Kappa Alpha Theta Journal, Vol. 40 no. 2
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Kappa Alpha Theta L. Pearle Green, Editor Volume 40 January, 1926 Number 2 CONTENTS Theta’s liaison officers . 131 An alumnsB chapter problem . 140 Theta’s work for alumnae . 144 Alumnae chapter programs . 140 Southern California Thetas . 147 Fame and gain . 148 In memoriam . 148 I pity the others . 140 Convention . 100 Vocations . 102 Hiscock praises fraternity aims . 105 Fountain of rushing . 107 Christmas gift suggestion . 108 Help alumnae retain interest . 100 Scholarship chart, 1024*25 . 100 Scholarship honors . 102 Who’s who in Theta . 100 LaBelle Mahon Stephens Frances Kerr Cook Madeleine Power Margaret Landrum Frederica Smith Panhellenic club of New York city . 172 An all Theta sing . 173 Where do they live? . 174 Do you wear your badge? . 175 Florida club . 170 Addresses wanted . 177 Songs of Kappa Alpha Theta . 181 Some good after all . 183 Chapter news . 184 Directory . 2*4 Entered as second-class matter October 18. 1909, at the postoffice at Menasha, 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. The Kappa Alpha Theta is published four times annually, on the fifth of Novem¬ ber, January, March, May, at 450-454 Ahnaip st., Menasha, Wisconsin, by George Banta, official printer and publisher to the fraternity. Price 50 cents per copy. $1.50 per year. All manuscripts should be addressed to the Editor, L. Pearle Green, 13 East av. Ithaca, N. Y. Material intended for publication must reach the Editor by the first day of the months of October, December, February, April.
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“Sir, will you not give New Year's presents to the Little Brethren who are poor, for the love of God?" “Why! what! good Father, you are a man of re¬ ligion and you ask me for New Year's gifts?" “Sir," replied the Capuchin, “the good St. Fran¬ cis bade his sons make merry with all simplicity . “Are you not afraid, Father, that this custom of New Year's gifts is baneful to the soul?" “No, I am not afraid." “The custom comes to us from the Pagans." “The Pagans sometimes followed good customs. God was pleased to suffer some faint ray of his light to pierce the darkness of the Gentiles. Sir, if you re¬ fuse to give us presents, never refuse a boon to our poor little ones. We have a home for foundlings. With this poor crown I shall buy each child a little paper windmill and a cake. They will owe you the only pleasure perhaps of all their life; for they are not fated to have much joy in this world. Their laughter will go up to heaven; when children laugh, they praise the Lord." M. Chanterelle laid his well-filled purse in the poor friar’s palm .... saying softly . “When children laugh, they praise the Lord." Anatole France
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THETA’S LIAISON OFFICERS Two introductions, and pictures, are missing from this symposium. We are much disappointed that this happened — but we promise you an in¬ troduction to Miss Dorothy Wilson, newly elected president of District VII, in the March issue; and Miss Helen Cook, president of District V, is known to so many of you already, that perhaps she thought enough had been said of her in the issue for November 1922. (So see that issue, page 23.) Who is it that keeps the Grand council in touch with the situation in each chapter? The District president. Who is it that responds to S.O.S. calls from any where and every where, and goes as councillor where trouble is? The Dis¬ trict president. Who is it that encourages the conservative chapters to try new methods, to adopt some worth while custom ? The District president. Who is it that explains situations to wroth alumnae and en¬ lists their support for the undergraduates? The District presi¬ dent. Who is it that is the confidant and adviser of every perplexed undergraduate in a chapter? The District president. Who is it that supplies experienced and trained fraternity workers for every national emergency ? The District presidents.
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132 Kappa Alpha Theta (No national officer of the fraternity but has been first a Dis¬ trict president.) Since so much of a District president’s work is personal and confidential, they are not as well known throughout the frater¬ nity as they should be. To remedy this situation, the magazine is here introducing to you, by picture and by sketch, the present liaison staff of Kappa Alpha Theta— her eleven District presi¬ dents. Mary Bragg Hughes — District I Mary Bragg Hughes of Greenfield, Indiana, is president of District I, which comprises the chapters of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Alpha Chi. Mrs Hughes is from Gamma chapter, at Butler college, Indianapolis, but the other chapters in her district claim her no less than her own. Mrs Hughes is not only a “good mixer,” but she is a good solvent. Trou¬ ble, dissension, anxieties of the type known to every chapter, dissolve and vanish under the scrutiny of her kindly, investigating eye. A comprehensive grasp of fra¬ ternity problems, unfailing tact, a saving sense of humor, and a keen sense of justice combine to make Mary Bragg Hughes an ideal Theta offi¬ cer. District I hopes to have the benefit of her efficient services for many years to come. Alta Brunt Sembower Jeanette Gemmill Grasett — District II Jeanette Gemmill Grasett (Mrs D. Bligli) was born in Chi¬ cago, graduated from Hyde Park high school and attended Cor¬ nell college at Mt Vernon, Iowa, 1911-12. She then transferred to Northwestern university where she graduated in 1916. She is the daughter of Judge W. N. Gemmill who is on the Superior
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Theta’s liaison officers 133 court bench in Chicago. She married 0. Bligh Grasett, Phi Kappa Psi, from Northwest¬ ern, with whom she led J unior Prom. They have one child, Jean, seven years old. Mrs. Grasett has always been an enthusiastic and loyal Theta. She was head of the chapter in her senior year, president of the Evanston alumnae chapter for two years, is on the Tau house-building committee, and is very active in the Theta circulating li¬ brary in Evanston, which is run for the benefit of Tau’s house fund. Eugenie Rounsavell Overturf — District III Eugenie Rounsavell Overturf entered Ohio State university in the fall of 1904. She was one of four freshmen to be initiated into Kappa Alpha Theta. That year the chapter had twelve members, quite a con¬ trast to the size of the chap¬ ters now, isn’t it? In 1907 “Gene” started to teach Home economics in the public schools of Colum¬ bus, which position she held until the summer of 1910. June 29 of that year she married Kendall Overturf. As Alpha Gamma dele¬ gate to the first convention in Chicago and alumnae dele¬ gate to Gearhart-by-the-Sea in 1915, “Gene” learned the value and privilege of be-
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134 Kappa Alpha Theta longing to Kappa Alpha Theta. At the latter convention she was elected president of District III, which office she has held continuously since. A year after the death of Captain Overturf, which occurred while he was yet in the service, “Gene” became Supervisor of home economics in one of the suburbs of Columbus, for one year. Then in. the fall of 1922 she went to Ohio State university as hostess in Pomerene hall, the Women's union, which position she held until March 1, 1923, when she was appointed Acting Dean of women at Ohio Wesleyan university in Delaware, Ohio. At the end of that year she was appointed Dean of women which position she still holds. Elm a Hodges — District TV If all other sound ceased for a magic moment, I know I’d hear a whoop of delight from everyone who knew Polly Hodges at Lake Placid as Marshal, or at West Baden as Presi¬ dent of District IV, for she will be at 1926 convention again as president of her home district. If you want to single her out to look at, you’ll find her tall and slender and straight ; if you want to single her out to know, you’ll find her direct and forceful with a knowl¬ edge of Theta’s undergradu¬ ate and alumna? needs as keen as it is understanding and sympathetic. Most of Chi ’s members are in the East and will be unable to go to this convention, but their sighs of regret are brief, for their second thought is “Well, Polly is going and so it’s all right.” Hilda DeBrine
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Theta’ s liaison officers 135 Edna Wilde Brooks — District VI There was cause for great rejoicing in Southern California when word reached us that one of our Los Angeles alumnae mem¬ bers, Edna Wilde Brooks, had been elected to the presi¬ dency of District VI. There were two very spe¬ cial reasons for such rejoic¬ ing, the one, that Omicron and Beta Xi so recently in¬ stalled at the University of California, Southern Branch, should have the benefit of the personal influence of the Dis¬ trict president so near at hand, and the other, that in the larger sense the whole district should have the wise guidance of such an able ex¬ ecutive. Since her graduation from the University of California in 1904, Edna Wilde Brooks has with fine balance accomplished the moulding of a home life that is ideal with a participation in outside activities that is wideband varied. Her major interest has always been in the cause of education whether directly as teacher or school executive or as an officer in clubs with educa¬ tion as the keynote. A few examples of her many activities show the breadth of her contacts and prove that through the years she has carried on, true to the noblest traditions of the college woman : Asso¬ ciate director, Cumnock school, 1916-19; president Women’s university club, 1921-22; member of faculty of Cumnock school of expression since 1922: Los Angeles chairman, English-speak¬ ing union, 1923-25. Throughout the years of devotion to her family and coopera¬ tion with outside activities, has run a golden thread of loyal service to Kappa Alpha Theta, whether as president of the alumnae chapter or delegate to conventions or just recently as chairman of extension committee for the newest applying group. So as president of District VI, Edna Wilde Brooks comes bearing rare gifts of exquisite charm of manner and personality,
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136 Kappa Alpha Theta of keen intellectual grasp, and the saving grace of rare common sense and keen sense of humor. As an executive, she has a clarity of vision, a directness and frankness of approach com¬ bined with a rare ability to express her ideas and get them across in clear forceful expression that is alike stimulating and comforting to her coworkers, be they young or old. We know full well that upon this background which is hers of intellectual attainment and executive experience, of breadth and culture and sympathetic understanding, Edna Wilde Brooks will paint a picture of rare beauty and commanding interest during her presidency of District VI. Irene Taylor Ileineman Jeannette Barnes Monnet — District VIII Here you see charm, poise, intelligence, faithfulness, enthu¬ siasm and true womanhood, for this is Jeannette Barnes Monnet, the president whom District VIII unanimously and en¬ thusiastically reelected last spring. Though born in Indiana, Jeannette moved to Oklahoma City in time to attend high school. After a year at Hol¬ lins college, Hollins, Virginia, she returned to Oklahoma to join Kappa Alpha Theta through Alpha Omicron chap¬ ter. She received her A.B. after three profitable and successful years at Oklahoma university. Her membership in Owl and Triangle chapter of Mortar board will attest her worth as a student and campus citizen. Alpha Omicron valued her so highly as to make her delegate to the Lake Placid convention. Romance was not neglected either, for hers was a college engagement. She taught a year at McMann, Oklahoma — to put her col¬ lege training into practice. Her experience at Lake Placid evidently made her thirst for more, for she went to the West Baden convention as a visiting delegate. She served as chair¬ man of the Election board, and before she left she was made
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Theta’s liaison officers 137 president of District VII, which had lost its president through the creation of District XI. During her first year of office Miss Barnes visited all her chapters and came back boosting for each one. She has met nearly all the problems that any District president could fall heir to — many of them far from easy — and emerged from them all bearing the full confidence and affection of her chapters and the Council as well. Words fail to tell how lovely she was as a bride — for on September 7, 1925, she married Julien Claude Monnet, and now everyone calls them ‘‘an ideal couple, both of them so fine.” Now as Mrs Monnet she still thoroughly believes in her frater¬ nity and enjoys her official duties too. She says herself “The greatest pleasure that I derive from my work as District presi¬ dent, is the opportunity it offers to study girls and human na¬ ture. My principal aim is to influence the girls, directly or indirectly, to get the most out of college life — the most out of fraternity life.” Do you wonder that District VIII loves its president ? Marie Mendenhall Keene — District IX Our District president, Mrs Marie Mendenhall Keene, has just visited us of Alpha Sigma. We find her most charming, understanding, and helpful. Her keen insight into our problems and gracious sym¬ pathy have helped us in solving many of our difficul¬ ties. Mrs Keene is a 1920 grad¬ uate of Oregon State college. As a resident of Corvallis and pledge director of her own Beta Epsilon, she is in close contact witn college spirit and college girls. As a college student she had a high scholastic record and belonged to many societies on the campus. Directly after graduation by virtue of her excellent grades she was given a position as home economics supervisor in Everett, Washington.
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188 Kappa Alpha Theta She is now the wife of the assistant football coach of Oregon State and interested in practically every phase of college life. This close relationship to all things that interest girls and the brevity of time since she was herself a student make Mrs Keene particularly comprehending. We have found her a great in¬ spiration. Alpha Sigma Margaret Killen Banta — District X (by her husband) In our family we have finally worked out a scheme that makes for harmony and permits the inspection duties of the president of District X to be carried forward easier and be less the subject of contro¬ versy. 1 have taken on some inspection work in my frater¬ nity, Phi Delta Theta, and we time our trips together when possible, so that the honors are even. True, we leave behind a six and a half year old daughter and a very busy and destructive two year old son, but an adoring and very willing Grandmother always steps into the breach and makes us feel safe about their welfare. So the fraternity work goes on! Margaret Banta came into Kappa Alpha Theta via the merger route. She was a member of the local, Kappa Upsilon, at Law¬ rence College, while a student there, later spending two years at Smith and one at the University of Chicago. When Kappa Up¬ silon became Alpha Psi chapter in 1915, she was part of the group of alumna? that were thrown in for good measure. I met her at Lawrence and how prominent she was there may be illus¬ trated by the fact that I have always been known in Appleton as “Monnie Killen Js husband.’ 9 We do our editorial work together, she on Banta’s Greek Exchange and I on the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. I am impressed by the close contact which she has with the chapters and girls in her district and think the men would do
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Theta’s liaison officers 139 better if they maintained the same sort of a state of active co¬ operation. She asks my advice occasionally, but as long as she never takes it no harm has yet come of the habit. Dorothy Miller Humphrey — District XI Words are dull things to introduce as vivid a personality as Dorothy Miller Humphrey, Kappa, the fascinating new president of the new District XI. Mrs Humphrey is small but she is dynamic. When you meet her you will find her enthu¬ siasm radiating and you will be possessed by a desire to be up and doing. You will like her, you can’t help it, and she will like you, she always does. Her warm friendliness is one of her outstanding qualities. She not only makes friends quickly but retains them through her appreciation and loyalty. By disposition and train¬ ing the new District presi¬ dent is adapted for work with girls and has a natural bent for leadership. Her keen sense of humor and her eager interest in everything make of even the simple occurrences of life an adventure. Lest this zest sound too youthful let me assure you that she has both poise and tact. The quality of Mrs Humphrey’s ideals is shown by her choice of work. After her graduation from Kansas university she took a course in the recreation training school at Hull house in Chi¬ cago. She was head girls’ worker at Association House settlement there before going to Richmond where she was head of the recreation department at the School of social work and public health until her marriage in September 1923. Since that event she has — I have her word for it — lived happy ever after. Marjorie Rodgers Lewis (Keprinted from KAO, Nov. 1924 as Mrs Humprey was too modest to write herself, 11 found what friend husband would write too flattering, and all friends too far away to ask them for copy”)
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140 Kappa Alpha Theta FACTS ABOUT AN ALUMNiE CHAPTER PROBLEM One of the Assistant alumnae secretary’s important jobs is to gather facts about situations affecting alumnae organization, as a basis for new plans or revisions in organization. At last convention alumnae delegates were asking one an¬ other — “What proportion of resident alumnae belong to your chapter ?” “What do you do to reach all alumnae of the city?” “Do many alumnae attend your meetings, and parties, but never help defray expenses?” And questions of a similar trend. So, Mrs Darrough was asked to find out just what the situa¬ tion was in each alumnae chapter city, and pass on the infor¬ mation and suggestions gathered for the benefit of all. The work of making this study went to Miss Helen Carr, one of the loyal Thetas acting as volunteer service assistants. Here you can read the letter Miss Carr sent to each alumnae chapter ; the report she made as a result of her study; and a summary of results as displayed in her tabulation, which unfortunately the size of this magazine’s page makes it impossible to print as a whole. Letter as sent each Alumnae chapter The question has been brought up in several chapters, and is one that arises in all alumnae chapters, as to what attitude the organized chapter shall take toward resident Thetas who cannot, or do not care to become active members of the alumnae chapter. Some Thetas feel that they cannot afford to pay the dues asked, and others have many interests that keep them from joining. Also a few, we are sorry to say, have grown lukewarm in their interest since leaving college. So we find that in many communities approximately one- half of the Thetas there belong to the alumnae chapter and carry on the work. However, when a rushing party or other enter¬ tainment is given, all members expect to be invited — indeed they often feel hurt if they are not included. We feel that they should assume part of the obligation if they are to enjoy the privileges of active alumnae. Yet they are Thetas, and would it be right to exclude them from fraternity affairs because they do not belong to the chapter? We are asking you to give us the conditions that exist in your community. The following questions are to be answered and a report compiled for national use :
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Alumna chapter problem 141 1. How many Thetas in your community? 2. How many pay alumnae dues? 3. What is the status of those not paying dues a. Do they receive notices of meetings? b. Do they receive invitations to parties? c. Do they pay anything when they do attend meeting ? 4. What effort does your chapter make to keep in touch with resident Thetas who are not active chapter members ? 5. What do you suggest as a way to meet this situation which confronts every chapter? May I have a reply on or before October 1 ? Miss Carr’s report on returns from this letter From the forty-four letters I sent out, I received only nine¬ teen replies. If they make no greater effort to round up dilatory Thetas than they do to answer their correspondence, I don’t wonder at the small alumnae chapter rolls. I was not sure just what kind of a report you wanted, so I have made a graph, giving a detailed answer to every question. 1 am also sending a copy of the letter and the replies I received in case you care to refer to them. Some of the letters were lovely. Oklahoma City and Pitts¬ burgh sent copies of the annual letter they send to resident Thetas. In the majority of cases the supreme effort seems to be a calling committee that tries to arouse interest in non-active members. Only one chapter — Pasadena — suggests an enthusi¬ astic committee , and to me that would be the most important thing. Also, the smaller the group of resident Thetas, the larger the chapter roll is in proportion. *1 would like to send a thank-you note to every answer I received. And to some (I think you can pick them out if you read the letters over) I had a burning desire to send some advice. I have enjoyed doing this so much. If I can ever help you please call on me. * Will each of the following chapters — Baltimore, Burlington, Cincin¬ nati, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Evanston, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Oklahoma city, Pasadena, Philadelphia, Portland, St Louis, Seattle, Tacoma, Toronto, Twin cities— accept this as Miss Carr’s (and the Coun¬ cil’s) personal thank you or appreciation of its cooperation in this study.
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142 Kappa Alpha Theta Tabulation summary Table Showing (1) Number of resident alumnae Thetas (2) Number of these who belong to alumnae chapter (3) Percentage 2 is of 1 (fractions considered as 1%) Chapter Resident Thetas In d Number hapter Per cent Baltimore . 55 35 64% Burlington . 33 32 98% Cincinnati . 107 51 48% Columbus . 100 60 60' , Denver . 60 29 49' , Detroit . 95 41 44% Evanston . 120 40 34% Houston . 20 18 90% Los Angeles . 300 90 30% New York . 375 57 16% Oklahoma city . 65 34 53% Pasadena . 60 43 72%, Philadelphia . 225 60 27% Portland . 150 80 54% St Louis . 170 80 48% Seattle . 116 25 22% Tacoma . 28 27 97% Toronto . 50 38 76% Twin cities . 165 50 31% Totals . 2294 890 39% Status of those “not” paying dues To the first question — “Do they receive notices of meetings ?” answers vary. Some chapters send notices of every meeting to all resident Thetas; some send notices of only the first meeting of the year to every one; some, notices of every meeting to all who show any interest whatever, with the hope of eventually enrolling them as members; some publish notices of meetings, and invitation for non-members to attend, in the city papers. To the second question — “Do they receive invitations to parties ?” the general reply is “Yes” with special emphasis on invitations to the Founders ’-day celebration, of whatever na¬ ture it may be. To the third question — “Do they pay anything when they do attend meetings and parties?” the experience of most chap¬ ters is that they do not. In a few cases they pay for food, when the luncheon or other function is advertised as so much per
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Alumna chapter problem 143 plate. Or, if they attend a dance, or other function sponsored by the chapter, but for which each who attends pays individu¬ ally, they of course pay too. What chapters do to keep in touch with non-actives Courtesy and calling committees are deemed the most effec¬ tive method of reaching all, and Pasadena alumnae chapter em¬ phasizes the need to have an enthusiastic committee. Notices of meetings, lists of Thetas in the city sent to non-members, printed yearbooks of the chapter's program sent all Thetas near. Two chapters, Oklahoma City and Philadelphia, are enthusiastic over the results from the letter giving chapter aims and with a blank for signing up membership, which, following the example of St Louis alumnae chapter last year, they sent this fall to every Theta in or near their headquarter city. Several remark, that if you once get Thetas to come to the meetings, they will join if you “have interesting meetings and an alert Welcoming committee." Suggestions to meet the situation Don't let a group from one chapter forget that others are at the meeting. Have a publicity campaign. If notices and calls do not get out the potential members, then ask them for definite reasons why they do not come, why they do not join — unless rea¬ sons are excellent and they are interested, efforts to extend cour¬ tesies to them should cease. Some chapters find that meetings at different times, some afternoon, some evening, make possible for more to attend, so more join. Supper meetings are suggested also as a way to reach most people. Give the uninterested some¬ thing to do and they become interested. Purely social affairs, with no money begging allowed, will often increase membership. Other chapters frankly say “have found no solution to problem of reaching the many outside our chapter." Somewhat related to this study is an experience recently encountered. Some one said “ 'tis strange Gladys hasn't joined the alumnae chapter, she was so active as an undergraduate." One who heard this remark, and knew Gladys well, determined to find the reason. When she asked Gladys why she had not joined, the reply was “I've never been asked to join. They send me notices of meetings. They are nice to me when I go, but no one has ever said ‘join' and I supposed there was some sort of
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144 Kappa Alpha Theta preliminary probation period before a new comer in town was asked to join.” Is Gladys’ experience unique? Is your chap¬ ter missing members because it has no one ready to say ‘‘join” at every possible opportunity? It is said that the value of any collection of facts, of any study of a situation, is proved only when discussion and dissec¬ tion occurs. Alumnae chapters, the magazine’s pages are open for the discussion of this study. What have you to say about it ? Can you offer any supplementary experience, or suggestions to help toward the goal of 100% active membership in each alumnae chapter city? THETA’S WORK FOR ALUMNAE I. The plan As a typical example of all that the old Roman word 4 ‘mater” was ever intended to mean, Kappa Alpha Theta re¬ gards her alumnae children with all the love and interest and warmth of feeling within her limited power, power limited in the sense that unless Theta alumnae respond by cooperating to the extent of furnishing a change of name in marriage or a change of address whenever made, her interest goes forth and dies as futilely as does the last ripple of a series of waves occa¬ sioned by the dropping of a stone in a still lake. Yet, despite the expenditure of gold from her coffers and of energy on the part of those faithful ones who have been chosen by her to serve, the lack of interest on the part of many alumnae seems not greatly diminished, certainly not in propor¬ tion to what is being expended to stimulate alumnae interest. The other day I was asked by a much interested young alumna, “Now, just what is this work among alumnae being done by State chairmen?” So it occurred to me that maybe others, both college and alumnae, have asked themselves that question. At any rate, an outline of just what is being done to make possi¬ ble “Once a Theta always a Theta” may help us to a better understanding of the alumnae problems in the fraternity. With “Solidarity” as a slogan, the Grand council appoints an Alumnae secretary as the guardian of all things alumnae. She, in turn, selects a chairman to serve in each of the forty-eight states, and also a chairman for foreign lands. In the ease of states where few alumnae are to be found, several states may be grouped together under one chairman.
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Work for alumna p 145 These State chairmen, appointed to serve two years, the chairman for foreign lands, the Alumnae secretary, and an Assist¬ ant alumnae secretary, constitute what is known as the Alumnae board. The idea underlying the Alumnae board is to secure and hold if possible, the interest of every Theta alumna in the prob¬ lems and work of the fraternity and to enroll her, when not a member of any Theta alumnae club or chapter, as a member of Kappa Alpha Theta’s general Alumnae association. The dues of this Alumnae association are $1.50 (or $1.00, if one is a life subscriber to the fraternity magazine) each year. The payment of these dues covers a year’s subscription to the fraternity magazine and a small contribution to the expenses of the general alumnae work in the fraternity. The duties of a state chairman are as numerous as they are varied. She must keep the state files, which consist of a card catalogue of all Thetas in the state (classified both alphabetically and geographically), of a letters file, and of a notebook which is a memoranda of the history of the chairmanship work in the state, a record of alumnae chapters and clubs, and of extension possibilities in the state. Her correspondence embraces at least one annual communication, embodying items of local and na¬ tional interest, mailed to each and every Theta alumna in the state, not a member of an active alumnae club or chapter. Clubs and chapters are written as individuals. These annual letters usually are sent out each spring. Beside, it is the State chair¬ man’s business to notify the National cataloguer and other state chairmen of any change in names and addresses in her files, to send personals of alumnae to the magazine editor, to report ex¬ tension possibilities to the Grand vice president, and to keep the District president informed regarding anything she may hear or know regarding college and alumnae chapters in the state. At all times the Alumnae secretary is ready and ever will¬ ing to lend a hand to the solution of any and all of a State chairman ’s problems. For several years now the Alumnae board has been working to have Alumnae clubs formed where five or more Thetas reside, who are willing to meet occasionally, even though informally, at certain times. Such clubs help in offsetting anti-fraternity agitation, often aid in some national survey, help in rushing by recommending girls, and make the fraternity better known by the publicity of their meetings and the fact that they do meet. They serve college chapters, where possible, in a financial, so-
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146 Kappa Alpha Theta cial, and advisory capacity. An important thing about an Alum¬ nae club is that in it may be found the nucleus of a some time alumnae chapter. By the first of May each year, a State chairman rounds out her year by sending to the Alumnae secretary a report of the number of Thetas in her state, the number joining the Alumnae association, the number of letters sent out and the number of answers received, the status of all alumna? chapters and clubs in the state, a financial report of moneys expended, and — most to be desired — suggestions for the improvement of alumnae work and organization. The work of the Chairman for foreign lands is much the same, except that to her lot is added the zest and enthusiasm of a letter from some far distant flyer of the kite in China or in Hindustan, who has had the good fortune perhaps to run across some fraternity sister, also displaying her symbol so widely associated with March winds and little boys of school age. Louise Berry Haney (In later issues Mrs Haney will introduce the tine alumnae who are re¬ sponsible for alumnae work.) What state chairman can equal or surpass this? Or what state’s Thetas can help a state chairman to report a better record ? Forty-two Thetas in North and South Carolina received the 1924-25 letter from their state chairman. And 11 of them, or 26% of all Thetas in the state answered the letter personally. We know that 100% are fondly expected to answer state let¬ ters but — the usual return is only about 15%. Why? ALUMNA CHAPTER PROGRAMS The yearbooks, or programs of meetings, from four alumnae chapters have come to the editor’s desk this past month. Cincinnati alumnae’s booklet of gold and black contains a list of resident Thetas and a list of out-of-town Thetas who have been members of the chapter in the past. Its program sounds most attractive. There are monthly meetings, each under the chairmanship of a designated member. We quote the salient features of each meeting’s announcement. September — Opening meeting, supper at the Theta house, collection of dues, president of Alpha Tau to tell us of actives and rushees.
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Southern California Thetas 147 October — Meet at the Theta house to make yarn dolls for babies’ milk fund, come at two o’clock, supper at six. November — Football meeting, see our University team play Ohio university and have supper at the Faculty club. December — Babies’ Christmas party — Bring your toys for other little boys and girls. January — Founders ’-day banquet. February — Supper at the chapter house, a talk on Textile decoration. March — Stunt night. April — Round robins from out-of-town Thetas. Elections. May — Installation of new officers. Portland alumnae’s yearbook contains a list of officers and committees, as well as of members. It lists the place, and the committee for each meeting, but is silent as to the nature of the program the committee will present. (Does that increase at¬ tendance by its mystery ? ) The meetings alternate between af¬ ternoons and evenings. Spokane alumnae’s year book is similar, except that their meetings come as noon luncheons at Culbertson’s tea room (Portland meets at member’s homes) the second Saturday of each month, each meeting in charge of a committee of hostesses. There is a list of active and of associate members, with ad¬ dresses and telephone numbers. Ithaca alumna* ’s program gives the plan for each meeting in brief and announces the committee in charge of each gathering, which vary from luncheons, and suppers, to afternoon and night meetings and parties. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THETAS PLEASE HEED Los Angeles Thetas are organizing with the idea of helping to make a success of convention. They want each and every Theta in Southern California to communicate with — Mrs F. W. Conant 2810 N. Beachwood Drive Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs Conant ’s phone is Gladstone 6986, if it is easier for you to phone than to write. The main point is DON’T FAIL TO GET IN TOUCH WITH MRS CONANT, so you can have your part in this convention’s reunions.
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148 Kappa Alpha Theta FAME AND GAIN Announcement is hereby made of a 1926 prize song contest. For the best song submitted before May 30, 1926 the prize is $25 in gold (or check) ; for the second best song a consolation prize of $10.00-. Conditions of the contest are : 1. Music and words both must be original. 2. Music must be written with ink on Shirmer’s manuscript paper No. 2, or similar twelve staff paper. 3. Words to be typed on the music paper, or else an extra typed copy of words attached to the music. 4. Manuscripts not to be signed, but to be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing name and address, with title of song on outside of this envelope. 5. Combined as well as individual effort will be acceptable. 6. Manuscripts must be in by May 30, 1926. 7. Roll manuscripts, do not fold. 8. Until further notice manuscripts can be sent care the Grand secretary, 13 East av. Ithaca, N.Y. as the chapter to have charge of the contest has not been determined as yet. 9. Every Theta is eligible to enter the contest. You clo not have to be an undergraduate, an alumna, or active in a chapter or club. All you have to do to enter the contest is to be a Theta and to submit your manuscript on time — or sooner. r I - 11 — ■ - [ 3n jKmoriam u 0 1=] - .pni - -nr - u - — ir - - ■ J Juliette Wing Brown, Lambda Mrs Juliette Wing Brown died at the home of her daughter in Richmond, Virginia, October 28, 1925. She graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of 1876, which was the second class to graduate after coeducation was established. She was a member of Alpha Rho and wras later initiated in Kappa Alpha Theta when that local was absorbed by the fraternity. Genevieve Cope Casey, Beta Delta Mrs Genevieve Cope Casey died at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 1925.
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I PITY THE OTHERS. Words and Music by (1924-1925 SECOND PRIZE SONG.) Harmonized by Sarah M. Stabler, A. B. Katherine Seelye Wallace, E. Lively . O, I pit-y the others who are not in The-ta, I pit-y them thru and i =t : £ ■BBS j ili thru, m, • i pit-y the Es-ki-mo a -way up north and the l=t=fc a r- 1 r '4 rf 2 -I - L *3 s ■ i -i '*■ ' * * + *0 • t?'*" Zu - lu with, his pet kan- ga-roo; O, I pit-y the Hin du and I OT - i - f - j - S - H -I J Gw — i - m - 1 - m — • i » r i 1 i r l=J^=«Hp^3pp^j=| mm pit - y the Chi -nee, a -way f . * % m a-cross the sea, And I *=ht It P — k-t— h-n+4 I. liiifipp pit*y my father, my uncle and my brother, ’cause they’re not in Thetalikeme! =^=»=.sa=] - « - 1 - »: "h
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150 Kappa Alpha Theta CONVENTION NEW $75,000,000 UNION PASSENGER STATION, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Convention ! That word means a lot to every Theta who has attended one. This year we hope that that privileged number will be doubled. The five days in San Francisco, July 1 to 5 inclusive, at the Clift Hotel will be the climax of a happy summer’s trip, but there will be much to do both before and after that classic event. The California people may furnish their own suggestions as to the ‘ ‘ after” (They are good at that!). My part of the entertainment includes the “before” and I am so full of en¬ thusiasm and anticipation as to the trip out there that T must share with you some of the preliminary plans. The Special is to be a REAL TRAIN. There will be plenty of diners to keep us fed, there will be plenty of room to gather for song fests. It will be so polished and shining, inside and out, that the villages and cities along our route will turn out en masse to gaze at its swift splendor. Everybody will know that Kappa Alpha Theta is going to San Francisco, and that she is going in style ! The day we leave Chicago, Saturday, June 26, we will gather in from all points east by special Pullmans, and have a pre-
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Convention 151 MISSOURI RIVER NEAR OMAHA, NEBRASKA liminary jollification at the Edgewater Beach hotel. The Thetas in the city will serve as hostesses, leaving us only the simple duty of paying for our dinners. There is a wonderful marble dance floor there, on the beach, where we can begin to get in practice for two weeks of manless dances. All day Sunday we will be riding across Iowa, getting acquainted and feeling important. Late in the afternoon we stop in Lincoln for a glimpse of Rho’s new chapter house and to mingle with the local Thetas. Monday we pause in Denver for all day, going on to Salt Lake City the twenty-ninth, where we will be welcomed by the handful of Utah Thetas and stay long enough to see that interesting city. Another night’s ride and we are at Lake Tahoe, just across the Nevada line, one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. There will be a steamer ride and time for sports and rest before coming down the mountain in the evening. July 1. San Francisco. All Out. Two suggestions: 1. To seniors. That parents can be brought to see that a trip to convention makes a nice graduation present. 2. To wives. That husbands (good Theta husbands) can
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152 Kappa Alpha Theta have the time of their lives on this trip. There will be a special Pullman reserved for women who have men in their parties, and they are welcome to participate in all our plans and festiv¬ ities that are not of a private and secret nature. Mr Huffman forms the present nucleus of the masculine element. Martha Cline Huffman PEAKS OF FRONTIER RANGE AS SEEN FROM DENVER CITY PARK Frequently we have been asked, “what is a bureau of occu¬ pations, what does it do for college women?” Also, frequently comes the question, “Where can I get assistance in finding a position? Our college placement bureau seems interested only in would-be teachers. v To answer these questions, and give some further informa¬ tion along these lines, we reprint a large part of a circular re¬ cently issued by the National committee of Bureaus of occupa-
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Vocations 153 tions. This is a federation of Occupational bureaus for trained women workers, and it thus outlines what it does : I. It brings together annually two representatives of each member Bureau (1) for the interchange of ideas and informa¬ tion, for the strengthening of their activities and for mutual help¬ fulness, and (2) for co-operation with other organizations serving the interests of women and for a co-ordination of its efforts with theirs. II. It maintains committees to deal with special problems of employment and vocational work. III. It furnishes pertinent information to the Bureaus in other ways than those mentioned in 1 and II and assists in the development of plans for national co-operation. During the year 1920-1921 the Chairman of the National Committee made per¬ sonal visits to most of the member Bureaus. IV. It calls conferences to discuss important problems re¬ lating to women’s work and to the development of better em¬ ployment and counseling practices. And here is a list of the organizations that are members of this National committee : Bureau of vocational advice and appointment, 264 Boylston street, Boston, Mass. Chicago collegiate bureau of occupations, 5 S. Wabash av. Chicago, Ill. Collegiate bureau of occupations, 317 Chamber of commerce Bldg. Denver, Colo. Women’s vocational alliance, 426 S. Spring st. Los Angeles, Calif. Women’s occupational bureau, 216 Meyers arcade, Minne¬ apolis, Minn. Bureau of vocational information, 1 W. 47th st. New York, N.Y. Central employment bureau, Y.W.C.A. Professional divi¬ sion, 610 Lexington av. New York, N.Y. Vocational and professional women’s department, Pasadena vocational bureau, 108 S. Raymond av. Pasadena, Calif. Bureau of occupations, 302 S. 13th st. Philadelphia, Pa. Women’s employment service, Central Y.W.C.A. 59 Chatham st. Pittsburgh, Pa. San Diego vocational bureau for business and professional women, 411 Scripps bldg. San Diego, Calif. And here are the qualifications for membership that each of these organizations has fulfilled.
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154 Kappa Alpha Theta I. Bureaus eligible for admission to the National Committee shall be of a non-commercial nature. II. They shall exist primarily for college women and for women of training and experience. III. They shall provide in their constitutions not merely for placement work, but also for work of educational value such as investigation and research, vocational guidance, and the open¬ ing up of new lines of occupation. IV. There shall be a regular office for the Bureau, and a director or manager who shall maintain regular office hours. V. They shall have had at least one year of successful ex¬ istence. And this is what each bureau of occupations does: WHAT THE BUREAUS OF OCCUPATIONS DO I. They find employment for trained women workers in their own localities; they exchange information as to available candidates and positions open when time and geographical lim¬ itations permit ; they seek to promote among employers an in¬ terest in the desirability of trained workers. II. They study continuously the work of women in their own localities and watch their developing opportunities for training and work. III. They visit schools and colleges to give vocational ad¬ vice and information to students — prospective workers. They offer similar service to great numbers of women who call at their offices. IV. They seek to open up and develop new lines of work for women. V. They co-operate, whenever there is need, with local, state and federal agencies and departments by supplying em¬ ployment statistics and other information concerning their special groups of workers, and in other ways. The Bureaus in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Min¬ neapolis, Pasadena, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego and the Y.W.C.A. Bureau in New York function in all the above ways including I. Unlike the other bureaus holding membership in the National Committee, the Bureau of Vocational Information has no place¬ ment department and therefore does not register candidates for positions. It is a national bureau for the collection and distri¬ bution of educational, economic and vocational information effecting women of education and training.
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JUDGE HISCOCK PRAISES COLLEGE FRATERNITY AIMS At Centennial of Kappa Alpha He Says That Societies Have Justified Existence Despite Attack IS READY TO FACE TESTS Urges Direction of Undergraduate Life to Attainment of High Ideals From a Staff Correspondent Schenectady, N. Y. Nov. 7. — An atmosphere of reasoned op¬ timism as to the future potentialities for good of the college fraternity system marked the public exercises here today in commemoration of the centennial of Kappa Alpha, eldest of the Greek letter fraternities. No less marked was the conviction that the college fraternity, as an institution, has had a value during its venerable history, dating from the day in 1825 when three men established the first chapter at Kappa Alpha here at Union college, until the present, when the members of Greek letter fraternities through¬ out the country total 600,000, that substantially outweighs all the criticism from time to time against the system. “The proof of its merits is that it has survived the problems, trials, criticisms and attacks of a hundred years,” Frank H. Hiscock, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, presiding officer at the exercises, told the 500 graduates and undergraduate members of Kappa Alpha who have gathered here in honor of the occasion. “It has not merely survived,” he added. “It has thriven and grown until it stands at the present summit of its growth and strength whence it faces the future.’ y Must Cultivate Democracy Then, pointing out the road along which the college frater¬ nity must set out on its second century of existence, Judge Hiscock said: “It would be idle for us, however, to shut our eyes to the fact that the future will doubtless be critical and that now and then it may be featured by sensational misrepresentation, and that if the American college fraternity is to maintain the posi¬ tion which it now holds it must cultivate the true spirit of an enlightened college democracy and not yield to the false allure¬ ments of any artificial democracy; it must meet the test of real usefulness and especially it must be a dependable aid in
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156 Kappa Alpha Theta university administration and in the guidance of undergraduate life toward those standards which no one of us would openly dare to challenge or reject.” Tribute was also paid the college fraternity by Charles A. Richmond, president of Union College, who declared, in wel¬ coming the participants in the centennial, that seventeen years of observation of the fraternity system had convinced him that on the whole it is of benefit to the undergraduate and a source of strength to the college. Recognition of Kappa Alpha as the source whence sprang the other Greek-letter fraternities that now exist all over the United States was given by the presence at the exercises, held in Union College Memorial Chapel, of representatives from Sigma Phi and Delta Phi, both of which also originated at Union two years later than Kappa Alpha. James Duane Livingston, historian and past president of Delta Phi, echoed Judge Hiscock in asserting that the college fraternity’s long life is proof of its high ideals and of the good inherent in the system. Dr Alexander Duane, recording secre¬ tary and historian of Sigma Phi, declared that the occasion was highly significant to all fraternity men. An international aspect was lent to the exercises by the Rev D. Bruce MacDonald, principal of St. Andrew’s College, Toronto, and chairman of the board of governors of the Univer¬ sity of Toronto, a member of the Toronto chapter of Kappa Alpha. Dr MacDonald declared that Kappa Alpha’s Canadian affiliations offered it an unusual opportunity to make a con¬ tribution to the welfare of mankind by promoting the under¬ standing between the two great English-speaking peoples, in which, he said, lies the world’s greatest hope. Ex-Governor White Speaks Horace White, former Governor of New York, trustee of Cornell University and member of Kappa Alpha, concluded the exercises with the assertion that the fraternity’s century of existence had coincided with an era of amazing educational progress, characterized by notable improvement in undergrad¬ uate conduct and sportsmanship and by a wonderful growth in educational activities. An invocation preceding the exercises was delivered by the Rev George Farrand Taylor, rector of Christ Church, Flushing, Queens, a member of the society. As the attendants at the exer¬ cises filed in and out of the severely simple non-sectarian college
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Fountain of rushing 157 chapel a processional and recessional were played by Charles L. Safford, also a member of Kappa Alpha. After the exercises the assemblage had lunch in the college gymnasium and witnessed the annual invasion of the old col¬ lege’s placid campus, portions of which date from 1814, by the freshman masquerade parade. Then the fraternity members attended the Union-IIobart football game and were subsequently guests at a reception and dance at the Kappa Alpha lodge. New York Herald Tribune , Nov. 8, ’25 FOUNTAIN OF RUSHING It is said that Ponce de Leon sought and found in Florida the “Fountain of Youth.” I am wondering how many of us alumnae are Ponces at heart — in search of those restorative waters. A little experience of mine the past summer led me to think that all Theta Ponces might experience a bit of rejuvenation in things Theta, at least, if they would but avail themselves of the waters of the “Fountain of Rushing,” synonymous, as I believe, with all that is gay and juvenile, and youthful in fraternity life. This is the story of how I came upon the place. Margaret - from the state capitol was visiting a cousin of hers, Dorothy - , here in my home town. A phone call from Dorothy explained that Margaret was entering college in September and that she wanted me to “cinch” Mar¬ garet for Theta. The fraternity’s interests at stake and such a long, long time, ten years to be exact, since I had memorized the tricks of the trade of rushing in the ranks of my dear chapter! I shuddered to think of the impression I might create! Of Theta’s loss if I fumbled! What would be their feeling if they learned the real truth, for, according to Dorothy, so much rested on the results of the afternoon with me! A couple of hands of bridge with Margaret as my partner, quite a lot of chatter at tea time about southerners, their point of view, southern colleges, etc. and the time for parting had come, not however without Margaret’s promise to let me know the results of her decision in the choice of a fraternity. News has just come by phone that Margaret has gone Theta. Dorothy is happy. I too, am glad. I congratulate - chapter upon its acquisition in Margaret and upon the type of girls it rushes, if Margaret may be regarded as a type rushee. And, most of all, I rejoice over the new spirit my old Theta heart took after hearing the good news. L. B. H.
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158 Kappa Alpha Theta A CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTION It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have. — Seneca “Dear me!” sighed the alumna. “Have we no cultural ele¬ ment in the chapter house ? I happened to call there today, and as I entered the living room my glance fell upon a wide-open magazine devoted to film celebrities; upon the davenport sprawled another volume of like classification ; perched upon the table and brazenly flaunting its brilliant plumage, was a publica¬ tion not given over to intellectual pursuits. Not even in a se¬ cluded spot did 1 spy the fine, conservative literary friends that contribuate an unmistakable atmosphere of breeding and refine¬ ment ! ’ ’ “All of which provokes an editorial plea for worth-while mag¬ azines in the living room of each chapter house. Follow if you wish the careers of your favorites upon the silver sheet, read, by all means, any well-written story of present day conditions, but remember that the well-rounded college girl keeps in touch with the best that the magazine world can produce, that the very fact of being a college girl obligates her to cultural things, and that no chapter house can boast a proper and inspiring environment without the consideration of the finer attributes that combine to produce a perfect whole.’ ’ The paragraphs above have been quoted from The Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta. The question of current magazines in a chapter house has not been given the attention its importance demands. Recently a young man who is a frequent caller at a certain friend’s home remarked — “It must be easy to keep up with current thought in this house, there is always an attractive magazine to be read while you wait for your friends to appear.” In how many of our chapter houses are there magazines of value to be “read while you wait,” to consume the few free moments when dinner is late, to entertain (and instruct) during an off afternoon or evening? Now what could be a nicer Christmas present to your chap¬ ter than a subscription to one, or more, worth while weekly or monthly periodicals? There are subscription agencies where you can place subscriptions on a nine months, or less, basis, so there need not be an accumulation of periodicals while the chapter
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An n iversary cards 159 house is closed for the summer, but magazines for every college month at a less cost than annual subscriptions. Banta’s Greek Exchange for October 1925 contains an inter¬ esting bibliography of periodicals for the fraternity house under the title “Balanced rations for the library table/ ’ The young people in a chapter house will read the current, and good, maga¬ zines if they are at hand. We feel sure of that. The question is how to be sure they are at hand, since chapter house budgets won't stretch to cover such valuable cultural accessories. Christ¬ mas gifts from alumnae is the solution ; or even an endowment, modest, that will yield a yearly income to be invested only in magazine subscriptions. Said student A to student B “How does it happen you like to read so well, where did you get the habit?" Said student B, “Why there were always books around the house, and the family talked about them, so I just read them." There is no question but habits of reading are encouraged by the convenient presence of attractive reading matter. (Incidentally chapter house con¬ versation might improve too with such things about.) What Theta chapter house will be the first to acquire a bal¬ anced ration on its library table? HELP THE ALUMNA TO RETAIN THE INTEREST AND ENTHUSIASM OF THEIR COLLEGE DAYS What should we do without the ever-present question. How can we keep in touch with the alumnae? For alumnae are valuable and neces¬ sary but oftentimes very elusive — and no college chapter can afford to lose the support and the friendly spirit of its alumnae. In contempla¬ tion of this indisputed fact, we venture a suggestion which we shall desig¬ nate — a personal communication. Of course every alumna falls heir to a personal communication — an appeal for material contribution, a plea for help in rushing — an invitation to some particular celebration. But all such communications lack the personal touch, and in these days of many interests, the* personal touch means everything. Accordingly, we suggest a careful scanning of the chapter list since its very beginning; for on the chapter list will be the name of each member and the date of her initiation. When this particular date rolls around, suppose you send the alumna a little card that reads something like this — On (date) — you became a member of - • - Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta , thereby gaining for yourself a place in our chapter circle. That place is still yours; the friendship still endures; the inspiration and the enthusiasm still abide. We, who realize that you arc one of those who have loved and fostered the chapter which is so dear to us, are sending a greeting on this, your initiation day. Renew with us the pledge and the happiness of the hour that made you a Gamma Phi. Will any self-respecting alumna ignore such a greeting? We doubt it. — r <£ Bj Crescent
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SCHOLARSHIP CHART, 1924-25 College All Student Women Student Fraternity Women Women's Fraternity First Kappa Alpha Theta Standing Average Average Average Name Average Average Rank Adelphi . C C KKr B- c+ Allegheny . AA (Local) 2.29 2.66 Arizona . n.g. n.g. 77. ZTA 84. 83 . 1.4637 California . 1.0 KKr 2.2810 11th California (S.B.) . Cincinnati . 3.0 3.0 2.8 2K 2.6177 77.41 81.926 Colorado . 78.2 Axn 81.3 Colorado State . 80.472 B4>A 85 . 833 Cornell . n.g. SAT 77.9 73.4 11th Men average more than women AT first with 72.4 Pts. De Pauw . n.g. 48 Pts. 55.88 HP* 61.6 57.3 Drake . 3. 3. 3.689 KKr 3.926 3.663 5th Florida . Report not out yet. Dec. 1, 1925 Goucher . 5.204 4.887 4th 17th 7th 11th Idaho . 4.781 nB* Illinois . 3.450 3.513 nB 3.909 3.462 Indiana . n.g. 3.486 3.518 r*B 3.904 3.727 Kansas . 3.179 3.443 3.579 AHA 3.819 3.423 Lawrence . . Michigan . n.g. 79.0059 n.g. KA Sorosis 87- 81.9475 86 ~b 78.9583 3d 11th Minnesota . 1.195 1.297 1.266 T4>B 1.435 1.271 Missouri . 220 KA0 262 262 1st 2d semester Montana . 20.38 2K 23.26 19.78 Nebraska . 215.95 2.5385 267.25 AA0 302.4 269.35 6th 2d semester
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Nevada . 2.576 2.243 2 075 KA0 1.90 1.90 1st Newcomb . 2.516 Data n n.g. 1.00 2.221 ot compiled n.g. 2.109 by College c 82.95 2A12 >r Panhelleni 1.921 LC 2.145 3d North Dakota . IIB4> 85.45 83.23 Northwestern . ZTA 1.8 1.3 Ohio State . n.g. 1.59 AHA 270 Pts. 234 Pts. Ohio Wesleyan . 1.72 1.81 OT 2.10 1.84 10th Oklahoma . 4>M 4th Oklahoma State . 79.61 XL> 85.24 78.83 Oregon . 41.724 Ar 49.185 48.932 2d 2d semester Oregon State . '83.0 ZTA 88.0 87.01 Pennsylvania . Pittsburgh . Purdue . 1st Randolph-Macon . 85. 85. AZ 92.66 90.53 South Dakota . 82.41 84.94 86.32 KA0 87.89 87.89 1st So. California . Stanford . c AAA c+ Swarthmore . 1.588 Xft 2.006 1.713 Syracuse . 1.4138 ANA 1.76 1.394 11th Texas . 5.43 rB 6.67 6.22 Toronto . _ _ Not available KA0 98. 98. 1st Vanderbilt . n.g. 74.958 n.g. 78.414 2T2 1.68 1.63 Vermont . 80.409 AXii 83.633 79.711 6th Washburn . n.g. 6. n.g. 1.415 AA 92.25 87.115 Washington (St. Louis). Washington (Seattle).. Washington State . William & Mary .... 6.49 n.g. 1.531 6.42 KKr AAA AAII mn 7.41 86.61 87.13 86.8359 6.78 86.49 85.44 84.186 7th 2d 12th Wisconsin . 1.637 IIB4> 1.883 1.543 16th 2d semester
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162 Kappa Alpha Theta SCHOLARSHIP HONORS College year 1924-25 It is the policy of this magazine to carry in the January issue a record of scholarship honors won in the preceding col¬ lege year. Such a record is delayed until the January issue, so as to give chapters ample time to get in the information, and — with the fond hope that university scholarship tables for the preceding year may be completed by then. Since the usual, and regularly required, data from chapters has been received from only a fraction of the chapters this year, the record has had to be compiled from many sources and so can make no claim to completeness, though accuracy it does claim. Many universities have not issued scholarship grading for last year as yet, so the record in the table is also incomplete. Supplementary information for either record will be wel¬ comed and will find space in the March issue. A change of plan this year groups the material by honors rather than by chapters, which we hope may make the informa¬ tion more interesting to every one. It is always difficult to decide whether election to certain organizations really is a scholarship honor; in case of doubt the information has been omitted, confining the list to those organizations about whose scholastic requirements there is no question anywhere. Phi Beta Kappa Elections Frances Walters, Alpha Katharine Guthery and Katherine Timmons, Gamma deu- teron Mary Aleshire, Delta Louise Barley and Jeanne Briggs, Eta Eleanore Taylor, Mu Eleanor Dilworth, Alpha Delta Catherine Crockett, Alpha Eta Eunice Storey, Alpha Lambda Florence Buck and Martha Shull, Alpha Xi Olive G. Roberts, Alpha Phi Alpha Omicron also reports one election, but fails to give the honored girl’s name. Phi Kappa Phi elections Irene Seuel, Gamma Ellen Wing, Iota Ruth Waterman and Katherine Gabrielson, Chi Martha Kiger and Roberta Lane, Beta Epsilon
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Scholarship honors 163 Julia Dixon and Virginia Smith, Beta Lambda Eleanor Ahlers, Beta Mu Inez Turner, Lois Curry, and Mona Alderman, Beta Nu Mu Phi Epsilon elections Lucy Beddoe, Alpha Helen Beard, Dorothy Jones, and Albertine Scott, Kappa Dee Stewart, Alpha Sigma Theta Sigma Phi elections Mary Hamilton, Mary Engel, Meriam McClelland, Kappa Marion Robb, Alpha Lambda Omicron Nu elections Seta Butler and Jane Edison, Delta Elsbeth Young, Alpha Lambda Marjory Burkhart, Beta Epsilon Ruth Keely, Beta Zeta University and class honor rolls Includes similar honors too Judith Brown, Ruth Coulter, Mary Walker, and Helen West, mid-course honors — at De Pauw Mary Aleshire, Mabel Hart Krieckhaus, Helen Oldfather, Jane Edison, Seta Butler, Elizabeth Davis, recognized for high scholarship on Honors day — at Illinois Jacqueline Stice, Mary Nell Hamilton, Mary Sisson, on honor roll — at Kansas Dorothy Hefflon, honors in French ; Dorothea Baker and Eleanor Chapman, sophomore honor roll; Charlotte Stone, freshman honor roll — at Vermont Betty Charlton and Mary Lou Murphy, junior honors ; Alice Breed, sophomore honors; Frances Bond, freshman honors — at Allegheny Sophie Boyd, Grade A, heading the IV year Pass course; Florence Hargreaves, first class honors in IV year household science; Elizabeth Lalor, first class honors in III year architec¬ ture ; Frances Trent, first class honors in IV year in household science; Agnes Wrong, first class honors in IV year modern history — at Toronto Dorothy Whitehurst, Frances Coopwood, Lucille Stover, Helen McNeil, Elizabeth Jourdon, Clara Currie, on honor roll — at Texas Eilene Marie Slack, sophomore honors — at Washington (St Louis)
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164 Kappa Alpha Theta Pauline Brannock, Jane Newman, university honor roll — at Missouri Mary Jane Me Comb, Ruth Dickinson, Mary Werner, Kather¬ ine Pratt, Catherine MacLaren, Dorothy Tipler, Eleanor Cook, Marion Worthing, and Agnes Norem, honor roll — at Lawrence. Betty Frost, Meryl Dewey, Marian Wolcott, Roberta Smith, Madeline Stewart, and Virginia Welty, high honor roll; Eliz¬ abeth Hughes, Constance Reed, Caston Washburn, honor roll — at Washburn Mary Elizabeth Skinner, Frances Chandler, Nora Evans, Mary Jane Heath, Mary Margaret Kern, Luita Curtis, and Har¬ riet Findley, distinguished students' list — at Purdue Mary Frances Munds, sophomore scholar; Luella Campbell, junior scholar — at Arizona Florence Billinghurst, Freda Humphrey, Eleanor Aiders, Margaret Hill, Gilberta Turner, honor roll — at Nevada Margaret Boyd, history honors — at California, Southern Scholarships and fellowships Eva Metcalf, Lambda, English fellowship Florence Hargreaves, Sigma, Marion Dickinson scholarship for postgraduate study at Teachers college, Columbia. Frances Trent also qualified for this scholarship. Frances Spangler, Upsilon, scholarship at Fontainbleu school of music, Paris Julia Waldo, Upsilon, scholarship from Juliard foundation, New York city Caroline Peirce, Phi, Stanford scholar scholarship Janice Rentchler, Alpha Mu, Jay L. Torrey scholarship in journalism Constance Duquesnay, Alpha Phi, scholarship to Sorbonne Thelma Pray, Margaret Hill, Gilbert Turner — all Beta Mu — regents' scholarships; Florence Billinghurst, Azro Cheney scholarship in English Graduated “cum laude” Irene Allen at Vermont and Elizabeth Moore at Kansas Miscellaneous Jane Ogborn, Gamma, winner of Woman's league cup, awarded to freshman with highest average, 94.25, at Butler. Mildred Stewart, Beta Delta, winner of Mortar board cup, awarded to freshman with highest average at Arizona. Edith Burtis, Beta Delta, winner of Freeman medal, awarded senior with most consistent high record for four years.
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r ii - - n=)[=— I, , 1 WHO’S WHO IN THETA 0 1 h <J LABELLE MAHON STEPHENS, Alpha Pi A number of you remember some of the “made-to-order” songs on the beach at Gearhart as we “chained” from one bon¬ fire to another and may also remember that LaBelle Mahon was responsible for the spontaneity of some of those same songs. Others will recall her, when as LaBelle Stephens, she led the singing at the Charlevoix convention, and introduced some of the songs, which were to appear in the new song-book, of which she was the editor. Then many met, saw, and heard her last year as song-leader at the Indiana convention. Mrs Stephens has become widely known in her home state, among club women, owing to her two years of service as state chairman of music of the Minnesota Federation of women clubs. Previously she had organized a contest in choral singing in her own ninth district, whereupon the state president, who was present and impressed, appointed Mrs Stephens to the state chairmanship. She thereupon promoted similar contests in all ten districts of the state with the object of getting women in small towns and rural communities organized to sing. Anyone can sing in one of these groups, as it is not necessary to belong to the Federation. The groups range in number from six to twelve with an accompanist and director. It is interesting to know that over seven hundred women from sixty-five towns have taken part in the contests these past two years. At the conven¬ tion this last September, four-hundred-twelve women from thirty-eight towns sang, and the cup given the winners was presented by the Thursday musical club of Minneapolis. Wo¬ men from the three large cities, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, are excluded from participation in the contests. This idea has put music where it has never been before and Minnesota has truly become a “singing state.” Only 25% of the groups entered are from towns where there are music clubs, so that in the other 75%, the work is entirely new and creative. Each group sings three songs, two of which are named by the state chairman, and the third is chosen by the group.
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166 Kappa Alpha Theta Mrs Stephens also directs the singing at the Federation meet¬ ings as she did in our Theta convention meetings, so we know the women all just want to sing under her leadership. LaBelle is an Alpha Pi charter member, having attended North Dakota university for two years, and then finished at Oberlin college, specializing in music. She has edited two edi¬ tions of Kappa Alpha Theta songs and tells us she has a plan for inducing every chapter, club or group of Thetas anywhere to become enthusiastic singers of Theta songs. Selma Lommen Hassell , Alpha Pi FRANCES KERR COOK, Alpha Delta and Phi Today's stories of yesterday — Well told tales from modern authors. Edited and pictured by Frances Kerr Cook — Albert Whitman & co. Chicago, Illinois, 1925. In this collection of new stories, “the aim has been to select tales full of interest, humor and charm, stories which shall be so entertaining in themselves that through their appeal to the imagination and emotions of the child, they will lead him into a larger world, develop his ideals for the highest form of living ; inspire a love for those universal virtues of kindliness, honesty, loyalty, perseverance, and thoughtfulness for others . The stories are of today in their ideals and sane outlook on life. They are of yesterday in their setting . The every day incidents, joys, sorrows, and dilemmas common to the life of every child assume something of the glamour of knightly days when hap¬ pening in an environment of little Princes and Princesses in flowing robes, or of red-skinned children of a primeval race.” The aim as set forth in the preface to the book has been ad¬ mirably carried out in the choice of stories which are of a kind that children instinctively enjoy. The drawings are the work of the collector and editor, Frances Kerr Cook. There are more than fifty of them, wholly in tune with the romantic setting of the stories, charming, quaintly humorous, skillfully executed in two colors, and bear¬ ing the mark of the finished artist. The stories are selected from the best work of several modern writers for children, but the illustrations are the real lure of the little book. Mrs Cook is the wife of D. C. Cook, jr. of the David C. Cook publishing company, and their home is in Elgin, Illinois. She has been of material assistance to her husband, both in
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Who’s who 167 writing and illustrating, in his work of publishing periodicals and educational leaflets for children along the line of character building and religious training. She has also illustrated chil¬ dren's books for several leading publishers of school text-books. Frances Kerr Cook is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Delta chapter, later affiliating with Phi, and now a member of Chicago alumnae chapter. Katharine Traphagen Davis, Phi MADELEINE POWER, Alpha Sigma A metallic nocturne isn't a tinhorn symphony. It isn't a ukelele serenade. It isn't a brace of chords from a player-piano. A metallic nocturne, please, is a new angle of applied artistic temperament, patented (not the temperament) by Miss Madel¬ eine Power, Seattle and Spokane girl. “I didn't know what to call them but I thought Metallic Nocturne best described them," frankly explained Madeleine, as she signs her pictures. For the metallic nocturnes are pictures — of a sort. To the uninitiated the process appeared to be this : First Madeleine, who is clever with her pencil, sketches the figures for her nocturne. She prefers nursery rhyme characters, children's illustrations. Then she cuts her pictures, not from white paper but from sheet metal foil in high colors — red, gold, silver, blue, green in their purest shades. These she mounts on a black background, framed also in black. Yesterday she showed some of her finished work. There was one panel of Jack in his red jacket, climbing the bright green beanstalk which sprouted purple beans. And another, baby's silver moon boat, a silver and gold crescent, with pointed scarlet sail, gliding curled green-gold cloud waves, trailing silver stars. “My idea came from a Chinese card," said Madeleine. “I changed and adapted it and that's the history of the first metallic nocturne . " Miss Madeleine Power, a young Spokane artist, has done that almost impossible thing, something new, in her Metallic Noc¬ turnes which are being shown at Graham's and the Crescent. The daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Power, E2530 Fourteenth avenue, Miss Power has established a studio in her home and is earnestly at work there. Her nocturnes are really picture posters, but instead of be¬ ing done with paints they are done by the cleverest tinfoil patchwork on a black background and are under glass. The
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168 Kappa Alpha Theta novelty of her medium is arresting. Her little panels, 4 'Jack and the Bean Stalk' ' and "A Man With Balloons" are not only novelties but real art as well. She snips a smile on Jack's face that you can not forget and in "Carnival" she does a gay Spanish scene with loops of confetti as full of motion as the colored strands are at a party. She achieves effects of color, of expression, movement and light, and has in addition a fine idea of the selective processes of good composition. She manages somehow to impress you with her own personality. She loves to dwell on fairy subjects. The sheen of her metallic reds and pansy tints, her blues and her greens, are as opalescent and finely wrought as the best cloisonne. Miss Power studied at Washington State college under Wil¬ liam T. McDermott and under the famous Bridgman of the Art Students’ league in New York city. She will be in Spokane this fall but plans later to go east and to Paris. — Spokane' Review, 25 0. 25 WHO’S WHERE IN FOREIGN LANDS June 14, 11)25. Most of the year I am teaching in Isabella Thoburn college at Lucknow. I have charge of the normal department. We are, besides being a mission college, the woman's department of Lucknow university, a government university. We have about 140 girls in college, of course a picked group of young women in this land where it is only about three in every hundred women who can read and write at all. But when they do get to college we find them very much like any other group of college girls. They like to do pretty much the same things as college girls at home. Basketball, tennis, and volley ball are popular and well played. They also played badminton which is not played much at home, played with light shuttlecocks and bats smaller than those used for tennis. They have their clubs and parties and Y. W. C. A. meetings besides class work. But unlike most col¬ leges in America we have the dreaded Government examinations, when, at the end of two years work the students are examined by outside examiners over all of the work covered in the two years course. Everything depends on their success or failure in that examination. Most of the girls dress in the sari, the pretty draped costume used so much in India. We also have some English and Ameri¬ can and Anglo-Indian girls who wear regular European costume.
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Who’s who 160 They are a most delightful group of girls to work with and to live among, bright and interesting and human — as I know only too well, for I live in the hostel where the freshmen live, and the question of discipline is no more absent there than it would be in a similar hostel in America. The name of the hostel was chosen by the girls and is Nau-Nihal-Manzil. Can you pro¬ nounce it? It means the Abode of youth. The hostel for the older girls is called Maitra Bhawan, and means the place where all classes and castes live together in friendship. It is a very appropriate name, for we certainly have a varied group : Chris¬ tian, Hindu, Mohammedan and Sikh, as to religion; and Hin¬ dustani, Bengali, Panjabi, Madrasi, Assamese, IVegu, Tamil, Ceylonese, Anglo-Indian, Anglo-Chinese, German-Chinese, Am¬ erican, English, Irish and Welsh, as to race. 1 could name almost as great a number of mother tongues, so all our teaching is done in English. We have some lovely new buildings, only two years old, which make the Hindustani name of the college quite appropriate, Chand Bagh, Moon garden. The beautiful white classic buildings in the midst of the lovely Indian garden look almost fairy-like in the moonlight. I am now on my vacation, and a most delightful one it is. First 1 took a tramping trip through part of the Himalayas to the Pindari glacier. Two of us, an Alpha Phi from Minnesota university and I took this alone, except for a servant and four coolies to carry our luggage. We went by train to the foot of the mountains, a fifteen hour journey costing $1.25, frr we were roughing it and went third class. Then we went 80 miles into the mountains by motor lorry and from there we walked the 140 miles to the glacier and back. We stopped at night at the rest houses that the government has built for military purposes all through the mountains, at distances of nine to fifteen or six¬ teen miles according to the difficulty of the road. These are little two roomed bungalows usually, furnished with some rope strung beds without bedding and a table and a chair or two. You carry your own bedding and provisions and camp out for the night and pay about 33 cents for the privilege. The road lay through beautiful pine or oak or rhododendron forests, sometimes fairly level, but frequently ascending to the top of a ridge or going down to the river. We had to climb 4,000 feet on one march in a little over five miles. The scenery was increasingly wonderful as we reached to the higher levels, steep rocky cliffs on either side as we followed up the narrow
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170 Kappa Alpha Theta rushing mountain stream that flowed from the glacier. At the last bungalow we were 10,500 feet above sea level. There we were caught in a snow storm and how we did enjoy it, for we don’t often see snow even in the mountains in India, except on the distant peaks. The snow storm kept us from getting actually on to the glacier though we were only four miles away, the soft new snow making it impossible to get over drifts. In some places we made a path with an ax, or rather the guid6 did, but we finally had to turn back. 1 don’t believe I would have missed the snow storm though, even to get on the glacier ! I wish you could have seen how lovely it looked with the snow on the rhododendron trees which were in blossom. The red, pink and lavender flowers were beautiful peeping through the snow. Although we had no really exciting adventures with wild animals we were kept in constant expectation of such, for a man- eating tiger was roaming through the very jungles where we went. They said he had killed 150 villagers, though 1 imagine that was something of an exaggeration. We didn’t meet him until we were going down, and then we only saw his skin and the gun that had killed him, to the vast relief of all people in that vicinity. After this trip I came up to Darjeeling, a rather civilized station in another part of the Himalayas. It meant a three days trip through the heat of the plains with the thermometer around 110 degrees. Here we have a view of Kinchenjunga, the second highest mountain in the world, 28,200, lower than Everest by less than a thousand feet. If we are lucky we hope to see Everest too, but it will be only a chance during this season when seeing a mist and missing a scene is more common than seeing the view every one hopes for at Darjeeling. To see Everest you have to get up at two in the morning and climb to the top of Tiger hill by sunrise. We tried it one morning when the evening before had been somewhat clear. We got a late start, as we had depended on rickshaw coolies who failed to appear, so we walked the seven miles up as fast as we could for fear we would be late. We got there by sunrise, but the sun rose in a bank of clouds and not a peek at Everest did we get. We are not daunted though, and will try it again at the first sign of a clear sky. Soon we will be returning to our work, for college opens in July. The rains will have begun by then, so the thermometer will not soar so high, but it will be hot and muggy, which is
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Who’s who 171 almost worse. It won’t be so long, however, until October, and then it will begin to cool off. November and February are lovely and December and January are cold. Margaret Landrum , Alpha KYOTO, JAPAN, AS A THETA CENTER (Extracts from a letter to Central Office) This is a perfectly glorious day. The lovely green clad mountains surrounding the beautiful city of Kyoto stand out sharp and clear against the blue blue sky ; the air is crisp and cool, and there is the faintest suggestion of a breeze, — just enough to give complete satisfaction to the little blue-and-white calico clad street-urchins who go clattering along the streets in their wooden geta chasing after their giddy kites which persist in getting tangled in the maze of telephone wires overhead. And the day has been a perfectly glorious day for me, too, because I am again flying a Theta kite! And I can’t tell you how perfectly delighted I am to have it. It has just this minute arrived, and I am so thrilled that I can scarcely think half way intelligently. I would dearly love to write you something interesting about my work for the Journal, as you asked, but alas! I am nothing more interesting than an ordinary humdrum school teacher working daily six hours teaching English in the junior college and high school of this big mission school. Teaching English as a foreign language is quite different from teaching at home, and as we are making a specialty of it in our school we are very much absorbed in methods. But a detailed account of what we do would hardly be good copy, would it? The school, however, furnishes the foreign missionaries on its faculty with innumerable contacts, and we try to make the most of them. Outside of school hours we really become evangelistic missionaries in almost every sense of the term. In connection with our school we have a thriving school church, and the neces¬ sary duties in connection with that are numerous as well as very pleasant. Promoting the Girls’ Friendly Society is my chief special duty. There are almost one hundred members, — all bap¬ tized Christians of whom we are trying to make more mission¬ aries. I have them grouped into Altar Guilds, an art club, a health study club, a mission study group, a group studying spiritual leadership, and two groups doing hand work. We are
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172 Kappa Alpha Theta dressing Japanese dolls this year to raise money for the living expenses of children in the Kusatsu leper colony. 1 have had English Bible classes since I came to the school, and this fall the powers have decided that at last I have acquired enough of the language to make myself understood in teaching in Japanese; so now 1 teach twelve little girls Sunday mornings in the weavers’ section of the city, and feel as if 1 had really turned the first milestone in my career as a missionary. Of course the language, or rather the lack of it, is a frightful handicap, and makes one feel exceedingly useless. And after struggling along seven days in the week, and usually from chapel at eight in the morning until the last alumnae callers have called “Sayo nara” at ten o’clock at night, we get tired and discour¬ aged when the vacation times approach. But then a trip, “third class” — but you mustn’t say ‘horrors!’ because it’s really very interesting — to see peerless Euji san, brilliant Nikko, or even as far as to see Pekin and the Great Wail! And presto — on re¬ turn, we are all rested, and our Japanese friends are so sincerely glad to see us again, that we decide we’ll be missionaries a while longer. The country is a beautiful one, the people are sweet and dear, and there is oodles of work to be done here, as every¬ where, — and what more could one ask to make life worth living i Frederica /Smith, Chi PANHELLENIC CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY The Panhellenic club of New York city has become a reality with regular club quarters, finding that it could function and be of value and pleasure without the building of an elaborate club house. No doubt the club house will follow in due form, as an outgrowth of a real need, rather than turning things back¬ ward and building the club house first, as seemed to be the pre¬ vailing idea for some years. The club has leased the second floor of the club house owned by the National association of women painters and sculptors at 17 East 62d street. Monthly meetings are held here, and the club rooms are at the service of members at all hours and times. A house warming was held November 9. On December 14 there will be a real Christmas party, with a Christmas grab bag to which each member has contributed “a Christmas parcel worth not more than twenty five cents.” The secretary of the club is Elsa Volckman, Theta from Chi chapter at Syracuse university.
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AN ALL THETA SING A plan for Founders’-day celebration Wouldn’t you like to stand in a Theta chain with ten thou¬ sand girls and sing the Hymn f Wouldn’t you like to sing From coast to coast with every Theta in the world? Wouldn’t you like to hear our National hymn sung by Theta sisters all around the globe ? Well, that is just what we are planning to do January 27, to celebrate Founders’-day. Every alumnae chapter, every alumnae club, as well as every college chapter is asked to arrange to be together then, for from Maine to Manila and back again Thetas are going to sing to¬ gether. One big chorus of sisters singing the praises of friend¬ ship and nobler womanhood. The first essential for the enjoyment of this meeting is a supply of song books. If you will devote an hour to investi¬ gating the possibilities of the new song book your group will find new inspiration in Theta. If you haven’t an adequate supply of books order some right away and they’ll arrive in time. The songs are numbered almost the same as in the 1918 edition, so bring those books along too, — though the new songs are not there of course. The next essential is a large attendance and enough imagination to put your chapter in touch with Thetas singing together over the world. It will be a miniature convention hour in which to catch the meaning of a national fraternity. And what shall we sing? The Hymn without a doubt, for it expresses Theta spirit and idealism. From coast to coast will be literally true and the Friendship song will carry a greeting for us. Kappa Alpha Theta girl , the Whistle , and the Fireside song you will enjoy, and we might suggest Higher education and the Rest song. But it would be the proper thing to go all through the book on an exploring adventure. Then in closing sing the Chain song on page 25. Here is the real friendship of Theta set to a lovely tune. Every alumna can subscribe from a full heart to the spirit of this song. And since from Founders to pledges, we are, or will be, alumnae, this song is our parting message to Theta sisters everywhere. So, in making plans for Founders’-day be sure to include the Song hour. It may require a piano and a liberal allotment of time, but it will repay a thousandfold in happy memories. Pause in the midst of your singing and send a greeting to Thetas every¬ where, who are singing, as is your group, Kappa Alpha Theta songs of friendship and aspiration. LaBelle Mahon Stephens , Alpha Pi
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174 Kappa Alpha Theta DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE? Since October, announcements of 39 Theta weddings have reached the editor, without any mention of an address where the bride may be reached. Since they are all life subscribers to the magazine, the addresses are needed badly. If you know where any one or more of these Thetas live, please send address to the editor at 13 East Avenue, Ithaca, New York, and receive here and now her thanks for such assistance. Norma Balz, Eta, Mrs Dwight Dunlap Margaret Beagle, Tau, Mrs Paul Kaiser Marjorie Binford, Alpha, Mrs Gerald Woods Olive Books, Alpha Kappa, Mrs Frank Kiendl Elizabeth Bradford, Phi, Mrs Max Langdon Van Norden Juliette Chamberlain, Beta Kappa, Mrs Horace B. Hoight Dorothy Congor, Alpha Lambda, Mrs Ted Wood Olive Congor, Alpha Lambda, Mrs Bud Belcher Dorothy Crates, Gamma deuteron, Mrs Allen Long Pauline Dick, Beta Epsilon, Mrs James Lively Dorothy Ehrmann, Beta, Mrs Richard Mason Dominica Faricy, Upsilon, Mrs Orrin Lee Katherine Ferguson, Alpha Chi, Mrs Paul Beattie Frances Freeman, Gamma deuteron, Mrs James Pierce Alice Frein, Alpha Lambda, Mrs Jesse Johnson Jeanne Elizabeth Gay, Alpha Xi, Mrs George Riddle Margaret Goodman, Alpha Phi, Mrs E. Ralph Michel Lucille Grady, Beta Zeta, Mrs Frank Allen Dorothy Linklater, Beta Epsilon, Kirs Kenneth Covell Avis Litzenberg, Upsilon, Mrs Chauncey Chase Heloise Lysle, Phi, Mrs John B. F. Bacon Ada McAnalty, Upsilon, Mrs Ray Henderson Dorothy McConnell, Alpha Chi, Mrs Robert D. Frick Janet Marshall, Beta Mu, Mrs Floyd Sweetman Lelia Mason, Alpha Lambda, Mrs Sanford Easson Eugenia Mock, Alpha Iota, Mrs Pinkney McElwee Cornelia Morrision, Alpha Iota, Mrs Thomas Thompson Marian Patterson, Kappa, Mrs Lorine Long Mildred Platt, Beta Iota, Mrs Thomas McAndries Claire Rountree, Alpha Iota, Mrs James Hart Price Peggy Sallee, Kappa, Mrs Scott Smith Marjorie Smith, Alpha Gamma, Mrs Frank Willcox Helen Snowball, Omicron, Mrs Clare Hamman
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Wear your badge 175 Roberta Spain, Rho, Mrs Mark Phelps Maxie Stone, Beta Beta, Mrs Thurston Runyan Catherine Tait, Beta Delta, Mrs Edward Evans Katherine Taylor, Alpha Chi, Mrs A. Y. Conway Estyal Watson, Alpha, Mrs Bertram Keller Elizabeth Webster, Alpha, Mrs Alvah Haskitt Dorothea Williamson, Beta, Mrs Leland Thomas In order that you may not be deceived into thinking that this is all the Thetas who have been married in two months, let me add that I have received announcements, with addresses, of 42 other Theta weddings in this period. And probably there are as many more I have not heard of yet, for every wTeek brings an aggrieved letter or two from brides whose weddings were not heralded in the magazine. Why? Because no one had told the editor of their occurrence. The magazine never misses a chance to pub¬ lish such items of real news — so send in the news if you want it published, and include addresses please. And please, street addresses, as well as names of cities and states, are essential in every community large enough to indulge in a postal delivery system. “Houston, Texas,’ ’ “Fort Wayne, Indiana,” “Oklahoma city,” “Pasadena,” “Peoria, Ill.” are not addresses that will reach any one there residing, unless it be the city mayor — not to mention the fact that I have at hand (waiting further information) 4 addresses as “New York city,” 2 as “St Louis, Mo.” and 3 as “Chicago, Ill.” If this sounds like carping criticism, please remember that not this office but the United States post office department is responsible for postal regulations and requirements. DO YOU WEAR YOUR BADGE? We often read the line, “After graduation what?” May we say instead, “After graduation what about your badge?” Do you wear it or are you guilty of any of the following remarks heard at alumnse meetings and where-ever there are members of Greek letter organizations gathered together: “I found my pin on my last winter’s dress; when I happen to wear it, it stays on that dress.” “I suppose I really should wear my pin when we are on a trip, but I never wear it when I am teaing, so I forget.” “I saw two of the loveliest Thetas on the street car, while I was in California last winter, but I didn ’t speak to them because I didn’t have my pin on.”
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176 Kappa Alpha Theta “Did you realize that one of the guests at this party is a Tri-Delt, a newcomer in town? Did you wear your pin? I’ll dash up stairs and get mine, for we must have our pins where they'll show.” “I suppose I ought to get a pin. I lost mine, you know. I never think of it while I am at home, but I like to have one when I am away on a trip.” Is the badge to be worn only on occasion ? Instead, let it become a habit, train yourself to feel that there is something lacking without your pin. In regard to wearing one’s badge while teaching, my per¬ sonal experience has been that high school students admired my badge, asked what it was, remarked that I always wore it and wanted to know where 1 attended college. In connection with the idea of being on the shelf after gradu¬ ation, how many times have you read this stereotyped phrase in the home town newspaper when a wedding is written up? “The bride attended the university and was a member of - sorority.” An exchange is being printed in many of the fraternity journals now, under the title, “How many of the alumnae can pass this examination?” And the first question is — “Do you wear your badge?” Barbara Thom , Alpha Psi THETA’S FIRST FLORIDA CLUB The St Petersburg Theta alumnae club was organized Satur¬ day, October 24, 1925. It was decided to have regular meetings the first Saturday of each month. At our first meeting we were very lucky to have eight mem¬ bers present. Since St Petersburg is a tourist city, we hope to have our number increased during the year. Our aim is, of course, to do as much as possible for the new chapter at Florida State college for women. We urge every Theta coming to St Petersburg or vicinity to get in touch with our club. Our greatest problem is to make Theta known through¬ out the South and Florida in particular. It is interesting to meet Thetas from everywhere at our monthly luncheons. THETAS COMING TO FLORIDA.— Please remember our meetings the first Saturday of the month at the Cottontop Tea room, which, incidentally is owned by a Theta, at 12:30. Any meetings other than the regular ones will be published in the local newspapers. Mary M. Ott, secretanj
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ADDRESSES WANTED The Covered Wagon. The long procession of Beta movers seems never to stop. Part belong to the Independent Order of Mina, which, being translated, means ‘ ‘ moved, left no address.7 7 Part wear the badge of the United Brothers of Nf, or “Not Found. 77 All belong to the Supreme Lodge of Kickers and, by and by, they7ll write to the General treasurer that they paid the Baird Fund fee but don7t get the magazine. If it were not for the aid of “Uncle Sam77 who kindly advises us of changes, when he can, many of the choicest products of the E. F. Hartman print¬ ing company would fail to reach subscribers. Henry Clay may have said, “I would rather be right than be president. 77 Julius Ceasar may have said, “I came, I saw, I conquered.77 General Pershing may have said, “ La Fayette, we are here! 77 and Patrick Henry may have exclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death.77 For us a more simple and helpful declara¬ tion, “Better one loyal Beta who notifies this magazine when he changes his address than a hundred who complain when the fault is entirely their own.77 Even “Uncle Sam77 backs down when it7s “moved, left no ad¬ dress,77 “Not found77 or “Unclaimed.77 Bo off our list these go. — B 6 IT Any help in locating these life subscribers will be appre¬ ciated. Mail has been returned from address that follows name. Copies of the November 1925 issue sent sixty-two of these Thetas were returned by the postoffice, at eight cents postage each. So, if your address or that of any other Theta you know changes, please notify the editor promptly. Alpha: Aurelia Adams, Lake Junaluska, N. C. Mrs Ralph Hudspeth (Nelle Farrow) St Joseph, Mo. Maryland Apts. Mrs Elmer Sulzer (Dorothy Phipps) Frankfort, Ind. Beta: Gertrude Fennell, Frankfort, Ind. 327 Jackson st. Mrs Blaine Gibson (Mary Louise Bliss) Los Angeles, Cal. 356 Colum¬ bia st. Marian Hilgenberg (no address but Theta house) Mrs Walter W. Lynch (Louise Humston) Indianapolis, Ind. 605 E. Maple rd. Mrs John Roseberry (Edith Mood) Anderson, Ind. Glenna Taber, Flagstaff, Ariz. Martha Wylie, Indianapolis, Ind. 433 N. Illinois st. Gamma: Mrs Willis B. Conner, jr (Leora Floyd) Indianapolis, Ind. (no street address) Helen Kinnard, Tipton, Ind. Mrs Don McGavron (Mary Elizabeth Howard) Indianapolis, Ind. College of missions. Dorothy Wilson, Los Angeles, Calif. 2122^4 Wilmot st. Gamma deuteron: Helen Holden, Lima, Ohio, 332 S. Collett st. Delta: Gladys Brown, Peoria, Ill. Ill Rebecca pi. Harriet Fera, Chicago, Ill. 7058 Greenview av. Mrs James H. Green, Pittsburgh, Pa. 5712 Forbes st. Mabel Hollenbeck, Rockford, Ill. 044 N. Church st.
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178 Kappa Alpha Theta Beulah Rowland, Chicago, Ill. 4628 Merrill av. Mrs Francis M. Wright (Josephine Burt) Streator, Ill. 210 N. Park st. Eta: Aileen Mantz, 5778 Pershing av. St Louis, Mo. Mrs W. V. Snyder, 3d (Dolloff Brayton) Verona, N. J. 60 Park av. Marion C. Spaulding, Detroit, Mich. 647 Lathrop st. Iota: Mrs Edwin Collins (Wilma Fermette) Utica, N. Y. Mary B. Lewis, Darlington, S. C. Katherine Saul, New York city, 601 W. 124th st. Kappa: Lenore Brownback, Hardtner, Kan. Mrs Robt. Seaman (Nelle Thomason) Kansas city, Mo. 137 S Lawn st. Mrs Alden Tory (Margaret Brown) Topeka, Kan. 117 Clay st. Lambda: Mrs ? ? Wood (Josephine Howe) New London, Conn. 504 Ocean av. Mu: Elizabeth Brakeman, Wellesley, Mass. Dorothy Davidson, Louisville, Ky. 947 4tli st. Omicron: Frances Browder, Los Angeles, Cal. 100 N. Kenmore st. Mrs Sam Glasgow (Margaret McKee) New York city, 350 W. 55th st. Rho: Frances Daniels, Aurora, Neb. Mrs A. J. Eyeman (Ordine Spenser) Kansas city, Mo. 1507 Linwood blvd. Mrs Wm. E. Pinner (Helen Wylie) Cambridge, Mass. 52 Garden st. Dorothy O’Shea, Lincoln, Neb. 1107 K st. Tau: Mrs Warren Kirk (Edna Rowen) Chicago, Ill. 4517 N. Winchester st. Mrs Roland Feltman (Dorothy Mitchell) St Louis, Mo. 5304 North- wood av. Phi: Mrs Herbert Hoover, jr (Margaret Watson) Only address the chapter house Mrs C. S. Shoup (Ruth Snedden) Yonkers, N. Y. 46 Prospect st. Mrs W. H. Taylor (Beatrice Broughton) Ventura, Cal. Mrs P. Thygeson (Ruth Lee Spilman) Palo Alto, Cal. 471 Addison st. Linda Van Norden, Palo Alto, Cal. 329 Lincoln av. Chi: Mrs Roger Brown (Thelma Halmiton) Lynbrook, N. Y. 86 Lynbrook av. Emily Davis, Logan, W. Va. Box 144 Marion Dexter, Syracuse, N. Y. 967 Ackerman av. Grace Fielding, New York city, 540 W. 123d st. Josephine Smith, Swarthmore, Pa. Mary Lyon school Rita Smith, New York city, 473 W. 152d st. Margaret Wayman (or Wehman, which ?) (No address but chapter house) Psi: Mrs Carl Caesar (Dorothy Dwight) Berkeley, Cal. (No street ad¬ dress) Charlotte Curry, Clinton, Ind. Miriam Cutler, Rockord, Ill. Florence (or Flora) Hanna, New York city, 79 W. Washington pi. Mrs Dale Merrick (Majorie Boesch) White Bear Lake, Mich. Florence Siebacker, Madison, Wis. 141 W. Gilman st. Mary A. Wilcox, Chicago, Ill. 4124 N. Keeler av.
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Addresses wanted 179 Omega: Gertrude Martin, Burlingham, Cal. Sue Moffatt (no address but chapter house) Evelyn Self ridge (no addess but chapter house) Laura Straub (no address but chapter house) Amanda Lou White (no address but chapter house) Alpha Beta: Margaret Brann (no address but Swarthmore college) Alpha Gamma: Beulah Brown, Detroit, Mich. 11534 Byron av. Alice Cooke, Columbus, Ohio, 141 W. 11th av. Mary Ann and Olivia Miesse, Newark, Ohio, Country club Mrs Nelson Reiger (Dorothy Hill) Dayton, Ohio (no street address) Alpha Delta: Isabelle Carter, San Francisco, Cal. 1733 Logan st. Beth Griffin, Arlington, Tenn. Alpha Eta: Josephine Harris, Detroit, Mich. 73 Byron av. Mrs Dick Walker (Lulie Vaughan Webb) Franklin, Tenn. India Wilson, Iowa city, Iowa. 322 N. Van Buren st. Alpha Theta: Elva. McDonald (no address but the chapter house) Bonita Martin, Waxahachie, Tex. Stella Slade (no address but the chapter house) Mrs Shirley Sweeney (Ruth McFadden) Swiss av. Dallas, Tex. Roberta Welsh (no address but the chapter house) Alpha Iota: Mrs Geo. Galloway (Eileen M. Slack) (address sent in as Washington, D. C. with no street number) Marjorie Macdonald, St Louis, Mo. 4934 Buckingham ct. Loretta Murphy, St Louis, Mo. 543 Rosedale av. Marie Reid, St Louis, Mo. W. Pine & Euclid Alpha Lambda: Mary Ann Bishop, Portland, Ore. (but no street address sent) Margaret Joslin (no address but chapter house) Mrs ? ? Spalley (Esther Waldo) Everett, Wash. Irene Thompson, Everett, Wash. 1531 Rucker av. Alpha Mu: Ruth Bertrand, Los Angeles, Cal. Gaylord apts. Florence Caton, Columbia, Mo. Dumas apts. Mrs Kenneth Sears (Margaret Fockler) Columbia, Mo. Dumas apts. Alpha Nu: Pauline Auerbach, Minot, N. D. 709 Valley st. Rosalinda Afflerbach, Rawlings, Wyo. Mary Blaisdell, Claremont, Cal. Pomona college Mrs Bryce Hariden (Helen Fitzgibbon) Seattle, Wash. 516 E. Thomas st. Mrs Arnold Hayes (Grace Walker) Los Angeles, Cal. 1041 B. 31st st. Alpha Xi: Marcile Carlock, Portland, Ore. Tudor Arms apt. Ida Dinsdale, Berkeley, Cal. 333 Vincente rd. Alpha Omicron: Marjorie Cochran, Tampa, Fla. 1013 S. Dakota av. Mrs Ellis Foster (Grace Threadgill) Catonsville, Md. Mrs Porter Kelley (Lois Horne) Glendale, Cal. 100 Doren st. Mrs P. L. Price (Amelia Broach) Tulsa, Okla. Terwilliger Heights Virginia Wright (no address but chapter house) Alpha Pi: Mrs Ralph Ferguson (Ruth McLaughlin) Berkeley, Cal. 2214 Haste st. Hazel Halverson, Minnewauken, N. D.
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180 Kappa Alpha Theta Alpha Rho: Frances Spangler, Minneapolis, Minn. 808 4th st. S. E. Alpha Sigma: Sara Bair, Yakima, Wash. Myrtle Fender, Prescott, Wash. Della Martin, Yakima, Wash. Mrs Robt. Nelson (Isabel Bennett) Council, Idaho Cecil Whitefield, Rosalia, Wash. Alpha Tau: Mrs Howard Cordes (Ruth Saunders) Boulder, Col. 994 14th st. Alpha Upsilon: Isabel Smith, San Rafael, Cal. Alpha Phi: Mrs C. B. Dicks (Elizabeth Harvey) New Orleans, La. 2316 J oseph st. Florence Hayse, Boyce, La. Alpha Chi: Mrs E. W. Hanley (Marion Sherwin) Chicago, Ill. 1411 Jonquil Terrace Marcia Kenyon, New York city, 5 W. 65th st. Mrs J. S. Neibert (Ruth Kortepeter) Indianapolis, Ind. 3847 Park av. Louise Peffer, Culver, Ind. Alpha Psi: Catherine Cheverton, Manceloua, Mich. Mrs Duane Lange (Abigail Classon) Brooklyn, N. Y. 7313 17th av. Katherine Lowe, San Diego, Cal. 2520 San Marcos st. Gertrude Luebchow, Oshkosh, Wis. 532 Harrison blvd. Beta Beta: Mrs W. B. Folger (Virginia Thigpen) Richmond, Va. 1110 Grove av. Beta Gamma: Roberta Forrest (no address but chapter house) Ruby Phillips, Denver, Col. (no street address sent) « Leona Wood, Denver, Col. 7901 S. Penn st. Beta Delta: Phyllis Brannen, Santa Monica, Cal. 533 Ocean av. Dorothy Brownfield, Los Angeles, Cal. Hotel Leighton Mrs M. S. Habbs (Mary Salmon) San Diego, Cal. Pickford apts. Mrs V. J. Powellson (Marie Harvey) Oleum, Cal. Ruth Reed, Phoenix, Ariz, R.F.D. 3 Mrs Henry Steward (Helen Casey) Los Angeles, Cal. 511 Rampart st. Mrs R. R. Talmadge (Ruth Pickels) Denver, Col. 3425 Lowell blvd. Beta Epsilon: Ruby Beers, Denton, Tex. C.I.A. Station, Box 41 Mrs Hobart Belknap (Lucille Snyder) Portland, Ore. 439 E. 12th st. N. Marie Berry, Chicago, Ill. 453 Fullerton parkway Mrs Glenn Fisher (Helen Meserve) Haynes, Ore. Elizabeth Garrett, Northampton, Mass. Smith college Mrs Stanley Myers (Elizabeth Barker) Los Angeles, Cal. 1183 S. Hope st. Betty Riley (no address but chapter house) Beta Zeta: Rhea Campbell, Oklahoma city, Okla. 1137 W. 30th st. Mrs E. M. Taggart (Lizabel Black) Tulsa, Okla. Apt. A — 314 W. 11th st. Beta Theta: Jean Fife Little, Lewiston, Idaho, 620 — 5th st. Eva Neil, The Dalles, Ore.- Mrs ? ? Treichel (Helen Oakley) Boise, Idaho, 512 N. 11th st. Beta Iota: Mrs J. E. Beverly (Hildred Bean) Ft Collins, Col. 704 S Col¬ lege st. Beta Mu: Avis Lothrop, Yerington, Nev. Marian Lothrop, Carson, Nev. c/o High School Gladys Smith, Yerington, Nev.
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SONGS OF KAPPA ALPHA THETA 1925 Edition The biggest thrill that a national convention holds, is the thrill of friendship. At first you feel strange among all these girls talking with an Eastern accent and a Southern drawl, and a Western twang. There seems to be no common ground of understanding or interest except luggage, reservations, and food with their attendant difficulties. It is not until the strains of the Theta national hymn sum¬ mon you to Nike service that the real meaning of Theta on a national scale begins to dawn upon you. The sincerity of Theta friendship is a living fact to you when you hear five hundred girls singing from full hearts “Still Theta love holds timeless thro’ all sorrows.” The chain that binds us is expressed in its most beautiful and vital form through music. No other medium so vividly portrays the unity of ideals and interests in Kappa Alpha Theta. Words can make you understand this but music makes you feel the bonds of love and service which unite the fraternity. The ideal way to put yourself in touch with this great union of friendship and to feel the deep significance of Theta sisterhood is through Songs of Kappa Alpha Theta . Every girl who even vaguely plans to go to convention should memorize The Theta Hymn (page 1) the Chain song (page 25) and the Loving cup (page 20). The formal meetings — the Nike and the Banquet — will mean so much more to you if these songs are part of your Theta life before you go. Just try San Francisco in the Theta Special (page 103) ! Just made for that place wasn’t it? All of you who remember the big sing on the steps at West Baden will be looking forward to the singing at this next con¬ vention. And the more Theta songs you know the more you are going to enjoy the singing at San Francisco. It’s one of the big thrills at convention and you’ll miss a lot if you only know a few songs. For fireside singing the new book offers some lovely new songs. After you have sung Alpha Lambda’s “Come sit beside the hearth” (page 39) and The question (page 91) try Theta mine (page 136). Another, for which we were unable to ob¬ tain permission to print the music, is the Twilight song (page 105) by Margaret Banta, president of District X. Two fine old favorites are the Maid of black and gold (page 86) and Frater¬ nity (page 19), while a lovely newer one is Theta spirit (page
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182 Kappa Alpha Theta 4). We have not had more singable songs in Theta than the Friendship song (page 140) and Kappa Alpha Theta girl (page 132) and for just this kind of singing they are ideal. But perhaps the mood of the chapter demands more life. Then try “Any girl’s all right” (page 59) or Song of victory (page 80). Oh take me hack (page 112) and Where are you going ? (page 36) will be found useful in every chapter. The Blues (page 123) is a lot of fun and some more of the same kind will be found on adjacent pages. For part singing you will find Homage to Theta (page 85) very effective. And the National hymn was especially arranged in three parts for women’s voices by Mr Hoyt, so that Theta should so use it. Our Theta hall (page 38) and Our mystic circle (page 99) are old favorites of this type. There is no index by chapters in the book because we want the songs to belong to the whole fraternity. Imitate the spirit of your forefathers! Branch out boldly on the unknown flood of lovely Theta songs offered you in this new edition! Endure the hardships of learning new tunes and new words and you will get the thrill that rewards achievement and enterprise! There’s a new world of fun for your chapter waiting to be discovered in the new song book. TEMPLE SQUARE, SALT LAKE CITY
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SOME GOOD AFTER ALL So many sweeping statements are made by opponents of the fraternity system, in supporting their claims for superiority of the nonfraternity men in matters of scholarship and attention to business, that it is refreshing to read a record of facts from an official source. Dean Husband, who is Director of Personnel Research at Dartmouth, recently issued a bulletin in which he sets forth certain results of investiga¬ tions carried on by him. His comparisons cover the years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1922, and 1923. Dur¬ ing these years an average of fifty-seven per cent of the men entering Dart¬ mouth accepted membership in a fraternity. During the same time an aver¬ age of seventy per cent of the fraternity men won their degrees, while only forty-eight per cent of the nonfraternity men won like distinction. Furthermore, in 1923, fifty-four per cent of the seniors listed in the three honor groups were fraternity men, and in 1922, sixty-four per cent were fraternity men. Another striking fact brought out by the statistics of Dean Husband is the way in which the fraternities drew their men back to finish their course after the war. University administration officers have remarked for years that it is difficult to keep track of the nonfraternity man, and that once he drops out he returns much less often than the fraternity man whose chapter mates are always urging him to finish his course. In 1922, eighty-one per cent of the degrees from Dartmouth were won by fraternity men. This was the year that marked the flood of veteran graduates. Normally sixty- five per cent of the degrees from Dartmouth are awarded to fraternity men. But so successful were the chapters in bringing the men back from military service, as compared with the return of the nonfraternity men, that in the year that marked the graduation of this group the fraternity percentage of graduates rose to the remarkable total of eighty-one per cent. These facts, coming from an official source, are stimulating. — $ a 0, Scroll. CONVENTION 1926 Hotel San Francisco, California
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184 Kappa Alpha Theta r 41 i 1 CHAPTER NEWS IL J Chapter letters vs no chapter letters has been discussed in the fraternity press in recent years. At the West Baden con¬ vention, Kappa Alpha Theta went on record as desiring that such letters continue to be a regular feature of its magazine. And so — we have chapter letters regularly, except when some one or more chapter editors fail to perform the duties of their office. Whether letters shall continue to be printed as letters, or whether in the office they shall be jazzed up as it were with startling headlines or revamped into mere news inventories, is now having experimental trial in magazine after magazine. If ' the office force of Kappa Alpha Theta had more time, your letters might get such treatment ; as it is we limit our efforts to correcting spelling, improving (?) rhetoric, cutting out the obvious and reducing the number of superlative adjectives and adverbs. Perhaps this is a mistake. Would you prefer to have the letters appear just as received? Every editor who wishes her production to appear without an i dotted or a word elim¬ inated, please write that fact at the top of the letter due Febru¬ ary 1, and said letter will so appear, with a saving of time to the editor no matter what it does to magazine form and style. Now is your chance to show that you can produce unimpeach¬ able copy. Some one asked the other day, “what sort of slips give the most trouble in editing chapter letters ?” Here are a few “ samples’ ’ of troubles with this issue’s copy. One editor in one paragraph of twelve lines had ‘ ‘ Home-com¬ ing”, “homecoming”, “Home Coming”. There may be a question as to which is the preferred spelling for such a new word. But there can be no question that the world should be spelled always the same way in the same letter — or at least in the same paragraph. In another letter, in the first paragraph dates read like this: — October 30. November twenty-third, Nov. 17th.
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Chapter news 185 Four letters stated that the chapter pledged a definite num¬ ber of girls, and then proceeded to give a different number of names of pledges. Along this line another chapter stated “fif¬ teen alumnae were back, they were” (And then gave only twelve names). In naming alumnae visitors (all in one paragraph) would appear an alumna hailed by some nickname of passing interest, another as “Mrs” followed by her full name, another as “Mrs” followed by her husband’s last name only, another with the “Mrs” omitted though she may have had the title longer than either of the others. There may be good reason for each form, but there is no reason for a variation of form in mentioning names in one paragraph. Besides Theta’s style book has a definite form, chosen as best for our purposes, everything con¬ sidered. If there were no quote marks on the chapter editors’ type¬ writers, it would please us, for the variety of things they put in quotes is beyond anyone’s reason to approve — everything from the name of a new building, to the Y.W.C.A. gets such marks at times — and it makes untidy copy to insure that the compositor won’t use quote marks too. Betters from the following chapters either came without any heading, or else with an incorrect heading — Alpha, Delta, lota, Omicron, Rho, Omega, Alpha Mu, Alpha Nu, Alpha Sigma, Beta Delta, Beta Epsilon, Beta Kappa. Every letter should have typed at its beginning the exact heading that appears be¬ fore it in this issue. That the words in such a heading appear as part of the letter-head printing on paper you use, does not suffice; for in the first place it isn’t in the form the magazine , uses, and in the next place, if compositors did not ignore such printed letter-heads, your letter would be interlarded with such extraneous matter, since the printing appears at the top of each page of your copy. Iota and Psi forgot that margins are a requisite of satis¬ factory copy. Alpha Gamma, Alpha Delta, Beta Lambda, please look up last convention’s action as regard copy and use typewriters in the future. Our good nature included your handwritten let¬ ters this time — but it will not again. And please Iota, Omicron, Alpha Xi, Beta Theta, and Beta Zeta, double space your copy. It may take another sheet of paper, but it will improve your standing more than the paper will cost.
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186 Kappa Alpha Theta Lots of editors complain that they can’t tell all the news within the 300 word limit — and use up any where from 50 to 100 of those precious 300 words for such complaints. To every one of these complaining editors — and to every other editor and reader too, we commend the first paragraph of Beta Delta’s let¬ ter as an excellent illustration of the amount of real news that can be put in 73 words. How many can write such a news paragraph for the March issue? From a Theta whose professional job includes the reading of many more chapter letters than does ours, we present the copy below for your enjoyment and profit. L. P. G. How many people have said their own chapter letter is the only one of interest to them in the whole fraternity magazine? What would vou think about chapter letters in general if you read thousands of them? Many of the fraternity journals are printed by the George Banta Publishing company, and as I lay out the copy for each succeeding issue I often wonder how many people read them all. Naturally, my own journal is watched for with great eagerness. The letter from my chapter comes first; then those from neigh¬ boring colleges and universities; the letter from the alumnae chapter of which my former room mate is a member; the letter from Tau, because I have pleasant memories of summer sessions at Northwestern; the Portland alumnae letter because a dear friend has joined their forces, and so on. All this is very matter of fact and usual, but when it comes to other journals — what then? It is surprising the number of familiar names one can find in following the pledge lists closely. Imagine my pleasure in finding a picture, in the Alpha Xi Delta copy, of a former high school pupil. I immediately wrote to her and received in answer a full account of her activities and interests since I saw her last, when a Greek letter badge meant nothing in her gay life. In the Trident manuscript I look for an alumnae letter writ¬ ten by a friend who has moved away from here and writes the letter for the chapter where she is living at present. I also marvel at the faithfulness of the Trident chapter correspondents, both college and alumnae. In the Lyre manuscript I am astonished at the wealth of alumnae notes. Their follow up system must be well planned, for after marking page after page of interesting “ doings of
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Chapter news 187 alumnae,” so welcome to all of us, I am ashamed of the meager notes I send to my own journal. These same few notes having been wrung from the sisters after arduous telephoning and questioning. The Key prints a “ Black list,” wherein all discrepancies are listed for all to read. Your chapter letter is either missing or late, not typed, not signed, and all the other things that can be blamed to the chapter editors. The Crescent printed a section, recently, containing the best chapter letter from each journal. Rather a unique idea! How many of our Greek letter sisters ever read any journal other than their own? Perhaps this is impossible for many, but it could be done by many. At any rate, it is most interest¬ ing and I recommend it as a great help toward a bigger and clearer national idea. Barbara Thom , Alpha Psi ALPHA— DEPAUW UNIVERSITY Mid-semesters and the attendant atmosphere of extreme studiousness are just over. We have been concentrating on scholarship, emphasizing it above everything else to our fresh¬ men. They have a study schedule to which they must adhere rigidly. By a senior adviser system, the senior majors in each department offer all help and advice possible to the freshmen in the same department. The German departmental club has been reorganized. Dis¬ continued during the war, the renewed appreciation of German culture warrants its reestablishment. Mary Walker has been appointed chairman of the program committee. Judith Bowen has become a member of the Latin club. Elizabeth Tilden was chairman of tryouts for Duzer Du, dra¬ matic society of which Ruth Coulter has become a member. Helen Thackrey, as president of Theta Sigma Phi, is getting ready for Matrix Table, the annual woman’s razz session and banquet to which all women who rate are invited. Helen is also a mem¬ ber of Theta Sigma Phi’s national committee on interfraternity relationships. Our first social function was the time-honored Open House, at which all the men in the university meet all the women in the university — and never speak thereafter. Old Gold day was celebrated October 31. The chapel address, The value of Old Gold , was delivered by Senator James E. Wat-
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188 Kappa Alpha Theta son whom the university is proud to own as an alumnus. The famous class scrap followed chapel service, conducted in a dif¬ ferent way this year. Instead of one brutal, and for the fresh¬ men hopeless event, there were five events in all of which there were chances for real competition. The sophomores won in the traditional manner — but only by a score of three to two. In the afternoon the football team played Franklin. In the evening the annual Show Down was presented. There were stunts, each by a different fraternity, the fraternities to participate having been chosen by lot. Theta was not on the program. Sigma Chi and Alpha Omicron Pi were adjudged the winners. Alpha was glad to welcome many of her alumnae on this great day. November 10 Alpha gave a tea for her chaperon, Mrs Wiese, which was attended by a great many townspeople and faculty. We are soon to be honored by having as guest at dinner and fraternity meeting afterwards, Mrs Betty Locke Hamilton, from whom we never tire of hearing of the founding of our fraternity. 30 November 1925 Mary Walker Married: Elizabeth Webster to Alvah Haskitt, 4> K Born: to Mr and Mrs James McClamroch (Dorothy Wiese) a daughter. Esther Alice Green was chosen from Bush conservatory to be ac¬ companist for Richard Czerwonky, noted violinist of Chicago. Marjorie Binford and Gerald E. Woods, A 0, Butler, were married Nov. 16, at the bride’s home in Indianapolis. Address: Hollywood, Fla. Married: Estyal Watson and Bertram Keller, AT Q. BETA— INDIANA UNIVERSITY Our pledge dance, a bowery dance, was a huge success. The house was decorated in typical bowery fashion, while the real¬ istic costumes of the dancers added much to the atmosphere. Roberta North, junior, left college to accompany her parents to Florida. Jane Wilson and Mary Adams, two pledges, made the hockey team which entitles them to membership in W. A. A. Ruth Kirby, a pledge, is manager of freshman soccer. Virginia Mar- cpiette and Vera Reynolds made the sophomore soccer team. Katherine Wasmuth was pledged to Pleiades. The pledges gave the stunt Uncle Tom’s cabin for the W. A. A. Fair at the Student building. Many alumnae and Thetas from other chapters, especially from Alpha Chi, visited us during Ilome-coming, November 21.
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Chapter news 189 Many of our guests also attended the dedication of the Women's dormitory, November 20. Extensive plans are being made for our formal December 12. 1 December 1925 Vera Reynolds Married: Dorothea Williamson and Leland Thomas. Beta's pledges are Virginia Tliroop, Paoli; Margaret Hartley, Shelby- ville; Esther Whitten, Auburn; Jane Draper, Kokomo; Martha Boyd, and Helen Jones, Newcastle; Isabelle Urban, Mildred Vermillion, and Evelyn Kuch, Anderson; Josephine King, Indianapolis; Arlenna Grigsby, and Mary Adams, Vincennes; Jane Wilson, Hammond; Helen Tribolet, Bluffton; Dorothy Cowan and Ruth Welborn, Evansville; Ruth Kirby, Ruth Axtell, and Mary Myers, Bloomington. Of the nineteen, five are Theta daughters and two Theta sisters. Married: Eleanor Chittenden and Joseph Burris of Newcastle, Ind. Married: Martha Brown and John Scott of Madison, Ind. Born to Mr and Mrs Edgar O 'Harrow (Opal Carr) daughter, Anna Jean. Born to Mr and Mrs David Wylie (Florence Benner) daughter, Mar¬ garet Jean. Born to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Cline (Dorothy Muino) daughter, Caro¬ line. Married : Dorothy Ehrmann and Richard Mason, Memphis Tenn. Helen Thomas is teaching in Newcastle, Ind. Pearl Cassell Bender (Mrs. John R.) is now living at College station, Tex. where her husband is in charge of athletics in the state college of Texas. Married: Sept. 28, Edith Mood and John Friedly Roseberry, B 9 n, of Indianapolis. There was a large wedding with many Thetas among the guests at the Mood home in Tipton, Ind. GAMMA— BUTLER COLLEGE Gamma had initiation October 4 for Helen DeGrief, Oeie Higgins, Margaret Holdaway, Betty Lee, Mary McCann, Flor¬ ence Eleanor Perkins, Jane Ogborn, Mary Lee Orloff, Frances Peters, Rosemary Smith, and Helen Wilson. Evelyn Seward, Columbus, was pledged October 28. Four of our freshmen, June Jackson, Mary Margaret Zoer- cher, Gayle Walker, and Alice Carter survived the tryouts of Pi Epsilon Delta, dramatic club. Mary Margaret Zoercher was elected to Scarf club and Jane Ogborn to Phi Delta Phi. Theta has an office in each class this year: Lorene Whitham, vice- president of the senior class; Edith Robinson, vice-president of the junior class; Jane Ogborn, secretary of the sophomore class, and Mary Eiler, secretary of the freshman class. Gamma had informal open-house in honor of her pledges at the home of Mary Alice Wishard October 23. A Farmer and
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190 Kappa Alpha Theta Farmerette dance with the rustic atmosphere of corn shocks and haystacks, pumpkins and cider, was enjoyed by the chapter November 21. Women’s league and Panhellenic are undertaking to finance a building at Fairview, to be used as a recreation and study home for the women of Butler. To procure money for this building, Panhellenic sponsored a bridge party November 21, and Women’s league will sponsor the Melting Pot bazaar De¬ cember 12. Each woman’s fraternity chapter will have a booth at the bazaar and a prize will be awarded for the most attractive booth. Chimes, honorary organization, held its second annual Sweet¬ heart dinner November 23. Each member of the organization invited another girl as her sweetheart. Seven Thetas enjoyed this affair. Gamma serenaded all fraternities on the campus with ukeleles as accompaniment November 4. 28 November 1925 Edith Robinson Married: Oct. 24, Urith Dailey and George E. Gill, A T O, Indiana, at the bride’s home in Indianapolis with her father as officiating clergyman. Address: after Dec. 1, 5841 Julian av. Indianapolis, Ind. DELTA— UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Home-coming, October 24, was a grand success. The house fairly swarmed with alumnae Thetas, and there was a great re¬ union of old friends. Saturday night there were one hundred people at Delta’s dinner, where the alums sang some darling old Theta songs. After dinner the pledges entertained with a stunt show. The following week-end we gave our fall party. As it was Hallowe’en we called it the Black Cat cabaret. The four rooms downstairs were filled with small candle lighted tables where we sat between dances and were served by colored waiters. The menus were French, but the food was American, chicken sand¬ wiches, coffee, chocolate eclairs, and pop. Paper hats, horns, and confetti made the party even gayer. November 7 was Dad’s Day and we had a nice banquet Sat¬ urday night for our Dads. We are sorry that Bertha Meyer was called home because of her mother’s health, and Dorothy Pollard had to go home for an operation for appendicitis. Both of them are expected back in February. We miss them so much.
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Chapter news 191 We take pleasure in announcing a new pledge, Elizabeth Ward from Sterling, who has just moved into the house. We have received some lovely gifts for the house. Mrs Eisner gave us much needed porch furniture, Mrs Clark sent us a beau¬ tiful fern and pedestal, and Mr Klintz made us a stunning Kappa Alpha Theta door plate. Maxine Lill and her team, who made money selling Home-coming badges, bought the house a beautiful picture. The freshmen and senior gifts include part of the landscaping, and the tiling of a shower. The money that alumnae gave at Home-coming will tile another shower, while the house corporation is financing the third. 14 November 1925 Elizabeth Davis Barbara Gilbreath, affiliate from Beta Beta, is playing the violin in the Royal Palms hotel, Fort Meyers, Fla. The new president of District II, Mrs Grasett, will visit Delta Dec. 7-9. Katherine Smith is teaching history in a high school at Me Lean, 111. ETA— UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Every one has settled down to study after the whirl of rush¬ ing, with occasional excitement of a football week-end. The campus is excited over the results of the football season which give Michigan the championship of the Conference. The week-end of the last game, November 21, was Home¬ coming, which brought many alumni to all houses as well as to Theta ’s. Hockey season is over. Eta had a fairly successful season and had a representative, Ellen Grinnell, on the freshman squad. Elizabeth Tompkins was general chairman and toastmistress of the hockey banquet which closed the season. At the fall elections Ellen Grinnell was elected vice-president of the freshman class. Our social calendar includes a tea given by our pledges for pledges of other women’s fraternities, a formal dance given by the chapter for the pledges, a professor’s supper, November 14, and an instructor’s supper, November 21. Elizabeth Tompkins was chairman of the program committee for the annual Panhellenic ball November 26. Katherine Kyer was a member of this same committee. Elizabeth Blackwood, besides her other campus work, is chair¬ man of Undergraduate committee, one of the most important committees on the campus. She also managed a sale of personal
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192 Kappa Alpha Theta objects, which Mortar board held for the benefit of Woman’s league. Eleanor Musselman and Virginia Burke are on senior com¬ mittees. Wilma Whitehead, Virginia Fox, and Margaret Seaman are on junior committees. Katherine Kyer is on a sophomore committee. Elizabeth Tompkins, Frances Andreae, Elizabeth Blackwood are on campus committees. 29 November 1925 Virginia Burke The address of Martha Schneider Van Sandt (Mrs M. Morton) is 431 W. Ridgeway, Cincinnati, Ohio. Married: Norma Balz to Dwight Dunlap, £ 4> E, Wisconsin, June 24. Kathryn Blackburn Wedthoff (Mrs Guy) is the mother of a son, Guy, jr. born in June. Augusta Stewart, after a year in Paris, is in an architect office in Philadelphia, Pa. Clarice Cassady spent the summer in Europe, studying at the Sorbonne. Elsa Ohlmacher will spend the winter with her sister, Grace Ohlmacher Moore (M^s Paul) in Miami, Fla. Elsa Oisen has gone to live in the Pyrenees mountain in Spain. IOTA— CORNELL UNIVERSITY Pledge day, October 17, lota pledged Zoe Fales, Schenectady; Frances Gallagher, Elizabeth Gregg, Julia Merritt (sister of Louise) and Thelma Powers of Ithaca; Helen Hastings, Water- town; Dorothy Irvine, Salt Lake city, Utah; Dorothy Heyl (sis¬ ter of Alice) Washington, D. C. ; Grace Lennon, Watervliet; Margaret Noyes, Oneida. Theta pledges entertained the pledges of the other houses at bridge, October 30. All but five or six of the girls who live in the chapter house were surprised by a sudden and informal party at midnight on Hallowe’en. The rest of the chapter dressed as ghosts, came to the house, waking every one with unearthly sounds and leading them down into a cold, dark room. There, by the fire light Ellen Wing, in the guise of a witch, told a harrowing ghost tale. When the lights were turned on and apples, doughnuts, and cider revealed, even those who had been most unwilling to leave their beds were cheered into enjoying the rest of the party. November 21, at the chapter house, we had an informal dance honoring our pledges. The house was decorated with Japanese lanterns, chrysanthemums, and greens. Twelve o’clock come much sooner than usual.
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Chapter news 193 As to campus activities : Hope Cushman and Beatrice Boyer are on senior class and varsity hockey teams. Marguerite Hicks is senior class secretary. Zenia Powell, Margaret Humeston, Zanda Hobart, Elizabeth Moyer, Elizabeth Sellon, and Viola Oliver, all work in the Cornell Dramatic club. Catherine McLeod wras elected chairman of sophomore Hades committee. In the freshman class, Thelma Powers and Zoe Fales are on the class hockey team, Julia Merritt on the class soccer team, and Zoe Fales in the Glee club. Beatrice Boyer was elected to Omicron Nu, honorary Home economics fraternity. Catherine Whitehill is wearing Iota’s scholarship bracelet, having had the highest average for the second term of 1924-25. November 7, the Cornell women’s varsity hockey team played the Elmira college team in Ithaca and was defeated. This was the first inter-collegiate hockey game for Cornell women. Willard Straight hall, Cornell’s fine Union building, a gift from Mrs Elmhurst in memory of her husband, Willard Straight, alumnus of Cornell, was opened November 19. There are lounges and reading rooms for men and for women, with also a joint lounge; separate cafeterias and tea rooms, also one where they may eat together; private dining rooms for special func¬ tions; delightful terraces with a lake view, where tea room and soda bar service will be available when weather permits ; meeting rooms for clubs; offices for student activities; a little theater, seating 500, with adjoining work-shops for the Dramatic club; sleeping quarters for university guests and returning alumni and alumnae. In fact the building is a complete student center, beautiful architecturally and furnished sumptuously in perfect taste. It should mean much in the life of the university. 1 December 1925 Viola Oliver We have had visits from Kitty Keiper, Lucille Severance, Ivy Spring- stead Skeel (Mrs Winslow), Alice Heyl, and May Thropp. Mr and Mrs J. H. Comstock (Anna Botsford) have gone to spend the winter at Montaigne, France. Married: Nov. 13, Eileen Freeman and Spencer E. Sisco, Jr. In the bridal party were Helen Kinney and Helen J. Smith. Address: after Dec. 1, Ye olde Washington Inn, Maplewood, N. J. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Hamilton (Ruth Cook) a son, John. Address: 610 S. Union st. Olean, N.Y. Born to Mr and Mrs Ralph H. Ross (Dorothy Ashley) a daughter, Elizabeth. Address: State st. East Orange, N. J. The new address of Mildred M. Bork is 59 W. 9th st. New York, N.Y.
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104 Kappa Alpha Theta KAPPA— UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS The Theta Katsup, annual freshman stunt, was November 14. Dressed as Apaches and characters of the underworld, the pledges sang and danced and made “ bright cracks” about the upperclassmen. At the close of the performance they presented the chapter with three lovely silver vases. The university Home-coming was a decided success. A party for old grads on Friday night and a parade Saturday noon were the introductory features to the big game, November 21, in which we were victorious. Many of the chapter’s alumnae were back for the week-end and several Alpha Mu girls were guests too. A new system of regulated study hours, permits freshmen to study in their own rooms instead of in a study hall. All agree they can do their work to a better advantage there. An upper¬ classman is monitor each evening, responsible for seeing that the freshmen are at their lessons. We have arranged also a schedule whereby every pledge who has free hours during college time is at the house studying during those hours. Upperclass monitors are in charge of this schedule too. The football team, along with coaches and cheerleaders, will be our guests at dinner a week after Thanksgiving. This ban¬ quet has become an established precedent. We plan to carry a football idea in decorations and entertainment. Our Christmas dinner is December 17, with a large tree from which each girl will receive a funny, inexpensive gift. Jacqueline Stice was one of eight seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is head of W.S.G.A. group system, president of the House presidents’ council, a member of the Jayhawker advisory board. She served on the Home-coming committee and has a place on the Chancellor’s Christmas tree committee. Mary Engel was elected secretary of the junior class and has a part, in the Follies. Sally Ingalls has made dramatic club. Morna Zell Wagstaff and Ingaborg Williamson are new members of Quack, the aquatic organization. Stella Williams, Elizabeth Dockstader, and Mary Nell Hamilton are working on the Jay - hawker staff. Mary Nell was on the Dad’s day committee. Dorothy Walker, Henrietta Frazier, and Helen Wight are in the Follies chorus, while Kathleen Covey has the comedy lead. Kathleen and Helen Beard, who has just made Glee club, are in McDowell club. 25 November, 1925 Mary Nell Hamilton
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Chapter news 195 Mrs Hal Lebrecht, Grand president, was at the house for a few moments after the Missouri-Kansas game. She is an alumna of our chapter. Alumnae back for Home-coming were : Helen Sawyer, Iris Arnold, Irma Shaw Christianson, Dorothy Dillaway, Constance Ingalls, Margaret Drake, Betty Moore, Mary Martin, Lucy Challiss, Helen Stevens, Wilda Pearson, Dorian Parks, Devore Watt, Kathryn Miller, Mildred Benz, Jean Phillips, Butli Saunders, and Katherine Kaiser Tanner. Clare Ferguson, visited at the house Nov. 7. Marjorie Smith Tomilson (Mrs. Victor) was a guest early in Nov. Married: Nov. 10, Peggy Sallee to Scott Smith. At home in Topeka, Kan. Married: Oct. 17, Helen Scott to Anson Mock. At home in Pawliuska, Okla. Married: Oct. 14, Josephine Byan to Albert Thomson. At home in Winfield, Kan. Married: Marian Patterson to Lorine Long, A T A. At home in Law¬ rence, Kan. Born: Nov. 6, a daughter, Sheila Iris, to Mr and Mrs Donovan M. Dry den (Frances Fengel). The engagement of Kathryn Miller and Boland Beery, 4> A 0, has been announced: also the engagement of Buby Phillips and William Woods. LAMBDA— UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT A great burden of restraint has been lifted from the women of this campus, by the continuation of the “little sister” policy. This makes it possible to become much better acquainted with freshmen and to bring them into the life of the college without fear of infringing on Panhellenic rules. Rushing as usual will not begin until after midyears. Interfraternity activities have included teas, and a party for interfraternity women held at the Theta house. Although the lights failed during the evening, we had as much fun by candle light. In return for a tea given by the chapter our alumnae invited us in groups to their homes for Sunday night suppers. We should like to make it a chapter policy to get better acquainted with our alumnae. The tea dance, of which Dorothea Baker was chairman, proved to be the best we have had; possibly because it offered an innovation in the form of supper at a tea room reserved for us. Prof and Mrs Perkins entertained the Thetas and Delta Psis at a tea in their home. The first college play of the year is to be The goose hangs high. The cast includes Harriet Elliott, Eleanor Chapman, and
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196 Kappa Alpha Theta Anna Perkins. Naomi Thorne, our rushing captain, is also in , charge of the big Vermonters’ club party of the year. Among the athletes we have Naomi Thorne, varsity hockey, and junior soccer and hockey ; Anna Perkins, sophomore hockey, and Elizabeth White, sophomore hockey and soccer. Margret Hazen is pianist for the orchestra. Gertrude Hurst, Marion Cleveland, Katherine Griffith, and Margret Wallace are members of Glee club. 29 November 1925 Elisabeth D. Howe Thelma Edmunds and Merle Smalley are doing Child welfare work in Hartford, Conn. Their address is 129 Washington st. Natalie Noyes is teaching in Hingham, Mass. Dr and Mrs F. P. Dwinell (Elizabeth Smith) announce the birth of a son, Burton Wood. Laura Buckham and Dorothy Hefflon have been visitors at the Theta house. Dr and Mrs Homer A. Flint (Theodora May Plumley) recently re¬ turned to Pittsburgh from a two month's trip to California, New Orleans, and intermediate points. This trip had a double significance as it marked Dr and Mrs Flint's twenty-fiifth anniversary and gave them an oppor¬ tunity to attend the General convention of the Episcopal church at New Orleans Oct. 6-26. Dr Flint was a delegate to this convention and Mrs Flint was a delegate to the trienniel of the Women's auxiliary. Dr Flint had the distinction of being considered for Bishop of Idaho. The permanent address of Mrs Annie Barker Simpson is c/o Mrs Charles S. Kingsley, 1209 Grove st. Boise, Idaho. Pearl M. Grandy is teaching in the high school at Windsor, Conn. Address: 67 Bloomfield av. She received an M.S. in Home economics from the University of Wisconsin last June. GAMMA DEUTERON— OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Rush week on our campus was like the World War. How¬ ever, we emerged with victory. November 15, we issued fifteen bids ; November 16, wTe pledged fifteen girls. Four are Theta sisters: Catherine Cameron, Dawson, Pennsylvania; Bessie Rhodes, Princeton, Indiana; Virginia Parker, Sandusky; and Margaret Timmons, Toledo. Other pledges are Josephine Cole, Lakewood; Miriam Cupps, Corapolis, Pennsylvania; Jennie Mae Dougherty and Margaret Knight, Delaware; Ruth Dunsmore, South Fork, Pennsylvania; Betty Hall and Janis Harmon, Cleveland ; Eileen Pierce, Mt. Gilead ; Henrietta Slater, Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Storer, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania; Helen Weaver, Lima. Among rushing activities were three par¬ ties : an informal tea dance at the home of Elizabeth Hoffman ; a progressive dinner party, taking the form of a world tour,
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Chapter news 197 visiting Holland, Paris, Japan, Iceland, and Thetaland; and a formal dinner at the home of Mrs Duvall. October 9 we held initiation for Ernestine Biddle, Gallipolis ; Elizabeth Hayes, Washington, D. C.; Martha Huston, Spring- field; Jean Leet, Lakewood; Janet Page, Jackson, Michigan; and Marian Yocum, Lima. Initiation was followed by a formal bam quet at Venture inn. “ Isn’t it darling ?” “Did you ever see anything so clever ?” “Aren't the fire-places the comfiest ever?” “The furniture is simply beautiful,” and a million similar remarks were heard on the afternoon of October 31 at Gamma Deuteron's house-warm¬ ing. Yes, we really have a home, a five-room flat located on Spring street at Liberty. Newly decorated and with our new furniture, it is very attractive and cozy. Gifts from alumnae and friends have aided us in furnishing our home. At Christ¬ mas, instead of exchanging gifts with our Theta sisters, we are going to put our gift money into the little non-essentials which will add to the comfort and appearance of the rooms. 29 November 1925 Lillian Murphy Theta alumnae back for Home-coming and our house-warming were Alice Bell, Ellen Cameron, Margaret Christopher, Anne Mendenhall Den¬ nison (Mrs Lonnis) June Flowers, Ruth Me Kee, Lois Miller, Wilma Porterfield, Katherine Timmons, and Dorothy Wheland. Born to Mr and Mrs Allen Long (Dorothy Crates) a son. Frances Freeman and James Pierce, K >P, were married early in Sept. MU— ALLEGHENY COLLEGE We are happy to announce the pledging of Jean Humeston, Constance Graham, Elizabeth Kelley, Ruth Moritz, Helen Webb, all of Meadville ; Florence Morrow, Union City ; Ruth Potter and Martha Carr, Erie; Sarah Louise Pantall, Punxsatawney ; Eva Mott, Mahaffey; Louise Hemingway, Westfield, New York; Naomi Taylor, Akron, Ohio; and Marion Wise, Butler. Jean, Helen, Florence, and Naomi are Theta sisters. Along with our studying we have had some very good times. While the nice weather lasted the chapter enjoyed several dog- roasts in the woods. We all met around a big fire for lots to eat and a good sing. Student government gave a Hallowe'en dance to all girls in the college. There was a fine orchestra and a trip to Hades, too terrible to describe. Our Mary Lou Murphy and Cass Corbett gave two clever dances as a special attraction. December 11, we are entertaining with a formal dance at Cam¬ bridge Springs.
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198 Kappa Alpha Theta The college concert series has so far brought us two fine numbers. Sigmund Spaeth lectured on The common sense of music and Ethel Leginska gave a concert. Among other notable visitors was United States Senator Pepper who spoke in chapel. Several of our girls attended conferences this month. Ruth Hunter was present at the Student government conference at Wellesley. Mary Louise Murphy and Virginia Hatch attended the conference at Carnegie Tech, called to discuss the World Court. 28 November 1925 Mary Josephine Wehh Mr and Mrs Frank P. Miller (Florence Grauel) and daughter, Vir¬ ginia Jane, are spending the winter in Fla. We extend our deepest sympathy to Mr and Mrs James Kinnear (Susan Jenkins) in the loss of their little daughter, Suzanne, who died Oct. 27. Gertrude Stuntz is now Mrs. Irwin C. Krueger. Address: 718 W. 8th st. Erie, Pa. OMICRON— UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The football victory over Iowa was a fitting climax to Home¬ coming week. The chapter house was open to all visiting alum¬ nae. Each organization had a float in the Home-coming parade. Omicron \s float was an Iowa state picnic of ’86. The girls rode bicycles and wore gowns appropriate to that period. The Iowa football team was entertained by the university with a Home¬ coming dinner and dance. Three of our members were hostesses at that dinner. Dorothy Davis was chairman for the Women’s football dinner the same night. At the girls’ Hi- jinx, Omicron pledges gave a parody on The marriage of Hiawatha . The chapter appeared in costume at the Hi- jinx and Dorothy Davis, dressed as a rag doll, was awarded first prize for the most original costume. Pauline Klene is on the Junior Prom committee. Margaret Barnard has been appointed to the University social committee. Dorothy Taft has the lead in the freshman-sophomore play, The enchanted cottage ; Jessie Lois Deeble is in the cast too. The senior play, The broken bachelor , is being directed by Sally Teschke. Pauline Klene has the lead in this play, while Eliza¬ beth Horne has second lead, and Dorothy Davis third. The chapter was entertained by Lillian Pete in her home and Mary Bryant has invited us to a formal dance in her home. Helen LaClaire has been elected a member of the staff of the Wampus, comic paper. Our university year book, El Rodeo, won seventh place in the national contest in which eight hun¬ dred year books competed.
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Chapter news 1H!) Harvard university and the University of Southern Califor¬ nia are to have a debate in Bovard auditorium, the first contest between the two universities. Omicron is laying special stress on scholarship, with the hope of being among the highest groups. 27 November 1925 Veryl Sweeney Married: Helen Snowball and Clare Hamman. Born to Mr and Mrs Frank Connelly (Betty Follcn) a daughter, Nov. 1. Mildred Nicholas Dickce (Mrs John) has been visiting in Los Angeles, and attended our alumnae tea. RHO— UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Nebraska students are in high spirits because of the football victory over Notre Dame. On the evening before the game our pledges gave us the annual freshman party, decorating the house with black and gold balloons. We were pleased to have these alumna? at the house for the Thanksgiving game: Demaris Stout, Fern Staats, Marjorie Dickson, Ruth Miller, Betty Kennedy, Virginia Morcom, Tmogene Evans, Mrs Louise Gibbons Peterson, Helen Griese, Mrs Ruth Stuart Sutton, Mrs Martha Cline Huff¬ man, Mrs Gratia Green Dunn, Mrs Rachel Trestor Sine, Mrs Mary Steele Trestor, Mrs John Petring, and Edith Tyler. October 24 Lincoln alumnae entertained at the house with a Home-coming luncheon, at which many out-of-town alumna? were present. We also had with us several members of Kappa chapter, whom we enjoyed knowing and were glad to have visit our chapter. Helen Stott has been elected to Pi Epsilon Delta, national collegiate players. Josephine Drapier and Betty Woodbury were initiated by Dramatic club last week. Millicent Ginn was elected secretary of the senior class. Jane Hutton has been appointed an associate editor of the Cornhusker , Nebraska’s annual. In scholarship we stood sixth last semester. Alpha Delta Theta won the scholarship cup. Nebraska’s athletic department is building a $350,000 Colos¬ seum, which will be ready for the first basketball games this winter. Old University hall, the original building of the univer¬ sity, which was constructed in 1870, was recently condemned and is being torn down. The first floor and the basement will be allowed to stand temporarily, but a new building is expected in two years. At present University hall classes are scattered all over the campus.
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200 Kappa Alpha Theta Lincoln alumnae chapter is entertaining four hundred friends at the chapter house December 2 at a tea. The guests will be given an opportunity for a thorough inspection of our new house, of which we are all so proud. 28 November 1925 Millicent Ginn Married: Roberta Spain to Mark Phelps, 2 A E, in July. Married: Jean Elizabeth Larsh to Rolfe Homey er, K Oct. 23. Address: Nebraska City, Nebr. Married: Desdemona Bauman to Hugh Davenport, B 0 II, Oct. 22. Address : Sterling, Colo. Married: Blanche Strader to Harold Smith, K 2, Oct. 24. Address, Norfolk, Nebr. Jessica Morgan visited the chapter on her return home from a four years sojourn in Rome. Nellore Wilson Swan (Mrs O. T.) is spending the winter in Paris, while her young daughter attends a French school. SIGMA— UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO A near tragedy occurred October 8, when a studious Theta, her eyes on her notebook, came within an ace of losing her life beneath a bus-load of jolly girls. She halted in time to recog¬ nize the occupants of the bus and wave a cheery bon voyage, for this was our first fall rushing party en route for the new Toronto ladies ’ golf club. At our second party we welcomed Adeline Parsons, Beta Kappa, who is visiting in Toronto. The party was a dinner-dance at Margaret Hartwick’s home, given for us by our alumnae. Our first entertainment for freshmen is in the hands of these same loyal alumnae, and its date is December 5. Meantime our apartment has been the scene of many happy foursomes — two Thetas and two rushees, and already some of the freshmen seem quite at home in the Theta house, and we have grown to know and like them individually far better than is possible at a large gathering. November 11, Armistice day, all university lectures between ten and twelve o’clock were cancelled and staff and students gath¬ ered at the soldiers’ tower. Impressive in its simplicity was the beautiful memorial service, and the two minutes of silence seemed to reach out and around the world, as we shared with all the nations our tribute to the fallen. The Christmas spirit of service is abroad on the campus, and, in addition to regular volunteer work at the university settlement, everyone is planning for the distribution of good cheer. Busy Thetas are dressing dolls and making candy bags
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Chapter news 201 for the settlement Christmas tree, and Margaret Hartwick has joined the staff of the Neighborhood workers’ association. In arts we have pledged the following sophomores: Peggy Ussher, Kathleen Hobday, and Eleanor Richards, Toronto ; Maud Lacey and Helen Lacey, Chesterville. In Medicine, Gwen Mulock, St. Catherines, in fifth year; and Mary Grant, China, in third year. 28 November 1925 Katharine Baldwin Peggy Howell has announced her engagement to Osborne Mitchell, B.A.Sc. London, Eng. Chris Raikes has announced her engagement to Ian Welsman. Dorothy Stacey has announced her engagement to Harcourt Brown, B.A. ’25. Jenny Lane has announced her engagement to Max Robertson. Marjorie Reid has announced her engagement to Kenneth B. Jackson, B.A.Sc. of the faculty of Applied science. Born to Mr and Mrs Edward Richardson (Margaret Reid) Oct. 8, a daughter, Mary Austen. Helen Walton has taken a walking tour through Norway and Sweden and through Switzerland, and now is studying French at the University of Leiges. Dr and Mrs Charles Best (Margaret Mahon) are living at 4 Yale Ct, Honeybourne Rd. Hampstead, London, Eng. Dr Best is engaged in re¬ search at the Hampstead medical institute. In July they will proceed to Copenhagen, for the meetings of the Medical association. Mr and Mrs R.B.Y. Scott (Kathleen Cordingly) have returned to Toronto after a year abroad, and are living at 6 Spadina Rd. Beatrice Reid is working for the degree of Ph.D. and is living at the fraternity house. Elsie Raikes is working for the degree of M.A. and is living at the fraternity house. TAU— NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Fate, with a kindly hand, and Helen Sargent with more than competent ability as Rush captain brought Tau successfully through a stormy rushing season with Margaret Bodorff, Ruth Campbell, Lois Cooperider, Alice Fuller, Helen Gillick, Frances Howe, Ellen Kressler, Marion Mills, Elizabeth Meyers, Irene McBurnie, Jane Olson, Dorothy Schultz and Elizabeth and Josephine Tatman as pledges. December 2 we pledged Ruth Livermore and Mary Major from Chickachee, Oklahoma, thus increasing our number of pledges to sixteen. Laura Lenfesty, pledged last spring, was initiated November 30. The initiation banquet was at the Orrington hotel. In October we were honored with a visit from L. Pearle Green and Mrs Lebrecht. We entertained them with luncheon
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202 Kappa Alpha Theta In November the subscription drive for Syllabus, year book, was launched. The Theta team won second place in the drive and received a loving cup. Kipse Hulteen, captain of the Theta team, won an individual prize for procuring one of the greatest number of subscriptions. In events social, we were very proud to have Dorothy Schultz, pledge, lead Military ball on Thanksgiving Eve. December 5, our ever ardent and faithful supporters, the alumnae, gave a dance at the Evanston Country club. Our con¬ stant hope is that we may always be as successful in our en¬ deavours as are our alumnae. 9 December 1925 Arlene Fischer The engagement has been announced of Ethel Underwood to James Mc- Goorty of Chicago. Margaret Beegle was married to Paul Kaiser in June and is living in Chicago. Married: Marion North and C. J. Lewin. Address: 65 Hillman st. New Bedford, Mass. UPSILON— UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Since October 2 we have fourteen pledges : Eleanor Whiting, Aileen Powers, Alice Cassidy, Virginia Carlson, and Theodota Davis (sister of Alfreda and Alicia) all of Minneapolis; Lucy Lee Nichols and Ruth Tuttle of St. Paul ; Louise Hollihan, Bes¬ sie Strange (sister of Marguerite Strange Tuttle) and Marion Marshall of Duluth; Helen Mulroney, Fort Dodge, Iowa; Gene¬ vieve Peterson of Little Falls; Alta Feton of Jamestown; and Janet Bjornstad of Spencer, Iowa. Panhellenic has ruled that pledges cannot be active in campus organizations during their first quarter. However, our pledges already have had some honors conferred upon them : Theodota Davis, Alta Feton, and Aileen Powers have “made” Masquers, the largest dramatic organization at Minnesota; Virginia Carl¬ son has been elected a member of Kappa Rho, women’s national forensic society; and Theodota Davis is secretary-treasurer of the Art department. At Home-coming, November 18, all fraternity houses were gaily decorated, an annual custom. The Theta house was turned into an old castle, temporarily, with a drawbridge, spiked wall, knights in armor, streaming banners, cannon, and cannon-balls. Our entry in the Home-coming parade was awarded second place ; it was an old-fashioned man and woman riding a “bicycle built
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Chapter news 203 for two,” with their children, a quaint little hoy and girl, ped¬ aling velocipedes behind them. We entertained for the pledges at the house October 16. They responded promptly by inviting the chapter to a party at the home of Eleanor Whiting December 1. Ethel Teagle was elected president of Tam O’Shanter, junior women’s organization, in Helen Ford’s place, as Helen is not in college this year. We were very fortunate in having Mrs George Banta, our District president, here for Rosamond Gerretson’s initiation November 9 ; and are to be still more fortunate by having both Mrs Banta and Mrs Lebrecht as guests December 1. The chapter and alumnae are "all looking forward to becoming better ac¬ quainted with our Grand president. 26 November 1925 Dorothy Jackson Marjorie Me Cauley MacNidcr’s husband was recently appointed As¬ sistant Secretary of war. Dominica Faricy was married to .Orrin Lee, N 2 N, Oct. 8. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Benjamin McGratnic (Sally Fenton) in Oct. The marriage of Avis Litzenberg to Chauncey Chase, K 'I', took place Nov. 21. Jane Sedjick is supervising dietetics in the public schools of Los Angeles. Elizabeth Healy is dietition for the public schools of Fort Dodge. Lillius Hannah has announced her engagement to Verne Williams, 2 N. Helen Ford is society editor of the Fort Dodge messenger . Adele Roth and Margaret Lavery are travelling for the Webb Pub¬ lishing Co. of St. Paul. Adele is working mostly in New York state, Margaret in the Middle West and South. Genevieve Langevin is running a bookshop at Miami Beach, Fla. Jean Trembley is at her home in Columbia City, Ind. She expects to enter Indiana university next quarter. Ada McAnalty was married to Ray Henderson, B 0 n, in Oct. PHI— STANFORD UNIVERSITY Fall quarter has slid by, leaving us face to face with finals and wondering where the time has gone. Of course, much has happened to keep us from growing lop-sided with overwork. We have affiliated Christine Tapley, Omicron, and hope to have Louise Merritt, Alpha Beta, with us next quarter. Our house, with two others, is being run by a professional manager, who does all ordering, planning, 4 ‘hiring and firing,” account-keeping, and takes the whole burden of management off
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204 Kappa Alpha Theta our shoulders. The system seems ideal, both theoretically and practically. October 30 we gave an informal representative dance, carry¬ ing out the Hallowe’en idea in decorations, lighting, and stunts. November 7 and 8 we devoted to teas: one for the new women, and one in honor of our house-mother, Mrs Dulin, who has re¬ turned after a two years’ absence, in which she was sorely missed. November 21 was a red-letter day for Stanford, for we won the Big Game from California, 27-14. The game brought many alumnae and friends of the chapter back to the campus and to our open house, where we were more than glad to welcome them. Our living room will soon scarcely recognize itself, for gen¬ erous mothers have given us two hundred dollars, two mandarin skirts, and strips of Chinese embroidery to dress it up with. The money probably will be used toward a new davenport and a chair or two. All of us are excited over the prospect. Thetas out for hockey are Dorothy Cone, captain of the sophomore team, Madeline Frick, Charlotte Lovekin, Ruth Jor¬ dan, Betty Williams, and Carolyn Peirce. Josephine Pigott and Eleanor Davidson played in The goose hangs high . Ruth Jordan is on the staff of the Daily Palo Alto and of the Quad, Stanford’s yearbook. Carolyn Peirce has just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and every Phi Theta is more than proud of her achievement. We have had no study rules in effect this quarter, but our scholarship has improved. 28 November 1925 Barbara Marx The marriage of Elizabeth Salisbury Bradford to Max Langdon Van Norden, B 0 n, Stanford ’05, took place in the Stanford Memorial church Oct. 31. The Van Nordens are living in New York City. Born: to Mr and Mrs Milton McKevett Teague (Alfrida Foco) a daughter, early in Nov. Mr and Mrs Teague are living in Santa Paula, Cal. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miriam Ebright and Charles Doe, B 0 IT, Stanford '21. They will be married about Christmas time. Oct. 25 was the wedding date of Heloise Lysle and John B. F. Bacon. Mr and Mrs Paul Edwards (Georgiana Lyman) have moved from Palo Alto to San Diego, where Mr Edwards is editor of the San Diego sun. Florence Heywood lectured in Eastern states during Sept, and Oct. She returned to Paris in November by way of London, where her new book on the illustrated Boole of the hours of Jean Fouquet is to be pub¬ lished by Methuen. Born to Mr and Mrs Charles Earl Smith (Jean Mead) a daughter, Patricia Jean, June 6.
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Chapter news 205 Bom to Mr and Mrs Noel Negley (Margaret Olmsted) a daughter, Caroline Margaret in July. Address: Escalon, Calif. CHI— SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY The weeks before Thanksgiving vacation were short and busy ones for us. This has been due partly to the football season, a successful one, with all its accompanying festivities, and partly to additional rushing, activities, banquets, and innumerable meet- ings. Chi reached the semi-finals in basketball and scored a thrilling victory over Alpha Phi, 24 to 22. We lost to Gamma Phi Beta in the finals, but have high hopes for next year. Several chapter members made the first team in hockey, while Elizabeth Bull ’28 and Juanita Tickner ’ 29 are captains of their class teams. Martha Bruning is captain of the freshman basketball team. We are proud of Helen Brown, who won the scholarship in design in Fine arts college and who also won the prize for the Theta book-plate. She and Mary Stowell are doing very promis¬ ing work on the new campus magazine The salt shaker. Josephine Sharp has been promoted to the position of an as¬ sociate editor of the Daily Orange. On our social calendar, our hard times dance is the most outstanding event. The house was transformed into a huge barn with piles of straw in the corners and festooning the door¬ ways, convenient baskets of apples, old lanterns and harness, cider and good things to eat, and a good orchestra. Another successful event was a tea for the faculty after the Niagara game November 21. We were delighted at the number of pro¬ fessors who were willing to undergo the difficulties of balancing teacups with smiles and phrases. All seemed to enjoy the oppor¬ tunity of getting acquainted outside of class rooms. We also have been entertaining two faculty members at dinner every other Wednesday night, which is helping in the movement for a cooperative spirit between students and faculty. We are proud to add to our pledges Naomi Ballou, Ithaca, and Ruth Webster, Syracuse. Ruth has been doing excellent work on the art staff of The salt shaker besides making its cover de¬ sign. 30 November 1925 Dorothy Jane Sutherland Nov. 21, born to Mr and Mrs. Jerome Cheney (Marjorie Aile) a daughter, Barbara Jane. Mary Hill is to be married to Lee Yauney, d> T A, Dec. 21 at the Ambassador hotel, New York City.
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206 Kappa Alpha Theta Sophia, M. Steese had a scholarship at the National community recre¬ ational school in Chicago the past summer. She is now physical director at the Birmingham school, Birmingham, Pa. PSI— UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN On Wisconsin! All things change — even minds! We modestly mention the fact that some minds have forcibly undergone that process during the Badger’s football progress this season. Many of us followed the teams to out of town games and were royally entertained by the Thetas in other universities. Home-coming was successful and, although the game was not such a satisfaction for Wisconsin, Psi was glad to welcome home many alumnae: Jessie Bonar Fuller, Erma Wohlenberg Fox, Marion Miller Foster, Katherine Fishburn Mason, Anita Donkle Cornish, Sarah Taylor French, Mildred Starr Meyers, Janet Cummings, Evelyn Smith, Elizabeth Tompkins, Mary Roach, Belle Knights, Marion Hanna, Helen Skinner, Alice Turner Dietrich, Geraldine Koeppel Glenn, Alma Robinson Gould, Sophia Steiger Roth, June Gray, Martha Buell, Betty Stuckey Schmitz, Maude Killam, Wilma "Trost, Dorothy Williams, Lottie Coumbe, Elizabeth Elsom Moore, Grace Kellog VanOrnum, Isabel Farrington, Jeanette Cherry, Janet Marshall, and Marjorie Boesch Merrick. Since our last letter we have initiated Mary Bishop and Helen Martin. We also have one more pledge, a Theta daugh¬ ter, Elizabeth Gilmore, daughter of Blanche Basye Gilmore, Alpha, from Manila, Philippine Islands. During the Memorial Union campaign, a drive to raise money for the new Union, Wisconsin spirit rose high, and although the hoped-for quota was not attained a goodly sum was pledged. Many of us worked as solicitors and Virginia Sinclair was chairman of the junior women, the group which came nearest to approaching their quota. November 14 Wisconsin set aside as a day to entertain the Fathers. Fifteen hundred Dads, the largest number that ever came to Wisconsin for this event were here to help root at the football game and be our guests over the week-end. Sunday noon Psi entertained twelve fathers for. dinner. Mildred Rogers acted as a committee chairman for the women’s publicity for Father’s Day and Margaret Dill, a pledge, was on the arrange¬ ment committee. The Y.W.C.A. bazaar will be tomorrow. The novel decora¬ tions, which have been planned and carried out by one of our
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Chapter news 207 pledges, Mildred Anderson, will transform Lathrop hall into a Colonial garden. Margaret Stedman, Helen Huntzicker, Alice Brown and Virginia Sinclair are doing Y.W.C.A. work in vari¬ ous capacities. The students at Wisconsin have felt the need of an All-uni¬ versity religious service. A committee, of which Virginia Sin¬ clair is a member, was formed to work out the plans. They were fortunate in securing such speakers as Dr Prank and Dr Gilkey, and already these services are becoming a tradition at Wisconsin. Alice Brown proved an efficient chairman for the Junior advisery committee of S.G.A. which tries to welcome each in¬ coming freshman by assigning her a junior adviser. Helen Mar¬ tin, Helen Huntzicker, and Virginia Skinner also served on this committee. Virginia Sinclair, Mary Bishop, and Helen Hunt¬ zicker serve on the Badger staff. Hortense Schurman worked on one of the Home-coming committee. Mary Bishop is chairman of try-outs for Wisconsin players to which Dorothy Kimball has been elected. Esmee Plack has been appointed chairman of Group sales for Union Vodvil. Eleanor Porter is a member of the university orchestra. 29 November 1925 Virginia Skinner Born to Mr and Mrs Dale Merrick (Marjorie Boesch) a son, Dale Jr. Aug. 17. Sada Buckinaster has returned from a six months trip in Europe. Florence Mahorney is living in Paris this winter. Born to Mr and Mrs Norris K. Levis (Gertrude Collins) a daughter, Shirley Ann, Oct. 1. Elizabeth Tompkins is working with the Board of education in St. Louis. Evelyn Smith is teaching in Beaver Dam, Wis. She is visiting us this week-end. Eleanor limes is teaching in Kansas City and Martha Cowan is working there. Margaret Campbell is teaching in the Holland school in Tulsca, Okla. Dorothy Dennett Slemp (Mrs. P.W.) is living at Millstone, Ky. OMEGA— UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA The members of Omega are allowing campus activities to play a large part in their programs. Although the University of California offers a wide field for their energies, the most popular of all is membership in the adviser system. Many a bewildered freshman has been hurried through the trials of registration by this board. Senior and junior women are eligible for membership and work in teams of ten, under direction of
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208 Kappa Alpha Theta captains who in turn are under supervision of the chairman of the system. Each adviser is given the name of several incoming freshman girls, whom she meets on their arrival in Berkeley, showing them how to register and conducting them to campus teas and amusements. The Thetas actively interested in this work are Georgiana Gerlinger, general chairman, Frances Dabney, Frances Boyd, Elizabeth Thomas, Bernice Balcom, Marion Hensley, and Dorothy Stephenson, captains. Crop and saddle is still popular with Thetas, although Cath¬ erine Dunn is no longer coach. Marion Hensley, Dorothy Co¬ burn, Emma Brescia, and Barbara Olney are among those who ride every week. Literary activities such as The daily California and The Oc¬ cident , both campus publications, are represented by Alice Henderson, Olive Balcom, Mary Elizabeth Clark, and Emma Brescia. Helen Snook is on the senior women’s Luncheon com¬ mittee. Frances Boyd has been elected junior women’s Repre¬ sentative to the Welfare council, on which Catherine Ditzler is our representative. Marion Miller is vice-president of the fresh¬ man class. Emma Brescia has been elected to the English club. During the semester there have been three rush dinners, one before each of the fall rallies, the freshman and the ax, and one November 24. The formal tea and dance in honor of freshmen was October 30, and was followed by a dinner for Thetas trans¬ ferring from other chapters. December 1, a Christmas dinner — the members to come dressed in costumes representing the titles of various popular books. 1 December 1925 Barbara Olney The engagement of Agnes Mackinley to Robert Lee Stephenson, Uni¬ versity of Virginia, has been announced. Mrs Louis Bartlett (Mary Olney) has returned from Europe. Mrs Paul Selby (Rowena Moore) of Johannesburg, South Africa, re¬ cently has recovered from a serious illness. ALPHA BETA— SWARTHMORE COLLEGE Letter due Dec. 1 Not received by Dec. 12 ALPHA GAMMA— OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY October 15 eighteen girls were pledged: Ann Armstrong, Elizabeth Dillon, Dorothy Urmston, Josephine Brandon, Clare Snider, Doris Agler, Lois Fassig, Marjorie Fassig, Elizabeth
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Chapter news 209 Morris, Martha Shawaker, Mary Heald, Katherine Kittle, Betty Connelly, Margaret McClosky, Marion Hornbeck, Virginia Fox, Agnes McQuiqq, and Louise Johnson. November 5, nine girls were initiated: Anne Kilbourne, Annabel Sipher, Mary Sackett, Helen Pryor, Ann Lindenburg, Marlowe Matt, Mary Louise Chapin, Ruth Heer, and Florence Sellenings. Among our social activities have been several spreads for both chapter and pledges. An alumnae spread, and two parties of the Mothers' club. From the Mothers' club numerous pack¬ ages have come containing gifts of great usefulness to our house¬ hold. The pledges are giving the annual formal pledge dance in honor of the chapter December 11. It will be at the new Fort Hayes hotel, and we are sure it will be a jolly forerunner to the holiday season. Rosalind Morrison, junior, has the leading feminine role in the Strollers' play Jack Straw which will be presented early in the new year. Mary Louise Chapin, sophomore, and Helen Davis, senior, also have parts in this play. Rosalind is also a member of the Girls' Glee club quartette. Catherine Hamilton made the junior hockey team, and Clare Snider is captain of the freshman hockey team. Mary Ann Miesse, a recent alumna, is efigaged to Maynard Donaldson, Delta Upsilon. The customary five pound box of candy was presented by them recently. Eight girls are living in the house, with our new and charm¬ ing house mother, Mrs Leona Hoyt from New York. Plans are being made for enlarging the house which will make it more at¬ tractive and able to accommodate more girls. We all miss Mildred Parker who was forced to give up her college work because of eye trouble, but who found an interest¬ ing position in Washington, D. C. where she is with her sister, Ida Parker, alumna of this chapter. We also miss Dorothy Frolock, Marcella Rehl, and Catherine Hicks, all of whom graduated last June. Dorothy announced her engagement dur¬ ing the summer to Gordon Wheeler, Phi Gamma Delta. Marcella is working in the Registrar's office of the university. 1 December 1925 Florence Sellenings Married in May: Margaret Welch and William Mills, r A. Ad¬ dress: 3292 Milverton Rd, Cleveland, Ohio. Married: Marjorie Smith and Frank Willcox, 2 N.
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210 Kap-pa Alpha Theta ALPHA DELTA — GOUCHER COLLEGE October 11, we initiated Helen Cleveland and Ruth Wills. The following Tuesday, Alpha Delta welcomed Marie Davis Thomson, Grand treasurer, who paid us an all-too-brief visit. We endeavored, during her stay, to show her the college and the chapter as intimately as possible. Mrs. Thomson left behind her a blaze of enthusiasm for chapter efficiency and inspired us with a renewed feeling of fraternity kinship. Rushing began November 18 and continued ten bewildering days. As always, our alumnae were the fairy godmothers who lent us their homes, their belongings, and, best of all, themselves; thereby helping enormously in pledging Marjorie Bennett, South Bend, Indiana; Josephine Cliffe, Franklin, Tennessee; Elizabeth Corbell (sister of Jane), Portsmouth, Virginia; Mary Elizabeth Ide, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Virginia Jones (sister of Cath¬ erine Jones Wilson and Marion Jones McLean of Alpha Eta) Nashville, Tennessee ; Elizabeth Klingensmith, Hammond, Indiana; Margaret Mitchell, Duluth, Minnesota; Mary Louise Parrish, Baltimore, Hope Skellman, St, Louis, Missouri ; Maxine Groth, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Alpha Delta has been increasingly active in campus affairs. Frances Hunsberger is class captain in the college endowment campaign. Elizabeth Sawyer is chairman of Junior play, in which Loraine Fitz Gerald and Dorothy Henson have important parts, and for which Mary Jane Crane and Christine Harwood are heading committees. Loraine Fitz Gerald is also junior Stu¬ dent organization representative. Dorothy Henson managed the juniors’ party for freshmen. Loraine and Mary Jane Crane are on the board of Donnybrook , the annual. Virginia Davis, Frances Hunsberger, and Anabel Handy were on class hockey teams and the two latter on the varsity team. Our pledges are likewise doing their part. Hope Skellman is the freshman member for the dramatic organization, Agora, and is also class campaign chairman. Marjorie Bennett was the hero in the freshman dramatic production, Barrie’s Rosalind. Vir¬ ginia Jones has been elected recorder of points for the fresh¬ man class. Of course, Alpha Delta is delighted at the election of one its alumnae, Dorothy Wilson, as president of District VII. 30 November 1925 Marion Hall
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Chapter news 211 Effee Sharp spent Thanksgiving week visiting Carvilla Helfrisch in Catonsville, Md. Laura Wasmansdorff is employed at Hutzler’s department store in Baltimore. ALPHA ETA— VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Alpha Eta completed a successful rushing season with eleven pledges: Josephine Joplin, Los Angeles, California; Martha Smith (sister of Sarah Catron) Fulton, Kentucky; Julia Powell (sister of Elizabeth) Dallas, Texas; Elizabeth Creighton, Evelyn Duncan (sister of Alleene) Stella Vaughn, Matilda Treanor, Helen Moore, Helen Allen, Sophia Parson, and Catherine Chester, all of Nashville. November 20 we entertained with a tea in honor of our chaperon, Mrs Susie Hughes. Relatives, faculty and other fra¬ ternity girls were present. Shortly after pledge day we had open house for the freshmen. The college chapter had an in¬ formal Hallowe’en party. An increasing interest in athletics is noticeable among the women. Hockey, basketball, and swimming are popular. Cath¬ erine Culbert is hockey coach. Once every two weeks the athletic association has dinner at Ivissam hall. This helps keep up enthusiasm. There were sixteen Theta alumme at the Semi-centennial celebration of Vanderbilt. The girls living in the house gave up their rooms to the out-of-town Thetas. Nashville alumnae enter¬ tained the visitors and college chapter with a buffet supper. Afterward songs familiar to all were sung. Sarah Catroh Smith has been elected president of Three Arts club. 27 November 1025 Carolyn Cobb Mr and Mrs Robert Rives (Eleanor Brown) announce the birth of a daughter, Nov. 23. Mr and Mrs Richard Moore (Lydia Raines) spent Thanksgiving in Nashville. Mildred Stoves and Mildred Finnegan spent Thanksgiving holidays at their homes in Nashville. ALPHA THETA— UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Fall term exams are here and Alpha Theta is hard at work. Last year our scholarship average was third among fraternities on campus. But we expect to get back to first place soon.
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212 Kappa Alpha Theta December 8, we had a Christmas tree at the house for the pledges. The initiates were dressed as old ladies, and the pledges as little girls. Santa Claus brought gifts to every one. Our annual dance for pledges was November 7 at the country club. Fats Oberneirs’ orchestra furnished the music, and the dance was successful. The pledges have all entered into activities. We are proud of Irma Johnson, the only newly-elected member of the Curtain club, who made the cast of the fall term play. Alpha Theta misses Anna Love, chapter president, who had to withdraw from college. Lucille Stover, former vice-president, is now president, and Edith Cardwell vice-president. 9 December 1925 Isabel Blackmon Miss Elva Bascom, Mu, who was head of the recently abolished Texas Library school, is now teaching in Carnegie institute library school. Anna Love who withdrew recently from college is at her home in Jack¬ sonville. Murrell May of Dallas and Lois Fender of Kaufman visited the house recently. Hallie Maud Neff of Waco was a visitor at the house during Thanks¬ giving. Alexa Rhea has moved to Dallas, 3428 Granada st. Mary Watson is in Fort Worth studying at Texas woman's college. Henrietta Lightfoot is studying art in New York. Born to Mr and Mrs C. Carlisle Conrad (Margaret H. Montgomery) a daughter, Margaret Montgomery, May 30, at Waco, Tex. Present address of the Conrads is 8 Woodron st. Montgomery, Ala. The address of Genevieve Goff Kiel (Mrs O. B.) is 604 Waggoner Bldg. Wichita Falls, Tex. ALPHA IOTA— WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY College is a place to study, as we have discovered especially since the passing grade has been raised from 60 to 70; but it is also just one activity after another. Three pledges, Mildred Blumeyer, Helen Brod and Nancy Moore have been admitted to Dramatic club. Elise Mardorf, pledge, made the staff of both the college paper and the year¬ book. Elizabeth Wright, pledge, made the swimming club. Claudine Fay and Virginia Becker were chosen as two of the nine most representative junior women on the campus to become members of the junior honorary society ; Claudine also made the honorary hockey society, as did Katherine Hafner. Julia Spence and Claudine Fay were admitted to the literary society. Kath¬ erine Hafner, with Genevieve Harnett, made the women’s Glee
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Chapter neivs 213 club. Sally McRoberts was elected to the women’s pep organ¬ ization. Jane Ewerhardt and Alice Siedel made the hiking club, while Katherine Murray was admitted to the swimming club. Helen Bechtell, our president, was chosen as one of the two delegates to the Mortar Board convention in Chicago, November 14 and 15. Virginia Becker, Dorothy Galloway, and Mildred Wild have been appointed to the Junior Prom committees. Susan Lewis took part in one of the one-act Thyrsus plays. Two of the last year’s pledges, Marion Brown and Irene Steuber (daughter of Jeanette Blanchard Steuber, Eta) were initiated October 19. October 30, the pledges entertained the chapter with , the annual Catsup, which took the form of a rush party. The Thetas experienced all the old thrill of being rushed. The party was highly successful, since the pledges, having so lately been in the same situation, were able to convince their guests that 1 1 Theta was the right one. ’ ’ The chapter birthday party was November 30, when the alumnae were the guests of the chapter. Co-Ed Vodvil was presented December 4 and 5. Theta gave a musical comedy, Chesterette, written by Peyton Hawes and Helen Bechtell. 30 November 1925 Eleanor Fidler Tho engagement of Lucy Taylor to Mark A. Neville, 2 A E, has been announced. Oct. 19, Euegnia Mock was married to Pinkney McElwee, 2 A E. They will live in Houston, Tex. The marriage of Corneilla Morrison to Thomas Thompson, K 2, took place Nov. 5. They plan to make their home in St Louis. Claire Rountree and James Hart Price, A 9, were married Nov. 9. Mr and Mrs C. T. Spaulding (Marion Hutchins) have a baby son. A son, Eric Donald, was born to Mr and Mrs Ed Nix (Claire Berry) Nov. 28. Lucille Logan Beach of Columbus, Ohio, visited friends here in Nov. Dorothy Laing, Psi, made a visit to Ethel Neuhoff Penny during Nov. Alice Strauch spent the summer and fall studying in Geneva, Switzer¬ land. Helen Crawford is living in New York City. Anne Kinnaird has been teaching in Eureka, Mo. Cecilia DeCamp and Jane McCoy, who are teaching in Alabama, were home for the holidays. Mildred Wright is teaching physical education in Wichita, Kan. Peyton Hawes is campaign manager for her father, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for United States senator.
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214 Kappa Alpha Theta ALPHA KAPPA— ADELPHI COLLEGE In reviewing rushing some eight long weeks ago, verily might one have surmised, “ ’twill be the survival of the fittest.” — Well, we survived. From this draw your conclusions while we admit, in pledging Marion Hart, Marguerite Bisbee, Vic- torine Hall, Dorothy Benscher, and Gladys Melvin we feel we have added some of the fittest to our ranks. These girls have told us, as have our alummp, as have we to each other, that our progressive dinner at Dorothy Copeland’s home was an ex¬ tremely enjoyable event, truly a black and gold shadowland of candles, balloons, long, gay tables, laughter and songs. Of our alumnae Edna Hopkins, Natalie Rome, and Ruth ITanssen helped us burlesque lAltle Bed Biding Hood with all the spirit of actives, while Grace Sand sang. October 31 All college night took place. Faculty, alumnae, and students gathered at a banquet a member of whose food com¬ mittee was Gladys Melvin. While feasting, novel minstrels en¬ tertained directed by Rosemary Harding. The cast of these included Marguerite Bisbee and Victorine Hall. Three one act plays were then staged in which Victorine Hall and Gladys Melvin took part. For Adelphi endowment many noted musicians gave a con¬ cert of which Isabelle Brown was chairman. She also attended the student conference at Wellesley college November 12-15 and will be in the Y.W.C.A. show December 5. Ruth Hager is on the committee for this show and on the Handbook committee. Another conference to be attended by a Theta, llildergarde Schlobohm, is that of dramatics at Hollins college December 11. Grace Ghardavoyne is a member of the committee for senior bridge and Dorothy Benscher is active as secretary of the fresh¬ man class. Freda Kott and Marguerite Bisbee are helping to work up the annual faculty party of which Freda is sub-chair¬ man. She is also a member of the faculty-student committee. 30 November 1925 Bosemary Harding. Olive Books was married Nov. 7 to Frank Kiendl. Mrs. Thurston Burdick (Dorothy Cooper) is making her home at 2911 St. Paul. St. Baltimore, Md. Born to Mr and Mrs Harold Waitt (Marion Stringham) a daughter. ALPHA LAMBDA— UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON After a strenuous summer of rushing, Alpha Lambda pledged Patsy Knox, Vancouver; Jane Lasater, La Center; El- bertine Adams, Kelso; Ruth Field, Leavenworth; Frances Clare
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Chapter news 215 Furey, Tonasket; Elizabeth Lovenstein, Yakima; Adele Reeves (member of faculty) South Bend; Betty Sewall, Portland; Janet Streets (daughter of Susan Porter Streets) Oakland, Cal¬ ifornia; Kelso Barnett, Lydamae Davis, Mary Dawson, Eleanor Ernst (daughter of Jane Brawley Ernst) Florence Fahey, Eliz¬ abeth Jones, Charlotte Turner (sister of Elizabeth) Margaret Elias, Katherine Shryock (sister of Antoinette) and Claire Taft, Seattle. Our pledges gave a Southern breakfast for the Kappa pledges, who have in turn invited our freshmen to their pledge dance. We hope to make this an annual custom because it gives freshmen an opportunity to meet girls outside of their own house. Panhellenic and the Y.W.C.A. always give numerous parties in honor of new students. The Big Sister system was installed at Washington this year, Dorothy Baker being in charge of one of the groups. October 25 we gave a dinner for the pledges, inviting men from various fraternities. November 14, the night of the Stanford game, we gave our fall informal, decorating the house in purple and gold in honor of our victory. Our scholarship this year, although not as high as we would like, is a great improvement over last year. We find that super¬ vised study and the one date a week-end plan for those receiving low grades, are most successful means of raising scholarship. In campus activities Alpha Lambda has been doing her part. Marion Robb and Eunice Storey were elected to Mortar board. Henrietta Osterman is president of Lambda Rho, honorary art fraternity. Margaret Latimer and Helen Hoska are pledged to Axe and Grindstone, of which Helen Aitchison is secretary. Ruth Field is a member of Sacajawea, honorary debate. Helene Nieson and Eleanor O’Shea are on the Varsity Ball committee. Mary Dawson received the Venino scholarship for piano. We again have as house-mother Mrs Gunnell, mother of Molly. She has just returned from the East. During her absence Mrs Fred Bailey was our chaperon. November 12 we gave a dinner in their honor. 23 November 1925 Katherine Macrae Smith Announcement was made at a tea Nov. 24, of tlie engagement of Dorothy Congor to Ted Wood, 4> A 0, and of Olive Congor to Bud Belcher. They will have a double wedding, Jan. 1, 1926. Alice Frein and Jesse Johnson, A A 4>, were married Nov. 14. Margaret Lesser is in London, England. Married: Lelia Mason and Sanford Eassou.
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216 Kappa Alpha Theta Born to Mr and Mrs J. C. Bolinger (Sara Buchanan) a daughter, Barbara Nan. Born to Mr and Mrs Hanford Haynes (Hetty Slade) a son. Born to Mr and Mrs Willard G. Herron (Osceola House) a son. Born to Mr and Mrs Cecil D. Willis (Elizabeth Bailey) a daughter. Gloria Collingson is now Mrs Robert Krohn, jr. and lives at 737 E. 36th st. N. Portland, Oreg. ALPHA MU— UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Alpha Mu feels all pepped up about everything ! This month has been eventful due to the successful football season and our success in campus activities. Missouri leads the Valley in football for we are now cham¬ pions. We feel that the Thetas helped, too, for wherever there was a mass meeting or a stunt we did our part in helping make it a success. Before the Home-coming game there was a stunt by a Pep squad of girls, among whom were four Thetas, Rita Smith, Georgia de Vries, Betty Brewster, and Mary Evans. Before the Kansas game there was a big mass meeting with * speeches and stunts. Girls aren ’t usually asked to speak at such mass meetings, but Janise Rentchler was and did. Louise Spar¬ row, pledge, Charlestoned and truly put pep into the mob. Then the first chorus of the Journalism show danced, there are two of our girls in that, Della Douglas and Gwyneth Reese. By the way, this Journalism show is quite the big thing of the year and one of our pledges, Miriam Willits, has the lead. She has a lovely voice. Speaking of voices, Mary Ann McDonald and Rachel Way are two of the four girls chosen for the University double quartette. We have a queen in the house. Rita Smith was chosen Barn¬ warming queen and looked really lovely in her crown. Besides being a queen, Rita has just been elected president of the junior class in the School of education. Thinking of royalty makes me remember that the Ambassador from Great Britain has just been to Missouri to present to the Journalism school a stone from St Paul’s cathedral. There was a tea for him at the home of President Brooks, who has three Theta daughters. The only girls assisting at the tea were Thetas, Lois Luckhardt, Lenore McCulloch, Mary Ann McDonald, and Janise Rentchler. Last week the members of L. S. V., an honorary club of from four to six senior women, became publicly known. We were
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Chapter news 217 proud to learn that Lois Luckhardt, our president, is a member. The hockey season is just over. Theta had representatives on every class team : on the senior team, Mary Evans ; on the junior, Ruth Mumford; on the sophomore, Rachel Way and Helen Baird ; on the freshman, Carrie Dziatstko. We certainly did enjoy the visit of the girls from Alpha Omicron during Home-coming. We had looked forward to their visit ever since District convention at Troutdale, where we met so many of them. 26 November 1925 Betsy Worrell Born to Mr and Mrs E. W. Bain (Kate Child) a son, Ralph Child, Oct. 24. Ritchey Brinton, Beta Beta, has finished her course here and is at home in Kansas City. Margaret Way was married this fall to Dale Cheesman. They are living in Shreveport, La. ALPHA NU— UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Alpha Nu pledged twenty-one girls, including her first Theta daughter, Georgia Kelley (daughter of Prances Nuckolls Kelley, charter member of Alpha Nu) of Great Falls. The other pledges are Marcia Brown, Great Falls; Marie Reid and Jean Main, Kalispell; Catherine and Gertrude White, Los Angeles, California; Beryl Bishop, Livingston; Lois Spencer, Omaha, Nebraska ; Lydia and Elizabeth Maury and Frances Nash, Butte ; Grace Symmes and Ruth Mondale, Lewistown ; Lois Wheat, Vir¬ ginia City; Harriet Johnston, Alice Carpenter and Lillian Mains, Billings; Ethel Miller, Helena; Louise Heyfron, Golda Phelps and Mary Kellogg, Missoula. Alpha Nu pledged every girl she bid. Our cleverest rushing party was a cabaret affair, the “ Theta tavern/ ’ The Thetas wore tuxedos and the rushees, evening gowns. The chapter house was transformed into a College inn in miniature. Sunday, preceding the opening of college, initiation was held for Nan Walsh of Missoula. We are particularly fortunate in having Mrs H. G. Palmer of Helena, a Wellesley graduate, for house mother. We gave a tea in her honor October 13. We enjoyed having with us our new District president, Mrs Roy Keene of Corvallis, Oregon. She visited us from November 16 to 19. I
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218 Kappa Alpha Theta The chapter entertained at a formal dance in honor of the pledges October 24. Mrs Harold Keele (Dorothy Healy) from Delta chapter, is enrolled in college here this quarter. She has the leading role in Captain Applejack , the first Masquers’ production of the year. Maureen Desmond and Katherine Roach also have prominent parts in this play. Thetas pledged to honor societies are: Annabelle Desmond, Theta Sigma Phi; Alice Lease and Maureen Desmond, Delta Psi Kappa, physical education fraternity; Elizabeth Veach and Gladys Wilson, Tanans, sophomore women’s society. Every one’s interest at present is centered on Home-coming, November 25 to 28. 22 November 1925 Galdys V. Wilson Many Theta alumnae are expected back for Home-coming: among them Marian Fitzpatrick, Butte; Eloise Baird, Spokane; Miriam Woodard, Bozeman; Claire Chester, Kalispell; Dorothy Coleman, Deer Lodge; Frances Nuckolls Kelley (Mrs E. P.) Great Falls; Merle Kettlcwell Run- nover (Mrs Rufus) Plains. Muriel Smith, Lambda, is running the Blue Parrot, a tea room which caters to university trade. She is taking a real interest in our chapter and is conducting pledge training for us. Velma Judge and Frances Dunn are attending the University of Utah. Jeanette Watt is remaining at her home in Dillon this year and is attending the state normal school there. Elizabeth Prentice and Ruth Gonser, both of Great Falls, are not in college this quarter. Ruth is to be married at Christmas time to Howard Lease, of Great Falls. Evelyn Collins is working in Anaconda. Dorothy Coleman is working in Deer Lodge. Margery Woolfolk, who enrolled the first of the fall quarter in the State college at Bozeman, -withdrew and is back in Missoula. The engagement of Claudia Woodward to Jack Nuckolls of Butte, has been announced. ALPHA XI — UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Football has been the nucleus around which all fall term activities have centered. October 24 the big game of the year between California and Oregon took place in Portland. The at¬ tendance was larger than that of any previous game held on Multnomah field. Home-coming was unusually successful. The rally on Fri¬ day, featuring a spectacular red torchlight parade, was most unusual, and the campus luncheon Saturday offered many novel features. On the Home-coming committee were Dona Fleming,
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Chapter news 219 Anne Wentworth, Elizabeth Latham, Harriet Adams and Vir¬ ginia Lee Richardson. Ethel Crane has been elected to Thespian, freshman and sophomore society. Virginia Lee Richardson was elected vice president of the sophomore class. Dona Fleming is on the Rally committee. Olga Jackson is a member of the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet. Constance Roth was assistant chairman of the sophomore in¬ formal, and Marie Temple and Marion Horsfall are members of the Glee club. Marion also sings in the university choir. November 10 we had a large formal reception in honor of our new house mother, Mrs. Foulkes. About three hundred mem¬ bers of faculty and student body called during the evening. The sophomores entertained the freshmen witli a delightful formal dance November 7. The house was decorated with snow and silvered icicles. Blue lights, which added a frosty glow, carried out the idea of snow and frost. Twenty-six couple en¬ joyed the affair. We are all thrilled over our newest pledge, Mildred Stevens. She is a junior on the physical education staff and a newcomer to our campus. To both the Mothers' club in Portland and alumnae in Eugene we owe the deepest thanks. The Mothers' club gave us $130.00, The Eugene alumnae entertained with a benefit bridge at the chapter house in Eugene. 28 November 1925 Marie Schulderman Jeanne Elizabeth Gay has announced her engagement to George Rid¬ dle. They will be married Dec. 22. Edith Bragg is teaching English in the Salem high school. Born to Mr and Mrs Henry Judd (Very Temple) a son. Married, Nov. 7 Jack Rivenberg and Mary Harris. Address 797 E. Main st. Portland. Among alumnce back for Home-coming were Corrine Hill, Henrietta Lawrence, Martha Shull, Edith Bragg, Jeanne Elizabeth Gay, Lorna Cool- idge Miller, Genevieve Phelps, Marion Hill, Mary Gill, Miriam Holcomb Allen, Mrs. Maurinne McAdam Temple, Mrs Gladys McKenzie Hugg, Mrs Isabel Garland Crowell, Mrs Jane Murphy Temple, Mrs Frances Obertuffer Muller, Mrs Annamay Bronaugh Burgess, Mrs Paula Linn Dundore, Mrs Jane Campbell Krohn. Ardis Welch has returned from Europe and will enter college winter term. Martha Johnson’s engagement to Roscoe Ilemenway has been an¬ nounced. Mrs Virginia Peterson Walker is leaving for an extended visit in Honolulu.
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220 Kappa Alpha Theta ALPHA OMICRON— UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA The race for Stadium Queen is over and we are settling down to regular routine of living again. This is the first time there has been a Stadium Queen elected. A quarter of our long hoped for stadium was completed for the football season. We hope by next year that it will all be completed. The election of the Queen depended upon the largest num¬ ber of Stadium union pledges submitted and the greatest num¬ ber of subscriptions sold for student publications, the Whirlwind , and Oklahoma Daily. Almost every house had a candidate, and although Theta’s candidate, Betty Kirk, only lost by a few votes, we feel satisfied, for our efforts were not in vain since the money is to be spent in completion of the stadium. Many of our girls went to Dallas, for the football game with S. M. U. and others went to Missouri for the Missouri-Oklahoma game. We are sorry that three of our girls have had to leave. Betty Kirk has been ill and will not be back this year. Elizabeth O’Dell and Oolucha Faulkner also have withdrawn from college. Josephine Johnson, chapter vice-president, is now our presi¬ dent and Natalie Broach vice-president. We are proud of the way our freshmen have entered activ¬ ities. Audine Drew is a pledge of Delta Psi Kappa, athletic fraternity. Esther Grimes was voted a member of Kappa Phi, religious fraternity. Marian Olinger was elected secretary of freshman class. Mex Rodman, Louise Bosworth, Jane O’Kane and Beatrice Walker made Glee club. Mex Rodman and Jo Shelton will dance the Charleston in Stunt Nite program. Kath¬ erine Webb and Audine Drew are members of Duck’s club, swimming club. We have a member this year on the university Women’s quartet, Irene Croom, who sings second alto. 8 December 1925 Dorothy Baugh Married: Katherine Lattiraer to V. P. Crowe, Nov. 19. Married: Margaret Moore to A. M. Swan, Nov. 20. Married: Lucy Belle Duncan to Eugene Gentry, Oct. 23. Born: To Mr and Mrs Dave McKown (Florence Monnett) a son, Dave, jr. Anabel Smith has entered a dietetics school in Chicago, Ill. Married, Oct. 10, in the Little church around the corner, New York city, Ruth Nolan and Robert Walter Phelps, A A 4>, Michigan. Address: 2108 Lennox rd. Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Born to Mr and Mrs A. C. Bartleson (Georgia Shutt) a daughter, Jeannette. Married: June 16, Lucile Letson and Oscar Bass
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Chapter news 221 ALPHA PI— UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA We have been doubly honored, as we have enjoyed visits from Mrs Bemis, Grand vice-president and Mrs Banta, District presi¬ dent. Mrs Bemis made her visit, the first to our chapter, Octo¬ ber 12 when we entertained at a tea and dinner in her honor. Our first sample of Grand council was much to our liking — we should like another taste. Mrs Banta, who also visited us two years ago, arrived November 5. During her visit we entertained at a tea for her; also at open house for her, her husband, and Mr Banta ’s Phi Delta Theta brothers. We enjoved haying Mrs Banta with us at our initiation ceremonies when we initiated Caryl Gidley of Glenburn, and Ruth Sinclair and Dorothy Heitman of Grand Forks. We were fortunate in winning first prize for the best dec¬ orated house on Home-coming day, October 17. But we felt no less jubilant over the cup we are to receive than we did over the result of the football game with South Dakota. Theta has been gratified by Ruth Schlaberg’s election to Quo Vadis. She was the only senior girl elected to this organiza¬ tion this fall. Mary Swanston was one of the junior girls chosen last spring. Ruth also won high laurels in the Playmaker play Her husband’ s wife, which made a tour of the state recently. Mary Thexton and Ruth Sinclair were on the all-varsity hockey team. Ruth Hancock and Ruth and Helen McGurk played on class hockey teams. Rhoda Burtness, Mary Thexton, Betty Chappie and Ruth and Helen McGurk were elected to W.A.A. Helen Hall, pledge, was elected to reserve membership in Dakota Playmakers, of which Ruth Schlaberg, Mary Swanston and Ruth Argal are active members. Three pledges, Rhoda Burtness, Sophronia Burtness and Helen Crawford hold report¬ ing positions on the Dakota daily student . Beth Countryman and Ruth Hancock are members of the Junior Prom committee. Ruth Hancock and Caryl Gidley are members of Carney song contest committees. Anita Landacre and Ruth Sulerud recently were pledged to Delta Phi Delta, art fraternity. Jean Hutchin¬ son was elected treasurer of the university League of women voters. Laura Hanks was elected president of Philymnian club, an organization of students of voice. December 4 we plan open house for Sigma Nu. December 12 is the date of the Kappa Alpha Theta inter-sorority ball. We have supervised study for pledges. Each pledge must study at the chapter house two hours each day. Although our
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222 Kappa Alpha Theta scholarship was not at the bottom of the list last year, we hope to raise it to a position nearer the top. 29 November 1925 Ruth. Sulerud Pearl Burtness, Carrington ; Evelyn Suter and Marie Mollers, Grafton ; Arlouine Olson, Fargo; Helen Fox, Kenmare; Dagny Hassel, Koulette; Tnez Serumgard, Devils Lake; Faith Grinnell Conmy (Mrs. Edward) Fargo, and Thelma Gunderson, Minneapolis, visited the chapter hou&e Home-coining day. Ruth Whithed Budge (Mrs Alexander) of Honolulu visited Dr and Mrs R. D. Campbell this fall. Mrs Campbell is a Kappa Alpha Theta patroness. Dagny Hassel spent Thanksgiving with her parents in Grand Forks. ALPHA RHO— UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA Alpha Rho is happy to announce the initiation October 4 of Evelyn Maule (sister of Mable and Jennie) Dell Rapids; Marion Townsend, Groton; Irene Williams (sister of Flo) Sioux Falls; Inez Mallory, Vermillion. November 8, we pledged Pauline Wendell (sister of Martha) Aberdeen, and Ruth Moe (sister of Ann) Canton. We had open house October 24, and the house informal November 20. The next day the pledges gave an all-pledge Snow party. The rooms were decorated with pendants of mock icicles and snowballs, and a jovial cotton-batton snowman held a position of prominence. Arctic refreshments, Eskimo pies, con¬ cluded this unique dance. Alpha Rho recently received a gift of money from the city Panhellenic for attaining the highest scholarship in 1924-25. Endeavoring to maintain this high standard, we exerted every effort to shine in the mid-semester examinations, and the results are encouraging. Two signal honors have come to Alpha Rho. Margery Rey¬ nolds has been elected secretary of the Law association, and Helen Early, president of the School of arts and science. Eve Leslie is on the Coyote staff, is a member of the Junior prom committee, has been pledged to Theta Alpha Phi, and is secretary-treasurer of the junior class. Maxine Henry pledged Theta Delta Pi, local women’s journalistic fraternity. Edna Lass is vice president of Yellow Tie, sophomore girls. Grace Beede is vice president of the Cosmopolitan club. Alpha Rho has been well represented in fall sports. Helen Barker, Grace Beede, Margery Reynolds, Ellinore Payne, Lelia Dunlap and Meta Meisenholder made their class teams in field
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Chapter news 22:5 hockey. Grace Beede, head of tennis, Marge Reynolds, junior manager, Lowene Lancelot, sophomore manager, and Elizabeth Frary entered the tournament of tennis doubles. We are in the midst of the South Dakota Union campaign for the completion of our stadium and the erection of a students’ union building. 23 November 1925 % Grace Beede Gladys Stinson is teaching at Ellendale. N.P. Anne Dunlap is teaching home economics at Rock Springs, Wyo. Leila Gilbertson is teaching high school English at Zumbrota, Minn. Alice Burke Whitlow (Mrs Claude) is living at Ann Arbor, Mich. Address: 105 Washtenaw Apts, 332 E. Williams st. Helen Drake Weller (Mrs Al) is at home in Mitchell, S.D. Marie Levitt is teaching in the Sioux Falls public schools. Agnes Buck is teaching at Magdalena, N. M. Grace Ackeley Goff (Mrs Ed) is teaching at Rillito, Ariz. Born Nov. 6 to Mr and Mrs Studenroth (Ernestine Clark) a daughter, Patricia Ann. Janice La Brie is teaching at Doland, S. D. Betty Jiricek is teaching at Geddes, S. D. Mae Olston ie managing the high school cafeteria of the Proviso high school at Cicero, Ill. Vermillion Thetas are happy to have here this year Susanna. Moody White (Mrs Hohn) Kappa. Her husband is a new member of the journal¬ ism faculty and she is taking postgraduate work at the university. ALPHA SIGMA— WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE We have a lot of news. In the first place I will tell you about Lois Toevs, senior, who was pledged to Quill club on the merit of her story, The ebony box. We are all glad and proud of her, as her story is really an exceptional one. We have tried a new and successful system in entertaining faculty this year; a series of five-to-seven teas on three consecu¬ tive Sunday evenings. Invitation lists were so divided that mem¬ bers of related departments were invited to the same tea. The teas were much enjoyed both by the faculty and girls. Mrs Keene, our District president, was our guest the past week-end. Her visit was a pleasure and an inspiration. Her charm and friendliness, as much as her valuable advice, construc¬ tive criticism, sympathy, and encouragement, made us many times grateful for her presence. Friday night of Mrs Keene’s arrival we gave our first* dance this year in honor of pledges. The plan was suggested by Helene Cooke, who had seen it work successfully at other colleges. Each
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224 Kappa Alpha Theta girl submitted to the chairman of the dance committee the name of a man whom she wished invited. The dance was most in¬ formal, there being no programs. All claimed the evening was most successful. We are happy to re-pledge Elmo Kennedy, pledged last year but obliged to drop out because of a nervous breakdown. Madeline Power, one of our young Spokane alumnae, has been here the past week, displaying her “Metalic nocturnes.’ ’ The last college play, Disraeli, presented November 13 and 14 was so successful that it is to be presented in Spokane, Novem¬ ber 28. Janet Kennedy did excellent work opposite Disraeli. A new pet, a little gray kitten, has adopted us recently. He amuses us as he has a playful and affectionate disposition, and loves attention. The house is divided into definite factions — those enthusiasts who like cats, and those (equally enthusiastic in protest) who do not. 27 November 1925 Frances Evans ALPHA TAU— UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI October 12 was an important day as it closed a successful rushing season. The pledges are Virginia Bowen, Norwood, Ohio; Emily Dalby, Elgin, Illinois; Elizabeth McGaughev, Martha Laing, Erma Peyton, Helen Pinney, Erma Phleger, Cynthia Perin, Jane Purcell, Margaret Richardson, Sue Belle Remlin, Henrietta Thompson, and Martha Withrow of Cin¬ cinnati; Marion Summers, Huntington, West Virginia; and Eleanor Todd, Montgomery, Ohio. We were glad to have as guest this month Mrs H. F. Thom¬ son, Grand treasurer, who explained the use of the Busey sys¬ tem under which our financial troubles will decrease. Airs Overturf, our District president, honored us with a visit, when we were proud to have her meet our pledges. Alpha Tau enter¬ tained with a tea in her honor. We have moved into a larger apartment, where our mothers are kindly helping us get settled. We are very grateful for their gifts of draperies and rugs. November 1 the pledges entertained with a tea for the pledges of the other women’s fraternities, starting off a round of similar teas. At recent class elections, Inez Vollrath was elected repre¬ sentative to Student council from the College of education. Helen Pinney has been chosen freshman Cheerleader for women.
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Chapter news 225 Emily Dalby is an associate editor on Cynic staff. Elizabeth McGaughey, Erma Phleger, Margaret Richardson and Jane De- Serisy played on the freshman hockey team. Mary Dom made the sophomore hockey team. Erma Phleger, and Elizabeth Mc¬ Gaughey have positions on Cynic staff. Sue Belle Remlin and Jane Purcell are reporters for the News . The Alphonso Taft law college was dedicated October 14. Chief Justice Taft was the principal speaker. Between the halves of the Home-coming game the freshmen staged a circus parade, in which our pledges appeared as clowns. Another feature of Home-coming was an Interfraternity sing, won by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. A new humorous magazine, Cynic , has made its appearance and received a warm welcome. We hope it has come to stay. The Mothers club entertained the mothers of pledges with a tea November 25. The club also held a preserve shower for the house. Miss Simrall, Dean of women, spoke to the Mothers soliciting their interest in organizing a Mothers’ Panhellenic club. Our annual tea dance was November 28, at which time we presented our pledges. 30 November 1925 Dorothy Carothers Bom to Mr and Mrs Fred Todd (Gertrude Greene) a daughter, Pru¬ dence. Born to Mr and Mrs Willard Butler (Marie Crowe) a son, Patrick. Born to Mr and Mrs Frederick Jordon, a son. The following engagements have been announced: Katherine Withrow to George Lewis, 2 A II J Adele Fischer to Harold Merton ; Elsa Morris to E. C. Kaeser. Dorothy Dysart was married to Lieut. Bonner Frank Fellers, Nov. 25. Address: Box 37, West Piont, N. Y. Julia Wright Merrill has been selected by the American library asso¬ ciation to make a rural library survey, covering the entire United States. Her headquarters and address are c/o American Library Assoc. 86 Randolph st. Chicago, Ill. ALPHA UPSILON— WASHBURN COLLEGE We are all working hard to keep our scholarship average high ; scholastic requirements here are now more exacting than formerly. November 23 we pledged Inez Hammond of Dodge City and Audrey Brenn of St. John. Both were at Washburn last year. We are proud of the record our pledges have made in activi¬ ties. Harriet Bryan, Inez Hammond, Elise Phares, and Grace Hetler have been elected to Dramatic club. Jeanne Knowles,
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226 Kappa Alpha Theta Elizabeth Cofer, Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, and Virginia Mc¬ Kee have been chosen as members of freshman commission. Helen Hobbs is a member of the string quartette, and Jeanne Knowles of the orchestra. Helen Washburn and Carolyn Smith have made the freshman hockey team. Marguerite Nellis is art director of the Kaw, our annual. An all college party, the Horse-shoe Hop, was in charge of Caston Washburn, senior. Mary Ramsey, another senior, was presented recently by the School of music in a piano recital. Alberta Thoroman, senior, and Frances Montgomery, junior, have been elected to the girl’s pep squad. Dinner is served at the chapter house to the entire chapter every Monday night. The plan fosters chapter unity. We are all looking forward to our Christmas party, given every year for the pledges. It will be December 5, at the Elks’ club. Our Chicken Fry, which was to have been October 24, was turned into a house-dance on account of bad weather. Plans for the new system of student government are almost complete. 1 December 1925 Roberta Smith Born: to Mr and Mrs Bobbins Herrick, of Paris, France, a son. Miss Elsie Jones, Professor of home economics at Washburn, recently underwent an operation. Her classes are being taught by Beatrice Shake- shaft. ALPHA PHI— NEWCOMB COLLEGE All fraternity members breathlessly are awaiting the faculty ’s answer to Panhellenic’s petition for a freshman pledge day. The faculty has always insisted on sophomore pledging, but we hope to put through this plan — that those freshmen without con¬ ditions and with an average of 75% may be pledged after mid¬ terms, providing we initiate in the fall only those who have an average of 80% for the second half of their freshman year. We do not see in the plan anything to which anyone could object, but some faculty members whose words arc wont to carry con¬ viction are violently opposed to it. November 24 we made way with Mamie Sienknecht’s second five pounds. No, Mamie was not engaged twice, but this double supply was sent by way of congratulations for our success in pledging. Muriel Wilson made the Mandolin and Guitar club, of which Ruth Sanford is president. Frances Shaw has a part in the Dramatic club play, and is chairman of the Workshop com-
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Chapter news 227 mittee. Mary Sanders, Willie May Delchamps, and Muriel Wilson made the volleyball team. Frances Shaw was re-elected as representative for her class to the Spanish committee. Tulane played their last game yesterday, Thanksgiving, their final victory. The season has been a glorious one — not one game lost, but Alabama took the southern championship from us, win- ning on more points. We were unable to get a new room near the campus, so were forced to move back into the old one. Conditions are improved, however, in that there are no music lessons given in the ad¬ joining room. We have new black and gold satin cushions and black and gold cretonne curtains. A new chair on either side of the president’s table adds to the effect. Altogether it looks like a new room, so who cares? 27 November 1925 Frances Shaw Married, Oct. 30, Margaret Goodman to F. Ralph Michel. Mr and Mrs W. V. Howland (Temple Keane) have returned to New Orleans to live. They are staying at the Roosevelt hotel. ALPHA CHI— PURDUE UNIVERSITY Copy and proofs of letter lost in shop or mails. ALPHA PSI— LAWRENCE COLLEGE Seven pledges! Seven initiates! is the slogan which Alpha Psi is doing everything in her power to make a reality. We have introduced Pledge Study on week nights from seven to nine o|clock at the college library, with one Theta supervising each night. All pledges have entered activities. Helen Chegwin was elected to Sunset players, and she and Theodora Reeve made the Freshman commission. Jean Christensen was elected treasurer of the freshman class. Many have joined Y.W.C.A. and some are in the choir. Helen Davy was elected to Ariel staff and Jean Christensen to Lawrentian staff. Helen Dodge and Mary Werner have been invited to join the History club. November 24 a very formal and impressive service was held in our chapel for the inauguration of President Wriston. He made a very eloquent speech designating Lawrence ’s distinctive aim as the giving of a cultural background in contrast to the vocational element of other institutions. Eagerly we awaited December 3 and a visit from Mrs Le- brecht. At last the day arrived and a happy and excited chap¬ ter welcomed our charming Grand president. After consulta-
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228 Kappa Alpha Theta tions with Miss Lytton and Dr Wriston she honored us with her presence at our meeting, and then there was a dinner at the home of Mrs Boyd for all Thetas in the vicinity. Mrs Lebrecht talked of the help the fraternity and the college can give to each other, and she urged loyalty to our college, first and foremost. She stressed the idea and value of a democratic spirit, and showed our chapter wherein it must aid the new President and Dean in the new era that is beckoning our college toward a better and bigger Lawrence. Our formal dinner dance was December 5 at the Valley Inn in Neenah. Miss Lytton and Dr Mac Harg and Mr and Mrs George Banta, junior, were the chaperons. The usual confetti livened up the party. Every one thought it a great success. 6 December 1926 Mary Jane McComb Mrs Stuart Mouatt (Ethelyn Lindley) and Geraldine Pugh attended the Home-coming game. Norma Cass is president of the city Panhellenic. Mrs Waldemar Bergstrom (Agnes Forsythe) recently spent two weeks in Kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs James T. Haviland (Marjorie Benton) was a visitor at the Nov. meeting. Norma Cass attended a meeting of the Milwaukee alumnai chapter, while visiting her sister Mabel Cass Hooley, during the State reuchei s convention. Her account of the meeting was most interesting and gave us some helpful suggestions for our own use. Born to Mr and Mrs Homer Clark Bower (Carrie Blair) a son, Blair Thomas, Oct. 18. Address: 1413 Union av. McKeesport, Pa. Helen Ritchie is now Mrs Percy E. Hamre and lives at 1103 E. Mif¬ flin st. Madison, Wis. ALPHA OMEGA— UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Alpha Omega is all ready for visitors, so we invite everyone to come and see us and our new furniture. There are new rugs for the dining room and the chapter room, and also a new din¬ ing room suite of two tables with chairs, a buffet, and a tea wagon. In addition to all this newness is a gift or rather gifts, from our sophomores, the pledges of last year: these gifts are a spinet desk, with desk set, a chair, and a bridge lamp. They are so lovely that it is doubtful if anyone will be permitted to use them for a time. They were presented at a dance at the chapter house, November 20. November 14, in the afternoon, initiation was held for Hazel Killingsworth. It was followed by a delightful week-end at High Acres, the home of Jean McKenna, near Greensburg, where we
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Chapter news 229 had a banquet followed by songs, bridge, and a slumber party. We all returned to Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon. Jean Webster Hay, sophomore, was pledged October 26. Among campus offices lately acquired are — Jeannette McClure on Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, and elected college manager of the 1927 Owl; Marion Hedden, apprentice manager of Owl; Katherine Fleming, a member of girls’ Glee club quartet; Eliza Jane Rey¬ nolds on Students’ self-government association board, and chair¬ man of Brashear Memorial drive; Jane Smith in Pitt players, and Kathryn Rowell, a star dramatist having one of the leads in the last play by that organization; Anna Bess Mathews on Junior Prom committee. The annual Mortar board recognition list includes four Thetas, Katherine Fleming, Jeannette McClure, Kathryn Rowell, and Dorothy Russell. 30 November 1925 Edith Endsley Dorothy Steele is in Santa Barbara for the winter. Mary Chapman has announced her engagement to Frank Williams, r A , Pitt ’23. They will have an early spring wedding. Gladys McKee Pearce has moved to Newark, N.J. Mr and Mrs L. H. McCandless (Elizabeth Elkins) are now in Mil¬ waukee, Wis. Meta Ebling, who is president of Cleveland alumnae chapter, was back for the Pitt-Carnegie Tech game which dedicated our new stadium. Mrs Herman Sobeck (Rhoda Koenig) now living in St. Louis, Mo. is recovering from a serious operation in a hospital of that city. Married, June 17, Mary Wightman and Thomas Parks Kirkpatrick. At home, 1166 South Av. Wilkinsburg, Pa. Dr Agnes Burns Ferguson has won the honor of being chosen a Fel¬ low of the American College of surgeons. Dr Ferguson was the only woman to receive this distinction. Her thesis was one of five exhibited from among five hundred submitted. Annetta J. Thompson, who has been with the International Institute at St. Paul, Minn, is now in charge of the branch of that organization located at Duluth. Address: 2116 Woodland Av. BETA BETA— RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN’S COLLEGE Beta Beta has grown. Katherine Wright, Meridian, Missis¬ sippi, an advanced standing sophomore was pledged. October 11, the series of four successive rushing teas began. Up to that time, we had not been allowed to mention fraternities to fresh¬ men. We worked hard to make our house attractive — carrying out a different scheme each afternoon in decorations, favors, and refreshments. The money to be spent on teas was limited so we made all favors and decorations. October 17, bids were sent. That afternoon, we promised eleven charming girls, who will be
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230 Kappa Alpha Theta pledged after passing twelve semester hours. Our freshman promises are Patricia McMurray, McAlester, Oklahoma; May Frances Tuttle, Farmville; Mary Alice Beck, Griffin, Georgia; Lucile West and Mildred Martin, Clayton, Alabama; Rita Brew¬ ster and Mary Herndon, Welch, West Virginia; Margaret Hollo- well and Margaret Sawyer, Elizabeth City, North Carolina; Margaret Lindsey Thomas, Lebanon, Kentucky; and Maude Weiss, Cleveland, Tennessee. After the service, we had a four- course banquet at the chapter house. We were delighted to have Mrs H. F. Thomson, Grand treasurer, with us at this time. We cooked breakfast for the promisees at the house the next morn¬ ing, and entertained them that night. October 29 Betty Dunlap, Macon, Georgia ; Katherine Wright, Meridian, Mississippi; Eleanor Dunson, La Grange, Georgia, and Minnie Brooks Parker, Portsmouth were initiated. We were proud to have Lois McClure, one of our seniors, take the leading role in the Thanksgiving play, Come out of the kitchen. December 5, Evelyn Thompson, one of our juniors, covered herself with glory in a debate with Randolph-Macon college. Randolph-Macon Women’s college won the debate unanimously. 5 December 1925 Frances E. Walling Announcement has been made of the engagement of Mary Stay to Henry Kelley Buckner, A 0, of Nashville, Tenn. Edith West is teaching at Florida State college for women. Sarah Mac Donald is librarian at the State college for teachers, Farm¬ ville, Va. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Frances Williams to Curtis Baum. Marie La Grow’s engagement to Surrey Edgar Gilliam, El Dorado, Ark. is announced. Married: Maxie Stone and Thurston Runyan. Barbara Gilbreath is this winter leading violinist of the orchestra at Royal Palms hotel, Ft Myers, Fla. Virginia M. Smith is now living at Apt. 502, 1101 Massachusetts av. N. W. Washington, D. C. BETA GAMMA— COLORADO STATE COLLEGE Diphtheria and football have kept us busy. Our house has escaped quarantine, but most of the fraternity houses have been closed at least once. As for football we are all throwing out our chests proudly, for our team is champion of the Rocky Moun¬ tain conference and was sent to Hawaii to play the university there.
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Chapter news 231 Beta Gamma is not far behind the football team in winning. In the contest for selling Silver Spruces , the college annual, the Theta team won all prizes. The new clock on our mantel is the group prize, while Billie Black won first individual prize ; Anne Kimball second ; and Mabel Watson third. Alice Robinson and Virginia Curry were the other members of the team. October 12 Beta Gamma pledged: Gretchen Brown, Fern Newsom, Ruth McCormick and Mabel Watson of Fort Collins; Virginia Curry, Janet Keating (sister of Ellen, Beta Iota) Alice Robinson and Janet Wallace of Pueblo; Alma Marsh of Greeley; Katherine Abbott of Denver; and Norma Curtis of Peonia. A dazzling crimson, green, gold and purple pledge dance with balloons and confetti was given December 5. The pledges are active on campus. Gretchen Brown and Alice Robinson are members of the Dramatic club. Gretchen was elected to Student council. Fern Newson has been appointed on womens Upperclass council. Ruth McCormick is president of freshman commission and Alice Robinson, secretary, while Ruth is also class secretary. Alpha Chi Alpha, a national women’s journalistic fraternity, was installed on the campus. Dorothy Spencer is a charter mem¬ ber and Anne Kimball, a pledge. Martha Fish Melclier was the leading lady in Icebound , the last Dramatic club play. Gretchen Brown took the part of the sniffly, dirt-faced son, Orin, of Sadie Fellows, which part was taken by Gladys Mott. Necile Towner and Mary Elizabeth Fox were initiated No¬ vember 8. 27 November 1925 Gladys Mott Clarice Laurent, Caroline Albers, Josephine Peters, Dorothy Finger Dotson (Mrs Harry) Dorothy Ross, Katherine Leonard, Eleanor Armstrong Hicks (Mrs Elmer) Ruth Watts, and the town alumnae were entertained at a buffet dinner on November 14, Home-coming day. Mr and Mrs Francis A. McCrackin (Katherine Kimball) and their small son visited the Theta house Nov. 27. Born: To Mr and Mrs Ed LeDonnc (Florence Lillis) a son, John Robert. BETA DELTA— UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Beta Delta is happy for several reasons. She has two more pledges, Margaret Stokely of Phoenix, and Cecilia Gmahling of Douglas. She has moved from sixth place on the scholarship list to third. Luella Campbell was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and made chairman of the Red Cross Roll call. Carol De Fever was
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232 Kappa Alpha Theta given a part in The doll house. The chapter won the prize at the coed prom for the most original stunt. Combined with our happiness has been a great deal of un¬ happiness. Dr A. 0. Neal, our Registrar, died from heart trouble. Professor Catlin of the Agriculture college died from an operation. Jewel Ombse3r, a student, died as the result of a fall. Two pledges, Mary Overton and Georgie Reav, due to illness are not carrying sufficient work to entitle them to be pledges. We hope that by next semester they will be able to carry their full quota of units. Arizona’s newest local fraternity, Zeta Beta, is petitioning Zeta Beta Tau. Lucille Koch’s father gave the chapter a german police puppy. We have named him Cherry Koch in honor of Mr Koch. Our annual yama yama dance was October 31. The house was decorated with cornstalks and all kinds of halloween things. Each person, including the orchestra, wore a yama yama suit trimmed with gold ruffs. We served pumpkin pie with whipped cream, pop corn balls and coffee. Everyone had a barrel of fun. The pledges are to give the chapter a sport dance next month. Sport outfits will be worn and the hall decorated with all things symbolizing athletics. 21 November 1925 Mary Frances Munds Born to Mr and Mrs Henry Boyce (Margaret Tait) a son. Mrs Richie, mother of Alice Richie Mahoney, died Nov. 16. Mrs Genevieve Cope Casey died in Phoenix. Irene Youngkin is attending S. B. U. C. in Los Augeles. Married: Catherine Tait and Edward Evans, K 2. BETA EPSILON— OREGON STATE COLLEGE Beta Epsilon pledged October 4, Mildred Armbruster, Los Angeles, California; Rosalind McWhinney (a Theta daughter) Seattle; Genevieve Reed, Helen Wells, Mary Braeher, and Ger¬ trude Sharpe, Portland; Georgia Wright, Albany; Norma Young, Hood River; Eleanor Eakins, Pasadena, California. Eleanor Eakins is a junior, having attended Cumnock’s school of ex¬ pression in Los Angeles for three years. The week following pledging, Vera Kienast, Eleanor Simp¬ son, and Betty Lively were initiated. Our first social affair was a tea October 23, in honor of our new house mother, Mrs M. E. Smith, who was at the D.A.R. house at the University of Washington for three years.
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Chapter news 233 November 6 was the date of the faculty reception, an annual affair with us. About 200 faculty members called during the evening. The house was decorated with fall flowers — rusty gold chrysanthemums — and was lighted with green and gold candles. The sophomores served, so that the freshmen might have an opportunity to become acquainted with the faculty. Another event which we shall always remember is Martha’s wedding October 28. Martha Kiger married James Baker. Both were graduated from the school of pharmacy last year and were residents of Corvallis. Their new home is in Eugene. Many students and faculty were among their friends at the wedding. Flora McCoy and Esther Benson were brides-maids and Helen Elgin was maid of honor. The members of the chapter assisted at the reception at the Kiger home following the ceremony. 29 November 1925 Sallie Rogers ' Mrs Willis Houghton (Louemma Waters) who has been in New York the last few years is now living in Salem, at 1745 John at. Mrs Jack Grafton (Barbara Nisley) has moved to Yakima, Wash. Hazel Martin was married to Glen Smith, a graduate of the University of Oregon, last summer. They live in Heppner, Ore. where Mr Smith is principal of the high school. Married Oct 17, Pauline Dick and James Lively, of Portland. Dorothy Linklater and Kenneth Covell, 2 4> E, were married last summer. Mr Coveil is the son of Dean G. A. Covell of the school of engineering here. The engagement of Grace Starr and Thomas Mathews, B 0 n, was announced at a dance in Portland, Nov. 27. Married, Annette Weatherford and T. G. Cogwill, 2 N, Sept. 2. Ad¬ dress: 417 Woodstock st. Medford, Oreg. BETA ZETA— OKLAHOMA STATE COLLEGE October 30 Beta Zeta gave its annual Yamma-Yamma dance. The hall was effectively decorated with gay leaves and berries, and suggestive cats, owls, and pumpkins. Yamma-Yamma cos¬ tumes of every description greatly aided in carrying out the spirit of Hallowe’en. Guests from Alpha Omicron were Peggy Stephenson, Maxine Cutlip, and Elizabeth Odell. October 31 was Home-coming. Although sorry to lose to Grinnell in football, we were very glad to have several Beta Zeta alumme back. Our alumna? guests were Katherine lkard of Chickasha, Faye Finch-Green of Chandler, Louise Hightower of Pauls Valley, Maude Bandel-Kite, Mattie Kimberlin-Williams, Zelma Alcott.
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234 Kappa Alpha Theta Three new buildings are nearing completion on our campus ; an Agricultural administration building, and two dormitories. It is thought the Women’s dormitory will be completed by Jan¬ uary. Although we have had no big outside donations for our new stadium, nevertheless it is well started. As student donations come in the stadium keeps growing, section by section. Gertrude Holt was elected captain of Peppers, the girl’s pep organization of which Wauhillau La Hay, Polly Cowan, Charlie Lou Pittman, Betty Baldwin-Murphy, Betty McDowell, and Louise Cameron are members. Beta Zeta entertained the eleven men’s fraternities and other guests with Open House Sunday evening, November 8. We were delighted to have as guests last week-end Adele Roth, Upsilon, and Freida Seide, Delta Delta Delta, also from the University of Minnesota. Mrs Irvin L. Wilson of Oklahoma City alumme, deputy for our District president, will be with us next week. 4 December 1925 Betty Baldwin-Murphy Born, May 16, to Mr and Mrs Walter Weaver (Alma Brooks) Geneva Ann. Born June 1, to Mr and Mrs Ansel Crowder (Florence Kraemer) a daughter. Born Oct. 26, to Mr and Mrs J. Clay Woodson (Eula Tice) a daughter, Elizabeth Nelle. Born Sept. 17, to Mr and Mrs Frank Cross (Fern Hamilton) Frank Bernard. Married Sept. 15, Muriel Tice to Hawthorne Nelson, A X A. At home in Midwest, Wyo. Married in Sept. Lucille Grady to Frank Allen, O K N. Married in June, Sylvia Mayer to Dr George Wilk. At home, Paw- huska, Okla. BETA ETA— UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Rushing is over, so we breathe a sigh of relief and settle down to concentrated study for mid-term examinations. November 30 we pledged Florence Redman, Marjory Porter, Elizabeth Casselberry, Helen Henle, Martha Henwood, Blanche Knabe, and Ethel Rumpp. Martha Henwood is vice president of the freshman class. Helen Henle is on the freshman class council. Blanche Knabe and Ethel Rumpp made varsity hockey team. We ended our rushing season with a pleasant house-party at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles D. White at Atlantic City, and a banquet at the Marlborough-Blenheim hotel, where the
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Chapter news 235 table was beautifully decorated in black and gold, with at¬ tractive place-cards and favors. Discussions on the World Court, held under the auspices of the Christian association, have been of much interest on campus. A World Court conference was held here a few weeks ago, with representatives present from the surrounding colleges. The Y.W.C.A. is holding an international bazaar November I) and 10. Each room in Bennett club is to represent a foreign country, with foreign students in charge. The object is to promote a feeling of sympathy between different nations. A new instructor in the physical education department is Miss Hildegarde Jacobs from Wellesly, half-back on the All- American hockey team. We were happy to have Mrs Thomson, Grand treasurer, visit us. She gave us many helpful suggestions. We appreciate the privilege of knowing her personally. The week of November 30 was Junior week, with Helen Pennypacker as junior president in charge. For the juniors, the seniors gave a card-party, the sophomores a barn-party, and the freshmen a luncheon. Friday night, the Junior Prom, by far the largest women’s dance of the season, was held in Houston hall. This month we are entertaining in our apartment, the Philadelphia alumnae chapter for its monthly meeting. A tea will be given December 12 in honor of the pledges’ Mothers. Madella Rigby and Dorothy Schoell were elected to Mortar board. Carol Cummings was married October 10 to Philip Livings¬ ton. She is our only married active member. We cordially invite any Thetas stopping in Philadelphia to visit our chapter, and if possible to come to meetings on Mon¬ day evenings. 1 December 1925 Eleanor W. Raah BETA THETA— UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO The Blue Bucket inn gave evidence of a happy, noisy Hal¬ lowe’en frolic on the evening of October 23. Passers-by, on inquiring what it was all about, were told that it was the Theta pledge dance. As the orchestra played the pledge special, 14 want-to-be Thetas graced the floor with their partners. Christmas time is drawing near and also our annual scholar-
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236 Kappa Alpha Theta ship bazaar which is set for October 5. Everyone is busy mak¬ ing pretty things for the Christmas shoppers. The annual Pep hank show was November 13 and 14. The name of the show was Tea Hawks. It was different from the shows that have been given formerly, being a series of dances, songs and skits, giving an idea of Ziegfeld Follies. Beulah Brown and Bernice Suppiger were in the show. Beta Theta Pi held its house warming November 6 in its new $70,000 house. Pi Sigma Rho sorority, a local organized two years ago, entertained at an all-college reception November 13 in honor of the completion of its new home. Home-coming was the week-end of October 30. The Uni¬ versity of Southern California played our Vandals on the Mac- Lean field before 12,000 spectators. Our house guests were Mary Nodle Crozier, husband and little infant son; Rita Kend¬ rick Guerin (Mrs Arthur), Elizabeth Bartlett, Jewell Coon and Marion Sweet. President Upham and wife are traveling in Europe, and not expected to return until the first of the year. Dorothy Messenger was pledged October 19. Dorothy had been attending the University of Arizona on account of her health, but due to unexpected developments returned to Idaho and registered late. Dr and Mrs Barton entertained the chapter at a watermelon contest October 19. Every one was quite startled and concerned when the tiniest girl in the chapter succeeded in carrying off the honors. She is enjoying perfect health at this time and is prob¬ ably a bigger girl for the experience. Freda Howard recently was pledged to Pi Beta Gamma, busi¬ ness women’s fraternity. Marie Ilogenson was initiated into Curtain, dramatic society. Mildred Perry has been elected presi¬ dent of Y.W.C.A. to fill the vacancy left by Elsie Potter, who did not return to college. Dean and Mrs Messenger entertained the Theta and Sigma Nu upperclassmen at a chicken dinner November 22. Mrs Marie Keene, our District president, was a chapter visitor from November 23 to 25. Florence Stone left November 16 for Pocatello where she will be County Demonstrator of Bannock county. She would have graduated at mid-year, and now expects to finish her work by correspondence. 27 November 1925 Marie Hogenson
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Chapter news 237 Polly Thomas McCallie and husband of San Jose, Calif, were chapter visitors Oct. 16 and 17. Mabel Eiehner was a caller at the chapter house Oct. 17. Her new address is Kooskia, Idaho. Grace Jacobson was a guest at the chapter house after the W. S. C.- Idalio game. Manilla Reed Gibbon’s present address is Deerwood, Minn. Mrs Ernest E. Hubert, Alpha Nu, attended fraternity meeting Nov. 23. Mary Dickinson is now in Pocatello, 429 Garfield st. Gladys Perry has moved from Moscow to Rutherfordton, N. Car. Box 166. Florence Stone can be reached at this address: Box 1273, Pocatello, Idaho. BETA IOTA— UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO At the close of rush week, September 27, we pledged Evelyn Balman and Nancy Pleasants, Canon City; Margaret Copely, Wichita, Kansas; Betty Merrick, Virginia Hayes, Dorothy Ford, Mary Garwood (daughter of Amy Johnson Garwood, Psi) and Ruth Simon, Denver; Carol Case, San Francisco; Merle Smith (sister of Alline, Alpha Mu) Kansas City, Missouri; Ruthanna Cotton, Pueblo; Dona Mae Rickie, Loveland; Eleanor Stewart (sister of Helen, Alpha Omicron) Medford, Oklahoma; Margaret Wallace, Monte Vista. We have turned our enthusiasm toward plans for a new house, which we need badly. We have bought our lots, and in order to save money have eliminated our formal winter dance, in place of which each member will give five dollars to the house fund. The annual football game between Colorado university and Colorado State was November 14 at Fort Collins. Beta Gamma chapter entertained Beta Iota members at lunch that day. No¬ vember 11 our pledges were entertained at dinner by Mrs Robert Sterling (Sybil Stewart, Eta). It is probable that sophomore pledging will go into effect here next year, the decision to be made in December. Katherine Segerberg is pledged to Hesperia, junior society ; Nancy Pleasants to Asaph, musical society, and Virginia Sleeper to Press club. At a recent W.S.G.A. dinner, Ruthanna Cotton was chosen the prettiest girl in the university. Our annual Thanksgiving dinner will be November 24. Im¬ mediately following the pledges will give the Katsup. It is impossible to pry an atom of news concerning the latter from any pledge. 23 September 1925 Lucille Phillips
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238 Kappa Alpha Theta Married: Mildred Platt to Thomas McAndries. New addresses of some alumnae are: Genevieve DeArmand, Glasgow, Mont. Margaret Loebnitz, Quanali, Tex. Rachel Stuart, 1425 St. Paul st. Denver, Col. Kathryn and Barbara Farnsworth, Lamar, Col. Edith Marsh, Mt. Morrison, Col. Margraet Denny, Capen house, Smith college, Northampton, Mass. Myra Campbell, Dexter, N. M. Florence McClung, Kiowa, Kan. Helen Bean Carpenter (Mrs E. G.) is now in Boulder to remain until May. Hildred Bean Beverly (Mrs James Earl) is going to live in Chicago. BETA KAPPA— DRAKE UNIVERSITY After a successful rush we turned our thoughts and energy toward study and college activities. Class elections gave us three secretaries: senior, Ua Harris; sophomore, Vega Morehouse, pledge; freshman, Lorraine Pol¬ lock. There are three Thetas on Delphic staff, Frances Burt, Peggy Pitkin and Charlotte Dickson, pledge. Our Annual, Quax, to be published early in the spring has four of our girls on the staff — Frances Burt, Dorothy Wright, Esther Utterback and Virginia Fitzhugh, pledge. Frances Burt is vice president of Sigma Tau Delta, journalistic, to which Dorothy Wright was pledged recently. Esther Utterback, Elsie Amend, 11a Harris, and Frances Burt are all members of the women's Athletic board. Ua Harris is executive chairman of the 1026 musical comedy, one of the most important events staged annually by Drake women. She has three Thetas assisting her; Miriam Perkins, Esther Utterback and Frances Burt. Beth Shawver and Helen Hosteter, pledge, are pledged to Zeta Phi Pita, dramatic. November 16 Beth Shawver, Rho, affiliated with Beta Kappa. The new Drake stadium was opened October 10 when Drake played the Kansas Aggies for the long end of a 19 to 0 score. November 7 the stadium was well dedicated in as much as Drake won a 14 to 0 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers in spite of a blinding snowstorm which raged throughout the game. Miriam Reynolds, Millicent Ginn, and Rosiland Platner of Rho, were guests at the Theta House that week-end. Miss Lois Butler, Pi Beta Phi, was also a very welcome guest. The stadium itself is built in a natural bowl and is of “U” shape, having a seating capacity of 20,000. November 21 was the date of our Home-coming game with Ames. Theta took second prize for the best decorated float. Several pledges served at the traditional Barbecue on West
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Chapter news 239 Campus. It was anybody’s game until the fourth quarter when Ames scored a touch down and afterwards held Drake to three safeties, making the final score 7 to 6. After the game we held open house for alumnae and Ames visitors, and although pretty blue managed to make every one think we were good losers. Our District president, Mrs Grasett, was our guest several days in November. She has a charming personality and was a delightful visitor. We gave a tea in her honor and asked as guests two members from each women’s fraternity. We enjoyed her visit and hope she will return again soon. The pledges are entertaining the chapter December 11 with a formal dinner-dance at Mrs Lemley’s tea room. 28 November 1925 Dorothy Bullock Married: Juliette Chamberlain to Horace W. Hoiglit, B 0 n, Nov. 21. Born: to Mr and Mrs James W. Leeming (Margaret Lewis), a daugh¬ ter, Margaret Jane, Nov. 2. Alumnae returning for Nebraska game: Helen Cupps, Ruth Lee, Inez Richards, Anna Crane, Helen Focht, Dorothy Douglas. Among alumnae in Des Moines for the State teachers’ convention were: Helen Cupps, Ruth Lee, Kathryn Buck, and Inez Richards. Alumnae back for Home-coming: Leona Fitzgerald, Inez Richards, Dorothy Douglas, Marion Killmer, and Kathryn Buck. Mrs Wall Godfrey (Ruth Reese) is spending the winter in Des Moines. Marjorie C. Moore is now living at Alexandria, Va. Address: Box 37a, R.F.D. 1. BETA LAMBDA— WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE Rush closed October 25, successfully for Theta as she pledged all girls bid. They are: Phyldis Logan, Norfolk; Margaret Eacho, Washington, D. C.; Mary Cabanios and Lois Wilson, Petersburg; and Frances Roberts, Great Bridge. Our banquet was one of the prettiest Beta Lambda has given. A number of alumnae and visitors were present. The toast scheme centered on Garden of friendship and was carried into the decorations. The dining-room was enclosed in a white fence, on which flowers were twisted. Our favors were boudoir lamps in the form of colonial ladies. After the banquet at the Colonial hotel, we went to the Prison for coffee. Patty Hunter of Whaleryville, was initiated November 21. The November issue made Beta Lambda very envious of all the wonderful new chapter houses there described. However, we have made the Poor Debtors’ prison attractive with new furnishings.
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240 Kappa Alpha Theta Elizabeth Palmer has been elected associate editor of the Literary magazine. Lois Evans and Peggy Eacho were invited to join the Spanish club. Patty Hunter is now president of the G.G.G. ribbon society and Caroline Ribble of the Edith Baer club, home economics club. Dorothy Farrar is a new member of this club. Virginia Smith is president of Alpha club, which is petitioning Mortar board. Under the new semester system introduced in our college this year, examinations don’t come until after Christmas. However, that won’t dampen our enjoyment of the holidays. 1 December 1925 Kitty Myrick Julia Dixon and Myree Hutchings, graduates of *25, are teaching in Norfolk, Va. BETA MU— UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA The week-end of October 31 was the sixth Home-coming anniversary of the University of Nevada. Friday morning all campus organizations participated in a down-town parade. Fri¬ day afternoon and Saturday morning the Agricultural exten¬ sion department of the university held exhibits. At noon Satur¬ day Beta Mu gave a luncheon for visiting and resident alumnae. After the Santa Clara-Nevada football game that afternoon we held open house for alumnae. September 24 we pledged Suzanne Cole of Pasadena, Cali¬ fornia. October 30 we invited the house mothers of the other fra¬ ternities to meet our house mother, Mrs Ede. After a buffet supper at the house they were our guests at a theater party, Oh Susan!, a comedy produced by Campus Players. Marion Deremer and Isabel Loring were members of the cast. In October we entertained our mothers at a buffet supper. After supper we sang college and fraternity songs. November 16 was Beta Mu’s third birthday. We celebrated with a birthday party at which each clas§ presented the house with a gift. Constance Holland has been elected secretary of the fresh¬ man class. Four of Beta Mu’s members have received Sagebrush appointments. Alice Grace Yordi and Marion Wellendorf are members of the news staff, and Yvonne Degolia and Dorothy Stoddard are on the advertising staff. The women’s fraternities have a system of exchange dinners. Every week each fraternity sends two of its members to dinner
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Chapter news 241 at one of the other chapter houses. Inter-fraternity friendship is stimulated, and it is hoped a better spirit engendered. Gilberta Turner recently was elected to Phi Kappa Phi. Esther Summerfield has been initiated into Delta Alpha Epsilon, English honor society. The signing of the scholarship book by the girls who made the honor roll last semester was the occasion for a dinner at the home of Mrs Euphemia Abrams Clark (Mrs W. E.) Iota. Those who signed the book Eleanor Aiders, Freda Humphrey, Margaret Hill, Florence Billinghurst, and Gilberta Turner. 25 November 1925 Lucile Summerfield Married: Janet Marshall to Floyd Sweetman, Oct. 31. Hester Mills Nelson, Evelyn Walker Reed, Helen Fuss Atkinson, Isabel Bertschy Johnson, Gladys Smith, and Alva Quilici Durham visited us during Home-coming week-end. BETA NU— FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Dr Edwin Slosson, eminent scientist and journalist, lectured before the students and faculty October 16. While here he was the guest of the Education society of which Alice Winter is presi¬ dent. Beta Nu has secured quite a few scholastic honors this fall. Alice Winter was elected to Phi Kappa Phi; Edith Futch and Elizabeth Whalton were initiated into Omicron Nu; Susan Bur- dett and Alice Winter have been pledged to Iota Pi Omicron, history fraternity. Initiation was October 31 for Catherine Boyd, Fort Lauder¬ dale, and Mary Huffaker, Bartow. The chapter entertained afterwards with a buffet supper. During October two fraternities, Theta Upsilon and Pi Kappa Sigma, installed chapters on our campus. Kappa Alpha Theta entertained in their honor with an informal tea November 2. The junior-freshman wedding November 7 signified the union of those two classes. Elizabeth Fairchild, one of our pledges, was father of the bride. Over the Thanksgiving holidays Beta Nu had a number of guests. Besides relatives and friends two alumna*, Helen Pinaire and Theodora Thompson visited us. Ernestine Gore and Elizabeth Fairchild took part in the demonstration given by the Odds on the night before Thanks¬ giving when we close our basketball season with a game between
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242 Kappa Alpha Theta the Odds, those who graduate in the odd years, and the Evens, those who graduate in the even years. Alice Boyd, Melissa Darby, Nancy Miller, and Marion Wat¬ kins are members of the college orchestra. Marian Davis is in the Glee club again this year. Dorothy Fuller is playing jumping center on the sophomore basketball team. Each Sunday night after Y.W.C.A. services we gather at the house for a chapter sing. At this time the pledges usually enter¬ tain us for a few minutes with a skit or an original song. 1 December 1925 (No signature) Nina McAdam is teaching English in the Miami high school. Harriette Taylor, Rho, a member of the cast of the Valentine opera company, visited us Nov. 21 and 22. Theodora Thompson is teaching mathematics in the Wauchula high school. Norma Davis is doing newspaper work in Miami. BETA XI— UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN BRANCH September 29 Jean Hay, Eleanor Smith, and Anita Wilson were pledged. These girls, with Agnes de Mille, were initiated October 25; Mrs Brooks, District president, officiated at the ceremony. During October rush parties came with frequency. Octo¬ ber 2 we gave an Italian luncheon, and on the tenth we enter¬ tained our rushees with a breakfast at the home of Mrs E. W. Horton. Agnes de Mille invited the chapter and a few rushees to her home October 16. We were served a delicious supper, and later a preview of New Brooms was shown on a small screen in the living room. We enjoyed this ever so much. A Hallowe’en party at Anita Wilson’s October 24 gave us an evening of merry¬ making; rompers and hair ribbons were the prevailing mode. The last week of rushing brought several scheduled affairs. We celebrated Navy day with a luncheon, and the next afternoon received our rushees and their mothers at tea. The night of October 29 the chapter house took on the guise of a cabaret. Small tables and candlelight, with a clever negro orchestra made “A night in Hollywood” one of our most successful parties. Mrs Harlan Perrill, Beta, wife of Captain Perrill of the U.S.S. Arizona, entertained the chapter and our guests with a tea dansant on board the battleship, Friday, October 30. We enjoyed Mrs Perrill ’s hospitality and the good time we had ex-
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Chapter news 243 ploring the ship. Rushing culminated October 31 with a formal dinner at the home of Evelyn Hauerwass. Thirty girls were seated at a large round table. After a delightful dinner the evening ended with Theta songs. November 2, we pledged Dorothy Irving, Margaret de Mille, Eileen Converse, Janet Crozier (all Theta sisters) ; Gretchen Mohler, Elma Giuras, Virginia Huntley, Ruth McFarland, Albertina McGrath, Jocelyn Baker, Helen Conway, Rachel Baird, Marguerite Corwin and Suzanne Seyboldt. Several pledges are already in activities on campus. The house was deserted November 21, for twelve girls went north for the big game between California and Stanford ; several of them stayed at Phi’s and Omega’s houses. Druzella Goodwin, chapter president, is vice president of senior class. Beth Shuler is vice president of Associated women students. Alice Brown is president of Phi Beta. Marion Whit¬ aker has been appointed assistant editor of Southern Campus , year book. Thelma Martin was elected vice president of the sophomore class. Ruth McFarland, pledge, is freshman class secretary. Agnes de Mille is directing a dance fantasy for Delta Tau Mu in which Mildred Stanford is taking a leading part, and Kaye Irving designing costumes and settings. We did not have Anita Wilson with us very long, for she married George Elkins, II K A from Texas, November 22. Marion Dix, Alpha Lambda, visited us in November. 30 November 1925 Meryl Statcler Peggy James is attending the Cumnock school of expression in Los Angeles. Dorothy Walton has returned from Europe and is living in Long Beach. Joyce Turner, who is an instructor at Occidental college, is directing the Junior play, Tweedles. Annis Keyes 1 address at Yale is 114 High St. Room 3, New Haven, Conn. PROVIDENCE ALUMNAE CHAPTERS A son, Roger Williams Kaufman, was born on May 12, 1925, to Mr and Mrs J. Paul Kaufman (Clarice Ryther) of Washington, D. C. Caroline B. Phillips was married Oct. 17 to Charles Roundy of West Walpole, Mass. The new address of Mrs R. B. Snow (Millicent Leete) is Taftville, Conn. Mrs Burt M. McConnell (Gertrude Allen) is in Riverside, R. I. for the winter, and is a welcome member of Providence alumnae chapter. 29 November 1925 Beatrice F. Kohlberg
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Directory GRAND COUNCIL OFFICE OFFICER ADDRESS Grand president . . Mrs Hal Lebrecht . 104 W. 54th st. Kansas city, Mo. 2009 W. Pacific Av. Spokane, Wash. 930 Brown Marx Bldg. Birmingham. Ala. 13 East av. Ithaca. N Y Grand vice-president . Mrs CT A. Bemis . Grand treasurer Mrs H. F. Thomson . Grand secretary and editor . Miss L. Pearle Green . NATIONAL COMMITTEES Historian. COMMITTEE OFFICER ADDRESS Mrs Estelle Dodge. 822!. 6th av. N. Scholarship fund — Chairman . Corresponding secretary . Financial Secretary . Archives . . . Marien Keyes . Helen Pratt . Miss Ray Hanna . Miss Catherine Tillotson. Seattle, Wash. 1495 Eucalyptus Lane. Los Angeles, Cal. 015 Victoria av. Los Angeles. Cal. 3718 W. 21st st. Los Angeles. Cal Greencaptle, Ind. Alumnas Secretary . Associate Alumnae Secretary . Education Committee Chairman. Mrs J. M. Mecklin. . . Mrs Paul Darrough. . . Mrs Wm. Nciswangcr. 5 Webster Terrace Hanover, N. H. 1621 W. 11th st. Oklahoma City, Ok la 19 N. Main st. Hanover, N. H NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS OFFICE OFFICER ADDRESS ZT A — chairman Dr May A. Hopkins . Southwestern Life Bldg. Dallas, Tex. 309 Orange st. Syracuse, N. Y. Kinston. N. C. 13 East av. Ithaca. N. Y. A r A — secretary Miss Louise Leonard . A A 11 — treasurer Miss Irma Tapp . KAO — delegate Miss L. Pearle Green .
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DISTRICTS DISTRICT CHAPTERS PRESIDENT ADDRESS I A— B— r— AX Bloomington Greencastle Indianapolis Mrs J. D. Hughes, jr . 224 N. Pennsylvania st Greenfield. Ind. II A— T— AI— RK Champaign Chicago Des Moines Evanston St. Louis Mrs D. Bligh Grasett . 797 Walden rd. Winnetka, III. III II - -M-A r - AT - AD Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Detroit Pittsburgh Mrs Eugenie Overturf . 18 W. Lincoln av. Delaware. Ohio. IV I— A— 2— X Burlington Ithaca Rochester Syracuse Toronto Miss Elma Hodges . 107 Waverly av. Syracuse. N Y. V K-P-AM-AT-nr-Bl Denver Kansas City Lincoln Omaha Toneka Wichita Miss Helen Cook . 1534 S. 20th st. Lincoln. Neb. VI 0— 4> — n — HA— RM — BZ Los Angeles Pasadena San Francisco Mrs Edwin Hill Brooks . 642 Lucerne st. Los Angeles, Cal. VII AH— A A— AK— HR— BII RA Baltimore Boston New York Philadelphia Providence Washington Miss Dorothy Wilson . 610 University Parkway Baltimore, Md. VIII A0— AO-BZ Dallas Houston Oklahoma Mrs J. C. Monnet . 2001 W. 22d St. Oklahoma City, Ok!». IX A A— AN— AS— AS— BK BO Portland Seattle Spokane Tacoma Mrs Roy Keene . 127 N. 6th av. Corvallis, Ore. X T— *— AH— AP— A* Appleton Madison Milwatikee Twin Cities Mrs George Banta. jr . 350 Park st. Menasha. Wis. XI All— A4>— BN Nashville New Orleans Mrs W. A. Humphrey . 1911 Peachtree rd. Atlanta. Ga.
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CHAPTERS— COLLEGE CHAPTER INSTITUTION COR. SEC'Y ADDRESS ALPHA . Mary Wardlaw . Theta House 1870 BETA . Indiana . Derexa Pentreath . Greencastle, Ind. Theta House 1870 gamma . Mary Ann Huggins.. . Bloomington, Ind. 5451 Julian av. 1874 Indianapolis, Ind. DELTA . Illinois . Dorothy Mercer . 611 E. Daniel st. 1875 ETA . Michigan . Florinc Storrey . Champaign, ill. 1414 Washtenaw av. 1879 IOTA . Cornell . Margaret Smith Ann Arbor, Mich. 118 Triphammer road Ithaca. N. Y. 1645 Louisiana st. 1881 KAPPA . Kansas . Elizabeth Walker . 1881 LAMBDA . Vermont . Dorothea Baker . Lawrenco, Kan. 215 S. Prospect st. Burlington Vt. Monnett hall 1881 GAMMA DEUTERON Ohio Wesleyan .... Margaret J. Beech . 1924 MU . Allegheny . Eleanor E. Brown .... Delaware. Ohio. Hulings Hall Meadville, Pa. 653 W. 28th st. 1881 OMICRON So. California . Dorothy Marie Davis. . 1887 Los Angeles, Cal. RHO Nebraska . Gretchen Renard .... 1545 S st. 1887 SIGMA . Toronto . Helen O’Reilly . . . Lincoln Neb. 207 Balmoral Av. 1887 TAU . Northwestern . Helen C. Cole ... Toronto, Ont. Can. Willard Hall 1887 UPSILON . Minnesota . . Helen Herrmann .... Evanston. III. 314-10th av. S. E. 1889 PHI . Stanford . Madeline Frick . Minneapolis, Minn. Box 1336 1889 CHI . Syracuse . Gertrude D. Brooks. . . Stanford univ. Cal. 306 Walnut pi. Syracuse. N. Y. 1889 PSI . Wisconsin . Frieda Schmidt . 237 Lake Lawn PI. 1890 OMEGA . California . Frances Dabney . Madison, Wis. 2723 Durant av. 1890 ALPHA BETA . S war thmore . Florence Kennedy . Berkeley. Cal. Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Pa. 7- 12th av. 1891 ALPHA GAMMA . Ohio State . Virginia Krepps . . . 1892 ALPHA DELTA Goucher . Virginia Davis . Columbus, Ohio. Box 124, Goucher college Baltimore, Md. 1505 Compton av. 1896 ALPHA ETA . Vanderbilt . Eunice Slemona. . . 1904 ALPHA TnETA Texas . Maurine Rutland .... Nnshville. Tenn. 601 W. 26th st. 1904 Austin, Tex. ALPHA IOTA . Washington . Claudine Fay . 7207 Pershing Av. St. Louis, Mo. 1906 (St. Louis) ALPHA KAPPA . . Adelphi . Hildegarde Schlobohm . 122 Rutland Rd. 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y. ALPHA LAMBDA . Washington . Jane Manning . 4521-17th av. N. E. 1908 ALPHA MU . Missouri . Rachel Way . Seattle, Wash. 705 Kentucky blvd. Columbia. Mo. 1 1 10 Ronald av. 1909 ALPHA NU . Montana . Eleanor Leach . 1909 ALPHA XI . Oregon . Olga Jackson . Missoula, Mont. K A 0 House, Eugene, Ore. Theta house 1909 ALPHA OMICRON. Oklahoma . Josephine Duvall. 1909 ALPHA PI . North Dakota .... Eugenie Stubbins. . . Norman. Okla. 2800 University av. Grand Forks, N. D 1911 . ALPHA RHO . South Dakota . Marion Damuth . 20 Willow st. 1912 ALPHA SIGMA . Washington state. . Dorothy MacLeod . Vermilion, S. D. 604 California st. 1913 ALPHA TAU . Cincinnati . Virginia Speide! . Pullman. Wash. 352 Shiloh av. 1913 ALPHA UPSILON . . Washburn . Doris Gilmore . Cincinnati. Ohio 1201 Polk st. 1914 ALPHA PHI . Newcomb . Florence G. Selser . Topeka. Kan. 406 Audubon st. 1914 ALPHA CHI . Purdue . Helen Patrick . New Orleans. La. 172 Littleton st. 1915 West Lafayette, Ind.
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ALPHA PSI . Lawrence . Agnes Norem . Russell Sage hall Appleton, Wis. 409 Neville st. 1915 ALPHA OMEGA . Pittsburgh . Katherine Coit . 1915 BETA BETA . Randolph-Macon. . Colorado state. . . . Jeanette Farmer . Pittsburgh, Pa. R. M. W. C., Box 27 1916 BETA GAMMA . Billie Black . Lynchburg, Va. 639 S. College st. Fort Collins, Colo. 715 N. Park av. 1917 BETA DELTA . Arizona . Pauline Kitt . 1917 BETA EPSILON . Oregon state . Helen Freydig. . . Tucson, Aria. 242-7th st. N. 1917 BETA ZETA . Oklahoma state. . . Wauhillau La Hay .... Corvallis, Ore. 501 College av. 1919 BETA ETA . Pennsylvania . Mildred Thorp . . . Stillwater, Okla. 5012 Penn st. 1919 BETA THETA . Idaho . Bernadine Hasfurther. . Philadelphia, Pa. 503 University av. Moscow, Idaho 1920 BETA IOTA . Colorado . Mary Louise Sterling . . Miriam L. Perkins . 845-12th st. 1921 BETA KAPPA . Drake . Boulder, Colo. 1065-22nd st. 1921 BETA LAMBDA . William & Mary. . . CarolineMarshall Itibble Des Moines, Iowa. Box 26, William & Mary College 1922 BETA MU . Nevada . Thelma Pray . Williamsburg, Va. 740 Sierra st. 1922 BETA NU . Florida . Alice Boyd . Reno, Nevada. Theta house, 140 College av. Tallahassee, Fla. 233 S. Griffen av. 1924 BETA XI . California, S. B.. . Marion Whitaker 1925 Los Angeles, Cal. CHAPTERS— ALUMNA CHAPTER APPLETON . 1921 BALTIMORE . 1910 BLOOMINGTON . 1925 BOSTON . 1915 BURLINGTON . 1898 CHAMPAIGN-URBANA 1920 CHICAGO . 1896 CINCINNATI . 1913 CLEVELAND . 1903 COLUMBUS . 1897 DALLAS . 1925 DENVER . 1920 DES MOINES . 1920 DETROIT . 1913 EVANSTON . 1910 GREENCASTLE . 1 QQQ HOUSTON . 1921 INDIANAPOLIS . 1897 ITHACA . 1923 KANSAS CITY . 1905 LINCOLN . 1909 LOS ANGELES . 1901 COR. SEC Y. ADDRESS Margaret Ritchie . 845 E. College av. Appleton, Wis. 108 Ridgewood rd. Roland Park, Md. 214 N. Dunn st. Mrs G. N. Stieff . Jotilda Conklin . Mrs Charles Grover . Bloomington, Ind. 38 Vista av. Mrs H. A. Mayforth . Auburndale, Mass. 161 S. Prospect st. Burlington, Vt. 404 S. Lincoln av. Mary B. Davis . Jessie L. Farr . Urbana, Ill. 1806 Wesley av. Evanston, Ill. Erie and Whitney avs. Madisonville, Cincinnati, O. 3376 E. Fairfax rd. Mrs E. D. Coons . Mrs Lester Rogers . Gladys A. Roland . Cleveland Heights, O 1376 E. Broad st. Mrs Ralph Bryan . Columbus, O. 4341 Irving av. Dallas, Tex. 429 E. 14th av. Mrs A. G. Wineman . Mrs Edgar M. Brown . Denver, Colo. 3222-4th st. Mary Ellen Read . Des Moines, la. 1559 Atkinson st. Mrs Norman McKinney . Detroit, Mich. 7058 Greenview av. Mrs J. P. Allen, jr . Chicago, Ill. 636 E. Seminary st. Greencastle, Ind. 5102 Crawford st. Mrs W. S. Woodruff . Mrs Harold E. Sutherlin . Houston, Tex. 3909 N. Pennsylvania st. Indianapolis, Ind. 129 Highland pi. Ithaca, N. Y 1200 E. 59th st. Anna L. Payne . Mrs H. I. Eager . Dorothy Colburn . Kansas City, Mo. 414 S. 15th st. Mrs Frederic Conant . Lincoln, Neb. 2810 N. Beachwood dr. Los Angeles, Cal.
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MADISON . 204 Highland av. 1912 MILWAUKEE . Mrs H. F. Kieft Madison, Wis 7 63 -55th st. 1921 Milwaukee. Wis NASHVILLE . 1802 Acklen av. 1923 NEW ORLEANS . Mrs. D. M. Van Wort Nashville, Tenn. 4216 Elk st. 1920 New Orleans, La NEW YORK . 9-8th av. 1895 OKLAHOMA CITY . Brooklyn, N. Y. 200 E. 14th st. 1916 Oklahoma City, Okla. OMAHA . 5013 Cass st. 1910 PASADENA . Omaha, Neb. 782 Arroyo dr. Pasadena, Cal. 4927 Morris st. 1925 PHILADELPHIA . Helen D. Armor . 1898 PITTSBURGH . Germantown, Pa. 6533 Darlington rd. Pittsburgh, Pa. 1902 PORTLAND Mrs Virgil Cooper . 446 E. 37th N. 1911 PROVIDENCE . Martha W. Watt . Portland, Ore 2144 Broad st. 1912 ROCHESTER . Mrs L. J. Summerlin vs . Providence, R. I. 41 Genesee Park blvd. 1923 ST. LOUIS . Mrs G. W. Penney . Rochester, N. Y. 5169 Enright av. 1909 SAN FRANCISCO . Mrs 0. J. Haynes . St. Louis, Mo. 2241 Durant av. 1909 SEATTLE . Mrs A. J. Quigley . Berkeley, Cal. 3049 E. Laurelhurst dr. 1908 SPOKANE . Mrs. Sanford Easson . . . Seattle, Wash. Apt. 0, Elm Apts. Spokane, Wash. 100 Summit av. 1913 SYRACUSE . Mrs F. C. King, jr . 1903 Syracuse, N. Y. TACOMA . Nan M. Drummond . 1502 N. Steele st. 1915 TOPEKA . Margaret Connors . Tacoma, Wash. 1112 Western av. 1000 TORONTO . Elizabeth Maclennan . Topeka, Kan. 31 Oriole Parkway Toronto, Ont. Can. 2428 Humboldt av. S. 1911 TWIN CITIES . Mrs Donald Fraser . 1895 WASHINGTON . Louise Marbut . Minneapolis, Minn 3220-1 7th st. N.W. 1918 WICHITA . Helen Johnston . Washington, D. C. 130 N. Lorraine st 1922 Wichita, Kan. ALUMNvE CLUBS CITY SECRETARY ADDRESS Arkansas Valley . Atlanta, Ga . Austin, Tex . Boise. Idaho . Buffalo, N. Y . Butte, Mont . Mrs K. R. Shaw’ . Mrs. Walter Powell . Mrs Raymond Everett. . Miss Elizabeth Bartlett . Mrs R. V. S. Richmond . Mrs W. S. Cotton . Las Animas, Colo. 85 Montgomery Ferry dr. 917 W. 31st st. 117 E. Benuock st. 73 Lisbon st. 1145 W. Porphyry st. 2026 Jefferson st. 416 W. 7th st. 768 E. 13th av. 820 W. Olive st. 918 Oakdale dr. 1730 6th av. 548 Monroe st. 1810 W. Charles st. 2101 Bellevue rd. 129 Washington st. 132 Andrew PI. West Lafayette 1236 Louisiana st. 310 Marine Bank Bldg. Beech Spring Farm St. Matthews, Ky. 636 N. Mainst. 1208 E. Parkway S. 43 Douglas av. Duluth, Minn . Erie, Pa . Miss Dorothy C. McKay . Mrs E. R. Kirschner . Eugene, Ore . Fort Collins. Colo . Fort Wayne, Ind . Fort Worth, Tex . Gary, Ind . Miss Florence Buck . Mrs Waldo Kidder . Mrs P. E. Krider . Miss Lois Benton . Mrs E. A. Lock ridge . . Grand Islands, Neb . Harrisburg, Pa . Hartford, Conn. . I^afayette, Ind . Lawrence, Kan . Long Beach, Cal . Louisville, Ky . Meadville, Pa . Memphis, Tenn . New Haven, Conn . Mrs J. A. Ferguson . Miss Helen McFarland . Miss Thelma Edmunds . Miss Marjorie Clark . Mrs L. E. Sisson . Mrs Fred Miller . Mrs A. B. Sawyer . Miss Helen R. Adams . Miss Mary L. Heiskell . Mrs. F. B. Tuckerman .
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Rockford, Ill . 311 Carmack Apts. 336— 4th av. N. 1 249 S. Commercial st. 3554- 1st. st. 630 W. 10th st. Mrs. G. W. Hug . San Diego, Cal . Sioux Falls, S. D . Miss Marie Leavitt . Stillwater, Okla . Miss Dorothy L. Hopkins . 1884 Princeton dr. 5 Brady st. 1426 E. 19th st. Tulsa, Okla . Mrs Charles Nesbitt . Vermilion. S. D . Miss Gladys Gilbertson . 113 Yale st. ALUMNA board Alumnae Secretary: Mrs J M. Mecklin, 5 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H Auociate Alumnae Secretary : Mrs Paul Darrough, 1821 W. 11th st. Oklahoma City, Okla. STATE CHAIRMAN ADDRESS Alabama . Sec Mississippi Edith Burtis . 107 E. Main st. Darden Moose . Mesa, Ari*. Office of Attorney General Little Rock, Ark. 1030 Rubio Mrs J. J. Troy . Altadena, Calif. 1034 Ogden st. Denver, Colo. Thelma Edmunds . . . 129 Washington st. Delaware . See Maryland . Hartford, Conn District Columbia . Mrs Paul Kaufman . 2910 R st. N.W. Florida . See Georgia. Washington, D.C. Georgia . Bernice Kaufmann . Apt. 12, 745 Ponce de Leon »» Hawaii Charlotte Hall . Atlanta, Ga. 2447 Oahu av. Idahu Mrs. R. W. Merrill . Honolulu, Hawaii Orofino, Idaho Illinois Mrs. Irwin Fathchild . 318 Leest. Indiana . Edith N. Evans . Evanston, HI. 302 Waldron st. Iowa Bonnie Marshall . W. Lafayette, Ind. 1210 8th st. Kansas Mrs Arch McKeever . Des Moines, la. 1214 W. 10th st. Kentucky Mrs. A. B. Sawyer . . Topeka, Kan. Beach Spring Farm, Louisiana . Mrs M P. Boulet . St. Matthews, Ky. 4327 Canal st. Maine . See Vermont. New Orleans, La. Maryland Mrs D. H. Wilson . 1908 Cedar Rd. Fair mount Massachusetts Mrs Harold Bird . Baltimore, Md. 43 Linnaean st. Michigan Mrs J. E. Hancock . Cambridge, Mass. 353 Piper blvd. Minnesota Mrs Robert M. Thompson . Detroit, Mich. 3749 Lyndale av. 8. Mississippi Vida Lenoir . Minneapolis, Minn. 315 3rd st. Missouri Mrs W. W. Horner . McComb, Miss. 5842 Julian av. St. Louis, Mo.
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Montana Mrs Wm. 8. Cotton Nebraska Mrs Vance Traphagen Nevada . New Hampshire New Jersey. . . . New Mexico. . . . Mrs W. E. Clark. See Vermont. Mrs C. S.Mears see Arizona 1145 W. Porphyry at. Butte, Mont. 2336 Bradfield Dr. Lincoln, Neb President’s House. Univ. of Nevada, Reno, Nev. Riverton, N. J. New York . . . . , North Carolina North Dakota. Ohio . Oklahoma . Oregon . Pennsylvania . . Philippines. . . , Rhode Island . . South Carolina . South Dakota. . Tennessee . Texas . Utah . Vermont . Virginia . Washington . . . West Virginia . . Wisconsin . Mrs Clarence Rogers . Mrs. Walter Patten . . . Mrs A. M. Lommen . . Mm Lucile Rogers . . . , Mrs B. M. Thompson Mrs D. A. Hathaway . Mrs Orton Lowe . Mrs P. D. Carman . . . Mrs R. B. Snow . See North Carolina . . . Mrs J. C. Knittel _ Stella Scott Vaughn . . Mrs P. J. Neff . Mrs Roy M. Cross. . . Mrs B. B. Lane . Cora Byrd Ames . Mrs E. A. White . Mrs J. R. Romine _ Sada E. Buckmaster . . Wyoming, Canada. . See Nevada. HelenWalton Foreign Lands. Hathaway Gibbens . Bergen, N. Y. 106 W. Franklin st. Chapel Hill, N. C. Box 437 Grand Forks, N. D. 3376 Fairfax rd. Cleveland Heights, Ohio 202 E. 11th st. Oklahoma City. Okla. 300 E. 46th st. Portland, Ore. 3207 N. 2nd st. Harrisburg, Penn. 970 M. H. del Pilar Manila, Ph. I. 78 Maynard st Pawtucket, R. I. Vermilion, S. D. 2212 Highland av. Nashville. Tenn. 610 Marshall st. Houston, Tex. 4218 S. 7th st. east Salt Lake City Utah. 39 Cliff st. Burlington, Vt. Pungoteaque, Va. 4410 N. 45th st. Tacoma, Wash. 224 E. Main st. Clarksburg. W. Va. 101 N. Mills st. Madison, Wis. 10 South Drive Toronto, Ont. 1404 Octavia st. New Orleans, La. The slogan adopted by many chapters: every man in an activity and a man in every activity — is nonsense of the most pusillanimous and harm¬ ful kind. It is natural and proper that every chapter should desire to make a showing in activities, as in society and all other forms of social contact. But the fraternity itself is an activity, of a sort, that may re¬ quire much time on the part of its members, and there may be not a few members of any chapter who, if they are to do decently well their scholastic duties, should attempt nothing else. Chapter officers who do not know that many a man should avoid activities in order to devote his time to studies have not that soundness of judgment required for a proper administration of chapter affairs. — A T Palm
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ALUMNiE CHAPTER MEETINGS Each alumnae chapter extends a cordial invitation to all Thetas to attend its meetings. APPLETON ALUMNAE, second Monday each month, 6 P. M. Call Mrs D. W. Bergstrom, jr. Neenah, Phone: 1529. BURLINGTON ALUMNAE, third Tuesday each month, Theta house, 215 S. Prospect st. CHAMPAIGN-URBANA ALUMNAE, second Saturday each month. Luncheon 1 p. M. followed by business. Call Mrs A. D. Mulliken, 706 E. Elm st. Champaign. CHICAGO ALUMNA1, third Saturday each month, 12 M. Luncheon 1 p. m. Marshall Fields tea room. For reservation call Jessie Farr. Phone: University 4516. CLEVELAND ALUMNA, sometime during second week each month. Call Mrs Frank L. Scott, jr. Phone: Fairmont 5085 J. DALLAS ALUMNA, last Tuesday each month. Call Mrs T. E. Swim. Phone: U 4945. DES MOINES ALUMNA, first Saturday each month. Call Mrs Edgar Brown. Phone: Market 1596. DETROIT ALUMNA, luncheon first Saturday each month, 12 M. Women's City club. Monthly social meetings, call Mrs Fred Broock, 2526 Calvert av. GREENCASTLE ALUMNA, third Saturday each month. Call Mrs J. P. Allen, jr. ITHACA ALUMNA, third week each month. Call Anna L. Payne. Phone: 4998. KANSAS CITY ALUMNA, luncheon first Saturday each month, 1 p. M. Call Mrs H. L. Mantz. Phone: Linwood 6810. NASHVILLE ALUMNA, second and fourth Tuesdays, Theta house, 305 24th av. S. Supper with meeting following. PASADENA ALUMNA, second Monday each month. Call Mrs H. A. Finch. Phone: Wakefield 5966. PITTSBURGH ALUMNA, third Saturday each month, 2:30 p. M. Theta house, 409 Neville st. PROVIDENCE ALUMNA, third Tuesday each month, 7:30 P. M. Call Martha Watt. Phone: Broad 2915 J. SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNA, luncheon fourth Saturday each month. 12:30 P. M. Hotel St Francis. Monthly social meetings. Call Mrs A. B. Davidson, 1934 Berryman st. Berkeley. SEATTLE ALUMNA, first Monday each month. Call Mrs A. J. Quigley, 3049 E. Laurelhurst dr. SYRACUSE ALUMNA, monthly. Call Helen J. Wright, 1000 W. Onondaga st. TACOMA ALUMNA, luncheon, second Saturday each month. Call Mrs Augustus Denman. Phone: Proctor 3216 J. TWIN CITIES ALUMNA, second Tuesday each month, 6 P. M. Theta house, 314 10th av. S. E. WASHINGTON ALUMNA, luncheon, first Tuesday each month at A.A.U.W. club, 1634 Eye st. N. W. 12:30 P. M.
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THETA LUNCHEONS Thetas in Washington Luncheon the first Tuesday of each month 12:80 p . m. American Association of University Women Club 1624 Eye St. N. W . Thetas in Detroit Luncheon the first Saturday of each month at Women’s City Club — 12 noon Thetas in New York and Vicinity — Attention! Weekly luncheons W ednesdays Panhellenic Club 12:80-2 P. M. 17 E. 62d st. We want you all Do not fail us or forget us Thetas in San Francisco Monthly luncheons Hotel St Francis Fourth Saturday 12:80 o’olock To supplement regular meetings and for out-of-town and tourist Thetas No reservations necessary Topeka Thetas Luncheon and regular meeting First Saturday each month City Y W. C. A. at 1 p. m. 7th and Fan Buren Streets