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Published by Alpha Omicron Pi, 2015-10-08 13:01:29

1930 October - To Dragma

Vol. XXVI, No. 1

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Central Office Assistant

By A L I C E C U L L N A N E , £<?to P / w , Registrar

Y OU would have liked her too, if you had come upon her as I
did that hot August afternoon back in 1928. She looked so cool,
and I was hot! She was friendly, and I was, at that moment, lonely,
I had just came back from my vacation, and Miss Wyman had gone
on hers. I had been visualizing just then what fun we would be having
swimming if I were still in the bosom of my family.

"Wouldn't you like something cold to drink?" I looked up from
those files, and saw her standing in the door. She wasn't little and
she wasn't big, and her face had a cameo-like quality that was fas-
cinating. I knew she was the new girl in the office next door whose
voice I had heard, and she was, figuratively speaking, offering me a
cup of cold water, when I needed it, although she didn't know it.

Our friendship improved with age, and when she came to work
in the Central Office the next January, Elizabeth Wyman liked her
just as much as I did. She has been here ever since, weathering a

OCTOBER, 1930 51

succession of bosses, and what Winafred and I should have done without
her this last winter is mighty hard to think about.

She has made lists for you, answered your wires and a letter or
two. She knows more about Alpha Omicron Pi than many, many
of its members; she knows you all by your chapters and addresses,
although you haven't known i t ; and not even the most seasoned "grad"
or tiniest freshman look for To DRAGMA more eagerly than she does.

Adelaide Quale is as Irish as Paddy's Pig, and her funny sayings
and witty comebacks are effective gloom chasers. And you know
she is persevering when I tell you that she has compiled the directory.

She says herself that she has loved the work, and I think she has.
I t has been fun to work with her. More even than being a helper,
she has been a good friend, and isn't that the highest thing that can
be said about one?

'Panhellenic <^4ward Qiven This year

THE New York City Panhellenic announces its second annual
Scholarship Award of $500 available in the fall of 1931. This
Award was first given in April, 1930, and was won by Helen Delano
Willard, a member of Alpha Phi who had graduated from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin.

No applications are to be ,sent direct to the New York City Pan-
hellenic as each Congress fraternity has been asked to co-operate in
selecting applicants. The name of only one applicant will be sub-
mitted by each fraternity and the selection of that applicant will be
made by the fraternity itself.

The specific requirements to be met by candidates are:

1. The applicant shall be a college senior or graduate on April 1, 1931, and
shall be a member of a National Panhellenic Congress fraternity.

2. The recipient shall agree to spend the college year of 1931-32 in study in
New York City, pursuing a course leading toward a higher degree.

If you are interested in applying for the Scholarship Award, please
submit the following information:

1. Letter giving your home address and present address, your age, year of

{"raduation from preparatory school and name of that school, year, course, and

in HH '" 'c o l l e g e and trar>script of your college record. I f a graduate, include,

addition, statement of work or study since graduation and present occupation,
and \ Statement of the graduate work you wish to pursue in New York City
fo j ; t e r s I r o m two of your college professors concerning your qualifications
s u c n work. Also letters from two alumna who knew you well.
3 - Recent photograph.

^ e name of the successful applicant will be announced April 1,
ItV' the Scholarship Award will be available for use in the fall
°f 1931.

The closing date for applications is February 15, 1931.
Send all communications concerning the Scholarship Award to Elsie
r ° r a Piper, 1731 D Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.

fl[ These Twelvejfappy <Alpha O's





DAISY TUCKER, N O '29 WYTHLE FITZI-ATRICK,
* B K ; Lotus Eaters;
Bachelor Maids; Pan- AP '29
* K * ; O N ; managed
hellenic Council; Ger- DoROTH Y O V E R A L L , home economics division
man _ Club; Student
Council; office in every NO '30 of educational exposi-
* B K , spring election;
organisation in which sister of Katrina and tion; big sister commit-
tee; A P house manager
she was a member; Natalie; transfer from and president; teacher,
president, N O ; sopho-
more honor roll' teacher. Randolph-Macon, '27; Pendleton, Oregon.
Lotus Eaters; Three
All Saints College, Arts; Student Council;
Vicksburg,
Mississippi. Girls' honor committee ;

Panhellenic Council.

1*v

LOUISE PERRY, 0 '30 ELEANOR R. GEISSEN-
4>K4>; transfer, Hollins
College '27; RUTH SMITH, E '30 HAINER, E A '29
Carnival • K * ; Junior class treas-
and Circus Staffs; * B K ; Junior Cabinet; urer; KMI; teacher,
French Club; Panhel-
lenic delegate; library education honorary; Reading, Pennsylvania.

work. president, Panhellenic

Council.

Sleeted to Jiighest Scholastic <§ociety

BARBARA S C H I L L I N G ,

HA '30
*K«I>; Critic and secre-
tary, Poe Literary So-
KATHLEEN BOYD, N O '30 ciety; lntersociety de- S I B Y L L E A C H , T '29

<f>BK, fall election; bate; " Diamonback" + B K ; * K * ; All Maine

Freshman Mathematics staff; Student Grange; Women; Women's Stu-

Prise '27; sophomore Y.W.C.A. Cabinet; dent Government; bas-

class chairman '28; Stu- Girls' Editor, "Y" ketball manager; invited

dent Council; Candidate Handbook; treasurer, to take special honor

for Founder's Medal, Y.W.C.A.; secretary, courses in history and

the highest of Vander- Le Cercle Francois: sec- English; teacher. Old-

bilt Honors; sophomore retary, ASF; president, town, Maine.

honor roll. B 1 I 9 ; manager and cap-
tain, women's intercol-
legiate debating team:
Council of oratory and
debate; X A ; May Day
committee; University
Chorus; Treasurer and
Study Plan Officer;
A O ; senior class play;
Freshman Frolic.

JANE ZUCARELLO, O '30

<I>K'I>; transfer, Martin

GRACE MAXWELL, IIA '30 Junior College '28; Up-

Or; secretary, perclass tennis team;

" » -second prettiest girl French Club; editorial

on campus; secretary, assistant, "Orange and

roe Literary Society; White"; officer in C-

secretary, Y.W.C.A.; Lek Club; scribe from

University Chorus; Ex- her county; treasurer,

ecutive Council, Student O ; represented O in ten-

orange; Episcopal Club. BETHYNE DEVORE, Z '30 nis tournament; teaches
*BK
mathematics.

<And J£ere-£ix <3tore "Phi "Beta Kappa's



HARRIET PRATT, T '30
<f>BK, '29; Mortar Board ;
one of seven seniors to
be graduated Summa
Cunt Laude. Betty and
H E L E N DODD, N O '29 Harriet were the only
m
# B K ; H 2 * ; Co-Editors; fraternity members re-
Lotus Eaters, honorary
sophomore girls'; Bache- ceiving these high
FRANCES SACKETT, honors.

lor Maids, honorary jun- On '30
ior-senior girls; sopho- <I>BK; president, Black
more honor roll; Quill; author Junior
teacher, E r w i » , Girls' play; charter
Mississippi. member, freshman
honor society.

FRANCES CARTER, N O '30 MARY OLIVIA RUTLEDGE,

* B K , fall election; Al- NO '30
pha 0 daughter; X A * ;
president, Student Coun- A L I C E WEBSTER, T '29 <f>BK, fall election; cou-

cil; sophomore honor <1>K<1>; home economics sin of Mary D. Houston
club; hockey and basket-
roll. ball; hockey letter; All Sarratt, a founder of
NO; _ Classical Club;
Maine Women; Cane Spanish Club; sopho-
committee.
more honor roll.

o4nd J^ast 'But c5\b/ J^east— These Jfonorees

ESTHER NOTIINAGLE, LUELLA KOERNER IMOGENE HADLEY

E '30 TUCKER, X A '28 DODSON, X A '28

* B K ; Dramatic Club; <J>BK; Highest average W.A.A. four year mem-
of any U. of C. soror-
athletics and music ity woman; triad in Uni- ber with a "C" sweater;
<I>BK; I S I I , honorary
clubs; Delaware For- versity Women's club; chemical fraternity;
eign Study scholar-
ship. Choral Union; Glee senior head of girls' in-
club; Y.W.C.A.
tramurals; university
delegate to District Play
Day.

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DORIS K U H N , Oil '30

*BK; *K*; freshman

ELIZABETH EBELING, year at Wellesley.

T '30

* B K ; '29; . president,
Mortar Board;
one of seven Seniors to RUTH LOWE, A '30
°e graduated Summa 4>BK; Commencement
Cum Laude.
Speaker; A treasurer; A
study plan officer.

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THE DDSI.f I I I U I I

'Wherein &<r^ide Through
'Persia in a J^orry

MIX

By L I L L I A N SCHOEDLER, Alpha

The preceding letter: you will remember that Miss Schoedler spent an
interesting and hectic time getting from Meshed to Teheran through miles
of mud and mud-holes.

After the stillness and primitiveness of the desert and its tiny vill
lages, Teheran, with its bustle and worldliness, came as something of 4
shock. Years ago (about 1875), at the decree of a former Shah, the old!
city modernized itself quite conscientiously and radically along Eurcl
pean lines. Even now it is known as the "Paris of the East," and th^
many Russians who have crossed the border and found refuge in Tehera
help, with their dress and their gayety, to foster the illusion. The c i t j
has a beautiful location at the foot of the high wall of snow-capped mourn
tains that separates the central plateau region of Persia from the low
lands that border on the Caspian Sea; its trees and gardens seemef
doubly green and wonderful after the barren brownness of the desertl
as the capital of Persia, and therefore the seat of a great many f o r e i g j
embassies, it has a comparatively rich social European life—but for all

OCTOBER, 1930 57

that, it seemed to me stupidly uninteresting. The desert had "got" me,
and I wanted to get back to it again. There were many things to do
in Teheran, however, besides learning the joy of sleeping in a bed once
more!—lovely climbs in the mountains behind the city, walks through
the old covered bazaars, trips to famous Persian gardens, and last but
far from least, I had a most amusing time and a lucky break in getting
into the palace of the Shah at a time when practically no permits were be-
ing issued to visitors, and saw there, among other interesting things, the
famous jewel-studded Peacock Throne, and, in an adjoining building,
the beautiful Marble Throne.

A great deal of my time in Teheran, however, was spent in following
up a chance suggestion that had been made. Someone asked me why,
instead of getting into the heat and the monsoons that I would be
sure to meet if I were to follow my original plan of going back from Persia
to Bombay through the Persian Gulf, thence to Colombo and from there
to Japan, I didn't see if I could go through Russia, and to Japan by way
of Siberia. There were no real obstacles in the path of such a plan, un-
less one considered my baggage which was strewn in every port, almost,
between Bombay and Kobe, awaiting my coming by boat from India.
I never dreamed that I could get a visa, but found it involved only
the filling out of three blanks, the cost of a telegram to Moscow, and
the wait until a reply could be received. There was everything to gain,
and nothing to lose, so I deposited the necessary blanks with the Soviet
Consul and in return was given a cable which I saw safely on its way
to Moscow. Then I said a not-too-regretful au revoir to Teheran, and
went back to my wanderings in the "open spaces," at the same time giv-
ing the Moscow message time to go through its processes.

This time there was no question of aeroplanes, or of a seat in a pri-
vate car. Henceforth I traveled in the front seats of lorries by choice—
and never failed to find a rich reward.

The chauffeurs were usually Armenians or Turks—a group which
formed a "clique" against the Persian drivers, just as the drivers in each
group were further subdivided into two camps—those who drove Chevro-
let lorries as against those who drove Dodge-Graham trucks! Very
few of them spoke English, and I found myself learning more and more
of the necessary Persian words and phrases. Sometimes the lorries car-
-n e o Passengers who squatted on the freight piled in the covered rear
oi the truck—pilgrims, merchants or travelers (almost always Persian
or Armenian or Turkish); sometimes the trucks were loaded to the last
ounce of their carrying power just with merchandise, and I was the only
numan cargo besides the chauffeur and his assistant. Often the men
ItK^v^'™* ^ e ^ ye a v l ° r " e s while they slept or rested. I enjoyed it, and

ink they enjoyed the looks of surprise on the faces of passing drivers

u of the people in the villages at seeing a woman at the wheel! Once,

I a D l t °f luck and a judicious use of the spark, I succeeded in getting

co H SU P a h i U t h e s t e e p s I o p e s o f w h i c h h a d d e f i e d t h e d r i v e r t h r o u h

lish ri P -a t t e mtsAfter that, my reputation was irrevocably estab-

e°-, and chauffeurs competed for the privilege of carrying as a pas-

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senger the "hanoum" (woman) who could drive so "kheli khub" (very
well)! At any rate, the chauffeurs were wonderful friends, and took won-
derful care of me. My food and my place to sleep and my comfort were
always their first care. I f I was lucky enough to find a room in a garage
or a teahouse when night came, they slept across the threshold of the
door (or even in the room with me!) to make sure that I would be
undisturbed. They looked after my meals even before they put their
cars away, often refusing to let me pay for them, or for little treats of
tea or fruit or wine. I f we had to spend the night on the road, the
entire load was rearranged so that I might have a comfortable bed; if
they had friends in a village where we stopped for the night, they would
offer to move out the entire family so that I might have a place in
which to sleep (though needless to say, knowing the interior of Persian
houses too well, I always found some reason for declining the proferred
hospitality and slept all night under the wonderful skies). I f I ever
so much as breathed that I would like to get to our destination quickly,
they would drive all night as well as all day to get there more promptly
(and driving through the Persian desert bv star—and moonlight was
exquisite—even in an overloaded lorry!). They taugh^ me Persian and
Turkish and Armenian and Arabic folk-songs, and took endless pains
to help me learn the local names of things in exchange for their English
equivalents. Few people have ever had better friends in a strange land
than I had among the lorry drivers in Persia. Their care of me never
left room for a moment's worry about brigands or the dangers of the road
even if, on one occasion, I rode in a car that had been robbed only the
week before of 7,000 tomans ( I toman = $1) worth of goods, and a
passenger had been killed in it by a stone that was directed at but missed
the chauffeur! You never knew, however, what the day might bring,
or where the night would find you. The car always stopped wherever
it happened to be when the chauffeur thought that he had gone far
enough. Sometimes it was at a largish village; more often, it was an iso-
lated desert settlement of a few houses. Beds as such didn't exist, even
if a room was available (the quality of the "room" can perhaps be
gauged by the fact that the average price for one was 20 cents!). You
simply spread your oilcloth on the floor, or on a wooden bench, laid
your blankets on that, and crawled gratefully in between them. Undress-
ing was such a public performance before such a frankly curious audience,
that it was usually simpler to crawl in, clothes and all.

When I left Teheran, I went to Isfahan, a fascinating city of mos-
ques and gardens, where much of the old culture and art of Persia is
preserved, and where I lived in the attractive house of some English
missionaries. ( I had a funny time in getting out of Teheran, incidentally,
besides waiting until 8 P.M. for a car that had been scheduled to leave
at 10 A.M. Just as the lorry was finally about to pull out of the garage,
it was found that I had neglected to get the necessary police permission
to leave the city. There was great excitement, and the first decision was
that I would have to stay in Teheran until the next day in order to get it.
The driver, however, offered to arrange matters. I didn't see how, but

OCTOBER, 1930 59

as we approached the gate which guards the city, and where the police
inspection takes place, he told me to sink down in my seat, pull my
hat over my eyes, and pretend to be asleep. I did, and we got through
the lines. I asked him afterwards how he had done it. He explained,
half apologetically, that he had told the guard that I was his Russian
wife! This was the same driver who, just before we left Teheran, had
put out of the outside front seat a Yezd merchant who had placed
himself there in order to avoid having to straddle the gear levers which
the middle seat involved, the driver using the argument that I should have
that seat, since I was a lady, and the levers would be difficult for my
skirts. He failed to note that the Yezd merchant wore a voluminous
coat that trailed to the ground, while my skirts were of the regulation
modern knee-length! When the man from Yezd undertook to point out
that fact, he was promptly transferred to another car! The whole Per-
sian trip was full of just such amusing incidents. I f only there were time
to tell more of them.)

At Isfahan, I had wonderful days of browsing and bicycling—in the
labyrinths of the old covered markets, in the Maidan (the vast public
square and parade ground where formerly the Shahs watched polo games
and where criminals were shot to pieces tied to the mouths of cannons),
along the famous Chehar Bagh (the city's main streets), and in the re-
mains of the ancient royal palace and gardens. I went often also to Julfa,
an Armenian Christian settlement across the river from Isfahan dating
from 1604, with an interesting history. ( " I f you can deal with an
Armenian," the Persians say, "you can deal with the devil himself!")
I was in Isfahan for the great Mohammedan I d , or the Feast of the Sacri-
fice, and at Isfahan, also, had an extraordinary piece of luck just as I
was getting ready to leave, being invited by a friend to drive in his car
to Shiraz, with visits on the way to the Tomb of Darius and the ruins
of Persepolis! The regular passenger cars about which I had been
inquiring allowed no time for stopovers at the ancient monuments. Pri-
vate cars were almost prohibitively expensive. M y hostess in Isfahan had
hved there for eight years before she had had a chance to see the famous
mins—and yet here, on the very day on which I had planned to try
(apologies for the Japanese clerk who accidentally tore, and himself re-
cut, this stencil, saying nothing about it until the finished page told
the tale. Apologies, too, for the poor quality of the whole job, which
certainly didn't measure up to promise, but also didn't seem worth re-
d o i u g . L.S.) to get to them somehow, came the invitation to do free
o f cost the very thing I was longing to do!

The story of that trip, with our scramble across the fields to those

wonderful carved rock walls that hold the tomb of Darius—jumping irri-

gation ditches, wading through streams and trudging through ploughed

e'as and nettle patches—is a long and amusing one, but we certainly

2°0nn a *r e w a r c f ° r o u r struggles in the beautiful and gigantic

, 00-year-old sculptures and tombs cut into the solid perpendicular

ace of the cliffs which we reached at the end of our tramp. There were

ur tombs in all, around the entrances of which enormous Greek crosses

60 To DRAGM

seventy feet high were carved deep into the face of the rock. Bas re4
liefs filled the upper arm of all the crosses; the three lower arms of the
cross were left plain, in gorgeous simplicity. In other parts of the greaJ
rock cliff Sassanian kings had placed wonderful bas reliefs in the earl
centuries after Christ; around the end of the cliff stood two ancient fire
altars erected by the Zoroastrians for their fireworship. I t was difficu
to realize the tremendous age of it all.

The Persepolis ruins in the same vast plain but in another direction
were easier to reach, but had suffered far more at the hands of time and
enemies. They were in a gorgeous setting, however—on a w o n d e r f
vast platform high over the Plain of Mervdasht. We spent hours W
exploring the colossal ruins, finding thrillingly beautiful carvings in the
columns and doorways and walls that are all that remain of the glorious
city which Darius the Great built as his capital in about 500 B.C.

Shiraz, the city to which we went from Persepolis, also was an en]
chanting place, full of picturesque ruins of former loveliness, of mosques
and minarets, of cypresses and famous old Persian gardens—the seat, too
of the tombs of Sadi and of Hafiz, Persia's beloved poets. I f only 1
could describe for you the beauty of the view over the city and its sua
roundings from the Pass of God Is Great—or, on the less serious side
make you see the funny little "hotel" in which I stayed, and the pitH
fully and screamingly amusing attempts of the entire* personnel to fur-
nish their idea of European service and food and comforts in my honor
Or if you could have watched the kissing and weeping pilgrims I saw
start on their journey to Meshed; or seen the fabulously wealthy old]
Persian owner of Shiraz' loveliest garden, lying in his shirt-tails among]
pillows and being gently fanned by his wives, who invited me to come
up from the garden for a cup of tea, and ended by buying from my neck]
a string of beads whose color caught his fancy, and which are now doinJ
duty as his Mohammedan rosary! Why isn't there time and space to tel
about those things—and countless others?

From Shiraz, then, instead of going further south to Bushire, and saQl
ing from there back to Bombay, as I had planned, I went north again t
Isfahan, doubling on the road I had taken on the southward trip ( s i n c
it was the only one!) and, incidentally, pnssing again the Bachtiari coufl
try in which that interesting picture, "Grass," was filmed several y e a
ago showing the migration of an entire community across the difficuM
snow passes in its annual search for pasture for its flocks. I had am
opportunity to go on a horseback trip over the mountains themselves, bxm
I didn't take it because I wanted to get back to Teheran to see what ham
happened to my application for a Russian visa. I reached the c a p i t i
after a further delightful stay in Isfahan, and to my overwhelming
surprise, and contrary to everyone's expectations, found the permission
to go to Russia waiting for me, received just ten days after my telegraflfl
went to Moscow!

I had so definitely expected a refusal (several people I had met hav-
ing received one), that it took me a day or two to readjust to the nem
order of things. When matters were finally arranged, and I went to sem

M ] OCTOBER, 1930 61

4 about automobile transportation to Tabriz and thence to the Russian
e1 border, I found that for the following three days all roads leading to
J Resht (which included the Tabriz road) would be closed, in anticipa-
j tion of the arrival of the King and Queen of Afghanistan, for whom the
e pute was being prepared! That being so there was nothing to do but
l to return to my Teheran pension again, and wait, which I did. ( I was
in Teheran, incidentally, when the Afghan king arrived, and with others,

got many a smile out of poor- old Persia's attempts to preen herself for
n his coming. Transported bodily to the stage, the whole would have made
d a perfect musical comedy! The excitement of the whole country when
j the Afghan Queen came without the usual "chaddar," or face covering,
W in direct defiance to the wishes of the mullahs, or Mohammedan teachers,
e! was incredible. People think it will do more than any single thing that
s has happened recently to help pull the Persian women out of the primi-

] tive seclusion in which they still live and move.)
s!
l While I was waiting in Teheran for the roads to reopen, I received
1 another most unexpected invitation. A man who was also living at the
a pension, and who was driving a car from Saigon (in French Indo-China)
e! to Paris, via Moscow, invited me to drive from Teheran to Moscow with
H him! I t was too wonderful a chance to miss, and I waited i n Teheran
-] for the necessary permission for his visa to come from Moscow. I t did
! not arrive, however, before the fifteen-day period of grace allowed to me
w (as to everyone) to get across the border into Russia began to approach
d] its end, and I finally had to go on alone, in a public motor!

(And to Russia we will go in January)

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l

l How oibout Qhild intelligence?

l
j (Continued from page 40)
j school age. Another group is studying the pre-adolescent and doing
j work that any college would regard as very creditable. On off days
M 1 am sent to speak to Parent-Teacher organizations or to any other
m club whose regular speaker has failed them.

m Not long ago an undergraduate asked me what sort of course she
m could take that might lead to a good job and that would be usable
j
g t h ^ :a f t < r s h e she > -e v e r d i d 8irl
n was —m a r r i e d if of course The nad
l
^ e makings of a good teacher, and heaven knows we could use a
^ w > so I promptly urged her to go in for that, getting in addition to
!*e necessary hours in education, all the child psychology available
her college, as well as some actual experience in a nursery school.

l suh ^ l I * ?e m o r e
m rec uests than can be filled for 10 16 w h o h a v e had
m
c o r n K - P >t r a i n i n R a n d e x and certainly it is the sort of thing that
erience

b m e s well with the job of having some children of one's own.

62 T o D R A G J J t

zSflpha 0 is Chancellor's Wife

The Margery Reed
Mayo Memorial
Building at Den- MARY
ver University was
completed recently. VIRGINIA
Emma Schreiber
Hunter is a Zeta WELLS,
member.
Chi Delta

ALOYAL Alpha 0, an ardent worker in civic and public healt
leagues, and "one of the most charming hostesses that Denve
has ever known"—thus we may briefly describe Mrs. Frederic
Morris Hunter of Denver (Zeta '06).

For, most emphatically, Mrs. Hunter "is" and not "was" a loj
Alpha 0 . Since her college days she has taken an active interest
Alpha 0, and has been a member of an alumnae association i n eac
city where she has had residence. Few share her distinction in havii
been a member of three alumnae associations, and of having workej
hard in all three. Mrs. Hunter has been a member of the Lincol
and San Francisco chapters, and is now affiliated with the Denve
chapter.

i OCTOBER, 1930 63

e When Mrs. Hunter, the former Emma Schreiber, graduated from
the University of Nebraska in 1906, Zeta chapter lost one of its most
charming and valued members. She had taken part in many campus
activities, holding membership in the Latin and German clubs, in
Y.W.C.A. Although it would seem that the honor of Phi Beta Kappa
is hard enough to attain in four years, Mrs. Hunter finished her Uni-
versity course in three and one-half years, and at the same time achieved
a Phi Beta Kappa key.

Mrs. Hunter followed the career of school teaching for a year after
her graduation, and then married Chancellor Hunter, now president
of Denver University. Chancellor Hunter was at that time superintend-
ent of schools in Lincoln and they made their home there for several
years. They then moved to Oakland, Calif., where Chancellor Hunter
was superintendent of schools, and where Mrs. Hunter became af-
filiated with the San Francisco alumnae chapter.

As to interests other than Alpha O, Mrs. Hunter has always directed
much energy to work in civic and public health leagues. While i n
Oakland she held the vice presidency of the "Forum", a woman's
citizen's league, which had a membership of 1,600 and which was
one of the foremost organizations of that city. The Anti-Tuberculosis
society and other health organizations also challenged her attention.

Although she has'been in Denver for only a little over two years,
Mrs. Hunter has already become identified with civic organizations
there. She is a member of the Women's Citizen's League, one of the
most prominent of women's organizations in the city, and a member
of the Seminar of International Relations.

With a flair for hospitality and entertaining, Mrs. Hunter has become
a leader in the social life on the Denver University campus. She
belongs to many of the University organizations and entertains with
such charm that she has been styled "one of the most charming host-
esses Denver has ever known."

Mrs. Hunter has two sons, Arthur, who is a student in the medical
school of the University of Colorado, and Morris I I . She is a member
of the Beta Theta Pi mothers' club.

Salesmanship

(Continued from page 35)

«T > ^ 0 U °^on't seem to be doin' much better, Dad," complained Charley.
J1 1 fanny how we can't get what we want, ain't i t ? "

xes, Charley," said Mr. Staples, passing his left hand in a dazed
Iasnwn across his forehead.

He glanced about the room, at its tight security, at the fat pink
hi a ^ u ^ o n s » a t Nora in her beflowered rubber apron, at Charley in

s blue suit, at his course-book on the center-table, awaiting his half-
aour of study.

t ^ e s > " he repeated, neither to Nora nor to Charley, "yes, 'tis
^ y . Most things are kind of—funny, I guess."

04 • and you To DRAGMA

you • and you



Do you Sxpect to J^ivey^ore years

ALUMNAE! Do you expect to live seven and a half years? Or
do you hope to live fifteen, twenty-five, or fifty years to come?
" If your life expectancy is the latter, some of you are poor econo-
mists.

Some of you have paid for a life subscription to To DRAGMA in
yearly sums now; you just haven't taken time to figure out the fact
that at $2.00 a year,'you have only seven and a half years to live
to have bought a life subscription. You go on paying your yearly dues,
which for non-life subscribers includes the magazine subscription, with-
out a thought. Perhaps $15 seems quite a sum in one payment, but
remember that once paid the magazine is yours for life.

Yearly subscriptions aren't very successful either. You complain
that you have paid your dues, and yet you don't get the magazine.
We check the complaint, usually finding that your subscription has
expired in May or perhaps October, but your treasurer has failed to
mail the dues with the renewal in time to reach the Central Office
before the wrappers have been sent to the printers; or, perhaps, you
are late with your dues, and the treasurer having only a few dollars
to send in, waits for more stragglers, delaying the renewal still further.

If you are an annual subscriber, we attempt to locate you if yod
move and fail to notify us, but we can't make the prolonged effort
we do if (life) appears after your name. We've found that people
whose names are followed by that magic word are quicker to let us
know of their whereabouts.

In each issue of To DRAGMA this year there will be a list of thosd
who, believing that they will be long-lived and practicing economy,
subscribe for the magazine for life. Life subscriptions should be sent]
directly to the Grand Treasurer, Mrs. F . H . Matson, 2116 St. Clailj
Saint Paul, Minnesota.

OCTOBER, 1930 63

To the alumnae chapter sending in the most life subscriptions from
among alumnae (initiates or compulsory life subscriptions will not count),
we will give one life subscription. You will be free to give that to
whom you please—to a model pledge, a deserving alumnae president,
to the pledge with the highest scholarships or a faithful alumna who is
ill. But! six subscriptions will constitute a minimum for the prize.

Watch the barometer! Who will win?

Lucille Ziegelmaier Haertel, Tau '19
Alice Stanley Dunham, Gamma '24
Marjorie T. Bartlett, Chi '22
Vivian Strahm Smith, Phi '14
Maud Moseley, Upsilon '24
Helen Brooks Boyce, Rho '21
Eunice Jane Getzelman, Eta '22
Emma McGregor Beard, Zeta Ex.'23
Anna Cordelia Stafford, Theta Ex.'12
Irene C. Cuneo, Lambda '14

Daisy ^hcTtv, <^/ln appreciation

Hy £igma Qhapter

rN 1902 DAISY MANSFIELD joined
Alpha Beta Sigma, the local sorority
at the University of California which

in 1907 became Sigma chapter of Alpha

Omicron Pi. Through all these years

the sorority has received the benefits of

her loyalty and devotion. Shortly after

her graduation and marriage to Norman

Shaw she began her activities as an

alumna, becoming alumna adviser to the

active group. For two years she lived

next door to the house, and the girls

depended on her splendid judgment and

constantly sought her advice. Many

ulo!nyT"taci*hlL-?TL9nme™!moaaoin'And',uPuShfmmh1oa,e0eucn ,nstdSeStOith<st0oatja»twhhn>crh-rda*ocsru«.Cgahshliaavhpectnrer. times over the tea cups in her home

were discussed the problems and joys
of the chapter. As though that were not
enough, for three years Daisy managed

turnpH ° "P t C r h summer session as a rooming house and
USe d m m

°ver a S T * ™ >E g i f t t 0 t h e g i r l s t h e r e s u l t s o f h e r e f f o r t s a sum wel1

home f ? u s a n d d°Nars. This was done even though she had a large
far fr o v v n *? c a r e f o r a n d despite the fact that her health was
° m good. With the purchasing of the house came the arduous

66 To D R A G M I E
p
duties of the Managing Board. Here again came work for DaisyJ
as president of the Board, and she still holds that position. I

As the chapter with its wonderful progress outgrew the old house] a
actives, alumnas, and mothers urgently expressed the views that AOI1 a
should have an entirely new house in a more desirable location. Only] d
those who have managed such a step can appreciate what the Board! p
has gone through in the last two years. This splendid group of AOII,l y
has been presided over by Daisy, and through her guidance one difficult e
step after another has been worked out. To her persistent efforts; y
we owe the wonderful house which Sigma chapter now occupies. P
a
To the deep regret of us all, the responsibility, the constant attention t
to detail and worry that inevitably accompany such an undertaking
proved too much for Daisy's strength. Since last October she has U
not been well, and for nearly a year has courageously sought to regain
her health. Her interest in the house and in every member, old and t
new, has never lessened, even though she seldom leaves her home and
sees very few people. However we are most sincerely grateful that J
the past few months have shown a decided improvement in her con-j
dition, and it is the hope of everyone who knows her that before long 8
she will be well.
h
Her unbounded loyalty, her patience, her wisdom, her true sorority] r
spirit, the tremendous amount of time given to the interests of the!
sorority can never be told or appreciated. m

Do you Know That—

Vivian Ellis Howard (Beta Phi), has a poem, "Loneliness" in the
Spring Anthology of Poetry published by the Mitre Press, London, Eng-
land. The poem was originally published in To DRAGMA.

Peggy Parker (Rho '30), is a member of the advisory council of the
Northwestern University Foundation, a position given only to a class
leader.

Kappa chapter has the treasurer and vice president of Y.W.C.A. at
Randolph-Macon. They are Kitty Coulbourn ('32), and Virginia Boggess
('32).

Beta Phi won the scholarship cup awarded at the Indiana State
luncheon.

Mildred Frazee (Beta Phi), won the Beta Phi scholarship pin. She
had an "A—" average and was elected to Freshman Mortar Board. She
is secretary of Y.W.C.A.

Onida Grey (Xi), won the medal given to the runner-up in tennis
singles at the University of Oklahoma.

Mildred M. Lyle (Epsilon Alpha '31), is a member of the honorary
varsity basketball team.

Elizabeth Wenning (Nu Omicron), is chairman this year of Stunt
Night given annually by the girls of Vanderbilt University.

For the year 1929-30, Frances Carter ('30), was president of Student
Council; Elizabeth Wenning ('30), was president of Chi Delta Phi; Eliza-
beth Frazier ('30), was president of Bachelor Maides, a junior-senior social
club. These girls are members of Nu Omicron.

tjMother of
Jiundreds

Elizabeth Morrison Proud Lucy Rowland Hall, De-
presides over Lucy Row- Pauw University is a

land Hall. very modern dormitory.

IT F YOU like sym- competition involved
pathy from your that is most stimu-
friends for the lating, seeing which
of you will "win
amount of work you out" in any case—
appear to have to for no one likes to
do, or, would like a admit defeat, even to
position upon which j a college senior.
you can blame your
eccentricities, or, if I find 'tis wise to
you actually want let it be known that
Plenty to do, become you aren't so old but
a hostess in a dormi- that you know what
tory and try keeping is being done or
UP with one hun- likely to be done
ted, eight cylinder, even if no disciplin-
Jp30 model college ary measures are
8lrls. In other words taken. There are
many s c h e m e s
a "Mother of "Mothers of Hun-
hundreds." There is dreds" have that are
really a keen bit of more effective than
m e n t a l and physical

By E L I Z A B E T H MORRISON PROUD, Theta

68 To DRAGMAI

apparent punishment. For instance—to corner someone who you know
has signed out to attend a university play or function and has gone walk-,
ing with her boy friend instead and demand to know the details and fine
points of the performance. The agony and discomfort under such close
scrutiny are painful, and the results are very few repetitions of the same
offense. To insist on giving a dose of salts for a severe head cold when-
you know the tears and hysteria are caused only by the failure of a cer-
tain fraternity man to call at the proper time, and it is feared he might
be out with the rival "co-ed," is quite good.

To insist that it is only logical that the culprit, who has lingered one
moment too long with the "date" and arrived at the front door after
the key has turned the lock, shall report one half hour early each night
for two weeks to get her into good habits, is most effective.

To telephone a "co-ed" who has failed to come home and also failed
to leave a sign-out slip telling where she has gone late at night, and
insist on letting her in after you have waited up for her so long, has
its good points. The culprit must dash home alone, take a taxi or call
the boy friend to bring her, come in breathlessly and hope for as few
words as possible at the front door. This procedure, I admit, is un-
necessarily cruel. When the phone rings at the respective sorority
house, the girl just knows that the call is from the boy friend whom she
has that night entranced by her loveliness. He scarcely has been able
to stand the distance home before telephoning her, just to hear her voice
again. Then your cold and accusing voice, "You didn't sign out."

To advise with the air of assurance and experience in love, friend-
ship, and marriage problems, is a necessary feature. You must at all
times be alert, know others who have suffered as much, and more pos-
sibly, in similar conditions. You must be ready to talk late into the
night when the demand presents itself. Love affairs to college "co-eds":
are like acute appendix cases—they must be handled at once, orl
tragedy will result. You must at all times see the ridiculous in the ap-j
parent gloomy outlook of affairs and be the leavening agent—lighten-
the lump, as it were, until things seem better. You must attempt td
prove the value of a college education to blase people; on the other:
hand, you must make secure a foothold for those having great possin
bilities, who can't afford to go on. There is the sad, the ridiculous, the!
exciting, the discouraging, the gratifying, the ungratifying, the happy]
and the difficult about being a "Mother of Hundreds," but you'd love]
it just the same.

All this, and you know a little of what it is all about—as a bit of ex-i
planation it is my particular hobby or by-product for my nervous en-s
ergy. As a matter of fact, I am primarily a university teacher, professo
of home economics, and head of the department here at DePauw Unfc
versity.

Having secured my first thrill of entering college at D.P.U. in 19l9i
found my crimson ribbons awaiting me, my pledge pin and initiation^
it was no hardship to return here after graduation from Wisconsin in^
1923. As a freshman at D.P.U. and living in Mansfield Hall, I gainedj

OCTOBER, 1930 69

in knowledge and experience such material that not only later made
my return to Mansfield as hostess a joy—but gave me an appreciation
for the possible things college "co-eds" can be guilty of doing.

After two wonderful years here at D.P.U., and Theta chapter was no
small part of it, I spent two very rapid years at Madison, Wisconsin.
I was affiliated with Eta for a time, but not being so flushed with wealth,
I slipped out and enjoyed looking in on their pep and life, for they
were a most clever group.

Graduation day, 1923, found me signed for a position to teach at
Racine County Home Economics School, Rochester, Wis., thrilled to
death. The following September, I had hardly stepped from the train
in Burlington, Wis., until I ran on to Buster Zimmerman from Eta.
As a life saver "Bus" was wonderful, for when I found myself way off,
three miles from Burlington, in a town of about three hundred and no
young people, I turned right around and used literally that little AOII
motto of ours. We became fast friends, and in a short time the year
was over, and "Bus" and I were planning her wedding which was to
be that June. In that year I learned much and decided more. I taught
every possible subject having even a faint correlation to home eco-
nomics—even to girls' athletics. You should see me do wand drills and
invent games to suit occasions—you really can do so much when you
have to! But, since I am to offer advice to anyone beginning in home
economics or teaching, I recommend saying, " I can," to everything you
are asked to do; and don't spurn a job because you are asked to teach
many subjects; be glad of the opportunity. Use all your training,
and organize your thinking immediately. To teach three subjects in
one year is harder, but as good a recommendation as teaching three
different subjects, three different years.

That year's experiences decided me against high school work. I
didn't exactly love the attitude of many students; I found you were
supposed to teach them something no matter how hard they resisted
the idea. The whole idea seemed such a farce—for a school to hire
someone to make another learn something so he could probably enjoy
°is own life more, later on. So, I decided to secure a college position.
I learned about colleges and universities from a government bulletin
giving complete statistics on sizes, departments, and so forth. That
spring I wrote many letters and received only a few answers (those,
negative), but resigned my position anyway. Along in the summer,
when I was beginning to despair of a college job, I received a wire from
^•P-U. signed—George R. Grose. To some older DePauw students that
name will give quite a thrill. It was the one university to which I had
n ° t had nerve to send an application, and the one where I had hoped
["aybe, someday, to get in as instructor. I wired my answer, and Sep-
tember, 1924, found me loaded with lists of library books, outlines for
c°urses of study, illustrative material, and a schedule for classes, on my

a y to Greencastle, Ind. If anyone feels it an easy proposition at
wenty-three to be responsible for swinging a department and for teach-
8 a college major, just try it some time. I really managed to keep

70 To DRAGMA

quite busy but very happy. I marvel at my very calm nerve and con-
fidence, but that I now realize, was a true sign of my unsurpassed ig-
norance. I am sure I wouldn't have such calmness now. At the door
of the faculty room I met none other than our Judith Sollenberger of
Theta chapter, and we have stayed these last six years here together.
Another Alpha O from Theta came later—Ebba Anderson, who stayed
one year as instructor in Spanish, filling a place left by a year's leave
of absence granted to someone.

After three years had passed, just when I felt I would welcome
heartily a new interest, one of the dormitory hostesses was given a
leave of absence for a long trip. Imagine my shock when Dean Alvord
called me in conference and asked me to slip into her place for the
year. I asked a week to consider it, for it seemed preposterous to as-
sume such a family all at once—one hundred girls, and in the hall that
had been my home as a college freshman, just eight years before. The
scenes of my escapades were so recent in my mind's eye, and my fellow
companions close enough to expose me, that I feared for my success.
I did consent to take charge, however, the remaining eight months of
the year and was apparently on trial, for when the new Lucy Rowland
Hall opened, the administration suggested that I start its organization
the following September.

To describe Lucy Rowland Hall will give some idea of the setting.
Our dormitories for women are now built in what might be called a
three-sided quadrangle, leaving a large court in the center. Mansfield
Hall, the oldest, on one side, Rector Hall across the back and Lucy
Rowland, just new, on the other side. Mansfield Hall and Lucy Rowland
accommodate one hundred girls each and Rector about one hundred
thirty-five. The dormitory life of the freshman and unorganized women
is wonderfully fine. The buildings are all beautifully furnished, and
much attention is paid to the pleasure of these two groups. My particu-
lar capacity is hostess and organizer, having control of the discipline, i
the social life of the girls, and the general atmosphere of the hall. Such
a beautiful place as Lucy Rowland creates its own atmosphere, how- j
ever, so really, I might say that my chief duty is to lock the door at
10:00 P.M. and try to see for the sake of the mothers that all the cherubs
are in their trundle beds.

I feel a much bigger person for having had the opportunity of work- ;
ing with girls. I have tried to study character and characteristics, and
the stimulating part of the experience is that I have found out my fail- j
ures and weaknesses, for college girls are so brutally frank that they j
expose you even while you criticize them. Speaking as one who sees j
behind the scenes and knows the heart of the average college girl, I must ;
say that she is a very remarkable person. She is sincere and earnest
and is trying to learn to live with others and respect their points of |
view. If given the opportunity and treated fairly, she will be honest
and will meet you more than half way. There isn't anything that can't i
be done in a moment's notice, and her ideas for parties and stunts are
miraculous. She may be "wild looking" at times, smoke frequently and

OCTOBER, 1930 71

even say she hates God, the world, and all convention, but she doesn't,
and in the end will rise to what is expected of her. College girls today
have more interests and accomplish more th. n did girls of ten years
ago. They are not so concerned with convention and what people will
"think," but are out to live and learn and do. I look for them to do
big and useful things because their worlds are growing larger, and there
are many fields of interests, as yet undeveloped, for women. They are
not choosing careers primarily, as critics feel. As a home economics
teacher, I see many who want to make homes and are quite thrilled over
futures as wives, but they view the proposition more as a business. They
desire to learn how to work, in order to save themselves time—in turn
giving themselves opportunity to pursue their extra-home activities. Men
will have to step very lively to keep pace with the achievements and de-
velopments of their twentieth century wives.

I have said little about home economics—that, as you know, is my
original work. There is great opportunity for a university major in this
field to have many interests, any one of which can be made very lucra-
tive. Hospital dietitians, nutrition supervisors in schools and in wel-
fare clinics. Red Cross field work, director in dormitories, hospitals,
summer camps, and so forth, on the basis of food and dietetics knowl-
edge, also buyers in large department stores, style consultants, cos-
tume designers, dressmakers, textile experts and experimenters, teachers
and homemakers, are some of the positions in which I have seen girls
successfully placed. If you have talent in writing and can link experi-
mental and practical knowledge in a popular way for public use, you
have a most wonderful field for your efforts. If you care for the study
of child psychology and development, there is a boundless field for re-
search and achievement. All of these interests are so closely akin to
the natural instincts of women that should she pursue them for a pro-
fession, she has in a measure satisfied herself, and should she have a
family of her own, how much greater opportunity they have for devel-
opment and training!

As a climax I might also add that I received my M.D. degree last
July by marrying him—so June found me making my sixth and
last annual appearance in a university academic procession. It doesn't
hurt my feelings very much to shift my double burden, one to the new
department head, and one to the assistant dean, and "retire" to the
role of a doctor's wife. To those who are interested from the vocational
standpoint, I say, "Decide on your field early; read and know everything

to it; improve your immediate opportunities in every field; be alert,
observing and a bit scheming. Know what you want and go after
~,r When you arrive, study the essentials for success in that field and
work constantly toward that end—even if that field is finding a very
nice doctor husband."

Qreetings, ^Alpha Omicron
^Pi zjllumnae



Cfraternity for J^jfe

Let us be young together, savoring the
sweetness of comradeship and mutual en-
deavor.

Let us in maturity enjoy together our wid-
ening circle of friendships, by our concerted
efforts safeguarding the stability of our chap-
ters, and through our combined support enlarg-
ing the usefulness of our national projects.

Let us grow old together, uplifted by the
consciousness of younger hands that will carry
our banner on to greater heights of idealism
and service.

Elizabeth Heywood Wyman

OCTOBER 1930 73

zjtlumnae 'Problems Overcome

by ingenious ^Methods

EVERY alumnae chapter has its problems of reaching its members, of getting
sizable crowds to meetings, of providing a meeting time convenient to the
greatest number. Different chapters have attacked these by different methods
with success so we are endeavoring to pass their advice on to others who may be
Interested.

_ Margaret Ritter (Alpha), alumnae chapter editor, gives Los Angeles' method of
giving first aid to the secretary and their way of getting acquainted—a good sug-
gestion to use in getting the recent graduates as well as the newcomers interested
in your alumna; chapter.

"Among the problems most surely calculated to try the patience of even the
sweetest tempered secretary is the handling of luncheon reservations for alumna;
chapter meetings. In the wicked old days before we of Los Angeles chapter put
our minds to the subject, our poor secretary mailed about two hundred announce-
ments every month, requesting telephone reservations. Then she waited a week,
ten days, twelve days, three weeks, becoming more and more agitated, while the
luncheon committee clamored to know whether to order food for one hundred and
fifty or for fifteen. By the day before the meeting the telephone began ringing.
The reservations numbered twenty. To be quite sure the committee provided
luncheon for twenty-five and thirty-five arrived, causing the cooks to tear their
hair, resort to tin cans, and spread the mayonnaise very thin. But now we seem
to have solved the difficulty, at least partially. Our secretary has a permanent
rescrvation list of members who come to meetings regularly, barring sudden illness
°r national calamity. The cards giving the date of the meeting are sent as usual,
°Ut only to paid-up members. Those on the permanent list are automatically
checked unless they cancel the reservation, and the uncertain few are instructed
to phone by a certain date. In this way the number of telephone calls is diminished,
"Jth considerable saving of time for both the secretary and the members. Of
course, a few of those on the permanent list may be prevented at the last minute
from coming, or some of the uncertain few may come without phoning, but at least
the margin of uncertainty is small. Rarely are too few luncheons provided, and,
" there is a superfluity, it can usually be disposed of at cost to members, thus
f°'.vmK the problem of tonight's dinner, or of tomorrow's luncheon, the proceeds
^'ng added to the luncheon money turned into the treasury. Do try the system,
^ u let us know how it works with you.

"Do you chapters with a large membership find yourselves collecting into little
j^oups and cliques at meetings? We do. Of course, we are all fond of each other,

"t you know how it is; we naturally gravitate to those of about our own age,
whose beaux, husbands, babies, homes, and activities we know. The youngsters
JUst out of college have their community of interest, and find the older members

74 To DRAGMAI

rather terrifying. The rest of us tend to congregate according to our occupation*
and interests, and only sorority matters bring us all together. To make us all betterJ
acquainted, our clever president, Lucille English, has instituted get-together suppersJ
Each one of the head committee invites eight guests, four of whom are her close
friends in the chapter, and four others whom she wishes to make closer friends.]
Each one of the guests has a supper party for four, and each of these for another]
four, thus forming a more or less endless chain, and giving us all a much better]
opportunity to become acquainted than is possible at a large and busy meeting.!
The recent members are always guests of honor. To lessen the financial burden on]
individual hostess, each guest contributes fifty cents, anything over the cost of the
supper being turned into the treasury. Thus we combine profit with pleasure.

"The most delightful of these suppers which I have personally attended wad
given by Jane Graham early in June. Several of the 1930 Kappa Theta's were !
there, the most especial guests being our June brides-to-bc, Audrey Buratti and
Dorothy Battey. After a very good supper, spiced by agreeable conversation, wej
settled about the open fire (yes, open fires arc pleasant on June evenings in Cali-
fornia) with our coffee cups, and Lucille English gave to Audrey and Dorothy our
three wishes for their married happiness: understanding which surmounts all diffi-J
culties and problems, faith in each other, to help them over the bumps of marital
life, and sympathy which is stronger than individual interests, all blended into a
real and enduring affection.

"To assist our new brides in holding husbandly devotion, we presented ea<
one with a card file of our favorite, tried-and-true recipes—the kind one can depend
upon in emergencies, when friend husband is delayed, and dinner must be kept!
waiting and palatable, or when there are special guests (in-laws, perhaps?) to r
pleased and impressed with one's culinary skill. Altogether, Jane's was a lovely
party.

"Another 'get-together' affair was the June beach party at Malibu. Besid'
about eleven alumnae, our party included four active Kappa Theta's, Jean Dement*
two boys, Mabel Wadlington's little girl, Muriel McKinney's Bobby, Hilda Thorar
son's son and my own small Charlotte. And, a special and pleasant surprise, Heir
Henry paid us a visit. After we had, with difficulty, plucked the Kappa Thetaf
out of their bridge game to go swimming with the rest of us, 'a good time was hr
by all,' as the village chronicler would say.

"Later in the summer we had another beach party for alumnae and actives. Se
ing us in bathing suits and engaged in undignified antics in a rather heavy surf wr
very useful in making the actives realize that we are still human, although no longd
youthful. Friendships ripen rapidly over a bottle of olives and an egg sandwicB

"We are planning, this year, to hold the interest of out-of-town members whM
can rarely attend meetings, by sending out monthly news letters, relating the happeg
ings at meetings, and other activities, so that they may not lose the thread 4
things. I think some of you other chapters have used this plan with success, an»
we would be glad of suggestions from you who have had experience."

Minneapolis had difficulties getting a meeting time convenient for the busin^L
girls and the home keepers. The business girls couldn't come on a week dam
afternoon, and they were loathe to give up their Saturday. The homekeepeW
disliked meetings in the evening every month, so a compromise resulted, livery
other month a dinner meeting is held which members of both groups attend. T|
dinners are given in a home by several hostesses. During the intervening moo.
the homemakers are free to have their bridge meeting in the afternoon and
business girls their evening session. This seems to be another way of getting mcB
girls interested.

Chicago may be unique in its problem of transportation, but their means of over*
coming the obstacle is well worth reading. Mary Dee Drummond (Alpha P M M
Alumnae District Superintendent has written it.

"Nothing to my knowledge is duller than hearing a detailed report of lm
organization's inner workings (such a report usually falls on deaf ears or b | T
eyes as the case may be) unless it is writing one. I will therefore endeavor

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make this as brief as possible and still elaborate enough to be of whatever help
it may. Of late I have become very word-conscious, and I looked up the verb,
t o organize.' The dictionary says, 'to arrange or distribute into parts with the
proper officials so as to carry out a scheme efficiently."

"In its early days Chicago alumnae chapter may be likened to an amoeba. As
you know, an amoeba is a unicellular structure which works very efficiently, getting
its food by putting out pseudopodia, and 'flowing around,' or ingesting whatever
object it touches. Such a primitive structure served very well for the chapter at
the time. Like the amoeba, however, these pseudopodia were also the only means
of locomotion, and as locomotion goes, it was pretty slow. Some means had to be
devised whereby it was possible to extend the field of operation. There were many
desirable potential members, but at such distance that, stretch it as one might, one's
pseudopodia were somewhat short. Imagine from six to ten persons meeting monthly,
representing a potential organization of at least a hundred or more. The result
was that a new chapter was formed on the south side of Chicago, by a sort of
spontaneous combustion method. This chapter became a complete neucleus with a
charter of its own, and it exists as such today. Chicago alumnae chapter struggled
on as best it could in the face of all the obstacles it had to overcome. A small
number of the members did all the work, receiving no great glory; the others could
only visit the meetings occasionally. We have promised to love and cherish our
chapter and its members, but it is hard to travel ten or twelve miles monthly to do
it. Most of the cherishing had to be done at respectable distance.

"Consequently nature's processes of evolution set in earnest and under the
able leadership of Cora Jane Stroheker (Iota), who was president in 1026-27 a very
paradoxical plan of organization came into being. In a large loose potential
membership there can be no feeling of unity because of the heterogeneity from
meeting to meeting. So contrary to the usual 'united we stand, divided we fall,'
Chicago alumna? says "Divided we stand, together we didn't amount to a hill of
beans.' In order that the paradox should be workable, the 'proper officials' began
to organize the various parts so that whatever scheme was in view might have a
chance of becoming a reality. I f I wax overly enthusiastic, or i f I understate the
efficiency of the organization, let me say that I have had nothing whatsoever to do
with it. I was not one of the attending physicians at the birth, merely an anxious
member of the family. But I believe that the preparation for this infant was pretty
complete; nearly every eventuality and contingency was looked after as would
befit a rise from such a single organism as an amoeba to the complexity of something
comparable to homo sapiens.

t " I t is understood, of course, that this organization might not apply in its
entirety to a smaller place with less members to work with, nor might it apply
jn large chapters where geography is less a factor in the working efficiency than
11 is with us in Chicago.

The present organization with Alice Thomson (Alpha), as president seems
to run beautifully. Cora Jane and her staff, then Alice and hers, have applied
fneir knowledge of nutrition and psychiatry, so that in a surprisingly short time the
infant is ready to foresake the stage of growing pains, and take its place as an adult.

" I have read through a lot of reports and much material covering the last four
years, but it is obvious that this cannot be included in an article such as this one.
nstcad I will copy the necessary parts of the present organization, which give the
clearest picture:

Organization

^ This chapter shall be composed of several smaller associations; to wit, Central,
°rth Shore and West Side Associations, and any new groups which may be added

"orn time to time.

me 1 ^ T^ese associations may be of two kinds: (1) Groups having a paid up
'mbership of ten which shall give them a voting representation on the General
me h, k? ' ' ^ P ' yai t l e r R 1 t 0 l h e their turn: (2) Groups having a paid up
res denc m

tKo J?ership °f less than ten which shall give them a consulting representation on
l"e General Board.

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(b) New associations may be founded at the discretion of the General Board]
by any five members living in the same neighborhood who find it easier to meet 1
otherwise than provided for by existing groups.
(c) Each group shall be managed by its own officers, consisting of chairman,!
secretary, treasurer, and any other officers it may deem necessary for its purposes.
These officers shall be elected by each group and shall have such duties as generally ]
pertain to such offices and as many may be further specified in these by-laws. I n ]
case of a vacancy in any of these offices except that of chairman, the chairman shall j
have the power to appoint a successor. In case of a vacancy in the offices of chair- j
man, the group shall elect a successor. The term of office shall be two years and
shall begin May 1 of the spring preceding the stated meeting of Grand Council. The j
chairman shall serve as a member of the governing board of the general chapter.

(d) The membership of the various groups shall be composed of all JA O u
members residing within the limits of the association and those who for personal j
reasons prefer to be affiliated with some particular group.

(e) Each association shall hold at least six meetings a year besides the generall
meetings. No group meeting shall interfere with the stated general meetings. All
group meetings shall be held at such times as best meet the desires of the individual
group. - J
(f) Each association shall be free to develop its ideas of the purpose of A O I I j
in any manner it sees fit so long as they do not conflict with the aims and purposes j
set forth in these by-laws.

Governing Board

This chapter shall be directed by a governing board composed of general officers;!
to wit, president, vice president, secretary (combined with offices of historian and!
editor of To DRAGMA) , treasurer, and the chairman of all associations, all of whom J
shall hold office for two years.

(a) This general president shall be chosen by the outgoing board in t u r M
from each existing group having a paid up membership of ten, and can not at the!
same time act as chairman of any group. The general officers shall be chosen^by]
the outgoing board from the existing groups having a paid up membership of tenia
Not more than two general officers from one group shall be elected to hold officfll
during the same term. The presidency shall rotate as follows: North Shore, Central
and West Side with any new groups added in turn as they may be formed. A groupi
may elect to forfeit its right to the office of president at the discretion of the board-
The method of election shall be as follows: (1) The chairman of the group whose;
turn it is to have the presidency shall ascertain by a straw vote, in February pre-
ceding the election, the candidate of the group. (To be eligible for this office^
candidates must have been paid up members of the group for at least the twoj
preceding years.) The board shall have the power to suggest any other candidates;
from the group in question that it seems advisable. A committee to nominated
candidates for the other general offices shall be appointed from the board. These;
nominees shall be acted upon by the board before April 1. A majority vote of;
the board shall elect.

Duties of Governing Board

I n general the duties of the principal officers shall be as follows:
(a) The president shall preside over the meetings of the board' and over t h i
stated general meetings, she shall attend at least one meeting of each group and
more if possible; she shall attend and report the stated Grand Council meetings
she shall make such reports as are required by the National organization; she shall
serve as ex-officio chairman of all committees; she shall perform such other dutifil
as naturally appertain to this office.
(b) The vice president shall have as her special care the social service worH
of the chapter; she shall perform such other duties as naturally appertain to this
office.
(c) The secretary shall keep a record of the minutes of the general board!
she shall keep on file a list of all alumna; living in Chicago or vicinity, classified int<J|

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the groups into which each belongs; she shall act as general editor for To DRAGMA
and as historian, getting items from an assistant in each group; she shall perform
any other duties naturally appertaining to this office.

(d) The treasurer shall keep and report the general chapter moneys; she shall
be responsible for the collection from the various group treasurers of all money due
for National fees and other general funds; she shall perform such other duties as
naturally appertain to this office.

In general the duties of the governing board shall be as follows:
(a) I t shall serve as a clearing house for the problem of the various groups.
P " (b) I t shall instigate and carry out the general social service work of the
chapter.
f (c) I t shall plan and carry out the general meetings, including the program.
(d) I t shall meet at least every other month.
1 (e) I t shall perform any other duties that naturally appertain to such a board.

Notices
Notices of group meetings shall be sent out by the group secretary at least
one week in advance. Notices of general meetings shall be sent out by the general
secretary at least one week in advance. As completely as possible a general pro-
gram including meetings of the various groups and board of governors for each
coming year shall be planned and posted with the general secretary and the secre-
taries of the groups.
Notices of dues shall be sent by the group treasurers to each member who
has not paid by September 1, and repeat notices shall be sent each month until dues
are paid. The current year shall run from May 1 to May 1.
"The above gives an idea of the various parts which we hope are going to
combine to work efficiently and in harmony. Needless to say such a scheme as the
above needs to work out a budget. So a budget there is. This is divided into the
following departments: 1. Philanthropy; 2. Convention delegate's expense; 3. Secre-
tary's materials; 4. News letter to alumna;. This news letter is issued three times
a year to all members of the chapter whether resident or members at large; 5. 1933
Convention fund. This, of course, is not a permanent item, but the chapter finds
it necessary to begin early in order to insure money on hand when needed; 6. Cour-
tesy Fund. This covers flowers, greeting cards, thank-you letters, and so forth;
7. Special Fund. This is where our money goes if there is a surplus, and our idea
is to build up this fund so that it will pay us a yearly income on which the chapter
can always count. When and if such a state is reached, the money will be used
'or some endowment. This is planning for the future.
"In this connection I'm going back to enlarge a bit upon the first item in the
budget—philanthropy. Chicago Alumnae chapter has undertaken to educate a child
>n the Spaulding School for Crippled Children. The child is thirteen, and we have
hopes that she is not incurable, but whatever the physical handicap, we are en-
deavoring to remove as far as we are able her educational ones. She is a child
*'th a keen mind and willing to test that keenness. I t gives the members of the
chapter the greatest satisfaction to do this. The members are very much interested
l n philanthropic work from the educational angle. They feel that there are agencies
which look after, or are supposed to exist to look after, the i l l and the hungry
a_nd the ragged, but less often is there an opportunity for a child to obtain educa-
tional advantages, though that child may be housed, clothed, and fed by its parents
or an institution. The physical comforts are an aid to the development of the mind,
tb u too often the mind is neglected.
"The money problem is ever present in any chapter big or little. No less in
Chicago Alumna;. In the past our biggest results seems to have been gained by
theatre benefits. We have had from one to three a year. This year, however, we
jtte planning one big card party to be given in a central location. The party is
k ^ g planned now, although it will not take place until spring. We feel that by
concentrating on one big thing instead of several lesser plans, that we will accomplish
°»r end more easily.
"Chicago Alumna; chapter had a small beginning. The future grows out of

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the past, we are told, and so we believe, and growth has taken place. We look m
forward to a future of real service. Chicago Alumnae chapter does not minimize s
the importance of keeping up old associations by means of the chapter, nor does
it minimize the stimulating power of our meetings to us personally, but most of all, t
this chapter wants to have a real reason for existence; and that reason, that purpose,
that scheme must be something that we gladly do to benefit others, something T
outside ourselves. This can be done only through the unified action of our com-
ponent parts. Our president meets with each group alternately. Reports are given su
to the group of the other groups so each may know what the other is doing. I t a
is imperative that the president keep in close touch with all members of the chapter, n
so far as possible. Chicago Alumna? chapter does not believe that its organization b
is infallible, but it believes it has solved a problem to the advantage of the chapter th
as a whole. What the future has waiting for us remains to be seen, but we are on d
our way, and know to some extent where our path is leading." in
g
The chapter news letter has been a much discussed thing. A few_ chapters B
have tried an annual letter and felt it was of little value; alumna; chapters have
felt that it did not benefit them. Read what Margaret Melaas Spengler (Eta), M
Great Lakes District Superintendent, has to say of Eta Clips. By the way, this SO
little paper is fulfilling the need of alumna; notes among Eta alumna;, hence the B
very short space used by Eta in To DRAGMA. Eta Clips is without doubt the D
finest chapter publication we receive. su
n
" I know so little about the early history of Eta Clips, our little paper, that I rt'P
must hurry over that. I believe Marian Roth, a journalism student, was re- w>
sponsible for the sheet's name and that Garnet Kleven (Mrs. Willard Lowe), and
Marian published the first issue. Just how the first funds to finance Eta Clips were 01
raised I am not able to recall, but I will tell you of its existence and mission in
our circle today. Pi
an
"Eta chapter alumna; association sponsors the publication of Eta Clips. First,: to
I might mention that our alumnae association is organized without constitution or to
by-laws and has no dues assessed. Any member of Eta chapter automatically th
becomes a member when she becomes inactive in collegiate chapter, and if she W
desires Eta Clips, the group's news letters, she pays two dollars a year to the treas-
urer of Eta alumna; association. There are two regular meetings of this association
a year; one at homecoming and one at alumnae banquet in June when officers for
the ensuing year are elected. We find the alumnae most willing to offer constructive
criticism at these times, and donations from time to time have been forthcoming
through suggestions stressed at these meetings. I think the organization has two.
motives and justifies its existence to the fulfillment of these. The first is that
through these two reunion meetings we have been able to create a longing to return
to the chapter, and it is surprising to what efforts some of the old girls will go
just to be back to see everyone on these two occasions. The second mission is the
publication of Eta Clips which keeps all those, unable to come back, in close touch
with Eta chapter and the Eta alumna; group. The paper is a four-page sheet pub-
lished in October before homecoming; again before Christmas; then after prom and
the opening of the new semester, and lastly in May at which time all the announce-
ments of reunion plans for June are made and a special appeal is sent to all to return.

"Wilma has asked me if I would recommend the publication of a paper of thisj
nature for alumnae chapters. I cannot see that there is the need for a paper for
these groups. Their meetings ought to be attractive enough to have everyone there
to talk the news over. Publishing the news of these groups seems like adding more
work to the already 'overworked' and also adding to the financial obligations of the
group. However, I cannot stress too strongly the benefits active chapters or,
associations such as ours would derive from publishing a paper similar to Eta Clips-
Chapters anticipating building new homes especially would arouse the interest oi,
their older girls by keeping them informed of the chapter's activities and the
whereabouts of their graduates. Action for the publication of such a paper, no
doubt, could best come from within the active chapter, and when the alumna-j
realize the joy of receiving the paper, they no doubt would organize as we did *
take over the responsibility of publishing it.

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"We would be happy to send any group interested in our paper a copy. You
may write me at Menasha, Wisconsin, and I will see that the circulation manager
sends you one of our first copies of the year."

tAn <yllpha Qamma Delta Snjoys To Dragma

TH E accompanying letter is an interesting insight into address
lists and their workings. Complaints had been coming into the
Central Office about not receiving magazines, so in the early
summer, Alice Cullnane checked the lists with life subscriber cards and
annual cards to find some eight names on the list for which we had
nary a membership card. She queried that they might be "exchanges",
but concluded to write to each of the eight girls, asking them about
their initiation. This letter was the first answer received. Since Banta's
do not handle our plates, and since they haven't in years, the manner
n which these came to be in our list is inexplicable. If you aren't
getting your magazine, remember that the Central Office, Masonic
Building, State College, Pa., will gladly check the cause for you.

Miss Alice Cullnane Hattiesburg, Miss.

SO Broad St., J >u l v 2 4 1930

Bloomfield, N . J.
Dear Miss Cullnane;

I was not surprised to receive your letter of inquiry today concerning my

ubscription to To DRAGMA.

In 1924 I was initiated into Alpha Gamma Delta, national fraternity, Mu
napter at Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga., and took a life subscription to our
Pha Gamma Delta Quarterly.
> .pyeral months ago, however, To DRAGMA began coming into my home, and
He it was with much surprise on my part, I must add that it has been a source
1 much pleasure to me.

i h ^ n e v e r D e e n m y privilege to know personally a member of Alpha Omicron
nd h ° u g ht l l r Pages o f T O DRAGMA I have made a delightful circle of friends
the

o i dV e w a t c n e any number of them with interest from the time of initiation
ots g -a n d n i a r r i a Sounds like "Aunt Jane's Letter Club" for the little
e

he f i f 'r y r e c e n t v it occurred to me that some mistake might have been made in
Writ G ge o r Banta Publishing Company, and it has been my intention to
at tne e

e a n d inquire. Sincerely,

BESSIE JANE CONN, Alpha Gamma Delta

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Whither, Cfraternity?

W HITHER, fraternity? What are the designs of the active chapters on the
subject of extension? We have asked ourselves that question again and
again during the few years we have been in sorority work, because under our
present system, you girls of the active* chapters mold our future.

As we have watched one situation after another develop and fall by the way-
side because you couldn't make this group or that, one of us, we have begun to
wonder whether you are thinking along a plan at all. Haven't you been thinking
in one of these veins—"that school is a small college; girls will go there in order
to 'make' our group, and then they'll transfer to our university chapter"; or|
"we are an old chapter, we have a fine position on this campus, we don't want to
be bothered helping a new chapter get established in the next state. We have
girls from there anyway, and they say nobody worthwhile goes there." (Egotists!)
Or, yet: "We are an old chapter, and we have two new chapters on either side of
us now. We just can't be hampered by another new one until these are up to
our standards." And yet again: "Oh, that campus isn't like any one we are on;
girls who go there won't fit in with our girls if they transfer or at conventions."

There you are! Now aren't those the very thoughts you have every time yot|
hear mention of the possible installation of a new chapter. Often you've thought
of them even though you were across the country from the group in question; so
you've cast a negative vote, and we've lost what later became a thriving group
for another sorority. Or you have repeatedly refused to grant a charter "because;
of the school," only to find that years later we've had to enter that school to keep
step with fraternity progress.

Oh, no, the personnel of your present chapter isn't necessarily to blame, bull
active chapters through the years are. Hence this editorial.

Let us look now at some facts. First, all of you want to keep Alpha Omicrofl
Pi in a position to be in competition with N.P.C. fraternities, don't you? Age
does have its advantages, doesn't it, and mainly because it gives one the confidence
of leadership and social precedence. Age means that you have great numbers of
alumnas to help you through your problems. How much better then for us to
install a chapter at once on a campus just open for fraternity expansion than to
wait until everyone else is there, and then go in!

You who wish to be surrounded by strong chapters, harken to this. Isn't it
better to have a fine strong group, directed by you, in a small school than to have
a young group struggling against the age and prestige of many groups on a large
campus?

Read the following survey made in March, 1930, by Olga Achtenhagen, Kappa]
Delta, and augmented by your editor, and you will understand our position in
relation to other N.P.C. fraternities.

INCREASE I N SORORITY No. OF CHAPTERS YEARS SINCS

THREE YEARS 1930 1929 1928 1927 FouNDn«|
87 85 78 77 35
10 Chi Omega 78 75 74 71 63
7 Pi Beta Phi 76 73 71 71 42
66 64 61 60 33
5 Delta Delta Delta 63 57 56 57 59
6 Kappa Delta

6 Kappa Kappa Gamma
(one lost so 7 new ones)

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61 56 54 52 32
59 57 56 55 60
56 52 52 51 78
54 54 49 48 28
53 51 50 49 46
50 46 45 42 37
50 48 48 47 79
43 43 42 41 56
42 41 39 38 56
39 39 38 37 26
37 35 34 32 32
37 35 33 33 56
32 30 28 28 58
21 19 17 28 19
17 16 14 12 11
16 16 15 14 16

Since this census Alpha Gamma Delta has installed five chapters, at the Uni-
versity of British Columbia; Queen's College, Charlotte, North Carolina; North
Dakota State College, Fargo; University of Manitoba; and, McGill University.
Delta Zeta has installed a chapter at Swarthmore College, and Alpha Phi has new
chapters at the University of West Virginia and at Denison University. Delta
Gamma has gone into Pennsylvania State College; Gamma Phi Beta into North
Dakota State College, the University of West Virginia, Randolph-Macon and
Birmingham Southern; Delta Delta Delta, the University of Toronto; Alpha Chi
Omega, University of Toronto and Lawrence College; Phi Mu, Queen's College;
Alpha Delta Pi, University of Manitoba; and Kappa Kappa Gamma granted five
charters at their convention: Pennsylvania State College, Rollins, McGill, Duke,
and Michigan State College.

A copy of Baird's Manual will give you chapter rolls of other fraternities.
You may be surprised to find fraternity expansion in some of the colleges listed;
you may frown heartily upon entering there, but, mind you, some day in the not
too distant future we may find a chapter necessary in that very place. Shouldn't
we look beyond our own narrow personal horizons to the future welfare of our
fraternity?

Additional chapters mean a great many things to our national growth. A
name widely but carefully flung means universal recognition of a fine type,
hence rushing trials will be minimized, for it stands to reason if a girl comes to
a chapter knowing Alpha alumna?, having heard the name of Alpha Omicron Pi,
she is easier to rush than a girl who knows all about X Y Z, but who has never
heard of AOIT.

More chapters mean more members to bear our financial brunt. I t means
more money to spend for administration which in turn will aid in building up our
weak spots through the personal supervision of a traveling secretary; the ability
to pay the tuitions of strong members willing to help the weaker chapter by attend-
m g the school in question, the wherewithal to send girls to new campuses to
colonize groups. I t means a more rapid growth in our Anniversary Endowment
rund with consequently more revenue for To DRAGMA and more principal for
student and building loans. And so the circle moves round itself—more chapters,
more revenue; more revenue, better possibilities of closer administration; closer
administration, stronger chapters.

Look into your minds and see if you have realized whither you are leading us.
°u are causing us to waste money now, for you approve a college, and then if
^ j0l a r e sent to investigate a possible charter group, you refuse it, not because
tk 8rouP> but because of the college. You refuse to look at that college from
e point of view of other fraternities who have found the field not unattractive;
°m the point of view of the hundreds or thousands of students who have found
t e college^ able to fulfill their requirements. You have failed to give any regard
, the opinions of college authorities, to college ratings. Are you not blinded
°y your own self-satisfaction?
0 SuPPose we have a mail-bag on this subject. The pages of the magazine are
P n to you. You are free to discuss the subject pro and con. I t is one of the
most important which we face.

Whither will you lead our fraternity?

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<yflpha O's Turn farmerettes

E PSILON ALPHA chapter donned farmerette costumes and attended in a body,
the Koed's Kotillion, traditional second semester, all-girl's dance, held in the
armory, late in the spring. The dance was a costume ball, and the Epsilon Alpha
farmerettes, in their suits of green, blue, orchid, peach, and rose, made a veritable
rainbow in the gay array of costumes and scored one of the hits of the evening
as a group feature. The picture was taken on campus back of our house the
following Sunday afternoon and proved a source of great amusement to and in-
quiry from passersby.

In the picture from left to right: Gladys Kaufman, Mary Belle Zahn, Louise
Hoffeditz, Elsie Weaver, Edra Rubinkam, Catherine Hayes, Sara Lowenberg, Isabel
Hall, Isabel Martin, Gertrude Bryant, Mildred Lyle, Marian Terwilliger, Madge
Terwilliger, Emily Vargo, Myrtle Binney, Ruth Gilbert, Elizabeth Martin, and
Emma Walser.—By MARY BELLE ZAHN, Epsilon Alpha

Spsilon Journalist <JMarries Newspaper ^Man

M ISS GERTRUDE LYNAHAN and Joel Sayre were married at 3 :30 o'clock
July 21 in the Municipal Building by Mr. M . J. McCormick, deputy city
clerk. The only witnesses were Mr. Don Skene and Mr. Richard Watts Jr. Miss
Lynahan is fashion editor of "The New York Times" and formerly was on the staff
of "The New York World."

Mr. Sayre is a member of the staff of the "New York Herald Tribune." He took
his degree in English literature at Oxford and later studied medicine at Heidelberg-

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During the World War, Mr. Sayre served with the Canadians in France and went
to Archangel with the post-war expedition against the Soviets. He passed his boy-
hood in Ohio.—New York Herald Tribune

cjttiss Wyne J£ome <j4fter Cjfive Rjears in Orient

AFTER spending over five years in hospital work in Peking, China, Miss Mar-
garet Wyne (Rho '11), has returned to Macomb for a year's visit while
on a leave of absence from the Peking Union Medical College hospital.
Miss Wyne went to China in 1925, being sent by the Methodist Foreign Board
of New York City. For three years she worked as a nurse in the Methodist Mission
hospital at Peking. For the last two and a half years she has been employed as
a nurse at the Peking Union Medical College hospital. This institution is maintained
by the John D. Rockefeller Foundation.
The revolutions and fighting in China the past few years have effected Miss
Wyne's work at Peking very little. That section of the country was not in the
midst of the revolution and no actual warfare took part in her section of Peking.
The American legation and marine detachments often warned the hospital and
the Americans in Peking of coming dangers but Miss Wyne never left Peking
on account of danger of the reported fights. Two years ago this summer many
persons fled from Peking to Japan and Korea when an approaching conflict was
reported, but Miss Wyne remained at the hospital.

Due to the poor methods of transportation and the dangers of traveling
through China, Miss Wyne saw very little of that country except that in the
immediate vicinity of Peking and Shanghai. She visited for a while throughout
Korea and Japan.
Miss Wyne learned the language of the Chinese, since only a few persons
there speak English. During the five years she has been in China, there has been
a rapid development in all kinds of civilization. Old China is fast becoming a
new China, especially in the cities, she reports. In the rural sections conditions
remain quite primitive while the cities are grasping modern ideas and develop-
ments more rapidly. Miss Wyne states that the Chinese, who are generally
thought of as conservative people who are slow to do things, are in reality quick
to grasp and adopt new ideas of civilization.

Peking is a city of over a million inhabitants. I t is a very old-fashioned
city, compared with other cities of the Orient. There is as much difference between
Shanghai and Peking, as there is between New York City and a small city, Miss
Wyne stated. The first street car system in Peking was brought there while Miss
Wyne was there.
She left Peking on April 17. On April 22 she sailed from Yokohama, Japan,
arriving in California May 8. She stopped over night for a visit at Honolulu,
M a w a i i a n Islands. She expects to leave Macomb about the first of July and
a°rf i ^ o r k City where she will attend summer school at Columbia University,
nd later visit several eastern hospitals. She will return to Macomb before
returning to China next year.—Macomb (III.) Daily Journal

<rRho (^Member Sleeted Qampus Queen

ORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'S annual, Syllabus, is issued today and with
• . l l comes announcement of the seven campus queens selected during a sub-
youn - -C a m p a i E a c h order entitled students to a vote to choose the
n i n t h e fal1

win W o m e n °f the college they regard as leaders in beauty and popularity. The
V e r ? ne r S r e M a r y E ' At-well, Alpha Phi, 132 Clyde Avenue, Evanston; Dorothy L .
PlarT'p B e t a 'P h i N o r f o l k , Neb.; Marion J. Fry, Pi Beta Phi, 811 Clinton
Road p Y a n s t o n ; Marion F. Louenthal, Rho of Alpha Omicron Pi, 6340 Sheridan
Oak p ^ ! .c a g o ; Margaret McGuineas, Alpha X i Delta, 824 North Prove Avenue,
ton- v- '• ^ "r c e n n e Grant, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1604 Hinman Avenue, Evans-
puh'li^1^111* A. Eagels, Delta Delta Delta, Wolcottville, Ind. The Syllabus is
n e d annually by the junior class.—Chicago Tribune

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c / / Southerner 'Becomes Assistant 'Registrar

By E D I T H H U N T I N G T O N A N -

DERSON, Grand Secretary

IF SHE had had no other qualifications I
think I should have voted to appoint Ann
Jeter Nichols as our new Assistant Registrar
because of her lovely southern drawl. On
my trip through the south two years ago, I
was fascinated by the native manner of speak-
ing, and would have liked nothing better than
to have settled down for life in Tennessee
or Virginia where I could always hear it.
Ann, being a native Virginian, has the south-
ern accent to a marked degree, and it is de-
lightful.

Perhaps you would like to know some-
thing of her history. She was born in Cov-
ington, Virginia, and from the high school
there went to Randolph-Macon Woman's
College where she became a member of our
Kappa chapter and from which she received
her degree in English literature in 1926. The
following year she taught English in her home
town high school. Then in 1927-28 she went to Columbia where she spent six
months working on her M.A. degree. While in New York, she did statistical work
for Dr. Ben D. Wood, professor of Educational Research in Columbia University,
for six months.
In 1928-29 she was again teaching in the Covington, Virginia, high school, and
on June 12 of that year, was married to Edward J. Nichols, a member of the English
Department faculty at the Pennsylvania State College. During the past year, in
addition to her duties as housekeeper, Ann has been statistical secretary to the
Registrar at Penn State. Now with the move of the Central Office to State College
on October 1, she becomes Assistant Registrar. We are most fortunate in being able
to secure her services, and as the chapters come to know .her, they will love her.
She is thoroughly interested in the fraternity; her attractive personality and keei.
thinking will help us to solve many problems and set a high standard for the
Central Office staff.

z5Melita <§killen Directs Winning Jfigh
School Tlay

M ISS Melita Skillen (Epsilon), of 628 Foster St., dramatic instructor at Senn
High School, Chicago, directed the play which won the dramatic contest for
high schools of Chicago and vicinity in the Goodman theatre this week.

Senn High School won all three first prizes with its entry, "The Drums of
Oude," by Austin Strong, Chicago playwright. Chicago and Gary high schools
and Culver Military academy were among the entrants. The contest was held
under the auspices of the Chicago Drama league.

Miss Skillen laid the foundation work for many Northwestern University and
Circuit Theatre Association players who studied under her at Senn.

—Evanston News-Index

85

"The Drums of Oude" was given at Gary, at Knox College and at the
Spaulding School for Crippled Children

Sophomore 'Posture Winner is ^Alpha

MISS MARY CLARA EATON, sophomore student in the School of Household
Administration, University of Cincinnati, holds the distinction of having the
best posture of any U.C. co-ed. She won first place in the posture contest spon-
sored by the woman's department of physical education during Health Week,
which closed yesterday.

Announcement of Miss Eaton and second and third place winners in the pos-
ture contest was made yesterday noon at a health convocation in McMicken audi-
torium, which was addressed by Bleeker Marquette, Executive Secretary of the
Public Health Federation.

Second place in the contest was won by Miss Virginia Stacey, freshman in the
College of Liberal Arts, and third place by Miss Catherine Johnson (Theta Eta),
sophomore in the School of Applied Arts.—The Cincinnati Enquirer

zAlpha ^Manages Tickets for J^uncheon

THE Hotel Somerset will be the scene of the eighth annual gathering of the
Boston Panhellenic Association on Saturday when more than 500 Greek-letter
women from almost every state in the Union and from Canada will meet at one
0 clock for lunch and an afternoon of merriment. The women present will represent
twenty national Greek-letter sororities and universities and colleges from coast to
coast.

Mrs. Harold C. Haskell, Brookline, is president of the association and a mem-
ber of Alpha X i Delta. She has extended an invitation to all sorority girls in
Boston and vicinity. Officers of the association and the committee in charge of the
luncheon include: Mrs. D. Ray Holt, Chi Omega, secretary; Miss Irene Hall,
Sigma Kappa, treasurer; Mrs. Robert J. Dunkle, Brookline, Alpha Chi Omega,
luncheon chairman; Miss Beatrice S. Woodman, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Mrs.
*«• A. Stonestreet, Kappa Delta, flowers, printing and hotel arrangements; Mrs. Cyrus

86 To DRAGMA J

S. Kauffman, Gamma Phi Beta, publicity; Miss Alice J. Spear (Delta), Alpha
Omicron Pi, tickets.

Music will be furnished by the Alpha Chi Omega Trio from the New England
Conservatory of Music. Songs and monologues will be presented by Nena F. Peck.
Sorority songs will be sung throughout the luncheon. A plan for establishing a
graduate scholarship will be presented by the president.—Boston Transcript

fellowship ^Awarded to a Zeta Qirl

E LLEN ELOISE KEEFER of Lincoln was awarded a
fellowship of $1,000 by the national organization of
Alpha Omicron Pi. This fellowship is known as the Alpha
Omicron Pi Fellowship in memory of Ruth Capen Farmer
and is awarded every two years to a member of the sorority
who is a graduate of an institution where this sorority has
a chapter. Every alternate year the fellowship is open to
those who are graduates of the same institutions but not
members of Alpha Omicron Pi. The successful applicant
is not limited to any special field of work. She is considered
on the basis of her fitness for her chosen profession, her
attitude toward life, and her general needs and qualifications.

"Miss Elsie Ford Piper, assistant dean of women at the
University of Nebraska and chairman of the national fellowship committee states
that Miss Keefer was one of twenty-eight applicants from eighteen universities and
colleges who applied this year. She was selected by a committee of seven, one from
each district of the national sorority.

"Miss Keefer received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1028, and
her M.A. in 1Q29. Her major subjects were history and music. She made a good
record as a student, and was well known on the campus. She is a member of
Mortar Board, Theta Sigma Phi and Pi Lambda Theta. She was on the Y.W.C.A.
cabinet, was vice president of A.W.S., an associate editor of the Cornhusker and
a member of the staff of the Daily Nebraskan. She is teaching music and history
this year in the high school at Kensington, Kansas. Miss Keefer plans to do her
graduate work at Columbia University working for a Ph.D. in history."

This clipping gives you the news of the award of our fellowship for 1930-31.1
Elsie Ford Piper has sent a few more facts about Ellen Eloise. Her major interest
in history is in foreign relations and of this she says, " I hope to teach after I
have secured my degree or to do further work in research in foreign relations as
connected with the whole peace movement. I feel that it is time that more women
were becoming informed on foreign affairs and taking an active stand. I have
had journalistic training and hope to combine this with my major interest.

"The line of my greatest interest is educational. I wish to become so well
informed that I can be of a definite help in the education of others along lines
of world politics or world interests."

*Pi ^Member Jfeads Dormitories

•wANICE PRICE (Pi), Newcomb Junior, was elected president of the campus dor-
I mitory halls at a meeting of the resident student body last night. Miss Price iJj
* president of the Newcomb Young Women's Christian association and a member
of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. She defeated Mary "Tex" Allert, Peggy Clark-
son, Berta Denman, and Laura Eustis.—New Orleans Morning Tribune

JPooking at zAlpha O s

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"The Chicago Daily News" caught this group of fair
clowns. All of them save the one male are Rho gxrls.
They are Gretchen Baarsch, Margaret Dorr, Mabel Blair

and Lenora Bloomquist.

Genevieve Wright (UA), was
selected at the University of
Maryland as the girl who had
done the most for the school

during her college years.

"What <j4re Words Qompared to 'Pictures?"

The World Jfyoks at ^Alpha 0 s



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Northwestern University circus claimed the time of many Rho members.
This picture, from the "Chicago Tribune, shows Alice Shackleton, Mar
guerite Biondi (Rho), Martha Chapman, and Eleanor Hmton (Rho)

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Virginia Hall f(e&wn)t W04

one of a very fresh
men selected to take part
the annual musical
comedy at the University
of Cincinnati.

Elisabeth Pepple (HE.) has been chosen as
one of the S.M.U. beauties.

The World J^ooks at ^Alpha O's

Lillian Morris (O), president of the chapter,
led the Grand March of the dances at the
University of Tennessee. Her picture ap-

peared in the beauty section of the
"Volunteer," the yearbook.
Sally Sue White (T) danced
in "Divertissements, a stage
feature at the Egyptian Thea-
tre in Seattle.—"Seattle Post
Intelligencer."
Genevieve Greenman Jen-
nings (H), center, was one
of the Los Angeles society
women who modelled eld
fashioned gowns, taken
from Goodwill bags re-
ceived by the Goodwill
Industries, in a revue
staged by Mrs. Elaine An-
derson Duddey for the
California Women of the
Golden West.—"Goodwill
News."

The World Jfyoks at ^Alpha O's

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Burt Sandidge Carter (II '96), has given The University of Maryland's
us Frances C. Carter (NO '30). May Queen was Evalyn
Rideout (HA).

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A mother and two daughters, all from Pi. Leigh
Bres Moise (II '00), is now in our Chapter Eternal.
Her two daughters, Marian and Alice, are of the

class of '28.

OCTOBER, 1930 87

Tau Qirl Directs (jeneva Conference

HELEN STRAND (Tau), recently elected to -
Mortar Board, the honorary senior women's
organization at Minnesota, was in charge of the
Geneva Conference held at Geneva, Illinois, dur-
ing the latter part of June. This was a conference
of student Y.W.CA.'s from the Central States—
the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. There were about
600 present, and about forty of these delegates
were Minnesota students. Helen was student
executive—a great honor which entailed a great
deal of work and responsibility. In a conference
of this kind one's sorority naturally plays little
part, but Helen found one sister, Albertina Maslen,
president of our chapter at Ann Arbor.

After the conference was over, Helen stayed
for the regional council and was again elected chair-
man for this next year. As regional chairman,
Helen went to the executive meeting of the Na-
tional Student Council at Granville, Ohio (Denison University), August 30, 1930.
In her own words, Helen said " I t was a wonderful experience—working on
the plan of a conference with men like Kirby Page."—By FRANCES KADLEC, Tau

Theta St a Cfreshman Wins 'Pledge cRing

DOROTHY BEHYMER, a member of the
first pledge class of Theta Eta, won the
ring presented to the chapter by Carl W. Rich,
Cincinnati attorney, husband of Frances Ivins
Rich (Omega). Mr. Rich has offered to give
a ring each year to the most outstanding mem-
ber of the pledge class of Theta Eta. The
ring is to be awarded by a committee of upper-
classmen acting as judges and chosen by the
active chapter. This year a point system was
carefully planned, and it was on this basis the
judges awarded the gift to Dorothy Behymer.

Dorothy or "Dot" as she is best known,
attended Engineering College and was one of
the most prominent girls of her class. To
her credit she has the following list of activities:
reporter for the Co-op Engineer; reporter for
the University News; Vigilance Committee;
member of the Co-op Club; member of the
Y.W.C.A.; member of the Persian Athletic
League and she participated in the Greek
Games.

I t may be readily seen that "Dot" was a
ery busy girl during her freshman days, and this year promises to be an equally
tenuous one with all the organizations she has been asked to help,
f ,Xne judges claimed that competition for the ring was very keen this year,
o r Theta Eta had for its first pledge class one of the most enthusiastic and in-

trious g r ° u p of girls to be found anywhere.

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9%r# ^ / r / Active in Dramatics

By V I R G I N I A DERR, Psi

"DETTY HERBST is without doubt one o
1 3 the most active girls Psi chapter, and for
that matter, the entire Pennsylvania campus,
has had for a long time. We are extremely
proud of her, and we want the rest of Alpha
Omicron Pi to know about her, too.

Betty was the president of Psi chapter last )
year, and this year is the treasurer, and we
know that the success of our budget and the
straightening of our accounts are all due to
Betty, and the hours she patiently spends on
her duties to Psi's prosperities. During rush-
ing season, Betty was the chairman of the!
party which was acclaimed by the freshmen
the most attractive as well the most original
of rushing season. She deserved all the ap-?
preciation for it was indeed a lovely party,
and it meant lots of preparation and thought!

In the Dramatic Club, Betty is a shining;
light. You must remember that on the Penn-
sylvania campus, the Dramatic Club is a very
important organization and one of the largest. Betty Herbst, the same, is presi-
dent of it, and first girl-president for many years, and the second in the history
of the club. She is a member of Theta Alpha Phi, the honorary dramatic fra4
ternity. She is also one who frequently takes part in the plays broadcast over the
radio by the club.
A seat in the Women's Student Government Association is another of her
accomplishments. I t is this organization which sponsors the honor system a?
Pennsylvania.
The seniors gave a tea for the freshmen to welcome them to the campi
and put them less in awe of the upperclassmen; Betty was a member of the com-
mittee in charge.

Spsilon Alpha ^Member is Reader in
^Activities and Scholarship

By M A R Y B E L L E Z A H N , Epsilon Alpha

1 C LOUISE HOFFEDITZ is Epsilon Alpha's most active Alpha O. "Hoffie"
is a senior this year, and her record in all lines is admirable. In athletics sL

was a member of class hockey and track teams for three years, attaining varsit

OCTOBER, 1930 89

hockey and track her sophomore year and serving as winter sports manager. Her
junior year she again made varsity hockey and was head track manager. For
these activities she received her half and full numerals.

Since her freshman year, "Home" has been on Y.W.C.A. cabinet and last
year served as treasurer of this body. She proved a very capable treasurer of our
chapter last year and is holding the office again this year.

In her sophomore year "Hoffie" was vice president of her class; in her junior
year, president, and in this capacity served on
Junior Prom committee and Customs com-
mittee. She is now senior women's class presi-
dent.

Last year and this year she has been on
the staff of the Collegian, college semi-weekly
publication, and is woman's editor of La Vie,
college annual. She was also our active chap-

ter editor for To DRAGMA.

In scholarship "Hoffie" gained a place on
the Liberal Arts Honor Roll her first two years,
and received the Honor Society Medal her
sophomore year. This last year she won the
Stecker Mathematics Prize and the State Fed-
eration of Pennsylvania Women's Scholarship.

"Hoffie" has been delegate to Campus
Club's Council, local Panhellenic for two years.
She was pledged to Archousai, senior women's
honorary corresponding to Mortar Board, and
is senior adviser to Alpha Lambda Delta, na-
tional scholastic honorary for women.

Cfolk School Is Successful

(Continued from page 49)
knee hanging baskets and rag rug making as their various objectives. Sixty-three
women are working on individual objectives adopted voluntarily by them at Folk
School. There has been a parish-wide beautification plan, which is being worked
out. Even the negroes have caught the contagion and are beautifying their churches,
schools, and homes.

Every evening at the end of the Folk School day as car passed car going home
People would wave to one another, strangers previously, but now classmates. New
friendships, new human interests. This itself is no small result.

In the beginning we felt if only one returned home with a bigger vision, our
work would not have been in vain. Are we idealists when we dare hope that in
the hearts of many in that crowd there were stirrings and awakenings that would
oear fruit in the years to come?

We Wish To Regret

Betty Hiestand Smith refuses to be credited to Eta chapter as she was in the
M a y issue. She belongs to Rho.

It is with great regret that we read of the passing of the Reverend Dr. David
^ouriey Wylie, the father of Jane Dwight Wylie (Alpha '09). Dr. Wylie had been
a leader in the Presbyterian denomination for years, and on the morning of his

eath presided over a session of the General Bible Conference. Our sympathy goes
°ut to his family.

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cJ\(u's Invitations Offer a Suggestion c
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[ITS invitations, used in the fall rushing, proved to be such a campus hit that they f
bid fair to become an institution. When freshmen are very popular, they o
(
sometimes inadvertently make a date for the night of your very "particular" rush a
party. Nu has forestalled such a fatality by sending out its invitations at the be- d
ginning of the rushing period for all four parties. Tiny red cards—of Alpha O color-
form the body of the invitation. The cards bear the inscription: /
\
Nu chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi cordially invites p
you to attend o

and then the curious freshman must look still further into the wee white envelope, N
R
attached to the-corner of the card. Out of this like a jack-in-the-box pops the
T
continuation: _A T e a dance to b e given at the L

on T
from to o'clock H
A Bridge to be given at the
on L
from to o'clock P

and so on for all four invitations. The wise freshman wisely gets out her date-boo ^
and cancels certain dates. an

Sometimes when our rush party is held in the mazes of Greenwich Village' W
wandering streets, we call our artists into council, and get them to draw quaint maps p
of the region—filling in all the lurid details of the Village history—for the freshmen's ru
guidance.
Tl
Zeta 'Becomes a Jfotel at Ifush Varty
FP
CLEVER rush parties are exceedingly hard to give and Zeta has adopted the idea
of making the most clever parties traditional. This year we have added the
"hotel party" as the traditional Wednesday night party to which only the "promisees'
are bidden. Informality is the keynote of the whole evening in order that each new
girl can become better acquainted with us and feel that in .Alpha Omicron Pi there
is a definite place for her. Trunks, band boxes and every sort of luggage adorn the
improvised lobby. Bach guest registers at the desk as she enters, and bell hops
vie to serve her. Wee Jrunks filled with miniature packages of cosmetics are the
favors.

Xi 'pushes at 3\(ovel 'Parties

|NE of our most successful rush parties was a carnival slumber party given oi?|
Saturday night after dates. The dining-room was decorated like a beach, where

red lemonade, hot dogs, and sacks of taffy and pop corn were sold. There was also

OCTOBER, 1930 91

a fish pond, and fortune-teller's booth. The favors were red balloons, and all-day
suckers dressed like clowns.

The Hallowe'en dinner party was quite a success. Card tables were covered with
orange and black checked crepe paper. Orange candles in beer bottles formed the
centerpiece. The room was lighted by the starry glare of the numerous jack-o'-lanterns
and cats scattered over the room. The favors were tissue caps, Which contained
fortunes. A combination of the program and a witch meal was very cleverly carried
out. Frances Mathies (Xi '30) gave a musical reading, accompanied by Joy Champlin
(Xi '32). Elizabeth Dooley ( X i '31) gave a solo dance. Two ghosts met the guests
and ushered them into the room. The menus were made of black construction paper,
decorated with jack-o'-lanterns, and printed in white ink.

Qamma Ifeads 'Poem at initiation 'Banquet

" ^ A M M A holds a traditional banquet just following each initiation. After the
3 dinner is served, a Gamma member reads the following poem. I t is very im-
pressive, accompanied as it is by soft music, flickering candle light and the memories
of initiation.

T H E ROSE

By ELIZABETH FITZGERALD HANDY, Gamma

Now are the red rose-petals shaken Heard a sudden, angry question
(Keep the rose in your heart aglow!) "What lies in your basket there?"

Roses fade but memories waken "Roses," came her answer clearly,
When the candle lights burn low. While her heart o'erflowed with prayer.

There's a story from the ages "Roses!" came her lord's fierce laughter,
Drifted down ro you and me, As he snatched the cloth away.

Like a rose shut in the pages Lo! where now was bread so snowy,
Of some dusty history. Heaped red roses lay!

Tis a fragrant little story And this is all the story
That the yellowed leaves disclose, Of our gentle lady fair;

How she won her name, her glory How Heaven made gracious answer
Our Lady of the Rose. To her ardent, earnest prayer.

Lived a lord—may he be nameless— The bread is Charity's symbol;
Won her heart by sorcery, Charity, never disclose!

Prisoned her, the Fair, the Blameless, Remember that Heaven's mercy
Broke her heart with cruelty. Covered it with a rose.

! , n e r prayers were unavailing, Lift the rose for a moment,
When her people begged for bread, And press its petals apart,—
ane must hear their bitter wailing,
See them go away unfed. Every rose in secret
Covers a golden heart.

While the lord, one day, lay sleeping, And this is the legend's lesson
p.^PPed she through the castle down, The sweet old words enclose,
uled with bread her basket heaping,
Let us hide in our hearts our golden word
stole away to seek the town. And cover it with a rose.

p nl S h e h e a r d a sudden footstep, Now are the red rose-petals shaken
(Keep the rose in your heart aglow!)
P H alarm,h e r h e a r t w i t h w i l d
Roses fade but memories waken
fiercA* £ elyu d e h a n dplucking When life's candle lights burn low.

A t the basket on her arm.

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Comparative Cost ofDormitory and (fraternity A COMPAR
Houses
Name of Fr
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This short article will compare the construction cost per girl, for 1930, and the
Name of Fr
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the adequacy of the housing at different colleges and how the buildings are constructed.
In the middle west, experts have estimated that the construction cost per girl for a
fireproof building, should be about $2,000.
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DORMITORIES FRATERNITieS
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Universities mAGoccdioralmtsed- VParoluopafetirotyn Construc-
tion Cost
per Girl

Cornell U 8 700* C$o2Bs,0ut(0i1old0f) i,n0Ng0e0w B$6uN,i(2e1lwd)8i9ng $560 14 225 C$3o0st1,o6f0102 $1,580
Indiana U. 310 B$Ou4iwl0dn7ine,0dg0s0 $2,017 $380
U. of Iowa 2 17 550 C$8o4st8o,0f 0105 $1,540 ns,t
(Rented) nognBo
330 $420 17 1(S55)9 2(1L927)
2 18 4(8123)|| 9(51) C$6o4st4o,5f 0103 r
No
TJ. of Kansas 2 167 $285,000 $2,000 $305 Houses $1,270 f
M
Miami U. 6 715 $483,000 $790 $260 20 6(21) 3(1686) C$8o3st4,o5f0107 $2,241 55<52-U' 5
13 3(090) 1(40)0 C$6o1st0o,0f 0102 $1,536 w
U. of Michigan 7 660 $C1,o8s8t2o,0f060 $2,448 $462
'9
U. of Missouri 2 112 $270,000 $2,410 $375 s

12 413 $3,000 $550 19 445 $1,530,000 $3,450 $5* a
Northwestern U. IHnScomluuadsleilnsg
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Ohio University 9 375 $252 All - r
Purdue U. 1 $350 16 200 Rented C
410 8 231
Syracuse U. 16 NT4u1om9t1abler $900 $443
Cost of 2 22 716 $C7o3s1t,o0f0018 $1,020
Averages $120,000

$2,481.75 $396 Total $1,805.2|
N4,u2m23ber

S—Small. L—Large.

OCTOBER, 1930 93

RISON OF VALUATIONS OF FRATERNITY HOUSES FOR 1930, WlTH VALUATIONS GlVEN BY ROCHELLE RODD GACHET FOR

HOUSES IN THE N.E. CENTRAL DISTRICT FOR 1928

raternity AX £2 A All ATA AOLT A* AHA XJ2 AAA Ar

R0eported 4 4 4 5 3 4 6 5 s

C0ost $48,250 $41,250 $42,250 $37,040 $40,750 $50,150 $44,550 $62,000 $50,080

C8ost $36(6,0) 10 $34(4,8) 75 $24(3,6) 70 $44(3,8) 40 $30(2,7) 50 $15(1,8) 00 (5)
r*B KAO KA KKr *M $58,370
raternity- AZ LIB* ZTA
4 6 3 5 3 2K
$41,250 $50,500 $45,600 $59,400 $43,300 6
0eported 5 $49,400 53
$38,400 $43,600
0ost $35,820

8ost (4) $89(1,0) 00 $47(6,4) 56 $29(3,7) 70 $43(6,8) 10 $78,(210) 0 $34(,50)00 $68(,7000
$33,135

Table 1, gives valuable information about dormitories and fraternity houses, care-
S PrePafed by the Deans of Women of the universities listed. The results show
that the average fraternity girl probably lives in a house that is not of fireproof con-
struction and that she pays a little more per year than does the dormitory girl. This
difference of $86 per year is however not an exorbitant amount to pay for membership
in a National Panhellenic Congress group.
Colleges and universities for the most part appreciate greatly the excellent sup-
port given by the National Panhellenic Congress groups in helping with the solution
ot the housing problem. The majority of the national officers of the National Pan-
nellenic Congress groups are now requiring that the new fraternity house be made
ot hreproof construction. The difference of $676.47, between the construction price
per girl of the dormitory ($2,481.75), and that of fraternity house ($1,805.28), probably
indicates- that most of the fraternity houses are not of fireproof construction.
,v \ a b ' e 2> gives a comparison of the valuations of fraternity property for 1930, with
the valuations for 1928 given by Rochelle Rodd Gachet for fraternity houses and fur-
nismngs m N.E. Central District. The differences may indicate that the houses con-
structed recently are of fireproof construction.

nr.v- the whole, the results of these tables indicate that the average construction
oninl™" P for , g eh e r home is $2,143.51, which compares favorably with the
colle

opinions ot experts. It also shows that the average price for room, board, and dues
n « « i £ i " m x 0 n e s , a n d n i t yf r a t e r houses. ($439.00), is well under $500, which makes it
Brnf,« \lT . \ a v e r a g e „ girl to accept membership in a National Panhellenic Congress
group without being a financial burden to her parents.

Tufts Alumnae Qlub Sleets <Alice §pear,
President

r T H E annual spring meeting of the Association of Tufts Alumnae was held at
frvr S 6 - ' yL B u s h afternoon, May 3, when officers
of Dean Edith Saturda

Mar- « re W y e a r s 'w e r e e l e c t e d a s f o l l o w s Alice J. Spear (Delta '12), President;
w .10™ f ' Raymenton '17, and Ruth G. Butters '09, vice presidents; Inez M . At-
9fi t k ; L o u i s e R - Atwood '97, corresponding secretary; Ethel M . Hayes
' i n s u r e r ; Sarah H . deWolfe '22, registrar; and Grace M . Harvey '28, director,
sori t- * Se t l r m president announced that the list of life-members in the As-
c ation had reached the goal of twenty, thus leaving in the reserve treasury
*und of $1000, plus the interest thereon.

ntpr ? ° W i n g the business of the meeting, Mrs. Leo R. Lewis gave a most

eresting review of the Lewis sabbatical year abroad. The afternoon closed
r J k ° >S C l a l h o u r ; s n e n t sr e f r e h r were served by a committee headed by Margaret
Cochran '17.—Tufts Weekly

94 To DRAGMA

Kappa

By A N N ANDERSON S A L E

The summer months have just flown Wyatt, formerly of England, was in t T
by, and as we look back on them, names same month. Both of them are living
and events that Kappa alumnae want to in Monroe, La: h
know stand out in big letters. S
The fall weddings equal those of the^
To begin, we'll go back to last spring spring. On September 15, Mary Reed' w
for a wedding. On March 18 Ann ('28), was married to Lamar John Ryan/
Shinkle ('29), was married to Peter Cecil in Beaumont, Tex. On her honey-:, a
Eckert Spaulding Jr., in Louisville, Ky. moon she visited Louise Anderson] °
Mary Reed ('28), and Louise Anderson Hodges ('28), in Richmond, and is now] A
Hodges ('28), were bridesmaids. Ann's at home in Beaumont where Mr. Cecfl! w
address is now 2227 Cherokee Parkway, practices law. s
Louisville, Ky. "
Betty Darling ('28), was married t*W P
The next wedding bells were for Mar- Glen Dale Jackson Jr., on September 2,j £
garet Jones ('26), on June 14 in Peters- in Boston, Mass. They are living now| a
burg, Va. The lucky groom was T. A. at 433 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, N.J. j i
Field, and everyone says that the wed- I
ding was lovely. Jean Jones ('25), was And now for the summer activities.! O
maid-of-honor, while Jo Winslow ('26), Kathryn Hodges Adams ('22), and Lu-
and Alice Washburn ('27), were among cile Lamar Bryant ('24), spent a fewl
those present. Margaret is now living at weeks at Virginia Beach, Va.
312 Brown Avenue, Hopewell, Va.
Louise Sale DeLoach ('20), of Greenj
In June there were two other big wood, Miss., spent a month visiting hea
events. On June 3 there was born to mother in Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson McRee (Eliza-
beth Sale '19), a little son, Goodridge Virginia Blanton Broadus (Ex. '26),
McRee. Elizabeth's husband has had watched her young son get sunburned onj
his business changed to Roanoke, Va., her farm at Bowling Green, Va., duringj
and she moved the latter part of August the early summer. Later she spent a
to her new home. Her present address week at Mountain Lake, Va.
is 1504 Franklin Road, Roanoke, Va.
Bessie Minor Davis ('24), went abroad
Mr. and Mrs. Goodridge Sale Jr., with a party conducted by Carlton Touri|
(Ann Anderson '26), acquired a future with whom she has a position in New
little Alpha O on June 18. Her name is York.
Ann Goodridge Sale.
Jo Winslow ('26), attended summed
July holds another birthday, for on school at the University of Vermont.
the twenty-second of that month there
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rob- Rose Smith ('23), spent the summer]
erts Jr., (Mary Marshall '25), a son visiting Julia White ('20), in AlexandrUfl
Robert Roberts I I I .
La.
Two other summer brides were Violet Mrs. Carl McHenry (Frances Majoq
Washburn (Ex. '28), who married Floyd
Martin on June 12, and Pauline Clarke Ex. '19), and her little daughter, CoH
(Ex. '28), whose wedding to Stanley nelia, spent the summer on the Gulfj
Coast.

May Davidson ('25), her husband ana
aunt, took a trip through Eastern Cann
ada.

OCTOBER, 1930 95

Mrs. Fred Hodges (Louise Anderson York in June to be at a friend's wedding.
'28), and her husband attended the meet- She is working in her father's office
ing of the American Medical Association in Charlotte, N.C.
in Detroit, Mich., in June.
Fan White ('28), will be head of the
Alice Washburn ('27), visited in New mathematics department at the Louisiana
York after Margaret Jones' wedding and Polytechnic at Ruston, La., this winter.
went back to Louisiana by way of Cuba.
Rumor has it that she is wearing a Margaret Gordon ('28), is working in
gorgeous diamond ring. the drapery department of Thalheimer
Brothers, Inc., in Richmond.
Dorothy Richardson ('28), was busy
during the summer taking the course for Elizabeth Call ('28), has a secretarial
Girl Reserve secretaries at the training position with the Times-Dispatch in
school of the national board of the Richmond. Don't you know that
Y.W.C.A. in New York. "Buffy" makes a fine newspaper woman ?

Dolly Paxton Lowe (Ex. '20), spent Julia White ('20), will teach at the
most of the summer acting at Lake Balton, La., High School this winter.
Chautauqua, N.Y.
Margaret Calhoun (Ex. '29), is doing
Elsie Paxton Keebler ('14), with her library work in New York City.
four children visited her mother in
Greenville, Miss., for two months. Ellen Wood ('23), is secretary of the
Randolph-Macon alumna' chapter in
Sue Holland ('29), and Jennie Mapp Birmingham, Ala.
('29), visited Alice Alexander (Ex. '29),
in Greenville, Miss.,tand we hear made Mrs. S. W. Rodda (May Salter '23), is
a big hit in "The Delta." president of the California alumnae chap-
ter of Randolph-Macon. She lives at
Phoebe Paxton ('27), spent a most 1001 South Oakland, Pasadena, Calif.
fascinating summer as a counsellor at
Camp Juliet Lowe, the southern regional Mary Marshall Roberts ('25), is presi-
Girl Scout camp, at Cloudland, Ga. dent of the Randolph-Macon alumnae
She had charge of several classes in in Shreveport, La.
puppet-making and dramatics. Can't
you see "Little Black Sambo" and "The Mrs. C. S. Powers (Molly Minkwitz
Three Bears" performing among the '14), is president of the Meriden, Conn.,
pine trees and mountains? Phoebe plans college club.
to go to Cleveland with her sister, Dolly,
for part of the winter. Fannie Butterfield ('17), is with the
publication department of the national
Beryl Madison ('26), spent part of board of the Y.W.C.A. in New York.
her vacation at a house party at Lake
St. John, and part being society editor Mrs. H . D. Blackwell (Virginia Stro-
for the newspaper in Monroe, La. She ther '17), directed the spring play of
w"tes of a big luncheon that the AOII the Sock and Buskin Club at Randolph-
alumna of Monroe had on September Macon.

( u e d like thath e t a b , e w a s d e c o r a t Mrs. H . M . Robertson (Bernie Palfrey
°f the southern district convention at '18), has moved to 1803 Polk Street,
Bristol, Va., with radio microphones, der- Alexandria, La.

AOTT ' number ofC t c e t e r a What our newest alumnae, the class
a n d f r o m the of 1930, are doing will interest you.

alumnae living in and near Monroe, Sara Anderson ('30), is taking a sec-
we know that the luncheon was a big retarial course at the Pan-American
success. Beryl will teach in the Monroe Business School in Richmond. She
"•Sh School this winter. visited her sister, Ann Anderson Sale
sue Hall Morfit ('28), joined her ('26), in Welch, W. Va., for a week
Parents in New York the first of June. during the summer.
unng the summer she worked for
£nne Lamb ('28), at the Educational Eleanor Powell ('30), was appointed
a I S ^ . -r d B u r e a u and for the winter has by Governor Pollard of Virginia to
in t K u d P o s i t i o n teaching mathematics represent her state in the annual rhodo-
Island °S c h Huntington, Long dendron festival in Asheville, N . C , June
gh o1 at 17 to 20. She and her mother stayed
at the Grove Park Inn and had a
OTA »H e r h o m e address now is 115 lovely time. From there she went on
to the southern district convention at
\ r >n A v e n u e Brooklyn, N . Y . Bristol, Va.
Minerva McClung ('26), went to New
Katherine Wingfield ('30), was a coun-
sellor at Camp Alleghany, W. Va.


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