CfNT Of GAMMA PHI BtTA DECEMBER � 1939 ^ i^jp vj^ -* j^L Wa f\ ^ 'f�f Fki <���( p. ^ \\ m ^ Calendar Septe.mber Acknowledgement of bound Crescents due Central Office Fiscal year begins September i. February 15. College calendars clue Central Office, Province Director Publicity stories due Central Office March 1. and Chairman Crescent material and for issue due Mrs. of Inspection by September 15. glossies May Audits for Pinkerton March 1. letters second half of previous year due Mrs. Keith (Greek-letter chapter printed include short September 15. regularly in this issue.) In convention year, Crescent material and glossies for December issue due biographical sketch of convention delegate, also glossy for Mrs. Pinkerton October 1. (Greek-letter chapter letters and Greek-letter chapter delegate. pledge lists regularly printed in this issue.) Pre-initiation and final fees due Central Office within two weeks. 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Rushing report due Province Director immediately after Crescent subscriptions (included in final fee for new pledging. subscribers) due Central Office August 15 if they are to Order manuals from Central Office immediately after begin with next issue. pledging. Publicity stories due Central Office September 1. Second installment of Greek-letter chapter dues due Fiscal year closes August 31, ending period covered by Central Office March 1. annual taxes paid since preceding September 1. The Crescent Volume XXXIX, Number 4 Devotion to a Musical Ideal 3 From a Suburb of Cairo 4 A Rare Profession 4 Women in Law 5 An Easier Life for Your Boss . 7 Honored at Convocation 8 Fatalism of Fashions 9 Repaying a Debt 10 Philippine Flight 1 1 The Cover? Rings on Her Fingers 13 Bascom Hall, Administration For a Year of Achievement 14 at the of Building University In Miami Harbor 15 Wisconsin where Gamma chapter Commutes the High Seas 16 of Gamma Phi Beta was founded November 14, 188;. Interviews Royalty 16 Another Jewel in Our Crown 17 Flower Show Draws Crowds 17 Recent Books I've Liked 18 A Winning Redhead 20 Queen of the Royal 20 A Common Heritage 21 The Limelight of Achievement 23 The Crescent is published September 15, December Greetings from Hostess Chapters 24 I, February 15 and May 1 by George Banta Publish It's Money in Our Pocket! 26 ing Company, Official Printer, 450-454 Ahnaip Street, Speaks at Panhellenic Day 26 Menasha, Wis. Entered as second-class matter, Oc Off to Camp We Go! tober 1, 1910, at the post office at Menasha, Wis., Heigh-ho, 27 The Vancouver under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for maii- Camp, 1939 28 at rate In Memoriam ing special of postage provided for in section 29 of the Act of October Members for Life 1103 3, 1917, paragraph 4, 30 section P. L. and authorized 429 R., July 18, 1918. Editorials oj a in ad What Active Chapters Are Subscription price $1.50 year, payable Doing 32 vance. Cents a Gamma Phi Beta Forty ($0.40) copy. 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Devotion to a Musical Ideal By Alice Thomsen i As director o� one of the few harp en sembles, as head of the Syracuse University '^g harp depart ment at Syracuse, and as a concert artist Miss Weymer ranks today as lCCLAIMED throughout the United States as one one of the country's most talented of the country's most brilliant and talented young harpists. harpists, Grace Weymer, Alpha '27, had a desire to become a Gamma Phi as a reason for enrolling at Syracuse University. But it was her love of music which sent her, one year later, in search of private teachers who might give her harp instruction which Syracuse did not offer. Today Miss Weymer is head of the harp department at Syracuse�a department she has made one of the largest and finest in America. Today, too, she is direc tor of one of the few harp ensembles in the country, an organization that has received professional acclaim wherever it has appeared, in addition to her own con cert work, with its constant demand on her time and energy. The brilliant success Miss Weymer enjoys today is the reward of thorough training and her zealous de votion to a musical ideal. After Syracuse, she studied for two years with Katherine Frazier and from 1925 Grace Weymer, harpist to 1928 with the world-renowned Carlos Salzedo. Dur ing the same period she also studied various techniques with the American Orchestral Society, with Edgar in 1932, the ensemble is composed of Syracuse coed Varese, and at the Calcroze School. harpists and varies from five girls to a group of fifteen. It was in 1927, after private teaching in New York Convinced of the salability of the organization, she City, that she was appointed to the faculty of the urged her New York manager to send the group on College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. A new tour. He balked at the untried idea. Today the same venture, the harp department- was so small that Miss manager, flooded with letters of commendation from Weymer continued to live in New York and com people who have heard the ensemble, is urging Miss muted to Syracuse for lessons on Friday and Saturday. Weymer to sign a contract which will send the young This could not last long. Under her guidance, the harpists on professional concert engagements.