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CtNT Of GAMMA PHI BtTA DECEMBER � 1943 SI i T Calendar September Order manuals from Central Office immediately after Fiscal year begins September i. pledging. of Greek-letter dues due Cen College calendars due Central Office and Province Director Second installment chapter tral Office March 1. by September 15. of bound Crescents due Central Office Audits for second half of year due Mrs. Simonson Acknowledgment previous of odd September 15. February 15 years. stories due Central Office March 1. Comparative rating of campus sororities for Publicity scholarship Crescent material and for issue due Mrs. preceding year due Central Office not later than November 1. glossies May Pinkerton March 1. letters in this issue Publicity stories due Central Office October 1. (Greek-letter chapter Mrs. Bradford i\Iarch Pre-initiation and final initiation fees due Central Office due 1.) Pre-initiation and final tees due Central Office within two witfiin two weeks. weeks. liy October 1 send Grand President business for considera tion of at fall for Council its meeting. (Includes business March convention in fall preceding convention.) First semester audit due Mrs. Simonson March 15. Crescent material and for December issue due glossies Name and address of new chairman (Greek-letter Mrs. Pinkerton letters rushing September 24. (Greek-letter cliapter and alumnas) due Central Office not later than April i. and lists in this issue due pledge regularly printed September By April 1 or as soon thereafter as possible, send lists of 24, Mrs. Bradford.) officers for ensuing year to International Officers indicated OcTOliER on blanks. Crescent in final fee for new sub Lists of members and (new and hold subscriptions (included chapter pledges due Central Office 1 if are to due Central Office and Province Director immediately scribers) April they begin overs) with next issue. after college opens if has second pledging (after chapter stories due Central Office 1. semester Publicity April pledging). Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two due Province Director after Rushing report immediately weeks. pledging. Order pledge manuals from Central Office immediately April after pledging. Each pledge required to have her own copy. Publicity stories due Central Office May i. Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new sub Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two scribers) due Central Office by November 1 if they are to weeks. begin with next issue. By May 1, send Grand President business for consideration Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two of Council at its spring meeting. weeks. May Publicity stories due Central Office November 1. Report on pledge manual due Central Office May 15. November In convention year, send list of members (Greek-letter First installment of Greek-letter chapter dues and I6.50 and alumnas) who have died since preceding convention to for bound Crescents and subscriptions to Banta's Greek Central Office by May 15. Exchange and Fraternity Month due Central Office Decem Crescent material and glossies, including list of Greek- letter members to ber 1. chapter elected honoraries during past due Mrs. Bradford of school Publicity stories due Central Office December 1. year by close year. Other copy for Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two May due Mrs. Pinkerton by July 15. Send copy of this weeks. list to Central Office. Publicity stories due Central Office June 1. December Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two Crescent material and glossies for February issue due weeks. Mrs. Pinkerton December 15. (.Alumnas chapter letters printed regularly in this issue.) June Greek-letter for due Cen Alumnas chapter dues and camp tax due Central Office chapter history preceding year tral Office I. January 1. July List of and members not to Publicity stories due Central Office January 1. graduates returning college due Central Office and Province Director 1. Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two July weeks. Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two weeks. Nominations for Province Director due President from stories due Central Office 1. alumnae chapters by January 1 of odd years. Publicity July Greek-letter chapter officers store instructions, equipment January of office and supplies in safe place in chapter house before for the summer. Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new sub leaving -Mumnas letters, births, and scribers) due Central Office by January 15 if they are to chapter marriages, personals features Mrs. begin with next issue. due Pinkerton July 15. stories due Central Office 1. Publicity stories due Central Office Februarv i. Publicity August Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two August weeks. Rushing calendar due Central Office and Province Director February by August 1. Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new sub Lists of chapter members and pledges (new and hold scribers) due Central Office August 15 if they are to begin overs) due Central Office and Province Director Febru by with next issue. arv 15. Publicitv stories due Central Office .September 1. Rushing report due Province Director after immediately Fiscal year closes ending covered bv pledging. August ^i. period annual taxes paid since preceding September i. The Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta Volume XLIII^ Number 4 e 1943 They Fly for Victory 3 Gamma Phi Beta Book Nook 4 Enlists Marine Reserves 5 So More Men May Go to Sea 7 In the Green Honduras Mrs 9 Shop of Fairy Frocks 1 1 Cover The From Finance to Creative Art 13 One of the most beautiful examples It's a Matter of Planning 14 in the United States of architecture Generous in Talent and Energy 15 at is the Administration Building 16 in Ronda Mann, Scout Executive the State University of Iowa, lowa City, Iowa, where Rho chap Here Comes Television! 17 Gamma Phi Beta was char ter of Talks for Modern Eve 18 tered June 15, i9'5- The building for at War it was Beauty Wig-Wags Women 19 is h.nown as Old Capitol, for 20 formerly the State Capitol of Iowa. Wartime Portia visitors Thousands of annually pass Laurels in Leadership 21 it and admire its through simple 22 Tribute to a Beloved Teacher dignity and beauty. Old Capitol Bell Tolls Hourly 23 Chapter Library at Northwestern 24 Gamma Phi Betas in Service 25 Gamma Phi Beta Pictorial 29 Bulletin Board 32 The President's Page 33 Decem The Crescent is published September 15, Five Dales Make Vanderbilt History 34 and 1, the George ber I, February 15, May by of the 35 Banta Publishing Company, official printers Freshman Training Menasha, Wiscon fraternity, at 450 Ahnaip Street, In Memoriam 35 in ad sin. 1 1.50 a year payable Subscription price Place Your Calendar Order Now 3^ vance, 40^ a single copy. of a Appointments 37 Send change of address and correspondence Grand Council business nature to Mrs. L. A. White, Secretary-Treas What Active Chapters Are Doing 43 Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or 62 urer, 450 Ahnaip Order Blank N. Wacker Dr., Magazine Suite 2230, Civic Opera Bldg., 20 Novem Phi Beta Directory 63 Chicago, III. Mailing lists close August 15, Gamma ber I, January 15 and April i. is to be Correspondence of an editorial nature Box addressed to the editor Mrs. Roy Pinkerton, Items for 341, Route 1, Ventura, California. publi cation should be addressed to the editor to arrive December and not later than July 15, October 10, 15 StaiGF: March i. Editorial Associated. All Route I, Ventura, Member of Fraternity Magazines Pinkerton, Editor-in-Chief, Box 341 should Airdrie Kincaid matters pertaining to national advertising 1618 be directed to Magazines Associated, Otis Road Fraternity bea� UTMAN Smith, Associate Editor, Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Editor, GoodrichBarnngton^lll.Place, Sharon, Orrington THOMSEN BRADFORD, Associate 9 Wis ALICE Entered as second-class matter at Menasha, under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance Suite 2230, Civic consin, Robertson White, Secretary-Treasurer, for CHA^'^E at rate of 111. for mailing special postage provided 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Opera Bldg., in the act of February 28, 1925. LIEUT. ELEANOR GEARHART, USMCWR Typical of the many Gamma Phi Betas now serving their country in the uniforms of the Marines, WAVES, WACs, WAFS, as nurses or with the Red Cross, tells of her experi ence in the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve on page 5. rrH BUCHANAN (Maryland Council j chairman of Victory dentins "^''* University of Mary- Thomas i I" to Lieut. Cunning- V. S. Army Air Force. They Fly For Victory]1 O SUCCESSFUL was the Victory Bond Drive spon Air Forces in a ceremony at the Fairchild field hangar sored on the University of Maryland campus to raise at Hagerstown, Maryland, by three University of Mary funds for the purchase of one airplane to be sent to land co-eds. The planes were named "University of a training field somewhere in the United States that Maryland" and were numbered "One," "Two," the quota, set at enough to buy one trainer, was over "Three." Ruth, as chairman of the council, presented subscribed and three were sent instead. Bonds amount plane number "One" to Lt. Thomas C. Cunnington. ing to almost Fifty Thousand Dollars were sold during The officers who accepted the planes in behalf of the the drive, organized on the campus by the Victory Army Air Forces are attached to the staff of the Council of the university under the chairmanship of A.A.F. resident representative at the Fairchild plant. Ruth Buchanan, Beta Beta '43. They immediately prepared the planes for flyaway The three new Fairchild "Cornell" PT-19B primary delivery to the training fields where they will be put training planes were formally presented to the Army (Continued next page) 4 THE CRESCENT into service teaching men to fly for Victory.