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

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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 '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, , or We Point With Pride 47 Room 1216, 55 East Washington Street, , Editorials . 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 . 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 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. It was the same message printed on the pale green leaflets dropped by the planes in the early morning hour. A blackout went into effect the first evening of the invasion. The Danish government had already planned two nights of practice blackout for mid-April, but Copenhagen; the writer running for her office.

most citizens were planning to spend those evenings in cafes to obviate the necessity of making their windows light-proof. What a contrast when the real blackouts began! Buses and streetcars were filled with home-going Copenhageners laden with black paper. The German soldiers seemed most circumspect in their behavior in Copenhagen. They treated the in habitants with politeness and were accorded the same The Borkop church, attitude, chilled a few degrees, in return. One of the attended by the writ stories around the told of the er's Danish relatives, going city German and typical of the commander's visit to the town hall. The German white-washed churches complimented a burgomaster on the exceptional in Jutland. discipline shown by the Danes in accepting the new [3l 4 THE CRESCENT

regime. The Dane's answer was "That's not discipline, mcin Heir, that's culture." Although the Danes were \ery depressed at having foreign soldiers on their soil, they realized that with their lamentably poor defenses it would have been foolhardy to try to fight. But many of them blamed their pacifist government of the post World War period for not spending more money on armaments. Getting home through Germany was much simpler than I had expected it to be. The worst bother was waiting more than a fortnight for the necessary visas. Although fearful stories circulate in Europe about the brutality of customs men, not one piece of my luggage was opened by border officials until I reached Pier 59 in . Other tra%elers' tales deal with the dangers of speaking English in war-time Berlin, especially in the blackout hours. I traveled to with a of Italy group Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Mer other Americans and in Berlin a Danish-American maid," the bronze statue at the edge of harbor man and I went to a beer-hall-restaurant after our the of Copenhagen. late-evening arrival in the German capital. only half a dozen pairs of stockings a year, most of The restaurant was very crowded and fairly gay. them seemed to wear silk hose, and not obviously A small orchestra squeaked cheerful music, the waiters darned ones. looked harried as they scurried from table to table. German food was not praised by the Americans The only vacant chairs were with a solitary German who ate in the dining cars. As I nourished myself on officer. My companion asked in German if we might sandwiches and candy from Denmark, all I bought sit down and when we received permission I sat, was a of coffeelcss coffee, three thin slices of pale accidentally jiggling the table and spilling the officer's cup rubbery rye bread and a pat of butter, which cost the beer on him. Half expecting him to draw his dagger, 1 etjuivalent of 35 cents in a cheap Berlin cafeteria. embairasscdly apologized in English. Far from being No submarine threatened to sink the Manhattan affronted, he willingly took part in a three-cornered when I came home on her, but the trip was not too English-German conversation. He shared the average cheerful, especially after we heard the news of the German's behalf in the invincibility of Dcutschland, Low Countries' invasion. but, unlike another German officer I talketl to about The greatest thrill of the voyage, of course, was the the war, he did not say he planned to spend his next of the Statue of which now means not leave in London. sight Liberty, only coming home but also coming to one of the few The German women, like most Europeans, were not remaining lands in which liberty is not an outdated, smartlv dressed; but despite the fact that they can buy forbidden and foolish concept. }) DD

Kongens Nytorv, the King's New Square, Copenhagen, showing bicycles, pigeons and Stnorrebred wagon nhere open-faced sand- niches cost 2 cents each.

The writer with her bicycle (called "Budg et" because it was so hard to stay on) taken � in southern Denmark. JB�i�- % It Happened In Monterey

Missouri, , Porto Rico, Mexico

form a background for Polly Hecker, co- keeper of The Mexican Idol.

'NE of them is tall, and one is not. One of them is a Gamma Phi, and one is not. But they think and act as one, are devoted as true sisters, and as com patible as a feather-bed and hot-water bottle. If you Photographed by Pat Petrocclti were present at the Del Monte convention in '38, Polly Hecker, wearing a hand- you wandered into their The Mexican probably shop. loomed native Mexican costume, one of those Idol, mornings when romantic California in the doorway of The Mexican lured you from discussions of rushing and scholarship. Idol. If you were waited on by a lovely tall creature with blue eyes, a warming smile, and a breathless enthusi asm for all the beautiful things in her shop, that was Here were bright hand-woven linens; vivid mouth- Polly ... Pauline Hecker, whose crescent was pinned blown glass in lush shades of blue and brown; intri on her by sisters at Alpha Zeta chapter of Gamma cate metal work; pottery of all kinds and uses; native Phi Beta at the University of Texas. If, on the other sandals and scrapes; rugs; hand-fashioned silver hand, you were greeted by a tiny wisp of brunette jewelry. Polly and Pat put their heads together,

. cam sophistication, that was Pat .. Patricia Petrocelli, counted their pesos, planned and plotted their who graduated from Fordham University in New paign, and three weeks later were on a north-bound York, where Gamma Phi has no chapter. And this is boat out of Acapulco, headed for a new adventure in how they met: the United States. Polly, who was born and grew up in Missouri, Two months from then they were established on attended school in Minnesota, where they remarked Calle Principal in old Monterey, California, whose on her "southern accent," and in Texas, where she romantic history goes back to Mexican days; where was known as a "yankee." She majored in Spanish, one hears a babel of foreign tongues on the street; and was off to Porto Rico like a flash when an oppor where your fish are caught by a Sicilian and your tunity to teach school was offered her. Other Latin laundry done by a Chinese, while your grocer may be lands beckoned, and Polly visited various parts of the anything from a Russian to a Welshman. Next door West Indies, the Dominican Republic, and finally to the old Pacific Building, landmark from the days Mexico, where she was a teacher in the service of the of '49, Pat and Polly found the ideal site for their

Standard Oil Company. Eventually she gravitated to shop. . . . And so The Mexican Idol was installed Taxco, that gem among Mexican cities, where every in a clean white little building with a yellow glass thing from the scenery to the tequila cocktails are of window and a fireplace in the rear, and a narrow fourteen carat quality. In Taxco Polly organized a staircase winding up to a balcony where the girls school for English-speaking children. have compressed the problems of housekeeping into And in Taxco she met Pat Petrocelli, whose inter one compact, modernistic ttnit. There's an outdoor esting life had led her from to China balcony, too, where Pancho the Wire-Hair stands and to France to New York to Mexico, where her grand woofs at everything from policemen to customers. parents operate banana and coffee plantations. Polly Pat and Polly crammed their gift-shop with all the and Pat browsed through the colorful open-air market lovely Latin-American things they could, and from in Taxco, and prowled through all the fascinating time to time have added new types of merchandise, the fact that so shops, lamenting few Americans ever so that now they are equipped to supply any kind of have the opportunity to enjoy the native Mexican need, from a shower-present for a baby to a going- are ideal use arts, which for in the modern home. away gift for Aunt Hortense. Prominent artists from [5] 6 THE CRESCENT

Monterey or "over Carmel wav" are onlv too s;lad an unwelcome admirer or a bill-collector? Hide out on to hang their paintings or display their sculpture at the balcony at The Mexican Idol. .\re you behind in The The Mexican Idol, because no self-respecting tourist your reading? The Mexican Idol subscribes to Life, Cres considers himself "toured" without a visit there. The Forum, Popular Educator, and, of course, The be past Christmas season has proved, too, that the Idol cent, and the couch on the balcony is comfortable is de rigeur for home consumption. If laid end to end, yond compare. all the Christmas presents sold from this shop Avould Every so often Pat and Polly go away on \acations, reach at least to Santa Barbara. or take a business trip back to Mexico, and then some the All Gamma Phis who find themselves in Monterey lucky one of their friends is selected to operate

in their absence. What fun that must be . .. for for an hour, a day, or a year, should, for their own shop not would one inherit for the time being a career pleasure, make their wav to The Mexican Idol, there only and income, but a hoard of interesting friends and to meet two of the most delightful girls in the world. acquaintances. It just happens, you see, that every If you plan to drop in the shop, do so about noon or body in Monterey knows and admires Polly and Pat, along towards four in the afternoon. Then you're and sooner or later, everybody finds his way into The sure to be asked to stay for a snack on the balcony, Mexican Idol, there to sip tea, perhaps, and exchange and that's fun, for Pat or and some usually Polly, gossip, certainly, and incidentally, pick up a piece of times both of them, have to leave in the middle of the pottery to round out a collection, or invest in a new soup to wait on a customer, and then you can peep luncheon-set. Business with pleasure. Pat with Polly. dow-n and watch the whole complicated process of So is business done in a Latin climate.�Muriel merchandising from your perch above. .Are you eluding Hesse, All}ha Phi and San Francisco. }) 1) }>

Alpha Beta Salutes Shirley BoylanI

HIRLEV, who is a sophomore, is interested in dramatics and has entered into both Dakota Playmakcrs and Radio Playmakers. She was also elected into A.D.T., a literary fraternity. Shirley also has great possibilities in oratory as she was the only girl chosen in the Debate Club at the University of North Dakota. Shirley won the Stockwell Oratorical Contest for freshmen and now she is preparing for the Intercollegiate Peace Contest. She is a member of the French Club, the Women's .Athletic Association, a Student reporter, and also on the Y.W.C..A. junior cabinet. Her interests are wide and varied. 1 his year she was elected for Sigma Epsilon Sigma, national scholarship honorary for women. Her classmates have chosen her for their class treasurer. Shirley recently received the jeweled pin for scholarship in her thapter, and at the last election she ^vas chosen scholarship chairman. Shirley lioylan Shirley is attractive, interesting, and charming in manner. She is studying Pre-medic now but even so finds mucli time to carry out successfully all her activities. Her chapter is proud to have her as a member of Gamma Phi Beta. SEPTEMBER, 1940 7

Here Are Books and Flowers^

/"Come let me make a sunny realm around "^ thee, Of thought and beauty!�Here are books University of Texas and flowers, With spells to loose the fetters which have bound thee The ravell'd evil of this world's feverish T,HE Library of the University of Texas is situated \ hours. -Hemans / on the summit of College Hill, its 307 foot tower dominating the campus. The build and consists of 25,000 volumes. ing is constructed of Indiana lime The Rare Book Collection totals stone and is of the modified Spanish some 30,000 volumes, including liter style of architecture with classic de ary manuscripts, first and early edi tails predominating. tions (chiefly in English and Ameri The collection of books is called can literature). There are groups the Mirabeau B. Lamar Library, for the study of Spenser, Milton, named for one of the heroes of the Pope, Dryden, Byron and Keats. early days of the Republic. The li The British Drama Collection in brary contains 614,000 volumes; it cludes about fifty per cent of all comprises a large general library, editions of English plays published and several special collections in before 1800. literature and history in the Main The Rare Book Collection is Building with eight branch libraries founded on the Wren Library in other buildings. which was presented to the univer The library is especially strong sity in 1918 by Major George W. in the fields of Southern and South Littlefield, the George A. Aitken western history. The Southern his Library, purchased in 1921, the Mir The Main Building, housing part of tory collection is by the iam Stark in supported the 614,000 volumes of the libraries Library, presented 1926; Fund left by G. W. Littlefield, a of the University of Texas. and most of the Bieber Collection of former regent, and comprises ap American poetry of the nineteenth proximately 25,000 volumes, including newspapers. century. (More than 7,000 items are shelved in the gen The newspaper collection is the largest in the South, eral stacks.) and totals around 1 7,000 volumes from thirty-five states The Branch Libraries are located in departmental and twenty-five foreign countries. buildings. They are in the Architecture, Botany- The Texas collection is probably the most exten Zoology, Chemistry, Geology, Engineering, Law and sive one of such material in existence. It has 18,500 Physics buildings. The Reserve Library is in the Main volumes, which does not include 6,500 volumes of Building. Texas newspapers. It contains about 2,000,000 manu Though a little over fifty years old, the Book script pages. Collection ranks fourteenth in size among the univer The Latin-American collection is remarkable for sity libraries of the United States. To quote one of its holdings of Mexican history and culture. The the librarians, "The University of Texas Library is nucleus of this library was purchased from Genaro Gar destined to become the outstanding library in the cia, curator of the National Museum of Mexico, in 1921 Southwest." D ]) D 8 THE CRESCENT

From A Dot In The Pacific

By Ruth Weaver Johnson / The strange arm of coincidence \ Southern Methodist University, '}} and the bonds of Gamma Phi Beta

reach across the Pacific to the Island And Laura ^cCarty Pahnherg of latitude Northwestern, '^4 Guam, 13 degrees, 27 minutes, 14 seconds�North and longitude 144 degrees, 39 minutes, \JfREETINGS from your Guam Alumnae group! \ 23 seconds�East. / "You can spot a Gamma Phi." At least we quickly discovered our Gamma Phi sisterhood the day we set out together to explore the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Navy transport ships about every 6 weeks. We play on our way out here. bridge. There are dinners and dances at the Officers' It is gross understatement to say that we have much Club. The Johnsons have been and the Palmbergs are in common. We were born in the going (this month) on a seven weeks' same month, married in the same vacation cruise to Japan, China, and month. Our husbands, both of whom the Philippines. arc doctors, were born in the same The most fun of all in Guam so month. They obtained commissions far has been a jiicnic about two in the Medical Corps of the United weeks ago. At sundown, with Venus States Navy on the same date and as bright as an airplane beacon on were ordered to San Francisco to our right, our husbands and we set board the U.S.S. Cliauinoiit on Sep out with a native oarsman in his tember 27, 1938, for Guam, for two dugout outrigger canoe (hewn by years duty at the Naval H()S])iial machete from a great pandanus here. It was aboard the Chaumont tree), and, with a light breeze caught that we first met. Last summer we in the hand-made sail, we arrived learned that we were both expecting in about an hour at Cocos Island, Laura M. Palmberg (left) babies in December. John (Palm- a tiny, wooded island at the southern Ruth W. Johnson (right) berg) arrived on December 7, Init tip of Guam. It was full moonlight Marilyn (Johnson) decided that the chain of co by then. While our fire of ironwood branches blazed, incidences was becoming monotonous and refused to we swam in the moonlight, then toasted our wieners arrive until January 1. The snapshot was taken in one and ate them with salad and watermelon and later sat of our adjoining front yards at the foot of which lies on our sail and, with the Southern Cross behind us the Pacific. and Orion bright above, we harmonized (?) on all the We do not have "breadfruit for breakfast" but do Gamma Phi songs we could remember. J J) J) have it for dinner sometimes�prepared to look and taste much like shoestring potatoes. Bananas and Warlick and Newton, of citrus fruits, melons, squash, and many of our States Jane Margaret Alpha Xi, .Southern Methodist University, as well as some curious native vegetables vegetables had roles in the Arden Club's production, can be had at the native market for a few cents a "The Laughing Window." Marjoric Couch was on the staff of the same pound. Staples and cold storage meat, butter, fresh production play and tfx)k an active part in radio skits spon frozen fruits and we buv at our vegetables, Navy sored by the club. Commissarv. There is no fresh milk or cream. Jane Pier was pledged to Cardinal at We golf (won't tell you our scores, but the panorama Key Idaho and admitted to meml)crshlp in the of and sea and distant blue hills is palms opalescent \'andalecrs, musical group of mixed voices. beautiful, and our little ChamoiTO caddies don't mean Doris Hungerford was also elected to Van- daleers. to laugh at our poor shots), ^\'e anticipate mail bv Pan .-Vmeiican .Airways clippers once a week and by SEPTEMBER, 1940 9 Authority On Anatomy / Katherine Sibley, author and head \ N.I ATIONALLY known as an anatomist (the study of the science of the structure of organic bodies), of the Physical Education School, author of Human Anatomy, a text book which is used , is an honored by many of the universities and colleges throughout member the Alumnas the country, Katherine Sibley, Alpha, Head of the of Syracuse School of Physical Education, Syracuse University, is i chapter. to publish her laboratory manual in anatomy during the current year.

Katherine Sibley has been the organizer and leader of the Women's Physical Education Department at Syracuse University since its beginning. Going to Syracuse when no facilities for Physical Education for women were available and the only gymnasium on the cam pus was the present Women's Gymnasium, which was then the Men's Gymnasium, Miss Sibley encountered many problems. The women, taking required Physical Education, incidentally there were no majors at that time, used the available gym nasium three afternoons per week. The outdoor facilities was a lot back of the Castle, which was used for track and field activities and baseball. In 1909, Archbold Gymnasium was com pleted and the Women's Physical Education Department moved into its present quarters, which have been all too inadequate for many years. Plans are now being made to erect a new build ing with all modern facilities for Women's Physical Education, Recreation and Corrective and Health work. Miss Sibley is taking an active part in the rising agitation for this new Women's Building. Katherine Sibley, author The first class of women majors in physical education gradu ated in and these have carried the name of 1919 graduates of Gamma Phi Beta combined talents to sponsor a Syracuse University and the ideals and inspiration of Miss benefit in Sibley throughout the country, and even in Japan, where one Syracuse. alumna is employed. Mrs. William P. Graham, Gamma Phi alumna and Nationally known. Miss Sibley holds membership in the wife of the Chancellor of the university opened the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Rec Chancellor's residence on the for the affair reation; the Society for Directors of Physical Education for campus College Women, an organization, incidentally, in which she has and presided as hostess in the charming and dignified held the every office, including president; American Physio setting. therapy Association; Sigma Xi, a national fraternity for the Dr. Marie Richards, former Dean of Women purpose of research; and she is now president of Phi Kappa Phi Jean and an honored member of Syracuse alumnae of Gamma Phi donated her services as the speaker of the afternoon Beta. as her contribution to the building fund, and took Miss Sibley studied at Syracuse, spending three years in the as her "Mein in Dr. Richards, a College of Medicine, specializing in anatomy and serving as subject Kampf 1940." student a.ssistant in Physical Education. She furthered her edu charming and highly educated woman is well known cation under Dr. at Skarstrom Wellesley College, 1914-15, having in Syracuse for her book reviews. She makes her home secured Sabbatical leave from Syracuse University. Courses under with her cousin, a Gamma Phi Beta Dr. Clark Hetherington at and courses in Emogene Day, comparative anatomy and marine zoology at Leland Stanford from Syracuse University and the daughter of a former University in 1925 added to her knowledge of anatomy which Chancellor of the university. culminated in 1935 the publishing of her Human Anatomy. Previous to Dr. Richard's talk, Katherine Sibley, head of the School of Physical Education told of the difficulties under which she and her staff and the women students of the university worked now, due to the inadequacies of the present women's gym T,HE sum of $150.00 was raised recently for the nasium, and gave a general idea of the plans for benefit of the new Women's at new Building Syracuse Uni the building which will house the new gym versity when the Syracuse Alumnae and Mothers' club nasium. ])])]) 10 THE CRESCENT LJ- Apple Blossom Queen ^ w jtl^iim^ Festival she paid a court visit to Leverett Saltonstall, f the governor of the commonwealth. i.| ^ Bearing tidings from her court, ^vhich sits in West- ford, , and go\erns the Nashoba Apple the ^^^K Belt, with a corridor granted to the markets of J world Middlesex and Worcester counties. through Miss Barker the a of ' presented governor bouquet '.^' apple blossoms and invited him to attend the festival "^' in her realm. She was born in Berkeley, California, but has lived

1. � a large part of her life in Littleton, Massachusetts. She has received her education both in Littleton Louise Barker and in California; being a graduate of Littleton High School, and having attended Radcliffe College for one year before going west, where she was a student at the University of California and at the University of LOUISE BARKER, daughter of Captain and Mis. Southern California. George N. Barker of Littleton, was chosen Queen of Her favorite sport is horse-back riding; but she is the Sixth Annual Nashoba Apple Blossom Festival, also fond of swimming, and likes to play bad which will be celebrated throughout the famous Nash minton. oba apple district during Blossom week. Louise Barker was initiated at the University of Cali Queen Nashoba VI and her court attended church fornia where her mother, Mrs. George Barker (Bernice and participated in a symbolic outdoor ceremony in .Arnold) was also a Gamma Phi. Louise served as treas Groton officially opening Blossom Week; she presided urer of Eta and was co-organizer of Beta Alpha at the over the Queen's Ball in Groton, received her crown University of Southern California where she served at the hands of Governor Leverett Saltonstall in \Vest- also as treasurer. She is now with her parents in Little ford� "the home of the Nashoba .Apple Blossom ton, Mass., where her father, Capt. Barker, U.S.N., is Festival." professor of naval science and tactics at Harvard and .\s (]ueen of the annual Nashoba .Apple Blossom a prominent apple orchardist. }) ]) D

Wins Fellowship summers, she has interned in Provincial Mental Hos pitals and Mental Health Clinics, studied at Psy JLfOL.\ NE.AI. has been awarded a Reuben Wells chiatric Institutions in and also spent a summer Leonard Fellowship for Graduate study at the Univer term at the University of California, Berkeley. .She sity of loronto. Since graduation from Western leaves London this October to continue her graduate Ontario, in 1933. she has been a teaching assistant on work in the Department of Psychology at the Univcr- tiic Psvchologv Staff at Western Ontario. During her sitv of Toronto. ]) J> ]> II SEPTEMBER, i 940

Witli One Kitclieii Chair

RS. PHILIP KERBY (Ruth Duniway), Univer sity of Oregon, prominent New York Gamma Phi Beta, who has represented Gamma Phi on the Board of Directors of the Beekman Tower Hotel (Panhellenic House) for several years, is adding another chapter to her many fascinating experiences by taking a leading part in the women's campaign for "Willkie for President." Ruth Duniway Kerby is the granddaughter of one of Oregon's great pioneers, Abigail Scott Duniway, or ganizer in the National American Equal Suffrage As sociation in 1884 and for 33 years president and director of Oregon Equal Suffrage. Feeling enthusiasm for Wendell Willkie, Mrs. Kerby, with characteristic decision, was one of the first New York women to believe that "something should be done about it." Late in May, she invited about ten people to a tea in her own home for the purpose of discussing what that "something" should be, and to her intense surprise, she received 35 guests that feeling of a job well done, only to find that a demand afternoon. for continuation of the committee was pouring in in the Wasting no time, the group immediately formed a form of letters, telegrams and phone calls. The con committee for the promotion of Mr. Willkie for presi sensus of opinion was that an independent, non dent and elected Miss Gretchen Greene chairman, partisan women's committee was necessary for the and Mrs. Kerby vice-chairman. Then Mrs. Kerby promotion of the Willkie cause on a nation-wide basis. opened an office in the Graybar Building, New York, So the committee, which owes its existence largely to equipped with one hitched-up telephone, one kitchen Mrs. Kerby's efforts, continues with a system of state chair and one table. Within ten days, sufficient volun chairwomen throughout the entire country. teer contributions had been raised and another larger Mrs. Kerby's sensational success in organization and office was not only opened but was completely equipped management comes as no surprise to those who know and filled with people. her former record. After the World War, she organ Large numbers of volunteer workers reported for ized and ran the Hall of States in New York City, service, ranging from the extremely wealthy to those which was the headquarters of every state in the who could give only an hour or two of their time in Union for the purpose of looking after their men as the evening after work, and with this organization, an they returned from the war, and in 1920, organized a amazing record was established. Before the convention large portion of New York State for the General Wood took place, over 30,700 letters, containing Willkie peti campaign. tions, were sent out, and in response to these letters, After her marriage to Philip Kerby in 1920, she over 70,000 petitions were mailed. Almost a unique worked with him for a year in Hollywood, writing mo achievement with volunteer workers on volunteer tion pictures, and then went to Manila when he was funds! And better still, the fight for the nomination appointed correspondent in the Far East for the New terminated with every bill completely paid! York Herald-Tribune. From Manila, they were trans Mrs. Kerby spent the convention week in Phila ferred to Shanghai and then to Peking, where, again delphia, where she was constantly working with the working together, they edited the English speaking women's groups, and returned to New York with the newspaper for some three years. !>])}> 12 THE CRESCENT

The Soimd Of Warrine Guns

By Qrace Smith Laugharne Before the sound of warring guns Phi University of British Columbia reached England, this Gamma \\rote in March of the evacuation of herself and children from Lon JL/ONDON, especially Kensington, where we made our home in DeVere Gardens is so deserted and drearN don to the country. these days we are frightfully glad to be out in the country. is the of Kensington Gardens used to be like Mickey Mouse. It joy contains such a jolly place, full of children her heart. The large snout the air of playing ball or rolling hoops, nurses the chemicals to purify gas and the little pushing prams, dogs rushing about. before being inhaled, Now the Gardens below the palace nose flaj) is the outlet valve. Jennifer are a network of concrete air raid adores running about in her "gas" as shelters, quite up-to-date little rabbit she calls it and seems to find no diffi- warrens with seals, electric light etc. culty in breathing. Around the Round Pond where Patricia, who is only lo months, a mask and has kiddies used to sail boats is a large is too )()ung for gas roped-off area gi\en over to the been issued a gas helmet, a thing balloon barrage. Farther down the rather like a diving bell. The baby Park where once was a great stretch is put inside the cage and strapped of lawn is now an ugly gaping hole in, but can see all that goes on as where excavators ha\c dug out sand the whole front of the cage is one and earth for sand bags. .All in all big window. To keep the air pure an we are really glad to be out of adult has to pmiip ;ill the time the desolate Kensington. baby is inside. three and The i^icture shows my three-year- Jennifer Laugharne, aged I send my good wishes for a highly one-half years, in her gas mask, Eng old in her successful 1940 convention and I only daughter Jennifer gas land, 1940. mask, a highly colored affair looking wish I could be present. }) J) 1)

Doltic Mac Wiel. Mu '41. is a member Josephine Westerdoll. Tail '41, at Colo of Sigma Delia Pi, Spanish honorary at rado State is a member of three honoraries Stanford and is badminton manager for and holds an office in one of them. Jo is W..\..\.. and June Price is treasurer of president of the C^ounsellettcs, which is a Thcia Sigma Phi. new advisory l>oard sponsored fiy Tio, the senior honorary. This last spring she was Frances Rover was one of Tau's outstand elected vice-president of A.\V.S. ing M-niois who graduated last spring. Dur ing her lour vears at Colorado Slate she Catherine McCutcheon Baker ^Mrs. C. participated in many activities and was an Sherwcx)d JJaker;, Kpsilon, appeared before excellent scholar. She was a military s|)on- the Chicago Women's Club recently singing sor for two vcars and was elected to three the arias from "Daughter of the South," honoraries. and was named as Pacemaker. an American o[>cra by Kdward Collins. �3 SEPTEMBER, i 940

Four Tasks At Once

f A graduate architect, Barbara | Lewis, Alpha '36, runs her own business�designing and remodel ing low-cost homes, in Syracuse, N.Y. \ /

world X HERE are more than a few people in the who moan about one to do, but Barbara having job Barbara Lewis Lewis, Alpha (known to her intimates as Bobbie), isn't one of them. She has four and is jobs getting in the do anything," she says. "I'm convinced that along nicely in all of them, thank you. future there will be a demand for houses is large costing Of course, her doing so many things all at once less than 1 10,000. Of course, people usually want a a matter. After some of them are only temporary lot for their but limit the amount at a money they they finished, she'll go back to doing only two things will I shall concentrate on designing and super time. spend. erection of small houses for the middle-income her mind vising Right now, Barbara has on her hands and group." three architectural assignments�designing a new She is convinced that house designs will become house and remodeling two older ones. In between more simple as time goes on. She believes that people times �he sells books and things in Emily Mundy's are becoming tired of utter simplicity, but they will bookshop. still want their homes to be unostentatious and con is The brand new house on which she is w^orking venient. She believes also that designs introduced in the second one she has ever designed entirely alone. various world's fairs are not utilitarian, mostly be The first remodeling job concerns the remaking of cause fairs are built largely of dreams. a house, which is approximately 100 years old, near A small person with a direct, friendly manner and Jordan. The third job is a lesser affair, involving only an obvious fund of energy, Bobbie Lewis finds it the building of a wing to contain a bedroom, bath necessary to supplement her designing with booksell and porch. ing. That is partly because there is little demand for She was graduated from Syracuse University in 1936, architectural work in the winter and because where she studied architecture under Professor L. C. partly she doesn't like being idle. Dillenback. Although New York state laws require an Her workroom at present is in the big rear room of aspiring architect to have three years of experience Miss Mundy's shop. There she has her drafting board with a registered architect and then to pass a state set up and there she works, but she is always willing board examination before receiving his license, she to stop for relaxation or a moment's conversa decided not to go through that procedure. tion. ])])}) Since the law also provides that anyone not so of licensed may design and supervise construction any building costing less than 1 10,000, Barbara made up Evelyn Johnson, Omicron '33, has super vision of 19 counties in southern Colorado her mind to concentrate on low-cost houses. Her first as a medical social worker and field con of a commission was to design and supervise building sultant with the Division of Crippled Chil house for Mr. and Mrs. Donald McChesney in Beau dren, state department of public health. Her are in Denver. fort, South Carolina. headquarters "That was really fun," she says. "The house is all Jean Robinson, Omicron '37, is associ ated with the staff of The Southern Planter, on one floor with living quarters on one side of a known as America's oldest farm paper. She on side." breezeway and three sleeping rooms the other makes her home in Richmond, . "If you've studied architecture, you're equipped to 14 THE CRESCENT

Discharsine A Trust By Margaret Qrijfiths M.\RC.ARiT Griffiths is aiding the Child Guests of Western Ontario, 'jr Canada; is chairman of the committee of Investigation and sujyenision for London and Middlesex; oti the Provincial Executive Children's Aid Society Associa tion; on the board of directors of the Canadian As O THE JL Child Placing Agencies of the Dominion sociation of Social Workers and supervisor of the .iid .Issociation OnJario. has been given the very real privilege and chal Children's of London, lenge of being entrusted with the welfare of those wards of the king who are known as British Child Guests. In Ontario, each of the 53 Children's Aid So are members of Gamma Phi, the work would not be cieties is putting all its energies into the task of find possible. ing suitable homes where these children will receive One of the most encouraging parts of this work is free care for the duration of the war. Careful investiga the whole-hearted way in which the members of our tions and thoughtful placements will, we hope, make community have supported the appeal�rich and those the children's stay in our midst happy and construc in very moderate incomes, professional men, execu tive. tives, skilled workmen and day labourers have all For those of us who are part of the Children's Aid offered their homes in hospitability for the children Society staff, life has become rather hectic in our effort whose very lives may depend on it. to keep up our own work of caring for neglected and It is the hope of those of us who are working on this dependent children and also to take over this impor project that the care these children will receive will tant phase of Canada's war effort. Without the sup prove Canada's ability to fully discharge the trust that port of a large group of volunteers, some of whom has been placed in her. I> I> D

Establishes Scholarships

JL HE growing tendency of men and women to en- faction from Max Thelen, graduate in 1904, practicing altorncy in San Francisco and resident of Berkeley at i3() Alvarado Road. tlow, to give a benefaction during their lifetime Thelcn's $10,000 gift will establish the Edniuiul and Fanny their wills after death sums or to bctpieath through Thelen Loan Fund in honor oi his late parents. From the amount will be used as a for a of money for the benefit of their universities or fra- S50 prize graduate of San Die-go County's National City High School who enters tetnities and sororities is reflected in the recent gift of the univeisity. The remainder will be awarded to men students made Max Thclen to the of on $10,000 by Univeisity basis of scholarship and need without restriction as to aca demic and to co-eds who California at Berkeley. pursuits intend to teach or enter public service or public library work. Graduate and di Mr. Thelen is tiie husband of Ota Muir Thelen, upper vision students will be eligible to apply for aid under the new Univeisity of California '12. and the father of Ora loan plan. The Thelen, I'niversity of California '35, both members $50 prize pays special tribute to the memory of 1 helcns residents for parents, many yc-ars of National City, and to a of Eta on the campus there. chapter high school from which the donor and his two brothers were from a San Francisco news The following excerpt graduated. Thelen's father, a former mayor of the souihern of the community, died five while his mother succumbed paper gives the details gift: years ago, last year. BERKELEY.� .\ successful Hcrkclcv attornev who worked his Thelen, prominent civic leader, and active in the university's of California $10,000 .Mumni received wav through the Inixcnsitv today gave .Association, his university degree in 1904 a loan fund to enable other stu to his alma nuiier to establish simultaneously with his brothers, Paul. Berkeley resident and dents to a higher education. engineer for the California State Railroad Commission, and at today's In gifts approximating $25.(xx) reported meeting Rolf, engineer for the U. S. Forest Service now stationed at of the uiii\crsit\'s regents held at Davis was included a bene Madison, Wisconsin. SEPTEMBER, i 940 �5

On "Mademoiselle's'' StafF

F OR the second consecutive year a Gamma Phi has been chosen to represent her campus on the staff of the August issue of Mademoiselle. This year Dorothy Maurer, Missouri '40, served as managing editor of the issue and as co-author with Meri Arms, Kappa Alpha Theta '41 at U.C.L.A. of an article on Pin Etiquette. The magazine also shows numerous pic tures of Dorothy modeling campus clothes. Dorothy was woman's sports editor of the Missouri Dorothy Student, campus weekly; was a member of the Mauer Y.W.C.A. cabinet; president of Gamma Chi Alpha, national advertising honorary; and Crescent cor respondent. Jean Bartelme, Epsilon '40, served as assistant fashion editor of Mademoiselle, for the August '39 issue. J ]) D

She Drew A Full Set of Hearts

'RIDGE PLAYERS have been known to be so excited when they get a "perfect" hand� 13 cards of the same suit�that they fail to bid, but when Eleanor Bergan, Alpha Omicron at North Dakota Agricultural College, picked up that kind of a hand in a game for no stakes she played it to the hilt. Several million bridge hands are dealt for every one like that, experts say, but Miss Bergan didn't know that, so, mildly elated, she bid 7 hearts. The bid was doubled by her opponents; she redoubled, and made a grand slam. She doesn't remember who was vul nerable, but the least she could have made was 1,990 and she thinks they made 2,490 points. She was fourth bidder and before her turn she feared her opponents would bid 7 no-trump. They had started it, she said, and everybody had been "bidding wildly" throughout the rubber. The last bidder said 3 no-trump, however, so from there on it was a lay- down. She is a sophomore in home economics. Her part ner in the game, which they played in the college YMCA lounge, was William McKinnon of Bismarck. Their opponents were Pat Callinan and Dorothy Bent- ley, both of Fargo. i6 THE CRESCENT Leadership Her Fo By Une Qreene MacMillan Northwestern, Chicago Alumnce

\^NE of the busiest women in the western suburbs of Chicago is Mrs. Arthur M. Houser, Jr. (Gladys Pennington, Omicron '21). Penny, as she is affectionate ly known, is outstanding in her interest and contribu tion to the civic and intellectual life of her community. All during her college life at the University of Illi Gladys Pennington Houser nois she was prominent in all scholastic as well as so cial activities and was one of the outstanding women of her college generation. During her undergraduate and social entei prises. Her present activities include days Gladys Pennington took an active part in Theta the presidency of the Nineteenth Century Woman's Sigma Phi, Sigma Delta Phi, Delta Sigma Rho as well Club which has 900 active and 325 associate members; as Omicron chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. Graduating board of directors, Chicago Y.W.C.A. and member of from Illinois in 1921, Phi Beta Kappa, she went im progiam, study and ser\ice committees; vice-chairman mediately to Stephens College at Columbia, Missouri, of Oak Park Community Lectures; member, board of where she was a member of the faculty until 1923 education of the Northern Baptist convention; mem when she returned to the University of Illinois as the ber. Infant Welfare, Chicago Commons Auxiliary, assistant dean of women, which position she occupied P.E.O., International Relations groups, and for thii- until 1925. During this period, with the dean of teen years, chairman of the Oak Park Panhellenic women, she was instrumental in founding the scholar Association's scholarship award committee. ship sorority, .Mpha Lambda Delta. Penny is always interested in the work Gamma Phis Penny is married to .\rthur M. Houser, Jr., B.S., are doing and is extremely co-operative and helpful. '21, University of Illinois, who is an engineer for the This summer she opened her home and was a most Crane Ctmipany. Their hobby is the theater and they gracious hostess at one of the rushing teas sponsored are "confirmed first nighters" says Peimy. They have by the Chicago alumnae chapter. We all wish Penny's one daugter, I'eggy Carol, who is eleven yeais old. busy life would enable her to spend more time with In addition to running a charming home, her in the Gamma Phis, but we know we tan always count terests extend to active participation in civic, religious on her interest and support. I) ]) D

Michigan Leader

\^\E of the most important offices on the Michi gan campus. President of the Women's League, will be filled this year by Lee Haidy, '41, president of Beta chapter and its delegate to convention. She has a loiif; record of honors; received the second highest number of activity points in the sophomore class; was a member of Myvern, honor society for junior women; on the social committee for the Women's League; on the business staff of The Daily Michigan (Michigan's campus newspaper); orientation adviser, and pub licity chairman for the Junior Girls' Play. J) 3> J From. Grand

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Mrs. William Dehn Miss Alice Camerer

Unswerving loyalty to Gamma Phi ideals; a calm, Twelve years of devoted service to Gamma Phi Beta penetrating judgment on our policies; a satisfied as International treasurer has brought far more than desire to see our organization progress and hold its a talent for service; the years have seen Alice Camerer foremost rank on half a hundred campuses�these give her loyalty, her friendship, her charm and her attributes have marked the grand presidency of Lois fine spirit to her sisters and to the organization as a McBride Dehn during the past four years. Her name whole. The past twelve years span a period of great will be linked always with the period during which growth and during that time Alice Camerer has kept Gamma Phi Beta went forward under improved con her hand on the financial pulse. We pay tribute to stitutional conditions. She has given, and received, her ability. devotion.

Jessie Austin Weiner, retiring as Chairman of In Violet Duncan Keith, retiring as Chairman of the spection, over a four year period, has given of her Finance Statistical Bureau, has been happiest when time, energy and ability, as well as her personal charm helping some chapter solve a financial difficulty. With to the administration of the provinces; she has been her remarkable ability, with her ready understanding wise in her appointments, untiring in her own efforts of chapter house operation she has combined tact and to bring a unity into her department, a closer co firmness to bring in response the willing co-operation operation between chapters and universities, carefully and the great admiration of chapter and corporation planned rushing methods, a finer distinction in the treasurers. And so today the chapters are in better choice of prospective members. She has laid the condition on current finances than ever before. Mrs. ground work for certain Keith should be an future developments and ogre. Instead she is a has won the respect and beloved grand officer, a firm hand and adoration of the person with nel of the provinces. a warm heart.

Violet Dungan Keith

Jessie Austin Weiner Mrs, Robert Fitzgerald Qrand'President'Elect

MlRS. R. E. FITZGERALD (Alice \\'ieber. Beta) sity of Michigan where she has, within Gamma Phi Beta, a record of great per became a member of Phi sonal leadership and brilliant accomplishment. Her Beta Kappa, Mortar Board. election to the grand presidency was unanimous and Stylus, and a few more enthusiastic. A veteran of four conventions, she has honoraries but \ou and I served her sorority since 1932�first as scholarship are more interested in the chairman for three years, when she strove for indi fact that it ivas here that vidual cultural development among our undergrad she was initiated into uates; next as director of Province IV where her Gamma Phi Beta, follow sincerity, sympathy, tolerance, intellectual quickness, ing in the footsteps of her appreciation of fun, her steady maintenance of Gam sisters Louise and Kate ma Phi's high standards endeared her to all who came Wieber \vliich made her to know her; then she became Historian and Chairman forever sympathetic for of Expansion serving on Grand Council for the past fellow "legacies." A few two years, widening her circle of friends. Gamma Phi weeks ago in my grand Beta is proud of Alice Fitzgerald's past record; it is father's attic I unearthed happy in its selection of her for the grand presidency. the score of the Junior A/m. U I hert Fitzgerald Girls' Play of 1916 with some .-Mice Wieber. was most Through Her Daughter's Eyes lyrics by It interesting with the intriguing title of "The Yankee Yogi"! I'm One sunny Sunday morning a baby was born. Now afraid my mother and I did not take her career as a that in itself is not unusual except that the baby was librettist very seriously for we found ourselves laugh Alice Wieber; preceding her by eight days was the ing in the wrong places. Mother received her A.B. in Duke of Windsor. You may ask what this has to do 1917 and her M.A. in 1918. Alice with the subject at hand, well, when baby grew Since her marriage to my father. Dr. Fitzgerald, in up and decided that birthdays should be overlooked 1920, she has been active in several phases of the work she found to her consternation that this was impossible of the American Association of University Women, since her devoted family kept her birthday in the principally as a member of the Board of Directors of limelight by constantly referring to the amazing the Girls' Club which is sponsored by the College coincidence of the two birthdays. Club, for employed women. A significant fact here is I gather that she was a perfectly normal child that one of the founders of the Girls' Club and still one tinforunate that of one of except for talent, becoming its directors is Gertrude Ross, a past Grand involved in skirmishes which invariably landed her on President of Gamma Phi Beta. Mother has also been nose that was broken three her nose, a long suffering very active in the work of the Woman's Auxiliary to times! These skirmishes were of an athletic natuie the .American Medical Association which she served

a occurring during skating races, playing on boys' as Chairman of Press and Publicity and then as na hockey team, and participating in an occasional fist tional president in 1936-37 and in which organization this lead vou to she was a tom she is now fight. Now may thing serving as Chairman of Revisions. As an boy�I'm afraid she was. but a smart one for when a\ocation she reviews current brxiks for wfimen's clubs she graduatctl from the Houghton High School in thrtjughout the state. was the salutatorian. us 1913 she But naturally to all of this woik is secondary to Then Miss Wieber. for one is ".Miss" in college, her work for Gamma Phi Beta. Before being elected went to \Vellcslev College. I don't know much about to the presidency she held several offices: Chairman of that year except that she lost 20 pounds and tried out Scholarship and Literary Exercises, Director of Prov but unsuccessfully for every plav given Rlccfully kept ince I\', and Chairman of Expansion, and mav I take the same her this to on ti"\ing with results throughout college opportunity insist that my failure i(� answer veais were at the I'niver- career. The next four spent (Continued on page 22) [.8] Mrs, Homer Mathiesen

Vice-president and Alumnae Secretary-Elect

. RS. HOMER A. MATHIESEN (Florence AUe- home in Portland and baugh, Xi), member of the Washington, D.C., alumnae served as province director chapter and its delegate to convention brings to her for Province VI. The fam duties of vice-president and alumnae secretary' a record ily now makes its home in of service to Gamma Phi Beta. Arlington, Virginia, since her husband's work in A product of the 1 1 western states, she was born Indian education took him in Denver, and educated in the west, finishing at the to in the De University of Idaho where she specialized in music, Washington partment of Interior. Mrs. Homer Mathiesen putting on operettas and holding class offices. After Mrs. Mathiesen's family graduation she was supervisor of music in Ada county, includes her husband, a son and daughter. She is a Idaho, and then for a year did rehabilitation work in deputy commissioner in the Girl Scouts and in addi the Veterans' hospital at Prescott, . This was tion to these duties has always found time for Gamma her to Homer Mathiesen and interrupted by marriage Phi work. a new home in Chicago. She has a great capacity for friendships, both in moves her to west Later brought the again where and out of Gamma Phi and with this capacity she she helped organize the alumnae chapters at Boise, combines beauty, charm and poise, unconscious assets Idaho, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Later she made her in her new work. J) }) 3)

Mrs. G. M. Simonsoii

Chairman of Finance-Elect

.RS. G. M. SIMONSON (Penelope Murdoch, Eta '12) chairman of finance- elect steps into a newly organized department, leaving behind two years of splendid endeavor as vice-president and alumnae secretary when she furthered the Founders' Day gatherings on a state-wide basis, directed the establishment of many new alumnae chapters and groups, watched a strengthening and broadening of our alumnae interest and brought an added enthusiasm to many individual members by her personal visits. She is well qualified for her new duties. A graduate architect and the wife of a consulting mechanical engineer, she has in addition to these interests, been executive secretary for the Women's Employment Bureau, a Community chest agency in Oakland; served as president of the Board of Directors of Eta's building association; is past president of Berkeley Alumnae; has served on the board of directors of the Community Chest's Big Sisters charity. She has faith and belief in Gamma Phi and adds to her ability a broad understanding of sorority matters.

Mrs. G. M. Simonson As Her Daughter Sees Her Mrs. G. M. Simonson, alias Pen to her friends, alias husband, son and daughter and turn out to be Gamma Pennilope to those of her daughter, is a long-suffering Phi International V. P., Alumnae Secretary and later woman. Who but she could withstand the remarks of Director of Finance? The storv of her success in

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changing from merely a wife and mother to an Inter mentioned offspring. national Officer may seem phenomenal, perhaps; but She is a thorough-going Californian�witness her really it is quite natural in view of the fact that after shudder when anyone speaks of "Frisco," instead of rearing a son who appears to be intelligent, and a San Francisco or "the city." She loves the mountains daughter who appears to be a daughter, she is quite and gets no "high altitude lassitude." Why, she even capable of attacking anything successfully. preserved a pleasant atmosphere among four semi- I believe that I speak from a fair proximity, and yet moronic girls for two weeks in a small mountain it constantly amazes me how she can keep Mr. Simon- cabin. son's account books, keep up her voluminous Gamma She loves good food (she ^\�ill even optimistically Phi correspondence, run her household affairs effi order steak in a restaurant), good music, and good ciently, and still keep track of the three other members mystery stories. Lest you think me too enthusiastic of the family (which is, in itself, quite a feat). And, of about this woman, let me tell you her one great course, she still has time to whip up a dress or two failing: she can't swim. However, the Simonson every now and then, answer the telephone everv ten menagerie likes her pretty well.�Elizabeth Simonson, minutes, and run last minute errands for her afore Eta. }) }) })

Mrs, Harold Hartman Panhellenic Delegate

.RS. HAROLD HARIMAN (Emmy Schmitz, Lambda '15) entered the University of Washington a shy, blond and beautiful young girl. During her four college years she absorbed the traditions of Gamma Phi Beta and the local campus attitude which is rooted strongly in Panhellenic. A music major, she was a member of , secretary of her senior class and a member of the Varsity Ball committee. She graduated cum laude antl Phi Beta Kap])a and then served as vice- president of the Univeisity .Muinni Association. Her marriage to Harold Hartman, Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Washington and member of an old and respected law firm in Seattle, and the three daughters born to them, enrichetl and broadened her life and led her into work. campfire girl's Mrs. Harold Hartman She is vice-president and national representative for the Seattle Campfire Girls antl carries on other civic interests. Her elder daughter Emmy, is a junior at the University of Washington; her second daughter enters this year and the voungcr one is in grammar school. With experience Mrs. Hartman. who has been re elected National Panhellenic delegate for Gamma Phi dignity that makes her distinguished in National Pan- to her work an alert and tolerant hellenic Beta, brings mind, circles. She brings, totj, a beautv and (harm a deep love for Gamma Phi, the ability to understand that typifies the ultimate in Gamma Phi Beta the viewpoint of the college-age girl, a fine poise and ideals. }) J J 21 SEPTEMBER, i 940

Club, From Her Daughter's Viewpoint now she does a little Women's University Symphony, Community Fund, and Day Nursery on I am but not the Hartman� Emmy Hartman, Emmy the side, is vice-president of the Seattle Camp Fire our National Panhellenic not the not Delegate, Girls and of the University of Washington Alumni Nor was mother in activity girl. my college (Lambda Association. But principally, from the standpoint of where tradition has it a marvelous blush and an '15) interest and time, she is a Gamma Phi. that seemed naive that. apple-polishing technique only I know what you think, but she is not like a cum laude with a Phi Beta degree Kappa we call procured She is the very genuine, lovable person that key. "Tom." You don't nickname a stuffed shirt. She But not a did she hold, nor a chairman presidency simply is interested in everyone and in everything. That all came later�in fact after the youngest ship. She throws herself into so many jobs because she is of three daughters was well in school. along sincere about it. She is a grand mother and it is my Then the One re activity girl complex emerged. pride that I am her sister in Gamma Phi.�Emmy that the has followed another, sponsibility (isn't term?) Hartman, Jr., Lambda. ]) ]) ]) for years it seems. She takes them in her stride. Just Mrs. James Binns Chairman of Provinces-Elect

Small, lovely to look at, she plays a good game of HEN Ruamie Hill placed her small feet upon tennis and enjoys badminton and bridge. She has the campus of Denver University she left an imprint studied interior decoration and as a delightful pastime, that might have been made by Seven League Boots. collects perfume bottles. Her philanthropic activities Today, as Mrs. James Binns and Chairman-elect of in Atlanta include the Red Cross and benefits for the Provinces for Gamma Phi Beta she views new horizons aid of the Georgia schools for underprivileged but has left a deep and valuable impression in the children. fields in which she has worked for Gamma Phi Beta. Appointed a province director at the Del Monte At Denver University she represented all women on convention, she has served Gamma Phi in Province the inter-school council; was president of Mortar VIII, the hostess province for the Washington, D.C. Board; was named Star Reporter (outstanding award convention for the past two years. She comes to her in journalism); secretary of the Board of Publications; greater task with a remarkable background in organi a member of the executive board of Women's Student zation work and her eyes on the future of Gamma Council; president of her freshman class and secretary Phi Beta. D ]) ]) of her sophomore class; a member of Parakeets (pep organization); princess of the May Court in her junior year; Queen of the May Court in her senior year and chosen a beauty queen in her sophomore year. She is a member of Pi Gamma Mu, social science honorary and of Kappa Delta Pi, education honorary. She served her chapter as activities chairman, as Panhellenic delegate, as rush chairman and as vice- president and was active in the Denver alumnae chap ter and was membership chairman of the junior group of the Denver A.A.U.W. She is president of the Gamma Phi alumnae group in Atlanta, Georgia, where she makes her home with her husband. She graduated in 1935 and was married to James Binns, a member of Kappa Sigma and of , in 1936. Her sister is Betty Hill Mc- Comas, Denver '38.

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flT-K Mrs, Lester A, White

Secretary-Treasurer

G.AMMA PHIS from Honolulu to Eg)pt, to Havana and across the North American hemisphere know Charlotte Robertson White at least by letter. She has kept in touch personally with a surprisingly large number and her friendships within Gamma Phi and among other Panhellenic groups is large, treas ured, and sincere. She was born in Mexico of American parents where her paternal grandfather pioneered in industry and Mrs. Lester A. ]\'liite in citrus cultivation in the lovely Monterrey area. From the great ranchos there she was brought to the constantly increasing load of responsibility, with dis United States as a child and educated finally at Wash patch and meticulous care and in spite of the handi ington University in St. Louis, where she was a cap of a shortage of assistants. She has a good memory, popular and talented member of Phi chapter. a mind trained to detail and a love of order that is With an appreciation of music, of art, good litera indispensable in her work. ture, of the niceties that make life pleasant, Charlotte Charlotte White, with her graciousness, with her White has taste and discrimination; she is also an ideal lovely dark eyes and hair, with her genuine friend home maker, an excellent cook and a gay companion. liness is a decoration and an asset to Central Office. Her husband, Lester White, is a young Chicago at More than that, she is, with her deep loyalty and great torney. dependability, an important factor in the develop She is a perfectionist in everything she does, from ment of Gamma Phi. It was with gratitude that Gam her home to her handling of Central Office for Gamma ma Phis at large learned that Grand Council had Phi Beta, where for the past 1 1 years she has managed re-appointed her to handle the new duties of secretary- the ever-growing business of the organization with a treasurer in central office. J) 3> D

Mrs. Robert Fitzgerald gamma phi COMPOSERS, (Continued from page i8) HARR! the the Chairman of Boh Crosby and his orchestra. NBC. Chi question concerning Expansion cago. Illinois, is seeking a sorority song to during our pledge examination was due not to ignor rival The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. Co-eds ance but to modesty because, you see, to me she isn't on every campus are asked to submit their the Chairman of but mother. Besides sorority songs for a try-out by the Crosby anything just band. Those that "click" will be played on my father, Gamma Phi Beta has been one of the his program and recorded with credit lines greatest inspirations in her life and so it seems to me of the sorority. To participate sororities that mother eats her cake and has it too for not should send a piano score, with words and my music to Bob Crosby, NBC, Chicago. only has she a satisfied family but also a successful and thoroughly enjoyable career.� .Margaret Hoyt Fitzgerald, Gamma. 5 J ])

[22] SEPTEMBER, i 940 23 ienator Scores Public Apathy

at Opening

OENATOR Millard E. Tydings, of Maryland, was Declaring that American powder plants could not the principal speaker at the opening banquet of con furnish munitions for 1,000,000 men in less than 14 vention and in a forthright speech blamed the un- months, Tydings added: preparedness of the United States on public apathy. "We could do little more to aid the Allies, even were He was introduced to the hundreds of Gamma Phi we to declare war on Germany today. Our defenses Beta officers, members and delegates and their 40 are in a pitiful and appalling state. Panhellenic guests by Helen S. Summers, chairman of "This is not due to neglect. America has been wed convention and toastmistress for the evening, as ded to the pursuits of peace. There is no time for follows: criminations and recriminations. We must throw aside "Our guest speaker tonight is the Honorable Millard partisanship and be prepared with patriotism. We E. Tydings, senior senator of Maryland. Senator must speak less of the privileges and more of the Tydings is a gentleman of unusual attainments and duties of democracy. great charm, who typifies the rich heritage of Colonial "As long as there is a reasonable possibility that war background for which Maryland is so justly famous. may be carried to this hemisphere, we must prepare He heads the important Insular Affairs committee, is for it. But we ought not to take steps which might a member of the naval affairs committee and the involve this country in war without a forthright and powerful Appropriations committee of the United prior decision and the resolution to meet it." ])])}) States senate. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland. His greatest fame however comes from his independence of thought and his willingness to risk his entire political destiny for a cause in which he believes. The fact that he has triumphed is a tribute to his courage and the loyalty of his constituents." Four Zeta Seniors Senator Tydings, democrat of Maryland, warned the convention that the reality of utter unprepared- ness in this country must be realized by persons who "emotionally" urge sending supplies to Britain. He told Gamma Phi Beta this country should not take action which might be interpreted as warlike by Germany and Italy "while our own Army is in such a pathetic state." "We must not try to hold up people with an empty gun," he said, "especially when the other person knows it's empty." "It has become impossible," he stated, "to increase our armed forces sufficiently by enlistment. You can't fight a war with guns on order, appropriation bills, and plants turning out planes. Unless you have men it is all an From to empty gesture. left rigitt: Bertha Louise Pennlington, re Blaming United States unpreparedness on public cording secretary of Goucher College Student Or ganization; Eleanor Connor, past the the Senator that if this na president of apathy, Maryland urged class; _ junior Jean Knipp, past junior member-at- tion must to war it be "with and Student go eyes open flag large of Organization; Beryl Webester, cor up." responding secretary for Z.eta. "We are either in or out of the war and we shouldn't connive to be in it," Tydings declared. Our Gift=$500 To The Red Cross

JL OREGOING favors and expensive decorations at its forty-first national convention. Gamma Phi Beta pooled its pennies to donate a check for $500.00 to the American Red Cross for war relief. The sum was presented to James T. Nicholson, assistant chairman of the Red Cross, by Helen Salisbury Summers, chair man of convention, at the formal dinner which opened the convention June 22 at the Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Summers said in introducing Mr. Nicholson: "Your committee much to the selec gave � thought Aid to the American Red Cross Mrs. A. Burks Summers, tion of favors for this for some convention, token that toastmistress, shown presenting a $500 check to James T. Nichol assistant to you might take home as a memento of this 41st con son, the chairman of the American Red Cross, in behalf of the sorority. The gift was for the Red Cross War vention. Fortunately, no binding commitments had Relief Fund. Star Staff Photo. been made, and as time wore on (and the entiie tempo of American life changed) we could but feel that trivial in the relief of suffering. That organization is the mementoes belonged to a period that had been out American Red Cross. It is our humble opportunity to moded. As each day red war poured over one neutral present to Mr. Nicholson, assistant lo the chairman country after another in Europe, leaving behind not of the American Red Cross, Gamma Phi Beta's check only its crippled and suffering soldiers but far more for S500." pathetic, its millions of homeless, starving, frightened Mr. Nicholson, who had just returned from Europe, aged and newly orphaned children, we knew that spoke to the assembly, which included PanluUenic Gamma Phi Beta ^^'ould as a sorority want to help guests, on the suffering abroad and what the American bear its share of the burdens and responsibilities for Red Cross was doing to alleviate it. which each day the need is greater. \\'e felt that there The following letters expressing appreciation for was only one institution so organized that each dollar Gamma Phi's gift were later received by Mrs. Sum- of our conn iljution would give its maximum value met s:

AMF.RICAN RED CROSS AMERICAN RED CROSS Washington, D.C. Washington, DC. June 21, 1910 June 2], 1910 Chairman's OITice Dear Mrs. Summers: Dear Mrs. Summers: Ihe courtesies and the many hospitality extended my wife and me The very thoughtful action taken by Gamma Phi Beta So last Saturday evening are most gratefully appreciated. on the occasion of its dinner last has It was a for us rority meeting Saturday pleasure lo meet you and your husband and to been Mr. Nicholson. He has told me reported t)y that the money become acquainted with your associates in Gamma I'hi Beta. for favors was instead contributed to the 1 he entire orilinarily expended evening was a delightful oasis after weeks of gravity .\nicrican Red Cross War Relief Fund. and harrowing duties. I want to assure our real 1 he you of very gratitude and trust, contribution of $5o

[24 ] SEPTEMBER, 1940 25 Across the Banquet Boards

Binns and the .GAINST a background of directors with Mrs. American and legation flags, with Atlanta alumnae as hostesses. alum the speakers' rostrum flanked by Norfolk and Richmond Canadian and American flags; nae were hostesses for the buffet with red, white and blue used in luncheon in the Continental room Nashville a stunning candle arrangement on Sunday afternoon while each table. Gamma Phi opened alumnae sponsored the tea in the its 41st convention in the Con Dragon room late that day. tinental room of the Wardman Fannie Hellner Moore, chair Park hotel in Washington with man of the music committee for a banquet Saturday, June 22. convention was hostess at an un Guests of honor for the eve usual and brilliantly planned ning were the Hon. Millard Tyd musical that intervened between ings, senior senator from Mary luncheon and tea Sunday after land and Mrs. Tydings, initiated noon. The affair was held in the as an honorary member the next theater of the Wardman Park and evening; Mr. James T. Nicholson, featured talented Eunice Klett assistant to the chairman of the and Elizabeth Feldman in a piano American Red and Mrs. recital with the fine baritone of Cross, Mrs. A. Burks Summers (Helen Salis Nicholson; Dr. Harry Byrd, pres bury), toastmistress for the opening ban Fague Springman. and chairman the ident of the University of Mary quet general of forty- Dinner that night was informal first convention, as sketched by Senator land; Senator from Oklahoma, with as hostess and Tydings, guest speaker at the banquet, Alpha Sigma Josh Lee and Mrs. Lee, a member on his menu card. Mrs. Roy Pinkerton, editor of the of Psi; Representative from Okla Crescent as toastmistress, honor homa Willis Cartwright and Mrs. Cartright, initiated ing the province directors. Louise Somerville, Alpha as an honorary member the next evening; and 40 Pan Sigma, assisted. hellenic guests. Mrs. A. Burks Summers presided as Alpha Rho and Birmingham alumnae, with Ora toastmistress, with Mrs. James Binns, director of Prov Lazenby as toastmistress presided at the Cotton Lunch ince VIII giving the welcome and Mrs. William Dehn, eon Monday, with greetings brought by Malline Burns, Grand President responding. Baltimore alumnae were president of the Birmingham alumnae. Barbara Callo hostesses for the affair. way sang a solo accompanied by Malline Burns, and the Senator Tydings addressed the assembly on America Alpha Rho trio composed of Barbara Calloway, Lucille and its attitude toward the European war. A resume Garlington and Jane Collins sang. Elizabeth Roark of his talk will be found elsewhere in this issue. Presi gave a negro dialect reading in blackface and traditional dent Byrd spoke informally, his remarks bearing on costume. Menu cards were tied with checkered gingham the establishment of our new chapter at the Uni and guests found their places by matching the gingham versity of Maryland. Mr. Nicholson told of his recent to the bows on real cotton balls presented as they en experiences in Europe on behalf of the American Red tered the dining room. Tables were centered with Cross and brought home to his listeners the desperate Mammy dolls, cotton plants, cotton bales and other plight of thousands of women and children who have typical figures. no part in actual warfare yet have felt its full brunt Alpha Mu staged a Jungle dinner Monday night and the part the Red Cross plays. with the formal gowns of the guests in contrast to American flags were used on the menu covers and the jungle costumes and make-up worn by the "sav at each place was a card announcing Gamma Phi ages" of Alpha Mu, who furnished entertainment dur Beta's gift of $500 to the American Red Cross in ing the dinner. Menu cards covered with fierce jungle place of favors for convention guests. beasts guided guests to tables centered with a larger cut The banquet was preceded by a formal reception out of the same animal. honoring the members of grand council and province Coffee was served on the terrace beside the open 26 THE CRESCENT

air pool where the expert swimmers of Alpha Mu Wendell, Omega chapter, winner of a recent beauty presented an aquacade which delighted the guests contest and holder of other campus and chapter with its effective timing as well as the ability of the honors. swimmers. The latter part of the evening was devoted Miss Weymer, distinguished as a concert harpist, to a talk on the art of beauty by the Duchess Carafa played in superb style Salzedo's "Song In The Night" D'Andria. and other numbers. Mrs. Coerper gave two of her own A sightseeing tour of Washington occupied the monologues and Jean Dickenson, radiant young star coast to coast for morning Tuesday, followed by an Honorary Societies of grand opera and known from luncheon sponsored by Zeta, with tables formed in her Sunday night radio programs sang "Shadow Song" large Z's. Alpha Chi carried the convention "Back from Dinorah and other selections. The banquet to Old Virginny" at an informal dinner that evening, closed on the notes of "Auld Lang Syne" sung by with peanut decorations and singing by the Hampton Gamma Phis, young and old, from near and far, under Institute Quartet. Marian Craft, president of Alpha the brilliant crystal voice of our own Jean Dickenson. Chi, served as toast Among messages re mistress. The evening ceived during conven was devoted to chap tion days from Gam ter skits in the thea ma Phis were the

ter. ones sent for the Car Alpha Theta was nation Banquet by hostess for the Grace S. Richmond, Wednesday luncheon Alpha, author of Red which was served buf Pepper Burns and fet at long picnic other stories and nov tables in the gardens els and who is listed of the hotel. in Who's Who In The Carnation America, Lita Bane, Banquet with its Omicron, head of the mode and brown Home Economics de Alpha Rho and Birmingham alumnce sponsored Land o' Cotton luncheon; candles lighting the partment at the Uni left to right: Ora Lazenby, Elizabeth Robson, Lucille Garlington, Jane tables which also of for long Collins, Barbara Calloway, Malline Burns; seated, Elizabeth Roark. versity Illinois, bore pink carnations mer associate editor was presided over Wednesday evening by two charm of The Ladies' Home Journal, who is listed in Who's ing toastmistresses; Barbara Whitney and Florence Who and American Women; Lulu Hawkins Bra- Mathiesen, members of Washington alumnae chapter ghetti. Alpha Gamma, sculptor artist and painter of and of the convention committee. Mrs. Whitney who murals for the San Francisco fair in 1939; Hope is a nationally known poet gave her toasts in verse Summers, Epsilon, dramatic actress and radio enter which are printed on another page in this issue. tainer and cousin of Helen Summers, chairman of the Lois McBride Dehn, International Grand President, convention committee. Beatrice Smith, Gamma, author gave the response for Gamma Phi Beta and Mary of //'5 More Fun When You Know The Rules and Ellen Wendel, outstanding member of Omega chapter The Young Hostess, was present in person to take her at Iowa State, gave the response to the representative bow and greeting from the guests. active in verse. Toasts were given to the four founders, Margaret Fishback Antolini, Zeta, New York ad Grand Council, to Greek letter and alumnae chapters vertising manager and popular writer of poetry and and to the Crescent. National officers-elect, editors of verse and Zeta roommate of Edna Buhrer, member the Crescent and the chairmen of convention com of the convention committee, sent her regrets in the mittees were also presented. following telegram: Special guests of honor for the evening included "Dear Gamma Phis, about the table, Lois McBride Dehn, Grand President, Lambda; Jean I'd be there too, if I were able. Dickenson, Metropolitan opera star, Theta chapter; But duty calls, and I must write Alice Ringling Coerper, of the famous circus family Instead of being there tonight and a distinguished monologist and writer. Gamma To wish the national convention chapter; Grace Weymer head of the harp department Delights too numerous to mention." at Syracuse University, Alpha chapter and Mary Ellen Margaret Fishback Antolini SEPTEMBER, i 940 27

A Toast To Gamma Phi Beta

By Barbara Schmitt Whitney

Presented at the Carnation Banquet

PRELUDE

In the morning and the evening And the fragrant noon of life. In the springtime and the autumn And the summer, rich and rife. On the hilltop, in the valley. And upon the boundless plain Runs a silver thread of music. Runs through pathos humor's vein. . . . And in eager living's pulsebeat Throbs the drama of it all. Whether spring be on the hillside Or the radiance of fall. Whether morning flames about us Or the sober noon and night Lay their benediction softly� Heads held high, and eyes still bright� On the mountain, in the canyon. Cloistered In the shadowed wood. Ever music, humor, drama. And their tribal sisterhood . .. So in Gamma Phi it summered. Brightly fruited, flowering. At the Carnation banquet, left to right: Mrs, R. E. Fitzgerald, grand president Now to Gamma Phi her harvest. elect; Mrs. William Dehn, international grand president; Mary Ellen Wendel, Bountiful, and manifold. Inculcated in her life stream representative active. Zest and grace and daring bold . . And our great have not forgotten. As we honor them today. The strong bond of truest friendship They say there be harps in heaven, How the wind sings in the hemlocks I Heartening the upward way. And angels to play them there be I How the river plays on stones 1 Many shine in distant places. Behold now a harp and an angel How the thrush outfloods the moonlight And we toast to them afar I This side of eternity I With its evanescent tones I Many hold, unfamed, the torchlight. I give you Grace Weymer. And what hidden springs of rapture Challenging a humbler star! Lie within the golden voice dear all thrice But, sisters, blessed, Now standeth the springtime before us. Of our loved and world-famed sister I In our here banquet tonight. Enchanting and sonpsweet, and new. In Jean Dickenson rejoice. Alpha and Omega's circle The springtime of youthful desire. Brings more orbs of flaming light . . The morningtide, sparkling with dew . Than our hopes and our ambitions Our representative active�Mary Ellen Wendel. And our dreams could dream fondest I POSTLUDE Not dead our souls nor slumbering, Could our lives but hold the glamor, the illusion, Lighted by your torch they gleam 1 and the fun We honor all achievement. Encompassed by a circus tent, from sun to setting Dear Sisters gathered here. sun I In every teeming walk of life.

In . . INTRODUCTIONS Could we keep our perfect bal ance, be forever at every realm and sphere . our ease. We make our bow to science. First, I give you our beloved Like the sung and storied hero of the dizziest trapeze! To business, and to art� will flood our To Precpitata. Lois Dehn . .. She'll recapture lost Illusion; she spirited appliance Gracious, gentle, just, and loving� hearts with youth, Of every useful part.

� Welcome as a summer rain. Mrs. Roland F. Coerper Alice Ringling, forsooth 1 To culture, and to learning. To motherhood, the poise And growth that are Inherent

In teaching girls and boys .. .

We honor all achievement� Our souls' rich grace the most. To Gamma Phi good minds, true hearts I Be this our final toast. For Gamma Phi sows beauty In the surging joy of spring. And reaps the golden harvest And the brightest flowering� The rose of friendship's glory. The fruit of love and peace.

In . . never-ending story . May her tribe increase I

Honored members at Carnation banquet: left to right: Grace Weymer, Alice Ring ling Coerper, Mrs. George Lipscomb, offi' cer of convention committee. 28 THE CRESCENT Aquacade Makes Splash Hit

ERFECT timing, expert swimming, glistening white suits against sun-toned bodies marked the Aquacade presented in the open air, flood lighted pool at the Wardman Park hotel when Alpha Mu's eight water nymphs performed to music while Gamma Phis and their guests crowded the terrace above the waterway. The girls in the Aquacade were: Eleanor Rand, Jean Densmore, Peggy Mary Whiteley, Erika Heyder, Rita Costello, Jayne Ritten- house. Flora Harris, and Rachel Harris, who directed the event.

Rita Costello of Alpha Mu at the Wardman Park Hotel swimming pool.

During the show Frances Montgomery announced while Roberta Schlegel sup the plied music for the following pro Erika Heyder (left) with Jean Densmore, June 24. gram:

1. Fancy diving�Rachel Harris.

2. Group formation swimming and formation of the letters Gamma, Phi, and Beta�Jean Densmore, Eleanor Rand, Jayne Rittenhouse, Erika Heyder, Peggy Mary Whiteley, Rita Costello, Rachel Harris, Flora Harris.

3. Water Waltz-Rita Costello, Rachel Harris, Flora Harris.

Hitler vs. 4. Chamberlain, a comic skit with a surprise ending, showing the Chamberlains victorious over the Hitlers�Peggy Mary Whiteley, Jean Densmore, Jayne Rittenhouse, Erika Heyder.

5. Clown diving�Eleanor Rand, Rachel Harris.

Rachel Harris, who directed the event, with her sister Flora Harris, right. SEPTEMBER, i 940 29

New Phases In F^^B Government Office but the Lois M^cBride Dehn put all of the clerical work in Central By responsibility for analyzing our financial policies, pre International Grand President paring the budget and authorizing all expenditures will rest with the Chairman of Finance and the budget Streamlining is the order of the day and in committee. The Chairman of Finance will also re keeping with that principle convention accepted the ceive the audits of the Greek-letter chapters and ad proposal of the Reorganization Committee to reduce vise with the House corporations, which is work re the size of the Council to six by reassigning various quiring the same qualifications of experience in busi functions and duties. The work of the Treasurer has ness procedure and sound financial practice. been divided between Central Office and the Chair The National Panhellenic Delegate has direct con man of Finance, who also supervises the Chapter tact with sorority trends and fields which are ripe House Audits. The work of the Expansion Chairman for expansion. This information provides an excellent has been placed in the hands of the National Pan background for a wise expansion policy and hence it hellenic Delegate. Our Grand Council now consists seemed logical to combine these two offices. of President, Vice-President, Chairman of Finance, The increase from three to five elective officers has Chairman of Provinces and National Panhellenic been a change which gives the membership greater delegate as voting members and the Secretary-Treas opportunity to voice their wishes and at the same urer as a non voting member. time relieves the President, Vice-President and Treas Since 1913 Gamma Phi Beta has followed the policy urer (under the old plan) of the task and responsibility of choosing its officers from the same district, in so of selecting five other Council members. Each Province far as possible. The objective then, as well as now, is now represented on the nominating committee, was "efficiency and economy" for it is obvious that which gives every chapter an opportunity, if it wishes, the size of the treasury in those days, would not per to present the name of someone whom they feel is mit any long distance travelling to Council meetings. qualified to hold an International office. An early re During this period, the officers have centered succes port of the nominating committee was another demand sively in New York, Chicago, Denver, New York, Chi which has been made by some chapters and in an cago, Minneapolis and Seattle. The officers of the last effort to satisfy that desire, the nominating committee's two years have provided wider representation than report was presented at the first session following the those of any regime, with three in California, two completion of the report. Whether this plan meets in Seattle and three in the Chicago area. with universal approval or not, is something to be In order to follow the wish of the sorority to choose considered for the future. In any event, we must be its officers from diverse sections of the country, it be able to count on the good spirit of all those chapters came necessary to adopt some plan for a smaller who presented names to the committee and were Council, as it is unwise to spend a large proportion rejected and of all unsuccessful candidates in order of the budget on the expenses of International officers to avoid any factional feeling. After the decision has and their meetings. Such an increase in cost had been made, we must be united in our efforts for what become very evident during the past two years in ever cause we undertake. spite of having held the meetings where the minimum The decision to limit the term of each officer, with expense was involved. exception of the National Panhellenic Delegate, to Just as in a large family, father and mother can a maximum of four years, is a wise measure. While not bring themselves to feel that there is any one of there may be times when we may wish that we could their children, whom they could do without, so it continue a certain person in office for a longer period, was very hard to decide to eliminate any Council experience in our own and other groups points to member. The final decision was the most logical and the wisdom of a limited term. reasonable. The routine work of the treasurer has This reminds one of current discussions in national gradually been transfered to Central Office because the politics. There are many other parallels in the history facilities of such an office with all the files and records, of the sorority and the nation. Both were founded make possible this efficiency and economy of opera idealistically�both inherited the strength and vigor of tion which we desire. The plan just adopted, will a pioneer era. From simple beginnings, both have 30 THE CRESCENT grown tremendously in size and complexity. The of their obligations. That is true to some extent of "rugged individualism" of the oldest chapters which the modern sorority girl. flourished and grew strong of their own efforts, is In a short time, we who are retiring as International not enough now. The cooperation of the Interna officers will lay down our obligations and responsi tion organization and all the chapters is required for bilities as leaders and assume those of the average success. The old isolationist theory is passing in the alumna. We do this with supreme confidence in those Greek world as well as in the world of nations and who are to be our successors and with pride in the we know that the welfare of one N.P.C. group affects rights and privileges which are ours as wearers of the the welfare of all. In his address at the opening of Crescent. As we love, cherish and work for Gamma convention. Senator Tydings said that Americans to Phi Beta�so shall she endure. 5 1)}) day talk too much of their rights and not enough

Historical University of Maryland

JL HE history of the University of Maryland is es is approximately $4,000,000. Of this, $1,218,000 is sentially the history of two institutions. The old Uni from the State of Maryland. In addition to its state versity of Maryland in Baltimore was established in income, the university has an endowment of a little 1807 as the Medical College of Maryland. In 1812 it more than $2,000,000. became the University of Maryland. In 1854 was ini The University of Maryland holds membership, or tiated the movement which resulted in establishing, is on the approved list of all accrediting agencies. Grad in 1856, the Maryland Agricultural College. This col uates are in the top rank of their professions, and are lege in 1916 became the Maryland State College. In teaching in many colleges and universities. Its gradu 1920 the property of the old University of Maryland ates are leaders in almost all walks of life. The present was, by act of the legislature, turned over to the board Governor and the last two Governors of Maryland of trustees of the Maryland State College and the com have been University of Maryland graduates. The State bined institutions became the present University of Treasurer, both United States Senators, several Con Maryland. gressmen, and a large percentage of the State Legis The University of Maryland comprises the Colleges lature are graduates of the university, which indicates of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Education, Engineer the place which the university holds in the public life ing, Home Economics, Commerce, the Graduate of the State. School, Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Law, The fraternities and sororities on the University of and Nursing, and the Summer School. Maryland campus at College Park, listed from Baird's The faculty and staff consist of approximately 700 Manual, are: fraiernJizei�Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi members. The university has a total of about 1,400 Sigma, Sigma Nu, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Alpha, Alpha employees. Tau Omega, Phi Delta Theta, Lambda Chi Alpha, The grounds, buildings, equipment and other prop Tan Epsilon Phi, , Delta Sigma erty of the university have an approximate value of Phi, Theta Chi; Sororities�Al'phdi Omicron Pi, Kappa $10,000,000. The immediate campus at College Park Kappa Gamma, Kappa Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Al contains 300 acres, .'\djoining the campus are 700 ad pha Xi Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Kappa; Honor ditional acres which are used by the Agricultural De aries�Alpha. Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, , partment for research and teaching. Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Kappa The university initiated during the current year Phi Kappa, Beta Phi Theta, Sigma Delta Pi, Scab and is now completing a building program of bard and Blade, Mortar Board, Omicron Nu, Pi $2,500,000. The total income during the current year Delta Epsilon, Omega. })])]) SEPTEMBER, i 940 31 A Feeling Of Unity^ Strength By Susanne Fisher As reported at convention

JL HE University of Washington Panhellenic is a very strongly organized and systematized organiza tion. What is perhaps more important, it is respected by the sororities. The president of Panhellenic is chosen by rotation of sororities according to their entrance into the cam pus Panhellenic. It seems that this is done on most campuses. The presidents of the sororities make up the Panhellenic organization. As an advisor for Panhellenic, we have an executive secretary. She is a salaried person and so is always on Susanne Fisher, Lambda hand to help by acting as a third party between the girls and the sororities, and to help with rushing. Two of the committees which we have in our Pan ings that might be held between sororities during hellenic which might be of interest, are our publicity rushing. and grievance committees. The publicity chairman, Every spring all the house presidents and the execu who is one of the presidents, works with the publicity tive board of Panhellenic, get together and go on a agent of the university to try to establish a definite house party. Here we discuss problems which are of policy of the type of picture which brings good pub mutual interest to all the houses, such as ways of build licity to the sororities as a whole. All pictures other ing a strong unified house, having the girls get in on than straight society pictures, must be checked through time at night, and many others. On Sunday morning the university publicity agent. We are trying to estab of the house party the rushing chairmen come, and lish definite rules as to when the sorority name can the rushing rules for the next year are discussed and be used in pictures but as yet we have not completed planned. These house parties are a lot of fun and give the code. It has great possibilities, however, and will, the presidents a chance to get acquainted with each we hope eliminate the bulk of any unfavorable pub other and build a better feeling of unity between all licity from our particular campus. the sororities. The grievance committee does its most important Probably the biggest job of any Panhellenic is dur work during rushing. Any sorority or individual who ing rushing. At convention one of the greatest prob feels that a sorority or individual member of a sorority lems of many of the chapters seemed to be to get the has broken one of the Panhellenic rules, can write grades of the rushees. On our campus every girl who out their grievance, sign it, and hand it in to Pan wishes to go through rushing must register with Pan hellenic. After rushing is over all the presidents of hellenic. A file is kept of all these girls, telling the the sororities who have grievances against them, and schools they attended, their home address, their year the people who turned in grievances are called to in college, their major and their grade average. These gether and the grievances are discussed. Panhellenic files are open to all sororities and are of invaluable has worked out a graded system of penalties, to be in help to them. By checking in these files we know ex flicted according to the seriousness of the grievance. actly who is going through rushing. There usually are The penalties are the taking away of different social about 450-500 girls on our campus every fall. Hand privileges during the year. If the grievance is very books are made up by Panhellenic and given to rushees, serious a rushing party for the following year may be which explain the parties, tell them what they should taken away. This penalty has not been given out very wear, explain the colloquial expressions used during often, perhaps about every four years. We have found rushing and give them general information. We do not this system very satisfactory. Having the grievances have a financial report of each sorority in this book, written out and out all little feel- signed keeps petty (Continued on page J4) ^^^-"^-

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Summary Of Convention Business

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-OST of the legislation resulted from the recom tistical Bureau), who will add to her duties the super mendations of the Reorganization Committee, headed vision of international finances which consists of head by the Parliamentarian, Mrs. William E. Colby. This ing the budget committee and authorizing all disburse committee was appointed at the request of the 1938 ments, and the secretary-treasurer (formerly called the convention to study our organization and make such executive secretary), who has handled a considerable recommendations as would result in more efficient portion of the routine work connected with finances and more economical operation. So excellent was its but will now take over all of it. The first five are work considered that convention asked for the con elected by convention and they will appoint the Secre tinuance of this committee for at least another two tary-treasurer who is the only non-voting member of years. the council. Grand Coinicil is now composed of president, vice- Convention approved "campships" (scholarships to president and alumnae secretary, chairman of Prov local camps for underprivileged children who cannot inces (formerly called chairrhan of inspection), N.P.C. attend our own camps because of distance). These delegate (who will take over expansion), chairman were tried out in 1939 with considerable success. The of finance (foiTiierly called chairman of Finance Sta- awards will be made by the international camp chair- [32 ] - iSi

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grand treasurer; Mrs. G. R. Keith, chairman of financial statistical bureau; Mrs. William Dehn, grand president; Mrs. Lester White, executive secretary; Mrs. R. E. Fitzgerald, chairman of expansion, historian and grand president-elect; Mrs. James Binns, director of Province VIII and newly elected chairman of province directors; Mrs. M. H. Linscott, director of Province III; Mrs. William Rawn, Director of Province VII; Mrs. Gordon Burke, director of Province VI.

man, through the alumna; chapters, only after the needs of our own camps have been met, and pro vided there are sufficient funds. TIte 1940 Conventionx Terms of office were changed in several instances. �Reduced the size of grand council from eight to That of secretary-treasurer now conforms to the fiscal six members year and those of Greek-letter treasurers to the college �Made elective all but one member of grand council year. This is only good business procedure since it �Established a recommendations committee means that no treasurer will assume her responsibil �Granted a charter to the colony at the University ities before the books of her predecessor have been of Maryland the audited. The Crescent editor will be in the �Developed convention round tables into a appointed valuable asset off-convention the of the year following issuing May �Saw the donation of $500 to the American Red Crescent, this being the most desirable time from every Cross in place of individual favors to convention attendants standpoint for such a change to be made. She will �Approved Campships to be awarded nominate the associate editors and Grand Council will by camp chairman through alumnae chapters after needs of appoint them from her list. She will attend pre-con- the Gamma Phi Beta camps are met �Created an Honor Roll for members who have vention council meetings and will receive such ex given conspicuous service to the sorority cerpts from the minutes of other council meetings as she will need in her work. Every four years, beginning with May 1941, the May issue of the Crescent will be a geographical direc Convention approved the recommendations for the tory. Each member is personally responsible for noti creation of an Honor Roll to honor members who fying Central Office of changes in her name and ad have given conspicuous service to the sorority, which dress by the preceding February 1. were made by a special committee, headed by Mrs. [33 ] 34 THE CRESCENT

Arthur Hoffman. To qualify for a place on this Honor dowment committee for the fine work they have done Roll, a member must not only have created but have in stimulating interest in the campaign. The results developed a service for Gamma Phi Beta that has have been a number of pledges from alumnae chapters stood the test of time. The list is headed by the four covering sums to be donated annually for an indefi Founders who are followed by Blanche Shove Palmer, nite period of time. Lindsey Barbee, Lillian Thompson, Carrie Morgan Appreciation also goes to the special advisory camp and Katherine Silverson. Future nominations will be committee, composed of Lucy Davidson, Irmengarde made by a special committee, appointed by Grand Dickinson and Doris Shorney Stafford, for its fine Council, to consist of not more than five nor less than report. Since these recommendations had been received three members, all of whom must have been in close by grand council before the opening of the 1939 touch with the international organization over a camps, most of them could be put into operation for period of years, and must live in different sections of that period. the country. As usual, considerable time was devoted to round Building up the endowment fund is still a matter table discussions which continue to be the most pop of considerable interest. In keeping with the original ular feature of our convention business program. This plans that provide for the alumnae chapters to be re year's round tables were exceptionally interesting, in sponsible for the fund, the alumnae chapter delegates structive and stimulating. They will be reported in at convention voted that each alumnae chapter should detail, with all other business, in the printed conven make a voluntary contribution to the fund. Apprecia tion proceedings, two copies of which will be sup tion goes to Mrs. Loring Lennox and her special en plied to each chapter. J) 3) !>

A Feeling of Unity and Strength (Continued from page )i) but it is going to be discussed for the book next year. having parties in which to meet her. So far the plan This year we started a new system of pledging which has worked very well. we think will be very satisfactory. It is for those girls Another thing which Panhellenic has started in the who have not been able to pledge their freshman or last year is a junior Panhellenic, made up of the sophomore year because of finances or some such rea pledges of all the sororities. The presidency of this son and who fjave made a name for themselves on the rotates just as it does for the senior Panhellenic. In campus and now as juniors or seniors find that they the junior Panhellenic meetings, which are dinner can pledge, but who naturally do not want to go meetings held once a month, the same as the senior through formal rushing. Each girl, by special per Panhellenic, they become better acquainted and start mission of Panhellenic, can turn into the executive building a friendly, co-operative spirit. They discuss secretary of Panhellenic the names of the three houses the problems of pledges and rushing and try to suggest in order of preference which she is considering. Pan changes which will be improvements for the system, hellenic then calls the first house. If they would like to the senior Panhellenic. There are a great number to pledge her, she is taken in right then, if the first of possibilities to a junior Panhellenic which we have house does not want her the second house is called. yet to work out, but we have a very good start. This plan would work, as I said, only for the girl I hope that this gives some idea of what a strong who is well enough known so that the sorority can Panhellenic can do and perhaps give some ideas for know whether they want to pledge her or not, without the improvement of those which are not as strong.

Vera Vessey is a member of Parakeets at Mary Wright, , University Denver University, a member of Alpha of Western Ontario is a member of Honor Lambda Delta, and received a straight A Society and received a Gold Medal in Phi aveiage through her last three college years. losophy and Psychology. 35 SEPTEMBER, i 940 Working With Small Groups All small can assist in offering By Ruamie Binns, Theta, Atlanta chapters rushing by direct help of other types. Cash for the rushing budget As reported at convention is of invaluable assistance, and as a province director of check, may I suggest that you hold up part your JLt is fascinating to work with smaller alumnae chap regardless of how small it is, until after formal rushing ters; their projects may be small but their ambitions as is over. You have no idea how many excellent girls and both the a group are great. To those of us who have known are missed after formal rushing closes what it is possible to accomplish in large chapters the girls and the budget have given out. A contribution or two fine left contact with smaller groups is at first discouraging. sent for the purpose of rushing one So I want to discuss the part that small alumnae overs would help the active chapter tremendously. groups may play in rushing. Many small chapters too far away to give direct per First, in places where Gamma Phi is comparatively sonal help send Gamma Phi cakes, candies, flowers or new as in the south; 2nd, where the locality is not other decorations to the nearest actives for a rush near any active chapter; 3rd, where the group is near party. In fact, in many cases where direct help is pos an active chapter which caters to girls from other sec sible, local Panhellenic rules forbid our assistance, so tions of the country; 4th, where the group is located the cash, the publicity, the flowers, and refreshments in a college community. we can give should be plentiful, for we are talking Regardless in which classification any small alum about the life line of the sorority. nae group may find itself the main strength in rushing Right here let me say that your greatest help will lies in the more subtle foundation-laying which makes come from knowing perfectly your Panhellenic rules. active rushing successful. The most marvelous party, ft doesn't help much to get a large and wonderful the biggest rush by alumnae cannot convince a smart pledge class if pledging privileges are taken away for young thing if she has not been exposed to wise several semesters. guidance for months ahead. What do I mean by this? Recommendations are often a trial for the small I mean that you must strive to keep the name of alumnae chapter since actives ask about girls living Gamma Phi well known and well thought of, a syn anywhere within a radius of 300 miles. Here it seems to onym for "prestige," for worthwhile accomplishments me, is one place where directories can be used to good in the section in which you live. advantage. And to make this possible every small alum Especially is this true in the case of alumnae groups nae chapter must be meticulous in the care it takes to far away from an active chapter or those located in notify central office of changes of address or the location sections where Gamma Phis are making new inroads, of nearby Gamma Phis whether they belong to the or where actives may have known hardships in recent alumnas chapter or not. years. It doesn't stop with newspaper publicity of the In closing I want to say that small alumnae organiza right type but goes deeper. Individuals in any section, tions should not confine their rushing effort to getting sparsely or thickly populated with Gamma Phis should new members alone, but also to the bringing back awake to the fact that high school girls read, that they into active enthusiastic participation the members we have ears and eyes and that they constantly are compar already have. Do all in your power to reach those sis ing and long before rush week arrives. ters who have lost all touch with Gamma Phi, whether near an active The small chapter located college in the city in which your group meets or miles away. chapter can, many times, be much more successful in Two of our most interested Atlanta members are actual rushing than large unwieldy groups. The smaller, reached through correspondence entirely. They do to ef more intimate affairs lend themselves successful their part in helping us with camp sewing, selling fective rushing and the smaller group has an advantage tickets to our money-making affairs. There are hun and to here by being able physically financially confine dreds like them waiting for the necessary stimulus to their attentions to a limited number. It is the concen make them active helpful members once again. trated cozy rushing, the personal touch between rushee and alumna which reaps rewards. i> :> D 36 THE CRESCENT

A Cordial Welcome

ROM H. F, C. Byrd, President, University of Mary Gamma Phi Beta Sorority is considering colonizing land: on the campus of the University of Maryland at College It is with considerable satisfaction that I learn of the Park. interest that some of our students, faculty, and alumni Knowing the situation in the University as I do, have in to the bringing University of Maryland Gam and understanding that there are many young women ma Phi Beta Sorority. of sorority caliber who are not now members of any Frankly, we have been extremely conservative in our sorority, and recognizing, further, the high standing with national relationships sororities, but you may rest of Gamma Phi Beta, I am sure that both the University assured that Gamma Phi Beta would find a cordial and Gamma Phi Beta would find the contemplated welcome on our campus. Whatever it may be pos relationship mutually pleasing and satisfactory. sible for me to do to aid you, if you decide to colonize Adele H. Stamp, Dean of Women: here, in that on a establishing group sound basis, will We, at the University of Maryland, would be very be done. gladly happy to have Gamma Phi Beta on our campus. We From the point of view of the chapter itself, I think feel that the high scholastic requirements and the it would be well for you to give consideration to the other standards maintained by Gamma Phi Beta make fact that we have five a only national sororities for a it worthwhile social group and one which would total of approximately 1,100 girls, so you may readily be an asset in the university life. We extend a welcome understand that there is plenty of membership ma to your sorority. terial available. W. W. Skinner:

Millard E. United States a Tydings, Senator from Mary As graduate of the University of Maryland and as land: Chairman of its Board of Regents, it would be pleas The information that comes to me that Phi to me to see Gamma ing Gamma Phi Beta on the campus at Beta Sorority contemplates a colony at the University the University. of Maryland is exceedingly pleasing. Such a relationship between the University and the Being a graduate of the University, whatever affects Sorority would, undoubtedly, have satisfactory results its interests favorably, naturally receives my support. for both, and I hope that the information that has Herbert R. come O'Conor, Governor, State of Maryland: to me with regard to this, will be a realization I have learned with a good deal of interest that of the near future. ]) ]) J)

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Our Gamma Phi baby group at the University of Maryland, Beta Beta, had its four walls styled dur the summer. And it ing sounds as though it may have the atmospheric advantages of such a spot as the House of the Seven Gables or the Lee Mansion. The house is situated on the crest of a hill over looking the campus, and is to be rented from the University by the chapter. It was originally the home of the first president of the university, and with a few minor operations will look as though it had been intended expressly for its future�a sorority house. Several partitions have to be eliminated, and the four tremendous fireplaces have to be done over for real and constant use, so that future hordes of anxious pledges�and rushees�may warm their toes to their hearts' content. �By Elizabeth Roark The Roll

.FTER waiting, it seemed interminably, a March 19 telegram announced that Beta Beta was to be. Rushing, the immediate necessity, was planned at the next supper meeting of the Washington Alumnae chap ter. First came a tea made successful, in spite of slender funds, by Helen Summers' hospitality and the enthusiastic co-operation of actives and alumnae. Mrs. New initiates of Beta Beta at the University of Maryland are, left to right: Back row�Mary Parletta, Margaret Loar, Charlotte Lee, Mrs. S. D. LeCron, and Mrs. W. Frank Josh White, Rose Britton, Dorothy Brosius, Patricia Dodd, Erma

Persons assisted at � the tea table. Traditional crescent Hughes, Caroline McGill. Front row Barbara Bartlett, Betty Hall, Dorothy Rundels, Louise Gardner, Mary Griffith. cakes and pink carnations and Gamma Phi songs by Zeta actives filled the afternoon with Gamma Phi The chapter is keenly anticipating the coming year. spirit. With inspiration from Ruamie Binns, the invaluable After three parties, high-lighted by a dinner, 22 assistance that will come from the transfers from other grand girls were pledged. The Goucher chapter loan chapters and the memory of initiation at convention, ed the pledge pins that were used, and presented each the chapter expects to prosper in its new home. pledge with a pink carnation and entertained at a pledge supper in earnest of the close association that Beta Beta would have. Pledging over, organization was the order of the In an inspiring candle-lit service, presided over by day. Mary Griffith was elected pledge president and an Mrs. William E. Dehn, international grand president, intensive study of our pledge manuals which came from Mrs. Wilburn Cartwright of Oklahoma and Mrs. Mil Epsilon made up for the shortness of time. lard E. Tydings of Maryland were initiated into Gam Maryland, as a field for expansion, was first seriously ma Phi Beta. considered in 1936. Since then the plan for coloniza Mrs. Tydings of Havre de Grace, Maryland, is the tion has been logically followed. The history behind wife of the senior United States senator from that the colonization of Beta Beta chapter reads like a state, and Mrs. Cartwright, is the wife of the Okla novel�a story of foresight, co-operation and hard homa representative, in Congress. work. Major credit for the new chapter and its initial The model initiation service, held before delegates strength must go to Frances Ide, Gamma Phi from to the 41st convention, was conducted under direction Zeta chapter, now a member of the English faculty of Mrs. Walter P. Shiel, national chairman of ritual, at the University of Maryland. Her wisdom and in and Elizabeth Reinoehl of Zeta. Members of Zeta dustry are mainly responsible for creation of the sor chapter and other Province VIII chapters assisted in ority's fiftieth active group. the initiation. were: Barbara Pledges Margaret Banfill, Virginia; The lovely ritual of the initiation ceremony, here Bartlett, Washington; Eleanor Bradburn, Maryland; presented in its highest and most ideal form, should Rose Britton, Washington; Dorothy Brosius, Mary serve as a lasting inspiration to convention delegates land; Patricia Dodd, Georgia; Betty Fike, Virginia; and to the chapters they represent. Louise Gardiner, Washington; Mary Griffith, Wash Immediately preceding the ceremony, a memorial ington; Dorothy Haislip, Washington; Betty Hall, service was presented by the province directors in Washington; Erma Hughes, Washington; Jeanne Kep- honor of Gamma Phi Beta members who have died ner, Washington; Margaret Loar, Maryland; Eleanor within the last two years. Directed by Mrs. Shiel, the Caroline was Mackie, Maryland; McGill, Maryland; Mary service performed with the assistance of a choir Parlett, Maryland; Virginia Prettyman, Maryland; Dor from Alpha Mu chapter and Mrs. James Binns, Mrs. othy Rundles, Washington; Mary Skidmore, Mary Gordon Burke, Mrs. R. A. Sand, and Mrs. Russell land; Betty Lou Sullivan, Washington; and Charlotte Callow. ])})]) White, Maryland. [37] 38 THE CRESCENT Convention Echoes

Convention delegates repaid the convention com the British Empire was brought home to those at mittee's generous provisions for sightseeing by an al tending, convention when they saw Toncy Guy and most perfect attendance at business sessions. On the Lorna DuBal of the University of Manitoba and other opening day, Saturday afternoon was given to a trip Canadian delegates knitting earnestly through it all. to Mount Vernon and Tuesday morning was free for a conducted tour of Washington.

Alpha Mu, with its record of highest sorority num Greek letter chapter round tables were led by Lee bers in the Rollins Choir, put the lovely harmonious Hardy (Michigan) with Louise Gartman (Texas) as voices of its members to perfect use as the chorus for secretary and by Grace Cadwallder (Syracuse) with the ritual and other Gamma Phi Beta programs. Betty VanDeventer (Kansas) as secretary. Mrs. G. M. Simonson, international vice-president and alumnae secretary, presided at the alumnae chap ter round tables with Doris Wright ( alum- Alpha Zeta, University of Texas, was awarded the na:) as secretary. Mrs. Hubert Hardy, international prize, a handsome leather scrap book folder, for en the best book at convention. chairman of camps, led the round table on camps; tering scrap Mrs. Harold Hartman, Panhellenic delegate the one on Panhellenic; Mrs. Lester White, executive secretary, the one on publicity and Mrs. R. E. Fitzgerald, chair The to New York and the man of expansion the one on expansion. post-convention trip World's Fair, with the stay at the luxurious Waldorf Astoria was enjoyed by a large group of Gamma Phis who appreciated the careful plans made by the con Under unusual mechanical and union handicaps vention committee to assure adequate visits to the which necessitated the printing of some issues a day fair and to of interest in New York The in advance, the staff of the Crescent Moon issued the points City. smaller group making the Williamsburg tour after convention newspaper during convention days. convention were appreciative, too, of the arrangements The staff included Alice E. Thomsen, as Alpha, in their behalf. editor-in-chief with Dr. Winifred Willard, Theta, as associate and the following reporters: Peggy Whiteley Alpha Mu, Elizabeth Roark, Alpha Rho, Jane Blair, Alpha Omicron, Eleanor Connor, Zeta, Margaret George D. Johnson, manager of The Wardman Park Hotel in in a Richards, Alpha Chi, Mildred Raymond and Lucille said, part recent letter to Mrs. Carrington. Dehn, grand president: "I want you to know that of all conventions we have ever had at the Wardman Park Hotel none have been enjoyed quite so much Alpha Rho offered for sale, for the benefit of the as the late convention of Gamma Phi Beta. Sixteen seems to be an awful time but I assure chapter's camp fund, the mammy dolls and cotton years long you of one the of bales used as decorations at the luncheon the chapter thing� prospects having another Gamma sponsored. Phi Beta convention are worth waiting for."

Madison alumnae boosted its treasury by selling Madison Alumna: Cook Books, during convention. As a climax to the hilarious Jinx Night program of skits in the hotel theater, the impromptu sketch presented by Alpha with Annette Stauffer as the duch In the midst of banquets, dinners and other enter ess in charge of make-up will never be forgotten by tainment as well as business sessions the crisis within the audience. SEPTEMBER, i 940 39 Our Biggest Project

VJAMMA PHI BETA has voted to continue its /Staffed by experienced Gamma \ camps and campships. Last year more than 200 chil Phis, backed alumnae and active dren were given vacations at camp by Gamma Phi by Beta. This there was an at Beta's year increase of 24 the co-operation, Gamma Phi Denver camp. annual camps for underprivileged The Vancouver and Denver camps have new and children, with our improved camp sites. The Denver camp had 84 camp campships give ers; the Buffalo camp, 64; and 36 attended the Van 1^ an all-year charitable aim. / couver camp. For each camp session, Buffalo and Denver had seven councilors and one chief, and Van Anderson from Northwestern University; Ruth Gun- couver had four councilors and one chief. The camps ther, Vanderbilt University and holder of junior and opened July 1. The Buffalo camp was open for one senior badges in life-saving, with camping experience month, while the Denver camp ran for six weeks. and a member of the Woman's Athletic Board at Van Applicants for these camps are checked to insure derbilt; Eda Nelson, University of Oklahoma, with that the campers will be needy and deserving young experience as councilor for Campfire Girls camp; Beth girls. The campers are chosen in various ways. They Dods and Mona Thomsen, University of Toronto; and are usually visited in their homes by Gamma Phis as Bernice Reppel, Washington University with Girl reliable investigators. Scout training and experience. Gamma Phi camps attempt to give the girls a Denver�head councilor, Jeanne Branham, Colorado healthy vacation as well as a happy one. All the camps State College, 1939 councilor; Ruth Beier, Denver had nurses this year. Further protection for the camp University, 1939 councilor; Dorothylie Devin, Univer ers is provided by the use of pasteurized milk. The sity of Missouri, with Red Cross life-saving training, water activities are directed by girls with life-saving experience in sewing and applied arts, dramatics, play badges. Last year the health record was very encourag ground supervision and welfare work; Ruth Fowler, ing�the average weight gain in the camps was 3.76 Colorado State College; Venita Yeamans, University pounds. of Denver, holder of a Red Cross life-saving certificate; The at the include programs camps arts, crafts, Shirley Jane Ruble, University of Kansas, with camp hikes, swimming, boating, dramatics, and supervised experience and recommended by the Governor of Kan recreation. sas; Marcetta Rhoads, Denver University, holder of In addition to the camps. Gamma Phi Beta gives Red Cross life-saving certificate and Red Cross first campships to underprivileged girls. This year 24 camp aid badge and experience as assistant councilor. Cas have one ships been granted to 23 alumni groups and cade Ranch camp; Betty Rose and Helen Messenger, campship to the Ames active chapter. Denver University; Jean Elizabeth Bailey, University Three Gamma Phis who served as camp councilors of Kansas; Norma Learned, Colorado State College, this summer attended Florence convention, Fellows, training in handcrafts and art and experience in rec Eda Nelson, and Jeanne Branham. reational activities; Mary Ana Walker, Colorado State The chairmen of the camp boards for the 1 940 camp College, training in physical education; Doris Detjen, season were: Mrs. E. G. Iowa Buffalo, Winkler; Denver, State College, training in crafts, art and ex Mrs. James Painter; Vancouver, Miss Betty White. perience at Girl Reserves, Y.W.C.A., and Girl Scout The camp councilors who worked under these chair camps. men, as appointed by Mrs. Hubert Hardy, chairman Vancouver�head councilor, Dorothy Sherratt, Uni of the International Committee included: Buf Camp versity of British Columbia, 1939 councilor; Mary falo�head councilor, of the Uni Cynthia Grantham, Jane Carpenter, University of Washington, 1939 coun versity of Toronto who served as a councilor last year; cilor; Mary Lou Sanders, University of Washington, Florence Fellows (Missouri), president of Alpha Delta Girl Reserves advisor and experience; Anna Ruth Fin- chapter and holder of a junior life-saving badge and layson. University of British Columbia, bronze and junior and senior councilor at the Girl Reserves silver medallions in first and second class Royal Life Mardell Camp; Jerrick, Betty Mulliken, and Dorothy Saving Society of Vancouver, councilor at Moorecraft 40 THE CRESCENT

Girls camp, experience in teaching swimming, boat California, experience in Campfire Girls work and ing, and camp craft; Catherine Vail, University of camps; Ilda Gerber, University of Southern California, California, senior life saving certificate, junior coun experience in camping, games and athletics; Kathleen cilor Oakland British in Recreational camp for two years, coun Evans, University of Columbia, life-saving cilor in training at Girl Scout camp in 1939; Betty Muir, structor, councilor at Girl Guide camp, experience University of British Columbia, life-saving certificate, kindergarten work and home economics training. two years as camp leader; Mary Carey, University of J }) J

What Other Greeks Are Doin

Kappa Kappa Gamma met in Sun Val tion between alumn;e and active chapters in creative expression. Grace Mason Lundy ley in July to adopt a new constitution and was emphasized. The sorority promised the was elected president. to elect Mrs. Everett Schofield of Indian assistance of the organization to the Dean D ]) D apolis president. One thousand dollars was of Women in colleges and universities raised for the Gamma�Wain where Phi is chartered in an effort Kappa Kappa Alpha Phi Mu met at Glacier National Park Fund for Refugee Children. The fund was to reduce rushing expenditures. Miss Doro early in July and voted S500 to the Ameri named for Nora Wain, author of "Reach thy Kernohan of Toronto, Can., was elected can Red Cross for war refugee work. The ing For The Stars" and member of the president. Gifts of $100.00 each were made convention theme was "The Fraternity as sorority. The money will be sent to England to the .American and Canadian Red Cross a Training School for Participation in where Miss Wain will disburse it. A total of organizations. Mrs. Kernohan announced Life," which was developed through gen in and was the of a loan �4,500 fellowships scholarships expected completion $50,000 eral and round table discussions. The soror also awarded. fund for Alpha Phi by 1942. ity adopted the Alpha Delta Theta Ken tucky library service as a voluntary alumnas J) D }) project. Delta Gamma convened at Mackinac Theta at Mack Island in June to elect Mrs. J. Walter Bing Kappa Alpha gathered inac Island in with "Careers For There is a Panhellenic As ham The was dedi early July flourishing president. gathering sociation in Women" as the of the convention. Manila, Philippine Islands, or cated to the "friendships which Delta Gam keynote A vocation five outstand ganized in the fall of 1937 with 35 interested ma has given to its members." evening brought members of various national sororities. ing career women before the convention as ])])]) A gift of I500 was voted to the speakers. 5 D ]) .-Xmerican Red Cross for war relief work. Delta Delta Delia convened a week A shrine to the founders is to be included in Pi Beta Phi held convention at the Hunt earlier at Mackinac to dis the new house of Island, Mich., chapter Alpha chapter at ington Hotel, California, in June. If you see cuss the theme "The Relation of the Fra DePauw University. Mrs. D. B. Sinclair of a Pi Phi wearing a Pigeon Guard on her pin to Education." was ternity Mrs. T. Dayton Toronto, Can., reelected president. you will know she has at some time been a Davies of Seattle was elected president. member of the staff of the Little Pigeon Settlement School, a Pi Beta Phi philan })})}) thropic project.

Alpha Phi met at Breezy Point, Pequot Delta Zeta convened at Mackinac Island Lake, Minn., late in June to celebrate the in mid-July and was marked by a Talent Marjorie Nicholson, Chi Omega, of Smith Golden Anniversary of the hostess chapter Display under the direction of the Vocation College has just been elected president of A for vocational Guidance which included the Phi (Minnesota). program committee, Beta Kappa, the first woman ever guidance was adopted, and closer co-opera work of individual members and chapters elected to the presidency. SEPTEMBER, i 940 41

Double Relative

Jessie and Mrs. J. M. Mathews I Ivrence and Mib. Robert W. Wagner

Elizabeth and Mrs. G. M. Simonson

Mrs. Robert Wagner (Hester Mrs. G. M. Simonson (Penelope Mrs. J. M. Mathews (Ruth Ree Corner, Zeta '20), president of Bal Murdoch, Eta '12), vice-president fer, Omicron '15), Champaign-Ur- timore alumnae, head of the Gou and alumnae secretary and chairman bana alumnae delegate to conven cher building campaign; her daugh of finance-elect; her daughter Eliza tion; her daughter Jessie is a ter Florence is a Zeta Sophomore beth is a junior at the University member of Omicron chapter at the at Goucher. of California. University of Illinois.

The Stauffer sisters, The Wollman sisters, Jeanne (Alpha '39) left, Virginia Wollman (Zeta and Annette (Alpha '40) pledge), left and Ann right, have two older sis Wollman McPhail (Zeta ters who were Gamma alumnae) right. Phis at Goucher.

Left to right: Jeanne Stauffer, Annette Stauffer, Virginia Wollman, Ann Wollman McPhail. 42 THE CRESCENT

Brings Laurels To Us

The star of the evening was our Province Director and active alumnae member, Helen Solem Sand (Uni versity of Minnesota), who played the leading role in Clemens play entitled "The Devil on Stilts." She scintillated in her natural interpretation of a very difficult role that called for a subtle handling of the women who had fallen for the charms of her errant author husband. Although it was presented as an amateur performance, there was no question at any time that Helen had professional poise. She lived up to her reputation of always bringing laurels not only to herself but to Gamma Phi as well. In the second play, 'Tine Feathers," again our Gam Helen Solem Sand ma Phi Alumnae, Marjorie Archer Haggart and An toinette Birch Van Veghel shared honors. As models was JLt Gamma Phi night when the Fine Arts Club calling for everything that sums up charm, they con of Fargo, North Dakota, presented two one act plays tributed much towards the production of a successful at their Club House recently. play.�By Frances A. Lamb, Alpha Omicron. 1) 1) 1>

Convention Committee Scores

1 F YOU think the power behind a convention is Most amazing disclosure was that throughout the merely ability to order flowers, approve menus, and whole 18-month period only five full committee meet sign contracts, you haven't talked with any of the ings were held. In this way, chairmen were not forced committee responsible for the highly geared func to listen to a series of other reports. They met indi tioning of Gamma Phi's 41st conclave. They started vidually with Mrs. Summers and met together only 18 months ago to plan and write and question, a fore the very few times necessary to co-ordinate the whole sight rewarded by success and smooth sailing now. program. Shortly after appointment of convention commit Also amazing is the fact that no discord ever arose. tees, Mrs. Summers, chairman; Edna Buhrer, treas Planning, meetings, and actual work were turned into urer; Lorena Kreider, secretary; and Frances Ide, en fun. Helping to keep harmony, too, was the fact that and the each tertainment chairman, went to Birmingham chapter in the province was represented on every Province VIII meeting to start the ball rolling. From committee, thus keeping individual groups informed that time on, it never stopped. Most important, ac at all times as to the progress of plans. cording to Mrs. Summers, the job never got wearisome. The question which caused the most difficulty, ac It takes money to run a convention, so finances were cording to Mrs. Summers, was that of favors�a dilem the first subject for action. Each active and alumnae ma solved by the decision to contribute instead to the chapter in the province was asked to report its con American Red Cross. vention amount to the committee. By January 1, 1940, An important item for chapters who must plan con all the money had been turned over to the committee, ventions in the not-too-far-away future is the Wash with many going over their pledges. ington committee's decision not to sign any contracts In addition to money, chapters had also turned in until all money was in�but to have a signed contract their ideas for entertainment, and by the beginning for every deal.�From The Crescent Moon, convention of last summer each chapter had an idea of the part newspaper. 1) }) D of the program for which it would be held responsible. SEPTEMBER, i 940 43

Gamma Phi Standouts

(From The Crescent Moon) bursts into song under the slightest provocation. She won a scholarship to Germany�wonder what she (did, will do) with it. XjlS the 1940 convention progresses, here are some Beta Beta's official delegate, Pat Dodd, may be some of the girls who are making names for themselves, day doing just what the doctor ordered�she's a pre- both on their college campuses and in convention: med student at the University of Maryland with an Named by the dean of women at Washington Uni excellent average. She comes to convention via Savan versity as the most outstanding girl to graduate from nah, Georgia, and, we might mention, talks like it. Washington during her service as dean is Peggy With practically the whole Greek alphabet after Grereton, of Phi Chapter. Mortar Board, presidency her name, Elise Pritchett, of Alpha Theta, at Vander of W.S.G.A.�these are the kind of activities that go bilt, cuts a wide swath in the life on her campus. She to make up such a girl. has the highest scholastic average for women in the A bright light in more ways than one is Betty Jane senior college, is secretary of Mortar Board, vice-presi Bodington. For the second consecutive year she has dent of Chi Delta Phi, honorary literary and of Phi been elected as the girl with the reddest hair on the Epsilon Iota, honorary French fraternity. She is a University of Kansas campus. As pledge trainer she has member of two other local honoraries and is an hon illuminated the way for Sigma's neophytes, and be orary member of the Student Union Board. longs to Mortar Board. Presenting an active chapter with a large and at Phi's official delegate, Laurie Karch, is enrolled in tractive pledge class of 17 is no small feat, but Janet the School of Business Administration at Washington Roop, Zeta, takes such accomplishments in her stride. University. This woman in a man's world has con As rushing chairman last year she was efficient, and sistently maintained a better than B average. is the new president of the active chapter. She is editor- In good company with other second termites that in-chief of the Goucher yearbook, Panhellenic dele have graced this fair city is Betty VanDeventer of gate, secretary of the Journal Club, and member of Sigma. The University of Kansas chapter has re-elected the Goucher varsity Army-Navy hockey team. their last year's president. A bacteriology major with Not only rushing chairman of Alpha, not only vice- an A scholarship and a Mortar Board should be able president of women's student senate, Betty Jane Wer- to steer Sigma through the shoals. felman is also president of Eta Pi Upsilon. Delores (Dolly) Pitts, a woman of talent, we are Being president of the women's athletic association told, triple barrels with scholarship, personality, and at Syracuse University, Marilyn Huber naturally rates activities. Mortar Board, too, claims this Sigma of Gam as one of the outstanding all-round women athletes ma Phi. on campus. But she's more than that�she was elected Sings like a lark, named to the May Court, tapped head women's cheerleader, one of the most coveted by Mortar Board, member of the Birmingham-South positions available. ern trio, and president of Alpha Rho, Barbara Callo Ringing out clear during active round tables has way represents the chapter that rose from an all-time been Ethelin Bell, Alpha lota's pride and joy. Alpha low in to fill their Iota a chapter membership quota, get has solution for every problem and vice versa. three Mortar Boards and two Phi Beta Give a Ethelin is a Gamma Kappas. Phi daughter and a power in cheer! U.C.L.A.'s Y.W.C.A. Louise Somerville, at Alpha Sigma, seems to have A girl that combines scholarship with popularity is stretched restriction to the Randolph-Macon's activity Eta's Mary Louise Lyman. She is chapter president at elastic limit. Treasurer of her director of fresh class, Berkeley, and has also served as treasurer. Because we man member Y orientation, of the council, Louise heard her at active round table, we now know that still finds time to maintain a B She was D's average. and flunks go under the cognomen of "cinches" chosen to be in two dance figures, an event which (or words to that effect) at Berkeley. means much to a Randolph-Macon girl. Just to prove that Gamma Phi's are not exclusively here as the Peggy Whiteley (known Peggy Peeper scholars, activity-ites, etc., etc., we present Earlmond and to her school as paper Penguin Peggy), hails from Baker of Alpha Gamma chapter at Reno, Nevada, the Rollins leads a we College. Peg quartet, which, hear. athletic type.-Tennis, badminton, golf champion for 44 THE CRESCENT the university, a member of the W.A.A. executive out to be from Psi chapter, that's Mary Yetman, Okla for board, of the Senate, and of Sagens, the pep organiza homa's beauty queen last year, and, may we state tion. Panhellenic representative, too. publication, we don't wonder. this Alpha Epsilon's Shirley Rice is a transfer from Stev Alpha Phi from Colorado College sends eight to Official is Marcia ens College, where she worked for the paper, and was happy hunting grounds. delegate elected to Phi Theta Kappa, junior college honorary. Moody. During her sophomore year she was secretary At Arizona she's a microbe hunter, and in addition of the Associated Women Students, treasurer of serves as treasurer of the Wranglers, honorary literary W.A.A. She served Gamma Phi Beta as pledge trainer, organization. Not to mention that she is a member of and received the Skelton Award given to the junior the bowling team. girls with highest scholarship. She writes the fashion Alpha lota's Margaret Cheesman is a junior Phi column for the Tiger. Beta Kappa. Besides her Phi Bete key she has a fra Margo Burgess, Alpha Lambda's president, is known ternity pin that big with umpteen jewels and pearls. to her province for her excellent qualifications for her Bonita Todd, from the next to the baby chapter at office. Exacting, fair, practical, meticulous about detail, U.S.C., though as yet only a junior, has already a she is the answer to the province director's prayer. No good stait on activities. Junior council, Sophomore- late reports here. Said Mrs. Burke in explaining the Junior club, bowling team, W.A.A., and dance club� situation at Canadian chapters, "The presidents of these are some of them. Canadian chapters carry responsibilities that are Actives who have been thinking about the efficacy unique when compared with those carried by presidents of their pre-initiation week are very grateful for the of American chapters, probably because in Canada lucid and interesting plan presented by Sue Fisher, sororities are secondary." Lambda, at Washington. Sue is a home ec. major who One of the cute little blonds with big ideas around hopes to be a dietitian. She belongs to Mortar Board, here is Anne Crampton, from Southern Methodist. Totem Club, most representative group of women. About as big as a minute, she chalks up a pretty good She has been associated with every important women's mark on her campus. Her specialty? Art. Alpha Rho movement on the Washington campus. Tau, honorary art organization, claims her as a mem Louise Gartman, who heads a delegation of nine ber. She has designed sets and costumes for Script and from Alpha Zeta at the University of Texas, is night Score, all-student musical, and for the Arden Work society editor for the Daily Texan, member of Theta shop, a dramatic club. Sigma Phi, Honorary Journalism, junior council. President for the second year of Gamma Phi's 98 Co-ed assembly which governs campus activities. Cap per cent efficiency chapter�Psi at Oklahoma�is Clara- and Gown, a senior organization. She is taking an beth Holt. The fact that Clarabeth is serving her active part in convention affairs. second term as president would seem to indicate that Have you been wondering about the identity of the a large part of the efficiency record is attributable startling blonds? Well, if you approach one who turns to her. 1) 1) 1>

Object Lesson

From . . . Thines we've learned from con\ention: Guillaume, the maitre d' , how to bounce From Mrs. Callow, director of Province I, the desire back up from the floor after 350 women have stampeded to get a little culture and somehow, anyway, achieve past and over you on the way to lunch. a speaking voice as lovely as hers. From the blond boy at the desk, how to set your teeth From Mrs. Colby, parliamentarian, how to read in and smile when you answer for the thousandth time, decipherable law terms without blinking. "Sorry, no mail for you." From Airdrie Pinkerton, Crescent editor, how to From the elevator boy, how to come up after you've talk with your hands when your voice goes on the blink. gone down. From Helen Summers, convention chairman, how From the Duchess Carafa d'Andria, how to be beau to have the Capitol Building moved, if it needed to be tiful. moved. We think she could do it with one telephone call. �From The Crescent Moon Sternal

ELIZABETH DAVIDSON BARBOUR Other of her activities included charter mem in the Crescent Circle, organized in Past International Grand President bership Evanston more than 35 years ago, and the Cen which she had Mrs. Ernest Barbour (Elizabeth Davidson, Ep tral Council of Social Agencies in silon), grand president of Gamma Phi Beta from several offices. She was a member of St. Mark's Church of Evanston and was active in 1923-27, died on April 14 at St. Francis Hospital, Episcopal Evanston, Illinois, after a short critical illness. both of its guilds. was term of Mrs. Barbour was bom in Tuscola, Illinois, It during Mrs. Barbour's grand of Gamma Phi Beta that the and moved to Evanston with her parents about president present program of expansion was organized and begun, to keep pace with the other sororities who had not pursued such a conservative policy as had Gamma Phi. The wisdom of this expansion pol icy is evidenced in the growth and present strength of Gamma Phi Beta. In The Lion of St. Mark, the parish paper. Dr. Harold L. Bowen, the rector of St. Mark's, pays the following tribute to Elizabeth Barbour and her work for young people: "In the lives of many of us there seems to be no precise and defi nite program of service, and because of the in terest of the moment the deeds we accomplish for others are sadly interwoven and indistinct. "It was otherwise with Elizabeth Barbour. She was known and revered among us as one who gave her unflagging interest and energy to the helping of young women. Almost all her civic and church activities were in this line of service. For many years she was national president of one of our more prominent women's fraternities. Elizabeth Davidson Barbour Until she recently resigned from that post be Past Grand President (7^27-/957) cause of increasing ill health she had been for many years of my rectorate at St. Mark's the 1900. After graduating from Evanston High leader of our Girl Scout troop, and from her School, she attended the Hamilton School for conferences with me about her work for the Girl Girls in and Northwestern Scouts I am Washington, D.C, happy to testify that she felt a per where she was a member of sonal University Epsilon spiritual responsibility for every girl in chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. Her marriage to the organization. Ernest Barbour took place in Evanston in 1910. "Seldom has the passing of one of our church Her interests always centered around young women been more lamented than by those who and her work in connection with knew her people various and by such a host of young people and young people's groups was untiring. One of her their helpers among whom she had so faithfully dearest interests was Girl Scouts of served. In Troup 14, these days when youth appears often America, whom she served as leader for several to be exploited for partisan and political ends, years. She was a former president of the Parent- she humbly and quietly gave the fine gifts of her Teachers Association at Nichols where for School, personality the real welfare of the young. Her she also served on various committees. departure is a tragic loss not only to her husband

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and her son and daughter but also to the young Loomis Allen of Syracuse. Two children came women and girls to whom she dedicated her from this union, a son, Alfred G. Allen, married and a brilliant powers. May she rest in peace, and may to Martha DeBevoise, daughter, Mary married to Frederick A. Morse. A light perpetual shine upon her." Shortly after Brown Allen, with her hus her death. Dr. Bowen announced that an grandson, John W. Allen, together survive. anonymous donor had given one hundred dol band, son and daughter, lars to the choir vestment fund in memory of Elizabeth Barbour. are names of those whose memory To her husband, Ernest, and her son William, Following memo was honored in the beautiful convention a student at the University of Colorado and her rial service: daughter, Elizabeth, a senior at Evanston High Moran Bessie Cowles School, Gamma Phi Beta extends sincerest sym ^/p/za�Birgetta Farmer, Leetz Nelta pathy in their loss and expresses gratitude for the Gibson, Helen Keefer, Mclntyre, Blanche Shove Palmer, loving work and loyalty she always gave to her Myrtle Stone McNeil, sorority. Alice Bannister Race, Ina Mercer Rice, Frances �Une G. MacMillan Cobb Stephenson, Louise Blaine White, and Ida Saxton Wilcox.

Beta�Helen Gable Bowen, Eleanor Oliver, FLORENCE MURRAY CLEAVER Myra Pollard, Mabel Randall. Alpha ipip Gamma�Helen Smith Case, June Fisher, Eunice Lena Zinsmaster McFarlane, Inez Florence Murray Cleaver, wife of Thoburn Gray, Cleaver and member of the New York Alumnae Etter McGilvray. Beiler chapter, died suddenly this summer. A student Delta�E\a. Kenerson Cady, Florence of the violin, she studied at Syracuse university Kautz, Florence White Ruth. and in recent years has been a loyal member of Epsilon-SariL Cornelius Allison, Elizabeth the alumnae group in New York, in Panhellenic Davidson Barbour, Harriett Barnett Morse. and in civic affairs. She is survived by her hus �te�Bessie Gaskill Waldron. band, daughters Murray, 16; Emmy Lou, 14; Theta�haura. Eggert. and a son Thoburn Grant, Jr., 8, and her par Kapfya�l^ouise Hatch Carl, Louise Brace ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Murray of Garden Horn, City. Lydia Jensen Johnson. Pz�Katherine Simpson Schnabel. MRS. C. LOOMIS ALLEN Sigma�Mary Jane Brunner Gunnell, Donna Hendrickson. Alpha i8pi Taw-Helen Carpenter. Mrs. C. Loomis Allen passed away at Bethesda Psi�Mary Martineau, Rilla Winn Scarritt. Hospital, Hornell, N.Y. on Wednesday, July 3, Mabel McGowan Dollerhide, Anna 1940. Mrs. Allen was the daughter of Alfred and Omega� Deacon Parker. Alzada Worster and was born at Hannibal, N.Y. The family moved to Syracuse in 1871, where she Alpha Alpha�Marion Charles, Marion Sterritt attended grade and high school, and was gradu McClelland. ated from in the class of Syracuse University 1891, Alpha Delta�Margaret Crane, Filma Hall. with the degree of Bachelor of Painting. Mrs. Alpha Zoia�Pauline Kutzner, Helen Bashaw .Allen was a member of Gamma Phi Beta at Syra MacConaghy. cuse University and an honorary member of Theta Lambda� Nixon. Theta Chi at Alfred University. Alpha Myrtle On October 11, 1894, she was married to C. Alpha Chi�Greta Grason, Dorothy Mellor. SEPTEMBER, i 940 47

We Point With Pride ... High Campus Honors.�Phi Beta Kappas, Mortar Boards and Mortar Board equiv where it alents, is not established, are among the distinctions that have come to Gamma Phi Beta on 46 university and college campuses in 1939-40, in addition to m.any other honors in leading activities.

official chairman of all Edith Alpha�Syrzcuse University Syllabus, delegates Doughty, office manager of Chapar at mock convention. Northwestern cam ral, of Hammer and Margaret Peck, Boar's Head, dramatic vice-president Coffin; pus; Doris Lambda Delta, Harriet society; Sarah Rowe, Boar's Head, vice- McGinty, Alpha Fisher, Daily staff; Juanita Goss- membership committee Y.W.C.A.; Patricia man, Delta Pi; president; Ervanna Cummings, cheer Sigma Amy Greenwell, Labus, French Charlotte leader; Marilyn Huber, cheerleader honorary society; Chaparral staff; Nancy Griswold, asso Cole, French ciate (head); Ervanna Cummings, Eta Pi Upsi honorary society. photographer of Quad, yearbook. Pi ; Jean Hansen, Women's lon (Mortar Board equivalent); Betty Jane �/a� of California University Conference; Priscilla Werfelman, Eta Pi Upsilon president for Hatch, manager of Virginia Saam, Torch and Shield, University Glee Club; Elizabeth Eastman, 1940-41; Marilyn Huber, Eta Pi Upsilon; jun ior women's Women's Vocational Guidance Katherine Belts, Pi Lambda Theta; Vir honorary, Prytanean, Pi Al Committee, sophomore class executive ginia Schlottman, president of Panhel pha Sigma (vice-president); Marguerite committee; Mortar Isham, lenic; Helen Kinnin, Sigma ; Higgins, Prytanean, Board; Mary Mary Jane Rally committee, jun Louise ior Orchesis; Marcia Chase, ; Cath Lyman, Prytanean; Susan Marx, June Prince, treasurer Theta edi Sigma Phi, senior class executive commit erine Fisher, Sigma Alpha Iota; Katherine Panele, sophomore honorary, junior tor of McKee, tee; Patricia Smith, head editor of Belts, Zeta Phi Ela, president 1939-40; yearbook; Marjorie Rally copy committee. Pelican Daily, Theta Ervanna Cummings, ; Mari (humor magazine); Rally committee, Sigma Phi, June Breschini, committee; Barbara junior class executive committee; Doris lyn Huber, W.A.A., vice-president 1939-40, Rally Lee Thomas, Delta Chi Tucker, vice-president Panhellenic, secre president 1940-41; Ervanna Cummings, president Alpha; Valma intramural tary Theta woman's Women's Student Senate; Betty Jane Wer Maddox, president; Sigma Phi, manager Elizabeth of felman, Women's Student Senate, vice- Mallory, vice-president of Chaparral, president Hammer and Cof class. fin, editor of woman's section of president 1940-41; Sarah Rowe, Women's sophomore Chapar member Katherine Delta ral, honorary of men's Hammer Student Senate; Betts, T/ieia�Denver University and Coffin of three Sigma Rho, debate honorary; Ervanna (one women who have drawn covers for Cummings, Delta Sigma Rho; Betty Jane Associate editor of school paper; 4 mem Chaparral since its in in and Werfelman, Psi Chi, psychology honorary; bers Co-ed Journalists; 5 W.A.A. mem founding 1899 only woman to draw two Dottie Mae Sarah Rowe, vice-president of class of bers; 5 members in Parakeets, honorary covers); Wiet, Sig ma Delta a members in Pi, treasurer of W.A.A., bad 1942. pep organization; R.A.C.; minton 2 members in , chemistry chairman. of Gamma�University Michigan for women; 2 in Mentors; 1 honorary A'^M� of attendant to University Oregon Senior honors: Kathleen beauty queen; Homecoming Biwer, Mary Alice Louise Pan Swift, vice-president senior class; Jane Dunwiddie; Flora Jean White, presi queen; Netherton, president hellenic Beth Johnson, Xi,.Phi Beta dent of Mortar Ann Law- council, honorary Parakeet; Dor Sigma Kappa, W.A.A., Board; Phi Mu Robinson, member of board of Epsilon (mathematics); Anne ton, Crucible (sophomore honorary), presi othy pub Mortar Frederiksen, president A.W.S., listed in dent; Wolcott, Crucible. lications, Board; Jane Reynolds, Mary Jane Who's Who in American vice-president Alpha Lambda Delta; Jane Colleges and Mortar Phi Z)e/ia� Paradice, May queen, honors convocation; Universities, Board, Beta Rita awarded the Kappa; Betty Lou Swart, president of Y.W.C.A.; Schnackenburg, Camp Betty Stringer, president Jane Who's Who bell at honors convocation; Helen Y.W.C.A., in American Col Greene, treasurer Y.W.C.A.; Dorothea cup Messenger, Parakeets. leges; Jerry Tripp, Phi Theta Upsilon, Halloran, secretary Y.W.C.A.; Alice Eaton, junior women's service honorary advisory W.A.A. president; Grace Ward, W.A.A. Lam&da�University of Washington council. University Art School; Elaine basketball senior head; Jane Greene, rep Kwama, Sue Mortar Totem Johnson, sophomore women's resentative on Gamma Delta cabinet; Alice Fisher, Board, Club, service honorary; Bobsie Roehm, Phi Delta Elizabeth Hos- Matrix Table; Betty Beardsley, Lambda Eaton, (activities); Theta Y.W. art Cecile Upsilon, vice-president; Jean mer. Pi Lambda Theta. Rho, honorary; Lidstrom, presi Burt, vice-president junior class, little dent of junior Panhellenic; Bette Jo major at university ball, secre Ze/a�Goucher College Simpson, treasurer of junior class. military tary W.A.A., Phi Theta Upsilon, Amphi Eleanor Connor, of Senior bian, Phi Abbie president Mu�Stanford University Beta; Jane White, Phi Class of 1941; Virginia Knight, vice-presi Beta; Susan Huffaker, Amphibian; Eliza dent of the Goucher Christian Jean Austin, business staff of beth College Daily; Steed, president Phi Theta Upsilon, Orchesis, Y.W.C.A. Association; Eleanor Collenberg, alumna Betty Jane Binney, treasurer A.W.S., Phi Beta, Amphibian; Harriet cabinet; Lou Card, head representative of Class of 1940; Betty photog Jean Kneass, Gamma Alpha Chi, adver of Women's Fran Cullison, attendant to the May queen; rapher Daily, Council; tising honorary. Eleanor Collenberg, Bertha Melvin. lead ces Crawford, vice-president Foreign Re Xi� of Idaho ing roles in senior class play and May lations Club, Sigma Delta Pi, English University Anne Day play. Club; Dyer, Chaparral staff, Ham Alice Alford, Cardinal Key (activities), mer and Coffin, Y.W.C.A.; Helen Eddy, president of Theta Sigma (journalism)! Northwestern University senior class Lois edi �pS!7on� committee; Emry, society editor of the Argonaut (daily), edi Mary Barrett, Mortar Board, promotion torial office manager of Chaparral, secre tor of Co-ed Argonaut; Helen Berg, Car manager for Purple Parrot, office manager tary-treasurer of Hammer and Coffin; dinal Key, president Phi Upsilon (home 48 THE CRESCENT

economics); Emma the Jo Long, Curtain, Iota Sigma Pi; Peggy West, Sigma student dramatics Alpha Panhellenic, body representative; honorary; Marjorie Johnston, Iota; Elaine Weiand, Sigma Alpha Iota; Bette Hamilton, W.A.A.; debate vice-president varsity team; Margaret Car Maxine election to King, Hoffman, Tassels; R.O.T.C sponsors: Judy Lane, Elizabeth dinal Key, Theta Frances Sigma; Zachow, Elaine Peterson, Alpha Rho Tau award; Kinghorn, Edith Gunn, Shirlee Peasley; Cardinal Key vice-president. Betty Atkinson, Daisy Chain lead; Irene Elizabeth Young, editor of Rocky Moun Theta (business honorary); Jane Pier, Hollenbeck, Ivy Chain lead. tain Collegian; Kaye Elser, business man A.S.U.I. executive board. Mortar Board, ager of Silver Spruce; Jeanette Knapp, Matrix Table, Cardinal Van- A.W.S., Key, iJ/io- of Iowa Pacemaker, Who's Who in American Uni daleers University (music); Betty Armstrong, W.A.A. versities and Bracewell, Beta Gamma Colleges. executive board. Hell Divers (swimming); Mary Margaret orchestra; Rob Beuy Lou McBean, Spurs (sophomore Sigma (Commerce), Jean ertson, Beta Gamma Mil P/h� honorary); Marjorie Ann Calhoun, presi Sigma; Virginia Washington University dent of ler, Spurs; Phyllis Morrison, copy desk Hawkeye beauty queen. Jane Myers, special maid to freshman editor of the Argonaut, Matrix Table, popularity queen; Sara McDade, Cardinal editor of Blue Sigma� University of Kansas special Key, society maid to the Bucket engineering queen; Kay (humor magazine), assistant sec Jean Wilkins, Quack Club (swimming). Ruester, retiring engineering queen; tion editor of Gem; Mary Ellen Dunkle, Jay Janes (pep club), W.A.A.; Margaret Kathleen Reardon, special maid to desk editor of W.A.A. ex copy Argonaut, Ivy, Jayhawker beauty queen {Jayhawker Hatchet ecutive (yearbook) queen; Dolly Pitts, board; Lovina Marsh, Hell Divers; is campus magazine); Pattye Jane Wadley, May queen attendant; Peggy Brereton, Doris Hungerford, Vandaleers, Sigma Al modern choir, Jayhawker beauty queen, May queen attendant, W.A.A. Board pha Iota treasurer. dramatics club. Glee Club; Suzanne Low- 193940. W.S.G.A. president; Margaret derman, dramatics club; Mary Beth Weir, Christmann, secretary-treasurer of Pan Omz'cron� home economics club; VanDeventer, University of Illinois Betty hellenic; Ruth Wehmeyer, W.A.A. Board, Mortar Board, Y.W. cabinet, freshman of 1940-41; Dorothy Schneider, W.A.A. Dorothy Sharp, president Terrapin counsellor, dramatics club. Student Union (swimming). Mortar Board; Markert, Board, 1940-41; May Ruester, W.S.G.A. June activities board; Greta Gibson, County Mortar Board, Torch, Lambda treasurer, 1940-41; Women's Council, Alpha Club, symphony orchestra. Glee Club; Delta, junior editor of Illini; Muriel 1940-41: Kay Ruester, May Ruester, Daily Suzanne Adair, Quack Club, W.A.A.; Bloom, Mortar Board, Shi-Ai, Laurie Karch, Helen Vickers, Mary Mar president Betty Coulson, assistant editor Daily Kan- junior business staff of Illini; Mar garet Alt; Anna Lou Reeves, Pi Lambda Daily san, Theta Sigma Phi, Jayhawker beauty guerite Locke, Torch, Shorter Board, Theta (education honorary); Alice Knight, jun queen, Kansan board, editor of Jayhawker ior business staff of Phi Beta Kappa; Ruth Fenton, Daily Illini; Margaret editor for secretary. (first girl eight years), dramatics Phi Vaniman, of Y.W.C.A., Mortar Gamma Nu (commerce); Jean Braun- president club. Quill Club; Mary Ann Cook, Y.W. Board, Torch; Billie Shorter lich, committee Pep Jamboree; Jean Hul- Higgins, treasurer, dramatics club. Glee Club, Board; Betty Anderson, Shorter Board, son, freshman Y cabinet, orientation freshman counsellor; Vera Knoepker, attendant to football court of council; Marilyn Anderson, freshman Y May queen, Glee Club; Shirley Jane Ruble, dramatics honor; Peg Roney, Torch, cabinet cabinet, orientation council; Evelyn An junior club, leads in two university plays. Glee of Women's League; Grossman, derson, orientation council; Eleanor Min- Mary Kay Club; Betty Jane Boddington, president Torch, Shorter Board, cabinet of kle, orientation council; Helen Vickers, junior Mortar Board, vice-president senior class, Y.W., Shi-Ai; Bea associate editor yearbook, Andrews, University W.A.A., El vice-president W.S.G.A., secretary Ateneo, McMillan Hall Scholarship Key, financial secretary Wom (women's dormitory) As Spanish Club, executive board of County en's Shorter Board; Martha sociation, Ternion, junior women's hon League, Adolf, Clubs, freshman counsellor; Lois Wilson, Mortar attendant to junior prom queen; orary. Board; Mickey Mulconery, Joanne dramatics club; Beth Young, president Sellers, attendant to Cotillion treasurer McMillan Hall Association, Del sophomore Mu Phi Epsilon, Glee Club, dean's honor Torch, Shi-Ai; Eleanor Hutchison, ta Phi Alpha, German honorary; queen. roll; Betty Baker, home economics club; Betty Torch, Shi-Ai; Helen Frese, Torch, Moline, Ternion; Mary Lou Burris, fresh Alpha Marilyn Konants, Pi Lambda Theta; Lambda Delta, junior cabinet of Women's man commission; Dolly Pitts, Mortar Mary Ewers, Y.W.C.A., secretary Tau Donna Torch, Board, vice-president Quad Club, execu- League; Jordan, Alpha Sigma, dance sorority, ; Lambda Delta; Mathews, Torch, Al sive board; Peggy Brereton, Mortar June Isabel West, home economics club, en pha Lambda Delta, junior editor of Ilio Board; leads in Quad Club show: Dolly gineering queen; Doris Twente, secretary Randa Mann, Lambda Pitts, Mariquita Moll, Mary Jane Brown, (yearbook); Alpha W.S.G.A., Glee Club, freshman counsellor; Delta, freshman cabinet; Markert, May Ruester; Helen Vickers, news editor Betty Barbara Koch, secretary sophomore class, Lambda Delta; Flora of Student Life (paper); Clyde Moore, Alpha Pagliarulo, rifle team; Joan Taggart, librarian of Glee Lambda Delta. women's news editor of Student Life; Alpha Club; Ruth Kellett, Delta Phi Delta, art Peggy Wood, cartoonist for Eliot, sorority, modern choir; Dorothy Wise, maga zine; Helen Vickers, copy editor of Pi�University of Nebraska secretary Sour Owl, humor magazine; Hatchet (yearbook); Washington Univer Marjory Heimbrook, Quack Club, W.A.A., Helen Kovanda, Mortar Board, presi sity chorus: May Ruester, Kay Ruester, relays queen attendant; Marjorie Siegrist, dent W.A.A.; Marian Bradstreet, treas Carabelle Murtfeldt; Dolly Pitts, National Tau 'Sigma; Mary Alice Elliott, dean's urer Mortar Board, A.W.S. Board, Pi Collegiate Players; Virginia vice- choir; Margaret Learned, W.S.G.A., Morsey, Lambda Theta, Vestals of the Lamp, president of January Inn, law school Y.W.C.A., Quack Club, freshman counsel gov student council; Maryellen Robison, sec erning association for Rues Phi Beta 1940-41; Kay Tassels Irene lor; Jean Crawford, Kappa. retary W.A.A., publicity; ter, Mortar Board, secretary of Duncker Hollenbeck, W.-^.A. Sports Board, Y.W. Guild (business school governing associa Ruth Rifle Adah Tau-Colorado State College cabinet; Coordes, Club; tion), vice-president Glee Club; Dolly Pitts, Lavender, society staff of Daily Nebraskan; Mortar Board equivalent: Elizabeth Phi Sigma Iota; Press Club: Peggy Wood, Carolyn Kennedy, Pi Lambda Theta, Mu Kinghorn, Elizabeth Young, Edith Gunn, Clyde Moore, Dolly Pitts, Peggy Brereton, Phi Vestals Epsilon, of the Lamp; Mary Bette Hamilton; Edith Gunn, treasurer Helen Vickers; Sigma Lambda Epsilon: Pi Lambda Iota Jean Lauvetz. Theta, .4.W.S.; Elizabeth Kinghorn, treasurer Genevieve Davis, Ruth Wehmeyer, Peggy Sigma Pi (chemistry); Maxine Wertman, Panhellenic; Marthellcn Ticen, secretary Brereton. Charlotte Peters, Gamma, was Queen Margaret Leeper, Rho, '40, Marquita Moll had the romantic lead in of the Military Ball at University of was awarded the first title in the Quadrangle Club's musical comedy Wisconsin in April, is a junior in the the Iowa Red Head Contest "Down in Front" at Washington University. Home Economics school and co-rushing and flew to where Hollywood chairman for her chapter. she was the guest for ten days of Susan Haywood, movie star. She was a Frivol Beauty in her freshman year at the Univer sity of Iowa, attendant to the May Queen in '39 and one of the 12 Hawkeye Beauties when a junior.

Kathleen Reardon, sophomore, maid of honor to the Hatchet The Helen Prouse, Mortar Board, Queen. Hatchet is the yearbook of Washing University of Minnesota; president ton Candidates are Y.W.C.A., member of Orchesis, University. put up the sororities and five are chosen, all-U Cabinet, W.S.G.A. Board, by one to be and the rest maids of Gopher Yearbook staff, and main queen honor, by a committee judging on tained almost an A average for beauty and poise. Photographs of the three and one-half years. five finalists are sent to some famous Paiti Dorsey modeled at the Daily North artist who chooses the queen. The western style show staged at Northwestern coronation took place this year at the University. She also directed Epsilon in the Junior Prom. Intersorority Sing.

Betty Sue McCready, Oregon Mary J\m: Brown was the only Jean Turner, in the patio of the new dormitory at Rollins Col State Mortar Board, member freshman a in has been chosen one of three students for the Student- having leading role lege. She Counselor Board, was a mem the Quadrangle Club's comedy at Faculty Educational Survey committee and is a member of ber of Alpha Lambda Delta Washington University last spring. Libra, Pi Gamma Mu and Rollins choir. and of the Rookees. 50 THE CRESCENT

C/ii� Oregon State College ternity sweetheart queen; Jay show Alpha Kappa; Harriet McCandless, .Alpha chorus: Frances Mc Alpha Fouse, Alpha Betty Sue McCready, Mortar Board; Rosemary Meyers, Kappa; Betty Alpha Dorothy Volmer; Margaret Clarke, Kappa; Evelyn Reger, Phi society, pub Betty Watts, etiquette committee; Jean Carthy, first attendant to council queen. licity chairman W.S.G.A.; Nancy Stoltz, Sutherland, Talons, sophomore honorary; pledge Y cabinet, secretary W.A.A., treasurer Dorothy Nowatny, secretary of sophomore Alpha Epsilon�Vnivershy of Arizona home economics club; Doris Denison, Phi class for year 1940-41. commission. Ruth Crist, W.A.A. president 1939-40, society, Y sophomore Lois P,si� University of Oklahoma A Club (athletics). Desert Mermaids; Dallenbach, Women's Press Club; Billie Alpha /o/a�University of California at Catherine Cooke, Panhellenic, president Ennis, Zeta Phi Eta, University Players, Los Clarabeth chairman Angeles 1940-41; Holt, of honorary speech fraternity; Bettylou freshman of Y.W.C.A. 2 Spurs, 2 Scroll and Key, 2 Guidon, guidance program Faustman, Spurs, 1940-41; Flossie Nell and of Glee Club, Hagan, president F.S.T. (junior honorary) president secretary Iowa State freshman crew attendant, members on all Omega� College 1939-40, Sigma Alpha Iota, Mortar Board; four class councils; Margaret Cheeseman, Charlotte Backman, Mortar Board, Elladean Hayes, president Mortar Board Phi Beta Kappa (junior year); .Anne president health council. Phi 1939-40, Kappa Omicron Phi, business Upsilon Brown, Spurs, sophomore women's hon Omicron; Myrtle Campbell, editor of manager W.A.A. 1940-41; Evelyn Hibner, orary; Peggy McConville, Spurs; Betty Theta Phi Pi Lambda Theta, class honors in educa Homemaker, president Sigma Scroll and Scroll tion; Beal, Key; Mary Jo Funk, (journalism), secretary Sketch publication Jeanne Hollister, Spurs 1940-41; and Key, associate manager, the Southern Elizabeth A.W.S. Mary Margaret Huntington, Pi Lambda board; Davis, president ; Frances Rickers- Theta, Delta Rho, Mortar Board, Campus (yearbook); Mary Doris Detjen, Veishea queen of queens, Sigma hauser. Scroll and Key; Betty Meigs, Chi bomb Barbara Donald, president Phrateres (town girls); Annamae beauty; pep queen, Delta Phi (English honorary); Margaret homecoming queen; Hardy, Phi Jones, Alpha Epsilon (business honorary); Sylvia Selby, Chi Delta Phi; Dorothy Stewart, Omicron, of Women's Wilma Kautz, Alpha Rho Tau (art hon Upsilon president Guidon, auxiliary; I (athletics); Gertrude Kable, president orary), class honors in home economics; Janet Souther, Phi Chi Theta, business of Women Voters; Kathleen Kil- Gwen Norton, Spurs 1940-41, Orchesis; League women's honorary; Mary Caward, Phi dee, president freshman Y.W., pledge with Mabel Pracy, Spurs 1939-40, treasurer Chi Theta; Eleanor Banker, Alpha Chi highest grades; Adele Moehl, Phi Upsilon sophomore class 1939-40, Desert Mermaids, Delta (economics). Omicron, Omicron Nu, Mortar Board social chairman A.W.S. 1940-41, president Mary Ellen Wendell, engineer's lady; Mar F.S.T. 1940-41; Bonnie Pierce, president A.W.S. A Club, attendant to Lamtiia- of British Co gery Qualheim, secretary League of Wom 1939-40, Alpha University lumbia en Voters; Catherine Colman, secretary beauty queen; Shirley Rice, Wranglers I (literary honorary); Tetreau, Sig health board; Janet Gaylord, Women's Jeanne Dorothy Hird, secretary-treasurer Pan ma Iota; Mildred Wood, fraternity. Alpha president hellenic, new president of women's under Schaeffer, Wranglers 1939-40; Shirley graduate society, vice-president of Stu Rodeo was awarded Alpha Beia-University of North Dakota queen; Alpha Epsilon dent's Council of Alma Mater for second in of Society; cup being percentage of Wom Nu Pi Elaine Betty Muir, secretary-treasurer Delta (home economics): activities on senior campus; Mary Ward, en's Block Club Lois Lenore Ulvedahl, Big (honorary athletics, Johnson, Ryan, Chi Omega award in eco scholarship, membership restricted to those of Cana Betty Peterson, Solveig Peterson, Dorothy nomics, class honors in liberal arts, de dian championship standard); Pamela Jerome; Zeta Phi Eta: Martha Donnelly, partmental honors in sociology; Virginia Runkle, Women's Big Block Club, Wom Eileen Kjorvestad, Dorothy Hogan; jun Robins, Phoebe M. Bogan poetry prize. en's Athletic Awards Marion ior Y cabinet: Martha Donnelly, Eileen Committee; Murphy, vice-president Newman Club; Kjorvestad; W.A.A.�Marian Lynch; Hall Eta�Ohio Alpha Wesleyan University role in univer of Fame fresh Dorothy Sherratt, leading (twenty-five representative of Mor Betty Gulp, president Y.W.C.A., sity of "Gondoliers"; Barbara men): Eileen Kjorvestad, Joyce Shannon; production tar Board, Alpha Alpha Kappa, Student White, debate of Women's Pub- Sigma Alpha Iota�Betty Paulsrud; twelve manager Council; Mary .Ann Allison, Phi society blic Club; Lorraine Gamma Phis were invited to attend the Speaking Thomson, (freshman and sophomore honorary scho of Matrix Shadow 100 secretary-treasurer sophomore agricul Ball; representative W.A.A. Dorothea lastic), Orchesis, Board; tural class; Evans, maid of honor to women on are invited. Kay campus Heckman, Mortar Board, vice-president junior prom queen; Lois Grant-Musing, Alpha Alpha Kappa, president Monnett winner of British Columbia Missouri provincial Alpha De/�a� University of senior Hall, representative junior, advisor; prize for public health nursing; Katherine Phi Freshman Helen Jane Belcher, treasurer Gamma Phyllis Carson, society. Hewitt, graduated with first class honors; Alpha Chi; Maurene Carlock, Workshop Players, secretary-treasurer Stuyvesant Moira White, Margaret Alexander, Dor Y.W.C.A. play, "What a Life"; Helen Maurine Hall, sophomore commission; othy Sherratt, graduated with second Davis, home economics club cabinet; Dor- Alice Hower, Orchesis; Irene Plessinger, class honors. othylu Devin, Worshop play, "You Can't Wesleyan Players, Phi, Y.W. cabinet, Y.W. Take It with You"; Lane Carlson, Theta sophomore commission; Lora Stone, Pan Afu�Rollins in a Alpha College Sigma Phi, reporter for the Missouri hellenic secretary, soloist cappella Student, weekly; Ruth Henrich, Gamma choir; Ellen Holt, English Writer's Club; Helen Darling, secretary of Student Alpha Chi; Florence Fellows, senator Mary Ellen Shroyer, English Writer's Council; Virginia Kingsbury, Theta Alpha from the school of education to S.G.A. Club; Margaret .Augsburger, W.S.G.A. Phi (dramatics), Rollins Student Players; administration; Dorothy Maurer, presi Board, president Hartupee Hall; Wilma Jane Balch, magazine staff; first and sec dent of Gamma .Alpha Chi; Rosemary Freudemann, Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar ond prize awards in Orange County art Meyers, first in Stephens College oratorical Board, W..A..A. president. Student Coun exhibit: Eleanor Rand, Flora Harris, contest, Washington University debate; cil, president Junior Council, Y.W. cab Joanne Oak; Jean Holden, president In Fiances Tucker, president of Y.W., Mor inet; Bea Knapp, social chairman Pan ternational Relations Club; Betty Win- tar Board, member of Sho-wme (magazine) hellenic, treasurer W..A.A.; Kay Emmons, ton, Key society (honorary scholastic); staff; Dorothy Volmcr, attendant to fra treasurer Panhellenic; Doris Ptak, Alpha Peggy Whiteley, Libra (scholastic and Mary Margaret Alt, junior in Mary See, Alpha Omicron, at Doki^ White, Phi Beta Kappa Charlotte Bachman, Mortar law at Washington University, North Dakota State is president at Colorado College. Board, president of Health member Women's Council and of her chapter, secretary of the Council at Iowa State and is Phi chapter rush chairman. junior class, member of Phi Up a member of Phi Upsilon silon Omicron. Omicron, home economics honorary.

Edith Gunn is a Mortar Board Margaret Christmann, secre- Jeanne Hovden had the starring Elizabeth Kinghorn, junior equivalent at Colorado State Col- tary-treasurer of Panhellenic lead in the Bison Brevities at at Colorado State College, is lege, treasurer of A.W.S., mem- Women's Council and Phi's vice- North Dakota State College. a member of three honoraries, ber of three honoraries and takes president at Washington Univer- Voted the most outstanding ac- is a Military Sponsor, a Mor an active part in sports. sity. tress in the drama classes. tar Board equivalent.

Carolyn Univer Kennedy, Pi, Jane Paradice, '39-'4o, president Beth Johnson, Phi Beta Kappa Marcia Moody, chapter presi sity of Nebraska, one of the out of Theta chapter, was named at University of Oregon, also dent at Colorado State Col standing violinists in the School May Queen at the Honors Con Sigma Xi and of Pi Mu Epsilon, lege, winner of the Skelton of member of Mu at Music, Phi vocation Denver University, mathematics honorary. She goes Scholarship Award, member with the member of Epsilon, played Lincoln Panhellenic Council to the University of Iowa in fall, of Tiger Club, of Koshare, Symphony Orchestra, is a mem and of Parakeets, honorary pep where she has been awarded as dramatics society. ber of Alpha Tau Rho (fine arts) organization. assistant in the psychology de and Pi Kappa Lambda (music). partment. 52 THE CRESCENT extracurricular honorary), Rollins choir; education); Mary Fletcher, Phi Kappa Phi; Beta /4/p/ia�University of Southern Cali Eleanor Rand, first prize, interior decora Nelia Hazard, Pi Lambda Theta; Char fornia tion division in Amateur Allied .Arts ex lotte Knabb, Phi Phi, Omicron Nu Kappa Virginia Griffin, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi hibit; Rachel Harris, "R" Club \ Lams, Cwens (women's ice-president; Margaret Kappa Phi; Helen Lee Hecht, Zeta Phi athletic medals in interstate Livermore, Pi honorary), (freshmen activities); Jean Eta, Amazons, Pi Kappa Sigma (educa and Holden, Gamma Mu intersorority fencing; Jean (social studies), secretary- tion) Senior Council; Jane Newcomb, honorable mention in Amateur Allied treasurer Le Cercle Helen Moore, Franqais; Junior council. Phi Chi Theta (com Arts exhibit; Flora Harris, first with Phi Phi, treasurer Omicron Nu; prize Kappa merce); Catherine Durrell, Theta Sigma head in Amateur Allied Arts Cwens; Patton, sculptured Betsy Monroe, Betty Jo Phi, vice-president Daily Trojan; Mar exhibit; Oak, first in relief committee, business staff of Co- Joanne prize Mayday garet Denman, Alpha Lambda Delta; Ilda work in in Amateur Allied Arts Freshman handbook staff; sculpture Edition, Gerber, Alpha Lambda Delta, Pi Delta exhibit, honorable mention for a Co-Edition staff; Lola Saska, figure. Dorothy Rose, Phi (French), Athena (literature), Amazons; Pi Lambda Theta, Louise president Ignota Miller, personnel director of iVu� Homer Mildred Alpha Wittenberg College (music); Taylor, Junior Y.W.C.A., Amazons, sophomore council; Senator of W.S.G.A. newsreel Sally Houghton, secretary sophomore Jerry Clift, Trojan staff; Myrtle class; Jeanne Tuttle, Poetry Club, Art Killingsworth, Athena; Suzanne Howder- Club, Wittenberg Players; Dorothy Berg- Alpha P/��Colorado College shell, secretary-treasurer Freshman Club. Arrow and Mask Board quist. (Mortar Margaret Ellen Martin, Phi Beta Kappa; equivalent), Wittenberg Players, Theta Doris White, Phi Beta Kappa; Betty Alpha Sigma-Randolph-Macon Phi senior Alpha (dramatics honorary), .Adams, president A.W.S., Who's Who in Dorothy Voris, Phi Beta Kappa, senior in Women's representative Wittenberg American Universities and Colleges; Carol dance chairman; Carolyn Hillig, president women's debate League, varsity squad; Pollock, vice-president A.W.S.; Gabriel of West Hall (dormitory), PM (secret so Gloria Wieber, sophomore representative, Nelson, vice-president W.A.A.; Ruth Gil- ciety), president Blazer Club, athletics hon Women's de Wittenberg League, varsity more, president senior class of 1940, Delta orary, business manager of freshman hand bate took role with Wit squad, leading Epsilon (scientific); Lee Wilson, secretary book; Virginia Campbell, business manager Audria Planner, lead in tenberg Players; senior class 1940; Billie Morrison, presi of Glee Club, dance group; Lois Jones, vice- Wittenberg Players production. dent junior class; Roberta Adams, secre president Junior Class; Patricia Kane, all- tary junior class, president Quadrangle star hockey team; Mary Elizabeth Nix, Xi�Southern Methodist Alpha University Association, Skelton scholarship award; secretary International Relations Club, Marcia Skelton award; Dance on Ann Crampton, Alpha Rho Tau (art); Moody, scholarship group; Mary Helen Rice, the Marion W.A.A. Marjorie Krulish, Alpha Rho Tau, Swas Prouty, president Dean's List, 1st semester, reporter Sun tika (outstanding girls); Helen Harris, Dial; Mary Isabel Shaffer, publicity man Swastika; Jacqueline Hilger, Sigma Delta Alpha Pii�Lake Forest College ager of International Relations Club, Pi, Sigma Delta Rho, Psi Chi; Doris Jones, feature writer on Sun-Dial, college paper; Shirley Cochrane, president Panhellenic, Psi Chi; Martha Bell Patterson, Alpha Rebecca Monroe, all star hockey team; president W.A.A., Garrick Club, Senior Lambda Delta; Lucille Crimmins, Alpha Carolyn Kipp, hockey reserve; Jean Cald Ball co-chairman. Swing Queen, Who's Delta (Society), Newman well, assist manager The Tattler; Carol Kappa president Who, Beta Beta Beta; Marion Cole, presi Club; Ruth Ann Christy, Hall councilor. Clapp, Alpha Kappa dent W.S.G.A., Garrick Club, Beta Beta Delta. Beta (science). Senior Ball co-chairman; Alpha C/!i�College of William and Mary Ellen Kiningham, W.A.A. president (in Omicron�fiorth Dakota Alpha Agricul coming), Garrick Club; Bette Ekstrom, Frances Paul, Mortar Board treasurer, tural College Garrick Club, Pi Alpha Chi (music); president W.A.A., president Travel Club, debate Vera Wooldridge, Phi Upsilon Omi Jeanc Shinner, Garrick Club; Gertrude vice-president council; Betty Wood, Pi Freshman Phi Beta (was on in cron, national home economics society: Blanchard, Alpha Chi, Kappa quiz program that matched wits of six Wil Mary See, junior class president. Queen; Dorothy Westbay, Alpha Lambda April liam and Delta, Kappa Alpha (senior honorary); Mary coeds with Sir Cedric Frank and Alpha Tau-McGill University Janis Michelson, Alpha Lambda Delta, Hardwicke, Lloyd others who were in Garrick Club; Doris Oilman, 1st for Williamsburg making picture Kitty Haverfield, managing editor The prize State McPhear- "Tree of Liberty"; Hope Bitting, May McGill time held woman Extemporaneous Speaking, Daily (ist by Court; Helen head cheer son Prize (dramatics). Black, leader; student), secretary Women's Union; Bunty Grace Hopkins, Kappa Delta Pi (educa Thom, leading role McGill Players' club tion), vice-president 'Travel Club; Evelyn production; Katharine Skinner, graduate Alpha Omega� University of Western On Kempfer, Kappa Delta Pi, secretary Glee in Honours English, winner Peterson Me tario Club, vice-president of Annabel morial Prize in Literature; Helene dormitory; English Evelyn Gray, secretary Arts '40 Year Jones, treasurer of Glee Club; Bettie L'Esperance, honours in English and Executive, staff of paper; Marjorie Fethers- Creighton, secretary of Eta Sigma Phi history, awarded Chester McNaughton ton, vice-president Women's Athletic (classical); Marion Craft, president of Prize for creative writing; Norah Hardy, Council, vice-president Arts '40 permanent French Club; Ellen Lindsay, president of scholarship to French Summer school. executive; Marion Jacklin, Panhellenic Barrett Hall (dormitory). Judicial Council; president, undergraduate women's coun Lillian Douglas, treasurer of German Club Alpha t/pii/on- State College of cil; Beth Forbes, drum major college (dance group), secretary-treasurer of In Thelma Prather, Merrill-Palmer Schol band; Claire McCandless, 3rd year schol ternational Relations Club; Mary Kay arship; Elizabeth Treager, Merrill-Palmer arship in Honor English Language and Eddinger, president of German Club Scholarship, Mortar Board Treasurer; Literature; Catherine Liddy, 4th year (dance), secretary Panhellenic, vice-presi Sarah Louise Bollinger, Business staff of History prize; Muriel Skinner, Gamma dent of , art editor of Royalist Co-Edition Phi award in Secretarial Science (women's weekly); Jean Chew, (3rd year); (literary magazine); Alpha Chi won cup president of Le Cercle Franqais; Harriet Edith Velland, 2nd year scholarship in for intramural activities for the second Dayton, treasurer of Lakonides (|)hvsical Business and Secretarial Science. consecutive year. RoNDA Mann, straight "A" rec- Wilma Freudemann, Phi Beta Dorothy Sharp, Mortar Board at Joanne Sellers, '42, member ord at University of Illinois, Kappa, Mortar Board, at Ohio University of Illinois and presi- of Torch, Shi-Ai, and attend member Alpha Lambda Delta, Wesleyan; president of junior dent of Terrapin, swimming hon- ant to Sophomore Cotillion treasurer Y.W.C.A., freshman council Y.W.C.A., secretary-treas- orary. Queen, staff of The Daily cabinet. urer of W.A.A. Illini at the University of Il linois.

Gwen Muntz was one of five Mary Regan, Phi Beta Kappa Dorothy Heckman, Mortar Dorothy Bergquist, '40, Al to rule over the an- girls picked at Vanderbilt University where Board, vice-president Alpha Al- pha Nu, elected to Arrow and nual winter at carnival the Uni- she is a member of Alpha Theta pha Kappa, president of Monnett Mask (senior honorary), Wit of Illinois, and is known Hall at Ohio versity chapter. Wesleyan, repre- tenberg Players, Theta Alpha as one of "The Typical Illini sentative junior, and senior ad- Phi. Co-eds." viser.

Marion of the Cowie, president Janet Rossini, university tennis Dorothy Voris, '40, Randolph- Martha Adolph, Maid of of Manitoba Dramat- for the four Macon, Phi Beta member University champion past years Kappa, Honor at the Junior Prom at ics Society. at the University of Manitoba. of the Y.W.C.A., German Club, the University of Illinois. and on the staff of the college yearbook, the Helianthus. THE CRESCENT 54

Editorials For Greater Strength Convention Round Tables Round tables, carried on in separate sessions at con dele JLN the interests of good sorority government it vention by alumna; and Greek letter chapters' the immediate behcx)ves each member of Gamma Phi Beta to familiar gates, with free discussion of problems to the ize herself with the changes in constitution and policy and their solutions brought a vital contribution understand that have come out of the forty-first international business of convention and to a broader convention. ing of Panhellenic and Gamma Phi Beta affairs. the welfare of A closer business and financial management; a more In the opinion of those interested in and col facile division of responsibility on the grand council; the sorority system in the many universities value to a smaller number of grand officers, for economy and leges these round tables were of inestimable efficiency, and five of them now elected; have been our members. ]) ]) !> unified to bring greater strength and smoothness to Gamma Phi Beta. Full Awareness We should thank those far-sighted women who With of this worked to bring about these changes and whose eyes There is real danger that college students a self-satisfied frame of mind have been upon the sorority of today and the years country will fall into ahead. }) J) !> due to the fact that they do not realize their own good fortune as compared with the lot of students elsewhere. Chinese told a student An Tribute Dr. T. Z. Koo, noted lecturer, Impressive audience recently about the hardships of student life Members present at the convention Memorial Serv in China. A large proportion of Chinese colleges and ice for sisters who within the last two years have gone universities has been lost either through bombing or from our immediate circle were touched with deep by occupation. The Chinese government, realizing that sympathy and by the beauty of the service. the country would need its students as leaders during Many chapters knew the loss of loyal members and the next twenty-five years, urged them not to join tribute coun Gamma Phi Beta in its entirety acknowledged the army but rather to go into the interior of the to its late grand president, Elizabeth Davidson Bar try where new schools would be established. Accord bour. }) J) }) ingly thousands of Chinese students, suitcases in hand, actually walked to the country behind the high moun with their own labor constructed Founders' tains, where they Day^ 1940 the necessary buildings with little more to work with Founders' Day, 1940, will gather members into large than mud and straw. Each student is given the equiva and small centers for a renewal of Gamma Phi Beta lent of fifty-five cents which must provide him with loyalties for the tradition now is well established. food for a month. Under such conditions the Chinese Those in close touch with alumna; and Greek letter students are preparing themselves to help in the estab chapters will seek out members less fortunate, to bring lishment of a social order which will bring happiness them into fresh association with the wide scope of and security. Gamma Phi activities, with the friendships that mark Another speaker, just returned from Japan where our membership. he taught at the University of Kioto, says there is no "Through alumnae chapter organization a life in heat this winter in the schools of Japan and no cer terest in the affairs of the sorority is maintained," said tainty as to the food for the day. He particularly de Mrs. G. M. Simonson, vice-president and alumnae sec plored the "venomous" attitude of many Americans retary of Gamma Phi Beta in her convention report. towards the Japanese whom he describes as a kindly, During her two-year term of office 19 new alumnae decent people who have suffered greatly in this con chapters have been established and eight other groups flict. Because of their inability to get news from the are building toward that goal. So goes the growth that outside nearly all Japanese now believe the official makes Founders' Day one of the magnetical traditions version of the Chinese attack upon Japan. A study of of our sisterhood. }) 5 !> Japanese character and of the internal situation of the 55 SEPTEMBER, i 940

Miss Anna about future secretaries here, Mrs. E. A. Plumer, country would aid greatly in bringing past Miss Alice Dibble; chairman of ex understandings. Boardman, and secretary, Mrs. Refugees from Central Europe tell us what is hap pansion. Miss Pansy Blake; province directors. Miss pening there and of the dark future for the present Levi Willcutt; and four past province of Mrs. Gilman Smith, Miss Alvahn generation of young people. Much depends, course, Dorothy Jennings, war. If Hitler wins it will and Miss Helen Turnbull. upon the outcome of the Holmes, will feel the of fine Let us that our now active officers mean for the young women the development hope that so this asser same convention in the future. Now bodies at the expense of intellect and soul, urge the to meet the tion coming from a prominent woman lawyer of many of us have had opportunity we would like to see familiar Vienna now a refugee in this country. names we know so well, at least! 1) 1) T) Five thousand miles in one direction and three faces, come next few conventions thousand in the other seems indeed a great distance but it is not great enough to prevent eventual ruin of ones of our own way of life. So may we, the privileged the earth, who gathered at our Nation's capital for the forty-first convention of our sorority go forth with full Bulletin Board awareness of our great good fortune and of the re the installa sponsibilities which all must share if it is to continue. xaLLPH.A. GAMMA DELTA announces of The avoidance of shallow thinking and a genuine tion of Epsilon Delta chapter at the University and the re-establish effort to comprehend the problems of young people Texas, Austin, Texas, May 9, own at Iowa State Ames, the world over will tend to develop among our ment of Rho chapter college, students the kind of leadership which we must have. Iowa, June 8. }) ]) D J) ]) ])

an In The May 1941 issue of the Crescent will be Past Officers ternational Directory of members. It is to your inter ests to be listed properly so follow instructions set from The Crescent Moon The following editorial forth in the directory notice below. reflects the attitude and interest of the younger group of Gamma Phis attending convention in our distin guished past officers present for the conclave: Important Annouiiicemeiiit It is of great interest to note that among our con have not notified Central Office of vention crowd we have a very large number of former If you your name or new do so before Gamma Phi officers. This should prove something. new address, please And it does. It shows that it isn't necessarily only the February 1, 1941, otherwise you may not be in the to be active members, or active officers in the sorority who correctly listed directory published dele next The address is Suite East take an active interest. And it certainly gives the spring. 1216, 55 Illinois. It will save gates and their chapter sisters an inner glow of pride. Washington Street, Chicago, It is small things like that, examples set by our older time if you will use the coupon published else sisters and definite ideals of practical accomplishment where in this issue. Please remind your Gamma Phi friends to do the same. Some not be to follow, that we youngsters appreciate. may Crescent subscribers so would not know this was And now, so that you may know who these past of and will be them a officers are and perhaps find opportunities to become expected them, you doing The acquainted with them, we will herewith list them. service that they will appreciate. sorority for First of all we are honored by two past presidents also will appreciate your co-operation the of the Grand Council, Mrs. Arthur Hoffman and Mrs. more accurate the directory is, the greater will William Graham. Next there is a past vice-president be its value. of the Council, Mrs. William Wyatt. There are three 56 THE CRESCENT Takes Over Husband's Classes

NE of the brilliant members of Gamma Phi Beta living in Southern California is Mildred Welch Cranston (University of Illinois '21), wife of Dr. Earl Cranston, chaiiTnan of the department of political science and history at the University of Redlands. When Dr. Cranston was granted a leave of absence early in May until late in November to serve as visit ing lecturer at the Pacific School of Religion in Berke ley, California, Mrs. Cranston was named to take over his classes in the interval. She is well qualified to handle the assignment for she holds an A.B. degree in political science and a Mildred Welch doctor's degree in philosophy. A graduate of the Uni Cranston, Univer versity of Illinois, she received her bachelor's and sity of Illinois doctor's degrees in Boston and taught for a time in China. The mother of three children, she has been active in child-guidance work in Redlands, is active in the the Redlands city council, and is in demand as a Y.W.C.A., was the first and only woman member of public speaker. J) 1> 1)

Alpha Rho Triumphs Over Odds came "sisters" in a true sense of the word. Such con geniality had never before been witnessed on the cam As in The Crescent Moon reported pus. There were no factions within the chapter, and they went places and did things in a body. For example, the college did not have compulsory chapel, but every T,HE Sunny South wasn't very sunny to the Alpha Gamma Phis went to chapel together. The so Rho chapter of Gamma Phi Beta last fall. Instead Friday cial life of the campus had its share of Gamma Phis, of sun and happiness, gloom and despair reigned over too, although it did not affect the chapter's scholar the southern girls. They had reason to be downcast, Rho was second on the trans- rating�Alpha Birming for a number of actives graduated and four were ship ham-Southern fening to other colleges. campus. The worked hard and at the end of the The chapter discussed the situation. There were to chapter year felt they had something. Two of six be only eight active members and no pledges to start accomplished members of the Co-ed Council elected from the the fall term. On the campus were six national soror Upper Division were Gamma Phis. Three of the nine ities with large chapters. Something had to be done. girls elected to Mortar Board were Gamma Phis. Their Every girl expressed her willingness to work. The record of honors also includes a Phi Beta three strenuous effort put forth by Alpha Rho was not in Kappa, members in Kappa Delta Epsilon, the vain for ten girls were pledged�the chapter's quota. vice-president of Panhellenic, society editor of the paper, two This was unusual, for the average number at Birming college Glee Club soloists, three members of Mu four ham-Southern was four or five girls per chapter. These Alpha, members of the a cappella choir, a beauty queen, Y pledges gave the actives new inspiration. cabinet officers, and two members of the Court. The work did not stop with pledging. Each member May wanted to do her part toward making Gamma Phi 5 }> }) well known at Birmingham-Southern. The girls be SEPTEMBER, i 940 57 Along The Crescent Path

Flossie Nell Hagen, Mortar Board at Gamma Phi Beta who has moved to Cin of being the only sorority chapter on the of music was University Arizona, major, cinnati, Ohio, with her husband Cicero campus at Colorado College whose mem chosen to direct and produce the Gilbert Hogan to make their home was honored at bers participated in the Junior Skeleton and Sullivan operetta "Patience." She was a breakfast given by the Portland Alumnae Scholarship awards for Hall girls. Marcia a member of Spurs in her sophomore year group prior to her departure. She shared Moody and Bobby Adams received two and of F.S.T. in her junior year. honors with Mrs. Roy Pinkerton, editor of the four beautiful landscape paintings of the Crescent who was a visitor in as prizes. The Gamma Phi chapter house at the Portland. the Associ was named one of Betty Adams, president of the three outstanding sorority residences Eve Burkhardt (University of Washing ated Students on the campus at Colorado on the campus on the basis of charm, ton) of Hollywood, has for the second time College in 1939-40 was voted one of si.x comfort and the personality the girls used in recent months been represented in outstanding senior women. in the decoration of their rooms. McCall's magazine with a short story Alpha Phi's lodge was occupied during which appeared in the August issue. After the summer the eminent Zeta held its annual by musician, Alpha senior break 12 years of writing under the pen names Nicholas fast in May when Ruth Darden received of Rob Eden, Adam Bliss and Red Jardin, Slonimsky. the highest award of the the Mrs. Burkhardt is now under her chapter, selling Mary Wright, who received her B.A. senior ring. Louise Gartman was awarded own name. from Western Ontario University has the scholarship ring for the fall semester taken her Master's in Psychology at the and Lee Alice Parkhill the Nancy Barn- Jeanette Dyer Spencer (California '16) University of Toronto and returns to denberg ring; Nita Lignon the activities who is president of the California Associa Toronto this fall to do further graduate bracelet and Gene White, Sumners tion Artists and one the au Polly of of leading work. and Marynette Snider are to have their thorities on stained glass windows and names engraved on the scholarship cup who has senjed on the board of the San Dollie McLean Calloxo, province director for most making the improvement. Peggy Francisco Museum and the Exposition's for Province I heads the board of the Patterson won the pledge ring because of Decorative Arts had charge, with her hus Woman's club of Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsyl her work a outstanding while pledge. band, of the color scheme and design for vania, and is vice-president of the Faculty the Maiden Lane Festival in May in San Tea Club of the University of Pennsyl Mrs. Ernest Walter Francisco. (Marion Alexander, vania. She served as president of the Lambda is the '16) treasuring August Woman's club last year. 1940 issue of The National Geographic Florence Fink Taggart (Denver Univer Magazine as it contains a 20-page article sity and Topeka alumnae) has been elected Elizabeth Hardy (McGill University '38) and photographs, "Wanderers Awheel in a member of the Topeka Symphony So is teaching at Bryn Mawr as research as Malta" by her son, Richard Walter, Phi ciety. Frances Karlan and Cleta Johnson sistant in organic chemistry. She received Gamma Delta from the University of Voiland are members. her master's degree last year from Bryn Washington who has combined world Mawr. travel with his college years. The article Alpha Phi chapter had the distinction (Continued on page $8) is timely and forecasts the present conflict over this island off the toe of the boot of Italy and the shores of Sicily. Richard Walter is now with an advertising firm in Touch with Gamma Phi in New York City. He numbers among his Keep Beta friends and correspondents Prince Gamma Phi Beta $ Emanuel of Lichtenstein, Countess Directory (1937 edition) .50 ? Schenyi (Gladys Vanderbilt) and other Song Book $1.00 ? prominent Europeans who have since fled Life International Alumnas Dues their homes, and countries. l5-oo ? Annual Dues |i.oo n Helen Troy Bender (University of Annual Tax Washington), is editor of The Inland Camp $1.00 ? a in Empire, daily newspaper Juneau, The Crescent�Annual Subscription I1.50 ? Alaska and recently issued a jubilee num Alumnas Life ber setting forth the beauties of the re Subscriptions gion and its commercial assets as well Ages as showing the great part the United Ages 25-35 120.00 Cash Cash States Army and Navy are playing in the 45-55 $10.00 Cash development of the Alaska coastline. Mrs. 35-45 15-00 55- 5.00 Cash Bender is the of daughter ex-governor Make all checks payable to "Gamma Phi Beta" and mail them to Central Office of John Troy of Alaska and until his recent Gamma Phi Beta, 55 E. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois retirement was his official hostess in the Your name governor's house at Juneau, carrying on her newspaper duties, too. Address

Beatrice Locke Hogan (University of Chapter Oregon), former grand vice-president of 58 THE CRESCENT

Convention Calisthenics

No sooner do we get seasoned to this peeping than By Peggy Whiteley the whole business is all over. Our good eye has even The Crescent (From Moon) become accustomed to the draft of hotel doors and is known as in her column in {Peggy "Penguin Peggy" such, and now the time has come. the Rollins Daily) We don't want to write about the beautiful friend ships one finds at such a gathering as ours has been, that JL HERE is a Gamma Phi wit whose name is Alice but we feel it creeping upon us. The main thing was oiu" national of Fitzgerald who usually has a laughing group around impressed us the friendly ways of her. We listened in for awhile, until it became ficers. We must have expected the wrong effect cn- utter and cjuite apparent that she had no sympath) for friends tirelv, for our amazement has been both so with them with aching sides. She never gave them any peace at thorou<>h. What is more, we are tickled lo the all. We moved away, having been told once that there all that our Gamma Phi spirit has gone up is nothing as fattening as a good laugh. boom stages. Well, things started heading for the basement, so There are several in the vast convention group who down we went, loo. It would have been a testy journey have struck us as definitely being of talents bound lo due to the excess steps to the place, but fortunately win out in the end. One of these was the maid and hero we were able to sneak a ride down on the train of a ine in the (ioucher melodrama Tuesday night, Bert dress named Frances Ide. 'Twas a pleasant trip, and Pennington. If ever anyone was a natural on the stage, all too short. it was she. Some day we expect to pick up a Crescf.nt We overheard an account of a sightseeing trip by a and see her on one of the first few pages. Another was real traveler. It seems that several Alphas (who are, the girl from Phi chapter who sang the magazine ads, by the way, considered ])y Huxley to be the highest a natural, and another candidate for much future possible type of human), went to see the Lincoln Crescent material. .\lso the Groncr sisters, Helen and Memorial by moonlight and returned to ^Vardman Dorothy. Helen is the patient and very able person via Baltimore. They said the road was better, and be who has been the accompanist for various things when sides, it's sort of spooky driving up Connecticut Av an accompanist was needed; and the sister team-work enue at 2:30 in the morning. was worthy of further notice and presentation. When Moving on to another point of ^antage, we were you come down to it, we all have every reason in the pu//lcd to see a blue figme swinging from ropes antl world to be proud of our chapters far and wide, and ladders backstage in the little theater, where we had rarely, in such large groups of young people, have we finally ended. It swang with the utmost finesse, and we seen such vast numbers of attractive ones, and intelli " heard some one sav, "That is the Ganuua Phi Shcill gent attractiveness. Hold onto your hat sizes, girls.

Louise .\larston (Wisconsin and Madi voted attendants lo the May Queen at Along the son) spent part of her vacation from her Northwestern. Gloria Boiler '39 composed duties as socielv editor of the State "Our Song" which was simg by F.psilon Crescent Path Journal in New York where she visited under the direction of Patti Dorsey at the (Continued from page 57) \'irginia Brunt, winner of the first Vogue Intersorority Sing. Mary Frances I.aughcad .\ward, .-Mice StaufTacher, and saw Kay and Connie Clough had leads In Speech Ruth Wagner (Syracuse L'nivei-sity '26) Duncgan, Barbara Briggs Payne, Mary School plays. Paul Dorsey and Gerry is art editor and fashion editor of Pennac Lois Purdv, .Marianna and Carolyn Tees, Kna[M; modeled fashions at the Daily S'cxvs. the otTirial organ of the Pcnn .\th- .-\nn Jeffries Eells, Elizal>cth CchA Kelly Northwestern styleshow. 'I he Mothers' Iclic club, and is on the chib's athletic and others. club awarded Barbara Hall, I-'.lolse Lyon* on the club tram. She rcccnllv ap|)cared and Marljane Hurja ten dollars each for in a bcc. Mildred .Miller (University of .Xebraska) railio spelling making the greatest improvement in their member the Beach .-llumntr of Long respective classes. Mrs. Ida M. SlachI (C.hampaign-l'rhana ctiaf'ler has distinguished herself with her rciurniil from wlurc .iluiini.t'^ has Euro|)c fiainling and interior decorating and uias Dorothy Sinz. .-Mpha Xi and Dallas nianv side and wlicrc she galhcrttl lights acclaimed in tlie Long Beach newspapers alumnx spent a gay vacation in Honolulu. manv interest she and her d.iuglilcr liad fur her ability. She is always willing and under ihe Na/I icniinc. Alta M. Lux, Sigma and To|>cka alum- ing e\(>criciiccs eager to aid Ihe alumna group with ar with Flora n.T allcndcd the National Q>nvcnllon for She s|HMii part of tlic summer tistic details for leas and sruing projects. Houcs uho is in charge of the children's the Hard of Hearing held in Lot Angeles librarv in Kenosha. Wisconsin. Marion ^oung and Mar%' Barrett were laic in June. SEPTEMBER, 1940 59

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The Throne of the Gods, Arnold A. story of a haphazard vacation off the Correspondents, Wilfrid tell of Heim and August Gansser. Beautifully beaten path in Ireland. British foreign correspondents in the illustrated account of a Swiss expedition Fathers Are Funny, Frederic F. Van de history making. to the Himalayas. Water. Unsentimental honest reminis A Life with Men and Books, Arthur El more Bostwick. The of The Reconquest of Mexico, Nathaniel cences of a father on raising a son. autobiography A an eminent librarian. and Sylvia Weyl. combined biogra Juggernaut; the Path of Dictatorship, of the President of Mexico and McWil- phy Albert Carr. An historical survey of dic Factories in the Field, Carey history of his country's economic and tatorships which shows that they follow liams. The history of California's migra political development. a pattern. tory labor and its exploitation. Testament of Vera Friendship, Mary The Trees, Conrad Richter. An appealing Decade, 1929-1939, Stephen Longstreet. A Brittain. A of the moving biography story of a pioneer family changing from racy novel about a ribald old capitalist English novelist, Winifred Holtby. the hunter's nomad life to the settler's who was an honest man. How Green Was My Richard stable existence on his own land. Valley, Hotel in Flight, Mrs. Nancy J. Johnstone. Llewellyn. The youngest son of a min The Wabash, William E. Wilson. The The author of Hotel in Spain turned her er's tells the of their beau terms family story story of Indiana in of people as home into a refuge for war workers and tiful Welsh valley of 50 years ago. sociated with the valley of the Wabash. refugee children. No More Charles Bernard Gas, Nordhoff Selected Letters, Edwin Arlington Rob Wolves Against the Moon, Mrs. Julia and Norman James Hall. An amusing inson. Personal letters revealing an en Cooley Altrocchi. 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Sold to the Ladies!. Dorothy A. Bennett. tory and in attractive natural features. The .\nicrican wife of a Polish nobleman 'I he and amusing adventures of three New .\ Man Who Found a Country, Avedis writes of her life In Poland, escape York girls who bought an old barge, re Nakashian. .\ doctor's autobiography, from the German in\asion. habilitated and lived on it, it. unusual in having as its locale Turkey New England: Indian Summer. 1S65-1915, The Imperial Soviets, Henry C. Wolfe. and .Armenia. Ian Wyck Brooks. A distinguished se Soviet foreign policy from 1920 to today, From Off Island. .Mrs. Dionis Cofjin Riggs. quel to The Flowering of New England. de popularly presented. The fictionized biography of an Aus In Search of Complications, Eugene The American Presidency, Harold Joseph tralian girl brought as a bride to a whal Savitsch. The highlv personal autobiog Laski. fled the The role of the President in ing captain's home on Martha's Vineyard. raphy of a White Russian who .�\merican revolution, adven government. The Bird in the Tree, Elizabeth Goudge. country during the Escape with and became a suc Me, Osbert Sitwcll. The es .\ grandmother's struggle to preserve the tured in many lands, in the United States. sence of Chinese life is penetrated in an stability of her family and the beautiful cessful physician adventureless, rather formal book of old home in which it centered. P.VRis France, Gertrude Stein. A nostalgic travel to France Miss Stein China and Cambodia. Directions in Modern Poetry, Elizabeth A. characterization of the The Spanish Adventlrfs of Washington Dreie. Appreciative interpretation of has known and loved. .\ realis Irving, Claude Gernade Bowers. A de modern poetry. Foundation Stone. Leila Warrrn. life on an .\la- lightful chronicle of Irving's years in The Floor of Heaven, Sylvia Chatfield tic chronicle ol laniily Ivil \Var. Spain as student and ambassador. Bates. A slight, well-written novel of bania plantation before the ( Bolles. The Wind of Circu.mstance, Harold Dear- mood and atmosphere, with the scene on Father Was an Edu or, Joshua K. den. in a Con An Englishman's candid reminis a windswept New England island. The life of a newspaperman cences of medical and psychiatric prac Clara Schuman.n, John N. Burk. The life necticut town early in the century. tice in London. A of a great pianist, sympathetically told. The Defenders, Franz Hoellering. tragic Wild Geese Stewart storv of Vienna citizens from walks Calling, Edward They Wanted War, Otto D. Tolischus. A many While. A novel of two of life in Austria. plciisant young well-informed analysis of Germany and pre-.-Vnschluss in the Beetle pioneers northwest in the 1890's. Hitler. Country Editor, Hcnty Hough. life on .Margaret Fuller, Whetstone of Genius, Rural and small-town The Irresponsibles, Archibald MacLeish. journalism Mason Wade. of .Martha's Vineyard, pleasantly related. Many literary people The Librarian of Congress' famous criti to Alan Dcvoe. A collection the period figure in this of a Down Earth, biography cism of his literary contemporaries. pioneer feminist. of nonsentiinental nature essays. Sanctuary, Mrs. E. W. Mrs. Pais Isolated America, Raymond Leslie Buell. Paisley. The Family, Sina Fedorova. The story of sanctuary was a small acreage in and A forecast of our future in the event of ley's a family of White Russian refugees Maine and her book tells of an daily hap in China. allied or a German and a their many boarders victory, there. statement of our responsibility. penings The Bedside Book of Famous British Quietly My Caitain Waits, Evelyn Eaton. .\ Lion in the Garden, Gladys Bronwyn Storms, Edited by Bennett A. Cerf and Slern. .\ about one sum stories A story of unconventional romance in gentle comedy Henry C. Moriarly. Eighty rang mer in the lives of two servants the dangerous years when England and English ing from Chaucer to Evelyn Waugh. France fought for .-Xcadla. and the family they had served for many The Mouirn House in America, James and Our Southwest, Erna Fergusson. .\ fasci \ears. Katherine M. Ford. Attractive photo nating book about a region rich in his Polish Proitle, Virgilia Peterson Sapielia. graphs, ]>!ans and building data.

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guts Gamma Phi Beta Directory FOUNDERS Helen M. Dodge (Mrs. V. Ferguson) Died 10-21-37 The Crescent J. (From Moon) Frances E. Haven (Mrs. C. M. Moss) Died 6-16-37 E. Adeline Curtis (Mrs. Frank Curtis) Died 1-14-23 a carload of Tau \vitli When girls Mary A. Bingham (Mrs. Edward S. Willoughby) Died 1-14-16 Jeanette Robinson at the wheel and Marthelen Ticen guiding the party toured FOUNDED Arlington Cemetery Sunday, the his November 1 1, 1874, Syracuse University toric grounds became a battle ground for their ingenuity when they discovered had the closing hour and they overstayed GRAND COUNCIL were locked within for the night. Anti below climax: they caught the attention of a (Address name) Mrs. William Dehn guard on the outside and were released. Grand President 2010 E. St., Seattle, Wash. Did you notice the star turquoise on 50th and Alumna Mrs. G. M. Simonson Elizabeth Simonson's forefinger? Vice-president Secretary 20 Lorita Ave., Piedmont, Calif. From a straw vote taken informally Chairman of Provinces Mrs. Joseph H. Weiner about and around convention, it is the 1109!/^ Glenville Dr., Los Angeles, Calif. consensus that Kathryn Paulson, Lambda, National Panhellenic Delegate Mrs. Harold Hartman is the best-looking girl here. You may 4408 Beach Dr., Seattle, Wash. have other favorites, but if your specialty Chairman of Expansion Mrs. R. E. Fitzgerald is tall slimness, heavy dark curly hair, 1761 Church St., Wauwatosa, Wis. Chairman Finance Mrs. George R. Keith and big calm eyes, place your money on of Box Los Calif. to win. 697-A, Altos, Kathryn Mrs. L. A. White Annette Stauffer's conception of the Secretary-Treasurer Suite 1216, 55 E. Washington St., Chicago, 111. Countess was about the funniest thing these eyes have seen in many a conven from it was even tion. But backstage, Councilor Mrs. Arthur C. Hoffman on the funnier to see Mrs. Walter Shiel 4654 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. behind-the-scenes balcony, doubled over Historian Mrs. R. E. Fitzgerald with laughter to such an extent that she 1761 Church St., Wauwatosa, Wis. Mrs. Wm. E. Colby was hanging almost half-way down to the Parliamentarian Calif. stage. 2901 Channing Way, Berkeley, Have you caught the little gingham-girl look of Barbara Whitney, president of Central Gamma Phi Beta Suite E. St., 111. the D.C, alumnae Office of 1216, 55 Washington Chicago, Washington, chapter, Mrs. L. A. White in her and blue? Secretary-Treasurer pink I Miss Suzanne Maurer The little at dinner in blue dolly Assistants < Miss Jane Strong chiffon, with a twisted white necklace and Make checks payable to "Gamma Phi Beta" and send to Central Office. only about five feet worth of height, is Peggy Brugler, Alpha, who has a per sonality to match her impudent nose. THE CRESCENT If you were at the discussion on amend to MiiS. Roy Pinkerton, Box R.R. 1, Ventura, Calif. ments, you couldn't fail notice the Editor-in-chief� 341, Associate Editor: Mrs. O. F. E. Ore. blue-and-white striped chambray charmer Stafford, 1289 15th St., Eugene, Business Manager: Mrs. L. A. White, Room 1216, 55 E. Washington St., Chicago, 111. on the page. The owner of that slim Send all contributions to Mrs. Pinkerton. Send name and address to Central waist is Bennett, Gamma. changes Jane Office. Marthella Tau, is the Thompson, Alumnae are requested to send all personal items (marriages, etc.) to their Greek- brown-haired brown-skinned, brown-eyed, letter or alumnae chapters. girl who is a knockout in a yellow blouse and a striped evening skirt. For originality we have to give the gold ENDOWMENT-CRESCENT BOARD star to Jeanne Stauffer. That brilliantly- President: Mrs. Floyd Treat, 6450 N. Ave., Chicago, 111. colored skirt and turban, set off by a Kappa, Albany Vice-President: Miss Marjorie Etnyre, Gamma, 5557 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, III. white blouse, which she wore the other Secretary: Miss Helen Northrop, Epsilon, 1212 Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, 111. were her own night, design. Treasurer: Miss Marion Bebb, Omicron, 903 Hinman Ave., Evanston, 111. Anne Wollman McPhail makes us take Mrs. George R. Keith, Lambda, Box 697-A, Los Altos, Calif, (ex-officio) a second glance every time we meet, by Mrs. William Dehn, Lambda, 2010 E. goth St., Seattle, Wash, (ex-officio) and information about loans to Miss the sheer power of her charm. But, then, Address all requests for application blanks Northrop we've always been susceptible to blond hair, smooth skin, and a slow smile. Moving from the ridiculous up, we INTERNATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES think should hear about Vanderbilt's you Camp: Mrs. Hubert Hardy, 2645 Asbury Ave., Evanston, 111. activities record. After about amazing Ritual: Mrs. Walter P. Shiel, 3715 47th PI. N.E., Seattle, Wash. Mortar Board three years of promotion. Education: Mrs. L. A. White, Room 1216, 55 E. Washington St.. Chicago, 111. was eventually established on the Vander Magazines: Mrs. J. F. Hagemann, 526 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, III. taken E. Calif. bilt campus, and of all the girls Recommendations: Mrs. Wm. Colby, 2901 Channing Way, Berkeley, 62 THE CRESCENT

PROVINCE OFFICERS into the society for that period, by far the highest percentage ^vere Gamma Phis. Province 1�Director: Mrs. Rlssell Callow, 314 Kent Rd.. Bala-Cvn�-\d, Pa. Noticed bang-up hand bags, Secretary: Mi&s Ruth Wagner, 2926 Berklev Rd., Ardmore. Pa. .Alpha's each with a look and Province U�Director: Mrs. Stuart Fox, 730 Forest .Ave., Wilmette, 111. hand-wrought keyed to add that to its carrier? Secretary: Mrs. C. T. .Akre, 1923 Lincoln St., Evanston, 111. ooomp Province Ill-Director: Mrs. M. H. Linscott, 6143 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo. The lovely child with big dark eyes. Secretary: Mrs. Geo. A. Clay, 1002 Romany Rd., Kansas City, Mo. brown curlv hair, and a ribbon bow is Province l\�Director: Mrs. R. .A. Sand, 1122 7th St. S., Fargo, N.D. not some Grand Council member's nine- Secretary: Miss Barbara Bibow, 1305 S. 8th St., Fargo, N.D. year-old daughter. It's Barbara Ravmond. Province V�Director: Mrs. D. E. Hodges, 822 St., Bartlesville, Okla. Johnstone senior transfer to Maryland and Beta Beta Secretary: Mrs. Carol Innes, 1021 W. 20th St., Oklahoma Citv, Okla. from Randolph-Macon. Province Vl�Director: Mrs. Gordon Burke, 3852 23rd .Ave. W., \'ancouver. B.C. It took a lot of huffing and puffing, but Secretary: Miss Florence Brown, 7970 Oak St.. Vancouver. B.C. Robinson and Tll/abetli Kinghorn Province Vll�Director: Mrs. ^V^I. L. Rawn, 1035 Georgina .Ave., Santa Monica, Calif. Jeanette Secretary: .Mrs. S. E. \Vricht, 8802 Rindge .Ave., Venice, Calif. of Tau did climb the steps of the Wash Province Vlll�Director: Mrs. James Binns, 1251 Peachtrce St. N.E., .Atlanta, Ga. ington Monument .Monday noon. Secretary: Mrs. Jack May, 1430 Peachtiee Dr. N.\V., .Atlanta, Ga. Deserving of special recognition and an honorary medal is Mr. Malcolm Dcn- ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CHAPTERS nison of Denver. \\ho drove across the country to bring his wife (Jessie Carmon, (With chapter house addresses) Theta) to convention. What's more, he N.Y. Alpha (A) Syracuse University 803 Walnut St., Syracuse, has two Gamma Phi sisters, four Gamma Beta of S. Universitv Ave.. .Ann Arbor. Mich. (B) University Michigan 1520 Phi sisters-in-law, and two Gamma Phi Gamma (F) University of Wisconsin 270 Langdon St., Madison, ^V'is. nieces. One of the nieces, Ruth Billington, Delta Boston 131 Commonwealth .Ave., Boston, Mass. (A) University also attended convention. Epsilon (E) Northwestern University 640 Emerson St., Evanston, III. Zeta (Z) Goucher College 3 W. 23rd St., Baltimore, Md. Eta (II) University of California 2732 Channing Way. Berkeley, Calif. Theta (0) University of Denver 2280 S. Columbine St.. Denver, Colo. Eloise Rockwell. at Iota (I) Barnard College Founded Nov. 4, 1901 (inactive 1915) Alpha Upsilon Penn State was in of Kappa (K) University of Minnesota 311 10th .Ave. S.F... Minneapolis, Minn. charge arrange Lambda (A) University of Washington 4529 17th St. N.E., Seattle, Wash. ments for Mortar Board conference Mu (M) Leland Stanford, Jr., University Box 1337. Stanford l'iii\crsily. Calif. last spring. Nu (N) University of Oregon 1021 Hilyard St., Eugene, Ore. Xi (2) University of Idaho 1038 Blake St., Moscow, Idaho Virginia Supple Stewart, Omicron Omicron (0) University of Illinois 1 1 10 W. Nevada St., Urbana, III. '28, is managing the Hotel Wilshire Pi of Nebraska N. )6th St., Lincoln, Neb. (11) University 415 at Beach, . Rho (P) University of Iowa 328 N. Clinton St., Iowa City, Iowa Sigma (2) University of Kansas 1339 W. Campus Dr., Lawrence, Kan. Tau (T) Colo. State College 1405 S. College St., Ft. Collins, Colo. Upsilon (T) Hollins College Founded June 1, 1916 (lnactl\e 1929) Phi (sllon (A T) Pa. State Cx)llege Woman's BIdg., State College, Pa. Alpha Phi (A

CHAPTER DIRECTORY Ann Arbor, Chartered 1926. Omega, Iowa State College, Founded Dec. 20, President: Mrs. Earl Wolaver, 1310 Hill 1918. St., Ann Mich. President: Mary Ellen Wendell, Bronson, Home addresses for of Arbor, given presidents Columbus, Chartered 1926. Iowa. Greek-letter chapters; refer to chapter roll President: Miss Jo B. Welch, 20 E. nth .\LPiiA Beta, University of North Dakota, for chapter house addresses. Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Founded June 16, 1920. Springfield, Chartered 1929. President: Elaine Johnson, Hillsboro, N.D. "President: Mrs. H. R. Jones, 9-10 New Alpha Kappa, University of Manitoba, PROVINCE I Zimmerman BIdg., Springfield, Ohio. Founded June 5, 1925. Chartered President: Strad- Alpha, Syracuse University, Founded Nov. Delaware, 1931. Catherine Young, 558 "President: Mrs. Howard 100 brooke Man. II, 1874. Stammler, Ave., Winnipeg, Griswold Ohio. -\lpha North Dakota State President : Grace Main Ave., Delaware, Omicron, College, Cadwallader, 131 Chartered St., Palmyra, N.Y. London, 1937. Founded Feb. i, 1930. President : Miss Jean Campbell, 413 Salis President: Mary See, Bismarck, N.D. Delta, Boston University, Founded April 22, 1887. bury St., London, Ont. Milwaukee, Chartered 1902. Fort Wayne, Chartered 1939. President: Mrs. Walter Hansen, 6128 N. President: Grace Ward, 5 Maple Ave., President: Miss Marie Wis. Matick, Mass. Wurtenberger, 1308 Bay Ridge Ave., Milwaukee, Orchard Ft. Ind. Chartered Alpha Alpha, University of Toronto, Founded St., Wayne, Minneapolis, 1904. President: Mrs. Cecil A. Burnham, 5237 Oct. 20, 1918. UNCHARTERED GROUPS Clinton Ave. Minn. President: Peggy Gratton, 486 Clinton St., S., Minneapolis, Chartered ioronto, Ont. Dayton, Organized 193 1. Madison, 1913. President: Porter Alpha 'Iau, McGill University, Founded Sept. "President: Miss Eloise Poock, 60s Grafton Mrs. Butts, Shorewood, Madison. Wis. 26, 1931. Ave., Dayton, Ohio. Des Chartered Pres.d"nt: Betty Hagmeier, Preston, Ont. Toledo, Organized 1934. Moines, 1918. Pre.ndent: Mrs. LeRoy L. Daubert, 43 ii Alpha Upsilon, Pennsylvania State College, President: Mrs. H. E. MacArthur, 3341 Sheridan Des Iowa. Founded May 21, 1932. Grimsley PI., Ottawa Hills, Toledo, Ohio. Ave., Moines, St. Chartered President: Isabelle Pfeiffer, 100 E. Hous Akron, Organized 1935. Paul, 1922. President: Miss Frances 622 Grand ton Ave., Montgomery, Pa. President: Mrs. John Bridgwater, 118 Ellison, St. Minn. Syracuse, Chartered 1892. Charing Cross, Stow, Ohio. Ave., Paul, Chartered President: Mrs. J. Ross Paltz, 621 Walnut Cincinnati, Organized 1935. Fargo, 1929. President: Mrs. Alf nth Ave. ht., Syracuse, N.Y. "President: Mrs. J. T. McIlwain, 19 Worth- Skaret, 1213 Boston, Chartered 1893. ington Ave., Wyoming, Ohio. N., Fargo. N.D. Western Chartered 1929. President: Miss Marjorie White, 15 Nor Michigan, Organized 1936. Winnipeg, President : Miss Louise 1020 Wel wood Ave., Newton Center, Mass. "President: Mrs. J. R. Baker, 949 Maxwell Halls, Man. New York, Chartered 1901. Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. lington Crescent, Winnipeg, Iowa City, Chartered 1931. President: Miss Ruth Burgard, 55 Con President : tinental Ave., Forest Hills, L.I. Mrs. Harold Schuppert, iiio PROVINCE III E. Iowa Iowa. Toronto, Chartered 1919. College St., City, Tri-City, Chartered 1938. President: Mrs. Alan Muirhead, 421 Mer- Omicron, University of Illinois, Founded May President: Mrs. Kenneth ton Ave., Toronto, Ont. 24i 1913. Burtt, 1920 Grand Iowa. , Chartered 1935. President: Carolyne Meyer, 410 W. Church Ave., Davenport, Sioux City, Chartered President: Miss Virginia Hildreth, 210 St., Champaign, 111. 1939. President: Miss Louise Meetinghouse Lane, Merion, Pa. Pi, University of Nebraska, Founded June 20, Perkins, 306 19th Sioux Montreal, Chartered 1938. 1914. St., City, Iowa. Ames, Chartered 1940. President: Mrs. Gordon Rutherford, 3471 President: Peggy West, 1103 Coolbaugh St., Helton Ave., Westmount, P.Q. Red Oak, Iowa. "President: Mrs. J. M. Daine, 718 Duff Northeastern New Jersey, Chartered 1938. Sigma, University of Kansas, Founded Oct. St., Ames, Iowa. President: Mrs. Gilbert E. Bell, 320 Park 9, .191S. UNCHARTERED GROUPS .St., Upper Montclair, N.J. President: Betty Van Deventer, 1019 N. Westchester, Chartered 1938. Washington St., Wellington, Kan. Grand Forks, Organized 1926. President: Mrs. John M. Budinger, 10 Sus Phi, Washington University (St. Louis), President: Mrs. P. T. Vaaler, 1120 Chest sex Ave., Bronxville, N.Y. Founded Feb. 23, 191 7. nut St., Grand Forks, N.D. Buffalo, Chartered 1040. President: Laurie Karch, 2302a Miami St., President: Mrs. E. T. Ladd, Lewiston, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. Alpha PROVINCE V Pittsburgh, Chartered 1940. Delta. University of Missouri, Founded Theta, of President: Mrs. H. S. McConihay, 1536 May 20, 1921. University Denver, Founded Dec. Shady Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. President: Florence Fellows, Veterans Ad 28, 1897. ministration, Aspinwall, Pa. President: Elizabeth Mullare, 647 Wil St. liams St., Colo. UNCHARTERED GROUPS Louis, Chartered 1919. Denver, President: Mrs. L. W. McDougal, 6636 San Tau, Colorado Agricultural College, Founded Wheeling, Or,i:anized 1035. Bonita Ave., Clayton, Mo. Oct. IS, 1915. "President : Mrs. W. S. Na President: Patterson, 840 Omaha, Chartered 1919. Marthelen Ticen, 7450 W. 14th tional Rd., W.Va. Wheeling, President: Mrs. Rex Stratton, 818 S. 37th Ave., Lakewood, Colo. Ave., Omaha, Neb. Psi, University of Oklahoma, Founded Sept. PROVINCE II Kansas City, Chartered 1923. 14. 1918. President: President: Miss Virginia Strandberg, 820 Clarabeth Holt, so8 E. Park St. Beta, University of Michigan, Founded June W. 65th St., Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma City, Okla. 7, Alpha of .1882. Champaign-Ureana, Chartered 1929. Zeta, University Texas, Founded President: Virginia 1721 May 29, 1922. Hardy, MacGregor President: Mrs. Van C. Norman, 912 W. St., Midland, Mich. Daniel St., Champaign, 111. Pre.udent: Louise Gartman, Goldthwaite, Tex. Epsilon, Northwestern University, Founded Lincoln, Chartered 1938. Oct. 1888. Alpha 13, President: Mrs. W. G. 1841 Lake Xi, Southern Methodist University, President: Marion Tempel, Young, 961 Western St., Lincoln, Neb. Founded Sept. 21, 1929. HI. President: Ann Ave., Joliet, Wichita, Chartered 1934. Crampton, 3706 Universitv Alpha Ohio Eta, Wesleyan University, President: Mrs. Jack N. St., Dallas, Tex. Founded Rathbone, 922 Alpha Nov. 10, 1923. Holyoke St., Wichita, Kan. Phi, Colorado College, Founded Oct President: Betty Gulp, 601 Hill St., Wil- 15, 1932. Pa. President: kinsburg. UNCHARTERED GROUPS Marcia Moody, 1335 Maple St Alpha Nu, Wittenberg College, Founded May Wilmette, 111. Lawrence, Organized 1021. 24, 1929. Denver, Chartered President: Mrs. George 1907. President: Betty Docking, 21 31 Massa President: Snyder, 320 N. Jefferson chusetts Mrs. J. T. Roberts, 1032 Bonnie St., Van Wert, Ohio. Ave., Lawrence, Kan. Brae Topeka, Organized Blvd., Denver, Colo Alpha Psi, Lake Forest College, Founded May 1933. Oklahoma City, Chartered President: Mrs. W. M. Med- 1921. 19, 1934. Pulford, 1214 President: Miss ford Sara Marie Battfn 1012 President: St., Topeka, Kan. Ellen Kinningham, 139 Ravine N.E. 14th St., Oklahoma City, Okla Forest Lake Colorado Dr., Bluff, HI. Springs, Chartered 1923 Alpha of Omega, University Western Ontario, PROVINCE IV President: Mrs. F. F. Wing, 15 E. Fon- Founded Oct. 24, 1936. tanero St.. Colorado Colo Gamma, University of Wisconsin, Founded Springs, President: Catherine Liddy, 443 Regent St., Tulsa, Chartered 1920. Nov. 14, 1885. London, Ont. President: Mrs. R. L. President: Bonnie Kate Clarke, 2411 S Chicago, Chartered 1891. Owens, 544 Roose Troost St., Tulsa, Okla. velt Rd.. Gary, Ind. Pre.!ident: Mrs. James Soper, 1422 S. Austin Dallas, Chartered Kappa, of 1930. Blvd., Cicero, 111. University Minnesota, Founded May President: Mrs. H. H. 29, 1902. Hetherington, 6100 Detroit, Chartered 1913. Richmond St.. Tex President: Mary Helen Dallas, President: Mrs. W. Pennington, 3626 Denver of J. Mills, 5253 Kensing Emerson Tau, Chartered 1939 ton Mich. Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. President: St., Detroit, Mrs. R. Bryan Servicf ic,? S Rho, University of Founded ' ^ ' ^� Cleveland, Chartered 1916. Iowa, June iq. Grant St., Denver, Colo. President: 1915. Mrs. R. P. Thomas, Jr., 3292 Norman, Chartered 1939 President: Dorothy 108 St. N.E Berkeley Ave., Cleveland Hts., Ohio. Swift, 4th , President: Mrs. Walter Mason City, Iowa. Ratliff, 216 W Gray St., Norman, Okla. �Last new * president reported; officers not re Last * president reported; new officers not re Last president ported. ported. reported; new officers not re ported. 64 THE CRESCENT

UNCHARTERED GROUPS President: Mrs. T. G. MacDonald, 31 28 Pasadena, Chartered 1939. Ft. Collins, Organized 1922. Colby Ave., Everett, Wash. President: Mrs. George Varnuu, 445 Plym outh San Calif. President: Mrs. J. S. Jones, 531 S. Whit- St., Marino, comb St., Ft. Collins, Colo. UNCHARTERED GROUP Phoenix, Chartered 1939. Austin, Organized 1926. President: Mrs. Haisry Walmsley, Jr., 924 Moscow, Organized 1913. President: Mrs. Byron W. McDowell Ariz. Votaw, 3507 Liberty "President: Mrs. Geo. N. Polk Rd., Phoenix, Horton, 307 San Chartered St.. Austin, Tex. Idaho. Diego, 1930. St., Moscow, Rose- Utah, Organized 1929. President: Mrs. W. D. Ballincer, 862 "President: Mrs. G. K. Ludwig, 1713 Yale crans St., San Diego, Calif. Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah. PROVINCE VII San Antonio, Organized 1932. PROVINCE VIII President: Miss Gwendolyn Shepherd, 321 Eta, University of California, Founded April Warwick Blvd., San Antonio, Tex. 17, 1894. Goucher College, Founded Nov. 24, 1S93. Houston, Organized 1935. President: Mary Louise Lyman, 6602 Chabot Zeta, President: E. Taxet Rd., President: Mrs. C. W. Sanders, 3428 Wick- Rd., Berkeley, Calif. Roop, 3700 Egerton Md. ersham Lane, Houston, Tex. Mu, Leland Stanford, Jr. University, Founded Baltimore, Alpha Founded Pueblo, Organized 1936. Jan. 9, 1905. Theta, Vanderbilt University, "President : Miss Lois Weber, 421 Broadway, President: Jean Hansen, Box 665, Merced, June 25, 1024. Pueblo, Colo. Calif. President: Elise Pritchett, 2000 Belcourt .\lpha Gamma, University of Nevada, Founded St., Nashville, Tenn. May 14, 1921. .\lpha Mu, Rollins College, Founded Tune 9, PROVINCE VI President: E.\rlmoxd 226 Flint St., Baker, '9-S. . ^ Reno, Nev. President : Frances Montgomery, 1S5 Chris Lambda, University of Washington, Founded Alpha Epsilon, University of Arizona, topher St., Montclair, N.J. May 7, 1903. Founded April 29, 1922. Alpha Rho, Birmingham-Southern College, President : Susanne Shore Fisher, 3414 Dr., President: Shirley Rice, Bisbee, .^riz. Founded Sept. 6, 1930. Seattle, Wash. Alpha Iota, University of California at Los President: Barbara Callaway, 1S17 29th St., of Founded Dec. Nu, University Oregon, 18, .\ngeles. Founded June 26, 1924. Birmingham, .\Ia. 1908. President: Ethelin Bell, 1336 Rimpau Blvd., Alpha Sigma. Randolph-Macon Woman's Col President: Frances "D" St., Roth, 925 Los .\ngeles, Calif. lege, Founded Sept. 13, 1930. Ore. Beta Salem, .\lpha. University of Southern Cali President: Louise Somerville, 353 Wastena Founded Nov. Xi, University of Idaho, 22, fornia, Founded Sept. 24, 193S. Ter., Ridgewood, N.J. 1909. President: Bonita Todd, 429 W^. Dartmouth Alpha Chi, College of William and Mary, President: Jane Schubert, Gooding, Idaho. Rd., Kansas Mo. City, Founded Jan. 14, 1933. Chi, State Founded April 27, Oregon College, Berkeley, Chartered 1902. President: Marian Craft, Valley Stream, 1918. President: Mrs. E. O. C. Ord Jr., 3015 N.Y. President: Irene Hoover, 1245 S.E. 53rd Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Calif. Baltimore, Chartered 1914. Ave., Portland, Ore. San Francisco, Chartered 1902. President: Mrs. Robert Wagner, 115 Long- Alpha Lambda, University of British Columbia, President : Mrs. E. G. Roodhouse, 1321 Web- wood Rd., Baltimore, Md. Founded April 28, 1928. .ster St., Palo Alto, Calif. Nashville, Chartered 1929. President: Margot Burgess, 5516 Churchill Los Angeles, Chartered 1913. President : Miss Martha Lane, 2013 19th St., Vancouver, B.C. President: Mrs. Craig Nason, Jr., 320 S. Ave. S., Nashville, Tenn. Portland, Chartered 1913. Clark Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. Chartered President: Mrs. Roy E. Wood, 4063 N.E. Reno, Chartered 1921. Birmingham, 1931. President : Miss Malline Divi 29th St., Portland, Ore. President: Mrs. Thos. Doherty, 325 E. Burns, 7532 sion Ala. Seattle, Chartered 1915, Liberty St., Reno, Nev. Ave., Birmingham, President : Mrs. Richard M. Vaughan, 1421 Sacramento Valley, Chartered 1937. Richmond, Chartered 1931. President: Miss Margaret E. Valley St., Seattle, Wash. President: Mrs. Joseph Kane, 421 46th St., Sorc, 2015 Monu Spokane, Chartered 1918. Sacramento, Calif. ment Ave., Richmond, Va. President: Mrs. D. A. Turner, 2303 Grand Tucson, Chartered 1937. Washington, Chartered 1935. Blvd., Spokane, Wash. President: Mrs. L. W. Roberson, 1528 E. President: Mrs. Paul C. Whitney, 2935 Vancouver, Chartered 1928. 8th St., Tucson, Ariz. 2Xth St. N.W., Washington, D.C. President: Mrs. Geo. W. Shipp, 5830 Hud Hawaii, Chartered 1938. Norfolk, Chartered 1939. son Ave., Vancouver, B.C. President: Mrs. A. R. A. Boycott, 147 President: Miss Mary Elizabeth Slater, Boise, Chartered 1939. Kealohilani Ave., Honolulu, T.H. 1145 B St., Portsmouth, Va. David Long President: Mrs. Dickovek, 530 Warm Beach, Chartered 1939. Atlanta, Chartered 1940. Idaho. President: Mrs. Arthur Springs Ave.. Boise, B. Green, 4160 President: Mrs. James Binns, 1251 Peach Eugene, Chartered 1940. Linden Ave., Long Beach, Calif. trce Ave., Atlanta, Ga. President: Mrs. R. T. Brewer, 423 E. Palo ,\lto. Chartered 1939. Ore. President: Mrs. Edward L. Broadway, Eugene, Clark, Box 216, UNCHARTERED GROUP Everett, Chartered 1940. Los Altos, Calif. Winter Park Orlando, Organized 1933. * * I.a.st president reported; new officers not Last president reported ; new officers not re President: Miss Nancy Brown, 645 Putnam reported. ported. St., Orlando, Fla.

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