The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi-May-1915

THE ARROW

olficial Pllblication pf the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity

VOLUMNE XXXI MAY, 1915 NUMBER 4

SARAH

POMEROY RuCG,

Editor

Table 0/ Confmlts

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WHAT A FIAT!IlHITY GUlL

CALIFOIlNIA'S CAMPUI

IN MIEMOIlIAM

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EOITOt.tALS

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CHAPT!." L E TTEI S

EXCKA"GES

COLLItGIE N OTU

All manuscripu should be addrnscd to the Editor Sarah Pomeroy Ru" ( K" F. A.>, 580 Commonwealth A.,e., Boston, M Material intended for publication must reacb the Editor five wedel before date of publication. THa Az.aow i. pubUsbed four times a year in October, December. March and JUlle at 4S0 to 4S4 Abnaip Street, Menasha, W is .• by Georle Banta. official printer and pubU.ber to the fraternity. Subscription price $1.00 per year; 25 «nts for IIn,le Entered .a second,dn. matter October 20. 19M, at tbe po.toffice at Menasba, WlI. , under tbe Act of Conlre.s of March J, 1879

FRATERNITY DIRECTORY

FOUNDERS OF THE FRATERNITY

Mageic Campbell .•. .....•.......•... ThYDe Institute, Chase City. Va.

Libbie Brook-Gaddi s .•. ....••.....•••... .. 1005 S. Third St., Champaign, Ill.

Ada Bruen Grier .•. 16 Thomas Ave., Bellevue, Pa.

Clara Brownlee·Hutchinson Monmouth. IlL

Emma Brownlee-Kilgore ...•................ ' .7639 Lo e Ave , Chic_rot Ill.

Fannie \Vhitenack-Libby ...•.................. Goodhue. Minn.

Rosa Moore ... .. .. : .•. .. . ...... . .. ...... .. 59 East 211t St., New York City.

Jenn ie Nich ol, M.D. (deceased).

In& Smith-So ule 9 12 North L St.. Tacoma, Wash

Jennic Horne-TurnbulL ................. . . N. St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Fannie Thompson ( de ceased)

Nancy Black·\V all aee •• • 1049 Court St., Salem, Ore.

GRAND COUNCIL

GRAND P aU IDINT- May L. Keller, Westhampton College, Richmond, Va.

GRAND VI CI' PUSfD IN T-Lida Burkhard Lardner (Mrs. J . L), 810 Milbum St , Eunston, 111.

GRAND SIClITARY-Am y B. Onken, Chapin, 111.

GRAND TuAsuRIl-Anne St aart, 1906 D Street, Lincoln, Neb.

A R.OW ED1TOIl-Sarab Pomeroy-Rugg (Mrs. F. A.), 580 Commonwealth An., Boston , Mal s.

HISTORIAN

Elizabeth Clarke Helmick (Mr•. Eli). Fort Sheridan, 111.

CATALOGUER

Kate McLaughlin Bourne (Mrs Harry S.), Lewi burg. Pa.

ALUMNJE EDITOR

Sophie Parson. Woodman . 561 Welt J86th St, New York City.

PI BnA PHI R,zPusENTAnVE IN NAnoNAL PAN' - HJ.LLlNIC CONGUs&---Lida Burkhard Lardner (Mrs_ J. L.), 810 M i lburn St., Evanston, Ill

SacJ.&T.uv or NATIONAL PAN-HJ.LUNIC CONca.ls-Lena Grandin Baldwin, 670 Euclid Ave.• Elmira, N Y.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES

ALPHA PROVINCE

PIU:SIf)E,ST-Anna Robinson Nickerson Din. n. D.), i4 Rockland Ave., Malden. Mass.

OSTAJlJO ALpHA-Univenity of Toronto, ).Iabel G. )fcCannell, 7 Queen's Park, Toronto. Ontario, Canad •.

VnMONT ALPHA-Middlebury College, Lois B. Wright , 111 Main St • bUfY. VL

Vn'WONT BETA-University of Vermont, Loret ta. E. Dyke. 40 PIIl!t St., W inooski, VI.

MASSA CHUSETTS ALPHA-Boston t.:ni\'enil}' , lI elen Richardson, 8J M I Auburn St., Watert own, M ass.

NEW YORK ALPIIA-Syr::l(:: use l 'n i\er:o.ity , D orot hy Domn. Se)l Ostrom Ave., Sy r ac u se, N. Y.

Nzw YOltK BETA-Barnard College, Lillian M. Jackso n. 505 Clinton Ave , Brooklyn, N. V.

Naw YORK GAloUolA-SL Lawrence University, Anrtla Conright. c."nton N. Y

MARYi...A,SO Ann ,,-Coucher College. Carolyn Potts, 2813 Paul St.. Baltimore, Md.

COI UMBIA ALI'JlA-George Washington t:nivenilY, Marion True. 1320 Fairmount St., Wa shington, D. C.

VIRGINIA AUIIA-Rando l ph·:\[acon College, Mary Willi ams, College J'ark, V:t.

Fl.oklOA ALPIIA-John B. Sletson University, Eula Botts, D e Land, Fin.

BETA PROVINCE

PRESIDEsT-Anna Pettit Broomell (Mrs. G. L.), 4929 Rubican Av e., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

PaNNSYLVANIA A LP HA- S warthm ore College, Chari ty Hampso n, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.

PaNNSYLVAN IA BUA-Bucknell University, Ruth E. Embry, cIa Prof. Frank Simpson, Lewi,burg, Pa.

P£SNS VL VANJA GAM MA-Dickenson Co ll t g e, Co nstan ce Spr i nger, 228 Conway St., Carlisle, Pa.

OHIO ALPHA-Oh i o Uni v ersity, M arie O'Rourke, Boyd H all , Athen s , O hi o.

OHIO BETA-Ohio State University, Alma Whitac re, 199 15tb Ave ., Columbus. Ohio

MICHIGAN ALPHA-Hillsdale College, J essie Reem, 220 'Ves t St , Hillsdal e , Mich.

MICHIGAN' BETA-University of Mi c hig an , M artha Gray, Pi Beta Phi Hou ••• 836 Tappan Road, Ann Arbor, M ic h .

GAM MA PROVINCE

PUSID£!'OT-Miss KIll e B. Meller, 112 S. A shland Blvd., Chicago HI.

MINNE SOTA A LP II A-Univeuity of Minn elota, Isabel Mc Laughhin, 3144 Colfax Ave ., S. E., Minn eapo lis, Minn.

WI SCO NSIN ALPHA-U nivers ity of W isco nsin, Virginia M H i ggins, '33 LanCdon St., Ma diso n , Wi s.

ILUN'OIS BETA-Lombard College, Ethel Brewster, Lombard H a ll, G lesbu rl' Ill.

ILLI!'OOIS DELTA-Knox Colleie, Ruth Buck, H:l ll. Galesburg, III.

ILl I!IIOIS University, Ruth Colby, ,Velland H all, Evanston, III

ILI. I:'Io'o IS ZETA-Unive r sity of Francelia Snrgent, 807 South Third St., C hampaign, III.

ILLINOIS ETA-Jame s Millikin University, Eliubeth Gallo ,.. 1331 W Wood S t • Decatur, III.

ALPHA PROVINCE

VI CI rusIDENT-Grace Goodhue Coolidge (Mrs Calvin), 2( Mass.soH St., Northampton, Mass.

BALTIXORE. MD -l.lolly W. Wood. 220 Prospect Ave., Roland Park, Md BosTON, MAss.-Bertha A. Carr, ISo Longwood Ave., BOlton, Mass.

BVWN'CTON , VT.-Helen Barton T:lttle (Mrs. Ray), 28 Converse Court. NOaTHItRN NIW YORK-Dorothy Cleaveland, Canton, N. Y. NEw YOIlK, N. Y.-Elmina Wil son, 452: W 149th St.

RHODI IST ANo--Margard M. Poole ( Mrs. 1. C.), 204 High St., Fan River, Mass.

SVItACUSE. N. Y .-Marion N. Howell (Mrs. L. A ,) , 6 :n Park Ave .• Syracuse. N. Y.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Isabel Shepard Dusky (Mrs. Henry), 21 Shepard St. TORONTO. CAN'ADA-M. Gordon Lovell, 119 Madison Ave.

WA SHINCTON, D. C.-Mary B. Wilson, 1901 Q St. ,V ESTlRN MASS AC I-I USJ:TTS ALUMNIE-Amy L. 'Vall on, 107 Sherman St., Spri ngfi eld, Mass.

BETA PROVINCE

VI CI PSlESIDENT-Elsa Schlicht. 210 N. Sandusky St.. Bellevue. Obio . Ass ARBOR, MI CH.-Lu cy Park Huber ( Mrs G. Carl), 1330 Hill St. ATHINS. Craie Wilson ( Mrs. H. R .) , 34 Emwood PI.

CARLISLE, PA.-Juli.a Morgan.

CINCINN"ATI, OH1<r-Gertrnde Hancor; Carman (Mrs. J . Ernest), 2346 Ohio Ave.

CU\'ILAND. OHlo--Gladys Cole, 8107 Cedar Ave . COLUMBUS, F. Rail, 565 E. Broad St .• Columbus. Ohio. Dn.OIT, Lane Smith (Mrs C. A.), 89 W Hancock St. Hn.L50A LE, MI CH.-Ethel Bi s hopp W olcott (Mrs Ca rl ). Broad St. LEWI SBURC. PA.-Irene Fenton Clinger (M1'I. Frank), 59}12 S. Howell St., Milton. Pa.

OHIO GAMMA ALUMNA! CLUB-Ellen F. Boyer, 624 W Market St .• Orrville, Ohio.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Edith S Bunting, Cheater, Pa. PlnsauRGH, PA .-Helen B Clark, 5407 Friend ship Ave. TOL1 DO. OHlo--Sarah Waite, 2023 Ashland Ave.

GAMMA PROVINCE

VICI- PRESIDENT-Lisette W oe rner Hampton (Mrs. W S.), The Elmore. Prospect,. Ky.

CAITHAGE. ILL .- Mrs Ellen Ferris Scofield, 502 Locust St. CUICACO . ILL.-earrie Flager Schantz (Mrs. O. M .) , 521S West 24th St., Cicero. 111

CESTIAL. ILL.-Mable Lindsay Fairdo (Mrs G. C.), 412 \V. Church St., Champaign. Ill.

DECA TUR, ILt..-Margllret \ Vood Di ck ( Mrs . C. R.) , 125 N . Edward St. FlAN'KLJN. Ts n.-Fnnrpc; M Oe:'ln . GAUSBl1RCK. lLL.-Mildred Toler Lass ( Mrs. Henry). 1166 N Prairie St. INDIAN'A.POLlS, IND.-Clara Hatfield, 2252 Adam s St. MADISON'. Wis .-Mary White Peterson (Mrs. W. H. P.), 1726 V"n Rise Aye. MINNIA POLIS AND ST. PAUL. MINN -Aimee W Fi sher. 2010 Kenwood Pk},., Minneapolis

DELTA PROVINCE

VICI-PRESIDENT-Edith Baker, Webster Groves, Mo Avn, IOWA-Emma Wennhoh: PattengiU (Mrs. E A .)

BUWS'GTON, IOWA-Katherine Alice LundiTen, 11S North Gunnison St. COLUllBIA. Mo.-( MISSOU1I ALPHA ALUMN )-Edith Snyder Coursanlt (MrL Juse), 210 Hicks Ave

Du MOll'tS, IowA-Anna Ross Clarke (Mrs. C. H.), 1510 9th St. FAVttTlVJLLE, AIK.-Mildred Gregg, 129 E. Dickson SI. INDIANOLA, 10WA-SteUa Hutman Perry, (Mrs. E. W.). IOWA CITY, IOwA-Fanny Thompson Wicka.m (Mrs. H. F.), 911 Iowa A.e. KANSAS CITY, Mo Fennel, 931 Cleveland Ave. LAwUNCI, KAN.-Adrienne Atkinson, 829 Mis •. St. LINCOLN, NEB.-Mary Spalding, 231 Sheridan Bh·d. LITTLE RocK, AIK.-Wanda Richards, 1300 W. 3rd Sf. MT. PLUSANT, IowA-Mary Hulme McCoid (Mrs. Calvin). OMAHA, NIB. AND COUNCIL BLUFPS, IowA-Mary Phillippi, 2310 California St., Omaha. ST. jOSP.PH, Mo.-Mary Stewart, 322 S. 15th St. SPRINGFIILD, Mo.-Susie Dillard, 957 Benton Ave. ST. LoVIS. Mo.-Gertrude Ahern. 280.1 Locust 51. SIOUX CITV, lA.-Clarice Lytle, 1800 Jackson St. TonKA, KAN.-Kate Dinsmoor, SI2 Harri son St. TII ·ClTY ALUMN..€-uila Kemmerer, 803 \V. 14 St., Davenport, Iowa.

EPSILON PROVINCE

VICI'PRESIDENT-Emily Maverick Miller ( ,Mrs. E. T.), University Station, Austin, Tex.

Al'STIN, TF.X.-Nelle Harris Robinson A. J.), 506 W. 1851. BoULDER, COLO.DALLAS, TEX.-Edith Daniel, 220S Live Oak St. DES\'IR, COLO.-Florence Diggs Sheldon (Mrs. W. R.), 1471 Race St. H OUSTON, Tn.-Naomi Peacock Cosby (Mrs. Rodman ), 2308 Genesee Ave. LAItAWIE, WYo.- Agnes Anderson Gottschalk (Mrs, R, P.), Box 347. S'oux FALLS, S. DAK .-Grace M cKinnon, 516 W . 12 St. WA CO, TEX .-Monette Col5rin, H)02 Austin St.

ZETA PROVINCE

VICI·PRESIDINT-uta Hoerlocker, 418 Blan c hard Building, Los Angeles, Cal. PI BETA PHI REGISTER-Trinity Auditorium Hldg., 9th St. and Grand Ave ., Los Angeles, Los ANGELES, CAL.-Ruth Barrett Smith (Mrs, Warren), 123 No. Oxford Ave., Los Angeles.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA-HlUe} Donoho Babcock (Mrs. David), 90S Contra Costa Ave., Berkeley, Cal.

PORTLAND, Ou.-Olive Neal Monteith (Mrs, ]. C.), S20 Davenport St. PI DnA PHI REGISTER-Hot el Portland SEATTLI, WASH.-(PUCIT SoUND CLUs)-Marion L Frye, 618 Terry Ave. SPOKANE, WASH .-E lel'lnor H enderson, E 1904 Dalton Ave,

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Saturday, July 10.

All day trip to Stanford University.

Saturday to Monday, July 12 .

House Party. Claremont H otel , Berkeley.

CONVENTION EXECUTIVE BOARD

{ Mrs. Vance McClymond., Anna Laura Bradley, IS77 Channi ng Way, Berkeley. Guide s Eliubeth A. Coats, Hotel Oakland. Oakland. Georgicdell McCo y, 2413 Virginia, Berkeley.

Trearllrer-Miss Dora Woodburn, 155 Parkside Drive, Berkele y, Enterlauunenl-Margaret Mills. 2<}62 Russell, Berkeley.

AccommodaI Wns-- Mrs. Edilh Darnell, 'Soo Bancroft Way, Berkeley. Regi.rtra/ion-D e ll Thompson, 1577 Channing Way, Berkeley. Blake. Cedar Street, Be rkeley.

MutirtK Trains-Miriam Bryan, S tanford University, .A tlen/anu-Mrs. Harry H owa rd, 2828 W ool sey, Berkeley. Si.gAl suing-L u cie Brennan, 836 36th St., Oakland. /JL(liel I nitwtion-Mrs. W. L. McLean, Lost Hills, Kern Co., California.

Deco,.ation--Mrs. Gifford West, 141 I Grove St., Berkeley. B anqlltl-Elizabeth Coats , Hot e l Oak land, Oak lan d. Doily-Mrs. David Babcock, 90S Contra Costa Ave., Berkeley. Snapshots-Winona Bassett, ]60 No. Madison Ave., Pasadena. Hou# T. C. Mellersh, 936 Belle Ave., San Rafael. Hiestand, 2640 Dwight W ay, Berkeley.

TO THE DELEGATES AND VISITORS. TO CONVENTION

Just a few "last things" that we want you to know before coming to Convention , the best in the history of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, we hope!

First, all mail received in Berke l ey during the week of July 5 must be addressed: Care of Twentieth Century Club, Berkeley, California.

Second, all baggage and checks should be marked acc ur ately with the name, address and chapter of owner; furthermore, retain checks until they are put into the bands of a member of the Baggage Com· mittee. Under DO circumstances are checks to be given to transfer agents on trains o r boats. This is important. All baggage is to be checked to Berkeley Station.

Thirci, we recommend that all delegates and visitors provide them· selves with American Express Company or Wells Fargo Travelers' Cheques. This will eliminate the necessity of identification.

CONJ'EXTION AXJ\'OUlI'CEME1I7

Fourth, in buying tickets. if a trip to San Diego is desired, ask the agent at the point of purchase and he will paste this free side trip on your ticket. Otherwise, it will cost extra.

The following schedule of expense may be of service: meals a t Twentieth Century Club during Convention will be $1.25 per day; the banquet at Hotfl Oakland will be $3 .00 per plate; trip to Stan· ford University, $1.50; house party rates will be $1.00 and $ 1.50 per day, meals a ]a carte.

It is the wish of the entertaining chapters that simplicity be the keynote of the Convention. The hostesses will wear clothes suitable for college and co l1ege functions. The following list is suggested as being suhable; warm tailor suit, heavy coa t or sweater, one evening dress, one afternoon dress, two or three waists.

During Convention, the Pi Beta Phi Mothers' Club is planning to entertain vj.;:iting Pi Phi mothers, probably on Thursday, Ju l y 8.

\Ve are working very hard to make this Convtntion a success and expect that it will be. Let us again suggest that reservations be made as soon as

Yours in II B ell, CONVENTION EXE CUT IVE BOARD.

You will want to read of the business of convention (October number ) , You will be anxious to live again convention days and read of all the good times (December number) , Then subscribe at once before you forget it!

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CHAPTER DELEGATES TO CONVENTION

ALPHA PROVINCE

Ontario A-L . Marie Bateman, ' 16 .

VemlOnt A-Lois B. Wr ight.

Vermont B-Agnes J . Miller , '16.

!\1assachusetts A-Helen Cleveland Richardson, '16 .

New York A-E thel Jessup.

New York B- Regina Murnane, 'IS.

New York r-Ang e la M. Cortright, '16.

Maryland A-Catharine E. Jeifers, ' 16.

Columbia A- Marion Tru e, '15

Virginia A-Lau ra T . Wood. Florida A-Lo uise H ull ty

BETA PROVIN CE

Pennsylvania A-C harity Bell Hampson , '16.

Pennsylvania B-Ruth Embrey , '16.

Pennsylvania r-Nora M. Mohler, '17.

Michigan A-Jessie P. Reem , '13 (s p ecia l '14-'15).

Michigan B-Martha C. Gray, '16.

Ohio A-Luci le Henry. Ohio B-Alma Whitacre.

GAMMA PROVIN CE

Minnesota A-Olive Keller , '16.

\Vis consin A-Irene Esch. '16.

Illinois B-Florence Hunt. '17.

Illinois 6-H e len W Mills, '16

Illinois E-Nona Caro lyn Hakes, '16 . Illinois Alvord, '16.

Illinois H-Charl otte Wright Kerney, '17.

Indiana A-Ma ri e Alice McGuire, '16

Indiana B-Mary Ann HaiL

Indiana r-Edith Cooper , '16.

DELTA PROVIN CE

Iowa A-Lillian Piper, '16.

Iowa B-Louise Jones.

Iowa r-Helen Meek Rodgers , '16.

Iowa Z-Florence Maroney, '16

ebraska B-Genevieve Lowry, '1 s.

M i350uri A-Clara Rogers Dunn, '16.

Mi souri B -Mary Brotherton, '16.

Missouri r-Mary Jane Hopkins, '16.

Kansas A-Mary Pauline Miller, '16.

Arkansas A-Eleanor Forwood, tIS.

Louisiana A-Mildred Post.

EpSILON PROVINCE

Oklahoma A-Elizabeth Boyd, '17.

Texas A-Mary Stone Greer, '15

Wyoming A-Katharine .Bennett, ' 16.

Colorado Quillen.

Colorado E Forsyth

ZETA PROVINCE

California A-Gertrude Clancy, '16.

California B-K atherine \V estbrook, '16. \Vashington Taylor

\Vashington B- Floren ce \\'esta ron, '16.

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CLUB DELEGATES TO CONYE).TTION

J\ I PH -\ PRO"I NC":

B i.dtim c r c- L c ui!Oc \'all Santo A

Boston-Jennie B. Allyn, )( assachu"letts A. Burlington-None.

Northern ew York-D o r othy K. Cleaveland, New Yo rk I' New York-Edith Valet , York B

Rhode Island- H elen D. Barrett, Massac husetts A. Syra c use- one Rochester- one.

Toronto--N one . Washington- Ruth Rizer, Columbia A \Vestern Massa chusetts Alumna!L o uise Richardson , A.

BETA PR(}VI N e E

Ann Arhor- l one . Pickering, Ohi o A.

Carlisle- None.

Cincinnati- ?

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Cleveland-Mrs. Arthur Curtis (F ran cis Carpenter, Colorado B ) .

Columbus-C lau dine U rlin , Ohio B.

Detroit-Lotta Broadbridge, Michigan B.

Hillsdale-N one.

Lewisburg- ?

Ohio Gamma-To be el ected .

Philad elphia- Emma H a milton. P ennsy lvania A.

Pittsb urgh-Pearl M cC r o r y, Ohio r.

T oled o-Harriet A. Briggs, Michigan B.

GAMMA PROVI NCE

Carthage-Mrs . J W. W illiams ( Adda Prentice, lllinois r).

Chicago-Mrs. Walter Spry (Es ther Orr, lllinois d ) .

Cent ral lllin"is-R cka B. Kil er, Ill inois Z.

Decatur- Adele Murphy, Illin ois H.

Franklin-Gertrude Law , In diana A.

Galesburg-Marion Webster, 1I1inois B.

Indianapolis-Edith Ha bbe, In diana r .

Madison- Iva 'Velsh , Wisco nsin A.

Minneapolis and St. Paul-

Mrs. H . B. Gislason ( Bessie Tucke r, Minnesota A ).

DELTA PROV INCE

Ames-Mrs E. W Stanto n (Julia W entch , I owa r )

Burlin g to n-Mrs. S. O. Thomas ( J ess ie Donnell, I owa A ).

Columbia-Mrs. Near ( Mary Iglehart , Missouri A ).

Des Moines-Mrs. F. W. Parr ( Nelle Welles, Illin ois Z ).

Fayetteville-N one

Indian ola- Mrs. F. C. Sigler ( Sa r a Eikenberry, I owa B ) .

I owa City-Jul ia E Rogers, I owa Z

Kansas City-?

Lawr ence-M rs . S. H. Perkins ( Cla ra Morris, Kansis A,. Lincoln-?

Mt. Pleasant-To be elected.

Omaha and Council Bluffs-June Brown, 'eb raska B

51. Joseph-None.

Sp r ing field -M ari e Gates, Missouri r .

St. Louis-Mrs . S. J. Parks ( Alberta Egbe r s, Illin ois r ).

Sio ux City-Louise Cody, I owa Z

T opeka-?

Tri-City-N one.

MESSAGES

TO WESTERN TRAVELERS 495

EpSILON PRO\' IN CE

Austin-Mrs. E. T. Miller ( Emily :lfaveric k, Texas A ).

Boulder-None.

Dallas-Willie Pegram , Texas A .

Denver-Mrs. IV. R. Sheldon ( Fl o rence Biggs. Colorado B ).

Houston-?

Laramie-Harriet Abbott , \ Vyorning A. Waco-?

ZETA PROVIN C E

Los Angeles-Mrs. E . G. Sherman ( Emelin e Carte r , lllino", Z ).

Northern Califorrua- To be elected.

Portland-Mrs. Burton Beck ( Grace Hancher, Iowa A )

Seattle-Mrs. H . B. Wilbur ( Lede Pinkham, Iowa Z ).

Spokane-Hertha L. Bigelow, Washington A.

MESSAGES TO WESTERN TRAVELERS

THE Los Angeles Alumn", Club has placed a register of its members in the Col1ege Women's Club Rooms, Trinity Auditorium Bldg. , 9th St. and Grand avenue, L os Angeles . Tho club rooms are open from one to six , week day afternoon an d Pi Beta Phis visiting in the city will find this register a convenient means of getting in touch with their chapte r and fraternity sisters in and around Los Angeles.

The a lumna! club has also arranged two special summer meetings with the hope that its members may have the opportu nity of meeting and entertaining the visiting Pi Phis.

July 31, 2 p. ro. - H ostess. Miss Helen Hurd, 4359 Fairmont Drive, Victoria Park, Los Angeles. The Stanford girls entertain the a lumnre club in honor of visiting Pi Phis. Everett Ball, cha irman.

August 29. 3 -8 P M.-Sunday tea. Men guests. At the home of the President, Mrs. E. G. Sherman, 2002 El Cerrito Place, Hollywood.

There aTe about fifteen or twenty Pi Phis resident in San Diego who are anxious to welcome all Pi Phis who may be coming to the Exposition in that ci ty. They are anxious to guide yo u through the

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exposition itself, take you on automobile dri\'es about the city, assist you to find boarding places while in the city and do everything in their power to welcome yo u to liThe Land of Sunshine" . A number of these San Diego residents win be present at the Convention in Berkeley and ready to answer questions and give intormation about southern California. Anyone desiring information before that date should write to Miss FrancEs Henking , 1955 Sunset Blv'd, San Diego, California.

The Fourteenth ational Pan-Hellenic Congress will convene in Berkeley, California, August 11 - 14. The meetings will be held at Berkeley and. the headquarters will be the new Claremont Hotel. All fratern ity women who can arrange to be in the city at that time will be welcome at th e open sessions and at the Pan - Hellenic Luncheon which sho uld be one of the greatest in the history of this organization. Detailed plans a re not ready for publication but they can be secured at the National Pan-Hellenic H eadq uarter s at the Exposition in San Francisco . These headquarters are in the main lobby of the California building and from June on, the co rn er will be presided over by some fraternity woman each day. - Each fraternity will be responsible for the cornET for a week each. Greek-letter women are thus assured all the co u.rtesies of the California Building, the privileges of the parlors, r est r oom, tea and "dansant" each afternoon. There will be Tegiste rs for each fraternity on fil e and a list of Bay City members with 'phone numbers. These plans have been made and the headquarters will be sustained by the Bay City Pan-Hellenic .

"The Pan-Hellenic Association of Portland, Oregon, has mad\! anangements for headquarte,rs at the Portland Hotel during the months of Jun e, July and August. W e hope that all Pi Phis coming west for convention or for any other reason will plan to stop at Port· land, and will make themselves known so that we may assist them in any way to make their stay here pleasant. At the hotel there will be a complete list of the members of ea ch fraternity living in Portland. One or two fraternity women will be in charge of this r oom each day during the three months."

Mrs. Cora Gordon " ' aggoner, 888 Eddy St.. San Frallcisco, Exposition Informant , will plan tours , furnish guides. locate partit$ in desirable quarters and furnish general information to tourists. Mrs . \Va ggoner is highly recommended and women and girls travel-

FINAL MESSAGE OF TRANSPORTAT I ON 497 COMMITTEE

ing alone would do well to seek her services which are fo r a moderate sum. Copies of cards and li t uature will be sent o n app;ication. Any Pi Phi who may be returning to San Francisco later in the summer or who has friends who wo u ld appreciate the help Mr s. \ Vaggoner can furnish would do well to refe r to he r . Washington A wishes to announce that the chapter house will be kept open all summer for the use of Pi Phis and their friends stopping in Seattle on their way to or from the convention. The address of p; Beta Phi chapte r house is: 4 535 18th Ave . N.E.

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FI TAL MESSAGE OF TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE

Official SPecial Train Arrangements

ALL ABOARD, going West ! Specia l train is now r eady leavin g the above terminal of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Chicago, at 6 :05 p. m., J uly first.

\A.'e are going fi r st to the TWE.1lty-third Biennial Convention of H B cI> at Berkeley, California. After that there wi ll be eighty days left within the limit of OUT tickets for Yisiting the Exposition and points of interest in the \Vest , with choice of many return routes.

In view of these facts we have endea " ored to plan an official train sched ule which would allow us to arrive in Berkeley in the

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best possible ph ys ica l and mental condition for the serious legislative ,",ork of Convention.

Several hours have been allowed for stop-overs en route within our published schedule and without additional pullman charge. There will be a short stop in Omaha where a number will join OUT train. A delightful hour will b e spent with Pi Phis from Omaha, Council Biuffs and Linco ln. From Omaha to Denver the time will be spent becoming acquainted and discussing informally various matters of interest which will come up at Convention. It is expected that enough will join us at D en ver to put on an extra s leeper .

CROSSING THE SI.ERRAS

Owing to the wish of many to see something of Co lorado Springs, it has been deci ded to make a stop there of about four hours . Ca rriages w ill m eet o ur train and take u s on the famous "High Drive" and to othe r points of interest. At that time of year the early morning hours are the pltaSantest part of the day. I t will be well worth the effort of ea rly ri si ng to see the sunrise over the mountain peaks, Leaving Colorado Springs at eight o'clock in the morning we will travel in open obs'ervati on cars , enjoyi ng a l o ng daylight trip through the world's most w o nd erfu l panorama of mountains, gorges, plains and fruitful .-alleys. W e r each Glenwood Springs before dark.

A stop is planned in Salt L ake City l o n g eno ugh to enab le . us to . take a sight-seeing automobile and visit the Mormon buildings,

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Soon after Salt Lake City we Hgo to sea by rail," riding thirty miles a c ross the waters of the Great Salt Lake.

Traveling on without further stop we arrive at our destination in Bt!rkeley about noon. July fifth , feeling that we have indeed been greatly privileged to enjoy suc h a trip in the company of our ofticia is . deltgates and \' isiting Pi Phis from all parts of the Unit<!d States.

Except for the two above -mentioned st ops the plans as outlined in the March number of THE ARROW and Special Train folder will be follow t o . Plea se r e f t' r to these for any further informa t jon or address . Chairman of Transportation,

MRS. FORO J. ALL£K, 641 7 Lake St., Oak Park, Ill.

H O MEWARD BOUND

After Com'ention everyone will wish to remain a few days , at least to visit the Great Panama · Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The att ra ctions of Califo rn ia and the en tire western coast art! !:'o many and varied th at it would be impossible to attEmpt to see them a ll on this trip. As round trip tic k et s mu st be purchased befo r e leaving home, it. will be to plan your trip ca r efu l1 y.

Choice of r eturn route is l eft t o you r i nd ivid ual prfference. Th t! following s ugg estions are offered.

Route A Those wishing t o make no side trips and to return di n :c t fr om San Fran cisco , s h o uld have th e ir ti ck e t s read via Southern Pacific and co nn ec ti ons as desired.

Route B. Tickets may he purchased with destination San Fran· cisco, r eading f o r return through Los Angeles, with free si dt trip t o San Di ego, if r eturn is made via any Southern rout e. Returning via the Santa Fe, stop·over may be made at Williams for side trip t o th e Grand Ca fiot1 . • ..

R o ut e C. I f you are planning to return via any N o rth e m r oU le tickets may be purchased with destination San Francisco with side trip to L os Ange l es and return free of charge. Side trip to San Diego will be $4 . 00 additional. Going North from San Francisco you may have a choice of the "M ount Shasta Route" by rail or trip by boat to Portland or Seattle. There will be an additional charge of $17.50 f o r either trip, hut on th e boat m ea ls and berth 3re included

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in the ticket. After so much sight-seeing and m o untain scene ry , a short ocean trip would be very pleasant. The trip may also be made without furthe r cha r ge, by boat or rail from Seattle to Vancouver

and return via the beautiful Canadian Pacific r o ute. Return may also be made frorI) Portland or Seattle via this r oute or any other Northern route through St. Paul or Omaha.

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CO VENTIOX TRAXSPORTATION NOTES

WILL all who expect to take Pi Phi Special from Chicago plan to arrive early in the day. lio at once to the C. & N. W. terminal, which will be our hea.dquarters, and attend to all arrangements for departure. Pi Phis will greet visitors here all day and assist them in every possible way.

The Chicago Alumn., Club will keep open house all day July I at their room in the College Club, sfventeenth floor Stevens Building.

From four to six o'clock the active girls of Illinois Epsilon chapter will welcome all Pi Phis in the lea room on the third floor of the C. & . W. terminal.

Miss Keller and Mrs. Nickerson will remain in San Francisco until July 16 go to Los Angeles and San Diego and visit Yosemite. Miss Keller returns yia Seattle and the Canadian Pacific. Mrs. Nickerson expects to return via the Santa Fe with a stop at Grand Canon. Both have offered to act as guides to any desiring to take these routes.

AS OTHERS SEE CO VENTION

IN APRIL 1912 THE ARROW contained a Symposium entitled, "If r 'V ere a Delegate Again". 1t covered several pages and represented the thoughts of delegates of varying ages who had been present at a number of pn;.vious conventions in past The following summary of striking points in this symposiwn was made by the editor of another fraternity journal and during the past three years it has been quoted far and wide in fraternity magazines. It is reprinted once again in TH E ARROW for the benefic of the delegates to the 1915 Convention.

"I( I \V e r e a Delegate Again" is the title of a symposi um in Till Auow of Pi Beta Phi. Here are some of the thinel the ex-de l egates would do if they were to go 3gain :

" I would suggest that each delegate make a thorough Itudy of previous conventio n minutel * • • I would avoid the cliq ue spirit."

"Be lure 3.nd l ea rn all you can about the matters that will come to be co n side red at convention."

"If [ were not already ve ry familiar with 'Roberts' Rules of Orde r' I would make th is book a part of my study."

" If there were petitioning chapters present I would make a great effo rt to be open to conviction , and would n ot say 'no' to any q uestion of expansion si nlply beca u se of some prejudice previously formed."

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1] would cndeayor to bring back to my chapter as many ideas .s I could gathtr on intensive c hapler work. "

uNever forget that you are Dot only a local but a nationa1."

"Contact with the leadHS of any organiution of len brings more help and uplift than all else in n convention, so I would open my heart and mind to the personality of the convention'!'

"I woald try to remember that in me my college was up (or inspection ithat I must represent her intelligently, dignified1y, pleasantiy ."

That last is the of :l delegate's duties.

Two delegates to the Evanston Convention now tell us in their le lt ers what th e y would d o if they were delegates again

IF I WERE A DELEGATE AGAIN

Into my mind a picture fla s hes ; a picture as vivid now as it was in the summer of 1912j an image of startlingly brilliant June sun· shine, a shimmer of the bluest blue lake water , and girls, girls everywhere. And the thought comes to me, what would I do if I were a delegate again? And the answer that comes to me over and above all others is-rest and sl eep beforeha!ld.

So the great bulk of preparations for convention is of a negative character, after all the most difficult to achieve. Of course there are many things to do in preparation: to collect the necessary data, records, books, etc; to see that they are in the best condition and abo\'e all to have the facts and the desires of your chapter on the tip of your tongue. But more than all of these, get all 1lhe sleep and rest you can before you go . I remember reading that advice before c onvention and smiling to myself in a knowing fashion. Hut I did n ot know.

Little delegate for 1915 you want plenty of reserve strength, you want to be your brightest and best, at your highest physical and mental development, better to cope with any problem that may arise, better to enjoy fully the fraternity friendships, better to serve Il :B <J>.

GEORGIA SULLIVAN.

Delegate from Missouri B, 1912.

To be sent as a dElegate to the national convention is one of the greatest privileges of fraternity life. Here arc a few biu of advice to prospective delegates:

(1) You cannot be too well informed upon the constitutio n of DB cJ!. Numerous occasions arise when such info rmation is absolutely necessary.

(2) You should be thoroughly familiar with the chapte r roll. so as to be able to identify the other delegates easily.

(3) You should be well versed in your own chapter history and in matters pertaining to your college or university .

(4) You should have as much information about preceding conventions as possible.

( 5) You should be acquainted with the main facts in the history of the Settlement School.

(6) You should be prepared to take minute notes at all business sessions of com'ention in order to make a thorough report to your chapter.

(7) You should endeavor to get acquainted with the other delegates and visitors, as soon as possible, and not cling to your own particular group.

(8) You should not stand in awe of the Grand Ollicers at first, because you will love each one before convention is over, and regret not learning to know th€m sooner.

Columbia A Delegate, 1912.

LULU

M. M CCA BE

Here are a few words of wisdom co n cerning conve ntions from Qllr sisters in other organizations .

The first is especially for alumna!:

You should attend .:onve ntioQ for two reasons; (or the good that you yourself will get from it, and for the good that you will do the fraternity by attending.

The good that you yourself will get from it is by no means an unknown, un ce rtain, or even negligible quantity. 1ft it worth while to renew the memories of old college days, to lay aside the rush and worry of business and look at life for a moment with the joyous irresponsibility of a sophomo re? If so, then come to the convention. 15 it worth while to ren ew the ties 01 friendship which made those college days the best Ilnd brightest that you have ever known, either before or since? I r 50, then come to the convention. There is 3. widening of the mental horizon, a deepening of the springs of life that co mes only from the mingling of many minds. No true fraternity man (woman) ever attended a fraternity convention without becoming a truer and broader fraternity man (woman) for having been there.

The Kappa Alpha fraternity holds up before every man (woman) who takes its vows an ideal that he (she) will do well to follow and cherish throughout

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Hre . The ideal is after all the re al-that which we hold and proudly ca U our own i. but temporal, the ideal is eternal. Pleasant memories. finn friendships, the laughter and sunshine of life, the inspiration to higher thinicing and truer living-these make up the preferred wealth of the world, and you can get them all at your fratHnity co nvenlion .-Knppa Alplta Journal.

The following is adapted from Alpha Gamma Delta:

CONVENTJON

INT ERPRETED

C oming together of nation-wide Alpha Gamma Delta (Pi Beta Phi )

O pportunity to form lasting fr ie ndships.

N e&rer approa c h to true womanhood.

V iew of fraternity 3S a national organization.

E arnest appreciation of the purpose of our fraternity.

N ew meaning to Alpha Gamma Delta's (Pi Beta Phi's) ideals.

T ime and plact! tor that vacation. in

O ptimism, joy and thoroughly At

The following from Kappa Alpha Theta is most suggestive: a Editor traveled for a day in company with c hapter's party nf six. The talk this method of making the most of convention Each memb:r of the party had had a number of chRpters assigned to her "to truly know when convention ends " Thus, by labor, had attained what one de l egate alone can hardly hope to aUain-a knowledge of every chapter in the fraternily

Said ;: \V asn ' t the girl fr o m Z chapter a shy little thing, and how queerly she did her hair:'

"Yes." agreed elMra. on whose list was the shy girl's chapter, "but h er college it! in the country and she lives far from a city 100 . But did you know, she has been twice to Europe and speaks two beside beautiful Eng1i sh. She is so geuuine and her chapter is just lik e her."

"Quite a contra st to her next doo r neighbor from V," said the thoughtful scholarly Edith, Uthst girl has no thoughts but for style and a gay time. What a giddy, selfish lot tbat chapter is."

"Oh, but it isn't" broke in Bess. "the chapter has two classes at the H:ulement, and that Miss Fort is president of the \V omen's league and last year she won a scholarship whi ch she re s igned in favor of a girl whose standing was a half pH ce nt lower and to whom the sc holarship munt the between college and teach ing thi s year."

"A conceited th ing to tell." protested Edith.

"But she did not tell me," added Bess, II I found out about that from the delegate from Florids alumnae."

"The .lumollt delegate [rom Nome." broke in Maud, "gave me the finest idea for a roshia, putT. all the details down to costs , a.nd she is to send me some place ca rds for it."

And 10 it went on and on, here a little glimpse of one chapte r, there a bit of criticism easily clea r ed .".y by some onc who had become acquainted with the criticized chapter. again some ncw phase of • national problem revealed through. chance remark, but through it all the spirit of appreciative sympathy that had not only made this group of girls popular with aU convention but that ,110 had permitted convention to serve them by broadening their outlook, giving them perspective. showing them both the strength and weaknell of the fraternity and thus fitting them to loyally and wisely solve its probleml.-Ka/lta Altha Theta.

Gamma Phi Beta contributes some Hdon'ts" for the delegates:

Don't stand on ceremony-remember that you have but four days in which to become acquainted.

Don't f.il to make a note not only of each detail of busineS! but of each little incident; remember that your chapter will be interested.

Don't hesitate to speak your mind; remember you are the mo uthpiece ()f Tour chapter.

Don't underrate your own judgment. If a Question arises upon whi .: h 10U are not instru c ted, remember that you are the chapter's representative Ilnd that it will trust implicitly in your d@cision.

Don't lose sight of the national idea; r emember that you :are II. part of the whole and go back to your college with a determination to work more earnestly for the welfare of your own chapter 30nd of your futernity

Most forceful and pertinent is this paragraph from Tile Rec ord of I A E :

A national convention is the climax of all fraternity experiences and wisdom, and its influence and :lctivity the most important event in the development of the Fraternity. It might be said that the national conventions of the fraternity are the mile stones of its p r og ress; each one being bener :lnd greater than any of its predecessors. It is important? then, that the delegates be impressed with the seriousness of the task before them-the problems to solve-and not be unmindful of the duties incumbent upon them. It is now too late to 30dvise to the selection of a delegate; b ut it is hoped that the member chosen is the one best 6tted to auist in the solution of the fraternity prob1ems. It is not too late, however, to suggest that the delegate should not be burdened by instructions from the chapter; for at the convention new facts and arguments will be presented which should be conlidered before a decision is made. H e should know the sentiment of his c hapter upon all known problems; but l eft free to use his best judgment. He shou l d resolve to attend every session of the con vention and st3.Y through every session. He should take committee work willingly and make 3 thorough report upon all matters

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co ming before the commi tt ee . H e s h o uld excha ng e experiences and get aew ith o th e r de l ega t es. He s h o uld r eturn to his c hap te r capabl e of making a report of th e co n ve ntion; a nd above all. h e shou l d neve r forget , even for ont moment, th e high ideals and teachings of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Here is a task worthy of th e best that i s in you.

From th e Sigma K a ppa Triangle, we glean:

So ME CoNVENTION COCITATIONS

Wh at h as Sig m a K appa Convention to give m e?

What has Sig ma Kappa Co nv ent io n to give my c hapter?

\Vb at h as Sigma Kappa Convention to give my co ll ege?

Wha t ha s Si gma K appa Convention t o give th e Pan-Hellenic world?

What ha s my sorority expe rien ce bro ught me which is of value to Sigma Kappa Co n vention ?

D o I kn ow the R eg ulati o n s of m y chapte r ?

Do I know the nati o nal co n s tituti on of Sigma K appa?

Do I know e nough Parliamentary law to p r ese nt my i deas a t th e prope r time Ilnd in the prope r form?

THE DE LEGA TE'S TEN CO)IM ANDllENTS

J. Kn ow th y lIconsti tu en cy "

II H ave the co n s titution graven upon thy heart.

nt. Reme mber that th e good of the so r o rit y-at- Iarge, not personal nor chapter int erests, sh o ul d be a t s take.

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VII.

VIlI.

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Lei thy opinions be unb iased.

F ea r not to voi ce th e sentiments of thy c hapter and If') vo te accordi ngly , even though :1 majority be against the e.

Be thou attentive, not voting blindly.

Let your no, be no, a nd your yes, be yes.

Lose not sight of the essentials in dealing with numerous details.

Be thou sure that each measure voted f or is the tru e se ntimen t of th e many. rather than the imposed view of the lew " Lo, fe thy neighbor as thy se lf ."-Cross Ke ys of K 1r K .

MESSAGE TO THE ALUMNLE CLUBS

IN VIEW of the important part which our alumna! clubs now tak e in th e affairs of the fraternity , it is n ecessary that they be adequately r ep r esented at the convention in July Will those clubs wh4ch have not ye t made a rrang ements for delegates, do so at once or appoint some one at convention to represent them?

N arne; and addresses of these delegates and representatives shoul,i be sent to the G r and Vice-president not later than June 10.

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In addition to the many interesting in connection with our Settlement School, such topics as the following will be considered at the alumnre sessions:

1. How may the alumnre club assist the active chapter?

2. What are the best uses of the alumn", advisory committee?

3. What steps shall we take to increase the U ndergraduate Loan Fund?

4. How can we increase the alumn:r subscriptions to THE ARRow?

5. Shall we make alumnre club co nstituti c ns uniform?

6. How shall we apportion the alumnr club tax?

7. Shall we establish an Employment Bureau?

8. Shall we centralize the board of alumn::e officers?

\Vill the alumme pltase send recommendations conce rning or any other questions to come before us, to Mrs. \V P. Spry, 4606 Malden Ave., Chicago, III.? Mrs. Spry, as chairman of the Recommendations Committee will codify them and send copies to each of the delegates before convention.

\Vith best wishes for a most pleasant and profitable reunion of alumnz and active workers at our first Coast Convention, I am Yours fraternally ,

LIDA B. ER.

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" E VERY Ameri ca n should see the San Diego Exposition, architecturally, it is the most wonde r ful achievement I have ever seen."

This opinion, expressed by John Barrett, director genera l of the Pan-American Union, gives in a few words the sentiment of the hundreds of thousands who have visited the grounds of the PanamaCalifornia Exposition at San Diego, which opened on New Yea r 's Eve for the entire year 19 15.

Even the most optimistic prophets failed to realize what a draw in g ca rd the San Diego Exposition would be to persons from all pa r ts of t he co unt ry. Mo r e than 42,000 pe r sons attended the opening New Year's Eve; and since then, thousands have passed th rough the Exposition gates every day . Although the low railroad rates from eastern points did not go into effect until March I. the great stretch

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of country east of the Rocky Mountains was well represented before that date among the visitors who thronged the Exposition grounds. As San Diego 1.5 one of the most- important military and naval centers on the Pacific Coast, the army and navy of the United States of CQurse plays prominent parts in the life of the Exposition. The land parade on January 2 to celebrate the opening of the first allyear exposition in history was one of the largest military parades

ever seell on the Pacifi c Coast. Since that time, the First Battalion, Fourth Regiment U. S. Marine Corps, which is camped on the Exposition grounds, has held daily drills , music being furnished by the regimental band, which also is stationed at the Exposition for the entire year 1915. A division of United States cava lr y accompanied by the First Cavalry band is also stationed in the park, whHe sailors and bands from the warships in the harbor furnish the naval features.

A CROSS LA LACUNA DE LAS FLOR.ES FliOM THE HOME ECONOXY BUIUlING Copyri,ht. 1914, Panama-California Exposition

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Guarding the entrance to San Diego Bay, is Fort Rosecrans with two additional companies of coast artillery and the Thirteenth Coast Artillery Band for Exposition year. All military and naval bands play on the Exposition grounds.

]0 the harbor, of course, are numerous warships. The cruiser Sml Diego, flagship of the Pacific fleet under the command of Admiral Thomas Benton Howard, was p r esent at the opening of, the Exposition, as ' were a score of other war vessels, including cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Sailors and marines from the fighting .. ships are always to be seen about the Exposition grounds.

A unique feature of the military side of the Exposition is the presence of the Twenty-fifth Regiment Band from Ensenda, Mexico. The Twenty -fifth Regiment is famous throughout the southern republic for its fidelity to whatever government may be in possession of the national capital. The soldiers fought for Diaz against Madero, for Madero against Carranza, for Carranza against Yilla; and now that Villa has :Mexico City, they are staunch adherents of his cause. The regiment's band is one of the best known military organizations in Mexico; and on account of the short distance between this city and Ensenda, the capital of Lower California, where the band is stationed, the Mexican musicians are frequent visitors at the Exposition.

The r e are many unique features at the San Diego Exposition! and their number and importance is due directly to the existence of the fair at San Francisco, at first thought a calamity but now recognized as a decided boon , for it was competition that forced an Diego to create something different from the conventional, and bener than it.

Several of the buildings are large, but except for the great dome and tower of the California State Building , standing at the west approach near the end of the great Puente Cabrillo, few are tall. Instead they spread luxudously over broad spaces on the mesa which looks down on the sea and the strand of Coronado, or back up the fertile valleys to the Sierras, with long, cool cloisters and arcades lining their Instead of baking streets there are prados , bordered with acacia and lawns and thick beds of gladioli and poinsettias and low shrubbery which droops through the arches of the arcades. Up the walls, up to the Spanish domes and towers and the belfries 'where pigeons nest and mission bells swing, clambers

VIEW LooKING TOWARD THE \V EST GATE, PANA)(A-CALIFORNIA ExPOunos-, SAN Dn:GO

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the gorgeous growth of rose and hon eysu ckle and bougainvillea, the superb vine whose bloom does much to make a fairyland of southern California.

A portal invites one past the cloister, and beyond there lies a quiet patio, green with foliage illuminated by the color of an occassional flowering shrub, murmuring with the soft play of a fountain. A rug-draped balcony on the wall of an adjoining palace stirs a lazy spirit of romance, and a recolleetion of Spanish tradition, and a complete understanding when the shrubbery stirs slightly and there appears a slim cabaJlero singing his serenade to the girl behind the railing. The guards and attendants in this dream city are conquistadores and caball eros. The dancing girls who hold carnival in the plazas and along the Prado are Spanish dancing girls.

San Diego is the furthest south of the Pacific ports of this country, 600 miles n earer the Panama Canal than San Francisco , and equipped with a 22 -mile natural harbor. So far, San Diego should be the first port to benefit from the opening of the Canal. But further than that, the curvature of the coast places San Diego much further east than the ports to the north, and , still more important, the grade over the Sierras at that point is much lower than elsewhere. These are important considerations in the matter of railroads, and naturally that is an important factor in that the goods brought through the Canal must be shipped to the back country by rail, and the fann and mineral products of the back country must be shipped down to tidewater by rajl.

San Diego, then, has an individual interest in the development of the back country, but broader than that interest is the genuine intent of the Exposition to stimu lat e bigger things, the upbuilding of the entire west , and in this p r ogram Washington and Montana and Kansas are taking as much interest as Nevada and New Me."(ico and lah and the other states which may be considered as in the southwest. Their s t ate buildings are devoted to a sort of "follow-up" system of the Exposition's program for developing the nation's agricu ltural r esou r ces, by methods as novel as the architectural pro· gram and as effective.

The "back-to-the-land " movement has been urged by pen and brush and oratory. It can be conceded that the country is fairly weIJ aware that there shou ld be a shifting of population from city tn count ry instead of country to city. It can be conceded that the

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city man who has made more or less of a failure, and his brother has made more or less of a success in the metropolis, alike have a longing to get out of the dust and turmoil and tension of town and into the clear air of the fields. But the lar.d is not occupied. Tho government has held land shows, but the movement to the farm i:; not a big o ne.

The failure of these methods is due to just one thin g-the lack of any real information to the possible farmer as to how he was going to get back to the land and what he was going to do when he got there. The same is true of world's fair agricultural exhibits of the past, which have shown majestic pyramids of o ranges and a great array o f other fruits and vegetables and cereals and grasses. N one were materially different from those the possible farmer might have seen in his own city at the grocery or produce exchange. That is another significant difference between San Diego's new type and the old world's fair.

The man who walked through the palace of machinery at the world's fair of the past and saw absolutely nothing to catch and retain his interest will not see that sort of machinery exhibit. At the north end of the grounds there is a great tract of land. Through that tract are moving the heaviest tractors, the giant cultivators, the latest style in reapers and binders and threshers. The city man who would not look for a minute at idle machinery in a great hall, or at a sheaf of wheat in another great hall, will look long at a motordriven machine which sows the wheat and another reaps it and gets it ready for the mills.

Down the Alameda from that large scale farm d isp lay is the model intensive farm. who can afford Many there are in the back-to-the-Iand movement to take up 160 or 320 acre tracts, equip them and cultivate them, but many others there are who for financial or physical reasons can do nothing of the sort. But jf these men can see a five acre tract bearing a variety of fruits, and by intensive cultivation bearing a still greate r variety of vegetables in the soil beneath the fruit trees, if they can see a little section given over to vineyards, another to berries, another to a small poultry fann, if they can see that this tract produces f our or five times as much as the same area did under old style methods, and with less labor, if they can catch the spirit of the "little lander", who gets lIa sure living and a good

profit on a little !andU-then there is a meaning to them . The effort has been to show just such men exactly what they can e xpect if they are willing to work.

In the center of the model intensive fann is a typical western bungalow. And while the prospective farmer is discovering that modem machinery is saving him the drudgery that his grandfather had to bear, the prospective farmer's wife is discovering that other machinery will save her the drudgery that was her grandmother's. She will see that the model bungalow has equipment just as complete as the city apartment.

Both of them will discover that if they could make money on a small tract, other city people could do the same with a similar tract nearby, and others in the other direction-in brief, that intensive farming means colonizing, and colonies mean good roads and good schools and churches and the other essentials of community life The principal terrors of farm life are shown to be only bogies.

Across the ravine from that intensive farm is an orchard in full bearing, designed to show the operation of the latest type of orchard machinery, and across the way is orchard, of citrus fruit, picked from the best orcha rds of southern California, showing the orange, the grapefruit, the lemon , the kumquat and the other citrus fruit growing alongside the paths. The exquisite fragrance of the citrus blossoms lingers long in the nostrils of him who has sniffed it.

That is the spirit of all the exhibits, many of them out of door.; , many indoors in the missions, thp palaces, the cathedrals of the Spanish city. The broad lawns, the grove of pepper trees, the patios, the wide stretch of open coun try all about, stretching down to the canyons, encourage one mightily. He realizes that this, after all. is a concentration in a small space of the whole life of the new west, and he is filled. with a longing to see more, to see the great vineyards of olive and orange, to see the vast apple and cherry country to the north, to roam in the forest reserves and up the slopes of the snowcapped Rockies, and over the empire beyond. It is typically western , this, but its great lesson, the utilization of possibilities, is as applicable to the cut -over timber lands of WisCClnsin, the "Oats" of the Mississippi Valley, the neglected lands of the south and of New England. He who is willing to l ea.rn ca.n learn a plenty , wherever his interest may lie.

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There is something of this spirit in the IIPainted Desert," wntch started as an amusement, but has developed into an education. Surrounded by an adobe wall and a cedar post s tockade, its rocky form,· tion, its sand, its very cactus like to the scenery of the real Painted Desert of Arizona, it seeks to concentrate in a small space the real native life of the southwest. It is cut by a high mesa. On one side lies the reserve of the Navajos and the other wandering tribes, on the other pueblos of the village Indians, the Hopi, Zuni , Taos and the Rio Grande pueblos. The Indians have been bro ught to San Diego to build the homes they will occupy in 1915 , and they have wrought well, thanks to a deal of encouragement from the white men who have performed all the heavy weTk. Braves and and papooses 3TC there, and the pottery is being shaped, the rugs and blankets are being woven, the ornamtnts being pounded out, exactly as the arts and crafts of the red men have been carried on for centuries. The tribal ceremonies take plac e in reconstructed kivas which stand in the open space before th e high adobe dwellings. This should rank properly with the ethnology exhibit at the other eud of the grounds.

Amusements there are in plenty, for no exposition could succeed without its Pike or Midway-the HIsthmus" at San Diego , as a frest) reminder of what it is the Panama-CalHornia Exposition is celebrating. There are entertainments of a hundred varieties, but the impression exists that the casual touriSt who goes to San Diego in 1915 for amusement will get that, but in addition will away with an educatjon.

CONVENTION DAILY

AT THE coming Convention Pi Beta Phi will undertake for the fir t time , the publi cation of a Co nventi on Daily, the paper to contain convention notes, bulletins and announcements and articles on pertinent topics prepared by able members of fraternity .

Under the editorship of Mrs. ·David Babcock, this Daily promis.. to be one of the most interesting features of convention. To delegates , nothing could be of more interest than these daily issues and to Pi Phis throughout the country , the paper offtrs an o pportunity for receiving djrect news f r om convention .

In order that the paper may be an assured success, it is necessary that Mrs. Babcock have the support of the entire fraternity in the matter of prepaid subscriptions. (Any profit above expenses will b'! dtvoted to Pi Phi needs-probably the Settlement School Fund.)

Price-to Pi Phis attending Convention , twenty-five cents. -to other subscribers, five cents additional for mailing. Send subscription direct to Mrs. David T Babcock, 905 Contra Costa Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

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WITH the graduation of the five seniors in Jufie New York II as an active chapter passes out of existence. Since 1910, however, there has been a New York B alumne association distinct from the New York alumnre club, which aims to hold the ever-scattering girls together. An annual meEting and party to the seniors and active girls has been held each June together with several reunions during the winter. We feel that now, especially, there are great possibilities in this organization which from now on must include all New York Betas.

New York B which was chartered May 28, 1904, has initiated sixty-nine girls and thirteen studying at the univers'ity have affiliated with it. Of the sixty-nine initiates fifty-five g r aduated with the degree of A.B., six hold the A .M. , three higher diplomas from Teachers' College or Savage's and one in a Ph.D. Of the eighty-two members of the chapter fifty-seven are life subscribers to THE AllOW. One member has held a national office for five years, one has served on a committee three years and of the affiliatES, one has served as a member of the Grand Council and ODe as a province officer.

In May, 1913, the commission which hac been jnvestigating the fraternity situation all winter reported and the faculty decided that the fraternities should hold no initiations for th ree years. This wa., very nearly equivalent to abolishing them since, in the fall of 1916 there will be no fraternity girls in college. members of the class of 19 15 having been the last initiated. In the spring of 1914 an Pan-Hellenic committee prepared a digni:6ed note to the faculty asking for a reconsideration of the question in view of the fact that the college, if cons tant letter.. to The Bulletin cou ld be trusted, had not benefited by the change. The faculty, however, preferred to allow their decision of May, 1913, to stand.

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The three charges against rraternities were nati onal affiliation, lack of democracy or class and race discrimination and secrecy. The Y. W. C. A. has been censored by the prime agitator against f,,ternities on the ground of national affiliation ; letters against the English Club as undemocratic-because it is self perpetuating and appears to select members because of social · rather than literary qualification-have appeared in the college paper this spring. Last fall the local Pan-Hellenic invited the college to a discussion of the question which created a more natural atmosphere , less dread of Ilsecrecy." A straw vote by classes was tak en in March on the question, "Do you want fraternities? " resulting as foll o w5: in 1915, 47 fOT, 50 against, 2 indifferent; 1916, 16 fOT , 58 against , 0 indifferent; 1917,43 forI 78 against , 10 indifferent; and in 1918, 53 for , 69 against , 5 indifferent. This vote is interesting as show ing that in 1915 the last class to have representati\'es initiated and 1918 whic"il has heard little of the discussion have the largest minorities fo:; fraternities.

So it all seems quite hopeless. II B <I> loses not only the possibility of many more strong girls but also the ever young enthusiasm of a strong chapter which means mu ch to club life in New York. Membtrs of the fraternity who come to Columbia to study will miss th"! familiar pin about the halls. To those of us whose dearest memories a r e bound up in fraternity friendships and who had hoped to keep cullege ever close through fraternity associations the loss is much and we do not like to talk about it. We can only hope tlirough your faith and enthusiasm to stay good Pi Phis just the same'

SOPHIE P. WOODMAN.

LETTERS FROM THE PI BETA PHI FELLOWS FOR 1914-15

Dear Pi Phis:

SColumbia University, April 15, 1915.

EVERAL letters have already been written from Columbia and I wonder what there is l eft for me to say. Surely New York City is far too large a subject and tou well known to many of yo u , for me to attempt.

There are six Pi Phis enrolled in the various departments of the Universi ty this year and we have had luncheon together eve r y

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Wednesday. We have much enjoyed the New York a lumn ., club which has looked after us very co rd ia lly.

The Pi Phis, who are teachers, may be interested to know what the present day tendencies in the ed u cationa l field appear to be, ai viewed from Teachers' College . Since the advent of psychology and socio log y into the realm of education there has been nothing which has already arid is so destined to sti ll further change educational practice as scientific experimentation, testing and scales representing standards of achievement.

If you are not familiar with the use of scales the idea of a quantitative measure of abilities in drawing, reading and co mp osition seems almost impossible. An ob ject ive scale in respect to whose meaning all competent thinkers ag r ee is bound t o be a better measure of mental achievement than a sing l e individual opinion. A little practice gives amazing ease and accuracy in their use.

Many of you are no doubt familiar with the Thorndike and Ayres writing scales and the Thorndike drawing sca l e. Dr. Thorndike is now at work on a reading scale. The Hilll"gas compositio n scale is being used widely and Dr. Thorndike has very r ecently added a preliminary extension The Buckingham and Ayres spelling tests probably give the mo st scientific measure of spellin g ability and the Courtis arithmetic tests are so widely used they are fast becoming household words in education.

There are, I know, some of our women in administrative positions who are interested in School Surveys , which are many by their attempts to ac tually measure, scientifica lly , the efficiency of school systems. The report of a survey of the schoo l system of Butte, Montana , made under the direction of Dr. Strayer is now out and is typical of the b est of that sort of work.

We are hearing much of "Junior High Sc hools" which is One of the newest movements in secondary education The juni">T high school is a reorganization of grades 7 , 8 and 9 with the earlier intrc :duction of high school and vocational subjects providing for individual differences in terms of special abilities and probable future: needs. Los Angeles and Grand Rapids have probably the best type; at present.

Even of more benefit than the actual work here is the professional spirit wh ich is spJendid. "V hen you realize the number of educational

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leaders assembled on the faculty of Teachers' College, it is only natural that they should have built up a real professional college for teachers_ My own work here has been pleasant and profitable_ My practicum problems have been in mathematics and I hope by tlle end of the year to have some definite results in way of number concept tests.

If this letter has been most pedagogical, I can only apologize by saying Uthat's why I am here," Next time. I'll write on IIPresent day tendencies in Fifth Avenue styles," or " Impressions of the sometimes called \Vhite."

Yours in Pi Beta Phi,

ESTALINE WILSON.

My WORK, for this year, in New York City, has been along the lines of Social Service. Specifically, the part of the Social Service work, which I propost: to enter, is that recently uegan by the Peoples' Institute of New York City, in cooperation with the Board of Education. Special training for this work is offered in connection with the Peoples' Institute.. As the work is '1 distinct departure from any, heretofore attempted, perhaps you will bt: interested in a short description of it.

In this city, where in order to play at all, children must play in crowded streets; young boys and girls must seek amusement in dance ha lis, thus encountering all sorts of wrong influences; men must, or do, at least , seek bars or poliiical haunts, and each member of a family is obliged to go his or her own way, which results in a further breaking up of family feeling and home interest. Everyone knows of the positive dangers of commercialized recreation.

New ground, new floor space, being out of the question her"! where it can be rented almost by inches, the only solution of the difficulty appears to be, to make further efforts to utilize some or the physical surroundings at hand. The most conspicuous and practical centers we.re conceded to be the public schools existing in every neighborhood and maintained as they are, solely for the spreading of knowledge among the people. Th e pe<!ple of the community could feel the utmost freedom in making use of the public schools, as they are nonsectarian city property. Consequently, the New York Social

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Service Committee secured from the Board of Education, permission to use for experimentation these enormous facilities which lie idle f u rty per cent of the time.

They immediately began work in several buildings, and carried it on in individual ways, according to the needs of the various communities, and at present, Public School 63, Public School 95. and Public School 17 have been developed, until they reach thousands of people, and are largely self·supporting

The work is not "carr ied on" by a community center worker, for the people, but under the leadership of a community center worker, (whose effort is to infiuence and to invite the people to institute their own activities, and to make them self·supporting) the people themselves perfect a genuine neighborhood organization, which takes responsibility, raises funds, keeps a treasury, and formulates policies, al\ for use in the neighborhood.

Dancing, motion pictures, debates, theatricals, neighborhood orchestras, clubs, (of men, women, or children, organized for numberless purp?ses) medical aid, and dentistry, visiting nurses and summer milk stations, are some of the activities which are carried on, emanat· ing from the community center, by thousands of people, for the neighborhood.

The community centers do use the popular amusements, such as the dance, the debate and the motion picture, all as a means to end These activities are quickly made self-supporting, and they produce money with which to carryon more substantial activities, and furthermore, they provide, in the neighborhood, clean, orderly, healthful recreation, to which all members of a family are eligible, and which are surely infinitely more desirable than the competing commercial dance hall. There is muc h to be said , if space allowoo. as the scope of this new work is limitless, but the supreme effort of the community center is Dot to bring in something from the outside, but to teach the neighborhood how to develop, to use and enjoy its own resources. This, in brief is the work I am interested in, and of wHeh I am making a study.

ALLEYNE ARCHIBALD

WOMEN IN BUSINESS

By M..ut.v S. VAli iUUUN

Tbe followin, article is based on a longer paper on the same subject which tbe author prepared and read at a recent meding of the New York Alamnc Club wbere it aroused much interest Mary Meerue Van Keuren. Colorado B. ' 87. has had an unusual busines, experience. For the past eighteen yean, she hu b«n wilh the Guggenheim Exploration Company and vuioul Ill· lOci ate companies s uch a. the Braden Copper Company, Braden Copper Mines Company, Chile Exploration Company, Cbile Copper Company and Yukon Gold Company; and has had exceptional opportunities for st udyiol the burine'l world of today.

THIS will be my first attempt to interest a number of people in a subject which is very vital to me and not found in books or magazines. I have read books and articles about women in business, some frivolous, some fanatical, but very few that seeme<.l the result of a large experience.

While I have been working for almost eighteen years, I the fact that my own experience has been limited , because I have always been with the same company. My work has given me the opportunity to observe closely and to know not only working women, but some of the most capable and astute business men in this country. I have watched the organization and development of some of the largest business corporations ill the United States and I have seen with interest the awe with which a small group of notable names can inspire the entire people of a nation. This awe may beget admiration or aversion, but it hypnotizes the people and through them the legislative, judicial and executive departments of our government.

You can almost count the names of the families who represent the control of the business of this country on your ten fingers. When a new business enterprise is undertaken if one of these magical names ic; attached to it, its success is assured. if there is any bona fide reason for such an enterprise. The people will rush to put their savings int·) the hands of one of these successful men and think themselves mas! fortunate to be ahle to thus secure the services of such a "Captai n of I ndustry" to invest and manage their savings, the f mit perhaps of their life-long labor. From that moment the investor win insist upon favorable legislation on an lines aifectiyg the industry and look upon all individual s or political parties who favor a legislative surv ei llance or limitation of control as personal enemies. So the small investor often fights against his own interest and that of the country when

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he fights against government supervision and against the government holding the directors of a corpo rati on as responsible for th e acts of that corporation as an individual is held responsible for the management of his personal business.

The truth is that as a rule these "Captains" do not have a great deal - of their money in these new co rporati ons. One sees what he believes is a good business opportunity. He forms a developing company with a very small ca pital just enough to secure certain options and rights and a working base. The "Captain" and a few of his friends hold the entire stock of this developing co mpany and then they form a holding company which is to finance this developing company. The I'Captain" and his friends give all the stock of the operating company, wh ich has cost them a song for the amount of the investment and a controlling interest i n the holding co mpany. This holding company is capi talized for a comparatively fabulous amount, the "Capta in" and his friends get over fifty per cent of the stock and the dear people rush to buy the "minority stock," which in many instances is ninety -nine per cent water and is all to be controlled by "Captains" who have not one cent of money invested, who will have the people fighting to give them unlimited control, because the people have faith in the name of Rockefeller , Morgan, Schiff, etc.

A large proportion of the minority stockholders are women, btlt there are no women on the boards of these large companies, no women on the executive committees. If a woman has a very large interest, she may be granted a representative on the board, but that representative will be a man.

I have shown that all of the principal industries are controlled by a small coterie who have the majority of the stock in the beginning without cost to themselves. Then. in order that the minority stockholders may be happy and available as subscribers to the next bond or stock flotation, and in order that the IICaptains" may receive remuneration for the use of their names and their personal tion, dividends must be paid. The cost of operations must be reduced to minimum and the earnings made as great as possible. Thus , the "Captains'" names have I greater power and the minority stockholder is happy and votes him more power .

The directors require their ma,pagers to lower the cost of pro· constantly. Human life cannot be sustained without food,

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shelter and clothes, therefore, the human problem is worked out be· tween the managers and the laborers. So far as 1 have been able to observe women are not found today the directors nor among the managers of business, but among the laborers.

The directors correspond to the rulers of nations, the managers to military chiefs and the labor..s to the soldiers. The rulers decide upon waT, the chiefs train the soldiers and th ey must do their bidding or meet ce rtain death. A long drawn out war is most exha usting and demoralizing. The war between the captains of industry for abso· Jute power in their particular realms is as disastrous to the physical, intellectual and spiritual life of this nation, as is the war of Europe. [ will make this statement without fcar of hun est contradiction from anyo ne who knows social and economic conditions today.

N a man who follows the Golden Rule will be tolerated as a manager by the directors. Now the Golden Rule is the rule of happiness. Its operation gives pleasure to the one who practices it and the one toward whom it is practiced. You! th erefo re! seldom see a truly happy or co ntented manag e r. He is able to find entertainment with the money he makes out of practicing injustice toward. his fellows! but he docs not find happiness or peace. It is because 3. woman will always see the laborers as human beings that she is not allowed to be a manag e r or director of any of th e powerf ul business o rganizations of today.

Here is our hop e for tomorrow:

Capital can do little without labor and labor will starve without capi tal. In this count ry labor has a voice and the POWf;T to demand that directors and managers be held responsible as individuals, fOJ" the right conduct of the busine 5 of the co rporat ion and that the Iztt71U11l dement in commerce have full recognition. When labor is as inte lligently organized as capital (and this is possible) the human element will have full recognition in business and then woman will find a demand for her counsel as well as for her mental and physical labor. There is a great stirring now among the masses. The government is trying to investigate these conditions and while most of the witnesses are allowed to cove r themselves pretty th orough ly wit" whitewash, the people know the truth and they will some day grow • brave enough to declare it. 'Vh en any truth is steadfastly declarer! it destroys, not only the false stat ement but the superst ructure which is raised upon it.

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The woman suffrage movement is one of the great factors in the present stirring in the masses, g iving courage to demand a fair po;;tion for labor. Woman suffrage is really making an appeal for the universal rights of the human race , and eventually the appeal will awaken both men and wom en to the fact that they themselves hav e given up th eir right to the enjoyment of the fruit of their labor , because they have not us ed their minds nOf thought out their proble ms . They have always looked for a savior, but they will some day see that they cau save themselves , when they use the powers they have in themselves This government is of the people, by the peopl e and when the people real ize this, it will be a governmen t for tho! p t'O ple.

I was asked to give a talk upon "Women in Business." I have taken this to mean women who occupy positions of recognized authority where their opinions influence the po li cy of the corporation. I kno w of two such women . I also know many women who have' keen intelligence, cultivation and initiative whose pluck and indomitable determination to succeed have for ced their recog nition as efficient departmental managers where they must carry out the will of the general management . In many cases the success of nominal heads of the business is based upon the efficiency of these women. But th e two principa l barriers, in a business woman's life, are fi rst the stupidity of men who fear to give recognition to a woman's ab ility just because she is a woman, and second fear of men to test the Golden Rul e in business.

N EWS FROM LITTLE PI G EO N

THE Pi Beta Phi Settlement School closed its year on the second of Ap r il, after eight full months of school. During the entire year there were four tea chers. For th e first five mo nths we had the only school in the district, teaching the free school, which was supposed to be attended by all children of school age , namely, from eight to sixteen. The state has had a compulsory school law only for two years and unfortunately in Sevier County the law is not enforced , every case which has come up before the court having been thrown out. Therefore with.o0 backing from the county, to co mpel attendan ce in practically impossible. However it is gratifying to know that our average attendan ce, low as it sounds, is higher than any other in the co unty, with possibly two exceptions, both of those

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schools similar to ours which have been in operation for a number of yean;. During the fall we had at one time on our roll 130, and that month we had an average attendance of practically 100. That wu during September During October the church here held protracted meetings for two weeks, and the schoo l became badly disorganized, and did not recover fully till after the Christmas holidays. Since Christmas we have had on OUT roll 100 different names, with an average attendance during the first two months of 80 and during the last month of 60. The last low average is due to the fact that ali the older ones usually drop out of school when warm weather begins in order to help in preparing for sowing seed. OUT attendance kept up unusually well, none from our ninth grade dropping out, and only three from the seventh and eigth. The sixth grade suffered badly, made up, as it is, of "left overs" who are in general put there because they are too old to be put lower down , and with whom we do work according to their needs and deficiencies.

During the year we have had on the roll 158, of whom 75 werl! girls and 83 were boys. They are divided as follows: ninth grade, 4 boys; seventh and eighth grades, 15-6 boys and 9 girls; fifth and sixth grades, 16-14 boys and 2 girls; fourth grade, 24-11 boys and 13 girls; third glade, 34-19 boys and 15 girls; second grade, 28-11 boys and 17 girls; first grade 31-11 boys and 20 girls. Of this entire number 9 were over 21 at the end of the year, the oldest being about 30. Three of those who were in our ninth grade during the latter part of the year and one from the eighth grade are planning to take the teachers' examination and will teach next year. provided th ey get certificates.

The most important thing, perhaps. which has been accomplished in school work this year is the grad ing of the school. Now the larger part of the school is well graded, each person doing approximately what his ability requires This is true approximately for the first four grades, though there are still some exceptions. Of course when a girl of fourteen enters who can scarcely read at all, we do the best we can for her and put her in the third grade and try to give her individual attention , instead of putting her in the primer. But there are few such instances at present. We had one man nearly thirty enter, who could scarcely read. During the two months that he stayed in school he made considerable progr ess. The most notable progress made is that of a young man now eighteen. He ente red school a year

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ago last January. Before that he had spen t all his time hunting, loafed around the stores in his overalls, and could sca rce ly read at all and could not write so one cou ld read his name. H e is now doing straight sixth grade work, passed a test in the advanced geography with a grade of over 80, joined the chu rch la st fall, and is as co urteous a young gentleman as one would care to meet.

The people here gauge ou r progress by the advan cement in metic and readin g, and by ability to spe ll. To know the meaning of words is entirely superfluous. We have emphasiz€d the meaning and the use of words, and have aroused a healthy desire to be able to use every word spelled. This is one of the things in which this year has shown marked progr tss Miss Young has proved herself most skillful in getting the children to sing; and the primary grades this year have learned over forty new songs . Their singing has become noted through this section and is one of the things most remarked on by the people. The third and fourth grades have also l earned many pieces, but they had become so thoroughly steeped in the idea that the bea ut y of si nging depends on the volume of the sound that their work is not so satisfactory from the standpoint of the music tea cher. There have been two classes in coo king and two classes in sewing. The older gir ls have. made princess slips, some of them have made either dresses or shirt waists, they have learned to make button holes, and seve ral have learned to crochet and to embroider. Many of them did hemstitching for Christmas presents. This year several of the girls have tried at home, things they have learned in cooking class . Last year it was hard to induce them to try new things.

In permanent improvements to the property, we have made COil· siderab le progress. A Ilew o rchard of th ree dozen trees has been started; two currant bushes have been set out j fifteen rhubarb roo ts planted j a model hen house built and an eighth ac re ft!oced in for a poultry yard; a board walk laid between the schoolhouse and the co ttage; a baseball field cleaned and leveled ; the old barn torn down; basketball posts made; a bridge built across Bearskins; about dozen ornamental shrubs and rosebushes set o ut; a strawberry bed started.; a new garden fenced in; all this besides the finishing and furnishing of the new building. A large number of good hooks have been add ed to the library , so that we now have approximately five hundred books, no t counting paper covered classics (or use in reading

classes. Of course many of these books are old text books sent in the boxes, but most of these have provtd "aluable as reference books where none others are available.

The sentiment of the county toward the sch o ol is ' one of ou r strongest assets. 'Vhereas thue is still strong prejudice against \Q here jn the neighborhood. due largely to jealousy on the part of some who are afraid their own people 'will be cheated out of a job of teaching because "we foreigners" come in , and to fear on the part of some of the older unes who still suspect that we may be some different religious denomination coming to start a rival church, yet ouhtidt: of immediat e vicinity c,"cryon e i s o ur friend.

The business men of the county seat are loud in the praise of the work done, and the greater part of the people here are our warm friends. The school is on a firmer basis than at any pre\rjous time in its history, and the prospects are bright for a more successful school during the coming year than during the past.

MARY O. POLLARD, H ead Resident.

WHAT A FRATERNITY GIRL THINKS

(This discussion commenced in the )-Iarch number is concluded in thts issue. The chapters were told to write frankly, with the assurance thlit material too inJimate for publication would be seen only by members 1)( the Grand Council. A number of the contributions which have not been selected for publication have been found of use in preparing the topics (or convention disc u ssions.)

Having the convention on the Pacific Coast this year means more to the western chapte rs than any chapter in the East can possibly V d realize. It is true that we seem to be separated from F A f or H the other provinces by an undefinable ba rri er but rom a os/ess. bl b" d h" h I IS an lI1excusa ea rn er an one w I C am su r e will drop after next summer's of getting acquainted and kn owing what we are really like out here.

We chapters have always felt that we ha\"e had no oppor tunity to become 3cquainted with our Grand Officers, for they rarely trav el this far ' Vest, hut now convention will give us this chance and we are su rely going to make the most of it.

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Finally, and most important of all, convention will mean that Wt will feel as i f we were more truly a part of n B as if we had a larger part in its aims and aspirations. and I am sure we will all gain from it boundless n enthusiasm.

CALIFORNIA A .

We are looking forward to co nventi on with great eagerness. thou gh we cannot all be there in person we will ce rtainly be there in

J1iews on Extension Des';red spirit and will gain great help from what our representatives have to tell us and from the reco rds of the meetings .

We hope to get a greater knowledge of what other chap ters are doing and through this knowledge to help our chapter to become stronger. Every chapter can co ntribute something to the common fund of helpfulness and we can each one be strengthened by drawing on thi s fund. The convention in this organization as in other one has been found t o be th e best m eans of distributing this helpfulness and co nsequently we look to it for ideas and suggestions which can be obtained in no o ther place.

One thing that we as a chap ter are looking forward to especially, is the discussion of our extension policy. ' Ve realiz e that the question of where and when to put chapters into colleges is an important one and we are anxious to hear the views of different chapters on this subject.

Altogether, we know that we are going to be drawn into closer bonds of sympathy with th e oth e r c hapters and the Grand Officers of our beloved fraternity of th e win e and blue .

N EBRASKA B .

I am going to attempt t o tell you just what our chapter hopes to receive from the convention. It will be very hard to do because all A Fn» H lIps th e girls hope t o receive so much . When the comOne Chapter iog convention is talked over in fraternity meetings Expects the girls respond with dreamy eyes and with an exultant ring in their voices.

When one girl was asked what she would expect to get from th. convention, she said, flOh I just everything." And to be sure that was the general opinion although others were more specific in their answers. A few helps that the fraternity as a whole thought they would receive from the convention were :

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A closer relationship with the Grand Council and other officials.

A wider outlook upon II B 4> as an organization

An opportunity of hearing what II B <I> really accomplishes.

An opportunity of learning what nBc)) means to the alumna: who aTe not in school but still wear their arrow with pride.

To hear of the extent of II B <1>. The girls in a smaller college never can realize the extent of IT un less they have the opportunity of going to a convention.

IOWA A.

Surely we have not as yet fallen into a rUl, but we need new ideas and new methods of doing things to keep us au t of such a danger. Tilt Nuds of We read of the Settlement School in THE ARROW, an Eastern but our delegate can tell us about it. It seems Cha.pter such a wonderful thing, but too unreal to the majority of us. ] ust now, to those who have second semester initiation, that is the foremost in our mmds. How can we plan for it and make it mean just what we most want it to? Again the answer comes back that convention will give us new ideas and added material from which to work. How can we show that this steadily increasing feeling con· ccrning frat erniti€s is not based on the true facts of the case? It is a question which is brought continually before our minds. We have problems both great and small, but convention means to us the solu· tion of many of them.

MASSACHUSETTS A.

A broadening influence is bound to result from contact with girls representin g so many different chapters. \V e are sure that this con·

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Broadening Influ ence tact will promote a more sisterly feeling between us all, and especia lly with chapte rs outside of our province with whom we are less intimate.

The scholarship problem is a rather grave one with us; how can we promote study among o ur resident gi rls , over whose social engagements we have no control?

To what extent should we consider that our co llege loyalty should precede our fraternity loyalty?

Our present system of pledging is Dot satis factory. We feel sure that the California convention will help us t o solve these problems and stimulate us to more earnest realization of what we as a fraternity should stand for.

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We look to convention with the expectation not only of gaining a broader outlook, of realizing th e expanding idea l s of the frater-

T L Q . / nity, and of enjoying the indefinab l e pleasu r e of ue uest,Qtl 0

] I .'. commun ion with the wearers of the arrow, but u,u m/'al,oll a lso of improving OUT chapte r to make it a more vital factor in its and hence in the world of the "wine and silve r blue."

In struggling along in the "Trial and Error" method, perhaps we have learned something that may help you , but we are sure that you have more to give us. OUT problems, still unsolved, are: sophomore pledging, the relati on of the upperclassman to the freshman , making the fraternity necessary to the fa c ulty, the interdependenc e of the fratt-rnity girl and the n on fraternity girl, and finally, th t! advisability of June initiations . This last has been brought to our attention because of the woeful ignorance of the fraternity, its meaning, its ideals, and its workings, in the case of giIls who do not r eturn to a chapter after initiation in the spring.

But with the return of our delegate we want the message that n B cfI will hold its next co nvention in Oklahoma City . All of us can not go to Berkeley , so we want you to come to us next time

OKLAHOMA A.

We hope to find out the measures and methods by which other chapters raise the standard of scholarship which is such an important question before us all.

Th e Duins 0/ Ihe Baby C.laplcr

As Pan-Hellenic regulations are as new in our college as w e are in n 4> we hope to get new ideas about rushing and the regulations governing it.

Concerning frattrnit it:S as a whole we hope to know the ideas of our olde r sisters in IT cJ) concerning extension and fraternity opposition.

NEW YO'I{ r .

One of the greatest benefits we shall derive from the coming convention will be that which comes from renewing our interest in the national organization and from meeting again Convention Will the officers of our big fraternity. \Ve do not intend to be se lfish when we seem to forget for a while that there are those at the "head" who are working' every minute to keep our organization in its splt-ndid co nditi on ' Yet,

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absorbed as we are, in our daily tasks and trials we do forget, and sometimes perhaps fail to appreciate aU that is being done for each one of us. This con,-ention will wake us up and it will be with renewed enthusiasm and energy that we return home. It will make us glad many times over that we are members of II Meeting girls from other chapters is a lasting benefit. Warm friendships will be formed, and a wealth of ideas will be exchanged which are invaluable to every chapter.

MINNESOTA A.

First we hope to get a broader national feeling as compared with the interest we have jn our local group. Second, a policy for and by which we as a whole could work. Third, how to A Fit'Clold obtain better internal organization as it seems as if our Desire chapter is composed of so many different types of girl.; that naturally our tastes differ to some extent, so we wish to find a way to get a Stronger organization than we now have. Fourth, t.;, know in a definite way what a fraternity rfally does for a girl and what it should mean to her. Fifth, ideas concerning meeting prografl;l, rushing and methods of raising scholarship. And lastly, how to face objections to fraternities. This is vitally important to us as it must be to other chapters as there is a strong feeling against fraternities, both among the faculty and students, and we feel as if manr other chapters are facing the difficulties that we are and could help us eliminate some of the strong feeling always looking us in the face.

PENNSYL"ANIA A.

\Ve expect to get so many things from convention that it is hard to put them all in two hundred words. However, they fall into two T CI classes-direct suggestions for chapter problems, and 1UO assrs b Ii f . h" h ld P' Ph d f B fi ene ts rom acqualOtances Ip wit 0 er I is an o uu Is other chapters. As to the first class we want first to hear plans for making rushing season more sane, knowledge concerning long and short seasons, and so on. Second, we want to get suggestions about the relation of active girls and pledges, and we want to know how to prevent a chasm between them when pledging day and initiation day are several months apart. Third, want to hear plans for efficient house management and solutions fOT

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problems arising from the house. Fourth, we want to know the best way to get unity and harmony in Pan-H ell enic . Furthermore, we want to get acquainted with othe r II we want to know what kind of girls th ey are, we want to gain a new interest and impetus from a nati onal view of II cz" a nd we want to gain breadth by the actual knowledge that we are on ly a few of the thousands of n ILLINOIS H

From convention our chapter hopes to derive three things:

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First, we hope to learn fr om the activities of the sessions how to cond uc t our meetings in tru e II manner ; that is, we hope to learn methods by seeing the Grand Council in of Methods session, obse rvin g its ways of conducting a meeting, of

School disp osing of n affairs, and of handling the different delegates who represent the many chapter s, as sma ll particles which go to make up a unit.

Second , by mingling with gi rls who are sent as delegates from every comer and state of the uni o n , we hope to broaden our outlook, strengthen the feeling that we are truly sisters in II B

Third , we would like to see an initiation , for there in the presence of our. dignitaries, we feel that we could gain the spirit of the thing, and , as in no place else, feel the true so lemnity of the occasion.

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While our girls wish most of all to get the inspiration and strength so abundant in a representative convention i n daily contact with girli

F . Id from many colleges and with experienced workers for f A SU . II B cf:t, we w o uld like to hear, informally, reports of or eroJCe defin i te results of the various plans for rushing, social activities, and for amiable interfraternity relationship .

And even though we are a young chapter may we say that we hope the sentiment for extension-in the west particularly-will becpme favorable in the eyes of our fraternity. We would also like to hear this question discussed: "Should the college fraterternity have merely a social aim?" 'Vould it not be wise to promote some particular field of work, literary, artistic, or otherwise? This is not a plea for a professional fraternity , but for making better use of a strong organization.

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Our Settlement School, though we love it and appreciate its fineness, is far away and the personal interest is lacking. Perhaps i.: could be extended j at any rate, we feel the need of something to work for.

\VYOMINC A.

Distances are so great in this western country that the chapter in our province are widely separated. \V e hope that the coming conTh, SlrmgtMning 0/ Provine. Lit,

vention will bind the chapters of Zeta Province closer together, will let us realize what we are missing by not being more in touch with our sister chapters. We hope that we will be brought out from chapter life and made to realize that we are all working side by side for the same end. We want to see the scope and bigness of our o rganizations j we want to what other chapters aTe doing; how they are rushing and how they are helping to lift on high the standard of II B <1>.

Perbaps our fraternity spirit is lack.ing. If so, what can we do to revive it? We hope to get a great many ideas for next year, ideas about cha.pter life and government, new schemES for studying our constitution and especially ideas of how we can coope rate with our own province chapters.

\VA SHINGTON A .

Convention ought to strengthen II B <I> nationally and locally, ought to make the chapters realiz e the responsibilities of being a part of the whole. So we should find that convent ion gives Ui enthusiasm, understanding and strength.

LoUISIANA A.

As women of the wine and blue we need a more personal knowledge of the Pi Beta Phi movement as a national one. We have read eagerly all we can get about the Settlement School-we want a personal touch with its leaders. We hope to get in more distinctness that vision which is beyond chapter and co ll ege activities as such, that vision of noble womanhood which means so much, but should mean more, to us wearers of the arrow in Dickinson. \Ve hope conventio n will bring to us a broader, lIobler outlook.

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But we feel that our greatest bene fit from co nvention will be in the awakening of l oca l r espo nsi bilitr thr o ugh th e arousing of greater n $ enthusiasm and l oya lty-in the firing of the ambition of our c hapter to liv e up to the best of which it is capab le, that it may be a credit to the great nationa l orga nizati on of which it is a small , but nevertheless an influencing f acto r.

MARVLAND A.

We will get a better und erstanding of the national importance of II B thr o u gh meeting from chap ters all over the United States. As we are so isolated and far away, this need is very great. The convention will hflp us to co nsider the fraternity not at) a local but as a national o rgan ization.

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CALIFORNIA'S CAMPUS

By MAIJEL FARRINGTON

(Rep rin ted from Tltt Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega)

THE University of California of all American universities has the most ideal l oca tion . Si mated on the slope rising to the foothills of the Coast Range, it occupies a position overlooking the entire San Francisco Bay and adjacent count ry. To the left of Berkeley, wh ich lies below the camp us and to each side, is Oakland. A little farther on is the huge es tuary , beyond which lies Alameda. Across the Bay and s till to the left is San Francisco, r e nowned as the "City of the Golden Gate," and facing the most magnifice1)t harbor in the world. Richmond and other picturesque Bay towns extend out to the right. In the quiet waters of the Bay reposes Goat Island (on which is located the Government Marine Training Quarter.), Angel I sland (Gorerrunent Qua rantine Station). Immediately in front is the world famed Golden Gate, guarded by Alcatraz Island (The Marine Prison), and through which enters all the commerce of the Orient. Many are the gorgeous sunsets seen from the campus as the sun drops a mass of Bam ing fire behind the Golden Gate, into "a sea of molten gold,"

Nor is the l ocation, and California's climate , all that adds to the charm of the university. For nature has done for Califo rnia's compus all that could be wished. Everything adding to the artificial beau ty has been planned, all bui ldings built, all walks and drives made, with a consideration for the natural beauty.

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In the background of the campus are the Berkeley Hills-green for the greater part of the year, but yellow in spring with. the "'ilHant California poppy. Upon the side of one of these hills a huge gold "e" is outlined, which on clear days is visible to those on shipboard as they enter the bay from foreign ports.

There are many places of interEst on the campus: the "S wimming Pool" in Strawberry Canyon (Coed Canyon). the artistic walks beneath the shady trees , and the rustic bridges over Strawherry creek. But the greatest is the famed open air Greek Theater, the gift of ' Villiam Randolph Hearst. Built of gray hewn stone in imitation of the classic model , it nestles against the foothill s, s urrounded by pine" and eucalyptus trees, murmuring and rustl ing in the soft hn:ezes from the Bay.

The buildings too aT\! picturesque. The old red brick vine-covered ones, and the massive new ones of white stone, which are fast taking the place of the old, about which so many associations cling . But it is not the buildings, nor any of the artifi cial features of the campus that appeal strongest to California lovers, but the historic Berkel ey oaks which give beauty and grandtur to the campus, and strength and inspiration to the student.

B eneath them flows the canyon stream whose banks are green w ith ferns and g rasses .

One cannot describe the beauty of California, but every loyal student has a feeling of reveren ce and awe fat his campus. And when college days are over and he in lat er years hears his co llege hymn All Hail Blue and Gold, this same spirit of loyalty anel reverence surges up within him that he experienced when as a freshman he fir st felt the IIbenediction of nature" under her g randest cont ribution to CaUfornia's campus-the "Berkeley Oaks."

IN MEMORIAM

ELIZABETH WADE-GLADSON

E lizabe th Wade·Gladson died March 24. J915 , at her home in F'ayetteville, Ark ., afte r a long ill ness. She was initiated into Iowa r in 188 7. On March II , 1900, she was married to Mr. Wm . Gladson. Fo r a time they lived in Ohio but moved to Fayetteville in 1904 whe re Mr. Gladson accepted a position as professor in the engineeri ng department of the University of A r kansas. Although Mrs. Gladson never affiliated with Arkansas A she has always seemed

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ODe of our number. Although out of active chapter life she remained a loyal II 4> and always had the fraternity s!,irit at heart. She leaves a husband, two daughters , Hazel and Marion, both Pi Phis and several sisters and brothers.

ARKANSAS A.

RO SE ANDREWS-ROMINGER

Rose Andrews was born near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa . She graduated from Iowa Wesleyan University in the cla;s vf 1887 and then taught in the Winfield, Iowa, public schools for five years. In 1892 she was married to Mr. Ellsworth Rominger, 3 young lawyer of Bloomfield, Iowa . All her married life was spent in Bloomfield . She died, after undergoing an operation at the Ottumwa hospital , on February 7, 1915.

Mrs. Rominger was a member of Iowa A of II B 4> in her college days , and later on she became a member of the P. E . O. Society. But it was to religious work particularly that she gave her best strength. She was especially zealous in the work of the Home Missionary Society and of the Sunday School. She was recognized for her goodnatured humor and brilliant wit , and, above all else, for her loyalty to her God. Genial, gracious, intelligent and c hristian, she seemed the incarnation of Pi Phi ideals.

EDITH BALL-MA CBRIDE

The death of Edith Ball Ma c Bride which occurred March 31 , 1915, in Seattle, Washington, was a great shock to her many friends in Iowa City. This has always been her home until her marriage, two years after her graduation , to Philip MacBride who established a law practice at Seattle. In the university she ran'ked high in scholarship; in dramatics she scored an extraordinary success; while in social circles her charming personality and ready enthusiasm won for her exceptional popularity.

I n her chapter life she was a true inspiration, a leader in every event, and dearly loved for her unselfish sweetness.

After her marriage on September 4, 1909, she was still active in Pi Phi work , joining the alumnae club at Seattle In 1912, Thoma." the first boy, was born and named for Philip's father, Thomas MacBride, the dearly loved president of our University. On March 31 , 1915, a second boy, George Ball Mac Bride was born, and Edith';

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d eath fo\lowed close upon his birth. The little fe\low Is r eported to be doing we\l but everyone who knew his mother is saddened by her loss.

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NELLE HAWKINS·LAVTLLE

Nelle Hawkins Laville died at Omaha, Neb r. , May 3 , 19 15, of pne u monia She was graduated f r om the Kansas State University in 1895 havi n g been a member of Pi Beta Phi during her fouT yea r co urse. She was ma rr ied i n 1896 to John Laville who with thei r child r en , Catha r i n e, John and Margaret( aged 10. 8 and 6 yea r s), a siste r and her father and mother (Mr. and Mrs. J. H H awkins), pionee r citizens of Ottawa, Kans., s u rvive her. She was thirty-nine years old and a charter member of Omaha Alumn.., Club. Mrs. Laville had endeared herself to a wide circle of friends during her fourteen years residence in Omaha, although her every thought and effort was for her home and family.

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The following al u mnae clubs announce their meetioil: BOlton, Mass

J un e 12-103 Hemenway St .• Study of the Constitution. Jul y to-Outing. Augult 14-0uting Cleveland , Ohio

May 22-Businul meeting. HOltelS, Mrs . C. F. Branson, assistants, Miss Cc.le, Miss Katherine Bancroft

June-Annual picnic. Mrs Beoj. Sadtler, Chairman.

Los Angele s, Ca l.

June 26, 10 :30 A . M.-Pic ni c in Griffith Park. Hostessel, Mrs. Harry Hanson, Mrs. Peter M. Young, Mn. E. R. Purdy.

July 31-2 P. M. Hoste I, Min Helen Hurd, 4359 Vairmont Drive, Victoria Park, The Stanford girls ente rtain the :llumn:l! club in holltor of visiting Pi Phis, Mrs. Everett Ball, chairman .

August P. M. Sunday tea. Men guests , At the home of the president, Mrs. E. C. Sherman, :zoo:! EI Cerrito Place. H o llywood

Madis on, Wi ••

I QDe-- Picnic.

Mount Pleasan t , Iowa

June-Commencement Party, Hostess, Miss Penn. Roll can. Fraternity Notes.

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Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa in charge of Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Morrison, Miss Kate Thomas, Alice Troxell.

Philadelphia , Pa . .

July S-Box luncheon, Jenkintown, Pa.

Seattle, Wash .

Jun e 5-Picnic. Chairman, Euhtr BunnelL

EDITORIALS

" W ESTWARD HO" is the watchword for all Pi Phis this June. Never before has there been such widespread interest in a national and never befo r e in th"e history' of our organization have the a rrang ements for convention included a special train with its possibilities for close acquaintance and intimacy. Those who have already attended a conven tion Pi Beta Phi need no ur ging to attend ano ther for th e pleasures it offers are un iqu"e in them se lv es. Those who have never been to C01,ventian before can choose no better time to enjoy the expe ri ence than this year when our sisters in the " ' est extend to us a wonderfully cordial invitation. Convention means much to th e indiviaual, it means much to the o r ganization, so corne one, come all and let us sit in council together beside the Go ld en Gate

DON'T forget th, Stay·at /lOmes. It is unfortunately true that a goodly percentage of our membership cannot be with us in B e rkeley. \V e know that they will be with us in spirit and the thought of their interest will assist us ill our work. It will be hard to write letters during those busy days and the stay-at-hornes will want to hear eV€.TY detail. So ask them to subs c ribe for th e Convention Daily ) in order that they may follow the course of Convention without waiting for formal report or informal letters which you will send them later. (See p. 514.)

THE Pan-Hellenic Congress was only a name to many Greekl e tter women outside the immediate vicinity of Chicago, until l ast October when it met in New York and gave the women 011 the eastern coast an opportunity to come in touch with its method:; and its aims. This yea r , the women on the Pacific Coast are to hav l' th e same privilege. Read the notic e on p. 496 and plan to attend at

least one session anyway. Last year Pi Phi had the largest number present at the Pan-Hellenic luncheon. Let us maintain the record this year.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Last October Eva Cooper Stanley (Mrs. Emory Stanley, Bremerton, 'Washington ,), Nebraska B, lost her arrow tither in the R. R. Station at Minneapolis or in a hired automobile. The pin was a plaill gold one and was marked on the back, Eva Cooper. Anyone who knows of such a pin having been found, will please communicate at once with Mrs. Stanley.

Corresponding secretaries are again reminded that their final duty of the year is to send to Mrs. Tannahill, Chainnan of the Scholarship Committee, the photographs and biographical sketches of members elected to Sigma Xi or Phi Beta Kappa during 1914-15. This information should be sent immediately after the election of the candidates, so that :Mrs. Tannahill may have a complete report of scholarship honors for Convention.

Attention is again called to the COfl.1.'1! 1lliofl Daily. Complete an· nouncement concerning it is found on p. 514. Every member of the fraternity should subscribe and make the undertaking an unqualified financial success.

PI PHIS IN THE PUBLIC EYE

RAINIE AOAMSO)ol·SMALL

(Illinois BJ '86)

THE older members of the fraternity who have vivid recollections of Mrs. Rainie Adarnson·Small, Grand President of Pi Beta Phi, 1885·J890, will be glad to read of her activities in the educational work of the state of 'Vashin gton where she is well-known also among th e younger generation of fraternity members. Mrs. Small who was recently elected County Superintendent of Schools, to take office in September J 1915 enjoyed a unique experie":ce la o;t August when she took a trip in a hydroplane Aviator T. T. Maroney above the bay and city of Everett, Wash.

Mn. Rainie Adamson·Small who W35 three times elected GrllluJ Pf'e:.ioeot of Pi Beta Phi, holding the office 188S'18c)o, has been very active in school work {or many years in Snohomish County, \V ashington. This is indicated by the {act that she has served the schools of that great state in a ll capacities from teacher in a one room school of the early days, to that of City and

County Superintendcnt. Some. {ourtun yun ago Mrs. Small made. an excelleot record for herself &1 co unty which has Dot bee:n {oT&,otte.n. This wu indico.te.d by the large vote with which the people elected her _cain to that office last f.U.

Having earDed her own way through college 8S well as lhrou,h tbe grades and the high school, she bas been .tI D inspiration to many pupils to do likewisc.

Realizinr that book learning is only a part of the necessary education of the child. she has always been an advocate (or vocational sc hool work, and for tbe teaching of music and art in the public schools.

Mrs. SmaH bas worked ruth fully at .u timts for rood roads and farm deve lopment and a years :lgo the Governor of 'Vuhington named her a delegate to the loleTn.tional Dry Farmen ' Convention in Colorado Sprill,S. At the pruent time she is one of tru- offic:ers of the W edern 'Washington Horticu lture Association, and also Superintendent of the Juvenile Growers of the Pacific Coast National Dahlia Society, which will hold its nut dahlia show in Portland, Oregon in September.

All this s trenuous work h:ls never seemed to lessen her interest in fraternity matters, as o;be was one of the fai thful workers for the chapter in the University of Washington. wht:re s h e is now a lwa ys a welcome visitor. She also helped organize the Puget Sound C lub, in Seattle.

Mrs. Small was the representative of Pi Beta Phi at the first Woman l • Congress in Chicago in 1893 .she attended many of the ea rlier conventions of our organization and will be a welcome visitor at the Berkeley Convention.

ANNA CAlfPBELL-RITTMAN ( Pennsylvania A, '10)

During the past few months, Anna Campbell-Rittman (Pennsylvania A, ' 10 ) has been much in the public eye on account of her association with the successful experiments of her husband whose recent scientific discoveries promise to be of real , 'a lue to the world.

Doctor Rittman, who is chemical engineer of the United States Bureau of l\fines, has discovered in researches at Columbia University an improved method of producing gasoHne and a way of manufacturing toluol and benzol (used in smokeless powder ) from petroleum.

Those Pi Phis who attended the Swarthmore Convention and remember Anna Campbell as the g ra cious de legate of the hostes, chapter will be especially interested in the following extracts from an article entitled "The Debt of Science to Cupid" which was published in The Norlh American, Philadelphia , Sunday, March 21, 1915.

Dr. 'V alter F. Rittman, who electrifled the scie ntific world a few days ago with his discoveries which promise to revoluti on ite the manufacture of gasoline and to increase its production from 200 to 300 per cent. owes much of hi s success to the of his wife.

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At least he says so himself, and those friend s of the young married co uple who knew them when they were sweethearts in Swarthmore Co llege do not douLt it, for their similarity of tastes and conge niality of spirit were often remarked in the undergraduate day •.

"Ritt" was a leader among the boys and Anna Campbell was always in (rant of the girls. Each was president of the respective student governments at

Swarthmore and each had remarkable sc holastic records Their interesting romance began from these likenuSoe s and gradually ripened into Jove and brought aboat the great inn:nOODI.

The diligence and tb e cencentnuin force with which Dr Rittman bas worked out his di5Covuiel i. typical o f "Rin." his cluamatu remember him As a student. Kholaf and athlete he went in to make hi s colleae carur one to be remembered. Re i n, pooeued of a strong body and an equally forceful will, he lpeedily went t o the fore amon, the men I tud ents and in two yea.n' time acbieved more hon on tban most of the "rellowl" had been able 10 .man in four yean' time

One thine brou,bt him leader.hip natunlly. Ibe "'-ay' of tbe orld Iban hi. companions, and for and carned hi. C"f'CI'}'

He wu old er both in Jon and in had the adnnla,e of havinc worked

JJi. personalily wa. CDlla,ine. and he was accepted at o n c e by the student body a. one of lbcm-a Tather rare compliment to be bestowed in 10 short • time upon • student entcnn, an upper d • 55. The followin, yur he .,ain playoed end on the football team. and it was in one of Ihese earlier came.. in the fall that a freshman ,ir! littin, in tbe lumutand amon, her friend. sa him (or the lint time. The Pi Phi., onc o f the a,ronlcat cirls' fraternities in the (:ollc,c, wcre ru$hin • tbi, airl at the time and tbey were Kcing to it Ihat "'Ihat new ,irl wilh Hie thoughtful eyel, , \nna Campbell," was well entertained. Later the Pi Phil lot Anna Campbdl; but that il incidenllli to the romance. 1t wu perfectly nat\l.ral that thil frelhman lirl Ihould have Rittman. for he wu an heroic firure upon the field. Dirt I treaked , torn and tattered. he returned to each krimmare ";jlb Jl'Ie <lOi'led per· li5tence and hanl-on courale that ddilhta feminine admirers of the gridiron lporL Rittman nnt a milD. He. ICldom ".:went hI dances or the occaSIonal college functions where the .ocial game was Not that the rirl. didn't uk him, but he wa. more interested In hi, work and in the fundamentals of education Nevetherleu, he wu more than one "coed'," hero--even more 50 perlups than "Ouhin, nave" Rolanda. the Apollo of th e Garnet team l, or Krider. the Hercules. Enterin, S"'athmore .a he did with advanced credit. which he had earned at the Ohio Nonhern Univeraity, he .aa .We by carryinl extra _0 to fini s h the Mechanical Enlincerina courae in two years. tbe chenai,try department, which he was later to honor 'and celebrate; had not: yet been aelected by him aa hil major. In the courw: of thi. lut year a. an underlraduate he came to know tbia freshman lirl, Anna Campbell, and durin, tha, college pair of Ieme5terl, and in the yHr when he n.tumed as a ITldoate student, their riptned and ,rew apace. Both were leriou •. and scholarly, and yet an ability f o r "mi:.;inl" and winnin,- Friends that WQ 5Clrce.ly fttr a ya'ed in Swartbmore. Later. when her clUIl, "1910: ' was in the "to nege life, Miss was elttted 1D the presidency of Ihe \Vomen i , Student E:.;ecutive Commi ttee , and filleod "thill politio;' with much of the lime ueeutive ability that had Rittman.' 1 occupancy of the companion poIitio n lIer scholutic record. like hi" wa' one of the belt ever made at the collele. Rittman', collele days were not. entirely to athletics and IlItudies. for he una in the Glee Club, was president of the Eunomian Literary Society, .nd his uproarious interpretation o f Sir Toby Belch in the senior 1)lay of Twelflll NilJhe will lonl be re,arded u one of the- h:,b-water marks in amateur drsmatic. on "The I1 ill-" lie i. a member of the Sigma Phi Ep!ilon Fraternity a t Ohio Northern.

At the end of 1907 did not receive hil derree of of Arll with the reo t of the lradua.ting clallS, a. he had a" ay. been a speCial student with an irregular and specialixed program. Tn 1908 he. received his de,ree and remain«l at the college all year, takin, Iraduate work in chemi.5try. lie bad found hi' line and bad su rhi' meehanical en,ineering hope:I for chemica l aspiration.. At the com· mencement o f the clan of tllOS he left college and took 'o rk at tbe United G Improvement Company in Philadelphia. He returned to the collelt. re,ularly a. a lC'Cturer in chemistry, and 10 often was he leen about the halls and campu. with I!. Campbell that the whole collele dubbed it a "cace·' and ceased surmwinr and .lpecu latinr.

In the earlier tares of the attachment college louips bad merely considered that "Ritt was from Sandusky, Ohio, and Anna wa. from Salem. Ohio, so that WI5 the rea lOn," but it became evident in time that IOmethinl mfOre than state pride: Wall behind hi s frequent calls. In 1912 and 1913 he received the J o hn Lockwood Scholanhitl and went to Co lumbia to pursuf" his chemical researches. PreVi ous ly he had received the delree of Ma 15ter of Arts in 1909. Also in that yell he woo the Ivy medal, a decoration which is liven each year to the man in the araduating clau who ha.! had the areateat influence for good. Althoulh this hIS been termed

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the "Good boy medal" by those Itudentl who have nner won it. the honor attached to it i. Ifeat, .inee well-rounded, forceful character. have u,uaU, been lelected. In 1914 he receind hi, doctor'. dt,ree from Columbia, this fClt of winnin, the cOTcted dc,rcc in two years' time beinl rem.rkable. The carly success of the younl

dOCtor-in that year, 1913, be wu jUlt pauin. JO--broulht man,. and ,Iowinl prophecies wen! made by his fellow alumni. Then the roma.DOe which had been comparatiTdy IMt from silht by S.arthmoreanl .inee Mi Campbell', departure from collele in the earl,. summer of 1910, wu suddenl,. re.i.,ect by the nc'IIF' tbat tbe college "cue" had resulted in I weddin,.

Dr and M rs. Rittman "' CDt to New York, to live Dur Columbia UniYcr!Jity, and a lmOit from their til'll day in the new apartments thcy brpn their coOperative chemkal researcbes. Mrs. Rittman hid nevu studied in collc.c, but ber mind .a. adapted to scientific work and her knowledge of forcij:n IUIU_gcI was exceptional She pvc hu time and ber coer-lies complclely to his work, and traollued tbe Guman treatises for him so that be mi,bt lose DO time in actual performance of the upcrimcnta. Society and the Ii,hter thinra of life were aacrifieed by tbe airl .1 willinaly and completely I. thou.h abe bad never known them. Eilbt modern lanrualcI hein, It her tonguc', end, and ar:vcnt ancient langua,« en, of tranalation by bu, >'ere not enou,b to keep her bu.,. When ,U of the linpinie mean. of aid ,.,-erc exhausted, she K:t about helpin, her youns husband in bis laboratory. ner exceedinsly quiclr:: wiu rendered chemistry in ita simpler forms easy for her, snd in the close companion.hip and intimacy with ber busband, wbo lave ber instructions at he worked, Ihe became an inyaluable auiltant and Itl,ed close by his lide, to thrust into hil hand the necesaary material. when the work Ire., iolenK. Often they ..-orked steadil, for OTtr t..-enty four hours, never in that time leu'ing the labontor-y in which the .rut dilCovery Wal slowly taking form. Tbeir home life was practically n o thina' at timts. so closely was be confined to hi 1 orIabOP; but the re wu no lack of bannoRY, no loneline•• on tbe part of either , for tht, were tOlether in the labora · lory. and in the face of tbe work 's importance temporary home l i fe mattered little in the mind of either.

The discover!el of Doctor Rittman, both the doubled efficiency of lasoline bearina oil. and the placiDI of America iD an independent position a . retards hue. of smoke· les. powder, are the re.ult of thi. ch«rinl and heartening which tbe young wife carried down into the laboratory and can be thanked to the romance that Irew and ripened under tbe Quaker college dome

BOOK REVIEWS

All Along th e Trail . Fleming H . Revell Co. 2:SC. (post. extra).

By Sarah Gertrude Pomeroy

(Mrs. F. A. Rugg). Illustrated, cloth. net 4OC (post. extra); pape r , net

The author prepared this little volume for The Council of \Vomen (or home Missions. who have adopted it as their junior text-book in the Interdenominat'ional Home Mission Study Course for 19 15-16 . ince publication, the Missiona r y Ed u cation M:overnent has also accepted it as its junior text -book. The publi5hers say of it: illn rapid narrative interspersed with interesting stories it presents the work done by Home Mission Organizations toward 'Making the lfomeland bet t er.' The latter part of the book shows the task of today, the 'widening of the trail.' "

A Teachers' Manual to be used with A II Along th e Trail has been prepared by Margaret T. Applegarth.

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ALUMNlE PERSONALS

·Se.,er.) alumnae have complained to the Alumnz Editor that they look for and are disappointed not to find the numerous items which have made this department of Tar: Anow 10 Aga i n let it be laid that it il the war and not inactiTity on the part of P i Phis which compel. UI to limit tb e newa to fltat ltatiltin and a few c hanl ea of addreu. Let UI hope for peace by next Decemberl

All c/uJngu 01 address, notu /01' lla;s section, (omlloj"11 and qtlestions regarding any IAase 0 / tile circula t um 0/ THE Anow should be smt tl ir.6I 10 tAe AlumntZ Editor }tor exlJ/anation 0/ ziati/lics 0/ circulation see her r eport in tile October Secret Nu m ber.

ARKANSAS ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF ARK ANS A S &NGACEMENTS

Mae Pittman, 'n, to M. Hennessey, K :E.

MAJtUACi&S

Be Carnall. ' 10, and S G Davis, February 6, at Valdez, Ruth Pye, '12, and Dawson King. They left for China, February 15.

CAL I FORNIA ALPHA-LELAND STANFORD} JR., UNIVERSITY

MAIUlIAGU

Maud. Maloney, ' 13 , a.nd Arno Ge r ald H ollensleiner, FebTuary 25. At h ome , Long Beach, Cal.

CALIFORNIA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF CAL IFORN IA

MAIUUAG2S .:., ,

Emmy Lemcke, ex-'n, and Chaffee Hall '10, % N, on April 6 i n Alameda At hom e, 1717 Vincent St., Oakland.

Etta Schr ock, ex-'I 6. and P a ul Bancel, ' 10 , Cornell,. Aprii 14 in Oakland . They will iive i n New York ·City.

BlRT HS

T o Mr, and Mrs. Paul Kirkwood Yost (Amy Hill , u-'(9) March 13, a daughter.

To Mr. and Mrs. Vl illiam H3 yel Hammond ( Madge Bliven. ex-'Io) J anu· ary 26. a Io n.

COLORADO .ALPHA-UNI\ ERSITY OF COLORAOO BIRTHS

To Mr . and Mrs. H. C. Og-den ( Frances Waltemeyer. '(9) of Seattle, a daughter. Deeember I t They have moved to Lo. Angele•.

Theo Towns, '12. has bee n l ocated at Great Neek Station. Long Island, N. Y

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ILLINOIS BETA-LOMBARD COLLEGE

DUTHS

J.iuie Seeley Crew. ' 92, on February 15 at her home in Norfolk, Neb.

ILLINOIS DELTA-KNOX COLLEGE

!NCACUCINTS

Helen M. Turner, '12, to Dr. Lester L. Long, 4> 1: K, NortAwnler,., N 2; N,

Maude Bowman, '14. to Frank B 'Varner, '97. Amherst, '" '+', now in Shansi, China.

Lucile Forsythe, 'J6, to Lynn Edminster, 'IS. HtJroa,d. K :e.

Mrs. E. E. Pearce (Mildred Brown, ex-'oo) il living at 65 Moote Vista Ave., Oakland. Cal.

Mrs. Heetor Doughty (Jean McKee, 'oS) has moved from Pittsburgh, Pa., to JOI Dliu Court, clo H. Bates, Joliet, III.

Mrs. James McMennamin (Nell Diehl, ex-'06) now lives at 6:aS E. 47th Portland, Ore.

ILLINOIS ETA-JAMES MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY

KAIUUAGES

Eula Mason. '14. and George Byrne, ex-'u, K 4 X, April 22. At home, Taylor Ave., Decatur.

INDIANA ALPHA-FRANKLIN COLLEGE

BJRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Oro Means (Julia Barnhizer, ex-'o7) oC Franklin, a daughter, Helen Josephine.

Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Kenny (Edith Stott, '98)" have moved to Franklin.

Marie Ditmars, '12, and Edith Wilson, 'IZ, have retllrned home from the Pi Phi Settlement School where they have been teaching this year. Mill Margnret Young accompanied them {or a brief visit.

\Ve .ympathize with Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Neal (Elsie Holman, ex-'93) whose IOn, \VilIiam, died at their home in Tucson, Arit., March z9.

\Ve sympathize with Mary Magaw-Berry, '06, and Grace Magaw-Phelan, 'oS, whose {ather, Judge Magaw of Franklin, died recently.

INDIANA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA

)(AlUUACES

Louise Espey, '14, and Thomas Cooper, both of Rising Sun, lad., Nnvember II.

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bristol (Florence Benson, ex -'o7) a daughter. April 27.

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INDIANA GAMMA-BUTLER COLLEGE

ENGACEMENTS

Pauline Michaels, ex-'12, to William P. Meyers, of Chicago.

Hildred Hughes, ex-'12, to Cla r ence P. Reidenbach, .6. T A The marriage will take place in June , and the at home address will be Milford, Conn .

M.U UAGES

Mary Marian Jack son. '1 4. and James R. Tranter, Purdue 4».6 9, February 20. At home, H ud lo n, Mich.

IOWA ALPHA-IOWA WESLEYAN

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fanning (Ste lla Long) of Brea, Cat, a son in ] anuary.

Mrs S. O. Thoma s of Burlington, '69. one of our charter members, was the guest of Mrs. Holland during the Presbyterial meeting April 8 and 9.

Mrs. Florence Palm (Florence Andrews, '79) was called to Bloom6dd in February by the death of her sister, Mrs. Elsworth Rominger (Rote Andrews, ' 87).

Mrs. John Tomey (Bessie Stearns, '8 7) visited her sister, Mrs. Gloecker, recently.

IOWA BETA-SIMPSON COLLEGE

BllTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hunter (Mabe l Vale, '06) a son, William Vale, April 12 , at Los Angeles.

IOWA GAMMA-IOWA STATE COLLEGE

lrlA1IRIACES

Mlyme Kirkpatrick, '14. and Donald A. Hunt. ' 13 2: A E. at Ihe home of tbe bride's parents It Farmington, Iowa, March 17. At home, Logan, Iowa.

Ella Elizabeth \V .itt, ex-'I7, and Nelson B Rue. ex.'t6, 2: A E, at the home of the bride's parents in Sioux City, Iowa, March 10. Temporarily at home in Harrodsburg, Ky.

BUtTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Glen Houghlon (May Chase, ' 10) a son, in April at Lindsay, Cal

To Mr. and Mrs. Edmund H. naeger (Vera Mills, '11) of 640 Forest Ave., Elgin, III ., a daughter, Barbara Mills, November 7.

To Mr. and Mrs. 1. L. Rea (Kathleen Spencer, ex.'J6) of Des Moinu, Iowa. • son, George Harold.

IO WA ZETA-IOWA STATE U:oJ I\' ERS ITV

BIRTHS

To Mr . and Mrs. P . D. Macb r ide (Edi th Ball, 'oS) a so n, March 30.

DUT HS

Mrs. Philip D. McB r ide ( Edith Ball, '08) of Statt l e, March 31

Zulema A. Koslomlatsky. '95 is superintendent o( the circulation department in tbe Seattle Public Library Her home addr ess is Zamora Apts., 9 th and Seneca Streets.

KAN S AS ALPHA-UN IVER SITY OF KA:-'; SAS loIAUIAC!.S

Nora Cuban and Frank Oliver, December I They I1Tt Jiving in Wichita. Hazel Butta, '12. and Edward Weidlein, April 24.

LOUISIANA ALPHA-;oJEWCO MB COLL EGE

ENCAGEMENTS

Fay Dillard. ' 10, to Mr Spratt.

KAJlUAG.ES

Elizabeth Clark, '12, and Robert Galt. At home in New Rochelle, N. Y.

MARYLAND ALPHA -GOUC}{ER CO LLEGE

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs . Paul Harri s Watt (Roberta Frye, '02) II. son , John Re:id, on November IS.

To Mr and Mrs C. H Ranck (Kate Ernst, 110 ) a daughter, Kathryn Ernst, March 14.

Little Winifred Sackvile Stoner, the twelve year old, wh o i. making slIch a stir in the educational world is a cousin of Marion Stoner, e:c-'Q4 .

ltIASSA CHUSETI'S ALPHA-BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Mr. and Mrs . C. H . Taylor (Alice Fisher, 'oS) have removed from Yonkers to Bloomington. Ind., where Mr Taylo r has charge of the Methodist Chuch. She writes very pleasantly of Indian a B. M,.. C. ]. Gale (Harriette Draper , ex-'ll) has a c harming miniature entitled Georgie in the spring exhibition of the National Academy, New York.

MI C HIGAN ALPHA-HILLSDALE COLLEGE

Mrs D. H. Smith (Celia Rine. ex"OC), and New York n ) ha s been rediscove red Her addrell i. 1522 Myrtle 51., Scranton, Pa.

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MICHIGAN BETA-UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

ENGAGEMENTS

Irene McFadden, '13. to George Kingston, ' 14. Miclairart, Law. Mr. King-ston i. enpged in general practice in Grand Rapids.

MISSO URI ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

M '\RltIACIiS

Amanda Painter. ex-loS, and Eugene F. Salisbury, ex-'OS, 1: X and 9 N E, at the home of the bride's parents in Carrollton, Mo , April 7. At home in Falls City, Neb.

Fay Elizabeth Jarm a n, 'II, and Perry Wilson Porter, November 2S at Unionville. Mo.

OIRnlS

To Mr. and ttlrs . Henry Edmin !: ton ( Rob e rta HOllX, '0 2) a daughter, M:uy Virginia. in November.

MISSO U RI BETA-WASHINGTON UN IVERSITY

ENCACE)IENTS

Ruth Herring, ex -' 14. and Dr. Lawrence Clayton Cleveland, '06. ::: '" 4l', November u at Brunswick, Mo.

MARRIAGES

Julia Morse, '13. to Otto Kochtit:.ky, Jr., Bell. Washington.

NEBRASKA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA ENGAGUIENTS

Fl orence Hostetler, ' 12, 10 Anan Raynan of Omaha.

JoIARRIA GES

Pauline Bush. ex·'06. and Allan Dwan, Noire Indiana, at the Juan Capistrano 1\Iiss10n in Calilo rnia, April 24. At home, 1120 We s tc hester Pl., Los Angeles.

Bertha Mansfield, ex.'Js, and Clau de E. Wh ite, Ben, at th e borne of the bride's parents, York, Neb. At home in York where Mr. White is associated in business with his lather.

Ruth Mayer, ' 14. and Reed a'Hanlon, Ndraska. A T n. ' IS. at Blair, Neh At home Kansas City. Mr. O' J-ranl on has a position in th e Commonwealth Insnrance Co.

Alleyne Archibaici. ex-'os, has given up her musical work in Lincoln and has moved to New York City where sbe is visiting ber sister Pearl Archibald · Lewis, '06, at Bronxville.

Speaking of the marriage of Pauline Bush a local paper says:

After auending the university of Nebraska in 1904 Miss BUlb went welt for her health and while there she attended a scbool ol dramatic arL Alter a abort lea.on on the atale in New York abe returned to the WHt .nd became in moTing pictures. At pruent abe ia at tbe head of her own "movie" company .nd il rated a. one of the biahat .alaried "movie" actressel in tbe world Mr. Dw.n i. a araduate of Notre Dame, Ind., and by prolusion il an electrical engineer By inclination, however, he i. a playwriaht, hnin! almost three hundred scenarios to 11i. crcdrt. He

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has directed mOTini picture com,-Dies for • number of year.. For K'W'e:raJ seasonahe man.red the company in bic.h Mi BUlb was le.dia, lady. He i. directin, Kary Piclrford at prexnL

Mrs. Fred Graham (Grace Lyford, U:·'IO) hu moved on a ranch near Sheridan, Wyo.

NEW YORK ALPHA-SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ENCACUlltNTS

Nellie Murray, ' 14. to M. Fura-eson. A K K, GIO',I Wash . ;"110 ,._

Ruth A, Clark, '13. and Burr N. Prentice. At home. 613 Waldron St., West Lafayette, Ind., where Mr. Prentice is in charge of the fore. try work at Purdue University.

WAJUtIAG.!S

Eva Ferris Magee, '03. and Roy LeBaron Perkins. At home Cambridge. Malt.

Edith Kitchen, ex·'06, and Max R . Hanna. At home SI Bedford Rd ... Schenectady, N. Y.

Pearl Gorham, 'to, and Harold Moreland, Z X, Syr4CMre 'II, December 24. At home in Utica, N. Y.

Bertha. Fry, 'u, and Clarence Hall. At borne Clayton, N. Y.

Edith Haith, '12, and Elsworth Brown, .6. T .0., Sy,.aclut '12, November 28. At home 10 Abouford Pl., Buffalo, N. Y.

Jean Muir, n-'13, and Merritt Switter, 4a r.1., Syracuse, 'II, November 28. At home 40 S. North St., Fulton, N. Y

Helen Henford , 'J4, and Dr. ]. M. Ward. ;it "" 41, BuffalD Dental CDllere, '09, October IS· They are living in Penn Yan, N. Y.

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shutts (Julia Frant, '12) a daughter, Mary Rinda, December I I.

To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harris (Mabe l Slawson, 'II) a IOn, Sprague, Yeo.. ruary :13.

To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keramer (Marie Thompson, '12) a d3ughter. Jean Lois, December 4.

Mrs. Charles Furlong (Eva EarB, n-'oI) is now living at 40 Nonantum St., Newton, Mass.

Mrs. Corwin Kene,. (Cla ra MacDonald, ex·loJ) has removed from lthac&., N. Y., to Dubois, Pa .

Mrs. Fred Hodges (Bertha Murray, ex-'o2) is living at 15:28 So. State 51,. Syracuse, N. Y

Sabra Hayden, '06, is now in California Her address is in care of Harry Hall, 220:1 West 20th St., Los Angeles.

Mr. and Mrs Harry Pattyson · (Katherine Baxter, '1:2) are now living at 14 Elmhurst Ave., Detroit.

Ruth Super, ex-'16, is now living at S9 \V EsseX' Ave., Lansdown, Pa.

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NEW YORK BETA--BARNARD COLLEGE ENGAGEMENTS

Eunice W Welsh, '00 , Wisco nsin A and New York B to Walla ce GiIIil, IYtJI4i,.rto1t 1 B 9 n

Virginia K. King, U-'12, to J ohn H owa rd Wil so n . BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Lawren ce (Millicent Perkins , ex-'o,) of Hillsbo r o, N. C., a daughter, Elsie Scott, January :a8.

To Dr. and Mrs , Edmond F de Monscigle (Anna Holm, '(9) of Asbury Park, a dau ghter, Anita Pilar, April n.

To Mr. and Mrs C. R. Fountain (Lucy E. Landrn, °u ) of Athens, Ga., • daughter, Iktty Grace. March 13

Mr and Mrs D. 8 Pocock (Eleanor F. Murtha. ex-'Io) have moved from Pittsburgh to 11846 Clifton Blvd., Cleveland.

Alice Page Nelson Waller, '1 4. who has taught this year in Stuart Hall. Staunton, Va., ha s been called to the history department of Barnard. She will assist and work (or an M.A.

Mn. H Lincoln Rogers (Gladys A. Bonfils, '10) who is interested in civic improvement in Jamai ca. L. I., was r ecen tly interviewed for The Eveni", Mail

OHIO BETA--QHIO STATE UN IVER SITV BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gullum (Eva Mit chell , 'It) o f Col umbus, a daughter, Eliubeth Mitchell. March IS.

Mr and Mrs Fred Langenburg (Lo ui se Higgin s, ex-'iS) who have been spending two years at Harvard will return to Athens in June where Mr. Langenburg will be on the fa culty of Ohio University. Ohio University ce lebrates the centennial of the first graduation this June and Ohio A her twenty -s ixth anniversary

OHIO BETA--QHIO STATE UNIVERSITV ENCACEMENTS

Helen Bertram Smith, ex-'09, to George Fairbanks, 01io Slale. 'fI, A X Mr. Fai r banks il connected with the Rubber Company of [ndianapolil. The wedding will be so lemni zed in the Broad Street Presbyterian Churth on the evening of June S.

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hoyer (Eva Barnhill, '(9) a son, William, Februuy 1.

To Mr. and Mrs . Edward Kinney (Be rtha Rankin, '(9) a daughter, Harriet Marth., January 2j.

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To Mr. a.nd Mrs. Ernest Da\' is (E ther \Vilson. ' 14) of Rochester, N. Y .• a daughter. Jun, Februnry zoo

Captain and Mn. C. F. Leonard ( Hannah Leonard. ' 03) have been transferred (rom Twenty-second Infantry, TU31 City, Tex., to Dougl , Ariz.

Louise Shepherd. '10, of the art department of Ohio State will join the arl colony at Provin«town, Mass., {or the summer.

Fannie Miuenberg, '04. expects to attend the summer 5elAion of the University of Wi sconsjn.

Florence Smith, ' 14. has been appointed teacher of art in the East High School of Columbus.

OHIO GAMMA-WOOSTER UN IVER SITV ENGACEWESTS

Dorothy Martin, 'lI, to Harold Ormund, P,inceton , 'u. Mr. Ormund is a civil engineer in Albany, V.

Irene Morley, ' IZ to James T. Brand. Obn'lin, '99. lIorvo"d, Law. '14, whoo is practicing law in Marshfield. Ore.

Isabel Boone, ex,',s, to William Wick am, Bell, lI/ichiKan.

llARRIAGU

Lois Te ff, ' 12 , and \Varr en Edwin Bristol, IIfidcflebury, '07, Columbia, 'U. Mr. and Mrs. Bristol are now living in Roselle. N. J. As soon as war condilions improve they will sail for Geneva, Switzerland, where Mr. Bri stol will take up Y. M C. A work under the World'. Committee.

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs Frederic B. Quigley (Mabe l Diankenhorn, '10) a daughter. Catherine Emma, April 14.

Anna Palmer, 'II, and Dorothy Martin, '11, who have been leac hing in the Eschola Americana, in Curiliba, Bruil, have sailed for the 81a19, and art" expected to arrive early in May.

On &count of critical war condHion., Vernoll Park, ' 12, who has been siudy. ing dramatic work in England, has returned to this country nnd is al her borne in La Park, Pa.

OKLAHOMA ALPHA-USIYERSITY or OKLA M O MA M'ARRf..\ CES

Jes sie Elizabeth Evans, ex-'IS. and Har old Smeal, February 22: in Long Beach. At home. 618 ]unipero Ave ., Long Beach, Cal.

PENNSYLVANIA

ALPHA-SWAR.THMORE

lorAII.RIACES

Dorothy Strode, 'Il, and Elliott Richardson, Sworlltmor'e, '02, 4 T, Mar.:h 25. at her home in West Chesler. AI home in Ben Avon, P,.

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BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Strattan (Deborah Ferrier, '0 1 ) of Moorestown. N. J ., a daughter, Ruth Ferrier, April I

Mrs Horace J3ingham (Amy YObng, '1)8) has changed he r addreSl to 1139 Forest Ave., EvaDston, IU .

Dr. W. F. Rittman, hwband of Anna Campbell, '10, bas made a wonderful discov e ry in th e line of petro leum products They are living in New York where he is working (or the government in Columbia University.

PENNSYLVANIA

BETA-BUCKNELL UN IVERS I TV BI RTHS

To Mr. and Mrs . J . G. Sholl ( H e len Hare, ' 10) of Pitman, N . J ., a lon, John.

TEXAS ALPHA-UNIVERSITY' OF TEXAS ANTIFRATERNITY BILL IS KlLLED WHILE CRO\VO IN GALLERY WATCHES

PaulDIUfT BATTL2 SAYS BoTH Bua. A)fD FaATUlflTIQ WILL PaOPIT .u REsULT

After eaulin, a month'. aaitalion tbroUlbout the State and aftu takinl' three· fourtbl of • day'a consideration in the HOUR the antifraternity bill met ita death Teaterdaf by • vote of 68 to 59. Two thouund uninnity men and women were Jammed In the galleriea of tbe House an d watched tbe proceedinga anxioully tbrou,hout the dehate and sent up • bit cheer when the "ote to postpone the bill indefinitely was announced

VERMONT

BETA-UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT BLRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Peterson (Emma Bean, 'oS) of Lone- Beach, Cal., • second daughter, Cecelia Lydia. February 9.

Mrs A. S. H.U (Lillian Carpenter. '07) of Brook6eJd. Vt., is reco"ering from a second operation this year. The first, for appendicitis, was performed last fall. .

Catherine Cbaffee, ex·'n and· New York B, has been located She is with the Travelers' Aid Society, 465 Lexington AYe., New York City.

WASHIN GTON ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Imogen Cuoningham, '0 7, and Roy Partr idge, February II, at Seattle. At home 1117 Terry Ave ., Seattle.

Fay M Kear ex-'IS. and R oyal Mingin s, A T 0, es:-'16, March 10 At home in Unity, Ore.

BIHHS

To Mr. and Mrs G T A. H ou ghton (Ca roline Kelly, ex-'(9), a IOn, April .5. 191 4-

To Mr and Mrs .M er ton Hemenwa y (Lon. Yaw, ' oS) a SOD, November 24-

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Mrs. Thoma. Owcn (Frances Yantis, 'oS) hu returned from Honolulu wifb her husband and younl' daughter, Betty, and is living at 690 Halsey St., Port· land, Ore.

WISCONSIN ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ENGAGEMENTS

Eunice Welsb, '00, to W.lIace Gillis, Law, Ben Marguerite Sell, 'U r to Alban Jennings Anderson, '03. 4» 4 e. Marjory Steketee, cz;·'u, to Neil Bennett Watkin.. Syracll.u, of Palm Beach, Fla..

MAIt.IACES

Ruth Birchard, '13. and Wm. Stewart, January z7. At home, 511 So. 3Sth St., Omaha, Neb

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Smith (Carolyn Briere, '98) of Seattle, a daughter, Jane Louise, January 26.

To Mr. and Mrs Paul S. Reinsch (Alma Moser. '00) in Peking, China,' a daughter, March II.

To Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Hawkins (Daisy MOler, 'oS) of Shanghaj, China, at Peking, a son, Paul Stanley, January 29·

To Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kiefer (Alice Volkman, '07) of Baltimore, a lOll, William James, October J6.

To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watrous (Jane Gapen, 'og) a IOn, April J J.

To Mr and Mrs. Wilbur M. Derthick, Jr., (Cora E. Colbert, ex·'u) of Sioux City, Iowa, a daughter, Mary Colbert, March J t.

We Iympathite with Iva, '96, and Eunice, '00, whose father, Mr. G. W. Welsh, died in March, and with Florence TituI, ex-'07, whose father also died in March.

Margaret Hutten·Abels, '99. substituted last term for the head of the socia' 5ervice department, Margl11'et Morrison Carnegie School of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.

WYOMING ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING ENGAGEMENTS

Ruth Jensen, ex-'11. to Howard Baldwin, MidtiZDII The marriage will take place May I, at Cheyenne, \Vyo.

KAHIAGES

Ethel McGrath, ex-' t40 and Pitt Covert, Contell, X 4», at Casper, Wyo., January 11. They are at home ae Saddle Rock, Wyo.

Tessa Dunn, ex·'I40 and Arthur Schulte. at Casper. Wyo ., January 25·

Stella Boyer, 'og. and Marion Wheeler at Gering, Neb., January 21· Address. Calper, Wyo.

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bellamy (Beth Carey, '12) a son.

MTI S M. Fuller's addrell is now Sheridan, Wyo ., Box 886.

ANNUAL REPORT S OF ALUMNlE CLUBS

Changes 0/ lIam e or addres s /01' lir e a/u"",a: club dir ec t o ry should be UII! promptly 10 'h e Alum"t'E Editor 'wh o is responsihle /01' this department.

This has been a yeaT of intensive g r owth for our alumnre clubs: you will gather much help and enthusiasm from the record of what Ihey have been doing. The greater effic ien cy was shown by the fact that all the reports were typewritten or were penned ve ry legibly and that a larger number than eve r before were on time: fifty - one were at hand May 5. the date set. Ten more are herewith included. Tn th e directory (or March, 1915, there were recorded sixty-seven clubs. Fayetteville appears h ere for the first time, while Carlisle Topeka, and Dallas are also new this year. Little Rock is not (ully organized but is added to th e directory. Because o( various reasons 'Seve n clubs hav e become inactive and four are dropped (rom the li st with this issue. The figures give n below for each province apply to the directory as it has been this year; i. e , additions etc., as (rom last June except that where a club is no longer active as i.s the case with Louisiana A Alumnre, Oklahoma City, Tulsa. and York, these are not counted as delinquent (or ha\ing no report. ThHe are now s iIty four clubs not counting Little Rock.

The Ch i cago C lub has rea c hed th e high water mark: the largest membership a IT 4> club has ever had, is it not?

Congratulations to the efficient workers and to a ll (or their enth u siasmnot least to the secretary (or her h e lpful !lccount. Any club officers who wonder how they cnn make their club alive would do we ll to read this report carefully and then write Mr s Shtilllt.

The s ugg estion of the Carthage club that a c lub for isolated a lumn re would serve to conserve interest and arouse enth usia sm in the Settlement Sc hool shows a deepening sense of responsibility and an eagerness to serve on the part of those who do not have the bonds and incentive of club association. The work of the province vice-president among the isolated Pi Phis is aimed at just this: to conserve scatte r ed energy and to arouse it when it is lacking One of the most important matters to come up before convention is this of isolated alumnre. It is hoped that many will be present who can give practical advice. It might be well to remind each isolated IT 4> that she has a very simp le duty toward II D <I> laid down in the constitution. If she will do h er part .there will be ways enough to serve. The curious may write the province "ice-president!

The New York club has tried a novel way of treating what some c onsider a dry necessity, i. e., the study of the c onstitution and the broader work of the fraternity. Last fall .Miss \Voodman was made responsible for a program of ten to fifteen minutes for each meeting. Various subjects were treated by different members of the club such as : the nntHraternity situation; history .or Stttiement School; com' ention plans; the legislation of pre"jous c orwtntions .

The speaker and topi c came I1S a surprise each lime and I)recede d the regular announced program.

So Galesburg is getting ready (or 1917!

Aren't ),OU glad you are roing 10 meet some of those }i'"e ColLi from Los Angeles? Don't you appreciate a vitally h elpfu.t report? H ow many good secretaries we have had this year!

• ALPHA PROVINCE

BAl.TIM ORE ALUMN£ CLUB (Organiled Jqoo. ('halte r ed 1900.)

Presideut-Louise Van Sant, '08. Suulary--Molly W. \Vood. '07.

TreasNrer-Louise Cl:uidge, '13.

Resid ent Alumnte-32. Members of C lu b-16.

Averare Attendance-Io to IS.

Business meetings have been beld monthly at the homes of the members, n h e rnating with Saturday afternoon luncheon s and Friday evening meeting s. At the February meeting :Mrs Janncy, onc of our patrooessel. read & paper on "The Relation of Mother and Daughter." Another meeting was devoted to the interests of the active chapter. The Settlement School has been :l subject (or study and discussion at each meeting. No specia l collection has been taken (or the school, but }ome o( our members contribute individually Qne of our recent meetings was used almost entirely for the presentation of convention plans. Q ur president. Louise Van Sant, will represent us at co nvention . Since there is a committee of Goucher College fraternity and non(raternity nlumn:e 3t investigating. fraternity conditions at Goucher. the anti· (raternity question has been an interesting s ubject for consideration. Thi.s committee has sent out a questionnaire to all Goucher alumna: and will report at our annual .::ollege alumnae: meeting, May 29.

\V ith the active chapte r, we have bad, 11.1 always, very close and pleasant relations. Delegates (rom the chapter attend our monthly meetings and occas ionally attend the chapte r meetings. W e join them in most of their socia l affairs. Last fall the club gave a formal rushing tea for the active chapter at the home of Esther L. Cox. On bhryland Alpha's birthday, January 9 five members of tbe a lumn te club, Lucy Murray, Kathleen Mallory, Hettie Cox, Alice \V ood and Molly Wood , entertained the alumore, active c hapter and pledges at the home of Hettie Cox.

A local Pan·Hellenic association wn organited Inst fall and has had two meetings- at the College Club bui ldin g. No definite work has yet been don.-. Louist Van Sant was elected treasurer .

• Kumber of old clubs, II i new, o. Total, 11. Number sending no report, 0; late, 2

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Fo un ders' Day was celeb rat ed with the W ashington alumnR club an.l Col umb ia A by a banquet at Wardman Courts, Washington. MOLLY W. WOOD.

B OSTON ALUMN£ CLUB

(Organized 1901. Charte r ed I Q06 [ 1] .)

P reside nlVice-Pt'uident-Mrs. A . B. Ri de r (Mabel Whitcomb, '03)· Treasurer-Ruth P . D en n is, ex-'oS.

Recording Stcrelary-- Emily Gorden, eX-'J2. Corresponding Secretary-Be rtha A. Ca rr, ' II.

Resident Alumnle--9S.

Members of Club-4I.

Av e r age Attendance-20.

Th e cl ub h as held its meetings the second Saturday of eac h month, usually atte nded by some active girls and visitors from othe r chnpters, beside t h e members. A committee of two has served as h ostesses at eac h meeting. B eca.use of the death of h er r ather Mrs. Thos. Gibb (Edna CuUis, '07) wa s obliged to resign th e ea rl y in th e and Mrs A. H. Ave r y (Ethe l Piper, '06) took u p the- work and to her untiring efforts and the club year owes its success

A s u s ual both th e July a n d August w e r e a ll-day outings. Mr i D D. Nickerson (Anna Robinson, '01) ' u s in July at summer co ttage and the following month we enjoyed the ho sp it ality of Mrs Philip Benjamin (Ida Hodge , e x·'03) at Marblehead. Mrs A B. Rid er (Mabel Whitcomb. '03) opened h er beautiful home for the September meeting, ::at which time plan s for o ur year's work with the active chapter were Cliscussed . Octobe r f o und th e club meeting at the new fraternity suite, with the active chapter as gues ts The entertainment was in the form of a shower for Massa· chusetts A.

Alwa ys one of th e best times of the year is guest n ig ht, which was h eld in November. a t the h o me of Ruth Dennis (ex·'o7 ) in Brookline. Foll owing a. musical program of unu sua l me rit, made poss ib! e by R e na Bisbee (Vermon t A ) the lo vi ng c uP presented by the club year t o tbe j uni o r of Massachusetts A who h as a.ttained th e highest schol arship for her sop h omo r e year, was to Alil"e Preble of Melrose.

There WAS much to bt: done in Decembe r, so the girls brought their sewing and w o rke d while they talked. Se t tlement School p r obl em was discussed and enthusiasm was which has kept the members busy ever since. The Obrisrinas reunion ;5 always held in thi s month. Th e day was th o: sto rm iest in months but over twenty gi rl s came , many of whom are members living i n oth er It was also our pleas ure to have Mrs Glen Miller , a 1I 4> from Salt Lake City visit us.

At th e Januar y meeting a campaign for raising $200 (or the Settlement School was launc h ed. The program which fo ll owed consisted of r eadi ngs by Olive Kirby (New York A) and from our active chapter.

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One of the most importan t meetings was held in February, Mrs F. A RU8"& (Sarah Pomeroy, '06) in aD informal way. !lave & m Olt interestin g talk ou the Sett.1cm.ent School and some of her experiences there a t the time or tbe Grand Council meeting. This, together with the convention rally in M arch, has Ict on fire much latent en thu sias m.

In April we celebrated Founders' Day, an account of wbich follow.. In May we shall have ou r "babies' day" and at \he June meetine a caref ul study of the con s titution will be made

As before stated we d evoted one entire meeting to the Sett,leme.nt School, but the subject ha l occupied a part of eve ry meeting. "\Ve have s tarted a ca mpaien for raising 0. cer ta in amount by II. definite time. Thi. is in charge of • committee. Various groups originlte their p l ..n. aDd r epo rt to thi s co mmittee. Part of the money will be r .ised by pled&,e!l, the other put by schemes, snch as wh ist parties, food sales, afternoon teas, dances and th e like. Previous to thi s campaign we h ave raised less than fifty dollars, mostly from sa le., because the new fraternity bouse for the active girls }tal OCt: u pied the greater part of our time and purses.

In March we had a convention rally, wbere con vention was i nf ormally discussed and plan a formulate d The latter part of the an agent from Northwestern R.ilway came, through the arrangement of Mrs Nickerson, our Boston transportation agent, and answ e red ..ny questions the girls wi sh«l to ask. This enthused mllny who were "oa the fence." J ennie Allyn ('04) is the delegate from this dub.

We always keep the June meeting for the study of the co n stituti o n At that time we plan to h ave papers on specid topi cs and as k questions found in examination papers.

In all ways the dub has tri ed to help the active c hapter. The adviso r y committee, composed of the president and four m e mbers, h.. f01l0wed tht' duties outlined in THE Anow, dividing them among the memben . At (al""o!f all the active chapter meetings one or m ore alumna has been present. The scholarship of each Musachusetts A girl has been supervised and improvement has resulted. A t the time of fraternity examinations a mem.ber of the committee CAref ully went over matedsl, helpiDg the c hapter prepa re {or the tes t. As another link between the alu.mnz and ac tive girls tw o alumnee have served &J hostesses for a supper once a month for the actives. Following -the c ustOr.1 established last year the alumnae assumed cbarge p( the fraternity apartmellt arain this year_Two active girls, one alumna and a chaperon have lived there and any vi.iting Pi Phis bave been 'Welcome.

Whenever we have heard o( newcomers in or about Bo s ton, the secretary ha. immediately placed the name on her mailing list and co rdial invitati('l!l has been ent the vilitor, each month to our meetings. It has been oar pleasure thi s year to welcome girh from tw e lve c hapten.

This rye" we decided to try a new plan for FOUllders' Day, one which would bring materiAl returns for those le u (ortunate peop le in the South and which consequently brought us an added good time. At the h ome o{ our pre s ident, Mrs Avery. in Malden after the r eg ular busi nc s. meeting, we sat down to a "Boston cooky-shine." If any oC our sisters do not luiow what

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(un a Boston one is, we wish she would join us sometime and learn. After the delicious repast the active chapter amused us with a most novel entertainment, consisting largely of "Iivell moving pictures. Everyone pronounced the celebration a big Juccess, and the committee surely felt 50, as a goodly lum was the result.

There is • Pan-Hellenic association at Boston University and our club sends a delegate to the meetings, and endeavors to keep in touch with the work. Several of their rules apply to the alumn:r during rushing season.

A large group of our members live in or near Worcester and once a month they hold meetings, although the)' still o.ffiliate with the Boston club They are all enthusiastic, interested workers and average about tw-elve at their gatherings. In October, they met with Mrs. Emory Bacon (Lillian Horn, '06); in November with A. Mae Lawrence, '98; De«mber. with Evelyn Howe, '98; January, with Mabel Searle, '13, and February with Florence Flagg, '99. The March meeting was a card party, the proceeds of which they sent our committee toward the Settlement School fund.

This year has been a very profitable and successful one for our club and we are looking forward eagerly to convention with hopes of added inspiratior: and new ideas from our sister clubs. Here's wishing you all the best year ever!

BERTHA A. CARR.

BURLINGTON ALUMN£ CLUB

(Organized '914. Chartered 1914.) R. P. Tuttle (Helen Barton, 'O<}).

Via·President-Ruth Catlin, 'n.

Secrt'tar,-Ruth Durfee, '14.

TreDJ'urer-Maude Chaffee, '08.

Resident Alumnae-Io.

Members of Club-I4.

Average Altendanct-7.

We have met as a club with fair regularity throughout the year. \Ve have had no definite prearranged program, either as to time of meeting, or subject to be studiw.. Our meetings, however, have been full of interest, due largely to the thorough preparation made each time by our president, Mabel Balch. We devoted one meeting to the cause of the Settlement School. After reviewing the history of Little Pigeon, we decided that our gift to the fund should be by individual pledges. In this way we made our gift ten dollat'S.

In our study of the constitution we used the following method: A set of was prepared by the president covering the whole constitution. Tht:!'e were written on separate slips of paper and paued around among the members of the club who were present. Each one in turn was asked to tell what knew concerning the topic she was holding. Some of us found our memories somewhat unresponsive, but in such case. the president would put us on the right track. She knew! When it was not on her tongue's end, it was at htr finger tips, and she cOllld refer us. As a part of this program we used examination question •.

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In two other of our mtttings we have studied the Pan-Hellenic convention and the anti fraternity situation. OUt material was bretly drawn from Auow.

\Ve are lOrry to have to report that we sball have no delegate at the Convention. It doe. not seem to be possible (or any of our alumnae to 20.

Our interest as a club in the active chapler is a lively one. 10 order to help stimulAte the belt endeavors oC the girll in the fraternity examination., \\e offered a recognition pin a. a priz:e to the onc who should secure the highest grading. In the past this plan has proved quite satisfactory.

In several soci. 1 events the alumnre hnve joined with the chapte r . On pledge night we entHtained the chapter and pledges the chapter rooms. Some of our club member. are frequently present 4t chapter meeting•.

Founders' Day went uncelebrated with u. this year. For local and individ ual reasons it was impolSible for us to get together

In Burlington there has been for some years pa.t a local Pan-Hellenic association. It embraces only the women's (raternitie. of the university, and its 3.nnuaJ meeting. are attended by one representative from each active chapter and {rom the alumna: of each fraternity

During last summer the dub enjoyed alumnae were present from various place • Hayes, 'OC); another for Ruth Ladd, 'I J.

three picnics. At these picnics One was given in honor o( Grac'!

I hav e mentioned earlier in this report that the club owes much to president of last year. Her interest has been constant and her effo r ts unabate-:l (or f( B 4> 3.nd its alumn:£ club at Burlington, Vt. regret that she has deemed it wise to resign from this office, (or we have no more enthusiastic member than Mabel Balch.

IIXLEN BARTON-TuTTI E.

NORTHERN

NEW YORK. ALUMNA: CLUB

(Organized and Chartered 1914.)

President -Agnes F. McDonald, New York r, '09· SurC'lar".Treasurer-Dorothy K. Cleav eland, New York r, ' Il.

Resident Alumnre-S· Members of Club-Il.

Average Attendance-4·

Because tbtre were so few of us in Canton this winter, we have not triell to have any definite program of work this year. Our meetings have been mainly fOCial and have had the interesu of ew York r principally in mind. In October we entertained the pledges and patronesses at the home of Mu . Hamilton This was a "get acquainted" party. In February the town girl!> in the active chapter entertained the chapter, patronesses and alumnae at a progressive dinner. Next Monday the alumnae c lub again entertains, this time the en tire active chap te r a nd patronesses. Tn December we joined with the aclive chapter in giving a sale of fancy work, by which thirty-nine doll an was netted for the Sett lem ent School.

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The alurnnre were all present at the last chapter meeting and special papers OD th& fraternity and its work were given. We thought this would be more beneficial than (or the few local members of the club to do this work alone

• OUt advisory committee is to be the same as last year. Though somewhnt scattered, the members have kept in. dose touch with each other and with active chapter. Usually o.. some member has Ilttended the weekly chapler meetings. \Ve w ere present at th e parties and of course attended the pledging, initiation and banqu et. An atumnre representative has attended all the college Pan-Helleni c meetings.

alumna: are planning to go to convention. Dorothy K. Cleaveland, '12, is our delegate and Agnes F. McDonald '0<), is the alternate. We shin han l.-at1ra King. '13, with us next year. as she is to teach mathematics in the local high school, but we shall lose Mrs. Charles Hamilton ( Clara Wilson, Columbia A) who is leaving us in June to reside in Boston

We are 50 sorry to have her go, for her interest in us as Omegas and as Pi Phis has been an inspiration. .'

Founders' Day we ce lebrated with th e active chapter at the home of '15. There wer e forty -thre e present: the chapter, town alumnre, patronesses and fraternity moth ers. Eleven of the active girls took part in au origin!lJ farce, The FrnlJman. The play was clever and the acting exce llent_ . DoROTHY KENDALL CLEAVELAND.

NEW YORK ALUMNlE CLUB

• ;1

(Org!lnized 1903. Chartered 1907.)

President-Mrs. H. M. Snyder (Josephine . Wiley, Maryland A, ex-'ol).

Viu-President-Mrs. B L. Maxfield (Winifred Hill, Massachusetts A, '98).

Secre!ary-Treasurer-.Elmina Wilson, Iowa r. '92.

Resident listed.

Members of Club-57.

Average Attendance-3S. program for the year's work was printed and sent out to all on our lists before our November meeting. The October meeting was a reception on Friday evening, October 16. in honor of Mrs. Lardner, delegate to Pan-Hellenic which met in New York City this year. Invitations to thl! reception included escorts as we had arranged for dancing. We had a"n Lunex· pee ted pleasure in hearing Miss Mary Esta Groves from Los Angeles1 play. \Vith this exception we bave followed our usual custom of meeting on tbl." first Snturday of each montb at three o'clock at tbe home of 'one of our memben. The active girls of New York B were tbe hoStesses in November at the home of Miss Lillian Ja ckson and we had reports from the fJwar refugees." Five of our girls were in Europe when war was dec1a:red and entertained us with their varied experiences. At the De«mber meeting Miss Ethel Leveridge (New York B) outlined the history of dancing and ... -friend gave interpretations of rhythm.ic feeling. -,A , __ \Ve began the rally for convention at the January meeting when )fiss Woodman outlined the arrangements being Dade to Cali·

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lomia and at each meeting since additional information b as been eiven concerning the .peeis1 tnio and bwiness of convention.

In February Mrs. Van Kturcn (Colorado B) was hOltes. and talked to th e club concerninr "big business" and how it women . In March .. combined the bitter with the sweet and elected offi c ers and had a cooky -shine A. everyone comes to the cooky-shine we get out a hi,. vote for the elections.

On April z4 we held our Founders' Oay luncheon at the Hotel McAlpin. Ninety -three Pi Pbi. were present and represented thirty-one chapters Onr Dew president, Mrs. Snyder, made a charming loastmiltrcSl and introduced to UI Mrs. Winifred Harper Cooley (California A) whOle s ubject "'8'

Tyranny of Trifle.1I and Mrs. Norman deR Whitehouse (Vira Boarman. Louisi:UllL A) who s poke on "Education and Woman Sulkage!' New Yorl.: is a "campaign" state this year making suffrage a live question with us.

Early in the year Miss Harriet Wilmont (New York B) was made chairman of a committee to raise money for the Settlement School. Pledge cards were printed and mailed to all on our lists. At the Jast report sixty eight dollars had been received.

We have especially enjoyed having the active New York B girls at OUt meetings this year as we knew it was a pleasure we would not have again for some time to come. the ban placed on national fraternities having done itA final work with the graduating of the girls of 19]5. We ca.n only hope more light will be ,iven the authorities of Barnard. EI.MINA WIT.SON.

RHODE ISLAND ALUMNA:: CLUB (Organiz.ed 1911. Chartered 1911.)

President-Mrs. L. G. Balfour (Ruth de Hass, Indiana r. '10). Sure/dry-Tredsurer-Mrs 1. C. Poole (Margaret Mathison, Vermont A, '03)·

Re sident Alumn3e-14·

Members of Club-So

Average Attendance-3·

We have only three meetings a year For the past year our program included a cooky-shine, a meeting to discuss the constitution and a guest meeting, but our plan. are often changed because of the inability of the membe'rs to) meet regularl,..

We have attempted to interest the aiumnlll: in and near Providence who are not members of the Rhode 1s1a.nd dub, but have to get our me.mbershi;> above five. Miss Helen D. Barrett (Massachusetts A) will attend the conventioo as delegate from our .moll club.

Our contributions to the Settlement School for the put yur have been made individually and not as a club. Of the amount going to the school from thr members I have no knowledge.

The Rhode hland club voted to join with the Bolton cl ub in celebrating Founders' Day. Only two of us could We the whole pro· gram very much indeed, and feel that we gained much enthusiasm from meeting s uch earne.t n 41 workers.

We sho uld feel greatly ble.sed should more Pi Phi. coming to Providence join our small club. I am sure we lack only in numbers.

MARGARET M. POOLE.

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SYRACUSE ALUMN£ CLUB

(Organized 1903. C harte r ed 11)06.)

President-Je ssie Wakefie ld. '00.

Via- President-Mrs. D. R . McA llister (Lulu Golden, ' 13).

T'o!'Dsurer-Mrs. W . E. Taylor ( Mabel Smith, 'OS).

Recording Secretar,-]ulia Talbot.

Corresponding Sure/ary-Mrs. L. A J-Iowe ll ( Marion Nearpass, ' 10 ).

Resident Alumnre-30.

Members of Club-18.

Averaic Attendan ce-JO.

Our club has met twice n month since October, the first meeting on the first Tuesday, the second on the third Friday, thu s giving mo s t everyone n c han ce to attend at least once a month. Nothing special was planned for meetings; business and discussions s uc h as Settlement Sc h oo l work and the active chapter took up the hour.

\Ve were very enthusiastic over the Settlement School at the beginning of the year; we were re ady to sew-to make articles that might be of use at teachers' cottage. After inquiring as to what was n eeded we were informed that money was more acce ptable. did nothing. We intend t o send closes-perhaps t en dollars.

Since then our e nthusiasm lagged and we money, how eve r, before the co llege year

All of us ha ve wished that we might attend co nventi o n this year, we know it will be especially interesting as many topi cs of importance will be discussed. We would like to se nd a delegate but it i s impossible; ::as far as w<! know now, none of our member s e:tpect to go.

The study of the constitution is left until one of the last m ee tings. Thic; year we study it May 14 We will read ca refully the article on the alumnre department and other parts that are not clear in our minds.

We have meetings with the active c hapter very fre que ntly during the year, many cooky-shines and special social gatherings

On Founders' Day at six p. m. the active chapte r and the alumna: gathere l together at the chapter house for a coo ky -s hine Fifty -five were present Later in the evening the freshmen entertained us by bol'"ing a little mu sica l farc e. h was written and produced by a graduate We all had a good time and thought that Founders' Day had been ce lebrated correct ly.

Two rather unusual gatherings have been enjoyed this year. The first on(was a farewell cooky-shine, to which we iU\' ited the seniors, given in honor of one of our members who was leaving to make her home in Lincoln. Neb. At this time the club presented her with a n B gold bar pin. At Christmu time another cooky·shine was enjoyed by the ac tive chapte r and alumnre. at which time the alumnae: presented the house with a handsome mahogany clock .

Altogether we feel as though we had a , ' ery pleasant year together and hope for better in the future.

MARI ON' N. H OWEL L

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ROCHESTER ALUMN£ CLUB

p,.uide"l-Eleanor Good, Massachusetts A, '01

Vice-PresideNt-Bertha Kelsey, Vermont A, '03·

Surefar,-Mrs. Henry Dusky (Isabell Shtpard. New York A, 'II).

Treo.lJ4rtr-Mrs. C. E. Heston (Jennie BKhttl, Iowa r, '08).

Resident Alurunse-13·

Members of Club-:zS.

A veragt Attcndance--8.

The fint yur in Ihe life of the Rochester alumnae club has beeD a thoroughly enjoyable one.

We began this new year with a somewhat smaller membership. as thr« of the girls bave (ound it necessary to withdraw on account of change of residence,-Ann& Magee-Teitsworth, Sabra IJayden , Ilnd Mabel Murray- Brayton. Mu. Brayton goel to Syracuse where Dr. Brayton hat been appointed the luperintendent of the Dew tuberculosis hospital.

During the past year we have held OUf meetings in the afternoon of the third Saturday of each month with the exception of July, August and December. \Ve try to have a5 many meetings as possible out of doors, and have enjoyed so much ou r May walk, picnics and "bacon-bats."

Besides the regular meetings, Pi Phis in the city have met for se\' eraJ toboggan and skating parties.

The coming year, we are planning to hold the meetings through the summer months. Three girls will have each meeting in charge thus dividing the work and responsibility.

Our committee has prepared a. most delightful program (or the year whic;") includes, besides the meetings for the School, co nstitution and examination, a Founders' Day cooky·shine, a May outing at Brockport, :l June frolic at Geneva, a corn rost and athletic meet at Geneseo, a. stunt party, baby day, Valentine party. 11 day and picnics Bnd cooky-s hines. Then we have a special committee to arrange for extru-such as theatre, skating an<i toboggan partin. concerts and lectures of the City Lunch Club.

You will see by this that our club is frankly social, but this does not mean that we are Dot interested in the Settlement School and other needs of fraternity at large. We all feel that the new home (or teachen is a \'ery rul need. and hope to do all we can to help in the work.

FLOIIINCE E. FORD.

TORONTO AlL')fNA:: CLUB

P,.uiJtltt-Marguereta Chapman, ' 10 V;u-PreJidtltt-Jeannette McCannell, ' 12 Lovell, '14· r,.torurtr-Loreen Kennelly. '14. Resident Alumnre-16. -'[embers of Average Atlendance--9.

Our club hu held one meeting a month throughout the year and each has proved very interesting. During rushing we entertained the girls a t lunch

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down i'own. Our Dttember meeting was our chapter birthday party with i:5 usual bran pie. presents and verses and birthday cake. Another was given up to travel talks by Eardley Grttne and Jeannette McCannell. illustrated with view •• and enlivened by the recounting of war time adventures.

Another meeting was to the .tudy of constitution and fraternity history.

An alumnre committee has been appointed to superintend the rushing of the chapter next year, and also to act in an advisory capacity during the school year

W e have made no contribution s to the Settlement School as we have been making donations to the Canadian Red Cross Society and helping the chapte r in iheir contributions at Christmas. We made bags and filled them with nuts Dnd candy for the University tr ee; snd some of the airts assisted in the distribution of gifts.

Founders' Day was by a theatre party, followed by a supper at the home of Mrs. Scott (California A). The alumna: arranged this party as the active chapter just finishing up examinations which were so muc1l earlier this year to allow the to continue their military training.

Our :May meeting will be held at the house party in which we join with the active chapter.

JEANNETI"E MCCANNELL.

ALUMNA: CLUB

(Organized --. Chartered 1913.)

PresideNt-Gertrude Browne, ex IIS.

CorrespondiNK Sec,.eta,.y-Mary B. Wilson, Columbia A and New York B, ex-' I I. Treastlrer-Eliznbeth Ferguson, ' 14Resident Members of Cl ub--47.

Average AttendlUlce-IS to 20.

On the twenty-second of May with a Pi Phi picnic at Edna Stone ' s camp on the Potomac present year will close for the Washington alumnae club. 'Vh en it comes to an end it will leave behind the remembrance of enjoyment, profit and "something accomplished, something done." Under the faithful leadership of the president, Muguerite Weller, and the inlPiration of a common interest, the Settlement School, the Pi Phis of Washington have doubled their enthusiasm and their working ability.

Early in the {all it was decided that a meeting should be held every month. afternoon meetings alternating with evening meetings, a.nd for every meeting there should be some special fe3ture provided. The December meeting. after the routine business of the club had been disposed of was given over to a discuuion of the Settleme.nt School with it. needs and our plan. for meeting those needs. The J annary meeting took the form of a musicale to whiCH talented members of both active and alumnae branches contributed. The February meeting wu devoted to the consideration of the fraternity question in its various phases, one member speaking on the anti fraternity agitation in relation to high school fraternitie., another, on the charges brought again s t fraternities, and a third on the stand made by {raternitiel on their own behalf. The March meeting was given over to election oC officers and a. study or the constitution. The April meeting wu scheduled to be the annual banquet

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in celebration of FOllDden' nay, but because the celebration {or this year bsd to be postponed ODe week, the date for the banquet just oversteps the bounds of ralling 00 the first DC May. There W'a$, however, in April an dternoon meeting called for the purpose DC considering poSlible legislation to be eoacted at cODvention.

It i. with keen delight that .n Washington Pi Phi. afe looking forward to the Founders' Da, banquet on May first, (or the 8attimore alumnae club and Maryland A chapter as weB &. our Grand President, Mil. Keller, join with Uj in that celebration 'The regular ?tl&y meetin&" the last {or the year, will be held on the twenty·second of the month in a lihady spot on the Potomac. Thi. will be followed by • regular out-of-doors lupper_

In addition to the regular meetings (or the year the Washington alumnae club has riven two delightful tea dances for the benefit of the Settlement School, the procted s of which went far towards meeting the amou.nt which- it had assumed as tts obligation to tbe fund.

The Washington alumnae club lends its good wishes to fellow Pi Phis for the best of conventions and the best of summers. RHODA WATXINS.

WESTERN MASSACHUSETI'S ALUMNA: CLUB

(Organized 1910. Chartered 1912.)

PresUlenl-Louist Richardson, Massachusetts A, '04.

Secrelary·Treast4rtr-Amy L. \Vallon, Massachusetts A. '07.

Resident AlumnR--4.

Members of C1ub-n.

Average Attetldance---9.

Would that this little group had some original ideas to offer! Our strong point is talking, and if this could bring anything to pass, wonders would have been accomplished. The expansion question, anti fraternity legislatioD-for which the Pan·Hellenic Bureau furnished material.-the Settlement School, conventioD, and the relation between the active girl and the alumna have proved o( endle•• interest.

To the School we have sent six sora pillows. This seems to show little interest in Little Pigeon, but it lDust be remembered that on account of ou'!' nearness to Boston and Vermont. Soeveral of us keep our membership in our own alumna: clubs and through them have contributed to the School fund.

We hope to derive much benefit from convention as Mra. Calvin Cooledgt (Grace Goodhue, Vermont B, '02), Edith Baker (Missouri B, 'II), Amy Wallon and Louise Richardson (Massachusetts A) will be there. The delegate i!ll Louise RichardlOo.

Our four mettings have included a luncheon at a city h ,otsl,- one at $Q1ith College. a Valentine tea. and a Founders' Day party at the home of ?tlr Paul Wiedner (Louise Birch, Missouri B, '10). Our Smith luncheon .. IS mOlt unique when Laura Clnrk (Vermont A, ' 94) of the Smith facuity. with the college girls, entertained. As last year, it was lIa chemical affair." We ate i'l the laboratory at the laboratory tables and all our furnishings wert the glass equipment of the laboratory. When chemical coffee 'Was 5Crved. oUI"s upply of adjectives was exhausted.

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This has bun our most successful year. Our membership. representing 50 many c:hapten, has broadened our ideas and made us feel a part of th e great whole For next year we long for increased membership and greater usefulnelS. LoUISI RI C IfAROSOX.

*BETA PROVINCE

ANN ARBOR ALUMN..€ CLUB

PrcsjJmt-Mr l. E. E. Case (May Snow, Kansas A , ex-'C)6)

Vice -Prujdent-Mrs. Kelsey ( In itiated Patroness, Michigan B).

T,ciJsuur-Mrs. Geo. Lewis (Lora Wright, Michigan B, 110).

Secretary-Mrs. G. C. Huber (Lucy Parker, Michigan B, '88).

The Ann Arbor .1umnre club has not been able to as regularly as l aS I yeaT and co n seque ntly has not accomplished all she hoped {or, but I am sure J voice the sentiment of the members when 1 say our mHlings have been e njoyable and profitable to ourse lves in keeping our interest in II

We feel deep interest in the Settlement School: and we are gtad our interesf'l are broadening

\V e have h.d no program the past year, but have (oun d our time well filled with II '" problems in general, in this active co ll ege town: \\\' 0 o( the girls (rom the active chapter aHend our meetings and so we keep in touch with each other, and ready to serve.

EMMA HVN£S - RIGCs.

ATHENS ALUMNJE CLUD

(O rganize d 1<)00. C harte r ed 1910.)

F. M. Hutch inson ( Marn e O'Bleness. '01).

H. R. Wilson (Florence Craig, '98).

T,.eahlrt'......- Mn. H. G. Stalder (Margaret Ullom, '06).

R eside nt Alumnre--t6.

Members o( C lub-II.

Average Attendance--8.

The program (or IQ14-1C}15 was as (ollow s:

OcJober-Rusiness meeting; meeting (or visiting du r ing Chris tm as time i February-Meeting in interest o( Ohio."- and the study o( the constitution; Alril-Founders' Oay was celebrated. with the active c hapter and patronesses, at a dinner Ilt Hotel Berry. About (orty were present. The dub i. planning a reunion at Commencement in connection with the Home-Coming.

The members often attend tbe regular meetings o( the active chapter. th e socia l (unctions and initiations. As tbe town is not large, the members are brought into close touc.h with the ac tive c. hapter and know each girl personally.

A Pan· Hellenic Will organized about (our years ago.

Anna Pickering, delegate to convention.

ClAIC- WI LSO:-O

·Num ber o( old clubs, 12; new . J; in ac th'e, 2. Total, 13 Number sending no report, :1 i late, 2.

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CARLISLE

ALUMN +: CLUB ( Organiud '9'" Not yet chutcr«l.) OPflCERS YOI. 191,, - 1915 Gooding (Kathleen Rickenbaugh).

l"iu-Prtlidenl-llazel Kiiner.

Surelar,- TreasNrer-Margaret Morgan. Morgan.

Re5ident Alumnte-II.

• Members of Club-19.

A\"trage Attendance--6.

The club program for the yur (which was really not a (ull ytar for our club, al our organiution was not effected until the raIl of last yen) started with nn informal lunc heon at the home of Julie Prince where Mrs. Lardner helped our young club to get on its feel. The next meeting was in the fraternity room s of the active chapter and uter that our meetingl> were held monthly at the home. of the resident .iumnre. On the day of initiation last fall, we planned to hold a. meeting and make special efforts to ret all members present and 10 (urther the plans o( tbe llClive ehllpter to have a large number of present at initiation in the evening. The plan worked a.dmirably and IL numerous crowd of loya\ Pi Phis assembled. some to renew old friendships. some to get acquainted (or the first time. Tbl! regultr meetings have bee.n devoted largely to the interests o( the active chapter hue at Dickinson and the relation o( chapter and club is mo:»t harmonious.

lnlerest has been raised in the Settlement School by reports o( what other dubs have done and the survey o( the circulars and articles written about the work.

Our alumnre club regrets that it is so far (rom the western cout as to be unable to send a delegate to convention. \Ve hope, however. to receive much of the enthusiasm and spirit o( that convention on the return of the Penn · sy lvania r delegate. who is a Carlisle girl and with whom we are extremely well acquainted.

Pi Phi', broader interests have been brought before us in informal discussion.

Qur relations with the active chapter are extremdy close and cordial and the Bcth'e members feel free at any time to consult the alumn:r, u the alumnre (eel (ree to advise upon any questions of mutual interest. The advisory com· mittee o( the alumnee association is an a.ctive one aod. we feel, i s a splendid beginning of ,till beller thingli along the lines of closer cooperation.

Founders' Day was celebrated by the chapter by a lawn party given at the home of the dean of Dickinson College, who is the (ather o( one of our fresbman girls. The alumn:e were invited to this and it was so made a joint celebration. Another celebration in honor of FOllnders ' Day is being planned by the alumnre club. This is to take the form of a picnic to which the active

"'The membership includes ele\' cn from Carlisle and eight from Harrisburg and elsew her e

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chapter are to be invited and will be held as lIoon as the weather is warm enough to make such an affair enjoyable.

There is DO local Pan·Hellenic in Carlisle strangely enough, although there are two national fraternities, X 'l' and n B in the college. There is nothing which we would be happier to see established than some IOrt of working agreement between the fraternities, but {or several years both local and national effort. toward such an agreement have been useless.

Altogether we feel that our first year as an alumna!! club bas been an interesting }lnd successful one. We ha.e been brought together as alumnae a:; never before and have been kept in touch with n 4» activities in a way that would hardly have been possible otherwise.

]UUA MORGAN.

CLEVELAND ALUMNA: CLUB

Walter Pollock (Elizabeth Phillbrooke, Illinois E. '(4).

Vice PresUle"t-Mrs 'H. H. Allyn (Minerva Naylor, Michigan A, '95).

Secreiary--Gladys Cole, Massachusetts A, '08.

Tl"t'lIJ'u,,.r-Katberine Bancroft, Ohio D, '06.

Resident Alumntr-26.

It seems possible that it is again time for THE Auow letter so short a time does it seem since the last one was sent.

This year we have been busy, like the majority of alnmnR clubs, earning money for the Settlement School as we are all most anxious that our patient and long-suffering teachers shall be decently and comfortably housed. Again we inflicted the school with a box, containing books, a comfort and towels.

Our regular meetings have been of the same character as last year's meetings, namely, one o'clock luncheons, three members acting as hostesses.

Business meetings followed the luncheon and it is th en we burst into such flights of oratory that hearing about them from his mother, Wheeler Lovell decided the club must need a gavel. He made us one, good, strong and substantial.

Since our last letter two young Pi Phis have come to Cleveland to liveone at the home of Mrs. Harold Cole and the other with Mrs. Paul Cahill.

Last Maya Pan-Hellenic association was formed here with Mary Walli· ham·Gibson, one of our members as president. In December we had a luncheon and business meeting at the Woman'. Club and in May our club will enter· tain aU the .lumnae clubs of Cleveland.

Founders' Day, MrS. C. F. Branson (Anna Jackson, Pennsylvania A) assisted by Min Helen Atkinson and Miss Mildred Vorce (Florida A.) enter· tained the club at lunchton followed by a short busioe •• meeting and a soeikl time.

Our number is increased each year and we earnestly desire that aoyone being in the city at the time of our meetings, the first Saturday of the month, will come and let us show her what a warm welcome the Cleveland alumn..e club can extend to a visiting sister.

MA81L McDILL·CKAU.ESWORTK.

COLUMBUS ALUMN£ CLUB

(Organized H}OO. Charte red 19U )

President-Edna Hatton, ex loa.

Vice-Preridmt-Florence Smith, ' J4Mitzenberg, '03

Sec,..etary--Ernestine BaU, '04.

Resident Alumn::e-47.

Members of

Average Attendance-25.

The C<llumbus alumnae club meets on the first Thursday of every month at six o'clock at the bomes of its members. The hostess and fonr assistan is have charge of the supper. We have found this arrangement very successful in giving the most satisfactory results for the leut expenditure of time, work and money and as our members are almost all busy women we apprecia.te its a.dvantages over the old-fashioned spread where each member contributed on every occasion.

After supper the business meeting is called to order. This year the meetings have been unusually interesting and so filled with discussion of fraternity subjects that we have not felt the need of any additional program. Desides three evenings devoted to the study of the constitution. the examination and th e Settlement School, Mrs. Rita Flynn, chairman of the advisory council to the active chapter, has given us several detailed and interesting accounts of her work which bave served not only to keep us in touch with the active girls, but have also given us much information on various subjects pertaining to stndent life at Ohio State.

At the meeting for the consideration of the Settlement School, it was agreed that each member should subscribe a donar, this appealing to all as far the simplest way of raising the money . We have, also, during the year, bought a bookcase for the chapter room. The archives having outgrown the chest in which they have been kept for years, we felt that this would be a very practical way of showing our interest in the active chapter.

The university being situated in Columbus, most of our alumna! club members are Ohio B girls anu many of the friendships date back to high school dars and even earlier, so we all look forward to our meetings and they are always well attended. We have often considered the advisability of taking up some definite cou r se of study, but fo r the most part feel that the time is better employed in discussing the various questions of local nnd national fraternity interest that are constantly arising and in visiting with old friends. From time to time Pi Phis from other chapters locate in Columbus and we always invite them to affiliate with our club and in all but a few cases, where their stay bas been very short, we have succeeded in making them feel at home among us.

We have a local Pan-Hellenic of two years' standing which gives promise of being a great success. On April 24, at the Southern Theater, Lillie Red Riding Hood nnd Sleeping Beauty were presented un.der its auspices for the benefit of the Home and School Association. Tickets were placed on sale in all of the schools of the city, the oQject being twofold; to afford the children an enjoyable entertainment for the nominal fee of ten cents and to obtain money to purchase

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pictures {or some o{ the school buildings in the poorer seetions of the city There was such a demand for ti c kets that it was oeccJlary to give two perform· an ee. and anyone who was present to witness the children'. delight must have voted it a great success. Pi Phi wa..s w ell rep r ese nted. Nan Costigan, '98. taking the par t of the queen and Elizabeth Carrol, ex·'ll. that of the prince in Sleepi"g Beauty_ Augusta Connolley, '0 1, president o f our nlurnnre club, had charge o f the costumes for both plays.

Co lumbu s h as a very fl ourishing college women'. dub, which h as been in s trum enta l in bringing a number of noted speakers to the city during the past few years and aho has afforded an opportunity for many plcasant social gatherings. At its annual meeting, held recently, Louise Shepard, '10, was elected vice·president and Mrs. Fonsa Lambert ( Dor othy Irvin, ' 11) secretary.

At lea st two m e mbers of our c lub will attend the convention, Claudine Urlin, ' 13. who h as been appointed our official delegate and Edna Pugh, ex·'13. who has been touring the W est with her fath er si nce the first of April and plan o; to be in Berkeley by July;. We kn ow that their reports of the convention anJ tale s of good time s and pleasant fri en ds hip s formed there will be a great in spiration to our club. Thro ugh them " ' e send greetings to all the Pi Phi s.

F. BALL

DETROIT ALUMN,E CLUB

(Organized 191 0. Chartered 19 14 o r 19 13 .)

Presidelll-Helen Watdes, Mi c higan B, '01.

Yia·P,eside"l-

Surelary--Ir ene M c Fadden, Mi chigan B, '12. Trta.N4re,.-Beulah \Vhitney, Michigan B, ' II

Resident Members of CIUb--22.

Average Att endance-IS.

We have pledged five dollars per year to the Settlement Fund.

Two or three will attend co nvention Lotta Broadhridge is our delegate. \V e have made plans for th e study of th e co nstitution, but S rrkJl/ attention has bee n gi nn it.

Our relations with the active c hapt er are very k ee n. Newcomers are shown a great deal of cordiality

We ce lebrated Founders' Day with the Ann Arbor alumn re club and the active chapter. A business seSlion at the chapter h o u se was held at t en o'clock, when plan. for remod eling the house or selling and building a new one were dilCu.sed. The matter was leIt in the h and ! of a committee. At one o'clock a lun cheon was served at the home of Mr! Russell. coffee and de se rt being se rved at Mrs. Barrett'. who lives next door . 'Ve returned to the chapter house at (our where we were entert'ained with vaudeville (or an hour A coo k y · shine at six o ' clock at whi ch about thirt y fiv e gu es t. finally got down to their seatl on the Roor like so many caJT1els, finished the day's progra.m

There i. no Pan · Hellenic in the city. There has been some agitati on along that line, but we have heard nothing of it for two yurs . LEI LA LANK -S)UTH.

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HILL SDALE AL U MNA: CLUB

(Organized 1906. C hartered 19 14.) George K. Marc h (Bess Chapman, '04).

Vice·President-Mn. C. H. Kempton (Bertha Mye rs, '98).

S u ,.etary-Mn. Carl Wol co tt (Et hel Bishop, '(6).

rreatMre''''''-Jan e Whitney, ' 14Resident Alllmnae-19. Members of Club-)6. Average Attendance-8

Our club prOiram. for the past year hu been onc of purely socia l gatheringi., very informal in which we have talke d , o,'cr our sewi ng. of way to help our active chapter and the regular business which came up . \Ve hue interested our alumna: and raised money for the School by se n d ing out personal letters , by which we raised about sixty·five dallats thi s year and having a food salt', from which we cleared eleven mor e.

Mrs. Prideaux is now in Ca.liforni. but, due to h e r health we do not know that Ihe will remain to co nvention. otherwise n o ne of o ur members will be there and we do not feel we can afford to send a delegate.

We have given the constitution no definite study as a c lub nor did we the examination study or q ues tions.

Our relations with our active chapter are all that co ul d be desi red. We hnve many good times tog e ther, entertaining a few of them at & time, at our meetings, picnidng, banqueting a nd th e alumnre attending their regu lar meetings, and they coming to us for advice

Ha.ving had no expe ri ence with new co mers in our c ity I cannot say how we would interest them.

Our celebration of F ounders ' Day occurred April 28 at five o'clock when activeJ and about thirty in number, joined in a fine big "cooky-s hine" on the lawn in front of the chapte r hou se. And let me tell ) 'O U, Hillsdale, a day like this is surely a beauty spot. everything in sp ring attire ,

Ves, we have a local Pan· H ellenic .

\Ve feel that we have done something unu s ual in the way of social gatherings. fn place of our custom!uy progressive dinner or big formal party, and as our town alfords no theatre, we Pi Phis, active and inviting the gentlemen, chartere d a C!lr. a section in the th ea tre in Jacklen, and a private supper room at one of th e restaurants, and gave a r ea l the3tre party, where we law Guy Bates POlt in Omar t,',e TertI Jl1aJ.-I'f', It was voted a huge Succen 10 that we are co nsidering making it an annUli event . The success of this undertaking was Jargely due to Jeu Re e m

AIIO we had perhaps the belt initiation banquet eve r There were a number of o utside guelts suc h as Pearl Kepple-Miller-we did 10 enjoy hearing her l ing ag:lin-and Effie Patch and oar Fl orentine Cook and a guest fr om Ann Arbor.

GLAO\'8 J . DIBBLE.

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OHIO GAMMA AI.UMNlE CLUB

(Organized 1913. Chartered 1914.)

Prtsident-E lsa Schli c ht,' 12.

Viu·P,esidnll-He)cn Harrington, ' u

Recording Secrelary-Clela. G o r don, ' 14

TutJ"urer-Harriott \Vi c kham '13.

Corrupontling Secretary- Ell en F. Boyer, ' 12

Resident AlumD te- 12 . Members-37.

Averag e Atte ndance-21

Ohio GlUDm& Illumnl'C h ave assemb l ed thr ee times at Wooste r s ince the iss n i ng of th e l as t nnnU3.1 l ette r- May, '1 4. Octobe r, ' 14 aod April, ' IS. On 'a ccou nt o f th e fact th at our members are 10 scatte red, we can have D O definite progrant or plnn of meeting, but leave th a t to be worked o ut from time to lime.

The May m eeti n g , whic h was held at the h ome of M a rgaret Cable ('IS) was well 3uended. Aft er dinner was served, we had our bu siness sess ion, at whi ch Ihe main t op ic of discussion w:'\s th e Se tll emen t School.

The second me e ting was :'\t the h om e o f Mrs . John D. Overholt (Jessie Wickwire , ex·' IS ) W e set aside a ll f o rmnlity and had a Ucooky·shine." A letter and hu1l elin fr om Mrs H elmic k in regard to the Settlement Scbool were read. siler whi ch a p lan w ns sub mitted for n syste m of chain lett ers, which oor Tice·president bad so admir:t.bly worked out.

Mar ga ret Ga.ble, ' IS. opened her home to us again for ou r tbird medine-, the F ound ers' Day celebration, o n April 17 A dinner preceded the business sessio n We were glad to h ave o ur president, Elsa Schlicht (' 12) present at the meeting, although we were sor ry that appendicitis had caused her to give up hel" postgrndul\te wo rk at the University of Wisconsin The first maUer of inte r es t was our d onati on of tw e nty dollars to the building fund of the Settlement School, in addition t o fifteen dollars give n in response to the ca ll of the individual s ub sc ripti o n ca rd s re ce ntly distributed. The n ovel s ug· gt:stion was made that each gi rl use ten cents as a principal and see how mu ch slJe co uld realize o ut of it by the June meeting, at which time each is to tell how she earned h er money. The amou nt turne d in at that time is to be given to the Settlement Sch oql fund.

Of co urse co nv e nti o n plans were uppermost in o ur minds. Our president gave a very inspiring talk urging all girls who co uld, to atte nd the c onvention Several pages ",ere read fr om the circular, describing th e trip l aid o ut by th e " Pi Phi Spt:ci al." A com mittee W85 appointed to p r epare a n exhibit t o display a t the co nv e nti on . F o ur of our girls 3re planning to go. Th e president w as given the power oJ appointing an a.lumn ae de l egate 3t a l ate r tim e. as seve ral of the girls were un ce rtain abou L.1heir convention p l ans.

In commernor"tion of F o u nders' D ay. Mrs J ohn O. Overholt (Jessie Wick wire, ex -'ts) gave a review of the facts of the f o un di ng oC fraternity.

A vo t e of thanks was t ende r ed H elen H a rrington , 'n, for her s u ccess ful efforts in compiling an 31amD3e letter for the purpose of ke epi n g alumD2 in touch with one another. Th e plan was a decided saccess. If any club is

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interested in it, we wiIl be glad to furnish partical.n. A description of the plan would be too lengthy to insert here.

After the reelection of the officers of 1914-15. aD invitation wu extended to the club to meet at the home of Beth and Anna Palmer (ex·IJS and 'II respectively) in Junc. At the close of the business session. Elsa Schlicht gave • glowiDJr account of the hospitable way in which the was received by Wi.sc.oDsin A. of the strength of their chapter and some most interclting expericnceJ 01 their successful rushing scason. It wa. quite aD inspiration as we have no direct connection with luch activities since the removal of {rateroilies from Woo.tet.

We arc looking forward to the meeting to be held commencement week .s one of our most 'Dccessful reunions for several reason.. A, Anna Palmer, '11. and Dorothy Martin, 'II, will b::l.Ve returned from three years' tcachlnlr in Curitiba, we.ll will be anxious to see them and bear of their experiences. We will also be anxious to be in W'OOster in June since the trustees of the College will take action tm two important illues-the election of • new president, and the establishment of 1\ Normal School in connection with the College. On these accounts we ue looking for a larie attendance at our pre--eonvention meeting. ELUN" F. BoYEI..

Ar.UMN..E CLUB

President-Mary L. Spraw, Pennsylvania A, 10 7 ]. Cobb, Pennsylvania B, '03. Co,.,.u/Jondirtt Slftrelary-Edith S. Bunting, Pennsylvania. A, 'oS. Recording Stcr,.h",...-Elizabeth Kuru, Pennsylvania A, ex-'t6. Trea.t ..."e,........c.roline Shoertbker, Pennsylvania A, '14.

Relident Alumnre--<}9.

Members oC

A verllge Attendance-3D.

The Phillldelphia alumnre club has been succeuful this yeor, due b> our mOlt willing and capable president, Katharine Griest. We have met once a month on Saturday, and informal luncbeons were served at the homel of various membus. These were followed by business meetings; tben we finished the day by some informal entertainment. These luch as musicals. Settlement School reportl, Big Sister Movement. etc., have dont. a great deal to arouse interest and draw the members to the meetings.

The Settlement School committee decided tbat instead of giving a fair this year or any other (orm of entertainment to raise money. we would raise the amount by ptrsonaJ subscription.s. This proved very successful, and we reached our pledge oC lifty dollars, with a few dollars over.

Convention seems & loog distance from us this yur, but we trust that lome of our alumnne will be able to go, and that tbe interest of tbe alumna: will be greater at this convention than any other.

The study of the constitution and examination Questions wal taken up at two oC our meeting!; here also we tried to arouse interest for convention.

The club is especially fortunate to have Pennsylvania A 80 clole, Swarthmore being only eleven miles from Philidelphi.. During rushing season

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we are ,'e ry much interes te d in the chapter and tr y to h elp them in every possible way, Then some of th e c h a pt er are i nvited to each of our meetings so we kee p in close co mmuni cation with th e m throughout the yea r . We al s'1 have a chap t er advisory co mmittee which has helped the chapter in man y way s. The Jovi ng cup presented la st year to the chapter by the Philadelphia dub. to be awarded for high 5Cho l arship to the sophomoTes has been h eld this yea r by Hil da Lang.

A ca rd catalog ue w:as made by chapter :md geographic al dilt rib uti on of a ll Pi Bet a Phis within a ra d iu s of fifty mile s of Philadelphia All persons we r e written to at the beginning of th e yea r by a com mitte e and as ke d to join our clu b. Th e efforts seemed to be appreciated at our club is larger than it ha s eve r betn.

The SWllrthmore chapter nlw:lYs invites the to celeb r ate Founden/ D a y with them. This year we met at the home of Eliubeth Burton at C h estn ut Hill . Th is is o ur second banquet there, 10 it is needless to say h ow much we e n joy Elizabeth 's hos pitality and the beautiful s urr oun dings of h e r home After the lun che on instead o f having the u s ual t oast s, the ac tiv e girls gave us a phy call ed Villa;".

W e tru s t Ihat ne",1 year wi ll be e(lunll y s uccess ful and that nny Pi B e ta Phi s coming near Philadelp hia will h ono r us by co ming t o so me of o ur m ee tings a nd if possible w ill become members of ou r club.

EDITH S. BUSTING

PITTSBURGH ALUMNIE CLUB

(Organ i zed 1907 Charte red 1 <)09.)

E. Mc C rory, Ohio r. ' 13.

B Clink. P cnm ylvania B. '06.

Resid ent

Members oC Club-14.

Average

The Piusburgh s lumn z club h as closed a most successful year. W e held seven meetin gs. Our ambition this year was to raise money for the Settlement School and we realized this ambition. W e raised sixteen do ll ars and a half . ,Ve arc planning now to f urnish one of the bedrooms in th e new t eac h eu· co ttage. when that is built.

Our delegate to tbe co nvent ion is to be Pearl McCro r y W e wish we were al1 g oing but since th a t is impossible we a r e anxiously waiting for the first meeting in the fall 50 we ma y h ear about everything

O ne of our members. Mrs. C. M. Konkle, read at our January a ve ry interesting pape r, "The H istory of the Fraternity." It was comp iled by I\Irs H e lmick and is the first t hr ee chapters oC th e book she is writing. Our own r eg r et is that we a r e so far away from an active chapter. This m eans that we have t o devote o ur se lves to other things than to its interests.

We celebrated Founders' Oay by :l luncheon at McCreery'S. There were e ight different chapters r ep resent ed. We had seve ral n e w Pi Phi s with u s whom we hope we may cou nt a. members of our club next year .

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A .ynopsis of our next year's program was read and it sounded very attractive. Our meetings this lut year were held with the different members bUI next year we ne goiog to try a Dew place. \V e expect to have most of the meetings down lown so that they will be more central for all of us

We 5end greeting. to .11 alumnz clubs and to Pi Phi s everywher-e. BnEN B. CLARK.

TOLEOO ALUMNA: CLUB

(Organiz.ed 1913 . Chartered 1914.)

Prtside"I-Mn , A. O. \Vittm tln (Gertrude Burbank, Mi chigan H, ex·'IJ.)

St(rtlary-Sarah Waite, Michigan B. '13.

Trtl1lu,.e,--.MrL J. T: Pierce (Ethel Watts, Washington A, '10.)

Resident Alumne--I , Members of Club-IO.

Average AttendanCe---().

We have tried this past year to arrange our program (ulfilling all the n · quirements for I chartered club. Our meetings have been on the second Thurs· day of every menth.

In December our meeting was an experience party at the home of Alice DuBoil where we each told our experience in earning money for the Settlement Scbool. At our January meeting at the home of Mrs. Douglas ( Madge Somerville) we studied the constitution, especially with regard to the In February we celebrated at Clare Humphrey 's with a Ucooky·shine" which seemed like good old times to us :lll. In March we held election of officers, in April we planned 11 Pan - Hellenic luncheon We have two more meetings this year; the May meeting will be a garden party at the home of Harriet Briggs and th e June meeting is to be :l be:lc h party, to which husbands and friends will be invited.

The first thing we started out to do this year was to raise money for the Settlement School. After much discussion of ways and means, it was decided that each member eun two dollnTS and 6fty cents before the December meeting Then we started to work in earnest and at that meeting we brought our money and told how we had earned it.

iUrs. Pierce (Ethel \Vatts) b:lked fruit cakes, plum puddings, nut bread, and other goodies, making sometimes only three or five cents on a sal e; but she kept at it faith{ully until the two-6fty was m3de. Alice DuBois embroidered to ell and sold them. Helen Drowning sold foreign postals. Mrs. Douglas cbargtd twenty ·five cents a tally for :l bridge party. Sarah Waite gave a Vietrola Tea and asked the guests to give cents Mrs Wittman did some typing {or her husband. Mrs. J. K. Hamilton stayed home {rom an opera and saved ber money in that way. The experiences were all exceedingly interesting. and twenty-6ve dollars in all was turned in from our ten members.

In February we invited the Bowling Green Pi Phis up for a lun cheo n and matinee. W e were so rry only two of tlle girls came, but we enjoyed the littl e time with them greatly.

In honor of Founders' Day, the Ann Arbor alumnre 3nd Mic higan B chapter invited our club up to Ann Arbor for April 24-25. F our o{ us went and a

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mighty fine time we had. We left on an early train the morning of the twentyfourth and arrived in time for the ann uat meeting of the Michigan B alumnre association. At noon a delightful prog r essive luncheon was se rv ed at the homes of Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Barrett, two of the patronesses. In the afternoon the active girls gave a splendid vaudeville in the chapter house. It was very clever and kept us all in laughter with its local jokes and "take oO"s", A fitting climu to the dRY came in the cooky.shine in the chapter house at six. to which about fifty Pi Phis sat down . Sunday was spent in visiting, walking and calling, and we r eturned home that night after one of the best times of the year. We surely appreciated the kindness of the Ann Arbor people in enfertaining us so r oyally

Pi Phi is the only organi%ed sorority in Toledo, so we are trying to awaken interest among the other Greeks. We are arranging a Pan-Hellenic luncheon to be given at our \Vomen's Building May eighth, and have sent out notices to nll the fraternity women in the city We plan to have eac h fraternity represented on a short p r ogram afterwards; if this is a success we hope such a meeting may be an annual affair.

\V e have talked about conl'ention all year, and two of the girls will probably go; but as Harriet Driggs is the only one certain, she has bttn chosen delegate. \Ve hope to get lots of new ideas from convention. We feel as though our club has ha d Quite a successfu l year and hope that another year will find more Pi Phis in Toledo to enlarge our ranks.

HARRIET A. BRICCS.

* GAMMA PROVINCE

CARTHAGE ALUMNIE CLUB

(Org:miled 1911. Chartered 19 14 .)

Preridtnt-Mrs. J. W. Williams (Mrs. Adda Prentice, Illinois r, '8t.)

Secrttary-Trtarur t r-Mrs. Ellen Ferris Scofield. Illinois r, '87.

Resident Alumnre-9.

Members o( Cluh---9.

Average Attendan ce--6.

There was no definite program (or the past year. This year the club will hold the three regular study meetings required o( a chartered club. A charter was iuued to our club December 4. 1914. Our pledge of ten dollars a year (or the Settlement School is raised by assessment. Mrs. Adda Williams has been chosen delegate to the convention.

Founders' Day was celebrated Ihis year with a supper Katharine McClure, seven of our number being present. the evening the annual business meeting was held.

at the home o( Mrs. Before the close of

A delightful event of the past summer was an informal luncheon at a clubhouse on the Milsissippi River :at Hamilton, lit., when twelve Pi Phis met and became acquainted or renewed old friendships. Mrs. Idelta Egbers Parks, of St. Louis, who was visiting her old home in Hamilton, arranged the luncheon

• Number old clubs 8; new 1. T otal 9 Kumber stnding no report 0; late, o.

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and notified all Pi Phis in the vicinity. Four of the fraternity living in Keokuk were present, two from 'Vanaw and five from Carthage, beside Mrs. Parks. A delegation from the alumnll! dub III Burlington had to send regrets at the last miDute. Mill Onken who had also been invited was unable to come but sent a charming letter whjch was read aloud. We thoroughly enjoyed being together and it was decided to make the luncheon an annual affair.

Two members of our alumnre club have been leaders in the recently Carthage Civic League. The League was organioted principally to establish and maintain lOme kind of work among and for the boys of the town. Mu. Ellen Ferris Scofield was made leader of the lOCial committee and by faith, patience and persistence succeeded in proving to the state Y. M. C. A. tbat it would pay to establish the Municipal Boy.' Work in Carthage. Another of our Pi Phis, Mrs. Adda 'Villiams, W'u made leader oC the finance committee and secured pledges from our citizens oC $1,800 for two years to assist in maintaining the work. Both have worked with great self 5acrifice to advance the work and should Ceel amply rewarded for their elTorts. With splendid committees under them they have established the Y. M. C. A. for the boys and have a resident secretary and worker. This is the first time this work has been started in 50 small a city as Carthage.

A suggestion: Why not have a club of [sainted Alumnre? A n visiting here told me she had planned to send a box to the School for Christ · mas, having been interested by seeing some · photographs of the school, etc. She does not belong to an nlumnre club but would undoubtedly contribute to the school if she knew of the needs.

ABIGAIL DAVIDSON.

CHICAGO ALUMNt£ CLUn

(Organized 1(}O4. Chartered 1911.)

President-Mrs. Robert ] -1. Cault (Annabel Lee, New York B, '06.)

V iu-Presidellt-May B. Kelly, Illin ois E, ex-'99.

Recording Secutary-?frs. H omer Bang (Helen Pierce, Illinois E, '10).

Correslonding Secretary--Mrs. Orpheus M. Schantz (Carrie Flagler, l o""a '85.)

TreasNrer-Crace \Vall ar, Iowa A ex 'Q4. Resident AJumnse-17S. Members of Club-loo.

Average Attendance-60.

As usual, we have held six regular meetings in the past year from September to May, held ordinarily on the fourth Saturday oC the month. We have rented Ihis year rooms in the college club, in the new Stevens Building, and find them very pleasant. Our dues are two dollars a year which includes the national ta" but not THE Auow subscription. We have about thirty-fi\' e Au.ow subscribers in the Chicago area, which i.ncludes the city and suburbs. We have publis h ed this year a yearbook containing a list of officers, regular meetings, standing co mmittees, ond roster of members. We found this an incentive to resident Pi Phis to become club members and all have enjoyed the book very much. The one hundred members come from twenty seven chapters. We have members from

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every active chapter in ll1inois. Indiana, Michigan, \Visconsin, and New York, with many from Iowa IlDd other surrounding states . We a l so have what we call g r oup vice-p r esidents, who are appointed in September by the president, whose duties are to keep in touch with Pi Phi. in their own locality. We have five of these for the north, south and wcst sides of the city, Evanston and the north shore, and Oak Park and the western This gi yes each appointee a comparatively small area to cover and they in connection with the vice - president, who is chairman of the membership committee, ' work to secure all resident Pi Phis as club members. W e feel that this year t h ey have done wonderfully well.

In October our meeting was devoted to appointments, discussions and reports from the Grand Council meeting at Gatlinburg, and tea was served. We met in the City Club as the new club rooms were not ready. November seventeenth we held group meetings at the homes of members. O ur hostesses were: south side. Ethel Lendr um (Tllinois Z, '06); north side, Florence Reynolds (Illinois E, '01) ; Oak Park and west side, Mrs. O. M. Schantz (Carrie Flagler, I owa 9, '85); assisted by Mrs. F. J. Allen (Nina Harris, 1IIinois B. '97); Evanston and north shore, Mrs. R. 1-1. Ga.ult (Annabel New York B, '06). At these meetings we sewed for Illinois E active chapter, and made two comforters for the Settlement School.

November 27, was our Thanksgiving reception, where Mrs. E. A. H elmick (E li zabeth C l arke, Michigan A, '96) and Leah Stock (Michigan A) were gaests of honor and talked of the Sett lement School.

Miss Stock sang for us some characteristic song ballads of the mountaineers. Our h ostesses were members of In diana A.

January 23 the active girls of Illinois E nrranged and presented the program, giving u s a moving picture show of Greek liCe at Northwestern University which was very cleve r The members o f th e club were much amused and p l eased especially those older ones whose college life is now a memory on l y Somt of the girls also da.nced and recited for us. It was an unusually fine meeting and it is very gratifying to the club members to have the "girls" with us in such a cha rming way. Our hostesstl were members of Colo rad o B

In stead of following ou r c u stom of a guest meeting in F eb ruary or early March, we had a concert on th e evening of March fourth, {or th e benefit of th e Settlement School building fund, which neUed u s $353.50. The following artists donated their services: organ, Mr. Palmer Christian (whose wife, Lois \Vilkin· IOn . WiICoDJin A, is a club member); baritone, Mr. J:am es Goddard; sop ran o, Mrs. George L. Tenney (Adelaide Miller, Col orado B); vio l in, Mr. Rtx Underwood. A delightful program was given a n d much enjoyed.

March 27 was our annual meeting. Kate B. Miller ( I owa B) led the discu ssion of the constitution. particularly dwelling upon those points oC inte rest to The reports of office" and committees were read. Elections of new officers was by mai l , in order that each member might vote, and the ballots were se Dt out after this meeting. Mrs. John C Marshall (Atlanta McClendon. Texas A) sang the Mexican National Hymn in costume. Ou r hostesses were tllinois do members.

Our Founders' Day lunc.heon was bel d in our club rooms. devo ted it to the co ming convention. We h ad twenty-two of the active gi rl s from IlIinoi. E with us, inclodin, DInt who had been initia ted the evening before. These in iti.te s were introduced individual ly to tb e club, and we co rdially welcomed l uch a fin e appearing group of girls. Kat e B. Mill er was very witty and entertaining as to utmis tr ess. Mrs J L Lardner (Lida Burkhard, Colorado Ir '00), Mrs. F. J. Allen, Nona Hakes, th e Illinoi s E delegate to the co nvention ,. were the speakers. Announ ce ment was made of th e re s ult of the election, anet the list of offi cers heading Ihis repo rt will take office September J. Mrs . Walter Spry (Esther Orr, JIIinoi • .d), was eJect'cd delegate to th e convention. She hal been our vcry able president f o r two years and no o ne co uld better represent our club. Mrs . Spry wishes"o say here to all wh o will pus Chicago, July 1 on their way to convention in Berkeley, that the Chicago alumnae club will hold "open hous e" in th e club rooms th at day for visitors, al1d that a delegation will be at the Northwestern Station to gree t in coming Pi Phh.. Mrs. Spry regrets very mu ch that she will be in California at that date, but she extend s a cordial welcome to all who will be b ere, and looks forward to meeting them at co nvention The sec r eta ry hopes to be in Chicago then and will be glad to help to mak e the day pleasant. We expect to have at least six club members present at co nvention.

Our l ast meeting for the year will be June 7 at the l og st udio in Hubbard Woods with Mr. and Mrs. Adam Emor y Albright for o ur annual picnic. W e take our busbands, children and friends on thi s outing, and it is always a most delightfu l occasion Mr and Mrs. AlbriRht are mos t charming in their beautifu l and artisti c home. and we look forward each year to thi s outinJir.

CARRIE FI ACLER·ScUANTl.

CENTRAL ILLI NO I S CLUB

(O rgani ze d H) 12. Chartered 19 13 .)

P"esUleNt- Mrs. Delbert En oc hs (Nelle McWilliams, Illin ois Z, '00.)

Sec"elary-Mrs. George Fairclo (Mabel Lindsay, lIIinois Z, '03.)

T"ens "e,--Mrs. Hugo Branyan ( Helen Hough, Illinois Z, '13.) Re sident

Members of CI ub-14 . Average Attendance-12

The Central Illinois club has no regul a r prearranged program, but al each meeting conducts all business whi c h has arisen and reads th e l etters from Grand Council and the Settlement School. Also ther e is discussion of various articles in TUE ARROW and reading from the co nsti t uti o n . Th e Se ttlement School, about whi ch all members an well informed, and the welfare of th e active chapte r are the chief interests of the club. The relations with the active chapter are very friendly and the alumn3e. patronesses and house girls meet several times during thr yea r at parties and teas, Newcomers and visitors in the town are always welcomed and invited to share th e fraternity life.

Founders' Day this year was celebrated by a f o rmal banqu e t at the Hotel Beardsley, Wedn esday eve ning, April 28, at seven o'cloc k Th e re were three

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out of town guests; Mrs. Ja c k Mill e r (Nell Miller, Illinois ,Z, '08) ; Mrs. E. F. Trego (Edna Sheldon, Illin ois Z, '04). and Miss Brennan from Kn ox College. Covers w ere laid for forty and th e large horseshoe -s haped table was very pretty with red carnations, rose s and light blue-shaded ca ndl es. The placecards w e re tiny blue booklets exact copies of THE ARROW in miniature. These contained the menu, list of toa s ts, as follows: uPi Phi Ideals Past and Present", Mrs. Gaddis, one of the founders of I. C. whom we always enjoy having with us; ICFour Years in IT Francis Keen; cCF reshman Trials", Anne Siemans; Mrs. Albert Stern was toastmi st re ss. A page entitled "Gossip of Society'" prepared by the active girls cont.lined some "bits" well directed at the various girls and alumna! Also there was a song, composed by Marion White and Helen Sawers of the active chapte r , to the present popular air "You \Vore a Tulip ". The words are as foll o ws:

We know a story, an interesting story, The le g end of old I. C. Of maidens eleven Sent straight f rom heaven Bent on charity.

So we wear the arrow, the wee golden arrow And likewise the wine and blue, And while we wear it

We ever shall swear it, The emblem of friendships tru e.

DECATUR ALUMNtE CLUB

(Organized 19 12. Charte r ed 19 14.)

J\'[ urphy, Illino is H, ex.'t3 .

Viu Prujdml-?lir s. J. T. Mc David (Olga Keck, Illinois H. '08.)

Recording Davis, Illinois H, '14.

Corresponding Suretary-Mrs. C. R. Di ck (Margaret Wood, Illinois Z, '10).

Treasurer-Mrs Horace McDavid (Bessie Lamb, Illinois II.)

Resident Al Members of Club-z4 .

Average Attendance-n.

'Think naught 3. trifle, th oug h it !>maU appear." Thank you, Mr. Young, for h elping us to say it. \Ve scarcely overflow into the dining room where our meetings are held but we do enjoy a broader glimpse of II 13 cJI at every gather ing and are correspondingly enthu siastic for the work between times

At our opening m ee ting in October, we decided to make the second Tuesday of each month ou r alumn:r club day,-an easy date to remember because it occurs the day after city Pan · H elleni c, and makes it convenient for us to discuss "privately" our policies on Pan lI ellenic Questions.

The of Illinoi s II active c hapter WHe discussed informally at the December meeting, and Adele Murphy gave a resume of Settlement School his · tory, showing pictures and rough geographical chart s.

HAZEL I. CRAtG.

In January, we met at Irene Duerr's for a cooky -shine and had a delightful time. We (ollowed the suggestion of another worthy club at the ope ning of our business meeting by answering to roll call with separate Iman items (rom the last Anow. Before supper, Lelah·Beli Davis read an interestina paper on the CODstitution, history, and policy of the fraternity.

Our Dezt meeting of importance was in March, when we reviewed the annual eumination questions. No specia l study was made th e meeting, but the newest alumnae, with last year', study comparatively fresh, WCTC able to help the older girls, so that really conscientious answers were made to most of the questions.

We did Dot forfeit our regular April meeting to a celebration of Founders' nay, but found it more convenient to have Ol1r business stssion at the regular meeting and enjoy a Ureal party" on April 28. A consciousness that many si multaneou s celebrations were being held all over the country, helped us to realize the real significance of the occasion. The a.ctive girls were our guests lor the evening, and a tw o coune buffet s upp er was served at Helen Hutchin's home. The girls went out on the porch for their sherbet and cake, while the entertainment committee busied themselves inside with a microscope and "movie" screen. It was a stereoptican show of no common sort that followed. Each girl was amazed to see a baby picture of hersel { portrayed in big proportio ns A guessing list was made by each one, and 'Florence Bacon, a freshmRn, won the prize package of paper dolls. That a freshman should capture the prize is large testimony of the {amiliarity of alumn:e faces!

Our main effort in beha.1f of the Settlement School was made on October 3 r. when we held a bakery sale and cleared thirty-one dol1ars and twenty·five cents. It did us good to be reminded that uthe re 's aBus lots of other folks we kin be sorry for 'stid of ourse lves."-meaning the mountain people who are learning for the first time how to really live nnd be "inte lligint. "

Our interest in convention might be likened to hero worship. It's real, but far removed from the objective point. Adele Murphy has been appointed delegate, but she is litill uncertain as to whether or Dot she can take the trip. There are no other girls from our c lub who eXf,lcct to go.

Relationa between the active c hapter and o ur aiumnre club a re unusually intimate. Every fraternity met:ting is attended hy one or more of the and the vice·president of the active chapter is always present at a lumn 8e meet· ings, making it possible for us to reaUy understand co nditi ons on both sides. We voted' early in the year to send at least two alumna:: to assist the active girls in receiving at their bimonthly open h ouse funclions for nonfnternity gir15.

At present, we are making every endeavor to increase our house fund . A business·like canvass for subscriptions has been managed by Eula Byrne, and we are hoping to own a fraternity home before many years. Meanwhil e we will try to remember the need for building materials :at Little Pigeon.

ADELE M. M URPHY.

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FRA NKLIN ALUMNiE CLUB

(O r ganized about ISgj. C h a rt e r ed 1908 .)

President- Haz el Abbett.

Viu-p,.esident-Mr s. S. E. Lilnarn (Elizabe th George).

Suretary--Fran ces M . Dean.

T,.earuur-Helen Barllhizer.

Resident Alumnre-35. Members of Club-----28.

Average Att endan ce- 2S.

Another year has r o lled around and once again we find ourselves nearing tbe close of our ch apter year. Many things have happened si n ce our last annual alumn ae lette r; many pleasant gatherings we have enjoyed together.

Having found o ur monthly luncheons so greatly enjoyed and so well attended, we decid ed to continue them through this year just closing.

After our annual lett er of last year we held O UT May luncheo n which was the last one for the year. I wish all our friends might have shared that day with u s. We met at the home of Prof. Jeannette Zeppenfeld, ex·Historian, JSM beiDa- one of the four hostesse s of the afternoon . It always means a good :auendan ce wh en th e magic nam e, Zeppenfeld is breathed. The active girls all ....ant to come, too, and of course we gladly welcome them for it is for the sake of the active girls we " have our being."

We introduced a n ew f eat ure that day whic h was greatly enjoyed by ail : A program of piano and violin mu sic was furnished during the luncheon by the two young girls of Ru s hville, Ind., Phyl1is and Janet Dean.

We were also favored with some excellent readings by Miss Edna Bassler of Lima, 0., a n of Northwestern. She was a guest of Hazel Abbett, our president for 1915 ' 16. Our own sister, Mrs. Jane Ditmars l?eming, now of Grand Rapids, Mi ch., gave some vocal selections in her most charming manner

In September, when college ope ned, our dub gave a "chocolate " at tlte home of our preside nt, Mrs. Lanam The house was decorated with golden rod which was out in all its glory. The guests were the active girls and the new girls and it wa s surely a time of good c heer and welcome.

In December we had an "at h o me l) in honor o f Miss Pollard and Marie Ditmars who were home for their vacations. How we all enjoyed the reports from the Settlement School! We co uld picture ourselves at the school when they gave such splendid accounts of the work and the students. If anyone had doubted the good that was being donI! there and the far reaching inRuence of the school, she surely found all doubts vanishing as she eagerly listened t!) aU that was said and l oo ked at th e many pictures that had been brought to us. We also had another little feature that afternoon enjoyed by aU. Two of our girts, brides elect. were Hshowered.=' Leta Hall and Hazel Alexander. On January 16 as is their custom the active girls entertained the alumnae in their rooms at the dormitory to a "choco l ate ." \Ve ce rtainly appreciate these affairs given in honor of the establishin,i of the fraternity at this college.

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Founders' Day has ag&.in passed into history and was duly celebrated by us with • very beautiful four course luncheon at the borne of Mary Graham. Our guut. were the active girls, visiting alumna: and the wives of the deu and president of the college. At the close of the luncheon our president called upon Ethelwyn Miller, a former sister alumna but now acting head! of household arts in the School of Education, University of Chicago h i. always • delight to bur Misl Miller., she alw3.Ys comes with 50methinrr breezy and inspiring. She warned against our girls' becoming U'ponges," and gave a spi rit cd talk on our responsibility. She also "passed on" a thought;. there is needed a go-between in our work. Someone betwt:cn our province president and the president of our active chapter. Someone out of college not more than two yean who understands where the chapter has failed of the highest good and the go-between being in fu11 sympathy can guide the girl in reaching our ideal standards of true womanhood. Marie Ditmars, jost home from her year's work in the Settlement School, was ca ll ed upon. She gnve us some newer ideas of the work. Upon the whole she fe.lt the worre was growing well but it ne eded the coOpern tion of all of us. After the luncheon a socia l hour was enjoyed.

A few months ago one of our number who is always on the lOOKout to lend a hand for the betterment of humanity said sbe would give ten doUan toward the Settlement School fund if we would raise forty. We gladly accepted the offer. We gave a market, later had a candy boolh at the annual Knights of Pythias' carnival and the funds from these with a few additional gifts secured the money. I forgot 10 say that some baskets were sent from the school, also some canned goods. Bought al wholesale and retailed, we made some money in this wny. Besides the fifty dollars we gave the annua1 pledge money.

We may be represented by two or three girls at the convention. However, we feel a double interest in the activ!! chapter delegate, Ali ce McGuire, since her mother, Mrs. Inu Ulery· M cG uire was a charter member of the chapter here.

We feel that more than ever we shall endeavor to uphold in the best manner the work of the active chapter. We all feel that we are indeed {ortunate in having among us a former grand officer, Mrs . Charles Drybread, a member enthusiastic and loyal to all the highest ideals of n B

We hope that mu ch that is helpful will come of our local Pan Helienit.

We shall have two more regular meetings before the year closes at which time we shaH study the constitution and create a deeper interest in the broader things of our fraternity. Mu ch of our success is due our efficient president, Mrs. Lanam.

FRAN CES M. DEAN.

GALESBURG ASSOCIATlO:-J 11)06. Chartered 1915.)

Earl R. Bridge (Eve l yn H olliday, Illinois A, '13)· Viu-Pre.tidtNt-Marion Webster, lIIinois B, ex··og.

R ecordinl

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E. T. Ra dcliffe , (Geo rg ia na Pugh, Illin o i s B ex-' 13 )·

Cor responding Secretary-- M rs. Henry La ss ( Mil d r ed Toler, Illin ois .11, 'OS) Treasurer-Janet Chapman, Illin ois D. ex·' 13.

Resid ent Alum nre-59.

Members of Club (A lum nre)-4 0. Av erage Att endance (Al um na:}-2o.

The Galesburg Pi Beta Ph i Assoc i ation is uniq u e in its m embers h ip. h aving not o nl y res id e nt Il \umn re but e ver y active girl in the two chapters o f Illinoi s 6and Illin ois B. R eg ul a r me et in gs hav e bee n h eld the fir s t Saturday in every month, co n s i sting of busine ss, reports from eac h active c hapter and much 'jge.tting acquainted". W e seldom have a forma l progn m and o ur jolliest m eetings are th e six o'clock "buffet cooky-shines". This yea r we had two--the fir s t in January when we were e ntertAined by the Illin ois .0. a lumn re at the h o me o f In ez W ebster ( Ill ino i s .6., ex·'oll) a nd in Ma r ch by the Illin ois B active ch ap t er at their bungalow. The attendance is a lw ays sixty to seventyfive and eve ry member who is not so lici ted by the co mmittee brings a quarter.

At the Marc h meeting, Mrs. T. F. Bi rmi n gham. (G r ace F ahnestoc k, Illinois .6, ex -'o7) who is a member of the national exam inatio n com mittee gave a very interes t i ng and in s tru c tive r eview of the examination pape r s which was a great advantage t o th e alumnre and eve r y active girl.

There ar c two advisory commi ttees in the association, working with the active ch apte r s and every a lumn a has an oppo rtnnity to k ee p i n close touch and to become personally acquainted with every girl in Illinois A an d Illinois B. We arrange our meetings to accommodate th e act iv e girls and their regular attendance is an inspiration to the a lumn a:.

We sti n maint ain a ' r oo m at th e Galesburg H osp it a l. Since re ce iving our charter we have f e lt a greater r espo n sib ility i n the broade r interests of n B

Last year, thr o ugh the en thu siastic efforts o f Mrs. Dale Cabeen (Mary C hase Cham be rl ain. Illin ois Z, '02 and Kansas A) individ u a l s ub sc ripti o:::ls amounting to over one hundred do ll ars were se nt to the Sett le m ent Sch ool. Th is year April 24. th e association gave a be n e fit entertainment in the West Ba ll R oom. W e w er e fortunate in having Mi ss P at rick, a professional da n ce r from C hi ca g o, who, with the help of a few of ou r musical members, gave a very attractive prog ram. The ti c ket s were twenty -fi,te ce nts eac h and sixty-five dollars W3S cle a re d.

Day was celebrated according to o ur u s ual cu sto m with a b3DQuet. There were n inety-s i x Pi Phis and pat r o n esses present. The entertainment was parti cu larly novel, per ta ining to the 1917 co nv ention which we h ope will be h eld in Galesb u rg Everyone found her place by means o f the car and seat numbers on a Pullman ticket, marked UPi Beta Phi Special, Chicago to Ga l esb urg, Illin ois, 1917" A very clever dia r y of th e conve nti on was given, illustrated by a rad iop tic&n with pictures of Lombard Coll ege, Kn ox College , Monmouth and Htake-oHs" of the " nni q u e" entertainments &nd g ood times o f the 1917 convention in Galesburg. I wish that Pi Phis from eve r y chapte r might have been with us to appreciate the inspiration, ent hu siasm

and interest of Illin ois nand Illin.ois A. A number o( members of the association are hoping to attend this yur'li convention and a delegate is to be elected at the May meeting.

There i •• local Pan·]Jellenic in Galesburg. Meetings are called in turn by tke different fraternities each year. A luncheon is now being planned (or May 8.

MARION WEBSTER.

INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNJE CLUB

(Organizeo 1900. Chartered 1915.)

Presuit'"'-Elhc.l CurryeT, In diana r, '97.

Vice·Presidt'nt-Mn. W. P. Garshwiler (Florence Pro\ ince, Indisna H, '93).

Suretary-Cla ra Hatfield, Indjana B, 'Il. T,.t'4I.rurer--Ruth Arbaugh, IndiGO . r, eX·'16.

Resident Members of Average Attendance--30.

The Indianapoli s alumnae club bas had a Hry pleasant year. Our meetings, almost everyone of which was preceded by 11 one o'clock luncheon, were held in the homes of different club members on the second Saturday of each month. The first regular meeting of the year took place in Oclober, and besides the usual luncheon and business session, the club enjoyed a. very interesting travel·talk by Ethel Cunyer. In November the meeting was especially enjoyable and instructive as Mrs Oema.rchuJ C. Drown entertained us with a lecture and stereopticon views on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. In December we dispensed with the usual luncheon and instead had a Christmas party for the IT 4;1 babies. This was a very interesting affair as the child ren pro\ted themselves great entertainers. \V e also enjoyed several cos tume dances and songs by Gertrude Pettijohn. Everyone present at the Christmas party brought gifts to be distributed t o the poor children of our city. At the January meeting we enjoyed another interesting talk by one of the club members. Anna Weaver told us of h er visit in Greece la st s umm er. In March we entertained the active girls and pledges as our specia l guests. The pledges. each year, offer some sort of st unt, and this time, a clever little moving picture playlet wa s given.

In April, 110 Pi Phis, including the nlumnre and active girls from all over the State, celebrated Founders' Day with a luncheon at the Claypool Hotel. Mrs Mindwell Crampton-Wilson of Delphi, Ind., was toastmistress and responses were given by the r ep resentati\'es from th e active chapters and alumnre. The club always looks forward with greAt pleasure to the June meeting, when Mrs. Garshwiler entertains the alumnre nnd active girls at her benutiful co untry home in Southport.

At all of our meetings we have discussed the Settlement School and have tried to impress on all Pi Phis for what a great, philanthropic cause we are working. We have made a ca nvn ss for annual subsc riptions, and besides money derived from that, we also realiud quite a sum from the rummage

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sale that we held in October. amount for the school next succu(ul. \V e are already making plans to rai se a larger year, and we hope our project will be most

It seems that all o ur interest at present is ce ntered in the co ming convention, ..and if conditions would permit, we all would join the merry party aboard :the If Pi Phi Special". Sueral of the club members are planning to go to the .co nv en tion, and it has been definitely decided t o h ave Edith Habbe se rve as .our delegate.

Indianapolis boasts a loca l P an- H e llenic, representing thirteen fraternities. Since its establishment during the winter, two lunc heons have been given and well attended, and at present, this organization is establishing a scholarship (und, part of tbe monty 10 be furnished by the different alumnae dubs in tbis city.

We have enjoyed meeting any new Pi Phis who have visited our city, 01", have come here for residence. Some of the c lub members always call on any strange Pi Phis and invite them to our meetings and also to join the club.

BUSSING RASS)(ANN.

M ADISON ALUJoINJE CLUD

(Organ ized I Q08-9. Charte r ed 1909.)

Pr esident-Mrs. Arnold B. Hall (G n:.ce Carney, Indiana A, 'OS).

Vice-Pruident- Mr s. Ad. Hou sh (Cha rl o tte C utl e r, Kansas A, '<)8).

Set ,.e/ary-Mrs. W. H. P eterson (Mary White, Wi sconsi n A, '11)

TreasN-rer-Mrs. A. \V ( )(argaret Davison, Wisconsin A, 'II).

Resident Alumnre-20.

Members of Club-17.

Average Attendan ce- t4.

I Club Prog,.am lor J9 J4 -rj: October-Farewell party to Mrs. Bassett, at Mrs. Hall 's-B usiness me et ing; Novembe,.-20th year reunion of Wisconsin A, at the n B c(o hou se; Decembe,.-Bazaar for Settlement School, at the hou se i January-Meeting devoted to interests of l oca l c hapter, at Mrs Kropf's i February- Social meeting at the Kayser's; March-Literary meeting, held b y Mrs. Schorger and Mrs. H endricks at the home of the latter; April-Cooky· shine, farewell and sewing socia l for Eunice W e lsh , at th e house. Hostesse s, Mrs. Hou sh, Gladys McGowan , Mrs. Peterson; May (he ld in April)F o unders' Day celebration with acti\'e chapter;

2. Settle"unt Sc4001: O ur December meeting was a bazaar at the house . Twenty dollars was r aised thus for the school. Mr!!. Hall, Florence Robinson , and particularly Eunice Wel sh, worked especially hard for this.

l Convention: Eva Welsh is to be o ur de l egate, and possibly Stella Kayser will be there also.

4- [We hav e not studied the constitution this year, or used the examination study or Questions. The Question of the anti fraternity sit uati on comes up for discu ssio n frequ e ntly, but that is about all.]

S. Relationl witA tAe dd;t:e dapter are very pleasant, and'I think are con.stantly becoming pleasanter.

6. NnDcomet's are called upon and invited to all the medini" Mrs. Housh, one of OUf newest members, il now our vice-president {or next year.

7. FOMlfders' Day was celebrated by • cooky-shine with the active chapter.

8. Local Pan-Hellenic: Yes, there is one

9. U1tusM41 Celebration.: The anniversary celebration in November,-the 20th year reuniOD ol Wi scOllsin A.

10 No, we have done nothing especially new nnd startling, nor anything old in a new way. r fear we are nut original, or at least no need to be so has arisen. In. capitol and university city like Madi$Oo, most of our members are busy with many otber interests, both at home Bnd outside. So our meetings, except for necessary enjoy them. business, are usually purely restful, lOCial onu; and we MARY \VHITE -Pnasos_

MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL ALU)fNIE CLL'B

President-Mrs E. K. Pickett (Edith Garbett. '06). A.]. Walker (Edna Dunlap. IU).

Ruording SecreJary--$ybil Bates. ' IS .

Corrntonding Suretary-Aimee Fishtr (Grad uate Student, '07).

Treanrer-Mrs. W _ S. Blackburn (Florence Burgus, '06)

Resident Alumnre--ss.

Members of CIUb-20.

Average Attendance-3S .

The Minneapolis and St. Paul !llumnae club has held eight ve ry interesting monthly meetings this year. Most of these have been at homes of members. combining business with pleasure. The first large meeting was a delightful musicale at the home of Mrs. F. C. Nickels (Frances Jacobs. Co ltlmbia A). In December we had two meeti ngs i the annual Ch ri stmas party at .the house when we presented a rug to the active chapte r; and the annual holiday luncheon. Before Christmas. we held our second bauar, which was again s uccessfully managed by Minnie Trimble (ex-107), and we added $165.00 to the house fund.

The January and February meetings at th e h omes of Mrs. A. J. Walker (Edna Dunlap. '12) and Mrs. B. L Newkirk (Lo uise Leavenworth, 106) were devoted to business and sewing. In March, Mrs. T. A. Peppard (Graduate Student, '14) entertained the club with a suff rag e talk by J osephine Schain, '01. Elections were held for the coming year.

As usual, the April meeting was given up to a Founders' Day celebration at the annual banquet. Mrs. Roland \\' are (Amy Robbins. '0 1) was toast-

The theme for toasts was "Woman", taken in such interesting phase. as " How to Be A Clinging Vine ll " \ Voman's Place I s in The Hornell, '4\Vhy is a Whiu ll Mrs. May Woods Simons (Illinois E). who was the hono:, guest, gave us some very interesting personal glimpses of well-known Pi Phis.

As a whole this ha s been a very successful for our alumnte club. \Vith the absorbing interest in building a home for Minnesota. A. the active chapter and alumna: c lub have worked much together. \Ve fe e l that the advisory council is very import:mt and can be a great to both of our groups. and we shall be glad to hear reports frem through the cc!'\'ention.

F I SHER.

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'DELTA PROVINCE

AMES ALUMN /£ CLUB

Pr rlJidm l-Mrs. L . C . Tilden (Ruth Duncan, Iowa r. '95).

Vice Pusid ent- Kittie Freed, I owa 1', ' 92 . E B. Bush (Ednll Everett, Iowa r, 'ro).

TreaJ •.,·L".......-- Lillian Storms, I owa r. 'oS.

Resident Alumnre-18.

Members of C lu b-1J.

Average Attendance-12.

Our alumna:: club has again ca rr ied out the plan that we found sUCCCliSft11 last year, that of having lun c heons followed by OIU regular business me cti ngs at the bomes of the members of the club.

We have had a very inte resting year. Although we do not have definite programs OUf aim is to spend a part of each meeting in discussing subjects of importance and interest to all Pi Phis.

Four Pi Phis from Boone joined us lut yur. Perhaps the most enjoyable meeting was held in May at the h ome of Mrs. Otis, where our Boone sisters entertained us at a delightful luncheon.

At one of our meetings we had the pl eas ure of hearing Mrs. Emma Brownlee Kilg o re te ll o f the early days of lIB

\V e are l ooking forward to the celebration of Founders' Day, which is t;) be a luncheon given u s by the Ilctive chapter in their new borne.

Ames alumnre club sends greetings and good wishes to all.

EMMA LoUISE PATTINCILL.

BURLINGTON

ALUM:s'tt: CLUD

(Organized 1906. Chartered 1906.)

President- Mrs. II. O. Todd ( Eva Southwell, I owa I ) C harles Br oo k (Alma Poehler, Kansas A ). Correspondi"K Secretary-Katherine Alice Lunderen. Iowa A. Recording Surll!'tar.v--Sadie Holiday, Iowa 2.

Treasuw·-l\frs. P. G Lang (Cora Widi ck, Iowa 6).

Resident Alumn a:-24.

Members of Club-- :u

Aver:lgt Attendance-16 .

\V e of the Burlington club, in ret ro speetio n o( our year just ended , feel that we have indeed added another laurel to our r eco rd, (or thi s has been perhaps the most pleasant of all our nine years' existence as an alumnse club. Our programs have been arranged ra the r spontaneously, not at all in a set and dried manner, so that one knew months before just what to exp«t at each meeting, but each program has proven rather a happy surprise f o r those not on the com mittee, and as a result , the attendance has been large and the

·Numher of oM clubs, 18; new 2; dead, 2 T ota l, 18 Number sending no report, I; lat e,s

enthusiasm maintained throughout the year. We realize as never btfo re how strong art the bonds which have s tretch ed from th e early years of the o rg. ni:.ation o f n cj) do wn to the present for the same loya lt y and love for IT which we knew in o ur co ll ege days is exhibited in our c lu b organiu ti on.

Our October meeting, th e first onc of the ytlll'", w as held at the ho me of Pearle Hayden, with Mrs. Patterson a nd Mrs L ang as hostesses. Thi s was in the naturt of o ur annu a l H.Uow« n Irolic.-a most delicious s upper, followed by toasts and a progressive, original "Ghos t story" given by fiv e of tbe members The December meeting was de \'o l ed to a s tu dy of Settlement work and the " New s From Little Pigeon ." }\{rs. Weibley was hostess on thi s occasion, and as usu a l, served a tempting repa s t at the c lose of the business Rssion. In }.:I.nuary, an old·fuhioned n 4> coo ky-s hine was held at the home of Mrs. Charles Brook ( Alma P oe hler, Kan sas A ). The c loth was sp r ead on tbe carpet in typical co llege day mann e r , and the coo ky -s hine song played a prominent part on the program. The social hour o f thi s occuio,\ was one long to be remembered. with ils "Picture GaUery" of Pi Phis. and the " Press Notice" written by the guests Mrs Broo k favored the guests with a most delightful group of songs. Mrs Garrett, (Nelle Hurley) and Mrs !ssett (Agnes Seevers), both [ owa A., came down from Wapello fo r the eve nt "Constitution dayu was obse rved at the March meeting when th e club met with Mrs. Thos. George ( Marie Minton. Wisc o nsin A ) who was visiting at the home of ber parents in this city.

Founders' Day was ce rtainly a red lette r day for th e members of our club who were privileged to attend the celebration given by the MI Pleasant alumnae club and I owa A, at the borne of Mrs. J. C. M cCoid in Mt Pleasant The Burlington club had bun invited to th is happy event , and eleven membe::-s were in attendance from our club. The lovely home, redolent with sp ring' blossoms, the charming hostesses, and delightful ente rtainment will long be remembered in connection with the bappy event. A mu sical prOifam was given during the afternoon, a most delicious buffet s upper was se rved, after which a number of toasts were given, Mrs. Belle Leach acting in the capacit" of toa stm istress in a mos t manner. Miss Wallb ank gave an address of wel co me to the visiting Pi Phis, and was r esponded to by Sadie Holiday (Iowa Z). Perhaps the two toa s ts u po n the program which proved of greates! historical interest were those gi ven by Mrs. Je ssie Donnell Thomas, a charter member of Iowa A, and Mrs Lulu Penn Ingersoll, bot h of whom carric·i back to the early days of n 4> and told u s most interesting tales of the days of organization and upbuilding of I. C We wish that every .n throughout the couotry could hear these toasts, they would certainly realize as never before the bea uty and grandeur of the " c hain of friendship" which binds our hearts in a common interest. Perhaps, si n ce Mrs. Thomas is to be our delegate at the conveRtion. you may have an oppo rtunity of hearing some of these things there.

Our own ce lebrati on of F o und ers' Day was held on Ma y first at the home of Mrs. Louis Blaul, (Bertha Poehler, K ansas A ) The drive to thi s suburban home was made hy autos, and it is needless t o say that there was • full

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attendance, (or an dternoon with this charming hostess in her beautiful borne is ODC that can never be resisted by Pi Phis. The early hours of the afternoon were devoted to election of officers, Ilnd of delegates to the convention, after which Mrs Brook again favored the club with her beautiful soogs. The banquet was served in the spacio us dining room, the twenty guests being seattd at onc long table. Surely no n cf> banquet table was ever more beautiful than thil, with its wonderful May pole of wine and blue gracing the center of the tAble, and strellmers oC the ribooJls stretching out to the table's edge There were vases of pink roses at either end, and tiny baskets of May A wen were at each place. The wine and blue candles shed a soft light over the lovely scene. After the delicious supper, Mrs. Cooper as toastmistrelS, proposed u toast to our new president, Mrs Todd, and also to the retiring one, Jessie Thomas. Mrs. Thomas. by request, read her toast given at the Mt. Pleasant meeting, and other impromptu toasts were given. And thus, another delightful Founders' Day has been recorded in our history.

With our various local obligations to support, our club has as yet made no larger contribution or pledge for the Settlement School, however, we do send an annual "mite as our Founders' Day contribution. wbich amounts to ten or twelve dollars a year. We are making tbis contribution again this year, and are planning to send a large box of books down to the .chool library. We are also discussing plans for other contributions for next year. but it is too early to announce them as yet. Our interest is likewise stilt centered in our hospital room, which was the maiden effort of our club.

\ Ve hive elected Mrs . Thomas as our delegate to convention. with Mrs. Charles Brook (Alma Poehler, Kansas A), as alternate. Six oC our memben, Mrs. Thomas and daughter Jessie, Mrs. Blaul and Mrs. Brook. Mrs. Weibley and Miss Josephine Burts are contemplating the trip to the Exposition, and w<e hope will be in attendance at convention.

In the meeting devoted to the study of the constitution we used both the examination questions and co nstitution , gleaning from them the pbases of fraternity life which we thought most instructive and helpful for alumn3e: Pi Phis.

A. Burlington ' is situated at some distance from an active chapter. we do not often have the plea.sure of meeting with one. However, we were given this pleasure this year when we were entertained by the two clubs in Mt. Pleasant.

We have no Pan-Hellenic organization in this city, although several other Greek-letter socie ties have representatives in this city. but none in such numbers as n

\Ve have done nothing specially new this year, but we have maintained 3 high degr« of interest anu love (or our alumn3e: organiz.ation and have likewise added another link in our golden chain of friendship. and strengthened the bonds of o ur own II B cjl.

KATHERIN! AU CE L U NDGREN.

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COLUMBIA ALUMS,£ CLl: S

(Orga niud 11)09 1911.)

For the past two yean: the alumna:: club of IT B 4> of Columbia , Mo., has not b«n able to keep up a regular organization, nOr to comply with the nation:!.J requirements; for that reason we have been considering withdrawing hom the organization. The members of n who were in town felt that the active chapter needed the help and advice of an alumna! cl ub . They still need all the support that we are able to give, as they are undertaking to pay fOr .3 lot and build a chapter house.

We cooperate with the active chapter in every way that we can. For the past three years we have given a buffet luncheon at the berinning of school. Individual members have also given teas and lun ch eons at the rushing lJeasGni. We are pInning to cooperate with the active chapt er in an entertainme nt for the Settlement Scbool, which will be given May I S. For Founders' Day celebration we were at the cbapter bouse for a buffet s upper . The freshman girls prepared and r;ervw the supper and thus saved 3. sum {or incorporating- the chapter.

Until the active cbapter is well established in the new chapter house, we will not be able to assist in any other undertaking, but hope later to be able to cooperate with tbe national organization.

ELIZABETH HOUX -WILLlAMS

DES ALUMNA: CLUB

Prtsident-Mrs. Frank J. Camp (Louise Meek, Iowa B).

Vke - president-Mrs. Addison Parker (Louise Lange, Illinois 2). Carre/pollding Suretary-Mrs. Charles H. Clarke (Anne Ross, Iowa A). Recordi", Sec,.elary-Louise Tuttle, Iowa r.

TreaJ'Nrer-Mn. Frank \V. Parr (Nelle Welles, 1Ilinois 2).

Our club about holds its own as the years go by. We notice no diminution of enthusiasm. Occasionally a member moves away, and a new one takes bel' place. \ Ve do nol co unt our membership altogether by those who come regularly and keep up club dues, because we {eel that any IT is a member, if she can only come once in ever SO long, and there is always 11 welcome {or her. Last {aU we had Julia Ellen Rogers come and give (or us two of her splendid illustrated nature lectures, but allhough we worked hard, we made nothing except our expense, for which we blame weather and also the {act that the entertainments followed 100 closely upon other attractions. So for our Founders' Day party we decided that instead of having a picnic each one should take a half dollar for the Settlement cause, and the hostess, Mrs. \Vallace, and her committee served light refreshment s. This closel our monthly meetingl for this year, with the exception o( the picnic, which will be at the home o( Mrs. Garst in June.

Mrs. Frank Parr is to be our delegate at the con,'enlion, and we are happy 10 say she will also be in attendance. W e are sure she will come back to us in the fall (ull o( ideas and new enthu!iiasm (or IT B 4'.

ANNA ROSS ,CLAR KE.

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FAYETl' EVILLE ALUMN IE CLUB

(Organized 1915. Chartered 1915 )

P1'uidenl-Dorothy Lighton.

Vice-p,.esit/enl-Elizabeth Ellis.

Sureillry - Trt12s'Urer-Helcn Stuckey.

Corresponding Sureta,.y-Mildred Gregg . Resident Aiumnre-Io. Members of Clu1r-16.

The Fayetteville club, having just organized in April has devoted three meetings to reports from committees on securing members and making plans for the (ulure.

Our first thought was for the Settlement School and with thi s in view we served a banquet Founders' Day to the acti"t chapter in the chapter rooms and held our alumnlt meeting a.fterwards. Owing to the interest and untiring efforts of Mrs . J. W. Evans (Edith Clagett, Texas .A), we had nine present. all of us as e nthusias tic as if we were entering n for the tirst time.

If the banquet was not a great finan c ial success it was a means of bringing us in closer touch, not only with the chapttr, but with each other. As a result we are sending ten dollars to our school and are glad to have even .3 small part in the work.

\Ve have n('l delegate to convention but expeet three seniors, who will work with the club next year, to go.

There being no club here the past year the local alumna: have attended the c hapter meetings when possible. 'Ve also have a local Pan· Hellenic composed of one active girl and one alumna {rom each fraternity.

As this is the dOR of the year for our sister clubs and the dawn of our club life we utend heartiest greetings and best wishes for the future.

MILDRED GREGG.

I.sDlANOLA ALUMNtE CLUB

(Org.3nized IC}OI. Chartered 1911 )

Prerjdut-Mrs. Evan B. Dowell (Anna \Vright, Iowa B, ex·'S7).

Wm. Buxton, Jr. (Anna McLaughlin, Iowa B, '90) .

Suretary-Mrs. 1::. A. Jenner (Elizabeth Brown, Iowa B, '07 ).

Treasurer-Jessie Howser, Iowa B. 'n.

Resident Alumnae-30.

:Members of Club-IS.

Average Attendan«-lS.

Our club members are almost all members of one or more of the literary clubs of the town 10 when we come together as Pi Phi, it i, a purely social gathering, excepting (or the short business stssion ond a general discussion of things pertaining to n B 4>. Through our frequent visits from Kate Miller and the instructive talks she gives us on the Settlement School we are kept interested and informed. Our president, Mrs. Dowell, it especially active ill the good work; she has already sent in fifty dollars thia year on the yearly

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pledges, btsidcl what bas been sent from our alumn:t! away (rom here directly to the committee. Last year- our .1umnre: ga,'C $190 toward the building fund and $[37.50 for the current expenses. Our club also gave the prizes to the girls at the school in their Tomato Club contest last liummer,

\Ve are now trying to reach and interest all our alumnz by &ending out leUers telling of tbe needs of the school; these letters are all made (rom onc copy and signed, when possible by someone of us who knowl the one to whom it is sent.

Mrs. F. C. Sigler (Sara Eikenberry, '9S) will be our delegate to the convention and we hope to have one or two others in attendance.

We have met with tbe active girls twice this year at their initiations, and helped provide the cooky -s hines that followed each time. These were both held at the home. We always join the chapttt in observing Founders' Day and expect to do so this year at some date thty may select later on.

An especially ellljoyable occasion was the November meeting with Mrs. Sia-Ier and Mrs. Burberry They invited all tbe fraternity women in the town to come in at four o'clock and listen to MillS Florence Armstrong, A X, tell of the Pan-Hellenic congress in New York, at which she was present. More than eighty responded to the invitation.

\Ve have DO Pan - Hellenic organization but th e fraternity women unite d in having Mrs. Samuel Kirkwood Stephenson of Iowa City give her lecture on "The Ralph Conner Country" for the benefit of the Belgian sufferers.

ESTELLE J [ARTUNG-PERRY.

IOWA CITY ALUMNiE CLUB

(Organized --. Chartered t<)06.)

Pruidenl-Mrs. A. G. Smith (Gnce Partridge, Iowa Z, 'S9). V;ce-Pres;JmiSecretary-TreQs1Ircr-'Mrs. H F. \Vi ckham (Fanny Th ompson, I owa E, 'QO). Resident Alumn::e-16.

Members of Average Attendance-8 . Club progTllm. November-Settlement School; January-TilE ARROW; February-Local Charities; Marc h-Open Me-eting ; April-\Vays and Means and Constitution; May-Open Meeting.

It has been our endeavor to promote friendly relati ons between the active cho.pter and the alumnre and to be helpful to them in all possible ways. Most of them have been present at alternate meetings throughout the year. We have co ntributed to the Settlement Scheol sixteen dollars, and ninety cents. This wa-s raised by a pledge of Ii dollBr fr om each member and by A supper given to th e active girls. We hope to be able to increase our gifts yearly Founders' Da y was celebrated by a banquet participated in by the alumnre and 4cti\' e girls alike. I t was a very pleasant occasion.

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KANSAS CITY ALUMNJE CLUB

Resident Alumn:E-80.

Members of Club--3S.

Average Attendanct-30.

The past year has been, un doubtedly, one of the most successful and pleasant in the history of the Kansas City alumna! club. We have not only l ucceedc,t in stimulating a strong interest among the younger and new alumnae hut have also aroused many of the old members to a morc active service.

As usual our meetings have been held Ilt the homes of various members. on the third Saturday of every month. An informal luncheon is served before the business meeting by the hostess and three assisting Pi Phis. On Saturday, October 24. we held the first meeting of the year, at the home of Mrs. F. W. Heryer (Loren Leslie). At this time the of officers took place. followed by the regular b us iness meeting and discussion of a program for the ensuing year. It was decided to devote a part of our time at each meeting to lewing for Mercy H ospital, a charity institution which cares for the poor, sick and crippled children of our city.

In January we ente rt ained the Pan·Hellenic Association and all of the women's fraternities with a very delightful musicale and tea at the home of Mrs. C. W. Faeth.

Probably one of the most enjoyable meetings of the year was the cookyshine with which we celebrated Founders' Day, on April 11, at the home of Mrs. V. K. Tuggle (Agnes Bushnell). The following week a number of our were the guests of the Lawrence club at their Founders' Day banquet.

During the year many of our members have visited the chapters at Missouri 3nd Kansas, and have always returned with glowing accounts of their visit!! and the :splendid work both chapters are doing. As alumnlJ! of both Kansas A and Mi:ssouri A we are glad and proud to say that with the opening of fall term of school we expect to see the completion of our long dreamed . of new chapter hou:ses.

\Ve now have only one more meeting before the summer adjournment, and that a regular business meeting, at which we will hold election of officers and discuss plans for our summer ru shing.

Several of the Kansas City Pi Phis are planning to attend the convention at Berkeley this July. They are: Mrs. Joseph A. Farrell (Lo ui se Smith), Mrs. David Chalmers (Alice Hayes), Lucille Sm.ith, Lillian Smith, oavid.J Sawtell. Dot Ellis, Constance Fennell, but we hope that when the merry "Pi Phi Special" leaves K. C. there will be a larger number still, to carry the best wishes of the Kansas City alumnlJ! club to the twenty third convention of "our Pi Beta Phi."

CONSTANCE FENNELL.

ANNUAL REPORTS OF ALUMN/E CLUBS 597

LAWRENCE ALUloiNt£ CL U B

(Organized 1895 Ch:mend 1915 .)

Pruid""I-Hannah Oliver. 1 73

Viu Pru'de,.t-Mrl. \V. E. Tenney (Carol Corkins, '86).

T,.ea.s.,rer-Mrs. Arthur Haskins (TellS Critchfield, 'II) Suretar,-Adricnoe Atkinson, "4.

Although the Lawrence aJumnae club has only become a chartered onc, it is Il vcry old organization. There 3fe 50 resident alumnae, nurly .11 are members of the club.

The club meets four limes a year, in October. January, April and May and there are several committees that met( oftener.

During the past two years, we have devoted most of our lime toward helping the active girls obtain a new chapter house. This will be the second chapter house that Kansas A has built in the past seven years. The first one WBi built in 1<)07. a.nd it has become entirely too small, and i. unconvenient. Lut year we first talked of remodeling it, but the grounds cover only one loIt, and the location has undesirable 10 it seemed wiser to sell the house, a.nd start all over a.gain Two l ots were purchased directly we st of the present location and work was begun in May.

Our club has been so busy with house building, that we have neglected the Settlement School. Severnl members have stnt individual donations, but we bope to send something from the club soon.

The alumnae are closely associated with the active girls. There are three committees, the house, the advisory, and the scholarship committee, composed of a.lumnse that meet once a month in tM interest of the active chapter. Once a year, the first Monday in May, the alumn:r and a c tive chapter hold a joint meeting.

,Ve celebrated FOUDlkrs' Day together with the active chapter. and gave a banquet at the home of Mrs. Luther N. Lewis (Lucene Barleer) . It was a most Iklightful affair and seventy-one Pi Phi s were present. Bernice Tabor - Vander Vries (ex-'I I), presided as toastmistress, and the following responded to the toasts: "Our Banquet House". Mrs. Sheffield Ingells (Lucy Van Hosen Ingells, '00) i "Our Old I-louse", Mrs. Arthur Haskins (Tels Critchfield, ' II) i " The Little Red School I-louse", May Gardner, '97; "Our Settlement School" Lulu McCabe, Columbia A, '14; "Our New House'l, Margaretta Stevenson, '18; "Castles in the Air", Sophie Smithmeyer, ' 15Among the out of town Pi Phil who were here to attend the banquet were, Mrs. Arthur Mills (Emma White), Lulu M cCabe, Mrs. Silas Porter (Jessie Babcock of Monmouth chapter) and her daughter Dorothy Porter -Ca mpbell of Topeka; Mrs Sheffield Ingalls (Lucy Van Hosen) of Atchison; Mrs Frank Odell (Harriett Miles) of St. Louis i Mrs. Lawrence Peairs (Edit.... Laming) and Grace Zoellner of Tonganoxie; Mrs . Joseph Farrell (Louise Smith), Constance Fennell. Marion Ellis, and Davida Sawtell of Ka.nsas City i Mrs . A. D. Wilcox (Zillah Smith) of Muscotah; and Elsie Evans and Mr"!. Mal co m McNaug hton ( Ma ry Dudley) of I A:Dvenwo rth.

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On April 30, we held a meeting al the home of Mrs. Fenney, to show ou r new charter and elect officers for the co ming year. At this meeting convention was discussed, and Mrs. L. II. Perkins (Clara Morris, '73), a charte r member of Kansas A, WB! elected as our delegate, and Charline Smith, I J4. was chosen as alternate.

The Kansas alumnre as soc iation supports a scholarship loan fund of $200 called the Lucinda Smith Bu c han scholarship which is open to any girl in the university (or a length of two years without interest.

ADRIENNE ATKINSON.

LINCOLN ALUMNJE CLUB

Prnidt!llt-Myrn:l Sedgwick, ' 10. Kincaide, '00

Treasurer-Nettie Hol comb, '09.

Corresponding Secretary-Mary Spalding, '14.

Resident Alumn:r-38.

Members of Club-IS.

Average Attendance-12.

The Lincoln alumna:: club has just ended one of the most sucessful years it has ever had. \V e were very fortunate in having Melinda Stuart for president as she was so energetic and enthusiastic that we all became good workers.

This year we made several innovations, all of which we believe were s uccessf ul. The first of these was holding evening meetings. As several of our members teach, we ha.ve never before been able to have as large meetings as we would like to have. This year, however, by holding a meeting in tbe evening every {e\v weeks we have been able to get almost all of our alumnre together. We liked th e idea so much that we shall probably continue the meetings next year. The second innovation wa s to occasionally have a luncheon at the hotel to which the active girls w ere invited. We only had one luncheon this year, but this was a great success as several out-of-town girls and rushees were present In all almost sixty girls cnme to the luncheon.

In the fall, as usual, we helped the active girls with ru shing W e assisted at a cabaret tea given at the fraternity house and gave a ro se luncheon for them at the home of one of the girls. This last party the alumna: planned and paid for entirely. \V e also went to all the rushing parties which we co uld and helped the girh in eve ry way possible. And I must confess that this year the girls were very successful.

We our usual fifteen dollars to the Settlement School and tried to keep posted on whatever was happening in Gatlinburg. We also discussed ways of improving the scholarship of the fraternity and buying or rent-ing a house for next year At Christmas we gave the active girls silver for the house.

In place of a Founders1 Day ce lebration we gave our annual banquet April twenty - fourth The banquet was not so well attended as usual, but it was one fI( the most enjoyable we have ever had. We hope some year to give our banquet in Omaha with the Omaha alumnre. MAlty SPALDING.

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MT. PLEASANT ALUMN.-E CLUB

(Organi%ed 1894. Chartered 1915.)

President-NeHie \V.lIb.ok, '8.4VUc,·p,erjJeNi-Ida Van 1I 0ll, '1)0. rreas"'rer-Grace Swan, '00

Sure/ary-Mrs. Calvin McCoid (Mary Hulme, '87).

Resident AlumnP!-38.

MC!mben oC Club-30.

Average Attendanct-IS.

We were established twenty -o ne years !lgo and have met all the requirements for a number of years. but did not «ceive o ur c harler uutil this year, 1915. Our dub meets the first Thursday in each month [or our Uterary and business meetings. We do not have refreshments at these meetings and surely feel that there is no lack of interest on this account as our club $«ms ma ce alive this year than ever. We have somrthing real to work (or in our Settlement School. OUT club program for the past year has been " The Greek Fralernity!' This subject has of great interest to us all and we feel that we have Kone forward this year in that we are better informed, not only concerning our own fraternity, its needs and its work, but the Greek fraternity in general. At one meeting the constitutioD was read, and a discussion led b)" one o{ the in which all important points w e re emphasized. Then we had an. quiz in which the examination questions were used. The antifraternity question was handled in a debate ; "The Fraternity--oppolition and defense." One afternoon was dev oted to prominen t Pi Beta Phis anti their work. This was one of our most interesting meetings of the year. Mrs. Palm, who had charge of the program that afternoon, first paid a tribute to the rank and file of Pi Phis, the nonprominent who are ever interested in and hold up the hands of the {ront rank Then she gave a somewhat lengthy s ketch of the life of Mrs Carrie Chatman Catl, also a warm personal sketch of Mrs H elmick of Chicago, who has visited here, and many others which space forbids u s mention. Early in the year our club sent per50no.l letters to about :JSQ of our alumn:r, in which we enclosed a ci rcular of our Seulement School, also a pledge card, asking for a pledge or gift. In response to these letters we received twenty - three dollars in five year pledges and fourteen -fifty in gifts. O ur alumnae club have sen t in pledges and gifts thirty dollars and fifty cents. Our relat ions with our active chap ter are most pleasing. A com mittee from our club visits the chapter house once a month and they usually have one or more representatives at o ur regular meetings As our active chapter is small this year we have helped them some financially . Our advisory committee is composed of fiv e member s , three from the alumnae and two from the active chapter, which meet and discuss ways and means which will be beneficial to all conce rned Thus in this way Wf: keep in very close touch with one another.

Our club is divided into thref: committees whic h have c h arge of the three social meetinfJ held during the year. The first one was held at the beautiful country home of Mrs. John Hughes, in Octobe r . At this meeting the active

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chapter and pledges were our guests. We spent a. most delightCul afternoon together at the close of which a six o'clock dinner was se rved.

'Ve, "ith our active chapter. will celebrate Founden' Oay with a six o'clock dinner at the home of Mrs. McCoid. Following the dinner we have II. ru storical program, which in the h!1nds of Mrs. Belle Leach, has managed in this unique way. Mrs. S. O . Thomas of Burlington. one of the char ter members, ha.s charge of the first part of the program, and will tell about the ear ly history of II Mrs. Lillie Cooper·Weber of Villisca, I owa, one of the older members, also ha s a part. Then someone else will pick up threads, thus weaving a history of our chap ter from its beginning. We hoPt. in this way, bit by bit to soon have a complete history which will be of great interest to our alumnl'C. Our last party will be in June. At this time we haTe as our guests all Pi Phis and commencement visitors, This party is especially enjoyable as we meet many old college friends and renew many friendships.

MARY HUU,f£- M CColD.

OMAIIA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS ALUMNJE CLUB

(Organized 1905. Chartered 1(}06.)

Presidtnt-Mrs. Russell Burress (Sarah Martin, Nebraska B. '10), Viu·Prtsident-Mittie Pile. Iowa Z. '97. Corrts;ondin, Secrttary-Lucile Brown, Nebraska B, ex-'ll. Trtarurtr-Gertrude Branch, Michigan A. '')6

Resident Alumn.e-50_

Member . of Clnb-42.

Average Attendllnce-3S.

The club in Omaha have continued h olding their meetings at the luncheon hour once a month. This method has proved 10 suc«:ssf ul in good attendance and .pi rit that we would not go back to afternoon "kensingtons."

Our c lub has been so keenly interested in the Settlement in previous year s and though we decided not to make any extra pledge save our twenty -five dollars we have pledged. we did make individual pledges amounting to one dollar or more.

As for convention, we are anxiously waiting for July 2 to co me when the "Spttial" comes through Omaha and picks three of us up. All of the girls want to go as every renl n oj) does, but for most varied reasons we can all be there in spirit only. J one Brown (Neb raska B) is our delegate.

At our February meeting we were so glad to have some of the active chanter from NebrASka B with u s. They had come up for the day to do some shopping and we were fortunate to find it out in time . We have had a few [rom Lincoln at our luncheons and we are expecting more [or our banquet tc be held May J.

Last Christmas was held the best and most largely attended Pan-Hellenic luncheon since the opening luncheon three years ago. The most interesting program was given on the orde r of a cabaret. Each fraternity took some part in the program. Pi Phi gave her little farce, A Mock Frat Meeti"r,

whic::h ha d bten given at onc banquet two yean ago. The s u ccess or th is affair was due 10 the president, Mr s. Henr y Cox ( I o wa Z).

Founders' Day was celeb r ated at o ur new hotcl, The Fontenelle, with a seve n course banq ue t at which the Lincoln chapter , both aclive and . Iumn ae had be:en innted. Howevu, owi ng to the (act that Lincoln h3d cel ebrated Founders' n ay the wee k previoDs, but a vtry f ew ca m e

Our toa s t program for the e ven i ng was car ri ed o ut along the idea of war · (are, our warefue being against the anti fraternity m oveme nt Mittie Pile (Iowa Z ) WI1 11 most pleasing toastmistress, r espo nding and introducing the other spe:lkcn in a very witty manner. Fl orence Rush (Neb ra ska B ) respo nded to the first toast " The Skirmish" in verse. Very cleve r was her idea nf ru shing adap ted to the s kirmish of real warfare

Geo rgin ia Davis (Neb raska 8 ) g ave a more se ri o u s toas t on the s ubje c t "A mmunition ". This was given to make us realize how great ou r re spo nsibili · :iel were if fraternities were to live. Mrs. Edgerly ( Henrietta Benedict, Nebraska D ) told us of the " Battl e" , the battle during the four years we are in coll egl!. It was so real and tru e that we en joyed it most heartily .

Our I'Flar of Tru ce" was given by M rs. Sears ( Pearl Fitzgerald, Nebraska B ) ot Dallas, So . Oak. She was one of o ur former Omaha alumna: and we were 10 glad to have her back to respond to the toa s t which told u s o f 0.1' We are proud of it and we are glad to have anyone t e ll us mor c than we know of it.

Mrs. DePutron (Nell Holland, Nebraska B) of Lin co ln, gave us a most fitting toast which closed the program for the evening, the "Treaty of Peace ." What n cJI means to u s after school is over wa s her tho u ght and it wa.s a great p lea sure 10 have her with us, as one of th e Lin co ln alumnre cl ub.

There were thirty three of us who enjoyed our banquet on May I.

Mrs. Frank Wilkin s (Marga ret Phillippi, Iowa A , 'ro) was in Omaha this winter visiting her parenti. She was made most welcome in the c hapter an ,j took her place among the girls as if she were s till one of us.

A bride from Wisconsin A bas come to Omaha to live,-Mrs. Willial:,) Stuart (Ruth Birchard, '11). \Ve are glad to have her here again for before she went to Wi sco nsin her home was in Omaha nnd it see ml as if she wele comin( back.

We are proud to bave the office of C u stodian o f Ihe Pin given to one of our club, Mrs. Henry Cox (Qutene Snow, low:!. 'Z ).

I hope I Ihall meet many of you people who will read of our c hapter thi s lumme r, I look forward with great pleasure t o the co nvention.

MARY PHILUPPI

ST. JOSEPH ALUMN..€ CLUD

(Organized ll}O9 Charte red 1909·)

Wyatt, Missouri A.

Via -p,.eriaenl-Mr s. Will Hnrris (Marjory Adriance, Mi sso uri B) White, Illinois Z .

Co ,."espondjng Su"tla"y-"Ma ry Stewart, Mi sso uri A

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Resident Club Members-IO.

Average Attcndance--8

We are jUlt finishing the sixth year of the St. Joseph a lumn z club. There have been len enthusiastic members this year and we have met every month. W e bave been fortunate in having visiting Pi Phis at seve r a l of these meetings. Our summer meetings were really rushing parties. We always spend the su mmer and early fall acquainting the girls who arc to enter the various universities with some of the joys of n ell. In Oc tober the Missouri State Teachers' A$lociation met in St. Joseph and we entertained for the IT 4> teachers wh o were here at that time. At Christmas time, as i s our custom, fixed a Christmas dinner, toys, nuts, candy, gifts and clothing (or "Santa C lau su t o send to a needy family.

Our March meeting was devoted to the study of the constitution Mi,;::; Genevieve Lowry ( Nebr:aska B ) was with us at this time and told us all about the study of the constitution at Nebraska. B, a.nd of the fraternity examinations for this year At this m«ting we elected our new officers and dt'cided to send fifteen dollars to the Settlement School.

Our next will be May 1 when we will celebrate Founders' Day with a luncheon. Some of the gir l s 8re expecting to attend Founders' Day banquets at our nearest chapte r s also .

Of course, like all Pi Phis our main topic of conversation now is conventioJl. We hope that some of us will be ab le to be in San Francisco for it. We hope that this will be the most suc cessful and largest n convention ever held an 1 wish all Pi Phis a very happy su mm e r.

LETTIE 'VOOD.

SPRINGFIELD ALUMNJE CLUB

(Organized 1914 . Chartered 1914) p,.tsidml-Mrs. George Baldwin (Ruth Thomas, Missouri r ex-'13).

Viu · p,.esidenl-Sarah Townsend, Missouri r ex ' 13 Su,.tlary--Ruth Hubbell. Missouri r, ex-'oS. C,,"tspolJdinl Su,.etary-Susie Dillard, Missouri r, ex -'06. T,.t4lNreJ"'--Leila Huebsch, Iowa r. ex -'13.

Resident Alumnre--24.

Members of Club--<).

Average Attendance-2.

Looking back over the first complete year of the Springfield alumna: club we feel that there is SQmt' ground f o r sati s factiou with the results of our efforts toward efficient organiution and the practical applic ation of the ideals we are trying to uphold.

The greater part of our membership being initiates from Missouri r the process of learning to walk afler the approved n '" methods has been rather an awesome undertaking. Many of the interests of other clubs have strongly nppealed to us as being interesting and worthwhile to a degree, but we were not sufficiently deve loped to attempt to c ultivate all of them.

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Our program two meetings with and (or the interests of the active chapte r. one for an address by the president of the local Pan-Hellenic. IW'O for the Settlement School, one (or the study of the co nstitution • • guesta' day musicale. and one (or election of officers and the discussion of otber molters of arganiution. The two (or the "clive chapter were a rushing tea and a memorial meeting [or r.fis s Georgia Hardy of M B It was thought that the pretty custom, followed In some of the clubs, of engraving on a loving cup the name of the freshman girl who hud made the highest gndc during the year, might well h.,'e been of Mi ss If ardy's o wn liUggestion. So we gave the cup for her :md from ourselves a chest wherein to keep all ritual belongings.

The address from Pan-Hellenic failed to materialize, so we turned it into one of the justly f:unous II 4>

For Little Pigeon we went through day of ticketing th e public 10 the moving picture Ihow;-even in the night hours we buttonholed the dream folks. Seventy dollars was the result in U. S. currency and firm reliolutions to sin no more the reaction on the gentle ticketeers.

Founders' Oay was celebrated by the active and alumnre chapters with an ('uting at Doling Park. 11 was marked for the lively enjoyment and true spirit of sisterhood that pervades the atmosphere at U gatherings. We ha\te all agreed that th e girls are more closely drawn together at these times of infontal meeling than is possible by any other means.

Our interest in convention has been all that co uld b: desired, but it has seemed improbable that any of our club could attend. However we are still hoping that we may be represented.

With greetings to 1'11£ ARROW and all good wishes for the s ummer time to wearers of the pin.

ST LOUIS ALUMN£ CLUB

Officers for 1914' 1915.

Presia'.I!'nt-l-Ielen Gorse, Missouri B, '10.

Viu·Pr.l!'siJe"t-Dorthea Fruer, Missouri B, 'II.

COfTuponJi"g Secretary-Gertrude Ahern, Illinois E, '10.

Recqrdi."g Secretory-Anna Mills, Missouri B, "3.

TrtQsur6J'-Edilh Taylor, Missouri B, '13.

Re.ident

Members of Club-:lS.

Average Attendance--:JS.

A very pleasant and enjoyable year in e\'ery way for the St. Lou: 31umnre club is just drawing to a close A deeper interest in the progreSS of our club and of sisterly for each other- have with each meeting. In September the club devoted an afternoon to of the active chapter and {or the of the yur we have kept in close to u ch with them due in a great measure to the presence of their al each of our meetings.

Our program for the year was a study of the drama. Eac h meeting wu intensely interelting, as we absorbed in turn the views of Iblen, Shaw, or

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MaeterHnck. We adopted a new method (to us) of raising money for the Settlement fund this year, and established within the club a cooperative Each girl who was expert in some pa rti cular way placed a money value on ber skill. and tbose who co uld n ot fashion some desirable article, bought what they most desired.

The Founders' Day banquet was given at the Mercantile Club. It was vuy much of a success, o wing to the untir ing efforts of Edith Taylor and the assisting members of her committet. The p lace cards, which were grutl.v admired, were the clever work of Sallie Lee Sparks. The program was the bistory oC II B 4> from the beginning up to the prescnt, and was presented in verbal "reel s u on the order of a picture show. The mother, Mrs. I. C. Sorosis. came in for her share of attention, and at the conclusion Ring Ching Ching was hushed to sleep with the lullab y "Baby's Boat" composed by M rs. Gaynor and sung in her usual charming manner by Alice McClevy. The program consisted of five reels, each reel presented by a different member of the club.

A local Pan-Hellenic with representatives from eia:hteen fraternities hils been establi shed in St. Louis very recently, in fact, so recently that we have had but two meetings of committees and as yet no general meeting. but are planoing one to take place very soon. Julia Griswold and Gertrude Ahern are the n 4> repr esenta!i ves.

Several of our club have moved from the c ity and several have very younz babies, which bas prevented their being present at the meetings this yea r . Our prospects for next year are very bright and we hope that the common interest for the advancement of D B the spirit of contentment and lack of friction, which have been characteristic of this club year, will be always with us.

GERTRUDE AHERN.

SIOUX CITY ALUMN..£ CLUB

(Established 1914- Charter applied for.) p,uidenl-"Marie Keefer, Illinois .d , '11. ViCl' · Preside,.t-Helen Beck, Iowa r, ex-'ll. Su,elary-T,eas"r,r-Clarice Lytle, Illinoi s, E, '04Resident AlumDlie-19_

Members of Club-IS.

Average Attendance--l2.

The Sioux City club has held meetings the second Tuesday of each month this year at the homes of the different members. We have just received our char ter, and we are so delighted over it.

Our first meeting this year , on October 17, was a luncheon at the Martin Hotel; n spirit and enthusiasm was noticeable everywhere. \V e were pleased to have as guests, Mrs. William Cody (Vera W ilcox, Iowa Z, ex_'n) and Calista Thurston ( I owa Z, 'u) on this joyous occasion

On November 10 the duo met at the home of the president, Louise Cody ( Jowa 2, '12). We were so glad to have two new members join u s,-Alice Knapp (Missouri A, ex-'I,,) and Helen Robey ( Illin ois B, 'J4). Plans for iding one oJ the charitable organizations in Sioux Oity, as well as the Settle-

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ment School, were begun. "Good Nt.' s from Little Pigeon" was read and the extension policy, as given in the October Auow, was discussed. Everyone was very enlhu.siaslic to alart out the years work.

On Dca-rober 8, we met at the home of Mrs. L. W. Bristol (Florence Benson, Indiana B. ex·'o7). At this meeting we decided to assist the Day Nurtery in Sioux City, by making aprons for the children. We also decidcfl to send books to the Settlement School as soon as possible.

On January 19. we md at the borne of Helen Beck (Iowa r, ex-'11). Plans for convention and accommodations for delegatct were the chief topic. of interest at this meeting. We were 50 glad to have Mrs. Harry Alhtrand (Katharine Galloway, Iowa r. ex-'14) with u s.

February 9. the club met at the home of Alma Brown (Iowa B, '0 1), in Leeds, a suburb of Sioux City. Further plans for conve ntion were discussed. Everyone was urged to make relCrvations early.

On April zo, a business meeting was held at the high school, officers for the year were elected. The delea-ate for convention, Louise Cody ( I owa Z, 'IZ) and the alternate, Helen Struble (Iowa Z, '10) were also elected. We are making great plans for Founders' Oay, which we will celeb rate May 3.

There W!lI • local Pan· Hellenic association in the city which held a luncheon January z. Another luncheon was pla.nned for April 6, but the members of the Pan-Hellenic co mmittee, one of whom was Louise Cody (Iowa Z, 'IZ), decided to iune a call to all college women to come to a luncheon [or the purpose of establishing a branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumo Miss Vida Hunt Francis, a representative of the Association, addressed thi!!i gathering of college women Mrs. R. M. Anderson (Mae Belle Allstra.nd, Iowa Z, 'oS) was elected temporary chai rman and it was through her great enthusiasm and interest that an organization was effected. Clarice Lytle ( Illinois E, '0 4 ) was nominated on a committee to draft the constitution for this branch of the Association

The Sioux City club extends a most cordial invitation to any Pi Phis in the vicinity to join u s. We extend our heartiest greetings to all Pi Phis, and we hope that convention will prove to be a most glorious and successful one.

MARIE KIEPER

TRI 'Cl1'Y AL U MNA: CLUB

(Organited 1914. Charter applied for.)

P,esiden.I-Mrs. Burleigh Drummond (Helene Brammer, Missouri B, ex-'n).

Vice-P,esiden.t-Evelyn Robberts, I owa Z, ex-'I6. St'c,da,.,....-Leila Kemmerer, Iow a 2, '03· T,easu,.t'f"-Lillian Noth, Illinois Z, 'IZ.

Resident Alumnr-Io.

Members of CIUb-IO.

Average Attendance--c).

The first year was devoted to getting acquainted with each other, for, strange to say, some o( our members had never met before our meeting a ),ear ago. Now we feel much more like a unit with common interests and

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aims. No regular program has been followed but we met regularly once month with the exception of July, August and September, when many of the members were away (or their vacations. H owever, one was devoted to the study of the constit ution, one to th e reading of the initiation ce rem ony, and lL third to the consideration of what we could do for the Settlement School. Each member cont ribut ed one dollar tow ard a Christmas gift for the school, whi c h t ook the form of candy and oranges for the children. As all of us are busy we did not tTy to raise the money but we tried to make it represent so me effort (or sacrifice to us perlionally; for we felt that in that way it would mean more to each one. A dolhr was added out of the treasury. making a t otal of ten dollars. A few of the members also made individual gifts through the regular channels.

The literature o n the convention made us all want to go, bu t so far no ODe is certain she can go.

The part of the constitution relating to alumna: clubs was r ead aloud and discussed but there was no formal study.

Some of the girls have visited the active chapte r and given general reports of the new girls, the house, etc Pearl Martin (Iowa Z, '14) and Evelyn Robberts ( Iowa Z , ex-' 16 ) went to Iowa City for the Founders' Day banquet. We have not helped the nearest active chap t e r this year and were even unable to recommend new material although we have members who are in a position fa keep watch for Ilvailable girls.

We have had no new comers in the city, and so far have not been able to add any members from the rest of the Tri-Citics, i. c., Rock bland and Moline. W e plan to make that our chief interest this summer for then there will be more at home in the other cities though our membership will be small at that time.

We had an old lime "cooky-s hin e" at th e borne oC our president, and enjoyed it as much as ever. \Ve a ll were so afraid there would be no sandwi ches, as so often happened in our school days, but each package unwrapped disclosed at lea st a few sandwiches.

The .1. r fraternity organized recently. They have six members but plan l!'l invite members from neighboring cities for specia l meetings.

We have had as guests Mrs. Weld (Ethel Calderwood, I owa Z, ex-'I:3) and our former member Mrs. John Dye (Kathryn Robberts, I owa Z. ex-'16). LEILA KUIlURER.

"EPS IL ON PROVINCE

AUSTIN ALUMNtE CLUB

(Organized I QI2. Chartered 19 15.)

Prtsidt!lll-Mrs. E. T. Miller (Emi l y Maverick, '07).

A. J. Robinson (Nell Harris, 'oS).

Resident Alumna:-2J. Members of Club--2t .

• Number old 9; new, I; dead,:3. Total, 8. Number sending no report, 2; late. 7.

ANNUAL REPORTS OF ALUMf·;/£. CLUBS 607

The program (or the year of the club has consisted of ngula.T monthly ing1l which bue been of both a business lind social nature. or neccssity the problems of the active chapter have been n first consideration, also the quutiOD of the abolition by the Legislature of (raterDilies has consumed much of the time. In discussing the economic problems of the Seulement School keen interelt was aroused with the rCliult that quilt 1\ few members subscribed to this fund.

OUT delegate to the con ven tion will be Emily

We have re se rved the last meeting of the year (or the st udy of the constitution. At each meeting there has been present onc member of the active chapter who i. asked to discuS! all questions where the ndvice of the alumnre cl ub is sought. Owing to the unprecedented rains, the picnic Founders' Oay was postponed from the original date until May IS On this date the club will entertain the active chapter and pledges wilh a picnic al Barton Springs, several miles south of the city.

There is no local Pan-Hellenic organiution in Austin but it is under discussion for next year.

The club has started a fund for the purchase of a building site to be presented to TeX3s A for a chapter house. At present $800 ha s been collected which amount is now out at interest.

VIVIAN BRENIZU,C\SWELL.

DALLAS ALUMNJE CLUB

1914. Chartered 19 1 5 .)

President-Sallie Belle \Vel1er, TeXlls A, '13·

Vice-Pruident-Mu Percy Mashall (Emily 'Vhite, Texas A, '04)·

Treasurer-Mrs. W. H Millen (Kate Sockwell, Texas .A, '04)·

Secnlary--Edith Daniel, Virginia A, ex-'14.

Resident Alumnae-n.

Members of Club-t6.

Average Attendance-12.

The Dallas club, although very young, has had many enthusiastic meetings since its organization in November. Because of the close feeling and congeniality of the members, the meetings, which are once a month in the various homes, have more of the atmosphere of an active chapter than an alumnae club. We have not yet started on our Settlement School fund or taken up the study of the constitution because we have b«n 50 taken up with the business necessary for the formation of a club.

The com'ention is the thought uppermost in our minds right n ow and \Villie Pegram from our club expects to join the n B ell Special. We all envy her but it is impossible for more of us to be in California in lime for the convention.

Our active chapter, Texas A, at the University of Texas is about one hundred and fifty miles from us so there is very little communication by letter. We keep well in tou ch with their affairs and are ready to do anything here to help them.

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Several representatives from chapters other than Texas A are in our club and they give us i ntim ate little accounts of c hapter life over the count ry. Mrs, Liond Moise (Maryon Mounts), from lIIinois Z, has r ecently moved to Dallas Eliubelh Leftwich, from Texas A, did M.A. work in California a nd tells us such wonderful tales of the enthusiasm and work of the girls in the chapters at the University of Califo rnia and Leland Stanford, that we regret more than ever that we all cannot go to conve ntion to meet them. Willie Pegram, B.A from Texas A. took hu B.S. at Columbia and Edith Daniel is from Virginia A at Randolph - Macon.

In Dallas we have a well -organized and enth usiastic city Pan - Hellenic anociation . On ce a month we ha\'1: a luncheon and business meeting at one of the hotels and abo ut forty fraternity women gather to hear interesting and instructive talks on different phases oC Pan-Hellenic work. Each frate rnity in rotation has charge of the program and this has made the meetings very successful. Recently, in our State Legislature, an antHraternity bill was introduced Alter a hard fight, consideration of the bill was indefinitely postponed but we all know that sooner or later, it will be brought up again and we are preparing ourselves in the Pan - Helleni c to be able to cope intelligently with the issue when it shall arise. Edith Daniel is chairman of the association this year which make s two successive years that IT B • bas had the leadership.

During the Christmas holidays, the Danas alumnae club gave a luncheon for the Dallas pledges from Tuas A We had many out-of-town Pi Phis Crom Ft. Worth, Austin, Terrell and Galveston as well as pledges from Ft.Warth and Terrell. We had talks from the representatives of different chapters, an account oC the installation of Texas A in II)Ol by Mrs. Percy Marshall (Emil y White), a charter member, and a clever account oC "pledge trouble" by Annie Engli sh. Seveul of the out-ol-town Pi Phis joined our club that day.

Sallie Belle Weller, Louise Evans, and Willie Pegram are teaching in the high school here. Elizabeth Le£twich teaches in Greenville but comes home (Iuite often for our meetings. Edele Epperson is teaching in Paris and will be in Dallas for the summer. Mrs. Ceo_ \Valson (Halette Searcy) has been busy in Dallas musical circles and sang one -of the five lololi at the grand opera concert given here this spring.

We expect to hold our me-etings all through the s ummer, in spite of the hot weather that Texas does not boast of and we hope next year, when are no longer a baby club, we can say that we have accomplished wonderful things EDITH DANIEL.

DEN\' ER ALUMNA: CLUB

( Organized 1894. Chartered 191 0.)

Pr esident- Mrs . N . A. Thompson (Isabel McKensie, Colorado A).

Vice -Presidettt-Mrs. A R. Kracaw (Helen Williams, Colorado B )

Secrdary-Mrs. Walter R. Sheldoll (F lorence Biggs, Colorado B )

Trea.surer-Mabel 'Vhitman, Colorildo B.

ANNUAL REPORTS OF ALUMN£ CLUBS 609

Resident

Members of Club-32.

Average Attendance-40.

The Denver aJUl1lnsc club has held meetings on the third Saturday of each month. ODe meetinlr was devoted to the studyo! the constitution, one to the active chapter, and the rest to the study of famous women of history.

Twenty-five dollars were raised by the club for the Settlement School, by giving two bridge parties. The first one was held at the home of the vice· president, Mrs. Orville Whitaker, (Colorado A). The officers were hostesses. Misl Naoma Alfrey, one of the Denver entertained the second time at her studio.

There will be !lOOut (our members at the convention. The delegate i. Mrs. \\I' lter R. Sbeldon, Colorado B.

Founders' Day wu celebrated with Colorado A and Colorado B chapters by • luncheon at the Metropole Hotel. There were about sixty present.

There is a local Pltn·HelJenic and n has the distinction of having the largest number of members for the past year. Grace Deisher is the treasurer for next year.

The order of the meetings this yur has been changed and it hal proved to be the most successful year in the history of the club. The meetings have been held in the tearoom of the Daniels and Fisher Dry Goods store which i. very centrally located. The attendance was much larger than whfiJ the meetings were held in private homes. The city was divided into sections and a chai rm an was sppointed for each section. The chairmen took turns in acting as hostesses and in planning for the meetings. A program for the year was iasued at the first meeting and the chairmen reminded the members of the vario us sections of the successive meetings. This did away with the expense and trouble of hsving the seeretary send out notices before each meeting.

The club owes its success 10 the president, Mrs. A. L. Fellows (Colorac!o B), who faithfully planned aDd executed the order of meetings, and to the chairmen of the sections, Mrs. W. S. Iliff (Colorado B), Jane Fowler (Pennsylvania B), Grace Deisher (CoI"orado B), Mn. W. B. Plettner (Michigan B), and Mrs. Harry Zimmerhackel (Colorado A).

FLOUNCE BIGCS·SIIILDON.

\VYOMING ALPHA ALUMNJE CLUB

(Organited 1913. Chartered 1913.)

Presidellt-Mrs. Charles Earl Cady (Wilburta Knight, 'II).

Robert Paul Gottschalk (Agnes Anderson, 'n)

Resident Alumn3!'-9.

Members of Club--II.

Average Attendance--8.

The Wyoming alumna: club has met the first Saturday of each month since September. We have had no regular club program but have devoted o ur time to studying and discussing the constitution, Stfcret Arro'W1 Settlement School and examination que.tions. After the hour for bUliness and study we have

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enjoyed social scssions. Besides our regular monthly meetings we have mel occassionally in the eve ning for Kensingtons.

Owing to th e fact thal we have directed all our efforts toward increasing the fund {or the c hapter house, we have heen unable to be of any material be nefit to the Settlement School this year. \Ve are greatly interested Bnd are heartily in sympathy with its succcss a nd hope to be able to do something worth ' while next year.

Considerable interest in convention has been shown during the past two or three months. At our last meeting, Harriet Abbott was choscn 35 delegate. Dorothy Worthington and Mrs. Clifford Dickinson (R uth Greenbaum) are also planning to be present. We are hoping to be greatly benefited by the report s they bring back to u s. I

As we are (ortunate enough to be living in the same city as \Vy oming A, we have been able to Jceep in closest touch with them. \V e have sent an alumnz de l egate to each o( their meetings, and they have sent delegates to ours.

Our chap tn advisory committee has interested in nil th e workings of the chnpter and has lent its aid wherever two working in perfect harmony. It has been called on to settle the Qu estions o( grades nnd whether or not students enrolled only in music department are eligible to IT 4». One evening, a member of the advisory board gave a talk to the chapter on social obligations.

During the rusbing season we ente rtain ed the active chapter and rush ees at a luncheon. given at the home o( Mrs. Earl Cady (Wilburta Knigbt). Some forty were present. And on April 28. we again invited them to be our guests at the Founders' Day celebration. This took the (orm of a supper after which. unique toasts and musical numbers were enjoyed. The singing o( the IT cfo songs W8!l su ch an inspiration that lat e r on in the evening the girls set out to serenade their pledges.

We have been invited to al1 their parties and cooky·shines and too, were asked to assist in their play, E vN'Y Woman. given December II. Thus we have grown to know each girl persona lly, and to love them al1.

Through our efforts, a local Pan-Hellenic was established this year with nineteen members, representing six women's fraternities. On May 2t, we will entertain at K. o( P. Hnn, all the Greek ·letter men and their wi\'es in the city, at dancing and cards. W e are hoping that this may serve to ignite a spark o( enthusiasm in the men--so th.t they may resume their Pan Helleni c club .

In December, feeling the Deed of the Belgians, our alumnae club raised ntarly thirty dollars toward the flour fund.

Altogether, this has been a very successful year mu ch due, no doubt, to the internt and effort of our rttiring president. Dorothy Worthington

A G NES ASDERS ON GoTrSCHALK

ANNUAL REPORTS OF ALUlI1N£ CLUBS 611

WACO ALUMN..€ CLUB

Pruideill-Rose Edmond. Teus A.. '03.

T"easurer--Beuna Clinton, Texas A. '10.

Secretary-Mo n ette Colgin, Texas A, 'I t.

Resident Alumo8e-7.

Members of

This year finds our club with a membership of seven resident Pi Phis. We have onc new member, Mrs. Joe Ward (Camille Webb, '(9) who has come 1\.) Waco to Jive, but Mrs. MeA shan (Aline Harris, '02) has moved to Houston, Texas, and we ce rtainly miss her, a5 she was one of our most enthusiastic members.

we have only met (our times a year, but the meetings were so few and far apart that nothing could be accomplished, so now we have planned to meet once a month. During the summer, the hour will be five-thirty. At our last meeting the officers were all reelected. and we decided to send our dues to the Settlement School. We can't be of any great assistance, but "every little bit helps."

Founders' nay was celebrated with a picnic supper at Cameron Park. Rose Edmond had just returned from a winter in New York, and had many interesting bits of news to tell aqout the New York Pi Phis.

Mildred M:tbee (Illinois B ) and Gertrude Livingstone (Missouri B) hav e been visiting in town, and we enjoyed meeting them so much.

Of co urse, everyone is most enthusiastic about convention, and two of our members are planning to go . We hope it will be the best one ever! MONETTE COLGIN.

'ZETA PROVINCE

Los ANGELES ALUMN£ CLUB (Organit.ed Chartered 1906·)

Presidellt-"Mrs. E. Goodell Sherman (Emeline Carter, Illinois Z, '01). Vice·Pruidettt-Mrs. \\tm. Briggs (Gerte Poyneer, Iowa r, ex-'S7).

Secretary· Treasurer-Mrs. William Phelan (Grace Magaw, Indiana A.., 'oS). Corre#ollding Secretary-Mrs. Warren Thos. Smith (Ruth D. Barrett, Iowa r, '12).

Resident Alumn:e--191 ( Within a radius of fifty miles. Thirty-four of thelie were visitors but their places will be filled by other transients next year.) Members of Club--46. Average Attendance-38.

The ninth year of the Los Angeles alumnre dub is just dosing and it ca!l (ruly be said that this has been its greatest and best year. Under the efficient direction of Mrs. E. Goodell Sherman (F. Emeline Carter, Illinois Z, 'OJ),

• Number old clubs,S; new, o. Total, S. Number sending no report, 0; late, 2.

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our president, the intere.t in our monthly meetings hal greatly increased and the average attendance has doubled. We have tried to reach all newcomers in the city, either by telephone, note or call and to make them appreciate that they are as much Pi Beta Phi s when in Loa Angeles as when in &Choat or at borne and that our club is for them, particularly. Much credit is due the ..secretary. Mrs. William Phelan (Grace Magaw, Indiann A. '08, New York B), (or her efforts in notifying the t91 Pi Phis in and about Los Angeles, of our meetings held the last Saturday oC each month.

The first meeting of this club year was purely social and took the form oC a luncheon at Christopher's tearoom. The arrangements for this were made by Mrs. Wilfred C. Lewis (Catherine Ijams. Illinois Z. '99) and Mrs. Waher V. Dysert (Mabelle C. Fox, Illinois Z. 103).

Mrs. \-Vanen T. Smith (Ruth D. Barrett. Iowa r, '12) was hostess for the October meeting. Mrs. Perce Curtis (Blanche Charlton, Massac husetts A, '08) gave an intensely interesting and entertaining talk on the Settlement School and Ethel Morton (California D, ex-'99) brought out the important featurn of the constitution in a brief and concise way.

In November, Mrs. William Myers (Harriet G. Williams. Iowa Z, 'Sq) opened her home to us. The afternoon was given over to a business meeting, followed by a social hour.

The program committee for the year arranged that two of our meHings be money-making aHairs, whereby funds for Settlement School and convention expenses might be raised. In December, occurred the first of thue, & musicale given at the Kendis Apts. Mary Esta Groves (Iowa B, '86, Iowa A, '88) ar· ranged a most delightful musical program, to which she. herseH. contributed several fine piano numbers. Genevieve Church Smith (Wisconsin A, '94). another of our own members also assisted. The musicale. itseH, was indee J a IUCCesS and equally delightful was the tea hour. which followed.

For the January meeting, Mrs. P M. Young (Netta L. Nixon, Indiana H, '98) entertained us in her beautiful home. Mrs. Wm. Briggs (Gerle Poyneer, Iowa r, ex-'87) had charge of the reciprocity day program and called on Mrs. Wm. J. Milliken (Minnitelle George, Washington A, ex-' ro) to tell of the Seattle, Sarah Lorencie Anderson (Colorado B. 'oS) of the Denver, Mrs. R. B. Morton (Fanny T. Plummer, Cdlorado A, '01) of the Boulder. and Gladness Chapman (Ontario A ex ln) of the Toronto alumnae clubs. We are SOrTY not to be in close touch with the other alumnse clubs and it was a treat for us to hear what a few of them are doing.

In February, we gan a large dancing party at the Friday Morning Club, one of the .fine women's clubhouse. here. The object of this was two -fold: the one, to raise money, and the other, that the husbands, brothers and friends might meet each other and the Pi Phil, too, of whom they are always hearing 10 much. Mrs. J. C. Ferrall (Mable Dunshee, Iowa E) as chairman on arrangement., and Ethel Morton. a. chairman of the ways and means committee deserve much gratitude from the club for their work, as do the many others, who helped mue the party a saccess.

The anDual meeting and election of officers. in March. was held with ou r president. Mu. Sherman preceded tbe meeting by • delicious buffet luncheon served to over (orty Pi Phi. The true wine and blue spirit of n + was most evident. After the bUJinell meeting. at which the officers for the preteDt year were .11 reelected, Mrs. Everelt Ball (FrancclCa Loftus, California A. ex-'13) took charge of the program. Sbe brought out the most important points in the development of our fraternity and ill uUrate d the {ra.ternity examination by qUestiODS and answers. characteristic of each group

Our April meeting was in celebration of Fou.ndc:n' Day. It was to have been a regular cooky-shi ne but Adele Humphrey (Kansas A, '95). the hostess invited os to be her guests at luncheon and she did the IIlihining" for us alL Filty-two accepted her invitation a.nd tb.e celebration was most worth while-. After the luncheon, Mrs. Perce Curtis told us of the origin of the fraternity and of our Settlement School, which was organiud to do our Founders honor.

Tw.o meetings for the year stiU remain. The May meeting is to be a Japanese tea and in June we shall picnic i n Griffith Park, one of the largest natural parks in the United States. located in the outskirts of Los Angeles_

The alumnae club always welcomes the visiting Pi Phis to ill meetings_ Because o( the unUlual number whom we hope will be in Los Angeles, this summer. we have arranged special meetings for July and August. July 31, the Stanford girls are to entertain us at the home of H elen Hurd. and on August 29. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman will keep open house for the Pi Phis and their friends from three to eight.

The Los Angeles alumo:'e club is less fortunate than many of the clubs in that it has no active chapter nur. How ever. this lack is partly supplied by the fact that a number of the Stanford and Berkeley girls live in the city and we always want them with us.

Last 5Ummer, during the Stanford house party at Alamitos Bay, the entire club was invited down to spend one day with the girls. A great many took advantage o( the invjtation and the result was a full day of pleasure. a trip around the bay. bathing and a buffet luncheon being some of the attractions.

The club had two other fine celebrations during the IIltnmer months. In June, Mrs. F L. Rogers (Lillian Johnson, I owa Z, '8,) and Julia E. Rogel'$ (Iowa Z. '92) entertained at a progressive breakfast at their homes in Long Beach. There were sixty of us there and everyone enjoyed being entertained in two such lovely homes in SO nice .. way. At five o'clock, the Long Beach Pi Phis served a picnic supper in Bixby Park, nea.r the ocean front. Only those in attendan ce on this care-bee day know how enjoyable it was.

In August Mr. and Mrs. Sherman held open house. one Sunday afternoon a.nd evening. This was a splendid opportunity for the Pi Phis and their husband. to know the president and her husband and each other better. The home or the Shermans is uniquely Californian, located in a canyon in the Hollywood hills, with a magni6cient view of Los Angeles and the valley and is a charming place to be entertained. W e lire glad they have again invited for a day this summer .

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The local Pan - Hellenic has been inactive for the past three years. The Greek -letter women are so occupied with their own fraternity affairs or with other women'. organizations of the city, there has seemed little room for Pan - Hellenic work. Antitraternity legisi:t tion will perhaps cause the interest in it to revive for California, too, has been thinking on these things.

Our interests, necessarily, have been in convention this year. The plans have been discussed at almost every meeting and keen anticipation for the early days of July has been man i fest . OUf pruident will ably rcprCienl us, at convention, 85 OUf de l egate and we nre hoping that many morc from Los Angeles will attend.

For our convention fund Ilnd Settl e ment School, combined, through our musicale and dancing party, we were able to dear eighty-six dollars and ninetyfive cents. Then in December, we sent ten dollars as our Christmas "HI to the School. This was raised by small contributions in the fall. We have pledged sixty dollars to the Settlement School for January first of next year but we hope 10 be able to send a still larger amount.

The Los Angeles alumno: club sends sincerest greetings to all other dubs and to the nctive chapters. We shall hope to meet many of you in Californi.l in July and we extend a cordial invitation to all to meet with us, when in this vidnity. RUTH D. BARRETT-SMITH.

NORTHERN CALifORNIA ALUMNA: CLUB

(O rganized 1906. Chartered 1913.)

President-Dora Woodburn, California A, '97.

Vice -Presidrnt-Mrs. Harry Kendall Banett (Adeline Brown, Wisconsin 'Ol)

Secr'etary -Trt nsurrr-Mrs. Gifford B . West (Huel Chase, Kansas A and California D. ex-' 14).

Corresponding Strr't!(ary-Mrs. David T. Babcock (Hazel Donoho, California B, '10).

Resident

Members of Average

Last summer thOle members of the club who remained Ilround the Bay spent several pleasant social afternoonl together and with visiting Pi Phis, at the homes of the various girls i and, as a rule. both then and since. the chief topic of conversation was "convention." With the opening of the college year we resumed our regular meetings. on the second Tuesday of each month. at the chapter house in Berkeley.

A large proportion of the California B atumme live &round the Bay, and are constantly hearing of Pi Phi s who are coming here from eh:ewhere; but it seems almost impossible to find a lime for meetings which is co nvenient to the many. We have had only seventeen members on our roll, during this last year; but. at mos t every meeting, lome of the others have dropped in or shown their interest in various ways nt special times. Our paid up member·

ship (or the ecxnio& year already totals

howe"'tr, so we feel encou raged

On the foarth Tuesday of the month we for afternoon tea at the Hotel O.ld&Dd in Oakland. Several are able to be there \\ho cannot ret out 10 for the reeu1ar meetings, and we are alwaY1 more than glad when lOme visitine n .,. remembers the time and place and find. her way to our table.

During this la.1 yur we have had onc meeting at which Mrs. Carney, our Province Prcsident, dilCu5Ied the contents of the October AIlIOW and the report of the Grand Council meeting; another which we devoted to natioDal PanHellenic matten; two constitution study meetings,-and all of the rest have been taken up with convention plans

Everyone, here and elsewhere along the coast, seems to be more than enthusiastic about our wtstern convention, and very few days paIS by without bringing lelten o{ inquiry and promise of attendance. I am s ure OIU Cali· Cornia chapteu will be well represented,-and I know that it is going to mean everything to thOle who are able to be here, both active and alumnae, in acquiring a greater rcalit.a.tion of the national phases of o ur fraternity organiution. We expcct to "grow up" as it were.

As to our interest in and support of the Scttlement School, our are beginning to understand the importance and meaning of this wonderful work more than ever before We sent a small donation of ten dollar. summer, and since then our gifts have been individual. H e reafter we hope tn be able to do more as a club.

Our relations with the active chapter here in Berkeley are most co rdial, anti we arc jUlt as proud of the girls as we can be, especially of the record of this year'. graduating class We do hope that 55 many as possible of the 1915 girls will be back for postgraduate work. Last November we entertained thl' active gi r ls at a cooky-s hin e at the home of Mrs. Harvey H . Grey (Iowa A); and then on Founders' Day we were w'ith them for lun c heon.

A nay Cities Pan -Hellenic club has just been orgnnit.ed with Miss Louise Fitch, .1 .1 .1., president; Mrs. W. E. Colby, r 40 B, vice-president; and Mrs. David T Babcock, II B 4>, secretary. Our first gener'nl meeting is to be luncheon during co mmenceme nt week, when we expect the 1915 girls to join us. All nonactive members of fraternities belonging to national Pan - Hellenic arc eligible to membership; but, at busine ss meetings, each fraternity is represented by a specially elected delegnte and has but one vote. Our work, just at present, is preparing for the entertainment of the national P.n-Hellenic Congress to be held in Berke l ey in August.

Before dosing I must just mention the fact th at we have a n B • mother'li club here in Berkeley also; and we, as well the active chap ter, Ire greatly indebted to them {or their splendid cooperation in all ways.

Best wishes to you all; and here is a great big hope that the majority a! you will be with us in July and truly enjoy every minute of your trip to our cout, but especially the week you .l\re with us here in our little city on th'! Berkeley hills. H AlE l D. DABCOC".

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PORTLAND ALU&t:N£ CLUB

(Organi:r;ed 1913. Chartered 1914.)

Pruide,,/-Mrs. Burton Heck (G ra ce Han c her, Iowa A) . I/;a-Pruidellt-Mrs. Ross Phillips (Grace Garrigues, California B)

Re(ording Sec,.etary--Mrs H. C Pownall (N :lomi McCoombs, Ohio A)

Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. Frank L. Knight (Martha Hawkins, Colorado A).

T, , 4surer- Mrs. Jame ! M c Mena min (Nell Diehl , Illinois A).

Resident Alumn::e-'2I.

Members of Club-zo.

Average AUcodance-l4-

The Portland club hopes to have the privilege of welcoming many of the Pi Phi s who will visit the coast this summer. We take luncbeon to.:gctber every second Saturday at u :30 at the University Club, and meet with one of the members every fourth Thursday And we invite aU visiting girl'l to attend these meetings. The local Pan-Hellenic club will have a headquarters at the Hotel Portland during the summer months with a local fraternity girl in attendance and a full register of all fraternity women in the city, and through this register visitors can get in touch with our club. The telephone number of ollr president, Miss Agnes Miller is East 3480.

The meetings of our club for the past year have been very enjoyable and have always been well attended. \Ve have had two excellent papers on the Settlement School and a study of the constitution; two of our meetings have been aU-day picnics at the country home of one of the members . \Ve entertained the local Pan -Hellenic at the home of Agnes Miller. The feature of the afternoon was a program of music and :esthetic dancing all given by children.

A college fete was given lut week by Pan-Hellenic, under the direction of its president, Gertrude Blackmar (K:msas A) to raise money for a scholarship a.t the University of Oregon. The local alumnae clubs of the different fraternities each had a booth at which w e re sold ices, punch, bouquets, sandwicbes, programs, dc:, and each also gave a stunt which included malt. choruses, qllutets, tableaus, solos and solo dances. The program was foHowed by a dance. Instead of $:150, which was the desired sum, tbey $300 The expense of each booth and supplies was borne by tbe individual fraternity which greatly lowered the general expense. The plan is recommended to othec Pan-Hellenic or alumna: clubs. There has always been considerable discussion i.n the local Pan-HeUeDic club as to whether its meetings should be social. many members contending that any body of college women should not meet without some philanthropic or educational work being done. At last this work of a scholarship for the State University was taken up and the first e&"ort in its behalf h as been Tery successful. Incidentally, [must telt you that the lIB. booth which sold ponch, ' cleared the most mODey from its booth.

A.VNUAL REPORTS OF ALUMNJE CLUBS 617

We plan to keep up our meetings during the summer and the club is al".YI much iJlterested in the reporU brought hack by the aclivI'! girls {rom the coa.t ch-aptul. The Portland alumnllt club favorl a policy of extension ir. the western colleges and keeps in touch with thosf! already establis hed through many channels. OUV! NEAL- M oNTE ITH.

PUGET

SoUND ALUMN.t£ CLUB (Organiud 1C)06. Chartered H)06.)

President-Mrs. F. S. Sawyer (Edith Spray, Illinois Z, '06). Viu-Pruident-Mrs. Heal (Rev. Casper, New York A, '07). Recorai", Secretary-Mrs. Severyns (Fra nci s Martin, Washington A, ' 12 ) . Co,.,.tspondinr Surelory-Marion L Frye, Washington A, ex-' IS T,."as.,.,."r--Ell. R. Hopkins, Iowa r, 'og.

Resident Atumnae-<}S.

Members of Club---24.

Average Attcndance--30.

The club program for the past year has been somewhat varied, almlDg to meet the tastes of most of our members. Early in September, we met at the new chapter house for an all day m«ting The house had just been completed and there was much to do--so we made curtains and hangings for the bedrooms_ Everyone was most enthusiastic and did everything possible to make the house attractive for the opening of college.

For the Octobe r meeting, we had luncheon at the Women ' s University Club and in November, we met with Nina Garvin-Ketcham (Iowa A, '91) to bea!' an interesting book review by Esther Bunnell (Washington A, ."3).

In December, the meeting was in the form of a cooky-shine and Christmas tree at the chapter house. Guests brought gifts for the new house and a social afternoon was enjoyed by the many present. At this time, too, we lient our gift of hair ribbons to the kiddies of the Settlement School.

Early in January, the meding was held with Marion Frye (\Vashington A, ex-'iS), where the program was "Travels and Current Events." 10 February, we were with Mary (lowa A) and heard impromptu readings by Ruth Hergert (Washington.A, ' ll).

Auction Bridge was the diversion of the March meeting with Mary Yeisley Oyer (Iowa r, '(0), and last but not least, came our musicale in April, at the chapter house

Two more meetings follow, on May 8 Lcde Pinkham -Wilbur (Iowa Z , '(0) will tell us of her visit in Gatlinburg and on June 5 is our farewell picnjc_

Instead of having a subscription list for Settlement School funds as we did last year, we decided to give a musicale at the chapter house on the date set for our annual banqutt. The idea met with instant approval and under the ab l e supervision of Florence Oenny-Heliker (Maryland A, '00) as chairma n , tht plan worked out as a great success. Much credit is due Sylvia WareLewis ( Maryland A, '0 1 ) for the arrangement of the splendid program in

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which Mesdames Ogden, Lewis and Misses Shumaker, Tanner and Read partici· pated. Altogether we consider our musicale the biggest thing as yet undertaken by our club and enjoyed it most of all becnuse the talent was local and II 4> Our patronessel we fe Mrs. Henry Landes. Mrs. Herbert T. Condon, Mrs. E. B. Burwell, Miss Isabella Austin, and Mrs. William Innis. An admission fee of one dollar was charged and OUf estimated receipts are near $150.

Members here on the coast are very much interested in convention and .bout fourteen have made reservations to go. However. we hope that even :1.1 the last minute mo r e will find they cnn join us. OUf d el egate is Mrs. H. B. Wilbur (Gede Pinkham).

Our r e lations with the active chnpte r are exceedingly close. A member of the advisory board and finance co mmittee gen e rally attends the business meetings at the house, keeping us in tou c h with their a.ffairs. New members have seemed very much interested in our meetings and we find them most enthusiastic. giving suggestions and assistance.

There is no local Pan-Hellenic in our city, but we hope in the near Cuture to arouse enough interest in fraternity women here to (arm such an organi· ution.

It was originally our intention to ask the convention train to stop ill Seattle long enough for us to meet and entertain those lien route ." However, we still hope to have thi s pleasure iC everyone while in Berkeley will ' remember that Seattle will be more than glad to receive them at any time they may come.

Wishing you all 11 pleasant summer with many happy reunions in Berkeley, MARION L. FRYE.

SPOKANE ALUMN..t: CLUB

(Organized 19 14 Chartered 1914.) p,.esidelll-Mrs Conrad Bluhm (May Henry). Vice-Presidenl-Mrs. Burchard H Roark (Mable Bryce) Cor,esl0,.di1lg Sec,.t'la,.y-Eleanor Henderson. T,.easu"er-Mu. D. A. Manrier (Helen Newland). Resident and nonresident AlumnlJ!--28.

Members of Club-IS.

Averait' Atten dance- 14 ·

Since organiting our alumnae club in January of 1914. we have held fo u rteen meetings. Our programs have been a.long the line of fraternity subjects interspersed with music and readings. Each member 8gTeed to earn one dollar in some way in order to assist the Settlement work. Through this we inspired sufficient interest so that we are now trying to plan a. way to earn twi ce as mu ch another year.

Pi Phi s an: always interested in conve ntion. Our hearts and thoughts are lurely centered on San Francisco and Berkeley in July, yet there will be only five or six of us present when the longed lor day arrives. Bertha L. Bigelow (\Vashinilon A. 'II) bas beoen chaseD as delea-ate and Eleanor Henderson

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(Washington B) as alternate. Miss Bigelow was the Washington delegate to the Swarthmore convention in 1910.

Our relations with the active chapter nearest us, \Va s hington B. are rather Ttmote, but next year we intend establishing a closer and more intimafe relationship through our advisory board.

The Spokane alumnae celebrated Founders' Day the evening of May I with B banquet in the Elizabethan room of the new Davenport Hotel. Eighteen were present. The new officers were installed and Mrs. Conrad Bluhm presided as toastmistress over an unu sua lly entertaining program.

There is a local Pan-Hellenic in our" city. Nearly all Greek -letter societit:s (or women are represented. Meetings are held once a month.

The association of collegiate alumna:! in the city claims Ihl' attention of a grent many Pi Phis :l.S does P. E. O. At the annual A C A play in April n cJI was represented by Bertha Bigelow playing the part of Anne de Laseyne in rh4 a.nd the Jacobin.

Miss Eleanor Hend erson (Washington B) has announced her engagement to Mr Arthur J ohnson, formerly of the University of Minnesota, now of the faculty of the North Central High School of Spokane. The wedding is to take place in June.

Let us extend to all other alumnre clubs our best wishes for a happy and success ful 1915 RERTIIA L. BIGEWW.

NOTE: As directed in the instructions sent to clubs these reports have been prepa r ed and signed by the secretary for 19 14 4.1915. Officers in c harge of the nl umn re work would it if all clubs would elect officers early enough in the spring so that they ln1y be u sed for this report.

NOTE: Hereafter let it be understood that "resident" means all those on the mailing i. e., those who live near enough to be reasonably able to attend club meetings.

This issue of THE ARROW is the last of this volume Subscribers shou ld l oo k at the number on the label of this wrapper.

Nineteen chapters have failed to send in the list of gi rls college in Jun e. If this list is not r eceived by the alumnre editor btfore Jun e 15 these chapters will appear in her r eport to conve ntIO ' ) as delinquent in this respect.

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ALPHA PROVINCE

ONTAR IO ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (C hartered 1867)

GRADUATES WITH B.A. DECREE

Margaret And erson

Ethel Dryden

Linda Pratt

Muriel Stuart

Since our last c ha. pte r letter , University of Toronto, has had many unusual experiences occasioned by its participation in the milita r y activities of our country. Foremost among thest in impressiveness was the special Convocation in February for conferring degrees on the men of the graduating year who had enlisted (or active service. Never before has our university seen the graduate hood placed on the shoulders of the khaki -clad soldiers. Never before has the President's farewell word brought tears to so many eyes, not only those graduating, but all our men who have gone to the front have been granted standing in their years without the necessity of writing the final •.

One of the great und er takings of our university is the establishment and equipment of General Stationary Hospital Number 4, which i. larger than any other base hospital. The women of tbe university are making themselves responsible for the initial success of the hospital, and also for providing a contin u ous supply of all articles of all descriptions as long as the war lasts . To raise funds for this undertaking various means have been adopted, such as popular lectures by our professors, talent teas, sbeet showers by the faculty wives and alumnre. An exhibition of his own paintings was also given by Professor Coleman, a noted member of our geology staff. The girls of Queen's Hall, the University College Women's Residence, have raised funds to supply six hospital cots. Professors and students from the medical faculty, and nurse s from the hospitals affiliated with the university, form the staff in charge.

Even final examinations which 3re going on at present, are no obstacle to the activities of the Officers' Training Corps. It is not unu sual for the silence of an examination ball to be broken by sharp commands, and the flapping of the flags of the signal corps. The men are looking forward to the time when examinations will be finished, and they will be able to eo into camp at Niagara for intensive training.

Of course all Pi Phis a re full of thoughts of co nventioD, and aU are long· ing to be in California, in July. Ontario A hopes to send four girls, we are also thinking of our house party, and of our long five months' vacation. Don't you aU envy u s?

MABEL G. M CCANNZLL.

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VERMONT ALPHA-AIIODLE8URV COLLECE

(Chartered 1&)3)

INITIATES

(Initiated February 20)

Annie Hulihan, ' I S

Marie Champagne, '18

Margaret Chatfield, '18

Orra Henderson, '18

Doris KendaU, 'J8

Muriel Retc.bfard, '18

Christine Webster, '18

::itADU \TlS WITH B.A. DEGlII

Emma Feeney

Isabel Field

Ginevra Harlow

Annie fluliban

Ruth Kendall

Florence Kopke

Laura Walbridge

We have been 10 busy that the vacation which is at hand i. very welcome. Mid-years were over when we had our pledging which was followed a week latcr by the initiation and banquet at the Addison. Among the and gutsts were Ruth Stewart, Vermont B ; Mrs. D e nio, '<}6; Florence Allen, '<}8; Mrs. Crane and Mn. Scott, '03; Louise Chaffee. '08 j Mrs. Rowell, '10; CarmeD \Valker, 'II; Alice Barnum. 'J2; Mrs. Fisher, ex-'u; Helen Harriman, 'IJ; Florence Aseltine, Charlotte Jen ne, Ethel Magoon, Florine Parker, Elizabeth Chalmers, ' 14; and Mrs. Brainerd and Mrs. Cunningham.

Emma Feeney, 'IS, and Louess Bullis, 'J7. attended Vermont Beta's initiation and reported a wonderful time. Belle Wright, 'J6. visited Massachusetts A.

The late H ono rable Joseph Ba.ttell of the class of 1860, a trustee of Middle· bury College has bequeathed to the college over 20,000 acres of fdrest land t o be preserved as a puk, and much more in real estate and money, making this the largest bequest Middlebury has ever received. The Appropriation Bill giving to Middlebury $28,800, was announced in the same issue of the Ca m l"l.1 ·

President Thomas and members of the Legislature spoke at a ce l ebration of thanksgiving for the appropriation and later in the evening, a was presented to Speaker Weeks.

rile Temtest was a decided success, and quite a little was for the Silver Bay Fund . The junior class is going to prescnt Tlt6 Itlagisfrate during ju nior week, and there arc two Pi Pbis in the cast-Clara Barnum and Helen Bosworth.

The basket ball season was &5 good as we expected, witb the juniors leading.

Pledge day we had a grand "cooky·shine," and April S. the chapter gave a farewell luncheon to :Mrs. Fisher. IIPick" hal resigned and signed a three·

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1'0; row, I,/t to right-Bernice White, Sadie Norris, M arie McMahon , Barbara Hunt, Marion Jackson Agne s Miller, Lc.reua Dyke.

row-Edith Gates, Almira \Vatu , Gladys Lawrence, Louisa DOUB la!!, Mildred Oell t, Ruth Stuart, 'Marcia Stuart, Laura Parker

T hird Row-Charis 8illin,s, Ro.e, Clara Gardner, L:s!ie Cobb, Corinne O'Sullivan, Caroline :Meigs, Ruth Parker. Girb "ot itt ; ictwrlf'- Merie BYington, Mabel Derway, Norma Perkin •.

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year contract with the NnJI York but they will spend Iheir winter:> here as usual. April 8 we had our dance, and everyone said it was wonderful. Bernice \Vhite . adie Norris. Marie McMahon, and Corinne O'SuJiivan from Vermont B were guests.

The chapler has been unfortunate this semester, in losing two loved sisters. Ethel Gorton, '16, who has btto transferred to New York B, and Edith Duffield, 'Ii. who has gone to Scidmore School of Arts. We miss them very, very much.

We are all looking forward to the June number of THE ARROW, and wish all a h:tppy summer.

Lou BELLI \V RICHT.

V£RMONT BETA-UNIVERSITV OF VERMONT

(Cha rtered 1898) INITIATES

(Initiated Marth 6, 1915)

Marsha Stuart, '15. Fairfax. VI. Mildred Best, '18. SI. Albans. VI. Charis Billings, '18, Poultney, Vt. Marian Jackson, 't8, Burlington, Vt. Caroline Meigs, '18, Burlington, Vt. Corinne O'Sullivan, '18, Burlington, Vt. Ruth Parker, '18, Burlington, Vt. Myrtle Rose, 't8. Enosburg Falls. Vt.

(Initiated April 10, 1915)

Norma Perkins, '18

GRADUATES WITH B.S. DECRE!

Louisa Douglas, 'tS. (in Home Economics)

Gladys Lawrence, 'IS. (in Education)

Marie McMahon. 'tS. (in Civil Engineering)

Myra WaUs, 'IS, (in Education)

Marsha Stuart, 'IS. (in Home Economics)

Edith Gates. 'IS, Ph.B

pring vacation has just ended, and it hardly seem. possible that Com· mencement is only nine weeks away. The year has been most pleasant as well as s u ccessfu l. We had our more than realized at pledging time, receiving an enthu!iastic llyes" to nine bids, and are very proud to introduce our initiate. to th e Irater!!it)'. We are sure that they are going to stand for the true ideals of n B ell. Our initiation banquet was held at the Hotel Vermont; Mrs. Warren Bristol, a member of Ohio r. was with u s, and several nf <our own alumnre. 'Ve were especially glad to welcome back Grace Sylveste r, '10

The Day of Pnyer for colleges was observed forma1ly for the first time here !If Vermont when Dr. Raymond Calkins of Cambridge, Mass .• addressed the

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students nt three services on February 20. The whole college was benefitctl by his visit, and the Christian Associations especially received new inspiration.

The Y. W. C. A . with Edith Gates . ' tS. as president has had a most successfu l year. Of the 127 women in the univ e rsity, 88 belong to the association. The girls' rest room has j ust been r edeco rat ed with new curtains, window co uch es and c ushions added. New officers have been elected recently, and C lara Gardner, '16. is now vi ce- president.

An innovation is being tried at the University of Vermont.

The Wig and Buskin Society is admitting girls for parts in the junior week play Pomander by Louis Parker There are five l eading parts open to girls. aoothe res ponse has most enthusiastic. Seve ral of our girls are trying out, and we will tell you about their success ned time. This play will be elabo r ate ly staged, and is by far the most interesting event in dramatics for the year.

The local, A :E. has recently been installed as T chapter of A ;::: 6. We are glad to welcome this group of splendid girls as sisters in the fraternity world, and wish them good success.

The social life of the university has kept busy and amused , and has helped to strengthen the ties of loyalty which bind us to o ur Alma Mater. The Deulldaer Verein en joy s the leadership of Herr Appleman who was r etu rn ed to us by the German government.

The Varsity Debating team won in the Inte r co ll egia te Debate from Middlebury, and will debate Clark University in May.

The e ntertainments in the Redpath se ri es have been interesting and well attended. The l«tnres by Dr. Harvey Wiley and Dr . S. Parkes Cad men, th e "si lver·tongued orator" were especially enjoyed, as was also Twelfth Night by the Ben Greet Players.

Mrs. Benton, our President's wife, and Mrs. Stetson, advisor of women, gave the girls a delightful reception to meet Miss Gunther of Columbia University, who spoke to us OD "Vocations for women other thaD teechi n g."

We send greetings to all Pi Phis for e. happy vacation, and f o r frient.lships to be formed at Berkeley.

LonTTA E. On:!:.

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MASSACHUSETTS ALPHA-BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Chartered 1896)

INITIATES

(Initiated February 6. 19(5)

Abigail MacKinnon, 'Il!I

Miriam St:.nders, '18 GRADUATES WITH A.B. DEGREE

Dorothy Clemen ts Gertrude Ii aslam Mildred Kennard

Mildred Masse Dorothea Shute

This semester has been more than ever a continual round of pleasure and study, or shall we say study and fun? We started off well with the "best initiation and banqaet that we ever had," The former we held at the fraternity

rooms, from there going to the Hotel Vendome Cor a jolly good time.

Scarcely ever have we ha d so much going on at the rooms. The active chapter was invited to hear Mrs. Rugg speak at nn aluinnre meeting on Little Pigeon and th.!! Settlement School. Those who took advantage of this opportunity have a deeper interest in the splendid work being carried on there. The Convention Rally was equally interesting, both to those wh o were planning a trip to the coast, and those who would so love to be planning one . The 13st of March several ..,f the active girls attE:nded a dance given by the alumnre club for the benefit of the Settlement School.

In March we held a Pan·Hellenic Tea at the rooms. The Boston University Greek world and many of the non fraternity girls turned out in full force. Soon after that an open Pan-Hellenic meeting was held at the K K r rooms.

We are delighted to h3.\'e as our gnests (or a shert tirr.e, Edith Baker, Missouri B, and Belle Wright, Vermont A. Remember, Pi Phis, that our latchstring is always out.

We are especially proud of one of our sophomores. The New England Historical Society offered a prize of forty ' dollars for the best essay to be written by a member of one of two graduating classes ' fro'm the Boston schools. Louise Hoch won the prize, and with it, the privilege of membership in the society

Interest at this time centers about our junior activities. Prom, play, picnic, and our college year book Tlu Hub. Klatsch was its u s ual s u ccess when th e whole college, past and present, came to show its loyalty. The Latin play, Voces Ramona and the German play were both excellent, and interest was evident both nmong the college students and the high schools of the city.

To;

S.CIH,d

Third

Fourlh

... J:.lmu, Ethel

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row 1./1 to righI-Pauline Turnbull, Fay Rid,c1y. Ruth Marion Wean, Mable Roberts, Stiaser. Helen Weln, Mildred ElenhoRtr, Louise Cast

DriU1J. Marion Boyce, Sheldon, Eliubclh ?l.Jinland, Mary Fox, Eliitabcth Towne. Mary Tobey, Then

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Saturn,n, Enid Brand, Dorothy Doran, Alice Durlciah, Laur. Olmstead. Edna Franer, Aha Cole. Marjorie Leonard, Mal'}' John son.

row-Matilda Saunders. Grace Saunders, Jessie Cranc, DoTi.! Ondcrdcnk, Esther Reeves, Ruth Brush, E\ena Caml)beU. I Mbt ile Cunoin.ham, Cristine Chambers.

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\Ve held Y. W. C. A. elections !l short time ago, o.nd we an glad to te'l you that Doris Kennard , '16, was elected president and one of our pledges was chosen 3S IeeTetsry. Eunice Rowell is treasurer of the junior clu•.

The college is working h:lrd to secure more collece spirit And enthusiasm The chid manifestation of this is the forming of plans (or 1'1 large paiu.D! to be held nut year. Student mass meetin,s have been held and everyone h being roused to work (or IOCCelS.

Greetingl f or a plc:lsant summH from Massac hu sc il l A.

HEr EN RI C HARDSON

NEW YORK ALPHA-S\' RACliSE UN IVER S JTY

(Chartered 1896)

GUDVATIS \VITII B.A. DEGRn

Ruth I. Wun

Edna H France

Pauline Turnbull

LIST OF SItIHORS GaADUAnNG IN JUNE J essie Crane in Oratory)

Margaret Collyer (Bache lor of Music)

Mary Fo x ( Library Ce rti ficate)

After senior week, with Boar's Head play, the senior ball and many (raternity formals had passed, there was a slight lull in fOCial affain; but just beCore the Lenten scason began the number o{ s uch (unctions rapidly in creaRd.

February IS, we gllve our annual {ormal dance in the Hi awa tha Room o( the Onondaga H otel. Ma bel Beadle, ' 14, and Marvilla Rowley, ex-' 16, tfturned for the oecasion. The stroins o { " W e' re Loyal t o Thee, Pi Phi Dear," (ur 4 nished th e musi Cor o ur f eat ur e dance.

A Cler chapter meeting o n February 2 n 4' en· tertained, in{ormally, (or the {reli hman girl s. Our h o use was (ull 10 over l1 owing, light refreshments were served and the freshmen S:lng their class so ngs. \Ve intended to invite the sophomores liimilarly two week!'! Inter but 1: E the wh ole II 4> chapter thllt evening 10 that the evtn t w,s indeflniteb' pos tpon ed.

At the Glee Club co nce rl, Mnrian McCoy , 'IS, K a retn Briggs, "7, h a:l 5010 parts while Abbie S3ltsman, ' J7 . and Gertrud e She ld o n, ,,8, were in the c h o ru s

A stunt-(est wa s given by all th e women of th e univ ersi t y, in th e men's gymnasium. The variou s classes vied with eac h o th e r in p r oduci ng th e most o riginal Itunt. Everyone agreed that the offering of the senior clus,

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TIle EVo/14tion 0/ the Dance, in which Pauline Turnbull, Jessie Crane, and Ruth ,Vean had leading parts, was the best. Admission was cba.rged and the proceeds went for the proposed woman's building As a fitting close for the evening an informal rushing party. in the form of a big spread, was held at the chapter house.

It cannot be said that II <I> is devoid of honors in the way of class officers. For the freshman class Marian Wean, '18, is vice-president, Mary Toby, '18. chai rm an of the socia l committee and Elizabeth Marsland, chai rm an of the finance committee, while Louise Case, '18, is acting on the ,executive committee. Alta Cole, '17. is on the 1917 Onondaga" Board. J essie C rane, '15. is a most important factor of the class day committee and Pauline Turnbull. ' I S. has been e lected marshal for class day and comnlencement.

The 4J B K elections were held re cen tly and Pauline Turnbull, 'IS , was one of those chosen to membership.

Ou r spring rushing has begun in earnest and we have some very attractive city girls in view

EDNA H.

FRANCI.

NEW YORK BETA-BARNARD COLLEGE

(Chartered 1(04) GRADUATES WITH B.A. DEcRu

Dorothy A. Krier

Helen Mac Donald

Isabel Totten Lillian M. Jackson

Regina Murnane

I n June the last Pi Phis graduate from Barnard. Last month we took a final straw vote of the entire undergraduate body, to just how the college s tood in regard to fraternities. There were abo ut ISO votes lor their reestablishment and 250 votes against it, not such a bad s howing, we thought, since there are now only thirty-two fraternity girls in college.

The next important event at college will b e the performance of TJu Admirable Crichton., presented, as an undergraduate show, by our dramatic society "Wigs and Cues_" The society also invited the college to one of its open meetings to hear Mr. Montague Love, of Miss Phyllis Neilson -Terry'. company, now playing in the Adventures 0/ Lady Ursula.. At a tea afterwards, IT 4> met Miss Terry and Mr. Love. personally

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On April 27 and 28. Barnard held her celebration. ClauCI were sU.ipended during those days and many ttlebratcd speakers were prescnt. The undergraduate. attended all functions in cap and gown. On onc of these day. the freshman and IOphomore clalses held Greek Gamel, their annual con· tcst, unique to Barnard. Greek Garnes sre alway. very beautiful, and this year were e.pccially so.

The senior week program is DOW completed. 1915 will present Ea,.I" by Bli Carman and Mary Perry King, al its senior play. All the IT 4Js have partl. The other futures of the week will be the dance, Ivy day followed by tea dance, commencement, alumnae parade, class day, and senior banquet. Helem Mac Donald, 'IS. &Dd Isabel Totten, 'IS. arc: 00 the dance committee. \Ve have just heard, that habel Totten, 'IS. is to be at Mrs. Farn,Sworlh's camp this summer and is to have charge of the festival, a very important part of the summer's work.

LILUAN M. JACKSON.

NEW YORK. GAMMA-ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY

(Chartered March, 1914 )

GRADUATES 'VI TH

May fred Lucy eleHen Arloine Beatrice Hastings

B.A. DEGitEE

Margaret Alice McDonald Florence Mildred Maloney

The last chapter Letter goes to THE Auow with the good news that this has been a very happy and progressive year for the baby chapter. Our success began by getting all the freshmen we asked, and they have proved their ability in all the activities of colle&e life.

Everyone is bade: after Enster with renewed energy to finish the rest of the year. Friday night the A T n ball-the social event of the spring seme.· ter-was he ld in tbe gym· nasium. NenrIy all of the girls attended, Mildred Pellens, '17, and Helen Hazen, '18, being on th e reception committee. Dorothy Cleaveland, '12.

Mary Stilwell, ' n, and Mary Judd, '07. our first president, spent their Easter vacation at Canton. and it seemed SO good to have them with us.

Beuie M. DIan chard, '16, was o ur representative on the junior banquet committee. The banquet was held on April 23 Mildred Pellens, ' 17, and Helen Mileham, '17. have been c hosen as members of th e Catt for the annua.l college play, which is to be aiven by the college dramatic society at commencement time.

Top row, '.It to righl':""Mildred Griswold, Estelle Cordery, Beatrice Westfall, Mileham, Clara Groh, Alice McDonald. Mary Dana, Harriette Mellervey.

S.co,uJ ro_Hcqie Blanchard, France. Storrll, Marjorie Phillip!l, Virainia Dill, Mildred Pellen!, Huel Smallman, Muriel Waters, Anlela Cortri,ht.

Botto·,. ro_Audrey Ilastin", EdIth Tryon. lIc1en lIazen, Florence Maloney, Ruth Richardson, Verah Foster, Myrtle Palmer.

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Convention i •• live l ubject in our chap ter, because it i. the lint ooc we are to lmcnd as Pi Phis. Angela Cortright, '16, has been elected chaplet delegate and Dorothy Cleaveland. '12, Laur. King, '13. and Agnes McDonald. '09. expect to attend.

We are to celebrate Founders' Oay by entertaining the active chapter and the town alumnae with. {:tree .:tnd hi sto riesl ,ketches of the (ounding of the frnternity.

ANCELA \V. ConalcHT.

MARYLAND ALPHA--GOUCHER COLLECE

(Chartered 1897 )

GIlADUATPS WIT II B.A DEGREE

Ethel Chamberlin

Caroline Diggs

Eleanor Di,gs

I'(ester lIe inc

Marguerite Malruder

Sylvania N sa-Ie bOTIATES

(Initiated February 4. 19(5 )

Mary H. Lee, D enver, Colorado.

«(nitialed February 13. 1915)

Marjorie A. Colton. Baltimore, Md

Miriam Connet, Baltimore, Md.

Mary E. Cox, Baltimore, Md.

Roberta Everngam, Denton, Md.

Katharine B. Hopper, Baltimore, Md.

EHzabeth Jones, West Chester, Pa.

Gertrude Kutzleb, Ba.ltimore, Md.

Either Lednum, Preston, Md.

Lucile Moore, Baltimore, Md

Louise Murphy, Baltimore, Md.

Carolyn Pitzer, Rogers, Ohio.

Caroline Sadder, Cleveland, Ohio.

H e lene Schneidereith, Baltimore, Md

I{ you were to look in upon us here in the dormitories tonight, you woul J find us in a ,ad state of confusion, for not only does the sixth of April mark the end of Euter vacation and the beginning of the last short lap before CommencemeDt, but it also opens one of the most exciting weeks of the college year. If you were to !land in my doorway and listen closely to the snatches of converution carried on amid the work of unpacking, you would probably be surprised to hear instea.d of the customary wail, "Oh! didn't you hate to come back!" such whispered bits as, "Aren't yon excited?" "When do you think it is coming out?" or from down the trunk-lined corridor you might catch above the sound of rattling tissue paper an emphatic, "or course we'll wiD!" or an advisory, flGo in the e"ening; the second performance is always the better. " In explanation I would say that no week could be fuller of eager expectation thn this one. On Thursday the colle&e year book, planned And published each year by the juniors, is to make it, appearance .

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On its board 11 4> is well represtnted. Helen Lewis, Mary Lee, Ina Waddell and Frances Bryant being its Club, Joke, Athletic and Literary Editors respectively. On Friday "Agora" is to give two performances of The Rivals, and on Saturday Goucher is to play with Bryn Mawr at Philadelphia the first balket ball game ever played with another college .

But while we know that the period from DOW until June wiIJ be filled with ncvcr-to-he-forgotten good times. as we look back over the months since th e opening of college, there 8 r c otber things that will stand out in our minds to make the year 19'4 -15 memorable. Among them are: the removal of our library to its splendid new home in AI !heim H all , the allotment to each fraternily of pleasant, cosy rooms above the library, and the transformation of the swimming pool from a dark, rather uninviting place to one of clearwatered, white-tiled enticement.

Beginning with the fal1, changn in co ll ege c urr iculum are to take place

Requirements will no longer be based upon 60 year-hours of work as heretofore, but upon 120 term·hours, ench professor being at liberty to demand for a "major" in his department 30 term -hours spent entirely in hi s subject o r in part in that of any other professor whom he shall designate

The past year has been one of hard work not unmixed with much of pleas ure , and one of many marked improvements_ What thfO coming year has in sto re for us we do not know, but we are looking forwa!d to it confidently, expectantly .

FRANCES D. BRYANT.

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OLUMBIA

ALPHA---GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

(Chartered ISS<})

GkAD UATES WITH RA. OWREE

Alice Griffith Flora Hull

Marion True (and Tenchers' Diploma)

This college yur has been a successful one for George Washington in several respects. The uDiversity has not only acquired a new building (the increase in the number of students made more r oom necessary) but strenuous efforts have also been made to improve the co n dition of the university athletics. It is probable that a compulsory fee will be imposed next year t o support athletics, though this has not yet been de6nitely decided. The tota.1 enrollment of the university for 1914-15 was 1804 and the number of the faculty 229. This is an increase of 183 in the number of students and of 40 in laculty members.

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Our Founders' Day banquet will be held on May first this year in order tbat Misl Keller may be with us. It is our turn to be hosteSRs. and the Maryland A girls will come to W'a.hin&ton to help us celebrate. The toast scheme this year is to deal with the sevcul phases o( the development of the Settlement School, and ever-prewnt topic of interest to the whole fraternity.

On April under the auspicu of Pan-Hellenic, Misl Haywood, lectured at tbe University on "Spaill, Her People and Customs." At a tca dance given by our alumn.-.: recently (or the benefit of the Settlement School about $28 wu deared. Our pay-u-you-enter teu have become quite • joke with us this winter but everyone seems to enjoy them and they undoubtedly accomplish their object.

We have been baving difficulty in 5eeing that the high school IOroritiet understand the recent ruling o( National Pan-Hellenic. Letters explaining the situation have been sent to the five high schools of Washington but there has been much misunderstanding. In order to c lear up this difficulty, our local Pan-Hellenic bas passed the resolution that letters be lent directly to the sororities and that college fraternity Illumnll! who are also high school sorority girls j( possible be sent to the high sc hools and at a rathering o( all the girls explain the ruling Whether this will be feasible and efficacious remains to be seen.

As this is the lail letter before our great convention o( 1915, Columbi" A hopes tbat it may be the biggest and most s uccessful ever held and though she cannot send a very large delegation on account of the distance, the whole c hapter will be there in spirit.

MARION' TRUI

VIRGINIA

ALPHA-RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN 'S COLLEGE

(Chartered May 10, 1913)

GUDUATES \V':ITH A.B. DECRE!

Marion Fowlkes

Johnnie Link

Jennie Dunnegan

Grace Shepherd

Gertrude Ayers

Susie Dabney

Martha Rader

Adelaide Rothert

Mary Williams

Very little of unusual interest in the wny of college nctivitie. has happened, but in spite of that rushing has kept us more than busy, (or the end o( the year is Dear and our time is limited.

Most o( our girls either went home or visiting during our Easter vacation o( five days. and of course had the belt of good times. Five of our girls were in Richmond, and on Tue.day afternoon after Easter, Miss Keller entertained us at tea, out at W esthampton College. to-

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wit h the resident Pi Phis :md q uite a number of visiting Pi Phis. As usual, an afternoon with our President meant an awful lot in the way of encouragement and inspiration

The Dramatic Club presented Tlu 0/ Lady not long ago and ont of the leading r a lcs was played mos t creditably by Johnnie Link

One of the most delightful parts of our winter was the visit of Beth Wilbur. Columbia A, who both by h e r sweet and charming pe r son.lity and her marvelous ability for playing th e violin won the hearts of all who met her, and truly they wue most of the girls in coll ege for o ur little hou!t was full to overftowing the whole time s h e was h ere. W e 8rc hoping to have h e r back on May Day Miss Keller has promised to be with us on that day too, 50 we will be tL very happy c hapter as we wat c h Johnni e Link "tip the light fantastic toe" as one o f the Qu:en's maid s.

On Founders' Day, March I:Z, the students presented a memorial to Dr. \V. W Smith, our late president, in the way of a marble sundial.

On Odd ·Class Day, April t , th e enti re ca m pus blossomed forth ove r night with a profusion of blue ragg ed· robins and red ca rnati o n s. Every shrub, every bush, and even the grass itself wa s co vered, while the Odd ·tree was radiant with its strea mers of red and blue.

\Ve are getting so enthus i astic about the banquet o n Founders' Day and are hoping to have quite :\ number of our with us.

Best wishes for a happy, happy s ummer for every IT 41 and a great, big hope that many of us will meet at Conven tion.

MAlty 'VtLLlAMS

FLORIIJA ALPHA-JOHN B. STETSO:-J UN IVER S ITY

(C harter ed January, 1913)

Herberta Hathcoc k, ' tS

I N ITIAT ItS

Nell Hath cock, '16

\Ve are nineteen happy girls at preient for two reasons: examinations are just over and we are just over a most wonderful house party. Before telling about the house party, I want to say that we are very proud of ourselves in having such high scholarship in our chapler.

On Thursday, April 8, we moved into the Walker cottage and remained until Monday of the next week We e ntertained Saturday morning j\.pril 10, at 3n open house for all the college people and faculty in school. As the cottage was situated i n an orange grove and everybody was so lovely in se.nding us good things to eat, we los t no time enjoying ourte lves

On January 30, we ce l eb rated th e founding of Florida .A by giving a reception for all fr::J.ternity members and their friends in school and we also entertained inform311y in our fraternity room for Ollr new patroness, Mrs . Samuel D. Jord:.n and ag3in for Miss Whitac re of lIIinois E, '\l' ho was in De Land for a few days, singing wilh the Beulah Buck quartet.

Ou r dramatics this year have all been very successful. On Marc h 23 , the !Ulnual college pl3Y, TAe For-t,me IINN ter- was given and· IT W:\5 r e presented in it by M arg uerit y Blocker, '16, and Bessie Gumm. '16.

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\Ve are DOW very enthusiastic over our n 4t play-Mit... F ear/ell and Company -that we are going to in .bout four week.. This will be for the benefit of the Settlemenl School.

Here at Stetson teoni. i. DOC of the favorite outdoor sportl and the university hal reccntly made nine ncw courts for the use of tbe students. There is i n progress now a double teonis tourn&mcnt, and n • i. represented by nearly . 11 of our girls.

We are indeed glad to welcome the new legal iraternity 4» .:1 A which was installed here April I, 1915. This organization petitioned and received their c harter in the lame year which speaks well {or our university We entertained tbe members of 4t .:1 A .t an informal breakfast in the domestic science room s, the moroiDg following their installation.

Mona Bates, ' 16, is again us, after having attended the University of WiOiiconsin the fiut two

We :are ce rtslnl y gl:ad to hIl,'e her b:ack and hear stories of ottr n .. sis ters in the north.

At present the convention is our ce ntral thought and planning to be there of co urse we are all Br.:ssu. GUM)(.

BETA PROVINCE

PENNSYLVAN IA ALPHA-SWARTHMORE COLLEGE

(Chartered October 12, 1892)

INiTiATES

(Initiated October 23. 1914)

Elitabeth Strode, '16

Helen Westfall, '18 Ethelwyo Bower, '18 Edith. Mendenhall, ',8

(Initiated

Mary R.

GItADUATKS

Dorothy F. Fahnestock

Hele n Wilson, '18 Catharine Wright, March 10, 1915)

Grace Schaeffer ' ,8

\V, Turner, ' 18 WITH B.A DECREE

Ellen Miller

Ethel Shoemaker

Swarthmore has been very gre:atly honored this year by hearing talk s from eminent men. Among these were "Rilly" Sund3Y and John \Vanamak er. Both of these men gave us inspiration for future work. \V e are also fortunate in having as the commencement speaker, former president \VilHam H. Taft.

Pennsylvania A hal been forlunate also. At last we stand first in scholar· s hip, we h!lve almost a grade of eighty (nr the whole chapter and in the c hapter no girl has a grade lower than 70 Isn't that a record to be proud of?

On March 10, we initiated Mary Turner who reentered the second semester. The ce remony too k plllce at the home of Elizabeth Jackson at Lansdowne.

On 16, we entertained the Philade1phia alumnl"r club at Swarthmore dnd although we had no entertllinment prepared we enjoyed getting acqu.inted Ilnd talking 3bout n affairs.

Many alumnl"r were back (or the annual meeting o( Somerville Literary Society of whi ch Dorothy Fahnestock, 'IS, i l president. The active lociety presented Quo/ ity Street in which (o ur Pi Phi l to ok part.

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Ju st be f ore o o r spring v acation the two ann ual gymnasium meets too1.. place. In the freshmaD meet Catharine \Vrigbt , ' 18, took the first cup. In the general co nt es t D o r o thy Fahn estock. ' IS. w o n sixth place, Mary Gawthrop, " 7. won eig hth place and n was represented on each class team. The seniors won this meet.

Mar y Gawthr op h as also !l A 1:, ODt of the tw o ea t ing clubs.

At present we a re getting r eady f o r our F o und ers' Day luncheon , whi c h is to be b eld a t the h ome of Elizabeth Burton, '09. at Chestnut Hill on M ay first. It is to be info rmal as last year a nd it is h oped that many alumnre will be present

By the time thi s lette r appears in print many of you will be getting r eady for co n ven t ion, some for h o u se parties, oth ers in th e midst of commencement festivities, so Pennsylvania A wishes each c ha pter the bes t lime s this summer a n d good luck for next year.

PENNSYLVAN I A BETA-B UC KNELL UN I VERSITY

(Char t ered 1894)

CRADUATES WITH B.A. DZCUE

Florence Barber

Frances Barber

RamOD:\ Len n ington Winifred Mill er

Ma bel Boyer

Spring is not a letter writing season .t Bu c knell but since we like to hear the news fr om other f o lk s we a re willing to practice r ec iprocity. Beh old th e nice long list of freshman whom we r eceived with joy and gladness on March 6 tr y t o imagine h ow ni ce th ey are because it can't be "d id"-Ruth Cannon. Hel ene DifTend afe r. an d Margare t Evans, Nanticoke; Mabel Fritland Margar et Mattern. Reading; Eliza be th Laird, T y ro ne; Emm a Levegood, J ersey Shore; Marjor ie M cNall, Mun cy; Marga r e t Phillips, Wilk es- Barre; Camilla Reed, H ollid aysb urg.

The new V. W C _ A. officers have bee n e l ected and we are represented on the cab in et by (our girls. Alice Haslam, Hel e n Brown. M a rgar tt Matte rn, an d Marjorie McN. 11. V. W . C . A . is eve r a live organization and we are all busy working. trying to make this one o( the bes t years Bucknell V. W . C. A. hu eve r bad.

Alice H as lam is at the head of a co mmittee to r a i se a fund of three hundred do Uars for a memorial to Profe sso r Edwards

Dr&matiel and orat o ry demand a large share of our attention. t oo. 'Ve nre all so glad that Winifred Mill er has been selected as leading lady in the se ni or class play to be given a t co mm en cement Ruth Mattern and Ruth Embrey are two of the junior oratorica l exhibition girls, and, like good chil dre n following i n th e footsteps of t h eir e lders, two of o ur fr es hm en , Mabel Fritl- and Margaret Mattern are to participate in the fre s hman oratorical co nt est.

CHARITY B£I.L HA)(PSO N.

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:Mabel Boyer is president of Itudent government and Roth Mattern is the junior member.

The luite Item. • strange place this term without Geraldine Hanson'. merry laugb &lid prank.. A few weeks ago Ibe und erwen t a successful operation (or appt:ndicitil but it is very donbtful whether ,he will be back before next yur.

The campul presents a very springlike aspect ..-itb it, repairiniP. and upheavah. The Phi Gamma Deltas have been digginr the cellar (or a Iplendid new {taternity house, the Kappa Sigmu have moved into Helen Hare', old home and the }; A.. E, art gay with a brand ·new coat of paint ( 1 think, perhapl, there is mort than ODe coat). Down on the athletic field workmen Are dir(ing and wagons Ilre hauling dirl, tor we are to have our athletic field reltlrlaced-a memorial (rom tbe present tenior class assisted by the athletic alJOCiation.

Those who wou.ld work even during the summer time may come to BlckneU (or we are to bave a Summer School this year. The plans, as yet, are not (ully complete. Bucknell has had such a splendid year. a. decided incrtase in every department, but plans are being made for a still better time next yeu. The authorities have been looking around (or places to house aU the girls that are coming and we have been hoping that the changes would make it possible (or Pi Phis to lin in a house by themselves, however, I think we have hoped in vain!

A wee bit must suffice (or soci.l affairs-yesterday Tri Delta enterta.ined us at a reception given in honor of tlleir Alpha province president, Hudson. We had a splendid time. On Founders' Oay we are going to combine our celebration with a Settlement School benefit.

Our visitors Ihis term have been Marion Fischler, '12. Frances McNall, '13. lind Mary Meyer, '09.

RUTII E. EMBREY.

PENNSYLVANIA GAMMA-DICKINSON COLLEGE

(Chartered 1903)

INITIATE

(lnitiated April 30, 1915)

M. Mabel Clark, Harrisburg, Pa.

GRADUATES WITH PH.B. DECREE

Helene Nelson

Ethel \Vagg

On the home stretch at last! Now, with the end of another year in light, we are ca lled on to "take stock" and give account of ourselves. We report a year prosperous for us 81 • ch3pter and as a college. As usual, the

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classroom and laboratory have not absorbed all of our energies, and we give in proof this record.

Through the football season our lack of victo· ties was not due to, and did Dot result in, any lack of "college spirit." In fact, there was even more tl}1l0 usual. In basketball, the interclass championship was fiercely {ought for and fina.lIy won by the juniors Baseball has started off with a rush and the Urootcn" show no signs oC spring fever. Of course, we don't spend all our extra energies watching and cheering on our athletes, but manage to am use ourselves very well in other ways as well. The Y. M. and Y. \V. C A. have held various receptions and jollifications. of which the Y. W. C. A. masquerade was particularly marked by overflowing fun. Class organizations and fraternities have held atl their usual, and lOme unusual stunts. The musical club. report a "great" trip--the best yet. In th e line of dramatics, I must play prophet, for we are planning to give only the commencement pl9.Y this year. It will probably be A lIIid· $llmml,. Night'l

Another look ahead show I the grace(u\ dances of May Day, which is bound to be al big a !uccess this year as last because again • Pi Phi will be "boss" on that occasion

This may sound as though we've forgotten the more serious things of life, but listen! Even the faculty say we have been doing good work, and n n 4> leads the college! too, Dr. Morgan has made this a record season. The year has also been marked by the total absence of hazing and othe r acts of insubordination. Our superabundant "pep" has found other channels at la st.

And what has Pennsylvania r had to do with all this, do you ask? BrieRy,in scholarship. we lead; in everything else, we provide the leaders. Here' s hoping you h1ve been treated as well 90S we have by 1914'15!

NORA M OHLER.

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OHIO

UNIVERSITY

(Chulered 188<) INITIATES

(Initiated February 21 .)

Effie SylvUJ, '18, Athens, Ohio.

Margaret Mann, '18, Athens, Ohio.

Lydia Stilt, '17. Rudolph, Ohio, Marguerite Taylor. '16, Athens, Ohio. (Initiated March 24-)

Nellie Stlle Andrews, ' 18, Gloucester, Ohio.

Faye Boyer. ' 18, Sidnef, Ohio.

Ruth Jones, '.8. Youngstown, Ohio.

Helen Reynolds, ' .8, Oaylon, Ohio.

Florence Parks, '.8, Nelsonville. Ohio. Lorena King, '18, Warren, Ohio.

Catherine Sachs, 'tS, NewaTk, Ohio.

Bonnie Schoof, '.8, Canton, Ohio.

Gretchen Sehaeffier, '18, Athen., Ohio. Marian \Vilcox, '18, Youngstown, Ohio.

Graduates with A.B. degree : Mildred Thomas, Henrietta Cronacher.

Rushing is all over until next year and Ohio A ce rtainly feels that she has the best fourteen new initiates in school. They hIVe already shown the ir loyalty to the chapter by entertaining all of the old girls at a breakfast. have allO preHnted the chapter with a new set of window snades for our fraternity hall. The new shades are white and bear a very auractive co::uof arms.

On May our annual Skit Show takes place. Perhaps you do not know what a kit Show is. 1t is an entertainment in which every woman's organiution in IChool presents a scene or "stunt" which lalts no longer than twelve minutes. The idea is to have it just as original and entertaining as possible. The proceeds go toward the support of the Women's League. Tbi .. year IT n is aoing to give. Madame Dolls.

Commencement week and our centennial celebration comes the second week in June and it reaJly is the most important event of the year. Then we will hnve our much talked of pageant. AlI of Tu esday will be taken up with these ce lebrations. In the morning Miss Voigt, our Dean of Women will a series of events in the history of Ohio from the founding of the universHy in ) 804 up until the present time. The morning exercises wilt close wi th thrpresenting of d iplomas to the class of 191$ by President Ellis. The nfternoo'1

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festivities wilL represent Ethenic Ohio. This idea will be carried out by presentation ot Dutch. Scotch, Irish. Welsh, ancient Athenian and Virginian dances. The closing event will be the Maypole dance and a ftag drill by the children oC the grade schools.

Work has been begun on an alumni gateway. which will add greatly to the beauty of the campus, and which will be dedicated in June.

Two of our girls. Lucile Henry and Merle Danford, have been elected t(o the Cabinet of Y. W. C. A. and several others have been appointed OD committees.

OHIO BETA-OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

,. (Chartered

1894)

GaADYATES WITH B.A', DECREE

Esther Bigger ! Helen Pugh

Martha Mills (A B. B.Sc. in Ed.)

Verda Erlar (B.Sc. in Ed.)

Pan - Hellenic ruling has been very strict this year, we have been to do no rushing until this month then we have to Sunday calling. Eacb fraternity is party with expense, tbat amount agreed on by Pan - Hellenic. Our party was April 20, and consisted of a dinner for rushees. actives and alumn2. Thirty-five sat down to the table and needless to say n spirit ran high, songs, touts and speecbes were given. Pledge Day is May first so naturally we are thinking o( nothing ehe at present with that joyous event but ten days distant.

During spring vacation we gave a s ur prise birthday spread for Katherine Pugh, '14, and Ruth Horrocks. '16, at the home of Martha Mills, 'IS.

Jess oowdill, ' 15. is now visiting in Columb u s and expects to remain with us until after Commencement in June.

We are looking forward to our Founders' Day banqnet April 28 with great pleasure and hope that many ot onr alumn2 will be able to be present.

Lil'l/4 R4d Ridinc Hood and TIll Siuping Beauty are to be presented at the Southern theater on April 24 under the auspices of the Women's Pan· Hell enic association. The proceeds are to benefit the decoration fund for public schools. Augusta Connoley, '02, has charge of the costuming &nd Eliubeth Carroll, "5 , is in the caste.

Prepa ration s are now in progress (or our big May fete, this year the dances and fete in general is to be confined almost exclusively to the senior and junio r girlJ. Louise Shepard, 'I If bas charge of the entire color ICheme for the fete.

May 14. we are going to give a (ormal dancing party at the Virginia Hotel in honor of our new pledges. Ohio B will certainly (eel the loss of her fine seniors who ITadaate in June.

ALMA WHITA CIlE.

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OHIO GAMMA-UNIVERSITY OF WOOSTE.R

(Cha rter ed 1913)

Gins IN JUNE 1915

Brown, June-Ph B. Fredericktown. Ohio, R. F. D • Buchanan, Smithville, Ohio.

G!lble, Marlard-Ph.B. College Avenue. Woolter, Ohio. Morrow. Sydney-Sc.B. Toronto. Ohio.

MICHIGAN ALPHA-HILLSDALE COLLEGE

(Chartered .881)

I ITLA'us

(Initiated 6, 1915)

Jean Anderson , Alba, Mi ch.

Bess Kepple, Conneaut, Ohio. Naomi Edmonson, Hillsdale. Mich. .. Aileen Quincy, Mich. Geneva Satterth",aite, Tecumseh. Mich

C.uoline Stearns, Somerset, Mich Harriet Stoke, Cooneaut, Ohio.

GRADUATES WITH B.A. DItCIlE

Flo. M. Cosma (B Pd.)

Ruth C. Mallory (B.Pd.)

Elizabeth Smith

February 6, we initialed seven pledges, after which we spent the evening at o ur annual banquet. Among our visitors were Miss Patch. Mildred Reese. Florentine Cook (Michigan B), and Mrs. Miller (Pearl Kepple, '(9) of Cleveland. On Sun day afternoon Mrs. E. T. Prideaux entertained with an . informal musicale in honor of Mn. )filler

Our (",1 lor-mal of the year was a theatre party. Hillsdale offers no opportunity of seeing good plays. 10 we chartered a spec ial train, and with alumnre and guests, went to J acklon, where dinner was served. after which we saw Guy Bates Post in rlu Te"lmtlk". Going and coming we had stunts and sang II "" songs. It was one of our most original and instructive, as well as entertaining, fraternity events.

Of late we have been making it OUf aim to get together more intimately in a social way and in consequence, meetings are usigned to two girls who ar.

To, rOl&l, 1", 10 righI-Marcia Mansell, Ethel Jocelyn, Dorothy Pierce, Helen lIayes, Geneva lIayes, Leo la Royce, Ma rauer ite Kerwin, Ge nevie ve Corey.

S,co"d row-Geta Tucker, Penoyer, Julia Barksda le, Martha Colborne, lI azel Goodrich, Doris Stamats. E lsa Apfe l. Mildred Scott, Doris Sturae•.

TIsjrd ro_Hazel Steyen., Florentine Cook, Caro l Miller. Marie Brooker, Marie Reardon, Helen Patterson. Maraarel Comyn., Mildred Bachen.

FONrH, row-Kathleen Field. Ruth Carpenter, Alice Wiard. Mabel Hinds, Mildred R«., Martha Gray, Frances Luke.

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ranrt a social hour. The first was a supp e r and lercn.de, the secood • cooky ·shine. We htlieve this to be wo th wbile Plans are DOW under dis , cussion (or our June hOU!i:e party which is us ually held at Baw Beese.

In school activities we have no Ius busy. Eliubeth Smith won second prize in oratory, and i, on the commencement program; Bess Kepple i, presiden t of the class; Doris Jack was chosen by the senior class as h ead usher [or com m encement: three Pi Phil are on the new Y. \V. C. A. cabi net; in Shaw'. You Never CtJn Tldl, which the Dramatic Club will give i n June, Fl o will take the part Q( Mrs. Clllndon, and Jess Reem lhat of Glorio; and Ruth Mallory is in th e senior play.

The coll ege has bee n well rel)resented in debating, having won the stat e triangular debate. In :uhletici \Ie: have had n good b!lSketbllll lineup 81 well al good inlercluJ leams; the men's glee club has been scheduled to appear in Jackson, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Detroit, and several olher cities, where they have been very succeuful. There have some sp l endid musical co n · ce rts bere this year on the Eugene \V oodham's Sub- cription Series, and und er his direction the Choral Society will give selections from FQJ4u and CavalilriIJ the solo parts being taken by professional artists. This will be one of the big thing, of the year.

Michipn A alumna:! \Vb y don't you take the n 4J specia l f or con v en t ion via "Q uinquennial "?

Jusu P REEK

MI C HI GAN BETA-UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

(C harte red 1888)

INITIATES

Geneva Haye s, ' 18

Ethel J ocelyn, ' 18

Fran ces Luke, '18

Dorothy Pi erce , ' 18 Ruth Carpenter, '18

GIIADUATES W,TH B.A. DEGKf.:I

Hazel Goodrich

Mildred Retl

Kathl ee n Field

Mabel Hinds

Alice W iard

Marcia Mun sell

Helen Ha yes

Martha Colborne

Mildred Scott

Spring vacation is with u s in Ann Arbor, and in the lull it afford, we can l ook back upon the yeu which il rspidly drawing to a close. Since yo u last heard {rom us we have done l ots of t hings, and planned lots more. First of 11 we ha d a fioe initiat ion, {ollowed by n splendid banquet {or $eve nty·five people, at whi ch Mil dred Rees, 'IS, presided as toastmistress. We were mighty glad to welcome back so many of our alumnz at this time, and ur ge them h eart il y to "come agnin soo n J •

The j unior girls' play {ollowed close upon the heels of initiation. Thi s year Martha Gray was general manager of it, and Mildred Bachen w:as a member

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of the committee. Elsa Apfel as "leading man " quite cap tivated the audience. Leolo. Rftyct, Julia Barksdale. Hazel Stevens, Genevieve Corey and Mildred Bnchers portnyed their resptttive rOles nty well.

The tWQ hun d red seniors, in whose honor the play was given, attended en masse, wearing their caps and gowns for the first time, between acts they sang songs of their own composition, and many a junior, guilty of ,a "senior hitll w.s paid back in her own coin.

Precedin g the second performance of the play, was the annual luncheon of the University 0 f Michigan Alumnae. This time it marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Women's League, nnd the idea was cleverly worked o ut with a birthday cake, and a party. of which Mildred Rees. 'IS. was in charge, and in which Florentine Cook, ' 17, Beatrice Huff, ' 17 , nnd Margaret Comyns, ' 18, took part.

Michigan B is putting forth every effort t owa rds a new house. We have felt the need of it for several years, but have had to content ourselves with having our present home remodeled. At last, however, we are hoping (and working) tbat we may bave a fine new chapter house next year. With the hope of interesting o ur alumnre in the project, and making them feel closer to us, we have planned a reunion for the third week -e nd of April, which promises to be well attended. We are preparing to show them our ordinary cha p ter life, dispensing with the teas, and their attendant formalities, 50 often resorted to. Our plans include an eight-act vaudeville matinee and a big cooky·shine.

Our annual formnl dance is to be given April thirtieth, at the \V ash tenaw CountTy Club. Soon we will be on the hom e st ret ch of the college year; after vacation Swing out, Cap Night, Senior Play , and finally Commencement win follow each other in all too quick succession, and another year will have fled.

We arc eagerly looking forward to Convention. Martha Gray, ' 16, is to be our delegate, and Margaret Eaton, '14. Dorothy Adams. '14, and Harriet Briggs, u·'14, are also planning to attend.

We have two fine new pledges this semester, Doris Sturges, ' 18, and Marie R eardon, ' 18. This brings our freshman roll up to eight.

MAATHA C. GRAY.

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GAMMA PROVINCE

MINNESOTA ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

(Chartered 1890 )

I!'ofJTlAHS

(Initiated Nonmber 19. 1914)

Elizabeth Schrader Peppard, P. G. February n, I9JS)

Edna Healey, ',6

Effie WillOn. '.8

Mabel Felland. 't8

Muy Taylor, '18

GUDUATES WITH B.A. DECIlE.!:

Margaret Barnard

Sybil Bate.

Helen Anderson

Lillian McLauablin

Alice Lewis

Glady, Chatman

Either Shol

Verna Smith

Marguerite Grimm

Barbara Green

Florence Bernhardt

GUDUATE WITH B.S. Dr:cuE

Florence Loomis

This college year of 1914' 1915 has been so crowded with ha.ppenings that J am at a loss where to begin. 1 think you beard about the acceptance of the honor system by the academic college and the opening of the new Men'. Union building. W hen the Y. M. C. A. took up its quarters in the UDion Building, th e old Y M. C. A. was seited upon by the faculty of the music department, and b:hold !-a very charming music building! At the formal opening of this building ethel HBrwood,'I6, played some Liut selections.

Ob, dear! I must not forgel to mention the 'Vomen' s Vocational Conference at which Miss Bennett of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations spoke, and made us burn to he up and doing.

The great question at Minnesota now is: Shall our medical sc hool be affiliated for graduate work .itb the institutio n of the Drs. Mayo of Rochester? This affiliation would unquestionably raise Minn eso ta to the first rank of medical colleges in the country, yet there are undoubtedly lome grave objections.

Now Ihnt the Pan - Hellenic Banquet, the girls' basketball tournament, and the junior adviser-freshman party are over, it wiJI lOOn be time for the interliterary lociety banquet, the lanlight dance, the momentous ju ni o r ball, and Cap and Gown Day, so all·important to the seniotl, fo r it is on that ",ry day, April 13, thllt all honon are announced.

THE ARRCJ.W OF PI BETA PHI

We are very careful of the life of our house fund! A great many parties have been given in its honor besides our successful vaudeville and our May f4.

Ethel Harwood. '16, has j ust given a remarkably brilliant Lint in Shevlin Hall.

Among our college honors lately are Lucy How's election to the vicepresidency of the V. W. C. A., and the choice of Florence Bernhardt. '15. and Olive Keller, '16. IlS two of the most beautiful girls in colh!ge. \Vhen the Gopher comel out May I , their charming p r ofi les and POStS will appear with those or six other girls as the Vanity Fair Section.

We are looking forward to Convention. \V e hope to gain 11 great deal (rom it in the renewal of old friendships, in broadened sympathies. in new ideas and freshened ideals, in an awakened ideal of service whch should chuacteri t:e the college woman. and which we feel our Settlement School markedly

IsABEL Mci.AucHUN'.

WJSCON"SIN ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

(Chartered 1894)

INITIATES

(Initiated February IS. 1915)

Marjorie Ada.Jl\l, '17, Chicago. Illinois Elitabeth '17, Evansville. Wisconsin Alma Hanson, '17, ' Eau Claire, Wi sconsin

Ruth Kl emme, ' 16, Belmond, Iowa

(Initiated March 29 , 191 S)

H elen Brooks. ' 16. Madison. W isconsin

GJlADUATES WITH B.A. OWUE

Louise Withee Brown

Genevieve Hendricks

Rhoda Owen

GRADUATES WITH B.S. DECREE

Nell Scott Hamilton Virginia Higgins

Ella Shoemaker

Perhaps the most interesting event of the last two or three months was the University of Wisconsin Exposition. It wu very interesting, of great educational value to everyone and a success in every way. Part of the dis· play will be sent to the Panama-Pacific Exposition where it will be in the Wi sconsin building this Summer. The success of the woman'. activities was due largely to the work of Marion Lace, '16, who was chairman.

We are gla.d that three or four of the girl. besides Irene Esch. our delegate, are planning to go to convention.

We were sorry to lose Elsa Schlicht of Bellevue, Ohio, and Mona Bates of Jacksonville. Florida. Elsa had to lene because of illness and Mona found the northern winter too hard for her.

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Geneyien Hendricks, 'IS, had a song accepted (or the play, Jd" "f t"-e Traul, which wu given by the Haresfoot Dramatic Club. This i.s a men's organization and Genevieve is the first girl t o have had any music accepted. About two weeks ago the father of one of the girls sent us a Columbia Gralonola and a number 01 records. \Ve are certainly pleased with our gift. On February 27 we had an informal dance at the chapter house and on March II we gave a ctption (or aU university girls. We arc planning to have our formal on May 7. The wee:k-end of May Fete, which is May 2 J, we are planning to a mothers' house party. We hope as many of our mothers as possible wHl come.

Since our last letter, we have received our share of honors. Georgia Loy. ' 17, has been elected to Black Bat and Christine Brown, ' 17, to \Vyslynx; Nell Hamilton is on a se nior class committee; Luce, ' 16, is editor of, .the woman'. section of the a new magazine which will -come out SOOo, ,And habeUe Bodden, ' 16, is on the staff. Georgia Loy, 't7, is one of the car(OODists !for TAe Badger.

We are glad we do not have to go' throllgh · a week of slrCllUOus ru shing this spring, and now we are looking forward to Commencement.

VnGlNIA HIGGINS. ,

ILLINOIS BETA-LOMBARD COLLEGE

(C hartered

IN'IT"IATI!:"

(Initiated February 6, 1915)

Alberta Barret Catherine Cri,sey

E&thtr Payn

Adelaide Tuttle

Ruth Rose

( fnitiated February 13. 1915)

Nina Marie Sengenberger

(Initiated February 20, 1915)

Haul Hatch

Mary Wyman

Ruth \Voods

GRADUATES \V,TlI B.A. DECRE!

Margaret McCarl

Haul Winter

B. S. IN HO)(E

Dorothy Payo

Maude Stephenson

Marian Chapman

T HE ARROW OF PI B ETA PHI

I mUlt leU you of our thr ee days of ff"ltivities in which Lom ba r d's st udents. fa c ult y and friends participated, in celebrating W ashington'. birthday F o r weeki we pl anned stunu and ra cked our brains for original ideas Every s tudent in co llege h ad some part in the performances, a nd it developed into a UgeHo_ get h e r -a n d-be co me-acq uainted" o rganization

Prominent among the festivities w as a three act p lay. The plot was arranged by o ne of the s tude nt. and the w o rds were ex temporaneo u s... by the c ast. Th e faculty, ..roc ai art and expression departments each provided us with an entertainment The D - R -A- B - M -O- L D ay., as they were called, ended with a carnival and vaudeTille on the evening of Washi ngton '. birthday. Everyone declared the affair to be a complete success and h e reafter it is to have a pe rmanent place on the college cal e nd ar.

We an set tled dowD to har d s tu dy immediately and March z6 found us aU ready for a ten da"s' recess.

The seniors gave th e ir prom the week -end after our return On Arbor Day we p lanted many shr ubs and p lants around ou r bungalow Baseball season is of muc h intere s t t o u s aU at present, and we opened our season by winning the first game o n the sc hedule.

The t'Wo Galesburg active chapters , together with the alumnae club will cel ebrate Found ers' Day toget her as u s ual. W e are regretful of the fact that Mi ss Mill er ca nnot be with u s again this year. Margaret Mc Carl is returning ne xt year to con tinu e h er work in the vocal art department.

After examinations and commencement week with its usual gaieties, the coUege year will be ove r and we say good -bye until September .

ETHEL BuwSTER

ILLINOIS DELTA-KNOX COLLEGE

(Charte re d 1884 ) INITIATI

(Initiated February zo, 1915)

Nettie Krantz, ' 16, \VeDon&, Ill .

GRADUATES W ITH B A. D IGHI

Helen Campbell

A daline Koller

H ar ri ett \Vil so n

Helen W ei n be rg

GRAD UAT E W ITH B.S . DEGR.EE

Florence Pierce

GRAnuATE IN MUSI C

Pauline Arnold

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Alas! Alas! my day is o' er, sighed the cnef_hMul "Lint a Day", but I am satisfied, (or this hAli bftn a very happy and sQccessful year, and noW' that Commencement dra•• nigh it seems all too short. The usual number of cooky·.hines and usociation meetings has been creatly enjoyed, but most enjoyable of &11 wa. the formal March 12. It W real .pri0R' party. the idea being carried out in the table decoration. and favor dance., boutonnihes [or the men and haslett. of flowen for the girh.

However, there have been other pleuurci. Mist Corbett, Mich.igan A.. visited Knox the latter part of February as traveling IeCretary of Y. W. C. A.

February JJ, P:luline Arnold gave her graduating vocal recital and April 20 her piano forle. But the greatest joy of all hu come to Florence Pierce, who has bet.n choaen commencement Thi. is the highest honor Knox has to offer and IT + il very proud of Florence.

NoW' (or the coUege! Founders' Day was o( course celebrated February IS, and thi. year a marked change was made in the prO(l'om. Chapel exercises were held in the morning, at which severa l prominent alumni spoke, a.nd the seniorl, for the 6rst time, donned their caps and cowns, and io the evening • pro.,.lm was held in {A;ntral Church. of which the most exciting future was • long conteil between the clasR.. At this time tbe K"DX MdldSi", made its appearance and was enthusiastically received. March 19 the annual junior promenade was held at Elks' Club, and Harriett Wilson, Shirley Jeffers, and Alta Green stood in the receiving line.

Several distinction. have come to the college durin&" the year; it has again been placed on the approved list of colleges lod universities, and. model of the institution, showing the building' and campus and their relation to the high school !lnd public library is in the State Educational Exhibit at the Panama·Pacilic Exposition. In the ,tate oratorical con test Knox was given second place. Mr. Wampler, 4> r 4, representing the school.

Many Doted men hIve spoken in chapel lately; Dr. Graham Taylor of Chicago Commons, Or. Edward C. Moore of Ha.rvard, Mr. Brewer Eddy of Boston, and Mr. Hamilton Holt, editor of TAe I"de;mde"t. The latter put of March the student body was given the splendid oppor tunity of listening to a series of lectures on the "History of Science" by Prof. Laurence J. Henderson. the Harvard Exchange Lecturer for 1915.

Howeftr, not merely along scholastic lines has Knox developed, bot along political lines a. well, for April 6, Dr. J. L. Conge r, head of the history department, was elected mayor of Galesburg.

Besidu all these "hIve beeo" events, I hear of many "to be", and how much I wish that nery n alumna might be back for commeocement week and alumnae reunion. But before I bid you adieu I want to introduce you all to Hel en Mill., '16, delegate to convention, who will carry with her to Berkeley the enthnsiasm and be.t wishes o( every 11Iin ois .1 girls. H&L'lN W&INBUG.

II.I. IN o IS EPSILON

Fint William ., Ruth Gla_dYI Balck, Naomi Everhart MargUtl McGrew, Je ss ie Rei(1. Mildred Eberhart, Ruth Gravel,

S.'D"d rDltI-Cl.rice Whiteac re , Dorothy Cody, Hope Miller, Le.nore Allen, Nona Grace Williams, Mildred Cuneen, Ruth Colby. Marie Il a k el.

TIIi,.d row- Hele n M . P owe lJ , Anne Doulherty, Sarah Mit c h e ll , Thurm. Allen, Lynne Smi th . Cathe r ine Howe r , Helen K o hl e r, Frances S task•.

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ILLINOIS

Lenore Allen

EPSILON-N ORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Cha.rtertd 1894)

GRAOUATES WITU 8.5. DICRU

Naomi Everhart

Marie Hakes

Lynne Smith

Mildred Cunneen. Gertrude House, Chicago . [Kindtrgarten]

Illinois E is indeed proud of the nine charming girl. whom she pledged to the wine and blue in Match and take. great pleasure in presenting-Louise Paullin, '18, Helen JudsoD, '18, Cecil Rigby, and Ruth Mitchell. '.8, all of Evanston; Dorothy Howell, '18, and Frances Clark, '.8. both of Des Moines; Dorothy Rogers, 't8, of Oak Park, Ill.; Billie Dugan, '18. of Decatur. Ind.; Minnie Buzard. ' tS , of St. Joseph, Mo. ThelC are all capable girlli whom we may uptd will take interclt in aU school activities.

Hermit and Crow is the newest organiz.ation in wbich everyone is interested. It was founded by a group of junior men. The purpoJe of this organiution is to produce an original mo-sical comedy written by the students and pretented by the men of the university Dorothy Howell, '18, a pledge, has written and had more songs accepted than any othe r cont ributor

A great many of our girls are actively interested in many of the college organizations and activities. Mildred Eberhart, '11, is editor of the music school department of the the university yearbook and is on the finl cabinet of the Y. W. C. A. Marie Hakes, 'IS, is chairman or the socia l committee of the senior class and of the 'Vomen', League; she i. also a member of the university social committee. Naomi Everhart, ' rs, had .. part in the last production or the Ca.mpus Players. Nona Hakes, '16. is chairman of the social committee of the junior class and has the leading part in the junior play. Louise Paullin, 't8, is chairman of the social committee of the freshman class and is a reporter for the woman', edition of the DlJuy. Dorothy Rogers, '18, has a part in the Shakespeare play to be given by the women's literary societies and Ruth Colby, '.,. plays on the sophomore girls' basketball team.

Our annual formal dance was given April 10, and we were delighted to have as out or town guests, Mabel Young, ' 14, Margaret Young, ' 14. who has been teaching in the Settlement School; MarioD \Vhite from Illinois Z; Vivien Linderman, ex-'rs, and Ruth Porter, ' 14-.

The girls are interested now in ta.lking about CODvention and many a.re planning to attend. Here's hoping we may s« yOIl one and all in Berkeley. HELKN M. POWELL.

THE ARROW OF PI BETA PHI

ILLINOIS ZETA-UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOI S (Cb3rtered 1895)

INlnATIS

(Initiated February 16. 19 15)

Alberta AndrewI, '18, Pan •.

Idress Alvord (Mrs C. W .) P. G., Urbana Marth a Finnigan.. '18, Champaign.

AUlba Fluke, '18, Chicago.

Mllrgaret HUDl cr, '.8, Chillicothe.

Sara Moore. 't8, Danville.

Fran celia Sargent, '18, Indianapolis, Ind.

Anne Siemens, ' 18. Kansas City, Mo

Frances Webster, '18, Shawmut, Mont.

Elizabeth Wheelhouse, '18, Decatur. GUDUATIt WITH B.A. DECUE

Frances F. Ketn

During mid -se mester leveral of the active members of 1913 returned for & house party, France. Keen, the only remainm& active girl in the chapter. now, &.Cting as hOltels. Those who came were: Florence and Helen Royer, Frances Boyd, Margaret Lackland. and Ruth Wil · son. They were very generous, leaving the house a much needed victrola .tand. The next chapter event was an initiation and banquet, February 16, ini· tiating ten splendid fresh· men. Saturday, March 6, was do ubi y delightful. The University Band gave annual concert, with

Adeline Branierd, ex ·t lO, as the soloist. The other event wu the victory in basketball over Chicago by one point, giving us the championship. We lost i!l 7. SI at the meet bel d at the University of California

. Other affairl of interelt are happening daily around the universit y. The exterior of lbe new commerce building is completed and the walls of the chenustry addition are fast rising. Since the installation of the pipe o rgan in the Auditorium, the Sunday afternoon Vesper Concerts by Professor Erb have been a large drawing card for hundreds of students. But the greatest event was the fire. burned destroying

Two large blocks in the Champaign business district were $500,000 worth of property. It started in Lewis &: Co. Dry Goods Store , burned lo uth for th e remainder of the bl oc k and a cross the street east for th e same distance. The students see med to enjoy th e uftofficial holiday immensely.

CHAP T ER LETTERS

Since the fire, Easter vacation has come and \V e are making plans: (or our formal on April 9 at Bradley Hall. In Ma rch also, we eleeted Genevieve Alvo r d, a junior and cbapter president &I OUf Convention delepte. On M a rch '7, we gave a reception (or oQr and town alumnae. tIlinoi. Z se nd s h e r best wishes to Ihose who will attend Convention and hopei that h er s i l ter ch ap t ers will gain as much (rom the conclave as she h ene l ( intend. t o

M.utON K. WHITE

•

ILLIN O I S ETA-JAMES MI LLIK I N UNIVERSITY

(C hartered ]912)

IN'lnATE

(mitia ted April 13. 1915)

Margaret Rugb, ' 18

GRADUATE WITH B A. DECREE

Mattie Horn

The past year at Millikip h as not shown sny sta rtling innovation.. There have. however, been changes in ce rt ain quiet ways . There seems to be a better add more democ:utic spi rit among the students and a f eeling of listerliness among all the girls of Millikin. I think, perhaps, one cause of this pirit was the Elliot meetings which were held in February. They seemed to reach the I tudents in a way few influences do. There have been so me genera l school atrain l ately which may be worth telling you about. Th e re was the girls' kid party to which everyone went and wh e re everyone bad the time of her life watching an unmatchable vaudeville performance and eating pink ice crea m cones and soft pink cookies Then the evening of Marc h the thirtieth, the se ni ors gave their play which was written by Margery Prestley, a le nior. O n e of o ur girls. Mattie Horn , had a leading rale. The play was bright and well ac ted.

One of the things of which we f ee l proudest th is year is th e winning o f the {ta t e league cha mpi onship by our basketball team. W e knew they would do good work whether th er \Von or lost, but- we were surely h:tppy when they .came out first.

Top ,.ou--Dorothy RitcheYt-Alice McGuire, Martha Deer, Mary

Middleton, Rachael )Jeer.

Middl. rou--Miriam Deming, Jeanette LaGrange, Florence Sayer, nale Coyne, Mary Foster, Marguerite Hall, Glenn Law, Amy Sutton, Leota Denny Ruth Graham.

Low.,. Wood, Oakey Helen Miles, Schmich. Harrielt R"oclcr, Ruth \Vebb, Maraaret Remy, Eu lin Klyvcr. Norris Kerlin, GI)'de Knolll,

INDIANA ALPHA

Siurleon, Faye Klyver, Dorothy Drybread, Marie Doty, Mabel Drown, Marjorie

An attempt is being made by the studenll to show the high school people that they will make a mi take if they do not come to Millikin. The high 5Chool basketball tournament was heM in our gymnuillm. and we tried to roue the vi.itou feel as if they h&dn't bad enough. The freshmen Ind the sophomores arc also planning to have a party for the seniors in hjgh school. We dislike. for their sakes, to have them make the mistake of going anywhere else.

Y. W. C. A. has alrudy had election of officers (or next year and Pi Phis, Eliubeth Ga1!owo.y, '17. is president, Geraldine Conklin, '18, secretary.

Tn the chapter several important things have hapl)Cned. We pledged Margaret Rugh. '18, (sister of Myrtle Rugh -Gearin. 'II). We certainly (eel that she will be a great addition to the chapter. On the nineteenth and twentieth of March we h!ld our annual, the dance first, and then the banquet. After the dance on Friday night we felt that we had had the best time possible, but we enjoyed the banquet, wbere there were just girls. ltill more. \Ve &re planninr a waffle supper as a rushing party and another dance or two before the close of school.

There i. no space left to say a lingering good ·bye.-whicb perhaps is, best, after all.

ELIZABETH GALLOWAY.

INDIANA ALPHA-FRANKLIN COLLEGE

(Chartered t888)

GRADUATES WITH B.A. DWRU

Martha Deer

Oakey Miles

Dorothy Ritchey

1\1 nrgaret Remy

I!'<ITIATES

(Initiated April 3. (915)

Marjorie Middleton

Dale Coyne

Harriett Roeger

Eulin Klyvcr

Ruth Grahnm

Norris Kerlin

Kathlene 0' Brian

Clyde Knox

Leota Denny

This has been a most wonderful year for Franklin and Indiana A, and it is with genuine regret that we approach another Commencement, for it means separ:ltioDI and breaking of ties that have grown very dear. Four of our girls &uduate this year and we will certainly miss them.

Right at the beginning we wish to get acquainted, and introduce our nine initiates of whom we are very proud. Our initiation which wu held at the home of Magdalene Schmith, was one of the most luccessful that we have ever had.

So many interesting things have happened that it'. hard to know what to tell you first; in athletics--elpecially basketball-Franklin has carried off honon. hol<;1ing the secondary state championship.

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Last February, we had a rare opportunity, when the annual State Mission Conference was held here, bringing 18S students from aU over the state, and lipeaken and leaders of world-wide fame, for a three days' conference. Dr. Arthur Judson Brown was one of the speakers.

The annual College Founders' Oay dinner was a great success this year. Faculty, students, alumni and citizens of the town were present at the dinner in the gymnasium. Professor Arnold B Hall of Wisconsin University delivered the :lddress.

This coming week Mr. A. ]. Elliott,-better known in colleirt circles as "D!ld" Elliott-with a number of 1l5sistllntl is to hold a series of meetings under the auspices of the local Y. M. and Y. W. C. A" which we know will mean mach to Franklin students.

As a chapter we are eagerly looking forward to April 17, when our alumnllC club is to entertain the undergraduate chapter at dinner, and to April 24. the date of our annual state luncheon and dance. to be held in Indianapolis.

Pi Phis have been unusually prominent in all lines of college activity this year. Two of our girls won the Baldwin Declamation Contest-Marguerite Hall, first, and Florence Sayer second.

Alice McGuire and Josephine \Vood play leading parts in the production "".al Ha/J!l,ntd 10 Jones to be given in the Opera house this w«k by the co llege dramatic club--Wigs and Ques.

Martha Deer, Oakey Miles and Margaret Remy have parts in the senior play, to be given on Senior Day-commence ment week

Four of our girls, Alice McGuire. Marguerite Hall, Ruth Graham and Faye Klyver have been elected to serve on the Y. W. C. A. cabinet for the coming year.

We are n o w planning for our annual formal party, and, above all, our annual camp and Convention!

We send best greetings to all the chapters for a happy summer vacation.

FAYE KLYVU

INDIANA BETA-UNIVERSITY O F INDIANA

(Chartered .893)

INTnAT&S

(Initiated January 18)

Evelyn Williams

Madge Givan

Jessie Hymer

Ethel Landes

Florence Hen

Mary Gallahan

Alberta Dinkel

(Initiated February 13)

Beulah Gibson

(Initiated April 14)

Dorothy Thornton

Alic e Brady

Ruth King

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GRAD tJ ATES WITH B A. OECIU

Winneite Emery

Bernice Good

Maude Elfers

Frances Hill

Olive Montgomery

Clara Creath

Margaret Mock

GItADUATES W ITH A.M. DItCRB.&

Alma Schlotthauer

Madge Givan

'Ve had a very Ihort vacation Ihi s sprin g, but we were all ready to come back. espec:iaUy we sen ion. who wish th a t sp ring term need never t nd. The first night of the term, we had our usual coo ky shi ne. and an unusually a:ood time. just Pi Pbi, being there.

K K r was hoste lS at the P a nthegat ri e Dance April 10, whe re we bad .. ve ry. very good lime. 'Ve were tol d to "d re ss_ up" in any way we wanted to , and ther e ce rtainly were lo me very clever cost ume s there, a nd also lome vtry ridic ul o u s ones. Th e Pan-Hellenic; dance is sched ul ed for April 23

One of the m Olt important things last term WI., Friend.hip W ee k. when the Y. W. C. A had several Y. W. worken h ere to hold m eetings for all the girls which were indeed very enjoyable aDd helpful. One of the workers was Misl Co rbitt, a n • .

Now we :tre looking forward to the state luncheon. April 24, and also the s t a te dance, since it was s u ch a s uccess last year.

Our spring term open·bouse duce is to be May I , and we are going to have a week-end house party th en, when a number of our as well as rushees will be here.

Although we arc thinking a grut deal abo ut all th er e is t o be done in iC bool bere, and of all the good tim u, we are h aving, th e u ppe rmos t thought in o ur minds is th e Convention in Ca liforn ia. Everyone is anxious to go, hut if s he can't s h e loo k s to the r eport of the dt!legate abo ut II 41, as a national and about her interesting experiences and h er meeting with our silters from all over the UDitW States.

M AJtCARlT M OC K.

J!\'D1ANA GA MMA-51.' TLER COLLEGE

(C barter(d ISen)

INm ATfs

( Initiated Febru ary :13. 19 15 )

Fern Elma Swett, ' Ii. Delphi, In d.

Our K h ool year is nearly o.vcr---only a few m o r e w ee k s for studyi ng, for cooky-s hin es, and fraternity meetings. a few more "exami nations", and then Comme n cement It hIlS been a h appy year for us-a good deal of hard work, general college a ctiviti es, and loll of enthusiastic n '41 spi rit. We can n o t initiate our eleven fr es hme n until next September on account ot a faculty ruling on lophomore initiat ion, H o weve r they are already loyal Pi Phi l at heart, and have jus tified our faith a nd h ope in them by giving a cha rm ing dance fof' th e active c h:l pter and ru shees Mar ch :17. The p rogram s

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one of the original features. They were wine Ted, and cot in the shape of the pledge pin with.the B stencilled over the silver bluc fillers.

One of the best influences in our college life this year has been the fine interfraternity spirit among the girls in college. n has adopted the pbn this year of entertaining informally {or each of the other gToups-a tea for the Thetas, a five -hundred party for the Kappas and a Kensington for the Tri DeltJ. QUT Pan - Hellenic seems to be growing in efficiency and stability every year. The girls are busy now considering the contract for our matriculation day spike next fall and for our summer rushing.

Butler's Dramatic Club is going to give Victor HeThe'res Serenade on the campus in June and Ruby Winders, '17. will sing one of the leading roles

The sixth and seventh of February, Butler College celebrated its anniver ' sary_ Pan·Hellenic gave a reception on aftt:. noon of the sixth at the old Butler residence for all the friends of the college. That night the annual Founders' Day banquet took pl.:tce !lnd the next day, the dormitory girls gave a tea at the co]Jege residence after the Founders' Day address in chapel by President Grose of De Pauw Univenity.

Of course it would be impossible to write a chapter letter at this time and say nothing about Convention. Is it ever possible to get the convention spirit before oO,e has there? If it is I believe we ilil must hne it. If Indian"a were only a little bit nearer to California! However, about six or seven Indiana Gamma girls are going to the "wonderful West" with our delegate, Edith Cooper, '16, of Middlet own , Indiana. and we must rely these fortunate sisters of ours, to, bring back to the rest of us, the largest possible part of Convention.

ALI CE LUCILLE DUNS.

DELTA PROVINCE

IOWA ALPHA-IOWA WESLEVAN COLtEGE

INIT1ATES

(Initiated March 8, 1915)

Beulah Bil1ingsley, ' 17

Marguerite Hall. '18

Marie Jones, '18

Viviane Miller, '16

Genevieve Morrow, '18

Hattie Pogemiller, '18

Mae Shipley. '[8

The initiation ceremony held at the home of Miss Nellie Wallbank, March 8. was prececled by a three course, six o'clock dinner at the home of Mrs. Carl Melcher. Now with our two new pledges. Edna Eenjamine of Donnellson,

Viviane Miller

Marie Jones Hauie

Mary Stall lbe Shipley

lOWA ALPHA

Wilmifred Dilt. Jessie Cluk

Lillian Piper Genevieve Morrow pogemiller Marauerite Han

Beulah Bi11inpJey

Gladz.s Hutin _ Sadie Sur (Pletfaie: ) Edna Benjamin (Pledc'e)

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Iowa and Sadie Saar of Cantril, our chapter numbers fourteen.

Our spring formal, thilycar. was a St. Patrick's party. The home of Mary Stall, our senior n 4t W8J!I thrown OpeD to u. for this party. Liman Piper, Mary Stall, Mrs. Stall and Mrs. Stevenson made up the receiving line. At nine · thirty covers were laid for some forty guests and Pi Pbis. Each table W&I tastefully decorated in the Irish !(Teen. A clever toast proc-r&m brought the evening to a close.

Not long ago we had

cooky-s hine lor Mill Hukill, a frie.nd of Miss Bertha Snyder. Mill Hukill has been studying in Vienna (or the past two yean

We, Iowa \Vuleyanites. are feeling quite excited and self-pleased jUlt now, because a short time ago we had tbe dedication recital for our new pipe organ. Mr. Dunham played the organ and Mi ss Na:tor sang for us Dr. Rommel i. to rive us a recital soon and we are looking forward to it witb .. great deal of' pleasure. Dr. Rommel is about eighty years old and still plays beautifully and accurately. We are proud of him.

Mrs . Mabel Piper Keeler, '12, recently \'isited her parents in Mt. Pleasant. Florence and Helen Milligan, ex·'17. Katherine Druse. ex-'IS, and Joy Pierce, '13, visited us for a short time.

How nice it would be if everyone of us could go to California. But since all of us cannot go, we are going to be glad that we can send Ii representative f(om our ehapter and enjoy convention through her. Lillian Piper, '16. will be our delegate.

GLADYS HASTINCS

IOWA BETA-SIMPSON COLLEGE

(Chartered 1874) INITIATES

( Initiated April 10, 1915 )

Florence Baker, '17

Loui.e Spaulding, "7

Gretchen McClure. 'J6

Huel Perley

Louise Kern. '17

Dorothe Andenon. '17

Elsie Martin. '17

GRAl>UATSS WITH B.A. DECREE

Jessie Coffin

When we have good weather here we all say "regu lar n 41 weather"; and we surely had that on April tenth. The initiation ee remony was held at the

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home of Mrs . Wm. Buxton, Jr. (A nna McLa ughlin, '90) . We we r e mo s t bappy to h a ve a number o f o ur alumna: with us and we had a huge cooky· shine and a fine "si ng".

Simpson has jus t c lo sed a most enthusiastic basketball season. Though we did Dot get the state championship w e had some fine &&mel. W e s urely were proud of the way o ur n cfJ girls s howe d up in the girls' annual basketban tourDaJD e nt. Four of the six girls on the sophomore te&m were Pi Phi l , with H a rri e tt Perry, '17. as cap tai n. Thi s so phomore team ( we c alled it, almost a U t eam) won th e sc hoo l champi on s hip from the upper classes.

Our scmes ter examinations a nd our n 4 examinations are all over fo r a while and we arc all s urpr ised to find o nr selves hen:. \Ve have made some good. r esoluti ons that we will s tu dy o ur A lUlaw! better and will keep o urse lve s informed on our fraternity; so n u t year o ur exami nation will be a "snap".

I owa B entertained f o rmally in honor of Saint Patrick and others 'o f o ur friends. O ur party, w as given a t th e love ly new Storey h o m e (Oo r ot h e Sto rey , ex-' 14 ) and we could almost believe o ursel ves in Irelan d. During ou r Easter recess we had a little ru shing st unt at th e Buxton h o me ( Ruth Buxton. ' 11 ) The r e were about two doz;e n of us who sat down to a s i x·thi rty dinner . We gave them a glimpse of r ea l II • spi r it in o ur h ospitality and o ur g ood n • son ga.

\V e 3re gTeatiy indebterl to Mrs. F . S. Burberry (Mar th a Dostuell, 'S4 ) for a de lightful afternoon r ecently . She e ntertained A. X n. tl tl. tl.. and II B .z, in honor of Louise Spa ul ding, '17, and Paui Miller , 6 tl tl W e all h ad a lovely time and were glad for anothe r chan ce to m eet an d greet all the f rater ni ty girls in school.

Simpson is snll aWllke in at hl etics . Tod ay we h ad the first baseball game o f the season and w e s ur ely ha d an interesting co nt es t with Iowa \V es leya n

The l as t o( t h e month co m es o ur annual track t o urn amen t f o r th e h ig h sc hools of lOuthwutern Iowa. Th is is one o f the events of the yea r and i s sure ly a fine advertisement for our sch ool.

Harr iett Pe rr y. ' 11, is p r omising u s gre at things from the girls' track work and the t en n is manager r epo rt s uS gi r ls out for tennis this spring. Lottie Mc K ay, ' 16. is chai rm an of the j uni o r clus p l ay committee wh o a r e w orking up something ext r a fine for commencement week. Ruth Buxto n, ' 11, as social ch9.irman and Aural Anderson, '17. as vice -president are II ella on the new Y. W C A. cabine t. As usual Professor Rhode s of the Simpson Co nserva· tory o f Mu si c is planning something good for u s. The Mikado is to commencement week and we are glad to have five Phi Phis in thi s: be given Dorotbe Anderson, ' 17, with one of th e l eading parts, Louise Spaulding, ' 11, Florence Baker, ' 17. Vesta Merritt, '16, and H aze l Perley. 'IS. with minor parts.

RUTH TH O M PSON.

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IOWA CAMMA-IOWA STATE COLLEGE

(Chartered ,877)

GIlADUATU R.EaJVI!'iG B S. IN DOMlSTI C ScIl:N C E

Margaret Peick

Isabel Dyer

Wilma Phillips

Eunice Peters

Alae Irvine

Leone McGhee

Bertha Lamson

RECEIVING B.S.

Nellie Noble

With tbe bunt of Ipring, has come, u unat, a floOd of soci.1 and scholastic activities in which the girls of Iowa r have taken a prominent part. The joint littruy society play was tbe latest achievement. They gave

we know tbey will be splendid in their parts. a matinee and an evening performan c e of A S cra/J 0/ Paper, a IraDalation from the French play and Ruth Vaughn deserves great credit for so splendidly representing n.. The senior class play although a thing of the future promises to be a great Bu t CeS aDd we are nil anxious to see The Pot 0/ ROflge Bertha Lamson and Leone Me· Ghee are on the cast and

About a month ago a committee from the state legislature visited our campus with the purpose o{ looking over the student body and the campus with regard to the amount they would give Iowa State in their appropriatiOOl A very demonstrative convocation was he}d Oil the campUJ in front of central building and at the close six hundred and eighty-one people passed up onto the steps to have their picture taken. This - number indicates the increase in attendance since last year.

uSundRY Evening SingsH are a recent innovation at Iowa State and we have great hopes of their being very popular when beUer weather comes. The students are all request(d to cOnvene around the chime tower at 7 o'clock to have a get-together meeting and sing.

Iowa r has had tbe custom {or some years of entertaining the alumna! at dinner on Founders' Day and we are now making plans {or this year as that momentous day is r!lpidly drawing near. As the junior home economics girls are giving luncbeons in connection with their course, they are going to manage our n luncheon. We do hope that all our alumna! eM arrange to be with us, as Founders' Day seems to draw us so much nearer each other

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April seems to be our festive month, (or on April 17, Iow& r gives a formal dancing party. We are expecting a great jollification at this time. as several of our old girh are coming back, and besides we are hoping lome girls will come down from Iowa City.

With the cornin, of the fine sprine weather it seems that we are filled with more n enthusiasm and we are only waitin&, to get even morc (rom you all at convention.

RUTH CURT1SS.

IOWA ZETA-IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

(Chartered 1882)

ISITIATE

(Initiated March 15. 1915)

Grace Marie Schwind, '16, Dubuque, Iowa.

GRADUA'rES \VITK B.A DECHE

Edna Westfall

Louise Clarke

Merle Harding

Florence Bradley

Lois Snyder

Next to April 27. the most important date to Iowa Z is the date of sopbomore pledging, ] une the twelfth. Unlil that time all rushing has been sus· pended with the exception of two parties; one of these we are planning to give May the first, in the hope that by postpooing our Founders' Day banqDet to April twenty-ninth. we may nttraet many more alumna: for this week· end of dODble significance to Iowa Z.

During the past week our attention has been turned from the local war of rushing to the present European eoo8iet; the University of Iowa has sent our Dean of WomeD, Miss Anna Klingenbagen as a. representative of the university and more especially of the woman's league to the Woman's International Puce Conference at the Hague. Immediately preceding her departure Mrs. Tbeopolis of Davenport and Mrs. Thomas of Chicago. lectured on the peace movement before all the women of the university.

Th ose of U 'i who are returning next fan are looking forward to the completion of the new women's gymnasium, which is to contain the most modern equipment, including a large swimming pool. The state is also buildiog an addition to the men's gymnasium which will also contain a pool. On May ABce WilkinlOn Bates, instructor of women's athletics will present her various classes in our second annual May Festival; the exhibition will take place on the athletic field; it will comprise several forms of folkdancing given in costume; several of our girls will participate.

NATAJ.JE PHILUPS.

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NEBRASKA BETA-UNIVERS(TY OF NEBRASKA (Cha rt ered 1895 ) bU1ATZS

( Initi ated November 23. 1914)

W eslie Wort ( Post Graduate), K ea rn ey, Neb. Ali ce Fullerton, '17 Lin coln, N eb (Initiated Marc h 13. 1915 )

JUDe Ballard, ' 18, N eb raska City, Neb

Myrtle Beeler, '18, o rth Platte, Neb.

Elizabeth Crawford , ' .8, Omaha., Neb.

Nanine Iddings. ' 18, North Platte, Neb.

Mary Kneeshaw , ,,8. Nile s, Mi c h

Marie Meeker, '18, Lin coln, eb.

Edna Olson, '18, Stromsburg, Neb.

Marie Pettit, '1 8, Fremont, Neb .

Melba Bungley, '18, Peoria, III

Marie Rowley, '18, Omaha, Neb

Lucille \Vilcox, 'r8, North Platte, Neb

Fannie Lant

GRAD UATES WITH B.A.

Florence N alon

Genevieve Lowry

We have been 50 bu s y that it hardl,... seems possib le that two months have passed .inee our lut ARROw came out. Our initiation was held March 13 and it was a wonderful one too. So many of the alumnI'! came back and were so enthusi as ti c that it could not have been otherwise. of course we received many. many messages of l ove a nd co ngratul a tion and flowers! The house was simply full o{ them . Spring vacation was from March 26 t o April 5 a nd the house was quiet for a short space of time . But not for lo ng and when the co nfu sion started again, it wu worse than ever because everyone was excited about the formal. We had it nt the Lincoln April to, and it was a grand sllccess. Erma Naeve, '14, Floren ce Hos tet ler, '13. Ruth Reavis , '17, and Helen Vince nt, '12. were here as well u • number of rush etl. One of our guests was Gert rud e Speck of Kanlas A W e were so glad to have her with U I and o nly regr etted thai more girls from ot h e r chapters co uld n o t

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Fjr,' rem', I./t 10 Nason. Dorothy Carnl, Bernice Aeclder, Pauline Killian, Edna Payton, Fannie Lane. Genevieve Lowry, Ruth QuilEley, FI",rencc Taylor.

$cto,.d row--Alice Fullerton. Jeanetie Finney, Helen Lyford. Florence Slama, Lenor. Youna. Florinda Youn• .

Third rote-Constancc Lr.!ord. t.dna 011On, Marie Ro .... lcy, Wellie Wort. Clara Powers, Katbrync Mellor, Glady. Harlan. Fow,.,,, row-Lucille Wi cox, Melva QuiRicy. June Ballard. Mary Kneclbaw, Marie Meeker, Maric Pettit, Nanine Iddinal. Myrtle Deeler, Eliubcth Crawford.

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have co me. We are going to have our banquet at the Lin co ln April 24. and are expecting a great many of the old girls back.

During Lent we were honored by having Miss Maude Kelsey, national secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement come out to the fraternity boule for dinner and to hold a sbort Lenten service. She is a woman of striking personality and one who knows whereof she speaks and we aU felt benefited by her visit.

The university has been trying a new system of advertising and letting people know what we are doing up here. During spring vacation it sent out to different towns over the state, a road show composed of th e band, the glee club, the Kosmet Club play and several other members representing different phases of student activities. This road show proved 10 successful that practi· cally the same thing is being given here now under the name of university week

Several of our girls are planning to go to convention and they are getting more excited at the prospect every day. It certainly is a wonderful opportunity and we everyone of us wish that we co uld be there to deliver personalty the love and friendship that Nebraska B feels for everyone of her sisters.

HELEN LYFORD

MISSOURI ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

(Chartered 18c}8)

INITIATES

(Initiated February 14, 1915)

Mary Cecile Fife, Armstrong, Mo Catherine Dillenbeck, Kansas City, Mo.

Marjori e Smith , Texarkana, Texas. Miriam Glandon, Mexico, Mo.

Gertrude Livingston, Windsor, Mo.

(Initiated March 24, 1915)

Mildred Johnson, Mexico, Mo.

GRADUATES WITH A.B. DECREE

Olivia Smith (Honors in Romance Languages) Alice Osmond

Vera Jane Holcomb

Mildred J ohn.son

Mid-semester rushing was very strenuous since our local Pan-Hellenic provides no rules for this time We pledged the two mu ch -rushed girls. Katherine Carmack and Dorothy :Brown, of St. Louis.

On account of poor health Gertrude Livingston was unable to remain in school this semester but we expect to have her back with us next year. We are also hoping for Marguerite Clay who had to leave school last semester because of a broken collar bone.

The thing that is most talked of now is our new house, to which we are looking forward with great interest. We have purchased our l ot and will begin building in about a week. Now that we are really into it, we are

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hurrying things as much as possible so that we can be in the house by the opening of school in September. We found that waiting until we had enough money to entirely pay for our lot would delay the time of building too long-so we are taking a plunge. and expect to raise the necessary sum when it comes due. H seems quite too good to be true that Missouri A is to have a real house of its own by next semester.

The Romancers is to be presented here-as the women's annual play-in ' 8 very short time and one of our girls. Catherine Dillenbeck, '17. is to be leading lady.

For the first time Missouri r ea lly has a 'sc hool magazine, The Missouri Outlook. and Miriam Glandon is on the staff. She is also secretary of the freshman Academ!.

The Women's Pan-Hellenic is giving a party to all university women and eac h fraternity is to give a Ustunt." Our girls are very busy getting ready {or our part in this.

The uDiversity authorities are advocating sophomo re pledging but PanHellenic is not yet r eady for such a step.

Missouri UDiversity hal! been fortunate enoug h this year to obtaiq several new bDiidings. Am ong them are the sc i ence buildings--on the beautiCul new "White Campus"-which are already in use. and a grand library, which is nearing completion. Owing to the unusual architecture and the magnificence oC the library several engravings of it have been sent to the Panama Exposition. Another fine thing for the un iversity is the School oC Commerce that has bcen estAblished this year.

MI SSOU RI BETA-WASHINGTON UN'IVERSJTY

(Cha rtered '1(07)

INITIATES

(Initiated February 9. 19 15)

Georgia Lee Berkley

Mildred Brooks

H e len Comstock

Jen e Forshaw

Marie Bacon

Helen Bryars

Dorothy Huston

Jane Pelton

Marion Scroggin

Katherine Starbuck

GKAD UATES ,VITI-( A,B-. DECI'tEE'

Marion Scroggin

Orue Smalling

Margaret de Garmo

Ruth Meinholtz

Helen Stevens

'Vinona Wuertenbaec.b er

Time has surely flown since the mid-year examinations and it is hard to realize we have only six 'more weeks oC school in which to accomplish -So much.

This has been a banner year at Washington as it has seen the o rganiution of, two new honor societies; Keod. a senior society. in which we . are proud to boast of three members and a Creshman society. as yet unnamed. in which we h ave two members.

MARY MEACHAM LEI.

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It seems as though girls ' athletics bave received a new stimulus,-hockey teams were formed last fall and a great deal of enthusiasm was displayed i; the interclass games. Swimming has taken a strong hold just now and quite a number of girls go to the pool once a week and all Seem to enjoy it.

The Dew medical school is now occupied and is operated in connection with the new Barnes Hospita1. This fine group of buildings represents a cost of three million dollars ::md places 'Washington University medical department on a par with Johns Hopkins.

So many things are going to happen in the next few weeks that it makes onc diuy to think about it. Our annual tea takes place soon, the alumnre banquet celebnting Founders' Day and the May Day dances follow closely upon one another.

We have chosen Ma,ry Brotherton, '16, as our delegate to the conve»tion and we are confident that our chapter will be ably represented and that we will hear an interesting account of her trip and the doings of the convention. Eight of the girls are going to the fair and expect to attend the All 8re glad that school will soon be over so that they can start for California to be present at the wonderful event.

MARIE

KAMMERER.

MISSOURI GAMMA-DRURY COLLEGE

(Chartered 1914)

INITIATES

(Initiated February 13, 1915)

Merle M. Coon, '18, Republic, Mo.

Louise Eisenmayer, '18, Springfitld. Mo.

Genevieve Garrett, '18, Springfield, Mo.

Elennor Gideon, '18, Springfield, Mo

Mary Hall, '18, Springfield, Mo.

Catherine Kilham, '17, Springfield, Mo.

May Merritt, '18, Springfield, Mo.

Alleene McClure, '18, Springfield, Mo.

Geneva Pease, '18, \Vest Plains, Mo.

'Anna Shattuck, 'r8, Springfield, Mo.

Juvia Shattuck, '18, Springfield, Mo.

EuIa Calbh.:m·Puckett, '06, Springfield, Mo.

GRADUATES \VITH B.A. DEGREE

Nina MeCanse

Ruth M1nud

Clara Pitt

Opal Rhamy

Lola Robertson

Esther Vallette

Agatha ' Vatson

Ruth Wilson

Easter bas come and gone, old mother earth is waking up from her long winter's sleep and donning her spring dress of bright green, all of which reminds us that June will SOQn be here and another year of school will have been ended.

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The 1asl few months have been history -making times (or Drury, About the last of February we celebrated the winning of the state c hampionship by our baskctballlive. And on the evening of March fourth a junior man in Drury was declared winner of first place in the Missouri Collegiate Oratorical co nt est. He will.peak at the Interstate Oratorical Contest at Galesburg, minois, May 21, and we Ilrc hoping that thi s will be another victory for Drury.

The student. were mu ch upHfted and helped by a series ot meetings cond u cted by Dr. A. H. Arm$trong, Ben. and by the powerful address by Dr. Ozora Davis of the Chicago Theological Seminary on the Day of Prayer (or coJleges.

Onr alumn ae: sisters proved them se lv es tru e "Lsdy Bountifuls" when they presented us, not long ago, with a large cedar chest and a scholarship cup in memory of Mist Georgia Hardy. Each year the freshman making the highest grades is to have her name engraved on the cup.

When such important events as the initiation of our eleven freshmen, and our examination s, both sc hool !lnd fraternity, were a tbing of the we felt that it was high time we n ch were having a frolic. Thi s materialized into a "Co u nty Fair" at the gymnasium, and we asked our guests to leave their dignity at home :md true country "rubes" f o r the evening Side shows, horns, confetti, peanuts, sod.a·pop, etc., made the scene 11 realistic one.

An annual event in Drury i s th e "McCullagh Tea" which is given by the Y. W C. A. in May for the purpose of raising money to send delegates to the summer conference. An outdoor presentation of Shakespeare'. TAe Tempest will be the novel feature this year. Two n 4>5 will take part. The literary societies of the sc hool are to give rite Amtuons soon, in which Helen Walker, '17, has a prominent part.

We are looking f o rwar d with great e nthusia.sm to our first conve ntion and hope to meet many of you there

CHARLINE M CC ANst:.

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KANSAS ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF

(Chartered 1873) CNITIATZS

(Initiated February 8, 1915)

Either Gibbs

Lois Gl"eenleu

Gertrude Speck

MaTg.relt. Stevenson

Irene Hepler

Lc,is Lindsay

Grace Graham

GRADUATES WITH B. A. DECREE

Gt:nevie.ve Herrick

Scphie Smith meyer

Frances Powell

Such a splendid aDd happy year, thi s has been (or . n of us th.t we feel it is ending much too fOOn.

As a university, we are growing and are still moving forward. OUf

v w.e.A. Y. \V. C. succeeded in bringing Mr. J ohn R. MOH, who bas saeh • world-wide reputa tion II :1 speaker and religiou s worker. to the university this spring. We considered ourselves quite fortunate in being .ble to secure luch a celebrated man. May Milledisecretary and several of ou r girls hold offices in the

Our May Fete is to be held the second week in May. It is to take place on the golf links and we expect to have many attrACtive .es thetic and folk dances on the green.

At last we are really going to have a brand·new hou le ! We are all too happy for words over our success of getting a new house. Our alumnae have been wonderfal in helping a s and Mrs. Tanner espt-Cially. has done eyerything in her power. We have sold our old house and are going to build a new one overlooking the golf links and just a block back of our old hou se. It is to be on the English slyle of stone stu cco . The hou se is to cosl about fourteen thousand dollars. We hope to be in it next fan in time for rushing On the first floor we are to have two large living rooms with the dining room downstairs in the basement. We certainly , han be glad to have these liviDg rooms which will give us so mu ch pleasure when we want to take up the rurs ..nd dance. We also are to have more bedrooms and s hall b: able to accommodate about twenty -two girls with our chaperon. \V e all are so enthusiastic over it and are ma.king all kind s of plans for nexl year. So me of u s are going to make

T op row, l, /t to rjglll-Giadys Luckan, Powell, Stella Bedellc, Hden Moore, Gertrude Spttk, Rebeckah Coo per, E sther Gibbs, Jeall Lindsay, S"o'fld r ow-Gra ce Graham, Genevieve Herrick, May Miller, Helen Hershberger, Sophie Smithmeyer, Alice Coors. Margaret Butts, Hate! Carson, Lillian Taylor. First rou-Dorothy Brown, Lois Greenleas, Margard Fitch, Elizabeth Brown, Matilda Smithmeyer, lrene Hepler, Huel Gould, Margaretta Steven.on.

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new drape-rie and curtains (or it tbe ammer. \V on', that be fine? Mrs. Fdtchie is to be with us next year and you can't imagine how glad we .11 a re.

Our freshmen will give their annual farce April Ii and th e upperclu men are looking forward to it with great anticipation.

\V e are to cel eb rat e Found ers' Da, with a banquet this year given at M rs. Lewi s'.. Many of the old Iriris are planning to come back fo r it and we hope to hs\'e a grand reunion

Genevieve H errick, one of o ur lieniors, was e lected to B K and to the T o r c h, an hon orary senio r girl 's society, a nd Kansa. A fe e ls very proud to have one of it. se niors ca rry off so man y honon

A I convention draws near, we become more enthusiastic than ever :tooU1 it. W on't it be sp lendid to meet all our Pi Beta Phi sisters there?

It is hard to r ea lize that this short sc: hool year is o\·er. K ansas.\ send" hearti est greetings to :ill her sis ter c h ap ters .

HAZEL GOULD.

ARKA::s'SA S ALPHA-UN IVER S ITY OF ARKANSAS

(C hartered Dece mber

GRADUATES \VITH B .A . 1909 ) DEGREE

Eleanor Forwood ?!obrion Gladson

Robin Harvey Dolph McCain

Be3 td te O'Neal

GRADUATES WITH L.t. DEGILEE

Irene Calhoun Gelene Nic hols

INITIATE

( Initiated January 23 )

Arkansas th ey hat c h.

Ir ene Ca lh oun, ' 17, Cave Springs, Arkansas University is a firm beHever in not co unting your c hi cke n s before Becau!ie n ot tong ago w e 311 went to the train to meet Pres ide nt Futrall who was r e turning from I .ittle Rock and as a result we had :i lnrger appropriation than ever. Th e n one morning we found, that the Govern o r had s l as hed it untH there remained e n o ugh for maintenance of the university

In the athl eti c world th e universit y ha s not played e nough games to s how th e merit o{ the ball te am. But from all reports the baseball team is as rood or bette r than we have had {or several yeus.

The engineers inaugurated a new custom on St Patrick's day; all senior engineers n re elec ted Knight s of Saint Pa t ri c k proviCled they ki ss the blarney stone. Th e day's ce lebration was e nded with a dance in the Armory whi c h was a novelty.

The freshmen and sophomores have ha d t h eir annual dances si n ce mid term and of co urs e each tried to outdo tbe othe r Although th ere were many pranks played, bot h dances were successful.

Th e Blac k Friars, a dramatic club. is going t o mak e several trips with the play, Her- HI t/hand's Wi/I!. Out of the thre e gi r ls elected. one is a IT

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Tor ro Kathleen Urown, Robin Ibrv ey, Elunor Forwood, Doris Stratton. Eliubeth Ellis.

S.c:o"d r ow-Marion Glacbon, Irene Knerr . Ruth Morton, Irene Calhoun, Ruth Mc.Kinney, Huel Gladson, Hattie Mae Wood. Bollom rou,-Dolph McCain, Beatrice O'Neal, Eth e l Eitel, Grlene Nic.holl, Sue Wooddy, Velma Leiu.en, Bcatrix Quaile.

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Eleanor Forwood. Irene CalhollD and Ethel Estes, a pledge, bave been elected to Black Friar this year.

And for honors n ell is taking her usual lead; Robin Harvey was elected to Skull and Torch, the honor society. Eleanor Forwood, 'IS. is editor-i n-c bief of the Arkansas. Beatrice O'Neal and Eleanor are on the university weekly staff, Ethel Estel is freshman reporter, Eleanor Forwood is prophet of the class, Gelene Nichols and Ruth McKinney are on the Y. W . C. A. cabinet.

RUTH MCKtNN'IV.

LOUISIANA ALPHA-NEWCOMB COLLEGE

(Charte re d 1891)

GRADUATES WITH B.A. DECREE

Ruth Denis, 'IS Mildred Post, ' 15 Alice "airin, '15

Marie LeMare, 'IS Ella Reiss, 'IS

Field Day is just over! The seniors won the cup tbis year. Those who have never seen our Field Day can hardly realize how thrilling it is for u.s. The blue ribbons awarded to the best walker of tbe beam, thrower of lhe basketball, putter of the shot, etc., are certain ly the most desirable things on earth to possess! And next best after the bl ue ribbons are the red ones. This year two Pi Phis got ribbons, Ella Reiss. 'IS. a blue ribbon for bowling; and Dada White, '16. a red ribbon for putting the shot.

About a week ago a new honorary society was formed at Newcomb called the Cap and Gown society. 'Ve expect that in a few years this association will be a powerful rival of B K . To be elected to this association a. girl must have coll ege spirit in the broadest sense of the word; she must have take n part in more than one of the college activities; in short she must have left her mark up on the college. \Ve are very proud of our two "Cap and Gown Society", Pi Phis, Ella Reiss, '15. and Ruth Denis, '15.

In two weeks the Cercie Franfai.r will give their French play; Mari e LeMan, '15. and Carrie Wogan, '16. both Pi Phis, have prominent parts.

On April 24, Newcomb will debate Agnes Scott coUege at Decatur, Ga., This will be the second time Newcomb has debated with another college. A hot contest is expected. One Pi Phi, Lulie Westfeldt, '17, is on the varsity team.

On April 17, comes our house party! at Adine's hou se at Bay 51. Lou is. Oh, the tales we sophomores have heard of that wonderful house, a.nd the wonderful time and last but not least the wonderful eats of Louisiana Alpha's last house party. \V e ca n hardly believe that in one short week we are going to see and feel and tast e nil these wonders for ourselves. Last year with 17 girls the house was rather c rowded-----this year, fully 2S of us are goingco unting two alumnrc. I dare sa y we shall have to sleep c ro ss wi se in the beds but then that's part of the (un. Th e more Pi Phis the merrier we think. LULIE WESTf'ELDT.

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EPSILON PROVINCE

OK LAH OM A ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHO MA (Chart ered 1910) INITIATES

( lnitiat ed January 28, 19 15)

Ali ce Hurl ey, ( In itiated February

Launl. McCan, ' 18

Isabelle Jon es, ' 18 ' 16 7. 19 15)

Elise Pott er, '18

Virginia Strother, ' )8

Ok1a Wood, ' IS

Lucile ' t8

Flore n ce Furman, ' 18 GRADUATES

Rnuilla Dunn, ' 17

Elida Berry, ' 18

Ruth Ann Parks, B.M

Ok la W ood , M .A.

Oklahoma University ca mpu s is flaming with red. yellow, a nd varicolore. j tulips, but th e tr ack and the baseball diamond have tak e n its place in favor. O. U. won the c h ampionship in basketball and thu s fa r h as been , ' ic l orious in baseball. inclu ding the games against the H awaiians. But the l ocal Hash - House Baseball League is now causing no little interest. "Prexy" los es twenty years , when he is on the field umpiring thue games . The university has the sp ring buHding fever. A g r ee nhouse h as been e r ected and a new sc ien ce hall will soo n b e co mmenced. A c ron th e camp us th e Met hodist Episcopal C hur ch South is going to build a dormitory accommodating fifty girls. In (act all over th e University hamm ers a r e ringing in th e co nstru c ti on o f new h o u se s.

And Pi Ph is are not going to be left out. Lottie Taylor, '16, is erecting a new hom e. Fr om the peek we got at the plans, the spacio us veranda. the l ong d rawing r oo m, and the bedrooms furnished in circass i on walnut an4 white ena mel looked very enticing. We a r e going to manage the h ouse o urselves O u r enthusi as m (or O kla.h oma for n ex t y ear is running high

Last Saint Patrick's day we vied ( ?) with the engin eers by baving an open house too. Although we did n ot p ubli s h the st udent newspaper, The U,.;ve"lily 0/ Okla},oma, in green ink as they did , o ur ente rt ainment was quite a success. A f ew w«ks later the girls o f the universit y had an "All Girls' Stir - Up" in the gymnasium. P ic n ics. ann ual ban q uets, ou r sp r ing da n ce, and the Juni or Pro m and Burlesque are demanding attention now.

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Several of our girls deserve honorable mention. Emelyn Millet, ',6 and Jewel Patcbell. '16, have ChORD members of the senior girls' honorary society, The Owl and Triangle. Scholarship. siodent activities. and popularity are the determining points and this i. the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a girl in the University of Oklahoma. Elizabeth Boyd, '17. is • member of the new journalism sorority, e 1: ., and Okl. \Vood, 'IS. of the honorary education fraternity, K .4 II.

JEWEL PATCHELL EWZLYN MILL

TEXAS ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

(Chulered 1(02)

GRADUATES WITH B.A. DEGREE

Mary Taylor

Mary Greer

Mary Bryan

The past three months have been very busy ones (or Texas A. Finals followed mid·terms only too Quickly, bringinc us to the sprine term', w;ork In February tbe big dances, Rattler and Arrow Head, took place, and the honor of leading thete fell to Pi Phis again this year. Jane Gregory, '14, and Laura Johns, '16, led the Arrow Head dance and cotillion, while Mary Taylor, "5, led Rattler. One of our pledges, Cora Bryan, and Laura Johns led the Euter german and cotillion. Mary Bryan, 'IS, will lead the Rabbit-foot dance in May.

Lest the foregoing seem to indicate too much of a social trend on the part of Texas A, a few of her intellectual honon will be in order. On averaging the winter term grades, it was found that the active cnapter had an average of D, the la me as for the l as t term. Three of our pledges, Elise Bumpass, Margaret Lee, and Kathleen Little, have recently been elected to Ashbel, an honorary literary society. Ashbel wilt present Qualtl)' Strut, by J. M. Barrie, on May J, and Mary Ann Blattner and RoseUe Gould witt take part. Mary Shelton and Elsie Bumpass have been elected to the stafT of the Dail)' Texalt. Roselle Gould was elected to the new V. W. C. A. cabinet. Mary Greer has been e lected as our delegate to convention. Mary is a senior who wi11 r eturn next year to take her master'l degree.

At Easter time, we followed our custom of giving an egg hunt (or the child r en from the State School for the Deaf. On April 9, we gave a tea for our pat ronesses and alumn3e, which was largely attended The town alumna: a re going to give UI a picnic on Founders' Day, and we are anticipating a fine time . We intend giving a banquet to o ur seniors, as is our cuslom, about the middle of May. Laura Johns will go 10 the Battle of Flowers in San Antonio as Duchess from Austin, with Jeanette HageIslein, one of our pledges, al maid of honor. Anna Belle Hilgarlner, ex-'IS, will be Duchess of Austin, with Mildred Ramsey, ex-liS, as maid of honor.

ROSELLE Gou LD.

First ,..0 _, Irlt to right-Nell Huff, Gna Larsen , Ruth Swanson, Marprd Mullison, Ruth Evans.

S.co"d ro.--Ma.ry Hollenback, Edna Kin" Dline Rathbun, Franci, Fowler, Sera611a Facinelli

T"ird ,.ow-Esther Downey, Loi. Butler, EUleoia Neer, E. Jane Aber, Acnes JobnlOn. Fo,.,.,h rOUJl-En I,n Sturgeon, Katherine Bennitt, Ellen Greenbaum, Mary Aber, Enl,n Jen.en.

Fi"" ,..ow-Lilfian Dnis, Mar, Spafford, £ttber Dollu, Beatrice Dana, Doroth, DowDe,.

WYOMING ALPHA

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WYOMISG ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING (Chartered 1910)

I!'lIT1ATES

(Initiated Februarv 20,1915)

MirY Aber, Sheridan, Wyo.

Either Bollu, Douglas, Wyo.

Beatrice Dana, Sheridan, Wyo.

Lillian Davis, Tippecanoc City, Ohio.

Dorothy Downey, Laramie, Wyo.

Ellen Greenbaum, Laramie, \Vyo.

GRADUATES WITH B ••-\. DECIlE!:

E. Jane Abu Edna King

Evelyn Sturgeon GRADUATE WITH B.S. DECREE Mary H ollenback

The past year hu been one of marhd growth (or the University of Wyom i nK' The legislature in its last session appropriated a one-eiK'hth mill tax to be set aside for a permanent building fund, and consequently plans are aJ. ready being made for a new women's dorm itory, which will be completed in IwO years. The passage of this bill insures a number of much-needed buildings during the next few years. \V e h ave occupied the new Agricultural Hall si nce Thanksgiving, thus giving the Botany and Geology Departments excl usive Use of the Science Hall. The number of students hss increased so greatly that in addition to the Women's HaJl two annu:es hne been rented for the girls; one especiaUy for senior and junior girls.

The lu dent Association has been very succeufuf in managing athletics and debating for the students. Two excellent tearns are preparing for the debates with Denver Unh'ersity and the Agricultural College of Colorado. To belp finance affairs the A. S. U. W . gave the play R M. l'j"aJore on April 10, which Will very enjoyable and served its purpose beautifully. Esther Bolin, '18, took the part of "Josephine "

The faculty has been increased in seve ral instances, but the one (or which the girls have been particularly grateful is the Physical Director {or Women, Beulah S. Rader, who has done much to education.

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Our organizations have been very prosperous: Y. W. C. A'J Y. M . C . A" German Club, Agricultural Clu b, Engineering C lu b, the P e n Pu shers, an honorary literary society, all have been well attended by enthusiastic members.

All these things, we feel, indicate that our university is broadening its field of work and growing into an influential institution.

OU f chapter has been strengthened since my las t l etter by six n ew initiates and three new pledges, Sarah Hufford, Hil da Kline. and Irma Patton. OU f delegate to convention is Katharine Bennett, '16, of Joliet, Ill. How we wish that we co ul d go with her and meet you all in convention in Jul y!

RUTH SWANSON.

COLORADO ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF COLO RADO

(Cha rtered 1884)

INITI ATES

( Initiated February 12, 1915)

Gratia Boyd

Nellie Cleveland

Florence D empsey

Nathalie Ekrem

Hel en Grill

Luella Jackson

Virginia McCrea

Rebekah Shattuck

Elizabeth Wilkinson (Initiated March 12, 1915)

Dorothy Deisher

GR -\OUATES WITH B.A. DECREE

Mary McFa rlan d Dorothy Terwilliger Enid Van Alstine

GRADUATES W IJ:TH B.E. DEGREE

Jean e Cleve lan d, B E.

Gertrude R ennie

Zul a Simmons Margaret Tourtelotte

Bou l der has been almost d r owned with the rain and snow the last (ew weeks , but now we feel so sure ttiat spring is here that we have given the house an extra special cleaning and Mrs. White dressed up the dining room and u pper hall in new c urtains . Unfortunately Mr s. White has to leave us soon and we have not found a new house mother yet.

W e had the oppo rtunities and needs of socia l service workers impressed upon us very forcibly a few weeks ago by a series of powerful lectures by Raymond Robins of Chicago.

Jeane C l eveland and Zula Simmons were elected to B K this year. II cfI is p r oud to have two of the thirteen chosen . Hope CleveJatld made IJ! B K

lut year so we cxp«t great tbings of their freshm;;o sister Nellie. Nathalie Ekrem was elected to Hesperia, the JUDior girls' honorary society.

Owing to some opposition to fraternities the registrar published the avera&e &"radcl this year. II B T beaded the list of fraternities, and their average was bieber than the average of the noofraternity studentJ though the average of .11 Greek-letter societies was not as higb as the &verage of the independent •. PORTIA OLWIN.

COLORADO BETA-UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

(Char tered J885)

Fiut, J sbould like to tell you something about our university for everythin&, centers around it. The college spirit h&5 been unusually good this year. This spirit was partly due to the fine freshman class that entered. With tbeir b 0 U 0 die II eDergy and original ideas, tbey have succeeded in in· stilling some new life into the easy-going upperclassmen. And then we received the basketball championship of the state which made us Quite cheerful. Also, the social life of the univenity seems to have been improved by the aid of the Young Women 's Christian Association. We had a thil year for the Brst time It was a great affair. AI minstrell, the Pi Phil added their Ihare to the fun. I f ever you want to have an entertainment for girls only, which il a perfect scream and which will develop girls in executive ability, in originality and in lociab ility, try a circus! And incidentally, it is a money -making scheme. Have side showl with sucb attractions as "Blue-beard's Den" anduWeinie Weinie, the Wild \VDmao from Walla Walla, Wyominlt'; have pop corn, peanut, and ice cream booths; have a ring with elephants, girafTel, and bareback riders, and you'll have a huge .ueee

We had our high school day this year at the home of Edith Bigp. Thil is always a joyous event in our life because we meet our next year'1 rusheel for the first time. We had many splendid high school girls as guests and we tried to give them a glimpse of college life with our short provam which included a. n • quartet, some vocal solo., and an Imp Dance. During the first part of April, we were fortunate enough to secue the Grinnell Girls' Glee Club to give a conce rt at college chapel and then later, the Pi Phi. entertained them at lun cheon. There are no fraternities in Grinnell and it wa. exceedingly interesting to compare viewpoints. We were highly satisfied with our college, but they were rather ennous of our frattrnily life.

U",,'r row, 1,/, '0 right-Margaret Forsythe. Marion White, Lillian Farrington, Marguerite \Villiamson, Miriam Reid, Helena Stevens, Eva Burke, Constance Teague, Treva Bonar, Freda Richter.

Middl. rOUl--Mabel Dickerson, Helen Graham, Elizabeth Thompson, Elma McClellend, Eloise Sterling, Lea Penman, Freda Johnson, Dorothy Teague Beas Emery, Marjorie Rathbun.

Third roa-Marcia Baty, Katherine Schrader, \Veila Bell, Frances Ryan, Martha Wilson. Alice Cutler, Edith Spence, Frances Stanchfield, Winifred Mead.

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The manu that Coloudo B has been working on barder than any other this yur is that of • new Bungalow. \Ve need it very mocll and 10 DOW we are rounding out our plans for ltarting it lOOn. We have purchased • Jot adjoininr the one on which our old Bungalow i. built, and with the help of our .lumna: expect to make this plan more than a "pipe dream".

1 baven't .pace enough to do more tban mention the n B 4' pl.y 00 tbe third of May, May nay, Commencement with all of iu {cliliviliu. and looming tip al • grim 'ptCtre, examination week.

Colorado B stnd. her wishet {or the (reatul Convention ever.

MARGARET E. FoItSYTH.

ZETA PROVI CE

CALIFORNIA Al.PHA-LELAND STA:SFORD, JR UNIVERSITY

(Chartered 18<)3)

GRAOUAUS WITH B.A. DIGDE

Winona Bassett

Alice Bnep

Miriam Bryan

Vera MeN .bb

Georgine Pearsall

Ruth Shelton

Helen Keeley Maty Sion

Clara Cram lnd Josephine Cressey are candidates for M.A.

The end of the schoo l year is close upon us now, and the thoughts of aU are concentrated on the approaching examinations, but when those necessary eyils are onr , then a11 attention will be focused on the great eyent of 1915. our con· Yention at Berkeley which we hope will be one of the best ever held.

Even though we haven't many days left to us be· fore the term close., yet every minute is planned for and with such intere.t· ing things too. One of the main events of the last day. of the seme.ter will be the rendering of the Mes4;aJt by a chorus of about two hundred voices, uneter the leadership of Professor Eaton. The rehursals for this have been under way for some time. Four of our girls are taking part, Winona Bassett, 'IS. Leigh Shelton, 'J6, Rowena Taylor. ' [6. and Helen Keeley, ' I S Also as one of th e latest events of the school year English Club is going to p resent which will be staged i n the natural park of the Stanfo rd Estate. adjoining the university groundl, and this promises to be a presentation .,f great worth. Barbara Alderton, ' 16, A..nd Florence McGrath, 'IS. take part in this.

CAUFOIlNlA ALPHA

Ttl' rOUl' 1.lt 'tl right-Winona Baaaett, Miriam A. Bryan, Ruth Shelton, Mary 510•. Sutl,.d rtl-......cl.ra Cr.m, Helen Keeley, Mildred Cur Alice Bri,es. Third rcno--Georline Virginia Clowe, Gertrude Mendenh.lI Fill. Ruth Brooks, Flol"eDce Kn.pp. Sin. raw---Ge;raldioe Henkinl. Phyllia Bob Shelton. SftI.,.,,. ro-Jun H.II, Rowena Taylor, Clarice Goplerud, Geraldine Haml,n

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On March 6 we gave our formal which was held at the new women's club· house on the campul. The fact tbat our dance was the fint large affair eiven in the new building made the occasion aU the more enjoyable. The Men'. UnioD and the \Vomen 's Clubhouse, situated in such ccotT 1 positioDs on the campus are going to prove of great aid in the university life in promoting the movement for democracy which CODStitute. loch problem in every university.

During the last four years our chapter home has luffered series of un· {ortunate fire. which have happened SO regularly as to become known as the rr <It annual. However, this last conflagration which occurred on March 21 was the IUOU ICrious that we have ever had-and bad it not been (or tbe quick i.tance given' us. our bouse sanly would have been doomed. We hope this one will be the last.

As !l final word I hardly believe any II 4a needs to be reminded of the good times in store for her in California, so let the watchword be--"Westw:ard to California and Convention."

M I LDR.ED CA 1lR.

CALIFORN IA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

(Chartered 19(0)

I!'fITIATi!S

(Initiated January 30. 19 15)

Marie Graven Lela Smith

GIL\DUATES WITH B.A. DECREE

Lucie Altona

Mila Cearley

Adele Downey

Vinnie Robinson

Helen Havens

Margaret Mail

Lurline Browning

GRADUATE WITH B.S. DECIl:lE

Margaret Mills

GRADUATE IN MEDI CINE

Engetena Ward

The past co llege year has brought marked changes to our camp u s. The Campanile i. nearly comp leted. Its mass of beauty against the blue sky is traly impre live. From the athletic viewpoint we have made rapid

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strides--t hew 0 men's swimming tank is fini.ht'd and the girl. may swim daily from eight until five. Our fline splendid tennis co urt s :ue completed and they are nCVH vacant 11 minute . Last but by no means lea st is our wonderful new track oval with a .eating capacity of ten thousand. It was dedicated at our meet with the Illinoi s team, champions of the middle west. Pi ctUfe to yourself the bleachtrl--one side wit h enthusiashC C:tliforniaos, the other side with a mere handful of eq ually enthusiastic Illin ois supporters; then out on the ci n der path-each man striving to the utmost for his own college. California won the meet with the score of 71 to SI. Next Saturday is the me et between Stanford and California. \VI.: arc hoping !.O to win this last eve nt as then we will be champions of the west. Stanford went down to ddeat before our splendid baseball nine .

The nnnual Parthenia was held in the Faculty Glade on the afternoon of April 9. The afternoon was l ove ly, warm and ha lmy IlS summer; Dond the Parthenia itself was wonderful in every way. The beautiful dancing, the many colored garments, the strange music-each added its own charm and enhanced the strangely new, yet old, portrayal of the transition from girlhood to w o manh ood . Vinnie Robins o n, ' 15. proved a capab le and efficient Parthenia manager.

The uni venity is to have a great ce leb ra tion on May eighth--California Day. Thi s is th e day set aside t o wel come the o ld grads from all over the United States back to their Alma Mater. Enthusiastic worken arc planning f or their entertainment from early morn unt i l late at night. \Ve are having a n alumnre reunion banq uet th:at enning and hope to welcome ever so many Pi Phis in our new home.

This is my last letter to THE Auow and t feel that I mUlt te ll vou how much I have enjoyed my work and m y letter friendships with SO many Pi Phis. Just one last word and that is-California n extend. a hearty welcome t o all of you who co me o ul h ere to the west, whether or not it i s at convention time.

WESTBROOK.

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WASHINGTON ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Chartered 1(07) INITIATU

February 12, 1915)

Marraret Burkhardt, 'IS, Seattle, 'V.,h. Jent Jaycox, '17. WBUa Walla, Wash. Josephine Lane, '18. Port1and, Ore. Irene. t«le, '16, Walla Walla, Walh.

GRADUATES WITH B.A. "

Marion Bowers

Carolyn Fisken

Louise Shaff

Grace Weiller

GRADUATE WITH B.S. DECiREE

Mugery J onDstone

JUlt now the mOlt absorbing fraternity interest for UJ .11 is Convention. wondt:r if all the cbapters art as excited about it at we are at Washington. Quite a. number of our active and alumn:e Pi Phis arc planning to go down to California by boat July first and we elln hardly wait until the time comes. Mr•. Small come out to one of our recent chapter meetings and talked to us in her usual charming manner about the early n ... Conventions which she conducted as Grand President and she made us so enthusiastic about the coming Convention that we completely forgot .bout going to a crew benefit.

T,vo extremes of rushing have been tried this year and neither have proved satisfactory to either the faculty or the girls. A strenuous semester rush wound up with pledge January 30 at one of the town girls' homes and we pledged eight of the keenest freshmen on the campus. The new semester opened two days Inter with matriculation rush and we pledged three more fine girls. Pan·Hellenic is at present 3t work trying to find a new system which wilt suit everyone and we sincerely hope that a solution will be found. We feel, however, that the experiments this year have proved a victory for the fraternity [or the Dean of Women said last semester, when she was confronted with the task of finding home. for the several hundred girls, tbat the Iaculty had realized for the first time how necessary the fra · ternities were to college life. 1 think everyone will admit that tbis is • step in the right direction.

The girls are doing more than ever this year to make n 4t prominent in all forms of college life. Haul Jones has just been elected president of Y. W. C. A. in addition to being president of the junior girls' club and she is to be sent to the Y. \V. C. A. Conference in Lo. Angeles a. \Vashington representative. Mary ,,6. had a prominent part in the EnKlish Club play, The Knirhi 0/ tAe Bu,.niJlg Pestle and we are very proud to say that the lead in the Dramatic Club play T},8 Rainbotlf is to be taken by one of our talented freshmen, Cornelia Glass.

The social calendar has been cut down this year to include little more than the trllditional coLlege "stunts" but these I think have been more enjoynble for tbat very reason. A rather unique a(fair WaJ given February 13. by

WASHI!'ro'GTO S" AUHA

Fi,.st roUf, 14t t o rag lll-J us ephine Lane. Adele Car lin. Marie Mi cbner, Elinbeth Schumacher, Laura Skinner Olin Moore, StttHId Bollin.er, Delaney, France. Titu a, FUM" Tanner, Elinbeth Baldwin, Marie McAuslan . TAird rca-EmilT Hall, Marion Bowera. Jean Ja ycox, Marrarct Ja ckso n, Irene Steele, Carolyn Flsken, Fo""" Dunbar, Janet Wardahl, Mary McEnte-e Grace We ister , Marion Speller Helen H owell

FilII. Taylor, Cornelia Gilla, Mary Elli ot , De Ene McAu.lan, Rubcrta Hundley, Louise Shaff

Sasll. ror-Ah'i ra Wilbur, Doris Mi sner, :'ola rrer1 J oh nu one, Aileen Hamilton, ViT.inia Madi,aD, Ada Hannah

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to raise money (or furniture {or one room or the woman'. build· inr which is soon to be built. J I was "See America First" and COilsisted oC • tour of sever.l women 's {rateroity housel eac.h one of which represented a different section of America.

We are .U looking forward with the keenest anticipation to our formal which i. to be given April 17 in the house and .Iso to a music.1 tea {or t.lte benefit of the Settlement School. This is to be given by the and active chapter in place of the Founders' Day Banquet.

FRANCSS TANNER

WASHINGTON BETA-WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE

(Chartered July 6, 1912 )

GRADUATES \VJJH B.A. DEGREE

Helen Anita Ca1ligher

Inu E. Weaver Mabel McKay

Grace Post

GRADUATES WITH B.s. DECREE

Lillian MacLeod Doris Schumaker

GRADUATE WITH Mus. DECREE

Zora Wiffin

First let me tell you aboul Ihe camp u s and camp u s affairs. Everything looks lovely. So many new trees have been se t out, Quantities of sh rubs and flowers pl.anted, new walks laid and the athletic field wonderfully improved. Girls, our campus is simply wonderful this year a nd oh, how we wish you co uld all see it. Then, Campus Day is coming which means more beauty for o ur college Don't you know what Campus Day i.? It is the day when everybody works; the men donni ng their overaUs, build walks, trim trees, plant shrubs and even manipulate the wheel -barrow. while the women. donning their aprons, prepare quantities of good things to eat in order to feed these hungry men at noon. In the evening comes the " Hard Times Dance " when the sen ion lose their dignity, the jolly juniors forget their importance and even the freshmen and sop homore s forget their habitual enmity in having a glorious good time.

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You ca n appreciate h ow mu c h thi s dance will mea n t o u s, because of the (act that our social activities ha ve been limited 50 st ri ctly this year. Saturday is o ur on ly open n ight for dances and parties, Friday being se t aside for lect ur es, p l ays and lite rary society meetings.

Another importsnt event in o ur college life is the organization of • wome n '. leag ue which is to r egu l ate a ll affairs pertaining to college women. Also, it is hoped that thi s will h elp to d r aw th e fraternity and nonfraternity women toge th er. Oh, yes, that remind. me, w e are on th e verge of trying second sc m ester p ledging; at least, fo ur o f th e fraternities are in favor of it and it will be vo ted through at next Pan-Hellenic meeti ng

The uSe nior Sneak " came off last week w ith the u s ual sc ramble between th e j uni ors and sophomores :15 to who should h ave the caps and gowns to wear to c h ape l. The juniors won and celebrated their victory by a picnic in Tanglewood. Everything is useniorsll nonadays. Even the May F ete is to be in honor of the sen ion.

H ow is our c hapter? Perfectly we ll, thank you and doing splendidly in sc hool activities Alice Lodge has been elected t o the Chi"oolt staff for n ext year tuld a l so secretary of her class. Eliubet h Painter w as on the junior p r om co mmitlee. Ine ,. Weaver ha s charge of th e pageant s and Elsie Freaks of th e dancing, for the May Fete

\V e a r e hoping 10 have severa l improvements made o n our h o use during the summer and best of all. o ur house mother, Mrs M o nr oe , i s t o be with u s again next year. Surely our prospech are b right f o r another happy and s uccessf ul year.

Washi ngt on B hopes to see you all at Convent i on.

ELIZABETH PAINTER

The following li st of initiates was r eceived t oo l ate (or insertion under the c hapte r l ette r .

\V ASH INGTON A INITIATU

( Initiated May 3)

Kathleen Delaney, '18, Seattle Cornelia Glass, J I 8, Seattle Emily '18, Seattle Marie Mic hener '18, P o rtland Robert a H ind ley, '18, W innipeg Laura Skinner, ,,8, Seattle Frances Titus, ' 18,

EXCHANGES

EXCHANGES

Alpha Gamma Delta announces the establishmtnt of Omicron Chapter formerly the Cranford Club at the University of California. Berkeley, California on Friday, March 12, 1915.

Say. the A/Ilia PM QIUJ,.u,.ly:

The Plai Celli""" Ddl/l prinu the (ollowina-WomclI arc '1 viully intuc.tcd in world peace monment

FaATEIMITY A SAVIKG IHFL UEMCE

In a Ittter to the editor, Brother Newton O. Baker (Jobns H opkins and \Vuh .Lee). maJor of Cleveland and one of Phi Gamma Oe11ll" mO l t prominent alumni, empbuizH the importance of the COUtle fraternity II onc of the spiritual .,cne-iea tba' .m h:t.vc to UTe tbe world from such f ollies II the prtscnt European war.

He "11 "The breakdown of ciyilization in Europe h haken everyone who thinb and one need. must hue, a nry firm lrip on aomc po$ilivilt philosopby not to despair about tbe whole business of tr)'in, to make men better and happier in tbe world. But if a reteneration il to come, it will have to be tbrouth the quickenin, of our spiritual a,cociel, and one of theke il lu rely the colle,e fratemity, which catchetl youn, men when they are in their first enthulium of intellectual life and emph •• iztl for them the value of the emotional and Ipiri tual lide of thin... lbe time we lpend in and for luch an inltitution i5 spent for a high and worthy cause ."

No orpni ntion can proaresl uwcas every member il IImiliar with ill ,overnment in an of iu parts, i hiltory, i poltcies and its cultoms. A atudy of itl palt yelrs wiU n:plain tbe failurea and I how how they migbt have been .. oided. Such policie' milht have been wi l e under thl! co nditi onl exis ting at the time and how .bould they be shaped to meet new necdt r A careful Itudy of otber nationals for the purpose of findin, out their Itron, and weak chap ters and the ru.an for 5uch c la ification will be of valuable "Iiltance. We IGmetimel are able to profit h7 the experience of otbers when we fail to lee our own miatakel. \Vbat Ire the ideall of the different members of our Pllt and present counci1a? Wherein hue tbey succeeded or iailed and bow may we be able to vote wilely and inteHiae.ntly at conventionar

A careful Itudy of the Crull ExcNnlg. will keep UI informed on the important fraternity topica of the day. The I)robleml of lOme olher chapter or national today, may be our own tomorrow.

To wbat extent il tbe criticism of fraternities jUltifiedl We ahould consider lbi. seriously and try to eliminate: objectional futures In tbia manner we will raiR our own stlndarda and dinrm our enemin.-TII Ad,lpIuG'IJ of Alpha Delta Pi.

Under the caption "First Fraternity Fellowship", TAe Rai"bo'UI ot Delta Tau Delta announces that the fraternity fellow shi p founded by the Delta Tau Delta Club of New Vork "is the first of itl kind ever established". THE Aaaow challenges thi" stalement, sinct: Pi Reta Phi has ann uall y offered a fellowship of five hundred dollars since 1909. The sum set aside by the Delta Tau Delta Club for tbe i upport of the fellow5hip i. the lame (five hundred dollars) but the regulations differ somewhat. Every active member of the fraternity i. permitted to participate in the competition that precedes the award. Following are :he regulatior. !> on which the competition i. based:

Flnt: Each conteltin, chaptu mUlt lead all Olher fraternities in itl institution in scholarship f or the year 1914·1915.

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Second: The winning chapter will be tbe one that has held this first (or the loneest period. If sevenl tie in this respect the dedsion will be based on the comparative IICbolal tic rank of the active members, or the greatut improvement made.

Third: The winner of the fellowship will be tbe senior of the winning c.hapter who (or hi' entire course has the highest marks of hi chap ter class delegation, who i. voted by hi. chapter to have in all-around chapter activity and servicej the scholastic and chapter activities to be reckoned on a comparative basis of fifty per cent each.

Concerning the regulations The RainbMD lays:

Owing to the fact that few college. and universities employ the lame methods of lradinl it WI. impoSlible to find a beher and fairer ay.tem of establishing a chapter'. K hola tic standing than that embodied in the 6rst rule. It is possible, on the contrary to ascertain from faculty lOurce' whether a ce rtain chapter of Delta Tau Delta leads the cbapten of all other fraternities in a certain institution. The same information can be obtained from all of the 6fty.nine in.titutioDi where our Fraternity i. represented. Last year acven Delta chapters were leaders in their respective in.titutions, and as probably aU of these and many otben will have premier rank thi. year it i. certain that the competition will have many participanlL There 11 no apparent rtalOn why a chapter wbich formerly has been low in ill; acholastic ratin,s shou ld be deterred on that account from enterin, the competition. On the contrary luch • chapte r 'l cha nocs of obtainin, the prize are just as brilliant al those of the chapters which bad the hi,hest standing lut year. In sho o, the rule is 10 framed that every chapter is placed on an equal basis. with the same opportunities and advantages and with the ODe goal in view: To win the scholutic championship of all the fraternities in its institution.

The world is 50 full of a number of Greeks I'm lure I don't ICe why they talk about cliques TIt,. K.y of K K r.

The following is from The ElelUis 0/ X 0 .:

Ways in which a fraternity woman can increase favor toward the fraternity Iyltem: A. In co llete : Sbe sbould 6nt of all be a college woman-neTer intruding in other SOCieties or among non fraternity women her membership in a fraternity, n ever votin, in eiK:tions for her fraternity lilte r on that basis only nner bolding the interests of the coUege lubordinate to the fraternity, never ali,htin, any opportunity for service to her college. She s hould not confine her friendsbips or ber to her fraternity group. She abould, as a college woman, ".tudy hard and think clearly" for Ibe henelf is a criterion by whom the fraternity .,stem il jud,ed in collete.

8 In ber home town: Tbe fratemit, woman is still, as in the college, the standard for tbe judgments passed for or a,ainlt the fraternity, therefore Ihe Ihou ld be a ,enue.oman in all thin,L She should Kek unobtrusively, to contribute to the community as fun, and as richl, as she herself has received. She ahould not hold herself aloof from the wa,.. and manners of her bome town, bat should enter, aimpl, and naturall" into whatenr work she rna, do. I do not think the fraternity woman can increase favor t oward fraternities in college or in hu home town by emphuizin, the fact that .he is a fraternity woman, hut by doing her womanly belt, and b, givin, to all that atmosphere of friendliness and kindness and helpfulne which was hers in tlIe fraternity Nol b:l its virt.", b., by qlllidly livi"1I t/"," mcsy cs !,cst,,"it:l Wl»lla" j",'i/:I til_ !,.at""it, sy.rtC7fl.

EXCHANGES

The Pan -Hellco M: Aaociac.i oo o f Northern lllinoi. met at S y ra cuse for tJaei.r annual banqueL It wu • m Olt su ccessful affair M iM En Han well kDown in Pan-Hdlmic circles, acted loaSuailtrus. Some m Il' of the Greek a of the nortbem part of the state ptbued for thi. enOl wh ich i , becominl q u ite • n o tu:! .ff.ir The speaker of tbe eotcnio, wu Mr William C. Levert, Secretary of tbe Colle.t: Fraternity lUference Bureau In hi, speech be referred to tile anti fratunity .,itation _Ilia ... lilirrinc different pans of the country particularl ,. rderrinl to the Itru,.le wlli<:b WI. then loin, on in the Texas Le,i,l,ture and to the bill whic.h two da,. beforc bad been introduced in tbe California u,iJ1lturc. He referred to the charlet that fraternitiet Ire undemocratic, immoral and unscholarly He aaid tbat be propoH;d to call. jury of twelve to try tbe fraternities on thete ebarlu. The trial which w tben bdd w .. ratber unique and consisted in hearln, the verdict of tbe jury wbich .at compoaed of twelve distinruisbed men of the United SUtes from wbom Mr. Levere bad received autograph Idten concerning tbdr fraternity uperience:1 while: i.n colle:ge and tbeir belid in tbe: Greek-letUT System Theae twelve lettera he had willi. him and prtaented them to tbe assembled company Tbe lettera we.re from: Fonner Vice.president Charle. W. Fairbanka; Champ Clark. Sptaker of the National House ; Bilbop Hlmilton of the Methodi"t Church; Mayor Newton D. Baker of andaDd, noted for his democracy ; Pre.ident \Villiam Sbanklin of Weale,an UniTenity: Dean Cooley of the Uniyenity of Michi,an; Prof E. A. Ron, Uninnit, of \V-iIConsin; Rkhmond P. Hobson, formerly of the N • ....,. and Con,rtss; Rev ]. \Vilbur Chapman. the widely known eyangelilt; Bilhop Hu,he. of tlIe Methodilt Cburch; President Charles G. Heckert of Wittenberl College, and Emory W. Hunt, the bead of tbe American Baptist Forei,n Minionary Society. Witll theat twelve men ... jury be proceeded to try the colle,e fraternities . The former Vice.pretident of the United StalCl gaTe hia erdict tbat tbe experience he had had conTinced him th.t they were delightful, helpful, beneficial and a wholelOme influence.

Mayor Baker ,ue his deciaion tbat tbe fraternities brought more benefit to him than hi. collere education, that in friendllhip and helpfulnes. they were a a)nltant aoufCe of inspiration.

Champ Clark lAid tbat tbe best friend. he ever made in hi. entire ure were made in hi. (ollele frattrnity and that he atill held the molt pleasant recollection. of bit chapter life.

President Shanklin of Wesleyan in his Terdict said th.t he would never be able to pay the debt he owed to bia colle,e fnternity and tblt in tbe collele of wbicb be ia now pretident tbey atand for the bilbcst in C'Yery uenuc of schol tic life.

Bi.bop Hamilton's deciaion in favor of the fraternities waa based on the c1o.e friendship be enjoytd in hia own and the perlonal and tbe brotherly intereJt the older men took in Ihe younger in helpin, them and that he found hia fratemity helpful throughout hi. life, believing that it bound men very closel, to their conele day•.

Re•. ]. Wilbur Cbapman declared that he had only the bert thin•• to say both in college and after of hi. fraternity; that he believed that it was diatinctly worth wbik and th.t he boped exceedin,ly that bi. IOn miaht have the pri.ilele of becomiDI a member.

Richmond Hoblen, tbe hero of Santiago, apoke of the measure of self·sacrifice in tbe patb of duty that be waa enabled. to make larlely on account of the leuonl he had learned in his fraternity ha.U.

Emory Hunt-widt1, known the bead of the faP'')ua Baptist Miuionary Socidyaaid that if be bad to decide .. to whicb he receiYed the mOlt good, from hi. colle,e or hi. fraternity, it would be hard to decide again.t tbe fraternity in favor of tbe collele

Profellor ROM .poke of the ract that they improved manners Ind gave address to a man and witbal were a lOurce of pleaaure and companion.bip

So it was that each of the jurors regiatered hi. opinion and the yerdict was that none of the chatlel were true.

The sptaker of the eveninl .poke of the hilb .tand the frlternitiea everywhere had taken concerninl the use of liquor. That fraternit, magu.ines, cbapters and

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conventions were all forbidding it and he recited the beautiful pledge of &ervice passed at the Greek Conference held in Chicago two yearl ago which breathed such • spirit of devotion to the highest ideala He was willing to admit that fraternitie s had faults as every human institution ha l but gave George Fitch'. much quoted •• yinl' that "Althou,b hi. little girl wu sometimes naugbty, he was not going to ask for tbat reason that the Illinois Le,i.lature abolish ber."

Mr Levere dosed the addreSi of the evening with the following words: "In ill most intimate esse n ce the collele fraternity appeals to all that is tenderest and choicest in tbe hearts and memories of those who have been held by its ties. It ia not 10 many years ago that an intrepid eJl:pl o rer reached tbe great ,.,·hite center of the polar world after sacrifice and toil beyond imagination. By tbose Arctic leas be lifted high th e stan and stripe. and then beneath tbat, the fla&, of his fraternity. Surely there must be something fine in a bond which in the great moment of a man'. life, sball daim his allegiance and his loyalty. Jt is not 50 many yean ago that a brave boy lay dying on the pavement of a great city. A terrible fire had destroyed a theater and hundreds bad perished. He was but a passer.by but into the smoke and flame he bad plunged again and again until twelve buman being. owed to him their livC5. His last venture was the trap in which he himself was caught. He leaned against the sidewalk as hi. life ebbed away_ "They opened his sbirt front and someone tried to unfalten hi s fraternity pin. His fingers trembling and weak slipped over it and he whispered , 'No, do not take that. J love it.' A moment later he was white and forever still. I tell you it is not the base and wicked instinct. of our lives, in tbe hour when the su pre me ca ll comes to us. To that dying young Greek-letter man. there came in his very last vision a great dustered memory of some of the sweetest and be.t bours of hi s life and comforted him. It is not so many years ago that a man came to overwhelming honors_ It was the morning of the day that he was to be inaugurated as President of the United States. Early in tbe morning his wife had said to him, 'What jewelry will you wear today besides your fraternity badge ?' His IOS1ller was, 'Motber, I think that will be Quite enough.' And so a few houn later when he stood before a vast concourse and lifted hiBb his hand to take the oath of office as chief magistrate of a great nation o f the earth, tbere sparkling upon the lapel of his coat was the badge of his fraternity. Surely there must be something very noble, something very Breat, so mething s timulating and something good in tbat which could claim his affection in thi s the c r o wning moment of hi s dilltinguisbed career. We. sons and daughters of the Greek spirit understand tbese tbinls. We know that 1IIith all its imperfections. the college fraternity ill an in s titution whi c h harbors those things of the spirit, whi ch are the nearest and dearest of the soul."-Re/rrIt"" Bwrrau NrwJ B"lIdill.

Apropos of the great wave of prohibition which is sweeping the world, the following i. of interest:

The quution of winu at fraternity banqueu hal been constantly discuucd not only in tbe &eneNilI but in the fraternity prtsl. At the Teecnt convention of !: :x. d T 4, • d e. Ind Ben. were paued wints and liquors in any form at any official {unction on the connntion prqram. A nd yet tbeee cODyentions arc reported .s moat luttenful in every particular. Drunkenned and debauchery are ltates bclonainc 10 a different I,e from tlld. and are rele,ated to the background with ma.ny other customs of tbe PUt. If ordinary laymen inJin upon this rettriction, how much mort should • maD with a trained iDteUect?

A ,entleman i. onc who has alwa:ra tbe power of the control of all hi' faculties. Let the Convention be onc of educated lentlemen.-Si,"" of • z: K..

Says The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon : AJlfTI·PIATllalflTY LuollLATIOK

We are in receipt of a B.dl.,j" iTom tbe Collece Reference Bureau, i nfonnina: u. that the hiU introduced in tbe le,illature o( Texu to aboli.h fraternities bas b«n defuted in the bouse. We are at.o informed that this practically means the la.t of tbe bill for this lelsion at lea.lt. A limilar bill bu been introduced in the le,illature of California. \Ve do not hue any reason to fear that the bill ... ill become a law, for the president of the university, Benjamin Ide \Vbe:eler. in his annual report to the aovernor, while recornizin, lome of tbe shortcominp of the fraternity Iyltem, believes that tbe lood outwei,ba the t:.d, and il luiD, that ,ood to deatroy tbe bad. We are very mu ch encour.,ed from the outlook, and fed that the awaltening whicb bas come to the fraternities in requiring t.beir members to maintain a hi,her ltandard of acholanhip is having the desired effect.

Last May the boys of Xi c hapter observed tbeir second annual "Motbera' Day" with appropriate vcerciaes on Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10. We 1lote tbat otber fraternities are adopting tbis "Motbers' Day" celeb ration each year, but 10 far .. we han been able to ,ather, Xi of Siama Chi oririnated the custom. We would su"est that other chapten set aside a apecia l day each year for honorin, their parenti and ,ather in as many of the fatbers and mothen .. possible. We beUe:ve not only that this CUltom il pleasant and enjoyable, but that it will redound to the public credit of any chapter which obtervel tbis day.-SivmG Chi aMorin'Jy.

A late number of the Sil11'1C4 Ko/l/la TrioJlgl, b.a.a a aeria of short articlea from the varioul chapter. with re.pect to chapttr tradition 1t makes a very interesting article and the traditions are a. numerous a. the chapter. themse(,"ea. Several chapter. have a "Motbers' Day," somewbat similar to the "Motbers' Oay" celebration by Xi chapter of Siama CbI at Gr«nc:utle.--SigIM Chi OMo,..f.,..".

Tlumis of Zeta Tau Alpha is responsible (or the following, a pretty idea which might be developed into an effective decoralive scheme for Pan Hellenic parties.

Fo.. QUI AITIITS

An enthuliastic and well·informed fraternity girl, who il much intereated in the care of ftowen, recently promiKd me, in return for the lend in, of a copy of Til, S#,.#rit, HII"dbooll , a siaht of the "National Pan Hellenic" flower bed which abe proposed to arrange. My ide of how sbe would accomplisb this novel undertalcin ran riot ",hen Ibe finally telephoned me th at she had "Tbe National Con,ress" ready for inspection.

Can yOU picture a ama U, square aun·parlor, empty of e"erytbin, except a few palmi and ferns and :I. rU!llic Httee? I said "empty", but I should hAve laid o"erfio i"g

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with refl ec ted color and minaled perfume., f or in th e cenler of tbe room stood a t able, covered with a dull ,run cloth an d h eaped with fl ower.. SUlpended (rom the tow roof o f tbe lun-parlo r wal a b kel of brown Indian Ira , the tall h andle. of ",hich were IUmed a nd suspended by " ap ra y of delicate .m ilax. Peeping from between the rim or drooping over the edges of the basket were r Oles--c re lmy, white, red, yellow. pink. and the purplish rub, of the jacqucmiDot ; but one lone American Beauty bad ,li pped from th e ,rcup and lay a t a maj e. tic l e nlth on th e table below A f oot or m orc be l ow th e blsket were tbe tip o f a few .raceful carnations, learlet, dark red. white, and pink awayina: fr om the t op o f a s l ender c r yltal pilCher.

On the surface o f tbe table, Dcar one o f tbe remote comen, wa. a small heartIbaped Ilan bowl filled with liIiu-of-the-valley and pt.nsie .......m.jestie black·and-gold, yellow, wh it e , I nd purple beautiu. Ne.r the front of the table wu a s ilv er cup, fr o m which smiled a m as! o f violett, white a nd purple, and a few dainty forletme-nots, .hich t he lardener had work.ed faithfully .nd anxiously t o force into bloonl for her "Pan -H elle ni c" pic tur e And then , very n ear th e foot o f the vase of carna ti ons, not so easily noticed 'Slin.t the dark sreen o f th e cloth, th ere lay looee o n the table a spray of holly and I twig of pine, with the gray-brown cone n"tIin, amon, the needl ea;.

Experiments on "fraternity forums" whi c h are car ried on at the prHent tUne by four of the fraternitie s at the Musachuse tts Institute of Technology seem to indicate that the f o rum idea will be adopted by practically all of the 20 fraternities a t T ec hnol ogy next fall at th e ope ning of the IC h oo t year.

The idea of the forum il to let succeufut business men of Greater Boston to live informal talks to the men of each fraternity at the fraternity houses.. Kappa Sirma, Siama Chi, Sigma Alp b a Eps ilo n of tb e national fraternitiea a t Technology a nd Phi Beta Epsi lo n, a local fraternity, are the f ou r th at have been aiving the idea a trial thil spring.

Busllu..u ?1 .1lH RLACHJtD

The w o rk is under the direction of the Technology Christian Association, H . E. Schabacker of the Kappa Sipa house cbairman of the co mmittee, and through the auociation the business men of Boston have been reached

The idea o f th e sc h eme is to give the co lleg e men personal contact with men of experience and hilh ideals_ \ Vith the sma ll Iroups of 2(l to 30 th.t are found in the f ra tern i t ies, it is possible t o let. bot h th e speaker and the co llele man to gether in .In informal way to disc:uu subjects of fundamental inte res t to both.

The present sys tem is to invite the speaker to din n er where, lathe red around tbe table, be can meet the men and fee l that he is one o f the group. After the dinner in some of the housn the ta lk has followed 115 an informal after-dinner lpeech with opportunities for discussion for anyone, wb ile in other houses the groups have adjour n ed t o another r oom and tbe ta l k has csr ried out in a form of ,eneral discussion.

The Itlethod of carrying out the ac:heme of lettin, the co llele men into contact wi th the busineas men i. a new one to Technolol'Y and probab ly to mOl t colJ.egCl, where outsiders, elpecially the bu siness men, who are amont the , tron,est forces in the community, rarely ,et in contact with t he collele man, particularly in the f raternities..

Th e wbole system bas been on tria l this sprinl and in the four fraternities .lready me nt ioned will be (1)ntinued until the end o f the school year.

In th e faU thin, s will be well under way , an exhaustive list of speakers prepared and the forum started in practically all of the hOUSCI, eacb h ouse h.ving a spea ker possibly eTery two or tbrH: .eeks. Tbe business men who hu'e .Iready been at the frate r nities are as willin, as the students to let toaetber and talk thin oYer and meet one another, so that as the plan develops it i, CJ:pt:Cted tba t the hu.ineu men will respond in a measure to meet the demands o f the colLe,e men upon tbeir time.--Chrislia" Alo"ito,.

COLLEGE SOTES

COLLEGE NOTES

Wa bin.ton. April IO.-Studenu of IlJ ullivcrsiues and collegc.f; in tbe United States arc under tbe "honor 'Yltem," accordin, to a bulletin just i.sued by the United States Bureau of EduCltiOfL or tbue, thirty cvcn per cent arc situated east of tbe Mississippi and .auth of tbe Mason and Dixon line; four per oent arc in NeW' En,land; anI, aix and one-half per cent arc for ","omen. while Sixty-five and onc·half per cent arc coeducational

Wbile the Uoivcrlity of Viraini. bu almolt universally been credited witb heiD, the orilinator of tbe honor Iyatem, the bulletin .bowl tbat priority is also claimed by \Villiarn and Muy Colle,c, Virrinia. Tbi. institution i. declared to have had. (onn of the bonor sya tem in 1779, Ind to have introduced it thrOUlb ita into the Uoinrsity of Vircinla. The honor of enab l ishinl tbe system bas also been • claimed for tbe University of South Carolina

\monl the insti tution s of the country tbat have the honor system in one or a ll dcparunenLs arc: Princeton University, Cornd! University, Barnard College, \Vub· ington and Lee Uni"ersity, Smith CoUcle, University of North Carolina, Institute of Tec.bnoloey, Swarthmore Collelre, Beloit Colle,c, Wesleyan Univenit,. and Randolph-Macon Woman's Collele, Lynchburg, Va. Amonl lhoac tbat hue tlIe honor .,.stem "in spirit but not in fonn," the bulletin mcntions Albion College, Dickinson Collelc, Bryn Ma.,r Colle.e, Mount Holyoke Colleee and Rose Pol,.technic ] Mtirou:

Some institutions frankly oppose tbe honor sy.tem. Among tbese are Dro-.rm University, Ohio University. VaSlar Collelre, Bowdoin Collcle. Clark College, Goucher Cotlcae and Trinity College, Durham, N. C. The president of Clark College deda.rts that "to ask a ttudent to .ign a pled.e tbat he has not cbeated in an eJtamination is like asking a reputahle man to baq up a siID in his store that be does not use s hort weilbU." A few institutions are cited IS bavinlr tried tbe system and declared it a failure . Amonr tbese are Franklin and Marshall Collele, the State Uni"tCrsit,. of Iowa and William Jewell College.

The bulletin gives as types of constitutions for tbe conduct of the bonor s,.stem those of Princeton and Cornell Universities.-Boston Tro""cript.

CRA!fGB "' S£LECTIOH o. RaoDES SCHOLAU

London-With the object of giving to Oxford University a new conti nlent of Amerkan students every ycar, the Rboda trustees today announced a change in tbe method of elccun&' Icholan. In.tead of •• hitherto cboosinl from the fort,.-eiabt atates in two consecutive yearl and skipping tbe third year, the scholara will be chosen yearly in future from two-thirds of the ltates.

The sixteen I tates to be omitted at the 1916 examinations are: Arizona. Delawarc, Florida, Idabo, Louisiana, Montana, Nu'ada, New Muico. North Carolina. North Dakota, Oklahoma. Soutb Carolina, South Daleota, Utah. Weat Virlinia and W)'ominl From tboac .tate. scholars will be selected in 1917 when another lixtee n Itatca will be omitted.-$i,,"'G Kappa T,.un,gl•.

RESOLUTIONS OF A }ul'i'loa

In a recent number the Dor"" published an admirable let of rules for underRradu. ate conduct wbieh me.rits reprintinr. The)' were found in the St",dy and were entitled "RelOlutions of a Junior. September, 1913," and read as followa:

1. To riac at 7:30; to retire at 10:00.

2. To exercise half an hour dail,..

l. To read at least a chapter of tbe Bible daily.

•. To attend the theatre once a week.

s. To attend all the important lectures on the campus.

6. To .pend a few minutes daily read ina periodicals

7. 10 aet al much out of m,.sel£ IS possible: in other words, neither to l ose nor waste

8. 9.

lD. lime.

To read one novc.1 and one pia,. a week

To ""rite to motber ever,. week

To take inventory of m,. lelf the first of every month

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1I. To read the above reaolutiona u'cry Sunday mornin, Alu"",i NI'wl.-Quoted by Alpho Gommo DlIlIo Qwo,.",.l)!.

FO.EIONZ"

1M Allle.leAN UNIVUSJTIU

1t may be to many • ,ufPri.e to learn that during the lut year nearly 4,000 .tudents from foreign countries were enrolled in 275 different American collclc, and univcnitiel. One i. prepared to read thlt China bad 59-4 and Japan 336 Rudents bue, but tbe followin, items I re unupected:' Great Britain and Ireland were repre· Kntcd by 212 stude nt .; Germany, 122; Ruasia, 12 4: France. 45; Sweden. 41: Italy, 38: Au.lria-Huntary, 34; Switzerland. 29; Norway, 26: Greece. 22; Spain. 20; the Netherland., 19: Bul,aTi•. IS; Roum,nia, 6; Del,ium, 4: Portugal, 3; Montcnerro, 1. New Zealand w represented by 56 students, Elypt by IS, Liberia by 2, and South Africa by 44. From the American pollelsionl Hawaii lent 108: Porto Rico, 21S: the Philippinel, 111. India had 162 Turkey, 143: Korea. 13; Penia, 21; Siam, 13. Of the Latin-American countriea, Mexico, with 223 students, head a the lin.-' Mislio"tJry R,vintl 0/ llu World.-Quoted by Th.mu of Zeta Tau Alpha.

The En Club of New Orleans has distributed circulara broadcast throul h Louisiana, Miuiuippi, and adjoinin, Itates advertis;nl for a young woman who will knock for admiuion at the doors of the medical deparhnent of Tulane University and, upon bein, refused permission to take the course and receive a diploma, will allow the Era Club to take her ease i nt o the courts and co ntest the legality of the university'S right thus to diKriminate a,ainst women. \Vben Paul Tulane ,ave the money for founding ;'1 university, he e.xpreuly a tal ed tbat it was for the education of youn, perlOn.... \Vomen have been admitted thert to the atudy of law and to the first two years of the medical cou rse s. But no woman haa been allowed to complete a medical educatiOD at 1 ulane. The Era Club. one of the moat influential women'a organizations in th e country, wantl to know why.-Th. Anlldo, of Kappa Delta, :zuoted by Koppo A,PhG ]o",.nol.-Tht R,.co,.d of Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Berkeley, Cal. - With lpeaker. and de1clllcl from every nation and land in the world the International Students' Reunion will convene here in a world con rell from July I to 5, lays the Doily Coli/o,."io". For aix months a committ.ce: of students from Ihe local Cosmopolitan Club has h«n working in conjunction with the organizati on of the association and C. \V Cowell , exposition commissioner of toci eties and convention s, in preparation for the conven tion

Vern Smith, 'IS, is in charge here for the aUQC1atton. Taraknath Du, Wasbjn,ton, '10, is now in Holland and will trlvel throu,h Europe for the nelltt three months &e<:urin, deleptea.

Three speakers of international note have definitely promised to .speak. They are Dr. K. D. Shastri of Benares. a Hindu scholar and sociologist; S. Pandit of Calcutta, who is now lecturin, in southern California, and Kiang Kang flu of Peking. Admiral Dewa of the Japanese delegation will prDbably apeak, and some member has promised by the Chinese government.

Several dele,atel from South America have writlen acceptance.. Every Cos· mopolitan Club in America will .end a dele,ate, as will tbe National A.!sociation of Menorah Societies and the Chinese Student Alliances. Student. will attend from the Universities of KiD and \Va seda. Japan, and the Univerlity of Pekin" China.

In all, more than 150 delerate. are expected at the convention.--Chn',tio" S,iuc. Mo"ito".

In Europe hi, her education has been hard hit. and the effects are not likely to ceue with the war Germany inevitably .ufl"ers mOlt, not only becaux forced to the ,reatu t exertions, but bccau!e education there hal the largest place Most of the German universitie. are far from rich. and the lovernment is not likely to be in a pot.ition to ,ive tbem material help when the war i. OYer. Specially unfortunate is the pol1hon of the private "docents," who, under the German IYltem do much of the teaching, and who are depending upon feea for a living. Fee. will be ta.rce when tbe war end., not only because 10 many of the young men of Germany wiJI have tealed t o exilt. but because the influx of foreign students, interrupted by the war, may not ea.ily be renewed.-Sprinafield R,.p.b/icon.-$croll of • b. 9.

TH E A RROW of PI B E TA PHI

EDITOR" SARAH GERTRUDE POMEROy-RuGa

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Tran spo rtation Notes

GRADUATE FELl.O\\' S 1-'011.

PI BETA PHI FELLOWSIUP FOR GRADL'ATE

PI BETA PIU P LA YER S

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COLLECE A ND I TS OEA

WHAT A Fa.ATUNITY GUtL TIfIS KS:

Antici pation. of an Infant C hapt e r , The

Broadening In8uence. A 51:9

Canadian Dramati c Club. A ..•....... 21 J

Convention \Vill " Wake U. Up 530

Desires of the Baby Chapter, Th e ................ .........

Dramatic Clubs at University of Ill inoi s .............•..

Dramatic Organizations at the Univusity of T exas ................. 21 0

Dramatics at Leland Stan(ord .....................••...••........ 212

Dramatic. at Michigan

Dramatics at "The Hub" ....................•.

Dramatics at Wisconsin .....•••. 215 Efficiency

"Exchange of Trouble s" Will be ll elpful , An ..........

Feelings of One o( Our Hostess, The ..

Few Helps One Chapter E:lpttts, A 528 Field for A..... .. ... ..... .

Five(old Desire. A

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531 Florida Alpha 534

How Minnesota 's Dramatic s Benefit th e Publi c . .

Interco urse with Other Chapters Anti c i pated JCJ6

Light Desired on Local Problem s

Needs of an Eastern Chapter, The

Place of Dramatics, The

"Policy of Making Things Go," The

What Conve.nlion Will Mean to Indian

\Vheo an Appreciatio n of the Stage is Emphasited ..............

When the Dramatic C lub Helps the Whole Community '

Where Dramatic Spirit Rather Than Elaborate A ccessories 15 Emphasited

Wh ere C reative Dramatic Ability Is Enco uraged :219 Where Fraternitiel Furnish Dramatics .............

Why Spend Time on Dramatiea?

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