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The Crescent VoluLme XLIII; Number 3 Contents for September^ ^943 Her Crucibles Color Your Future 3 "Gilds The Shoestring" 4 Gamma Phi Beta Book Nook 6 For The Duration 7 "Woman's Work Is Never Done" 9 Kitchen Gadgets Simple To G.E. Test Engineers. ... 11 The Cover Wartime Dishes In Grand Council Kitchens 13 Blake Hall and the Wakarusa Val Cadets On The Campus 14 ley on the campus of Kansas Uni Songs That Have Endured versity, Lawrence, Kansas, where 15 Sigma chapter of Gamma Phi Beta Gamma Phi Betas In Service 17 was chartered on October p, 1915. Pictorial 20 Blake Hall was built in i8g^ in the We Point With Pride To Chapter Honors 21 French chateau style and now serves as the Physics department for the In Memoriam 32 There is no ex university. metal, Tunes "Daily" To Khaki Influx 33 cept that used in the plumbing, be Blue Pencil, Swivel Chair low the roof which facilitates ex Queens 34 periments carried on there. Kansas Center 35 A Way With Mice 36 Hold Highest Campus Honor 37 Mortar Boards At Maryland 38 Queen At Wittenberg 39 New Novel Off Press 40 The President's Page 41 The Crescent is published September 15, Decem the The Carnation Is Our Flower ber I, February 15, and May 1, by George 42 Banta Publishing Company, official printers of the Grand Council Appointments 43 Wiscon at 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, fraternity, Reunion In Wartime 45 sin. Subscription price fi.50 a year payable in ad Bulletin Board vance, 40^ a single copy. 46 Send change of address and correspondence of a Cash Prizes For Magazine Subscriptions 48 business nature to Mrs. L. A. White, Secretary-Treas With Alumna Chapters 49 urer, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or 20 Wacker Chapter Directtory 70 Suite 2230, Civic Opera Bldg., N. Dr., Chicago, 111. Mailing lists close August 15, Novem Gamma Phi Beta Directory 71 ber and 1. 1, January 15 April Alphabetical List of Chapters 72 Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to the editor Mrs. Roy Pinkerton, Box 341, Route 1, Ventura, California. Items for publi editor to arrive cation should be addressed to the Editorial Staff: not later than July 15, October 10, December 15 and March i. Airdrie Kincaid Pinkerton, Editor-in-Chief, Box 341, Route 1, Ventura, Associated. All Member of Fraternity Magazines Calif. matters pertaining to national advertising should Beatrice Utman Smith, Associate Editor, Otis Road, Barrington, 111. be directed to Fraternity Magazines Associated, 1618 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Alice Thomsen Bradford, Associate Editor, 9 Goodrich Place, Sharon, at Wis Entered as second-class matter Menasha, Mass. under the act of March consin, 3, 1879. Acceptance Suite Civic Charlotte Robertson White, Secretai7-Treasurer, 2230, tor at rate of for mailing special postage provided 111. 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, in the act of February 28, 1925. Opera Bldg., By courtesy of the Department of Printing anil Graphic Arl.i, /iu. ...... (^ / A French Engraving of Carnations from the 17TH Century (Turn to Page 42 for Description) Her Crucilbles Color Your FutTUire Blonde, blue eyed, attractive and definitely not the type the world usually associates tvith the more advanced problems in chemical research, Mrs. Linkletter was professionally serious about her career. "Oh, I'm no war baby," she said when asked if she intended to pursue her calling after the war. "I have been interested in chemistry all my life. I was a trained chemist before the war, and I expect to continue in the profession after the war. I like it." She said she could not remember when the idea of chemistry as a career first took possession of her. It was when other little girls in her native city of Montreal were planning careers as nurses, teachers, motion-picture actresses and what-not that she first announced to an astonished family that she intended to be a chemist. "My mother was not sure I knew what the word meant," she laughed, "nor did she know where tlie inspiration came from, for I had no relatives or family friends in the profession." She attended McGill University, where she took advantage of the opportunities afforded women students for exceptionally good scientific training, but, she said, she would have persisted in her determination even if there had been little encouragement from the faculty. Later she went to Columbia University tor a master's degree in chemistry, and that led directly to her first job in the textile testing laboratory of Montgomery Ward.