SYLVIA PHILLIPS

Sylvia Phillips enjoys a distinction which has never before come to an Otterbein student. She has been elected Centennial Queen and will be honored during the June celebration.

The Centennial Office came up with the idea and suggested that the queen be elected by the student council. The council in turn suggested that she be chosen by the Centennial Observance Committee made up of both faculty and students.

The observance committee, in selecting Miss Phillips, declared that she represents the best traditions of Otterbein. She is a fourth generation student, has a cumulative 4-point average, she had outside work all during her four years, has been editor of the Sibyl and has repeatedly won recognition for her work in creative writing.

Sylvia's family has been a part of Otterbein almost from its founding. Her great grantfather became professor of mathematics and science in 1851. A year later he married Sylvia Carpenter, the principal of the Ladies' Department. Queen Sylvia bears the name of her great grandmother. With the ex· ception of a few years in the sixties Pr ofessor Haywood was connected with Otterbein from 1851 to 1893, when he retired.

Her grandmother, Lida Haywood , Miller, was graduated from Otterbein in 1877, her mother Edna Miller Phillips, in 1917, and her father Vernon Phillips the same year.

The Centennial Committee, in chosing Sylvia, decided that her court should be made up of girls in the Centennial Class whose parents or grand· parents attended Otterbein. Thus, her court will consist of Elizabeth Mills, Martha Good, Ruth Wolfe, Esther Scott, Mary Catherine Carlson, Mary Alice Hennon and Hariette Jones Fre· · vert.

The queen and her court will be honored in the Senior Class Day exer· cises on June 6th , according to Gay Woodford, chairman of the Class Day Committee.

-April 14, 1947