"Ghe CRESCENT of Gamma Phi Beta Published at 450-454 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wisconsin.

DECEMBER CONTENTS

THEN AND NOW�A BRIEF HISTORY 271 THE FIRST NUMBER 271 FROM THERE ON 274 ZETA AND NAN DIMMICK 275 NAN BY HERSELF 276 A BACKWARD LOOK 276 SINCE 1910 277 Twenty-five Years�An Outline 277 Regarding Chapter Letters 283 Here's What the Bu$ine$$ Manager? Say 284 From Our Official Friends 288 ^^ From Our Panhellenic Friends 292 Three Firsts 293 r^^pc^^^jiJlUjr The First Inspection 295 Where Are the Babes of Yesteryear? 297 ' ~iZJ. A Silver Anniversary 301 A TRIO OF LIBRARY AUTHORITIES 302 ^so^i* GAMMA PHI BOOK NOOK 304 LIFE ALUMNA MEMBERS 305 .^\^ CAMP DEPARTMENT 308 FROM THE COLLEGE CHAPTERS 313 GAMMA PHI ON THE AIR 317 GAMMA PHI BETA PICTORIAL 319 IP aiJtJiie^^^^^^^ PANHELLENIC DEPARTMENT 325 ANNOUNCEMENTS 329 ^ij^ EDITORIALS 330 PLEDGES OF 1935 335 WHAT THE COLLEGE CHAPTERS ARE DOING 338 r�-5-tfir!i�'�>5� r DID YOU READ ABOUT 351 GAMMA PHI BETA DIRECTORY 352

CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON WHITE (Mrs. L. A.) Executive Secretary Gamma Phi Beta Central Office 55 East Washington Street Chicago, Illinois

THE CRESCENT is published regularly the 15th of Septem ber, 1st of December, 15th of February, and 1st of May, by (Jeorge Banta, OfUcial Printer, 450-454 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wis. Entered as second-class matter October 1, 1910, at the post office at Menasha, Wis., under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103 of the Act of October 3, 1917, paragraph 4, section 429, P. L. and R., authoriaed July 18, 1918. Subscription price per year. One Dollar and a Half, payable in advance. Forty Cents ($.40) per copy. Address all material for publication to the Editor. To

Nina Rogers Sweetser and Anna Morris Dimmick

whose vision and endeavor

have made possible the maga2;ine of today

this compilation

is dedicated by their successor

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NINA ROGERS SWEETSER ANNA MORRIS DIMMICK

/ b THE CRESCENT

LINDSEY BARBEE, Editor 844 Humboldt Street, Denver, Colorado

Vol. 35 DECEMBER, 1935 No. 4

Then and Now�A Brief History of the Maga2,ine The First Number

first number of our magazine given us by the Convention was of THEis dated June, 1900. It is five by course very limited. We had no sub eight in measurement and bears scription list to rely upon and only a on its cover the etched sorority mono small fund to draw from. It has there gram with a crescent below. On the fore been necessary to issue a small crescent is the figure 4. The Magazine number of printed pages, allowing less Committee consisted of Lillian Parker room than was desirable for the excel Allen, Eta; Claribel Moulton, Delta; lent contributions received from all Mary Sanborn Richardson, Beta; Ma sides. A sufficient number of subscrip bel Mudge, Zeta; Nine Rogers Sweet tions will insure a later and more pre ser, Delta. The contents include: tentious issue, for we hope to greet you in December, March and � September, Poem: Not Wholly Lost Sarah June. Satterthwaite Leslie Another editorial is as follows: Story: The Coming of El Trem Chapter letters should deal with soror bler�Frances Hammel Gearhart ity matters exclusively. It is the plan of Life at the University of Fraternity the committee to include in each num Michigan ber of the magazine an article describ The Theta Chapter House ing the life in some college where a Editorial chapter is located. Chapter Letters A plea is made for an appropriate Personal cover; attention is called to the enclosed In Memoriam subscription blank with the comment, One editorial reads: The authority "All subscriptions must be paid in ad- 272 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

and as vance. If it should be found that there fortably all the delegates to convention, time many of Delta's members as could find are not enough subscribers to warrant to attend the sessions. In just such small groups, further publication of the magazine, the however, were enthusiastic and earnest discus sions carried on, and decisions made, which sent in be re money that has been will were to be of great importance to the Gamma funded." Piii Beta of future years, and not the least of tliese were the deliberations which led up to We are fortunate to secure contribu the founding of our sorority magazine. To tions from four of the original Maga Delta chapter were given the honor and the responsibility of launching tbe enterprise. The zine Committee. editorial work and business management were with the assistance of In Volume II, Number I is this com assigned to the writer, Mrs. Irving Richardson (Bessie Sanborn, Beta) are to the ment: "We pleased chronicle liolh of whom were at that time living in Wel and could work to birth in September of a daughter, Isa lesley Hills, conveniently gether, and early in the year 1900 appeared the belle, to the former editor-in-chief of first issue of the Crescent. I do not remember the Crescent, Nina Rogers Sweetser. how many numbers were published that first year, but have the impression there were two. for Phi. Delta take A recruit Gamma Owing to the fact that it was necessary to wait notice." The care of the same little for dilatory "associate editors," as chapter cor respondents were called, the magazine had to be the fact daughter probably explains issued "once in a while," rather than regularly, that Mary Sanborn Richardson took for, since our instructions were to print chap ter letters only, it was evident that, without the duties to the office while belonging these letters, there could be no magazine. Mrs. Sweetser assumed temporarily the The second year we added to our staff, as "literary editor," Katharine Aldrich Whiting less onerous burden of business man (now Airs. Christopher Mawson), whose clever ager. Incidentally, Delta did take no wit and ready pen could be counted upon to add interest to our pages. Apparently by that time tice for Isabelle Sweetser was initiated ; there had been a demand for articles in addi in 1922, was active during her college tion to the letters, for we read in an editorial paragraph: "And yet again they ask: Ts there course, and at writes the Bos present to be no literary department in the magazine?' ton letters for the magazine, having in Varily we would joyfully correct large piles of for such a for the meantime added the name of Har nianuscript department, confiding our only reward in the certainty that we should per. Recently she has been the repre at some time be the keen-eyed discoverers of rascent genius, and buoyed up by the knowledge sentative on the purchase of Boston that in years to come we should proudly point University's beautiful new sorority to the greatest American authoress, and say but T her out.' But house and is on the Board of Gover mildly firmly, brought behind the editors moves the will of the soror nors. Mrs. Sweetser's verv interesting ity, and a shadowy arm snatches away those account of the first days follows: tempting piles of manuscript with one irre vocable swoop. For a year then, no poet can sing her lays, no dialectician lightly twist her I mother tongue, and no philosopher unfold her A letter from each chapter of the sorority views on the universe, in the Crescent. They and a few paragraphs of editorial comment may be heard from at convention�let them printed on a fine quality of paper�and simply keep their manuscripts." (This paragraph cer bound�this was the first venture of Gamma tainly came from the pen of Katharine�we Phi Beta into the field of journalism! In the recognize her style!) autumn of 1900, the sorority in convention as Also in the first number of the second vol sembled at Boston, decided that having at ume, we read the promise of three numbers tained the strength of eight active and three during the year, because "the new financial ar alumnse chapters, it should no longer defer the rangement puts the enterprise on a substantial publication of a magazine. As memory looks basis." Oddly enough I can remember nothing back through the years, what contrasts are of the first year's finances�perhaps we de found between that time of long ago, and the pended upon subscriptions, there were no ad present. The Gamma Phi of today who has vertisements�at all events the earlier issues attended some of the wonderful conventions had to be paid for, and maybe we "passed the of recent years, can hardly realize that the hat." I am sure we must all have been relieved small upper room on the top floor of an old- when the enterprise was put upon a substan time dwelling on Boston's Beacon Hill, which tial financial basis. was then Delta's chapter room, could hold com For three years the Boston chapters carried the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA 273

on the publication of the Crescent, then the operation in a broad way. So, in 1902, a maga work was passed on to our Baltimore sisters, zine seemed essential, and it became a reality. with the best wishes of the staff as expressed As a Michigan University alumna, I became I by our literary editor: "May you and the affiliated with the Delta chapter when went Crescent live long and prosper, unperturbed to Boston, and so helped with the first issue by the trials attendant on our mortal estate of the magazine. It was a joy to serve on your in general, and on the editorial nerves in par first editorial board. ticular. Success to the Crescent, and three The success of the magazine, and its per cheers for Zeta." manent value, time has proved. I cannot close this account of the early days Mary E. S. Richardson, Beta of the Crescent without paying tribute to our dear Lindsey Barbee, who so many years has III � so and conducted our ably faithfully magazine, When they talk about the "gay nineties," it and has from its modest built it beginnings makes me feel like a first cousin to Methuselah up into the of which all splendid publication to know that I was in college at that time ! Gamma Phis are so proud. The first editor of My pledge to Gamma Phi was assured when the Crescent salutes the latest ! May health, I met Helen Smith of Boston University and and attend her for happiness, prosperity many found that she belonged to the charmed circle ! years to come ! For many years she has been Mrs. Arthur T. Nina Rogers Sweetser, Delta '94

II

After many years of complete forgetfulness, it is difficult to remember accurately the cir-

MABEL MUDGE, Zeta

Johnson and the mother of five cliarming daughters. I begged for the privilege of "adopt ing" one into my affections and chose Clara MARY E. S. Beta y(^ RICHARDSON, because her name was nearest to mine. We had a delightful intimacy from the time she cumstances which led to the first issues of the was fourteen until she married. Crescent. There there was "Gussie" Putnam, the life The means for keeping in touch with the of any party and always the loyal understand growth and expansion of the sorority were too ing friend. Anne Boardman, with her tall, meagre. Letters from chapters multigraphed graceful figure, wore such smart clothes and and sent to alumnas members, and the reports could turn a quick answer to any surprise quiz from the delegates to the conventions brought from a professor. Sweet Harriet Goodrich some information, but not enough to insure co never said an unkind thing in her life, and 274 the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA

when piled up G's in her reports. Gertrude Went confidential talks! Those were the days with a worth had a talent for friendship. Helen An Delta chapter never had had a girl her drews, whose life was far too short, would "condition." The best mathematician gave there was have had our votes for the beauty prize. Nettie spare hours to help the poorest. Then It must Brown had come to us from Tufts College, but a little squabble over a college drama. she always had a good representation of the be stopped ! Let it not be said that Gamma student body following after ! Maud Williams Phis harbor jealously! ! was Gamma Phi's joker and Vin Lampney was Sweet and fragrant memories of girlish joys all who immensely popular. There are so many others May their perfume still linger among whom I might mention ! wear the precious symbols of our order! Delta There was a group of us called "The Jolly Claribel Moulton Waterman, Twelve"�six boys and six girls�who took our meals at a special table. Various landladies per IV mitted our meeting sometimes for song and The memories of first years in college chats from dinner-time until nine p.m. Then we my are ones. The work on the Crescent went our various ways and studied while the very happy and all the other activities of dear Gamma Phi midnight gas flared. in my memory as joyful days of long ago. I will not detail what our sorority did. for linger One of is a group pic I suppose Gamma Phis of the present day do my prized possessions ture of the members of the in 1895 much the same. There was a room on Hancock chapter taken in the of a crescent. A number of Street in Boston which saw our weekly gather shape them have away long since. ings before we had the suite afterwards estab passed lished. What singing ! What spreads ! What Mabel Mudce, Zeta

From There On

(The editor regrets that she has not a Delta; Edith Jean Boughton, Theta; complete file of these Crescents before Mary Emogene Day, Syracuse. her term of office.) In this group appears the title. Lit March, 1902, is Number I of Vol erary Editor; and as the title never ap ume 2. Mrs. G. A. Sweetser is tempo pears again, the following article is rarily in charge of subscriptions, and appended : Mrs. S. Irving Richardson substitutes OUR ONE LITERARY EDITOR as editor-in-chief. There are three is sues for the year�April, June, and Although in our history of the Cres September. Iota is welcomed ; corre cent, we find in an early issue a group spondents are urged to write on one of literary editors, there is no one per side of the paper only; literary con son save Katharine Aldrich Whiting of tributions are discouraged. There are Delta who bears the real tile of Liter no ilIu.strations ; the cover is a brown ary Editor ! All of which is as it should with monogram and lettering of a be, for truly there has been no one darker brown. more worthy of the adjective. Before June, 1903 contains mostly chapter and after she contacted the Gamma Phi letters and personals ; although in each magazine, she wrote poems and short issue appears an article concerning col stories; and if any undergraduate reads lege life in some institution in which back copies of the Crescent, she will Gamma Phi Beta has a chapter. find many paragraphs about the Whit In the list of chapter editors�called ing attainments. Indeed she has had her associate editors � appear familiar work in the 4tlantic Monthly�and names: the Dorothea Curtis, Gamma; this fact to a literary aspirant is Grace Webb Edgecomb, Syracuse ; epitome of fulfilled ambition. The first Zaidee Vosper, Beta; Florence Daisy letter from Boston Alumnas Chapter Stott, Gamma; Esther Willard Bates, was written by Katharine Whiting; THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 275

was a of and from time to time have come from It pretty custom, that wedding the Adriatic, one of the few historic instances this same these little master chapter of lasting gratitude on the part of the fickle- pieces of cleverness, humor, of minded public. Even if this too was an instance beauty � � of the proverbial and very human sense of and The thought expression. chapter favors to come, it was admirable. dear Barbee correspondent of today can find no bet For twenty-five years Lindsey has kept flowing into our lives the Crescent ter to imitate. style waters that unite us and bring us reputation, brown flood finds And now, Katharine Aldrich Whit beauty, and friendship. The its way alike through broad canals and tiny ing has added Mawson to her name; runlets. On its hospitable bosom ply busy tugs and for not so very long ago she was mar leisurely gondolas, heavy provision barges and bright-sailed pleasure crafts from the four ried to Dr. C. O. Sylvester Mawson, corners of the earth. president of the Mawson Editorial And now, after a quarter of a century, we come to drop our wedding rings in the Crescent School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, of waters to show our gratitude for the fruitful flood and for the power that keeps which she has been for some years as guiding it flowing strong and full. If our waves are sistant director. Most appropriately she neither wild with storms nor miasmic with calls her contribution for this issue stagnation, we recognize and are grateful for the one unchanging power that soothes the winds and the backwaters. Our The Two Weddings invigorates magniflcent doges come and go. Lindsey and We are credibly informed that once a year her wise guidance remain. We drop our rings the Doge in the Bucentaur was rowed solemnly of gratitude in the double brown, and pray that out into the Adriatic, and there in gratitude he this silver wedding may go on to the golden dropped a wedding ring into the waters that one and beyond. brought to Venice, year by year, prosperity and In grateful remembrance, beauty. Katharine Aldrich Whiting

Zeta and Nan Dimmick

In 1904, the cover changes to a dark cuse University in 1874. Among asso brown crescent between two etched ciate editors are listed such well-known carnations with the solid monogram be members as Alice Aileen Higgins, low�all on a lighter background. (The Epsilon; Una A. Winterburn, Iota; cover design was the work of Alice Katharine Aldrich Whiting, Boston; Sloane Dimmick, Zeta). On the front Grace Adele Berry, Chicago; Laura page appears the caption�Published by Case Sherry, Milwaukee. Some adver Zeta Chapter for the Sorority; inside tisements are appended ; Lambda is the we find the name of Anna Morris Dim end of the chapter roll; and alumnae mick, Zeta, as editor. And with the chapters number six. Chapter songs are issues of this year begins Nan Dim- published for the first time ; college life mick's fine service to the sorority. Had in various universities is still stressed ; it not been for her vision, her loyalty President Minnie Curtis Dinsmore con and her endeavor, the magazine could tributes a stirring executive message not have survived. upon Sorority Spirit ; such articles are Through 1904 we find no illustra listed as The Ideal Gamma Phi, The tions until the June number in which Origin of the Coed, Is Sentimentality there are views of Woman's College in Coeducation Increasing?, Eta's of Baltimore (now Goucher College) Tenth Birthday. In November come and of Zeta's den; while in the No messages from the founders and a vember number appear pictures of the splendid article�Retrospect�by Mary founders and also a picture of Syra- Whitford in which she tells of Gamma 276 THE CRESCENT OFF GAMMA PHI BETA

� Phi's early days�interesting and in was allowed to speak her mind in structive and the first detailed and con which we find such contributions as tinuous account of our beginnings. The: Alumnse Interest, On Writing Notes, headings for editorials and chapter let Some Opportunities for Growth, The ters�so long in use (indeed, the pres Censor Speaks, When Gamma Phi Beta ent editor misses them!) designed by Sits in Judgment�Rushing, the Root Ethelyn Phipps, Zeta, are first used in of all Evil. In June, 1904 appears the June, 1904. Particularly interesting is heading for receipt of Exchanges�still the department created by Miss Dim in use�Our Contemporaries in Black mick�Agora�in which each member and White.

Nan by Herself

For the convention of 1905 ap Touch Down, Lambda ; Goal Kick, Mu ; pointed her editor and sole manager of Time, Boston. Do you notice the length the magazine. Little by little pages are of the program as compared to that of added ; illustrations are more numer the present? Perhaps Gamma Phis of ous; the Agora flourishes; editorials those days had all the time in the world are not restricted; personals of each for Gamma Phi ! And we notice that chapter are quite apart from the chap no dance follows the banquet. We gaze ter letter. Reports of the Intersorority with awe upon pictures of the delegates Conference (now National Panhellenic �Katharine Taney in a hat that beg Congress) begin to find their way to gars description; Lucy Moore in a our publication; the thirty-first conven toque effect that would be far too old tion held with Kappa in Minneapolis for a present day grandmother. How produces a toast scheme at the banquet the styles do change ! Thirty years from so clever that we must pass it on for now�well�Gamma moves into the future use. "All the world's a gridiron Sterling Place house�the first home in and all the men and women merely the sorority to be built and owned by players" declares the toastmistress ; a chapter, and prepares for her twenti and here are the toasts: Line Up, Kap eth birthday. Now she's making plans pa ; Kick ofi^. Alpha ; First Down, Beta ; for her fiftieth! The dreadful disaster Wisconsin's Ball, Gamma ; Scrimmage, in California brings anxiety for Eta Chicago; Off-side Play, New York; and Mu. Sara Morrow Preston writes Tackle-on-Tackle, Delta; End Run, Kappa's letters. Lambda extends an in Epsilon ; Three Yards to Gain, San vitation for the next convention. And

End � Francisco; of Half, Zeta; Centre it's all very interesting so interesting Rush, Milwaukee, Drop Kick, Eta; that the editor wishes she had the rest Yard Thirty Da.sh, Theta; Umpire of the files so that she could go right Called, Iota; Time Out, Syracuse; up to 1910.

A Backward Look

Time flows along and the years pass cannot forget stand out as of some im without many sharp accents for the portance. These we recall and on some most of us. The few events that we rare occasions, celebrate. For these rea- THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA 277 sons, we are taking a backward look what success we have. I have a vivid at Gamma Phi Beta's journal, the memory of the cordial and whole Crescent. I have been asked to dip hearted backing of our officers. Their back in my memory past the glamorous support was both spiritual and material, years in which our present editor has and without it my task would have been so ably carried on to the years in which arduous, whereas in reality it was both we first attempted to have a quarterly. easy and pleasant. It is fortunate indeed, that when we Again, it is indelibly impressed in my take a backward look, all details fade memory that every chapter accepted the away and only the major factors stand obligation of every member subscribing out. One of these remaining details to the Crescent. This was fundamental is that of our very modest begin to the success of our undertaking. If ning. If you did not already know it, they did not do it gladly, they surely I might hesitate to recall that in my en met their obligation fully, and I as edi thusiasm I undertook the task of edit tor was entirely unaware of any unwill ing, publishing, and mailing the quar ingness to do this and much more. To terly. However, I must hasten to re all the loyal chapter members and mind you that this Gamma Phi Beta alumnse I owe more than any words did not have the lengthy chapter list of appreciation can express. it has today and too, I was generously As I take my look backward, I am assisted by loyal sisters and others. On looking through the years of work of the part of the sorority, I cannot now our editor. The foundation of our recall a single detail of failure to sup quarterly can take no credit in com port our project. This whole-hearted parison to the fruit of her long years cooperation was the expression of their of service. No one can estimate what sincere desire to have a quarterly pub an effective force in growth of our so lished regularly. I accepted the editor rority the Crescent has been. It has ship as a task allotted to me by the so added materially to the development of rority of which as a member I was ex our membership, and has been no small pected to share its work. Today, I am factor in spreading wide the fields of confident that my faith, that we could our service and usefulness. Those of us have a quarterly, and my enthusiasm who have had any part in the begin were my chief contributions to these ning, are grateful that the seed sown early years of our journal. was of the quality that would result in The members of the sorority pro the fruits which we have seen. vided all other factors that brought Anna Morris Dimmick, Zeta

Since loio

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS office as they have been chronicled in the Crescent. bring much of interest in the life of a sorority and to the pages of its maga 1910-1915 zine; and the editor, trusting that the on the � recital may not be too long nor too in Xi is last chapter roll Chi volved, has sketched lightly by quin cago, Syracuse, Boston, New York, quennials, the events of her term of Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Minne- 278 THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA

sota are the only alumnse groups. The garet Nachtrieb. Omicron joins the cir

� Advisory Board long since a tradition cle. Crescent statistics�a mammoth �is composed of Mrs. Edward L. job�are computed by business man Shannon, Theta; Mrs. F. S. Baldwin, ager. Denver Alumnse Chapter begins a Gamma; Miss Eleanor Sheldon, Kap campaign for a national scholarship pa; Mrs. Rachel V. Colby, Eta; Mrs. chairman and a students' aid fund. Alice Smalley McKinney, Beta. Perti Barnard decrees against sororities. nent articles are: Has Your Chapter a Wonderful convention at Madison at Library? (First plea on record!) De which important constitutional changes More Legendi; Why Educate the are made. The White House wedding Daughter?; The First Year out of gives a decided glamor. First published College. Table of Gamma Phi relation minutes of a convention. Six national ships which is very interesting. Alpha's committees flourish. proposed New Home. And in an arti 1915-1920 cle on the Denver Panhellenic, mention is made of the playlet. When Greek Installation of Pi. Listed in Who's Meets Greek, first presented at the party Who are five of Alpha; eight of Beta; given to Panhellenic by Gamma Phi two of Gamma; five of Delta; one of Beta, at which the Panhellenic Song Epsilon ; one of Zeta ; two of Iota ; one (now adopted by N.P.C.) was sung for of Kappa; two of Mu. Katharine Sil the first time. First Panhellenic Num verson becomes first visiting delegate ber. Last of the annual conventions� and Mabelle Douglas first chairman of held at Boston. Mary Shepherd wel scholarship. Another important conven comed as incoming president. Accom tion at Asilomar at which the Endow panying photographs show indescriba ment Fund is started, and the Social bly large hats. Freshman Number. Sen Service Work becomes a fact. Installa ior Number. Panhellenic Then and tion of Phi, Sigma and Tau. Social Now. College Customs. Chapter Cus service as the theme of one issue. Death toms. Illustrations are of fair maidens of Mary A. Bingham Willoughby�the with enormous pompadours. The first break in the founders' circle. Epsi founders contribute articles on the vari lon first in sorority examinations with ous symbols. Eleanor Sheldon, expan an average of 96, closely followed by sion chairman, discusses material Zeta and Rho (95), and by Mu, Gam growth; Sara Preston Finley writes of ma, Tau and Nu (94). Attractive chap scholastic growth ; Rachel Colby ex ter groups. Carol Ryrie, now Carol plains Panhellenic growth ; and the edi Ryrie Brink, author of several books, tor appends ethical growth�all of writes Xi's letters. Phi Mu Gamma at which is inspired by our emblem. Sev Hollins becomes Upsilon of Gamma eral timely pleas for judicious expan Phi Beta. (During its existence, a per sion. Bertha White resigns from super fect chapter!) Theta wins Denver Pan vision of chapter letters, and Laura hellenic Scholarship Cup. Each chapter Latimer Graham takes her place. Such letter is accompanied by a picture of familiar names (chapter correspond the correspondent. Carrie Morgan in ents) appear as Elizabeth Davidson augurates Department of Grand Coun Barbour, Alice Ringling, Maud Hart, cil�long in use. Three Chancellors and Margaret Meany, Marion Scott, Mar three Gamma Phis, meaning that the THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 279

of each Chancellor at Denver in the daughter Rockies. National offices go to University has a Gamma Phi daugh western district. Marion Van Patten be ter. Altruistic endeavors of Panhellenic comes business manager. Alumnse Sec sororities stressed. Margaret Taussig, retary is appointed. Four districts and one of Denver's most brilliant women, four visiting delegates�Irene Cuyken becomes chairman of examinations. dall Garrett, Anna Raymond, Adaline Margaret Nachtrieb, visiting delegate. Bullen, and Elizabeth Bridge. College Chapter statistics accompanied by pic activities chart compiled by Margaret tures, prove interesting. Baltimore con Nachtrieb. Our first Canadian link� vention just before the declaration of Alpha Alpha. Each chapter letter bears war United States. Installation of by its college seal. College activity num Phi. Theta wins Panhellenic Scholar ber. Alpha Beta installation. Detailed ship Cup for second time. Chapter let report of chairman of examinations, ters full of war news, war service, Red Kathryn Herbert, shows Gamma's Cross classes, busy knitters. Belgian Re average highest. Nina Gresham tells of lief. Charlotte Kellogg becomes a vital Omicron's house. All angles of the en force. Inez Neterer is first winner of dowment fund in a special issue. Upsi Phi Gamma Beta Fellowship. War lon wins scholarship urn. Lambda and notes and again war notes. Many Seattle tell us of the delights of the achievements of individual members. coming convention. First appearance of New edition of song book. Letters from central office with complete filing cabi those on the field, admonitions on pre net. First preparation and use of trunk paredness, food conservation, French with installation properties. New edi orphans; and from this medley peep tion of song book. Publication of The the faces of the pledges accompanied Story of Gamma Phi Beta�a history. by their own little articles and a few Installation of Alpha Gamma and of directions from older sisters. Mothers Alpha Delta. Convention at Lake Cres

� and daughters in Gamma Phi a good cent�perfect in every detail. Re-elec ly company. Gamma Phi Beta's Service tion of officers by convention decree. Flag (relatives in the war). Eleanor Merging of the department of chapter Sheldon retires from active work in the letters with the editorial work. Affec sorority. Chi is installed. Issue given tionate appreciation of Laura Graham. over to Greek letter information. An Prize offered by Council for best Cres other, to a short history of Gamma Phi. cent letter goes to Dorothy Sanders of The sorority decides on national war Beta. Founders Day Service written by work�Milk Bottle Stands for Belgian Irene Garrett of Alpha read by chapters babies�inspired by Charlotte Kellogg for first time. Installation of Alpha �sweep the country, and pennies roll in Epsilon and Alpha Zeta. Death of E. vintil almost ten thousand dollars is se Adeline Curtis on January 14, 1923� cured. Installation of Psi. War work, seven years to the day after the death of still, and Gamma Phis in war work, at Mary A. Bingham Willoughby. Lovely home and on the front. Omega makes tributes from the other founders, from its bow. Theta and Denver send out an the rector of her parish, from Alpha, invitation for convention in Estes Park. and from the various chapters. Over the Armistice Day�a significant date for casket was the sorority pall of pink Gamma Phi Beta. Glorified convention carnations, ferns and smilax. "I was in- Francois, Denver LINDSEY BARBEE the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA 281 terested in the types that mourned her Howard Smith forced to resign on ac equally�tears I saw from people who count of ill health. Laura Graham takes have millions, and from ragged men the helm. Province conferences are es and women. Our founder has been tablished with Province Four taking deeply loved." Each chapter purchases the lead. Convention at Mackinac with a book of coupons entitled The Life of its lilacs, its lake and its old-fashioned a Child for Near East Relief. Kappa shays. Jeweled pins come back. Den and Minneapolis continue with the milk ver's project of Gamma Phi Beta play bottle stands for Near East Relief ing cards for the benefit of the camp work. One issue given over to careers sanctioned. Elizabeth Davidson Bar for women with fascinating articles bour of Epsilon becomes president. Lit from sorority members. Mu wins schol erary number proves delightful intro arship urn. Report of questionnaire duction to Gamma Phi celebrities. In sent to every Panhellenic sorority by formation Number (September '28) Irene Garrett, chairman of expansion recommended for use in rushing season. ��declared by N.P.C. to be the out Alpha Lambda and Alpha Mu are standing Panhellenic compilation of the added to the chapter roll. Province year. Installation of Alpha Eta. Sale conferences are duly reported. The first of stationery for endowment fund. national chairman of music�Elsie Personal subscriptions of fifty dollars Norman�takes a bow. Epsilon's house- are awarded life memberships. Sub warming. Chairman of Examinations scriptions of twenty-five dollars bring reports Mu the winner with an average guard pins. Decision by Council that of 95.6. Freshman Manual by Nina Endowment Fund be raised to fifty Gresham of Omicron is welcomed. New thousand by convention time. Chapters chapter houses appear�all beautiful. asked to take out insurance policies pay The Denver camp becomes a national able in ten years. Result most gratify responsibility. Charlotte Robertson's ing. Golden Anniversary with Alpha thriller�Flying zvith Lindy�a per and Syracuse�never again to be sonal experience. Oklahoma issues a eciualled. Two founders present. Chimes Cook Book. Installation of Alpha Nu play Gamma Phi songs. First appear and Alpha Xi. Opening of Panhellenic ance of Crescent Moon. Lindsey Bar House. Convention at Kansas City bee Fellowship established. Executive proves to be one delightful big house secretary sanctioned. Granting of Van party. Charlotte Robertson becomes derbilt's petition, and of that of executive secretary. Mary Clark Brit LT.CL.A. Vanderbilt petitioner initiated tingham's death brings universal sor tit midnight in the chapel. A trip to the row. Alpha Delta wins prize for best Alpha house in Syracuse. Election of chapter display. Cup offered as trophy Grace Howard Smith as president. Sub in the first music contest goes to Sigma sequent installations of Alpha Theta Alumnse. Convention visits the beauti and Alpha Iota. ful Sigma home. Theta wins scholar ship cup and also holds Denver Panhel 1925-1930 lenic Scholarship Cup. Central office Establishment of Central Office with voted larger quarters. Life subscrip Aniia Boardman of L^^psilon in charge. tions for Crescent become a fact. One Installation of Alpha Kappa. Grace number given over to chapter house 282 the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA adornment with various authorities to the supreme court, one justice of the tell us how to do it. Upsilon, by vote of Court of Special Sessions, five bishops, college authorities upon sororities, be two missionaries, two congressmen, two comes inactive. Fellows in American College of Sur gery, one ambassador, four college 1930-1935 presidents, one crown prosecutor, three Council changes Crescent cover. army officers, seven writers, two actors, Alpha Omicron is installed. Three na one grand opera singer, five educators, tional appointments: Fay Naylor Chat one explorer, one publisher, one biolo man, historian ; Louise Saltmarsh Bal gist, three newspaper correspondents. tis, rushing; Kittie Lee Clarke, camp. Song Book edited by Elsie Norman is Alpha Kappa claims Canada's first pilot decided asset. Beta celebrates fiftieth �Eileen Magill. Directory is substi anniversary. Pictorial makes its first tuted for May issue of magazine. In appearance as regular department in the stallation of Alpha Pi. Historical stir- magazine. Installation of Alpha Upsi vey of Gamma Phi Beta. Charming lon and Alpha Phi. Magazine assumes article upon Grace Smith Richmond. its present size and style. Postponement An outstanding senior of each chapter of convention on account of general is featured. Alpha Rho and Alpha Sig conditions. Past President Number ma are installed. Theta initiates Mar with messages from all but a few of jory Moore, granddaughter of Bishop them. Death of Clara Worden Wilcox, David H. Moore, first Chancellor of first initiate, first bride, first mother. Denver University ; and Barbara Buch Junior Leaguers in Gamma Phi. Chap tel, granddaughter of Dr. Henry A. ter House Pictorial delights us. A list Buchtel, third Chancellor of Denver of sorority examination grades finds University. Inspirational convention is Beta at the head with an average of held at Bemidji with Province Four 97.9. Convention at the Broadmoor in as hostess. Millicent Lees Hoffman Colorado Springs is heralded, and elected president. Crescent goes back Province Five is given due publicity. to its former conservative garb. Eighth Convention itself proves grand and Province formed. Virginia Potter of glorious. Installation of Alpha Psi. Zeta is chosen to represent the college Panhellenic House changes its name to women of the United States at the Beekman Tower. Publicity Number meeting of the National Education As contains among its more glamorous sociation at Los Angeles, and speaks be articles a few plain and useful facts for fore 25,000 delegates. Installation of freshmen. First appearance of chapter Alpha Tau. Louise Durst Smith ap letters to be edited by editor. Third pointed chairman of expansion. Gladys camp�in Virginia. Panhellenic Num Borland, former inspector and loyal and ber proves popular and interesting. beloved Gamma Phi, issues pledge First word of 1936 convention. Fel manual. Establishment of second camp lowship Number gives not only a at Vancouver. Prominent relatives in knowledge of our own Fellowship but tabulation include two presidents of the an outline of all Fellowships offered by United States, one presidential candi A.A.U.W. Letters return to former in date, three senators, one Canadian dependence. And now � Crescent premier, six governors, six judges of Number ! the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA ,283

REGARDING CHAPTER FROM BERTHA

LETTERS Greetings to Lindsey Barbee and congratu lations to the Crescent! Many years have Once upon a time there was a Cres passed since the "Dear Sisters in Gamma Phi" era, and my tenure of office as letter cent office known as editor of chapter chapter editor was brief; but my interest in the sorority letters, quite apart from the other edi is active and vital. I gave my nearly complete file of Crescents to the Central Office when torial work; and there have been two I left my former home, but I am sure that incumbents�Bertha White who for if I had any of the old numbers, I would find interest and pleasure in re-reading some of the some reason was known as Alumnae chapter letters that passed through my hands. Editor, and Laura Latimer Graham. The contents would probably differ greatly from those of the but would The two Whites�Louise Haller and present day, they show as do the current ones, service to Gamma Bertha�have been traditional members Phi Beta, and our interest in its welfare and in that of the individual member. of and each in her time was Epsilon; Bertha White, Epsilon most active on and in college campus FROM LAURA chapter life. Louise White Haller was When Una Winterburn Harsen asked me to one of the five who installed Theta take the work of editor of chapter letters, I accepted with pleasure ; for the call of Gamma Chapter, and was present at the con vention in Mackinac. Bertha White, after her graduation, was first chosen to supervise chapter letters, and proved most efficient in the office. Other in terests and demands forced her to re sign, and in the Crescent of June 1912 we find this comment : "It is with great regret that we announce the resignation of Miss Bertha White, our alumnse edi tor. Miss White has been not only an efficient member of the staff but a loyal member of the sorority, and we shall miss her capable work and her hearty cooperation." Of late years. Bertha has been an active member of Los Angeles, and has written many of the chapter letters for the magazine. She was succeeded by Laura Latimer Graham of Alpha and New York who, ever since her graduation had been a most ardent and active Gamma Phi. She ! 4^ � -aH ijiiii*. //'- '-,�-< f j�,.^fc_--. the held the position until department LAURA LATIMER GRAHAM, Alpha ' was merged into the general editorial work. Later, she became president of Phi Beta always has meant new and delightful contacts with the whole organization. The work before and since the sorority, and both was always an adventure, for while most of the sent me her term of office has been one of the correspondents good copy promptly, there were a few like the girl who had a type most active members of New York writer that stuttered, and others who sent copy which the would never Alumnse printer accept. The man Chapter. at the stamp window of our local postoffice 284 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

had a when he saw strong suspicion my large the directory proves to be at present parcel of copy that I was a blue stocking or Annie Lund Meriam of Delta ; and it is a dangerous red, either of which was open to question. a far cry from her simple bookkeeping However, the editor and I were good friends, to the intricate files of the business and I made an effort to have the letters worthy of the rest of the magazine. The sorority was managers who followed and whose expanding rapidly under the presidency of Car work is now with the du rie E. Morgan, and the chapter roll was im merged many pressed upon my memory as I welcomed each ties of the executive secretary. When new correspondent. The petitioning group in Nan Dimmick the Crescent Toronto met me on one of my visits in the city, adopted and I was able to assist them in gaining their as her own, she ran a three-ringed cir charter. cus�editor, and of All of these new and interesting friendships puljlisher, manager gave me a good working knowledge of Gamma the mailing lists, and Lindsey Barbee Phi Beta as a whole, and made me feel that I her first in the work com knew something of the personnel of each chap during year ter. This knowledge and the appreciation of the bined the two duties and was known value of national membership proved invaluable as editor. In October of 1911 in my later work on the Grand Council ; and managing I shall always have the happiest memories of began the line of official managers, and the period in which I could serve my beloved first of all came Carrie In the sorority. Morgan. Laura Latimer Graham, Alpha issue of January 1912 we find this com ment from dear Mary Clark Britting HERE'S WHAT THE BU$INE$$ ham, for so Gamma's fairy god MANAGERS HAVE TO SAY long mother: "Miss Morgan is a charter Bu$ine$$ Manager$! Isn't that the member of Gamma and has always been way it should be written ? For truly, the most interested in all Gamma Phi do Almighty Dollar plays a great part in ings. She is Superintendent of Schools the of history any sorority magazine, in Appleton, and can arrange her work and it a is only through magic and mys so as to have time for outside under terious of the that juggling figures the takings. You may tell hier I said she "official organ" comes out ahead of its would be a good one and ought to do attendant bills. And such an imposing it. She was my senior roommate when succession of business managers have I was a freshman, and I always enjoy watched over the affairs of the Cres dictating to her to make up for all her cent ! Suffice it to say that without the admonitions." We used to play a game efficiency and foresight of this partic with Carrie. One of us would mention ular member of the staff the magazine a name of some Gamma Phi and then could not flutter its pages in such a ask, "What's her chapter? Where does debonair and complacent fashion. Truly she live?"; and Carrie, visualizing the the power behind the throne is this mailing list would reply promptly, mighty one who plans budgets, who "Mary Smith, Northpoint, Maine" or peruses mailing lists, who tries to be whatever the combination might be. clairvoyant enough to know a maiden's That's what the office did to a person! name and changed address without any But read what Carrie has to say: information from the owner of said Business is but what would the world name and address. prosaic, do without it? Whether it be industry, finance, Far back in the time of the first is or mere pleasure, there is business connected with it, and so it is with the sorority magazine. sues of the we read of a "fi magazine, The editor, whose interest is in the literary nancial manager"�Annie Lund who, content of the magazine, cannot well take time to attend to this, if she has any other duties to after a and search long patient through perform, and so it came about that I was ap- THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA 285 pointed business manager of the Crescent in the time of her election, "with thou 1911. sands of teachers me My first discovery was that we were trying dependent upon to put out a first class magazine with fewer each year to find them positions, but I chapters than the other older sororities had, and am never too to do what I can to this was a serious financial handicap. It meant busy either cutting the magazine down in size and quality, which no one wanted to do, or else ex pansion. Only the Gamma Phis of a quarter of a century ago know what that meant. Gamma Phi Beta was known as an ultra-conservative sorority, and so many petitions had heen turned down, that would-be Gamma Phis had ceased petitioning. It meant a search for proper fields. Eleanor Sheldon, now Mrs. Dean Myers, who was chairman of expansion at that time, was a near neighbor of mine at Oshkosh. We had many conferences on the subject of expansion and did much hard work to get it started. Be sides the old conservatism that wc had to fight, there was the fact that Gamma Phi Beta had let the other sororities enter the most desirable fields several years before this time, and in many of the better universities, there was no room for more sororities. Nearly every field that we suggested to the chapters was disapproved, because there were so many ahead of us, but we did succeed in placing chapters in two fine universities and this set the ball a-rolling. From only fourteen chapters when I became business manager I had the satisfaction during the rest of my term and the four years that I was national president of seeing the chapter roll run the gamut of the Greek alphabet and begin to double back. Ex pansion did the work. At the Madison con vention in 1913 I had the pleasure of announc ing that the Crescent was not only out of debt, but that it was paying its own way. I greatly enjoyed my work on the Crescent. CARRIE E. MORGAN, Gamma It gave me a certain acquaintance with Gamma Phis that I had not known before. I knew the name and address of subscriber to the every Gamma Phi Beta sisters. I Crescent and later on in my work that geo help always graphical knowledge was a great help in making love to see them and hear from them." committee appointments. An editorial to write Yes, business is prosaic, but after all, it plea something gives far more pleasure than idleness, as many for this issue concerning her work as a poor soul can testify who has suffered during business manager a most chatty the depression through which we have just been brought passing. and interesting letter ; but�alas !�her Carrie E. Morgan, Gamma contribution takes the form of personal In 1915 Carrie Morgan became presi good wishes to the editor. And while dent of the sorority, and in the Cres this editor is very touched to receive cent of January, 1916, we find Ella the message, she is correspondingly un K. Smith of Gamma in the office�at willing to make public all the nice trib that time, manager of a Teachers' utes which aren't so. Still, a message Agency. Naturally business-like with a is a message; and since the editorial painstaking regard for details, pos path seldom blossoms the proverbial sessed of an infinite patience, a veritable rose, perhaps for this occasion, the per dynamo in efficiency, she proved ideal. sonal side of the matter will be dis "I am a very busy lady," she wrote at counted: 286 THE crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA

Heartiest to Barbee congratulations Lindsey power on the Illinois campus where she on her twenty-fifth anniversary as editor of the as a wise Crescent ! One hundred Crescents, and each established a name for herself a masterpiece ! Inspirational greetings to new and far-seeing politician. As a Dean of chapters, timely suggestions to old chapters, de Women she went and achieved lightful original poems, well chosen clippings. far, greater glory ; and as business manager of the magazine she proved to be fine and constructive. June, 1919 finds Marion Van Pat ten's name on the front page, and all through the editor's five years of the double office of president and editor Marion was truly "guide, philosopher and friend," and a warm friendship began. The events of Marion's career at Northwestern include such items as presidency of her chapter when a jun ior, costumer for May Pageant and for a musical comedy given by the men, house presidency of her dormitory� in short, a combination of popularity, sympathy and understanding. Needless to say, all three characteristics were dominant during her sojourn on the Crescent. Since then she has added Ermerling to her name ; but in spite of her household responsibilities she finds time to be very active in all enterprises MARION VAN PATTEN of and writes: Epsilon Chicago Epsilon. She

Lindsey tells me she has requested anyone attractive make-up ! Always a magazine which who has been associated with the Crescent Gamma Phi is sure is the ne ultra every plus during the last twenty-five years to write an of sorority magazines ! We shudder to think article for our next issue. I marvel at her what the Crescent might be without her at its confidence in any or all of us to have strength helm. she us more May give many years of her of character enough to limit our articles, and artistic and clever, help, youthful, but wise, to express ourselves well enough for publica viewpoint ! No one is such an inspiration to tion. It illustrates Lindsey's indulgence and tol Gamma Phi as and to no one are we so she, erance, a few of the reasons why she has re indebted. and all Health, happiness, good wishes mained so beloved an editor for twenty-five to Lindsey Barbee, "The Sweetheart of Gamma years. Phi !" It hardly seems possible that I began to serve Ella K. Smith, Gamma as business manager of the Crescent some fifteen or sixteen years ago. I am reminded of In January of 1918, Miriam Ger the Gamma Phi Beta function I attended a few years ago when I was introduced to some lach, a charter member of Omicron, Gamma Phi dignitary from another chapter. succeeded Ella Smith. Miriam had been Upon hearing my name she said, "Oh, I used to have a great deal of correspondence with assistant Dean of Women at the Uni your mother when she was business manager versity of Michigan, and at the time of of the Crescent." "But my Mother never was business manager of the Crescent" I exclaimed, her was appointment head of Willard "It must have been I with whom you were Hall at Northwestern University. A corresponding." It seemed so long ago to the poor woman that she figured Marion Van Pat born she had a leader, made herself ten must surely be a grandmother by now! the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA 287

I can still recall, however, that the task of in touch with Gamma Phi Beta; rage getting out the mailing list seemed stupendous to me at times, and the general inclination for to be paying dead postage when our Gamma Phis to rely on one's being a mind funds should be reader who knew all about change of addresses, working constructively. names and so forth, was most disconcerting All of that is far away; now there is and confusing. I know this characteristic isn't peculiar to Gamma Phis any more than it is to members of other organizations, but no one unless he has had such experiences himself can appreciate Lindsey's supreme loyalty in re maining at her post through all these years. Many with weaker and less devoted hearts would have become discouraged when chapter letters, promised articles and pictures failed to arrive. The Crescent was considered one of the best sorority publications when I was in college, and I know it still is, so Gamma Phi has been unusually fortunate, not only in her choice of editors, but in her editor's affection for Gamma Phi and its magazine. I should like to have made Lindsey the sub ject of my article, for to me the Crescent means Lindsey, but I know her modesty would prevent her from publishing it. Consequently I have limited myself in order that what I wrote would be published at all. I really feel that those of us who have been associated with Lindsey should have been allowed to edit this issue and I am sure the entire December Cres cent would have been a grateful and glowing tribute to our Editor and past president. In 1924 convention decreed a central office and an executive secretary; and Anna Boardman, Upsilon, of southern charm and efficient workmanship was first to assume the new title. The editor ALICE DIBBLE, Epsilon regrets that no definite news concern ing her has been sent for this compila only contentment as I read each page." tion. Then came Alice Dibble of Epsi And now, last but far from least, lon�straight from college�filled with Charlotte Robertson White whose capa a splendid enthusiasm and loyalty, and bility, knowledge of details, and expert greatly thrilled over her new job! The management of the Central Office is editor recalls the friendly little letters so well known to all of us. Her chatty, and personal messages that came her personal letters to the editor are a joy, way along with the other ponderous and it is a great delight to break the material from Central Office. She monotony of magazine discussion and writes: "My share in the Crescent's conference with digressions upon the history is infinitesimal but I recall viv White Peke and the Barbee Scotty ! idly that small connection. The days Lindsey's request that I contribute to this as the business of the when the postman came laden down article, present manager Crescent, comes at a time when this particular to Central Office with unclaimed copies department of my work does not seem to have the which are found me possessed with a mixture of compensations undoubtedly ap parent to my predecessors in retrospect, for 1 � for those with feelings disgust inac am in the midst of preparing the current mail list. a frame of mind could curate addresses and even names ; pity ing Only gloomy be possible right now, surrounded as I am by such a to for those missing chance keep the evidences of neglect on the part of mem- 288 the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA

bers which cause a deplorable waste of valuable our chapter roll was increased by the installa Crescent funds: returned Crescents and they tion of Alpha Beta, Alpha Gamma, Alpha Delta, come back whether or not a forwarding address Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Zeta, Alpha Eta, and is available), and postal notices of non-delivery Alpha Theta�all in important fields. The En for which two cents are charged�hundreds of dowment Fund, established in 1915 through the them. For that matter, my disposition is al- inspiration of Blanche Shove Palmer, took a new lease on life under Lindsey's leadership, when it became the beneficiary of a number of insurance policies carried by the chapters. There were other accomplishments, too numerous to mention in such limited space. Lindsey and I are old friends. We met for the first time in 1921 at Alpha Delta's installa tion which my chapter. Phi, conducted. A large delegation of active girls went to Columbia, but the St. Louis alumnae chapter had not ex pected to be represented until I, its youngest member decided at the last moment to go. Con sequently, St. Louis was not included among the banquet speakers as plans for the banquet had been made in advance. I felt particularly carefree among my sisters who agonized over their speeches, and perhaps I did crow a bit when I rehearsed them. At any rate, someone�� I hate to think it was revenge because of my crowing�told Lindsey, the toastmistress, dur ing the banquet, that I was a St. Louis alumna and should have been asked to speak. Lindsey, not wishing to slight anyone, called on me after the other carefully prepared and thor oughly rehearsed speeches were over. To this day, I cannot recall what I said. When Lindsey reads this, she will learn for the first time that she was responsible for my debut as an after-dinner speaker. But now I am taking re- \ enge for that awful moment, for I purposely waited until the Crescent material was out of her hands before adding my contributions, since CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON WHITE, Phi I knew, if it were sent to her, all references to her own activities would be carefully blue- penciled. ways at its worst where the mailing list is In closing, I wish to extend to Lindsey my concerned, since between issues I am harassed heartiest congratulations upon the occasion of by indignant subscribers who apparently do not this historic milestone in our and realize that I am not a mind-reader and cannot existence, to wish for her much success and in know that have moved unless I happiness possibly they the future. am told. I do not want my share in this occa Charlotte Robertson White, Phi sion of rejoicing to lend a gloomy note, so I think it best to confine my efforts, not to the subject assigned to me, but to the theme of this FROM OUR OFFICIAL FRIENDS issue : the celebration of Lindsey's twenty-five as editor of the Crescent. years In the of Lindsey's loyal service to Gamma Phi Beta contemplation twenty-five began with the installation of Theta chapter, years, one remembers involuntarily for she was a charter member. Not only has those whom we may call official friends she been a devoted guide to her own chapter, but she has been a potent factor in our Inter �Publisher and Jeweler. Could there national development. There is an hardly early be two more associated in issue of the Crescent, published before her any closely appointment, in which she is not mentioned as the life of the sorority? having contributed in some way to the sorority In 1910 the of or to the literary field. One of the first issues began years friendship contains a rushing song which she wrote for and alliance with the Banta Publishing Theta and first mention of the his chapter, �for it was then that toric Theta charity play, which she has written Company George annually, is made in the issue of June, 1905. Banta, Sr., made his initial call upon us Lindsey also served the sorority as Grand and that we gave into his hands the President between 1919 and 1924 when im portant progress was made. During this period compilation of the magazine. Never THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 289 throughout this long period of time has II there been anything but cooperation, In 1924, L. G. Balfour appeared at goodwill, and perfect workmanship, the Lake Placid convention, presented and it is with the deepest appreciation his cause in a most effective and at- that we mark the twenty-fifth milestone along the journalistic way. At the time of preparation for this issue, Mr. Banta was in his last illness; and his son, George Banta, Jr. (as good a friend to Gamma Phi Beta as his father), who has most ably assisted his father and who for some time has had much of the responsibility of the business sent the article. And George Banta, Jr., as we all know, is prominent in his own fra ternity. Phi Delta Theta, of which he has been president, has been most active in the Interfraternity Conference, and is at present chairman of Public Infor mation of that organization. He is con versant with all phases of Panhellenic, and is always a willing and helpful listener to an editorial perplexity. His wife is the national president of Kappa Alpha Theta, is well known in the Panhellenic world, and is possessed of a most charming personality. GEORGE BANTA, JR.

I tractive way, and was duly chosen offi Because of the illness of my father he has cial jeweler to the sorority. The Bal asked me to pinch hit for him and send a four has had a message of heart-felt congratulations on this Company phenomenal delightful occasion. growth, and in the large factory in At- He told me of his first meeting with Miss much of the fra Barbee in Denver twenty-five years ago and telboro, Massachusetts, how there was begun a friendship which he ternity jewelry of the country is manu has cherished ever since. I remember what he factured. no firm could be more said at the time which I will repeat here. "Miss Surely Barbee and I hit it off immediately. She is a painstaking, more generous, and more and in man lady; keen intellectually delightful skilled in Association has ner. She is my kind of people and I am going workmanship. to enjoy knowing her." And he did. been most delightful; and every con The Crescent under Miss Barbee's able edi vention attendant carries away some torship has always been distinctive in appear in ance but conservative and perfect harmony charming memento of his thoughtful with the it represents. I believe it organization ness and he be has been universally popular with undergradu generosity. Long may ates and alumnas and it has always had the genu the magician who transforms signifi of its Greek journals. ine respect contemporary cant the symbols into material beauty ! I can only echo and second feelings of to I have found his first � my father. impressions 1910 I pause, and my mind goes back over

and I am add my word of � be true happy to_ the years years filled with interest, develop and wishes. congratulations good ment and growth. It hardly seems possible that George Banta, Jr. a quarter of a century has passed since the edi- 290 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

difficult time of the Crescent was assumed by Miss The jewelers had an extremely torship to Lindsey Barbee. maintaining a semblance of an organization on. But war of 1914 to 1918 Let me see, in 1910 Gamma Phi Beta had carry the years a of of been founded thirty-six years (November 11, saw continuance the steady growth added to 1874) and had but fourteen chapters. Tlie Gamma Phi Beta, nine chapters being growth of the fraternity had liecn ci.nccrvative the roster. In 1919 came the Peace Conference in Eur efforts were ope and at home here strenuous made to rehabilitate ourselves along peaceful lines. Then followed a long period of so called post war prosperity. Phi During these years both the Gamma Beta and the L, G. Balfour Company continued to expand along definite conservative but sub- tantial lines. Chapters were added to the na tional roster at the rate of about two a year. The Balfour Company subdivided its ac tivities into two distinct developrnents--the more skilled workmen being organized in a specialized Fraternity Department to make fra ternity insignia, and another group under a separate sales management to serve High School and Commercial Organizations. Paper Products at the Balfour plant which had been growing steadily, outgrew its quar ters and a new building was erected and equipped with the most modern of die stamp ing equipment. Balfour standards were im^ proved. The territories were restricted and more representatives trained and added to the sales force so as to serve the chapters more frequently and better. Today, Miss Lindsey Barbee can look back over the past quarter of a century of her editor L. G. BALFOUR ship of the Crescent with pride. She has done a noble job in her share of guiding the destinies of Gamma Phi Beta to its now enviable posi but substantial. In Europe, the year before, tion in the Greek letter fraternity world. The Louis Bleriot had flown the channel English task has been a strenuous one, often discourag a in in flimsy airplane. Here America many ing but always interesting. folk had visited the Hudson-Fulton fraternity We are glad that we have had the oppor � celebration in New York and in that fall the tunity of working with her and it is with the whole had been shocked the bomb country by utmost pleasure that I join with my associates in the labor war in Los ing Angeles. in congratulating her on her quarter of a cen Those were the of the trust busters. days tury service and devotion to Gamma Phi Beta was Standard Oil ordered dissolved the � by as Editor of the Crescent a distinction that S. Court. In far off the U. Supreme Turkey merits the highest commendation and honor. Italian-Turko war was being waged and in the L. G. Balfour far east, China was being proclaimed a Re public. George Banta Inauspiciously on Friday June 13, 1913, the L. G. Balfour Company was organized in Attle The death in of George boro with purpose to serve the growing fra September ternity system with insignia and other needs Banta brings sorrow not only to the in a more than personal way existing agencies Greek letter world but to indi provided. many In 1914 one more chapter�Pi�at Nebraska viduals who have known his friendly was installed. That marked the year beginning and never interest of the World War in Europe which was to cooperation failing continue with such devastating results until in things editorial. Truly there has been 1918. no one of more Panhellenic influence The United States entered the war in 1918 and the whole country bent every effort to and no one more beloved. bring the war to a quick and successful con The Banta family has a most unusual clusion. Those were feverish and anxious days. back The campus of practically every college seemed and most interesting fraternity decimated of male students. R.CT.C. units ground, and Mr. Banta's father, once drilled on the campus and barracks were of the thrown up seemingly over night. Dean of the Law School Uni- the crescent of gamma PHI BETA 291 versity of Indiana, was one of the first Interfraternity Conference and was a seventy-five men to be initiated into Phi member of the first meeting of that Delta Theta and was a member of the body. Needless to say, he always has Class of 1855 at Indiana. In 1874, been regarded as a vital force in this George Banta, himself was initiated in Conference; and his advice and view to the same fraternity at Franklin, In point have been of inestimable value in diana, and later transferred to the discussions and subsequent measures. University of Indiana where he became From his boyhood, Mr. Banta had a member of Phi Delta Theta at that always been interested in printing; and institution as did his brother. George while he spent the greater part of his Banta, Jr., followed the example of his life in another business, he was never father and grandfather, while his satisfied until there came the oppor brother, Mark Banta, Wisconsin '04, tunity to organize the company for the also became a member of Phi Delta express purpose of catering to the needs Theta as did his son George who grad of fraternity people. In 1903, he as uated in 1928 from Wabash. Four sumed the publication of the Scroll; and generations in Phi Delta Theta�and from that beginning his list of publica over sixty members of the family who tions has increased until at the present have joined this fraternity ! time most of the Greek letter magazines In 1878 George Banta who was at are issued by the Collegiate Press. In tending a convention of Phi Delta 1912, Banta's Greek Exchange first ap Theta at Wooster, Ohio, met some girls peared�a magazine invaluable to the from a boarding school in Mississippi fraternity world and an inexhaustible who told him of their own particular fund of information for every mem organization and of their desire to ex ber. This publication, as its name indi pand especially in the North. In order cates, gathers the most vital facts from to be of material assistance, it was each organization, culls the best from necessary for the girls to acquaint him their magazines, gives the latest and with their secrets; and as some of the most interesting news of the college material was not entirely completed, he world, acquaints us with fascinating revised it to the satisfaction of the mem personalities, inckides most worth-while bers, and initiated his fiancee then a articles from those of worth in the fra student at Franklin who in turn gath ternity world, and often delights us ered together other girls and formed with a department that contains the best the first northern chapter of Delta Gam of humor. And in the editorials, the has been most evi ma. Mr. Banta always wore his Delta spirit of Mr. Banta Gamma badge with pride and affection. dent, for he has given us a gentle philo When the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta sophy of every-day problems, and un reached the dignity of a third volume, derstanding of youth, and an always Mr. Banta became business manager increasing emphasis upon what is high and publisher; and in 1880 when the est, truest and best fraternity was reorganized and adopted In remembrance of a personal and its present form of government he was valued friendship, and in appreciation made first president of the General of all that Mr. Banta meant to the fra Council. He remained for many years ternity world and to Gamma Phi Beta, the delegate of Phi Delta Theta at the the editor offers this inadequate tribute. 292 the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA

is so FROM OUR PANHELLENIC to exclude, in a magazine whose clientele are varied? Ninety per cent of the readers FRIENDS whose alumna;, ranging in years from those now daughters, and even granddaughters, may L. ten In point of years of service, Pearle be in college, to 1935 graduates. The other to whom of Theta is the per cent of readers are college girls Green Kappa Alpha of the naturally a college campus is the center Dean of all editors�and one cannot universe temporarily. the think of Alpha Theta without Beside pleasing its readers, fraternity Kappa magazine has two other important obligations: the news her; for not only does she edit to bring to the attention of the fraternity future to magazine but she also holds and theories that may affect its ; sup splendid ply the information needed for wise action by the position of executive secretary and the fraternity when in convention assembled. But editorial trials are far out is considered one of the foremost and fraternity numbered by its joys. Just the joy of turning most efficient of Greek letter women. almost undecipherable handwriting, and typing from worn out ribbons, into copy that when For years she has represented Kappa embedded in the unchangeable printed page is Alpha Theta in N.P.C. ; and like our correctly spelled, grammatically acceptable, un in its Panhellenic ethics, attractive own Lillian Thompson, is informed up questionable and interesting, is enough. Add to that the in on every phase and every procedure discovery of some member with an interesting the introduction to the the history of the Congress. There is no but unknown hobby, fraternity of an alumna whose career is bring in which she does not discussion play ing reflected glory to the fraternity, or of an a honor, the re an able part ; there is no problem whose undergraduate winning prized of a letter of high praise for the last her ceipt solution is not hastened through issue from the busiest, highest paid, most tal roll�that is wi.se, sane viewpoint. Gamma Phi Beta ented author on the fraternity's when the editor's joy cup overflows. time from is grateful that .she has taken L. Pearle Green, Editor of her bu.sy routine to send us this article Kappa Alpha Theta main theme this issue� upon the of One of the most constructive as well the fraternity magazine. as attractive features of N.P.C. is the

I Editors' Conference; and when those THE FRATERNITY MAGAZINE who guide the destinies of the various The chief uniqueness of fraternity journalism publications get together, there is much perhaps, is financial. The fraternity editor does to much to share, and much to not pay for copy, but must beg or borrow it. discuss, While having to keep within a strict budget, glean. For every editor has had the she is not to show obliged any money profit. the She shares the usual problems of making trials, tribulations, and, incidentally, date lines, substituting readable "fillers" for the joys that have come the way of the but not at promised forthcoming story, other editor. Kreasan tempting to hold the interest of her readers. At every Shirley the same time the fraternity magazine must be Krieg is the present chairman of the an historical record of fraternity thought and Editors* and she is one of developments, and sometimes the editor must Conference, allow groups within the fraternity to use its Zeta Tau Alpha's most talented mem pages for propaganda for some idea dear to to her duties as their hearts. bers. In addition editor, To please readers, and, while, being honest, she has written the history of her or the best foot put only fraternity's forward, and has much while maintaining the ideals of a fine Panhel ganization, accomplished lenic outlook�these are the most demanding in the literary world. It is characteristic obligations the fraternity editor must keep in of her as friend and editor that she mind as she edits and deletes reams of copy. Reading the captious, critical, and audatory replies immediately to any request of a letters that such as literary magazines Time, fellow editor. print from their readers, a fraternity editor confidence by that gains accumulating proof II she is not the only editor whose readers are difficult to please. PANHELLENIC FRIEND AND EDITOR The fraternity editor has to cater to a motley It was while attending my first National Pan clientele. What to select, what to include, what hellenic Congress in Boston that I met Lindsey. THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA 293

I think it was at the Editor's Dinner, when I have chosen to emphasize three firsts first took my place as Zeta Tau Alpha's repre � sentative, but I remember that there was a Expansion, Scholarship, Inspection wide circle of new faces, and that I was the �because these three departments, all newest of the newcomer editors. But, as is ever true when a tribe of scribes meet, cordial established within twenty-five years, ity and camaraderie abound, and even the wob bliest "cub" is greeted with the warmth char acteristic of the craft. Lindsey was one of the first to bid me wel come, and my last impression of her at that Congress was of a hurrying, brown-clad figure, dashing madly out of the Parker House (the historic, old one) in pursuit of a train that she knew wouldn't wait for even Gamma Phi edi tors, with me skidding along beside her, remind ing her somewhat breathlessly that she was to "do" a certain section of the N.P.C. Bulletin I was then editing. Then, at the Dallas Congress, which I did not attend, it was Lindsey who "covered" it for me�writing, in her inimitable style, a complete ly charming story for Themis. Through the years our friendship and notes continued, with the exchange of innumerable personal and edi torial courtesies. But, as Major Bowes says, the wheel of for tune spins�around, around it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows I The years have passed and the wheel has turned, and with this issue The Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta celebrates its twenty-fifth year under the editorship of my friend and contemporary. Twenty-five years, amazingly enough, repre sents three hundred months, or one hundred is sues in which the editor has wrapped up her dreams, idealism and fraternity loyalty in the printed pages of the magazine destined to help build, guide, and inspire an entire organization bound together by the ties of three Greek letters. On the shelf of Lindsey's personal li MABELLE LEONARD DOUGLAS, Beta brary stands volumes bearing tangible evidence First Chairman of Scholarship of those years of work and love. On Gamma Phi's shelves those volumes will ever unfold have been and still are con the record of the marching years and the im inseparably pression of an editor's devotion and ability. nected with the life and progress of the It is both and an then, officially personally, order. And the three who established exceptional pleasure to express to Lindsey Bar bee the sincere congratulations of the N.P.C. these departments, who contributed Sorority Editors' Conference upon the achieve most to development are ment of this proud record of twenty-five years subsequent of service to The Crescent and Gamma Phi Eleanor Sheldon Meyers, first Chair Beta. May the wheel of fortune keep turning, man of Expansion; Mabelle Leonard and bring added success. Shirley Kreasan Krieg, Zeta Tau Alpha Douglas, first Chairman of Scholar The Sorority Editors' Conference Chairman, ; and Katharine Silverson, of the National Panhellenic Congress ship Taney first Chairman of Inspection�or in the THREE FIRSTS terms of her time of service. First Visit Have you ever realized how many ing Delegate. firsts belong to a sorority's history? Eleanor Sheldon of Kappa, now Mrs. There must be a first meeting, a first Dean Myers of Ann Arbor, was the a first a first to interest the in the vital song, a first initiate, graduate, sorority first convention, and so many other matter of expansion; and it is due to firsts that we cannot count them. We her persistency and foresight that Gam- 294 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

ma Phi Beta abandoned its constitu convention session, who listened to her tional machinery of minority dictation. business-like presentation of matters, Owing to the imminence of an extended who witnessed her rescue of us as we trip, Mrs. Myers was unable to send wandered along the paths of useless an article concerning these pioneer days argument by holding us down to the in the field of expansion, but we quote question at issue will understand the from a report written in 1914 that wisdom of our choice. For if anyone shows the dawn of sane and safe ex can manage this scholastic work suc pansion. "Although the affairs of the cessfully, she is the one." From the time Republic of Gamma Phi Beta are look of her initiation, Mabelle Douglas has ing up, there is still reason to believe been a very vital part of Beta chapter. that we have not entirely ceased being Her hospitable home is ever an annex hag-ridden by old-fashioned conserva to the chapter house; .she was on the tism. Very often the committee receives committee that evolved the present Beta a letter from some loyal sister who as house; she was active in the formation serts T always say when somebody asks of Detroit Alumnse chapter; and is at about my sorority, that it is very con present very much of an authority and servative, very strong in the East. We influence. This message came from her: don't care to lower our standard by "It is a far cry from the simple method entering so many new institutions!' of tabulating scholarship to the lengthy These members of the old guard are system that has been the work of Alice perfectly sincere in imagining that the Fitzgerald, but the importance of fine adding of new chapters means a let scholarship is as great as in the early down in ideals; but the ridiculousness days. For scholarship is still the chief of their position is apparent to anyone activity of the campus, and there is one who knows the wealth of fine material vital question we must all ask and be waiting for sorority membership. For honest in our answers. Are we showing the future, then, let us endeavor to root that Gamma Phi Beta is standing for out all that remains of the conservatism those things that place us above re that grows out of ignorance ; let us re proach? When any sorority is known joice over our constantly enlarging op to stand for real mental grasp as well portunities, and let each scattered mem as for an abiding interest in all the best ber her keep eyes open for a chance to associations at each college or univer place a new chapter." Again, in 1915, sity, its right to exist can never be ques we find: are � "We fully satisfied with tioned. For, after all why did we come our present pace. If this 1915 conven to college?" In 1915, we quote from her tion the two grants petitions which are report, since the suggestions offered ap to come before it, we will have gone ply so well to present day conditions. fast to enough satisfy the most ardent 1. The limiting of social engage expansionist. It does not seem wise to ments for all who are doing mediocre expand any faster." work, regardless of class. The senior At the convention of 1913 held in who by her carelessness of indifference Mabelle Madison, Leonard Douglas of has proven to be a delinquent student Beta was appointed to her chairman needs supervision and restriction quite ship, and the record of that event reads: as much as an unknown freshman. "Those of us who heard her talk in 2. An upperclass adviser to be THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 295

chosen by each incoming pledge to have it; we had envied the long-established chapters and had surrounded their achievements with an of class work and adherence supervision aura of mystery. However, a real loyalty to to all rules, study hours in particular. the sisterhood had grown up among us ; warm friendships were fostered ; scholarship was re 3. The of an accurate card keeping markably high ; our part in college activities catalogue; a card for each girl open to was taken and held ; we realized that our stand ing on the campus was determined by our type at all times. The cards to be inspection of girls, our scholarship, and our activity in The had taken at regular intervals to the pro college affairs. chapter grown strong, and we could hold our own among the groups fessors to record the some grades, by established many years earlier. But at this time, one qualified to discuss the work of the we did not realize, I think, the value of our national organization ; nor did we know the real student and to find out where difficulties meaning of national efficiency. lie. However, for some years, the Grand Council had felt that to Gamma Phi Beta in the Katharine Silverson keep Taney always enviable place she had occupied since her or has been a tower of strength in Kappa, ganization, there were certain things to be done. A national spirit must be developed ; and has been identified with all greatej closely each chapter must learn more of her sister its interests. Energy, business abihty, chapters ; a stronger bond between the chapters must be established ; the powerful influence for and of knowledge understanding girls good of the national Panhellenic must be fos and of sorority problems, a most tered ; the cooperation between different so rorities as well as with the campus authori and a charming personality delightful ties must be strengthened ; scholarship must be graciousness all combined to make her raised, not only as the prime object of higher education but to to these same authorities the ideal her prove visiting delegate. During that a national sorority is of value to the stu term of office she did much constructive dent body scholastically as well as socially. Above all, each chapter of our sorority must endeared herself to all the work, chap know that the national organization was behind ters, and laid the foundation of the it, heart and soul, standing for the best and the truest ideals for which Gamma Phi Beta of She present system inspection. was instituted. planned the presidents' books, outlined Several of the other national sororities were realizing these same needs. Panhellenic had the duties of es chapter committees, come to stay. Nationally, scholarship standards tablished freshman training, stimulated were being raised. Large endowment funds were being accumulated. Visiting delegates were national and more than interest, any being sent out on tours of inspection. Every other has merged the parts into a na where among the national sororities was an awakened interest in in the tional whole. Read what she of greater efficiency, says national organizations and a stronger insistence those early days: upon cooperation with the governing board. It was at the Madison convention in 1913 that THE FIRST INSPECTION it was decided to appoint a visiting delegate in How well I remember the Gamma Phi Beta order to take this first step toward a greater National Convention in 1913 held in Madison interest in national affairs and a closer bond with Gamma chapter. We from Kappa and between the individual chapters in the organi Minneapolis Alumnae chapters filled an entire zation. Marie Derge of Eta and San Francisco Pullman. Full of enthusiasm, and anxious to was appointed, but later was unable to serve. know our sisters from other chapters, we were The following year, the Grand Council, with off to attend our first sorority convention! Mrs. Una Winterburn Harsen as president, We were loyal and enthusiastic Gamma Phis, asked me to serve. but really knew little of national affairs. Except In January, 1915, I went to New York to talk for the officers who had installed the chapter in with the Grand President. After many meetings 1902, the chance visitors who had passed with her and the Grand Council, I attended the through Minneapolis on social visits, and the national Panhellenic meeting under the inspir several Gamma Phis who had come to live ing guidance of Lillian Thompson. The Board among us in the first years of our existence, we, had said to me, "You are to go to the chapters here in IMinneapolis, knew little of national �all of them�and to know the girls. Find Gamma Phi Beta. out their difficulties ; give them all you can of We had had letters from the Grand Council the progress of the various chapters ; bring to many many miles away, telling us of our duties each group something of the life of each of the and making a few demands on us for the sup others. Make them realize the strength and port of the national sorority; we had eagerly loyalty of their national organization�that we looked forward to the Crescent and devoured are ready to assist them in any need. Show KATHARINE TANEY SILVERSON, Kappa First Visiting Delegate THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 297

them that they are strong only as national Lucile Berry (Grace Adele Lasher Gamma Phi Beta is strong. Give them an ap preciation of National Spirit, National Effi Berry, Epsilon) ciency, National Endeavor." Charles William Stoddart That, my dear sisters in Gamma Phi Beta, (Clara

� Cook was the duty of your first visiting delegate Stoddart, Iota) a large order, you must admit. But I did my Gilbert best, and how I loved it ! I went from Alpha Henry Colby, Colby (Rachel to Pi, across the country, up and down the coast, Vrooman Colby, Eta) meeting them all, getting close to their problems Muir Hanna Muir and trying to help with their difficulties. I have John (Wanda happy memories of them all, and as the years Hanna, Eta) have passed, I keep looking forward to meeting Frederick Cleveland Bussick those girls at some Gamma Phi convention. (Delia Splendid alumnse they are today, I know. West Bussick) I have read with added interest the last issue Thomas Moore of the Crescent. I am more than ever im Edgar (Mary Crary pressed with the progress and development that Moore, Zeta) lias been made in these past twenty years. The system of province conferences and province Dayton Denious, George Denious directors means much more today than a visit (Edith Boughton Denious, Theta) ing delegate. Our strong central bureau means efficient organization. Our endowment fund as Henry Sanderson (Ella Jamieson sures help to chapters in need as well as in Sanderson, Theta) creased efficiency all along the line. Our camps have given us a social service work of which Genevieve Young (Lucia Pattison we may well be proud. Dear Lillian Thompson, Lindsey Barbee who have worked so long and Young, Theta) tirelessly, Carrie Morgan and our long list of Mary Elizabeth Bayles (Lulu Jane grand presidents and council members cannot but be proud of the success of their plans for Carpenter, Iota) us�the accomplishment of the past years in Melvin D. Slawson (Abbie Benson National National National Spirit, Efficiency, S Endeavor. lawson. Alpha) Katharine Taney Silverson, Kappa James Reid Shannon (Grace Evans WHERE ARE THE BABES OF Shannon, Theta) YESTERYEAR? Charlotte Elizabeth Haller, Joseph Haller, Robert Haller White One of the particular pleasures in this (Louise Haller, Epsilon) retrospection number has been the sur Philip Sparling, Margaret Sparling vey of Gamma Phi Beta Babies appear (Ruth Phillippi, Epsilon) ing in Issues of 1911 and 1916. The list Harriet Willcutt Rose Will of these children, each with his moth (Harriet cutt, Delta) er's name and chapter, is appended ; and Sherman Shultz (Anna Sherman as far as she is able, the editor has tried Shultz, Alpha) to trace the subsequent career of the Barbara Ann Van few with whom she is in Hoyt (Mabel comparatively Winkle touch. Hoyt, Alpha) Frederick Winterburn Harsen (Una But what of those who are not fav Winterburn Harsen, Iota) ored with a "subsequent career?" The Charles Taney Silverson (Katharine editor asks that anyone knowing defi Silverson, Kappa) nite facts about any of the children Walter Lees Hoffman (Millicent mentioned will send her the informa Lees Hoffman, Kappa) tion for use in the next issue of the Sara Margaret Stover (Lucile Tim magazine. berlake Stover, Theta) 1911 Thomas Batson, Cynthia Batson Louise Folk Breakey, Jane Forbes (Geraldine Brown Batson, Mu) Breakey (Grace Collins Breakey, Beta) Robert Dean Thorson, Charles Eu- 298 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

Twom gene Thorsen (Lillian Johnson Thor Marion Grace Miller (Grace son, Gamma) bly Miller, Theta) Anna Ruth Crosby (Saida Baechtold Daniel Miles Jackson (Lois Miles Crosby, Theta) Jackson, Epsilon) Millie Chase Page (Effie Chase Page, A. Hamilton Rice, Parker Holmes Gamma) Rice, Lindsay Howard Rice, Marshall Helen Rawson (Grace Foster Raw- Josselyn Rice (Miriam Holmes Rice, son, Kappa) Delta) Baker Treide Baker 1916 George (Bell Treide, Zeta) Dorothy Carolyn Lueders (Frances Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jane Eliza Fischer Lueders, Epsilon) beth Horsfall, William Ludden Hors Richard Newhall Sanger (Bess New fall, Dorothy Horton Horsfall (Jessie hall Sanger, Delta) Ludden Horsfall, Lambda) Janet Hunter Hoffman (Berenice Emma Denious Hunter Hoffman, Gamma) Boughton (Edith Denious, Katherine Van Tassel Barton (Vero Boughton Theta) Louise Folk Forbes na Pratt Barton, Gamma) Breakey, Jane Collins Mary Elizabeth Grant (Elizabeth Breakey (Grace Breakey, Beta) Elizabeth Ault Woodard Church Grant, Theta) Mary (Nell Roland Frederick Coerper (Alice Ault, Theta) Ringling Coerper, Gamma) Vincent Daniels, Lee Alter Daniels Lucy Van Winkle Hoyt (Mabel Van (Clara Alter Daniels, Theta) Winkle Hoyt, Alpha) William Orin Lennox, Loring Len Jane Harrier Rice (Edythe McMil nox, Jr. (Lucy Moore Lennox, Theta) len, Gamma) Elizabeth Lane Smith (Edna Elmer Frederic James Whittlesey (Edith Smith, Kappa) Woodcock Whittlesey, Nu) Abbie Louise Bosworth, Ruth Bos James Reid Henderson (Zena West worth, Barbara Bosworth (Ethel Henderson, Eta) Lloyd, Mu) Eleanor Haggett (Winifred Sunder Mary Louise Sudduth (Mary Norton lin Haggett, Beta) Sudduth, Kappa) Ruth Rawson, Helen Rawson Oliver Dix Perkins, Norris Humph (Grace Foster Rawson, Kappa) rey Perkins (Grace Gray Perkins, Nu) George Benson Beach, Esther Beach Huntington B. Crouse (Florence (Alice Benson Allen, Eta) Bailey Crouse, Alpha) Streutzel Hanna, Richard Rea Han Ethel Shriner Dunlaney, Arthur Sim na, Robert Elmer Hanna, John Muir Dulaney (Ethel Shriner Dulaney, Zeta) Hanna (Wanda Muir Hanna, Eta) John Heroy, Laura Heroy, Frances Charles Taney Silverson (Katharine Heroy (Jessie Page Heroy, Alpha) Taney Silverson, Kappa) Marjorie Joselyn Jones, Laflin Clif Marjorie Bess Stephenson (Daisy ford Jones (Mary Laflin Jones, Gam Dillon Stephenson, Theta) ma) Vida Volkhardt (Vida Redington Vida Volkhardt (Vida Redington Volkhardt, Eta) Volkhardt, Eta) Wilbur Franklin Denious, Jr. (Edith Elizabeth Elston (Tallulah Le Conte Boughton Denious, Theta) Elston, Eta) THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 299

Jean Kellogg (Charlotte Hoffman lows his chosen profession of mining Kellogg, Eta) engineer. His sister, Lucile Sanderson Donald Wilson Thackwell, Henry Hackstaff is a member of Theta chap Lawrence Thackwell (Helen Welles ter. Thackwell, Beta) Dayton Denious, Kappa Sigma, was Elizabeth Kieckhefer (Alison More the youngest member of his class at Kieckhefer, Gamma) Denver University, graduated cum Thomas Edgar Moore, Mary Louise laude from Harvard Law School and Moore (Mary Crary Moore, Zeta) is a prominent young lawyer in Den Brackley Shaw (Marion Dickinson ver. He married Genevieve Park of Shaw, Beta) Theta chapter. Mary Watson, John Watson (Mary George Denious, Kappa Sigma, after Ickes Watson, Epsilon) his graduation from Denver Univer Elizabeth Woodworth (Ethel Avery, sity, graduated from Harvard Business Theta) College and is now in New York where Robert Myers Allan, Dorothy Allan he holds a responsible position. He was (Edna Myers Allan, Theta) married in March to Elizabeth Trant, Horace Horton Koessler (Jessie Kappa Alpha Theta. Horton Koessler, Beta) James Reid Shannon, Beta Theta Pi, Elizabeth Lewis, Marjorie Lewis, graduated from the University of Colo Helen Lewis (Eva Hill Lewis, Beta) rado and now is at the head of a depart ment in one of Denver's large stores. What Are They Doing Now? In June he was married to Katharine (An imperfect list) Street of Winnetka, Illinois. His moth Lucile Berry joined Alpha Iota chap er and three sisters are Gamma Phis. ter and was recently married. Charlotte Haller attended the Uni Charles William Stoddart took his versity of Wisconsin where she was a college work at Penn State where his member of Kappa Alpha Theta. father is a professor. His mother was Margaret Sparling is a member of instrumental in founding Alpha Upsi Kappa chapter. lon. Mary Elizabeth Grant is now a stu Thomas Edgar Moore after prepara dent at Smith College. tory work in Hill School, graduated Charles Silverson graduated from from Yale where he was a member of Princeton, is married, and has one Alpha Delta Phi. He studied architec child. ture abroad, has traveled extensively, Marjorie Bess Stephenson graduated and will receive his degree in 1936 from in 1935 from Denver University with the Yale School of Architecture. honors being a member of Kedros hon Genevieve Young is a member of or society and of Quill. This year she is Theta chapter, was a fine student dur teaching in Colorado. ing her college career, is a member of W^ilbur Franklin Denious, Jr., is now Kedros, honor society, and at present a senior at Denver University and is is teaching in one of Denver's junior president of his fraternity, Kappa Sig high schools. She was married in July ma. to Mr. Oliver Overman. Jane Horsfall is a member of Lamb Henry Sanderson graduated from da chapter. School of Mines, is married and fol Emma Denious graduated from Pine 300 THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA

Manor, was for two years a student complished musician, and travels much at Wellesley, and graduated from Bos of the time. ton Conservatory of Music. She is a Elizabeth Woodworth graduated member of Alpha Chi Omega. from Bradford Academy near Boston and is a junior at the University of Michigan. Robert Allan graduated with honors from Stanford University. Dorothy Allan attended University of Colorado, and is now engaged in a business career. How many of these girls are Gamma Phis? Lucile Berry, Genevieve Young, Margaret Sparling, Marjorie Stephen son, Jane Horsfall, Mary Ault, Ethel Dulaney, and Mary Louise Moore. Will various members help to cor rect this list and bring it up to date? The editor wishes that she had a

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Mary Elizabeth Ault is a very ac tive graduate member of Tau and is an ardent aviatrix. William Lennox attended Colorado College where he is a inember of Sig ma Chi. He is now in the bank in Colo rado Springs, is married, and has one child, Mary Fay. Loring Lennox, Jr., is also a Sigma Chi, has been for two years at Colorado College, and this year will study at Har vard. MARY LOUISE MOORE, Theta Ethel Dulaney is a member of Zeta chapter. present-day picture of each "Gamma Donald Thackwell is a student at Phi Baby" to compare with the baby University of Michigan. picture; but as this is impossible, she Mary Louise Moore, Theta, is an ac has chosen to illustrate the article by THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA 301

the two photographs of Gamma Phi of the most brilliant young lawyers in children who appear in the lists of long Denver, and is associated with his fa ago.�Dayton Denious (1911 Cres ther, Wilbur F. Denious, former na cent), Mary Louise Moore (1916 tional president of Kappa Sigma. Crescent). Mary Louise Moore after attending Dayton Denious always has been Bradford Academy near Boston, en associated very closely with Gamma Phi tered Denver University and became a Beta and Gamma Phi Betas in Denver. member of Theta chapter where she Through his college course he was a shone brightly in the play. Why Should faithful squire, and his marriage to n't I? She is a member of the Junior Genevieve Park, one of Theta chapter's League in Denver, spends much of her traditional girls, has cemented the al time in travel, and is an accomplished legiance. He graduated from Harvard musician. Law School cum laude, is ranked as one

A Silver Anniversary in the magazine world is interesting Scholastic requirements. and unusual, and the editor has taken Inspection. the liberty of devoting this issue to a Lindsey Barbee Fellowship. brief history of the Crescent, stress Visiting delegate. ing the important events of the twenty- Endowment Fund. five years during which she had held Ritualistic changes. office. And in recalling these years of � Vancouver, service, she pays tribute to the many Camps Colorado, Virgin loyal friends who have made the work ia. Revised a joy, to the happy associations with directory. individual members, with chapters, with Expansion into Canada. � Founders' national officers, with Panhellenic Services Pledge, Memorial, friends ; she marvels at the changes that Day.

� � Chairmen Examina have come to pass for wars have Scholarship, Rit raged, dynasties have fallen, and stand tions, Publicity, Music, Rushing, Education. ards have shifted. It's all been very ual, Executive wonderful, and it's a frightfully long Secretary. News letters from time for one person to project her chapters. Two books. self upon an editorial column. She is song humble for very your untiring patience, Official headquarters (Central Office). and for silver of allegi your years Freshman training. ance. Golden Anniversary. of government. What Have Twenty-Five Years Reorganization Official and Brought to Gamma Phi Beta? jeweler publisher. War work. Organization of provinces. Trophies�National (scholarship urn) ; Unity in national spirit. province ; local. Rushing rules and procedure. Houses for chapters. A Trio of Library Authorities maid." Anita has a in AND now the sorority is about to gone long way she is be introduced to three librarian her chosen career, for at present /'\ of stars of great magnitude, and Chief of the Department Library and and is in these stars are Zaidee Vosper of Beta, Education Personnel, work Anita and Marie Hostetter, both of touch with all aspects of library Theta. During the convention of li that affect the personnel of the profes � for all levels of brarians held during the summer in sion such as training certification of libra Denver (and a fine, outstanding group library service, of they were!) these three Gamma Phis rians, as well as conditions service, of and scholar were of distinct importance; and after provision fellowships much persuasion and various dire ships, recruiting, advisory services to threats, certain vital statistics (unac institutions giving courses in library in li companied by photographs alas ! ) have science, and to persons interested work. Much of her time is found their way to the editor's desk. brary given Zaidee Vosper during her college to the Board of Education for Libra rians of which she is Executive Secre career at the University of Michigan and for the of was a very active member of Beta chap tary ; purpose accrediting ter, and has been since 1927 editor of library schools and of studying library The Booklist, previously having served instruction, she frequently visits col in all of the as associate editor: and The Booklist leges and universities parts is the chief book selection aid published country. One achievement was her work by the American Library Association. on a special project for the American It features new editions, selections for Library Association under the direction small and medium sized public libraries ; of Dr. W. W. Charters at the Univer it carries special departments of books sity of Chicago; and this task consisted for children, books for high school li of the analysis and collection of data braries, books for special groups of on various types of library work and readers ( for example, volumes in a cer the assistance to other librarians who tain foreign language) ; and during the wrote text books for use in library depression it has attempted to present schools. Incidentally, Anita is a gradu the most significant books in all fields ate of the University of Kansas, had and has proved a dependable guide to much to do with the founding of Sig libraries when money for building up ma, and later on became affiliated with collections is again available. So we Gamma Phi activities in the University the final honors. may infer just how important edi of Illinois where she took tor is, and we are very grateful to her Marie Hostetter, also of Theta, and for supplying future Crescents with a much-loved younger sister, took her lists of the books that should find their A.B. at the University of Kansas where was of way to our reading tables. she president Sigma and "guide, Once upon a time, Anita Hostetter philosopher and friend," secured her Li was the dainty maid in the annual play B.L.S. at the University of Illinois of Theta chapter; and the paper re brary School, also with final honors, ported her as being "too pretty for a and for years has been closely asso- THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 303 ciated with Gamma Phi and Gamma proud of these three librarians; and just Phis in Urbana. In August of this vear, to know how they are ranked in Who's she received notice of her advancement Who in Library Service, we append the to the rank of Associate Professor; and following entries: at the University of Illinois Library Vosper, Zaidee B. Editor, The Booklist, Ameri School she teaches courses in order can Library Association, 520 N. Michigan work, bibliography, children's litera Ave., Chicago, III. Home : 742 E. Cross St., IMich. ture, school administration, and Ypsilanti, library Born, Ionia, Mich. : daughter of James and advanced book selection. Particularly Livonia S. (Holmes) Vosper. Michigan State interested in the of work that College, 1899-1901; A.B., Michigan, 1904; phase New York State Library, Library School, concerns school libraries, she has been Albany, 1916-8, certificate, 1917. Teacher in Michigan schools, Ironwood, 1905-6, Besse for three years a director of the School mer, 1906-7, Pontiac, 1907-9; assistant. Order Library Section of the American Li Department, Detroit Public Library, 1913-5, reference department, 1915-6, 1918-23; assist Association ; and in two she brary years ant, book selection section and reference de will be chairman. At the Denver con partment. New York State Library, 1917-8; first assistant, Monterey County Free Library, she was elected chairman of ference, Salinas, Calif., 1923-4; associate editor, The the Professional Training Section, a Booklist, 1924-7, editor, 1927-date. that conducts annual Hostetter, Marie Miller, Associate, Library group programs School, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. for the discussion of various aspects of Home : 6450 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, 111. of William Her work at the Born, Ladoga, Ind. ; daughter professional training. Robert and Emma Adell (Miller) Hostetter. University of Illinois has brought her A.B., Kansas, 1919; B.L.S., University of Il final 1922. in close touch with the officers of the linois Library School, with honors, Childrens librarian, Lawrence (Kan.) Public North Central Association in relation Library, 1918-9; classifier. University of Kan sas 1920-3; assistant, Omaha (Neb.) to standards for school libraries; and Library, Technical High School Library, 1924-26 ; as she works closely with the accrediting sociate. University of Illinois, 1926-date. Board of of the in the effort Hostetter, Anita Miller. Secretary, group university Education for Librarianship, American Li to improve school library service in Illi brary Association, 520 N. Michigan Ave., 111. Home: 6450 Kenwood Ave., nois. Before to Illinois, she was Chicago, going Chicago. at the for three years assistant librarian Born. Ladoga, Ind. ; daughter William Robert Adell Hostetter. Uni Omaha Technical High School Library, and Emma (Miller) versity of Denver, 1909-11 ; A.B., University and contributed much to its develop of Kansas, 1917; B.L.S.. University of Il linois School, with final honors, 1920. ment. This is as one Library library recognized Assistant, Extension Division, University of of the most oustanding school libraries Kansas, 1917-8; assistant librarian, Kansas State Teachers 1920-4, in the and is noted for its re College, Emporia, country, Omaha (Neh) Technical High School, 1924- the markable success in making library 5 ; research assistant. Library Curriculum executive assistant, the actual center of all instruction. Study, Chicago, 1925-8; A.L.A. Board of Education for Librarian- Gamma Phi Beta has reason to be ship, 1928-32, secretary, 1932-date.

QUOTATIONS FROM THE CHAPTER LETTERS

"This year we have started an annual scholarship fund of $100 to be given 1911. through a committee to some girl in the university."� Gamma, March,

"We are very proud of the honor that has just been awarded lo Laura Case Sherry who was elected first vice-president of the national Drama League."�March, 1912. Gamma Phi Book Nook

Latter Howe foundation and growth of a Doreen Wallace chapter library have been for THE Latter Howe was the bleak, well-loved farm many years recurrent themes in in the English Lake district to which a young his London wife. A story the editorial column of our magazine; sheep-farmer brought of devotion and courage that is well told, but and some of our chapter homes are fill rather sad. ing their book shelves. There are many Strange journey available lists of necessary and appro Maud Cairnes fiction about two priate volumes for chapter house use ; Entertaining, light English women, strangers, leading totally different lives, a club and wherever the group has who wished to change places with each other house and does not study in its college and were suddenly changed, with amusing re sults. home, the accumulation of volumes ma_\' Speak to the earth be handled in various For ex ways. Vivienne De Watteville Theta fills its shelves ample, chapter Traveling alone in East Africa, an English with volumes that have been written girl camped for two months on the slopes of Mount Kenya, observing animal behavior. by graduates and students of Denver and members of Gamina University by Golden apples Phi Beta. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings So much for the college girls. How The regeneration of an exiled Englishman among the crackers of the Florida backwoods. shall we alumna;, restricted in time, en in the life of tangled complex today, My country and my people keep in touch with the recent, worth Yu-t'ang Lin while books ? Zaidee Vosper of Beta A Chinese author writes an excellent char acterization of the spirit and personality of his of Booklist which chapter, editor TJic country. is publi-shed by the American Library Red sky in the morning Association, will send for each issue of Robert P. T. Coffin A somber story, poetically told, full of Maine the Crescent a list of and significant country and the sea. present-day volumes. The first list is appended: Black tents of Arabia (my life among the Bedouins) Carl Reinhard Raswan RECENT BOOKS Tribal wars, hunting, famine, and horse buy Suggested by The Booklist ing in Arabia, vividly told and beautifully il Published by the American Library Association lustrated. Edited by Zaidee B. Vosper, Beta Sunrise to evening star Marina King

Grand tour, diary of an Eastivard journey Pioneer life in South Africa as a courageous woman saw it. Patrick Balfour

An enjoyable record, by a traveler who takes Youth uncharted travel of an overland from London lightly, trip Stephen Lavvford to India in two secondhand cars. An Englishman's unusual adventures in the war and working with refugees in the Near Tempest over Me.vico, a personal chronicle East.

Rosa E. King The seven arms Leonard Alfred George A first-hand account of ten years of revolu Strong tions in Mexico told by a cultivated English The tempestuous life of a lawless girl from woman who had opened a hotel in Cuernavaca a Scottish fishing village who followed her and was stranded in the war zone. uncle to the Napoleonic wars. Life Alumnas Members

CAM PAIGN to secure alumna Gladys Martin Ginn (Mrs. D. R.) Sadie Piatt life iriembers has been Greening (Mrs. B, O.) A inaugu Mary Hamilton Grosvenor (Mrs. E. O.) rated and is being carried on Paula Henze Alice Leonard Holmes (Mrs. Arthur) numerous alumnae that are by groups Delphine Johnson soliciting their membership. All Gamma Lillian Boynton Smith (Mrs. Eugene) Isabella Andrews Phi Beta initiated before the Talley (Mrs. J. E.) alumnse, Lillian W. Thompson inclusion of life alumnae memberships Agnes Wells with the initiation fee, are to urged pay Gamma� 11 their $5.00, members thereby becoming Lucy Wallrich Davidson (Mrs. C. F.) in good standing for life and contrib Euretta Kimball Davis (Mrs. Ralph) Grace Holcomb A. toward the Endowment Fund to Burgard (Mrs. T.) uting Inez Schifflin Kaempfer (Mrs. F. W.) which these payments are added. Those Mary Borse Kieckhefer (Mrs. W. A.) Alice affiliated with alumnae Smalley McKinney (Mrs. Hayes) groups may pay Mary Baker Nieman (Mrs. Norman) through local treasurers, but those who Louise Durst Smith (Mrs. Norman) Nora Buell Stewart (Mrs. H. are not affiliated do so H.) may by filling Florence Stott Sullivan (Mrs. Arthur G.) out the blank displayed in each issue of Zerlena Knox Winton (Mrs. W. P.) the Crescent, and it with a sending Delta� 19 check or order to Central Office. money Ruth Bellatti In printing below the names of alum Isabelle Turnbull Blood (Mrs. R. E.) Carlotta Brant nae who so far have their life paid dues, Dorothy Bullock Gamma Phi Beta is expressing publicly Beatrice Chambers Ethel DeMille its of their and appreciation loyalty Judith Moss Harlow (Mrs. R. V.) service to the sorority. The names of Gladys Kingman future life members will in sub Ruth Tobey Lindquist (Mrs. Wilburt) appear Frances McDuffee sequent issues. Anna McPhee Dorothy O'Brien Alpha�U Dorothy Schober Olive Moorehead Beckwith (Mrs. Ansel E.) Mary Endicott Shepard Cora Jackson Carson (Mrs. Robert N.) Eleanor Simmons Helen M. Dodge Ferguson (Mrs. J. V.), Virginia Turnbull Founder Pauline Sawyer Umland (Mrs. E. E.) Laura Latimer Graham (Mrs. Wm. J.) Conjetta Vanacore Natalie Kyser Mary J. Wellington Frances E. Haven Moss (Mrs. Charles M.), Founder Epsilon�17 Margaret C. Munro Laura Clement Beltzner (Mrs. August) Anne Pinck Gladys O'Connor Borland (Mrs. Paul R.) Jessie Groat Richardson (Mrs. R. S.) Charlotte Crimmins Myrta Kenaston Russell (Mrs. T. A.) Alice Dibble Marion Beecher Scott (Mrs. W. H.) Mary Lyons Dibble (Mrs. C. C.) Ruth Russum Shearman (Mrs. R. W.) Mary Richardson Dunn (Mrs. Chas.) Ella Wells Simmons (Mrs. Fred) Ruth Bartels Fox (Mrs. Stuart K.) Mildred Hebel Beta�18 Ruth Tucker Mullins (Mrs. K.) Grace Anderson Helen Northrop Lulu Anderson Clementine Lewis Peterson (Mrs. Duane) Rose Anderson Florence Mitchell Smith (Mrs. Horace J.) Pansy Y. Blake Dorothy Somers Ellen Jane Cooley Bernice Wickman Swann (Mrs. Charles) Erma George Cope (Mrs. Harry) Bertha White Frances Brown Davis (Mrs. J. R.) Marie Crowley Williams (Mrs. Oliver) Linda Eberbach Gladys Crimmins Wilson (Mrs. Harry) 306 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

Zeta�3 X,�2 Charlotte Bush Marguerite Allen Campbell (Mrs. Rowley) Anna M. Dimmick Elizabeth Smith Stone (Mrs. Loren B.) Ruth Hier Omicron �9 Eta�2 Nina Gresham Mary Bowers Bray (Mrs. W. H.) Allis Haren Elizabeth Buffington Rabbitt (Mrs. M. L.) Agnes Hclmreich Doris Theta�\9 Jean Holloway Gertrude Maclntyre Kemp (Mrs. W. W.) Ruth Burgard Kathleen Dean Krueger (Mrs. Edward) Hessler Carroll H. Elizabeth (Mrs. R.) Marian Scott Storm (Mrs. Paul) Kittie Lee Clarke Walter E.) (Mrs. Margaret Van Gerpen Constance Davis (Mrs. Paul) Whitney Mary Doolittle Vieregg (Mrs. John) Florence Galbraith Helen Thompson Heath (Mrs. J. Manley) Pi�S Hines W. Eleanor Culton (Mrs. W.) Clarice Green Hicks (Mrs. Clifford) Bell Robert) Dorothy Joyce (Mrs. Evelyn Otte Jensen (Mrs. Clifford) Moore Lennox Lucy (Mrs. Loring) Gladys Wilkinson Lawrence (Afrs. Paul W.) Mildred Liebold Merle E.) Nutting (Mrs. Marian Tyler Mathews (Mrs. Cecil) Grace Miller (Mrs. W. O.) Twombly Margaret Black Schmitz (Mrs. Herbert) Bess Vesey Neeper (Mrs. C. A.) Josephine Robinson Rho�9 Mildred Robinson Alice Camerer Edith Fales (Mrs. Floyd K.) Thayer Helen Bergman Greenwood (Mrs. Glenn) Austin Weiner (Mrs. Joseph H.) Jessie Agnes Mclilroy Herbert Winchester (Mrs. F.) Kathryn John Sadie Whitney Mishler (Mrs. Glenn S.) Allen Woodward (Mrs, Ned K.) Kathryn Cloris Waterbury Scott (Mrs.) Louise Robinson Wm. Wyatt (Mrs. J.) Frances Stearns Iota�0 Ruth Folwell Studley (Mrs. James D.) Beatrice Spvker Synhorst (Mrs. John B.) Kappa�4 Ora Webb Williams (Mrs. Clement C.) Sara Preston (Mrs. E.) Finley J. � Sigma 6 Helen Carpenter Gorrill (Mrs. ./\thol) Millicent Lees Hoffman (Mrs. Arthur C.) Katherine Glendinning W. Florence Weld Harriet Gilbert Hutton (Mrs. W., Jr.) Florence Ingham Lambda�24 Mildred Rule Olson (Mrs. R. E.) Myrtle Rude Anderson (Mrs. Woodworth) Virginia Hill Thayer (Mrs. Frank) Dollie McLean Callow (Mrs. Russell S.) Norma Sabin Wallingford (Mrs. M. D.) Mary Helen Corbett Lois McBride Dehn (Mrs. Wm. M.) 'Iau�6 Emmy Schmitz Hartman (Mrs. Harold) Dorothy Martin Hilliker (Mrs. Charles) Gertrude Pratt Hofrichter (Mrs. C. A.) Emma Willis Krushnic (Mrs. Edward F.) Jane Horsfall Marion Ward Newell (Mrs. Maxwell) Jessie Ludden Horsfall (Mrs. Frank) Irene Mariow Sellinghauscr (Mrs. Ralph) Violet Dungan Keith (Mrs. George R.) Bertha Boger Wear (Mrs. W. T.) Myrn Cosgrove Kinnear (Mrs. Roy) Mary Ryer Williams (Mrs. Jay T.) Adelaide Allmond Linne (Mrs. A. B.) Gertrude Young Manny (Airs. Henry) i'psilon�0 Helen Steele Mullen (Mrs. Charles) Phi�9 Airdrie Kincaid Pinkerton (Mrs. Roy) Edith Prosch Winifred Douglas Davis (Mrs. John H.) Anna Young Rabel (Mrs. Victor) Herold West Easterbrook (Mrs, George) Fredericka Sully Shaw (Mrs. Gordon) Dorothy Jennings Marguerite Motie Shiel (Mrs. Walter P.) Beatrice Jennings Kotsrean (Mrs. C. W.) Carrie Atkinson Shorts (Mrs. Bruce) Elizabeth Wood Mize (Mrs. T. H.) Helen Harper Smith (Mrs. E. Rex) Dorothy Oswald Alma Delaney Teal (Mrs. George C.) Blanche Brunt Wagner (Mrs. Richard) Erna Meerschiedt W'eeks (Mrs. E. M.) Charlotte Robertson White (Mrs. L. A.) Hellatje Edwards Woodruff (Mrs. George) Lucille Miller Winkler (Mrs. Edward G.) Margaret Meany Younger (Mrs. J. A.) Chi�I Mu�3 Edna Pence Huthwaite (Mrs. W. E. C.) Luella Behrens Allen (Mrs. F. E.) P.H�8 Mary Calloway Parker (Mrs. C. G.) Faye Naylor Chatman (Mrs. Joe) Duggan Wisnom (Mrs. Robert) Jessie Pearl Herrington A')(�0 Eugenia Kaufman THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 307

Pauline McKinney Frances G. Fisher Lydia Schmidt (Mrs. W. G.) Irene Frame Lucile Farmer Fleming Springer (Mrs. C. E.) Mary Fuss Gonano (Mrs.) Janet Thompson Ruth Grove Loree White White (Mrs. James E.) Vera V. Hensell Omega�1 Madelyn Clovis Kaltenbach (Mrs. W. C.) Nelle Fishel Marjorie Linderman Mae McDonald Alpha Alpha�6 Mary Margaret Martin Marxine Wrigley Galbraith (Mrs.) Dorothy O'Roke Mary J. Harris Helen R. Pyles Betty Holland Dorothea Rist Winters Helen Henry , , Mary Lillian McBride McCutcheon C (Mrs. L.) Rho�5 Dr. Josephine Orr Alpha Malline Burns Alpha Beta�Q Ruth Herren Englebert (Mrs. H. B.) Alpha Gamma�0 Ora Lazenby Annie Aurelia Weaver Pitts (Mrs. R. N.) Alpha Delta�\ Sarah Frances Totten Elizabeth McDaniel Alpha Sigma�1 � 1 Alpha Epsilon Alice P. A. Holmes Martha Vinson Alpha Tau�4 Alpha Zeta�\ Margaret Doran Zula Williams Velma McVey Alpha Eta�4 Margaret Milligan Shirley Nowlan Virginia Hildreth Mary Virginia Madden Alplia Upsilon�0 Sylvia Cleland Meade (Mrs. J. M.) Norma Nelson Alpha Phi�I Dorothy Printup Hulbert (Mrs. Archer Alpha Thetar-2 B.) Alpha Chi�0 Elsie Waller Sharpe (Mrs. Joe) Elizabeth McLane Smith (Mrs. W. P.) Alpha Psi�1 Alpha Iota�1 Elizabeth Swenkerud Amacker (Mrs. T. R. Jr.) Mildred Walsh Anderson (Mrs. Hilding) (The above life memberships were received Alpha Kappa�0 up to and including December 1, 1935.) Alpha Lambda�0 The Campaign by Alumn/e Chapters Alpha Mu�1 and Associations Marcia Converse Bower (Mrs. Robert S.) Chapters Seattle 30 Champaign-Urbana 2 Nu�4 Alpha Chicago 23 Nashville 2 Ellen Janes Boston 19 Madison 1 Katherine Kneisser Detroit 12 Milwaukee 1 Helen Lewis New York 11 Wichita 1 Isabel Brennan Scoon (Mrs. Robert) Cleveland 13 Denver 9 Associations Xi�2 Alpha Des Moines 6 Morgantown 16 Berna Brightwell Newcomb (Mrs. Marshall) Los Angeles 6 Wheeling 6 Sinz 6 Dorothy Philadelphia Denver of Tau. . . 5 Birmingham 5 Norman 5 Omicron�0 Alpha St. Louis 5 Montreal 4 Syracuse 5 Toledo Alpha Pi�22 4 Dallas 4 Dayton 3 Barnett Virginia Kansas City 4 Lincoln 2 Helen Blodgett Oklahoma City ... 4 Boise 1 Ruth N. Bodgett San Francisco ... 4 Buffalo 1 Reid Boutwell Virginia (Mrs. Robert) Ann Arbor 3 Lawrence 1 Freda M. Braun Colorado Springs . 3 San Antonio 1 Lucille Davis Iowa City 3 Mary Louise Doolittle Minneapolis 3 Unaffiliated Bertha Marie Dwinnell Toronto 5 Virginia Ebeling Total .246 Camp Department "Time Marches On" in the Camps

has operated its Of course everyone of you has made VANCOUVERfifth camp and yet it seems only this possible not only in the Vancouver yesterday that I was introducing Camp but in the new V'irginia one, and this camp to you as a brand new unit in Denver. Never have the chapters sent in the Gamma Phi chain. This year they lovelier things and how the children cared for forty-one little girls and judg adore the bright colors and soft ma ing from the letters of the children terials. themselves and from those of the coun I know you often wonder how we selors this season must have been a select the children and from what kinds nearly perfect one. of homes they come; also you may Nothing outstandingly new occurred sometimes wonder if they really need and so the story is an old one to most and appreciate all you do for them. I of you ; how the days are spent swim am going to let you hear the answer to ming, building sand castles, sewing, all this just as it comes to me. producing original plays and just sleep Kittie Lee Clarke, ing and eating. What more could any Camp Chairman little girl desire !

KAPPA CHAPTER Busy with its hand made pink and blue flannel gowns for the Virginia Camp. the CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 309

Dear Kittie Lee: I think with the proper tuition she could be an operatic singer and am at present trying to I wonder if the Gamma Phis would be in find someone who would provide her with free terested in knowing how the children are chosen singing lessons. for our Vancouver Camp? During the winter our Mothers' Club will In March the school nurses are asked to send look after the neediest of these families. We in the names of the children who are under are looking forward to our Christmas party nourished or on or those that relief, they when we shall see all our children again. think would benefit the most by two weeks at Yours the sea-side. As most of the nurses have visited Gerry our camp, they know just what the camp has to (Gerry Whitaker, Alpha, chief counselor.) offer. Dear Mrs. Clarke : They send us the required list of names with a statement about each child, her health record, We have been having a good time, I just the financial condition, whether employed or want to tell you what a good time I am having unemployed parent, the condition of the home, and to thank you for letting me come to camp the number of children in the family and the I think it is very nice of you. We are making reason for recommending the child. a new dress I am having splendid time I can Our visiting committee then visits all the not thank you enough for how nice you are we homes, talks to mother and the child and tells are having a Birtiiday party for Miss Dews. them about the Gamma Phi Camp. Our com The food is delicious I think and do we have mittee also records impressions of the visit, fun and do we jerk at them jerks which added to the information the school Yours truly nurses have sent us enable the counse'ors to Doris E. understand and serve the children to a greater Dear Mrs. Clarke: advantage. How are you I am just going to write a short This I visited some of the homes with year letter telling how much I enjoyed this camp Molly Lock and they were deplorable. One I had much much fun I just hate going home home had not one article of furniture in the even though I like to see my mother We had front and the was off the wall rooms, plaster a birthday party and we liad a lovely birthday in chunks. The floor was and large uncarpeted cake I am in Group 5 and are counclere name there was no in the socket. the light Evidently is Miss Hayward I like that dress I made very entire of lived in the family, consisting six, much I would like to come again if I can I bedroom and kitchen. tiny am only 10 years old I have all gold stars and There were three little children under school I get a prize We are going to have sports to-day clothed even for age, insufficiently summer, Thank you for all the happy days That I have skirts with no wearing tops. at this camp, I am also writing to thank you The children were and two of very dirty for the candy and gum and the other things were with some form of a skin them covered you sent me We have the lovliest food and disease. clothing We had a fire last night and cooked The mother wore a dress, only shapeless marshmellows I wonder if you know my shoes with her toes protruding and no stock mother ings. Her hair was stringy and listless and Yours truly hung to her shoulders, and her neck was Buss C, grimier than a laborer's. P.S. I have gained 4 lbs. and I like Swimming This was the poorest family we visited. The the best little girl of ten, whom we took to camp was Dear Miss Whitker: not nearly as badly off as her younger sisters. The school nurse had provided her with shoes, I wishs to convey my gratitude to your self a neat school dress and sweater and she looked & colleagues for the wonderful holiday you quite respectable. made it possible for Laura to have. Laura is The next poorest home which we visited was equally grateful to you all. The children must little more than a tumble-down shack. We were have had a marvelous time, & one only had to most careful in ascending the stairs leading to look at them to realize the benefit they had de the porch, as some of the boards were missing, rived from the splendid care and treatment and when we knocked on the door, the door they had received whilst at camp. Really it is fell open showing us the interior. just wonderful. The house consisted of two rooms, the front I am sure you and all responsible for the room which contained three large double beds camp must feel well repaid when you know where the whole family slept, and a kitchen that none of the children really wanted to come with a battered tin sink, stacked with dirty home Laura talked incessantly of the kindness dishes. of you all. The family are foreigners, having come to Your work is just splendid & it is almost Vancouver from Roumania. The mother spoke unbelievable that it can be done for so many little English, but the little girl of twelve children. Laura gained 3^4 lbs. whilst at your translated for her. She was a quaint child with camp & that speaks for itself. her hair in two long pig-tails and she sang like I could really write at length & then I would an angel. There seemed to be no note too high not be able to convey half the appreciation for her to sing. I really feel for Laura's holiday. ^

CAbove: Lillian Hicks, Kappa, and her group. CCenter: The Prince, Cinderella, The King, Step-daughters, Step-mother. C,B(?/oa'; Results of the doll dressing contest. -asrpE

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Alpha Theta, and her ^ u"{Ar ^^"^ P^'''^^ group. ^Center: Counselors (left to right)- ^^'^y A A A?ulftL7T^- V.i p'�^^ "f^'r"^' V Whitaker, (chief counselor) ; Mary A ice ^''^' E"^"^' ^ ''�' Barbara Beam, N. Water^'^t:'}lLtJ'Sports. Kneeling: Molly Lock, A A. tiB^ow: 312 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

But please believe me grateful & kindly pass very much and had great plcasurs out of it along my thanks to anyone who helped at all and wished I could stay for next two weeks but to make the holiday possible for Laura. I knew how the other little girls wished to go Yours sincerely (Mrs.) Maude T. so I didn' ask My mother and father liked my dress very much and they said it was very Mother said that she couldn' have done My dear Miss Whitaker: lovely. better on the dress than I did. Will you please Just a few lines to tell you that I arrived tell me the names of the counsellors too. home alright. We have had good weather since How is Miss Wood, is she any better with her I left camp. Will you tell me the names of cold? I am writing you this letter in Hope all the girls in the second group? I hope that that you will get it to-morrow, (Tiiursday). the girls in the second group aren't as noisy as I have nothing more to say so I close my letter some of the girls in the first group and I with my gratitude & love & xxxxxxes and I also hope they have a bit more manners. I am hope you have a lovely time and never get this letter 9 a.m. writing Wednesday morning sick. Have you any stamps that you wouldn't mind xxxxxxx Pleas write soon giving away? If you have I would gladly like Yours sincerely Johanna G. to have some. (If I am not a nusciene to you.) I love you very much for being so kind to me (Children's letters appear without correc as for sending me to camp. I enjoyed camp tions.)

Announcements

Next season may seem a long way off in Virginia, but these are both very es right now ; but I know that many of sential. Towels, aprons, curtains, sun you are already planning to sew for the suits, bathing suits, sweat shirts, socks, camps through the winter and so it will underwear are always needed. not be out of place at this time to tell Please do not buy yarn or materials you what we need. for pieced quilts. These articles are to be First the Virginia Camp has pre made by chapters having scraps avail sented an entirely new problem to us in able and not wishing to be to any added weather conditions and so we can no expense yet wishing to help. If your longer just make the same thing for the group is able to buy materials let the three camps and then send it to the other articles be your choice. where it we place is needed, but must When your gift is ready, if you have decide in the beginning that an article not received mailing instructions, drop is for or Virginia for the others. Night me a card and I will send them ; this for must or gowns Virginia be plain will save considerable postage if you figured cotton crepe made from the mail direct to the camp board. Denver usual are patterns (there enough flan bundles may come to me at any time but nel in reserve gowns for this season). the others must go to either Vancouver The showers are grand and will be ac or Norfolk. in each ceptable camp. Please send these The camp "MOVIE" is unusually to the nearest to camp you and save fine this year. There are reels from each postage. Almost anything may be in camp and Vancouver has surpassed cluded in these but detailed lists will be everyone as usual and gone into color sent Suits this are upon request. year so none of you can afford to miss seeing to be in changed style and material and it. There is also a short commentary to the new ones should prove easy sewing accompany it. WRITE AT ONCE for any group; patterns and material FOR YOUR DATES. will be for supplied these if any care to Several chapters have requested ex do the work. Bedding as usual but onlv tra copies of the letter sent to alumnae light cotton quilts or afghans are needed groups in September, in order that they THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 313

mail them to may members not attend it considerable thought and many of ing meetings but who might be willing them have offered splendid suggestions. to pay the Camp tax or help in some All these suggestions were presented to way. Other chapters wishing copies Grand Council for discussion at their should let me know how many they November meeting. need. For All Camp Information Address: Response to this letter has been light, Mrs. Walter E. Clarke, 776 Vine but the chapters responding have given Street, Denver, Colo.

From the College Chapters Lake Forest College Student Trip

are only three times when most fun of any function of the year. THEREyou are natural�when you eat, It is an annual affair which consists of when you sleep, and when you go hiring a special train and transporting on the student trip!" Thus spake the the students in a body to Beloit or chairman of the Trip Committee, and Waukesha, Wisconsin, alternately, to true it is. cheer for the alma mater at the foot Many of the Lake Forest College ball game. students consider the Student Trip the The game itself is but one of the

ALPHA PSI IN THE BAGGAGE CAR Left to right: Margot Baer (pledge), Katherine Eckert (pledge), Dolores Nordquist, Sally Hamilton (pledge), Ellen J. Erickson (seated at piano), and Babette C. Klein (pledge). 314 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA events of the day. Preceding it are: indulge either in hilarity or gloom 1. A two and a half hour train ride because everyone is half frozen and half with dancing (?) in the baggage car starved. The favorite restaurant in to an orchestra that struggles desperate town is soon filled with Lake Foresters, ly to be heard above the roar of the en and warmth and food revive spirits. gine. The place soon becomes a "mad-house" 2. Lunch served on the train. and stays that way until time to leave 3. An hour in which to browse for the train. around the town, purchase noise-mak The main feature of the return trip ers, cow-bells, horns, and other varie is dancing in the baggage car which is ties. even more crowded due to the football 4. An hour in which the students men who are allowed to join the others. parade behind the band through the As though that weren't enough, from main streets of the town, stcjpping at nine until midnight at the Durand In the busiest corners long encjugh to sing stitute on campus, there is a football a college song, give a yell, and create a dance which one attends if one is still traffic jam. alive. After that, it is generally agreed 5. A snake dance to the football field. that the best "natural" of all is sleep. After the game, whether Lake For Ellen G. Erickson, Alplia Psi est has won or lost, it is difficult to over

Rushing

Nevada's rushing problem has come three hundred Greek letter women on to a crisis. The matter was a brought to the University of Nevada campus. head a week ago when an editorial was "With this situation prevailing what published which had the effect of a is the value of rushing? bomb in the midst of our explosion "On this campus, sorority rushing peaceful campus. This editorial was en has become deplorable and is growing titled Little What Nozv? Women, (In worse with each rushing season. This the author of the editorial is cidentally year the condition has become so de a Gamma Phi�none other than Elea graded that rushees, friends and down nor women's It withheld Doan, editor.) town people wonder if there is any ob nothing and made clear a situation ject in having sororities." which had been long secretly discussed Further on are listed some of the in many a small group. I am quoting abuses that have brought about this from this article to give you an idea of condition: is a why rushing such burning issue on "Few Panhellenic rules were ob this campus. served. Alumnae members rushed il is but what "Sorority rushing over, legally ; cost of parties far exceeded a now? reasonable limit ; members associated "The tea are parties over, preferen with rushees off the campus and spent tial dinners are and memories, pledge entire days together through the excuse buttons are draped on some eighty of 'double dating' ; entertainments were women ; but rushing leaves only dis given during silence, and to climax the in the minds of gusted thoughts about situation two 'cinch' pledges of a soror- THE crescent OF GAMMA PHI BETA 315 ity, were stationed at the Panhellenic Phi is among them�where regardless lawyer's door, to give unwanted advice of the "shortage" of women, a rushee to future sorority women." must be definitely worthy to be bid. But There is the situation ! I do not know in spite of these few, things have de if it exists because this is such a small veloped to such a state that the Pan campus. I rather think it does. The hellenic Council is now stepping in and group of eligible freshmen women is so passing very stringent rules governing- small that it develops what practically rushing. I seriously question whether a amounts to cut-throat competition be solution will be found in this way. Per tween the sororities. Instead of its be haps a temporary one�but in the end, ing an honor for girls to be rushed, I believe the matter can be cleared up there is a growing idea that the rushees only when the women of the various confer the honor on the houses. There sororities are educated to the point are many cases where the pin has lost where they set a definite value on their practically all value. Instead of a girl's pins�as we do on ours�and consider worth being weighed�she is begged, the wearing of them an honor not to threatened or bribed to wear a pin. I be conferred lightly. say in most cases, but not in all. There Barbar.\ Clark, Alpha Gamina are still some sororities�and Gamma

"As They Retire

The life of a sorority girl may be of ringlets now looks like a pickaninny viewed from many angles�her appear with her hair done up in curl papers. ance at parties, her participation in Those long finger nails which you have campus activities, her ability to "get observed with envy have been removed around" with the men, etc. ; but the and only stubs are left. The girl who most human and incidentally the fun has possessed the "skin you love to niest angle from which she may be touch" is completely submerged under a viewed is that of just before she is layer of gooey white cold cream that ready to go to bed ! you would hate to touch. The maiden One really cannot grasp the signifi who has looked like the perfect figure cance of that statement unless she has in her formal gown appears very much sat in on a "bull-session" after a party like the picture in a magazine adver when the girls have taken off their tisement marked "Before." beautiful gowns and their "party Indeed, it is a revelation to see some faces," and are clad in pajamas and of the campus beauties after they have ready to make the final leap into bed. dismantled and are ready for bed. We The girl who had that lovely blond often wonder what the college audience hair in a halo around her head just a would think of the prominent and pic half hour ago now has a long, Chinese turesque maidens if it could glimpse pigtail hanging down her back. That them "as they retire." little brunette whose head was a mass RuTH Learned, Sigma 316 the crescent of gamma phi beta

Place of the Sorority on the Canadian and the American Campus

Compared to the position of Ameri who remain outside oftentimes do so can sororities, on campus, Canadian by preference. American girls have in sororities occupy almost a negligible their sorority practically their whole place. Out of the five hundred women life. They eat, sleep, and study in clo.se students at McGill, only one hundred contact with their chosen sisters. They and twenty-five are sorority women. are constantly reminded that they be This small number is the result of the long to a special, distinct group in favor heterogeneous assemblage which Mc with the faculty, and sometimes in Gill possesses, and which permits only numbers far in the majority, to non- a very few of the students to be brought sorority students. They are members of together with any .show of congeniality. an organization which is powerful and Being so much in the minority, sorority long established, with a wealth of tradi women are unable to project their tion behind it. Sometimes it even seems houses or their houses' interests into that sorority for the American girl campus activities. We attend meetings ranks only slightly lower than alma once a week, meet now and then around mater, perhaps even equals. the campus, and drop in about two or Here in Canada, we are young, as yet three times a week at the apartment not powerful, and we have a slightly which we rent. While at heart we may resentful but as yet quite unorganized be just as ardent sorority members as sorority opposition. We are tolerated the women in the American chapters, as long as we are unassuming. We yet we must keep our minds on the meet once a week, exchange ideas and student body as a whole and not simply relax in each other's companv ; then we on our own little groups. Faculty super return to our duties as Canadian uni vision, and non-sorority student obser versity women, to the other women stu vation demand that a sorority interest dents and to our college. American always be secondary to one of college. sorority girls are never without the We have, of cour,se, among sorority satisfying knowledge that in physical members a tie invisible which binds each position as well as by participation in separate member to her sister. As long their respective hou.ses they are distinct as that tie remains invisible, sororities and separate. may exist at Canadian universities. Ours is a hard life of struggle. We When that tie is aggressively brought have fought our way along through our into social or academical notice, then short but stormy life, and the road both faculty and anti-sorority students ahead still seems rocky and unpromis will rise in resentment ; and our future ing. Let us hope that for us when the in Canada either will be very uncertain top of the hill is gained there will be or we shall by necessity become truly even such a pleasant "place in the sun" "secret societies." at our beloved Canadian universities as In the United States practically every our sisters in sororities now enjoy in student is a sorority member. What the United States. the international houses cannot accom Eileen Crutchlow, Alpha Tait modate, the local houses can. Those Gamma Phi on the Air Loulie Jean Norman, Alpha Rho

Lawrence Tibbett was in with her girls on the following Satur WHENBirmingham, Loulie Jean Nor day night on the Lucky Strike broad man, a member of Alpha Rho, cast over N.B.C. Then came numerous for sang him; and both Mr. Tibbett contacts, and I obtained an audition and his wife were most enthusiastic with Jack Denny. He approved me, and about her and her voice. A prospects as a result I'm singing every night ex- friendship was begun that has meant Christmas cards and letters of encour agement from the famous pair to the southern lass. Here is Loulie Jean's story: "Since I was a very small child I've been conscious of a very burning sen sation in my stomach. At first I used to think that it was chronic indigestion, but I soon discovered that it was just plain and simple ambition�a feverish desire to do something worth while. While this discovery came the realiza tion that this desire must be appeased, and I knew that New York should be the center of my thought�the dot in the middle of my circle. So I set to work to learn all I could about music, voice, selling one's songs, etc. I waited for what seemed a small eternity, then unexpectedly I came to New York in April for a few days. And while I was i here I met Willard Robinson and sang JEAN NORMAN for him. He liked my work and wanted me to stay, but I lacked the where-with- cept Sundays on the Pennsylvania Ho al and he had nothing definite to offer. tel Roof Garden. So I went home, and one day I received "So far�so good. I'm very pleased a wire telling me to come to New York with my work and very happy. I've and sing on a sustaining with Willard made some fine contacts and have met Robinson. So I came, and sang with wonderful people. However, I might Robinson for a while ; but the sustain add that I still have the chronic indiges ing was just for a month, and I knew tion because I still have the burning I must look around for something else. desire to study voice seriously and to I was given an audition with Kay go much further up the ladder to suc Thompson one Thursday and appeared cess. I'm only on the first rung!" 318 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

Jean Dickenson, Theta

We wonder if Ciamma Phis who time" radio star. listened in on the Palmolive Beauty Box Jean Dickenson, after two years in Theatre on September 13 realized that Denver University and Theta chapter, the charming Hermione of The Loz'e decided to devote herself to her music; and after concentrated work and a so journ in Europe where she was hailed as a second Galli-Curci, she returned to Denver to study in the Lamont School of Music from which she was grad uated. Her first success came in 1932

when she won the honors in the nation wide Atwater Kent audition. Many public appearances followed. She ade- (juately and professionally sang the role of Juliet in a local opera presentation, and in a summer opera season had the role of Gilda in Rigoletto (1934) and of Lucia in Lucia de Lammermoor (1935). In January of 1935, the man ager of KOA, Denver radio station, placed Miss Dickenson on the network in a program called Golden Memories. Her voice attracted the attention of na tional radio officials, and in July she was signed for New York City as a JEAN DICKINSON, Theta, as "Juliet" in member of the National Gounod's Romeo and Juliet Broadcasting Company Artists' Bureau. Song was Jean Dickenson of Theta Jean is charming, pretty, very youth chapter�heard by th(ise who attended ful, and exceedingly gifted. Her ex- the 1934 convention at Colorado (|uisite coloratura soprano is the marvel Springs. On this particular September of those who hear it, and she will go night she made her debut as a "big far in her chosen profession.

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAPTER LETTERS

"Since our last letter we have had a wedding�that of Sara Preston, now Mrs. Finley�with all the attendant fun and interest."�Minnesota, 1912.

'Tt was decided that the colors and seal be affixed to the membership certifi cates."�Convention Business, January, 1912,

"On November 16, we opened our house to our friends. The housewarming was given by the alumnae and active chapter together, and we know that the success of the affair was in large measure due to our alumnae interest."�Syracuse, January, 1912. Gamma Phi Beta Pictorial

CMary Belle Lawton of Gamma deserves a paragraph all by herself, since she has been one of the most out standing women on the cam pus of the University of Wisconsin. This year she is president of Mortar Board �an exceedingly high honor : president of the women of the senior class and co-chair man of the 1935 Orientation Week for freshman students Last year her picture ap peared in the Badger as the ideal co-ed with beauty. brains (she's a possible and probable Phi Beta Kappa) and personality. In her sophomore year she was one of two Queens of the Sophomore Shuffle ; in her junior year she was chair man of the reception for the Junior Prom; and she's been on more committees than can be counted !

CChristine Moss of Alpha Epsilon, in addition to membership in Press Club, F.T.S., Archery Club and Woman's Ath letic Club, is sport editor and honoraries editor of Desert. But read what the As sociated Press says about her ! "Miss Christine Moss, 20 years old, a Univer sity of Arizona coed, is the first girl in the institution's history to receive 100 per cent rating in health tests, making her the school's healthiest Queen. She has lived all her life in .'\rizona, Tucson being her home. She does not drink or smoke, although her diet and activities are those of any normal girl. May 21, 1935." CAbove, left: President of the Associated Women's Students and member of Lam.bda Rho is Ann Hutchinson of Lambda. ilRight: President of the University Women's Association is Betty Minkel of Rho. CCenter: Marjorie Wiegand, president of Gamma's pledge class, is im portant enough to appear in the college Octopus. dBelow, left: Junior Queen�and we can well understand it!�is Janet Riggs of Lambda. Also, she is president of Town Girls. �iRight: Sue Pickens, of Alpha Zeta writes music and poetry. Q^Above, left: Elizabeth Richter, outstanding on the Colorado College campus, is the president of Alpha Phi. CCenter: New President of Rho is Vivienne Bowers. C,Right: Marian Paul re cently was declared the most attractive girl in Pi Chapter. ^Middle: Maid of Honor to the May Queen was Louise Hossack of Pi. �L.Below, left: Jackie Chessher of Lambda is a member of To tem Club and editor of Administration Stafif. ^Center: Last Year's Beauty Queen and this year's candidate for Cadet Colonel is Catherine Nacke of Rho, member of Purple Mask and presi dent of Sigma Delta Phi. URight: Lambda's President�also president of Phi Mu Gamma�is Laureen Winn. HAbove: Joyce Cate of Alpha Xi, popular in Dallas, is an outstanding singer of that city. H^Below, left: Mortar Bo.'\rd chose Lee Nicholson of Lambda. Lee is also the editor of Tyee Staff. ^Right: Secret.\ry of Junior Prom and house president of Lambda is Patricia Strickler. CAbove, left: Imogene Richey, Alpha Epsilon, is president of the junior women's honorary society, F.S.T., and a member of A Club�the highest athletic award. She's also the winner of the swimming cup. H^Center: President of Alpha Kappa is Sally Coyne, a member of Arts Coed Executive, a member of Senior Arts Council, and for two consecutive years in the cast of the university play. CRight: Jean Holderness of Alpha Epsilon, in addition to membership in Rattlers and Wranglers, was presented with the Mortar Board Cup as the most outstanding and best all-round freshman. CBelow, left: Lenny Heins is Alpha Zeta's president. iiCenter: Mary Alice Alberthal of Alpha Epsilon is the Desert Queen of 1935. CR^ght- Elsie Lunde is secre tary of Mortar Board and is slated for Phi Beta Kappa. She is president of Norse Club and co-chairman of the program committee for Mothers and Fathers Week-end. Incidentally, she is the last of five Lundes, all of whom have been Phi Beta Kappas. iJlKiliiM^ jt*^'^*%.Jt^,tf^K r.i.

C^bove: Eta's Pled(;e Class. Isn't it imposing? CCenter, left: Four of the Proud Singers holding the cup won by Alpha Upsilon at the Intersorority Song Fest. CRight: Here is Alpha Upsilon at the Memorial Day Breakfast. CBelow: California Products�the best ever. Eta Chapter ! Panhellenic Department

Mrs.^ A. Barton Hepburn, president Panhellenic House Association (left), pre senting aivard to Miss Sylva Goodman, Wayne University student, at a luncheon at Beekman Toiver Hotel, New York. Mrs. John E. Jennings, co-sponsor of the Panhellenic Essay Contest, stands at right.

will remember reading of the the Gamma Phi play, and was elected YOUPanhellenic Essay Contest in a to Kedros, honorary society for senior former issue of the Crescent. It women, and to the college scholastic is with great pride and delight that we honorary. Those who attended conven announce the winner of the second tion in 1934 will remember her as the prize�Bernice Espy, Theta '34. Ber reader in the crescent service, the nice was an outstanding member of curator of chapter displays, and Cousin Theta from her freshman year when Sally in the play. Just Around the Cor her name was engraved upon the schol ner. The winning of this Panhellenic arship cup to her senior year when she prize brings another honor to Gamma became president of Mentors, highest Phi Beta. college honor for women. During the Winner of the first prize is Miss four years she was most prominent in Sylva Goodman, sophomore at Wayne campus activities, shone in a literary University in Detroit. Winner of the way, was a star of first magnitude in third prize is John L. Dahl, junior at 326 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

Wayne University. Week-end trips to3 steamship Majestic; broadcasting on New York, part of the second and third1 station WOR as guest of Martha prizes, will be taken later by Miss Espyf Deane, and also on WINS ; and a and Mr. Dahl. Miss Goodman spentt luncheon at the Beekman Tower Hotel the last week in August as the guest off as guest of honor of Mrs. A. Barton the Beekman Tower Hotel, and in ad Hepburn, attended by Miss Marguerite dition to the week's stay, the first prize; D. Winant, Delta Gamma National included a fifty-dollar cash award. Thet President, who is Vice-President of the Jury of Award was composed of Miss3 Association ; Miss Dorothy Gaylord, Helen Worden, feature writer for the; Alpha Xi Delta, secretary; Miss Doro- New York World-Telegram; Ed Sulli - thy Walsh, Beta Phi Alpha, treasurer; van, columnist on the New York Daily] and Mrs. John E. Jennings, president Nezus; Hans V. Kaltenborn, radio) of Courier Service. columnist ; Lyman Beecher Stowe and1 Here is notice of another contest. Alice Duer Miller, authors. Why not enter the lists? During Miss Goodman's stay in New^ The Panhellenic House Association, York, a variety of sight-seeing and en Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn, president, has

tertainment was for her the- planned by announced March 31, 1936, as closing Beekman Tower Hotel. The latter or date for the second Panhellenic Essay ganization showed her points of interestt Contest. Essays must be limited to in New York mentioned in her ' winning 1,000 words, and written on: "Why I essay. Other activities planned for Miss' Should See New York." The contest is

Goodman were a ^isit to the Hearst- open to all college students. Newspaper Plant, guided by Miss Flor One hundred dollars in cash or trans ence Wessels, feature-writer ; a morn portation to and from New York City

in the new Adolescent- ing Brooklyn and a week's stay in New York at the where she sat on the l)ench with' Court, Beekman Tower will make up first prize Judge Jeanette G. Brill ; a trip down the� in the second contest. Bay on a Barrett Tug to meet the

The Essays

I office of a popular magazine, to thank a certain editor for I WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHEN surpassingly gentle rejections. want to ride the to I VISIT NEW YORK ferry Jersey, with the wind sharp in my face. I want to stand on the dock when a I want to visit New York, not Jimmie Walk great ship sails for Southampton, or Gibraltar, er's nor tinsel city, Odd Mclntyre's merry-go- or Paradise ; I want to mingle with the crowds ; round of celebrities, but Walt Whitman's Man wave my handkerchief to the passengers ; cry Max hattan, and Miller's. because sailings are sad, for you may never I don't care about Dinty Moore, nor Hattie know what it is like. I want to walk around Carnegie, nor Broadway, nor the Empire State Columbia University, nonchalantly, as though I Building, but I do care about the rather mad were already a student there. I want to see the crowd of the subway and the elevated, and I melancholy brownstone houses of Fifty-sixth want to be part of the crowd, just once. I Street or thereabouts, and I want to meet a want to sit, in the balcony or on the stair�it landlady, the sort who appropriates trunks and doesn't matter�at the Metropolitan, to hear knows her rights. I want to have lunch at the Lily Pons and Tibbett and Grace Moore. I Automat. I want to look down at the Hudson want to walk along tbe waterfront at night, and River from the roof of a tenement. I want become intimate with the Atlantic, and smell to stand spelling out the words on the electric salt air and oil from engines, and hear a fog sign in Times Square. I want to ride on top of horn from a tramp steamer. I want to eat pea the Fifth Avenue bus, without a hat. I want nuts in Central Park. I want to walk into the to go backstage at the Shubert. I want to see THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 327

the pushcarts of Delancey Street, and Mrs. last through my week's visit but also through Cohen and Mrs. Kelly. I want to see the Statue out my entire lifetime. of Liberty from a tugboat, in brilliant sunlight. I also want to see and feel the pulse of a I want to talk with somebody foreign and great metropolis as its life blood courses on strange on Ellis Island, somebody just arrived its furious way through the great arteries of from some place far distant, and ask w"hat trafific. I want to hear the noise, and feel the America is like. I want to see a sob sister. I confusion one reads about existing in Times want to buy a guitar in a Tenth Avenue pawn Square ; I want to be shot through the Holland shop. I want to buy old books in a dim, old Tunnel underneath the Hudson River and travel book shop. the Overhead Speedway where human beings I want to look at the faces of people in the must become like robots in their mechanical streets, the harassed, the preoccupied, the smil race with time. We don't push to that extremity ing, the mysterious, wonderful faces of com out here, and I must see what it does to men mon people. And when I have done these things to live this sort of life. I must go to the Grand I shall have no curiosity about Wanamaker's, Central Terminal and Art Galleries, and to the the Scandals, the tall buildings. But I shall have Pennsylvania Station, as examples to one who seen New York. has never been east of Colorado, of the un-; believable wealth, the colossal accumulation and concentration of commerce which the east pos (The above essay was written by Sylva sesses. I want to admire the greatly advertised Goodman of 2911 Sturtevant Street, Detroit, beauty of these stations as well as to see for Michigan, winner of the first prize in the essay myself what vast resources of materials this contest sponsored by the Panhellenic House country can muster, even for ordinary trafific. Association, Beekman Tower, and Courier And beside this picture of successful business. Service of New York City.) I want to place the sombre one of those mal adjusted humans who have run amuck of con II vention, or law, or public opinion, or who, economic distress, have become wards WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHEN through and of There must be I VISIT NEW YORK dependents society. many such tragic pictures in a great, callous metroplis My home is in the free and easy, democratic like New York, and my idea of the city would west, the Colorado Rockies, where the only never be comp'ete did I not include such places structures towering above men are nature's as Tombs Prison, the bread lines and mis glorious building, the highest portion of the sions, the orphanages, and the Hecksher Foun Rocky Mountains in the United States. Space dation for Children (about which I know noth and land, are of all commodities, the most ing, but which sounds as though it were an in common. Each man is potentially a neighbor un stitution doing great good). til he has proved himself otherwise, and flow And another counterbalancing feature to this ers, sunshine, trees are free to all. It is only sad and discouraging one of humans adrift, is natural, therefore, that one of my first interests the varied pictures of wealth and ease which in visiting the largest city in the world is to one reads about in New York. There is River view the phenomenon of six million people side Drive ; the far-famed penthouses, as living on a plot of earth one-tenth as large as seen from the Panhellenic Roof, forerunners we of the west occupy for one-tenth that popu of future city life; Tiffany's, famous jewelry lation ; to see how men and women living so store of the aristocrats of the world, into which closely together fail to feel the kindred human I should like to wander and admire to my bond so apparent out here ; how so many people heart's content the splendor and elegance con can live from year to year without ever leaving centrated here. And for a taste of luxury hotel canoned streets and roarin.g trains, or see the life, I must not miss the Waldorf Astoria, its sun except as its passes on its noonday course wonderful cuisine, and dazzling riches, dis directly overhead. played on patrons as well as building. I want I am an amateur writer and philosopher (as a glimpse into this life so foreign to the com yet), and as such, am interested not only in mon man, yet so intriguing to his imagination, one phase of New York's cultural opportunities a glimpse into the halls where congregate the to be enjoyed in a week's visit, but also in elite of world society, the favored few. To make sociological conditions, commerce, manufactur the picture complete in all its details. I must ing, art, and the philosophy of a metropolis as see where a great deal of the wealth displayed much as it may be sensed in that time. And I comes from, the notorious canoned Wall Street, want a glimpse of the famous places to which where the soft life of human sympathy and the world makes pilgrimages of devotion, won personal contact never dares to penetrate, or curiosity. where the very sound of footsteps must have der, _ I am visual minded ; therefore, upon my ar the hard metallic ring of cold silver. And I rival in New York I would choose first to visit suppose no tourist ought ever leave New York the Empire State Observation Tower, and ob without having taken the sightseeing trip on a tain an aeroplane view of the city which would Fifth Avenue bus. So I add that as necessary provide me with the visual image necessary also. for my understanding of its plan and appear There are the intellectual treats which one ance. I would have then a picture of New York can find nowhere except in a world center such so graphic and spectacular, it would not only as New York City, opportunity to see the 328 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

I Metropolitan Museum of Art where I would greet the eye on approaching our shores. browse among the books and manuscripts stored have heard vaguely of the Soldiers and Sailors in its archives, and catch for an instant's de Monument and its significance, and it is my lectation a fleeting picture of mankind's efforts desire to learn more of it by seeing it also. throughout the ages to preserve in writing what I must make a pilgrimage to Grant's Tomb, as seemed to him to be life's most important one of my most admired characters in Ameri secrets. I should like to visit also the New can history, and to the home of Washington York Public Library, there to see rare books, Irving as one of my most beloved and re paintings, and old manuscripts, always of great spected characters in American literature. And interest to an embryo writer like myself. out of admiration for one of the finest Shake To a "landlubber," things marine hold an un spearian actors the world has ever known, and deniable fascination, especially when the sea because I have read a little of his sad history, which one views is as important to the very I should want to see the relics of Edwin Booth. heartbeat of the world as is the Atlantic and For somehow I am sure I should feel myself the New York harbor. Hence my intense desire to be in the presence of this great dramatic to acquaint myself with the stupendous busi genius, and partake a little of the inspiration ness of shipping and sea trafific. I want to see which was his. the dry docks, where the great swans of the I must see Brooklyn Bridge, as one of the sea rise out of the water in all their nakedness, most famous wonders of the world, both from to be redressed and repaired; the waterfront, the engineering points of view and the artistic. where the skating bugs of the ocean dart in From plain curiosity I want to see Coney and out among the greater ships, doing their Island. I have never liked amusement parks, small work busily and noisily. It is also my either from a personal or social standpoint, ambition to see an ocean liner in port, and to and I should merely like to see how so many explore its luxurious decks and less luxurious millions of people can be so starved for recrea lower quarters. It seems as though these few tion and change of scene as to haunt this place contacts with life on the water ought to give where one hears so much of the commonplace one the knowledge that land is not the only exists. Perhaps this is "highbrow" but I want thing by which man makes his living. to satisfy myself that I'm either right or wrong. New York offers unparalleled educational ad One of the most interesting phases of New vantages, and since I am casting about for a York life must be its foreign elements, which place in which to obtain my doctor's degree, in time will probably become submerged in the I shall take great interest in visiting that uni greater mass, but which now are separate en versity without peer, Columbia, whose fame tities, and I should like to see this process of and reputation are world-wide, and to enter amalgamation, so-called as it is carried on whose doors would provide as great a thrill for from day to day in picturesque Harlem, and in me as anything could. There are also the Rocke the famous Italian district. feller Foundation for Medical Research, and I want to get behind the scenes, so to speak, Cornell Medical Center which I should want and view the rotogravure processes in the pub to see because of the great humanitarian work lishing of the New York Times, as an example they are doing. There, as well as at Columbia, of the work done by what I consider to be one one would be proud to step inside and feel him of the three leading newspapers of the world ; self to be a part of that science which is keep and for the same purpose I want to visit the ing the world on its feet. And the Julliard Steinway Piano Factory. Also behind stage School of Music, the best of its kind, I could would be the witnessing of what must be a not miss because of my sincere love of that modern miracle of transportation and business art ; and having studied it for some time myself, efficiency in marketing for 6,000,000 people. I should love to see the heights which artists Because they are a most important evidence can reach under expert tutelage. of the national government in New York, I As an amusement center, New York is again should like to see the United States Navy unequalled, and I should enjoy a taste of the Yards. The Custom House is on my itinerary best it has to offer, such as the luxurious Para because I have never seen one, and would like mount Theater, the various night clubs (which to watch its operations, especially on such a seem to my provincial eye to turn life topsy large scale as it must be done in New York. turvy but which I should like to experience And Ellis Island I must see, where the world nevertheless) and some of the popular Broad waits entrance to our portals�I am interested way hits, legitimate plays, musical comedy, and in this sight both from sociological and philo the finer drama, as amusements of which ex sophical viewpoints. cellence we cannot find the equal anywhere else For spiritual uplift I want to go to Trinity in America, or perhaps the world. Church, enjoy the grandeur of the building, There are what one might call the shrines while steeped in the luxury of an organ recital. of this country's history and culture, the memo T want to see Temple Emanuel as one of the ries of famous deeds and colossal achievements, outstanding efforts of Reform Judaism to be which every American cherishes and hopes to a part of the modern world in the splendor of see some day. And I am one of these who its church and the enlightened policies it pur hopes to visit the Statue of Liberty, because of sues in social, business, and religious realms. its significant connection with this country's To contrast poverty and riches, I want to foreign friendships and because of its own in see Union Square and the red menace of Com trinsic sentimental value as the first symbol to munism, to see its true status and some of its THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 329

workings ; and, immediately following, I want and delights, I would feast my eyes and ears to see the flaunting luxuries of the very rich and heart and mind on the most beautiful effu on Park Avenue, richest apartment district in sion the human spirit has ever attained. Grand the world. I want to see for myself where Opera. Although the Aletropolitan Opera was Right lies, and why there should be Commu not on the suggested list I felt I must include nism rampant in this country which ought to it for that would be one of my prime purposes be free of its terror. in coming to New York, to hear and see the I cannot leave New York without visiting world famous artists who have attained the the forerunners of what our modern artists pinnacle of fame and achievement. have painted as the New York of the next After that I believe I could come back to generation. It seems to me the best examples Colorado happy in the knowledge that one of this are Radio City Music Hall and Rocke from the west possessed a greater and better feller Center, harbingers of the new era in understanding of the east. electricity and living conditions in general. And as a fitting climax to this trip of wonders Bernice Espy, Theta

Announcements

The February Crescent will be not school. Panhellenic should be writ Golden Jubilee Number and will ten as it's written here. feature Gamma's fiftieth anniversary. 5. An alumna should not be men Only Alumna Letters are ex tioned as Mrs. John Jones. Rather as pected for this number. These are due Mary Randall Jones, with the name of January 1, 1936, and Must Be her chapter. Typed. 6. The following presentation of personals should be used: For Crescent Correspondents Engagement Several requests from Crescent correspondents for style sheets have Catharine Castleman (Alpha Omega been received. As there is no supply of '32) to Mr. Jeremy Richmond (Beta these style sheets at present, the fol Theta Pi, University of Wisconsin lowing important points are noted for '29). the benefit of all concerned: Marriage

1. letters must be typed On May 1, 1933, in New York City, 2. The heading should be as follows: Judith Keane (Beta Alpha '28) to Mr. ALPHA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Or in John Breckenridge (Psi Upsilon, Yale the case of an alumnse chapter, the '25). Mr. and Mrs. Breckenridge will name of the city. Such as Syracuse. make their home in Chicago. 3. There should be no salutation, Birth such as Dear sister in Gamma Phi Beta, and no closing sentiment, such as With To Mr. and Mrs. John Morton (Jen best zvishes, etc. nifer Lee, Gamma Alpha '30) on June 4. The word college should be used. 5, 1933, a daughter, Pamela. An editorial from each quincjuennial that kind of thing. We must be nice to has been chosen. Do they apply to the everybody, or we are not nice to any sorority life of today? body at all!" She was almost frightened to death 1910-1915 after she had said it, but her absolute FRESHMAN, as well as an honesty and frankness had made it im A alumna, may "point a moral or possible for her keep silent, and to this adorn a tale !" day, there lingers in the chapter the in It was rushing season, and the mem fluence of that one little freshman bers of the chapter were frantically dis speech ! cussing the eligibles. The freshman sat "Gamma Phi must be nice to every by in suppressed excitement�and lis body." Do not make the mistake of be tened. The orators waxed eloquent ; the lieving that your own small group con pro.spective initiates were carefully dis tains all the friends worth having; do sected ; the campaign was fully planned ; not become so self-centered that you while ever and anon came an expression lose the broader culture that comes in some such form as this�"Now we from outside associations and friend must be very nice to Miss So-and-So." ships. Give to your sorority the best that The freshman was young ; she was in you lies ; work your hardest for the without experience in sorority affairs; girls that will bring honor to your chap but evidently, the repetition of that sen ter; but remember that Gamma Phi tence stirred her heart, and with a great Beta's true strength and beauty, and deal of excitement, she is said to have your own womanliness and worth will given her first speech. It was substan be proved by your attitude toward those tially as follows�"I do not like the without your circle and by your friend repetition of this sentence with its in liness and obligations to those with ferences. This chapter of Gamma Phi whom you come in contact. must be nice to everybody. If it is not 1915-1920 going to be nice to everybody in this college, then it has no business here or "Peace on earth!" Never before has anywhere. Fraternities have seemed to the Christmas message meant so much think that they could treat well those to a world long weary with dissension whom they chose to treat well, and to and conflict; never before has the treat all others just as they pleased. Thanksgiving season brought so deep And as long as fraternities do that, and so solemn a significance. We have they will be a proper object for the dis seen history in the making; we have like of those who naturally object to watched the old order of things pass THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 331

away ; we shall behold a strange recon education and the highest type of char struction, a new world and a wide acter. Trust each other, be high-minded democracy. From the terrible chaos of enough to believe that your rival has war a different civilization will emerge, such force of character that she cannot and foremost in this reconstruction resort to anything that is dishonorable period will be woman ; woman who has or unbecoming to the wearer of a had her part to play throughout the Greek-letter symbol. long, hard struggle, who, by her own II. Be Sane in Your Rushing. Don't personality and her own service has be be carried away by first appearances, by come a national asset, who has so superficialities, by possible popularity. proved her efficiency and her individu The most vigorously rushed freshman ality that at present a universe is does not always prove the strongest member the overlooked in a wild solemnly regarding her from a new ; girl viewpoint. rushing season may possess the very November 11, 1918�the ending. No characteristics which you need in your

� circle. vember 11, 1874 for our sorority, sorority III. Avoid the the beginning. Can we not, as Gamma Rushing "Ready- Phis, find a significance in the similarity made" Type of Girl. A chapter needs of the dates? November 11, 1918, all kinds of members�the musician, the marked the end of the war but the be student, the comrade, the athlete ; but it wishes to a hand in their ginning of a world-wide recognition of have growth, woman's service; November 11, 1874, their development ; it may have no par ticular influence with the who has indicated the beginning of an order girl achieved. which must prove its right to exist. Ac already IV. the as Well as the cordingly, it rests with us, as individu Obey Spirit Letter. In the of this law rests als and as an organization, whether we keeping the of each shall cease to keep our place in the his reputation sorority. V. Don't Knock Another tory of the future or whether we shall Sorority. "carry on." Not only is such a proceeding ill-bred and a direct breach of sorority etiquette 1920-1925 but it defeats its purpose. If another organization is strong enough to be FOURTEEN RULES FOR RUSH criticized, it is strong enough to be ING SEASON feared ; for no one ever knocks a weak I. Make Dignified Rushing Rules. sorority. And the sophisticated fresh Consider how foolish it sounds to pro man of today knows it. claim that no rushee can be seen twice VI. Don't Boast. If your sorority is with the same sorority girl; that no strong it speaks for itself; it needs no rushee can be entertained more than a extravagance of speech from its mem certain number of times by the same bers. sorority, etc. Such rules are petty, the VII. Don't Misrepresent. For you product of selfishness and narrowness, are sure to be discovered, and imagi and particularly inappropriate when one nary achievements are no asset to your realizes that they are made by college organization. and sorority women who are supposed VIII. Be Simple. Realize that college to have the highest aims, the highest women should not encourage ostenta- 332 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

tion in entertaining and in chapter life. 1925-1930

� True culture is simple whether the The Crescent of dear Gamma Phi! Convention Song simplicity be of manner, of state, of speech. History never repeats�nor does IX. Be Generous in Thought and Shakespeare�we're told ; but an editor Word. If your rival has achieved what is quite without this charmed circle and is worth while, commendable, speak of oftentimes must use this method of it even to the rushee. emphasis. Accordingly, a certain part X. Be Broadminded. For your so of the Convention report concerning the rority is not the only splendid organi Crescent is appended as the editor's zation on the campus. If you say so, you yearly message and plea to those who know down in your heart that it isn't are chapter correspondents. Perhaps its so. Love it in the way you should love unusual form will prove to be more im it ; but realize that it is but one of pressive than an official communication. others. "The next number," the Crescent XI. Be a Good Loser. Try to say-� announces, "is the March of the Seven "She is a wonderful freshman. She Devils. They're your devils" she calmly would have been a help to our chapter ; adds. And the Devils enter�black and naturally, she will be a help to the or red�eyes like coals of fire�horns and ganization she has chosen. I'm glad." tails according to tradition. They If you can say this you have gone a march and countermarch ; and as they long, long way. leave the room, each leans over the edi XII. Be Well Informed. Know your tor and whispers to her. own sorority^�then learn of others. First Devil: You've changed your ad The true sorority woman does not re dress again, haven't you? Very strict her knowledge to the facts con stupid of you, for not everyone has cerning her own order but acquaints learned the last one. You'll never get herself with the various activities and them acquainted with this {And the achievements which characterize her editor shudders, remembering the sister organizations. glozvering aspect and unuttered XIII. Do Not Be Afraid of the Lost curses of the special delivery boys Bid. Any chapter of any sorority that zvho have borne missives addressed has never lost a bid is in such an inac merely to "The Crescent, Denver, tive and sluggish condition that its very Colorado.") existence may be threatened. Whole Second Devil: I'm the letter that sale competition is necessary for all of comes to you written on both sides us ; there is no gain where there has of the paper. (And, again, the editor been no risk ; there is no success where shudders and mutters to herself, there are no obstacles. "If it zvere legible and on one side, XIV. Pledge Yourselves to Be Hon I could stand it; but on both orable. And in living up to this pledge sides�") sorority life becomes a beautiful and a Third Devil: I'm Panhellenic. They helpful thing; a rushing season proves just zvill put a hyphen or a capital in a wholesome competition not a source my middle. (And the editor knozvs of unfriendly relations and unkind ac that zvhat he says is true.) tions. Fourth Devil: I'm Alumna. But I'm the crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA 333

called alumnw.y all the time, while two (Quietly they disappear; and from or three of me are always a-1-u-m-n-i. the distance conies a song like the chim (And 'tis even so, sighs the editor.) ing of silver bells. Fifth Devil: I'm College. But I've Clearly is heard the refrain� been called School so long that I've Our zvands zvith the Star of Hope zve almost forgotten my real name. hold� Sixth Devil: I'm the correspondent We're off, zve're off to the pot of gold!) who the sheet and does forgets style 1930-1935 just as she pleases. IT'S ALL IN THE VIEWPOINT Seventh Devil: And I'm the chapter correspondent who doesn't care about "Two interesting impressions have being prompt and about doing her come my way this afternoon," said the best. (Azvay they daitce, and The alumnse president, "and the two of Crescent hastens to remark "Don't them might unite in furnishing a topic be so depressed, for here comes the for an editorial." Whereupon the listen Rainbozv Fairies to cheer you." er gave strict attention, clutching as a They are zvorth a scrutiny�The drowning man at a straw for a possible Rainbozv Fairies in their multi subject for dissertation. colored gauzy robes, zvith golden "My first impression," continued the crescents in their hair and tiny zvands alumnse president, "came from an each tipped zvith a Star of Hope. alumna who, for years, has had no con And they, too, have a message for nection with her chapter because of the editor as they fly azvay.) manifold duties and conflicting inter First Fairy: I am Perfect English. I ests. She chose to appear at a chapter promise you no split infinitives, no gathering, knowing no member of the improper use of pronouns, no slang. group and feeling a natural timidity. Second Fairy: I am Perfect Form. Hear her report, 'From the first intro My sentences are balanced. My punc duction of myself, I did not lack for at tuation is correct. My pages are tention ; and I was led from one to an typed. other, presented in a graceful way, and Third Fairy: I am Promptness. I ob made to feel that my place in the circle serve the dates given me in a punc had been waiting all these years. One tilious fashion, and I send no special girl was interested enough to ask ques deliveries. tions about the events of my college Fourth Fairy: I am Interest. I love days ; another took the trouble to show to the my task and I put into it the best I me the chapter trophies, explain each room possess. chapter activities, to exhibit who Fifth Fairy: I am Spirit. I work for of the chapter house. Another Gamma Phi Beta and I strive to do proved to be the freshman leader called flock that my best for her honor. together her little announcing Sixth Fairy: I am Efficiency. And I I was one of those who had helped to me to realize that I am necessary in the build the chapter life, and asking the For the first completion of any chapter task. say something of past. of fresh Seventh Fairy: I am Pride. Pride in time in years, I felt the thrill man enthusiasm and the of my chapter, in my organization. I inspiration I was in the crave for it only the best. freshman contact. placed 334 THE crescent of GAMMA PHI BETA seat of honor at dinner ; I listened to all freshmen loved her ! For she told them the fascinating songs that had been funny incidents of other Gamma Phi the evolved since my day; I left the room freshmen ; she impressed upon them through an aisle of my charming young advantage of a group training that was sisters; I signed the guest book with a denied to her. At dinner, she made us flourish; and when I reluctantly took sing our new songs until she, herself, my leave, I felt that something very had learned them ; she wrote a cunning sweet and invigorating had come into little verse in our guest book ; and when my life; and I vowed that never again she said good-by we honestly wanted " would I lose touch with active chapter her to come back.' life.' " "There!" said the alumnae presi "So much for the first impression," dent. "Make your paragraph." But said the alumnse president, after a with the feminine desire for a post brief pause. "And the second followed script, and the alumna urge for a moral, shortly afterwards�this impression we add that any alumna (unless she is from a college girl who breezed in for an indifferent wearer of the crescent) a brief visit. 'We had the dearest alum may have such an experience if she na with us today,' she said, 'and we meets her younger sisters in an under want her to come again.' 'Why was she standing way, shows that she is vitally so particularly dear?' I queried. 'Oh, interested in them and in the chapter, because she understood us,' came the and enters unrestrainedly into the quick reply. 'She didn't try to awe us camaraderie of the occasion; if she with her own importance; she didn't eliminates the spirit of criticism, sub stand off and criticize; and not once stitutes the spirit of youth, and remem did she say. In my day zve did so and bers that she, too, as an alumna, has a so. She had an eager little way that definite responsibility and appeal. Also, made us feel that she wanted to be we insist that any college chapter, if it friendly; she had a personal greeting tries hard enough, may discover some for every member to whom she was in splendid quality in a stray alumna troduced ; she was so very interested in which, if capitalized, will bring vital everything that we were doing and in and valued results. every cranny of the house. And the It's all in the viewpoint.

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAPTER LETTERS

"At the initiation we presented to the girls a silver trophy cup. On one side there is inscribed: San Francisco to Eta of Gamma Phi Beta. On the other: Studiosae litterarum quae huius certaminis condicione coronam merueverunt."�San Francisco March, 1912.

"Our common cause is a new lodge."�Denver, March, 1912.

"The house that was built during the summer months was ready for occupancy at the beginning of the college year. Two of our own girls, Florence Hincks and Elizabeth Austin were the architects who drew up the plans; and it was the un tiring interest and efforts of Rachel Colby who attended to the business end that made it possible to build at this time."�San Francisco, October, 1912. Pledges of 1935

Alpha Calif. ; Ruth Hancock, Stockton, Calif. ; Frances Dorothy Acheson, Syracuse (sister of Mil O'Keefe, Lynn, Mass. dred Acheson, Alpha '35) ; Helen Barnes, Syra Theta cuse; Betty Baxter, Watertown, N.Y. (sister Isabel Ella Mulvihill of Emma Baxter Dundon, Alpha '27) ; Mar Mary Cooper, Cantrell, jorie Brodie, Toronto, Canada; Eleanor Brown, (sister of Barbara Mulvihill), Mary Saunder son of Katherine Lucille Utica, N.Y. ; Helen Fearon, Syracuse ; Barbara (sister Saunderson), Gere, Solvay, N.Y. ; Betty Gere, Solvay, N.Y. ; Schmidt, Jane Hickok, Dorothy Henry (daugh ter of Rosa Haffner Barbara Katherine Louise Howe, Utica, N.Y. ; Jane Henry, Theta), Huttenlock, Upper Montclair, N.J. ; Ruth Anne Jean Cooper, Barbara Heaton, Peggy Briggs, Lorraine Barbara King, Llanerch, Pa. ; Barbara Mariow, Syra Ammon, Marjorie Line, Hortense cuse ; Margaret Louise Mellen, Chester, Pa. Boggs (sister of Alice Boggs, Theta), (daughter of Catherine Branch, Alpha '16) ; Addison, Marjorie Addison, Betty Rasmussen, Janet Stacey, Essex Falls, N.J. (daughter of Scotts Bluff, Neb. ; Martha Lawrence, Betty Billie Frances Lillian Hazel King Stacey, Alpha '05) ; Jeanne Stauf Richards, Owens, Budd, fer, Bethlehem, Pa. (sister of Sally Stauffer, Peters. Lambda Zeta '36) ; Catherine White, Butler, N.J. ; Mary Elizabeth York, Albany, N.Y. ; Hannah Rowe, Betty Adams, Seattle ; Connie Ball, Great Baltimore, Md. (sister of Mary Elizabeth Falls ; Audrey Bullis, Seattle ; Carol Calder, Rowe, Alpha '35) ; Jane Sawade, Utica, N.Y. Portland ; Jean Cameron, Seattle ; Virginia Clough, Everett ; Jean Crenshaw, Spokane ; Beta Eleanor Davies, Tacoma ; Marion Dehn, Ruth Allderidge, Upper Montclair, N.J. ; Ro Seattle; Kathleen Field, Walla Walla; Helen berta Chissus, Birmingham, Mich. ; Harriet Flolow, Tacoma ; Kay Hoover, Seattle ; Peggy Dean, Detroit; Jean Drake, Cleveland Heights, Horrocks, Seattle; Katherine Jeklin, Everett; Ohio (daughter) ; Jean Fisken, Detroit; Bar Mary Lou Klinker, Seattle ; Kay Langdon, bara Horton, Birmingham, Mich.; Jane Lord, Seattle; Margaret LeCocq, Everett; Jane Mc Hinsdale, 111.; Marjorie Mackintosh, Craw Caffray, Seattle ; Fay Meggee, Seattle ; Jeanne fordsville, Ind. ; Eleanor McCoy, Grand Rapids, Morrill, Seattle; Jean Morrison, Walla Walla; Mich, (sister); Mary McNeil, Buffalo, N.Y. ; Helen Mulvehill, Seattle ; June Morrison, Walla Carol Schoger, Cleveland ; Betty Sherk, Mid Walla ; Priscilla Perry, Seattle ; Gwen Ruge, land, Mich.; Betty Whitney, Cleveland (sis Seattle; Pat Smith, Seattle; Ellen Stewart, ter) ; Virginia Handeyside, Detroit (re Everett ; Dorothy Swanson, Seattle ; Teddy pledged). Wakefield, Aberdeen ; Alice Jane Wanamaker, Gamma Seattle; Pat Weeks, Seattle. Audrey Beatty, Denver, Colo. ; Betty Bryan, Xi Bette Gunther, Sheboygan, Wis. ; June Fisher, Little Rock, Ark. ; Mary Alice Nattinger, Port Frances Baird, Boise ; Barbara Brodrecht, Angelus, Wash. ; Elizabeth Ann O'Malley, Spokane (Margaret Brodrecht is a senior, Madison ; Betty Kniffin (daughter of Henrietta Helen Brodrecht is a sophomore; and Xi is Pyre Knififin, niece of Miss Millie Pyre, both the only house on the campus to claim three of Gamma chapter), New Brunswick, N.J. ; active sisters) ; Charmion Childs, Huntington Mary Snoddy, Glencoe, 111. ; Martha Forster, Park, Calif, (sister of Elizabeth Childs, a Philadelphia, Pa.; Mary Gosin (daughter of sophomore, and daughter of Iva Emmett Mary Fitzimmons Gosin of Kappa chapter. Childs, '13) ; Carol Jean Davis, Spokane; Hazel Green Bay; Mary Jean Jefferson, Sparta; Ma Dean, Emmett ; Jean Denning, Spirit Lake of Harriet ex rion Small, LaCrosse ; Eleanor Beers, Platte (daughter Bolger Dean, '13) ; and Maxine Moscow Marion ville ; Virginia Van Brunt, Horicon ; Maxine Jean Driscoll, ; Schultz, Hudson; Virginia Dean, Janesville; Dwight, Moscow (sister of Harroet Dwight, Marjorie Wiegand, Eagle River. '34) ; Marcella Geraghty, Spokane ; Jane Har vey, Spokane; Miriam Kennard, Moscow (sis Eta ter of Katherine Kennard, '35, and Patricia Jean Craig, Betty Jane Caldwell, Betty Marx, Kennard, '34) ; Jean Spooner, Spirit Lake. Rachel Hoffman, all of Berkeley; Burris Bly, Ann Gorrell, Sally Gorrell, Martha Loccanini, Omicron all of San Francisco; Jane Hamshaw, Bar Jean Bartle, '39, Pinckneyville ; Mary Bartlett, bara Joyce, Elizabeth Helmer, Mary Jane '39, Peoria ; Emily Jean Crihfield, '39, Atlant? ; Mayer, Betty Kitchener, Virginia Swift, Peggy Ruth Davis, '38, Marion ; Dorothy Goddard, '39, Gardiner, all of Piedmont ; Barbara Baker, Valparaiso, Ind. ; Florence Hanson, '39, Wil Agnes Pinkerton, Ventura, Calif. ; Eleanor mette ; Susette Haussler, '38, Centralia ; Ruth Harrold, Decoto, Calif. ; Frances Moss, Au Kane, '39, Pinckneyville ; Margaret Livingstone, burn, Calif. ; Eleanor Cheroskee, Long Beach, '39, Chicago; Geraldine Nickell, '39, Cham- 336 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

paign ; Helen Novark, '39, Cicero ; Betty Jane Alpha Beta Roe, '39, Streator; Ada Rost, '38, Minier; Dorothy Hagen, Ray, N.D. (sister) ; Betty Dorothy Jean Scott, '39, LaGrange; Dorothy Peterson, Buffalo, N.D. ; Marguerite Isakson, Ruth Underwood, '31, Bethlehem, Pa.; Urie, Northwood, N.D. ; Jeanne King, Langdon, Webster '38, Elgin; June Vierheller, '38, N.D. ; Collette Mechler, Minot, N.D. ; Mar Groves, Mo, ; and Betty Woller, '38, Cham garet McLauchlin, Langdon, N.D. ; Donna Mc paign. Farland, Ray, N.D. ; Janet Barnard, Wahpeton, of Mrs. Dorothy Underwood, granddaughter N.D. ; Lois Ryan, Grand Forks, N.D. Ida M. Staehle, '22, is the first Gamma Phi granddaughter Omicron has had the honor of Alpha Gamma pledging. Virginia Kearns, transfer from Sacramento Pi Junior College; Clara Smith, Elko; Eunice Las Harrington. To- Rache! Aldrich, Lincoln; Louise Baack, Beckley, Vegas; Kathryn ; Patricia Davis, Butte, Mont. ; Kathleen Staplehurst; Helen Bonderson, Emerson, Iowa; napah Wells; Mary Handley, Eureka; Louise Dorothy Christianson, Shenandoah, Iowa; Hansen, Mortenson, Jean Whitehead and Ruth Doan, Helen Erickson, Omaha ; Madeline Hodgson, all of Rita Schemp, Margaret Cline, Lincoln; Janet Hoffman, Norfolk; Virginia Sparks; Nance Dougherty (sister-in-law) ; Hyatt, Fullerton; Mary Elizabeth Jones, Lin Hall, Betty Carrie Montrose, Vivian Williams and Gwen coln ; Doris Paterson, Red Oak, Iowa ; Helen all of Reno. Patrow, Fremont ; Detta Rohn, Fremont ; Ena Shearer, Pawnee Neb. Muriel June Shrauger, City, ; Alpha Delta White, Lincoln; Maxine Wirtman, Milford; Frasier, Clayton, Mo. ; Rita Jean Dey, Mary Lien, Lincoln (repledged) ; Theresa Patsy Kansas Mo. Muriel St. Louis, Mo. Stava, Lincoln (repledged). City, ; Bain, ; Neva Cornelius, Savannah, Mo. ; Virginia Beth Rho Spence, Kennett, Mo. ; Ruth Ida Butler, any, Mo. ; Maxine Clough, Kansas City, Mo. ; Hermione Allen, Evelyn Harty. M. Elizabeth Virginia Miller, Tipton, Mo. ; Jane Ann Wil Heffernan, Mary Louise Henderickson, Arlene liams, Kansas City, Mo. : Melva Frable, Kansas Jesses, Alice Knight, Harriet Ludens, Lorraine City, AIo. ; Ernestine Royster, Kansas City, McDowell, Catherine McKnight, Mary Louise Mo. ; AIargaret Davis, Columbus, AIo. ; Alarion Meersman, Nichols, Ida Helen Olin, Mary Jane Hill, Columbia, Mo. Virginia Packer, Katherine Rehder, Gertrude Sayles, Marcea Smith, Jean Swift, Mildred Alpha Epsilon Thatcher, Miriam Thomas, Marjorie Tobias, Betty Bogle, Tucson ; Dolores Nichols, Tuc Margaret Triller, Carolyn Trowbridge. son; Lee Ernestine Tonn, Tucson; Marjorie A-Iaurine Tau Compton, Bisbee; Deale, Phoenix; Dorothea Garrett, Phoenix ; Alary Max Dun Adele Lola Greenacre, Louise Malcrounne, ning, Scottsdale ; Charlotte Johnson, Inspira Lucille Taylor, Margaret Jean Stone, Wallace, tion ; Ceva Layton, Ajo ; Vivian Ling, Alorenci ; Laura Vincent, Gertrude Taylor, Jeannette Margaret AlacDaniels, Douglas ; Alary Helen Robinson, Lucille all of Fort Rudolph, Collins; Morgan, Prescott ; Jean Tillctson, Grand Can Helen Delavan, Wis. ; Frances Loomis, Boyer, yon ; Martha Turbeville, Hollbrook; Harriette Timnath, Colo. ; Gertrude Barnes, Wellington, Hutchison, Kan. ; Louis Berner, 111. ; Marion Colo. : Ruth Shaw, Denver ; Frances Jo Miles, Schulzke, 111. ; Ruth Crist, 111. ; Erma Martin, Colo. ; Mae Pueblo, Perry, Torington, Wyo. ; Mo.; Elizabeth Spittle, Ohio; Beatrice Tetreau, Thelma Lee Colo. Porter, Pueblo, Aid. ; Ann McPherson, Denver.

Phi Alpha Zeta Gloria Ball, Jane Biesterfeldt, Josephine Janie Shivers. Crockett ; Martha Collins, Ft. Elain Christmann, Forrester, Juanita Freitag, Worth ; Joyce Ehlers, Yorktown ; Sue Pickins, Martha Lucille Han Gallowa3', Jane Gundlach, San Antonio ; Levonne Durham, Texarkana ; Louise sen, Higgins, Dorothy Huston, Delphine Aline Watkins, Nacogdoches ; Anne McGin Orah Elise AIildred Jungk, Lamke, Lucking, ness, Houston; Jewel McGinness, Houston; Miessler, Dorothy Moore, Jeanne Patterson, Jane Brown, Houston ; Geneva Jordan, Mason ; Alice Pearcy, Rosemary Ramsey, Thelma Rich Gene White, Dallas; Evelyn Clemow, Houston; ardson, Jean Stocker, Lois Wichman. Eloise Garrett, Houston; Doris Crandall, Houston; Elizabeth W'ilson, Irving; Marguerite Psi Goines, Austin ; Estelle Ingram, Conroe. Floreine Dietrich, Florence Fuller, Doris Bit- let. Lucinda May Furrey, Helen Boggs, Wanda Alpha Theta Ann Hogue, Mary Helen Spickard, Charlotte Dorothy L. Hutchinson, Marion Truitt, Alice Hendrix, Mary Ann Walters, Drewsilla Beasley, Nancy McCracken, Mary C. Cunning Beams, Jane Boone, Evelyn Bowlen, Clara ham, Alary Katherine Ellis. Lyrabeth Fitz Heins, Maudean Miller, Mary Frances Carpen patrick, Elizabeth Harmon, Lenna McAIurtry, ter, Evarene Morgan, Jo Nelle Walters, Char Ruth Morton, Betty Penick, Jane Sliephard, lotte Lee Burge, Gretta Rae Owen, Ruth Jane all of Nashville ; Lattie Aliller Graves, Scotts Gibson and Mary O'Neil Clifford. ville, Ky. ; Eloise Davidson, Shelbyville ; Mary THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 2)2)7

Frances Dean, Old Hickory, Tenn. ; Alargaret H'Eloise De Lammotte, AIoss Point, AIiss. ; Denslow, Waverly, Tenn. ; Dorothy Neider Margaret Vines, Birmingham, Ala. ; Rebecca hauser, Brentwood, Tenn. ; Myrtle Lipscomt), Phillips, Florence, Ala. ; Aliriam Bagely, Bir Shreveport, La. ; Rose Spaeth, Fleming, Mich. ; mingham, Ala. ; Rita Lee Harrison, Birming Louise Watkins, Chevy Chase, Aid. ham, Ala. ; Jennie Ritchie Davis, Warsaw, Ky. ; Mary Virginia Respess, Birmingham, Ala. Alpha Iota Virginia Chase, Dorothy Conlee, Jean Johns Alpha Sigma Elizabeth ton, Linthicum, Jean Murray, Jane Virginia Bonney, Rocky Mount, N.C. ; Jean Lou Ann Nathan, Pierose, Mary Belle Poston, Ebersback, Pomeroy, Ohio ; Mary Elizabeth Jean Regan, Margaret Whitmore, Helen White. Frey, York, Pa. ; Chestine Kuebler, Erie, Pa. ; Florencia Martin. San German, Puerto Rico ; Alpha Xi Helen Frances AIcGuire, Huntington, W.Va. ; Elizabeth Dean, Betty King, Lucille Bishop, Elizabeth Aloora, Alontclair, N.J. ; Jean Ran Elizabeth Quinker, Elizabeth Shaffer, Mavis kin, River Forest, 111. ; Dorothy Rice, Green Gene Rucher, Wagenhauser, Elizabeth Wicker, ville, Ky. ; Dorothea Rudisell, Du Bois, Pa. ; Pauline Fright, all of Dallas; Zoe Mills, Ke Lois Scheel, La Grange, 111. ; Mary Wood, Nor rens, Tex. folk, Va. : Dorothy Belle Wilkin, San Fran Alpha Omicron cisco, Calif. ; Hannah Young, Blackstone, Va. Corrine Anderson, La Vaun Anderson, Joyce Black, Louise Dietz, Jeanette Dunkirk, Mar Alpha Phi garet Hannaher, June Keefe, Emily McNair, Martha Jane Kaiser, Dorothy Alay Thomp Betty Lou Mills, Gertrude Nelson, Ann Olson, son, Evalyn Peterson, Doris Jane Barton, Betty Lois Olson, Loretta Osborne, Alaxine Schol Predovich, Doris O'Dell, Marjorie Fender, Ma lander, Catherine Simonson, Connie Taylor, and rian Sherwood, Adonis Whittecar. Dorothy Walz, Fargo ; Betty Johnson, East Orange, N.J. ; Rosemary Lee, Valley City; Alpha Psi Geraldine Alorris, Wahpeton ; Grace Stewart, Harriett Bartlett, Evanston, 111. ; Margot Larimore; Josephine Swenson, Fergus Falls; Baer, Ottumwa, Iowa; Marion Biggs, Lake Moorhead and Willa Betty Verne, ; Jeanne Bluff, 111.; Kathryn Eckert, Alilwaukee, Wis.; Wells, Harvey. Sally Hamilton, Alarshalltown, Iowa ; Sara Alpha Pi Kiningham, Danville, 111. ; Babette Klein, Win Olive and Elaine W.Va. Thorne, Elizabeth, netka, 111. ; Jane Lilly, Wilmette, 111. ; Rita Mc- Enery, Evanston, 111. ; Vivian Rice, Winnetka, Alpha Rho 111. ; Dorothy Roedel, Chicago ; Beatrice War Josephine Michaelson, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; ren, Zion, 111.

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAPTER LETTERS

"My own favorite definition of art is like this : Art is not a thing separate and apart. It is only the beautiful way of doing anything."�Nell Brooker Mayhew, 1928.

"One of our money making schemes is the sale of Gamma Phi cards."�Denver, 1928.

"Someone has said, Tt is hard to think that Al^ary Brittingham has gone.' Why do we try to realize it? For her spirit is always with Gamma, the child of her affection.''� 1929.

"When Barbara Buchtel is initiated, another tradition is to be revived. Bishop and Mrs. McDowell sent Olive's pin to Mary Buchtel at her initiation, and she has worn it ever since. The same badge will be pinned upon Barbara at the appointed time."�1930.

"Mrs. Richmond will meet you at the other door. You get a quick impression of a welcoming smile, of friendly gray�or are they blue�eyes under soft waves of hair."�Article on Grace Smith Richmond, 1930.

"After the business was over, we rose to sing Fidelity for the last time. Part of it was a little shaky, I'm afraid, when we realized that after fifteen full years of service to Hollins and to Gamma Phi, Upsilon chapter was being disbanded."� Upsilon's last letter. What the College Chapters Are Doing

Weidlein at Cleveland, Ohio, and for Carolyn A Beltramini of Birmingham, Alich. Both of these Syracuse girls are sophomores on this campus. The new pledge class of thirteen members is Alpha is starting out this fall with the com unanimously considered even better than that panionship of a new house mother. Miss of last year. The Ann Arbor alumnae chapter Menken. Miss Menken is succeeding Mrs. cooperated enthusiastically with us during rush Smith who had been with the chapter fourteen ing, and attended the ceremony in large num years and who now has a position in a girls' bers. A tea was held after pledging for the prep school. AIiss Menken, prominent in church alumnas, and also to welcome our new members. work, has lived in Syracuse for the past ten Unsigned years. She has a capacity house to deal with this year, for there are twenty girls in the r house whereas in former years there have been around fifteen. Wisconsin The whole chapter entered into a spirited rushing season with excellent results. Golden Jubilee in November One of the featured parties for the season's Enthusiasm runs high in Gamma following rushing was a fashion show including pre the pledging of an exceptional group of seven posterous creations found in antiquated trunks teen girls. But to report our doings chrono �Miss Phyllis Betts C37) officiated in the logically, let me return to last spring. capacity of Mrs. Pennyfeather a representative An innovation was introduced consisting of from the firm, and Solo Solomon, Solomon, an Easter breakfast to which the children of mon. Also, we had a trio as further entertain Madison alumnse were invited. Following break ment. Ann Turner, Esther Ager, and Lois fast, our little guests hunted for Easter eggs Schaeffer were the three and much singers, very � and then played games which the actives en approved by the rushees. Lois Schaeffer, in the joyed as much as they! department of Illustration has just had four Alany campus honors came to the chapter, drawings reproduced in the new campus publi in many fields. Mary Belle Lawton and Elsie cation, The Syracusan. They illustrated inter Lunde were elected into Alortar Board, whose views with four sets of twins now enrolled in total last year was seven. Mary the college of Fine Arts. membership Belle, as president of the group, attended the Girls to Gamma Phi this fall had a returning national convention of Mortar Board, held this notable surprise awaiting them. There has been year at Asheville, North Carolina. Besides this a replacement of much of the room fur living honor, Mary Belle is president of the senior niture as well as new pieces in four of the women, was co-chairman of invitations for bedrooms. The house looks smart and has very and co-chairman for Orientation caused comment. Two of the Junior Prom, pleasant single Week last month. rooms have double-decker beds in Stickley Winifred Loesch was elected to � Crucible, them an added durinsf as none novelty rushing women's scholastic and activi of the other houses had them. With four active junior honorary ties organization. She has been especially active weeks of college already gone the rest of the in the Wisconsin Players. year promises to be very eventful. O'Connor won a for her work on Barbara Dudley Jean key Jean the Badger, and is chairman of tickets for Pan Marriages hellenic Ball. Ruth Holekamp is vice-president of Panhellenic. Elsie Lunde is vice-president On November 2. Jane Elizabeth '35 Northrup of W.A.A. Board, former president of Norse to Air. Charles G. Stark, Psi Upsilon, Syracuse. Club, was co-chairman of the program com Elizabeth '36 to Afr. Ken Kathryn Gerwig mittee for Mother's and Father's Weekend, neth G. Reinhardt, Phi Kappa Psi, Syracuse. and is a member of the Student Activity Board. On November 25. Betsey Littlehales '33 to We were runners-up in the W.A.A. Mr. Lindley Kent, Phi Kappa Psi, Cornell. campus athletic trophy race, taking first place in Volley Ball and Bowling. B Frequent visitors to the house include two recent graduates who are now teaching at the Michigan University; Kathryn Smith in Mathematics, and Mary Bossort in French. Lucky Thirteen Our successful fall rushing was greatly aided Before the rushing season began, the chapter by the entertainment abilities of Beatrice and held a special initiation ceremony for Virginia Barbara Nicoll, twins from Honolulu whose THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 339 interpretation of the native hulu makes all of house. The pledges of Gamma Phi, Kappa, us envy their grace and rhythm, and Carolyn Theta, Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma and Pi Phi Tees, our new and popular singing transfer are included in this. The idea was formulated from Oregon. last fall, and the dance is to become a tradi But we all feel that to Jean O'Connor goes tional event on the campus. the greatest praise, for she proved to be a most Last year, an Eta member, Elizabeth Foote, charming and efificient rushing captain. was Woman's Editor of the Blue and Gold, Marjorie Wiegand was recently elected presi university annual ; ne.xt year we are hoping for dent of the pledges, and her picture will appear a similar honor since Jean Seville has been ap in the Octopus as representative of our pledge pointed one of the three junior women editors group. of the book as well as having been selected for We are all looking forward to a grand year, membership in Prytanean. Pegg\f Homer has which will include the long-awaited Golden been elected vice-president of the Women's Jubilee on November 15 and 16, and for which Athletic Association and is serving on the In extensive plans are being made by the Madison tramural athletic board. alumnae. Elsie Lunde The Goemmer sisters, Kathryn and Phyllis, are quite prominent on campus. Phyllis is vice- z president of the sophomore class and Kathryn is a member of Mortar Board, Prytanean is Goucher chairman of the Women's Judiciary Committee, a member of Welfare Council, and sub chair Another House Party on the Way man of Deputations Committee which visits the high schools of the state and lectures on From 3 to 7 Zeta had a June June houseparty various of life. at the Round home of Miss phases college Bay, Maryland Lorene Giffin Grace Almond, a friend of the chapter. In the spring elections at Goucher we were very for Engagements tunate in gaining many offices on campus. Sally Eileen M. Wiley to Mr. George Farr Cornell. Stauffer, our president, holds the highest office, president of Student Organization. Nancy Marriages Dulaney is sophomore member on Judicial Elinor Cheek, ex-'35 to Mr. John Hillis Board. Other members of the are on chapter Pi. the boards of the Athletic Association and Moskowitz, Sigma Morna Scott '33 to Mr. Thomas Parkhill Goucher College Christian Association. The Nock, Phi Kappa Sigma. presidents of Dance Club and Choir are both Jane Pomeroy '35 to Mr. Francis Cornwall, Gamma Phi's. On October 9 we initiated Jean Delta Tau Delta. nette Monroe of White Plains, New York; Alildred Reid cx-'34 to Mr. Walter Erie of Baltimore Katherine Wil Dorothy Tippett ; Christie. son of Columbus, Ohio, and at that time we Elvira Broome, ex-'33 to Mr. Jerome Kase also affiliated Mary Elizabeth Figgee, a trans berg Doolan. fer from Alpha Phi. We are now in the midst of rushing and feel that we have every reason to look forward to a successful conclusion. The e weekend of November 2 is our annual fall Denver house party at Bel Air, Maryland, Carol Norton Wins Cup at Sorority-Fraternity Sing After pledging ceremonies Friday, September H 20, the new wearers of the double brown in Theta were entertained at a dinner California chapter preceeding the football game. Then on October 11, Charlotte Bundy, who was last Traditional Intersorority Pledge Dance pledged winter quarter, was initiated at a special cere Although we took exactly the same number of mony. This was followed by a charming dinner pledges as we did last year, when we won the under the direction of Verna Lackner, junior Channing Way Derby, Eta was just short of active, who presented Charlotte with a bouquet winning again. What we lacked in quantity, of pink carnations from the chapter. however, we made up in quality. In addition to During the University's homecoming celebra our twenty-two pledges, Betty Pratt of Lambda tion Theta participated in every event, attend has been affiliated, and Eta feels, as does ing classes on Pioneer Day in costumes remi Lambda that Lambda's loss is Eta's gain. The niscent of the founding of the college, entering new initiates are Eleanor Rinehardt, Eleanor a sorority float in the parade, (this was con Vollman, Peggy Gilhouser, Ruth Jones, Vir structed to resemble a large, red-rufified hoop- ginia Lutz and Katherine Daniel. skirt. On top, forming the bodice, head, and Our social calendar includes : An open house shoulders was Betty Rasmussen, "Miss Pio (a function for the pledges) ; a Sunday night neer," of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, (representative supper ; the annual fall formal at the Sir of the pledge class), and entertaining Gamma Francis Drake Hotel ; an open house preceding Phi alumnae at a dinner before the "Bonfire the U.S.C. football game; a faculty tea; and a Rally." pledge dance on November 15 at the Alpha Phi Before the homecoming game with Utah 340 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

State the girls of Theta met at the Lodge at a Riggs, Lee Nicholson, Ann Hutchinson, Jackie luncheon honoring their housemother, Mrs. Chessher, Jane Warrack, and Pat Strickler. Fletcher, and presented her with several lovely Lambda expects a very active year on the gifts. This was planned in order to express their campus and the social season soon starts with affection for Mrs. Fletcher, who has so loy a Little Sister Breakfast. ally done much for the chapter with her helping Barbara Stevenson attitude and genuine friendship. The luncheon Engagements was well attended and beautifully prepared, and Mrs. Fletcher repeatedly exclaimed in apprecia Amelia Scrubv '36 to Air. Edward Argesinger, tion. Zeta Psi. At the university sorority-fraternity "Sing," Jean Rand '36 to Dr. Ginn. '35 to Air. Russell an annual event on the campus, Theta received Annabelle Alurray Eddy, first award, a cup, among the contesting sorori Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ties. Marriages Before each football game this season Theta Charlotte Cole '36 to Mr. Herbert Stimpson, has invited as dinner guests. Gamma Phi's from Beta Theta Pi. chapters in other colleges, Kappas, and Delta Caroline Calvert '34 to Mr. George Kinnear, Gammas who are interested in the teams play Phi Delta Theta. ing. By this means many new acquaintances Atkinson '31 to Mr. Mathewson. have been made and fast friendships begun in Pryde Elinor Lofthus '35 to Lieutenant W. L. Tagg. addition to those within Theta chapter. In re Pfueller '35 to Mr. David Chi turn these chapters have extended similar invi Joyce Morse, Psi. tations to Theta girls. Havens '34 to Mr, Monday evening, October 21, Theta fathers Dorothy Ralph Smalling, Phi Delta Theta. were entertained at a "Dinner-Smoker" at the Gamma Phi lodge. The girls provided an eve M ning of sorority songs as well as fraternity medleys, and the pledge class presented a clever Stanford skit. The next event of importance is the dance New Wing to the House in honor of the the active given pledges by Mu is in the midst of all the varying prob chapter. It is a formal dance to be held at lems attendant upon furnishing a house. During Cherry Hills Country Club. This is an annual the summer our living room was remodelled, occasion, and has heretofore been memorable and a new wing was added to our house. to all of us. Duvall Jane This new addition doubled the size of the A music and dining rooms, making the latter look like a veritable banquet hall to those of Washington us who had become accustomed to its former size. As a consequence of all this almost the Second Largest Pledge Class on Campus entire first floor must be refurnished, especially since our old dark woodwork has been replaced Our whole house now has new American early with white. walnut bedroom furniture. Our den furniture gleaming trunks litter halls and rooms, await has all been recovered and the entire house Upstairs ing the arrival of bedroom furniture, while weather stripped, so we shall be nice and cozy downstairs rooms meet the for the winter. long, nearly empty eye. Lambda Gamma Phi swept the campus in We arc, however, very grateful to some of activities last spring quarter and we proudly our alumnae who have been most generous in announce our new Tyee editor, Lee Nicholson, offering us money for the new davenports, who is also president of Theta Sigma Phi, a drapes and other things we need so badly. journalistic honorary. The president of the should be in a week Associated Women Students is Ann Hutchin Everything completed or two, so that we can begin holding our tra son; the president of Phi AIu Gamma, a drama ditional weekly Sunday night suppers. And honorary, is Laurien Winn ; the president of about the teas which are to the Town Girl's Association is thinking rushing Janet Riggs, � come in November and perhaps an open house who was also Junior Queen last year; and the to show our new to interested friends of the senior class is Pat Strickler. glories secretary and alumn;e. We also had many other honors such as the Marie Baker, one of our graduates who is greatest number of pledges to Mortar Board, on the campus, enlivened the opening days of which is the highest women's : honorary Janet the her Riggs, Ann Hutchinson, Lee Nicholson. Totem quarter by announcing engagement. AIaxine E. Bartlett Club, an activity honorary, pledged Janet Riggs, Jackie Chessher, Ann Hutchinson, and Lee Nicholson. "W" Key is an underclassmen's honorary based on scholarship and activities of which Virginia Kellogg is the treasurer, and Idaho Buddy Arneson is a new pledge. Matrix Table Another Lucky Thirteen is a banquet given by Theta Sigma Phi honoring prominent campus women and we had seven This year we were able to pledge only thirteen invitations including Dorothy Horsfall, Janet girls, nine of whom live in the house. With THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 341 only five girls graduating (who lived in the On September 2, 1935 at Princeton, Ind., AIil house) and three town girls graduating, and all dred Smith (Omicron '33) to Mr. Walter Frese but three of the under-graduates returning, it (University of Iowa, Kappa Sigma). Mr. and was not possible to take more than nine girls Airs. Frese are living in Washington, D.C. into the house which comfortablj' accommo On September 8, 1935, at Tuscola, III., Elinor dates thirty-seven. We feel that the girls we did Davis (Omicron '35) to Air. Wolfram Brogden pledge are certainly good Gamma Phi material, (University of Illinois Sigma Alpha Epsilon). and we know each one will be a splendid Gam Air. and Airs. Brogden are at home at 703 S. ma Phi. Busey, Urbana, 111. On September 22, we initiated six girls, mem On June 22, 1935 at the chapter house in bers of last year's pledge class, who were un Urbana, III., Bertha Enger (Omicron '32) to able to join last semester: Dora Baird, Boise; Mr. Henry Molden (University of Illinois Bernice and Eileen Exelton, Bristow, Okla Theta Xi). Air. and Mrs. Alolden are living homa; Eleanor Callahan, Moscow; Marjory at 2215 Howard Street, Omaha, Neb. Gibson, Lewiston (sister of Dawn Gibson ex- On August 7, 1935 at Champaign, III. Betty '32) ; Alary Louise Jordon, Downey, California Bilsborrow (Omicron '35) to Air. Alilburn (daughter of Jessie Corum Jordon '12). Carey (University of Illinois Beta Theta Pi). This year Xi chapter is proud to have an Air. and Mrs. Carey are living in Enid, Okla alumna, Florence Allebaugh Mathieson ex-'22, homa. director of Province Six. On September 2, 1935 at Champaign, III. It is rather early in the year for new elec Frances Wamsley (Omicron '34) to Rev. Roger tions to honoraries ; however, a Gamma Phi, AIcCoII. Rev. and Mrs. AIcColl are living at Miriam McFall, Twin Falls, was elected to the 1007 S. Wright, Champaign. presidency of Spurs, national service honorary On September 29 at Champaign, 111. Helen for sophomore women. Sheppley (Omicron '31) to Air. _ Harry Sparks Miriam McFall (University of Illinois '31). o n Illinois Nebraska Pledges Its First Granddaughter Crescent Night Club

On September 13 the chapter gave a banquet October 12 the active chapter gave a house in honor of the pledges. Mrs. Frances Haven party in honor of the new pledges. The theme Moss spoke at this banquet of the early his was a Crescent Night Club and the party was tory of Gamma Phi Beta. Omicron is very for very successful. tunate in having one of our founders here in Rosa Drath, Herndon, Kansas, was married Urbana. Formal pledging was held September on September 21 to Air. Richard Alayborn, 18. Delta Chi. Hazel Bradstreet and Anne Pickett Two of our new pledges have already won were elected to the A.W.S. Board, and both are honors in the University. Helen Novark and in charge of Freshman Commission groups. Dorothy Goddard passed the Rhetoric I pro Anne is a member of Alortar Board. Joyce ficiency examination. Dorothy also passed the Liebendorfer has been selected as one of the proficiency e.xam in Rhetoric II, and by doing assistants on the sorority staff of the Corn this she has received six university credits. husker, the annual 3'ear book. Katherine Rom The chairmanship of the membership commit mel is president and Mercedes Drath is vice- tee of Orange and Blue Feathers, freshman president of Kappa Epsilon, honorary pharmacy women's organization, is another honor which sorority. Dorothy has won. Joyce Liebendorfer Liberty Petru, '38, has been chosen as a member of the Student Senate. Shirley Wal P lace, '38, was initiated into Alpha Lambda Delta, scholarship honorary, on October 11. Iowa Several Omicron girls have been chosen to First in serve on Dads' Day and homecoming commit Scholarship tees. Rho, besides pledging a fine group of girls, new Virginia Rech is Omicron's president, are very proud of the fact that we stand first of Smith. Frances Pride taking the place Peggy in scholarship on the campus. Every girl worked new chairman. has been elected rushing very hard to achieve this last year and we feel in honor The pledge dance held every year very well rewarded. was October 12 at tlie of the new girls given Our former president was unable to return Adelaide Dadant chapter hous'e. so Vivienne Bowers, a second-semester senior, was elected to finish her term. One of our Marriages pledges, Arlene Jessen, writes poetry ; Jean On September 19. 1935, at Lincoln, 111., Louise Swift made Seals Club; Jean Orendorff was Goff (Omicron '36) to Air. Harold Coogan elected to Union Board ; Sally Gray, Eleanor (University of Illinois, Delta "Tau Delta '35). Appel, Eleanor Alaloney. Alary Louise Meers Mr. and Airs. Coogan will reside in Lincoln, man, Ruth AlcCrory and Helen Witte are on 111. at 204 Tremont St. council and committees in Y.W.C.A. 342 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

There have been several marriages�Jane T Aliller to Air. Joseph Hladky, Frances Ringena to Mr. Carl Kcttelson, La Vaughn Lee to Mr. Colorado Arthur Arrant, Alice Leighton to Mr. Elliot Powell, Maurine Mather to Mr. Arthur Augus Many Activities tine, Jean Chapman Loufeck to Mr. Gordon In our pledge class we have two little sisters Atwater, Lorene Warder to Mr. A. E. McKay, and a niece of a charter member of Tau : Mar Alary Traer to Mr. Burt Kruse, Waldine Mil garet Jean Stone and Louise Taylor are the ler to Air. Arthur Lindquist, Alarjorie Mullane little sisters, and Thelma Lee Porter is the to Mr. M. Leone Mc Darling Joseph Emmert, niece. Nally to Mr. John White, Patricia Irish to Mr. Last Alay Patricia Christopher was initiated John Rae to Air. F. Freeand, Nelly Thompson and in we initiated Keefe. September June Walker, Jean Barkley and Mary Kreutzer. In addition to these marriages we announce Tau has taken many honors in activities. five births�Margaret McConkie Rehder, a son ; Each year the four outstanding women in the Betty Lou Waggoner House, a daughter ; Alary senior class are chosen and called Pacemakers. Wheat Bowers, also a daughter; There Hunter Last year Tau had two of the four: Katherine Grefe, a son ; and Dorothy Nelson Gregg, also Barkley and Julia Reed Stamm. a son. Helen Witte This fall si.x of our sophomores were elected to Spur, the honorary girls pep club : Jean Barkley, Adele Alalcrounne, Alaxine Mayhew, Patricia Christopher, Alary Kreutzer, and Helen Kansas Loomis. In the election of Spur officers we claimed three out of five : Jean Barkley, vice- Has Book Room president ; Adele Alalcrounne, secretary; and Patricia Christopher, treasurer. Kansas University inaugurated the "quota Adele Malcrounne and Thelma Lee Porter system" this year, and in spite of it or because have been elected to the Dramatic Club. Ruth of it, pledged seventeen fine girls�one of the Shaw, Mae Perry, Helen Loomis, Lucille Wal classes on the The largest pledge campus. girls lace and Jeannette Robinson were chosen on worked hard during the summer months as well the Dramatic Club Technical Staff. as during rush week, and it was a very success Frances Lacey has been made associate ful season. A luncheon in Chanute, a luncheon editor-in-chief of the Silver Spruce, the annual and in a tea in swimming party Joplin, Wichita, year book. Beth Brill and Mary Kreutzer are several in Kansas the and parties City during on the annual staff. summer helped acquaint rushees with Gamma Phis even before they arrived at Kansas Uni Marriages versity. Adele Taylor to Mr. Roy Cresswell (Lamb We were and delighted to come surprised da Chi Alpha) on September 20, 1935, in Den to the house and to find that both card back ver. room and room had been redecorated. smoking Winifred McBroom to Mr. Frederick Stone, The card room is now the Book Room with Alpha Tau Omega '35, in Washington, D.C., blue and rose furniture and great book lovely on October 26, 1935. cases lining the walls. Our alumnse and many of Julia Reed to Mr. Gilbert Stamm, Kappa the actives have been generous in donating or Sigma '35. AIaxine Mayhew loaning books to help fill the bookcases and to make a valuable library for us. Sigma members are participating in many activities. Mary Jane Roby and Roberta Cook, a pledge, have parts in the fall play ; Ruth Washington Brandt is of the French Club ; and secretary Claims Second Highest Number of Pledges Mary Markham, another pledge, was freshman representative in the annual initiation service. This year promises to be most successful for Cornelia Ann Miller and Clara Louise Connelly Phi. Two of our prominent seniors have cap (pledges) have been pledged to Tau Sigma, tured the highest honors in their respective dancing sorority; and Burrie Dalton and Sara fields of activity : for Zetta Berger, chapter Nelle Pickett have been chosen for Quack Club, president, has been elected president of the swimming organization. Alaxine Laughlin, Vir Woman's Athletic Association, and Dode Roth ginia Taylor and Roberta Cook are new mem is the new president of the Women's Glee Club, bers of the Glee Club. Sara Nelle Pickett and an office which has been filled by Gamma Phis Ruth Learned will help cheer the K.Ll. team intermittently for six out of seven years. Dode to victory as members of Gay Janes, girls' pep also has excelled in athletics and is a college club. June Thompson, Betty Hanson, Dorothy representative to the Women's Self Govern Caldwell and Ruth Learned are on the ment Association. Woman's Student Governing Council ; June Under the very able leadership of our rush Thompson has been elected to Alortar Board ; captain, Georgia Lamke, we secured twenty-one are on Y.W.C.A. three members cabinet; girls, the second highest number pledged by any Eleanor Grant of Kansas City has been ini sorority on the campus (two pledges added tiated. Ruth Learned after rushing). THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 343

after the close of Phi ini �three small Shortly college. boys who tapped, sang and played tiated five girls who made the necessary grade an accordion were presented during the fifth : Elinor Ruth A requirements Ermes, Harrison, party. night club idea with an orchestra, a Marcia Josephine Kumbra, Nelson, and Anna master of ceremonies, a floor show, and card Marie tables Querl. centered with carnations in green bud Edmee Moellman vases and grouped informally in the dining room carried out the idea. Our X chapter will be the first sorority on the campus this year to hold open house. The Boomers Oregon will play during the open house which is to be held on September 21. Ne'cij Panhellenic Ruling Elizabeth Hogue Members and pledges of Chi were both sur Births prised and pleased to return to a gay and newly To Mr. and Mrs. Nathan curtained home. White ruffled curtains made Spencer Scarritt (Rilla Winn '24) in Enid, on our house seem new along with a new printed Oklahoma, August 11, 1935, a son, Nathan davenport cover. This new change was due to Spencer, Jr. our faculty advis.er Dorothea Cordley Muth. Rush week brought us many new girls who A\ are now well started on their way towards activities. This year rush week kept us busy Toronto with a new Panhellenic which shortened ruling New rush week and allowed the girls to settle down Apartment to studies sooner. With the beginning of a new term at Univer We are proud to claim many girls who re sity, our rushing season opened with two teas ceived honors at the honor convocation last and a luncheon. The latter was given at the spring. Jerry Blakeslee and Barbara Waterman home of Nora Locke; and as her home is out were pledged to Euterpe, music honorary ; Bar side the city, we spent a very delightful after bara also received the Phi Kappa Phi fresh- noon outdoors. As yet the results of rushing rnan award and Alpha Lambda Delta, scholas are not known. tic honorary; Mary Holthouse was elected to We have a new apartment this year and we Omicron Nu, home economics ; Lorraine Knapp are very pleased with it. No girls live there. was one of three girls to make Theta Sigma The house party held last May was a great Phi, journalism; Dorothy Price made Orchesis, success and twenty-five were present during the dancing; and Dorothy Tripp, Hope Chamber week-end. During the week Ruth and Jean Orr lain and Valeria Coon were elected to Talons, entertained us at tea. During Commencement sophomore women's honorary. week, a luncheon was given for Mary Westbye, Chi girls are strong in activities this year Kitty Copus and Leonore Fraser who were with Lorraine Knapp as day editor of the graduates of last year. Kitty and Leonore are Barometer, our college paper, as well as head attending the Ontario College of Education of the Women's Section in the Beaver, our year this year, and we are very glad to have them book. Doris Shaver is assistant editor of the back in Toronto. At present, we are very busy Beaver and is also on the Barometer staff. planning a subscription dance which is to be Kay Carpenter is assistant head of class section held at the end of the month. All of the girls on the Beaver. Hope Chamberlain is feature are looking f(>rward to an interesting year. editor of the Barometer and section head of Helen Bartlet Administration, on the Beaver. Mary Ellen Turley is in charge of radio programs for AB Associated Women Student programs over KOAC. North Dakota Barbara Hauk is a pleasant surprise as a transfer from Nu, and already seems one of us. Pledge Breakfast We are hoping to progress even farther this We were very pleased to have with us during year and to be able to make Chi a of chapter rush week Mrs. Paul Borland, a much cher which all Gamma Phis will be proud. ished and greatly appreciated visitor. Six at Kay Sheldon tractive and outstanding girls from Kappa, Betty Christopherson, Kappa president ; Mar jorie Vance, rushing chairman; Lillian Hicks, Maebeth Skogmo, Mary Thayer, and Louise Oklahoma Hagen, also rendered able assistance. On September 29, we were happy to welcome First on Campus to Hold Open House into our chapter as initiates, Doris Ann Bright- Our rush plans were carried out very smoothly. bill, Charlotte Hills, Rosella Mann, and Alumnae support from all over the state was Wenona Starbeck. excellent, and the active members worked hard. The new pledges were hostesses at a break A radio skit and a take-off on Major Bowes' fast for the new members of the other sorori amateur night furnished entertainment for the ties and showed remarkable hospitality and first four rush parties. Professional entertainers ability. 344 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

We are now busily engrossed in plans for Births Our house decorations placed homecoming. To Air. and Airs. Wendell Birch (La Verne first last year, and we are hoping that a first Blundell) twin sons, Richard Norman and Rob prize is again in the offing. ert Wendell, on June 10, 1935, at San Fran Gladys E. Schumacher cisco, California. To Mr. and Mrs. John Prenderville (Helen Mahoney) a daughter, Joan Evelyn, on July 4, Ar 1935, at Reno. Barbara Clark Nevada AA Tied for Second Place in Derby Missouri This year was an exceptional one on this in of house It campus the way improvement. Silver Service for Brides seemed that every house, with very few ex Rita ceptions, was struck at the same time with the Five of our pledges. Patsy Frasier, Jean idea of renovating and redecorating. Of course Dey, Alargaret Davis, Aluriel Bain, and Ruth Gamma Phi did not lag behind. Our house, Butler have gone out for Tigerettes, Alissouri which was at one time one of the finest man University's female pep squad. Marie Tieman sions in the city, was thoroughly done over has been appointed to the committee for alumnae and given a very modern interior. This was Homecoming, and Lillian Stapel has been ap made possible through the interest and generos pointed to the mass meeting committee for the ity of our alumnic, who devoted a great deal of year. Virginia Spence is working on the society time to it this summer. And this in no small column of the Student, our University Student, way added to the success of our rushing sea Paper, while Alarie Tieman is reporter on the son. We tied with Pi Beta Phi for second town paper, the Missourian. Ruth Shaeffer has place in the derby�adding seventeen new a prominent place in Workshop this year, pledges to our group. This is a verv fortunate Workshop being our dramatic organization. number as we have seventeen active members We are represented on the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet so now each active has a new "little sister." by June Gray. Marie Tieman was elected vice- To give you a small idea of the talent of this president of Gamma Alpha Chi, honorary group�Eunice Beckley has musical ability and Journalism sorority, and Virginia Spence, Mar is prominent in dramatics ; Louise Alortensen jorie Berry, and Fairalee Horton were pledged. is an accomplished dancer ; Ruth Doan sings Alpha Delta had thirteen girls at Barnwarm harmony and plays the violin ; Rita Schemp in' tins year, Barnwarmin', given by the Ag also sings harmony; Nancy Hall has artistic students, being the biggest dance of the year. alDility and Alargaret Cline is a musician, not Alarianna Blucher, of Kansas City, was mar to mention those prominent in sports and those ried the latter part of September to Air. Ed who make high grades (an especially welcome ward Goodman. Dorothy Ward of Plattsburg, ability). AIo., was married on October 12 to Air. James So much for the pledges�and now for the Martin. Elenore Joslyn was married to Mr. actives who also have their share (and more) James Nanson in August ; and Geraldine of the honors. Eleanor Doan is women's editor Buescher, of Columbia, to Air. George Biem- of the Sagebrush, the campus publication, and a dicck on September 18, who are now in Europe member of Publications Board. Alary Corecco on their honeymoon. Alpha Delta presented is president of Cap and Scroll, upperclass hon each of the couples with a silver service with orary society, and a member of the Associated the Gamma Phi Beta crest engraved�a custom Women Students Executive Committee. Inez we hope to continue. MacGillivray (our president) is also a member A very welcome little transfer from North of the A.W.S. Executive Committee and presi western made her appearance this year�Marion dent of the Panhellenic Council. Betty Simpson Mclntyre, who is studying for her master's is president of the Sagens, women's pep organi degree. zation. Ethel Kent was made assistant women's The Gamma Phi Beta Alliance, formed by a business editor and Norma Anderson society group of Columbia Alothers, and headed by editor of the Sagebrush. Margaret Turano was Airs. John C. Stapel, is beginning its second recently made a member of the Press Club. year. The Alliance presented the chapter last Georgianna Harriman made Gothic N, for year with linens and silver. Alembership has eminence in sports. She is also basketball man been increased, allowing alums, mothers, and ager for Women's Athletic Association. Also actives to take an active part. on W.A.A. Executive are : Verla Champagne And last but not least by any matter of for volley ball, Betty Simpson for swimming means, we have two candidates for beauty and Barbara Clark for archery. queens�Patsey Frasier and Bobbie Houston. The following marriages took place during With both pledges and actives going out for the summer: Dolores Lozano to Mr. John all activities on the campus in an outstanding Halley, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, at Reno ; Alae way, we are very proud of our chapter and Vuich to Mr. Walter Johnson, Alpha Tau with many happy moments ahead of us, we Omega, at Tonopah ; Alargaret Walts to Air. feel Alpha Delta may well consider the year William Ligon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, at Reno. 1935-36 one of her best. Lillian Stapel THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 345

AE Births To Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Peterson (Chrystine Arizona Walker '33), on October 15, a daughter, Bar bara Ann. Winning Basketball Team for Four Successive Years AZ

'Neath the Arizona crescent moon twenty-two Texas brown and mode ribbons were As stu pinned. Publish New Moon dents come from all over the world to Arizona's Pledges Alpha Zeta had a rush unique campus. Alpha Epsilon wishes to thank grand week, for all of our six were our each one who sent recommendations ; and also parties fine and Open House for the new was a success. at the culmination of our rushing period we pledges huge Some of the have wish to express our appreciation to Esther pledges verj^ outstanding talents. Sue Pickins of Hollebaugh and our alumnse. San Antonio writes music and Proud of her activity award at Province VII poetry, and her latest piece Bhie Mirage was conference, Alpha Epsilon continues to vie for introduced at the Jessie Jones Ball held in Austin campus honors. Katherine Huffman who was Monday night, October 7. This music unanimously elected secretary of the Student was highly praised by Bob Crosby, the orchestra who had the of Body, is a member of Mortar Board, Sigma leader, pleasure playing the Alpha Iota, "A" Club which is the highest piece for the first time in public. The words were written Elinor the athletic honor, and a charter member of the by Alary Bartelt, Press Club. Other Gamma Phis who hold a daughter of a Gamma Phi from Gamma chap ter at the of Wisconsin. Elinor charter membership in the Press Club are University Alary Christine Moss, Mozelle Wood, Billie Henning, is planning to come to the University of Texas and Pauline Hickcox. Billie Henning, chapter next year and we are all looking forward to her. and Anne McGinness president, was appointed senior council-woman meeting Jewel gradu ated from last to succeed Frances Davis, past president, who Saint Agnes Academy June. was chosen the most beautiful in the was the first woman ever to occupy this posi Jewel girl tion. A.W.S. claims Pauline Hickcox as treas graduating class and Anne was chosen the wittiest. Goines of Austin is urer. Two queens for Alpha Epsilon: Mary Marguerite very talented in art and her interest in Alice Alberthal as Desert Queen, and Christine very special this field is all sorts of cards� Moss as the first girl in the university's history designing Christmas liaster cards ever to receive the hundred per cent health cards, birthday cards, rating. F.S.T., junior women's honorary has its and all the other kinds of cards. She does all largest representation from the Gamma Phi the printing and drawing and also composes all house�Imogene Richey ( president), Christine the verses. We have some new furniture in our Moss, and Pauline Hickcox; the same proves house, new a new for the true for the sophomore honorary. Rattlers porch furniture, awning (pledge button is real snake rattle) �Inez Petty downstairs front porch, and some new silver: (treasurer), Jean Holderness, Alargaret Pear Four dozen of each with Gamma Phi Beta Greek letters on each The house son, and Marion Staples. Inez Petty is also a engraved piece. member of the Home Economics Honorary, is full this year� fourteen in all with two while Joan Holderness received the freshman pledges. We had initiation on October 5 for five Mortar Board cup, was elected to the girls � Bettie Wranglers, honorary writing society, and to Margaret Correll, Katherine Madden, Clara Mae all of Austin the honorary art and the honorary dramatic Vallance, Driscoll, ; Lorraine Stakes of Houston. fraternities. Margaret Pearson is a member of Florence an alum, is at Columbia this Sigma Alpha Iota. Imogene Richey who is a Smith, on in member of Desert Riders F.S.T., and the "_A" year working her master's degree Spanish. Reeves Crow from Psi has recently club won the high point cup in the swimming Georgia moved to and we are to have meet. Gamma Phi was presented the cup for Austin, very happy her connected with our the honor basketball team and has produced group. Matson is of Kirby Hall, the winning team for four years in succession. Gladys president treasurer of the class and reporter for Mary Beth Dowell, now studying on a scholar junior the Girls Glee Club. Beatrice Kubela is a can ship at University of Colorado, and Jeannette didate for Council. Malott were awarded class honors. Judiciary The pledges, under the direction of Fanny Engagements Twichell are publishing a newspaper. The New which comes out three times a The Mary Jo Kingsbury to Mr. William Gurley, Moon, year. contains all the news of the sorority. In Sigma Nu ; Katherine Rolle to Mr. Charles paper each number a complete list of all the pledges, Cronin, Kappa Sigma ; Beryl Christy to Mr. and alums is with the addresses Guilford Bell, Sigma Nu ; Charlotte Brehm to actives, given of each. The next New Moon will have a Mr. Clinton Ring, Beta Theta Pi ; Katherine newly title Goines. Huffman to Mr. Donald Wier. designed heading by Marguerite The paper is a huge success and so many of Marriages the alums have told us how much they enjoyed On October 1, 1935, Evelyn Hayes (Alpha it and that it made them feel that they were Epsilon '35) was married to Mr. Elwood Ryder in closer connection with the sorority. at her ranch home near Globe, Arizona. Anita Campbell 346 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

Margaret Correll is president of the sopho and pledges of the fraternities on the campus more class. Otey Talley Maxwell (Mrs. Earl) were invited to attend. is permanent secretary of the Ex-Students. The pledge dance will be held November Katherine Aladden is president of the Fellow 3 in Alumni Alemorial Hall. Halloween decora ship Club. tion will be used, for it is a tradition of the Marriages Alpha Theta chapter to hold the first dance of the on or near that holiday. Dorothy Hudson to Mr. Norburn Burr ; Alary year particular now activities. Louise Katherine Decherd to Air. Harold Lemberg; And for individual was elected of the Vander Myra Brennan to Captain Frank Stone; Otey Jackson president bilt Women's Glee Club. Alice was Talley to Mr. Earl Maxwell ; Eloise Aliller to Beasley freshman class to Mr. Curtis Chapman; Bess Madden to Mr. chosen by the women of the be their chairman on W.S.G.A. She is also Clyde Eby, Jr. ; Portia Garrett to Mr. Maurice of the Lorraine is one Quilter; Elsa Erler to Mr. Fritz Groeneveld. president pledges. Regan At the Eloise Aliller-Curtis Chapman wedding of the two women cheer-leaders at Vanderbilt. She will also be at the Vanderbilt- there was a special section in the ribbons re band-sponsor served for the Gamma Phis. L.S.U. game on October twenty-sixth. Sara Wild is a member of the Commodore staff, an Births nual publication. Joyce Lerman is reporting and writing feature articles for the Hustler, college To Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wilson, a son; to Mr. newspaper. Lucile Cate and Margaret Johnson, and Airs. Harry Miller, a daughter ; to Air. and Pianist and xylophonist, broadcast twice a week Mrs. Arthur Eatman, a son; to Air. and Mrs. over station WLAC here in Nashville. Cather Kenneth Stark, a daughter ; to Mr. and Mrs. ine Aloore, vice-president of the chapter, is on Defferari, a daughter; to Air. and Mrs. Douglas the Women's Honor Council, is treasurer of Charles Hertz, a daughter. Panhellenic, and belongs to Bachelor Maids, an intersorority society. Lerman Ae Joyce Vanderbilt Al California at Los Alpha Theta�Vanderbilt University Angeles

Harvest Moon�June Moon�Crescent Moon Good Luck Horseshoe Rushing is just over, and we of Alpha Theta Climaxing a busy summer rushing program are very happy over the results. We pledged and the five formal dinners of rush week. Alpha twenty girls, more than any other sorority on Iota tonight pledged eleven happy women from the campus. With our twenty-seven girls who U.C.L.A. Beginning with the gaiety of Gypsy are back in college this year, we shall have an Night and concluding with the formality of the active chapter of forty-seven. Alice Beasley, preference dinner's Grand Hotel, each evening Lena McMurtry and Lattie Miller Graves are of rush week had its own distinctive atmos little sisters. phere. A fortune-teller with her crystal ball Just before rushing the chapter house was shared the honors on the first evening with redecorated, and drapes in two shades of brown lovely gypsy melodies played and sung by the were hung in the living and dining rooms. chapter's talented musicians, Jane Deming, The pledge banquet was held in the assembly Ellen Reed and Virginia Reed. Authentic-look room of Hotel Hermitage, and the tables were ing volcanoes with the smoke of Fourth-of-July decorated with bowls of roses and fall leaves. punk issuing from their tips were the high Yellow tapers provided the only light. The lights of Hawaiian night. On old-fashioned theme of the banquet was the moon. First came night a fashion show including elegant gowns the Harvest Moon, and Beatrice Beasley, presi and underwear of another day amused our dent of last year, emerged from a huge, full guests. Boat-shaped meringues filled with ice moon and passed around corsages to the cream and topped with a china boatman and rushees. Next came the June Aloon, and Ruby Gamma Phi pennant brought forth the "ohs" AIcMurtry sang our sorority song June Moon. and "abs" on the evening when the S.S. Cres Last and most impressive of all was the Cres cent sailed the rushing seas. The blinking lights cent Moon of Gamma Phi Beta. Martha Stanfe! on the signs and buildings of downtown New sat in a silver crescent, and the sorority sang York gave the final real touch to the elegant Lady of the Moon. Between the different parts background of our last dinner. And tomorrow of the program featuring the various moons, afternoon our new pledges will be presented to soft music was played on the piano, violin, and the campus during an open-house dance. xylophone. At the conclusion of the banquet. A lovely new tradition was inaugurated at the Alma Dewes, an alumna, gave a short talk on chapter's last senior breakfast. The seniors in facts about Gamma Phi Beta. their caps and gowns walked through a large On Saturday night, after the pledges signed "good luck" horseshoe which had been entirely up in the Dean's ofifice, the actives entertained covered with fragrant pink carnations. them with a slumber party and a mid-night In tlie field of honors Gamma Phi has done supper at the chapter house. exceptionally well this year. Ellen Reed, our On Sunday, October sixth, a tea was held at president, is also president of Prytanean, the the house for the pledges, and all the officers Junior-Senior Women's honorary. She has just THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 347

not been chosen as one of twelve members of fall rushing is over ; we could have hoped Guidon, honorary auxiliary of Scabbard and for better success. Sixteen pledges have con Blade. Ruth Flynt has been elected president siderably swollen our ranks, and they are a of Omicron Nu, national home economic honor most illustrious crowd combining good looks, ary. Marie Young, though only a sophomore, personality and pep with such varied achieve is president of Pi Kappa Sigma, national ments as vice-presidency of the sophomores, women's education honorary. Virginia Reed is assistant editorship of the campus bi-weekly, vice-president of the sophomore class, and she vice-presidency of the Women's Undergraduate and Helen Hanson are members of Spurs, the Society, membership in Players Club, Alusical national sophomore honorary. Mary Kay Wil Society and badminton team. And the night liams is Women's Editor of the University after pledging every single one of them was paper, and Jane Deming is vice-president of present at our annual cabaret which proves Sigma Alpha Iota, national music fraternity. their popularity. Helen Louise Hanson This party which we call Vanity Fair Ball was sponsored by our alumnae chapter, but there AK were so many of the campus men and women attending that we felt it to be very much our Manitoba party. Everybody seemed to have an excep tionally good time ; and even now, two weeks Has a New Suite later, people are still talking about the fun of it. A novel feature of this party was the booth Our rushing season has come to a very success display all around the edge of the room. This ful finish, and Alpha Kappa is the proud pos was arranged by very exclusive shops in' the sessor of twelve new pledges. We started our town, and we heard the booths very aptly rushing with a tea at the home of Cecilia likened to pictures from Esquire. They were Dysart where more than twenty rushees were ever so smart, and between dances, couples invited. The alumnse were responsible for the wandered about looking at them. There were next party which took the form of an evening flowers, jewelry, shoes, lingerie, children's ac at Louise Hall's. At both functions, reception cessories, leather goods, hats, and other things the Gamma Phi songs were in great evidence. on display. Our last tea was centered around the motif We are forward to a visit from our � looking of a country fair, and the refreshments were Airs. Mathieson, and are hop � province director. hot dogs and popcorn balls. Two appropriately ing that her visit will coincide with the fall of the read palms and told fortunes from girls informal for pledges which is the next social tea cups�all of which greatly appealed to the function on our program. guests. Molly Lock Our formal party began with a dance at which chapter members acted as escorts to the rushees ; and each rushee received a corsage. AM At ten-thirty we went to the home of another small member where a room was arranged with Rollins tables, after the fashion of a Bohemian night club. 'The evening ended with singing and with Largest Representation at Rollins two or three skits. The last party was an held at the home of our evening reception Alpha Mu was well represented this past sum Seventeen at president, Sally Coyne. girls mer, not only in many parts of the United tended this final function. States, but abroad. Aileen Grimmer spent two the We pledged our twelve girls on October months touring Europe, while Lucy Green and fifth, and pledge classes already have been Eloisa Williams enjoyed their vacation in Mon Phis are a started. The Gamma playing large tana. Most of the other members represented part in an executive capacity, for over twenty the chapter in the northeastern states and all members of the campus positions are held by of them devoted much of their time to rushing. chapter. Sarah Dean, chairman of Alpha Mu's rushing is in One of our members, Jane Humphreys, committee, reported excellent cooperation in re on a French and is Paris scholarship studying gard to summer rush letters and in the prompt are of her at the Sorbonne. We very proud replies to her requests for recommendations. and we to live to the as a Gamma Phi hope up We all, however, are extremely proud of the record set her. scholastic by manner in which so many Alpha Mus turned moved into our new suite We have just out for the Rollins College reunion held in and which is very attractive and comfortable Woodstock, Connecticut, the week-end of Frances Aikins in a convenient location. August seventeenth. Incoming freshmen are in vited to this annual affair and it was very _ AA much to our advantage that Gamma Phi had the largest representation of any sorority pres British Columbia ent. Not only actives took part in the reunion, but one of our alumnae, Barbara Lang '33, Fair Ball Vanity added to the group. Sarah Alpha Lambda is feeling very jubilant, and Following the college reunion, Dean, Louise Barbara justifiably so. Our concentrated three weeks of Marita Stueve, Bradford, Lang, v?48 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA

and Cathie Bailey spent an afternoon at Alberta AO St. Cyr's home in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Rushing plans were discussed concerning the Fargo remainder of the summer and in anticipation of the new college year. It was as early as this Largest Pledge Class on Campus afternoon in August that our plans for our Now that rushing is over and the smoke has formal rush party were made, and we decided cleared away, once more Gamma Phi Beta to call it a "Country Carnival." heads the list, both in number and quality. We October the second found Alpha Mu minus pledged twenty-four girls, the highest number four members. Constance Etz graduated last on the campus, and repledged Dorothy Ander June; Louise Bradford and Penrose Davis son, Fargo. All the pledges have started to were unable to return to college this year; and _ participate in athletic and dramatic activities. Pauline Draper will not return until after In the freshman English placement tests, Willa January. However, the other members were Jeanne Wells placed second. greeted by a freshly painted house which had Not only are we proud of our pledges, but also undergone some interior decorating during we are also proud of our active members. Of the four months of vacancy. Each girl arrived these, Gertrude Powers, our president, has had with excellent intentions and ideas on rushing bestowed upon her the enviable honor of Cadet and we are anticipating a happy pledge night Colonel by the R.O.T.C. officers. Others elected on October the seventeenth. We hope to be able were Jean Verne, Alarjorie Patterson, Gertrude to report a fine number of pledges, for, due to .'Knderson, Cecelie Henry, Genevieve Lind, and our summer plans we feel that our two weeks Janet Sharp. period of rushing has passed smoothly and We have just discovered that reports on successfully. scholarship from last spring's work show that Cathie B.mley our chapter was first among the sororities. Of course, we are happy over our attain ments, but we are sorry to lose Constance Heil AB man, our past president, who is now attending Northwestern University; Muriel Nelson, who Southern Methodist is at the University of Alinnesota; Beverley Jenson, at Iowa State College ; and Barbara Visualises Hockey Cup Bibow and Katherine Litten, who are attending Iowa University. September 21 closed a successful rush week Mercedes Morris was presented with the when Alpha Xi presented ten fine pledges at Aletzinger Alemorial Award for raising her open house for all fraternities. These pledges grades for the spring term. are busy and happy, learning to be good Gamma On October 21 we are to have the pleasure Phis under the competent euidance of Alartha of receiving our new Province Director, Mrs. Lee Aloore from Theta, who is a help not o--l\- Alice Fitzgerald. We are greatly excited over as pledge trainer but also as a member of the her visit, and we hope she will enjoy her stay active chapter. with us. Since the close of rush week, we have enter Though college has just begun, we already tained with three rush luncheons hoping to fill have started to work for scholastic and extra our quota of fifteen before the close of the curricular honors, and we are endeavoring to semester. The active chapter has entertained keep Gamma Phi at the top of the list. the pledges with a buffet supper at the home of Nan Powers Mrs. Elbert Williams, one of the chapter mothers. The intersorority sports begin the lat An ter part of the month, and we have what we consider a fine team. Naturally we expect to West Virginia walk away with the cup given to the winning hockey team. New Home Martha .Stewart, an initiate of last March, is College began a week later due to the fact that pledged to .'Mpha Lambda Delta, honorary the new dormitory for men and the new wings scho'astic society. Rosalind Hilman '35 won the on the women's hall were not Fresh AIu Phi Epsilon music award in the School of completed. man week, also was omitted; and because of Music, and is now president of Mu Phi Epsi this we shall have no Easter vacation. lon. All the pledges have joined the Freshman probably This we have a new house which has Cluh year just been painted inside and outside, is per Virginia Singleton fectly suited to our needs, and is near the campus. Miss Hamilton is our house mother again. Marriages Rushing has been the order of the day, and On November 23. 1935. at Dallas, Texas. our formal reception was well attended. The Alarie Anderson, Alpha Delta, to Mr. E. C. house was most attractively decorated, and Axline, Jr., Pi Kappa -Mpha, IJniversity of Alis brown favors were given. Our last rushing souri. Mr. and Airs. Axline will be at home party was the best�the Big Broadcast with the after November 24 at Topeka, Kansas. broadcasting by the actives of an interesting THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 349

came in Stimson is of Main Hall and program over a real microphone that Janet president Student Government. on the radio. It was exceedingly clever. first vice-president of the This the third that a Gamma Phi has On Sunday we pledged two girls after which is year a member of a formal dinner was served at the chapter held this office. Janet also is house. The alumnse were very helpful this year, Am Sam, honorary secret society for the most and gave us a lamp, flowers, and cushions. At outstanding girls on campus. Virginia Bonney our humor present we are anticipating our fall dance. is editor-in-chief of the Old Maid, Margaret Kelly magazine and the only humor magazine pub lished by a woman's college in the United States. Several Gamma Phis are on the staffs AP of both Old Maid and Sun Dial, the newspaper. Three Gamma Phis made the coveted honor of Birmingham-Southern Dean's List. Addie Rose Ellet and Julia Brandt are active on the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet. Helen Mortar Board Installed Siegmann was in charge of Freshman Orienta On August 31 we had our big day of rushing. tion Week and is business manager of the We started off with a breakfast at one of the senior class. We were very pleased when one hotels where the food was delicious and the of our pledges, Elizabeth Moore, was elected rushees impressed. We then took all the rushees president of the freshman class. initiation of to a lodge on the river where they swam, Alpha Sigma announces the played ping-pong, bridge, horse-shoes, and ate Barbara Adams of Bronxville, New York. lunch served a la buffet style. That afternoon Malissa Corinne Rives who graduated last Kitty Winters had a bridge party where vve all year was married on August 27 to Mr. Thomas tried to win the prize, but heroically sacrificed Henry Lovell at Old Hickory, Tennessee. Car our desire in favor of a rushee and the good of lotta De Long, also a graduate of last year, Gamma Phi. After that the little dears were sang at the wedding ; and Antoinette Balton taken home to rest and get ready for the dance was one of the bridesmaids. that night. The dance was a charming affair Alpha Sigma is looking forward to a very and each rushee sported a date and a corsage� pleasant year; and already we are planning a all furnished by the chapter. The dance was a week-end party at Timber Lake and many other program�the first of its kind tried down here good times together. and liked it. everybody Mary Elizabeth Slater We are all looking for the province director and have planned many things for her. A ban quet by the alums, a tea, and a steak fry are some of the functions we are having. Next AY week the actives are entertaining for the pledges with a buffet supper and dance. Pennsylvania The alums and actives are beginning to work together already. We have adopted the idea of Library Started meeting together every other month, and of It hardly seems fair to write a Crescent letter making it a social affair as well as a business to the tales of our proposition. without giving first place illustrious seniors who are now, for the most Theresa Davenport, our new president, has on the faculties of various high schools just returned from a year abroad where she part, in studied in Paris. All our pledges should make Pennsylvania. due the credit of "A" in French. Alortar Board has been in To Ann Strong is largely the in the stalled at Southern and a Gamma Phi, Helen our winning cup Inter-Sorority Song Fest last Under her able direction our Tate, was the only sorority girl to make it this May. that when it came to singers we We are duly proud of her. Mildred Long girls proved year. Theta and has been initiated into Amazons and is also could beat both Kappa Alpha Kappa was in Gamma. The whistle song featuring our new vice-president. Kitty Winters Kappa Scott was the hit of the vited to join the French Club, and Rita Lee Clara-Alonna Darby entire Fest. Connor was elected to Harrison, one of our new pledges is vice-presi Song Peggy carried the at com dent of Alpha Mu musical fraternity. Phi Kappa Phi and flag mencement as the student with the highest aver Caroline Gignilliat age in the School of Education. She received a John W. White Aledal at the Scholarship Day AZ Exercises. Peggy was the only girl at Penn State to be elected to Who's Who among the Randolph-Macon college graduates. Claire Lichty, the president of the of our chapter, was also president Editor Humor Claims of Magazine Y.W.C.A. and a member of Archousai, senior has been affiliated with Alpha Sigma has just completed a most suc women's honorary which White and Koc cessful rushing season and fourteen attractive Mortar Board. Christine Emily in De have been added to the chapter roll. zansky attended Alerrill Palmer School pledges in Our first tea was carried out in the theme of troit as two of the four outstanding girls Gretchen Mar the S.S. Crescent, and our final affair was a Home Economics to be chosen. for her work pink carnation tea. quardt was commended highly 350 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA in the commencement play entitled Enter AO Madame. She took the leading role of an Italian prima donna who actually gave to the audience Colorado a rendition of Italian Opera. AIildred Bogle was Crescent Pillows Rushees the girls' basketball manager and helped us a Shaped for great deal in the sports' world. Five of our Alpha Phi has pledged nine outstanding girls. seniors were to the Hemlock elected Senior Our rush parties consisted of an open house Chain in the .Annual May Day Exercises. tea where ice cream was served from a cake that we Right along this line, I might add of ice in which were frozen pink carnations. have to all of our alumnse just sent letters (we Our next affair was a candle light tea at which want this to be traditional) telling them all candle molds of brown and tan ice cream were to for the news and inviting them return served with crescent cakes. On Sunday morn Alumni week-end which is Oc Homecoming ing we served a southern breakfast. Our place tober 19. We have already begun preparations, cards were newspapers containing facts about and are trying hard to get the prize for the Gamma Phi and the local chapter. During the the most decorative sorority having original last supper of rush week crescent shaped pil scheme. lows were delivered to the homes of rushees. three weeks of We have had only college Members of Tau and Theta helped us a great and yet we feel we have accomplished a great deal all during rush week. deal. We surprised ourselves by having three We have initiated Agnes Sands and Elynor successful formal services in one First. evening. Sue Galloway, two of our pledges of last year. an afifiliation service in which we received Alembers of Alpha Phi were entertained by Mabel a member of Hurst, charming Alpha Theta before the football game between Denver Chi chapter; then the initiation of Elizabeth University and Colorado College. Cook, Miriam Francis, and Jean Keller; and Our president, Elizabeth Richter, is president the of Martha Ruth and pledging Barr, Glenn, of the residence hall for upper class women and Patricia Jonkus. secretary of the junior class. Ruth Martin has We start our informal teas October 14. been elected president of the Women's Athletic Every afternoon at 4 o'clock, tea is served in Association, ./^lice Cary is junior councilor and the room of our suite and all the mem living president of the hall for freshman women. bers who in for an hour of relaxation can, drop Alary Ella Gilmore was appointed associate and is welcome to friendship. Everyone bring campus editor of the Tiger, weekly campus pub friends. These teas are an excellent in help lication. Frances Weber is very active in the rushing. dramatic organization, Koshare. Lois May Lear, As the freshman class seems to have a Marguerite Ridge, Mary Ella Gilmore, Pauline promising group of girls, we already have many Anderson, Frances Weber and Elynor Sue Gal names on our list. This is the second rushing loway were elected to Tiger Qub, the girl's pep year for second semester rushing, and if we organization. are as successful as we were last year, we will Mary Ella Gilmore have a happy group of Gamma Phis in Feb ruary. A new project which we have started is the formation of a library. It is growing fast and A^ we hope that with the help of our alumnae wc can make it a complete one. Elizabeth Basley, Lake Forest our adviser, has already subscribed to the Book Second Rushing Season of the Alonth Club for us. Our second season ended on We are stressing scholarship as a bigger and rushing Friday, with of new better motto and have just offered a prize to September 27, the pledging twelve the girl who makes the greatest stride in her girls. grades during the first semester. Sally Hamilton received a congratulatory Now, for activities. Lorraine Graham is telegram from two friends. Gamma Phis at Iowa State and a letter from a Gamma hockey manager and Frances Nissley is rifle College Phi at Iowa and Babs Klein heard manager, Elizabeth Oberlin, as Junior Senator, University, that three friends had Gamma Phi at had full charge of assigning campus "little Sis pledged ters," Dorothea Ruth is women's president of .'\rizona. Dorothy Roedel received a letter of the Penn State Christian Association and also congratulations from her cousin, Dottie Maier Geist Psi a Senior Senator. She has been appointed to (Alpha '33). the advisory committee of the National Youth Although college has been in session but a Administration for Pennsylvania. few weeks, our pledges have already gone out On Monday, September 23, Alpha Upsilon for activities with much enthusiasm. Six of held her one-hundredth chapter meeting. Fol them are working for positions on the staff of The the one has been lowing this formal occasion, we had an informal Stentor, college paper ; admitted to the and are all get-together in the living room of our suite college choir, they with the traditional "feed" of peanuts and olives trying out for the Freshman Play. Seven are to Milwaukee for a week-end at the home and a lively time singing Gamma Phi songs. going of Kathryn Eckert, and of their own accord Reva Lincoln have already made arrangements to have their the CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 351

Phi. picture in the paper as pledges of Gamma Engagements since The active chapter is smaller this year Alfreda Gessner (Alpha Psi, '35) to Air. twelve seniors graduated in June. But each of Alilton Morgan. and we are work us realizes her responsibility Lois Norburg (Alpha Psi) to Air. John ing together harmoniously, with the determined Crook. purpose of making everyone proud of Alpha Marriages Psi. Our president, Eleanor Thompson, is pres On September 12, 1935, Roberta Stauffer ident of Panhellenic organized on this campus (Alpha Psi) to Mr. Fred W"illiams (Sigma last and secretary of Phi Sigma Iota, spring, Nu). national honorary romance language fraternity. On October 12, 1935, at Chicago, Illinois, Jane Clark was elected vice-president of Jeanne Bentley (Alpha Psi) to Mr. Charles W.A.A. and treasurer of Kappa Alpha, frater Gregory Barton. for women and ac nity having scholarship Births tivities. Marion Lane has the lead in the first To Mr. and Airs. Clifford Barnett dramatic production of the year. (Kathryn A dinner-dance at the Drake is being planned AIcKown, Alpha Psi) a boy, James McKown, on 1935. in honor of the pledges and we are all looking September 9, forward to that evening. To Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Riddeford (Muriel Harris, Alpha Psi '27) a son, David Thornton, Ellen G. Erickson on September 18, 1935. Did You Read About Alpha's double deckers ? Alpha Delta's lucky thirteen at Barn Beta's lucky thirteen? warmin' ? Gamma's Golden Jubilee? Alpha Epsilon's four year winning Delta's ? basketball team? Epsilon's? Alpha Zeta's Nezv Moon published by Zeta's house parties? pledges ? Eta's intersorority pledge dance? Alpha Eta's? Theta's new cup? Alpha Theta's charming Moon ban Kappa's? quet? Lambda's second largest pledge class Alpha Iota's good luck horseshoe? on campus? Alpha Kappa's twenty campus posi Mu's additions to the chapter house? tions ? Nu's? Alpha Lambda's Vanity Fair Ball? Xi's relatives in pledge class ? Alpha Mu's largest representation at Omicron's good fortune in having Rollins Reunion ? Frances Haven Moss at pledge ban Alpha Nu's? quet? Alpha Xi's athletic prospects ? Pi's Crescent Night Club? Alpha Omicron's first place in cam Rho's first place in scholarship? pus scholarship ? Sigma's charming Book Room? Alpha Pi's new house? Tau's two-out-of-four Pacemakers? Alpha Rho's combination of actives Phi's second largest pledge class ? and alumnae? Chi's many activities? Alpha Sigma's pledge who is presi Omega's? dent of the freshman class? Alpha Alpha's large house party? Alpha Tau's? Alpha Beta's pledge breakfast for Alpha Upsilon's cup for Song Fest? other sorority pledges? Alpha Phi's campus activities? Alpha Gamma's ideal "little sister" Alpha Chi's? arrangement ? Alpha Psi's pledge activities ? Gamma Phi Beta Directory FOUNDERS Helen M. Dodge (Mrs. J. V. Ferguson) 1116 Brinckerhoff Ave., Utica, N.Y. Frances E. Haven (Mrs. C. M. Moss) 606 Soutli Mathews St., Urbana, 111. Mary A. Bingham (Mrs. Edward S. Willoughby) Died I/I4/16 E. Adeline Curtis (Mrs. Frank Curtis) Died 1/14/23 FOUNDED November 11, 1874, Syracuse University

GRAND COUNCIL

Office Name Address

Grand President Millicent Lees Hoffman (Mrs. Ar 5035 Aldrich Ave. S. thur C.) Minneapolis, Minn. Vice-president and Louise Kobinson Wyatt (Mrs. W. J.) 355 Humboldt St. Alumna: Secretary Denver, Colo. Treasurer Alice Camerer The Wardell, 15 Kirby E. Detroit, Mich. Chairman of Inspection Sara Preston Finley (Mrs. J. E.) 5238 Xerxes Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn. National Panhellenic Delegate Lillian W. Thompson 224 W. 6Ist Pl. Chicago, 111. Chairman of Expansion Louise Durst Smith (Mrs. Norman) 2431 Humboldt Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn. Executive Secretary Charlotte Robertson White (Mrs. L, Room 1124, 55 E. Washington St, A.) Chicago, 111,

NATIONAL COMAIITTEES

Committee Chairman Address

Expansion Louise Durst Smith (Mrs. Norman) 2431 Humboldt Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn. Canadian District Iva Wright 161 Spadina Rd. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (District 1) Pauline Sawyer Umland (Mrs. E. Eu 34 Ballard St. gene) Newton Centre, Mass. (District 2) Charlotte Bush 1007 Three Mile Dr. Grosse Pointe, Mich. (District 3) Elizabeth Wood Mize (Mrs. T. H.) Box 1048, R.F.D. No. 2. Clayton, Mo. (Di.<:trict 4) Sara Preston Finley (Mrs. J. E.) 5238 Xerxes Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn. (District 5) Katherine Glendinning Hotel Ayres, 1441 Logan St. Denver, Colo. (District 6) Lois McBride Dehn (Mrs. Wm.) 2010 E. 50th St. Seattle, Wash. (District 7) Dorothy Hager Rogers (Mrs. W. M.) 2957 Pacific Ave. San Francisco, Calif. (District S) Helen Harrison Bickelhaupt (Mrs. 30 Lock Lane. Ivan) Richmond, Va. Scholarshsip and Examinations Erna M. Weeks (Mrs. E. M.) 4520 4th St. N.E. Seattle, Wash. Endowtnent Fund Board President (Write to Secretary for infor Lillian W. Thompson 224 W. 6Ist PL mation about loans and for Chicago, 111. application blanlis) Secretary Helen Northrop 629 Colfax Ave. Evanston, 111. Treasurer Marion Bebb 722 Clark St. Evanston, 111. Agnes B. Treat (Mrs. Floyd) 6442 Albany Ave. Chicago, 111. .\nCE Camerer 15 Kirby E. Detroit, Mich. Millicent L. Hoffman (Mrs. A. C.) 5035 Aldrich Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn. (ex-officio) Publicity Airdrie K. Pinkerton (Mrs. Roy) Box 341, R. 1, Ventura, Calif. Music .\llis Haren 6433 Wornall Ter. Kansas City, Mo. Gamma Phi Beta Directory

Committee Name Address

Historian Fay Naylor Chatman 146 Page St. (Mrs. joe) Norman, Okla. Camp Kittie Lee Clarke 776 Vine St. (Mrs. Walter) Denver, Colo. Rushing Gladys O. Borland 2316 E. 70th St. (Mrs. Paul) Chicago, 111. Ritual Marie Moreland Simmons 597 Lincoln Ave. (Mrs. Frank) St. Paul, Minn. Education Charlotte White 55 E. Washington St. (Mrs. L. A^ Chicago, 111. Finance Statistical Bureau Florence S. Sullivan 930 E. Gorham St. (Mrs. Arthur) Madison, Wis. THE CRESCENT

Office Name Address

Editor Lindsey Barbee 844 Humboldt Denver, Colo. Business Manager Charlotte Robertson White Room II24, 55 E. Washington St. (Mrs. L. a.) Chicago, 111. NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS

Office Name .-\ 1 Dl! ESS

Ci.airman Mrs. Albert M. Redd i'eachburg, Ala. Kappa Delta :>ecretary Miss Harriet Tuft 2283 Union St. Beta Phi Alplia Berkeley, Calif. Treasurer Mrs. a. F. Hemingway 912 E. 6th Alpha Delta Theta Tucson, Ariz. Delegate Lillian W. Thompson 224 W. 6Ist Pl. Gamma Phi Beta Chicago, 111.

PROVINCE I Di, ector�Mrs. R. Oilman Smith 1 University Place, New York CiW Secretary�Mrs. George Easterbrook Hudson View Gardens, I83rd and Pinehurst Ave., N.Y.C.

Chapter�Date of Founding Crescent Correspondent President

ALPHA Barbara Dudley Barbara Blanchard Syracuse University 113 Euclid Ave. 113 Euclid Ave. (Nov. 11, 1874) Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse, N.Y. DELTA Frances Leahy Judith Gage Boston University 131 Commonwealth Ave. 131 Commonwealth Ave. (April 22, 1887) Boston, Mass. Boston, Mass. ALPHA PI Margaret Kelly Margaret Hassner West Virginia University 56 Campus Dr. 56 Campus Dr. (April 19, 1930) Morgantown, W.Va. Morgantown, W.Va. ALPHA TAU Eileen Crutchlow Jean McGoun McGill University 660 Lansdowne Ave. 4 Burton Ave. (Sept. 26, 1931) Westmourt, P.p. Westmount, P.Q. ALPHA UPSILON Reva Lincoln Arabel S. Walter Pennsylvania State College Penn State College Penn State College (May 21, 1932) State College, Pa. State College, Pa. SYRACUSE Dorothy I^'risbie Mrs. Walter Scott (1892) 240 W. Kennedy St. 903 Bellevue Ave. Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse, N.Y. BOSTON Mrs. Philip R. Harper Dorothy Bullock (1893) 36 Forrest St. 282 Dartmouth St. Wellesley, Mass. Boston, Mass. NEW YORK Mrs. H. G. Fry Oenia Payne (1901) 49 E. 33rd St. 325 W. 22nd St. N.Y.C. New York, N.Y. PHILADELPHIA Alice P. A. Holmes Virginia Hildreth (1935) 819 N. 63rd St. 429 Owen Rd. Philadelphia, Pa. Ardmore, Pa. Association Crescent Correspondent President

�MORGANTOWN Dorothy O'Roke Helen Blodgett (1930) Hyndman, Pa. 428 Beverly Ave. Morgantown, W.Va. NORTHEASTERN Mrs. Graeme Reid Mrs. E. a. Plumer NEW JERSEY 4 Glenn Rd. 142 Efifingham Pl. (1931) W. Orange, N.J. Westfield, N.J. �OTTAWA Mrs. F. L. Letts Kathleen Ellis (1931) 126 Noel St. 7 Monkland Ave. Ottawa, Canada Ottawa, Canada MONTREAL Dorothy Cushing Margaret Milligan (1933) 3258 The Boulevard 108 Edison Ave. Westmount, P.Q. St. Lambert, P.Q. BUFFALO Mrs. Edw. G. Winkler Mrs. E. Bruce Currie (1933) 280 Humboldt Pkwy. 140 Genessee Park Blvd. Bufifalo, N.Y. Rochester, N.Y. WESTCHESTER Mrs. H. L. Hosford Mrs. Thos. Tredwell (1934) 27 Barry Rd. 97 Kensington Rd. Scarsdale, N.Y. Bronxville, N.Y. WHEELING Dorothy Rist Virginia Barnett (1935) 603 N. Market St. Follansbee, W.Va. Wheeling, W.Va.

* Last year's ofificers; new officers not reported. \ Gamma Phi Beta Directory

PROVINCE II

Director�Miss Mary Harris 2 Clarendon Ave., Toronto, Ont. Secretary�Mrs. Chas. L. McCutcheon 489 Davenport Ave., Toronto, Ont.

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

BETA Gertrude Sawyer Margaret A. Spencer University of Michigan 1520 S. University 1520 S. University (June 7, 1882) Ann Arbor, Mich. Ann Arbor, Mich. EPSILON Margaret Bell Virginia Smith Northwestern University 640 Erne, son St. 640 Emerson St. (Oct. 13, 1888) Evanston, 111. Evanston, 111. ALPHA ALPHA Helen Bartlet Audrey Howard University of Toronto 85 St. George St. 74 Farnham Ave. (Oct. 20, 1918) Toronto, Ont., Can. Toronto, Ontario, Canada ALPHA ETA Geraldine Davidson Virginia Arnold Ohio Wesleyan University 20 N. Franklin Ave. 20 N. Franklin St. (Nov. 10, 1923) Delaware, Ohio Delaware, Ohio ALPHA NU Barbara Warner Janet McKenzie Wittenberg College 628 Woodlawn Ave. 628 Woodlawn Ave. (May 24, 1929) Springfield, Ohio Springfield, Ohio ALPHA PSI Ellen Erickson Eleanor Thompson Lake Forest College Lake Forest College Lake Forest College (May 19, 1934) Lake Forest, 111. Lake Forest, III. CHICAGO Mrs. Edw. L. Hildebrand Mrs. Harold Brown (1891) 1833 W. 105th St. 1229 Lake St. Chicago, ill. Wilmette, 111. DETROIT Mrs. Arthur Clendinin Mrs. H. p. Culver (1913) 4200 Buena Vista Ave. 678 Webb Ave. Detroit, Mich. Detroit, Mich. TORONTO Beth Bertram Beatrice Menzies (1923) 232 Lonsmount Ave. 227 Glenrose Ave. Toronto, Ontario, Canada Toronto, Ont. CLEVELAND Mrs. R. E. Smith Mrs. W. W. Kemp (1924) 16123 Nela View 18532 Winslow Rd. E. Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio ANN ARBOR Mrs. Jas. Breakey Mrs. Nathan Potter (1926) Barton Hills Benton Hills Ann Arbor, Mich. Ann Arbor, Mich. COLUMBUS Martha Humphreys Marian M. Jones (1926) "The Maramor" Home Economics Dept., Columbus, Ohio Ohio State Univ. Columbus, Ohio SPRINGFIELD Jeanne Jackson Jeannette Bauer (1929) 640 N. Fountain Ave. 222 N. Broadmoor Springfield, Ohio. Springfield, Ohio DELAWARE Mrs. Robt. Burns Mrs. Beverly Kelly (1931) 263 N. Franklin St. 209 N. Liberty St. Delaware, Ohio Delaware, Ohio

Association Crescent Correspondent President

DAYTON Mary Gutermuth Martha Vinson (1931) 625 W. Fairview Ave. 959 Harvard Blvd. Dayton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio TOLEDO Katherine Kniesser Mrs. L. L. Nichols (1934) 3634 Brookside Rd. 32554 Rockingham Ave. Toledo, Ohio Toledo, Ohio CINCINNATI Margaret A. Stewart Mrs. j. T. McIlwain (1935) Cincinnati Genl. Hosp. 5863 Kennedy Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio

PROVINCE III

Director�Miss Dorothy Jennings (4>) 4101 Washington Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Secretary�Mrs. H. V. Howes () 9u9 O.eca Dr., Clayton, Mo.

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

OMICRON Adelaide Dadant Virginia Rech University of Illinois 1110 W. Nevada St. 1110 W. Nevada St. (May 24, 1913) Urbana, 111. Urbana, 111. PI Joyce Liebendorfer Glorene Wiig University of Nebraska 415 N. I6th St. 415 N. 16th St. (June 20, 1914) Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln, Neb. SIGMA Ruth Learned Betty Gale Sims University of Kansas 1339 W. Campus Rd. 1339 W. Campus Rd. (Oct. 9, 1915) Lawrence, Kan. Lawrence, Kan. PHI Edmee Moellman Zetta Berger Washington University 6322 N. Rosebury Dr. 7606 Teasdale Ave. (Feb. 23, 1917) Clayton, Mo. University City, Mo. ALPHA DELTA Lillian Stapel Dorothy Bassman University of Missouri 808 Richmond St. 808 Richmond St. (May 20, 1921) Columbia, Mo. Columbia, Mo. Gamma Phi Beta Directory

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

ALPHA THETA Joyce Lerman Margaret Wright Vanderbilt University 2417 Kensington Pl. 2417 Kensington PL (June 25, 1924) Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn. ST. LOUIS Cecile Mitchell Mrs. Richard Sutter (1920) 4379 Westminster Pl. 7215 Greenway Dr. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. KANSAS CITY Julia McKechnie Mrs. Mayol Linscott (1926) 4711 Holly St. 6143 Cherry St. Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, Mo. CHAMPAIGN-URBANA Nina Gresham Ruth Hibbs (1929) 404 W. Hill St. 504 W. John St. Champaign, 111. Champaign, 111. NASHVILLE Julia Gibson Mrs. Joe Sharpe (1929) 1404 Gartland Ave. 2143 Capers Ave. Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn. OMAHA Katherine Gallagher Alice Buffett (1931) 4645 Farnam Ave. 671 N. 57th St. Omaha, Neb. Omaha, Neb. �WICHITA Virginia Pat Hartmetz Mrs. G. C. Spralding (1934) 142 N. Chautauqua St. 4143 E. English St. Wichita, Kan. Wichita, Kan.

Associations Crescent Correspondent President

�LAWRENCE Mrs. Weeber Hutton Dorothy Kinney (1921) Rm. 2 Administration Bldg. 1430 Louisiana Ave. Lawrence, Kan. Lawrence, Kan. LINCOLN Mrs. W. G. Temple Dorothy Clements (1921) 1918 D St. 1130 J St. Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln, Neb. �TOPEKA Eleanor Haggett Evelyn Fulton (1933) 1409 Campbell Blvd. 1207 Garfield St. Topeka. Kan. Topeka, Kan. PEORIA Mrs. C. E. Greger Mrs. N. B. Williams (1933) 213 N. Underhill Ave. 423 St. James St. Peoria, 111. Peoria, 111.

PROVINCE IV

Director�Mrs. E. Fitzgerald 1739 N. 69th St., Wauwatosa, Wis. Secretary�Mrs. Omar T. McMahon 1914 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.

Chapter Crescent Correspondent P.IESinENT

GAMMA Elsie Lunde Jane Schulte LIniversity of Wisconsin 270 Langdon St. 270 Langdon St. (Nov. 14, 1885) Madison, Wis. Madison, Wis. KAPPA Grace Stafford Betty Christofferson University of Minnesota 311 10th St. S.E. 311 10th Ave. S.E. (May 29, 1902) Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis. Minn. RHO Helen Witte Vivienne Bowers University of Iowa 328 N. Clinton St. 328 N. Clinton St. (June 15, 1915) Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City, Iowa OMEGA Ruth Cole Ann Sheumaker Iowa State College 318 Pearson St. 318 Pearson St. (Dec. 20, 1918) Ames, Iowa Ames, Iowa ALPHA BETA Gladys Schumacker Berniece Anderson University of North Dakota 3300 University Ave. 3300 University Ave. (June 16, 1920) Grand Forks, N.D. Grand Forks, N.D. ALPHA KAPPA Frances Aikens Sally Coyne University of Manitoba 218 Roslyn Rd. 220 Yale Ave. (June 5, 1925) W^innipeg, Canada Winnipeg, Canada ALPHA OMICRON Nan Powers Gertrude Powers North Dakota State College Waldorf Hotel Waldorf Hotel (Feb. 1, 1930) Fargo, N.D, Fargo, N.D. MILWAUKEE Virginia A. Grady Mrs. F. G. Rice (1902) 1514 St. Charles St. 4098 N. Lake Dr. Wauwatosa, Wis. Milwaukee, W^is. MINNEAPOLIS Mrs. Arthur C. Erdall Mrs. Grant A. Feldman (1904) 5239 Humboldt Ave. S. 2323 Irving Ave. S. Minneapolis. Minn. Minneapolis, Minn. DES MOINES Margaret Siebert Mrs. A. B. Cummings (1918) 1729 Beaver St. 3800 Cottage Grove Ave. Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines. Iowa MADISON Mrs. Harley A. Smith Mrs. R. T. McGuire Grove Street Lakewood (1925) ^ Evansville, Wis. Madison, Wis. ST. PAUL Alice Bartles Janet Christofferson (1927) 1466 Lincoln Ave. 1800 Carroll Ave. St. Paul, Minn. St. Paul, Minn. FARGO Mrs. Eli Weston Mrs. Russel Sand (1929) 1326 10th St. So. 1023 Broadway Fargo, N.D. Fargo, N.D. WINNIPEG Marjorie Gordon Marion C. Davidson (1930) 54 West Gate 4 Ruskin Row Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Winnipeg, Canada IOWA CITY Mrs. Christian Ruckmick Mrs. Cloyde Shellady (I93I) 212 Ferson Ave. 431 Brown St. Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

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�GRAND FORKS Frances Forbes Mamie Lund (1926) 416 S. 6th St. 1015 Walnut St. Grand Forks, N.D. Grand Forks, N.D.

PROVINCE V

Director�Mrs. John Manley Heath 2244 S. Columbine St., Denver, Colo. Secretary�Marian N. Watkins 2015 S. Fillmore St., Denver, Colo.

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

THETA Jane Duvall Barbara Mulvihill University of Denver 1311 Madison St. 1685 Jackson St. (Dec. 28, 1897) Denver, Colo. Denver, Colo. TAU Maxine Mayhew Beth Brill Colorado Agricultural College 1405 S. College St. 1405 S. College St. (Oct. 15, 1915) Ft. Collins, Colo. Ft. Collins, Colo. PSI Elizabeth Hogue Eloise Bryan University of Oklahoma 602 W. Boyd St. 602 W. Boyd St. (Sept. 14, 1918) Norman, Okla. Norman, Okla. ALPHA ZETA Anita Campbell Lenny Heins University of Texas 2506 Whitis Ave. 2506 Whitis Ave. (May 29, 1922) Austin, Tex. Austin, Tex. ALPHA XI Virginia Singleton Kathlyn Jackson Southern Methodist University 5935 Belmont St. 5355 Willis (Sept. 21, 1929) Dallas, Tex. Dallas, Tex. ALPHA PHI Mary Ella Gilmore Elizabeth Richter Colorado College 1416 N. Weber St. Colorado College (Oct. 15, 1932) Colorado Springs, Colo. Co'orado Springs, Colo. DENVER Bernice Espy Lucille Albright (1907) 6335 E. 17th Ave. 2249 Ivy St. Denver, Colo. Denver, Colo. OKLAHOMA CITY Mrs. Robt. Drake Mrs. Ram Morrison (1929) 940 East Dr. 224 N.W. 28th St. Oklahoma City, Okla. Oklahoma City, Okla. TULSA Mrs. Roscoe Harper IMrs. Douglas Owens (1929) 1638 S. Denver St. 1933 S. Wheeling Ave. Tulsa, Okla. Tulsa, Okla. DALLAS Mrs. W. p. Burton Mrs. Marshall Newcomb (1930) 4517 Belclaire Ave. 4444 Southern St. Dallas, Tex. Dallas, Tex. �COLORADO SPRINGS Mrs. C. W. Bybee Mrs. W. T. Wear (1932�reorganized) 408 N. Nevada Ave. 525 N. Custer St. Colorado Springs, Colo. Colorado Springs, Colo.

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FORT COLLINS Mrs. Clair W^olfer Georgia Fleming (1922) 1526 Remington St. 1502 S. College Ave. Ft. Collins, Colo. Ft. Collins, Colo. �AUSTIN Eloise Miller Mrs. a. W. Eatman (1926) 300 E. 1st St. 3008 University Ave. Austin, Tex. Austin, Tex. DENVER ALUMNA OF TAU Mrs. Roger Chaffee Mrs. Frank Wilson (1930) 2692 Clermont St. 1568 Clinton St. Denver, Colo. Aurora, Colo. SAN ANTONIO Mrs. Nolan Sims Mrs. E. M. Callis (1932) 827 W. French Pl. 499 Blue Bonnet Blvd. San Antonio, Tex. San Antonio. Tex. NORMAN Eugenia Kaufman Mrs. C. E. Springer (1933) 731 Jenkins Ave. 305 Chautauqua St. Norman, Okla. Norman, Okla.

PROVINCE VI

Director�M^s. Homer Mathieson 2033 N.E. Tillamook St., Portland, Ore. Secretary--Miis. F. Merritt Henshaw 440 Laddington St., Portland, Ore.

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

LAMBDA Barbara Stevenson Laurien Winn University of Washington 4529 I7th St. N.E. 4529 17th St. N.E. (May 7, 1903) Seattle, Wash. Seattle, Wash. NU Marion Lucas Nancy Lou Cullers University of Oregon 1021 Hilyard St. 1021 Hilyard St. (Dec. 18, 1908) Eugene, Ore. Eugene, Ore. XI Miriam McFall Ruth Farley University of Idaho 1038 Blake St. 1038 Blake St. (Nov. 22, 1909) Moscow, Idaho Moscow, Idaho CHI Kay Sheldon Wilma Mackenzie Oregon State College 238 S. Sth St. 238 S. Sth St. (April 27, 1918) Corvallis, Ore. Corvallis, Ore.

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ALPHA LAMBDA Molly Lock Margaret Buchanan University of British Columbia 2143 W. 36th Ave. 1980 W. 35th St. (April 28, 1928) Vancouver, B.C., Canada Vancouver, B.C., Canada SEATTLE Mrs. j. a. Younger Mrs. Harold Hartman (1915) 1233 E. 88th St. 4408 Beach Dr. Seattle, Wash. Seattle, Wash. PORTLAND Mrs. D. L. Peterson Mrs. Paul Farrens (1918) 2714 N.E. Alameda Rd. 4736 N.E. Alameda Rd. Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore. �SPOKANE Mrs. Sam Whittemore Mrs. Floyd Lansdon (1923) 2226 W. 2nd Ave. S. 727 Oak St. Spokane, Wash. Spokane, Wash. VANCOUVER Helen Lowe Mrs. 'Ied Baynes (1928) 3490 Cedar Crescent 4587 W. lOth St. Vancouver, B.C., Canada Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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�EVERETT Edith Donovan Mrs. Dean Carpenter (1922) 3210 Grand Ave. 3319 Grand Ave. Everett, Wash. Everett, Wash. MOSCOW Mrs. O. Watson Mrs. Wm. Renfrew (1922) 324 N. Howard St. 217 N. Harvard St. Moscow, Idaho Moscow, Idaho BOISE Mrs. E. G. Van Hoesen Minerva Terteling (1932�reorganized) 323 Jefiferson St. 628 N. 10th St. Boise, Idaho Boise, Idaho EUGENE Mrs. Wm. East Mrs. O. F. Stafford (1932�reorganized 226 Fairmont St. 1289 E. 15th St. Eugene, Ore. Eugene, Ore.

PROVINCE VII

Director�Mrs. Clifford Hollebaugh "The Westward Ho," Phoenix, Ariz. Secretary�

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

ETA Lorene Giffen Barbara Watts University of California 2732 Channing Way 2732 Channing Way (April 17, 1894) Berkeley, Calif. Berkeley, Calif. MU Maxine Bartlett Ruth McLaughlin Leland Stanford University Box 1337 Box 1337 (Jan. 9, 1905) Stanford University, Calif. Stanford University, Calif. ALPHA GAMMA Barbara Clark Inez McGillivray University of Nevada 710 Sierra St. 710 Sierra St. (May 14, 1921) Reno, Nev. Reno, Nev. ALPHA EPSILON Christine Moss Billie Henning University of Arizona 1535 E. 1st St. 1535 E. 1st St. (April 29, 1922) Tucson, Ariz. Tucson, Ariz. ALPHA IOTA Helen Hanson Ellen Reed University of California 616 Hilgard St. 616 Hilgard St. Southern Branch West Los -Angeles, Calif. West Los Angeles, Calif. (June 26, 1924) BERKELEY Mrs. John H. Moskowitz Mrs. Arthur Wellington (1902) 2512 Hillegas St. I Nogales Rd. Berkeley, Calif. Berkeley, Calif. LOS ANGELES Mrs. Earl Glennon Mrs. Earl Glennon (1918) 210 S. Carson Rd. 210 S. Carson Rd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Beverly Hills, Calif. RENO Inez Walker Mrs. Marvin Humphrey (I92I) 401 6th St. Chilcoot, Calif. Sparks, Nev. SAN FRANCISCO Mrs. Ralph Sproull Mrs. Garnett Cheney (1928) 2261 North Point 140 Chaves St. San Francisco, Calif. San Francisco, Calif.

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SAN DIEGO Mrs. Albert Jones Mrs. M. a. Farnsworth (1925) Alpine, Calif. 3537 Louisiana Ave. San Diego, Calif. PHOENIX Betty Light Mrs. H. M. Alton (1929) Box 532 817 N. 9th Ave. Phoenix. Ariz. Phoenix, Ariz. �TUCSON Mrs. Wm. Van Deman Mrs. J. W. Smith (1929) 320 N. W^arren St. El Canto Estates Tucson, Ariz. Tucson, Ariz.

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PROVINCE VIII

Director�Mrs. Wm. H. Weed 2011 Greenberry Rd. Mt. Washington, Baltimore, Md. Secretary�Miss Helen Turnbull 2106 South Rd., Mt. Washington, Baltimore, Md.

Chapter Crescent Correspondent President

ZETA Carol Horton Sara Stauffer Goucher College Coucher College Goucher College (Nov. 24, 1893) Baltimore, Md. Baltimore, Md. ALPHA MU Catherine Bailey Barbara Connor Rollins College 570 Osceola Ave. 570 Osceola Ave. (June 9, 1928) Winter Park, Fla. Winter Park, Fla. ALPHA RHO Caroline Gignilliat Theresa Davenport Birmingham -South ERN 2124 15th Ave. So. Jefferson Sanitorium College Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham, Ala. (Sept. 6, 1930) ALPHA SIGMA Mary Elizabeth Slater Augusta Church Randolph-Macon Randolph-Macon W. C. Randolph-Macon W. C. Woman's College Lynchburg, Va. Lynchburg, Va. (Sept. 13, 1930) ALPHA CHI Greta Grason Mershon Kessler College of Wm, & Mary Gamma Phi Beta Gamma Phi Beta (Jan. 14, 1933) Williamsburg, Va. Williamsburg, Va. BALTIMORE Mary Thomas McCurley Emma Thomas (1915) B-5 N. Calvert St. 3219 N. Calvert St. Baltimore, Md. Baltimore, Md. BIRMINGHAM Mildred Mays Mary Virginia Hawkins (1931) 1410 S. 16th St. 1224 S. 30th St. Birmingham, A!a. Birmingham, Ala.

Association Crescent Correspondent President

WASHINGTON, D.C. Mrs. j. U. Douglas Mrs. W. F. Persons (1921) The Westchester, Powhatan Hotel Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. RICHMOND Elizabeth Hardwicke Emma Fensom (1931) 1911 Hanover Ave. 3806 Chamberlayne St. Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va. �WINTER PARK- Mrs. M. M. Smith, Jr. ORLANDO (1933) 1645 Berkshire Ave. Winter Park, Fla. NORFOLK Lota Spence Marcia Smith (1934) 230 W. 20th St. 4115 Beach Ave. Norfolk, Va. Norfolk, Va.

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