Thetas in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Founding of Kappa Alpha Theta! I wish to send many, many thanks for the gift of fifty lovely roses sent me by the Convention last July. They were a most delightful surprise and their fragrant memory will remain with me the rest of my life. Your elder Sister, Betty Locke Smith I enjoyed every day of the convention. It was a great treat to see the growth of Kappa Alpha Theta after fifty years of earnest, loving care by such a large following of bright, capable students. I am thankful I had a small part in it years ago. Your loyal Sister, Hannah Fitch Shaw
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THETA’S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN DISTRICT I Attention, Thetas ! while I tell you of the wonderful birthday party Kappa Alpha Theta is to have in District I. Now don’t for a moment think that this will be an ordinary birthday party. Far from it! The golden anniversary is one too marvelous to be passed over with anything that is ordinary. But to the point — or you will weary waiting for me to tell you when all this is to take place. At twelve o’clock, in the Riley room of the Claypool hotel, at Indianapolis, on January 17, 1920 the Founders ’-day luncheon will occur. Perhaps you are a bit surprised because our first plan was to make a pilgrimage to our Alpha chapter and there celebrate our birthday. This plan, however, proved unwise because of the overcrowded conditions at Do Pauw university and so the luncheon will be where all our Founders ’-day luncheons have been for several years. And this will be a real Founders ’-day affair too as Mrs Hannah Fitch Shaw and Mrs Betty Locke Hamilton will be with us. Then too, Mrs Dunn, one of the charter members of Beta chapter will also be here. Now if you like to see distin¬ guished folks, be sure to come, as we will have not only these Founders with us but also the Grand officers and Presidents of neighboring districts. But I must not forget to mention the price which is two dollars ($2.00) a plate and I know you’ll agree with me, that considering the H. C. L. this is most reasonably priced. We want you one and all to feel that District 1 extends a most cordial invitation to all Thetas to be present. Our only specification is that if you can come, you will please notify Mrs Walter H. Montgomery, 129 Downey avenue, Indianapolis, before Janu¬ ary 15. Mary Louise Rumplcr Ragsdale SOME HISTORY MILESTONES IN KAPPA ALPHA THETA r First Decade 1870 , January 27 Membership of the fraternity — 4. Kappa Alpha Theta badges, identical, except as to size, with badge of today, worn for first time at Asbury college (now DePauw university) chapel services.
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History milestones 105 1870 , May 18 Beta chapter installed at Indiana state university, first fruit of policy outlined in original constitution where among powers of the mother chapter was listed “to establish chapters in other colleges.” 1875 , May 14 First national convention in Indianapolis, 4 chapters sending delegates. 1876 Second convention with mother chapter in Greencastle, with delegates from 6 chapters, plan for triennial conventions adopted. 1877 First song book published. 1879 Third convention at Bloomington, Indiana, when plan of conventions changed to biennial ; convention has been held regularly every two years since. ■icon T nr, Second Decade 1880, January 27 Membership of the fraternity — 270. Number of college chapters — 8. 1881 Names of states dropped from chapter names and present sys¬ tem of naming chapters adopted., 1883 Government of fraternity transferred from Alpha to a Grand chapter (one committee member from each chapter), the mem¬ ber from Alpha to act as president of the chapter. All business transacted by letter. 1885, June First issue of Kappa Alpha Theta magazine appears; pub¬ lication has been continuous since that day, four issues per year. 1888 First catalogue published. 1889 Extension henceforth to be by chapter vote, as at present; before every chapter had power to establish other chapters in states, or colleges, assigned to it by convention. Call, grip, and flower, as existing today, adopted. -fonn T nrv THIRD DECADE 1890, January 27 Membership of the fraternity — 1,162. Number of college chapters — 17.
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106 Kappa Alpha Theta 1891, April First Interfraternity convention in Boston, called by Kappa Kappa Gamma. Kappa Alpha Theta delegates were, Margaret Smith, Alpha, Anna Florence Moon, Iota, and Mattie P. Skinner, Lambda. 1891, July Establishment of alumnae chapters provided for in an amend¬ ment to the Constitution. Grand Council as the executive and judicial force takes the place of the by now unwieldy Grand Chapter. 1891, October First chapter house established by Psi, at the University of Wisconsin. 1893, March 1 First alumnae charter issued to the alumnae resident in Green- castle, Indiana. 1 893, March 28-29 First district convention meets in Greencastle, Indiana. 1893, July Pledging of preparatory students forbidden. 1895, October Election of honorary members discontinued; before, conven¬ tion had power to elect such honorary members and had con¬ ferred the title on about a dozen distinguished women. 1897 Fraternity examinations inaugurated for college chapters. 1898 A keeper of the archives appointed and systematic work begun to collect historical records of the fraternity. Fourth Decade 1900, January 27 Membership of the fraternity — 2,622. Number of college chapters — 22. Number of alumnae chapters — 8. Chapter houses rented — 9. 1900, Summer First chapter house built by a chapter, erected by Phi at Stan¬ ford University. 1901, July Present pledge pin adopted. Biennial visits to college chapters by District presidents estab¬ lished.
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History milestones 107 1902, May 24 First National Panhellenic congress called by Alpha Phi in Chicago. Kappa Alpha Theta represented by Mrs Laura H. Norton, Eta. 1903, August Endowment fund established. 1903, October First printing of the fraternity Constitution. 1905 Scholarship fund established ' under the initiative of Los Angeles alumnae chapter. An elected editor, member of the Grand council, takes the place of an editing chapter in control of the journal. 1907, July Present designs for coat-of-arms, seal, and flag adopted. 1909 First Annual report of the fraternity issued and sent every member. 5]ifth Decade 1910, January 27 Membership of the fraternity — 4,807. Number of college chapters — 31. Number of alumnae chapters — 19. Number of chapter houses rented — 10. Number of chapter houses owned — 5. 1910, February First issue of the Bimonthly appears. 1911 First convention daily, The Kite, published. First convention special train carries delegates from Chicago to Pasadena, California. 1913 Service board established. 1915 Alumna3 secretary with state chairman staff, created to look after alumnae membership. 1917 National cataloguer appointed to take charge of the member¬ ship records heretofore handled either in office of Grand secre¬ tary or of editor. War fund established from which the nurses of one base hos¬ pital were equipped for Red Cross. Life subscriptions to fraternity magazine become a part of initiation fees.
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108 Kappa Alpha Theta 1918 Ruth Townley, Mu, goes to Prance as a canteen worker under Red Cross, all her expenses being met by the fraternity. 1919 New form of alumnae organization adopted with the aim — * 1 once initiated always an active member of the fraternity. ’ 9 1920, January 27 Membership of the fraternity — 8,644. Number of college chapters — 45. Number of alumnae chapters — 32. Number of chapter houses rented — 21. Number of chapter houses owned — 7. FACTS ABOUT “INACTIVE” CHAPTERS Between 1870 and 1880 Kappa Alpha Theta lost one chapter, killed by anti-fraternity laws ; and began the year 1880 with eight active college chapters. Between 1880 and 1890, the fraternity lost five college chap¬ ters. Of these, two chapters were killed by anti-fraternity laws, two charters were withdrawn because of college conditions, and one was withdrawn because of disloyalty to the fraternity. Three of these chapters have been reestablished under the improved conditions of more recent times. Seventeen college chapters were active in January, 1890. From 1890 to 1900, four college chapters were lost : from two colleges charters were withdrawn because of college conditions, and the other two were lost because of anti-fraternity agitation. One of these chapters has been reestablished under improved conditions in the college. The roll was 22 college chapters when 1900 began. Between 1900 and 1910, one charter was withdrawn because of the failure of the college to grow and progress. From 1910 to 1920, three college chapters have been killed by anti-fraternity legislation on the part of the colleges where they were located. The total loss of college chapters, in fifty years, is ten. Five alumnae charters have been returned — from Greencastle ; Palo Alto, California; Denver; Vermilion, South Dakota; and Athens, Ohio — the last three due to the removal to other cities of a large percentage of the original membership, the first two caused by the absorption of the more active members in the near¬ by city chapters of Indianapolis and San Francisco.
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COOPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING AT THE UNIVER¬ SITY OF MINNESOTA It was the concensus of opinion at convention that Kappa Alpha Theta should take up some form of social service work that all the fraternity could have a part in furthering. To the Service board and the Grand coun¬ cil was given the task of investigating possible fields. Opportunities are limitless, so it must become in the end a matter of choice. One alumna has written “we have talked about it a good deal in a general way and are of the strong conviction that such service should be related to college girls in some way. We have, as yet, no definite idea, but we feel that the one set of conditions every Theta knows something about is college conditions. There is the one single thing every Theta has in common and there the ground is prepared for work, and the work itself would create enthusiasm within Theta.’ ’ And so the editor is especially glad to publish this timely article from Mrs Carpenter, on a possible field of service, related to one of the most crying needs of college conditions today. When, in the late summer of 1914, the Faculty women’s club of the University of Minnesota began to consider the coming sea¬ son’s program, it was apparent that the club had become rather unwieldly and difficult to plan for, owing to the great diversity of other than strictly faculty interests among its membership. This state of affairs needs, I am sure, no elaboration to those of you who have tried, either prayerfully or profanely, to find the exact type of alumnae meeting which would interest equally all the available Thetas, and also a time at which they could all at¬ tend such a meeting. At any rate, it was decided to attempt, in a modest way, a sectional club something on the order of the city clubs of that type. The result was a tentative division into, Mothers’ section, Social section, and Student activities section; and it is with the last-mentioned phase that we have to do in this article. At risk of being accused of undue levity in the consideration of a serious subject I point to the fact that here, as in the average student community, a major “student activity” of the early fall of each year consists in trying to find some place to live which shall not be noticeably less comfortable than the place “last year.” In view of this fact a very logical point of departure for the new section seemed to be to try in some slight measure at least, to make a dent in the prevailing housing problem. For the girls, the fraternity houses took care of a few ; well-regulated boarding¬ houses took care of a few more ; Sanford hall, dormitory, housed less than a hundred, and the hundreds more whose homes were not in the Twin Cities just did the best they could. This state of affairs still exists so far as adequate facilities for great numbers is concerned, though we have now rather strict
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110 Kappa Alpha Theta rules for rooming-house keepers, inspection by the Dean of women, and so on, which fairly insures at least what an Irish friend of mine is pleased to call “sanitary conditions. ’ ’ What the Student section hoped for in initiating the plan for coopera¬ tive housekeeping, was to give first aid to a few, and to experi¬ ment with a view toward recommending, if the results were satisfactory, the cooperative cottage plan for housing in distinc¬ tion to the dormitory plan, at such time as the legislature in its wisdom should decide to interest itself in the matter. On our larger campus were many dwelling houses, which in the course of condemnation proceedings had become the property of the university, and it was in one of these that the experiment was inaugurated. The Board of regents put the house into good condition, promised heat from the university plant, and all at a very nominal rent, so little in fact as to make a very low rate per capita a possibility. Even so, it was shown that they would make five per cent on their investment. All that the Student section had to do was to furnish the house, select the personelle of the first group, and get the enter¬ prise under way, properly chaperoned, properly equipped, prop¬ erly inspired with that fine altruistic vision so necessary to the pioneers in any new undertaking. And all without money — for when was altruism ever caught in funds? The furnishing of that first cottage is a long, sad story in itself ; one with which many of you are all too familiar in other connections. It had to do with the accumulation of vast amounts of cast-off furniture from the attics of many conscience-hardened, economically ob¬ durate persons whose numbers so noticeably swell the ranks of amateur altruists. It had further to do with the sorting and salvaging of that conglomerate mass, the painting of usable pieces various appropriate colors of enamel, the relegating of the impossible to inaccessible places, and I doubt not the tactful explaining of the absence of this or that cherished monstrosity was no mean part of the job. You all know, in a sketchy way at least, what the Student section did in the name of better things. At last the house was habitable, and the Dean of women plus a committee of the Student section, chose the group which was to live there. From a long list of applicants they selected the six¬ teen who seemed to them best qualified to help in making the experiment a success. Care was taken in this first group to have a number of the girls, those to whom economy was not a positive necessity, hoping thereby to exorcize at the start the bugbear of
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Cooperative housekeeping 111 literal need from a project which wanted to stress mutual pleasure and comfort through cooperation and to recognize money saved as a useful by-product, rather than as an end in itself. Each girl whose application was accepted deposited ten dol¬ lars as a guarantee of good faith, and out of this sum the first month's rent was paid, and housekeeping put under way. At the end of the month the bills for current expenses were pooled and a per capita tax assessed to meet the difference between the month's living and the initial ten dollars. Gradually a fairly accurate budget was arrived at, variable to suit the needs or in¬ clinations of the household. The cook was the only “full-pay" employee. The chaperon was a real altruist, who paid her way, and the girls took care of their own rooms and shared the other work of a second maid. Small gifts and voluntary savings on the budget appropriation soon made a useful balance for extras or for safety, as the case might be. The girls had an attractive home, for which they were responsible, they were living far better than they had lived in the average boarding house, and for less money, and they were happy. In the three following years three more cottages were estab¬ lished. Folwell cottage, named for the first president of the university, was largely furnished by the Folwell family and their friends, ftuth Loring cottage was furnished by the C. M. Lorings and the Charlotte Winched cottage was furnished and patronized by the Minnesota alumnae club. In the case of the last named, many classes took rooms to furnish, thereby establishing a semi¬ personal contact between a fairly large group of alumnae women and a small group of college undergraduates. From the women's point of view, this was one of the im¬ portant accomplishments, in the cases of all the cottages, this personal contact. It was of mutual import to girls and women alike. For each cottage there was a small group of women who were actively interested in the housekeeping and social problems of each group of girls. Naturally this interest established a contact which at different times led to helpfulness with college and personal problems, and so, imperceptibly, a sort of Big Sister relation was formed, doubly effective because unconscious, and without question, mutually worth while. Also, the institutional element was kept at a minimum. We had actually cooperative self-governed, economically self-suffi¬ cient households, four in number. The only direct institutional contact was in the form of cheques for quarterly payment of
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112 Kappa Alpha Theta rent to the university, occasional financial reports to the Dean of women, and the award, as it soon came to be regarded, of places in the houses. In this last matter, though need for economy is a consideration, it is only one of several, among which scholarship, and the evidence of a social sense are given prominence. At the most we could accommodate but sixty girls, which of course in point of numbers was in infinitisemal ratio to the size of the problem, but as leaven I believe we have been effective. We have created a demand for that personal, home element, which may be adroitly introduced even into institutional arrange¬ ments. I have purposely omitted lists of costs either for equip¬ ment or for running expense, as such lists for the past few years, would have little if any bearing on the case today. Nor has the method of proceedure at any point any claim to uniqueness in any way. The same thing has been done probably far better so far as physical arrangements are concerned. However, I include a copy of the annual report of the Ruth Loring cottage, which may be of interest. These items are exclusive of rent which is now paid direct to the university in advance, fifteen dollars per quarter per girl. RUTH LORING COTTAGE ANNUAL STATEMENT 1918-1919 Expenditures Groceries . $949.70 Dairy Products . 355.32 Salary of Cook . 286.43 Meat . 182.24 Cleaning . 81.05 Gas . 73.33 Sundry Expenses . 77.55 Laundry . 55.40 Telephone Service . 32.25 "Electricity . 26.23 Refunds for absences . 22.75 Final Refunds . 78.00 $2,210.25 Balance left on upkeep fund . 3.56 $2,213.81 Receipts Monthly assessments . $1,927.50 Board . 145.92 Individual payments for house supplies, laundry, etc . 98.11 Guests . 31.28 Leaving fees for upkeep fund . 3.00 Third quarter assessment for upkeep fund . 8.00 $2,213.81 "Lights before 10:30 P. M. included in rent item. Average assessment per month for eight college months, $15.38.
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Cooperative housekeeping 113 Upkeep Fund Statement Total amount received for upkeep fund . $11.00 Spent for electric iron by summer sclio.l people . 7.50 $3.50 Added from balance, to make final individual refunds even.. . 06 $3.56 To this will bo added $12.00 contributed by the summer school people 12.00 $15.56 Beriha Hinshaw, Treasurer . I sometimes wonder, whimsically perhaps, and usually when in the midst of some apparently hopeless problem of the “unfit”, what an interesting and diverting thing it would be to devote some time to the “fit.” To people who arc a We but working at a distinct social disadvantage, through insufficient means or time or whatnot, to surround themselves with a congenial environment. Of course, a lot of such work is being done in certain directions, but what college woman does not realize that there are large numbers of such persons in every college community. That a great many girls to be concrete, may be getting a little book knowledge but without any opportunity for the development of the qualities of leadership, of a real social sense, or even of ordi¬ nary social poise? T wonder what a harvest a little social service work might yield from such soil. 1 believe that the result of the experiment at Minnesota has shown that it is well worth while, and it would seem a task worthy of the best efforts of college women and perhaps especially of college fraternity women. A similar need exists in some degree, in every college community, perhaps where the physical need is less, the social need is fully as great. But a fine physical environment is the only sure founda¬ tion on which to build. The trained minds and social experience of college fraternity workers arc good tools. Why not use them? Ruth llayncs Carpenter , Twin City Alumnae. BIRTHDAY WISHES “Mellow days Have brought nnether Fcsta round to you, You can't refuse a loving-cup of praise From f rends the fleeting years have bound to you. Your children nil, they hurry to your den With wreaths of honor they have won for you, To merry-make your twoscore years and ten. You, old? Why, life has just begun for you." — Henry Van Dyke
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SCHOLARSHIP, 1918-19 All students' average Women students' average Fraternity Women average Woman's fraternity Kappa Alpha Theta u/un ntgae Name at average Average Average Rank Among woman's fraternities Adelphi . Allegheny . 79.5 84 83.9 ArA 84.7 83.9 3d Arizona . No data available Butler . California . Unknown APX, 2.5 2.075 Rediviva 1.9115 2.0974 17th Jan.-May, Club 1919 Cincinnati . Data for 1918-19 not yet issued. Dec. 1. Colorado State . Cornell . . De Pauw . 19.95 Unknown 38.725 KA0 42.78 42.78 1st Goucher . No data available Illinois . 4.00 3.56 3.51 KKT 3.65 3.43 8th 1st semester 3.48 AXf2 3.73 3.55 3d 2d semester Indiana . Unknown 86.93 86.63 KKr 88.09 86.82 5th Spring term Kansas . “Not yet am nounced,” Dec . 1. KA0 93.59 93.59 1st 1919 Lawrence . 83.80 85.89 85.76 Ar 87.31 82.75 6th Michigan . Minnesota . 1.169 1.291 1.272 KA0 1.417 1.417 1st Missouri . ivl rm t q n q Unk nown 101.75 Ar 107.08 99.69 8th Winter term 1>JLUI1 Ltlllct . . . Nebraska . 205.6 206.7 • 243.7 AXQ 278.9 271.5 2d 2d term aaii 281.2 ? 3d 3d term Newcomb .
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North Dakota . Northwestern . Ohio State . Oklahoma . Oklahoma State . Oregon . Oregon State . Pennsylvania . Pittsburgh . Purdue . Randolph-Macon . Sou£h Dakota . Southern California . Stanford . . . Swarthmore . * . . . Syracuse . Texas . . . Toronto . Vanderbilt . . Vermont . 1 • • ■ Washburn . . . Washington (St. Louis) . Washington (Seattle) . Washington State . . Wisconsin . 83.75 Unknown • 89.61 AAP 86.23 6th * Unknown 80 81.15 KX 83.66 82.75 3d No data availabl e No data available Unkn tied B B — 8th (ztaJ 1.45 1.69 1.64 2K 1.82 1.59 6th 1.4445 1.6192 1.5826 IIB 1.8542 1.6560 2d Unknown 80.93 KKT 82.3 80.1 10th 5.47 6.04 6.10 AATT 6.46 6.08 5th 72.69 80.48 82.68 KA0 84.49 84.49 1st Data not yet compiled, Dec. 1. No data available B B B AAA A c+ 5th No data availabl 1 e 1 2d & 3d terms 1st semester 2d semester White space instead of information after college name, means chapter editor failed to reply to request for information. Reports for less than the college here, where college, because of “flu,” etc. did not make all the usual reports for last year. We can’t always be first, but isn’t it reasonable to expect KA0 to at least make the average for women students?
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BETA ETA’S ALMA MATER The University of Pennsylvania, like many other good works, had its origin in the brain of Benjamin Franklin. In 1749 when the opportunity came to secure a frame building in Philadelphia that had been used for the meetings of George Whitefield, the English evangelist, Franklin “set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy,” a combination of pay and free school for the education of the youth of the community. Out of this early beginning there developed the College of Philadelphia, which in 1790 was united with the University of the State of Pennsylvania under the name of the University of Pennsylvania. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA t^rary Library and College Hall College Hall Entrance . botanical Gardens Memoral Tablet ILcmorial Tcwer, Men’s Dormitory Campus Scene
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Installations 117 The university of today occupies an area of about 115 acres in West Philadelphia. There are in its property more than 70 buildings, many of which have been erected during the last 20 years. A museum, gymnasium, students’ club house, dormitories, hospital, observatory, and a library containing more than 400,000 volumes and 50,000 pamphlets, are included in the equipment. About 25 courses in all are presented by faculties of some of the most capable men in the country. The present student enroll¬ ment, the highest ever reached, exceeds 10,000. Women have been admitted to some courses since about 1880, but the greatest influx of women came in 1914 when the School of education was founded, until it has been necessary this year to refuse admission to many because of inadequate accommoda¬ tions. Now there are frequent rumors that work is very soon to be begun on the new women’s building, which will certainly at¬ tract a still greater number of students. Pennsylvania has always held an important place in the his¬ tory of America, and has given to the country some of her great¬ est leaders and thinkers. From September, 1777 to June, 1778, owing to the occupation of Philadelphia by British troops, lec¬ tures and recitations were suspended. Throughout the Revolu¬ tionary and Civil wars Pennsylvania’s sons did their share; a walk across campus today, and a glimpse at the recently erected memorial tablet will show that Pennsylvania readily and will¬ ingly answered the call of the Great war. With a full appreciation of the memorable past of the University of Pennsylvania, and with a sincere pride in the present, the new Beta Etas are most happy to claim as their own the black and gold and the red and blue. Helen D. Armor. INSTALLATIONS NOW AND THEN Beta After the founding of Kappa Alpha Theta at De Pauw in January 1870, the next step was to establish other chapters. The state university with co-education established and men’s frater¬ nities flourishing was the logical place to begin. The father of Miss Betty Locke of De Pauw was a close friend of Mr Hanna- man, then president of the trustees of Indiana university. Mr Plannaman’s daughter, then a sophomore at Indiana university, was asked to select a group of girls to form the new chapter. She chose Miss Elizabeth Harbison, Miss Lizzie Hunter, and Miss Louise Wylie.
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118 Kappa Alpha Theta On May 18, 1870, Miss Betty Locke came to Bloomington from Greencastle to install Beta chapter. Misses Hannaman, Harbison, and Hunter were initiated and the chapter installed. Miss Wylie failed to appear, but was initiated ten days later. There were no social festivities in connection with the installation. The ceremonies took place in the afternoon and were extremely simple. The badges were ordered and Kappa Alpha Theta was an accomplished fact on the campus. Beta chapter, the first women’s fraternity at Indiana univer¬ sity, was established with the consent and approval of the presi¬ dent of the trustees, of the president of the university, and of at least a part of the faculty. The men’s fraternities received the new Greek letter sister most cordially. Three charter members of Beta are all living — Mary Hanna¬ man (Mrs John R. James), Detroit, Michigan; Mary Lizzie Hunter (Mrs T. C. VanNuys), Seattle, Washington; Elizabeth Harbison (Mrs James Henry Dunn), Bloomington, Indiana; Louise Wylie (Mrs Herman Boisen), Boston, Massachusetts, the almost-charter member, is also living. Myrtle Emmet Stempel (Mrs G. H.) Beta Eta Installation program October 30 — Pledge service. October 31 — Initiation service. November 1 — Installation service. Installation luncheon. Reception to college and city friends. November 2 — First Chapter meeting. Charter members: Alumna, — Helena K. Amend, Helen D. Armor, Elonor C. Bie, Hilda Dickerson, Mildred A. Eckles, Mae E. Harveson, Frances Holsopple, Ethel M. McAllister, Lenore Martin, Jean B. Shoe, Gertrude Sholdice, Clara Void; under¬ graduates — Lehrma M. Clows, Ernestine Fitz-Maurice, Hilde- garde J. Fitz-Maurice, Louise J. Greathead, Elizabeth S. Lackey, Beatrice I. Long, Marion W. Masland, Dorothy Noe, M. Frances Snyder, Ruth Witman Solel, Mary S. Tyson, Edna Void, Jean Marie Williams, Esther E. Wilson, Anne K. Wogan. Installing officers: Betty Newsom, Grand president; Mary Ashby, Grand vice-president ; Helen Frisch, District president ; Hope Davis Mecklin, ex-Grand president; assisted by members of Alpha Beta, Alpha Delta, Alpha Kappa, Beta Beta, and Philadelphia alumnse.
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WHO’S WHO IN THETA Charlotte M. Leavitt, Eta “Here, boy, you’re making a mistake,” was the warning given by a senior to a freshman who had just exhibited his pro¬ posed study schedule for the year. “What you want to do is to sign up for an English course under Miss Leavitt. Next term, sign for another and keep it up. You’ll miss a big part of Wash¬ burn if you leave out Miss Leavitt.” Not many students in Washburn “leave out” Miss Charlotte Leavitt, according to the class records. In the time in which Miss Leavitt has been associated with the college, at least 2,500 students have enrolled for her courses and, at present, the classes in English and American literature, Shakespeare, contemporary prose and poetry are among the most popular in the college curriculum. Miss Leavitt is well acquainted with both the east and north, having Vermont as her birthplace and having lived for many years in Michigan. She attended college at Kalamazoo and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1899. In that same year she came to Washburn as a teacher of English. Before this time Miss Leavitt had had experience in teaching English in a large high school in Michigan. The duties assigned to Miss Leavitt at Washburn were two¬ fold. Beside her work as teacher, she was made supervisor of the girls at Holbrook hall with the title of “Dean of women.” After four years, Miss Leavitt gave up her work at the girls’ dormitory and devoted all of her time to teaching. In recognition of her ability as an instructor, Miss Leavitt was given the title of “Professor.” She then had the distinction of being the first and only woman professor in Washburn. A teacher — but one who has remained a student — is Miss Leavitt. She took graduate work in Columbia university, receiv¬ ing her M.A. degree in 1908, and has also studied in Chicago university and Harvard. In addition to this, Miss Leavitt has had the advantages of travel in both Europe and America. An interesting fact to note in considering Miss Leavitt’s work in Washburn is that she has taught in every building on the campus with the exception of Rice hall. In the library she has had two rooms, having taught for several years in what is now known as the “Sociology room.” Washburn people are accustomed to exhibit a feeling of own¬ ership toward Miss Leavitt, but they soon learn that there are many people outside of the college who claim her friendship and assistance. For several years she was a member of the State
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120 Kappa Alpha Theta committee of the Y. W. C. A. and is now a councellor of the Topeka branch of the Association of collegiate alumnae, For the past six years she has served as secretary and treasurer of the Kansas association of the teachers of English. Through these positions and others, Miss Leavitt has built up, not merely a local, but a state- wide acquaintanceship. The secret of Miss Leavitt's success as an instructor probably lies in her personality. She is always interested in others and ready to help them. She always possesses up-to-the-minute in¬ formation on most subjects and encourages originality. She is always just and fair. But there — people like Miss Leavitt be¬ cause she is herself. — Washburn Review, Nov. 12, 1919. Alpha Buse, Alpha Nu Alpha Buse received her B.S. from the University of Montana in June, 1916, specializing in psychology. She returned to the university in the fall of 1917 to take post-graduate work in journalism. But the call for women to help in government offices could not be resisted, she took the Civil service examina¬ tion, and in October, 1917, was appointed to the staff of assistants in the Men commissioned as officers section of the War depart¬ ment. After the signing of the armistice she resigned and enrolled at Bryn Mawr as a student in the Political research department under the supervision of Susan Kingsbury, Phi. Miss Buse was recommended by Miss Kingsbury for the Rockefeller foundation research scholarship. She sailed in July for research study in the reconstruction work for women in England, France, and Bohemia. Miss Buse will study abroad at least a year and then report her findings in a thesis to the foundation. Miss Buse is a very attractive, dignified but lovable and human individual. Margaret Garvin Stone, Alpha Nu Margaret Garvin graduated from the University of Montana, A.B. in June, 1918, specializing in journalism. During her senior year she was married to Lieut. P. N. Stone, and as soon as she had her degree she followed him from camp to camp until he sailed for France from New York. At the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi, the women's national journalistic fraternity, in April 1918, Mrs Stone was elected national secretary of the organization. Since her elec¬ tion to this office, Mrs Stone has done much constructive work for the organization and has issued a complete directory of Theta Sigma Phi.
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WITH THE EDITOR FOUNDERS ’-DAY this January has special significance for all Thetas. Fifty years ago this month Kappa Alpha Theta as a name, as a reality, made its debut. By gleanings from early magazines, by contrasting the ceremonies of installing the first and last college chapters to which charters have been granted, and by other historically flavored copy, this issue tries to express in a simple way the significance of events within the fraternity. WITH AWE AS WELL AS ADMIRATION, Thetas look upon the work of our Founders: awe, at the temerity that led them in the pioneer work of women students in those new things of 1870, a coeducational college, a fraternity for women ; admiration, for the high intellectual qualities, the inspiring vis¬ ion, the understanding of human impulses that found expression in that first Constitution of Kappa Alpha Theta. It may be they 1 ‘ builded better than they knew ! ’ ’ It may be that the fraternity of today is the inevitable natural evolution from pioneer condi¬ tions ! But, no number of maybes can detract from the fact that Kappa Alpha Theta has enriched the life of many an under¬ graduate and inspired and encouraged many a college alumna. For what Kappa Alpha Theta means to each of us, we thank you, OUR FOUNDERS. SERVICE of permanent value often has a small, narrow be¬ ginning. One slow step at a time does it advance. That Kappa Alpha Theta’s first service should be to her own members, to make their college days happier and more wholesome, was per¬ fectly natural. That even from the first year it helped to im¬ prove the college community’s attitude toward women students, though incidental, perhaps unconsciously pointed the way for future service. For many years the fraternity gave its whole attention to this work of developing its members, serving the world incidentally through the individual work of well-trained, broad-minded, sym¬ pathetic alumnae. Gradually it seemed possible to enlarge the sphere of service. So we had our Endowment fund, with the ultimate aim of contributing to both the housing and cultural
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122 Kappa Alpha Theta problem of colleges by establishing model chapter houses. Then came the Scholarship fund, to insure the needed training of our members for individual service. Next the war fund emergency convinced Kappa Alpha Theta that she had become powerful enough to enlarge her field of di¬ rect service. Hence, the command of last convention that a defi¬ nite plan for specific social service be determined upon — a plan that should provide for diversified types of service ; for gifts of money, for gifts of time, for personal friendliness, for the pro¬ ducts of skilled fingers. It is a large order to find a service that will satisfy all these demands. BETA ZETA AND BETA ETA, your magazine greets you officially as our “new chapters” and welcomes you into Kappa Alpha Theta. Fortunate for you that your national fra¬ ternity career coincides with Kappa Alpha Theta’s Golden- Jubilee. Fifty years from January 27, 1917 will you have writ¬ ten as much fine history for Kappa Alpha Theta as has been written since Alpha was our “new chapter” and also the whole fraternity ? TWO SERVICE ARTICLES in this issue are suggestive be¬ cause they stand for Service where Thetas are doing good work today. In one article we see an illustration of the sort of work individual Thetas are doing many places, in the other we find a clear example of Thetas work in cooperation with others, for it was Ruth Haynes Carpenter who originated the idea of that fine plan at Minnesota of which she writes so modestly. Could our service plan be that of forwarding the work of such Thetas as Mrs Buyers, or of developing such work as Mrs Carpenter writes about ? No question but there is a field for both types of service in many places in this country. We ask for other contributions along service lines, especially concerning the work different alumnae chapters are doing today. Help Kappa Alpha Theta take the next service step wisely, by sharing your service experi¬ ence and your ideas for Theta service through the magazine’s pages. SCHOLARSHIP in two widely separated, yet distinctly united, forms calls for your attention in this issue. Read with pride the Honors record made in 1918-19 in spite of the hectic conditions of college life last year. Ponder the scholarship report for the same period. If your chapter’s average doesn’t please you, turn in and help improve scholarship conditions in your chapter. If your college fails to cooperate in student efforts for
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Beginnings 123 better grades, alumnae get busy and broaden your Alma Mater ’s field of service to its students. And finally, heed the Scholarship fund committee’s call. That fund’s service helps improve schol¬ arship because it keeps the able girl in college, because it frees her from the physical strain of overwork and worry as to the wherewithal for college expenses. Are we doing our best if one Theta must leave college because the Scholarship fund is ex¬ hausted? Send that check, that dollar, or whatever you can spare by sacrifice, TODAY. Let the Scholarship fund be the recipient of your Golden- Jubilee thank-offering. THETA’S GOLDEN-JUBILEE issue goes forth with the editor’s regrets, disappointments, and apologies that many con¬ ditions beyond control, seemingly, prevent it from being ade¬ quate to its title, make it a very poor example of the spirit of thankfulness and joyousness with which the fraternity greets that treasured day, January 27. “ There is joy in our hearts,” there is gratitude upon our lips, there is a spirit of service in our thoughts, even though its expression escapes from these printed pages. BEGINNINGS (From the Historical number of Kappa Alpha Theta, May, 1899) “In June of 1867 the trustees of Asbury college, now De Pauw university, decided to admit in the following September, for the regular course of instruction and on equal terms with the young men, such young ladies as should present themselves at that time. Accordingly, four young ladies ventured to do this unheard of thing.* * * # “Fraternities were a prominent feature of the college life at this time, there being some six or seven among the young men. For a new cause, however, rivalry now sprang up among these Greeks, each fraternity wishing these four young girls to be identified as its supporters by openly wearing its pin. One of the girls, Bettie Locke, being of a very independent nature, refused various requests of this nature, saying that she pre¬ ferred not to wear a pin, unless she could also be regularly initiated into the fraternity. One of them even went so far as to bring this matter up for consideration, but deciding that they could not constitutionally initiate her, they offered instead to present her with a handsome pin, if she would consent to wear it. Miss Locke refused, however, and in talking it over with her father, Dr. J. W. Locke, he jokingly asked her why she did not
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124 Kappa Alpha Theta organize a fraternity of her own. This suggestion was the seed, which, planted in Miss Locked fertile and energetic brain, ger¬ minated and grew into Kappa Alpha Theta. * * * At length she took into her confidence her intimate friend, Alice 0. Allen. # * # ‘ ‘ Miss Locke had asked her father, who was a fraternity man, to give her a general outline of how a Greek letter fraternity was formed, for she had an idea that there was a vague mysterious something about such a secret society, which would make its organization very different from that of ordinary societies. Accordingly he did as she wished, telling her of the features which would be necessary not, however, borrowing anything from his own fraternity, as has sometimes been claimed. This, and one single question asked a member of another fraternity as to the address of the best jewelers, was the only help received by these two young girls from any member of an already existing fraternity. It was to be distinctly and above all a woman's work. # # * “How to secure a badge that should be in no way inferior to any of the men's fraternity pins, and which should yet be different and distinctly their own, was a question which the girls studied over for some months. * * * Old dictionaries were studied by the hour for pictures of coats of arms and armor, various shapes and designs being conceived, drawn, and discarded, before they finally found a form which suited them. All this was kept a profound secret between these two, for they knew that were their plans discovered they should never be able to carry them through. The matter of the pin they felt to be the all-important one, for should it seem at all inferior, they would be subject to humiliation when it should be compared with the young men's pins, and the inferiority attributed to natural weakness of the sex ; but if they could win respect and admiration by designing a pin equal to any of the others in beauty and meaning, their battle would be half won. * * * “Now had come the time to enlarge their number, and this they felt to be a very important matter. Finally they decided upon two girls, Bettie Tipton and Jennie Fitch, whom they took into their confidence, told their plans, and the four now ordered their pins. “On January 27, 1870 the organization first became known to the college world, when the girls appeared proudly wearing the pin which had cost them so much labor and expense. One can imagine the surprise and consternation this appearance caused ;
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Overseas record 125 the young men astonished and forced to acknowledge the beauty of the pin and the originality of the heads that had designed it ; and the remaining young ladies then in school, disappointed in not being of the charmed circle. Immediately these first four Thetas were nicknamed ‘ ‘ kites/ 9 somewhat to their embarrass¬ ment at first, but this feeling soon wore off, and they came to take pride in the name which is dear to every one of us today. * 1 When we remember that the Founders of our fraternity were not women but merely girls of sixteen and seventeen years of age, we may justly be proud of the wisdom, good sense, and intellectual ability which characterized all their actions, and it is almost a wonder that the fraternity founded by them should have grown and reached its present large dimensions. And we may safely say that had it not been founded upon principles so firm and everlasting, it would not have lived. * * # It is also true that the success of our fraternity depended at the time upon the success of coeducation ; and as this has grown and developed, we have become stronger, our boundaries have extended, and we have attained a degree of prosperity which would have made doubly — yes ten times — happy the hearts of our four oldest sisters could they have foreseen the success of their beloved organization. ’ ’ OVERSEAS RECORD (Continued from November, 1919 issue) UPSILON Mary Janet Fraser: Sailed Nov. 20, 1918. Worked in the Children ’s bureau of American Red Cross as a laboratory techni¬ cian in a French Pouponniere under a little East Indian woman doctor who had received her degree at Philadelphia. Was lo¬ cated just outside the gates of Versailles. When the Poupon¬ niere was turned over to the French in April and the Children ’s bureau closed, went into Canteen service with Red Cross; sta¬ tioned in the Gare du Nord until canteens in Paris were closed in July. Arrived in New York, July 24, 1919. Florence M. Greiner : Canteen worker with the American Red Cross. Left New York Nov. 4, 1918 and returned July 29, 1919. Stationed all the time at Bordeaux, for one month in the station canteen, then in the Bassens embarkation canteen. ALPHA ZETA Mary Anderson was in France eighteen months, returning to America about June 1, 1919. After her ‘ 4 Little Red hut” at
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126 Kappa Alpha Theta Angers, a home center for the hospital nurses, was no longer use¬ ful because the hospital closed, she had charge of a tea-room for the women workers, especially nurses, in Paris. Every after¬ noon she presided at a tea-table where were tea and dainty sand¬ wiches such as we see at home and never experienced anywhere else in France. Her trip home was as a naval officer in charge of the first contingent of War brides. ALPHA ETA Ellen Duffy: Y. M. C. A. Canteen service, stationed at St. Mals, headquarters of the Brittany leave area. Abroad from January to May 1919. Agnes Amis: Y. W. C. A. Recreation secretary at the Foyer des jeune fille at Montpelier. Went over in April 1919 for a year’s (or more) service. Miss Amis introduced and directed tennis, volley ball, baseball, and other games during the summer ; is training a group of French girls to become volunteer leaders for glee club, dramatics, and athletics. ALPHA IOTA Frances Hayes: ex- ’21, an entertainer with Y. W. C. A. Sailed from Canada October 3, 1918, returned to U. S. July 14, 1919. First assignment at Issoudun, the American flying field; then one of two girls in charge of a new hut at Post Montier, here she had charge of and planned all entertainments. Early in 1919 became Y. W. C. A. entertainment secretary for eleven huts and assistant to the army entertainment officer. ALPHA MU Sue Bryan : Served with Hospital Hut department of Red Cross, as a hostess in recreation huts at base hospital centers. She' was across from April 1, 1919 to August 1, 1919. Her services was in these places : Recreation hut in Vosges Mountains, near Verdun; Paris, canteen work; Bazoilles-sur-Meuse, hut work ; Tours, government work. ALPHA XI Mabel Smith Fenton: Went overseas (at her own ex¬ pense) by request of the French high commission in Washington, D. C. early in March 1918, to become a confidential translator in the Maison de la presse, which is the propaganda division of the French ministry of foreign affairs, at Paris. She continued this work until the severity of the bombardment of Paris in July 1918 caused this department to be closed. After this, she volun-
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Overseas record 127 teered to assist in the Red Cross work, and although never in uniform, or on their payroll, she was constantly in Red Cross work until she started home. Her work until after the armistice was searching for Ameri¬ can wounded and sick, in the French hospitals of Paris ; and in this her perfect knowledge of French was of great advantage. She was sent on sick leave to Marseilles in January, after an attack of the grippe, and after returning to Paris was assigned to the Red Cross club for Sorbonne students, where she handled the canteen service and the receptions for French students until her departure from Paris in June 1919. ALPHA PI Emily Covert (now Mrs N. D. Heaton) : U. S. Army base hospital unit 26, the Mayo unit. Assistant chief nurse, work mostly executive at the hospital center of Allerey, where were 20,000 hospital beds. Went abroad June 3, 1918, returned to America March 6, 1919, discharged from army April 14, 1919. ALPHA TAU Katherine Brent Dabney : Red Cross, Tuberculosis bureau. Overseas June 1918 to May 1919. Director of the children’s work in the Open air Sanatorium for pretubercular children at Chateau Hachette in the village of Plessis-Robinson, ten miles south of Paris, from June 1918 to January 1919. Loaned by the Red Cross to the Hoover commission for relief in Belgium and northern France. Later, joined a canteen unit — a children’s school canteen, at Lille, and was with it until April 1919. ALPHA UPSILON Mary Alexander: Army nurses’ corps. Overseas from September 14, 1918 to April 23, 1919. With Base hospital 58 at Rimancourt, then at Mesves hospital center with Base hospital 54. Day Monroe: Y. W. C. A. Manager of the hostess house in Paris known as the “Cambridge and Oxford hotel.” Went overseas December 30, 1918, expects to return in November 1919. Marion Thompson : Red Cross. Searcher at Savenay, where for six months she was Head searcher directing a staff of 14 workers. Abroad from November 20, 1918 to July 14, 1919. BETA DELTA Jane Rider: Red Cross. One of eight American women connected with the American Red Cross canteens in London,
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128 Kappa Alpha Theta who have been invited to become associate members of the “ first to fight” forces by Major Charles U. Gilchrist, commanding officer United States marines in England. The invitation was given as a recognition of the service of these women to the marines and it permits them to wear the marine corps device. In a letter addressed to each of the Red Cross workers, Major Gilchrist said in part: “If it could be done the men of this marine detachment would decorate you with the naval distinguished service cross as a token of our appreciation of the work you have done in the canteen for marines and sailors at No. 52 and No. 40 Grosvenor Gardens, London. “You have, nightly, spent hours at this arduous work, and your invariable cheerfulness and comradeship have done much to reconcile us to our lot of serving behind the fighting front. “The British hospitality has been untiring, but it has been our privilege to receive at your hands the genuine American touch which kept fresh our realization of the charm and sacred¬ ness of the best type of our country’s womanhood, which you so splendidly typify.” ( ?) AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND COMMITTEE Until the last few months it has been one of the problems of your Scholarship fund committee to keep before the girls the knowledge that a Scholarship fund existed and to encourage them to use it. At present we realize the necessity of interesting more Thetas in the contributing side. Hence we are about to make a campaign for money, which I will outline. The explana¬ tion of our needs will follow. We are about to send to all officials of the fraternity, the State chairmen, alumnae chapters and college chapters the little leaflet concerning Scholarship fund affairs compiled in June. We ask all these friends to give the leaflet, its contents and our needs the widest possible publicity. This is to be followed up with letters to the District presidents, showing how many girls in each district have been beneficiaries of the fund, and how much money has been contributed from the district. This we hope will stimulate some rivalry among the District presidents in helping the fund. Then we have one or two unique ideas up our committee sleeve which we will spring when the proper time comes.
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Scholarship fund 129 The explanation of all this activity will follow. In June when the leaflet was compiled the committee had two aims in view: first, to let girls who were in need of financial help know how and where to get it; second, to show to the members of the fraternity, both active and alumnae, the need for further financial support of the fund. When this leaflet was put out in June, the committee basing its judgment upon experience to that date, asserted confidently that a fund of $15,000 would meet all Theta needs. This judgment was based upon the following facts. In the years from 1913-1918 sixty-four loans had been granted, the largest number in any one year being seventeen. In all that time we had never been within one thousand dollars of exhausting that part of our fund available for loans. We expected the fund to increase normally by the annual contribution from the fraternity endow¬ ment fund, from the payment of interest on loans, and from contributions from individuals and chapters. This increase we felt certain would keep pace with the increase in the number of applications for loans. But even a few months have proved how erroneous our judgment was in this respect. Whether it is the result of publicity given the Scholarship fund at convention, or the war, or the high cost of living, the fact remains that in the short period from August 15 to October 15 of 1919 more appli¬ cations were received than ever before in any one year. Another factor which complicates our difficulties is that the girls are now asking, almost without exception, for the maximum loan of $350.00, where formerly many asked for half or for less than half of the maximum. This, of course, is only another manifestation of the high cost of living, but its affect upon our work is to lessen the number of girls whom we can help. Obviously the first purpose of our booklet is being accom¬ plished, the girls know where to come for help. But, unfortun¬ ately, the second purpose has not been so successfully fulfilled. We have not been as busy depositing checks for the fun^, as in drawing them for loans. The actual situation is as follows — for the first time in its existence your committee finds itself forced to ask an applicant to wait for her loan. Indeed, we have at present six on the waiting list. The Grand council has generously come to our aid with a loan but we do not wish to continue the scholarship fund work on borrowed money when hundreds of Thetas will, we feel sure, willingly contribute to the fund when the need is made plain.
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130 Kappa Alpha Theta I wish that I could make each one of my readers feel as the committee does, the great privilege it is to have a part in this work and the real value of it. Letter after letter comes from girls who have benefitted by a loan, expressing gratitude to the fraternity, often in such words as these, “ I cannot express what it has meant to me to be able to finish my college course. I hope I may be able some day to help the Scholarship fund.” Doesn’t that appeal to you? What would it have meant to you, had you had to leave college in your junior year? Maybe you did — to earn money to continue. What would it have meant had you been able to stay on a Scholarship loan ? Think what it often means to the strength of a chapter to be able to retain a strong junior or senior. In June your Scholarship committee thought it could meet the demands of the fraternity with a fund of $15,000; in November we know that we cannot. We are not going to limit our desires for the fund to any definite amount. It must be sufficient to meet the need of every Theta who applies. We beg of you to answer these questions honestly and then to act : Have I contributed personally all that I can possibly afford to the Scholarship fund ? Have I done all that I should to influence my college chapter to contribute to the fund ? Have I done all that I should to influence my alumnae chapter and alumnae friends to contribute to the fund? The responsibility for making possible the graduation of these junior girls is yours, the custodianship only is ours. We shall be glad to deposit your check for any amount from one to one thousand dollars! Maud Philips, Chairman Scholarship Fund Committee ANENT THE BORROWING HABIT! If this war was fought to make the world safe for democracy, the question of next importance is whether it has made a fraternity house safe for a fountain pen. If it was waged to insure the self-determination of peoples, has it succeeded equally as to the self-determination of neckties? If it has managed to stem the sweeping tide of Bolshevism, has it also effected the stemming of the radical communism of headgear — the ultra¬ radical communism of that brother’s allowance which is not extinct by the twentieth day of the month? — K 2 Caduceus .
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OURSELVES IN PRINT ‘ ‘ Could I, would I, take the volumes of Kappa Alpha Theta and reproduce from those pages some interesting historical bits for the Golden-Jubilee issue ?”, so asked the Editor. In spite of the size of the task, it has been extremely interest¬ ing, if for no other reason than its evidence of the changes college literary style passes through, and of the sameness of college life throughout the decades. But, I’ll have to confess that I found the very first volume so interesting that when I was through quoting and commenting on it, there was no space for any later selections. How poetically inclined, how fanciful the imagination of the college girl of 1885 as translated into words! At least so it seems to our very matter of fact direct speech of today, but will later generations think us equally prolix? And how deadly serious and in earnest they are all the time (in print) ! Is it this tradition of serious purpose that keeps out of our magazine today the light touch and humor the editor constantly seeks? But I was to cull from the past, not philosophize and air my views. So here goes. With this aim starts off the Kappa Alpha Theta — “From our own Journal we expect much. We wish to hear from our chapters and to learn something of the aims, objects, and ideas of each. We expect to gain a broader information concerning the colleges in which they are located. We will not neglect literary excellence. Perhaps more than all else we wish to gain an individual and social knowledge of our members. We would like our acquaintance with each other to be at least as intimate as that which we have already established with characters famous in past ages. In short we hope to publish a first class fraternity magazine. It is well to aim high. We want our kite to fly near the sun.” I am not sure it is safe to print this — it is enough to dis¬ courage any one from the editorial job. Just think of knowing Thetas as well as you know Joan of Arc or Juliet! and claiming such a high place in the sun ! In the first number is a brief history of Kappa Alpha Theta. Could (or would, perhaps I should say) any undergraduate of today produce this sentence ? — “The Secret Fraternity is one of the choicest blossoms culled by stu¬ dent hands, and surely a ladies ’ secret society was bound to be organized sooner or later.” So as a logical conclusion, Kappa Alpha Theta was founded. But one fact, no two, from this historical sketch — "there are fourteen active chapters” with an "active membership of about one-hundred-fifty. ’ ’
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132 Kappa Alpha Theta There is an account of the Ann Arbor convention from which we learn that to University of Michigan students — I ‘ The Library is the gem of the buildings and 1 the apple of the eye \ 9 9 Whether this latter is a reference to its value scholastically or a proof that the college library of yesterday like the college library of today was the chief trysting place, we leave to your judgment. Apart from joyful descriptions of social functions there is only one fact regarding the convention divulged in this article and that is — I I At last, after the anxious fears and hopes and planning of years, the white-winged messenger was about to take her flight from Massachusetts to California”, which in the language of today means that Omicron was to be established and Xi was no longer the baby chapter. But those first chapter letters have some phrases we know and the editor abhors today. There is “greetings to all,” there is “most prosperous year in our history,” there is “unusually warm weather,” there is “examinations are coming,” and some of the other trite, everlasting facts that were never news; but there is also a good deal of originality, enough at least to prove chapter letters aren’t always alike. Alpha will — “On the 27th of January celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of our chapter and of the f raternity. ; 9 Beta says — “We are all full of interest in progressive measures and heartily in favor of increasing and extending the fraternity at large. We are flourish¬ ing at home and want to see the organization as a whole, do the same. 9 9 Was Beta the first friend of extension? If so, she is the friend of many of us who never could have been Thetas but for extension. Again Beta says — “We shall be well represented in the Commencement festivities having valedictorian of the Hesperian literary society, senior prophecy on class- day, and five seniors of the twenty-six in college.,, Judging from the pledge lists in the last magazine we will have as many seniors in one chapter some day soon as the whole senior class of Indiana university produced in 1885. Also note, please, that even in that early time the vexed chapter editor had not a nose for real news, for she names not the names of those who carry off these honors, though names are the very breath of life in a news story. Neither has Kappa’s editor a nose for news for she writes — “One of the girls returned and made some very pretty donations to our hall.”
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Ourselves in print 133 Who? What? Pillows? Banners? Or mere eats? Epsilon tells us — “To celebrate our decennial of existence we intend to give a largo reception in the “leafy month of June” to which the high and mighty ones — yclept “ Faculty’ ’ — are to be bidden. Seven representatives from each of the six gentlemen’s fraternities, and all of the ladies of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity will help us to do honor to the Queen of Fraterni¬ ties. , 9 Theta starts out thus — ( ( The guardian goddess of the Hellenic world, whoever she may be, has been most propitious to Theta chapter.” While Iota pleads for a magazine whose — “entire object shall be the spread of fraternity news. Our colleges have purely literary publications, and we shudder to conceive of their forlorn and rifled state were we to withdraw our help and devote it to the Kappa Alpha Theta. For the love of humanity at large we implore you to make no demands on our literary exchequer I f 9 This, from a college where women take such a small part in student activities, arouses our curiosity as to who were the gifted Thetas who kept the Cornell magazines going in those days. There is just one page of alumnae personals and there are three names, at least, among the dozen Thetas there mentioned that are still well known in Theta affairs — Mabel Banta, who as Mrs. Beeson designed our present journal cover; Jessie Wright, the well known and delightful Mrs Whitcomb of many conventions ; and Cora Pierson, Mrs Hopkins, the god-mother of Alpha Upsilon chapter. All three of these Thetas now have Theta daughters. Another personal points to the youth of the fraternity, for this “lady” is hailed as the “chapter's only married Alumnae” — at least we hope it is a sign of youth, for would Theta have flourished and attracted college girls long if it had been primarily a bachelor girls' society — no, that is too modern a phrase, I am afraid there is nothing left to do but to use the phrase of that day “an old maid's club”? Many a later editor might not agree with the argument in the second issue that — “No one will suppose that the members of Kappa Alpha Theta need the journal as a means of improvement in writing. As students in college they all have ample opportunity for such work in their regular, collegiate course, in the college papers where such articles are expected, in the literary societies expressly for such purposes, and in the ordinary society work car¬ ried on by each chapter. 9 9 Undergraduates of today aren’t Study programs to be preferred to the implication of that last clause ? Oh yes, they did write stories,
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134 Kappa Alpha Theta essays, poems — perhaps we had better call them all just papers — for chapter meetings. There are a lot of these efforts published in early issues of the journal; here is one on Washington and London , one on The women of Shakespeare; yes, and already the questioning of secrecy in one called Why secret. You supporters of secrecy read this argument and see how it fits into your modern views. In the third issue appears a familiar feature of the fraternity magazine of today — the exchange section. An ever enduring truth is there recorded, though not in the words of today — ‘ ‘ The perusal of our exchanges gives us a clearer knowledge of the spread of the fraternity system than it would be possible for columns of statistics to do.” Fraternities are still “ bitter enemies/ ’ yet this exchange section praises every one in general : is it because they help the editor fill the space that seemed unfillable? as “many solemnly promised contributions have not been received.’ ’ (Does that sound familiar?). As to the Arrow: “ Doubt not that with such skillful hands to send it singing on its errand, the universal verdict will be * Der Apf el mitten durche geschossen ’ 1 Delta Upsilon Quarterly: “We were much interested in a very original and striking oration ‘The Problem of Life’.” From Sigma Chi is a lengthy quotation on the everlasting problem of rivalry in a rush, but we learn that conditions are improving in some of our colleges “most of them in the West,” and so the leaven of western democracy begins to intrude even on fraternity conservatism. Phi Kappa Psi’s Shield is “characterized by true western originality, energy, and progression” and already Theta’s editor has acquired enough experience to applaud and quote to the length of one page this editor’s scold at the writers of chapter letters — sounds like most any fraternity magazine of today, though now chapter editors would hardly be referred to as “young St. John the Baptists” or located west of “the Father of Waters.” The Delta Gamma Anchora is “a bright, energetic Journal,” though the editor disagrees with the article on Non-fraternity ladies , which she quotes. Perhaps you’d be interested in the way the editor of that day answers the question why all college girls (excuse me, I should have said “ladies”) aren’t fraternity ladies. 1 1 First, intelligent, agreeable young ladies, who, though they have had invitations, do not care to join a fraternity. Second, intelligent young ladies
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Ourselves in print 135 who lack the requisite qualities of a fraternity member. Third, young ladies who are agreeable and perhaps talented in some directions, who are still not up to the intellectual standard. Fourth, and a rare class in col- lege, young ladies who, though they might have other qualifications, are wanting in principle. It is a self-evident fact that any one of these would be out of place in a fraternity, and that it would be neither for their own benefit or pleasure, nor that of the chapter to join them. Consequently there is td valid reason for any one not a member of a fraternity to feel grieved or slighted on that account.” We wonder! Is it so “self-evident” and is there no “valid rea¬ son”? Logic always can arrive where it will. From Delta Tau Delta’s magazine is quoted an article on the value of a fraternity that sounds like today’s fillers, though we are assured it is quoted because “as applicable to the ladies’ as to the gentlemen’s societies.” The Sigma Nu Delta ‘ ‘ considers topics exclusively fraternal, the propriety of knowing ‘ no north, south, east or west' in their fraternity relations is discussed, the pros and cons being almost equally forcible/ ' Surely that is not a modern note. But back to chapter letters for some things different from today — “This year did not bring much material for ladies ' fraternities and we wish only congenial members to work on especially ours, for we are very exclusive/ ' “Last spring we had some trouble with the faculty, but the board of trustees took our part and we came out ahead, as heretofore/ ' “Endymion declared everything in the world depended on women of stamina, grace, and common sense, and it behooves us, if we wish to be a moving power, to discriminate and be judicious in our choice of new girls and take precaution to guard against uncongenial members.” “For the past seven years, with one exception, a Theta has graduated.” “We surely do miss ‘our four' of '85, but we wiU be obliged to under¬ go the reality of not having them at our meetings.” “We hope to increase our number as soon as we can find good ma¬ terial. It is, of course, a hard-fought battle to win the girl we want, as we have two rival societies, and you know we are all so nice it is hard for new girls to choose. But as ‘all's fair in love and war', we stand an equal chance with the rest — a better chance, we think — and ‘to the victor belongs the spoils'. Sometimes the wars are fiercely waged and, though hot work for the contestants, it is fun for lookers on, and when the conquerors go off victorious with flying colors, are like Alexander the Great, ‘looking for other worlds'.” “We extend a special welcome to all who may this fall become Thetas, and we hope they may all become famous in the future as we expect to do.” But before the first volume is finished the awe of a fraternity magazine is somewhat allayed and chapter letters begin to be
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136 Kappa Alpha Theta more frank about the real life they lead, though we still hear of “literary programs,” reports on “Henry Irving's presentation of ‘Faust/ ” and girls who “would rather have almost anything happen to them than to get a low grade.” Though I have covered all the alloted space and only reviewed the first volume I can not resist giving you two more extracts. Beta writes : ‘ < We may say mankind includes womankind ; it surely must, as our fraternity admits no man except upon occasions, when by special invitation, he may be allowed to break bread with us ; or through his own kindly feel¬ ing toward the girls, possibly some particular girl, he is received at our outer door. He asks if Maud, Ella, Emma, or Grace have company home, sometimes is kind enough to take under his care several young ladies, and then again only one, seeming to think that two is company, three a crowd. At any rate, a nice thing of evenings when the stars only give us light. Some few, at odd times, have experienced a lonely home-going when it seemed we did not even have light from the stars.” And here is the gay whirl at the University of Kansas as recorded by Kappa in April, 1886. Don’t ever again let the alumnse get away with that tale of the simple social life in their day. “The boys have been pretty gay this winter. The Phi Gamma Deltas give * hops ’ every two weeks. They are informal affairs but exceedingly pleasant. The Phi Kappa Psis also have parties every two weeks. The Betas have only given three parties since the Xmas vacation, but they make up in quality what they lack in number. The Phi Delta Thetas gave their first party the 28th of March. All the girls went home hoping it would not be the Phis last party. The Sigma Nus have had one party. I have only spoken of the parties to which our girls were invited. The I. Cs. have had a good many ‘ grubs’. The Sigma Chis, Kappa Kappa Gammas and the Kappa Alpha Thetas have been doing nothing in the way of enter¬ taining. ’ ’ Mrs Halsey W. Wilson, Upsilon, was the chairman of the committee of the National American woman suffrage association, appointed by Mrs Catt to prepare a memorial pamphlet of Dr. Shaw. Under Mrs Wilson’s able super¬ vision, guided by her fine taste and wide experience with literary work, there has appeared this fall a most attractive memorial pamphlet, In memory of Anna Howard Shaw . The little book is receiving most favorable comment in all the book reviews.
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A THETA’S LIFE AMONG THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS Kentucky is famous for its fine horses which have been bred for years on the rich blue grass farms. Here life has always been easy and luxurious. Yet half a day’s ride on the train brings you to the mountains — a region different in every respect from the blue grass country and so extensive that it could include the two states of Massachusetts and Connecticut. In late years a few railroads have been built in this mountainous region, open¬ ing up some of the coal lands, but most of the section is still un¬ developed. Customs that were common a hundred years ago still prevail and, as some one has said, “In these mountains dwell our contemporary ancestors.” My experience has been in Hyden. This little town is the county seat of the most rugged county, Leslie, in Kentucky and to reach it you must travel by nag sixteen miles. During the first mile of the journey you find yourself in the bed of a very rocky creek and then suddenly approaching and at last over the top of a steep mountain. On the other side of this mountain you strike a river which has to be forded five times, there being no bridges, and which becomes impassable after heavy rains. On all sides there are hills and scattered all the way along the trail are tiny cabins and a few houses. As many of the former have no windows a hole is cut in them for summer use and in winter an old quilt is strung across this would-be window. Ways and means of living are most primitive. Adjoining each cabin is a corn patch which supplies the bread for the family and, in some cases, also the moonshine. The interiors of these huts contain little furniture except beds and home made chairs. In the fall and winter strings of shucky beans, pumpkins, red peppers, and pop corn hang from the rafters. As for the housekeeping, it is all done in the hardest way and would seem utterly “impossible” to us who are accustomed to every device and method of con¬ venience. Arriving in Hyden you are surprised to find some educated people there, for quite a number of the natives have been away to school and returned there to live in real houses. Then there are a few “foreigners,” i. e. people from outside the mountains. It is to this class that we belong. My husband is pastor of the Presbyterian church in Hyden and he and I also help out with the school. A church manse and settlement house comprise our buildings. They are modern in style but were built entirely by
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138 Kappa Alpha Theta native labor from material on the surrounding land. We have tried to make our buildings serve as examples for our neighbors and have succeeded in making them objects of curiosity and wonder, at least. Our water supply comes from a spring two hundred feet above the house level. When the pipe was being hauled from the railroad the workingmen observed, “Most pipe I ever seed; what’s it fur?” After the driver had explained that the pipe was for the preacher to bring water from a spring some one remarked, “What’s the matter, is he too lazy to pack it?” The surprise and wonder at our bathroom was amusing. One native would not believe that the water ran upstairs for he said he knew that water ran down, not up. The settlement house was built as a home for the teacher and as a social center, for the young people needed a place where they could find wholesome recreation. Eight girls chosen from different parts of the county make up the household and here they have an opportunity not only to attend school but also to receive training in practical homemaking. As a mother myself I am particularly interested in the babies. The women here never have proper care when the babies come and know nothing of artificial feeding. In fact there is a great deal of superstition along these lines. I have an outfit which I lend and, while the young mothers are glad to be cared for in my way, the older women have little faith in methods other than their own. Aunt Rach, a dear friend in spite of differences of opinion, told me she had had ten children and never any doctor — all she did was to take a pinch of gun powder. At one time her grandchild had a bad case of rash and I took her some boric acid. At the next call I noticed it was still unused and inquired for the child. The grandmother said she had not used the medicine but had found the seventh son of a seventh son to blow in its mouth and that was sure cure. A man walked in from the country last spring and asked me what to feed his three months’ old baby on. As he put it, “Hits ma gone plumb dry and it ’pears like it collies it right smart when we feed it beans and cornbread.” I gave him the only bottle I had at the time, fixed a feeding and explained as simply as possible each step in the preparation. The next day I went to see the family and to find out what was needed. After climb¬ ing three fences I finally found the tiny windowless cabin. The mother, who was sitting on the one whole chair, was piecing quilts before a smouldering log fire. The baby, wrapped in a man’s old coat, lay on the dirtiest bed I’ve ever seen. I ex-
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Among Southern Highlanders 139 plained that I had come to show her how to bathe the baby and to fix the bottle. The minute I stepped inside the door I was surrounded by five poorly nourished children who examined me and my saddlebag with keen interest. The mother invited me to sit down and pathetically told me that half her children were dead. (I wondered there were any alive.) Never have I worked under such difficulties. There was no stove so I heated the water in a frying pan over the log fire. The wood was green and would not burn well and, the frying pan having no cover, the water became grayish with soot. The rusty wash pan, which had to do duty for the baby as well as for the dishes, leaked and I had to stuff the holes with rags before using it. To cap the climax, if I shut the cabin door I could not see and if I opened it there was too much draught. But at last the bath was finished and I asked for the bottle. The mother drew it out of her dress where, she explained she kept it so that it would be “set up.” As I labored over the sterilizing in the same coverless frying pan I realized how “ awful’ ’ it must be to cook for seven people in this primitive way. This was one of the worst homes I have visited but yet there are hundreds little better. During good weather my husband spends a part of his time preaching in the country school houses and frequently after the sermon gives a talk on current events. At first there was a great deal of opposition to “sent in” preachers who worked for money but this feeling is gradually breaking down and giving way to friendliness. Many of the native preachers cannot even read and it sometimes requires a stretch of the imagination to think of their talks as sermons. On one occasion one of them actually took his text from “one eye John.” The audience was later asked to “repeal” to God in prayer and then to “consume” their seats. Our work here is encouraging because the people are respon¬ sive and eager for help. Yet, on the other hand, it is very dis¬ couraging to see such dire need and to be unable, because of lack of funds, to give help more freely and widely. Schools are the great need among the mountaineers. They are the only means of saving the communities from the moral corruption brought about in part by the whiskey habit. The country schools are open only a few months out of the year and are very poorly equipped. Furthermore the teachers have only, on the average, an eighth grade education. The words of a man whose whole life has been lived in the Kentucky mountains where he thought out unaided his ideals of education, and who gave one hundred
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140 Kappa Alpha Theta and thirty-six acres of land for the establishment of a Settlement school among the mountaineers, set forth the need of schools here: “I want to tell my reasons why I want a school here. There is so many of our young folks growing up here not even taught up as to Morality. I see no chance to better it without we teach the young generation that they can’t never prosper while they follow the old ones’ Example. I have been thinking about this some thirty years or more. The old Devil’s a-working his part and we have got to try to teach ’em up better. Hit’s lack of knowledge of science that’s caused the trouble, and with good teaching seems like they would be greatly bettered. There being lots of whiskey and wickedness in the community where my grandchildren must be raised was a very serious thing for me to study about. My idea was that if we could get a good school here and get the children interested it would help Moral¬ ize the country. We are sending money to the foreign Missions when we need it right here among us. It has been a Mystery to me why folks do it. Of course, one soul’s as good as another, but I believe Charity begins at home. I wouldn’t ask a person to help us if they need it at home, but if they have anything for Missions I think they ought to help their own people. “As I never have attempted to write such a letter before and me a poor scholar I will close with many more things on my mind than I could write about.” Rebecca Watson Buyers , Brown 1911 SCHOLARSHIP HONORS COLLEGE YEAR, 1918-19 Delta Sigma Xi — Josephine Green ’19 Phi Beta Kappa — Abby Schaefer ’19 Theta Sigma Phi — Harriet McCormick ’19 Marie Cronin ’19 Kappa Phi Beta Kappa — Frances Hitchcock Elsie Patterson Lambda Phi Beta Kappa — Frances Dutton Freshman honors — Eleanor Hutton Merle Smalley Thelma Edmunds
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Scholarship honors 141 Mu Phi Beta Kappa — Virginia Lewis ’19 Magna cum lauda — Virginia Lewis 19 Marie Charlton *22 Cum Lauda — Harriet Dunn ’20 Susan Jenkins ’20 Helen Miller ’20 Florence Pappenhagen ’20 Omicron Cum lauda — Helen Hargis Marion Neula Lane prize for highest scholarship for four years — Helen Hargis. Scholarship society applying for Phi Beta Kappa charter — Marion Neula Rho Phi Beta Kappa — Mary Helen Allensworth Tau One of first six in her college class — Mary Elizabeth Torrance Mary Clayton Pauline Fera Winners of university scholarships — Esther Smiley Elizabeth Brown Phi Beta Kappa, Cum magna lauda , fellowship in psychology — Phyllis Bartelme Chi Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum lauda, second honors in Spanish — Hilda de Brine Graduate cum lauda — Dorothy Dimmick Rachel Sumner Graduated 4 ‘With honor ’ ’■ — Margaret Sen tell Psi Phi Beta Kappa — Mary Ashby, also winner of English scholar¬ ship Helen Skinner, also winner of chemistry scholarship Margaret Sperry, also winner of fellowship in English at University of Bordeaux, France Cora Mautz Theta Sigma Phi — Adelin S. Briggs
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142 Kappa Alpha Theta Omega , Phi Beta Kappa — Elizabeth Burnham ’19 Alpha Gamma Phi Beta Kappa — Mary Conway '19 Highest average in chapter — Audrey Smith ’20 Alpha Iota Phi Beta Kappa — Jean Brookes Fellowship in economics — Mary Jane Fields Alpha Mu Phi Beta Kappa — Julia McDonald, also winner of Gregory scholarship prize Volker sociology prize — Virginia Wheat Alpha Pi Phi Beta Kappa — Merle Rutherford Grace Loughin Alpha Tau Phi Beta Kappa — Marguerite Reid Alpha Upsilon Tau Delta Pi (Phi Beta Kappa standards and charter appli¬ cant) — Helen Hunter. Graduated 4 ‘with honor” — Anne Hawley Laura Neiswanger Freshman scholarship cup winner — Doris Thompson Scholarship ring winner — Dorothy Crane Beta Beta Phi Beta Kappa — Clara Peery Beta Delta Freshman honors — Viola Steinfeld Sophomore honors — Jean Slavens Junior honors — Ellen Boulton Phi Kappa Phi (Phi Beta Kappa standards and charter appli¬ cant) — Mary Estill. CHAPTER HISTORY (Some interesting extracts from old Journals) Alpha Beta: “About the year 1890 a little society was founded at Swarthmore college called the Phi Delta Pi. Its char¬ ter members were, some of them, most original girls, and conse¬ quently the whole thing was unique. The initiations were weird,
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Chapter history 143 having only a desire for pure fun as the reason for their being ; later, as the society grew, there was more to it than the mere initiation, and its characteristics became those of a fraternity. The badge was a penny cut in half, polished on one side and marked <£ A II. One day, after this club had grown past its greatest usefulness, it was proposed that a real fraternity chapter be organized. The girls had grown apart somewhat, for various causes, and the founders of the club, as seniors, were very differ¬ ent from the little sophomores who had so many deep interests in common. Just before the ’91 ’s graduates, three 92 ’s, members of Phi Delta Pi, decided definitely for a fraternity, and that fra¬ ternity Kappa Alpha Theta. After a great deal of talk on the subject, and plans and dreams, they went to the Dean. She listened quietly to them and then said: “Three girls have had the same thought ; you had better see them before you take fur¬ ther steps.’ ’ ‘ ‘ This we did, and after the first surprise was over, six of us met in the Dean’s room ; there, in the greatest secrecy, we decided which of our mutual friends should join us for charter members. Then letters flew from place to place while we were learning what must be done in order to obtain the charter. Finally all was settled and in October 1891 Alpha Beta chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta was founded, the first woman’s fraternity at Swarthmore. ’ ’ Alpha Epsilon: “One day when the writer was a wee fresh¬ man, she was suddenly and mysteriously confronted in a corner of the hall by two upperclass girls whom she had never seen before. They asked her to meet them and some of their friends at a certain girl’s home on a certain afternoon. It was a rash thing to do, but the freshman thought she should like the upper- class girls, so she promised to go. She had been asked not to mention this engagement to any of her college friends, but when she reached this particular girl’s house, on this particular after¬ noon, she found, to her surprise and pleasure, that nearly all of her best friends were there. “It was then and there she received her first lesson on the subject of Greek letter fraternities. The scheme unfolded to the freshmen by the upperclass girls was as follows : They had de¬ cided to form a chapter of some Greek letter society at Brown ; they had looked the field of Greek letter societies over, and had decided that Kappa Alpha Theta was, beyond a doubt, the most desirable fraternity to choose; the first thing to do was to or¬ ganize themselves into a local society ; and they dared to hope that they might sometime be admitted into Kappa Alpha Theta.
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144 Kappa Alpha Theta ‘ 1 The freshmen were happy to help organize the local society, and the band of eighteen girls became known to the world at large as ‘ Tri-Kappa. ’ Perhaps this is a good time to tell a little secret" which there is no reason for keeping any longer, but which we have never told to any one ; that K K K meant nothing what¬ ever but “Karacter, Kulturc, Knowledge or as we sometimes interpreted it “tri Kappa (Alpha Theta ).” “The next stage in our progress is marked by a note, still treasured as a precious memento by the same freshman, which reads: 'If you have fully made up your mind to join us we should like to have you meet with us tomorrow afternoon. One of our girls will meet you at the Hoppin homestead building at 5:30. Bring a cup, saucer, and spoon for chocolate, and your luncheon. Yours very truly, Ida Evelyn Waite/ * From the Hoppin homestead we were conducted to the place which was our meeting place for the rest of that year * * * It was a large, pleasant room in a private school building, about a mile from the college ; and whatever else may be said about it, it certainly had the merit of being secret , for we are sure that no one about college ever had the remotest idea where the Tri Kap¬ pas met. For a year and a half the little society flourished” — then came the good news of a charter granted. Alpha: “The organization of the first Greek letter fraternity among women met with much the same attitude which the ad¬ mission of women to college had experienced. “One of the minor difficulties was that of going to and . returning from the meetings. At that time the sidewalks of Greencastle were not in their present improved condition, and as the electric light system was not yet in existence, wayfarers were often compelled on dark nights to carry lanterns. ’ y Rho: “Away back in January, 1887, five little barbarian chums were somewhat startled when one day they learned from Frank Wheeler, a Sigma Chi friend, that there were other fra¬ ternities in the college world besides Kappa Kappa Gamma. He was most enthusiastic in his praise of Kappa Alpha Theta. It was at this time that two of our girls were asked to join Kappa Kappa Gamma. As this threatened to break up our little crowd, the idea of forming a new fraternity was pleasing to us. With the help of this wise Sigma Chi and two other learned brothers, the application was duly drawn up and mailed. Sigma Chi was our staunch friend, and some of the Phi Delta Thetas (all those who were not engaged to Kappas) did all in their power to help us get that charter.
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Chapter history 145 “ Well do we remember that anxious time when we were being investigated— the alternate periods of hope and despair. Great was the rejoicing when Kate Wilder Cross came from Lawrence to initiate us on April 7, 1887. The Sigma Chis offered their hall for the initiation so that we had the proper environment to add impressiveness to the occasion. “For a time we were so pleased and proud that we never gave a thought to initiating anyone ; but it soon dawned upon our self-satisfied minds that evidently it was the proper thing to initiate. Then came the difficult task of deciding upon some one who would suit us all. But at last one girl was found who seemed to us worthy of the honor. During the next four years five other girls appeared in our midst who satisfied our very ex¬ acting requirements. But at no time did our active chapter roll exceed nine.” Tau: “In the spring of 1887 the idea was first suggested ot founding a chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta at Northwestern. By the close of the term four girls were banded together. By the last of September three more girls were pledged, and, with the perfect number, seven, we began to be impatient to have the mystries unfolded. But large bodies are said to move slowly and we thought the Grand chapter deliberated far too long. “We had thought about it and written about it all summer, and since the beginning of the term the secret conferences had been of daily almost hourly occurrence. If the walls ° in the Woman’s hall could speak, what tales they could tell of the excited talk of seven girls with a secret. Everybody knew something was in the air, but knew not just what, though con¬ jectures were many— the college was as anxious as we that the mystery should be solved. “From that room, one rainy, disagreeable afternoon, two of our number, protected by mackintoshes and unbrellas, betook themselves to the telegraph office to beseech Alpha chapter to please hurry— we couldn’t wait much longer. This pitiful plea brought the speedy reply that two of Alpha, ’s members wou soon be there. Then the scene changes and the next picture which comes to my mind is the place of initiation, two rooms in the Avenue house.” Omega: “When in 1888 Lulu Heacock and Agnes Cary came to Berkeley from the University of Pacific, they found the num¬ ber of women students small, the class spirit strong, much strong¬ er than the college spirit, so that it was almost impossible for the
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146 Kappa Alpha Theta girls of one class to become acquainted with those of another class. If you were a freshman and admired an upperclassman there was not much chance that you would ever do more than admire her from a distance. * * * “With great cleverness they (Lulu Heacock and Agnes Cary) set to work to get together twelve charter members. Instead of trying to break through class lines and form a set or clique and so stir up the whole college, they very deliberately studied the four classes to decide upon eight undergraduates who had the highest reputations for beauty of character and general standing, irrespective of whether they knew them personally or whether the girls knew each other. When they had decided on almost all they began with the seniors. Then they had, with their own, four names that proved irresistible to the others. I shall never forget the day I — only a sophomore — was invited. “ ‘Will you join a local society organized for the purpose of applying to one of the national fraternities for a charter ? ’ ‘ Who are members of the society?’ ‘Lulu Heacock, Agnes Cary, Ruth Hobson, Grace de Fremery, — 9 ‘That is enough — I need noth¬ ing more — I will jump at the chance to belong to anything those girls belong to.’ “Not one of them was personally known to me, we had merely a nodding acquaintance, passing in the halls or on the campus. I had often dreamed of how splendid it would be to really know such a girl as Agnes Cary, so bright, so gifted. But it had never occurred to me, that I should do anything but dream — and then to think that the first time she spoke to me she put her arm about me and held me tight while my wondering ears heard her say, ‘I like you, I am glad you are to be one of us, I was afraid you would refuse ! 9 I walked on air. My feelings were, I am sure, only an illustration of the feelings of others. Truly, the charter members of Omega made an ardent mutual admiration society. “When ten undergraduates were pledged two alumnse were chosen, our twelve was complete and all was ready. So quickly and so quietly had the work been done that the rest of the college suspected nothing and when, on the morning of June 1, after an initiation that had extended well into the night before, twelve girls appeared proudly wearing black and yellow bows, all college was excited.”
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3n mpmortam Marcia Bisbee The whole college community mourns with Alpha Pi the loss of Marcia Bisbee. Her death occurred November 15 at Eagle Rock City, California. Marcia was bom in Azalia, Michigan, but came to North Dakota as a young girl. She graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1898 and secured her M.A. in 1900 and was engaged as an instructor in the mining engineering department until 1912. She then went to Mexico, where she had mining interests, and worked as a mining expert. Being forced to leave Mexico, she moved to Los Angeles and was assistant curator in the Exposition park museum. When ill health came on, she moved to Eagle Rock City. . Quiet and unassuming, yet her personality has left its im¬ pression on all who knew her. It is difficult to do justice to her charm She had a splendid intellect, keen and brilliant. She was fair-minded and just, and her manner won her friends everywhere. Deepest sympathies is extended to her mother, Mrs. S. E. Williams. Margaret Dodge Margaret Dodge, Rho, died at her home in Fremont, Nebras¬ ka, May 9, from the effects of the Influenza. She was not well during the first semester and was forced to leave college in Janu¬ ary. Through all her illness she was very brave and cheerful. At the time Margaret left college, she was president of the chapter and very active. She was well known in college and was dearly loved by all who knew her. All Rho girls held her doubly dear, for they had lived with and loved her for three years. Never tiring in her efforts to make all happy about her, she was an inspiration to her friends. We miss Margaret and her sweet charm, but the fact that she was once with us helps us all to be truer Thetas and lead nobler lives. I am sure all Thetas who knew her, express more Theta spirit through profiting by her example, for she was a Theta in every sense of the word. Margaret Howes
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HEAR, HEAR YE! Thetas in college 1918-19 but not now Thetas who have moved or married since APRIL 1, 1919 Over 300 of you are entitled to maga¬ zines, either on two year badge pre¬ miums or on life subscriptions. But you are getting NO Magazines WHY? You have failed to do your part — failed to send name and address to Editor Come Across! Help Us Out! Write that postal today
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CHAPTER NEWS Editors, please, please , read the directions in the Manual that was sent you in September; and then please heed the instructions therein. We thank you I Faults that glared at us from copy for this issue and which should be avoided in the future: 1. Letters without any heading, or with incorrect heading. 2. Letters without date and signature, or with same after personals rather than at end of letter. 3. Misspelled frequently — Panhellenic, alumnro. 4. Some of our editors persist still in going to 1 ( school. ’ ’ 5. Many editors still love the round about method of noting the date of an event. ALPHA— DE PAUW UNIVERSITY After the excitement of rush, the even tenor of De Pauw’s way is being religiously pursued. Nearly all the campus honor¬ ary organizations have held their elections, and Theta was for¬ tunate in winning her share of the honors. Margaret Laughlin and Cassandra Love were elected to Mortar Board; Frances Hester and Dorothy Neff to Duzcr Du, dramatic organization; Edith Watson was elected to Student council, to the Mirage staff, and acted as chairman of the Big Sister committee; Margaret Pearson was elected to the Mirage staff and pledged to the musical organization ; Persis White was voted vice-president of the freshman class ; Jeannette Benedict, Pauline Wilhelm, Mild¬ red Benton, Helen Shaffer, Margaret Pearson, and Edna Zink made Glee club. Margaretta Stevenson was elected to Tusitala, a literary organization ; Georgia Wilhelm, Evelyn Wiley, Mildred Briggs, and Lois Reeves made University orchestra; Cassandra Love has been given an important role in the Duzer Du produc¬ tion. Theta Sigma Phi has just been installed at De Pauw, and Margaret Laughlin, Elizabeth Iliff, and Margaretta Stevenson are charter members of the organization. De Pauw’s “Old Gold” day was successful this year except for an untimely downpour. But the old-fashioned De Pauw “pep” was back again — the kind of “pep” we used to have before the war, and so no one minded the rain. We are still eagerly looking forward to the Founders ’-day celebration in January, and we hope that every single Theta who possibly can will be here on January 17. 25 November 1919 Margaretta Stevenson
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150 Kappa Alpha Theta Genevieve Briggs, Ethel Rottman, Fern Sprague, Helen Hanna, Grace Whitsell, Mary Jane Hogshire, Freda Arthur, Margery Dick and Elsie Marshall Davidson visited the house on “Old Gold” day. BETA— INDIANA UNIVERSITY Beta, after two months of college, finds herself steadily pushing on in college activities and in other ways winning merits for the fraternity. Last year Theta conceded her place as head of the woman’s fraternities in scholarship to Delta Gamma winter term and to Kappa Kappa Gamma spring term, but now we are striving to regain Beta’s place at the head of scholarship. Among our girls who are active in honorary clubs : Gertrude Benner, is a member of the Psychology and Browning clubs; Dorothy Foreman, Psychology and Shortridge clubs; Esther Jackson, Browning, French, Theta Sigma Phi, Garrick clubs; Julia Tutewiler, member of Shortridge, Garrick, French, and Psychology clubs; Glenna Taber, member of Euclidean circle, and Spanish club ; Louise Wills, member of French, Psychology and Shortridge clubs; Edna Lee Hind, Shortridge club; Louise Ashbaucher, head of social committee Women’s league ; Magdelene Mitchell, Economics club; Julia Fennel, Garrick club, Pan- hellenic ; Caroline McMath, member of Garrick club, and Board of Women’s athletic association; Lorena Ray, Home economics, Shortridge, W. A. A., and Theta Sigma Phi ; Victoria Gross, vice- president Y. W. C. A. and member of W. A. A. ; Mary Louise O’Merra, assistant instructor in swimming; Harriet Rawles, W. A. A.; Marie Fields, Shortridge and Spanish clubs; Anne John¬ ston, Cabinet Y. W. C. A., French and Spanish clubs, and W. A. A. ; Lola Noble and Mary Louise Bliss, Glee club, Eleanor Poynter, Arbutus board ; Betty Fisher, freshman commission of Y. W. C. A. Now comes the fiftieth anniversary of Theta. The celebra¬ tion is to be in Indianapolis, Riley room of the Claypool, January 17. Every Beta chapter alumna just must be present to make the day complete. This means you. 5 December 1919 Blendean J . Clute. Ruth Innis and Russell Kirkpatrick, B 0 n, were married Nov. 19. Hazel Birch Worrell visited the chapter recently. Katherine Hancock, Lois Nicholson Kunkel, Imo Brendel Dunn, Betty Klinsick Maddox, and Fern Brendel Metzger visited Beta, Nov. 19. GAMMA— BUTLER CHAPTER Gamma is devoting all her energies toward scholarship. It is always our aim to stand high in scholarship for its own sake but this semester we have an added incentive. We are on the last lap
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Chapter news 151 to getting the Scholarship cup which is offered by the city Pan- hellenic to the fraternity holding the highest average for three successive semesters. We have stood first for two semesters and now for the final one! As a special inducement, Mr. Dyer, a loyal Theta husband, has offered any girl making an average of eighty-five or above, a silver Theta bar-pin. Then, too, there may be a spread or some such celebration. The thought of all these festivities, however, we are trying to keep in the back¬ ground, for we realize that there is grave danger in thinking too much of the rewards of labor before they have been earned. Besides our strenuous efforts in the line of scholarship, we have been busy building up our chapter. The first thing we did was to have the finest kind of an initiation. Mrs E. L. Mick, one of our faithful alumnae, threw open her beautiful home to us and there on October 4, we initiated: Virginia Barney, Oleine Tresidder, Virginia Moorehead, Meta and Hilda Lieber, Mary Richman, Mary Agnes Sho waiter, Anne Lockhead, Lydia Jame¬ son, Gretchen Craig, Margaret Williams, Mary Howard. We had as guests, our District president, Grace Philpott, the Grand vice-president, Mary Ashby, and many Gamma and other alum¬ nae. After it was over we felt that our new sisters had grasped, in so far as they could at that time, the real spirit of Kappa Alpha Theta. During the first month of college, a sorrowful and joyful event took place in Gamma. We lost our trusted and loved chapter adviser, Miss Sarah Cotton. Her duties as assistant to the president of Butler college had become too numerous. She felt that she must give up her work with us. We do not feel that we have lost her, for she has assured us that she will always be ready to help in any way. We were very fortunate, however, for we were not long without an official helping hand, for Mrs Walter Krull (Clara Lancaster) consented to help steer Gamma and we are all very proud to have her as our guide. There are so many things to tell about such things as our Halloween dance, the tea the pledges gave us, the pledges’ meetings, and our new House fund, but the editor has wisely set a limit on the length of chapter letters so I can only let the readers guess about all these other things. 2 December 1919 Frieda Steinmann *23 Helen Belle McClain was initiated Dec. 1. *18 Mary Belle Pigman was married to James Simms, A T A, Nov. 12, 1919. Gamma was proud to affiliate Helen Thomas Arnold from Beta. We have pledged Corinne Wilson and Margaret Wolford, Indianapolis.
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152 Kappa Alpha Theta ’20 The engagement is announced of Lois Blount and Herman Sheedy, A T A. >23 Mary Richman is engaged to Claude Sumner, A X A. ’20 Another Gamma engagement is that of Louise Stewart to Max Baker, A X A. DELTA— UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Twenty one girls registered this fall, enthused for starting an¬ other year with a successful rushing season. The result of a round of dinners, picnics, and luncheons was that on pledge day, Octo¬ ber 4, we pledged ten girls whom we are now proud to introduce. One pledge, Nancy Browning, of Benton, is a junior. The freshman pledges are: Mary Hart, Benton; Emma Fey, Muriel Morgan, Louise Bacon, Peoria; Claris Ritter, Charlotte Van Pelt, Margaret Cobb, Chicago; Mildred Herrick, Farcer Cit y >; and Alice Bumstead, Colorado Springs. We are happy to receive three affiliates this year: Dorothy Allen, Gamma; Margaret McQuiston, Alpha; and Virginia Fox, Beta Gamma. Although we rejoice over so many new girls we miss greatly the eight seniors who graduated last June. Home-coming was a most exciting and happy event for the whole university. Many Delta alumnae were back for the whole week-end of Nov. 1. The winning of the foot-ball game from Chicago, a most unexpected victory, served as an added incentive for a gala week-end. Saturday evening we had a banquet at the chapter house when all Thetas, new and old, were able to meet and really get acquainted. Several alumnae remained for chain service Sunday morning. Delta has taken her usual interest in campus activities this year. Martha Humphrey ’20 is president of Y. W. C. A. Harriet Fera succeeded Dorothy Gibson as woman's editor of the Illio, the college annual. This position is one of importance and we are proud that for two successive years the honor has come to Thetas. With the Honor system going into effect this year an Honor commission to try all unfortunate cases, has been organ¬ ized. Charlotte Ward, our president, was elected on this com¬ mission. Harriet Fera and Frances Sconce are on the Woman's welfare committee. Only one play has been given so far this year and in this Nancy Browning, a pledge, took the leading part. Edith Lill and Katherine Kemp were elected to Yo-Ma, sopho¬ more interfraternity social organization. Because of lack of cooperation during the rushing season Panhellenic is now making a new set of rules to go into effect
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Chapter news 153 next fall. Such unfortunate cases occurred this fall that three fraternities were obliged to pledge a week late. We feel repaid for having obeyed all rules as a Theta has been made chairman of the Panhellenic committee on rules. All chapter members are making at least one gift for a Christmas sale which will be held the second Saturday in Dec¬ ember. The proceeds of the sale will be turned into the house treasury. 1 December 1919 Virginia Frisbee '19 Marian McConnel who is teaching in Muncie, Ind. was back for Home-coming. Josephine Green, Jean Egbert, Marie Cronin, Elsa Haase, Hazel David¬ son, Grace Heitsmith, Pauline Fera, Berneice McNair Davis, Lois Philbrick, all Chicago girls, were back for Home-coming. Marian Manley visited at the house over Home-coming week-end on her way to Miami, Fla. Other alumnae who were able to be back for Home-coming were ; Wilma Hill Baker, Virginia Taylor Haase, Nell Davidson Gage, Nina S. Bullard, Elizabeth B. Jones, Agnes Zilly Berger, Adelaide C. Edwards, Helen Jordan Truitt, Gladys Craine Strehlow, Lillian Riddle, Margaret Armstrong Sheldon, Gladys Fishleigh Aleshire, Martha McLean Davis, Hortense Gettys Hill, Louise Shipman Wagner, Fay Willerton, Dorothy Sharpe, Lenna Stretch, Bess Trevett Allen. Almost all the town alumnae were at the house Saturday for the banquet. Marguerite Bennet who has just returned from France visited the chapter for two days in Nov, Margaret Sawyer who is working in Washington, D. C. was at the house for a short time on her way to Washington. Beatrice Copley has resigned her position in the university and is doing research work for the Red Cross in Washington. *19 Dorothy Warren who is teaching in Kankakee was back for the week-end of Nov. 1. *19 Harriet McCormick and Nellie Flatt are at Columbia. M9 Harriet Burnap has accepted a position in Alton, Ill. ETA— UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Michigan opened with the largest enrollment in its history and has settled down to pre-war routine. Our two weeks of rushing resulted in the pledging of eight girls: Faith Armstrong ’20, Margaret’s sister, Winnipeg Illinois; Margaret Demmon ’23, Olivia’s sister, Grand Rapids; Marjorie Avery ’21 and Charlotte Sands ’21, Detroit; Ida Buell ’23, Grand Rapids; Tresa Fritchie ’23, Philadelphia; Elsa Oiesson ’23, Springfield, Massachusetts; and Frances Swain ’23, Edith Swain’s daughter, Ann Arbor. Our fall initiation was early this year, for we felt that our pledges of last year had waited long enough. The initiates were :
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154 Kappa Alpha Theta Esther Ross ’02, Toledo ; Dorothe Spaulding ’22, Ionia ; Rebecca Condon ’22, Hancock; Isabella Swan ’22, and Dorothy Trevor ’22, Detroit; Faith Armstrong, Marjorie Avery, and Charlotte Sands. In spite of losing sixteen seniors last year our house is now filled to capacity. In addition to the new members we have five affiliates: Laura Martin ’20, and Dorothy Barber ’21, Alpha; Edna Ann Schiear ’20, Alpha Tau; Jean Wallace ’21, Omicron; and Beulah Brown ’21, Alpha Gamma. 28 November 1919 Beulah Brown ’21-ex Margaret Van Sickle has announced her engagement to Francis Phelps. '19 Dorothy Newell has announced her engagement to Mr Dean of New York. '21 Eugenia Wentzy has announced her engagement to Harold Oliver. '21 Alice Comlossy was married to Levy Eaton, B 0 II, Nov. 11. ’14 Emily Gilfillan has announced her engagement to Mr Dean of New York. Doctor Scull, Beta, visited us on her way to Detroit. Born to Amy Elliot Jose (Mrs V.) of Indianapolis, a daughter, Amy Louise. Frances Keith, Tau, spent the week-end of the Northwestern game with us. Fifteen members of Alpha Gamma chapter had luncheon with us on the day of the Ohio State game. IOTA— CORNELL UNIVERSITY After a rushing season of three weeks we had eight pledges : Helen Delap, Kansas City; Evelyn Folks, Yonkers; Ann Hohler, Philadelphia; Gertrude Martin and Mercedes Seaman, Ithaca; Edith Smith, Lakewood, Ohio; Gretel Schenk, Rochester; Mara- gereite Scheller, Newark. Hardly had the excitement and enthusiasm of rushing died down and everyone become adapted to the normal routine of classes and the like, when enthusiasm of looking forward to the Holidays broke forth. Everyone came home with plants and wreaths and the house was so decorated that you would almost have thought it were Christmas week. All sorts of parties were planned to make the week before Christmas vacation, a happy one. November 23 we held our usual meeting to which all the alumna? were invited. At this meeting the alumnae had much discussion and argument in regards to forming an alumnae club. As a result, November 29 was set as the day on which they should meet alone and discuss the matter further. They met accord-
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Chapter news 155 ingly on that day and formed an alumnae club with the idea of becoming an alumnae chapter. The following were chosen as officers: Mrs Comstock, president; Mrs Chamberlain and Miss Law, vice-presidents ; Mrs Reed, treasurer ; Gladys Gilkey, secre¬ tary; Miss L. Pearle Green, Mrs Tanner, and Miss Abbie Potts, advisory committee. The alumnae seemed to be well organized right at the start, as they have already invited us to a Christmas party to which we have been looking forward ever since they extended the invita¬ tion. We were quite proud when one of our girls, May Thropp, was sent as a delegate to the Consumer’s league conference in Louisville. Another of our girls, Helen Kinney has been chosen as one of the delegates for the Y. M.-Y. W. conference at Des Moines, Iowa, during the Christmas holidays. 6 December 1919 Irma F. Barrett '18 Elsie Church has returned from France where she was with the Red Cross. >09 Mr and Mrs Horace Sailor (Sal Bailey) has returned from China. They expect to be in Ithaca about a year. >14 Ruth Bayer was married Oct. 25 to Lee Henry Schminck. Born, Nov. 23, 1919, Frederick Coville, son of Mr and Mrs Chester C. Woodburn (Katherine Coville). Born, Nov. 13, 1919, Charles Wallace Jr. son of Dr and Mrs C. W. Webb (Sus Bontecou). Born, Oct. 7, 1919, Robert Warren Jr. son of Mr and Mrs Robert Sailor (Queenie Horton). Mr and Mrs A. F. S. Steele (Mary Wise) have recently moved from Spokane, Wash, to St. Louis, Mo. Helen Spalding's new address is 1019 Middlesex st. Lowell, Mass. Helen Bennett married Thomas Dennison Hall, Sept. 12. Address: Ladybrand, South Africa. KAPPA— UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS In September, with the very large enrollment of almost four thousand students, it was predicted that this would be K. U.’s big year, and the following months have seen this prophecy fulfilled. One big activity has been toward rousing genuine college spirit, PEP, as we call it, the willingness to work for and think of the university first. As a good beginning, the organizers chose to work up solid support of the football team. During the last few years it was considered immodest for any girl to attend rallies, minor games, cheer for the team, or appear more than just somewhat passively interested in this sport. This year, however,
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156 Kappa Alpha Theta we find ourselves jerked out of our sluggish path, we hurry on the hill to every rally, we buy football tickets, and appear on the field for anything, even a freshman scrimmage. Once there, we display so much enthusiasm that the quarter-back can scarcely make his signals heard. The enthusiasm, thus started, soon ran throughout college activities in general. All our political campaigns are fiercely fought. We had very visible evidence of the success of our efforts in one case when Irma Shaw was elected freshman representative of the Woman’s student government association. Also, Jessie Wyatt has been elected vice-president of the Associated jour¬ nalists. Early in November, we enjoyed the unusual treat of a visit from Harriet Haskell (Mrs W. McDonald) who has done much Y. W. work in New York, especially during the war. She gave us some informal talks along this line. We imbibed some of her spirit, perhaps, and have in the last two weeks concluded a very successful Y. W. C. A. membership campaign. This issue must in conclusion report a loss and a gain in Kappa’s active membership. Louis Hampton and Elizabeth Samuel have on account of illness, withdrawn from college until next semester. November 25, we pledged the very lovely sister of Elinor, Letitia, and Jessie Blakey, Margaret Blakey of Pleas¬ anton, Kansas. 30 November 1919 Edna R. Rising ’18 Melen Robinson was married to Mr Albert Pyle, in Oct. The marriage took place in California. ’20 Shirley Chase was married to Mr Forrest Miller Nov. 12. in Kansas City, Mo. ’15 Elsa Barteldes was married to Mr Owen Carl Nov. 20. ’92 Rilla Van Hocsan (Mrs J. Challis), Mr and Mrs Riggs, Faye Doddindge '19, Mrs J. Saunders and Mrs Allen visited us over the week end of Nov. 7. Layle Bailey ’15 (Mrs W. M. Gray), Nellie Taylor ’12 (Mrs J. Mussel- man), Beatrice Neumiller *13 (Mrs Wheelock), Rachel Coston >12 (Mrs F. Thies), Ruth Lauson ’12 (Mrs C. Sowers), Emily Foster ’14 (Mrs F. Russell), Mildred James ’12 (Mrs J. Harris), Mabel Thornton Ml (Mrs Wilson), Pauline Carr M8, Theo Thompson M8, Elizabeth Goodjohn M8, Frances Hitchcock M9, Helen Robinson M8 (Mrs A. Pyle), Helen Wagstaff 19, Marie Hedrick ’ 15 , Maria Slade M5, Dorothy Miller M5 are the alumn© who returned for the Missouri-Kansas game. Helen Gould, Dorothy Crane, Katherine Harrison, and Jessie Burnett from Alpha Upsilon and about fifteen girls from Alpha Mu also visited us for the time of the game. Katherine Myers, Katherine Durant, Margaret Fowler, Esther Lauder- bauch were also visiting at that time.
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Chapter news 157 LAMBDA— UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Rushing is over for another year ! Lambda is very happy to present nine pledges : Helen Atkinson, Amherst, Massachusetts ; Mary Bliss and Harriet Colburn, Burlington; Calla Field, Ver- gennes; Phyllis Hill and Muriel Smith, Morrisville; Rhoda Orvis, Manchester; Ruth Blodgett, Lyndon ville; and Hilda Woodruff, Troy, New York. Following the enthusiastic recommendation of Hope Davis Mecklin, Panhellenic adopted the system of preferential bidding with Mr Briggs, a Burlington lawyer, as ‘ ‘ go-between. ’ ’ Great success attended the new system. By its adoption much of the bitterness between fraternities and also the attempts of some freshmen to collect bids like souvenirs were done away with. A new local fraternity, Pi Alpha Alpha, founded early in Novem¬ ber is helping to solve some of Vermont’s fraternity problems. Panhellenic allowed three formal dates for rushing this year just as in the years before the war. Our last date was a progressive party. The invitations announced a trip around the world in one night with Kappa Alpha Theta as passenger agent. China was the first stop. There bird’s-nest soup was served (boullion served in bowls set in straw nests) . Then came Turkey, with pillows on the floor for chairs and red-trousered waiters. The salad was served in a Spanish inn with a couple of despera¬ does smoking and gambling in the corner. The climax of the evening came with the ices, served in a Parisian cafe, “Le Chapeau Noir.” Tiny, black crepe-paper hats with gold trim¬ mings, models by Lucile of course, were the favors. Our new initiates, Florence Woodward, Mary Wyman, and Louise Winter did much to make the evening a success. Thanks to the efforts of our new Dean of women, Mrs Wasson, Vermont was allowed a visiting delegate at the Student union conference at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and sent Nellie Swasey ’20. Ruth Hubbell ’21 is looking forward to her trip to the Internation student volunteer conference at Des Moines. 3 December 1919 Mary Bishop Born, to Mr and Mrs Leslie H. Ball (Katharine Dudley) a son, Dudley; to Mr and Mrs Harold A. Mayforth (Mabel Watts) a daughter, Shirley Watts; to Professor and Mrs F. D. Carpenter, a son, John Taggart. ’18 Married — Mary Sparks to Roy Pratt. Engaged — Anna Ward to Winfield Boardman. *19 Frances Dutton has a position in the office of the Dean and Recorder at Harvard.
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158 Kappa Alpha Theta MU— ALLEGHENY COLLEGE After several informal rushing parties, the chief event of that season, the Panhellenic dance, was given at Saegertown Inn October 18. On this occasion all freshman girls were the guests of the four fraternities. October 24 Mrs. W. I. Bates (Marion Sacket) gave a tea for the chapter. November 1, after six weeks of rushing, we pledged Almira Barrett, daughter of Mrs. Jessie Edwards Barrett ’95, from Denver, Colorado; Maria Avery, Clymer, New York; Mary Henderson, Vanderbilt; Catharine Johnston, Erie; Helen McCandless, Rochester; Katharine Morrow, Union City; and Ruth Young, Pittsburg, all freshmen. After their answers had been received we had a lively rejoicing party at Mrs Webbs. The following Saturday, the sophomores, according to tradition, served dinner to the chapter and pledges. We have spent much time, money, and thought in re-fumish- ing our rooms and are more than pleased with the result. Due to the hearty response of our alumnae we have been able to purchase a tapestry suite — a davenport and two chairs — two rugs, several wicker chairs and a tea wagon. The latter is our constant delight. On December 6, we served tea in the rooms to the ladies of the faculty, our alumnae, and mothers. Susan Jenkins ’20, president of the women’s Senate, was one of the delegates to the Student government convention held at Wilson college, Chambersburg. November 24 the formal exercises of laying the cornerstone of the new gymnasium took place. Dr Hammerschlag of Carnegie Institute of technology delivered an address on amateur athletics. The girls of Hulings hall entertained the men of the college with a Thanksgiving party November 29. The affair was quite an event and only after weeks of work was our gymnasium trans¬ formed into a Japanese tea garden. And last but not least in fun and eats, the seniors gave a Christmas party to the chapter, the week before vacation. 1 December 1919 Mary Hilderbrand 'll Bess Metcalf Robinson is at Simpson college where her husband is head of the Economics department. '15 Born to Mr and Mrs P. W. Johnston (Dorothea Abrams) a son, Edward James, Nov. 16. '17 Rachel Cleveland was married to Norman Phillips, Oct. 18. '16 Alice Hawkey was married to James L. Wilbur, Nov. 4. '17 Mary Flahaven visited the chapter the week-end of Nov. 23. '13 Florence Griswold is teaching in Warren, Pa.
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Chapter news 159 ’22 Elizabeth MacLaren is enrolled at the University of Southern Cali¬ fornia. ’ 14 Muza P. Anchors gave up her school in Clarion and is home in Warren, due to the illness of her mother. >16 Born to Mr and Mrs Geo. Smith (Faye Neale) a daughter, Joan Rebecca. ’19 Olevia Widdowson visited the chapter the week end of Oct. 19. *10 Helen Murray is in charge of a college in Mexico City. ’17 Elizabeth Sykes is attending an art school in Cleveland. Address: 10819 Massie av. '99 Jessie Hogate is in the office of the alumni association of Indiana state university, Bloomington, Ind. OMICRON— UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Our five strenuous weeks of rushing with their whirl and excitement are now a thing of the past. We are busy training our pledges in the way that Theta pledges should go. They are seven — Cassita Smith, sister of Virginia Smith who was our convention delegate, Mary Thompson, Frances Bliss, Helen Hoagland, Edna Poison, Ruth Whiting, and Louise Childs. Shortly after pledging Louise was called back to Missouri on account of her father’s illness but we are hoping that she will be able to return to us in February. Recently Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta had an exchange dinner. The upperclassmen went to the Pi Phi house while their underclassmen and pledges came to ours. We not only had a good time but the girls of the two fraternities became very much better acquainted. Recently we’ve heard little beside football talk. We have won four games out of five, so that we can surely boast of a wonderful season. Enthusiasm has run high and every Theta could be seen at the games cheering for the team. Monday after the game with Stanford on Thanksgiving, the students cele¬ brated our victory. Such a celebration as it was too ! Hundreds of students piled into automobiles which were bright with penants and streamers of cardinal and gold. Then we formed in a procession blocks long and paraded Los Angeles. We had cowbells and a band, so that everyone knew when we passed along. We visited different schools around that city and did a serpentine around the athletic field of Occidental college, giving our songs and yells. Gladys Feerrar and Gladys Nuffer went to Stanford to see the Stanford- California football game and while in the north visited Phi and Omega. We have affiliated Kitty Craig, Tau, and Elizabeth Mac- Claren, Mu. Elizabeth Hughes
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160 Kappa Alpha Theta RHO— UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Rho’s honors for this year are beginning to pour in. Our new freshmen are certainly doing their share to increase them. Emma Cross was elected vice-president of the freshman class. Mary Temple has been chosen on the freshman Commission, and Elizabeth Kennedy is our Mystic Fish, the freshman honorary society. The older girls are doing much also to uphold Theta honor. Dorothy Wetherald was chosen a member of Valkyrie, senior honorary society. Alyne O'Loughlin is a member of the Women's Self-government association council and Elizabeth Scribner was chosen a member of Xi Delta, the sophomore hon¬ orary society. Margaret Howes and Flavia Waters were elected to the Dramatic club. Margaret Howes recently took part in It pays to advertise , a play so successful that, after six produc¬ tions in Lincoln, it has been called to towns in the state. Mary Helen Allensworth and Flavia Waters played in Les Follies , a production given by the Dramatic club. Thetas took a promi¬ nent part in the recent Red Cross campaign. Rho has been very fortunate in having visitors from other chapters. Marguerite Zoff, Rachel Metcalfe, and Frances Hayes, all of Alpha Iota, and Bernice Batta of Alpha Mu, were our guests. Eloise McNutt and Velma Knowles, Kappa, visited us for the Kansas versus Nebraska game. At that game Nebraska surprised her traditional enemy with a new chant which sent our boys to victory. One of the best events we have had this year was our Mothers' Day luncheon Nov. 8. Forty-six were served and, later, they were entertained by an Orpheum program of I'heta talent. This luncheon is an annual custom. The freshmen entertained the upperclassmen with a Hallo¬ ween dance at the home of Margaret Farrens. It was a very unique and enjoyable party. 28 November 1919 Margaret Howes *19 Louise Bailey is attending Columbia university. ’21 Married: Jeanette Miller and Paul Ludwig, 2 A E. ’17 Married: Irma Jones and Robert York. *19 Married : Mary Hustead and Philip McCullough, A 0. *18 Ermine Carmine Coffee (Mrs Rex) has a baby girl. ’19 Married: Helen Dill and Robert Wenger, A T. ’17 Dorothy Wallace and ’ 20 Jean Preece are attending Columbia university. ’17 Helen Madison and *18 Winefred Miller are spending the winter in California. ’19 Mary Hellen Allensworth is assisting in the history department of the University of Nebraska.
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Chapter news 161 ’21 Married : Orpha Carmine and William Newton, A T ft. ’17 Louise Coe is engaged to Clarence Spier, A T. Married: Jane Dovey and Jay Eiee Brown, A T. SIGMA— UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO No letter received. 13 December 1919. TAU— NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Although we hoped last spring that the girls at Northwestern might be in fraternity houses this fall, it was not to be, and we are still lodged on the fourth floor of Willard hall. We’ve not given up hope of having chapter houses in a year or two, and in the meanwhile are going to make the best of it by refurnishing and decorating fraternity hall. Our alumnae have been most kind in offering to help us, and we hope to welcome you all up • there before the beginning of the next semester. Tau announces the pledging of Helen Hedges, and Charlotte Schuchardt of Chicago, and Amanda Bonhus of Valley City, North Dakota. ' Tuesday evening, November 25, we held initiation for Amanda Bonhus, and Marion North. A little party was given afterward at the home of Mrs. Bartling. Tau entertained her alumnae at a tea at the home of Jane Higbee,' November 9, in celebration of the university home¬ coming. We are trying to know our alumnae better, and have instituted a system whereby each girl calls on one of the resident alumhae every two weeks. We are well represented in campus activities. Mary Clayton is junior president, and Esther Smiley is secretary of the sopho¬ more class. Mary Elizabeth Torrance is treasurer of the Womans’ league, and Mary Clayton is chairman of the social committee. Mary Clayton is secretary of Campus players. Amanda Bonhus, and Ina Smith recently represented us in the cast of Nothing but the truth. We were very proud of them. We have three members on Student council, Mary Clayton, Mary Elizabeth Torrance, and Esther Smiley. Frederica Bennett, as chairman of the Finance committee, conducted recently a suc¬ cessful campaign for the Y. W. C. A. Frances Bennett is vice- president of the Red Cross womens’ life saving corps. Edna Moser and Frances Bennett are on the W. A. A. board. Every¬ one serves on some committee or plays on one of the athletic teams, and two of us, Frances Keith and Mary Elizabeth Tor¬ rance, have won their “N,” having made the Varsity hockey team. 2 December 1919 Frances Bennett
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162 Kappa Alpha Theta ’21 Edith Ball was married to Gaeret Conover, $ r A, Nov. 19. They will be in New York for the winter. *19 Ruth Seymour is in New York assisting the Assistant editor of Harper’s Bazaar. *19 Phoebe Harkness visited the chapter in October. *16 Beulah Tomblin has announced her engagement to Julian Zilman. *18 Ingred Rignier is working in the Registrar’s office of the Univer¬ sity of Minnesota, and is living at the Theta House. ’19 Helen Rockwell had a very successful season in Chautauqua last summer. She leaves for Colorado in the middle of December. Dorothy Finger, of Beta Gamma, who was with Tau for two years, is house chaperon for Beta Gamma this year. Josephine Martin Bartelde, of Kappa, visited the chapter in November., Anna Johnson has returned from overseas service, where she was en¬ gaged in Y. M. C. A. work. Mrs Rachel Jones Hobart has returned from overseas service, and was present at our Home-coming tea, Nov. 9. ’18 Barbara Abel is working in the Publicity department of the Chicago central Y. W. C. A. ’17 Helen Forbes Smith entertained the chapter at cosy in November. Married, Sept. 16, at Dumaguete, Philippine Islands, Emma Clod- felter Hall and Wallace Clifton Magathan. Norma Cullem Stcmm (Mrs A. P.) sailed with her husband in Novem¬ ber for Europe and several corners of Africa and Asia. They expect to be away a year or longer. UPSILON— UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Theta was most fortunate in pledging sixteen of the finest girls on the campus : Jane Sedgwick, Alicia Davis, Sara Ander¬ son, Catharine Coffman, Grace Cotton, Marjorie Rounds, Sally Chance, Agnes Reed, Stella Glasser, Carolyn Fraser, Frances Thurber, all of Minneapolis ; Marion Bagley of St. Paul ; Helen McNally of New Richmond, Wisconsin; Margaret McCauley of Mason City, Iowa; Muriel Perkins of Billings, Montana; and Marion Burton of Blue Earth, Minnesota. Theta headed the university scholarship report. Elizabeth Forssell was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Our pledges were entertained by the chapter at a dance at the Minikahda club, November 11. Ten of Upsilon spent a glorious week-end at Madison where the Wisconsin-Minnesota game was played. Enthusiastic reports of Psi have been brought back. The girls who went were Lillian and Helen Wedum, Lucille McNally, Marjorie Rounds, Katherine Fraser, Ruth McCrea, Lillias Hannah, Laila Platou, Anne Smith, Harriet Drury. Theta’s activity on the campus is shown by the numerous honors we have received this fall. Jane Sedgwick is secretary of the freshman class and freshman representative to W. A. A.
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Chapter news 163 Grace Cotton vice-president of the freshman class, Catharine Coffman president of the freshman commission, and Margaret Jackson, vice-president of the sophomore class. Out of thirty- girls going to the Y. W. C. A. convention at Des Moines, the four Thetas are Bergliot Nissen, Catharine Coffman, Elizabeth Forssell, and Marion Andrews. Elizabeth Nissen has been elected president and Lucille McNally vice-president of Cap and gown, the senior girls7 organization. Blanche Martin is president of the Woman’s athletic association. Elizabeth Nissen, Lucille McNally, Marion Andrews, and Elizabeth Forssell have been elected to Sigma Tau, the senior women’s honorary fraternity. Owing to our house’s torn-up condition this fall we were forced to do our rushing at private homes and at houses of other fraternities. A most generous spirit was shown by both men’s and women’s fraternities in offering us their houses; Theta appreciates 'the kindness of her friends, and the use of their beautiful homes. We are looking forward to the very happiest of years with our own Lavinia Stimson ’12 as house-manager. 8 December 1919 Margaret Jackson *13 Bess Wieland Shellington has a baby daughter, Elizabeth. Address : 521 5th av. S. E. Minneapolis. ’13 Ruth Magnuson Hanson (Mrs Harold) is now living in Cantfield, Cal. *16 Maude Briggs is teaching in Idaho. ’14 Catherine Leland Webster visited Marjorie Mix this fall. *14 Muriel Thayer Painter is now living in Cambridge, Mass. 474 Broadway. ’12 Dorothy Loyhed is an instructor in rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, where Alice McCoy *16 is theme clerk. ’20 A baby girl, Nancy, has been born to Katherine Burch Spear. Edith Cotton is teaching in Tower, Minn. ’15 Hilda Gale has gone to New Jersey. *17 Clara MacKenzie is living at the chapter house. ’19 Katherine Hartzell is engaged to William Smith, A K E. ’19 Elizabeth Brown is teaching in River Falls, Minn. ’17 Ingred Nissen and Mildred Lammers are in New York City. ’99-ex Sophie Williams Small has gone to Syria in the service of the American committee for relief in the Near East. Her address will be — Near East Relief, c/o Major L. D. Arnold, 13 Rue Petis Chants, British Military Postoffice, Constantinople, via London. ’05-ex Mary Stoughton has taken a position with the National child labor committee. Her duties have been with the membership campaign in Minnesota. ’07-ex Edna Broom and her mother have sold their home and are spending the winter in Oregon and California.
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164 Kappa Alpha Theta ’11-ex Irene O’Connor Skiles was married in Dec. to Claude H. Siems of St. Paul. ’13 Mary Fraser has taken a position as technician with Dr Schneider. ’13-ex Florence Greiner is again with the Northwestern national bank. ’16 Maude Briggs is in California for the winter. ’18 Helen Leavitt id with the Foster traveling agency in Minneapolis. ’15-ex Mary Milnor was married to Edward A. Purdy, postmaster, in the summer. Address, 2414 Fremont av. S. Minneapolis. PHI — STANFORD UNIVERSITY Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, Phi finds herself in the calm of steady work that precedes Christmas vacation. We have many joyful events to look back upon this quarter, not the least of which was the pledging of five girls, Elizabeth Spill¬ man of San Mateo; Dorothy Kellogg of Santa Rosa; Helen Parker of Pasadena ; Ivo Copeland of Los Angeles ; and Margaret Zane of Woodside, who were pledged on October 20. We are also happy to have with us this year two affiliates, Ruth Kaster from Alpha Upsilon and Bernice Tabor from Psi, who became members of Phi November 10. In spite of few leisure hours our chapter has had time for the customary social affairs. The first of these was a tea given for our alumnae, and then came a Halloween dinner to which we invited two neighbor fraternities. We also gave a dance on No¬ vember 14 in honor of our pledges, and Margaret Zane, one of our pledges, entertained the chapter at a very delightful dance given at the Menlo Country club. So Phi has not lacked in social festivities. One of the most recent events of importance was the “Big Game” between the University of California and Stanford. This was the first time the two universities have met in a game of American football for seven years and the enthusiasm which the resumption of the American game aroused was unlimited. Al¬ though Stanford lost, it was a hard-fought game and we were entirely satisfied by the showing made by the Cardinal men against the experienced California team. The game was fought on the Stanford field and as a consequence we had many guests at the chapter house. We had open house the day of the game and were delighted to have among our visitors, Grace Holscombe, Elsie Lutz M8, Ruth Visel '18, Florence Bills ’19, Jane Thomp¬ son ’19, Lola Bellingall ’19, Ruby Hale ’19, and Emily Loomis ’19. In addition to these alumnae, we had as guests twenty-five Thetas from the University of California. 1 December 1919 Mary Jane Clark
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Chapter news 165 >14 Hope Kerwin has returned from France, where she was stationed in the Signal Corps, and will soon leave for South Africa to act as a bio- g ’08 Phi extends her sympathy to Nan Duryea Summerfield (Mrs H. M.) in the loss of her three-year-old son who died of pneumonia in Reno, Nev. Oct. 19. __ .. n '19 Alice Wells was married recently to John Holland. >17 Born, in Oct. to Mr and Mrs Donald Dorr (Frances Graham) a daughter, Frances. _ , _ >05 Sara Reid Beebe (Mrs R. E.) is now living at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. where Colonel Beebe was ordered on his return from fifteen months service in France. While the colonel was overseas, Mrs Beebe worked in the Hostess house at Camp Humphreys, Va. r >13 m.D. *16 Dr. Elsa Will has announced her engagement to Hesiie L. Leteque, Michigan, civil engineer in Toledo, Ohio. . >17 Florence Stewart is teaching history and Spanish in the Corona, Cal. high school. # _ VT _ , >17 Katherine Cottle Gibben (Mrs P.) is living in Ithaca, N. Y. where Mr. Gibben is a junior in Sibley college, Cornell university. Address 201 Dryderi Rd. CHI— SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY The restless spirit of wartimes has gone and in its place is a spirit of enthusiasm that permeates every phase of college life. Spirited mass meetings provided the morale for winning the glorious victories over the Pittsburg and Colgate football teams. Former Senator Hendricks made the university a gift of land — the site of the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house — to be used as an athletic field. The custom of giving freshman women a banquet after the Recognition service of Y. W. C. A. was revived. Over seven hundred attended the banquet held in the Agriculture building. It proved a splendid success. Later Dr J. G. Gilkey gave a series of four religious lectures. Now the women students are working hard to raise by February 1, a $2,500.00 fund for the Women’s building. Selling hot dogs and chrysanthemums at the Colgate game netted $700.00. Along with this enterprise is that of raising money to send twenty men and twenty women as Syracuse delegates to the Student Volunteer convention at Des Moines, Iowa, December 30 to January 6. Three Thetas — Elizabeth Eylar 21, Marion Stranahan ’21, and Elise Beygrau ’22— have been chosen. Since the spring elections Esther Stark ’21 has been appointed chairman of Voluntary study committee of Y. W. ; Hazel Stokes ’21 has been elected captain of junior basketball team ; Hazel Barnaskey ’22 and Elise Beygrau ’22 are reporters
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166 Kappa Alpha Theta on the Daily Orange. Elizabeth McRoberts ’20 is chairman of the Panhellenic committee for revising rushing rules. Formal pledging of our fourteen freshmen came September 26. Nell Wilkinson ’22 was initiated October 6 and lives in the house now. We have enjoyed having Elizabeth Eylar ’21, Phyllis Britcher ’22, and Hollis Comstock ’23 — city girls — live in the house for short periods of time. Mrs Stillwell delightfully entertained the seniors at a Sunday night luncheon in her home. The chapter gave the freshmen an enjoyable Halloween dance October 25. November 20 we held a 10 o’clock informal dance using diminutive Thanksgiving turkeys and pumpkins as decorations. 5 December 1919 Marion Stranahan ’17 Dora Sours and Raymond D. Richardson, 2 B, were married Aug. 16. Address: Fair Haven, N. Y. where Mr Richardson is principal of the high school. ’18 Aletta Henderson and Earl Munz, T A, were married Oct. 25. Address: Canastota, N. Y. *19 Kathleen Webster and Emerson Planck, A 0, were married Nov. 15. Address: Bloomington, HI. *19 Helen Sandford has a fine position with the MacMillan Book Co. New York City. ’17 Zohe Stokes is teaching general science in the high school in Atlantic City, N. J. Address: 18 S. St. Catherine pi. '18 Katherine Willis Stilson (Mrs C. B.) visited the chapter recently. Address: 70 College st. New Haven, Conn. *19 Edna Laurie is teaching in a grammar school of Scranton, Pa. '18 Helen Volkmann is teaching piano and studying organ in East Orange, N. J. Alumnae back for the Colgate game who visited the house are: May Wilcox Doolittle, Marian Ferguson, Bricea Wright Faus (Mrs H.), Esther Wright, Louise Balsley Tinker (Mrs G.), Barbara Treat, Irene Lewis Crooker (Mrs H. O.), Abby Cresson, Dora Sours Richardson (Mrs R. D.), Aletta Henderson Munz (Mrs H. E.), Kathleen Webster Planck (Mrs E.), Rachel Sumner, Marguerite Crane. *19 Hilda de Brine is assistant superintendent of the Memorial hospital, East Orange, N. J. Address: 1 Hawthorne pi. *19 Elma Hodges is a student in a commercial school in Syracuse. Maude Merritt Davis (Mrs Darius A.) and little daughter visited the chapter Nov. 21. Mrs Davis had just recently returned from France where she was active in Y. M. C. A. and college women's union activities. ’04 K. Grace O *Hara has announced her engagement to Thomas Powers, editor of the Syracuse Herald. '13 Esther Waldron de Vault (Mrs D. S.) has a new address: 725 N. 5th av. Knoxville, Tenn.
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Chapter news PSI— UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Psi was most successful this year in pledging seventeen fine girls — four upperclassmen, Margaret Green, Mary Roach, Mil¬ dred Miller, Katherine Kemp; thirteen freshmen, Marjorie Boesh, Margaret Hodge, Henrietta Knox, Katherine Keene, Mildred Klanne, Gertrude Collins, Lucille Lindahl, Viola Swain, Geraldine Koeppel, Orel Baldwin. Ever since college opened we have been busy with football games, bazaars, and dances. Home-coming week-end was one with real Wisconsin spirit. Psi had many alumnae back and also enjoyed a number of Upsilon Thetas as her guests at the chapter house. Y. W. C. A. is giving a large Christmas bazaar of which Florence Hanna, one of our seniors is general chairman. Each of the fraternities is giving as many presents as possible. Psi has arranged so that each girl in the house collects five things for either men or women. The bazaar begins the week-end of De¬ cember 14. We have been very well represented in all kinds of fall ath¬ letics. We had girls on all of the class hockey teams. Two girls, Mary Roach and Ima Winchell, made the Varsity hockey team. Frances Rudy and Adelin Briggs are both members of the swim¬ ming team. Dorothy Dwight and Mildred Miller, a pledge, were elected to Twelfth Night, dramatic club. We are also proud of Dorothy Dwight as a member of the literary society, Pythia. Psi is planning a small Christmas party for the Italian chil¬ dren of Madison before vacation. We expect to come back with new pep. 4 December 1919 Susan Brown . J18 Mildred Ellis was married to Cedric Potter, Sept. 29. At home afternoons of Wednesday, The Helen, Omaha, Neb. *16 Mary Olive Simpson was married to H. B. Whaling, Nov. 29. At home, Summit Apts. Iowa City, Iowa. U8 Marian Sanford wras married to Capt. Holland Robb Nov. 26. >18 Born, Nov. 14, Henry B. Jr. to Mr and Mrs Henry B. Nelson (Gladys Buchner). U8 Helen Cummings and Gertrude Bradley visited Psi home-coming week-end. '18 Margaret Todd spent Thanksgiving with Psi. ’19 Alice Turner has been with us three week-ends. Marjorie Beard, Epsilon, has been PsBs guest for three weeks.
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168 Kappa Alpha Theta OMEGA— UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA By far the most important event in recent campus life was the Stanford-California football game. The enthusiastic rallies before the game served as good proof to the team that the student body was more than eager to give its support. On the day of the big game California’s fighting spirit reached its climax just before the last whistle. Our rooting section and team did not rest once during the whole encounter and the last whistle that found California with fourteen to Stanford’s ten, was followed by a victorious serpentine. Another important event that took place that morning was the intercollegiate women’s hockey. California’s seniors de¬ feated Stanford’s by a score of fourteen to nothing, but our sophomores were defeated by theirs with a score of seven to three. Both were hard games and created much interest, among the women students especially. Omega was fortunate this semes¬ ter in having four of its members on the hockey class teams. Elizabeth Thacher is on the 1920 team, Marion Schell and Katherine Ward on the 1921 and Beatrice Ward on the 1923. The interclass series is now going on and the final game is to be played on Women’s Field day, December 6. Omega was also represented in the cast of the Junior farce early in November by Lois McCrea, Elizabeth Terry and Marion Schell. Our freshmen gave us a most intertaining show on November 19 in which they sang of cinches and laborious freshmen duties to the tune of recent popular songs. Then Madam Fakem-an- Foolem suggested sketchy glimpses in our respective futures by her graphic divination. Later the program announced '‘Anaes¬ thetic Dancing” and we were surprised by some clever exaggera¬ tion in the art of pantomime. Several alumnae enjoyed the even¬ ing’s performance with us at the Black Kat Kabaret. Since November 8 Lou Whipple McCrea has been visiting us. Omega has also been very glad to see Mary Allen 19, who has been in Berkeley for the past week. 30 November 1919 Katherine Ward ’15 Leslie Wilde announced her engagement to Mervin Ganard of Ventura. >15 Elizabeth Eames is returning from a year’s service in France with the “ Comite Americaine” and will be with her sister, ’12 Helen Eames Redmond, at her home in Brookline, Mass. The latter is recovering from a severe illness resulting from a fall from her horse at Bar Harbor this sum¬ mer. ’16 Dorothy Reynolds Breck has moved to Washington, D. C. where her husband has returned to his pre-war work in the Treasury department.
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Chapter news 169 ’16- Married: Jane Bangs and Don Campbell ’16, 2 N. ’16 Marion Fitzhugh is coming back from service in France with the 1 * Comite Americaine ’ ’ and will be at home for Christmas. ’19 Catherine Fletcher is to marry Benjamin H. Taylor Dec. 27 in San Diego. ’19 Ruth Vincent Cook has gone to live in Los Angeles. *15, A A 4>. 720 Ruth Froeming announced her engagement to Dr. Edwin Bussee ’16 of San Francisco. *19 Helen Geary has announced her engagement to William Hubbard ALPHA BETA — SWARTHMOR^ COLLEGE We bid freshmen the day we go home for Christmas vacation, not through Panhellenic, but through a neutral person, and we will be unable to know the verdict until we return to college, practically three weeks later. This suspense seems almost un¬ bearable, but since we are unable to change this ruling until we give it a fair trial, we will have to grin and bear it. With no means of rushing whatsoever, and with this peculiar bidding we naturally feel uneasy, but we content ourselves with the fact that there are others in just as great suspense. Our hockey is about over after a most successful season. Three Thetas, Marguerite Coles, Lucy Lippincott, and Elsa Pal¬ mer starred on the Varsity team, while others were prominent on the class teams. Cornelia Stabler has one of the leading parts in the junior class show, The Devil's disciple which is to be given sometime in January. She also had an important part in the Hamburg show. Winnie Weihenmeyer, sophomore, has been initiated. Many improvements are being made around the college. A large engineering building is being built and it is hoped it will be ready for use shortly. It is rumored that in the spring the long-talked of girls’ dormitory is to be started. The funds for this new dormitory have been given mostly by the father of an Alpha Beta member. We are hoping to have a room in the new dormitory large enough to hold our chapter meetings, so we may all have the pleasure of sitting on chairs rather than on window sills, floor, or any other cramped place available. 3 December 1919 Gertrude McCabe >14 Martha Speakman has arrived from France where she has had charge of an orphan asylum. ’13 Kathryn Fell has announced her engagement to Roy M. Gideon. *16 Isabel Jenkins Booth (Mrs T. N.) has a new baby boy, John Spencer. *15 Esther Jenkins is at Swarthmore doing work for the college endow¬ ment fund. *19 Irma Russell Heacock (Mrs R. H.) is now living in Swarthmore.
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170 Kappa Alpha Theta ALPHA GAMMA — OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY By now every one is working in earnest so that Theta will be active upon the campus. Our freshmen are being elected to offices; Jennie Becker, Dorothy Basore, Adelaide Ott, and Lady Halliday are in the freshman Glee club. In the Ohio State Glee club are Ryllis Alexander, Ruth Lee, and Diana Taylor. As ex¬ pressed by one of the alumna?, we are going to make this a singing chapter ! * # In our rooms on October 12, we entertained with a tea for our mothers, and on October 19, with one for the alumnae. On both occasions our new Dean, Miss Conrad, formerly of Wisconsin, was present. November 15, pledging service was held in the chapter rooms for Margaret Gerald, freshman, of Newark, Ohio. Later, on the same day, we had initiation services for our pledges of last year, namely: Grace Tredway, Miriam Cherry, Julia Newkirk, Diana Taylor, Madelaine Lentz, and Martha Lord, all of Columbus. The service for Diana Taylor was very impressive, for she has the honor of being the first Alpha Gamma baby, and her mother, Mrs Esther Stafford Taylor, was present. Diana was initiated with her mother’s badge. Two other alumna? were present, Mrs Hazel Shook Snyder and Miss Mary Henderson, formerly a pro¬ fessor in English at Mills college, California. A dinner was after¬ ward given at the home of Mary Ann Miesse. This chapter is one of the twenty-two organizations upon the campus, which is sending a delegate to the “Y” convention at Des Moines, Iowa, the last week of December. Margaret Hicks, junior, is our delegate. However, we are very fortunate in hav¬ ing two girls going, as Ryllis Alexander is being sent by her church. We hope that they will meet Thetas from other chap¬ ters and bring back news of them. Miriam Cherry, sophomore, has been elected secretary and treasurer of the Ohio State Philosophy club. Margaret Welch, junior, and Julianne Whitehill, junior, have been elected to the Ohio State History club. During the last two weeks upon the campus we have had a drive for 5,000 subscriptions for the Makio , our year book. There were ten teams of eight members each, and Margaret Welch’s team on which the Thetas worked, sold the most — equal to one-third of the total amount. A final word about our strenuous football season. Most of our chapter went to Michigan, where we were delightfully enter¬ tained by Eta. We not only came home with victory, but a de-
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Chapter news 171 termination to have a chapter house soon. In regard to Illinois, we must say they were eight seconds quicker than we. The rest is not for Illinois to hear, so keep out ! But, our team is just as great in defeat as victory and today the college thinks Chic Harley a greater hero than ever. We’ll be ready to meet you all again next year. 4 December 1919 Charlotte Martin *18 Dorothy Breyfogle of Wellesly, Massachusetts, was married Oct. 25, to Herbert William Campbell of Dayton, Ohio. They are now at home at 823 Ferndale av. Dayton. The wedding was attended by several from Alpha Gamma: Margaret Kaufman, Adelaide Beeson, Phyllis Whitehill, Louise Barry, and Mary Reynolds. '20 Elizabeth Welch Smith (Mrs Harold) has returned to her home in Indianapolis after an extended visit here with her parents. '17 Marjorie Dean and Mildred Booth have been visiting *17 Mrs Alice Scatterday Boesel of New Bremen, Ohio. >16 Mrs Helen Barnhill Lee of Dayton, Ohio, has been visiting her mother here. '17 Mrs Corine Putman Stowe, of Lock Haven, Pa. is visiting in Columbus. Elizabeth Park, post graduate, has returned from a two week’s trip to New York. ’17 Mrs Alice Scatterday Boesel of New Breman, Ohio, was here for the home-coming football game. ALPHA DELTA— GOUCHER COLLEGE One of our best events was Goucher ’s Thanksgiving party November 22. Doctor van Meter, a founder of the college, and a full faculty and student-body were present. Hope Nelson, one of Alpha Delta’s sophomores, gave a toast to the founders of Goucher. College spirit was splendid and every one is in favor of making this a regular college tradition. Agora, dramatic society, is presenting, The school for scandal, December 6. Three Thetas, Evelyn Jesson, Hope Nelson, and Louise L ’Engle have important roles. • Alpha Delta is going to have a birthday party for re-furnish¬ ing the rooms. We are asking our families for gifts, and in addition each class is going to give something. We are selling some old mission furniture at auction, and in its place will get brown wicker. We have some new Theta china also. Our rooms soon will look quite new. We have for some time given informal teas on Friday after¬ noons. Once a year we have a Mother’s tea. This year we are setting aside the first Friday afternoon in each month for alumnae tea. For closer companionship with our alumnae we have this plan: three seniors meet an alumnae representative and plan for social good times of the joint college and alumnae chapters.
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172 Kappa Alpha Theta This fall we started fraternity suppers, and so far they have been successful. First we have meeting, then supper. It is sur¬ prising to see what a delicious meal can be had for thirty-five cents, the maximum paid by each girl. Our alumnae often meet with us and we have a real Theta party. Alpha Delta sends best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New York. 2 December 1919 Jean Merriken *06 Born to Dr and Mrs Sydney Miller (Nell Miller) a daughter, Nov. 20, 1919. *15 Mary Hoffman and George Curtain, 2 X, were married Nov. 1, 1919. They will live at Curtain, W. Va. ’ 17 Emma Lindemuth and James Leslie Simmons were married Nov. 29, 1919. They will live in Wilkes Barre, Pa. ’19 Mrs Charles B. Thomas (Margaret Watson) visited in Baltimore during October, and is now in Louisville, Ky. with her husband, Capt. C. B. Thomas. ALPHA ETA— VANDERBILT COLLEGE Alpha Eta has read with much interest of the good fortune of her sister chapters in pledging this year. October 31, brought us 16 pledges, four of whom are sisters, and one a daughter: freshmen — Ruth Owsley, Elizabeth Sharpe, Lucinda Trabue, Inda Wilson, Nashville; Carmine Clark, McMinnville; Eugenia Porter, Clinton, Kentucky; Martha Teague, Black Mountain, North Carolina; sophomores — Marjorie Ann Merrill, Atlanta, Georgia; Inez McDowell, Winchester; Mary Ransom, Tullahoma; juniors — Wynona Anderson, Marion, Virginia; Mary Rogers, Pulaski; Christine Waterfield, Brownsville; Lulie Vaughn Webb, Franklin; seniors— Grace Arbuckle, and Karen Young, Waco, Texas. Our chapter is holding its own in student activities. Elected to the Girls’ Student council were Bess Lipscomb, senior, and Edith Hayes, sophomore; to Girls’ Honor committee, which is a> sub-committee of the Council, Elizabeth Chester, senior, Dorothy Duffy, and Christine Waterfield, juniors; Edith Hayes, sopho¬ more ; to the freshmen-sophomore literary club, Coeditors — Mar¬ jorie Merrill and Mary Ransom, Carmine Clark, secretary and treasurer; to the Commodore board, Louise Benedict, chairman of the Literary committee, and Lucile Van Ness, Art committee. During the Christmas holidays Bess Lipscomb and Helen Scanlon will be sent as delegates to the Student Volunteer convention at Des Moines, Iowa by the Y. W. C. A. Marion Jones was elected one of the two cheer leaders.
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Chapter news 173 Through the efforts of Chancellor Kirkland the Medical department has been endowed with $4,000,000, which is the largest sum given to any university by the General education board and of course means much to Vanderbilt. In these days of unrest and reaction from the strain of war all things are tending toward extremes. Labor is having its strikes and social life its “ death-grip and jowl to jowl.” Alpha Eta believing that it lay within the province of college women to check the tendency towards extreme dancing has taken a public stand in the university against it. We are not against dancing as a pleasure and amusement; we are opposed to the modern tendency toward vulgarity, and as a chapter will use our influence against it. The chapter was hostess at a tea for all the women in the university on November 22. It was so great a success that we hope to repeat it later in the year. We were pleased to have with us for luncheon November 29, three of our Memphis alumnae, guests of Elise Handley. They were Ada Rains, Rebecca Young and Eleanor Richardson. We enjoyed meeting these alumnae so much that we wish all our other Theta sisters would “come and do likewise.” 30 November 1919 Louise Benedict ALPHA THETA— UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS After a strenuous but highly successful season of penalized rushing Alpha Theta is proud to announce the pledging of the following girls : Annie Beth Lockett, Houston ; Katherine Beck¬ ham, Corpus Christi; Dorothy Cox, Waco; Frances Hicks, Ver¬ non ; Frances Sledge, Tyler ; Louise Stevens and Marie Michaelis, Galveston; Virginia Parchman, Marshall; Marjory Watson, Etta Gilbert, Mary Smith, and Louise Connerly, Austin; Marcelite Hall, Margaret Curtis, and Virginia Wolflin, Amarillo; and Agnes Smith, Dallas. We owe much of our success in rushing to our patronesses and alumnae. To Mrs H. G. Henne, Alpha Mu, of New Braunfels, we are especially grateful, for she was an untiring worker in the kitchen, always replacing the never retainable cooks, and made the most charming of hostesses as well. On October 19, we initiated the following sophomores: Alice Randall, Dallas; Olga Lightfoot, Elizabeth Vinson, Virginia Donaldson and Ida Lee Lawrence, Austin; Margaret Marsh, Tyler ; Frances Bradley, Roswell, New Mexico ; Virginia Hanna and Edith Sykes, Galveston; and Frances Myrick of Lockhart.
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174 Kappa Alpha Theta College life is fast resuming pre-war satisfactory tranquility. Especially in men’s athletics are we happy to have arrived at the old normal standing. Our football team barely missed the Southwestern Championship this season, and we expect to have an undefeated record in basketball, track, and baseball. The annual Thanksgiving German was led by Margaret Marsh, one of our sophomores. The Thanksgiving German is the only formal dance of the fall term and it is considered a high social honor to lead it. Early in November the upperclassmen entertained the pledges with a stunt-party at the chapter house. Under the direction of Lee Wold in a circus featuring all known and several unrecognizable animals was given and a very successful minstrel under the auspices of the “Best Southern black-face artists” pleased the audience greatly. The pledges were dressed in fancy costumes which added much to the prevailing merriment. The scholarship-cup was awarded recently to Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi ranked second and third respectively. Theta, we are sorry to say, was fourth from the top, but we expect to do much better this year. Above all things this year, we are striving for chapter unity and efficiency, and we hope to make Alpha Theta one of the strongest of Theta links. 30 November 1919 Laura Davis *16 Margaret Rennie has announced her engagement to Sam Kinney. They will be married Jan. 3, and will live in Philadelphia. '19 Ruth McFaddin, who is teaching English in Palestine, was a Thanks¬ giving visitor. ’16-ex Mrs Marvin Charleson (Undine Brown) was a recent visitor to the chapter house. She is living at San Marcos. '19 Ava Lee Mars was married to Holford Russell, A K E, Dec. 1. Address: 908 Southland, Ft. Worth, Tex. ’12 Louise Johnson was married Nov. 11 to Billy Johnson. They will live in Houston. ’19 Winifred Watson is on the advertising staff of Sanger Bros in Dallas. Mrs H. G. Henne, alumna chairman of the state, visited the chapter house recently. ’13-ex Ethel Randall is doing social service work in the Walter Reed hospital, Washington, D. C. ’19 Grace Lightfoot is teaching Latin in Nacogdoches, and visited in Austin during the Thanksgiving holidays. ’06 Lily Campbell, a charter member of Alpha Theta, visited us in early Nov. She is a Y. W. C. A. secretary in Dallas. ,19-ex Mrs Howell Duncan (Elizabeth Johnson) is living in Logans- port, Ind. Address: 322 Miami Ave.
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Chapter news 175 ’19-ex Martha Scurry is teaching in Dallas. >19-ex Alexa Rhea, who has been visiting in New York, will re-enter tho university in January. ’17-ex Lena Beckham Reeder is married to Arthur Arnold of Amarillo. Elva L. Bascom, Mu, is head of the new department of Library science. ’19-ex Mary Farrar is doing stenographic work in Dallas. ’19 Doris Connerly has returned from a several months’ stay in New York. ALPHA IOTA— WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY We were exceedingly overjoyed to get the special dispensation to repledge Isabel Runk. Isabel was one of the freshmen we pledged a year ago, but who, on account of illness, was unable to make her grades. Alpha Iota, as usual, has a great many of the important and honorary positions in the university. Margery Finigan is secretary of the senior class ; Loretta Murphy of the junior class ; Mary Doughtery of the sophomore class ; and Marian Hutchens is vice-president of the freshman class. Marian Hutchens ’23 and Eleanor Dodson ’22 made Thrysis, our dramatic club ; and Geraldine Finnell ’23 has been elected to the staff of Student Life, our college paper. Margery Finigan, Margaret Haase, and Ruth Boulden made the senior hockey team. Louise M’Clellend and Marian Dcnyven made the junior hockey team and Marian has been elected captain. Carol Kemmerer made the freshman team. Margery Finigan has been awarded a “W,” for her athletic work and has also been elected to Delta Psi Kappa, an honorary athletic society. Miss L. Pearlc Green was with us for several hours not long ago, and as many girls as could had luncheon with her. On November 19, the college chapter had a formal dance at the Woman’s club to present our freshmen. The senior Thetas have been having luncheons out in the rooms and then playing bridge until time for meeting. As we have no house, we think this is a splendid plan for enjoying our own company. The Katsup, which is the dinner and entertainment that the freshmen always give to the chapter, is to be held at the home of Lillian Walsh on December 13. Washington is growing at such a rapid rate that we are able to support many new activities. The Dirge , a humorous maga¬ zine corresponding to the Harvard Lampoon , issues it’s first number this month. A woman’s glee and mandolin club has been
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176 Kappa Alpha Theta organized. Beth Barnett ’20 has been appointed chairman of the glee club and is also one of the club ’s quartet. The excitement of our football game with Missouri is over and we are less happy over the result than we should like to be. However, the game brought some compensations, the chief of which were the Alpha Mus who came down to see the great event. Those whom we entertained were; Margaret Falkner, Mary and Frances Dunwoodie, Mary Frances Dawson, Marion Hare, Elizabeth Hall, and Ruth Harris. 25 November 1919 Beulah Bodes Lucille Logan and Frank Beach 2 N, were married. Dorothy Nickelson Morrill has a son. ’10 Married, Oct. 23, Marie St. Clair Davis, former president of Dis¬ trict V, and Harry Freeman Thomson. At home after Dec. 15, 5527 Wa¬ terman av. St. Louis, Mo. '18 Margaretha Roth and Ralph Bryan, 2 A E, were married Oct. 20. They will live in Dallas, Tex. ALPHA KAPPA— ADELPHI COLLEGE At last the students of Adelphi have settled down to hard work after a strenuous fall. First came the rushing season during which Alpha Kappa gave two parties for the freshmen; an informal afternoon tea and a formal evening party. At the evening party we entertained with songs, in costume, recitations and a shadow play. The shadow play was especially clever and everybody was amused by it. It was a very successful evening, for we all became better acquainted with the freshmen. We pledged three girls — Grace Peckham, Doris Purrington and Natalie Rowe. Some of the fraternities are advocating an open rushing season for next year. We have never had this at Adelphi but we are willing to try it. At the close of the rushing season, we held our Kirmess, for the purpose of raising money for our new college building. It was a huge success and we cleared $3,000, of which we are very proud. Everybody worked to make it the success it proved to be. It took place in the evenings of November 6 and 7 and the afternoon and evenings of the 8 and 9. The study hall, beauti¬ fully decorated with brightly colored crepe paper and flowers, which were made by the girls, was the main center of attraction. There were seven booths here containing everything from a package of pins to a side of bacon. The class-rooms and chapel were used for entertainments and side shows, one of which was going on all the time. At the side shows could be seen the fat
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Chapter news 177 lady, the bearded lady, etc. and in the chapel, a dancing revue and sketch. The parts were all portrayed by college girls. The fraternities are now considering what they can do for the Endowment Fund. 3 December 1919 Grace Sand ’IS Evelyn Kingsley was married to Kenneth Warren on April 30, 1919. ’17 Molley Moneypenny was married to Arthur Kiendl on Setp. 5, 1919. ’19 Margaret Barthel was married to Arthur Underwood on Sept. 19. ’17 Pearl Van Siclen was married to Robert Higbie, jr. on Oct. 15. ’17 Hazel Healy was married to Henry Eggers, jr. on Nov. 19. ALPHA LAMBDA— UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON The alumna; chapter of Seattle has just made us happy almost beyond expression. It all happened this way— they, assisted by the mothers organization, gave a rummage sale for the benefit of our lot fund. Attics were relieved of the collec¬ tions of many years, old trunks yielded many old treasures and even the every day clothes closets managed to spare a few tenants. In a down town building, these things — everything from old shoes and clothing to phonographs— were arranged and for three days the demands of the public were met. When the proceeds were totaled, more than $900 had been realized. We are still rejoicing over the football victory of the Univer¬ sity of Washington over Washington State college at Pullman, November 15. More than 200 university students made the trip to Pullman with the team. Six of our girls were among them. While in Pullman they were the guests of Alpha Sigma and were very happy to have such an opportunity to visit another chapter. . We entertained at our informal at the home of Alice English, November 14. The decorations, favors and programs were sug¬ gestive of the football season. We have two new pledges: Marjorie Riley ’23 of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Mary Newton ’23 of Portland, Oregon. The annual alumnae bazaar was held at the chapter house, November 22. It was a very successful one and a pleasure for the girls to have so many of the alumnae with them. College for the quarter ends December 18. After the Christ¬ mas holidays we will all be back to start on a new quarter. 30 November 1919 Ruth Protto ’19 Helen Goode is teaching home economics in the high school at Dayton, Wash. >18 Laura Dickson was recently married to Clarence Carlander, v T. They are living in Seattle.
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178 Kappa Alpha Theta ’19 Mary Worsham is connected with the brokerage firm of Worsham and Vivian of Seattle. *19 Dorothy Jones was married to David Fisher, B 0 H, in July. They are living near Seattle. '18 Gladys Easterbrook is doing government work in Coblenz, Germany. Lois Gilbert is teaching home economics at Zillah, Wash. *17 Grace Pritchard is teaching French and English at the high school in Concrete, Wash. Born to Mr and Mrs Wallace MacPherson (Elma Leonard) a daughter, Julianna. Leotta Foreman is in Chicago studying music. Address: 839 N. Dear¬ born St. At a recent celebration in Seattle Mary Worsham received the dis¬ tinguished service cross awarded her brother, Capt. Elijah W. Worsham, who lost his life near Gesnes, France, while heroically leading his men forward under terrific fire. Kathryn Kerr has announced her engagement to Kirkland Todd, Cornell. ALPHA MU— UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Alpha Mu started her social career this year by giving a dance for her freshmen on October 10. An arbor was built under which to serve refreshments, and Japanese lanterns were strung across the lawn. However, on the morning of the eventful day many sad and bedraggled Thetas answered the breakfast bell for, true to the old adage, it was not only raining but was pouring. But several clever sisters moved the arbor to the second floor and the dance was a success in spite of Dame Nature. Another social event was the annual Halloween dinner given for the freshmen. On October 6 the annual Savitar contest started to sell the year book, The Savitar . We are running Mildred Owens, a freshman, for Savitar queen. Home-coming week, October 7, 8, and 9, brought back to Missouri many enthusiastic alumni and although the football game was lost to Nebraska the week-end was a very happy one for Alpha Mu, due to the visit of eight of her alumnae. However, the Missouri Tigers lifted their heads again when they won the football game from their rivals, Washington uni¬ versity. Nine Missouri Thetas enjoyed Alpha Iota’s hospitality over this week-end. Eight Thetas stepped out to the footlights in a musical comedy, Oh, oh, Cindy, given November 11, 12, 13 for the benefit of the Elks’ Christmas charities. The tryout was the test of good grades and we are proud of our actresses.
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Chapter news r 179 Laura Lou Brookman of Alpha Rho has affiliated with us. Helen Boyd has gone to Washington, D. C. where she has accepted a Government position for the winter. Due to the need of our chapter, plans are being drawn up for a new Theta home which we hope to build this winter. 25 November 1919 Hedwig Aulepp ’12 Mr and Mrs F. T. Kennedy (Elizabeth Phillips) have moved to Saginaw, Mich. ’17 Dera Dulaney and Hugh Bridges were married Oct. 21. >20 Lola Mary Browne and Edward Van Kirk Overstreet, 4>rA, were married Oct. 22, and expect to sail for France on Dec. 15. ’20 Lilda Schleicher and George Bryant, K 2, were married Oct. 23. >16 Hazel Evans and Dr R. E. Hogan were married Oct. 9. ’17 Kate Child and Ustick Bain, $ K ^ were married Oct. 4. ’19 Ruth Harris attended the freshman dance, Oct. 10. Mary Paxton, Olive Koken, Dorothy Blanks Miller (Mrs Ray), Garnet Ingalsbe," Harriet Bell, Ruth Harris, Laura Owens, Christine Spencer, Ruth Millen Hanley were here for Home-coming, Nov. 8. >08 Elizabeth Spalding has gone to Washington, D. C. where she has a position on the staff of the Junior lunch club, under the direction of the Bureau of standards. M. Ef ale Brown has resigned her position with the St. Louis Y. W. C. A. and is now director of the dietetic service of the Southwestern division of the Red Cross with headquarters in the Frisco Bldg. St. Louis. ALPHA NU— UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Alpha Nu has many things to be thankful for this November. First of all we bought a house and have the distinction of being the first organization on the University of Montana campus to own a home. Our Theta re-union during Home-coming week was in every way a success. All the younger girls had a chance to become acquainted with and really know the older Thetas. We did not realize until the night of our Thanksgiving banquet just how many Thetas there were in Montana (56 being present) and it gave us all a clearer idea of just what Theta means to those who have graduated. Our basketball season has just begun. Alpha Nu won the opening game of the season and the year promises to be a wonder¬ ful one for us in the way of athletics. 4 December 1919 Mary Laux ’ll Mrs W. E. Keeley (Lillian Williams) of Deer Lodge, Mont, at¬ tended the Theta Reunion. Theodosia Sherburn of Browning, Mont, visited with us during Home¬ coming week. Carrie McVicker, Alpha Rho, is teaching near Missoula and spent a week-end at the Theta house.
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180 Kappa Alpha Theta Cora Averill Poole (Mrs M. S.) who was the first president of our chapter is living at 3512 University Av. Chicago, Ill. *18 Ruth Davis is teaching at Buffalo, Mont. Miss Eliza Dexter, Psi, is teaching modern languages at the university here. *17 Gladys Lewis Templeton who is living at Shelby, Mont, has a baby girl, Mary Elizabeth. *18 Helen Finch, who studied violin at New York last year, was here for home-coming week. *20 May Smith was married to William Lermert of Dillon, Mont. Nov. 5. ’22 Elsie Chester of Kaplipell, Frances Theis, assistant superintendent of schools at Columbia Falls, Ethel Stublefield of Big Timber, Frances Donaher of Great Falls, Esther Drenckhahn, who is teaching at Agusta, Grace Saner of St. Ignatius, were also here during our Theta reunion. ALPHA XI— UNIVERSITY OF OREGON No letter received. 13 December 1919. ALPHA OMICRON— UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA I wish every one could have a close up view of the Dallas trip and the football game, which is a real event of the season. When the special train leaves Norman for Dallas, there are very few things that will keep an Oklahoma “ Sooner’ ’ at home. And at Dallas they do make people take notice. We were so pleased over the victories of our football team, so sorry for their defeats, and so confident that they still were going to do big things that we gave them a Halloween party. The house was decorated till it looked like Christmas time, and the dinner was quite a success. Alpha Omicron boasts, among other things, of some very musical pledges ; Eva Francisco, and Helen Stewart are members of the Glee club, a rather unusual achievement for freshmen. The biggest and best thing we have to tell is our Mother’s House Party, November 7-9. We entertained twenty-one mothers, nearly all mothers of girls now active in the chapter. After a dinner the first night, the pledges gave a stunt called Jazz land minstrel. From “Full-o-Love” to “Shimmie Sam” they were perfect clowns. After the stunt we had a pretty spread mixed with some good old Theta songs. The next day we went sight-seeing, and in the afternoon had a lovely tea at the home of President Brooks. That evening we gave the big dinner for the mothers — and afterwards stormed the theaters with line parties, and the dances with chaperons.
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Chapter news 181 Sunday, our fathers came, and in the pouring rain we went to church ; but nothing could stop us. After a dinner party we had a very informal afternoon. Before they left, our mothers gave us a fat check for some new table linen. They made us believe we had done one of the most worth while things of the year, and we know it was worth every bit of time we gave to it. 1 December 1919 Mary Mattison ’21 Pauline Stafford has been visiting friends in Iowa City, and at¬ tending festivities at the University of Iowa. Georgia Shutt, Margaret Archdeacon, Claudia Fay White, Leona Gal¬ braith, Frances Broach Wetzel, Neva Rogers Gahrng, Lucile Westervelt Smiser, Thelma Smith Frantz, Ethel Maude Smith Lowry visited us home¬ coming week, Nov. 1. Froma and Arline Johnson are attending National Park Seminary, Washington, D. C. Margaret Archdeacon is doing Y. W. C. A. work at Prescot, Ariz. Mary Overholser is attending Hollins college and is the Panhellenic rep¬ resentative for Theta. ALPHA PI— UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA To our delight, on October 4 we pledged every rushee we had bid. The pledges are — Louise Canham ’21, Jamestown; Mildred Read, Minneapolis; Margaret Graham, Forest River; Arouline Olson and Teresa Tombs, Grafton; Marjorie Bell, Casselton; Ruth Hoover, Margaret Dow, Doris Payne, Adelaide Collins, Mary Gowran, and Faith Griffith, all of Grand Forks. October 17 the following girls were initiated: Helen Fox, Kenmare; Lois Sheets, Lakota; Adeline Belatti, Watertown, South Dakota; Odina Olson, Buxton; Louise Canham, James¬ town; Marjorie Bell, Casselton; Aldene Barrington, Cut Bank, Montana; Corrine Heitman and Mollie Markell, Grand Forks. Fall elections over, we count our honors. Ruby Carruthers will lead the junior class, being elected president ; Ruth Hoover is vice-president of the freshman class ; Margaret Graham, vice- president of the freshman girls; Aldene Barrington, vice- president and Mollie Marked, secretary-treasurer of the sopho¬ more girls; Enid Young, president of the Women’s league; Norma Young and Aldene Barrington, Women’s league board members ; Helen Fox, captain of the sophomore basket bad team ; Dorothy Healy, president of Panhellenic, member of the Dean’s Assistant council, and manager of the Girls’ glee club to which Ruth and Frances Mahon, Odina Olson, Ruby Carruthers.
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182 Kappa Alpha Theta Adeline Belatti, Faith Griffith, Margaret Dow, Teresa Tombs, Margaret Graham, Enid Young, and Alice Budge also belong. Four girls, Odina Olson, Mary Gowran, Faith Griffith and Doris Payne, were voted into the Dakota Play makers. Ruth Mahon has figured prominently in plans for more efficient self-government among the women’s dormitory and fra¬ ternity houses, which have resulted in a new organization, the Senate, which has the power to make and enforce rules and regulations. Frances Mahon was sent to St. Paul November 13 as a field representative of the Y. W. C. A. Many alumnae were present at our university Home-coming day luncheon including Lottie Canham, Selma Hassel Lommen, Helen Barnes Bangs, Gertrude Cunningham Wineman, Vera Markell Anderson, Lois and Helen Tombs, Gertrude Skinner, Clara Burman, Kathleen Cowan, Marion Grover, Dorothy Hutchinson, Frederica Fox, Margaret Reid, Emily Bell Nash, Jessie Budge, and Gwen Guthrie. Hazel Halvorson of Hatton was pledged November 29. 1 December 1919 Aldene Barrington *19 Margaret Mudgett is teaching at Ashton, Idaho. ’19-ex Grace Buckingham is a recorder in the office of the Registrar of deeds, Grand Forks, N. D. ’19-ex Florence Beachem is teaching at Kenmare, N. D. ’19-ex Beatrice Hines is teaching at Souris, N. D. ’19-ex Helena Huesgens is teaching at Berwick, N. D. ’19-ex Gladys O’Keefe is spending this year at home in Grand Forks. ' ’19-ex Ruth Dow is teaching at Fertile, Minn. ’19-ex Louise Belatti is teaching in her home town, Watertown, S. D. ’19-ex Ronnaug Skabo is teaching at Souris, N. D. ’ll Maude Templeton and her mother arc visiting in Sioux City, Iowa, and will later go on to New York and Vermont for extensive visits. ’08 Born Sept. 29 to Mr and Mrs A. C. Strand (Mary Bello Fleming- ton), a son, Albert Thomas. ’13-ex Mrs. Otto A. Connor (Margaret Fawcett) is living in Moscow, Idaho, this winter. ’13 Mrs. A. G. Wineman (Gertrude Cunningham) after visiting here, has gone with Lieut. Wineman to make their home in Charleston, S. C. where Lieut. Wineman was transferred from Louisville, Ky. ’98 Marcia Bisbee passed away Nov. 15 at her home in Eagle Rock City, Cal. ’14-ex Ethel Harris Gallett (Mrs D. L.) of Aberdeen, S. D. was in a very serious automobile accident on the way to Minneapolis in October, but has fully recovered from her injuries. ’15 Mr and Mrs E. J. Mcllraith (Alice Kolars) have moved to Crocus, N. D. ’16 Helen Lynch has returned to Berthold, N. D. to resume teaching.
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Chapter news 183 ’17-ex Ella May Nevin visited here in October and was brides-maid at the wedding of her brother, John Nevin, to Miss Marie O’Gorman. ALPHA RHO- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA Since our last letter we have pledged eight girls: Marene Richards, Huron, who took her B.A. degree at Smith last year, and is taking law at the university; Pearl Orcutt, Sioux City, Iowa, a junior, having spent two years at Lake Erie college; Mavis Gillis, Clark, is a sophomore who spent her freshman year at Oberlin; five freshmen, Gladys Stinson, Vermilion; Ada MacAnulty, Redfield; Martha Williams, cousin of Mrs Don Cotton, Montrose; Alice Knowles, Sioux Falls; Erma Swanson, Sioux City, Iowa. Thetas have entered into all college activities and we are well represented by Marie Leavitt as a member of Student senate; Lucille Large, vice-president of sophomore class; Laila Gilbertson, secretary of sophomores; Zora Nelson, president of Altheian literary society; Florence Nelson, president of Mask and Wig, and Debating Board of control ; Mavis Gillison, Y. W. C. A. Cabinet. Mavis will also go to Des Moines, Iowa, as a delegate to the Student Volunteer convention. Our freshmen are all interested in Y. W. and five of them have joined Alethian literary society. Ada MacAnulty and Martha Williams are members of Mask and Wig, dramatic club, by competitive try-out. Our house mother, Mrs Giffen, is an aunt of one of the girls, and consequently much interested in us. We all enjoy her very much. Dakota Day, our biggest day, in the fall was October 25. It is home-coming day and alumni from all over the state were here. A parade was the morning feature, in which all colleges on the campus, and all activities were represented by floats. Heading the procession was 4 'Miss Dakota/ ’ selected by ballot as the most popular girl in the University of South Dakota, and "Miss Dakota” was our president, Marie Leavitt. We were very proud of her and happy to think that a Theta was chosen to represent the University of South Dakota, as its ideal girl. Marie rode in a white float, which was followed by our Kappa Alpha Theta float of Black and Gold. At the tryouts for the sophomore play Nothing but the truth > Laila Gilbertson and Lucille Large both received good parts. November 22 the annual football game between South Dakota state college and the university was held at Sioux Falls. This
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184 Kappa Alpha Theta annual affair serves as an excuse for fraternity banquets. The Theta banquet was held at Shriver- Johnson ’s and 37 actives and alumnae were present. The alumnae present were: Katherine Cahalan, Nelle Reidesal Poole (Mrs Flloyd), Pansy Whittemore (Mrs D.), Adele Lewis Edmonds (Mrs Stanly), Marie Bryant Coldwill, Ann Gilchrist Grigsby (Mrs Sioux), Mildred Elmore Anderson (Mrs Henry), Ella Royahl, Flora Williams Cotton (Mrs Don), Josephine Stutenroth, Margit Johnson, Ole Lotze, Margaret Sharpe, Mildred Gold, Verna Gold, Ruth Bonsey, Rinnie Vaughn, Mae Olston, Juliet Lien, Clara Olston, Helen Lowe, Florence Collins, Jean Shanard and Jennie Maule. For the last year Theta led all men’s and women’s frater¬ nities in scholarship, and we aim to keep the same record for this year. With its fine new pledges and old girls all working I am sure Alpha Rho will equal, if not surpass, its past records. ’20 Mildred Groves was married Nov. 26 to Harry Schneckloth, «J> A 0. ’18 Dorothy Chaney’s marriage to Dr Ralph Collins, 2 A E, took place Nov. 25. ’15 Mr and Mrs Flloyd Poole (Nelle Reidsall) of Denver visited the Theta house Nov. 19. ’19 Flora Williams was married to Don Cotton, 2 A E, Oct. 22. The engagement of Lucille Large to Kenneth C. Gifford, B 0 II, is announced. ’19 Mildred Gold and ’16 Verna Gold visited th<* house the week follow¬ ing the Sioux Falls game. ALPHA SIGMA— STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON The end of rushing season is a most welcome and exciting time. With nine pledges we settled back to work again. We were glad to pledge one Theta sister, Gertrude Bryan, from Boise, Idaho. The other pledges are — Gertrude Van Delinder, Calgary, Alberta, Canada ; Myrtle Fender, Prescott ; Frances McCracken, Boise, Idaho; Irene Kulzer, Valley; Sara Bair, Yakima; Meta Carstens, Reardon ; Catherine Mathews, Pullman ; and Florence Higley, Spokane. We were honored by a visit from Mrs Verne Gaddis Jinnett, our District president, on October 20. November 23 we had our first Theta Sunday night of the vear. All Thetas met at the chapter house. The pledges gave a clever stunt, which was followed by a musical program and several dramatic readings. A light supper was served. Some of our girls were entertained by the petitioning chapter Chi Delta Phi at the University of Idaho. We also had the
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Chapter news 185 pleasure of entertaining Annamay Bronaugh and Virginia McAuliffe, delegates from Alpha Xi and Alpha Nu, inspecting the petitioning chapter. November 15 was the annual Home-coming day at Washing¬ ton State. AVe entertained many Thetas from Alpha Lambda, as well as some of our own alumnae. On October 24 we gave a tea for our House-mother, Miss Garnet Vollertsen, of Battle Creek, Iowa. 1 December 1919 Mary Sanders Mildred Bothwell has been pledged to Pi Mu Phi, pharmaceutical fra¬ ternity. Frances Huntington is secretary-treasurer of the Scribblers club. Sara Bair has been chosen member of Mu Phi Epsilon, national musical sorority. Marjorie Heaton won first prize for the Agricultural Fair poster. Virginia Spencer’s poster took the second prize. June Sanders and Cecile Whitfield were in the college play, It pays to advertise. Melcena LaFollette coached the play. Marguerite Wilmer, one of our alumna), has been placed on the musical faculty. Born to Mr and Mrs Newton Buren (Lorena Ferrier) a son, Newton, Jr. New address: Pocahontas apts. Spokane, Wash. ALPHA TAU— UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI No letter received. 13 December 1919. ALPHA UPSILON— WASHBURN COLLEGE Washburn has completed the most successful football season in years, having won all Kansas conference games except the one with College of Emporia. In addition, we held Kansas univer¬ sity, our most formidable opponent, to a 0-0 game. The day preceding this game was Hobo Day. Classes were dismissed and every one appeared in hobo costume. Attics yielded their stores of old-fashioned finery, as did the old-clothes bags. After a Hobo convention with many clever stunts, we attended a Hobo Hop in the gymnasium, followed by a huge auto parade through town. On October 25, our pledges entertained the pledges from Kappa chapter. After a roller-skating party at Garfield Park, a luncheon was served at Betty Bonebrake’s home. In the afternoon the chapter was given an opportunity to meet the guests at a tea at the chapter house.
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186 Kappa Alpha Theta The same evening the Dramatic club presented The man from home with Betty Fyffe ’20 playing the part of Ethel Granger- Simpson. The receipts from the play swelled the club’s fund to $1,073, which means that work on our new Greek theater will be begun very soon. This sum has been raised since March, 1918. On November 1 we entertained our pledges at an informal dance at the Elks club. On November 6, the house girls enter¬ tained with a spread for the alumnae who were in town for the State teachers’ convention. We had the pleasure not long ago of hearing Mrs Ruth Blackman Rodgers, a Sigma Alpha Iota from Ithaca, New York, when she appeared in a recital in the Washburn chapel. A convention of the Bita Bita Pie organization was held November 21 in the gymnasium, at which time home-made pies were auctioned off and the money raised to send the college band to the football games away from home. The party was a great credit to the all-college social committee of which Beatrice Shakeshaft ’20 is a member. 29 November 1919 Dorothy Crane *19 Anne Hawley and Christina Ward were in Topeka for the Washburn- Kansas game Oct. 18. ’20 Jessie Wyatt and Anita Humphrey, Kappa, visited us Oct. 18. *18 Mr and Mrs Iceland K. Thompson (Gertrude Grey) have gone to Ligoneer, Ind. to make their home. *19 Ruth Larimer, Eta, is living at 111 Greenwood av. *19 Esther Jenson, Anne Hawley, Helen Hunter, Catherine Conkling, Dorothy Wahle, Margaret Suydam, Christina Ward, and Marjorie Herrig were back for the State teachers 1 convention Nov. 6-9. *17 Mr and Mrs J. Arthur Myers (Lois Seger) are occupying their new home at 1427 Jewell av. M8 Catherine Harrison is teaching in Downs, Kan. ALPHA PHI— NEWCOMB COLLEGE We Newcombites feel sorely tempted to resort to the well- worn exclamation, ‘ 1 Lank ’a mercy on us can this be I!” when we contemplate the fact that our most strenuous rushing period is over and done with and it is only November. As a result of our two-week rush period we announce the following pledges: Bertha Scheuerman and Edna Louise White of New Orleans; Eleanor O’Shee, Alexandria; Nathalie Thompson, Citronelle, Alabama; Zemma Unruh, Mobile, Alabama; Velma Lyons, Lake Charles; and Edith Wright, Fairmount, Indiana. Every Satur¬ day pledge-day is held for freshmen who entered with conditions or who are on probation, the girls becoming eligible as soon as
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• Chapter news 187 conditions are removed. Consequently we expect to add a few more names to our list from time to time. In order to raise funds to send delegates to the Intercollegiate student conference at Des Moines, Iowa, the Student-body held a dancing contest during lunch hour a few days ago. The contest extended over five days, the winners being chosen from each class in turn and finally the best couple being chosen from among these four winning couples. The final decision was a hard one to make, but the seniors came out victorious in the end. A fee of 10 cents a dance per couple was charged and members of the faculty served as judges. Owing to the fact that we are as yet house-less and room-less, we find it rather difficult to hold our meetings regularly and with full attendance. At present we are trying the plan of holding one of the four monthly meetings at night and combining busi¬ ness with pleasure by having this meeting a social one to which the pledges and alumnae are especially invited. We have not yet had sufficient time to judge of the success of this plan, but the first social meeting held last night was very successful. We practised several of the new songs and the pledges presented a short but highly amusing stunt entitled Black-eyed Susan . For some unknown reason we seem to be getting very musical lately, for besides practising fraternity songs we are learning some Christmas carols with the intention of going carolling on Christmas Eve at different charitable institutions. 30 November 1919 Dorothy Hay '16 Mathilde Laurans has announced her engagement to Mr Harry Lowe Ross of Mobile, Ala. ’19 Eunice Bate has a position as draftsman in Hammond, La. >19 Helen Wharton has been appointed Assistant supervisor of art in the public schools of New Orleans. *19 Evangeline Magruder, student body president 1918-19, is awarding a cup at Newcomb to the class which shows the most class and college spirit each year. *19 Alma Schuler is teaching in the New Orleans conservatory of music. >21 Velma Moody was married to Gilbert Wingate, Nov. 20. ALPHA CHI— PURDUE UNIVERSITY It seems that time is flying, perhaps because we have so many interesting things to do and we can hardly find time to do them. We have just finished a round of social events. November 12, we had open house for all the girls in Purdue, the faculty and the men’s fraternities. We all felt it was quite a success and
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188 Kappa Alpha Theta indeed it should have been for our arms ached for two days afterwards. Then on November 20, the Womans Panhellenic Council gave a dance. At the Dean’s request it was very informal. November 23. Gamma Delta of Kappa Kappa Gamma enter¬ tained us at an informal get together. Our pledges gave the chapter a weinie roast on October 21. They took us three miles out in the country in a truck to a lovely little valley. Some of the girls had gone ahead and built the fire so all was ready. After eating delicious food, we gathered around the fire and the pledges sang clever, original songs about all the seniors. At the Student Convocation, November 20, two of our pledges performed, Martha Lund on the harp and Mildred Bryan on the piano. We are certainly glad to claim such talented girls as all our freshmen are. We were so proud of the results of the class elections. Of course, seniors come first, Dorothy Clark is secretary of the class of ’20 ; Marie Mueller is secretary of the class of ’22 ; and Helen Vickery of the class of ’23 ; Frances Smith is president of the sophomore girls. The sophomores had the highest scholarship average in the chapter, then freshmen, seniors and juniors. We hope to all raise our grades and put Theta, where she belongs, at the top. 25 November 1919 Lois McCord *17 Josephine McCord is teaching at Danville, Ind. *19 Ruth Ferguson is managing a cafeteria at Richmond, Ind. Helen Norris was married to Loren Martin. H8 Helen Eldridge is going to visit here Thanksgiving. Alice Hupe is quite sick at her home in Lafayette. *19 Dale Waterbury is teaching at Berea college, Ky. ALPHA PSI— LAWRENCE COLLEGE Among the several activities occupying the field of attention at Lawrence, the campaign of the Wisconsin Colleges associated is the most prominent at present. The association includes eight institutions, seven colleges and one university of this state, and has for its object the raising of $5,000,000, to be divided among these institutions on the basis of their student hours, to provide adequate salaries and equipment to cope with new conditions. The Lawrence Home-coming November 15 was a success, and we are in hopes that it will be instituted as an annual affair. A mass-meeting and torch-light parade were held Friday night,
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Chapter news 189 registration and the Ripon-Lawrence game Saturday, and a banquet for students and alumni at the armory that evening. Alpha Psi entertained as guests that week Carrie Blair of Waupaca, Helen Risdon of DePere, and Ruth Hoeper of Wausau. We initiated Maude Shepherd of Appleton at the home of Anne Hawes, November 14. Initiation was followed by a spread for alumna, actives, and pledges. Our alumna? are doing fine things for the chapter this year and we are enjoying many good times together. They entertain the chapter and pledges at a supper once a month and are giving hints of a * 1 grand finale” of some sort in the spring if the chapter fulfills their expectations during the jrear. The first of the series of suppers was given at the home of Daisy Ingold. Alpha Epsilon Phi is the name of a new chapter that has recently been organized at Lawrence. With our large enroll¬ ment this fall we realized there was room for other fraternities in college as there were so many fine girls. Tau Epsilon Sigma is the new men’s fraternity also organized here this fall. We have pledged Florence Lange of Eau Claire. 2 December 1919 Helen Ritchie Born, to Mr and Mrs J. H. Coumbe (Gwendolyn Owens), a son, John Henry, Jr. Nov. 9. Mr W. K. Killen, of Minneapolis, father of Mrs George Banta (Mar¬ garet Killen), died at his home in Nov. *19 Amy Helmer, who is teaching at Mellen,. visited in Appleton during the Thanksgiving vacation. ’22 Abigail Classon of Oconto visited here for some time this fall. Mr and Mrs L. Hallock (Elizabeth Stevens) have moved from New Jersey to Cleveland, Ohio. Address: 2512 Kenilworth Road. Ethelynn Lindley of Chicago, and Ruth Findeisen of Green Bay were Alpha Psi guests during Home-coming. ALPHA OMEGA— UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Having just emerged from a strenuous rushing season, we are in the midst of “ silence week. ” While invitations are issued, and until all answers are received, fraternity girls and rushees are not allowed to communicate. Rushing season extended two months, each fraternity being permitted to give two large func¬ tions, besides numerous small parties. Our first function was a traveling dinner; and the second, the last Saturday in rushing season, a tea at the Willian Penn hotel, followed by a dinner, and an informal slumber party at the chapter house. We were honored by having Mrs Mecklin as our guest at both functions.
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190 Kappa Alpha Theta Our five pound box of candy announcement of a girl’s engagement applies to alumnae as well. The first box this season was from Mr G. K. Frye, announcing his engagement to Brenda Wright ’18. As always, it was an occasion for merrymaking. The chapter is planning a dinner and stunt party at the chapter house for all Alpha Omega members, December 5. This will celebrate the fourth anniversary of the installation of the chapter. Lena Ebeling, annual member of the Y. W. C. A. spent several days in Philadelphia. While there, she visited the chap¬ ters at Swarthmore and at the University of Pennsylvania. Alpha Gamma Omicron, local, has been granted a charter by Chi Omega. Miss Calicutt, national inspector of Zeta Tau Alpha, was a dinner guests at the house recently. 3 December 1919 Alena Horner ’19 Helen Steinert and Marion Smith are doing post graduate work at the university. *19 Virginia Irwin is teaching at Monesson high school. *20 Florence Skinner is recreational leader at the Marine hospital. Margaret Wycoff and Betty Ramsdell, Eta, Catherine Marshall, Alpha Gamma and Iota, and Mrs. Yocum, Alpha Theta, have called at the house. *19 Olivette Gourley visited at the house Nov. 26. BETA BETA— RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE On Friday, October 17, the whole college community was shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Mrs Mary Clary Webb, wife of the president of the college. Just a week later we received news of the death of Dr William A. Webb, who had been ill in Memphis, Tennessee, previous to the death of his wife. Dean Nathan A. Pattillo, who has been serving in Dr Webb’s place during his illness will continue in the office of president for the remainder of the year. The Randolph-Macon Student body has finally succeeded in raising sufficient funds for the erection of the Student building as a memorial to Dr Smith, our founder. The ever increasing demand for rooming facilities has become so urgent in our college that we are hoping for the erection of new dormitories as well. Public sentiment here has always been against fraternity houses or any rooming off of the campus, consequently every one rooms in the dormitories. Our usual Thanksgiving banquet was given by the college but the celebration was not of the usual gaity as we have sus-
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Chapter news 191 pended all social activities for the year. The freshman-sopho¬ more basketball game, held on the morning of November 27 closed our basketball season. Amateur stunts in the chapel fur¬ nished entertainment for the evening. Since the October pledge day we have pledged the following girls: Frances Williams of Virginia, Barbara Gilbreath of Illinois, and Mary Porter of Alabama. 2 December 1919 Eunice Wilson '19 Lucile Hendrix is teaching in SmithviUe, Tex. BETA GAMMA— COLORADO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Beta Gamma is at last stationed in her chapter house. With the help of our alumme we have bought enough furniture to furnish the downstairs, including four wicker chairs upholstered in tapestry to match our davenport, a library table, and several new rugs. We were a discouraged group before we moved into the house, but now that we are so comfortably located we are very happy for the opportunity of being together. Florence Lillis, one of our pledges, has distinguished herself by being elected to Writers club which is limited to twelve members. The football team of Colorado Agricultural college has proven itself to be real champions this year. Although we lost the last game that was played, we still came out ahead in the series. Construction for a new Physics building is being started on the campus. Eight members of the student body are to be appointed to attend the National student volunteer conference which is to be held in Des Moines. Beta Gamma held a house warming on October 31. The house was decorated with Halloween decorations. Dancing fur¬ nished the entertainment of the evening. Leland McMurry *18 Grace Harvey Blomstrom is living in Holdredge, Neb. Dorothy Finger, who has been studying music at Northwestern for the last two years, has returned to Fort Collins, and is acting as our chaperon. Florence Crane Kidder (Mrs H.) is now living at Walsenburg. *19 Crystal Netherton Reed (Mrs E.) was here for our house warming.
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192 Kappa Alpha Theta BETA DELTA— UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONIA Beta Delta introduces the following pledges : Maywood Spell¬ man, Clarkdale; Jeanette Davey, sister of Effie Davey, El Paso; Mary Adele Wood and Helen Wood, Tucson; Ruth Burtis and Genevieve Cope, Phoenix; Mildred Cotey, Clifton; Katherine Crawford, Prescott; and Frances Von Barnevcld, Tucson. Jean Slavens, June Slavens, Mary Katherine Salmon, Jose¬ phine Brady, and Mauri Sasek, who were eligible for initiation at the close of the college year were initiated in September. Josephine Hubbard (Mrs II.), a member of the English depart¬ ment of the faculty, was also initiated in October. Just* as this chapter letter is written, Arizona university is feeling very elated and very enthusiastic over our Thanksgiving football game with Occidental college, the score of which was 27-0 in our favor. This was the culmination of a most successful football season. The vscores as they now stand make the Arizona Varsity one of the four best in the southwest. Thanksgiving was our first Home-coming day. Scores of Arizona graduates were in attendance at the Thanksgiving game. Alpha Sigma, a local organization has been granted a charter by Kappa Kappa Gamma. Installation will probably take place sometime during the latter part of December. Ruth Burtis ’23 will play the part of Peggy in Mice and men , which is to be presented by the Sock and Buskin dramatic society in December. Bertha Renaud ’21 will take the part of Joanne Goodlake. Blanche Smith, Mildred Cotey, Katherine Crawford, and Maywood Spellman play the role of orphans. Mildred Kelly has been elected editor-in-chief of the university annual, The Desert. 30 November 1919 Ellen Boulton Jane Rider represented the Tucson Y. W. C. A. at a recent conference in San Francisco. >19 Althea Saelid, who is teaching at Bisbee, Ariz. was a guest at the Theta house during Thanksgiving vacation. '19 Henrietta Rockfellow announces her engagement to Albert Ruple, 2 N. Bertha Renaud spent Thanksgiving vacation at her home in Pierce. BETA EPSILON— OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE We’re off in a cloud of dust for Thanksgiving vacation. Needless to say, we intend to spend four days of complete rest and quiet, so that we may return all prepared to meet the final examinations which follow vacation.
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Chapter news 193 Home-coming was celebrated October 25, when orange and black banners and festoons, decorating the entire town, greeted the eyes of the alumni. On the evening of November 21, Beta Epsilon sallied forth to the annual Co-ed ball. The name is misleading, for the party is made up entirely of girls, the upperclassmen attired and acting as escorts. The Co-ed ball is always looked forward to, and attended with much enthusiasm, since it is practically the only occasion at which the girls alone are gathered on a social and democratic basis. Early in the term, we carried out our yearly custom of entertaining our housemother, Miss Bassitt, with a tea, to which we invited the other house mothers, faculty, and town women. We can’t wait another minute before telling you about our new pledges. After one deep dive into the sea of rushing, we emerged with eleven vivacious and charming mere-maids. Name¬ ly: Frances Lounsbury, Mary Rawlings, Wilma Rorden, Miriam Reed, Irma Crandall, Anette Weatherford, Elizabeth Fussclman, Margaret Rickard, Helen Meserve, Waunda Rosenstock, and Ruth Schultz. We expect wonders from them, and from all indications we are not to be disappointed, for they are already taking interest in campus activities, and once a week we hear mysterious sounds escaping from the room where they are work¬ ing on the stunt show given yearly by our pledges. As Oregon Agricultural college played her annual game of football with University of Oregon at Eugene this year, prac¬ tically the entire Beta Epsilon chapter camped at the Alpha Xi chapter house. We went over with visions of curling up in a blanket on any square foot of floor space available, but were pleasantly surprised by finding an abundance of beds, and besides, a good measure of hospitality. The Alpha Xi girls are most gracious entertainers, and we appreciated their cordiality and thoughtfulness. At present, we are enjoying a visit from Esther Shea and Dorothy Morrill, who were with us last year as juniors. We have the pleasure of announcing that another one of our girls, Marie Mendenhall, was initiated into the honorary home economic’s fraternity, Omicron Nu. Marion West is on the social committee for student affairs, and Hazel Strief is secretary of the senior class. *19 Stephanie Strain is now Mrs Maylon Scott, Gary, Ind. >18 Ethel Wright was married to E. E. Vehrs, Oct. 25. At home in Elgin, Ore. >19 Daphne Gulliford has announced her engagement to Leighton Steele, 2 N. ,
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194 Kappa Alpha Theta BETA ZETA— OKLAHOMA STATE COLLEGE ‘ ‘ To be a good winner, you must be a good loser, ' ' is a little line we have had to think seriously about since Thanksgiving day, when Oklahoma university got the score that we were so sure we were going to get. But I guess the best man always wins, doesn't he? Anyway we won't say anything more concerning that game for at present our relations with Alpha Omicron are very friendly. Now let me tell you of some other people who are now enjoy¬ ing Thetahood, for last month we initiated some more of Alpha Theta alumnae, Myrtle Adams-Short, Mamie Russell, Edna Han- nifin-Vance, Viola Campbell- Santee ; faculty members Ruth Michaels, Dean of home economics; Daisy McCool, instructor in art; Maizee Bridges, instructor in voice; and Faye Boyd, a member of Alpha Theta who returned to college late. Mrs Tom Lowry was here to help with our initiation. We still have as pledges Alma Brooks of Ardmore, Lydia Lookabaugh of Watonga, Mattie Kimberlin of Altus, Arlene Keeley of Arcadia, Irene Mahoney of Newkirk, and Mabel Foster of El Reno. During the past month we have entertained at various times, the different men's fraternities. The pledges having prepared a special stunt for each occasion. The college seems to be on a boom this fall — the new armory and Science hall will soon be ready for use and work for the pavement on the campus has begun. There seems to be far more enthusiasm here than ever before, the various colleges competing in all activities. Two organizations have been formed as a result of this enthusiasm and now we have thirty-seven * 4 Wild cats" and thirty-eight ‘ ‘ Wampus kittens." These are secret organizations and the members for the “Wild cat" are chosen from the junior and senior classes, for their loyalty to the college and for the active part they take in college activities. So naturally I was more than proud for my own personal honor as well as for Theta when I was made a “wild cat." Theta has two Wild cats and two Wampus kittens: Bernice Baldwin being the other wild cat and Alma Brooks and Mattie Kimberlin our Wampus kittens. That organization being similar to the “Wild cat" only they are chosen from the freshman class.
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Chapter neivs 195 Thanksgiving day in Oklahoma city, Beta Zeta and Alpha Omicron had dinner together. We did not make this so elabor¬ ate as we are planning for a most gorgeous one on Founders day. 31 November 1919 Goldia Jones ’17 Alma Lee Keys has announced her engagement to Frank Brunner of Marked Tree, Ark. ’17 Irma Rapp has announced her engagement to Raymond Tolbert of El Reno, Okla. BETA ETA— UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA You want to hear all about installation and what we think of it? We have been trying to tell each other that for almost a month, but have almost despaired. We are just a baby chapter, and our vocabularies are limited, but you know what we feel: the overpowering joy of having sister Thetas everywhere ready to love and be loved, and the exalting responsibility of fulfilling Theta ideals and expectations — these are to us an integral part of Thetahood. We anticipated something wonderful ; we found things more wonderful than we had dreamed. Mrs Mecklin, Miss Newsom, Miss Ashby, and Miss Frisch were all here, and as a friend from another fraternity said, ‘ 'The only trouble is, when such people come, they stay just long enough to make you wish to be like them, and then leave.” We are especially fortunate in having so close, Philadelphia alumnae and Alpha Beta. With generous hospitality they helped us plan for installation. Miss Comly entertained at pledging. At the alumnae and undergraduate initiations, Mrs Mutchler was hostess. Only to save time by passing directly to the banquet hall, was Beta Eta installed at the Bellevue-Stratford instead of in Mrs Gordon ’s home. Shortly after luncheon, reception guests began to arrive. Campus fraternities displayed a most comradely spirit. They offered us their rooms, remembered us with gifts, and rode two miles through the rain to our reception after watching a damp football defeat on Franklin Field. The evening we spent cozily in our room, where last spring Lambda Iota anxiously entertained some of these same Thetas. How much happier we were this time! Sunday Miss Frisch presided over our first meeting. Then came the final breaking up. We hated to see our new sisters go, but hope to see them soon again.
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196 Kappa Alpha Theta With the same hope of seeing you all, Beta Eta extends her warmest Theta love. 24 November 1919 Marion W. Masland >16 Mildred Allice Eckels announced her engagement to Maj George Sawyer Woodard, U. S. A. M. C. on Nov. 22. >18 Mae Harveson is teaching in the Norristown high school. >18 & '19 Ethel McAllister and Helen Armor are teaching in the Philadelphia high schools. >19 Hilda Dickeson is teaching at Bridgeton, N. J. — Lenore Martin at Seaford, Del. — Jean Shoe at the Bryn Mawr model school — Clara Void in Butler, Pa. >19 Frances Q. Holsopple, Ph.D. is doing Girls' protective work in Philadelphia. '19 Helena K. Amend has returned to the university to study music. BOSTON ALUMN7E Mary Conrey, Alpha, from Shelbyville, Ind. visited Mrs Wm. C. Paisley (Mary Irvin, Alpha) at Somerville, Mass, and attended the November meet¬ ing at Mrs Clarence Esty's (Rosamond Field, Iota). Josephine Hatch, Beta, is attending Simmons college, Boston. Margaret Bab, Delta, is attending Wellesley college. Ruth Rainier, Gamma, is attending Wellesley college. Maureen Watkins, Gamma, is a graduate student at Radcliffe college. Mrs Ward Cook (Martha Stough, Kappa) has a second son, John Norman, born in August. Mrs Norman W. Mitchell (Clara Bond, Lambda) died suddenly at her home in Somerville, Mass. Sept. 22, 1919. Gladys Blaine, Upsilon, is secretary to Dr Joslin, Bay State Road, Boston. She is living at 16 Prentiss st. Cambridge, Mass. Laura Merrill, Upsilon, who recently moved with her family to Atlanta, Ga. was in Boston last summer doing temporary work for the Associated charities. Catharine Elizabeth Dodge, Rho, is attending Wellesley college. Corinne Cassard, Alpha Delta, is a graduate student at Radcliffe and lives at 1 Arsenal Square, Cambridge, Mass. Elaine Jones, Alpha Eta, is in Asheville, N. C. where she is engaged in the Homo Service Division of the Red Cross. Jean Brookes, Alpha Iota, is a graduate student at Radcliffe college and lives at 53 Garden st. Cambridge, Mass. Genevieve Wilson, Alpha Iota, is attending Wellesley college. Mrs Samuel Ayres (Helen Lowry, Alpha Mu) is living at 1010 Beacon St. Brookline, Mass. Dr Ayres is on the staff of the Massachusetts general hospital. Mrs Wayne C. Stewart (Jane Quayle, Alpha Mu) is living at 19 Agassiz St. Cambridge, Mass. Mr Stewart is attending Harvard. Mrs Sumner Brooks (Matilda Moldenhauer, Alpha Omega) is living at Bryn Mawr, Pa. Dr Brooks is teaching in Bryn Mawr college. Ethel Clarke, Alpha Xi, ran a very successful tea-room at Seaside, Ore. last summer.
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Chapter neivs 197 Mrs Melville Eastham (Jessie Chase, Alpha Xi) and Mr Eastham took an extensive trip last August, visiting friends and relatives in Oregon. Mrs D. L. Belding (Isabel Wheeler, Alpha Zeta) has moved from Watertown to Hingham, Mass. Three of our charter members are now members of the Washington alumnae chapter: Mrs Harlan Perrill (Charlotte Knox, Beta), Lyda M. Bassett, Alpha Epsilon, and Mrs Joseph P. Kaufman (Clarice Ryther, Alpha Epsilon). Mary Parks, Beta Gamma, is attending Simmons college, Boston and living at 151 Davis av. Brookline. CINCINNATI ALUMNA ’17-ex Marjorie Flagler Adae (Mrs Howard R.) has returned to Cin¬ cinnati and is living in Fernbank. ’19 Hulda Brackman is wotnen’s employment agent for the Monitor Stove Co. ’17 Grace Dudley Campbell (Mrs Stuart V.) is living in Flagstaff, Ariz. >15 Mary Cellarius was married to Morton Bradley Shepard, 4> K A, on June 28 and is living at 2125 Hudson av. Norwood. ’18 Anna Cellarius was married to Ion John Cortright, Oct. 4. Her address will be 804 Portage av. South Bend, Ind. ’18 Mary Corre is civic director of the Cincinnati Woman ’s city club. ’14: Katherine Dabney, after her year’s work among the children of devastated France, has returned to her home in Cincinnati. ’19 Tunis Dickerson is assistant laboratory instructor in botany at Con¬ necticut state college. ’14 Hulda Stephens Hand (Mrs Chauncey) is rejoicing over the arrival of a little daughter, Harriet Patricia, born July 23. Mrs Hand’s address is 438 Homestead av. Mt. Vernon, N. Y. ’17 Dorothy Stevens Hoehler (Mrs Fred) is alumnae adviser of Alpha Tau for this year. ’16 Elizabeth James is teaching chemistry, dietetics, and psychology at Winsor training school, Boston. ’16 Dorothy Jones has announced her engagement to Chester Boon, her wedding to be an event of the Christmas holidays. ’19 Marguerite Reid is executive secretary of the Woman’s city club. Kathryn Ritchie, Psi, who has been affiliated with our chapter is doing Y. W. C. A. work in New York City. ’16 Saradelle Emerson Sadler (Mrs Dudley) now lives in New Orleans. Her address is 1425 Josephine St. ’19 Anna Stephens is assistant secretary in the placement office of the Vocational guidance bureau. ’18 Margaret Todd is instructor in applied art and design at Cincinnati university. She had as guests during August, Helen Siackett and Marion Miller of Psi. ’14 Katherine Page Waring, now living in Columbus, has been visiting here. ’16 Born May 4 to Margaret Pfleger Williams (Mrs Berkeley) a son, Berkeley, Jr. Jeanette Stone Backman (Mrs Lester) has returned to Cincinnati. Mildred Evans Barnett is visiting her sister at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
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198 Kappa Alpha Theta Marie Thiesing Clark (Mrs Robert) has moved to Oklahoma. Ruth Hyndman Cutter (Mrs A. B.) with her daughter Ruth (aged 2) and young Robert (6 months) is here on a visit. Carolyn Healy will be here over the Christmas holidays. Katherine Dabney is assistant director of physical education in the Cincinnati schools. Alice Donnelly and Sylvia Ewan are president and vice-president, re¬ spectively, of the Alumnsc association of the University of Cincinnati. Ruth Hatfield is studying at the Cincinnati art school. Ida Lotspeich is convalescing most satisfactorily we are happy to say, at Saranac Lake, N. Y. after her illness following two attacks of influenza. She expects to be there the rest of the winter, however, and would be glad to hear from the girls. Margaret Rucker Shannon (Mrs Robert) has moved to Huntington, W. Va» . . Florence Stewart is teaching English and algebra at Ohio mechanics institute. 29 November 1919 M. Louise Rutter PORTLAND ALUMNiE Portland Thetas are trying a new meeting plan this year. All the members are divided into groups of six, each group to act as hostess at one of the monthly meetings. Olive Gray is chairman on arranging the groups. The first meeting under this plan was held the first Wednes¬ day in November at Louise Manning's. Many .chapters are represented in the new officers who were elected. The new officers are: president, Elma Whitmore (Mrs Carl), Omega; vice president, Marjorie McGuire, Alpha Xi ; recording secretary, Katherine Corbin, Alpha Lambda; treasurer, Agnes Hutchins Matthiessen (Mrs M. M.), Phi; corresponding secretary, Clara Helfrich (Mrs A. H.), Delta; archivist Genevieve Shaver, Alpha Xi ; Panhellenic delegate, Maurine Me Adam Temple (Mrs H. L.). Rho. Mary Hutchins Thomas (Mrs W. H.), Phi, is president of A. C. A. following Edith B. Fisher (Mrs F. S.), Phi. Mrs Kerby, Alpha Beta, has moved to Seattle, Wash. Grace Rohrbaugh Bonekemper (Mrs Wilhelm), Rho, has returned to her home in Omaha. Mrs Catlin Wolfard (Jean Campbell), Phi, has recently moved to Portland from San Francisco. Maurine McAdam Temple (Mrs H. L.), Rho, and small daughter, Patricia Anne, have recently moved to Portland. Elizabeth Drummond, Alpha Lambda, who has been teaching in Eugene, Ore. is now teaching English in the Benson Polytechnic high school. Ethel Clarke, who had a tea room and gift shop at Seaside this summer, plans to open another “Ye Betty Lampe” here in the near future.
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Chapter news 199 Marriages: '19 Ruth Kelly, Beta Epsilon, to Mr. Fitz Ramsdall, K 2, June 26; '19-ex Ruth Trowbridge, Alpha Xi, to Mr F. H. Strong, 2 N, June 5; '20-ex Stephanie Strain, Beta Epsilon, to Lieut M. E. Scott, Sept. 4 and they are now living in Chicago. Births: '12-ex Born to Mr and Mrs E. J. Failing (Marjorie Holcomb), Alpha Xi, a daughter, Mary, on April 24 ; '08 Ruth Hyndman Cutler, Delta, has a son Robert, born in June. '02 Mr and Mrs Meredith Baily, Jr. (Maida Rossi ter), Iota, are living at Sisters, Ore. '19-ex Mr and Mrs H. B. Sayre (Lillian Porter), Alpha Xi, and small daughter Shirley Porter are living in Portland. '19 Marian Coffey, Alpha Xi, is teaching in the high school. '18 Katie Schaefer is one of the Art supervisors for the grade schools. '16 Genevieve Shaver is teaching at Jefferson high school. '17 Margaret Hawkins has opened a music studio. '14 Maude Mastick Ash (Mrs C. E.), Alpha Xi, has moved here recently from Pendleton. '17-ex Mr and Mrs Wm. Holden (Mable Smith), Alpha Xi, have returned from Detroit, Mich, to make their home here. '20-ex Elizabeth Richardson, Beta Epsilon, is Acting Superintendent of the Portland Surgical hospital. 20 November 1919 Maurine Me Adam Temple PROVIDENCE ALUMNA We welcome to our chapter this winter Lillian Isabel Waters Paine (Mrs Walter R.) Swarthmore, 1916. '04 Flora M. Cotton has been elected treasurer of the Brown Alumnae association. '05-ex Married October, 1919 Helen L. Humphrey to Mr. Clarence Samuel Maiden. '07-ex Born to Mr and Mrs Charles Howard (Elsie J. Coon) twin sons, July 1919. '09 Frances A. Foster is assistant in the English department at Law¬ rence college, Appleton, Wis. '10 Elizabeth Morrison is assistant secretary of the Providence society of organizing charity. '10 Married, June, 1919 Leila Tucker to Prof James A. Hall of Brown university. '11 The engagement has been announced of Lida M. Bassett to Mr Harold Sterling Bird of Lansing, Mich. '13 Born to Mr and Mrs Milledge M. Purdy (Ruth E. Ryther) a son, Richard Ryther Purdy, in May, 1919 at Rye, N. Y. Their* new address is care of U. S. Picric Acid plant, Brunswick, Ga. Clarice Ryther Kaufman (Mrs Paul) in October became Chief of the casualty files at the Bureau of communication, Red Cross national head¬ quarters, Washington, D. C. Her husband is director of that bureau.
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DIRECTORY GRAND COUNCIL Office Name Address Grand President . Grand vice-president . Grand secretary . Grand treasurer . Betty Newsom . Mary Ashby. . . . . L. Pearle Green . Martha Cline Huffman (Mrs Y. B.) . L. Pearle Green . clo Clephlane & Latimer, 1512 H st. N. W. Washington, D. C. 1924 N. Delaware st. Indianapolis, Ind. 15 East av. Ithaca, N. Y. Broken Bow, Neb. 15 East av. Ithaca, N. Y. COMMITTEES Service board — Chairman . Vice-chairman . S ecretary Scholarship fund — Chairman . Corresponding secretary . Financial secretary . Archives . Alumna secretary . Cataloguer . Mrs C. C. Dodge . Mrs John K. Bush . Maud Philips . Jane Spalding . Ray Hanna . Mrs E. P. Cubberly — Mrs Fred M. Deweese.. Eva R. Hall . 326 Leary Bldg., Seattle, Wash. 133 Dorffel drive, Seattle, Wash. 1856} W. 24th st. Los Angeles, Cal. 134 N. Gates st. Los Angeles, Cal. 418 E. 37th st. Los Angeles, Cal. Stanford University, Cal. Hilaire Farm, Dawson, Neb. 327 W. Sycamore st. Sycamore, Ill. NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS Chairman . Delegate for Kappa Alpha Theta. . . . Mrs M. C. L. Collins, Chi Omega . Mrs J. M. Mecklin . 910 Fayette Nat’l Bank Bldg. Lex¬ ington, Ky. i 12 Ellsworth Terrace, Pittsburgh, Pa. COLLEGE CHAPTERS DISTRICT I Chapter Cor. Secy. Address District president . Alpha — 1870 De Pauw university . Beta — 1870 Indiana state university. . . . Gamma- 1874 Butler College . Alpha Eta — 1904 Vanderbilt university . Alpha Chi — 1915 Purdue university . Grace Philputt . Mildred Briggs . Julia Tutewiler . Frances Weaver . Lucy Van Ness . Marie Mueller . 924 E. 3d st. Bloomington, Ind. Theta house, Greencastle, Ii*d. Theta house, Bloomington, Ind. Butler college residence, Indianap¬ olis, Ind. 1508 Hayes st. Nashville, Tenn. 129 S. Grant st. W. Lafayette, Ind. DISTRICT II District president . 1875 University of Illinois . Tau — 1887 Northwestern university. . . Upsilon — 1889 University of Minnesota. . . Psi — 1890 University of Wisconsin. . . . 1911 University of North Dakota Alpha Psi — 1915 Lawrence college . Genevieve Forbes . Harriett Halladay . Gladys H. Bell . Beatrice Johnson . Vira F. Winchell . Ada L. Olson . Mabel Cass . 2653 Stewart av. Evanston, Ill. 901 S. Wright st. Champaign, Ill. Willard Hall, Evanston, Ill. 314 10th av. S.E. Minneapolis, Minn. 200 Prospect av. Madison, Wis. University, N. D. 653 Washington st. Appleton, Wis. DISTRICT III District president . Eta — 1879 University of Michigan. . . . Mu- 1881 Allegheny college . Alpha Gamma — 1892 Ohio state university . Alpha Tau — 1913 University of Cincinnati. . . . Alpha Omega — 1915 University of Pittsburgh. . . Eugenie Rounsavell Overturf (Mrs A. K.) Irene Peers . Margaret Cleveland. . . . Kathryn McClure . Alfarata Myers . Gayle Isensee . 289 W. 7th av. Columbus, Ohio. 1414 Washtenaw av. Ann Arbor, Mich. Hulings hall, Meadville, Pa. 48 N. Monroe st. Columbus, Ohio. 875 Hutchins av. Avondale, Cincin¬ nati, Ohio. 4738 Bayard st. Pittsburgh, Pa.
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DISTRICT IV Chapter Cgr. Secy. Address District president . Iota — 1881 Cornell university . Lambda — 1881 University of Vermont . Sigma — 1887 Toronto university . Chi — 1889 Syracuse university . Anna S. Ward . Louise Roux . Mary E. Hutton . Kathleen Cordingley. . . Theresa Hausch . 396 Main st. Burlington, Vt. 301 Wyckoff av. Ithaca, N. Y. 26 Summit st. Burlington, Vt. 404 Markham st. Toronto, Ontario, Can. 306 Walnut pi. Syracuse, N. Y. DISTRICT V District president . Kappa- 1881 University of Kansas . Rho — 1887 University of Nebraska. . . . Alpha Iota — 1906 Washington university . Alpha Mu — 1909 University of Missouri . Alpha Rho— 1912 University of South Dakota Alpha Upsilon— 1914 Washburn college . Beta Gamma- 1917 Colorado agricultural college Mrs Hal Lebrecht . Jessie Wyatt . Alyne O’Loughlin . Mary Lewis . Betty Johnson . Anna Dunlap . Beatrice Shakeshaft .... Gladys Dunlap . 41 W. 58th st. Kansas City, Mo. 1330 Massachusetts st. Lawrence » Kan. 1548 R st. Lincoln, Neb. 4322 Washington av. St. Louis, Mo. 904 Providence rd. Columbia, Mo. 212 Dakota st. Vermilion, S. D. 913 Fillmore st. Topeka, Kan. 413 S. College av. Ft. Collins, Colo. DISTRICT VI District president . Omicron — 1887 University of Southern Cali¬ fornia . Phi- 1889 Stanford university . Omega — 1890 University of California. . . . Beta Delta — 1917 University of Arizona . Alberta Hanna . Constance Chambers. . . Miriam Hilton . Margery Lovegrove. . . . Mildred Kelly . 97 N. Orange Grove av. Pasadena* Cal. 5348 Russell av. Hollywood, Cal. Stanford University, Cal. 2723 Durant av. Berkeley, Cal. University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. DISTRICT VII District president . Alpha Beta — 1891 Swarthmore college . Alpha Delta- 1896 Goucher college . Alpha Kappa — 1907 Adelphi college . Beta Beta- 1916 Randolph-Macon Woman’s college . Helen Frisch. . . Gladys Pell . Elizabeth Junken . Constance Jenkins . Beatrice Brown . 314 Woodlawn av. Roland Park, Md Swarthmore college, Swarthmore, Pa. Goucher college, Baltimore, Md. 589 6th st. Brooklyn, N. Y. Box 249, R.-M. W. C., Lynchburg, Va. 54 E. Washington Lane, German¬ town, Pa. Beta Eta 1919 University of Pennsylvania LehrmaM. Clous . DISTRICT VIII District president . Alpha Theta — 1904 University of Texas . Alpha Omicron— 1909 University of Oklahoma. . . . Alpha Phi — 1914 Newcomb College . Beta Zeta — 1919 Okla. A. & M . Ethel Maude Smith Lowry (Mrs Tom). . . . Margaret Robertson . . . Aileen Meibergen . Vida Lenoir . Opal Skaer . 1507 N. Broadway, Oklahoma City, Okla. 2503 Whitis av. Austin, Tex. Theta House, Norman, Okla. 6222 Freret st. New Orleans, La. Theta House, Stillwater, Okla. DISTRICT IX District president . . Alpha Lambda — 1908 University of Washington. . Alpha Nu — 1909 Montana state university. . Alpha Xi— 1909 Oregon state university. . . . Alpha Sigma — 1913 Washington state college. . . Beta Epsilon — 1917 Oregon agricultural college. Vern Gaddis Jinnett (Mrs E. R.) . Margaret Colesworthy. Helen Little . Geraldine Pilkington . . . Juanita Loomis . Margaret Rogers . Odessa, Wash. 4710 17th av. N. E. Seattle, Wash. 341 University av. Missoula, Mont. 1213 Hilyard st. Eugene, Ore. 500 California st. Pullman, Wash. 242 7 th st. N. Corvallis, Ore. '
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ALUMNA CHAPTERS Baltimore 1910 . Boston 1915 . Burlington 1898 . Chicago 1896 . Cincinnati 1913 . Cleveland 1903 . Columbus 1897 . Detroit 1913 . Evanston 1910 . Indianapolis 1897 . Kansas City 1905 . Lincoln 1909 . Los Angeles 1901 . Madison 1912 . New York 1895 . Norman-Oklahoma City 1916 Omaha 1910 . Philadelphia 1898 . Pittsburgh 1902 . Portland 1911 . Providence 1912 . Pullman 1914 . St. Louis 1909 . . San Francisco 1909 . Seattle 1908 . Spokane 1913 . Syracuse 1903 . Tacoma 1915 . Topeka 1909 . Toronto 1911 . Twin Cities 1895 . Washington 1918 . Kathryn Watson . Mildred Bishop . Irene A. Barrett . Jessie Farr . E. Marie Crowe . Mrs R. C. Allen . Anne Damron . Mrs R. W. Simonds. . . Mrs Dudley K. French Charlotte Lesh . Shirley Chase . Cornelia Crittenden .... Emma Swezey . Mrs G. B. Hambrecht.. Helen Lay . Ruth Williams . Rachel Metcalfe . Clara Atlee . Helen Bowman . Mrs A. H. Helfrich . Martha Watt . Alice G. Paterson . Helen Bannister . Hazel Rader . Beatrice Mercer . Winifred Belcher . Ruth Jones . Mrs O. B. Sperlin . Mary Parkinson . Helen Mackey . Ruth Dale . Mrs B. B. Hussey.. c... 309 Woodlawn rd. Roland Park, Md. 24 Prescott st. Cambridge, Mass. 4 Mansfield av. Burlington, Vt. 1806 Wesley av. Evanston, Ill. 3436 Lvlebum PI. Clifton, Cincin¬ nati, Ohio. 1531 Hill Crest rd. Cleveland, Ohio. 901 Franklin av. Columbus, Ohio. 314 Glynn court, Detroit, Mich. 503 Hawthorne lane, Winnetka, Ill. 3650 Central av. Indianapolis, Ind. 3720 W. Prospect PI. Kansas City, Mo. 1527 S. 20th st. Lincoln, Neb. 3032 W. 12th st. Los Angeles, Cal. 325 W. Wilson st. Madison, Wis. 60 Buckingham Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y. 300 E. Park PI. Oklahoma City, Okla. 3834 Charles st. Omaha, Neb. Riverton, N. J. 5559 Columbo st. Pittsburgh, Pa. 807 Commercial st. Portland, Ore. 2144 Broad st. Providence, R. I. 1811 Indiana st. Pullman, Wash. 5128 Westminster, St. Louis, Mo. 2643$ Channing Way, Berkeley, Cal. 1932-1 1th av. N. Seattle. Wash. N. 1921 Monroe st. Spokane, Wash. 543 S. Warren st. Syracuse, N. Y. 1401 S. Adams st. Tacoma, Wash. 921 Monroe st. Topeka, Kan. 276 Evelyn av. Toronto, Ontario, Can. Hotel Maryland, Minneapolis, Minn. Apt. 614, 2123 California st. Wash¬ ington, D. C. Promptly notify the Editor of any change in office or address of Corresponding Secretary. STATE ALUMN7E ORGANIZATION Alumna Secretary: Mrs Fred M. Deweese, Hilaire Farm, Dawson, Neb. State Chairman Address Alabama . Louise Berrey . Arizona . Mrs L. W. Klene.. . . Arkansas . Mrs R. P. Bowen . California . Mrs N. L. Gardner. . . Colorado . Bernice Tompkins . Mrs Ralph Snafor . Connecticut . Elizabeth Dean . . Delaware . District Columbia . See Maryland. Margaret Connor . Florida . Georgia . Idaho . See Alabama. See Alabama. Mrs Chas. St. Clair . Illinois . Mrs Donald Nelson. . . . Indiana . Mrs W. H. Montgomery Iowa . Bonnie Marshall . Kansas . Kentucky . Louisiana . Mabel R. Sivewright Maine . Amelia Shapleigh . Maryland . Elinor Annan . Massachusetts . Mrs Melville Eastham. . . Michigan . Mrs A. M. Highley Minnesota . Mrs Robert Thompson . Mississippi . See Alabama. Missouri . Mrs W. W. Homer . Montana . Nebraska . Mrs F. M. Deweese. . . Nevada . See Wyoming. New Hampshire . See Maine. New Jersey . Helen Coles . New Mexico . Marv Alice Boyd . New York . Mabel B. Chapin. . . North Carolina . Ramelle B. Smith . North Dakota . Mrs A. M. Lommen . 1004 St. Anthony st. Mobile. Elgin. Malvern. 2901 Hillegass av. Berkeley. Cal. 395 N. 3rd st. San Jose, Cal. 1444 Lafayette st. Denver. Manchester. 3149 Mt. Pleasant st. N. W. Wash¬ ington. 3 1 1 Placer av. Idaho Falls. 4335 Washington Blvd. Chicago. 129 Downey av. Indianapolis. 1210 8th st. Des Moines. 7824 Elm st. New Orleans. 15 Hidden road, Andover, Mass. 3810 York rd. Baltimore. 2 Prescott st. Cambridge. 924 Oakland av. Ann Arbor. 3749 Lyndale av. S. Minneapolis. 5842 Julian av. St. Louis. Hilaire Farm, Dawson. Moores town. 123 S. High st. Albuquerque. 22 Broad st. Oneida. Albemarle. Box 437, Grand Forks.
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STATE ALUMNA ORGANIZATION — Continued - A State Chairman Address Ohio . Ruth Bayer . 2558 Fulton st. Toledo. Oklahoma . Mrs Arthur E. Patrick . Chandler. Oregon . Mrs. D. A. Hathaway . 132 N. 21st st. Portland. Pennsylvania . Dale Finley . 7229 Hermitage st. Pittsburgh. 28 Orchard st. Pawtucket. Rhode Island . Mrs B. Snow . South Carolina . Mrs Hughes Mayo . 2 Orange st. Charleston. Vermilion. South Dakota . Helen Beede . Tennessee . Stella Scott Vaughn . 2212 Highland av. Nashville. P. 0. Box 120, New Braunfels 123 N st. Salt Lake City. 4 Mansfield av. Burlington. Pungoteaque 4747 21st st. N. E. Seattle. Texas . Mrs H. G. Henne . Utah . Mrs H. H. Lawson . Vermont . Irene A. Barrett . Virginia . Nannie W. Ames . Washington . Mrs C. A. Bemis . West Virginia . Wisconsin . See District of Columbia. Olive Simpson . Shullsburg. Casper. care B. & A. Mining Co. Gillham, Ark. St. Johns University, Shanghai, China. 651 Spadina av. Toronto, Ont. Wyoming . Mrs J. C. Snook . Foreign lands . Mrs C. L. Larson . Asia . Mrs Horace Sailor . Canada . Alice Ball . ALUMNA CHAPTER MEETINGS BALTIMORE ALUMNAE meets the third Tuesday evening of every month at eight o’clock at the homes of members. Place of any meeting can be ascertained from the secretary, Hilda Malone, 3309 Elgin av. CHICAGO ALUMNA meets the third Saturday of every month, with the exception of July and August, in the Blue Fountain room, 7th floor, Marshall Field & Co. for business meeting at 11:30, followed by luncheon at 12:30. CLEVELAND ALUMNAE holds its meetings the second Saturday of each month. Place of meeting may be obtained by calling Mrs Robert C. Allen, 1531 Hillcrest Rd. Phone: Fairmount 2185 W. Thetas always welcome. CINCINNATI ALUMN.E has issued the following schedule for the remainder of this year. Thetas always welcome at their meetings. January 3 — Tea at Woman’s city club. January 27 — Founders ’-day banquet. March 1 (?) — Initiation of Alpha Tau chapter. April 3 — Joint meeting with Alpha Tau at home of Mrs B. E. Holmes, 3892 Clifton av. Clifton. May 1 — Baby party at home of Mrs Gilbert Bettman, 267 Green- dale av. Clifton. June 16 — Picnic for graduating seniors of Alpha Tau, at home of Miss Florence Stewart, Fembank. INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNA meets at the homes of members the second Saturday of each month at two-thirty in the afternoon. All Thetas welcome. For place of any meeting phone the president, Mrs J. Y. Wheeler, Apt. A, Kenilworth, 34th & Meridian sts. The chapter has issued a most attractive booklet of its meetings. PORTLAND ALUMNAE meets the first week of each month. Notice of place of meetings is published in all the city papers. Out-of-town Thetas always welcome. PROVIDENCE ALUMNA meetings are held on the third Friday of each month at the homes of members. For place of meeting phone the secretary, Miss Martha Watt, 2144 Broad st. TACOMA ALUMNAE meets the second Saturday of each month at the homes of members. Each hostess is assisted by some member who cannot herself entertain. Place of meeting can be obtained from Marie Vestal, 311 S. 9th st. TOPEKA ALUMN.E meetings are the first Saturday of each month at homes of members. For place of meetings consult the secretary, Mary Parkinson, 921 Monroe st.
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THETA SERVICE BOARD VOCATIONAL ADVISORS Chairman Mrs. L. C. Rogers, St. Anne, Ill. Church work: Miss Grace E. Babcock, 6426 Washing¬ ton blvd. Oak Park, Ill. Domestic science: Mrs Rufus R. Beardsley, 1250 N. State st. Chicago, Ill. Interior decorating: Miss Grace Tyner White, 116 Sheetz st. West Lafayette, Ind. Manuscript criticism : Dramas and plays: Miss Abbie Findlay Potts, 17 Lansing av. Troy, N. Y. Essays and articles : Miss Catherine Comfort, Brad¬ ley Seminary, Peoria, Ill. Fiction: Mrs George Fitch, Cambridge, Ill. Medical profession: Dr Urbana Spink, 1140 E. Market st. Indianapolis, Ind. Nature study for children: Mrs Phineas L. Windsor, 609 Michigan av. Urbana, Ill. Newspaper work: Mrs Albert Rabb, 520 E. 11th st. Indianapolis, Ind. Profession of law: Mrs George Whitcombe, 1921 W. 6th st. Topeka, Kan. Physical education: Hazel Rader, 2639 Channing Way, Berkeley, Cal. Secretarial work: Mrs Melville Eastham, 2 Prescott st. Cambridge, Mass. Miss Gertrude M. Allen, Rockefeller Foundation, 61 Broadway, New York city. Social Service: Miss Edna Henry, 1414 Broadway, Indianapolis, Ind. Theatrical profession: Miss Mary Ward Holton, 1218 Central av. Indianapolis, Ind. Y. W. C. A.: Lucy Y. Riggs, 1121 Syndicate Bldg. St. Louis, Mo. Information Bureau is in charge of Miss May K. Flannery, Wynnewood, Pa. Bureau open to both under¬ graduates and alumnae, the only requisite for an answer being an addressed and stamped envelope.
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Scholarship Fund Information on Undergraduate Loans MISS MAUDE PHILIPS . Chairman MISS RAY HANNA . . . Financial Secretary MISS JANE SPALDING . Corresponding Secretary 134 North Gates street, Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles Alumnae . . Custodian Loans are not less than $50, nor more than $350 to one person. They may be taken in one installment, or in two or three, as the applicant desires. Interest is 4 per cent, payable annually. Security is asked in the shape of two endorsements of the note by financially responsible members of the ap¬ plicant’s chapter, active or alumnae. Loans are payable within two years after the bene¬ ficiary has left college. An extension of time may be granted at the discretion of the Committee. This fund is open to all undergraduate Thetas, and ap¬ plications are received at any time. Applications should be addressed to the Secretary of the Committee, Miss Jane Spaulding, 134 North Gates Street, Los Angeles, Cal. and should state the appli¬ cant’s chapter, her year in college, when she expects to graduate, what she intends to do after graduation, whether or not she is wholly dependent on her own efforts, is partially self-supporting or not, and any other items that will assist the committee. The necessary correspondence for arranging a loan takes three or four weeks, so ample time should be al¬ lowed if money is needed for a special purpose, such as registration fees. Inquiries are welcome and information is gladly fur¬ nished by the secretary. All checks, whether for interest, loans, or gifts to the Fund, should be made payable to Los Angeles Alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta, and sent to the Secretary.
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- - " > Baird’s Manual —of— American College Fraternities NEW AND EIGHTH (1916) EDITION NOW READY This Book is replete with information of interest to all members of . I College Fraternities. It contains Histories of each of the Men’s General I Fraternities, the Women’s General Fraternities, the Men’s Local Fra¬ ternities, Women’s Local Fraternities, Professional Fraternities, Honorary Fraternities and Miscellaneous Greek Letter Fraternities; a Directory of Colleges and Chapters, Statistical Tables of great interest, a complete Bibliography of Fraternity publications and information concerning Chapter House ownership and valuations. In short, the Eighth Edition is a complete Cyclopedia of Fraternity Information, containing 900 pages of printed matter. It is strongly bound in buckram and the price is $3.00 per copy, postage prepaid. Send in your orders through this publication \ ■ ■ KAPPA ALPHA THETA PUBLICATIONS Kappa Alpha Theta: official magazine, published in November, January, March and May. One dollar per year. Life subscription, $9. Kappa Alpha Theta Catalogue, 1915: Price 25 cents. Address: Grand secretary. Song book, 1918. Price 75 cents. Address: Mrs A. M. Lommen, Box 437, Grand Forks, N. D. Membership certificates: Address Grand treasurer, Aurora, Neb. Bimonthly bulletin of the Grand council: issued in September, December, February and April. Free to officers and chapters. To other Thetas on prepayment of postage, 25 cents a year. Address Grand secretary.
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BALFOUR BLUE BOOK 1919 The Standard Reference for Kappa Alpha Theta Jewelry. A postal will bring it to you, together with an illustrated price list. BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS Combining Fraternity and Military Insignia Honor Rolls and Service Plaques. All Kappa Alpha Theta Badges and Jewelry manufactured and distributed under official supervision THROUGH L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY ATTLEBORO, MASS. Sole Official Jeweler to Kappa Alpha Theta
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Are You a Singing Chapter? You Should Be BUY NEW SONG BOOK OF KAPPA ALPHA THETA Matty New Songs As Well As Old Favorites . Order from MRS. A. M. LOMMEN Box 437, Grand Forks, North Dakota PRICE - - 75 CENTS PER COPY All Orders Must Be Prepaid