CENT Of GAMMA PHI BtTA ! -Sri. ' ,./. -�i.� :?*.��" iSi^- :,il^ The Crescent V. Dynamo in Slacks 3 National Youth Director 5 Capital Alumna Leader 6 Up With the Sun, to Paint 7 Gladys Wilkinson Lawrence g I Married an Englishman 11 The Rocky Road to By-Lines 13 The Cover ; "Tugboat Annie" Spirit 15 Hendricks Chapel on the cam Home vs. Career Weighed 16 pus at the University of Syracuse, Days by Palm and Sea birthplace of Garrima Phi Beta, 17 November ii, 18^4. Dreams Come True 18 Grand Council Appointments . ig The Panhellenic World 24 Sunshine and Fresh Air Supplied 26 Along the Crescent Path 30 The Crescent is December published September 13, Gamma Phi Beta Pictorial 32 1 Banta Publish 1, February 15 and May by George Founders' Day Celebrations ing Company, Official Printer, 450-454 Ahnaip 3g Street, Menasha, Wis. Entered as second-class mat We Point With Pride 41 ter, October 1, 1910, at the post office at Menasha, Eta Wins the Channing Derby Wis., under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance tor 42 at special rate ot postage provided tor in mailing Gamma Phi Book Nook 43 section 1103 of the Act ot October 3, 1917, para Editorials graph 4, section 429 P. L. and R., authorized July 44 18, 1918. A Basket on Your Doorstep 46 Subscription price I1.50 a year, payable in ad a AlumNyE Are vance. Forty Cents (.fo.40) copy. What Chapters Doing 48 Address all material for publication to the Gamma Phi Beta Directory 63 Editor. Member ot Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to national advertising should be directed to Fraternity Magazines Associated, 1618 Editorial Staff: Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, or 52 Vander Airdrie Kincaid Pinkerton, editor-in-chief. Box 341, Route i, Ventura, York bilt Avenue, New City. Calif. Charlotte Robertson White, Associate Editor, Room 1216, 55 E. Wash Charlotte Robertson White (Mrs. L. A.) ington St., Chicago. Executive Secretary Leila Straub Stafford, Associate Editor, Fifteenth St., Gamma Phi Beta Central Office 1289 Eugene, Ore. 55 East Washington Street Humboldt Chicago, Illinois Miss Lindsey Barbee, Editor Emeritus, 930 St., Denver, Colo. Her great has relief finished. Lulu H. Braghetta, famed San Francisco Sculptress sculptress, is shown adding her signature to the massive panel called Finishes "Darkness" after it was placed on the wall of one of the East Towers of Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay site of the ip^p Golden Gale Inter national Exposition. -mt^-'^&JSit "Path of Darkness" Mural by Lulu Braghetta Dynamo in Slacks Lulii Hawkins Braghetta, via Ne Alpha Phi chapter vada and New York, arrived in San Francisco where her ability as one of the foremost sculptresses in the OHE is an energetic, spontaneous little body with curls in the middle of her forehead like the naughty west won her commissions for the little girl in the story-book, although there the like Golden Gate and re ness ends, for it seems most improbable that this lady Exposition of the hammer and chisel could ever be "horrid." flected glory for Gamma Phi. Nothing pale and wan and "arty" about this artist. \ / She is a dreamer, of course, but her dreams are strong, stream-lined, and plated with stainless steel. She thinks now she acquired her M.A. at the University of Cali and acts vigorously, whisking about her studio like fornia, and a nice engineer-husband of the "best pal a small dynamo in slacks and smock, but once settled and severest critic" variety. She has exhibited statues and won medals and honorable quietly in a chair she is a chic young woman who murals, mentions by the and even school. manages to keep her finger-nails pink and shiny in handful, taught spite of their constant contact with clay, wood, plaster, At the present moment she is working feverishly and the countless other materials which turn to lovely against the deadline of February 18, on which day things beneath her touch. Wearers of the double "The Fair" opens on Treasure Island in San Fran cisco Her bas-relief of a cata brown, we give you Lulu Hawkins Braghetta, of Alpha Bay. sports� gay, lively Gamma, University of Nevada. logue of American youth caught in characteristic poses Like all good Gamma Phis, Lulu Hawkins worked of tennis, skating, archery, and all the outdoor games- hard in school, took her B.A., and then, unlike most will be shown in the Recreation Building. Gamma Phis, she set off for New York in quest of Mrs. Braghetta's most ambitious work, however, is set in and to fame and fortune as an artist, and found it, too, in completed, place, ready startle, intrigue, professional lithographic design. Between then and and delight visitors to the Exposition. It is one of [.'51 THE CRESCENT twin bas-reliefs in Oriental vein, the two largest art- projects on the Island, one of which depicts "Light" and the other, "Darkness." It is the latter which sprang from Mrs. Braghetta's vivid imagination. In a large, flat panel, twenty-seven feet by eighty-three, she has portrayed "mankind in darkness, groping hopelessly, seeking help and guidance from some Divine Presence or Spirit, which itself has become overshadowed with clouds of confusion." The relief, powerfully conceived and atmospherically intense, is fashioned of plaster covered with metal leaf. The figures and treatment are reminiscent of the sculptured towers and walls of .Angkor-Vat. A certain exposition representative has reported reliably that "The Path of Darkness" is one of the high-spots of the whole Fair. Delightful as it may be to look upon Mrs. Brag hetta's finished statues� and wonderfully symmetrical Section of model exotic nudes fashioned in smoothest teak�and her re for panel, "Dark liefs like the madonna with five children (she was ness," showing Af rs. Braghetta at work. tired of seeing them with only one child) it is even more interesting to talk with the artist herself, for hers is the rarest of gifts, a reasoning mind tampered with intelligent sympathy and sensitive feeling for every to, or to say all the things she wants to. If the supply thing in the world. She loathes artificiality above all of clay, wood, chisels, and sandpaper holds out, the things, with mental indifference and apathy a close world will hear more and more from Lulu Hawkins second. She impresses one with a sense that life just Braghetta, and much to the world's benefit and isn't long enough to get everything done that she'd like pleasure. ])})}> Delegate to Tokyo Conference 'NE of six students to be chosen, Mildred Galla gher, Alpha Iota, was a delegate selected by the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles to attend the fifth American-Japan Student Conference in Tokyo. There was a group of fifty American students at tending the conference, selected by various universities in the United States. The group met in Seattle and sailed from there July, arriving in Yokohama July 15. The conference was held at Keio University and after a ten-day session the American students were taken on a tour of Japan, Manchuria and Korea as guests of the Japanese government. While in the Orient quite a complete study was made of the political, economic and cultural conditions in each country. On the return trip the group stopped at Hawaii and from there proceeded to San Francisco. At the present time plans are being made to entertain the Japanese students, who acted as our hosts, at some Pacific Coast Mildred Gallagher universitv next summer. D ]) ]) FEBRUARY, i 939 5 National Youtli Director M. Griffin is a V^NE OF the six women directors of the National Margaret top-rank Youth Administration in the United States, and top ing educator, vocational service ranking educator in her native state, Margaret M. Grif fin has been a loyal Gamma Phi since her college days worker and loyal Gamma Phi. at the University of Nevada. Margaret received her I / After a successful career of teaching for nine years in various high schools throughout this state, she turned her hobby into an interesting profession- nursery schools and vocational guidance. In August 1934, Margaret was appointed State Su pervisor of Nursery Schools and Parent Education under the Federal Emergency Education Program. While serving in this office, she was responsible for the construction of many nursery schools in the state of Nevada. This lead to her appointment in 1935 as Director of the Division of Education of the Works Progress Administration which included both nursery school work and adult education. In 1936, she was made State Director of the National Youth Administra tion. As part of her job she has become a familiar figure at numerous state, regional, and national conferences on education. Three national conferences at Wash ington, D.C. saw her presence, and at two of these she spent a day at Hyde Park in conference with President Roosevelt. The group of state directors were guests of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at luncheon. Margaret M. Griffin This past spring Margaret spent considerable time in special work for Junior Vocational Service and New preparatory education in Tonopah, Nevada, where she York Consultation Service in New York City. was born, and since her graduation from the university With all this responsibility Gamma Phi has not for she has found time to become a in 1925, she has taken post graduate courses at the been neglected University of California, University of Southern Cali strong member of the Gamma Phi Alumnas organiza fornia, and Oregon State. During this time, she con tion, and she has given much time to the problems Margaret Gamma.