15he UK hoUr/.N 1 of Gamma Phi Beta Published at 450-454 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wisconsin w MAY CONTENTS B OvX^^O Incoming International Chairmen 71 v^yf^ill www ^^w/J ^^s^ What Is the Year's Outstanding Achievement? ... 90 ^^S^ (^^) Interesting Alumnae 92 ^(^S)^ ^k^gjWjgv^ Catching Up with Your Reading 98 )P^)X((<S)^ Life Alumnae Members 108 Camp Department 110 \lr^^ii|�) Gamma Phi Book Nook 110 0|J^^^ fl^J) Panhellenic Department Ill fL^^J Gamma Phi Beta Pictorial 115 Bits of Publicity 123 (^^j^g^ Editorials 127 (g\^/^ "^Wfe* Announcements 129 ^iMfe" ^^^^^^^ What the College Chapters Are Doing 130 (^^s^ Chapter Letter Flashes 147 ^^ ^s^^ Gamma Phi Beta Directory 148 J^^^\ CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON WHITE (Mrs. L. A.) ^p Executive Secretary ^1 Gamma Phi Beta Central Office 55 East Washington Street Chicago, IHinois m M THE CRESCENT is 15 December 1, published September February 15 and May 1 by George Banta Publishing Company, Official 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 S, 1S79. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103 of the Act of October 3, 1917, paragraph 4, secticm 429, P. L. and R., author ized July IS, 1918. M a ^ Subscription price $1.50 year, payable in advance. Forty Cents ($.40) a copy. Address all material for publication to the Editor. Member of Fraternity Magasines Associated. All matters pertaining to na tional advertising should be directed to Fraternity Magazines As sociated, 1618 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, or 52 Vander ^ bilt Avenue, New York City. ^ INCOMING CHAIRMEN 4iTop, left to right: Mrs. Harold Hartman, Chairman of Literary Exercises and Examination; Mrs. George E. Dickson, Jr.. Camp Chairman. Center: Mrs. Athol B. Gorrill, Rushing Chairman. Bottom, left to riyht: Mrs. Walter P. Shiel, Chairman of Ritual; Mrs. Hans Wulf, Chairman of Scholarship. THE CRESCENT Miss Lindsey Barbee, Editor-in-chief, 930 Humboldt St., Denver, Colo. Mrs. Roy Pinkerton, Associate Editor, Box 341, Route 1, Ventura, Calif. Mrs. R. Gilman Smith, Associate Editor, R.F.D. if 4, Danbury, Conn. Mrs. L. A. White, Associate Editor, Room 1124, 55 E. Washington st., Chicago Vol. J7 MAY, 1937 No. 1 Incoming International Chairmen MRS. GEORGE E. DICKINSON, JR. Since her marriage two years ago to she has Camp Chairman George Dickinson, Jr., given up her professional work and is devoting Irmengarde Patten Dickinson, Lamb her energy to her home, the Orthopedic da '29, brings to the job of International Hospital and Gamma Phi, with her avo Chairman an of Camp understanding cations of sailing and skiing coming in drawn from a camping comprehensive for their share. of As a camper her variety experience. She promises to be an aggressive and self in both and Fire private Camp intelligent chairman. Girls' she in new and camps, perpetrated Elaine Gorham, Lambda imaginative ways most of the devilment common to girls' camps, so that later when she rturned as counselor, assistant MRS. HAROLD HARTMAN director, and director she knew what the National Panhellenic Delegate and girls wanted and were up to before they Chairman of Literary Exercises did themselves. She has been a leader in and Examinations private camps that cater to the rich and Schmitz Hartman who suc organizational camps which do much Emmy for the underprivileged. She has done ceeds Lillian W. Thompson as Na tional Panhellenic will also active camp work in cities and small Delegate, � fill the office of Chairman of towns. She knows programs and she Literary knows people. After her college work in Exercises and Examinations. her capacity of professional worker for In 1915, Emmy graduated from the Camp Fire Girls, she demonstrated her University of Washington, Cum Laude, and ability to enlist the help of volunteers, Phi Beta Kappa, Mu Phi Epsilon, of the Music De- train them, and organize them for ac assistant to the Dean tivity. She has had experience in raising partm.ent. Because of her beauty and as her and her money for community activities. charm as well ability 72 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA musical talent, she was highly recog MRS. HANS WULF nized both by members of her sorority Chairman of Scholarship and by students and faculty on the Helen Harlan Wulf is a member of campus. Epsilon and a of Emmy's charm of personality lies chapter graduate Northwestern chiefly in her sincere friendliness and University. Following an active high school career in her interest in other people and in their Freeport, Illinois, she attended Dana Hall in ideas. While her mind is receptive to Wellesley, Massachusetts. After a year new ideas, she always studies her course at Dana, she entered Northwestern. of action in detail before embarking on Mrs. Wulf's four at North it. Then she does the work at hand years western were of contribution to thoroughly and directly. years her school and her She was Seattle alumnae, having known her sorority. very prominent in activities, able work as president of the chapter campus serving as a member of the Freshman 1932-1936 are happy to see her Commission of the as chair launched into the wider field of Gamma Y.W.C.A., man of its discussion Phi Beta work. Saturday groups, and later as vice-president. In recogni tion of her outstanding leadership and MRS. WALTER P. SHIEL service, she was made president of the Chairman of Ritual local chapter of Mortar Board at the close of her junior year. When a senior, Marguerite Motie Shiel calls herself she received her Phi Beta Kappa key a Pacific Coast product but we say she and was voted one of the ten most out doesn't quite qualify for she lived the standing women at Northwestern. first few years of her life in Iowa. She Since her graduation two years attended the University of Washington ago, Mrs. Wulf has been engaged in social where she pledged Gamma Phi, being service work. She was a member of the one of four Gamma Phi sisters. She central ofifice staff of the Illinois Emer later took special work in the School of gency Relief Commission in Chicago Speech at Northwestern. Upon her re until her marriage last fall. She now turn west, she married Walter P. Shiel, makes her home in Detroit where her and is now the mother of one son and time is divided between the duties of two prospective Gamma Phis. homemaker and work in the nationally Marguerite has always been one of known Detroit Children's Center. Lambda's and Seattle's most enthusias Geraldine Benthey, Epsilon tic and loyal members. She has served as president of the alumnse, of president MRS. ATHOL B. GORRILL Lambda Corporation and in various Chairman other offices. Her main hobby is ama Rushing teur dramatics in which she majored in Helen Carpenter Gorrill, newly ap college. She directed the first memorial pointed International Rushing Chair service ever presented at a Gamma Phi man, comes to you with a great deal of convention, at Lake Crescent in 1923 ; experience. therefore, we feel she is well qualified Although she attended Smith College for the ofifice of Chairman of Ritual. for two years, she did much to make Helen Carpenter Gorrill, Kappa up for those two years during her junior THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA 73 and senior years at the University of able member of Seattle Alumnae Chap Minnesota. There she was active rush ter, serving two terms as president and ing chairman, and after she graduated also as co-chairman for the Victoria in 1925 was alumnse rushing chairman Convention. in Minneapolis. "Never-say-die" is her motto, and During her two years at the Univer she has an answer for every question, sity of Minnesota she won many hon and a good one. Nothing one ever asks ors, among them election to Theta Sig of her is too much trouble for her to ma Phi, honorary journalism society. do willingly and cheerfully. She comes from a true Gamma Phi Much experience, a sunny disposi family, having a Gamma Phi sister, two tion, and some excellent ideas fit her sisters in law, as well as a Gamma Phi admirably for the office to which she cousin. has been appointed. Do not hesitate to After her marriage she came to Se call upon her. attle to live, where she has been a valu- Jessie Austin Weiner, Theta Bits of Publicity SARAH SHUTE KRAETSCH group, her last role being that of Mrs. The alumnje of Des Moines, while Hope in The Mad Hopes. not blessed with a large membership MANAGES THE "SOUR OWL" make up for the shortage by the fine The Sour fellowship and good times that charac Oivl, monthly university humor on the University of terize their meetings. Among the mem magazine Kansas has bers is interesting Sarah Shute Kraetsch campus recently appointed Katherine Dorman, Kansas City, who is an active and loyal worker. She Mary and member of as graduated from Epsilon in 1907 for the Mo., Sigma manag editor. Katherine has been blind in the State of Iowa. She is also ing Mary active on the Owl staff for the two president of the Des Moines Women's past and in line with this form of Club which has a membership of 1,200. years writing contributes to the "On the WINS SIGMA ALPHA IOTA RING Shin" column of the Daily Kansan, of Francis Lindloff, of Psi has received ficial university paper. To the Kansan Katherine has also been one of the two rings given by Sigma staff Mary ap Alpha Iota for outstanding work in the pointed society editor this spring.