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PHI BtTA SEPTEMBER - 1940 '^'.mf Calendar September Acknowledgement of bound Crescents due Central Office of odd Fiscal year begins September i. February 15 years. stories due Central Office March 1. calendars due Central Office, Province Director Publicity College issue due Mrs. and Crescent material and glossies for May Chairman of Inspection by September 15. Pinkerton March 1. letters Audits for second half of due Mrs. Keith (Greek-letter chapter printed previous year bio in this In convention year, send short September 15. regularly issue.) sketch of convention and glossy for Crescent material and glossies for December issue due graphical delegate Greek-letter delegate by March 10. Mrs. Pinkerton October 10. (Greek-letter letters and chapter chapter Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within pledge lists regularly printed in this issue.) fivo weeks. Comparative scholarship rating of campus sororities for Central 1. preceding year due Office October March stories due Central Office October 1. Publicity First semester audit due Mrs. Keith March 15. Pre-initiation and final initiation fees due Central Office Name and address of new rushing chairman (Greek-letter within two weeks. and due Central Office not later than April i. October 1 of send all alumna:) By year preceding convention, pro as send list of 1 or as soon thereafter possible, amendments and other business for convention con By April posed to Central officers for year for Greek-letter chapter sideration to Mrs. Dehn. ensuing Office, Province Director and Chairman of Inspection; for October alumna; chapter to Central Office, Province Director, and Lists of chapter members and pledges (new and hold Vice President. overs) due Central Office and Province Director immedi Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new sub Central Office 1 if are to ately after pledging (after college opens if chapter has sec scribers) due April they begin ond semester pledging). with next issue. Office 1. Rushing report due Province Director immediately after Publicity stories due Central April pledging. Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within Order pledge manuals from Central Office immediately two ^vceks. after pledging. April Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new sub stories due Central Office 1. scribers) due Central Office by November 1 if they are to Publicity May and final Ices due Central Office within two begin with next issue. Pre-initiation Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two weeks. 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 $4.00 and alumnae) who have died since preceding convention to for bound Crescents due Central Office December 1. Central Office by June 1. Publicity stories due Central Office December 1. Publicity stories due Central Office June 1. Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two two weeks. weeks. December June material and for issue due Crescent glossies February List of Greek-letter chapter members who have acquired Mrs. Pinkerton December letters 15. (Alumnae chapter honors during preceding year, together with Scholarship in this printed regularly issue.) blank No. 4, due Central Office July 1. .Muiiui.c dues and tax due Central Office chapter camp Greek-letter chapter history for preceding year due Cen 1. January tral Office July 1. stories due Central Office 1. Publicity January List of graduates and members not returning to college Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two due Central Office and Province Director July 1. weeks. Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within Janu.\ry two weeks. stories due Central Office 1. Crescent suiiscriptions (included in final fee for new sub Publicity July Greek-letter officers store instructions, scribers) due Central Office by January 15 if they are to chapter equipment of office and in safe in house before begin with next issue. supplies place chapter for the summer. Publicity stories due Central Office February 1. leaving Crescent material and for Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two glossies September issue (in Greek-letter weeks. cluding chapter members elected to honoraries preceding year) due Mrs. Pinkerton July 15. (Alumnae February chap ter letters regularly printed in this issue.) members and Lists of cha]Dter pledges (new and hold Publicity stories due Central Office August 1. overs) due Central Office and Province Director by Febru- August Rushing report due Province Director immediately after Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new pledging. subscribers) due Central Office August 15 if they are to Older manuals from Central Office immediately after begin with next issue. pledging. Publicity stories due Central Office September 1. Second installment of Greek-letter chapter dues due Fiscal year closes .August 31, ending period covered by Central Office March 1. annual taxes paid since preceding September 1. The Crescent Volume XL, Number 3 1 I Saw Hitler's Bombers 3 It Happened in Monterey 5 "Here Are Books and Flowers" 7 From a Dot in the Pacific 8 Authority on Anatomy 9 Apple Blossom Queen 10 With One Kitchen Chair 11 The Sound of Warri-ng Guns 12 Four Tasks at Once 13 Discharging a Trust 14 On "Mademoiselle's" Staff The Cover 15 Leadership Her Forte 16 cherished land The Campanile, Retiring Soon From Grand Council ly on the Cali mark University of Mrs. Robert Fitzgerald 18 where Gamma fornia campus National Officers-Elect Phi Beta's Eta chapter was in ig Mrs. Lester White stalled on April ly, 18^4. 22 Senator Scores Public Apathy 23 Gift to the Our Red Cross 24 Across the Banquet Boards 25 A Toast to Gamma Phi Beta 27 Aquacade Makes Splash Hit 28 New in Phases Government 29 A Feeling of Unity, Strength 31 Summary of Convention Business 32 Working with Small Groups 35 The Crescent is published September 15, Decem Beta Beta Joins the Roll 37 the ber I, February 15, and May 1, by George Convention Echoes 38 official to the Banta Publishing Company, printers Our Biggest Project 39 at 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wiscon fraternity, What Other Greeks Are Doing sin. Subscription price $1.50 a year payable in 40 Double Relatives advance, 40^ a single copy. 41 of and of a Gamma Send change address correspondence Phi Standouts 43 business nature to Mrs. L. A. White, Secretary-Treas Chapter Eternal 45 urer, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or We Point With Pride 47 Room 1216, 55 East Washington Street, Chicago, Editorials Illinois. r,4 Along the Crescent Path Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be 57 addressed to the editor Mrs. Box Roy Pinkerton, Book Nook 59 California. Items for 342, Route 1, Ventura, publi Gamma Phi Beta Directory 61 cation should be addressed to the editor to arrive not later than July 15, October 10, December 15 and March 1. Editorial Staff: Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All Airdrie Kincaid matters pertaining to national advertising should Pinkerton, Editor-in-Chief, Box 31, Route 1, Ventura, be directed to Fraternity Magazines Associated, Calif. 1618 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Leila Straub Stafford, Associate Editor, 1289 Fifteenth St., Eugene, Entered as second-class matter at Wis Menasha, Ore. consin, under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance of for mailing at special rate postage provided for Charlotte Robertson White, Business Manager, Room 1216, 55 E. Wash in the act of February 28, 1925. ington St., Chicago. THE LIBRARY building on the University of Maryland in the campus where the second state agricultural college western hemisphere was chartered in 1856. It is also the home campus of Gamma Phi Beta's fiftieth chapter, Beta Beta. I Saw Hitler^s Bombers / Lee Nicholson went to Europe as a ^ for The Ta- University of Washington, 'j6 touring correspondent coma Neius Tribune in May, 1939. She had toured the British Isles and I N Hitler's Book of Etiquette the German occupa was in tion of Denmark must be the prize example of how Belgium and Holland and one should take over another. On the country morning Germany preparing to go to the of April 9 the roar of bombers beat Danish alarm Soviet Union when war broke out clocks to the task of awaking the citizens. I saw as in She reached many as 22 planes flying so low overhead that the September. Copen black crosses on the sides were plainly visible. Three hagen, Denmark, instead and found of King Christian's guards were at least wounded in a berth with the Associated Press, an exchange of shots when German soldiers entered the oc the courtyard of Amalienborg, the King's residence. where she stayed until after Pale grey chinks on the Palace walls show where the cupation of Denmark by the Ger shooting took place. mans. She is now on the research Soldiers were wounded or killed throughout the Time New York land in the short time between the moment the staff of magazine, Germans crossed the border and the moment the \ City. / King's order not to resist reached all the garrisons. The papers listed the total death toll at less than 20, but Danes are sure many more lost their lives. Aside from such incidents, the occupation moved with stopwatch precision. The Copenhagen radio, which bravely started the day's program with the usual gymnastics, became silent for an hour or so coming into action again at 8:30 a.m. for the reading of the "Appeal to the Danish People" which was repeated interminably throughout the day.