&.U oommwUeaUona lDtended. tor Central omoe .lhould be adt1rNMd: Mrs. D. Brown. Pl Beta. Pb1 Oentnl <>moe. 115 Broad St.. llartlord. Conn.
A 10. CbaDte!' CIOmmoDdint' ,howd ha" notInd letUl' at m.truetlon from (Antral Oasc.. U BOt, noUfJ' KTL Brown at abon. &dd.r-. tiMber 11. Chapter ofII.oen mould meet and PftI" l)II.R for the De.... coUqe rear. (Tbe UACt date ef thit llleeth., muat be de«ormIned lD each (ilapter by the du. ot the opealo.l of Se,te",ber 21. Chapter oolTfllJ)Oodlng .ecretar\M uould hay, reoeh'ed trom Central OftIefi .upplll'5 for fall _OIL It not, DOtlt) Mra. Brown at ,baH
Ootober I (or befo ). CbaDter noe J)l'Nldenu Ibould
mill too rel"b Cl'nlral omCl! by October 1. on blanb In r.u fllPPl1e.. lhree- OOpj.M of lilt ot actl'e dlirinlJ ,",lnlC hut illlcU" It opening or h.1I term. Wlthdrawllll after Oc:t.ober I mould be.ent t.o Centr&l 0111.<"1:' at Ollce. CII.pter ,11lI Ibould mill! to !'ncb Cleotr,' OtII.f.'IO bY October 1. OOnlpltte lin of .u ,f,duate. or the preoedlng year (fI'etm.t.ry Ind .June), a.ll dl,mtJ'lN13 and all erpulliona, for vubItcaUoo In ..nn.OW.
Chapter eorI'NfiOII41rur Ibould mIn to rum efntr.. omre by ()('tuher 1, 0:>0 blanks pro· 'fIdect tbrlll! copl or Hat. of 14the membe and Olle to l'rof1llC8 l'1'esldrllt.
Cb.lrm or chalMf II('hOlarahlp ecmmlltee Ibonld telld to IlI'Ovlnce ,,'IOlatablll "lIpen1l1Or and aloo to Ute chairman of the lItaocl!nll rommltt.et:! on lChollnhlll tile almea .nd addte-.. homr ,,"d roto( !.be membt-n 0( tne ch.pter ldIolamlp coDll!l1tte. (or the collea;e yeaf_
October 15_ AlumllM club aec:retarles Ibould m.U ('Iub )"Mlbooka and proanm 4&ta. to A.lunwa! :EdItor_
October 20. ChaJ)ter lette:rt should be mailed to ChatJter IA!tter F..dltor_ A1wnluo' club ....co-tlrl,,. ab Uld mall alumtl.e club to AJwone Editor.
November I. CbaJ>t.er tTe urera abould l1li14 aem!. annual duee too the Orand Treaaurer.
N OVilmber lB. Annu.1 duea of alUlllOlil abould be lent \0 Lbe Prodnce Vloo l'rt ldent.
Ch.pter I'lnbell(>nle repfH('ntUI"e Mould make to (r,U-rnltt Tellre8entlt\'6 report 00 Panhe11cnlc con· clItloDII lD bel' collelJe.
J anua..,. I. AlnmllM club MCretarle. aend to Cell· ,nol .::>mOl C'ODIllllote or all "..Id nt L1uDllle. Mowina .nd. and lnillcltlol whlrll .re paid memberl of club and ",bleb al1l un&f!I.U.1.ed L1umlll6.
JaD.a..,. lB. Chapter C'OrT'NPOodtnll' mould ha., reaelfed Inl[lpliH for Iprlo! work. If not. ooc.ltJ Mrs. Brown at aboq addn!a.
Jaaua..,. 20. Chapter leUU (or .a.RllOW Ibould be mailed to Chapter Letter Editor. .&.IumlUl dub M't'h'tartM ahould mal) AJUIImIe PerMlnall. tte.. to EdItor.
Cha(ltB rioe prNId nu .,.nd to Central Of!Ice eomple«,e lilt. ,nUl latt>at of chapter alUlllllll. 1DcIudiu cleat.bJt and (olIowtq (Oml lD
F ". I Ie M a rotl II. .&nnual tr&Wntt7 cam1D&-
Marett 1 (or Mfa,." Cbape.er colTSPOlJllloJ( __ tariM IeIId to Omce tllree DUDtoe of Uat of acc.in _bRa. MCOIld half rea.r. n1na OODI. of
I..I.st 01 ehaf)teT om('lf8. and one of each to ProT· 1noe PrNldmL Ia _ ot tenn qR.I!Gl. u.t of !M'th. EDemben 1houl4 ba at Uu!I QPeIllna .. _.......
Chapt.er rice Pl'fllridtnta MIld to Central OtIJoa UlftJII oopll" of I1I1t or pef80nl Ita."tnr colleKfl alooe Qe. tober 1. WllbdnwLla after J6.a.rcb 1 Ibould ba IIDt 1D at 0IIC8..
Mal'Clh U. CbaIJter treuurel'8 Ibould lend Mrll·an· nu-.I dllCl to th& Grand 't'n,uurer.
Mareh 31. Flnat date (or pledi:e uamtnIUOD&. Ftnlll 4&te ror malllnk of lonual fraternity uamlnaUona, to l'rO'f11i0i BuptnllOl'L
April I. MlI)ltt.>f letter Ibould be mailed to Chap· tef Letter Editor. A!lnDlte perlOllal,. etc.. Ibonld be m,II01l by alumnee club to lbe Alumne Editor. Annual Fraternll.Y Enmltt&tlon.
April 15. AlUflllllll national duu mutt an be In.
A,rll 21. FOllndcfI' Day. AlumMl unIte trith ne&f88t; acthe chapter In OIIIcbratlon or the nellt.
M..,. I. CbaDtt'r eorl1!lJ)Ondhm lifCfl'tulti mould lend lib. enpl", of lonual rt'p(\rt to Ceotral omoe and ooe to l'ro"lnee .Prealdrnt.
.IY I. RuP('f-,bof'!l or J'raterrrlty Study I,tul E.lamloltlon .hnuld mall annual conIOlldated ,.. POrtl to the Commltt CbLlrman..
Mllv ZO. Leat. dfty for boldlna: or Senior F.ft"III'eU CerE'mon,. Aopllcatlool for mrmb(onhip and oatlooal L1UJD.Ue 4118 IM!IJ:t to i>ToTlDce Vice l-"...ldcllL
.,. 31. ('Jub ft..eal :Fear fOnda. Rettlemf'ot &hool mnlrlhlltlon. mu. hP mlUl'd hortOn! mldnl.1lI. to Pro.,Inee VIC'f' l'l't'irld(·ota. <'Iub Ptt:tIldent" retJ(lrtA I(>l1t to rro"hlCtl Ylco 1">reall1enu- Li-'l' of omoen It'llt 11)' rlllb rnrr'IIJUudlD& to I)CfllOllI lndlcated 00 blank&.
June 1_ C'haptl'r COTTeI<flOndlnjt ,boold nd to C(>.ntral Omce tJlI'I.'tI coplea of AdnlOlJ' Committee lilt. Ind OnC' to Province j',('Iideot. Or tbls may be done by Chaimlln of Committee. Cbaf)tl'r IleCl't'tlrtf'!! It'n(l to C'etltl'll omes nine coplel or lI.t ot oftlcer, ror rIll tl!rm. alld Ollf to rro"lo('tl J>l'8Id('nt. HI! aure tn meck UII aud lhlt all InlUat'" for Ule Yellr bav, 1'C]1l'l1'tNl to the Centra.! Ofllce and enttred in the card Indu. Cb.a]ltc!r C'Ol'THllOndlna: aeef1't&rtee IeDd to Cent.rLl 0fHr. Sel)tenlbfor clJIJlIIM 0( adCU-('h.ptf'f r.nht'lIf'llil- f'l'P1't'lM!1IIatl_ mould Ir"1d to O'aterni(, l"{'l,fl!!l('ntatl." In S'ltion/ll r&lIhclleoio dlotllled report. 00 Pa.nhe1icDlc condlUOIloI In bet COIl('lle.
June 10. Annual RePOrt. o( National OfI'\('E'fI. Pro,,· Ince l"n1l1"lnre Vice PrClId.fflll. and CbalrmPn of Ntandim CommltttoM lIbould be IatIlt to Orand 8ecftu". for U8e .t 8pr1R1: ol tbt' Orand COUDdL All repglU Ibould be \7pe"'".... AhtDUUP dub ft'DOl1II PIoU!d be m.aUed by a11m1Da oIub MCI'ttarl_ to UWI .&.lUfJltle Edit«.
JUlia II. Cbllrmall of eba)lt6 mmmlttee 011 how.. 10.11111 allOUld na_. (>boUlnaph&, .nd brief I.J'P8" written blolP'llllhl of IU honor .,.alate. &0 tile cbalnnan ol D&tlonal lCholarab1p CiOGlIIllWle.
Juee. AIlnu.l IDeeC.loa or Grand Cound1.
:rw (Urtber lLDDOunoemeDlI, _ lIOUeea followinlt P'ratemJbr Dlreot.ol'7. LIa of hlanki &04 other euppU on I.. pqeI of UlIa lMue..
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FRATERNITY DmEcroRY
FOUNDERS OF THE FRATERN I TY
Campbell, S1<4 Pike St., Houston, Pa
Libblc 8rook Gadni. (Mrs M. E.), Avon, Ill
Clara Brownlee Hut c hinson (Mrs. Alexis), 318 First Ave , Monmouth, Dt.
Fanny Whitnack Libhcy (Mrs. Howard), 3021 Thirty-sixth Ave., S. W., Seattl e, Wash.
Inet. Smith Soule (Mrs. Melville C.>, N L St., Tacoma, Wash
Jennie Horne Turnball (Mrs. Thomas B.>, 2229 N. Fifty.third St., Wynnfield. Phila· delphia, Pa.
Jennie Nichol. M . D . (deceased) .
Fannie Thompson (deceased).
Nanel: Black Wallace (deceased).
Ada Bruen Crie r (deceased).
ROl. Moore (deceaaed).
Emma Brownlee Ki J.or e (deceased).
Presid.,d Emeritus
May K . Keller, W elt hampton College. University of Richmond, Va.
Grand .H'creta,y-Gail De Wolf, 4077 W. Third St., Los Angeles, Calif. Gr(md TnOlu,,,r-Loi. Fr:u1klin Stoolman (Mrs. A . W.), 1001 S . Third St., Champaign, DI.
Arrow Edilor- Josephine M. Coates, 254 Mason St ., Milwaukee, Wis
A""istCl'" '0 Gr and P,,,sident-Marj:l"aretta Fenn·Putman (Mrs. Reding), c/o P. D. Fenn, 120 N. Jeffer son St., Chicago, III.
A""il lanl to Gr and Via Presid ent- Ruth Barrett Smith (Mrs. Warr en T.), 1015 Tremai ne, Los Angeles, Calif.
THE ARROW STAFF
Arrow Edito, and Business Manag"r-Josephine M Coates, 254 Maaon St.t.,Mil waukee, Wi s. Alu,"ntr Editor-Apiel Miller Turner (Mrs. J. R >' 458 Rodney Aye., rortland, Ore Chop'er Letter Ed,tor-Afltles Hildebrand Daniel (Mrs. C. C. Jr ) , 4322 Mercier. Kanlu City, Mo
Eddor of Pi Phi Rr/otivu-Florence Taylo r Shields (Mrs. Paul L.), 706 N SOth St , Omaba, Neb.
ExcltCln g"" and Collr"e NOlu- Hel e n Call Cord (Mrs. M. C.), 3240 Garfield Ave. 5 , Minnea po lis, Minn. Fro," Pi Phi P"''''- Esther Fuller, Tribune-Capital, Des Moines, Iowa. ArroUl FiZ,,- Delia Conger, 381 N. Prai r ie St., Galesburg, 111.
PI BETA PHI CENTRAL OFFICE
Dir"ctor of Crntraf O/lice-Mrs. R. D. Brown, 175 B road St., Hartford, Conn.
NATIONAL HISTORIAN
Grace Filler, 208 N Wayne Ave ., \Vayne, Pa.
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEE FUNDS
Clrairma_Lois Frankli.n Stoolman (Mrs. A. W ), 100 1 S Third St. Champaign, III ; Anne Stuart, 1906 D St., Lin co ln, Neb .; Nit.a Hill Stark (Mrs. H . J. Lutcher Stark), Drawer 201, Orange, Tex.: Anna Tannahill Drannon (Mrs. M. A .) , 4 21 Power St., Hdena, Mont ; Amy Burnham Onken, Chapin, III.
NATIONAL SUPERVISOR OF CHAPTER ACCOUNTING
Marie Freeman Palmer (Mr•. \Vm. G.), 601 W Michigan Ave., Urbana, III.
ErDcnine Bib1 ycArtbur (Mrs. CUria L), 1408 W . Fifdtt.. St. Terrace Kan City'. ),[0. , C1Wrmao.i." Marperile Gr.ybiU Lewi. (llra. Arthur R .), 3635 c.;;;pbell". Kan· au Cit,. Mo., -neu urerj Gnft. Map Phelan (Mu. William), 2709 Walnut, lUD City, Mo.
SETTLEMENT SCHOOL COMMITTEE
CNinnG_Dr. Edith GordonJ. 35 Kendal An" Toronto. OnL. Cuad&. BbokJeu of HiatOt)' and .uc.h inform.tion. l'iruide Industry Booklets.
T" ..,.,,.er-Grace Post , 707 N. Maren go An. PHidena. Calif
S«ff"ry ud Editor of Nnu frOM LitlE. Piglo.-Blanehe Charlton Curti. (Mrs. Puce H.). 2525 Hi.Jhide briye., Surliapme, Calif.
P'Off'oms jfW SttUI,.".' Scuol Mutulf/I. 160IGJ,d AI"WI_Rebecca Downcy \Vhite (II,.. Alfred R.>, 608 Onond St., Ann Arbor, Mich hol.ted Club Mem be Pwblicity. WIl,' (lftd Mto,u. Fil",. tH,4 Slid _Hde.n Doll Tottle (MrL ]. W .). SUDstt KnoU. SL Geor,c', Rd., Baltimore, Md.
Dir«tDr--Enlyo Bi.bop, Pi Beta Phi Settlement Scbool, Gatlinburc, Sevier CountT, Tenn.. Orders and information concern in Fireside Induatries, application for poaitlon to teach, Trc:isurer of Fireaide Indultri6.
STANDING COMMITTEES
"" En""""o_MarT Cooyer Frost, 1635 Gaylord SL, Denver, Colo., Chairman: Charlotte CropTeT Brown, S3 G.rden St., Cambridae M : Ann McDonald D' Auie Mn Jobn), 509 N. Lot Palma. St., La. AngeTe Calif ; Mildred Catbera. 100 W. 33rd St., nayonne, N/.. C"m",itt" ",. MlIIlan-#' C b.r--Mn. Louise Neil Tuber. 1060 Humboldt, Den.er. Colo , Chairman. Committee",. Sc,u,lo,.sllip.-Alice Huke Dow (MrL C. S.), 3723 Rele"oir Rd., Waabiaa: ton, D .C. , Chairman; A. , Marion E. Rdd, JO aaybourne St., Dorchester, Mus.: B, WrL A.. C Roorbaeh, 1815 Whitcha1J, Harri sburg, Pa.; r, Mildred Mabee Hill (MrL Coite) , Box il22, Orlando, FIL; Mrs. Wallace HamptOn, 2064 Eastern Parkwa" Louisvi11e , X,.; E, Reaina Pi Beta Phi House.). Uni"ersity of Dakota, Grand Fork •• N.D.; Z, Mra. Vlneent M. Carroll, 5519 vatea LoulI, Mo.; H/ Mra. Au.tin Xracaw, 1"<45 Monroe St., Den"er, Colo.; 9, Ruth .Morton, 121" Grana A"e., Fort Smith, Ark.; I, MrL Robert T. Banb. E, 311-Ulh A.e.., Spokane, Waah.; I, MrL Harry ]. FrOlt, 1021 N. Virginia 5L, ReDO. Nu. Com"nlUI Oft, Tro"J"!MJ"-Chri.tine Yerces Conaway (Mra S. Steele), 1230 Glenn Ave , Columbua. Ohio., Chairman. Committe, 0,. F""N'fti':I SttUly au EJro",iMtio..-Ellen-Oare Gillespie Krib. (Mrs, C. 1.., Jr.), <4005 Gillon An., Dallas. Tex., Chairman; A, Ellen Grace Stradling Hamilton Ave .• Hamilton. N.Y.; B, Hutchinson Kewlu (Mrs. J. E .), Nohle Rd . , E ast Oeve1and, Ohio; r Elizabeth Larzelere 320' Shadow Lawn, Jaclt.an"iIIe, Fla..; b, t Ruth Mitchell Deetb (Mrs. Carlos), 1920 Meridian, ApL 3, Indianapoli., Ind.; Eo Jeule Howser Job (Mra. Thule T.), 52 Clarence A"e., Oak Park. DI.; Z, label Baker, 1207 Stratford Rd , Kansas Cit" Mo.; H, lean Mabee, 208 E. 25th. Cheyenne, W,o-; 9, Glad,a Scinlly, 201 W. M.in St., Ar more, Olda.: I, Frida Hcndrlckson , SOU·20th Ave., Seattle1 W h,; K, Hclen Richardson Henry (Mra. Ward, J .> , 7725 Norton Ave.• l1ollywooa. Calif. Committu 0,. Pro,,.om--Dr. Geraldine Oakley, Care Ca1gary School Board, Cit, Hall, CalflTy, Alberta, Can., Ch.irman; Dr. Edith Gordon, 3S Kendal A"e., Toronto, Ontario. C.n .; Anna Tannahill Br.nnon (Mrs. M A ) 27 P01Ver St., Helena, Mont.; M.y Lansfield Keller}. We.thampton College. Richmond, Va.; Sarah Pomeroy RUII (Mta. F. A.). 113 Woodcliff Rd , Ne1Vton Hi,hlands, M Committ., "" U"dMgr.d".,. Loo Fud-Ruth Hese:ltine. 122 Griswold, DeJaware, Ohio., Chairm.n; Mildred Babcock (MrL H. L ), 16 Woodlei,h Rd., Dedham, Mus.; Ruth Curtiss Murray (Mu. Cornelius J ), 9-40 Park A"c., New York, N.Y. C"".mitt.e " Social Martin Hanna (Mra. Robert), Mankato, Xan., Chair man; A, Edna Grah,m, IV7 CGurt, Oneonta. N Y.; B. Ruth Trimble, 309 Eicher Ave., Green.burg, P' : r. Loui..,. Sale Cassad, (Mrs. Ma,nard L ) 102 Irving Pl , Ithaca. N Y.; A, Virginia LoKe, Milford. Mich.; E, Anita Haven. Frazier (Mr F. H.), 653 Hinman Ave., Ennston, Ill.; Z, Elizabeth C.rpenter. 601 W Aabland. I ndianola, Iowa; R, Jeane Moore M.rtin (Mra. W. L ), Winfield, K.n ; a, Mattalou ManbaJl, Siliam Springs, Ark.; I, Mary Wisecarver Oi'llrd (Mrs. Jame a M.l, 665 E. Thirt1' second St. N., Portland, Ore.; K, Ethel Redpath EllingstoD (MrL liarry C.), 111 .. 9 Sheldon Ave., Roscoe, Lo. Angeles, Calif.
C"mmillu ON Frat"r"ity M ic-M.r«aret Kellenbacb, 3135 College ATe., Indianapolil, Ind •• Chairman; Rub, Burtne.. 01matead (MrL), 16 S. Ninet«nth A"e. E., Duluth, Minn . ; Helen Kammerer McKenltrew (Mra. E . L). III E. Eirhtieth St., New York. N Y.; DorothT Iaekes Miller (Mra. Warren E ), 708 W St., K.n City, Mo ; Louule SpauJdina )hin (Mr Douglaa). 12 Richard Pl., GlendaJe, Calif.
D" Chap'"
Bates Guttenen (Mn. M. E.). 47"1 Thomaa A"e. S ., Minneapolu. Minn ., ChairmM; Marion Cae Pa1mer (lira. Willi. l.!::1 Jr.), 3 ..01 Kempton, Oakland, Calif ; R. Louise Kincaid, 66 In-in St., Portland Me.. CommiUu 0" Chapero".l-Jeasie W. Lockett, 235 N. Fairview, Decatur, hI.
NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS
Pi Beta Phi Repreaentatif'e--Amy B. Onken, Cbapin, Ill
Cbairman-Renl Sebring Smith, 4 Z, Y.W.C.A. Olice, Long Beach Calif. Committee on College Panhellenic.-.Mn. I"in, Brown, A.. X 0, 61 Burnet SL, Maplewood, N 1.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES
ALPHA P R OV I NCE
p,. ..id_"t-Beatriu Louise Ed,s, 145 E. 35th St., New '(orle, N Y.
O"'1Wio AIPAo--UniversitJ' of Toronto. Jean Lind, 51 Grosvenor St., Toronto, Ont., Can. Moiu A/pN-Univers ity of Maine, Doraa Osgood, Balentine Hall, Orono, Me.
Vnmtm' Alpll4-- Middlebuf7 Collc,c. Sara Harnden, Lc Chateau, M iddlebury , VI Vnmo"' Bitt_University of Vermont, (Pres ) Ruth Field, Campus House, Burlington , Vt. MruJochwstUs Alpha-Bollon Univeraily Elizabeth Glove r , 64 Ea . t St., Ipswich, Mass. (U n iversi t y locat e d at Boston, Mat;,\
Nitti Yo r k Alp.w--Syracuse University. Vance Sullivan, 215 Euclid Syracuse, N.Y.
Nn. YDr"k Gammo--St. Lawrence University, Helen H Smith, Pi Beta .l"hi Houle. Canton, N.Y.
NnJI York D,.UCJ-Co rnell University. Elizabeth Chadwick, 114 Keh in PI., Ithaca, N Y
BET A PROV I NCE
Pr,sident-Mildred Kern BilSdl (Mrs. H R.) , Reedsville, Preston Co. , W.Va
P'"lUylwltio D"lta-Univenity of Pittsbur.h, Mary Dudley, 10 Elmore Rd ., forest Hill s, Wilkinsburg, Pa.
(Univers!ty located at Pittsburgh, PL)
Oil", Alph--.University of Ohio, Mary Ellen ' Vood, 22 W . Washincton St., Athens, Ohio. Ola", Beto--Ohio State Un iv ersity, Mary E. Cook, 121 S . ParkTle" Ave. , Bexley, Col umbus, Ohio.
Olaio D,lto.-Ohio \ Vesleyan University, Mary Purdum. Monnett Han, Delaware, Ohio. Wilt Vi ,.ginia AlPha-University of We st Virginia. (Pres.) Jean Wade, Pi Beta Phi House, Morl'antown, 'V.Va
GAMMA PROV I NCE
P"Jid "t-Harrie.t Smith, 123 32nd St , Newport Newa, Va
Distric t 0/ Columb i a AlPha-George Washington University, Marie Siegrilt, 2121 N St., N. W., Wa,hington, D .C.
Vwgi"iG AlpJaa-Randolph-M:acon Woman', College. Carolyn Gor e, R. M W.C., Lyn c hbu r g, V a
VWvinia Gomm-College of William a.nd Mary, (Prell.) Catherine Hasseltine, Pi Beta Phi House. William,burl', Va.
NMt'" Coroli"o Alpho--University of North Carolina, Elaine 'Vheaton, Pi Beta Phi Rowe, C h apel Hill N.C.
Florid a B. Stetson University, Marie Chaudoin Hall, Deland. Fla. Florida Btt_Fl'orida State College for Women, El len 1't.night, Pi Beta Phi House, Talla· hassee, Fla.
FloritlG GommG- R ollins College, Edith Moffat, Cloverleaf Hall, Rollin' College, Winter Park, Fla.
DELTA PROV I NCE
P"side"I-Mildred Ting ley Beisel (Mrs Robt. E.), 521 Sta t e St., West Lafayette, Ind Michigofl. Afpho--Hilbdale College. Pauline Southwick, Pi Beta Phi HOUle, Hillsdale, Mich.
Michigo" Blto-University of Michigan, Helen Domine, 836 Tap:r.an Rd ., Ann Arbor, Mich. /1IlI i o"o AII'll_Franklin Collere, Esther Rapp, B1.fgersviUe, In • (Co1lege located at Franklin. nd .)
/"lIitulG Btt ll-- I ndiana University, l one V Swan, Pi Beta Phi HOUle, Bloomington, I nd. Irtdia"4 Gomm_Butier College. Ruth Landers, 341 Poplar Rd. , Indianapolis, Ind. /"diafNI Ddt_Purdue University, Role. CUR-U. 11 1 Littleton St. , W . Lafal:ette, Ind. Kt/dud" Afpho--University of Louisville, Uta Cobb Hutcheson, 127 W. Barbee, Loui,ville, Ky.
T,,,,,ess., A/ph_University of Chattanooga, Grace Dickers, University of Cbattanooga, CbatlanOOtra, Tenn . Alobam" Alph o-- Birmingham -Sou thern College. (Prea.) Martha Posey, 887 fifth PI. W., Birm ing ham, Ala.
EPSILON PROVINCE
P,uide"t-Bernardine Chesley Sawer, (Mrs. A. R ), 186 Franklin Pl., Milwaukee, Wis. Assisto'" 10 Prfltn "c. Pr trid."t-C harlotte Winget Cbope (Mra. Horace), 4410 W Lake Harr iet Blvd., Minneapolis, Minn.
Min".uoto Alplao--Univenity of Minnesota, Ina Ram y, 52J2 Knox Ave., S .• Minne· apolia, Minn . Wiseo""",, A/pita-University of WilCon lin, Marlnet Searle, 233 Langdon St., Madison, Wi>. WisC"CHt.ri" Bn.-Bdoit College, Gretchen Hobbs, 728 Hobart Pl. , Beloit, Wi.. Nlff'th Doltoto Alpho--Univeraitr of North Dakota, (Prea.) Inez Babcock, Pi Beta Phi HOUle. Univ Sta., Grand Forks, N.D.
lIIi"DU Alph_Monmouth College, Carol Ramer, McMichael Home, Monmouth, ])1.
JIli"N Bet.Vdto-Knox Collele. Ben,. Elder. Whiun, Hall, Galubur,. III. 1m*," Uni'tt:1'lJ.tT, Sarah Wellinr, 1123 Chica,o Ave , E D.lon, DI. IIIi,""" of lUiood. Bett, Stoolm.a.n. 1001 S. lrd SL . Cbampaign DL 1I1i..u Et_Jamea Millikin Uoivenity, Marianna Shdlcr, 2JS N Fai",CW An., Decatur, m.M itoba Af;h4I-Unin:l'.ity of Manitoba, Marjorie Cn.i, 211 Oxford SL. Wionipea. Ka.n.., Can, ZETA PROVlNCE
Prlsidlnt-Uina We.lfall FOller (Mr Wayne 1.). 2304 Hillcrest Dr" Cedar Rapid., IowL 1f1t1Hj AlpluJ.-lowa Wesleyan Uni .. enity, Harriett Grant. Herlbey nail, ),flo Pleuant. IOWL
ItIfH Bll'lo--Simpaon CoJlece, Sara Eo McCoy, 1003 N B St" Jodianola. Iowa. Iflfl!G State Collc,c, Rachel BaTnet', 129 AU ATe.. Amu, JOWL /".". ZlI'Io-Univerlity of low Ila,.,. Rovane,.t 81S E. WashinatoD, lo.a City, JOWL $tHd14 DoUta AII'''-Uninuity 01 South uakota. Cleo ]obn50D. 21S Court St.. Vermilion, S D. Min"",... Alpho-Unh'enity of Miuouri, Eliubeth O'Keefe, 511 Rollin Columbia Mo Min",,"; B,t.-\Valbincton Uninrlit)', Idaree ' Hopkinl, 5971 Ennlbt ATe.. St. Lcru:ia. 101•• MillO.,,,,, Gc"nmlJ-Drury College. Mary Elilllbeth Shollenberger. Wallace Hall, Drury CampuI, Springfield. Mo
ETA PROVINCE
P",nd,,"t-Virlinia Hutson Eldrid r e Hotel, Lawrence Kan. NdHtulta B,'.-Univeuity of Nebrulc:a. Marjorie Gould. 426 N 16th St • Lincoln, Neb Ka,.su Alp.w.-Univer.ity of Kanlas, Catherine Catlin, 1246 Miuillippi St.• Lswrence, Kan. KG"$41 Bet..--Kansal State Agricultural Collele. Joan Lytle, SOS De.ni.an, Manhattan, Koo. Wy"",i." AlpAo-Uni.ersity of Wyoming, Mary Kline. 809 Grand A.e , Laramie, Wyo, CollWodo AlpA-Uni.er.ity of Colorado, Maxine Cooley. 890-11th St • Boulder, Colo CoIIWGilo Bet_Univerlity of Denver, Blanche Calkins. 640 Race St.. Denver, Colo .
THETA PROVINCE
P,.esid,..t-Nita Bill Stark (Mrs. Lutcher), Drawer 201. Orange, TeL Oll.1umto A/p.lio.-University of Oklahoma. Patty Lee Smith, S18 Lahoma, Norman, Olda Ollo/soma B,.,---Oldahoma Agricuhural and Mechanical College , Dorothy Callahan, 923 Collea-e A.,e.• Stillwater, Okla.
A,.hltSGS AlpAo-Unive.raity of Arkanau, Christine Nellon, S38 Levtrette, FayettniUe, A.k.
T.xtu Alpll_Unive:niry_ of Texas, Virginia SUi'll, SID W. 23r<!z.. AUllinr... Tex.
T,x41 Bno--Southern Methodist University, Marion Caldwell, 1"i Beta 1"hi Box. S . M . U . , Dallal, Tex.
U'oll A/pll4l-University of Utah, Vltlinia Kinglbury, 2S2 Canyon Rd , Salt Lake City, Utah.
ALUMNlE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORY
lot' the AIMm_ Gild Cr/md Viu Pn.ri4"",-}Utherine Burr Teller (Mrs. Charlel F .) , 1O(i Walnut PI., Syracuse. N.Y.
Aslino,,' til Grt"ld Viu P,uid ",-Ruth Barrett Smith (M rs. \Varrc.n T ). lOIS Tremaine, Lo& An,eies. Calif. AI.""",. Editor-Agnes Miller Turner (Mra. J. R,), 458 Rodney Ave., Portland, Orc.
ALPHA PROVINCE
Vice p,.uidnt-E. Louise Ricbardaon, 16 Parker St., Watertown, Mau
BosttM, ' MuJ.-Matilda McLeod, 38 Alpha Rd ., Dorchester, Mus. B.,oIo, N.Y.-MrL Homer H. Woods, 196 North SL B "U"UtOfl, VI.-Mrs. F. H. Keese, 163 Lyman Ave. C_"eclictlt-Bcltuice Hall, 450 Aar1um St., Hartford, Conn. Nnv J. W. Woodward. Sleepy Hollow, Plainfield, N J Nft.! YlW"LN .Y.-1A.,.s. E. L. McKendrew. 111 E. 80th St. Porllo"d, .M ••-R. Louise Kincaide. 66 Irving St. Rochert,.., N.Y.-Mn. Emcz Brownell, 411 Mt. Hope Ave. N.Y.-Mrs. Guy Chaffee, 2827 E. Cenes« St. Toroflto, Canada-Mrs. R. • D. Hector, 20 Kilbury Rd. W,st,,,,,, Ma8SochMs,US AIMmn_Hettie Craighead, 120 Byers St., Springfield , Mus.
BET A PROVINCE Vice Pr.M'flt--Fr:ancea Carpenter Curtis (Mrs. A. R.), 8935 Meridian An., Clueland. Ohio. Akrofl, Ohio---Mra. Richard B. Lyman, c/o Lyman Motor. Co., 200 E. Market St. Atll,fls, Ollio---Mra. Earl Shaffer, 21 Columbia Ave. B,(ffJ,r Vall,),-Dorothl_D. Merriman, 1432·3rd Ave., New Brighton, PI.. C'fltrGI Louil A. Cobbett, 102 S. Front St., Milton, PI.. Ci".dnMti, Ohio-Mrs. Leonard C. Lorenl, 137 Burnette Ridge, Ft. Thomas, Ky. Clar/ubwrl1. W.va. - Mrs. L. L. Bailey, 613 Fairmont Ave., W.Va. ClftI,'a,.d, Ohia--Grac.e Martin, 3432 Ormond Rd ., Cle't'e1and Hei gbu, uhio. CofMmbws. Ollio-Mrs. Don Couhnp, 1190 Elmwood Ave. Dllawor" Ohio--Mra. Robt. P. Hilla 407 N. Franklin St. Harrisbwrg-Lllfl CGSler. Pa.-Dorothy i.o:uise Sponsler, 2216 Penn St., Harrilburg, Pa. Maltt1,.i,.g Voll,], OJrio-MrL J. R Stalker, 2515 Ohio Youngsto...-n. Ohio M",,,.i VIIUey, Ohio--Mrs. R. 1'. McC(ty-, 472 Brookside Dr., vayt on, Ohio. MOf'{1afltoulrl, W.Va.-MrL R. Elton Warman, 5 Watt. St. Ollio Ga",mo--E1len Boyer, 1601 Bryden Rd., Columbus. Ohio. Philad.,phia, Pa.-Crac:e T WillOn , 15 E. Albemarle Ave , Lansdowne, Pa. Pittsbwr{1h Po.-Mu. H. C. Johnaon, 39 \Valout St., Crafton , Pa SOMth Hili.,. Pa.-Mrs John S. Wassum, 1403 Park Blvd., Pittsburgh. 16, Pa. Tol.do. Ohio--Mrs. W B Kirk, 616 Lincoln Ave
GAMMA PROVINCE Viu Pruid,nt- Jane White Comer (Mrs. Harry), Chapel H ill. N.C At/aflla, Ga.-Mrs. Ashby C. Taylor, 1609 Ponce de Leon AYe. Baltimor., Md.-Jnaephine Spencer, 2106 St. P.ul St. D,Lafld, Fla.- Mra. A. S. Gilbert, Box 1241. ltw#tso"vill, Fla .-Ca rolyn Schultz, 3689 Hedrick St. L ahla,.d,t. Fla.-M r s R. O. Craig, 838 E. Lime St., Box 297. Miam', 1'14- - Mra. George Drummond. 512 Alcazar Ave., Coral c.;ables, Fla. Nonh Branson, Chapel Hill, N.C.
OrfaMo, Fla.-Mrs. Charles E. Limpus. 507 Richmond AYe. Polm Fla.-Mrs. W H J. Robertson, Flaaler Aptll., \V est Pa1m Beach. Ridmottd, "A.-Mrs. W. C. Ta)wr 4102 W. Franklin St. St. Pnersbwr,", FI4--Mn. Lew;' Wray , Trelain Dr. Washi,.gto,., D.C -Margaret SomerriJIe, 5600-16tb St.
DELTA PROVINCE
Viu Pr,sid."t-Rutb Wilson, 29 Drookleiah Arm., 1251 Drook St., Louilville, Ky. Afifl Arbor, Mich.-Mra. Gordon Ibbotson, \Vashtenaw Hill. Estatea. Bir".iflgham Ala.-Annabel Carey, 1716·1th Ave., W., Ensley. Ala BloOMfidd Hill" Jlic'\'-)fra. H. B. Quinn, 121 Puritan Rd .• Birmingham, Mich. Bloo".,,.gloJt, J.d.-Mrs. Hugh Norman, 609 S. Jordan Aye. Clullt •• OOI10, T",,..-Aml Chue Loftin, 752 Vine St. Dnroit Miell.-Mrs. Dudley Newton. 3265 Tyler An. Falls Cili".LDMi.wil'!t K,..-Litlian Elrod, 129 W. Ormsby St Fo'" Wo,.." I .ul--\..orace MelleD. 331 W. M.in St. Fraflklifl, Ifld.-Eleanor 901 E. Jefferson St. GraJtd Rapids, Mirh.-Mrs. L. P. Schuck, 56 Portsmtrutb PI. Hillsdal. , Miell.-Mrs. Frederick W. Stock. Jr., 3 Broad SL Ifldia,.apt"u" 11Ul.-Mra. Carlos Deeda, 1920 N. Meridian St., Apt. 3. Lofa,.,tt" I"d.- Dorothy Puckett, 64 Robinson SL. West Lafayette.
M",..pllis. T""".-)lrL T. H. Biker, 1887 Lindale Sl. Nulluille, Tn-fl.-)oI.ra. lohn L. TrIer, Blackburn An., Bell Meade, S"w,,,.,,..,,,.,. I"" ...-lidc:n S1te.ridan, 26 Adams Aye.. £'unsyi1le"
8.141'. Wu.--Gcrtrudc Blazer, 509 Broad SL Ca,.,luJg•• la .-M.,... Duid Smith. Carthage.. Ill. Cumpail1"' ."d U,.btJ"o-Mn. C. I. WaJlac.c, 1210 So. Lincoln, Urbana, ID CJunl1o, 1Il.-Hn. J. Fenton Parker, 7020 Jeffery AYe. Clue.go W.st S.bti:,b •• AfH",,,.-Yarian Hulce, 119 S. Brainerd Aye... La Granic, III D,ca'." lIl.-France. Arm.trons. 985 W. Main SL D.'!",,,. Mi"".-Rulh Torrence Hall. EII1'''' JII.-Janet Lowrie, R.l'.D. 3, Box 293. LiblM B,.oo" C"ddi.l-Mra. Ernest E. Davia., Avon, Ill GoJ"b.rg. IIl.-Mrs. Curlt. H. Brown, 1490 E.. Knoll: SL c r."d Forb, N.D .-Mrs. Grace Gib.on, 324 N. 8tJi SL Madilo", W...,.-Mr.. Henry BUlh, 2222 Rawle1_ A.,e. Ml/w,""'II, Wi.t.-M.ra. Harold Koch, 316 Alta Vista Ave.• \Vau ....atosa. Wi .. Mi""eapolu, Mi"".-Mra. Robert Sbay, 3550 P.rk A.,e. Mo,.".o,dll, 1I1.-Mrs. E. D . 800 E. 2nd Ave. Norlll Slwre. III.-Mra. D. S. Sutton, 909 Elmwood Ave., E.-naton, III . 00.' Par. aNd River Poren, JII.-Mn. T. M. Rohie, 24 N. AU.ltin. Oak Park. Peon·a, lll. - Mrs. C. G. Farnum, 3J1 Parkside Ave. Rockford, lll.-Editb Wbiting. Rockrord Senior High School, S. Madison St 5t. flowl, MINN.-Mr•. \Valter D. Lovell, 2241 Hendon Ave Stm·"i!field, III.-Mr Ru.sell Hunter"" ]132 S. Spring St. Wi"NI,eg, Ma".-Phylli. Elkin, 225 .l'arly St.
ZETA PROVINCE
Vic. Pnriunl-Florencc Barnet lnabrarn (Mr Jobn), 3323 In er5011 An., Del Moines. Jowa.
A"les, 1000000Mr Chevalier V. Adam., 1103 Manton Ave Bwrli"gto". lowo.--ldr •. W. F. Weibley, 616 Court St. Cornllttnt, Mo.-Mr.. Hudson Cooper, 607 N. Main St. Cedor Ropidl, lowo--Mary E. Sawin, 2400 Benr An. Cllorilo". lowo--Mr W. A. Eikenberry, 400 S. 8th St. Co/w".bi_, Mo.--Queen Smitb, 501 Rollins St. Del MD'i"u lawo--1fra. L A. Weat, lJ09-42nd St. lradiDf40la, 10000000Mr Ada P. Samson, 600 W. Albland Ave Iowa City, louo-ld Edward Rate. 212 Richard St 10pU", Mo -Mrs. Geo. Taaie, 634 N. Byers. K,,,wu City. Mo.-Mfa Luther E. Wood, 3728 Gillham Rd. M •. PlefWINt lO'Wo--Mr Will R. Campbell, 801 E. WUhinaton St. St. L_i.t, Mo.---C1ara Beardslee. 411 W. S..,on A.,e., \Vebster Groves, Mo StOWS Ci.y. lou._Mn. W. S. Crouch. 4318 Morninpide An. Spri"gfi"d, Mo.-£1izabdh Baldwin, 711 E. Walnut St.
ETA PROVINCE
Vic. PrelideNI-Vera Wattles Kirkpatrick (Mra. H. I.), ]952 Euclid Ave., Lincoln, Neb. AIbt4qlurqlu N.M.-lt:ra. H. Balil Wales, 135 S. 14tb SL Bowlder. Colo.-Mr.. D. E. McAllilter, 1160 Cascade Ave . COlper. W)'o.-Mra. Earl R. Bowmln, 327 S. Kell..,ood. C'eyenn,J. Wyo.-Mra. Wa1ter F. Davi., 1222 W. 3bt Dentlff, Lolo.-Mrs. A V Kinney,2031 E l m. Lo-wf'ettee Ko".-Alice Y Horton, 511 Tennel5ee St Liru:o/n. Neb.-Marya.nn CorDell, 1910 S 26tb St. MONlloltGN. Ko".-Mr Geo. Cammer, 926 Pierre St 0".0110, N.b.-M. L F. ]ObnIOR. 5311 Izard St. PONdr. Volley-Mrs. George Robinaon. 230 JacklOn Ave., Fort Collins, Colo. p.,eblo, Colo.-Mr C. M. Hamilton, 3]6 W. Routt St. Sow" C.,.,rol K o nlO-l-Har r iet Collinl. Oxford. Kan. Topdo, K(lN.-MrL A. N. Alt. ]298 College A.,e WIChita. KDN.-M.ra. Geo. M. Mont.omety, 135 Terrace Dr. Wyo".iNg Alwmll_Bernice Appleby. 511 Park AVe., Laramie. Wyo.
THETA PROVINCE
Vic. PreliJe",-Franlde Cochran Hilt (Mrs. R. ),f.), Orange. Tex. Ard".or't O"'o.-Mn. George C. Holling.worth, 609 D N.W. AllltiN. es.-Franee. Avery, 1106 Colorado St. Dollru, Te -M Artbur L. Wimmer. 3620 Mockingbird La.ae. FoyeUftlill., Ar.t.-Mr t K. Grqory, East Heiahu. Fort Ar".-Mn. L. 1ohnlOn. 2111 Reeder. How.rlo". s u.-Mr Rodman S. Cosby, 1509 R u tb. Lillie Rod. Ar.t.-Pauline R. Hoeluel. 1201 WeJc.h St. Mwslroil'" Oilo.- Martha Loy, 516 N. 11th St.
NftII Orl e" • .s" a.-Mrs. Hubert P Benton, Jr • 2,419 Aud u bon SL NOrMON. O il G.-Mra. W S. Campbel l, 731 Lahoma An O ItI.Mma City Okla.-Mrs. J. R. Shroyer, 825 Eubanks. Okmulgte, Olrla.-Georgia Cusity, 817 N. Okmullce Ave. PDt4Ca City, O.tllJ,.-Mr a. nan Neil, 712 N. Elm. Sabi", Distrid-Mr •. I. D. R obertlon, 1789 Park St., Beaumont, Tex. S o,. A,dtmw Tu.-Mn Ernest Rub _men, 135 W. Ridgewood Lo -MrL George M. Williamson, 1533 Slenn. An Ttd stl, O.\lD.- M ra K. B. Moore, 1478 S. Wheeling WichilIJ Falls, TU'.-M a r y T ancred , 1717 Eliubetb Sf.
IOTA PROVlNCE
Vic. P,,.sid,,Kt- Harriet Rutherf ord Johnstone, 520l-1itb Ave. N.E., Seattle, \V .sh. Boist, Idam:.-Mrs. 1. P Atwood, 1706 N. 11th Corvallis, Or•.-Mr•• Ralph Fegley. 60S Van Buren S t . e_g,ft,. O,. -Berni ce Spencer, 985 Pearl St. Porlltn.dJ. Or•.-Mr•. Burton B eck , Osage Ave So l ,,", u,.•.-M ary Louise Wisecanou, 157 S Winter SloWt, Wo.rh.-Mn. C. DouglUl Welch, 282 1 Franklin Ave. Spo to,.t, Wosll.-Mn. L ealie A. Stilson W. 432 ·2Jrd Ave. Tocomo, Was il (lMI S. Sowl, C r" b)- l.frs. Arthur Grafton , Jr., R oute I, Box 353 So. WCJUJtclac., Wosh.-Mi l dred Loudenback, 20 Ad ami S t Ydi",o, Wasil. (Fo "Kie W. Libbe, CI"b)- M rL Chalmer Walters, SIJ·B S. Nachel Ave
KAPPA PROVINCE
Vic. P".riJeKt-Bernice Coultrap Gerwic:k ( M n. Ben C.) , 721 San Luis Rd . , Berkeley, Calif.
8"t,I", Co l i/.-Mn. Norris Schindler, S364 BeI,rne Pl., Oak lan d. CaJil. GI.,.doJ" Col'/ -Mrs. L. R. Van Bur,h. 149 1 Mill ar Dr. LtI"(I S,aclt., Coli/ - Mn Lillian G. Bruller , 436 Zona Ct. Lo.$ A"(l116., ClIli/.-Mra E. C. Carman, 743 S. M anhattan. NftlfJda Alum"_-Mrs. Jeannette C Rh ode l. P.O. Box 662, Reno, Nev. Polo Allo, Coli/.-Mrs. Paul R. Manning, 626 Coleridge Ave. Pasodno, Coli/.-Mrs V C. Larsen, Jr , 14 51 Emperor, East Sa n Gabrie l, Calif. P/w,,.tr, Aril - Mrs. Harry A. Stewart, 930 W. Portland. Socrom,"to, C oli/.-Mrs. Ph ill ip YOUni. 61 22nd St. SDK DWlIO, Coli/.-M rs. Gladys Roger., 4361 Her mosa SO" Frtmcisco, Co/i/.-D orothy H e rdm an , 2421 Buc:hanan St. 5 0"'0 Jfonic o, Co/i/.-Mr•. J. B . B r une r, 10369 Il ona A..-e , Los An,elea. Twcstlft , An· - Rulh King. 621 E . 3r d St. Uto ll AI"m,,_ Cl b--MrL Lo,an Field, 25 Q St., Salt Lake City, Ut ah HOWCIit-.Marion Dickinso n , 2229 Kalia Rd ., ·f{onolul u. T R
PI Beta Phi Magazine Agency
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MRS. THATCHER SHELLABARGER
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Another September ..• Another Year
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Announcements
Applications for the Pi Beta Phi Fellowship should reach Miss Amy Burnham Onken, Chapin, Illinois, before January I , 1931.
Every member of Pi Beta Phi should read with pride the reports of donations to the Loan Fund which were increased this past year in the face of national financial depression and the contributions to the Settlement School which held their own.
Pi Beta Phis transferring to other institutions are requesteq to notify the chairman of the transfer committee, Mrs. S. Steele Conaway, 1230 Glenn Ave., Columbus, Ohio, immediately upon regi stration .
•It is with regret that announcement of the resignation of Anne E. Marshall, Delta Province President, and Mabel Miller Barnsley, Gamma Province Vice President, is made. These were received following the Grand Council Meeting and are not included in any reports
Annual Report of National Officers of Pi Beta Phi for Year 1929 -1930
R e port of th e Grund Pr es id e n t
W ITH the close of the college year of 1929-30, there came two epochal changes in the fraternity's chapter roll. Virginia B, which last year was the only functioning chapter at Hollins College. brought to an end its years as an active chapter which has represented Pi Beta Phi with distinction and has given to it many splendid and devoted members: the fraternity has lost this outstanding chapter with the keenest regret. The merger of Lombard College with Knox College brought to the fraternity the question of the future of two of its oldest chapteTS, each of which with reason cherished the chapter name about which, for so many years, had focused its fraternity life and under which its members had brought distinction to their college and fraternity, Although the merger of the two colleges is not in the strictest sense a union, it was inevitable that, because of the ideals of fraternity loyalty and unity upon whkh Pi Beta Phi is based, there should be on the Knox College campus of the future a united chapter, Illinois B-A, upon which will center the support and
intere st of Joyal alumnre of both chapters, Phi Delta Theta, the only other fraternity with chapters on both campu s es, has united its chapters as Illinois Delta-Zeta of Knox College, while Alpha Xi Delta, founded at Lombard College, and Delta Zeta have absorbed local group s on the Knox campus. It is hoped that in a common chapter Illin ois A and Illinois B alumnz and active members will find a fraternity happiness and inspiration even greater than that which characterized the distinguished careers of the two separate chapters in the same college city.
Pi Beta Phi has had the privilege, this year, of inviting its beloved Founders, no one of whom has ever seen the Settlement School, to go to Gatlinburg as its guests. May they consider the school a worthy expression both of the fraternity's ideal of service and of its deepest appreciation and affection for them I
The reports of officers and committees show that, as always, the first concern of the fraternity has been internal strength, the only sure foundation for continued prestige.
Alt h ough it is contrary to the poliey of the fraternity to discuss in its magazine details of chapter problems, such problems are given the most careful attention. It is the intention of the fraternity to keep in the fraternity only the chapters which can and will maintain the standards which justi fy thei r places on its chapter roll: the jealous care with which active chap t e r s safeguard the name of Pi Beta Phi and maintain its posit ion socially and in extra-curricular act i vities are reason for keen pride. Chapter scholarship, as a whole. showed an improvement over the previous year, but there is still a serious need for chapters to realize the necessity of making their scholastic standing represent accurately their local comparative place among fraternities.
With regret and appreciation for their loyal service, the fraternity has accepted the resignations of Lois Thompson, Emma May Baldwin, and Captola B r eyley Forker, presidents of Gamma, Zeta, anc;l Kappa provinces respectively, and of Alice Simmons Cox, chairman of the Committee on Schola r ship. P i Be t a Ph i acknow ledges a speci",l deb t of gratitude to Mary Bobo Gibson Durden who, in an emergency occasioned by the illness of Blanche Reisinger, took over the direction of the magazine agency and, at great personal sacrifice, carried the year through to a most successful conclusion . The willingn ess of Miss Reisinger and Mrs. 1)urden to carry the heavy burden of the agency has meant much to the Settlement School. It is urged that every Pi Beta Phi take advantage of the opportunity which t he agency presents of helping the
The Septe mber ARROW
Settlement School without entailing any financial outlay personally. It is inconceivable that there is a single Pi Phi home without at least one magazine or paper in it: j { every ARROW reader will send even one subscription-new or renewa lto the fraternity's agency (which accepts all subscriptions at the lowest authorized rates) she will help make it possible for the school to rece i ve from the agency not $500 as it did this year but $4,000 Isn't it worth the inconsequentia l effort of handing her subscript ion to her club or chapter magazine agency representative or of mailing it direct to the director of the agency?
The Balfour Cup and the 5toolman Vase, awarded by the Grand Council for high achievement and cooperation, will be held during the coming year by Michigan Band Virginia r respectively. Honorable mention, a high distinction, has been given to Cali Cornia B. No sma ll part of Michigan B's sl;!ccess in winning the Balfour Cup for the second consecutive year is due to the fact that she has held as her goa l not the cup as such, but instead the development of an ideal fraternity chapter. The Pi Beta Phi fellowship for 1930-31 has been awarded to Frances McNulty, Virginia B, who will study at Columbia University. Miss McNulty has shown marked creative ability and recently won first place in the Junior League's poetry contest. The special attention of Pi Phi seniors is called to the annual fellowship of $500 awarded by the New York City Panhellenic to a member of an N.P.C. fraternity; the award of the past year would seem to indicate that the Panhellenic is especially interested in the graduating
The September ARROW
senior whose possibilities have been made evident by college achievements but are still largely undeveloped. Further details of this award and of the Pi Beta Phi fellowship award will be given in THE ARROW. All applications for the Pi Beta Phi fellowship must reach the Grand President by January 1. With financial depression so widespread and marked, Pi Beta Phi has exceptional reason for pride in the support given its altruistic projects this past year. Contributions to the Undergraduate Loan Fund were larger than ever before and those to the Settlement School were approximately the same as for the year 1928-29-a record which the Grand Council believes to be unequalled. An exceptionally large number of undergraduates applied to the Loan Fund Committee for financial assistance and because of the generosity 0 f atumn::e clubs were able to complete their college year. With every member of the Settlement School Staff cooperating to keep running expenses at the absolute minimum consistent with efficiency and accepting inconveniences and delays without complaint, the school came through successfully what had threatened to be a most difficult year financially. The gratitude of the fraternity goes out to the committee, the director, and the staff for their devoted and effective service I Through the tireless efforts of the treaSurer, the bookkeeper, and the director of industries details of business management and accounting have been placed upon a more sound and workable foundation than ever before. All reports for the Settlement School should be carefully
read for the renewed realization which they give of the place which it fills in the community, county, and state. The unprecedented1y severe weather of last winter brought to Gatlinburg more acute distress than the community had known for many years; one hesitates even to think of what conditions would have been without the home industries fostered by the school and carried on because of the loyalty of Pi Beta Phis everywhere! The constantly raised standards of workmanship are bringing ever greater recognition for Arrowcraft products whose superiority in design, material, and workmanship has long been recognized by those in positions to speak with authority on hand woven products. Through the kindness of Mr. Hadley Freeman registration with the United States Government of the Arrowcraft trademark, held up because of complicat ions arising from the protests of Ouett, Peabody, and Company, is now going forward to completion.
The report of the Grand .Treasurer shows the fraternity to be in a most gratifyingly so und financial condition. Pi Beta Phi is indeed fortunate to have as its treasurer a woman with the exceptional ability of Lois Franklin Stoolman. Upon the required vote of the Board of Trustee Funds, all endowment money as received has been invested in high grade securities of diversified types. The transfer of the Settlement School Endowment Fund to the control of the Board means that all endowment funds of the fraternity are now managed by this Board and are held under its direction by the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
or the First Trust Company of Lincoln, Nebraska . The Central Office, und e r the direction of Mabel Scott Brown, has not only c o ntinued it s high ser vice to the fraternity but has incre ased it. The forth co ming directory of the fraternity, edited by Mr s Brown, will be the most accurate compilati on of m e mb e r s hip data ever pu b li s hed by the fraternity. Pi Beta Phi is ind eed indeb ted to the Director and h e r loya l, interested secretaric's who carryon the clerical work of the fraternity wit h such remarkable effectiveness. The accomplishments of the Grand Vice Pre s ident , the Grand Secretary, and the Editor in the ir r espo n sible posi tions are se lf evident as are those of other national and province officers and committee c hairmen j to them all. Pi Beta Phi owes a debt of gratitude which she cann o t h ope t o repay.
Early in the fall the chapters, chartered by conv en ti o n, were installed-Utah A by Miss DeWolf, the Grand Secretary, a nd Florida r and Ma nitoba A by the Grand Pres· ident, with the provin c e president and the n e arest two ch ap ter s concerned as s i sti ng officially and local Pi Phis giving inv a luable cooperation. During the year. the Grand Pre s ident has made eight official and four emergency chapter vi si t s and ha s been the purely social gue st of Wyoming A, Colorado A a nd S, Indiana A and r, and Mi sso uri B.
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She ha s been the guest of twelve alumn::e club s-tho se of Utah, North Carolina, Denver, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Morgantown, Pitts burgh, Columbus, Indian a poli s, St. Louis, and Decatur-a nd ha s had the privilege of celebrating Founders' Day with the all-Indiana state group o f chapters and club s, with the St. Louis alumna: club and active chapter, an d with th e Springfield-Decatur alumna:: club s and Illinois H. The h o'p itality of Pi B e ta Phi s is an unf o rgettable joy! The Grand President has also vi s i te d as in s pect in g officer Ga mma Sigma of the University of South Carolina, a petitioning g roup which she find s pleasure in re co mm ending for favorable con side ration
A s National Panhellenic Congress representative, the Grand President attended the N.P.C. con· vention held in Denver; a full rep or t of the convention and of the fr a ternity fellowship which it made po ss ible for her is given in the May ARROW
It i s with a deepened con sciou sness of the privi l ege of servi ng the frat e rnity and of working with the splendid, devot ed Pi Beta Phis who make up her officia l perso nnel, that the Grand Pres ident expresses her appreciation for the cooperation, the s upport , and the dear association s whi c h have made the past year one who se memories will long be cherished.
AM.Y BURNHAM O N KEN
Anoual Report of the Grand Vice President
T HE splendid records and achievements of the past officers of the department of Pi Beta Phi have built a structure that carries challenge and encouragement to all those who follow. Adequate recognition cannot be given tho se two just preceding this te rm of office, Emilie Margaret White and Genevieve Herrick Smith, whose efficient leadership and high accomplishment s were so notable.
The twenty -ni nth convention authorized a conferen ce of provin ce vice presidents, at the Settlement School, during that s ummer, in order that they might have fir st hand knowledge of the school and its people and the opportunity of exchanging experience s and plan s relating to province work. The Grand Vice President also wa s given the privilege of meeting with the province officers and as the time chosen was that of the meeting of the Settlement School Committee, the benefit wa s thre efo ld. A program of the greatest interest was arranged by Evelyn Bi shop and Dr. Edith Gordon, and every opportunity was given the vi s itors by the staff of in structors and the students to see and understand their work. Every nook and corner of Gatlinburg and the SugarJands was eagerly looked into and excursions on foot and on horseback were arranged that the people of Baskin and Roarin ' Creek might be visited in their homes. The intimate information and true understanding gained at this conference have been of inestimable value to the officers and through them to the clubs,
many of whose presidents have remarked on the great interest awakened in the clubs by the vivid pictures of life at the schoo l, drawn fo r them by their province vice presidents.
The unprecedented num ber of alurnme delegates attending the last conventio n is evidence of keen alumna! interest in national progr ess. There were brought together many of our member s repre se nting the vital force of our clubs, giving them the opportunity for exchange of views and idea s and of forming more of the friend s hips which are back of the success of our far-flung organization. In order that the benefits and inspiration of convention may be extended as far as po ss ible it is earnestly hoped that there will be an even greater number of alumna! club delegates in attendance (it the 1931 convention.
In a large mea sure, because of the national contacts gained by the convention de l egates, it has been thought best by most of the province vice presidents, that their vi si ts be made in the second year of the interim of conventions, and to that end they are planning visits for early fall generally In those prnvinces where the visits have been made this year, the wish has been repeatedly expressed that they might be made annually rather than biennially.
Three new clubs have been chartered during the year : South Central :Kansas in Eta Province; Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, in Beta Province; and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in Epsi l on Province An application blank
for a charter has been issued to one more group and a charter wilt, without doubt, be issued them before the beginning of the club year in the fall. In Vermilion, South Dakota, an alumnre group of eight members has been organized, and will carryon the work until such time as they may add two more members to make the required number for a regularly chartered club. Through the continued efforts 0 f the province vice presidents, several clubs that have failed for a long time to meet the requirements of the constitution for chartered clubs, have been reestablished, but, with regret, the clubs at Worcester, Massachusetts, Canton, New York, Chariton, Iowa, and Sacramento, California, have been discontinued . It is our hope. however, that in time, enough alumnre may be found in those places to take up their charter again and their active association as groups in the national
Marked increase in membership is show n in most of the prov in ces during the past year and has been accomplished by the join t efforts of the club officers and the province vice presidents. The full enrollm ent of resident a1umnre in the larger cities still remains a pertinent problem, and is being met by two methods-that of the group plan, whereby the neighborhood groups meet, as such, regular ly and join for the four required meetings each year; and the second plan, that of forming individual and independent clubs in widely separated suburbs, with a general celebration fo r Founders' Day.
The clubs continue to give wholehearted cooperation to province and national officers. Although there
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is still some dissatisfaction as to the number of reports and requirements of club officers, for the most part the detailed information and the regular correspondence are seen to be essential to the success ful administration and progress of the national work, and the officers of one province have even said that they considered the system simple, when each requirement is met promptly in its own time.
The past yea r has been one 0 f financial stress, general throughout the country, and many philanthropic projects have suffered by decrease in resources. While it has not been possible for some provinces to meet the amounts of other years in their contributions, others have gone well beyond ' any past record. May it be said as a splendid tribute to the constancy of purpose and the generosity of all the clubs and active chapters that have contrib u ted, that our work of love and altruism in the Tennessee mountains wilt not need to be curta il ed for l ack of thei r support . Determined effort is represented in these gifts and often rea l sacrifice is made.
The Loan Fund likewise has had more calls this year than formerly and the response from clubs has been more general than ever before.
Distr ict and state celebrations are becoming more and more widely observed, the past year having seen gatherings in Indiana at a state luncheon at which twenty-one chapters were represented; at Columbus of the Columbus, Athens, and Delaware alumna::: clubs and active chapters; the Seattle banquet attended by 150 members, and the Syracuse banquet by ninety, both representing several clubs and including
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many isolated members, the Seattle gathering being so fortunate as to entertain two of our beloved founders, Mrs. Soule and Mrs. Libbey. The Rochester club has already issued invitations to the central and northern New York and Canada clubs for a 1931 Founders' Day celebration. Too much cannot be said for the value of these gathering in renewed enthusiasm and wider spread interest.
To the Assistant to the Grand Vice President, Ruth Barrett Smith, this office acknowledges a great debt of gratitude. Many letters have been sent out by her to the province officers, to groups and to individuals; her counsel has been invaluable and her devotion to the alumnre department unfailing; a really monumental piece 0 f work has been her tabulation of the records of province work for the past four years. The industry and devotion of the province vice presidents has become traditional. It is impossible to express the appreciation felt by the Grand Vice President for their complete understanding of her problems and their ready assistance in working them out with
her. The province officers really form a coordination department , carrying on a monthly correspondence with clubs and giving them the inspiration of the national officers as well as keeping those officers informed regarding club activities. The regard in which Mabel Scott Brown is held by all who come in contact with her is also a tradition and this office has had her efficient help throughout the year and its officers are deeply grateful to her.
The high privilege of serving as a member of Grand Council of Pi Beta Phi and the association with its members have been an experieqee of inspiration and delight. To the Grand President, Amy Burnham Onken, is acknowledged the very sincere appreciation of her keen understanding and a heartfelt gratitude for her constant cooperation.
It is felt that the development of the alumnre department of our fraternity is a constantly ascending curve and that its progress through the years is from all who love and serve their loyal best.
KATIIERINE BURR TELLER
Report of the Grand Treasurer
July 2, 1930
T o THE Grand Council, Pi Beta Phi Fraternity :
Pursuant to the request of Mrs. Lois F. Stool man, G r and Treasurer, I have made an examination of the cash receipts and disbursements of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for the period beginning August 20, 1929, and ending June 25, 1930
All cas h receipts as recorded on the <;irand Treasurer's books were
deposited intact at the depositories. AIl canceIled vouchers, paid by the depositories, were examined and compared with the respective entries in the cash disburse ments record and were found to be in agreement. The balance at the close of June 25, 1930, was reconciled with the certificate obtained from the First National Bank, C h a mpa ign, Illinois, stating the balance on hand as s ho wn by its records.
Certificate Statements from the First Trust Company, Lincoln , Nebraska, and the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Illinois, l i sting the securities held by the se banks were inspected and the remaining securities in the cu s tody of the Grand Treasurer were examined. These securities are all carried at the cost value at time of purchase.
The attached statements and schedules were prepared from the books and records of the Grand Treasurer
I have audited the ca s h receipts and di sbur s ements for the period beginning Augu st 20 , 1929, and ending June 25, 1930, of the Grand Treasurer of
PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
and hereby certi/), that, in my opinion, the annexed statements are correct, s ubject to the foregoing comment.
ROBERT P McKINLEY Public Acco/tIIlalll (IlL)
BALANCE SHEET
As 0/ ! .,PI. 25 , 1930
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Report of the Director of the PI Deta Phi <:entrat Office
T o PI BETA PHI fraternity the Director of the Central Office makes the following report:
STATISTICS AS OF JUNE 30, 1930
Initiates in 1929-30 . . . . ..... 1,179
Total initiates since 1867 21 ,279 Total deaths reported 1,034
Total suspensions . ......... 37
Total reinstatement s 15 Total dismis sals. 120
Grand tota l members now Ii ving 20,103
ARROW subscribers now on mailing Iist. . .. .. . ... .. . . 17,000
Members whose addresses are unknown 800
(including every initiate since 1867)
A woman's college fraternity past the 20,000 mark in living members, fast approaching the 20,000 mark in actively interested members. It has been the task of the Central Office to send a letter to every one of these during the third week in June; explaining the new Endowment Fund program, and it is with certainty that we assert that these letters will reach their destination. For the first time since the present Director took over the catalogue work of the fraternity, she knows that the addresses she has are as c orrect as it is humanly
possible to make them, and every one has been verified within this college year at least once, and within a month, a second time . May she expre ss her gratitude to the unusually devoted work of every active chapter vice pres ident, alumna! secretary, and province vice president for the many hours they have spent helping the national fraternity mean an increased accuracy in the national files, and a realization of the plan to be ready to eUblish during the summer of 1930 a directory everyone of whose addresses has been tested. This office i s now working upon its publication, and wishes to announce that it will be ready before the end of October. Could she also name all Pi Phis who have revised "lost" lists , hunted new names and addres s es, and sent in clues, her report would look like the directory on the front page of THE ARROW.
Central Office Work
The regular work of this year has included supervision of the printing of two cases of stationery, and 100,000 envelopes, supervision of the following publications: chapter manual, blanks for the Scholarship Committee and the Fraternity Study and Examination
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Committee, financial statement to parents of pledges, blanks for recommendation, record books, and their issues to chapters. It has mimeographed tbe Scholarship Manual and several circu lar letters, rushing bulletins, and two questionnaires. It issued in the fall of 1929, 16,500 return post cards, each imprinted with the name of the chapter vice president and her address. It has sent eight circular letters to chapters, five issues of supplies, with from twenty to eighty sheets in each, two issues of supplies to alumnre clubs, 8,000 membership cards to province vice presidents. It has received from c hapters 3,500 blanks, which have been acknowledged and remailed to the proper officers. It has issued 1,179 Directories, 800 certificates of initiation, and has sent out direct $1,600 worth of paid supplies, billed· and collected for them. It has handled THE ARROW mailing list, shipping it direct to the printer, which has reduced the publication bill from the printer not less than $ 1,000 It has inserted in the four issues o f THE ARRow 250 changes in the directory pages. It has compiled the UStandardization and Survey" report.
The Director would like to mention at the very outset of her report the steady faithfulness of her two secretaries. Had it not been for their assumption of extra responsibility during the three months that she was too ill to give full time work every day, the regular work could not have been kept up to schedule. This office can no longer get extra help on few minutes' notice; our machinery takes care of the work which could formerly be done by unskilled clerks,
called in for a few hours at a time. The actual duties of the secretaries require judgment, accuracy, and steadfast concentration, often real drudgery. I wish the fraternity might know at first hand the unfailing punctuality, efficiency, and courtesy of the two secretaries, Marion Bagley and Gertrude Cooney. But one of the girls missed time this year, and she for an operation. The Director regret s that there were three things planned la st year at convention which she was forced by her long illness to postpone, the "Chapter Meeting Manual/' the mimeographing of the UChapter President's Manual," and the mimeographing of the "Fraternity Study and Examination Manua1. 11 These will be worked up just as soon as possible. All of these were extras, and required her own concentrated superVISion, which she was not able to give. But had it not been for her trained sec retaries. much more would have been left undone. In April, in anticipation of the publication of the directo ry. a third full - time clerk was employed. The Director of Central Office was fortunate in securing one of her former clerks on the 1927 directory. With the continued increase 0 f work, this office needs this third clerk. Therefore the Director of Central Office asks that Grand Council authorize her retention.
We believe the mailing list has attained a degree of accuracy. Many hundreds of names have been replaced on it , after new addresses ha ve been verified by return postal; a small fraction of our magazines are returned for better addresses, and in many cases there are new ;..ddresses waiting for them in the office. The percentage of com-
plaints is almost negligible, and we treasure an occasional uThank you" on an address slip. The Addressograph has been highly satisfactory. With its assistance, we have been able to send out several hundred lists of "los t" members and have thus reduced these lists considerably.
Manu a ls of in s truction are available for clerical work, so that the office no longer writes long letters of instruction . Chapter corresponding secretaries and vice pre s idents have done very prompt, accurate work, with the exception of a few, who year after year, make the same mi s takes, and learn the work only at the clo se of the year. The Directo r would commend a study of the manual s, rather than dependen ce on verbal in s truction, to California A, California il, Oregon B. and Minnesota A. Two chapters have showed by their initiation certificates that their chapter record books are not up to date. These are Maine A and Florida A. One chapter, which badly needs the uniform correspondence filing sys tem, is the only one which has not yet installed it, on account 0 f expense, but it sho u ld be included in the first month's budget next fall.
The Director would suggest that, when a regu l ar membership report is due, a chapter which is unable to get the data because of inaccessibility of college files. or some such cause, should submit a letter to this effect, stating when the report can be made. I f there is no report , this should be stated by letter. This will save telegraph charges. It applies especially to vice presidents' reports. Again, if illness or unusual duties prevent <\n officer from making her regular scheduled re-
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ports, there should be someone else in the chapter who can substitute for her. Many long reports can be welt taken care of by assistants, so far as gathering data, sending out cards, etc., are concerned.
Vice presidents of chapters have done much extra work thi s year, in preparation for the 1930 directory . Especially to be commended are Michigan B, Iowa A and B, Indiana rand il., Vermont B. Cali fomia B, and Colorado B. Regrettably, a chapter as young as California il ha s a long li s t of Hlos t " members Many chapters have no members with whom they are not in touch Almost $500 was spen t by active c hapters this year on return post cards sent to their alumna!. Would that more alumna! would take the time (the postage has already been paid by the active chapter ), to fill in the four line s , and drop the return card in the mail box.
The Director of Central Office recommends that next year, return cards be sent out by means of the Addressograph, direct to alumna!, and that chapters be billed pro rata. Thi s will take no longer than imprinting, packing, and shipping, and witt insure early and accurate data to the Central Office. These will be forwarded to chapters when they return to the Central Office and lists from chapters may be submitted to the Central Office a little later , about January ZO . This will lighten the work of both th e Central Office and the chapter vice president It is worth trying in a year when the directory does not depend upon it.
This has been the fifth, full, fascinat.ing office year of the Central Office. To be mathematical, we are employing a constantly djminishing
variable, the difference between the total Pi Phi initiates and the total interested members. Our aim is that this variable may soon reach its limit, zero. At the present rate
of approach, this will be in a very few years. We hope that our directory of 1930 may be really worth while.
MABEL SCOTT BROWN
Report of the National Supervisor of {;hapter Acconnting
I N SEPTEMBER,
1929, a circular letter was sent to all chapters with instructions as to opening the accounts for the new school year. Seventy-seven chapters responded to this letter by sending in completed control sheets. The majority of these were satisfactory, a few being returned for correction. Washington A did not send in control sheet, as this office has not had cooperation from Washington A. This was not unusual. However, a new financial adviser has been appointed and every effort is being made by the chapter to straighten out their account. Since the change the delinquent list has been reduced greatly and a black balance maintained.
All chapters are cooperating, sending in correct report s on time with the exception of North Dakota A. This case ha s been reported to the Grand President and discussed at length.
In making this report we are sepa rating chapters whose final reports for the year have been received, from those whose final reports have not been received.
Of the first cla ss numbering fifty-seven chapters, five only show red balances, three of these under $25. Missouri A shows a red balance of $219 .50 . We consider that this is due to a lack of
sufficient assessment in June. The assessment made was $600 and expenses $2,000, $750 of which went to the house fund.
Oregon B shows a red balance of $125.34 on the last report, but their audit shows $56.11 black balance, showing an evident error in their report.
Out of seve nty-seven chapters reporting only two so far show bills payable, New York r and Oregon A. New York r is in arrears o n their rent. Oregon A has bills payable due to extensive repair s on the house that their finance committee feel shou ld be shared by future members.
The following chapters show delinquent m e mbers:
Of the second cla ss numbering twenty-one chapters, two show red bal ances of May 1; Arizona A
These may be made up in the final report. Arizona A deficit is not material as they started the year with no funds on hand. H owever, New York to started the year with $1,200 on hand. Their balance May 1 shows a cash loss of $1,500 for the school year to that date. This chapter has been notified each month of its los s in finances.
The following chapters show delinquent member s, the amount of which may. h o wever, be reduced in final reports:
California A (June 1) $ 39 38
Colorado A (] une 1) ............. . 66. 00
Idaho A (Jun e I) 289 .59
Illinois E (May 1) ........•• 134 00
Ind ia n a r ( Ma y 1)............. 68 40
Iowa r ( M a y I ) 12.2 0
Nebralka B ( May 1 ) 399. 14
New York A (May 1) 10 00
New York J1 (May 1) .......... .. . 31.55
Texa. B au ne 1 ). 1 00
Washingt on A (Ma y 1) 256 09
Wasbin&\on B (M a y 1).... 3 85
So much pressure has been brought co ncerning the nat io nal ruling r e garding delinquents that I feel a marked improvement has been made . It is evident that the ruling on fines is being e nforced in the majority of chapters . However, I feel that this problem requires constant vigilance on the part of the supervisor.
The national ruling on the election of trea surers in February has not been observed this year in all chapters and this might account for difficulties encountered by new trea surer s in the u se of the n a t io nal syst e m, as a treasurer taking office in May is not trained t o take co ntrol of the chapter's acc ount s. The new trea surer should have th e advice and assi s tance of the former treasurer for at least three months , this being the rea son for the ruling regarding the election of trea surer s in February.
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We strongly recommend that where a treasurer has proved herself competent she be elected to the office the second year, and that an effort be made to select the trea surer for her ability and dependability rather than her popularity or need for finanCial as s istance .
The result of five years' u se of this sy s tem sh o w s that a failure in correct accounting a second year always proves due to the choosing of an incapable trea s urer. No girl should ever be appointed treasurer who has not an intere s t in a ccounting work.
I would sugge st that the uManual for Visiting Officer s, " co mpiled by Mr Bu s ey in 1928, be s upplied t o all financial advi sers as well a s visiting officer s . This would d o mu c h t o ward giving the advi ser aid in a ssisting the treasurer.
The following d a ta has been co mpiled of July I, from the l a te st information in the file s for eac h individual chapt e r:
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Chapter. lou to btt oyer $200 2
Chapters willa 10&11 to date under $200 S
Chapter. DOt reportinl' 1
Chapter. retCITID&, rude of 100 ....• _ 2 1
C hapter s rec ei Tinc , ude of 9S or better. lendin .. in reporta with minor errors on time ...••... . .. . . . ... . 39
Chapters recti,,;n, trade of 90 to 9 S 11
Chapters recei"in, ,ude of 80 to 90 . 6
Chapters r«:eivirlC pde of 80 to 9 0 due principally to late report. •. . 6
Chapters ref:ei"ing grade under 80
Total due from delinquent members
July I, 1929 ,-4.892 S4
T otal due (rolD delinquent members
July I, 1930 ......•..
$1,809.21' $1,296.05'
J (Note $982 00 from one chapter) I ($1,311. 2 0 on reports not final)
The National Supervisor feels entirely satisfied with the results obtained from all but one chapter. All treasurers have shown a wholehearted desire to cooperate with this o ffice. Mo s t chapters have shown an increased prosperity and stability during the year.
The national organization should feel gratified that seventy-seven chapters have placed their financial structure upon a thoroughly sound basis, and are working yearly to keep it so.
May I thank the Council for its cooperation and thank each individual chapter treasurer.
MAllIE FUEMAN PALMER
Report of Agency
I NSTEAD of 25 per cent of the total amount of money sent to the agency, clubs are credited with actual commission earned on subscriptions sent. The three largest contributions are : Dctroit, $81.20, Mrs. C. A. McKenny; Tulsa, $37.65, Mrs. W P. Beene; Kansas City, $37.60, Mrs. C. A. Haskins.
Report of the Cbairman of tbe Settlement School
T HE Chairman of the Settlement School Committee begs to present the following report of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School for the year 1929-30:
The year 1929-30 has been a very happy and successful one at the Settlement School in many ways. Good health of teachers and pupils has meant full teaching periods in the school, ensuring the maximum of work accomplished for the minimum of effort expended. The older boys and girls have stayed through till the clo s ing of the high school, much to the satisfaction of everyone, even if it meant crowding in the dormitories and dining room. The extension of the agricultural and dome stic science classes to new centers in the county has been a source of great pride to the school and to the committee. Both the agriculture and domestic science teachers have willingly put up with great discorn forts and difficulties entai led by a winter of deep snow and l ong continued frost making impassable roads, in order to carryon the weekly classes. The weaving teacher has continued the good work started by her predecessor. The Health Center has had one of its busiest years. The nurse has never spa r ed herself. When a call came from a remote home far from the passable roads she has go n e by horseback or on foot to re-
lieve suffering and to save life. The Arrowcraft Shop has been continually busy, and a larger public is ever acclaiming the beauty and durability of its products. The Sugarlands extension has continued its excellent program in school and community. Day by day, the work of the school is more and more a part of the life of the community. For the details of the work, I will refer you to the splendid report of the Director giving the particulars of each department.
Those who are watching the growth of the school with close interest are most anxious to note what changeS' in the district are to be observed through the entrance of the new highway into the community. Crowds of casual and unthinking visitors whose appreciation of the mountaineers and their heritage is limited to a superficial glance that does not carry beyond the attempts to meet the so-called progress on its own grounds pass them by with inaccurate comments. A lre ady damage has been done through the expression of these thoughtless impressions in paper and magazine. The moun· taineer himself is the first to resent the insinuations that are so unfounded, and th ose of us who know his ste rling qu a lities and splendid potentialities are 1y indignant that suc h misrepre-
sentations should get abroad and even be believed by our own member s. The mountaineer has much to fear from the casual visitor who may handicap him with a name which is far different from actual facts. We cannot be too emphatic in saying that the integrity of mind and body, the honesty of purpose and 1i fe , the ambition a nd h a rd work that charact er ized the mountaineers ahout Gatlinburg in the past are still their outstanding qualities. This i s true of the majority of the people. Some there are, as in all other communities, whose standa rd s are low, and whose mental equipment is poor. These will be influ enced by the element whose coming we deplore. The keen mind of the average mountaineer, however, can discern readily between true and false. Our school and our influence are more needed today than ever before. Illiteracy is disappearing, but standards of living are changing so quickly for the se people now that there is a market for their products, whether of farm or 100m, that it will take a large stea dying influence to keep the young people from placing ·undue influence upon the material things and so neglecting the vital iss ues of life . There are still remote homes lost up the valleys and hidden on the mountain sides that are very little nearer to the varied tife of the community than they were twenty years ago. In them poverty and di sease mu st be met and conquered. Their children must r eceive education. Some provision for daily remunerative work that will be an outlet t o natural inclination and talents should be provided. A glimpse into a world beyond thei r limited horizon s h ould
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be afforded them. Th ese things we can do through our school with its extens ion classes, its health promotion, and its community se rvice. Throughout the year interesting and outstanding events at the sc hool have made the reading of the Little Pigeon News, the Gatlinburg News, and Miss Evelyn's monthly reports to the clubs graphic in the extreme. The meeting of the province vice presidents with the committee at the schoo l at the end of August was of great pleasure and mutual benefit. Thi s has been reflected throughout the year in the incre ased interest of the clubs in the school. We were most regretful to lo se Emily Burton from the staff of Sugarlands. Her going r e moved one who had served the school lo yally for twelve years, and done pioneer work in both Gatlinburg and Sugarlands. Pi Phi ha s los t an exceptional teacher, but s he ha s gained a very wonderful member, and we have hopes of her returning to us next year . Tennessee A came in full force to initiate Emily into their chapter before s he left, and the initiation service at the Sugarlands cottage will long be remembered for its beauty and impressiveness. Mattie Huff, one of the school's first pupils, and the daughter of two of our s tanche st friends, came on the tea ching staff as assistant to the principal. She has more than proved the value of the early work of the sc hool. During the Christmas vacation two of our ex-pupils were married in the living room of the teachers' cottage, and the beautiful wedding caused a great stir among the staff and in the community. They were both working for the schoo l, and continued their duties in the same
whole-hearted way. A play put on by the teachers, the regular Christmas entertainment with presents for all the children, the interschool basketball games by both boys' and girls' teams, the school fair in the fall with an attendance of at least 1,500, and Old Timers' Day in the spring. have made consideri\ble social life in the school. Weekly movies through the summer have also added to the entertainment for old and young. These are shown in the auditorium of the Industrial Building.
OUf influence is not restricted to OUf own community and county but has spread through the state. Our director aJ?d teachers have been active in county teachers' meetings, in the Southern Handicraft Guild, the Women's In st itutes, and the Mountain Workers' Conference, and all educational activities that 3re planning for the betterment of the Southern Highlander. Delegates have been sent and papers read at different conferences, so that our school has a recognized place among the educational institutions and influences of the southern mountains.
The county and state recognize our value, and each year larger grants are given for the grade school teachers' salaries, agriculture, and domestic science and weaving teaching.
The financial depression which was nationwide this year has made very little difference in th e income of the school. When an institution is dependent upon voluntary contributions, there is almost certainly the chance that during times of financial stringency it will suffer and suffer heavily. The Pi Beta Phi Settl ement School car-
Tied on successfully, and even forged ahead during the depressing war period. We are hoping that it will not need to stand stm, nor go backward during this time of depression. We feel sure that our loyalty to the philanthropic achievement of which we are justly proud will enable us to sacrifice to the point that it shall not suffer. The schoo l has been handicapped in the past through the slowness with which returns have been made in the £all and winter months. These are the months when the largest payments for living, salaries, insurance, etc., must be made, and we are indeed grateful to tho se who appreciate this, plan their benefits early, and make prompt returns.
The indebtedness entailed through the building of the Industrial Building, and the installation of the central heating plant with its fine boilerhouse, weighs heavily on the committee. However the constant use to which it is put for school and community purposes proves without the shadow of a doubt that there is a real need for the building, and we are glad to assume this additional responsibility , feeling sure that the fraternity will uphold us in this justifiable expenditure and loan, and knowing that they will do all in their power to wipe out this debt as promptly as possible.
The committee has functioned monthly, and I trust efficiently. The treasurer, Grace Post, began her term of office with the handicap of having missed the annual meeting, but has taken hold of the finances in a most gratifying way, and given largely of time and energy to mastering the details of her job. Blanche Curtis has again
edited the Little Pigeon News in a most acceptable manner, and done the necessary secretarial work of the committee. Rebecca White has done a stupendous piece of work towards interesting isolated alumnz:. She sent Qut 965 letters to isolated alumna! in towns where there were more than three and less than ten Pi Phis, enclosing material that would interest and help in spreading the gospel of the Settlement School. Mrs. White also sent a letter to all chapters and to the alumna!: clubs of Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, and Theta provinces, enclosing material for programs for Settlement School meetings. In addition many inquiries from individuals and clubs for information regarding the school were carefully and fully answered. The cooperation between Mrs. White and the Central Office and the province vice presidents was very close, with the result that worth while lists were made. These wilt be of value in the followup work planned for next year. The other member of t he committee, Helen Tottle, has not yet had the opportunity of visiting the school, but has entered upon her duties entailing the work of publicity and management of the films and slides, with great enthusiasm. She is planning for new information leaflets and sheets for next year, to meet the needs of the clubs which
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ask for quantities of brief statements about the school to distribute at benefit bridges, theater nights, etc. There has been very little demand for the films or slides, but such requests have been arranged for.
The chairman of the committee in this her first year of office more deeply than she can express the unselfish service that each member of the committee is rendering. The work would indeed have been appalling had not the ready response to each call been so willing. and the spirit of cooperation so gracious. To the director of the school she expresses her heartfelt gratitude for the patience which she has shown during her efforts to grasp the various duties of her office. To the members of Grand Council and the other officers of the fraternity, and in particular to our Grand President, she wishes to voice the thanks of herself and her committee, for the careful oversight of the work of the school, and the helpful suggestions that have made the duties lighter. To all members of the fraternity. whose interest makes possible the continuance of the school, hearty appreciation is given. To the friends of the school, old and new, who have helped in many ways, we are deeply grateful.
EDITH H. GoRDON
R e port of Director of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School
T HE report of the school for the year of 1929-30 is a contradictory one. In some respects it has been one of the easiest and most satisfactory in the history of the school; in other ways it has been one of the most difficult. With the building program of the la st three years completed a world of worries ceased. The excitement due to the establishment of the National Park has calmed down; the past year, too, was unusually free from epidemics and illnesses and in every way we were able to continue along a s teady routine line.
But in contrast to these conditions in Gatlinburg the year for the Committee has been one of unusual difficulties. All know that the past year ha s been a hard one all over the country and the school was bound to feel the financial depression as did everything else.
The fall and winter months were very trying ones but our schoo l was no worse off than many, many others. As fast as money did come bi11s and salaries were paid. After the holidays the contributions began to come in and although the end of the year find s the total a little below that of the previous year we feel that it is remarkably large considering the financial depression. If we have gone through such a trying period this well surely we can hold to our present program through another year.
Word comes to u s from the Government that some work will be started in the new National Park by July I; no doubt the fir st steps
will be for fire protection for the forest fires during the early spring did much damage to the Park l and The Gatlinburg school will be littl e affected by the Park; many families, however, have moved out of the upper Sugarlands and it is certain that the teach e rs' cottage there will be p urcha sed by the Park. This will not cause our work to cease for the Park will lea se u s the property long as we ha \"e use for it in connection with the school.
With good roads, modern hotels, and the publicity being given this sect ion the number of tourists is increasing rapidly. The usual time given to Gatlinburg by them is a few hours and it is impossible in that time to more than catch a glimpse of the place, the people and the school. Many times I feel the highway, the modern aspect of things along the way, and the more prosperous look 0 f the country disillusions the visitors and causes them to leave with some of the romance destroyed and a feeling that our work here is done. But let me assure those who may feel this way that a bit longer visit will cause a change of heart. It is progress that has made the very changes that perhaps you are regretting. There are still many boys and girls, men and women needing what the school gives and surely there is no more rea so n for us to cease operations now than for the hundreds of other institution s that are accompJishing something to say, "we have done well, therefore Jet us stop where we are."
The staff for the year has been :
Evelyn Bishop, New York A, director.
W. B Overton, principal. mathematics and science, se venth to tenth grades.
Vivian Blair, Oregon A, hi sto ry and English, seve nth to tenth grad es.
Alice Williams, Columbia A, fifth and sixth grades.
Henrietta McCutchan, Mi sso uri B, third and fourth grades .
Eleanor Brabson, primer, fir s t and second grades.
F. D. Smith, Smith-H ugh es agriculture .
Mary Rachel Armstrong, SmithHughe s home economics.
Victoria S trand, weaving. Elizabeth Cooke, accountant.
LaDelle All en , Arkansas A, Arrowcra ft Shop.
Fran ces M oo re, nur se
Mr s. Morgan , hou semo ther , girls' dormit o ry and manager, boarding department.
Mrs. Bishop, hou semo ther, boys' dormitory.
Mrs. Dowell, Io wa B, housemother and community workerSugarlands .
Eva Hathaway , I owa B, principal-Sugarland s.
Emily Burton, Tennessee A, primary-Sugarlands.
The following are loca l people who are filling places o n our s taff in a mo st satisfactory manner and it is with pride that we add them to this list:
Mattie Huff , assistant high schoo l teacher.
Lillie Reagan , assistant to the nur se.
Alice M cCa rter, assistant to weaving teacher
Veatress Parton, assistant Arrowcraft Shop .
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Ambers Ogle, ten dent, Student labor.
Arlie Watson, general labor . Ernest Rea ga n, general labor. Ethel Carver McFalls, cook. Opal Ca r ey Hu sk ey, coo k .
School
The more systemat ic and we ll o r ga niz ed a thin g is the more difficu lt it is to give an adequate p o rt of it. Many pupil s have had perfect attendance for the year; scarce ly any problems of discipline h ave come up, n o epidemics have upset the sc ho ol, a nd th e who le sp irit ha s been of t h e best. Much credit shou ld be given Mr. Overt o n for this f o r in the past thr ee years h e ha s been principal a f the sc h oo l it has sh ow n s teady opmcnt th a t has been mos t grati fying.
The enrollment stay s ju st about the sa me. That is to be expected a s we cannot take m o re pupils in the dormitori es than we already have and the day school would naturally vary little from year to year. The sevent h , eighth, ninth, and tenth grades are in the Indu s trial Building, as other cla sses in home economics, agriculture, and farm s hop work, a nd weaving. Mr. Overton and Mi ss Blair have the se f o ur grades and the past year Mattie Huff ha s assisted by taking two classes an d a study p(.riod.
Mi ss Williams, Mi ss McCutchan, and Mi ss Brabson had the first six grades; th ese are in the old school building and it is much more sati s fa c tory to have the younger pupils in one building and the older ones in another. Of c ou r se being l ess crowded is another grea t advantage. But the primary room-it is necessary here
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to carry the primer class through an entire year so Miss Brabson had primer, first, and second grades and many days hall the attendance of the entire school was in her room. With the lower grades so large and the upper one s so small, it is difficult to come to any satis· factory arrangement. The coming year we will t ake the second grade into the room with the third and put the fourth, fi fth , and sixth to· gether. We know this will relieve the primary teacher and we hope will work out all right for the other grades.
More time was spent in supervised play and the program worked out by Mr. Overton and Miss McCutchan met with a ready re s ponse from the pupils. The basketball season was a splendid one. Although our teams played four year high schools they were able to make a good showing, the interest was keen, and the training the boys and girls had in sportsmanship was of the finest. Our great trouble in athletics is having to overwork the boys and girls. A hard game Saturday night after a full day's work in the fields or in the woods, or scrubbing floors or washing, is too much phy s ical exert ion, especially as we have such small teams it is impossible to do much substituting.
A play was given in February by the faculty. The proceeds were u sed in building an addition to the stage in the auditorium. Because of a play given by the F.F.T boys late in the term the high school play at close of school was omitted.
Eight pupils r ecei ved certificates for the completion of the second year high school and eight finished the eighth grade.
The county reimburses us for the salaries of the grade teachers. So far we have never received any high school money but there is prospect of s ome for next year. While it may not be more than the tuition we receive from the pupils it will be ca s h and will come in regularly and will make it much easier on the boys and girls who are working their way through school.
Mr. Overton has been president of the Sevier County Teachers' Association for the entire year and has been a great h e lp in planning interesting and helpful meetings each month and in keeping alive interest among the teachers of th e c o unty. We regret lo s ing Miss Williams and Mr. Overton from our school and county.
No better way of judging the work done in our school can be found than that 0 f watching its pupils after they have left us and gone to other institutions. This past year we have had four in Murphy Institute, three in Sevier County High, one in Townsend High, one in Pittman Center, one in Chilhowee Institute. Without exception these pupils have made good grades and th ei r standi ng in the school has been of the best.
Report 0 f the school would be far from complete this year without reference being made t o the library. The books were moved from the hall of the old schoo l building to one of the classrooms that had been vacated when the upper grades moved to the new building. Two l arge r ead in g tables were p ut in the r oom also. Miss McCullough, li brarian from Evansville, Indiana, gave thi s work a fine start durin g th e time she was
vacationing here in August and the interest did not lag during the year. Mr. Overton made calls for " Library Day" to which the teachers re spo nded and new book s were catalogu ed and old ones given to other school s or thrown aw ay. Boxes of books, including the hymn books that had been in use for seventeen years , went to five different schools. All during the year books have come in as a result of thi s campaign and the l ibrary is in very good condition . There are ab o ut thirty-five hundred volumes of well selected and readable books and they are being used in both Gatlinburg and Sugarlands.
Home Eco11omics
Mary Rachel A rm s trong, a University of Tennes see graduate, has been OUT new h ome economics teacher and ha s given full time to that work. Each morning is taken up with high school home economic cla sses . The afternoons are given to community work. Each afternoon was spent i n a different locality and the m eans of reaching the se places was sub ject to change, depending on weather and roads . If the Ford or Chevrolet refused to go over Grindstone Mountain, stout boots and a willing spirit carried her the re st of the way. The classes were composed of people from children to middle aged women.
I n the se less formal classes it is always difficult to tell just what is accompli shed Contacts are kept with the country people and that in itself is worth a great deal. The state will again reimburse us for these cla sses and we feel that with the cooperation a f the state and the interest taken by the local people
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we s hould continue the classes if possible.
Agriculture and Farm Shop
The Smith-Hughes agriculture and farm shop ha s been carried on more along the line s of a few years ago. Our new t eacher, Don Smith, sta rted to work the first of July by getting acq uaint ed with the community and its problems and projects. I am sure that the first two months he decided that he had come as a veterinarian in stead of teacher for the calls to see sic k horses and cows seemed world without end; perhaps it was as well to see things at their busiest and worst right at the s tart.
The work in agriculture correspo nd s to t hat in home economics in that the morning s are spe nt in sc hool and the afternoons in different communities. There have been classes in five different places, the territory extending from Banner, thr ee mi les away to Wear' s Valley eighteen mile s distant . Like Miss Armstrong, Mr. S mith has let weather decide his mean s of transportation for road s have been bad much of the time .
With each Gatlinburg agriculture boy carrying a horne project that mu s t be supervised and all the se boys in other communities to look after one can readily see the program day by day is a full one and not easily kept up with.
The F.F.T. took on new life and in the early spring the boys put on a play. The object of thi s was to rai se enough m o ney to send two delegates to the stat e convention at Nashville and Pi Phi was represented there by two young F Iflur e Farmers.
The shop work is of a practical
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kind-from fly traps to farm gates and from birdhouses to porch swings. While we try hard not to let the repair or farm work take too much of the agriculture teacher's time the stock we have on the place and the repairing of gates, etc., furnish many a practical lesson for the school boys. Last year we added to our list of stock a few sheep and this year the new project will be bees.
DormiJories
The outstanding work of the school, according to many, is that done in connection with the boys and girls in the dormitpries. Each yedT we have from twenty to twenty-five boys and girls living here who are ready for either eighth grade or high school but who live too far from any school giving those grades to make walking possible. There has to be a careful selection as we have many more applications than we have places. We do not plan to take pupils who could go to other places and pay board or who live near any other school. Only those willing and needing to work are considered.
The past year we rented for the boys' dormitory a small cottage nea r the school. It was really too small for the family that had occupied it, six: children and the mother and father, but into the same house we put one teacher, the housemother, and from ten to thirteen boys Only t wo rooms h ad heat so during the w inter all had to co ll ect into t h ese t wo sma ll rooms f or study hours and for a ll t im e t hey were in t h e h ouse an d awake. I t was not a very sa ti sfactory arrangement but the bes t
we could do and the way we must continue next year.
The girls' cottage is quite comfortable except for the dining room. This is badly overcrowded as forty-five of us take our meals in this house. The past year we were compelled to use the living room for dining room . No living room in a house or a dormitory makes the situation far from ideal and we are planning our best to provide one for another year .
I have told so many, many times the kind of work the boys and girls do I know you can pictu re it all. The thing impossible to picture unless one has been here is the busy life they lead and the joy they get out of having their "leisure" time, that usually is such a problem, all taken up. There is no time for loneliness nor discontent and l ittle or no time for mischief. All planning and supervision of their work, both in the ho u ses and on the farm, must be carefully cared for and there must be wise and interested peop l e to do it but it is a work that pays we B to do . T h e boys and gir l s who have had this t r ai ning fo r two years k n ow how to do well many kinds of work and when they l eave us a r e u sua ll y ab l e to manage for t he next two yea r s of high school. We are always being urged to have the next two years added to our co ur se bu t that is an absolute impossibi l ity with our present living quar t ers a nd limited means. It is t r ue, however, that our responsibilit ies do no t end when the boys a n d gir l s finis h t h e ir seco n d year of hi g h sc h ool w ith u s. Nearly a ll want to comple t e th e ir high sc h ool course a n d we t r y h a rd to get them located in some o t her schoo l where t h ey can have wor k
to do to help with their education. The clo se of school does not stop this line of work; each dormitory boy and girl works enough during the s ummer to finish any indebtedness they may have on our book s. Thi s summer all of the cooking for the family of not less than 6 fteen is done by the girls as is other housework and much of the cleaning. The dormitory boys work on the farm and with the repairs about the buildings. So the training goes on s ummer and winter, school time and vacation.
Both Mrs. Morgan and mother J who have been hou se mothers, have given up their work and we must find others to take th e ir places who will have as deep an interest in the development and training of the boys and girls.
Office
Little is said about this but much is done. We who are in the school know the careful eye that is on every penny and the hour s of work spent in all the business connected with the Arrowcraft, both with the local pe op le and with the club s. We know , too , the hours spen t in checking every hour of student labor and the work entailed in connection with that. All thi s is done regularly and promptly so each pupil can know from week to week just how his accounts stand.
Within the past fou r years much has been tran sfe rred from the Settlement School treasurer's books to the school. All current bills are now paid from thi s office, all industrial business is handled here. Each year the work in c rease s but Mi ss Cooke handles it glad ly and efficiently and is always willing to help with the . numberless extras
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that come in the course of every day Too much credit cannot be given her for the careful planning she h as done this year to keep our expenditures as low as possible and make every penny count.
Sroier County Health Unit
The Sevier County Health Unit has been a wide-awake organization this past year and we are glad to be a part of it. The unit consists of a county health physician, a sanitary officer, an office clerk, a county nurse, the nurse a t Pittman Center, a sc hool eighteen mile s from Sevierville and ours at Gatlinburg.
Our con,,"ction with the unit co ntinues to be rather puzzling to many. It really means that Pittman and our schoo l , with the county co urt , pool a certain amount so that that sum can be matched by state and federal fund s. The amount we put in is equal t o tha t we would pay our nurse. We se nd our check to the sta te department and they pay the nurse. It may so und complicated but it is not and this cooperation mean s a un it f o r the county that would be impos sible otherwise .
In addition to the help given in school examinations and numer ous other place s the county health physician sees that we are supplied with vaccines and m a ny other supplies free of charge, including health pamphlet s and literature. The state also pays for the upkeep and depreciation of the nurse's saving us an expense that would be quite an item
Health
Frances Moore ha s had a tremendously busy year. She has carried out an extensive and thorough ' schoo l program th a t has touched
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practically every school in the eleventh district. Children were weighed and measured, and in most cases the county health physician gave a physical examination. A good many defects were corrected and the cooperation gi yen by some of the county teachers was a joy. C l asses in home hygiene and care of the sick were carried in connection with the home economics classes in Gatlinburg and Sugarlands. Two classes for "little mothers" were held in Gat l inburg, one in Sugarlands and a mothers' class in Elkmont. Immunization clinics for typhoid, smallpox and dyptheria were held all over the district, more than 700 innoculations being completed. And babies--this has been a baby year: 162 visits made to mothers, 197 letters distributed, and 193 visits made to preschool chi ldren.
Two tonsil clinics were held during the year. Severa l patients were in the hospital for from a day o r two to four or five weeks, as a result 0 f au t omobi l e accidents. The same dentist from Knoxvi1le comes one Saturday eac h month. Numerous trips are m ade to Knoxville to take patients in for examinatio n s and treatment.
While there is much done in schoo l a nd in g roups there are many, many sick calls that mu st be answered and this past winter and spring have brought an unusual number of distressing cases. Whether the lon g, severe winter, the scarcity of work, or just more familiarity with the country brought these to our attention is more than I can say but the fact remains that day after day brought almost more than the nurse could stand. It is our policy to give lit-
tie in tbe line of food or clothing but to try to help people to belp themselves. The policy is right, we are sure, but it would take harder hearts than ours to see some of these conditions and then be able to enjoy thoroughly our good foods and warm beds. We were glad when warm weather and gardens came.
The amount of work done in connection with the Health Center would be an impossibility without the valuable assistance of Lillie Reagan. She has been in the office long enough to be well acquainted with the work and that with her faithfulness makes her a most valuable assistant.
Weaving
Weaving teachers are scarce and when Miss Redding left us a year ago we feared we might have a long search for someone to take her place. We were fortunate though for just as I was leaving Oregon last s ummer after convention I heard of Miss Strand. She came to us in October and came with a thorough knowledge of weaving and a l so with a real l ove of the mountains and its people.
The work 0 f the department continued much as it had under Miss Redding. The seventh and eightb grade g irl s had a double period class each morning; the morning was also u sed f or office work, the women calli ng for supplies and advice. Usually the afternoons were given over to the necessary trips to the various hom es and the se were many. All the Arrowcraft things are made in the homes and must be carefuUy supervised. As m ost of the se trips are made on foot o ne n eeds to be
a pretty good hiker and not easily bluffed by weather.
Once each month there has been a meeting of the weavers and this is both educational and social with the empha s is on the social. The women take turns bringing and serving refre s hments-u s ually there are between twenty-five and thirtyfive present not including the babies.
Alice McCarter has been the ass istant , helping Miss Strand when needed and weaving in the Arrowcraft Shop the remainder of the time.
Again the state has given substantial aid for this work. It comes through the Smith-Hughes Vocationa l Department and will amount this year to about $600.
Arrowcr aft Shop
M i ss Allen still i n charge of the Arrowcraft Shop, Veatress Parton and Alice McCarter able assistants, Elizabeth Cooke in the office looking after every penny that comes and goes and, las t but not least, the splendid cooperation the clubs and chapters give, make a combination that is bound to do business
The report of the Arrowcraft this year shows a business around $25,000 and we are proud to say that it has been carried on at a small profit. The aim of this department is primarily to provide work for people in this community -at the same time training them to make better and more beautiful things. To carry the educational and the business parts of this department and come out even financially is really doing well. All this could never be accomplished without the wonderful support
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gi ven by the Pi Phis all over the United States. No other school that I know of has this splendid market and I know no other could bring the personal contacts that means so much to tho se here who carryon the work.
More than a hundred families are either self supporting or partially so because of the shop, the work they do is of a high grade and what all this means to them is evidenced in the better home s and general living conditions in so many places. Like the nur se the ones in this department come in close touch with the people and their plea s ure s and problems-thus the influence and are far more than can be seen in dollars and cents.
It is surprising but true that in spite of hard times everywhere the Arrowcraft sales have held up and payments have been more prompt than in other years. This has meant much more than you can realize . All the year, a s the checks came in, the money was immed iately turned over to the people who were working so faithfully, and but for those checks, we could not have paid these people The winter wa s unusually severe and other work scarce so I hardly know what the people would have done without their checks for weaving, baskets, and furniture
Already many of the club orders for next fall are in and by the first of August many orders will be shipped. This is a much more satisfactory way-both for the clubs and the shop-as Christmas time the stock is Jaw and mails are slow.
I do not need to add in closing that all visitors find their way to
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the ATrowcraft Shop or that I do my best to keep that place until the last knowing that if they once get there they won't see anything else on the place.
i¥ood Worki"g Sloop
Even though Mr. Mattil has ceased to be on the pay roll he is still a valuable member of the staff. This year the wood working shop has been almost as popular a place with vis.itors as the Craft Shop. The clubs well know the crickets, sconces, bookshelves, and book ends that are made here but not all have seen the cherry and black walnut furniture that is being made.
The training given the men who work in the shop is most valuable and the school appreciates Mr. Mattil carrying this. Many feel it shou ld be a part of the sc hool and it really is in almost every way but financially.
With Mr. Mattil's interest in the school and the years he has been here it is no wonder we still call on him for all kinds of extras and he always gladly gives his time, as in former years.
E11una. Harper Turner
C enter-Sugarlands
Extension work ha s a real appeal, as anyone of the special teachers or those in the Sugarlands will tell you.
The Sugarlands family is a happy, congenial, and efficient one. School work must be the important part of the program but it is not all. The Sunday School that meets in the schoolhouse, the women who come to the cottage for their rug work, sewing, or just friendly calls. the visiting the teach-
ers do in the homes, all is part of the work of the Center. There is never a time if you are in Sugarlands that you are not on duty or subject to call but there is a delight in coming close to the Ii fe of the community and a charm in having your own littl e family. In fact, since the Gatlinburg family has grown to such proportions we co uld not get along at all without the Sugarlands home to slip off to every now and then.
Mrs. Dowell is still housemother but the good meals she prepares for the two teachers are only part of her many duties. She helps with community activities and is always "at home" to the many callers who drop in day after day for advice or for friendly chat. Eva Hathaway is principal and is successf ully teaching th e four upper grades. This year three of her pupils completed the eighth grade and will come to Gatlinburg for their first year high school work. Although it is only five miles away. we want them to stay in the dormitory for the training and experience they will recei ve. Emily Burton, our "vete ran" primary teacher, had to leave us in November because of the serious illness and death of her father; her place was taken by Lois Brewer, a Knoxville girl. Mary Rachel Armstrong had classes in home economics during the year. Frances Moore had clinics at the cottage and also s upplemented Mary Rachel's course with the girls by giving practical les sons in home hygiene and care of the sick. Nothing has appealed to the boys more than the shop work Eva has given them. A few tools and some old planks that looked to me good for nothing were
the only equipment but things were made regardless. Later in the year through two Pi Phis who were interested in the school, more tools were gotten and darkness came many a night before the boys were ready to leave the little shop in the schoolhouse.
During the s umm er the school girls have continued to have Sunday School never failing to feel the sweeping of the schoolhouse after the meeting to be as important as the benediction. Even though the property will eventually be turned over to the Park our work will continue as long as there is need for it; and with the return of Mrs. Dowell, Eva, and Emily our Center will continue to develop.
One of the happiest events of last year was the initiation of Emily Burton into Pi Beta Phi. Emily was called home early in November and the night before she left fourteen Tennessee A girls came to Gatlinburg from Chattanooga to take her into their chapte r . It was all so sudden, so thrilling and so wonderf u lly fitting for the twelve years Emi ly has been here have endeared her to all and the Arrow surely is being worn close to a loyal little Pi Phi heart Pi Beta Phi School is actively interested in the organization and development of a Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild. In December, 1929, a meeting was held at the Spinning Wheel, Asheville, North Carolina, at which definite steps were taken toward the formation of the Guild, standards for membership, etc. Plans were also laid for an exhibit at the Southern Mountain Conference the following March. The exhibits from more than thirty centers were proof
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of the varied and high grade handicraft work being done in the Southern Mountains.
There has been practically no visiting of other schools during the year by any members of the staff. This has been decidedly a "stayat-home" year but we have tried to keep in touch with the larger program through attending the annual Mountain Workers' Conference in Knoxville, through th e Guild meeting in Asheville in December, and by the vi s itors from other centers who have come to us.
During the year many requests ha ve come to us for more publicity material to be u sed by clubs and chapters and thi s need we should meet this summer. In the fall a set of kodak picture s was sent each council and committee member and each province president and vice president; these were easy to carry and seemed to meet with good response. The slides and films have been used but little during the year. The Gatlinburg News has bee n sen t to about four hundred Pi Ph is and perhaps two hundred l ocal people . Letters from the school ha ve been sent to Settlement Schoo1 Chairman, national officers, and Pi Phis on the Gatlinburg News mailing list.
Last summer a new septic tank was insta ll ed for the g irls' dormitory and Stuart cottage, the heating and plumbing system in the girls' donnitory was reworked, and the teachers' cottage This summer it is necessa ry to paint the grade school building, the bam, and freshen u p some of the interiors. A new storeroom for groceries and for wood and coal must be built as well as a wagon
and tool house. During the spring more native shrubbery was set out around the Sugarland's cottage and the GatJinburg buildings; we have tried to improve the pre.mises and have been rewarded by being told that we do have more of an air of refinement.
There are a number of acres oC woodland on our place and since the windstorm of a year ago and the chestnut blight that has been working for several years we find we have much dead timber. This should be gotten out while it is still good for lumber and we plan to have it logged and sawed this fall. Enough can be sold to pay this bill
but we would not be wise to let it all go. Seasoned lumber is always needed about the place and this is the last chestnut that we will ever have.
In closing this, my twelfth annual report , I want to again express my sincere appreciation for the loyal support that is always given by the fraternity. The work in Gatlinburg is a joy and one that is only excelled by your personal interest and cooperation in everything.
EVELYN BISHOP
(NOTE: Report of Treasurer of Settlement School will be found following Alumnz Club reports.EDITOR)
Minutes of Auuual Meetiug of Grand CouDcil-July 8-16, 1930
T HE annual meeting of the Grand Council was held at the Settlement School in Gatlinburg. Tennessee. July 8-16. dates which were chosen partly because the Settlement School Committee was also in session. thus making it possible to fulfill the constitutional requirement that a member of the Council, in this instance the Grand President, shall meet with the committee during part of each annual committee meeting. The Council greatly missed the Grand Treasurer who was excused because of an European trip.
The reports from the chairmen of the standing committees were 6rst read and studied. and from them the various recommendations were acted upon. and certain policies formulated
With regard to extension for the coming year, the chairman of the Extension Committee was in-
structed to impart the following action to the groups concerned: that a member of Grand Council shall be sent. the coming year, to inspect Alpha Upsilon of the Univers it y of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada j that Beta Theta of Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, shall be de6nitely discouraged because of location; that Ero Alphian of Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan, shall receive an official visitor in the fall and the future progress of the group in petitionjng Pi Beta Phi shall be determined by this visit; that the remaining official visits s haH be made to Gamma Sigma of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and that Grand Council shall act further on the basis of the reports of all visiting officers; that, following the receipt of a letter from the group during the Council meeting. Mu Lambda of Duke Uni-
versity, Durham, North Carolina, s hall be informed that we consider the university as having great poss ibilities in which we may be interested, and that we s hall be glad to give assi stance in organization with the under sta nding that there is no probability of their petition in the corning convention. It was agreed that all of the se official inspection visits s hould be made early in the fall. Further a change was made in th e extension procedure with regard to in spec ti o n so th a t the repr ese ntatives from the two n eares t chapters shall make their visits at the sa me time as the province president concerned.
It was voted that the Mu sic Committee should undertake the gathering of songs for a new Pi Beta Phi songbook t o go to pres s as soo n as po ssible. Th e songs inclu ded are to be approved by the Council after a li st ha s been selected from the choices of chapters.
The returns from th e qu es t io nnaires compiled by the chairmen of the Committees on Mothers ' Clubs, and Chaperon s, furn i s hed valuabl e information on the pre se nt status of tho se two pha se s of our organization. It wa s recommended that a second que s tionnaire be conducted by the latter chairman to gain the fac ts of the c haperon' s functions from her own standpoint, thus adding to the in formation gained fr o m the standpoint of the chapters. A committee of one on Social Courtes y was created.
It was rec o mmended that the Loan Fund chairman should se nd out publicity for the Loan Fund early in the year so chapters and clubs could pl a n ahead.
The rec o mmen da ti o n s of the Settlement School Committee to Grand .
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Council were acted upon as foll ows : that the indu s trial budget and accounts be kept s eparately from th e regular sc hool book s wa s passed; that from the sa le of the S uga rland Cottage, with the consent of th e Athens a lumn ;:e club, the proceeds be u s ed for a boys' d o rmitory at the sc h oo l to be kn ow n as the Hazel Todd Meaden Cot tage was lo st, with a sub sti tute motion advanced to the committee - that following, th e sa le of the Sugarland 's Cottage, wi th the consent of the Athens alumn;:e club, the Hazel T odd Meaden Memorial Fund be kept intact as a boys' dormitory building fund; l ast ly, the recomm e ndation that the Committee proc eed with ,m Arrowcraft Shop in the hotel a s soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made with Mr. Huff was approved.
An under s tandin g of the progre ss of the alumna! department was gained fr om the reports of the various officers co n cerned. A careful report was co mpiled by the Assistant to the Grand Vi ce Pres ident showing paid dues and Settlement School contributions for the past four years as a possible index of the value of the visits of the provin ce vice president s t o clubs and their vi s it to the Settlement School a year ago. The Grand Vice President wa s instructed to prepare a form for the annual confidential reports of the province vice presid ents There was an approving vote to the effect that the requirement fo r the visit of a province vice president to include a co nference with the alumna! advisory committee be str ic ken from the province vice president's manual.
The Grand Secretary was inst ructed to writ e a l e tt e r of thanks
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to Mary Bobo Durden for her excellent work on the Magazine Agency the past year. There is to be increased pres sure for the use a f the agency by the clubs. In line with the ever present desire to increase the income for the school, the Grand Vice Pre sident is compiling a list of clubs with their respective wares for the information of any clubs interested.
With the study of both the ARRowand confidential annual reports of province presidents, the reports of deans of women, and the reports of all visits made a very clear picture of conditions in the chapters was gained The increased appreciation of chapter officers for good form and accuracy in chapter business, chapter responsibility in bettering scholarship rating, the healthy intere st in college activities \"ith outstanding individual honor s in extracurricular activities, and earne st endeavor to maintain fraternity standards were only a few of the wholesome equalities reAected in chapters. Very definite programs were drawn up to be put into the hands of delegated persons for execution, in the case of those chapters needing special attention in order to measure up to the requirements our chapters must maintain. There was a motion passed that Pennsylvania ll. be given one semester to continue its program of improvement at the end of which time, the Grand Council sha ll vote on the retention of its charter.
The decision, made necessary by the academic merging of Lombard and Knox College, with regard to Illinois Band ll. chapters of Pi Beta Phi was that the chapter at Knox should become Illinois B-.6. thus merging the two chapters, with the
retention of both charters. The Grand Secretary was delegated to stop at Galesburg on her return from the Council meeting to make clear the various aspects of the union.
After thorough consideration of the ratings of chapters as indicated by the survey and standardization report, and the recommendations of the province presidents fo r their respective provinces, Grand Council unanimously awarded Michigan B the Balfour Cup for the second consecutive year, Virginia r the Stoolman Vase, the second award for excellence in cooperation and internal organization, and California B honorable mention for third place in chapter rating.
In accordance with the usual order, miscellaneous business was taken up last having developed from various recommendations and reports.
It was advised that the Assistant to the Grand President organize a program for pledges who have passed their fraternity examination and have not yet been initiated. It was agreed that if there were at l east four pledges, there sho uld be sepa r a t e weekly m eetings; if less than four, planned work, meetings, or submitted re ports, wee kly , but a r equi r ed meeting monthly. Also the Assistant to the Gra nd President was instructed to make a s urvey of initiation costs, and chapter and pledge dues in the individual chapters.
-The G rand Council accepted the resolutions submitt ed by the Harris Tru st Company· of Chicago offering an amendment to our original
• Full text of the Harris Trust Resolution may be had on application to Grand Secretary.
agreement providing for an additional fund to be known as the Settlement School Endowment Fund.
Consideration was given to the report of Mr. H. F. Freeman fulfilling legal action for application for the registration of the trademark of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School and of the agreement with Cluett , Peabody, and Company of New York providing against any legal complication s with simi lar trademarks. The Grand Secretary was instructed to write a letter of thanks and appreciation to Mr . Freeman for his legal skill in accompli shment, as well as generosity of service
-"'\ Several new officia l forms were adopted or proposed. The official form of rein statement presented by the Grand President was adopted. An affiliation ceremony was authorized to be drawn up by the chairman of the Tran sfe r Committee for a do ption and approval by the Council. The Grand Pre sident was authorized to sec ure someone to submi t for adoption a possible bu ri a l se r vice, the use of which shall be optiona l. The s ponsor section is to be stricken from the pledge ceremony, and a brief special sponsor ceremony is to be formulated by the Grand Secretary to be used at a regular chapter meeting not Jess than two weeks nor mo re than three week s after fonnal pledging.
\ Several amendments to the cons titution were made .
Stat. IV was amended by inserting:
28. PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO MEET FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS
Any active member leaving college , tem· porarily or permanently, without having met satisfactorily all financial obligations to her chapter and fraternity, shall be placed upon
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probation automatically as defined in Stat. V, Sec .•• to be foJlowcd by dismissal. as defined in Slat. V, Sec.. 6 , at the end of tbe stated year should arran.ements for payment sati,ractory to the alumnz advisory committee concerned not have been made.
Stat. V, was amended by adding:
Sec.. 4. AUTOMATIC PRODATION
For failure to meet financial obligations as defined in Slat. IV, Sec. 28. a lirl s ball be placed upon probation aut oma tically, without c hapt er privileges and badge for one year, with th e chap ter president responsible for the enforcement of tbis pro· bation.
Stat_ V was further amended by adding:
Sec. 6. AUTOMATIC SUSPENSJON
Upon failure to meet the financial obligation s as outlined in Stat. V. Sec. 28, automatic probation shall terminate at the end of one calendar year in automatic suspension.
a. No Councilor chapter vote is nece5sary for automatic suspension.
b. Automatic suspensio n sha ll be governed hy the fol lowing provisions Stat. V , Sec. Se, 7, Ub, c, and Sec. 17.
Stat. V , the now Sec. 15a was amended by striking out the phrase "upon general consent" and in serting "upon a three-fourths vote" so that it shall read:
a. Upon a tbree -fo urths vote of the chapter concerned, a pledge may be extended through the {our immediately lucceeding months.
The final amendment of Stat. V was made in the now section 13 by striking out the phrase " with the consent of the Grand President" and inserting "with the unanimous co n se nt of the Grand Council" so that it reads:
b. Suspended members may be reinstated. at any time within two years from tbe date of suspension, with the unanimous conICnt of the Grand Counci l and tbe consenting th ree-fourt h s vote or the active chapter concerned.
Since a pledge is supposed to be binding for one calendar year and
a pledged gid, whose general action and attitude are right, is entitled to a years opportunity to prove herself scholastically, the Grand Council voted that failure to meet the scho la stic requirement for ini· tiation in one semester may not be made automatic cause for the breaking of a pledge, "at the end of that first semester of pledging."
It was agreed that the fraternity shou ld supply the committee chairmen with typewriters. It was the opinion of the Grand Council that official correspondence, as well as reports of all officers for whom the fraternity furnishes typewriters mu st be typewritten.
Upon the recommendation of the Director of the Central Office, it was decided that next year's return postcards shall be sent out di· rectly from the Central Office. There was authorized a new publication of the "Alumnre Advisory Committee Manual" with the Assistant to the Grand President working out any necessary revision i a mimeographed issue of the " Model Alumnz Club Constitution" with the Grand Vice President making the revision. With the publication 0 f the songbook, there is to be no new is sue of the history.
The Director of the Central Office was given the power to make any changes in blanks which she considers neces sa ry. She was also instructed to set the price of suppi ies as costs warrant. All extra collection charge costs are to be billed to delinquent chapters concerned i telegrams made necessary by chapter tardiness are to be billed di r ectly to chapters. Chap-
ters are to be charged for the replacement of blanks lost through negligence. The date for annual reports in the AltRow directory is to be changed from June 5 to June 10. The Grand Council again calls to the attention of officers and members that the ARROW directory is in charge of the Director of the Central Office and all changes in address should be reported by the tenth 0 f the month preceding the issue of THE ARROW.
There is to be a new initiation pattern chosen by the Director along the same general lines of the previous one, necessitated by the discont inuan ce of the old pattern; chapters having the present pattern will not be required to change.
Upon the recommendation of the National Supervisor of Accounting, the Central Office is to supply all local chapter financial advisers, as well as visiting office r s wi th "The Manual for Visiting Officers" compiled by Mr. Busey in 1928.
Since le ss than one-third of the chapters had been visited the past year by a national officer, careful plans were made for in s pection 0 f chapters the corning year.
FinallYI the decision was made for an Eastern convention with immediate invest igation of several hotels as the Berkeley Carteret, Asbury Park, New Jersey, New Saranac Inn, New York, and the Maplewood Club, New Hampshire, as possible sites.
The annual meeting of the Grand Council adjourned.
GAIL DEWOLF Grand Secretary
Annual Reports of (;ommittees Extension
W ITH the Extension Committee Manual always at hand and with the unfailing help of Gladys Madigan, retiring chairman, and of Gail DeWolf and Amy Burnham Onken, the committee started off la st fall without too great difficulty. Charlotte Cropley Brown, former Alpha Province President, and Ann McDonald D'Aule, who helped make the Pasadena Convention what it was, are with the chairman new members, Mildred B. Cathers being the only one from previous years to continue. It is indeed well for our work that she could remain.
So far, duties have been light, consisting largely in answering inquiries from aspiring locals. No Pi Phi has real grounds for believing that the e sta blished fraternity policy with regard to extens ion is anything but most conservative . Each Dew group learns at the outset that successful petitioning requires at least two, and more often four to six years of concentrated effort. It is interesting to note , then , that within the last six months two groups which had been working for years toward Pi Phi in spite a f discouragements of all kinds have finally applied elsewhere and been chartered. Phi Phi Phi of Deni so n University, Granville, Ohio, has been in sta lled as a chapter of Alpha Phi; and Pi Rho Phi of Westminster College, New Wilmingto n. Pennsylvania , becomes part of Gamma Phi Beta. There are al-
ready three chapters of Pi Beta Phi in Ohio, and there are four in Pennsylvania. A strong group located in an institution which would open up a new section of the country or offer some exceptionally valuable field education ally has th e best c h ance of winning a charter from Pi Phi.
The following loca l s have been discouraged because they do not hold out one or th e other or both of the se advantage s : Beta Phi, University of Alabama, Tu scaloosa; Iota Lambda Phi, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina; Gamma Tau Kappa, Hunter College, New York City; Psi Xi Omega of New York University, also in New York City; Delta Kappa, Bradley College, Peoria, Illinois: Beta Alpha Phi of Oklahoma City University and Alpha Tau Delta at Denison University. Nor have possibilities been favored at the University of Montana in Missoula, at Southwestern College, Memphis, Tennessee, and at the Univer s ity of Cincinnati. A group at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, which wished to go on in spite of discouragement, had finally to give up its hope s . General inquiries have come from R oya l Victo ria College of McGill University, Montreal, Canada: from Ohio Northern Univer sity in Ada; and from Colorado College at Colorado Springs. Mu Lambda of Duke University, Durham , North Carolina, is the
last to inquire. There has not been time to receive its reply to the ra ther discouraging first letter from the committee. Delta Xi Delta, formerly Theta Upsi lon Psi (educational) was ob li ged to withdraw since Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia, is not open to Nationa l Pan hellenic Cong r ess fraternities.
The on ly new groups whose possib iliti es will be laid before Grand Council this year are Alpha Upsilon of the Unive r sity of Alberta, Edmo nt on, A lb e rta , Ca nad a, and Beta Theta of Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. Both ha ve something in themselves to offe r to Pi Beta Phi.
Two others, which have been working towa rd Pi Phi for severa l yea r s, a r e Gam ma Sigma of th e
4::haperons
Q UES TI ONNA IRES
were se llt to fifty chapters li sted by the Grand Secretary. Of these, Virginia A, V er mont B, Wi sco ns in B, and Indiana A report not living in their houses. North Carolina A has a house for the first time; two mothers and an elder1y friend of the chapter served during the faB and winter, but a chaperon was expected for the spr ing term. Nebraska B either lo st or did not receive the questionnaire; a tel eg ram stated that the pre se nt chaperon will not return and that h e r s uccessor had not been decided upon Hence , thi s report is base d on replies from forty-four chapters.
Near1y all chapters an s wered carefully and promptly. One was three weeks late; one a month; and five were telegraphed to after al -
niversity of South Caroli na, Columbia, and Ero Alphian 0 f Michiga n State College in East Lan s ing. After an ·official visit in May MiS! Onken reports favorably on allowing the former to wo rk toward petitioning. The latter is to have a visit from a member of Grand Co un ci l next fall before it i s permitted t o go further. During thi s year it h as bee n trying t o build up its o rganization . There is no time in this r epo rt to dwell o n the fe e lin g of pride in the fraternity which all phases of the wo rk on the extension committee have brought, but the feeling has been there. I count it a great privilege to se rve and to continue the contacts w hich increase in mea ning as time goes on.
MARY C. FROST
most six weeks' waiting. In almos t every case, chapters explained their delay a nd apologized. I thank Grand Council for Pi Phi's in s is tenc e upon promptness and accuracy from her chapters; the training i s o f inestimabl e value to the gi rIs.
I. Choice of chaperon re s ts mainly upon the active chapter . In ten instances active and alumnawork together; in five , the alumnre find the chaperon. In all cases the co llege approves and some furnish approved li s t s from which choice may be made.
II. Duties. An s wers are unanimou s that. chaperons know exactly what is expected of them Twelve seem to be chaperon only; three , hou se-manager and chaperon j twenty-nine are also commissary In t welve in s tances, the chapter treasurer pays the bills .
Three have "sepa rate accounts," One "t rea surer allows s um ." One chaperon is "he r own trea sure r, " One "s ign s c hecks bK'd by treasurer." One receives the board and pays her own bills. Three pay their own bills-source of money not named. One receive s H$3S.00 per girl, pays her own bills and gives surp lus to the alumnre." One is given "$25.00 per month for cash purchases." Five are budgeted. Eight do not meet with the visory Board. Ten do not meet with the Exec utive Council. Five meet with neither. Five say plainly that the chaperon does not en force rules. Others say she is backed in e nforcement by the chapter. the alumna! and the college. One says , " the un co nditi o nal support of the chapter"; another that IIse ntiment against breaking rule s is suc h that discipline is easy in our house "
III. Tenure. Illinois Z heads the li st with 18 years j Illinois H follows with 15 years; 14 years, 12 years, 9 years, 8 year s, two of 7 years, two of 5 years,S of 4 years and 7 of 3 years, are worth while record s . The average tenure is ported by most chapters as from two to three years.
IV. Experience. Only eleven chaperons had had previou s ence. Of the se on l y two had had as much as three years.
V. Other EmploymePit. In four cases chaperons are teachers-two in high school, one professor of German in college.
VI. Salary ranges from board and room only to $700 a year in one in stance, and $100 a month, in two. Where cash amounts were reported, it was rarely clear whether board and room were included or were additional. One answer quite
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plainly said $75 per month, pl u s board a nd r oom. Six report board and room only. The cash amounts average sl ightly under $59.
VII. Education and Fraternity. Eighteen are college women . Nine have the bachelor degree. Four have a master or have done postgraduate work. Eleven are in Pi Phi. Nineteen travel widely; ten, abroad. A l most all do se lec ti ve r eading Sixteen follow definite courses of study. Five are considered by the girls as not equal intellectually to faculty and patronesses. The status of chaperons seems to be about that of faculty wive s. They are invited to college affairs and are eligible to various college groups . One report says, "t hey are in a clas s by themselves"; another, that "they are not outstand ing on our campus"; another that the status His n ot what it sho uld be bu t is improving." In almost every case, the Pi Phi chaperon is reported as above the average-"decidedly above," "far s u perior," "the envy of the camp u s"; four a re rated as average , one below, one as average in some respects, above in others To three, the chaperon is no social help; to one, not m u ch; to thirteen, she is no academic help.
VIII. Entertainment. F 0 u r chapters do not see to entertainment of the chaperon at all (formal Pi Phi affai r s excepted, I suppo se) . Some give a tea, reception, bridge, or th ea t er for the chaperon and patrones ses. Five furnish tickets and escort to all college affairs. One takes the chaperon to churc h and to one entertainment each week. One has an active and a pledge tak e the chaperon to one entertainment each week.
IX. Personal. Healt/, i s pre-
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vailingly "good"; in two instances "fair"; in two "nervous." Disposition is prevailingly "cheerfu)"four chaperons are at times a bit gloomy . Four are not tactful and capable of meeting emergencies and four are only fairly so. Ten are uKmarried; others are widows, thirty being mothers ( three have Pi Phi daughters). Age ranges from
Sc holar s hip
I T IS going to be a greater pleasure to make my report this year as I feel the statistics with which I am to work are more truly representative of chapter conditions than they ha ve ever been before. From previous reports that I have made you know that I found the compari so n of grades according to our former method is not fair.
We have a good starting basis for next fall. This year, however, has been a haphazard one of se nding irregular directions, etc., due to a lack of a manual. AlI was done, but with a great inefficiency, I believe. I am grateful to alI members of my committee for their patient cooperation.
Miss Onken and Miss DeWolf have suggested that a survey be made by this committee on the scho larship requirements for initi ation in each chapter with the purpose of determining if the present standard s are not perhaps too high in schoo l s where the g rade curve is in u se. I shall make this a part of my program next falt. I learned of it too late to take steps this se mester
I am inclosing a chart showing campus ran kings for 1928-29.
26-27 in two cases to 68-70 in two. Ten are under fifty. Fifty to sixty is the most often reported. AlI but one are young in spirit.
The committee has taken pleasure in the work and hopes the informat.ion gathered will be of u se in bettering chapter conditions, until they become uni formly ideal.
JESSIE W. LOCKETT
There was no special effort to secure reports in January as it was decided by the Grand Council, in view of the fact that many midyear report s are not availab le , that on ly annual reports should be made. The blank spaces for 1928-29 were in mo s t instances due to chapter committees. The supe rvisors worked diligently and I sent special notices, but response s from several committees were slow and Iowa B, Kansas B, Oregon B, and California A have not yet replied, wh ic h means they had no grade reported to the standards committee.
Under the new methods of comparison chapters are given percentage grades according to their ranking on the campus, which is explained in the scholarship manual. There were s ix 6rst place chapters last year: Virginia r, Michigan B, Tennessee A, Illinois A, Manitoba A, and Missouri B.
Marked gains in campus standing have been made by the following chapters: New York r, Ohio A, Washington B, Wisconsin B, Oklahoma B, Louisiana A, and Illino i s A. Chapters falling much below in camp u s ratings are: Vermont A, Vermont B, New York 6, Ohio 6 , Indiana B, Illinois Z, Illinois H,
Missouri A, Wyoming A, California r, and Nevada A.
We st Virginia A, North Carolina A, No rth Dakota A, Illinois E, and Nebraska B have been cooperative this year.
The cooperation is not propor-
Transfers
S I NCE the Convention of 1929 changed the procedure of this committee the work this year has been rather slow and indefinite. We only hope we have been of so me good, and we are sure the new plan will prove more successful each year to come
The n ew procedure, to have the transfer her se lf notify the committee immediately upon registration in an in stitution where she is not affiliated, should and will be a mor e accurate method, but this year I feel it was not und erstood since it had no publicity until the first edition of THE ARROW and then probably not noticed by many. This year only four tran s rer s n ot ified the committee that they were transferring. This should not be discouraging because of the lack of knowl edge of the new procedure . In each case th e chapters were immediately notified of the girl's tran sfer and given her address.
In going over the li sts of inactive g irl s sent the Ce ntral Office by each chapter a few more transfers were located.
Each chapte r was se nt a l etter in October a skin g it to extend court esies to the transfers on its campu s, to ask them to have meetings with the Advisory Board member
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tional to the grades because usually negligence is on the part of the sc h olarship committee in the chapter. I have written to several corresp onding sec retaries this year and then the information was forthcoming.
ALICE S. COx
in charge, to se nd a l ist of transfer s to this committee with the name of the Advisory Board member. A foll ow-up card was sent later to those chapters not heard from. As a result sixty-nine chapters responded. nine were never heard from, thirty-two had no transfers. the re st reported a total of ninety- seve n transfers.
In colleges where there was more than one tran sfe r the advisory member was sent a list of transfers and asked to hold meetings with them. encourage them to contribute to the Settlement School and Endowment Fund, and to help them with any difficultie s that arise.
With a more universal und e rs t anding a m ong transfers to notify this committee when entering a new college will come better coope r ation. As soon as this is understood the chapters will be more prepared to welcome their transfers and at an earl ier date.
This committee would like to th ank the chapters. e specially, for their cooperation , as well as the Grand Council Advisory Board and tran sfers If. at any tim e. thi s committee can be of further help to tr ansfers and chapters we hope they will feel fr ee to come to it.
CHRISTI NE YERGES CoNAWAY
Fraternity Study nnd Examination
T HE chairman of the committee on Fraternity Study and Examination, submits the following report:
PaovlNcu \VITU No CIIAPTD 100 PO CENT ON H OIfO I ROLL 1. Gamma 2. Zeta 3. Kappa
COYI'AllATIVI RATING 0,. ellA-PTUS 100 PEl CINT OK HOKOI ROLL No No"" Examined
L Mkhiean A ••.... 29
2. Vermont B 28
3. New York A 22
3. Vermont A 22
4. New York r 16
5. Pennaylvania B 33
6. India na II 24
7. Massachu,etta A 18
8. Ontario A 25
9. Pennaylvania A 23 10. Kentucky A ,., 20
II. Alabama A 10 12. Indiana r ........ 27 13. Tenneuee A 18 14. Washington B IS I S. B. ,.,... 13 16. Wiscon,in A 16 17. lIIinoia B 12 18. Orelon A .,...... 24 19. MOfIt ana A ,. 20
20. North Dakota A 11 21. lIIinoi, II 20 22. Jllinoi, Z 29
23. Oldahoma B 16
24. Idaho A 17
25. lIIinoi, A 13
26. Wyoming A ." 26
27. Colorado B 20
28. Tex"B .•.. IS
29. WilConsin B 12
30. Oldahoma A 27
RATJlfe OP PaovllfCI. NaPPI' Cltapten Averag,
COMPARATIVE RATING OP CUAPT CENT ON JlOHOI ROLL No. Nom, Eromi,.,d I. Pennsylvania r 11 2. Idaho A 16 3. California r 13 4. Vermont A ...... 11 5. Illinoi s B 18 6. Indiana .A 13 7. New York II 10 8. Pennlylvania A ... IS 9 lIIinois
Health
APLAN was inaugurated last fall, to have the various chapters of the fraternity take part in a competition to eliminate illnes s It was felt by the committee, that such a contest would demon s trate in a practical way. the increa s ed health which results from sane living, with due regard to the laws of health. Each chapter was circu l arized la st December, and a list of suggestions for promoting and preserving health was enclosed. Each girl in the chapters entering was asked to keep count of every day or half day lost by illness, irre s pective of the day being a holiday or school day. Reduction of sickness is the aim to be achieved.
LOBn FUlid
Twenty- six chapters entered the competition. It is hoped the se chapters will continue to maintain throughout the year the keen interest they have already shown. Two chapters wrote me later in the s pring that they had not received my circular letter sent out in December . I regret this very much, but letters were carefully sent to the corresponding secretary of each chapter, and failure to receive one was due to some lo ss in the mails.
If the contest is attempted another year, I hope every chapter will compete. FulJ return s will not be in until January 1,1931.
GERALDINE OAKLEY
T HE chairman of the committee o n Undergradu a te Loa n Fund submit s the following rep?rt:
992.25 189.98
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Pueblo
Balance June 18, 19 JO.
The following table shows the growth of th e Loan F und since its establishment in 1912, the amount of Loans granted, the amounts repaid, etc
Grand Treasury (Alum nae Depart· ment $2,300 .00) ...... $ Alumnae C lubs ,. 4,950.00 2,578.75
Aetive Chapten
Convention Daily Convention year book [nterest on repaid loans Pa yin, on aeeount
Total June 18, 1930 .. $ 9,396.15
Concerning the outstanding Loans:
$ 470.00 is overdue and drawi n g int erest. 455 .00 is due July I , 1930. 1.290.00 is due July 1, 1931. 2,420.00 is due July 1, 1932.
.$ 1.221.56
2,375 .00 is due Ju ly 1, 1933. 535.00 is due July 1, 1934.
The above figures s how the growth of the Loan Fund thi s year. More l oans were gra nt ed than ever before, there being nineteen. In orde r to t a k e care of t his increas e in expe nd it ur es we must h ave an in c r ease in our income. The alumn ee clubs co ntri buted to thi s fund this year $896.75 and the active chapters $274. May I take this opportunity to thank you all f or your !upport and interest in this work as evidenced by yo ur contributio n! Any re ader of THE ARROW who i! not a member of a Club is invited to make an individual gi ft to this fund.
RUTH S HESELTINE
So c ial Excbange
I T IS encouraging indeed to note the progress made, and the increases in the number of chapters coope r ating fr om year to year. The number of chapters cooperating has more than do u bled in th e last two years, fifty-one chapter s in ru s hing, fifty-t wo chapters in s tunts. The re s pon se by provinces is as follows:
A s li ght change in the work of this Committee was recommended by the chairman and received th e approva l of Miss Onken, so that nex t yea r instead of putting out tw o bulletins as hereto fore it will put out one large one which will inc1ude:
I. Rushin g .. ..... . ...... . . .. .. 30
II. Floats ..................... 10
III . Homecoming ......... .. .... 10
IV Founders' Day 20
V Stunts ,30
Each chapter w ill be graded according to the above sca le, and a silver lovin g cup awa r ded the c h apter making the bes t con tributi on as a whole.
FAITH MARTIN HANNA
Frutcruity
T HIS committee acknowledges a r epo rt to Grand Council at th is tim e Not a gr eat deal of business has been accomplished by our gro up in the pa s t year Calfo rn;J. d
l:hu.tter FhlOIiCeS
T HE advisory committee on chapter finances, h o use buildings, and plan s , began its work ju s t a little over a year ago. As the work of the committee wa s new and as there were no file s that could be turned over to it, this 6r s t year has been la rgely one of gathering and clas s ifying in formation and beginning a permanent set of r ecord s.
The committee div ided the beginning work into four general headings, hoping to make at least a start on all of them this year. This has not been realized but a good start has been made . First, the answering of all inquiries that
is in possession of the song vase w on by vote of Conve nti on durin g the song contest. Plans are progressing fo r a new songbook.
MARGARET L. KELLENBACH
migh t come t o thi s committee from c hapt e rs or a lumn re clubs; seco nd, the sen ding of a que s tionnaire to all chapters in order to get all the information possible r egardi ng our Pi Phi hou ses, th e ir costs, method s of financing, present financial status etc.; third, proffer of aid to tho se chapters contemplating b uilding in t he n ea r future; fourth, study of chapters owning h o use s in order to be able to advise them as to their house obligations.
The first division ha s been done, the following chapters having corresponded with the committee; Ca l ifornia a, South Dakota A , Ark-
ansas A, Colorado B, North Carolina A, Wisconsin B, Missouri 6. and Ohio A.
The second division of the work, the sending out of a questionnaire, has also been accomplished. The questionnaire was mailed from the central office the fir st week in March, to seventy-eight chapters. Thirty-seven responded. May 1 a follow-up Jetter was mailed to those not heard from, twenty-one more reports came in, and ten letters from chapters reporting that they had never received the questionnaire . A second one was sent to those ten and to date five have returned them, making a total of s ixty-three answers on hand . The following ten chapters have not responded to either l etter : New York A, Pennsylvania B, Ohio B, Florida r, Indiana r, Tennessee A, Alabama A, Illinois E, Colorado B, Idaho A.
Mothers' Clubs
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to questionnaires se nt out regarding data of Mothers' Clubs during the fir st of the year, to date have received fiftytwo report s from active chapters.
One club is no longer active, but the chapter expresses a desire to reorganize.
Nine chapters report the hope and possibility of organizing clubs in the fall.
Twenty- four chapters report the inadvisability of club s, mainly, not enough mothers to warrant establishing same; in a few in sta nce s, the alumnre club seems to fulfill the purpose.
Twenty chapters report their clubs in flourishing condition and most enthusiastic. One chapter has
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The third and fourth divisions of our work have not been touched as it is nece ssa ry to have the information from the que s tionnaires available before that work can be s tarted.
The questionnaires contain a great deal of valuable infonnation which must be clas si fied and cons iderable follow up correspondence mu st be done.
The chairman of this committee had hoped to have a fun report on chapter house s for this report but it will be some time before that can be ready. We were slow in getting organized but feel that we h ave made a good s tart and have our work mapped out for the coming year. Your committee wi s h to thank the Grand Council for the i r assistance with suggestions and h ope to make a more valuable contribution in our next report.
SYBIL GUTTER SON
two clubs which accounts for my apparent di screpancy in totaling numbers.
Every chapter considered their own individual Mothers' C l ub a m os t decided as se t , "We do not know what we would do without them" being the general opinion.
As a whole, the clubs vary in size, but the average attendance is about twenty members, generally ten meetings per year. Seven exist under a constitution and twelve do n ot. The activities are varied, but the ultimate end, financial assistance to the chapters.
Of interest, with the exception of one chapter, the mothers of alumo.:e are eligible to membership.
LoUISE N. TASHER
Standardization and Sur vey
T HE attached statistical report is a compilation of the figures sent to the Central Office by the following officers: Visiting National Officer, Province President, Special Adviser, Atumnre Advisory Committee, National Scholarship Committee, Na t iona l Fratern i ty Study Comm ittee, National Mothers' Club Committee, National Social Exchange Committee, National Committee on Transfers, Chapter Letter Editor, Supervisor of Chapter Accounting, Central Office. It contains the following headings: P lace in College Regard National Viewpoint, Atmosphere , Ambition, estimated in terms of Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor; and, estimated in figures which may total 100 per cen t or less, Student Activities. Organization and Internal Efficiency, Cooperation with Reporting Officer, Soundness of Financial Condition.
The fairness of the report may be seen in the fact that there are 3.000 separate figures in the report table. The magnitude of the task may be seen in the time necessa r y to copy it once-eight ho ur s . Under the changed system. inaugurated th i s year, there i s a m u ch wide r variation in grades, so that chapters whose actua l comparative standing is l ow, will no l onger have the sec u rity of an apparently very high average.
This report, which must be comp iled at the last minute. is the most difficu lt task of the Centra l Office . It has been complicated by the fact t h at a nu mbe r of officers did not use t he system o n the blanks. so that t h e D.C. O . had t o re-comp u te 300 g r ades before she cou l d tabu la t e.
May I sugges t that the report cannot be ready for Convention next year, unless grades come in very much earlier? And with this report as a basis, Grand Council ward s the Balfour Cup and 5toolman Vase!
MABEL SCOTT BROWN
CHAPTERS STANDlN(; FIRST IN EACH PROVINCE
Alpha Province-New York A
Beta Province-Pennsylvania B
Gamma Province-Virginia r
Delta Province-Michigan B
Epsilon Province-Illin o is d
Zeta Province-Missouri B
Eta Pro vince-Colorado B
Theta Province---Oklahoma A
I o ta Province-Washington A
Kappa Province-California B
C HAPTERS STANDING SECOND IN EACH PROVINCE
Alpha Province-New York r
Beta Province-West Virginia A
Gamma Province-District of Columbia A
Delta Province-Tennessee A
Epsilon Province-lIIinois A
Ze t a Province-Misso u ri r
Eta Province-Colorado A
Theta Province-Texas A
Iota Province-Oregon A
Kappa Province-California r
CHAPTERS REcUVING EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH AVERAGE GRADES
Cooperation
Missouri A-9 87 out of 10
Louisiana A-9 .8 out of 10
Vermont A-9.78
U t ah 1>-9.77
Ontario A-9 69
Missouri B-9.63
Vi r gini a A-9.58
Illinois A-9.SS
Extracurricular activiti6 s
20 out of 20
Ohi o B
Maryland A
Distri ct o f Columbia A
Virginia r
Mi chi gan B
\Vis co n si n B
11l inois l1
L o uisi a na A
M o ntana A
Wa shin g t on A
Washingt o n B
Oregon A
Calif o rnia B
Ill/ eniol Orgom·ration
15 o ut of 15
Vir gin ia B
Virginia r
Florida r
Michiga n B
Ind iana r
Okla h oma A
Id a h o A
Wa shin gto n B
Oregon A
Ca lif ornia A
Ca lif o rn ia B
Cooperat iOt, with th e Ce ntral Office
S Ollt o f5
New Y o rk r
Ohio l1
Fl o rida r
Mi c hi ga n A
Michigan B
Indiana .6-
North D akota A
Illin ois l1
lll inois E
Illin ois Z
M a nit oba A
Wyoming A
Texas B
Idah o A
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Wa shingt on A
Utah A
CHAPTER S E XCE PTI ONALLY
Low GRADES
C oo pera/iotl
Indiana A
New York !:J..
Pennsylvania .6.
Florida A
Alabama A
Wi sco n s in A
Washin gto n A
Oregon B
Califo rnia A
ExlroCll rri cu/ar Activities
On tari o A
Pennsylvania 6
Pennsylvania r
Ohio A
W iscons in A
K ansas B
Texas B
Florida A
Massachusetts A
Ohio 6
I,ll er1loI0rgan izatio"
Maine A
Pennsylvania d
Ohio A
Wi sco n si n A
T exas B
\ Vashington A
O r ego n B
Coo p eratio n will, the Cen tra l Office
Florida A
Pennsylvania B
Florida B
Alabama A
O klah o ma B
\V ashingto n B
California A
Califo rn ia 6
Reports of Province Presidents
Ass i stan t to t h e P res id e n t
T HIS being a newly created office, thi s year has been largely spent in finding out just what my duties should be. Miss Onken is so superbly efficient that any possible assistance that I have given her is bound to have been very mediocre.
It was decided that I should have contact with the Advisory Boards and pledge supervisors. I have sent letters to both groups twice this year. and in addition have had personal correspondence with many individuals. The cooperation of these groups has been splendid . One of the things accomplished is that we have succeeded in getting the files of all the Advisory Boards entirely complete. Both of these groups having manual s helped me greatly, for with such fine outlines it i s easy to follow their progress.
Feeling that the matter of turnover, and lo ss of stude nt s between freshman year and graduation in our chapters was of vital importance, THE ARROW Editor and I co llaborated on a survey concerning this matter. Unfortunate ly the chapters did not all understand just how a questionnaire should be ans wered so many of the rep li es were inaccurate, consequently we obtained little information from them. I wrote to all the deans in colleges where we have chapters and asked them for the general average for the school , for we would have to have such information as a basis of comparison between our girls and
the student body. The replies from the deans were most gratifying. It was almost a 100 per cent return, and the detail in which they answe red and the tr oub le they took was a real challenge to us. It also showed that they felt we were doing a bit 0 f constructive work, and in many cases complimenterl us upon our intere st and concern in this question. In order to make the material standard I expect to get the information that we desired from the chapters elsewhere from the record s, and I hope this s ummer to be able to present to Grand Council a comp rehensive s urvey of this matter.
I wrote to all of the ru shing chairmen in the chapters to find out how many were using the uniform recommendation blank passed at the 1927 Convention. I found that there were many chapters who were not using any kind of recommendation blank, many using one of their own, and a few using one prescribed by the Convention. This year the Central Office will handle the proper 1927 blanks and send them to the chapters, so we shou ld have uniform recommendations for this fa ll 's rush i ng.
I wa s fortunate this year in attending N . P .e. as alternate, and I cannot begin to say what a great pleasure it was and what a privilege and opportunity . Due to the illness of Miss Coates, whose place I filled, I attended the Editor's Can ference held at the same time. I be li eve
much was accomplished in this conference both as regards a practical outline of procedure and program and a better und ersta nding of mutual problems and policies. In both meetings it was a real source of pride to find in what position my fraternity was held due to its fine leaders, and in particular it s Pre s ident. She contributed very largely to the achievements of this Convention and de se rve s much prai se for her work and leadership in N.P.C.
I visited officially s ix chapters. Kansas A and B, Nevada A, California 6, (Cali f ornia r entertained for me and I was fortunate in meetin g so me of its members, but I did n o t have tim e to visit it officially), and Iowa Band r. In all ca ses
Alpha Province
T HE joy and pleasure of being a Province President is two· fold through the close contact and warm friendship with the active girls and the thrill of being made to feel again part of the l ife of the active chapters.
The fir st annual report is difficult to write because a ba sis for com· parison between years is lacking and the fir st winter must necessa rily be spent in gaining experience in the work. Yet I feel that this year has been one of development for the Provin ce and the outstanding feature has been a deeper conscious· ness of the meaning of scope of the fraternity as a national organization.
Though all of the schools in Alpha Province are coeducational, the type s and loca ti o ns of the universities vary widely, the type of girl attracted t o these various col-
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my visits were occasions of real pleasure and as always I experienced a feeling of pride in the fine type of girls we have in our chapters and the position they hold on their respective campu s es. I was entertained by all the chapters most royally and every consideration shown me.
May I take this opportunity to thank all of those who have cooperated so splendidly with me this year, and to thank Grand Council for their kindness and s upport, and Mi ss Onken to whom I have rendered so slight an amount of assistance my deep appreciation of h e r untiring patience and help and for the contact with her which has been a real inspiration.
MARGAREII'A FENN
leges is different and, therefore, within the Province are fou r distinct types of cJ1apters. Chapter life itself varies as the environment and mode of living but the ideals, purposes, and organization 0 f the gro up s are inh eren tly uniform. Scholarship, while not satisfactory in every instance, is improving. Many plans for aiding weak st udents are used such as study hall and upper class tutoring. Maine A is to be commended for it s improvement in scholarship this year. New York A now ranks among the first one-third on its campus. At New York r, a Pi Phi pledge made the highest average of all freshmen.
The rushing seasons generally were successful and plans are underway in mo st chapters for the parties of next winter . Completion of all arrangements before the start of the season enables concentration
on rushing with no decreased attention to scholarship. I should suggest that every chapter follow the scheme of organizing ru s hing well in advance.
Each chapter but Ontario A has won a goodly share of hon ors, many of which already ha ve been reported in the F ehruaTY and May issues of THE Anow. Spring elections to offices and honorary societies have been favorable to Pi Phi
Great pride is taken by the chapters in their homes, whether they be houses or suites or rooms. New York A and New York 11 have redecorated several of the rooms of their houses and have added attractive furnishings. The girls of Vermont A and B completed the renovation of their rooms before my arrival. The experiment of Massachusetts A in renting a house has been such a happy one that they have rented the same one for a second yeaT. It is interesting to note that the girls of New York A are required to earn $15 during the summer to contribute to the House Fund.
On the campuses where the deans of women know the fraternities and their members, I have been gratified by the unstinting praise which they have for the Pi Phis. Criticisms were few and only minor. Vermont A and New York A should be proud of the reputation for loyalty,
Beta Province
M y WORK as president of Beta Province has been of increasing interest as the months ha ve passed. I feel that with but two exceptions the yea r has been one of real progress.
My visits to the chapters have
cooperation, and fine spirit which they have won.
Several chapter s are fortunate in having strong advisory committees interested in all phases of chapter development. The resident alumnz in the towns of seven of my chap. ten work enthu s iastically with them , particularly in social a c tivities.
Ontario A, Vermont A, and New York Il. have been my mo st faithful correspondent s. New York A improved greatly the second semester. Unfortunately Massa c huc;;ett s A and Vermont B both slumped in April and May.
This first year in office has been a constant delight to me. The girls have been so ready to accept suggestions , so eager for new plans, so interested in trying to make their chapter an outstanding one for Pi Phi that every effort in working with them has been repaid a hundred times.
No beneficial results from my Province, however, would have been possible this year without the patient and helpful aid of Miss Onken who was so tolerant of my inexperience. I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to serve my fraternity and hope through the achievements Alpha Province is planning for next year to justify the honor conferred upon me.
BEATRlCE LoUISE ECKS
been especially interesting owing to the opportunity afforded for comparison. I visited the four Pennsylvania chapters in November and the three Ohio chapters early in December. West Virginia A was officially visited in March. The
personal contact was continued through out the year by weekly letters, and monthly reports from. the presidents of the chapters.
Only three of the eight chapters in this prov i nce are living in houses: Ohio A, Ohio B, and We st Vi r ginia A. Ohio B is the only one that owns her house West Virginia A has recently bought two lots on which they hope to build sometime in the near future. In the meantime, they are moving in the fall to a nicer house in a more desirable location This see ms to be moving year for the province as PennsyJvan ia r, Pennsy l vania fl , and Ohio 6. have a ll moved to more attractive room s. Pennsylvania A has her l ovely lodge and Pennsylvania B has a suite in Hunt Hall. Three of the chapters have new baby grand pianos and there are four new radios in the province.
Mo st of the chapters had an unusually successful rushing season. Throughout the province local Panhe ll enics have proven weak In most cases, t his weakness has been recognized and steps have been take n to r e m edy it
I think that one of the biggest improvements in t he province this year h as been the function ing of the alumnce adv i sory committees. There has been a splendid feeling of cooperation between the advisory committees and the chapters , and this has proved to be of great benefit to the chapters.
While the sc holar s hip of mo s t of the chapters is not as high as it should be, there has been an im-
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provement in mo st every case. West Virginia A held first pla ce on her campus for the fir st semester and she is working hard to hold that place . It would be impossible to enumerate all the honors that have come to each chapter . Many of these honor s have been cited in the chapter letters in THE ARROW, and since the la s t edition, many Pi Phis have been elected to major offices on the ca mpu s and have been asked to join honorary fraternities.
It ha s been the hope of the chapters of Beta Province that they cou l d get to know each other better. For the past few years, mo s t of them have edited a paper which they have se nt to each other as well as to their alumnce. Thi s year, as for the past two years, the three Ohio chapters celebrated Founders' Day together in Columbu s These things have helped but our real dream is to be realized this June when we are having a province party in Morgantown. Th e Ph i Sigma Kappa s have offered u s their lovely new home for the party and we are all looking forward to a joyous get-together.
It has been a great privilege to serve as Beta Province president and I am very happy to have had this opportunity. I wish to extend to the chapters and the alumme advisory committees my deepest thanks for the cooperation they have given me I can never fully express my gratitude for Miss Onken's in spi r ation, counsel, and t.mtiring assistance. MILDRED KERN BISSELL
Galnma Province
W ITH the inspiration of conventio n so fresh in mind, it was with a genuine thrill that I attended the installation of Florida r at Rollins Florida. in September. It was my first installation, but none will eclipse thi s service, the charm and pride of th e new anow-wearers, and Miss Onken as the in s talling officer. At this time Florida A and B were visited. During the year I have visited the seve n other chapter s in Gamma Province . Virginia B win beco me in active in June. 1930, but Pi Phi is proud to say that h er chapter at Hollins completed her la st active yea r on th e camp u s when every other chapter had turn ed it s c har ter into it s national after th e admini stration had vo t ed fraternities off th e ca mpu s. With this change , next year there will be eight chapters in our province.
Conven ti o n s during the past few years h ave been h e ld so far from our chapters that few more than th e delega tes could attend. Last year, Virginia A had about ten girl s to arrive finally at convention and I s hould say that because of this , th ei r chapter profited so much more thi s year in regard to national viewpoint, and desire to cope with the be s t chapter in the United States. Virginia r is so anxious to g i ve a good s um to the Endowment Committee as a result of this sess ion of convention. All Province chapters have contributed to the Settlement School with D ist rict of Columbia A, Maryland A, and Florida reach are giving $100. In each chapter, convention contact has had its marked effect . . While most of the dean s with
whom I conferred think of their gir l s as in divid u a l s and not as belonging to a group, they spo ke highly of our girls as such One dean commented particularly on the inte1ligence with which one chapter c h ooses its freshme n I
Panhellenic situat ions see m t o be quite generally th e same In m os t cases there is a friendly relation between Pi Phi and many other fraternitie s on campus, but possibly very tense relations with one o r tw o during ru shing. 1 should say that in general Pi Phi upho lds the spirit of Pan hellenic as well as th e l e tt er.
Ga mma Province claims two Phi Beta Kappas: Harriet Smith, Virgi nia r, and Sa rah Faulkn er , North Caro lin a A, as well as Anita Cross and Candace Secor, Florida r , members of Key Society (asp iring to Phi Beta Kappa). The sc holarsh ip ha s been quite good this year -Virginia A coming from seve nth to third, Maryland A from seve nth to f o urth place on campus. Virginia r ha s hope s ' of being first again and thus retain the Panhellenic cup.
Each chapter in the province has issued a news sheet , th e Arrowette, with originality and economy as the main requirement s, beside information that would help them become acquainted with each other.
Many campus honors have come to the chapters, to mention a few : District of Columbia A had two lead s in the fall Troubadour Show and will have president of Y.W.C.A , beside presiden t of Student Government; Maryland A had a very lovely May Que en and two attendants; Virginia A will have a unanimously elected chairman of
Judiciary and president of A.A.; Virginia B will have president of Student Government; Virginia r claims a Mortar Board as well as president and secreta ry of Y.W.C.A.; North Carolina A ha s the most dramatic, prettiest, and most popular girls in the senior class; a member 0 f Florida A i s the "bes t all-round girl"; Florida B has membe rs on Freshman Commi ss ion , and Freshman Cabinet of Y.W.C.A.; one of Florida I"s freshmen made Phi Beta, a musical honorary. There are so many m ore hon ors that might be mentioned!
With the addition of F lorida r we have a third chapte r to join Virginia r and Florida B in the group being privileged to live in houses. Virginia r is having a delightful experience having meals in the house as well. Many outside guests have been invited during the year, but not too many to detract from a delightfully Uhomey" atmosphere I
On April 26 Maryland A, Virginia r, and District of Columbia A joined with the Baltimore, Richmond and Washington clubs to celebrate Founders' Day with a formal banquet. At this banquet Miss Emma Harper Turner added another Pi Phi custom to her credit, that of regarding midnight of April 28 as "Memory's Trysting
Delta Province
I T IS a great pleasure to report that the nine c hapters in Delta Province have had a very s u ccessf ul and happy year. I have had the plea ure of visiting each chapter since convention and I found that in every case the chapter delegate s and visiting chapter mem-
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Hour" with a toast to the past and the same to the future.
Every chapter in Gamma Province now has an alumna! 3.dv i sory committee which has worked with the chapter during the year. These committees have proved invaluable and are an important part in the life of a chapter.
Florida r has more than ju stified its existence as a P i Phi chapter and it i s with great satis faction that we r ev iew her first year's stimulating work! Virginia B has stayed by the fraternity during this past year when every other chapter on the Hollins campus had turned its charter into its national-a creditabl e record in the annals of Virginia B.
The sat isfaction and joy of working with the chapters in Gamma Province is profound, but only as eac h ch<\pter evidences a desire to improve the weakened spots and maintain the height s reached is my association with them of value. I feel that this has been true in se veral cases.
Let me take thi s opportunity to thank the fraternity for the privilege of working with such splendid, attractive girls and with its sympathetic officers. May they be willing to accept the challenge of "t he best and o nly the best" I
LOIS THOMPSON
bers had brought much inspiration and real workable points back to their chapters. Convention and c hapt er visits mean so much to the chapters and to the officers. In countless ways these contac t s form a most delightful link in our fraternity work.
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My correspondence with the chapte r s has been co nducted through monthly reports by the corr esponding secretaries and chairmen of the standing committees. The return post cards have k ept me in t ouch with the advisory boa rd s . The livin g conditions in Delta Province remain the sa me, that i s 11 0 new ho u ses or lodge s, except A laba ma A. Last laU thi s chapter was given a n ew fraternity room in an old college bu ildin g and I was delighted to see the re sults of their splendid effo rt in making it mo s t at"tractive. All DC th e other c hapter s are well tak en ca re of. Some o f them are a little overcrowded but th at will solve itself eventually. Two new houses are in prospect, the one for Indiana r will undou bte dly be started this coming year.
Regarding s chola r s h'ip, aU of the c hapters have tried for high scholarship, but in several cases a few girl s have lo wered the otherwise good chapter rec o rd . Man y s chemes are being used to correct Jaw grades and so me have succeeded. The final ranks for three c h apters a re not available, that is I have not received them. As to the others for the first semester the rank s read rather oddly. Tennessee A first on her campus; Michigan A seco nd on hers ; Indiana A third; another fourth; one fifth; and still another s ixth; not very consistent in rank, but at lea s t unu sual in arithmetical progres s ion. Many individual girls had excellent scholarship records and a great many were on their respective college roll s. The pledges at Michigan A had a very high record j the chapter president at Tennes see A had the
highest record in the unive r sity; the seniors at In d ian a A had an excellent ranlc ing j one sen io r at B was e lected to Phi Beta Kappa and t o Phi Kappa Phi
Campus honors fo r the nine Delta chapte r s are t oo numerous to mention, but there a re a few o ut sta nding ones. Three Pi Phis made up the debating teams at Michigan A and Indian a A this year; the chapt e r president at Michigan B was a l so president of Mortar Board ; Indiana r, Indiana A, Indiana Il. , and Michigan B had the Prom Queen; and an Ind iana d girl was president o f the W o m a n' s Leagu e; Kentucky A had the president of W .S.G.A .; a girl from Indiana B had the difficult lead in the Jordan River Revue; Tennessee A led the ot her women's fraterniti es in the number of girls in honorary ca mpus activities. Alabama A had the most outstanding senior on the Bi rmingham-Southern campu s.
One unusual circumstance and an interesting one within the fraternity, happened at Indiana r . That chapter initiated a girl who was the twentieth Pi Phi in the family, or that is s he had nineteen Pi Phi relatives at the time of her initiation.
In most cases t he advisory board s have functioned well and in a few cases exceptionally. There are several flourishing Mothers' Clubs which are intensely intere sted in the chapters and do many love,ly things for the girls.
Founders' Day was honored by every chapte r in some way The largest gathering was in Indianapolis where the four Indiana chapters meet annually and renew a state and national Pi Phi spirit. Miss Onken was their honor guest this year and the province was so
happy to have her. The Indiana B chapter carr ie d off the cup for the best stunt at th e lun cheo n
Tennessee A members had a thrilling experience when they went to the Settlement School this fall and conducted an initiation cerem ony. It wa s an event long to be remembered by the girls fortunate enough to take part in it. The Delta province chapters have contributed willingly to the Settlement School Fund thi s year but late in the year we discovered that comparing our amounts with other provinces the response had not been generous enough. We hope for mor c gratifying re sults next year.
In reviewing and comparing the work accompli shed by the nine chapters I can se e that th ey are a ll striving earnestly for the ideals of our fraternity. SO.me excel in one · phase and others in another accord-
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and delightful beginning fo r this year 's work, was the opportun ity of attending the installation of Manitoba A at th e University of Manitoba. The in sta llation ceremonies were impres s ively conducted by Miss Onken. It was a pleasure, indeed . to hav e a part in welco ming this second international chapter into Pi Beta Phi and into Epsilon Province. Manitoba A is a chapter of which Pi Phi can be ju st ly proud.
Grand Council very kind ly appointed Charlotte Winget Chope to assist in the dutie s of Ep s ilon Province president. Mr s. Chope vi s ite d Minneso ta A, Manitoba A. and Wisconsin A and B thi s year. I
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ing to the college conditions. One chapter l eads in more important campus offices and activities; another has the best chapter meeting ; another has the best filing sys tem ; one has done s plendid work in pledge supervision; another excels in the social affair s and so we go on, taking what we have and building more and more until each groul > can achieve succe ss in all of the phases of Ii fe for which we are striving.
In conclusion may I say to the girls of the provin ce that I am proud of them and of their ach ievements, and I tru st that all of the dreams which we have talked over for the coming year may come true. It has been a joy to work with the Delta chapters and to serve my fraternity as province president fo r thi s past year.
ANNA E. MAR S HALL
visited the remaining se ven c hapters in the province. It has been a pleasure to work with Mr s. Chope and I have found her assistance invaluable.
Epsilon Province seems to change frequently in the personnel of chapters. Next year will also find our chapter roll changed , for recently news of th e merging 0 f Lombard and Knox Colleges has been heard. This will mean the union of Illinois Band .6.- two of the oldest chapters in Pi Beta Phi . It is rea so nable to expec t an especially fine chapter from the union of these groups, each rich in background and in personnel.
In a report of Delta Province president two yea r s ago, I found it
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very interesting to note the size of the institutions in which Pi Phi chapters were situated. Since that information may be of interest to some of you who are not well acquainted in Epsilon Province, may I submit an enumeration of student populations:
University of Minnesota 16,713
University of Illinois 13,123
Northwestern University .... 11,404
University of Vli sconsin .... 9,468
Univers ity oC Manitoba 2,844
University of North Dakota. 1,67 1 Knox College. .. . . . . . . . . . . . 546
It is evident from the se stati st ics that the backgrounds of Epsilon Province chapters vary considerably. but in each institution, Pi Phi maintains a chapter of high ideal s, and a chapter of distinct credit to the fraternity at large.
Without exception, deans of women have spoken highly of Pi Beta Phi. It is Quite usual to have a dean say that "she can depend on the Pi Phis." After all, could there be a nicer compliment?
Scholastic attainments vary greatly in the province. Illinois A has had first place in scholarship (or three consecutive semesters and retains the cup for that achievement. Wisconsin B has had first scholastic honors (or two consecutive semesters. Illinois Band Minnesota A have placed first for one term each. Several chapters have not attained first place, but have maintained a high enough average to rank among the upper one-third of competing national fraternities on their campuses. 111i-
nois E, North Dakota A and IJIinois Z need to place greater effort on scholarship in order to hold the position Pi Phi should have on these campuses. In each instance a conscientious effort is being made to improve the scholastic rating, and perhaps the reports of this semester will substantiate that effort.
To enumerate all the activities of this province would be an impossibility. Each chapter has well represented our fraternity on campus, and many signal honors have come to the group and to individuals. A very brief survey of activities in each chapter is as follows:
A member of Manitoba A has held the position of Lady Stick of Medicine this past year, and another member of that chapter has recently been se lected as Lady Stick of Arts. To be "Lady Stick" is the highes t honor and executive position attainable at the University of Manitoba. North Dakota A has one Phi Beta Kappa, and ha s an unusually large number of members who have been elected to honorary profe ss ional fraternities. Minnesota A seems to have had social honors this year, for one member led the Senior Prom, and another was in the line for Junior Prom. Wisconsin A boasts one Mortar Board, and has one member who was among the five fre s hmen having the highest scholarship in the freshman class Wisconsin B had the presidency of W.A.A., whiJe I11inoi, A had the leadership of y.W.C.A. l11inois A has a leading part in the dramatics and debate circles of the college, while Illinois B is proud of her two Phi Kappa Phis, president of College Counci l, Football Queen, and wittiest girl. Probably the outstanding
accomplishment has been gained by Illinois 6.. Among the senior class o[ this year, there were four members of Mortar Board, and four Phi Beta Kappas. The junior cla ss is maintaining that splendid accomplishment, for the recent election brings four more members to Mortar Board. The Gale was edited by a Pi Phi this year. Illinois E has one member of Mortar Board, the vice president and regional secretary of Y. W.e.A ., vice president of W.S.G.A., and chairman for Show Board. Three Phi Beta Kappas are to the credit of Illinois Z. Also, the Grand Historian of Alpha Lambda Delta, production manager of the Fashion Show, and the leading part in the Fashion Revue. Illinoi s n won the cup for the best homec om ing decorations and took second place in the contest for Millidik subscriptions The most beautiful girl at Mi1likin, an annual contest, was a Pi Phi this year, and the Millidik had a Pi Phi editor. It has been my desire to have each girl participate in some activity that gives her real pleasure and an opportunity to develop herself outside of the fraternity. Unless that spi rit prevails, there is not only little to be gained for the individual, but the activity itself becomes lifele ss and meaningless.
I have endeavored to stimu late interest in the Settlement School this year. Most chapters found the snapshots of the school and pupils fascinating, and there was a genuine desire to know about the work that the fraternity is accomplishing in Gatlinburg. Some of the contributi ons hav e not been as large as they should, but I hope an improvement will be made next year.
Active chapters have joined with
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alumna! clubs in the celebration of Founders' Day. The chapters in Illinois have a special opportunity for an impre ss ive Founders' Day celebration, s ince seve ral of the chapters are able to know Monmouth and have had the opportunity o f meeting the Founders.
Alumna;:: interest i s not only maintain ed through the celebration of Founders' Day, but in the contacts that are made at cooky-shines and potluck suppers which are held at f r equent intervals during the year. Several chapters are lucky enough to ha ve an annual Hs hower" at which time the alumnre give many useful and beautiful gifts to the chapter house It is splendid to see the loyal interest that alumnre have for Pi Beta Phi, and it proves that our fraternity offers an interest that never dies.
Alumna;:: advisory boards have been unusually active and decidedly helpful this year. The monthly cards that I have sen t to them have helped me keep in contact with the boards. I wish to thank the chairmen who have been SO prompt in r espondi n g, and I can gratefully report about 99 per cent cooperat ion. The feeling between advisory boards and chapters i s healthy, and each seems to appreciate the work that the other is doing. In this way , the two can unite for the best interests of the fraternity.
Epsilon Province has progressed in interna l development this past year. When there has been a problem, the chapter ha s been willing to face it squarely , and has had the courage to place the best interests of Pi Phi before personal desire Thi s willingness to serve the fraternity has made my work with the chapters in Epsilon Province an un-
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ending source of joy and inspiration.
BE1NARDlNE CHESLEY SAWERS
There is something utterly satisfying about being a Pi Phi. Not smug satisfaction, but that which comes with a conscious and complete experience; the excitement of pledge days, the full life of an active, the more mature friendships of alumnre days , and , for me , this last and fine st experience, my association with Bernardine Sawers and the Grand Council as assistant province president. Every province officer mu st feel, as I have come to f«l, that nowhere can there be a finer group of girl$ than those in her chapters. Wi scons in A and B, my own Minnesota A, and that sple ndid new group, Manitoba A, each with points of strength and weakness, has become very dear.
Wi scons in A and Minnesota A on large university campuses have real homes. Wisconsin B has a charming bungalow for its meetings and soc ial affairs. Manitoba A is a part of a small and growing school which does not. as yet. support houses. They have a room, however. which is filled with an atmosphere which no house could better. And that very atmosphere of charm and balance is characteristic of all groups of Pi Phis wherevet. I have met them; the united charm of individuals, not types.
Wisconsin B has set a high standard for the other three groups. For two years she has been weU in the lead of any other group on the campus in scholarship. Minnesota A held first place for fall quarter. All three are striving to approximate Wisconsin B's example. There is nothing to be desired in
any chapter in the way of activities. Wisconsin A has held the presidency of y.W.C.A for the past year and has had its sha re of places on publications and prom committee s Wisconsin B has an overwhelming list, its presidencies including all but one of those available to women. Its list of Phi Beta Kappa member s hips is in accordance with its high scholarship. Minnesota A held two places in the Junior Prom line and was very proud of a member who led the Senior Prom. One member of the AlIUniversity Council and three graduating CUt" laude, one magna cum laude, were among other honor s. Manitoba A had Lady Stick in Medicine for the year and ha s also Lady Stick in the Arts for the coming year. Only the element of time prevents these four from bringing more honors to Pi Beta Phi. These four chapters living very dissimilar conditions have s ignificant likenes ses. Each has a splendid group of alumnre, and each a truly Pi Phi freshman class . It augurs well for the continuation of a perfect cycle from worthy freshman to worth while alumna.
I have derived much pleasure from my work with these chapters, the pleasure that comes from contact with growing things. Regardless of present accomplishment each is striving for improvement in some respect. It is this criterion 0 f g r owth that makes Pi Phi associations happy ones. May I here express my wish for continued growth in Pi Phi and my appreciation of this opportunity to enjoy the inspiration of national officers and the friendship of alumna! clubs and active chapters.
CUARLOTTE WINGET CnoPE
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Zeta Province
T HIS third year as an officer of Zela Province has brought in creased joy and re sponsibility
For each of us who shared in the privileges of that marvelous convention in Pasadena ha s had a real duty to pedonn. and a most pleasant one--that of bringing to other Pi Phis the spirit and inspiration which we gained in those happy days as we were gathered around our beloved Founders. \Ve were indeed fortunate in having had the opportunity of knowing four of them. And I reel that the delegates and additional representatives from my eight chapter s have made sincere efforts toward bringing the spirit of convention to the other members of their groups. For, as I visited each of the se chapters again during the first semester of this year, 1929-30, I was indeed pleased with the progress they were making.
As chaperons in these chapter houses of Zeta Province we are most fortunate in having women who are charming in manner as well as being genuinely interested in helping girls to feel that their chapter houses are truly chapter homes.
All deans 0 f women were very frank in giving their opinions of our groups. They expressed ap· predation of the cooperation gi ven them by the Pi Phis and a real interest in each individual member's participation in activities as well as in her scholastic accomplishments. Without exception these conferences were most gratifying.
In the matter of scholarship some chapters in Zeta Province have gained over last year's record and
others have fallen below. South Dakota A stood first on its campus for the semester ending February, 1930, and has made every effort to continue the record. Iowa A held second place on its campus for that same semester with a sp lendid average which was very little below the group which stood first at Iowa Wesleyan. Missouri B and Iowa r ranked third among women's fraternities on their campuses the first semester of this year. Iowa Z raised its average wi{h several members making unu sually good records Its average was in the upper third. Missouri r, Iowa B, and Missouri A fell below la s t year's average. Perhaps soon we shall realize our desire for fir s t place on each campus. The scholarship chairmen have been constant reminders and great help s to their chapters.
The interest in college activities is shown by the many important campus honors held by our girls . During my visits I found that the active members were helping the pledges choose not only activities which would help them but those to which they could contribute something really worth while .. Also the actives are interested in the various . college groups to which they belong. Many very important offices are held by Pi Phis this year, six in Mortar Board and there are numerou s members in the other different honorary groups. I wish to thank the activities chairmen again for their splendid work in keeping the card files and in making the charts at the dose of the year.
Too much praise cannot be given to the alumnz advi sory committee s
in Zeta. Province for their generosity in giving of their time and helpful advice. Also they and the other alumnz of each chapter have done a great deal for the girls in a material way all of which have been greatly appreciated. One of the most helpful and enjoyable conferences in each of my chapter visits has been the one with the alumnte advisory committee. OUf contacts were continued throughout the year by the sending and return of the monthly cards.
It ha s been a real joy to receive the enthusiastic monthly reports f rom the presidents and chairmen of the standing committees. Through these and letters we have been able to keep in close touch. The province is genuinely interested in our Settlement School, even thou g h some of the contribution s this year were smalle r than we wished. Also the Pan hellenic relation s have been very happy ones throughout the province.
Eta Provin ce
I T HAS been a pleasure and an inspiration to se rve as Eta Province President this year and to make the initial contacts with such charming chapters . The six sc hools in this branch of the Pi Phi family are all typical western and middle western colleges, yet they are dissimilar inasmuch as four: Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado are state universities, Denver University is a city sectarian coJlege, and K .S .A.C. is an agricu l tural college.
I visited every chapter in the province during the first semester and Kansas A and Kansas B had addi tion a l official visits from Mar-
It is with deepest regret that I find it impossible to continue in office. I wish to thank the alumnz and active girls once more for their most gracious hospitality and everpresent thoughtfulness during my visits. I do cherish each of these friendships. And may I express again my s incere gratitude to the fraternity for the privilege and honor which have meant so much to me the past three years Whatever I have been able to do for my chapters has been made possible by the help in the beginning from Gail De Wolf, my predecessor, the hearty cooperation of the girls. their alumnz advisory committees, and the constant help and guidance which Miss Onken's letters have brought. This experience has meant a realization 0 f what a force of strength and happiness Pi Beta Phi is in the lives of those college girls who are privileged to wear the arrow.
EMMA MAY BALDWIN
garetta Fenn. Wyoming A, Colorado A, and Colorado B were visited unofficially by Miss Onken white attending the N .P.C. Convention. When Wyoming A completes its long dreamed of chapte r house, which is to be started this spring, and Colorado B relinquishes its famous bungalow for a more elaborate mansion, all chapters in the province will be living in beauti fut new homes-most of which are even now the pride of the campuses. Chaperons. in all but two cases, have cooperated in every way and much of the charming cultural atmosphere of the houses is due to their influence.
Deans of women have, in the main, reported excellent cooperation and admiration of Pi Phi chapters. Alumn2 advisory boards have been a sou rc e of constant help; much praise is due these splendid women who give so freely of their time and effort and who aid so materially chapter welfare.
All the chapters have held their . share of extracurricular honors.
Colorado A boasts a junior Phi Beta Kappa, two members of Mor· tar Board, president of Mortar Board, the president and three members of Hesperia (junior honorary society), Junior Prom Queen, secretary of Associated Women Students, and numerous other honors. Colorado B is well represented on the D.U. campus with three members of Kedros (honorary scho la stic fraternity. comparable to Mortar Board), two class officers, president elect of y.W.C.A. and Junior Prom Queen attendant.
Nebraska B has one Phi Beta Kappa, the president elect of Y.W.C.A., honorary R.O.T.C. colonel, and two members of Mortar Board.
Wyoming A announces these campus honors: two Cap and Gown (sen ior honorary), a member of the varsity women's debate team, first and second place in the university beauty contest, first place in the popularity contest, and four in Iron Skull (sophomore honorary). For Kansas A, one may list the musical comedy director, honorary R.O.T.e. colonel for this next year, a university beauty queen, assistant director of the "K" book, and many in the casts of dramatic club plays. Kansas B has two members of Omicron Nu, the "Ag" Queen, the Winter Queen, and two members of Theta Sigma Phi.
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Scholarship, ever a problem, is not all it should be in some of the chapters. However, the evident concern over ratings and the earnest constructive methods to improve which are being tried should bring results. Colorado B won first place in scholarship on the D.U. campus this year-a striking reward for its efforts.
Rushing was most s u ccess ful this year-the size of the chapters may be taken as indicative of the truth of this statement. The largest active chapter in the province numbers sixty-two and the smallest thirty-three. What a power a large unified chapter may become when every member is a strengthening force! On the other hand, chapters must remember what havoc a divided group may cause.
Local Panhellenics are not all one might wish for. Either they are apathetic and practically non-functioning or they are diffused with jealousies and their business consists of petty problems.
The internal efficiency and cooperation with the province president, which has been so effectively organized by my predecessors, is entirely grati fying.
I cannot praise too highly the charming personnel of the various groups and their gracious hospitality to a visiting office r . When their scholarship becomes as perfect as their social adequacy they will have no greater worries.
This first year as province president has been a revelation 0 f the worthiness, ability and idealism of Pi Phis, both active and alumna!. To my chapters who have given me fully of their cooperation and responsiveness, to Miss Onken who is always an ideal and an inspira-
tiOD, and to Mary Frost, w ithout whose generous help and wise advice I should have been entirely at
Th e ta Pro v in ce
M y WORK as an officer of Theta Province has been one of interest and, during these past months, my enthusiasm has increased by coming in closer contact wit h the six chapters. Owing to the resignation of Mrs. Turner and my illness, my visits to the chapters were not made until after Christmas. No one could have had their programs more carefully planned nor have been given a more hospitable welcome as a visitor than I received from these groups. Both the chapters and the alumnre: advisory committees endeavored to picture to me, with sincerity. the chapter l ife and its prob l ems. The whole so me hone s ty of the girls in their heart to heart talks with me have certainly been enlightening as weIJ as inspiring.
Five of the six chapters ranked first as Fepresentatives of the women's fraternities on their respec tive campuses, the sixth ranking almost first. it is a little difficult to judge and rate each chapter because of the difference in size, type, and environment among the various schools . Owing to s uch conditions, these problems have developed most interesting characteristics.
D ur ing my visits, I had interviews w ith the deans 0 f women who praised Pi Beta Phi to the f ull est and who feel that, each year, Pi Beta Phi chapters are setting quit e an examp le for the other fraternities to follow. I find that where the dean of women o n a campus is
sea, I express my deepest appreciation.
VIRGINIA HUT!",oN
weak, the chapter is correspondingly not as strong as where the dean of women is strong.
I cannot give an adequate report on sc holarship , as these report s have to go in entirely to o soon to know, definitely. but. on the whole, the ambition of the girls has been to increase their scholarships by superv i si ng pledge st udy, fining girls who have not brought up the required average and, in every way, they have taken scho larship more seriously than ever before. The average of Arkansas A, both actives and pledges, were quite a bit above the schoo l average. I have no other re ports, owing to schoo l authorities r efusing to reporl.
I found, everywhere, a close congeniality among the girls and I cannot say too much for what their ideals have done on the campus.
This year, I have stressed extracurricular activities and it has been amazing to note how much, within a few months ' time, Texas A could corne up in this way, having had, before, practically no interest, what soeve r, in extracurricu l ar activities. I find that every girl is taking part, now, with prom in ence, in every worthwhile organ izati on on th e university campus, and the joy they are receiving f r om it cannot be m eas ur ed. Probably, s h owing them the honor list of the ac· tives of Oklahoma A ga've th em the inspiration. There is a k een friendly rivalry between Oklahoma A and Texas A for th e Balfour Cup. Theta Province is go in g t o
have that cup some day! Too much cannot be sai d about Louisiana A's important work on her campus It goe s without saying that Arkansas A takes a prominent part as well as Oklahoma B.
I cannot li st all of the honors that have been received but I shall enumerate so me of the more important ones that each chapter ha s gained :
1. A rk ansas A po ss esses m embership in Senior and Junior Cabinets of Y.W.CA., Sigma Alpha Iota, Lambda Tau, P s i Chi, Kappa Delta Pi, Woman ' s League Secr etary. Agri Queen, Blackfriar's secretary_ Twelve girls participated in thirty-one organizations other than Pi Beta Phi.
2. Texas A is proud of memb e rship in honorary organizations su c h as two in Orange Jackets, one Alpha Alpha Gamma, two in Mortar Boa rd, one Phi Beta Kappa , president o f Gamma Epsilon Pi, two N.U.T.T., six Cap and Gown, one or more officers in six organizations, eighty three girls participating in twenty-six campus activities.
3 Texas B has one member in Alpha Theta Phi, two in Decima, two in Alpha Rho Tau , one Zeta Phi Eta, one Chi Delta Phi, one graduate scho lars hip, one Les Esprit Cadets, and Corty-two girl s participating in eighteen organization s .
4. Louisiana A possesses the presidency of the Student Body, president and vice presi dent of th e Art Club, King of May Day and se nior c1 a:ss valedictorian and memberships in Alpha Sigma Sigma , Y.W .CA. Council. They li st twelve organizations that they are intere sted in but I Ceel the li st i s
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not complete, as their by-laws reQuire each girl to participate in at lea s t two campus organizations.
S. Oklahoma A ha s earned one Phi Beta Kappa, three Mortar Board, two Kappa Delta Pi, two Gamma Eta Pi, Eta Sigma Phi, thirty-one organizations on thi s campus have enrol1ed twenty - nine Oklahoma A Pi Phis, Theta Sigma Phi necklace to most outstanding girl on campu s was awarded to Mildred Clark of Oklahoma A
6. Oklahoma B takes quite an active part in campu s activities, participating in every worthwhile enterprise on the campu s They have two members elected to Chi Delta Phi, an honorary literary fraternity, one a ssoc iate editor of Red Skin, yearb oo k of the college, one on the Board of Publication s , one a member 0 f the Student Senate. I know they have other hono r s but seem to be too reticent to brag about what their chapter ha s done this year.
All chapters boast of beauty queens. and active membership in the Y .W .C.A.
There ha s been a sp lendid cooperation in the weekly letter s which have meant morc to me than the monthly reports, becau se it gives me a keener in s ight into the chapters than anything else other than a visit can do.
Our Theta Province Con ference i s planned with sixty-seven actives signed up to be present. Can you imagine anything more thril1ing?
The alumna! advisory boards have been more than faithful in their cooperation , also.
Naturally, the year ha s been hard. but lowe mu c h t o th e help Crom Mr s. Turner, Miss Onken, Mrs. Stoolman. and Mi ss De Wolf.
without whose guidance I shou1d have been handicapped all during the year.
May I thank Grand Council for
Iota Provin ce
A LL of my visits were made this spring because of being in California until after the first of the year. I enjoyed my visits much more this year because of knowing so many of the girls, and because of having visited each chapter last year.
With perhaps one exception. I have had perfect cooperation with my chapters this year and feel that the inspiration of convention has carried through the whole year. How pleased I am that so many actives from this province could atlend convention and bring back to their own chapters something of the thrill and joy received from the contact with National Officers and representatives frolll other chapters, and more than anything else, the realization of the significance of our National organization.
There has been quite a concentrated effort by the chapters to raise their scholarship. One chapter has been trying out the plan of giving individual assistance to those bringing in poor grades. This means quite a sacrifice of time for those giving the help, but they consider it very worthwhile. Montana A still retains first place on its campus in scholarship. and Idaho A and Washington B have made a marked improvement, but still are far from first place. Idaho A is very proud of their Phi Beta Kappa who has served as president of their chapter this year in a most able and efficient manner. I have
having given me the privilege to serve Pi Beta Phi in this most delightful manner.
NITA HILL STARK
been disappointed in the scholarship of Washington A and Oregon B, but feel that with a little more reat effort. better averages will result. It is always difficult to do as good student work when time and thought is being di verted in other directions, and with this in mind. I expect much better results from these chapters next year.
In Iota Province this there are two presidents of Associated Women Students, two Women's Athletic Association presidents, two Y.W.C.A. presidents, and one vice president, and many Mortar Board members-all of which denotes representation in activities. I do not feel the least bit distressed about non-representation in activities in the chapters in this province, but have tried to impress upon the chapters the importance 0 f choosing or entering activities in which they are truly interested rather than making a haphazard plunge into something just so they may have their name on the activity chart. I feel that activities should be a source of personal development as well as accomplishment, otherwise they mean nothing but a waste of time.
With the exception of Washington A, the chapters in Iota Province are all located in small college towns and so it makes the problem of selecting an alumrue advisory committee a very difficu lt one. It means either the same few people must serve on the commit-
tee year after year, or, because of an ever changing atumnre personnel that the committee cannot have the proper understanding of chapter conditions. As I have perhap s stated before, the chapters with a sympathetic, well organized and efficient advisory committe e are the ones who are the strongest groups. However, there are distressing situations which can arise under the very closest alumna'! adv isory committee supervision, and this is the most discouraging part of advisory conunittee work. I feel that all of the advisory committees have given a great deal of time and thought to their work this year, and the chapters have surely appreciated it and have been greatly benefited.
It is a joy to have our Mothers' Clubs functioning so well for by their efforts many otherwise unattainable re sul ts are accomplished by the chapters. It serves to bring the mothers of our girls in closer touch with our fraternity and also gives them an opportunity to know what a great philanthropic work the fratern ity is carrying on
Deans of women all spoke very enthu s ia stically about the fine spirit and attitude of our Pi Beta Phi chapters. One dean did say that she wished she had a little more cooperation from the chapter, but that Pi Phi was undoubtedly an important factor in the college world on that campus . One thing of which I was very proud was the almost unanimous expression from the deans of women regarding the fine spirit exhibited by our Pi Phi groups during the rushing season. I feel that a n expression of this kind is quite significant because it mean s that our girls are learning the essential element of good sports-
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man s hip-fair play-and are realizing that they always gain, in the long run , by cl ea n rushing.
I found a spirit of gracious hospitality and cordiality in all of the chapters in Iota Province. They entertain with apparent ease and a great deal of poise, and plans for the comfort and desires of a guest are always anticipated and beautifully performed.
The chapters in Iota Province are particularly fortunate in having such competent, delightful, and charming chaperons. There were only two changes thi s past year and will be but one for the coming year. Mr s. Blo ss, wh o has been at Washington B for a number of years, had to be away thi s year, but will be back with the chapter in the fall. Oregon A and Oregon Bare both very happy that Mrs. Benson and Mrs Drake are to be with them another year. At Idaho A and Washingto n A the chaperons are taking charge of the food management, and the arrangement work s out mo s t satisfactorilyboth Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Richardson being very capable and efficient women. I wish more of the chapters would adopt thi s plan, for I feel that it is splendid.
As I reported last year, all of the groups in this province own their own homes which, of course, is an ideal s ituation . Because of the general financial depression and because the house was not full , Oregon B has had a very se riou s year , fin ancially. I h ope the worry will not be as great another year, because the chapter n eeds to give its attention and thought to other thing s. 1 am glad that I can report that a ll of the other houses are on a fairly sound financial
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basis. At least , there isn't any cause for immediate worry.
I have enjoyed my second year as Iota Province president very much, and wish to express my gratitude to all of my advisory committees and to my chapters who have given me such splendid cooperation and assistance throughout the year.
Kappa Provinc e
I T WAS a rare privilege to have a small part in the installation of Utah A, following upon the heels of the stimulation of the Convention at Pasadena. Miss De Wolf conducted this large installation with much inspiration; and this new chapter has rightfully merited its place in Pi Beta Phi, with its earnest enthusiasm.
I visited California A, California B, Nevada A, and Utah A in October and California 6. in December. I had planned to visit the seven chapters of Kappa Province during the first semester, but the visits to Arizona A and California r had to be made later because of illness.
Convention had made itself felt upon all the chapters and its full benefit had been realized in all but one chapter, whose delegate had failed to catch the spirit. It accomplished much in making each group feel its national responsibility and pride in membership; and realize the part each plays in upholding the ideals of Pi Beta Phi .
All of the chapters in Kappa Province live in houses. All own, or are paying for them, except Nevada A, and they own their lot and hope to build by next year. Arizona A and California A moved into beautiful new homes this year. The girts are charming hostesses
I also wish to thank Miss Onken for her counsel and help. It has been the source of much satisfaction to know that Miss Onken i s never too busy to give of her time and stre ngth-when you call on her -to our fraternity which is so very near and dear to all of us.
DOROTHY CUNNJNGBAM DOUGLASS
and make their houses a real credit to their campus and fraternity.
The deans of women were unanimous in their high opinion of Pi Beta Phi chapters-many considering our girls a standard for conduct, cooperation, and splendid spirit.
I feel that scholanhip in Kappa Province is not as good as it should be. But there has been a general enforcing of restrictions on those below average and intelligent supervision of underclassmen, through the study table. Nevada A came up from last piace, last year, to first among all national socially competing fraternities, this year. Arizona A rose from last place to sixth this year. California B, California r, and Utah A are not first, but they i:re better than average. California A and California A are not nearly as close to the top as I would like them to be, although they have improved We have two Phi Beta Kappas for this year-HeleQ Meyer of California Band Miria," De Witt of California r.
Advisory committees ha'YW' tunc· tianed sp lendidly and the have derived a noticeable .,tit from this a ssociation with It would be difficult to show the rill appreciation felt for the untirm, effort and helpful advice given. It
is more than a coincidence that where one finds a well-functioning ad visory committee, one finds a st rong chapter al s o. Generally, the relationship between actives and alumna: was ideal.
Mothers ' Clubs are very active in their intere st and they have given much material aid ,to the girls. Int e lligent workings of these clubs bring about a fine understandin g between the girls' home and fraternity life.
Founders' Day was celebrated in various ways. California A and Cali fornia B met with near-by alumn:e associations at a lunch eon in San Francisco. California r and California t::J. met with adjacent alumn:e clubs at a banquet in Beverly Hill s. :rhe Arizona A girls were e ntertained by the alumn:e in a member 's beautiful garden.
AU of lhe c hapt e rs have endeavored eagerly to ju stify their existence as a college group and they hav e merited an unu sual number 0 f honors. Kappa Province ha s four vice presidents of A. W.S ., as well as cla ss officers and officers in y.W.C.A.. If there is a Mortar Board on a campus, we have at lea s t one repre sentative in it. We have a goodly nurnber in honorary, professional, and se rvice societies. Pride irnpels rne to mention definitely sorne of our out s tanding successes:
Cali fornia A claims a co-author of the Junior Opera, a class secretary, and the campus golf champion.
California B has a Phi Beta Kappa, a personnel chairman, head of the Advisory Systern for the cam-
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pus, national representative of Y.W.C.A ., co-author of the Women's Spring Masque and members of Mortar Board and Torch and Shield.
Cali fornia r claim s the vice president of the Student Body, in addition to the vice presidents of the College of Liberal Arts and of W . S.G.A. They are represented in Mortar Board, as well.
Cali fornia tl ha s the vice president of A.W.S. and officers in the Y.W.C.A. In addition, they have leaders in the University Dramatic Society.
Nevada A claims the pre s ident of Y.W.C.A., vice president of the senior cla ss, and president of Cap and Scro ll.
Utah A has the secretary of the St udent Body and the vice president of A.W.S.
Arizona A claims the secretary of A.W.S., president of the University Players, and members of Mortar Board.
It would be impo ss ibl e for me to say how mu c h I appreciate this opportunity for close personal contact with the chapters of Kappa Province and the cooperation, courtesy, and friend s hip that they have given me so liberally I enjoyed the meetings with the members of the advisory comrnittees and the pleasant ways provided for me to meet othe r alumnce. May I express my thanks to my loyal chapters; to Miss Onken and Miss De Wolf for their h e 1p . under s tanding, and patience; and my sincere appreciation to the fraternity for giving me this privilege of se rvic e and inspiration.
CAPTOLA BREYLEY FORKER
Reports of Province Vice Presidents
Assistant to Grand Vice President
T HE duties of the Assistant to the Grand Vice President are largely those of correspondence; regular communication with the Grand Vice President the province vice presidents, the newer groups, and the isolated alumnz. The first province of the office is the assistance of the Grand Vice President as the need may arise. Numbered among these duties has been the sending of a formal letter to the province vice presidents, twice during the year.
In the fall, the as istant sent out through Central Office "High Lights of the 1929 Convention" to all national officers and alumrue cJubs. The questionnaire used by alumnre club presidents for their annual reports has been revised. A letter was compiled for the purpose of interesting noncontributing alumnre of the fraternity. The new alumn;e clubs and the prospective ones have been sent .letters of encouragement and greeting. Several smaller clubs nearby have been visited personally during the year. Also a table bas been compiled showing the amount of Settlement School contributions and memberships for the past three years.
The Assistant to the Grand Vice President considers it a very great
privilege to be given the opportunity to thus serve her fraternity. She cannot too strongly stress the splendidly organized condition in which the office was turned over to her nor the gratitude she feels for the assistance and encouragement given her by her predecessors, Genevieve Herrick Smith and Emilie Margaret White, at the beginning of her term of office. It is only by working with the province vice presidents that one realizes the invaluable service which they render to the fraternity. They are indeed the foundations on which our alumnz organization can build.
The contacts with Miss Onken and Mrs. Teller have been inspirational. The Assistant to the Grand Vice President appreciates their cooperation and helpfulness together with that of the other members of Grand Council and the Director of the Central Office. Miss De Wolf, nea r at hand, has been of particular assistance . It is the hope of the Assistant to the Grand Vice President to be able in some small measure to repay her fraternity for the many joys derived from these contacts and for the compensations of membership in such a fraternity as ours.
RUTU BARRETI" SMITH
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Alpha Province
T HE first year in office of Alpha Province Vice President has been happy, owing to the fact that she has been able to visit al1 but one of her clubs, and that everywhere she has received the most cordial and delightful welcome. If these visits have afforded the clubs one-half the interest and stimulus they have given the visitor, they have been worth the while.
Unfortunately the loss of three clubs must be recorded: Canton, New York , Middlebury, Vermont, and Worcester, because of the gradual moving from town of all but a mere handful of aiumnce, have too few to continue as active clubs . For the past two years they have been growing weaker. The two or three in the first two will continue to be helpful to the actives. The last named is to continue as a group with occasional meetings; five of them have paid dues and sent a gi ft to the Settlement School. No information has been r eceived during the year from Portland, Maine. The ten remaining clubs are composed of enthusiastic, gracious women. It would seem from the reports a lready in, that the membership is a little lower than last year Out of about 1,500 alumnre in Alpha Province, it would appear that a larger number should affiliate Every club has made valiant efforts to add to it s membership and ha s tried all kinds of schemes to increa se attendance at meeting s, but too many clubs have received no re sponse to letters sent out. If only every Pi Phi who move s to a new city would get in touch with a neighboring club!
Boston has done remarkably well in increasing her gift to the Settlement School from $310 to $610; Western Massachusetts, which contributed nothing last year, sends $20; Syracuse increases to besides sending generously directly to the School; New Jersey continues her $500; when New York is heard from, the sum w ill be larger than last year.
If all the money desired has not been rai sed, there has been , due to the vis it of the Province Vice Presidents to Gatlinburg in September , a dissemination of knowledge of our work, which should result in a deeper interest.
Wherever a club is in the vicinity of an active chapter, there exist s a delightful s pirit of comradeship. Vermont B, New York A and r were extremely cordial to me and expressed their appreciation of alumna! support. The first two have received especially strong financial and moral support . The strength of one i s dependent on the other.
Much has been encouraging. A general spirit of unity exists, both in the individual clubs and in the province. Everywhere clubs are eager to learn of conditions in sister clubs. Buffalo and Toronto long for closer contact-the formation of an alumn::e club in Hamilton, Ontario , would help. Rochester hopes for a state con ference next spring, in fact Buffalo and Syracuse have had the same idea in mind. Syracuse was eager for a central New York celebration of Founders' Day. New York City has put on a varied program all the year. Those four New York
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state clubs are progressive and interested. Toronto is eager for more national contacts.
An Eastern convention-not a near-Eastern one--would do much for Alpha Province. Western Massachusetts club is composed of members from many chapters, who never wish to miss a meeting. Connecticut has been trying to arouse more of a state-wide interest; that group is fortunate in having Mable Scott Brown in its mid st. A visit to the Central Office makes one realize the magnitude of OUT work. New Jersey has, in addition to the regular afternoon group. an evening group of alumna!. (Providence, Rhode Island, is a group meeting occasionally.) ( The work of the advisory committees have everywhere been of high order.)
Beta Province
S eA TTERED through Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania are eighteen live alumna:: club s. They compose the Beta Province club family, the youngest member of the family being the Beaver Valley club recenUy chartered. In membership the clubs vary from five to one hundred, which variation of necessity divers ifies their activities. An interesting thing to note is that two of the smallest, Delaware and Mahoning Valley, lead in the number of national dues collected from isolated Pi Phis. Cleve land leads in membership this year having ninetye ight paying both local and national dues and two paying national only. The vice preside nt of th i s club put on a vigorous membership campaign, sending out many letters and notification blanks "copy-catted"
Naturally there are weaknesses: a failure to send monthly letters, a neglect of the Loan Fund and A1agazine Agency, and a lack of response to fi fty or more letters sent out to isolated alumnz.
Maine, Bangor in particular, and New Hampshire shou ld have clubs. Utica and Ithaca , New York, also should have them.
But withal, the vice president has joy over the sple ndid work done by the clubs, gratitude for the coope ration and hospitality of the clubs visited, hope for increased accomplishment the coming year, appreciation for the suggestions and help of the Grand Vice President and her Assistant, and thanks to th e Grand Council for allowing her th e privilege of a visit to Gatlinburg.
E. LOUISE RICHARDSON
from the Columbus club. Columbus and Philadelphia are next in membership each having eightyeig ht m embers.
Eight out of the eighteen clubs are helping the neare st active chapters with their house problems In spite of the expenses thus incurred and the recent flurries in the stock market the clubs have responded generously in gifts to the Settlement School and to the Undergraduate Loan Fund.
Monthly letters are on the increase. All but four clubs are this year 100 per cent. The South Hills club uses a fine plan. Each month, a different member writes the Jetter giving her viewpoint on various club matters and de s cribing the meetin g she was appointed t o report upon. These are very interesting and helpful. I take this op-
portunity to thank the secretaries. I greatly appreciate their cooperat.ion
The club treasurers de se rve th ei r share of praise and thanks, and in a Hberal quantity. If the active chapter treasurers would likewi se read their manuals funds that should reach the p.v.p. would not wander from officer to office r until they finally reach the one who can send the proper receipt.
It is most gratifying to be able to state that the active chapters
Gamma Province
M y REPORT of Gamma Province is based upon in formation gained through correspondence and the reports for the club pre s idents . It was possible for me to visit only two of the clubs thi s year.
The Jacksonvil\e club I found to be an enthusiastic, congenia l group. They are interested in all of the activities of Pi Beta Phi and do much in Jacksonville in helping the local girls rush for Florida B. Their secretary h as been very prompt in her month ly letters to me and it has been a real pleasure to keep in touch with them in thi s way.
The Atlanta club is well organized. They are working enthusiastically for the Settlement School and are interested in helping a local charity, the Child's Home of Atlanta . Mrs . Taylor, the former Gamma Province Vice President is their President. It was delightful to find such a happy, friendly spirit among their members. Three of their number went to convention and I know that their enthusiasm ha s been a real inspiration thi s year.
My visit with both groups was
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are becoming more and more interested in the Settlement School. Ohio A required the pledges to earn $5.00 each. Their gift from pledges and actives was $13 1.46.
Questionnaires, advisory committee reports, and letters all show a splendid fraternity spirit.
With many thanks to Grand Council and all club members for their help and cooperation, this r eport is respectfully subm itted.
FRANCES C. CURTIS
very informal and altogether delightful.
The president of the Washington club ha s sent me each month suc h detailed reports of their meeting s that I feel as though I had been present. It ha s been of real interest to see how they have realized all of their objectives which they had set for themselve s to accomplish thi s year. They are the largest club in the province with a membership of 104- and have contributed $ 1,000 to the Sett lement School. from the Lake land and DeLand alumna! clubs joined with the Orlando club in helping celebrate the installati on of Florida r la st September.
Founders' Day found many groups meeting together to celebrate the founding of Pi Beta Phi. The Wa shington, Baltimore. and Richmond alumna'! clubs with the actives from Maryland A, Columbia A and Virginia r had a most delightful lunch eon in Washington with Lois Thompson, Gamma Province president as toastmistress. The program was clever in design. Aviation furnished the subject for the arrangement of the toasts.
The Orlando club celebrated with Florida r on their first observance of Founders' Day. A representative from the Lakeland club was present. It was a happy occasion and a delightfu ll y planned program followed the luncheon.
The Florida rs entertained delightfully for Mrs. Coolidge at a tea when she and Mr. Coolidge visited Rollins College. The Orlando alumme club attended, also Florida A and many from the Deland alum"", club.
There has been an increase in membership this year in Gamma Province and a decided increase in contributions to the Settlement School. The number of paid members is 282. $2,250.50 has been received from actives and alumrue for the Settlement School fund as
Delta Provinee
I T IS with a deep sense of having spe nt the past twelve months as an apprentice to all the national officers of Pi Beta Phi in an attempt to acqui re sufficient knowledge efficiently to carryon the work in the province, that I am making my first report on condit ions as I see them.
Delta Province comprises sixtee n chartered alumnre clubs, fifteen of which function regularly and live up to all the regulations of well organized clubs. The s ixteenth, Hillsdale, has not functioned as a club for several yea r s and does not feel that it is able to reorganize on a national basis. In a ll fairness to the gro up of interested Pi Phis who make up the club, I wish to say that it has aided the c hapt er of Michigan A in innum erab le ways and is
their contribution for 1929-30 which is a splendid showing. All of the alumnz clubs have contributed to the School and a number to tbe Loan Fund .
The active chapters in Gamma Province have been very generous in the amounts they have sent the Settlement School. They have all been prompt in sending in their senior dues and I hope that the sixty members thus gained will all be active and enthusiastic alumna! club members next year.
I hope another year will find several new clubs added to our membership in Gamma Province.
For the ass istance from the national officers and cooperation from the club officers I am most grateful.
MABEL ELI)REDGE BARNSLEY
a vital factor in the life of the Hillsdale gir1s
The regularly functioning clubs are distributed as follows: f our in Michigan, six in Indiana. three in Tennessee, one in Alabama, one in Kentucky. Two of these are newly organized and have made unusually rapid strides toward perfectior.. The Bloomfield Hills club at Birmingham, Michigan, presents an interesting group Forme r1 y the eig htee n women who make up the organization were part o f th e Detroit club. Due, however, to the proximity of their homes, and the simi larity of interests, they fonned themselves into a distinct group and obta ined a charter. It i s an enviable record they have established in their first sa l e of Settlement School products, as Miss Bishop will prob-
ably tell you. We shall be watching this club with keen interest.
The Nashv ille c lub, though small, is extremely interested and has had interesting meetings during the year. The members have the nation al viewpoint and are developing rapidly into a well-rounded club.
The clubs which I have visited this year were Lafayette, Ft. Wayn e, Grand Rapids, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Hil1sdale, in order named, and of cou r se my own club, Falls CitiesLouisville. Since these clubs are located in towns 0 f varying sizes, and since by the very nature of th e personnel and location they are distinct in character, it is almost impossible to compare results. I must say, however, that in at lea st three r espects these clubs are alike: in the warmth of the fraternity welcome which was extended me on eac h occasion, in the desire of the groups to know how the other clu bs in the province are so l ving their problems, and in their eagerness to help the Settlement School and the chapter near at hand. I feel certain th at the same is true of the clubs not visited.
In regard to the Settlement School contribution, it now looks as i £ Delta Province, for all .my optimism, will fall short of the amount sent in last year by about $191. I attribute this not to any lack of application 0 f the Settlement School committees in the various clubs, but more to the fact that several clubs decided that at least part of their funds should go toward the chapter near at hand, and to the genera l financial condition all over the country.
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while we may be a little under the amount we wished to contribute, the active chapters have sent in $100 more than last year. The clubs have been rather consistent in their contributions during the past two years, sending in approximately the same amount each year.
There is no la ck of interest in the Settlement Schoo l as might be deducted from the report. On every hand I m et clubs vitally interested in furthering thi s great work and eager to do more than their share to promote the education of the mountain folk at Gatlinburg and th e Sugar lands.
[ wish to add that the monthly letters from the clubs have proven a source of deep interest to me. They have given me a personal ins ig ht into the conditions of each club and have made me feel as if I should certainly know the members when I meet them. The membership books are a great improvement over the old method, and next year we hope to have them in use at the first me eting.
Founders' Day was celebrated by all the groups in an appropriate manner. The Indiana state luncheon in Indianapolis which has become somewhat of a tradition in Delta Province, was unusually successful this year. Miss Onken made the chief address, and the roll ca ll showed twenty-one chapters represented. Other clubs held less elaborate functions, but none the less impressive.
I feel certain that there will be an increase in the total number of members in Delta Province. Dues for st r ay members are still com ing in.
An interesting feature of the Falls Cities club was the raising of
the dues from $3 to $10 and increased membership as a result. This amount includes all necessary expenses, suppers preceding each monthly meeting, Founders' Day luncheon, gift to the active chapter, rent on the apartment used jointly by the club and Kentucky A, and various other items. By raising the dues to include all anticipated expenses except the Settlement School contribution, the club has found that the meetings are more interesting because they lack the usual discussion of money.
The required number of meetings has been held by all clubs regularly functioning. and many of the g roup s report interesting new games on the constitution and fraternity exam ination.
I feel that I have sad ly neglected work with the isolated members. Next year I shall concentrate on new groups and i solated members with the hope that I may be able to round up a great many Pi Phis who by virtue of their living outside of the centers of Pi Phi population are missing the associations which sho uld be their s.
The old faithful rummage sale
Epsilon Province
T HE alumn", clubs of Epsilon Province have been very respon s ive this year to all of the suggestions from national office rs. Every club h as contributed to the support of our Settlement School. Three clubs have not contributed to the Loan Fund, the other nineteen having given as much as they could spare. The total of dues from the alum"", clubs, $3,047.17, has been sent from Epsilon Province
and the benefit bridge party seem to be the main source of income for all clubs. Each group reports that it has a bigger demand for certain of the Settlement School products than others. For instance one club sold all the baby bibs and blankets it cou ld procure, while still another found a ready market for baskets and towels. It takes some time for a club to realize just what type of product can be so ld most easily in a particular town, but once it ha s been determined, the sale will be an easy matter because the proper material will be on hand in plenty of time.
In conclusion I wish to say that the past year has been an extremely interesting one for me I have learned how little I r eally knew about the inner workings of my fraternity. I hope next year to be able to contribute something to the various clubs which have been so patient and considerate of my shortcomings, and by our cooperation to further the interests of Pi Phi and make Delta Province outsta nding in its accomplishments as it now is in spirit.
RUTH WILSON
from the alumnz and actives $674 to date, June 5.
Each month a letter has been sent by province vice-president either to the president of each c1ub or to some other officer. Letters have been r ece ived from almost every club each month, coming from president, secre tary, or treasurer.
Epsilon clubs have had successful execu tive s who have retained office during the year. Chicago alumnre
club is an exception, having by necessity to change presidents in the middle of the year. This club has a speci"ally difficult problem which it realizes Plans have been made for a more successful coming year. Although the club has had many difficulties to surmount, the total of dues from this club has been average and a very generous amount has been given to the Settlement School. Great credit is due the few loyal workers who ha ve been so stead fast with thei r support. Financial s tre ss has affected every club in Epsilon Province. Notwith s tanding the unusual strain of this year, the alumnre clubs, without exception, have been loyal in
Zeta Province
T HIS month brings to a clo se a very active and successful year in the life of Zeta Province alumnre clubs. Progress in one pha se or another can be noted in almost every club. Twelve of the fi fteen clubs in this province have s h ow n a genuine desire to be a real force in the fraternity and have kept in t o uch with this office thr oughout the year.
Obtaining a complete paid membership of all Pi Phis located where there are clubs has been the goal of every club. Mt. Pleasant , Iowa , and Columbia, Missouri, have bee n successful in obtaining a record o f 100 per cent paid memberships. St. Louis has made a gain of twentyfour paid m e mbers , while Si o ux City, Cedar Rapids , Indianola, and Iowa City have only a very few resident Pi Phis who are not active members of the alumna! club. If th e Pi Phi alumnre who are not taking part in the activities of their
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their support of their alumna! interests, faithful in caring for their responsibilities to their active chapters , and generous with their contributions to the Settlement School.
Grateful appreciation is extended to all of the officers of the alumn::e clubs of Epsilon Province for their splendid cooperation and constant courtesy and kindness. Very special gratitude is extended to ou r beloved Grand Vice President who, throughout the months of the pa st year, has given unusual in spiration and by her example has made the ideals of Pi Beta Phi seem more precious and friend ship s in our frat e rnity even more to be c heri shed .
LILLIA N L. BASS
local club would only realize the enjoyment and true sa ti s faction which is experienced by those who are taking an active interest, they would determine to put Pi Phi first in their li st of activities.
With few exceptions, there have been s plendid responses to requests made of club officers. The material required of the chartered clubs, such as complete paid and unpaid membership list s, $1.00 national dues, and annual report ( filling in of a que stionnaire ) of the club presidents, and li sts of new officers have been supplied by most clubs.
The two consuming interests of all clubs are helping the active c hapter s and raising funds for the Settlement School. Indianola, Iowa, alumnz club is equally interested in both of these s ubject s . They are helping Iowa Beta with its house and are ti reles s in their efforts in this r espect. At the sa me time they find time and money to
do much for lhe Settlement School.
Columbia is another comparatively small club of twenty resident members and twenty-two affiliated members who are very industrious. They do not slight the school for the active chapter, nor the cllapter for the Settlement School. Missouri A at Columbia is building a Ilew h ouse to cos t approximately seventy thousand dollars. The club has joined with the chapter to help finance their house. At the same time the Columbia, Missouri, club does not overlook the Settlement School. They netted $104 on the sale 0 f Christmas cards alone. This club is a fine example of aU that is possible in a club with a small membership.
Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri, are two clubs' which have the inspiration of an active chapter. St. Louis spends a good deal of time and energy assisting Missouri B with rushing and at the same time maintains its intere st in the support of the Settlement School. The club was again able this year not only to increa se its membership, but to raise $1,000 for the Settlement School fund, not including the pr06ts which were made on magazine s ubscription s They are busy at this time adding the names for next year of about twenty-five prospective club members who are new in the vicinity. Springfield has been stressing the raising of the Endowment Fund pledged at Convention.
Kansas City, Missouri, club has the unusual record of having had eight members of their club attend convention. The inspi ration these members must have carried to the club has been materially manifested in their Settlement School dona-
tion. Kansas City was able to double last yea r' s amount, which was $500, making the gi ft this year $1,000, not including magazine subSCriPtions. When one considers that Kansas City has several active industrious members who are engaged in handling the Endowment Fund, beside two members who are national committee members, one must realize that Kansas City has many local and interested Pi Phis to be able to accomp li sh all of these things.
Sioux City. Cedar Rapids, Burlington, and Des Moines, Iowa, all without the proximity of active chapters, have developed in various phases. Since they are not actively engaged in assisting a local chapter, they have felt that they must make an extra effort for the Settlement School. The first two show an increase in membership. The Des Moines club has so ld over twice as many baskets and twice as much weaving as the previous year. Ames, Indianola, and Des Moines held a joint observance of Founders' Day. Each club contributed something to the program. All other Iowa clubs, as well as Pi Phi s located where there is no club, were invited to attend this all-state meeting. It is intended to mak e this an annual occasion and it is hoped that more .a nd more Pi Phis will take advantage of this co ntact each year.
The Burlington club has held only the four required meetings this year. It is regretable that a club as active as the Burlington group has been for the past twenty years should become less active at this time An attempt is being made to substitute Panhellenic meetings for the monthly Pi Phi meetings.
It is hoped that the same degree of unity and strength that the Burlington club has known in the past will be maintain ed with the four meetings a year plan.
Owing to a decrease in membership, three clubs-Joplin and Carrollton, Missouri, and Chariton, Iowa, have become virtually inactive. Wh ere the membership is sma ll , the work is necessarily very heavy for the faithful few. All clubs have been urged to collect national dues from every Pi Phi whether she could join a club or not. Personal letters from club treasurers should accomplish a great deal in this respect. Surety the s mall s um of $ 1.00 a year is not an unrea so nabl e fee to pay for the privilege of wearing the badge of suc h a fraternity as Pi Beta Phi.
In closing this report in which I have been able only to touch upon the outstanding things of the past year. I wish to thank the chapters who helped so much in simplifyi ng the listing and placing of the graduates of Zeta Province chapters this spring. The splendid cooperation of the active clubs ha s been very gratifying too. The assistance and ready respon se of the clubs is very
Eta Province
E TA PROVINCE reports a good year. The work has become more systematized and there is great improvement in the attitude towards the national organization. Clubs have seemed more interested in the needs of the Settlement School and the province has given more generously to this cause than ever before. the gifts totaling $2,127.80. Of this amount, $1,562.80 has been received from
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commendable considering that there were no visits allotted to the clubs this year . Many have extended cordial invitation s to the Province Vice President to special functions of the clubs. most of which regrettably could not be accepted. I am glad to have this chance to thank them again for their hospitality.
We are all deeply indebted to our devoted Grand Vice President, Mrs. Teller, and her assistant. Mrs. Smith. for their untiring efforts and a lw ays inspiring lett ers. It i s hoped that some of the unchartered groups in this province who attain a membership of ten alumn::e will grasp the privilege of becoming a part of Pi Phi alumnre department and so share in the enjoyment of the sparkling personalities of our two new alumna: national office rs who have been so very he.1pful this year.
To all Zeta Province chapters and alumnz club officers and to the national officers whose sympat hetic interest and assistance ha s been ever present Zeta Province vice president expresses her grateful appreciation .
FLORENCE INGHRAM
the clubs, $ 15 from personal gifts, and $550 from the active chapters.
One new club, the South Central Kansas , has been added to the province, but with Utah now in Kappa Province, our number remains the same.
With few exceptions, monthly l etters have been received from all the clubs.
The amount credited to this
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province by the 1tfagazine Agency is $101.80, and the Loan Fund has benefited to the amount of $90.
There are 450 paid members , and ten sen iors became associated with clubs, making the total membership
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T HE alumn", club work
In Theta Province has been interesting from many standpoints. There has not been a new club organized but each of the eighteen has functioned well. From the dues sent in. it would prove that more alumn<e are identified with clubs this year than have ever been before. Including the senior farewell dues from five chapters, 496 Pi Phis in this province have paid their alumna! dues Despite a constant cry of hard times the total contributions to the Settlement School have been almost as great as they were last year Only two of my clubs have failed to make donations-Wichita Falls and San Antonio. The total amount sent from actives and alumnre exceeded $2,200.
All the clubs have functioned well this year and give promise of greater enthusiasm next year. They have had splendid meetings planning for the mo st part interesting programs. Dallas has added an attractive idea this year. Several of its members gave most entertaining talks on such topics as "Advert i sing," "J uvenil e Court Work in Los Angeles," "Applied Christianity," and "Recent Fiction." A divergence it is perhaps from the regular type that we feel is necessary for club programs, but interspe r sing the four definite subjects
460. There are forty-eight seniors in the province this spring.
Membership and gifts to the Settlement School are the things which have been stressed this year.
VERA W. KIRKPATRICK
with something entirely different creates a new interest.
The clubs and active chapters ha ve cooperated with a sp lendid spirit. Many of the clubs have helped the active chapters with donations to the houses, helped with rushing parties, giving teas and giving unsparingly of their interest and motherl y advice.
Ten club s made donations to the Loan Fund through me and Miss Heseltine wrote that three other clubs had sent their donations directly to her.
Strenuous efforts have been made to organize new clubs but so far there are none to add. Thirty letters were sent to cities where there was a nucleus of at least five with several nearby towns bringing a group of ten or more. Only three replies were received and they were not very optimisitc.
My visit in January and February to all the clubs was one of great interest and pleasure to me. I found the warmth of friendship in Pi Phi was not influenced by the sub-zero weather I encounte red. I cannot express my appreciatio n of the cordiality of the clubs I visited and as I have said before, the experience will eve r linger as one of the happiest memories of my life. All through the year the clubs have shown a spirit of loyalty and interest. At this time I wish to thank
the officers and club members who have cooperated so sp lendidly. I also wish to express my appreciation to the national officers for th eir
Iota Province
I OTA PROVINCE, numbering ten alumnre clubs in all, extending ove r Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, reports a very active year, with a paid membership of 318, an increase over la s t year of forty. As there has been an increase in membership, so there has been a sma ll increase in Settlement School donations, the total amount to date, exclusive of magazine subscriptions, being $1,777.48. $50 has been contribu ted to the Loan Fund and $25 to the Endowment Fund. All of the active chapters have contributed to the Settlement School, th e amount being $190. Thus, the total contribution of the province is $1 ,96 7.48.
Much credit is due the advisory boards of each chapter for their untiring effort to help the girls and to keep before them the ideals and wo rk of Pi Beta Phi. It i s unfortunate that three of our chapters, Idaho A, M onta na A, and Wa shington B, are l ocated in towns where there are no alumnce clubs, SO that it is impossible to keep in as close touch with their advisory boards as with those of the other c hapters
Thirty seniors have sent their national dues thi s year. The senio r s of last year are joining the l ocal alumnz groups and in man y cases have already tak e n an active part in the work of the clubs. Surely this new ruling that all seniors sha ll pay national dues is a
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assistance and guidance; and to the fraternity for the privilege of se rving as a province officer.
FRANKIE COCHRAN HILL
s tep in advance. We s hall be able to keep in clo se r touch with the grad uates.
All the clubs r epo rt an increa se in wi llingness to work and e nthusiasm for and interes t in the Settlement School. The m ajor ity of the clubs send donations and gi fts at Chris tmas time to the active chapters, besides helping them with the s ummer ru s hing.
Strenuous efforts were made during th e year to establish new club s in twelv e different cities, but at present lack of numbers in nearly eve ry case mak es organization impossible. It is to be hoped that before another convention, we s hall have increased our number in thi s province.
Vi s its were made to but two of the clubs this year because a ll but two had delegates to th e last convention. Visits will be made early in the fall of the coming year.
For the fir st time Iota Province is to have this summer a hou se party or conference held on Bainbridge I sla nd in Puget Sound, with ac tive s and alumna! attending. We hope that this party witl be such a s ucce ss that it will be po ss ible to have one during each interim of conventio n .
I want to thank all the national officers, alurnnz clubs , and active chapters for the wonderful sup port and cooperation that they have given me this year.
HAJUU£T R. JOHNSTONE
Kappa Provin ce
K APPA province was so well represented at Con vention last June, that it seemed better to postpone the visits of the Province Vice President to the various clubs till next year, rather than have them cOlne so soon after Convention. So no visits have been made this past year. The inspiration and the better knowledge of the fraternity work in all its aspects, gained at Convention, has given the clubs in this Province an added impetus that has made a most successful yea r for them.
I have been delighted with the response to my letters, and the cooperation I have recei ved . Only one club failed in this respect. The delightful, enthusiastic monthly reports from the clubs have been real inspirations. Several new ideas have been put into practice. One club has been a singing one, singing i.ts way to a g lori ous year, determined that its memb e r s at least shaH know the Loving Cup Song when next Convention rolls around. Another ha s been so inspired by a visit from Mrs. Helmick that the club has se nt $100 to the Settlement School. Last year it sent $ 12! The president of ano th er club has just sent me a fascinating book bound in blue and tied with wine ribbon, giving an account of the past year starting with Convention, containing everything, even to the menu card of Hotel Huntington, the Convention dailies, etc., and ending with concise, s nappy reports 0 f each meeting held this year. Convention so in-
spired one of the girls in another club, that as assistant to the Settlement School chairman, she has been such a wonder at sell ing Arrowcraft Products that L' Adele Allen calls her her best customer. The friendly welcome to newcomers given by one club is noteworthy and has resulted in a splendid spirit.
Glenda l e offered to pay $1.25 on the ticket of any member who at· tended the Founders' Day banquet in Los Angeles. A splendid idea! One which resulted in increased attendance and which other clubs are planning to copy.
The Burlingame club has most generously changed its name to the Palo Alto club, all for the good of the fraternity. Since our California A chapter is at Palo Alto, it see med best to have the alumnre dub most closely connected with it bear that name.
Sacramento has had a struggle because of the decreased number of Pi Phis there, and because of sickness on the part of man y members. So after making a real effo r t to contin u e as a cha rtered club, it has finally disbanded.
The response of the clubs in this province to the Loan Fund has been especially noteworthy , eleven o ut of fifteen contributing. Next year we hope to make it 100 per cent .
There ha s been an increase in member ship this year, due to the devotion to their work of the officers in charge of the clubs.
I am happy to report Santa Barbara is applying for a charter.
BE.RNICE C. GERWICK
Alumnae Reports
ALPHA PROVINCE
NEW YORK AL UMNA!: CLUB
Organiled. 190J-C hartcred, 1907
PrendeJII.t, Sophie P a r son. \Voodman. Tbe Panhclleni c, 3 Mit c hell Place, New York City.
CD rrupofidifig S.crdary, Helen Kamm e r e r 111 E. Eightieth St., New York City
Mabel Batm an Harshbarlc r.
Re side nt Alumnae, 550.
Members of Club, 83.
Averase Attendan ce, SO.
This year the monthly meetings of tbe Nt York a1umn z club was held in the Panhtllen ic House.
Sophie P. \V oodman, the new president, i s no1'( making h er home there, and n atur· a ll y ber room has become the headquarters of t he New York Pi Pbis.
The first monthly meeting was hdd October 5, 1929. Beatrice Edes, delegate to the conycntion, de.cribed the trip to and from Los Angele. 011 the "Conyention Specilll, " and Aileen Sullivan Miller , former Alpha Province Vi ce- President, reported 011 the convention paper, so that everyone who heard them felt at though tbe y had actually made the trip with them. M isa Eckl returned fr om the convention as the new president of Alpha Province, and :l.t the meeting dur o ing the winter, Ihe hal t old o f her visits with the various chapte r s, thus bringing the club i n closer touch with the actives The hostesses for this meeting were the memo bers of Iota and Kappa Proy inces with Frances Mills Hinman as c hairman.
The SettJement School meetin, was held NO'Fembe r 2, and the club had the honor of having Dr. May L. Keller and E. Louise R ic hardson Alpha Province Vice President, as ruuts. Dr. Keller told the story of th e founding of the Settlement School. an d Min Ricbardson described the school as abe .... it on her recent visit. Ethel Lenridge Fernra was chairman of the mminl' with the other memben of New York Beta lervin, II hostesses.
Settlement School prodUCllll, Cbri s trnu cards. etc., were on sale at the D«:ember meeting. Gertrude Pettijohn Frary entertained. with a series of impersona t ion.. The membe. s of Zeta Proyince were hostessea for day.
An evening bridge party proyided a pleasant change on January 1. Elizabeth Carrol.!
W;eaer and the members of the Ohio Chaplen did evc ything to make the party a success. It was ca lled "G e ntlemen' Night," as husband and friend l were in'Fited.
Louise Bache, who i l conneeted with the National Probation Service ,poke at the next meeting February 1. Her IlIlk was mo st interesting. and prese nted II new lISpect. of the subject. The memhers of Epsilon Province acted as ho s teHes with Eulll Muon Byrne as c hairman.
The Broo klyn group, under Mabel McCann Molloy, lponsored a bridge party for the Settlement School on February 6. A large number of tables were sold and everyone wal delighted with the beautiful prize Mildred Cathera, chairman of the Nominat. in, Committee relld the Jist of nominees f or th e coming year at the meeting Muc h S. 1II:I.rion Woodley Schlaepher sa nl a beautiful g roup of lOngs and Helen Harrimlln Kopke .as c b.airmlln of the members of Vermont Alpha, wbo entertained on thllt day
A theater party wal given Mar ch "', at EYll Je GlIllie n ne'l Civic Repertory Theater for the benefit of the Settlement School. The play. selected .ere charming. Madeline Ca rr o ll. Chairman of the Settlement School Committee and Onda \Varn ock de Laski, Chai rman of the Wayl and Muns Com mit· tee , gave a grellt delll of time and effort in making the pa rty a succelS. Mrs. de La!ki, unfortunately, moved 10 St. Louis a short time before the benefit. and the club was lOr ry 10 hllye her leave A plu for perlOnlIl su bscriptions t o the Settlement School has just been tent to member!, and it i, hoped that the annual gift to the school .ill be :as large as usual.
Pi Beta Phi wu hosten at a Panhellenic tea March 22, held in the New York City Pan hell enic Oub Rooms. M iss Edts planned In entertaining program for the afternoon. Ind the hostessel were the Pi Phi members of the New York City Panhellenic A uo · ciation witb Elizabeth Thomson as chairman. Election of officers took place and annual report. were read at the Ill s t monthly meet · inl' of the season April S. Plans for the coming yea r were talked. over in open di scussion The members of the board were boste.ssea.
The club was fortunate in haying JMC" phine Sch.in, Minne.,ta Alphll, Adminstra · ti'Fe Chairman of the Nati o nal Committee on the Cause and Cure of \Van, as guest of honor and apeaker at the Foundera' DlIy Luncheon. April 26. She .Ive a most in·
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tere.tiOJ' talk on the problema facinl' the Nu'u Confercoce in London, from which abe had just rgurncci. MrL Sc.hlacp(cr ung sental number.. accompanied by Ruth Graham. The pretidcnt, Mia \Voodmall, wa. tout mUtreu., and ahc spoke of her recent vialt to the Settlement School. The Chairman of the Luncheon Committee was Helen Kammerer Mc Kcndrcw. Frances Evans lve., former Crand -Scc::rctary met w i th the club that day
The club i. proud to have F10rencc Ca . s, former Grand Secretary and Cataloguer, as a new member.
Small ,roup. in tbe suburbs have held local mutin,. and bridge panics during the year, and thele brin g about a clO U T friend,hip amonl the mcmbtrL
Katherine Donge Bow c n rave a deli,btful party (or bUline•• rirls during Many of the Pi Phi. living in New York are employed and cannot come to tbe after· noon meeting
The New York Club, at the l ug,eltion of Miss Ecks, Alpha Province Pres ident, is donating a cup, to be given to the chapter of Alpha Province, which has the greatelt number of graduat u affiliating witb the alumn.r o r ganintion.. This cup will be given to the first chapter to win it three times.
The New York Club has losl two members during the past season. Helen Harriman Kopke, Vermont Alpha, died early in April alter a sbort illneu, and Katherine Ponle Bowen, Diatrict of Columbia Alpha, pused away thu month. She was a loyal and enthusiastic member of tbe club.
All Pi Phi. comin, to New York are ur,ed 10 ,et in tOlKh with the correspondin, secretary The a«rdary will also appreciate it if all changes of addreu of tbose h in, in New York are ICnl her
SYRACUSE CLUB
Orranh w, 1903 - Chartered, 1906
Re s ident Alumnz, 89.
Members of Club, 6 2
Average Attendance, 35.
An o ther pleasant and bUlY year has pus.ed in the Syracuse alumnlt club with the Set · tlement School and active cbapter again the center of interest
The usual monthly luncheon meetin ",ere held and a lao four dinners at which the club entertained in turn the fo ur clauu of active girls.
Founders' Day WIS very pleasantly cele · b ra ted at the c ha ple r h ou se with a joint c ooky shine and a circul planned and ex · ecuted by some of tbe cleyer alumnlt . The club again sold Settle ment Scbool products, dispo s ing of more tban $1 50 worth
At Cbristmas the active giris were given a beautiful silver tea service, silver forka and tw O pairs of book-cnds from the SettJe. ment School. Tbe dub again contributed $10 to the Loan fund
Plan s for the remainder of the year include the annual June alumnz banquet and a leries of lummer card parties at which it is hoped to raiae money to aid in refurnishing the chapter house livins room.
Most cordial gredinss are extended to sister clubs and a mMt successful year is hoped for . J
BETA PROVINCE
ATHENS ALUMNJE CLUB
Organi&ed, 1907-Cbartered, 1907 Pruid.,." Elizabetb Woodworth, 27 S Col· lege St. Viu Pr.sid,"', Mary Hopkins. Coruspt1t1ditlil S,cr.tory, Dorothy Shaffer, 21 Columbia Ave. Tr'fUWru, Florence Nicbol .. Resident Alumnz, 26. Members of Club, 30.
Average Attendance, 19.
The Atbena alumnz club has had four meetings this year. The plan of meetinl informally at the fraternity house and at the membera' homes for bUline.. and locial functiona haa proved very luccessful.
This year the active chapter has been the center of greatest interest.
The club gave the usual aasistance to the Ictive chapter during rusbin, season, thereby acquainting themselnl with the sirll and their problema. Members allo a isted the active chapter in giving a benefit bridge party which was a aplendid succels.
The club prorram began with a bUlineu meeting, in November, at the fraternit1
house The next meeting waa held at the home of Eliu.beth Woodworth who wu assisted by Mrs. Hlrry Stalder, Mrs Earl Shaffer and Frances Hatch. The meetins was firat devoted to reports of committeel, and then at the ciON: of tbe meetin the bostenea ICrved a ddightfu] buffet supper.
The February meeting was beld at the home of Mrs. Russell Finsterwald with Mr H. P. Steenrod AI usistant hOltes.. After a short informal meetin the hostessel invited tbe members to the bridge tables. and later served lovely refreshment.. The club wal very glad to have Mill Bertha Brown for the meetin,.
On May 7, the Ialt meeting of the year was held at the fraternity house for a short bUliness meeting.
The alumnz club joined the active chap. ter at Founders' Day Banquet held at the De&hler Hotel, Columbus, Ohio.
The ad.,ilOry committee must more than be conlratulated. They bave had regular meetin s with the ex«utive council and have given them a lift in many a distressing problem
The club waa &0 pleased by the .,isit from
tbe Prov ince: Vi ce Preside nt, Mr s. Artbur R. Curtis of Ocveland. Woodworth held tea at her hom e, ioyitin g th e sen io n to meet Mrs Cu rt i.. The club h e ld a dinner in ber honor at Hill Crclt Inn Mr a. Cu rti s ' s c b a rming penonality was enjoyed and tbe club fclt greatly benefited by h e r vi ait. or course tbe club i s beset with man y difficulties.. The financial aspect has l oomed 110 larg e (the dub is lIilI selling R oyce produc t and t aking ma gaz ine subsc ripti ons 10 r a ise money for the Se ttlem e nt Sc h ool) a nd unity in memb ers hip i s d iffic ult becauac the va ri ety of interests and agcI is intensified by l arge gaps between classes r e pr ese nt e d in the club
Alhens cl ub has enjo yed a very h aP I)Y and .uecessfu l year a nd i t is hoped th a t next yu r good tim es. fine work, and unity in membersbip may he r ev i ewed.
HARRI SBURG-LANCASTER ALUMN£ CCUll
O r ga n iud , 192G-Cha rt e r ed, 192 0 p,.rsid_t, M rs. Edward. Belt, 3039 Green St • Harrisbu r g, Pa. Vin Presidewt, Mr s. Georg i a n a Jackson. 902
N 18th St. , H a rri sb urg Pa. Ctwrts/>tn.di,.g Surdory, D orot hy Louise Sponsler, 22 16 Penn St., H arrisburg, Pa T,-,asMru, M rs. Paul H utc hi nson , Camp Hill, Ha rril bur g, Pa.
R e. id ent Alumnz, 39. M embers or Club 33.
Average Attendance, 22.
April 8. Foundeu' Day Lun c h eo n was held at the M o lly Pit cber Hotel, Carlis le, Pa. Mi ss Onk e n w as th e gues t of honorfifty -o ne m e mbe rs were present. May 23. Mrs Robert Stud:enrath e ntertained the club at her hom e. Mrs. Paul Hutchin son, the new tre as urer , w as installed. June 29, the annua l club pi c ni c was held io Lan · c a s ter. September 28, a busiocu meeting, at the home of Mrs. Paul Hutchinson . A bridge party was planned. October 26• • ix· tecn member. wtte presen t at a business lUIion. N o vember 23, Carlisle member. w e re hoste.ses f or the club. The meeting wa s held i n the new frat e rnity roo ms of Penn .ylvania Gamma. Twenty-fiye members were p r esent. December 7. a benefit bridge party was riven a t the Ciyic Clu b-fort y· four tables played. January 18. MrL Edward H owa rd Rhoades was host eu. Thirteen membe,. .ere present. Two meet· ing. were held itl th e month of March. March I, Mr L J ackso n, Mi.sl Garoer, Min Gluding and M iss Keeney entertained It a luncheon bridge at the Linden Tree Inn March 29, a luncheon w i th Miss Mountz and M r Be lt bos t es.sc.. A business me et· in, and in s tallation of officers was held . Settlement School i s to receive $ 2.00. Under,radua te Loan Fund was yoted $10 .00. Apri l 26, Founders' Day Banquet, Cru'u's
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Grill. M ay 2<4, bUlinell meeting i n Lan· caster.
MIAMI VALLEY AL U MN : CLUB
Founded, 1920
Tbe fint meeti tl l' of thil fiscal year ",as held at the home of M rL J amel Kerr a nd twelve m embers altend ed Tbe r ea ular meetings are bdd the first M onday of each month a t lix th ir ty o'clo::k, at which time dinn e r is scrved. Thil plan has proved very sutte f u ! and encouraael informa lity thr o u g h ou t the meeting. A different member of the club ac t s al host eac h month.
The c hapt er lponso r ed a benefit bridge at one of th e l ocal places of ente rtainm ent in th e city and nett e d a good l y profit. Mi lS Lilli a n Franke acted as c hairman.
Mrs. \V E. Leonard has acted as chair· ma n of the C hri s tm as card fund and has, t h ro u g h un ti ring effor!!, netted almo st a hundred dollars each season.
Du r ing the mont b of February the r egula r meeting was disposed of and a bridge par t y for the member s and their hu sba nds and Iweethearu proved a triumphant success. M r. and Mr s. Ralpb Roebm acted as bos tess and host at thei r lovely new home.
The club felt a keen inte r e. t in the . vis it of t he Pr ovince Vice President, Mr s. C urt is. to the chailler. She .seemed very mucb enthused about the accomp li s hment! of the Setllement School. The local chapter wa s SllUrred on t owards the goa l for more financial aid for that worthy institution.
A delightful t ea at the home of Mi 55 Lillian Franke Wal held in observance of Founders' Day.
The la .t meeting of tb e year. whi c h is held in Jun e. will be in the form of a pi cn i c and will include the m embers a nd hu sband s.
SoUTH Hlu.s ALUMNA! CLUB
The Sout h Hill a lumnz club of Pittsburgh begl to r epor t tbe completion o f the first y ea r o f exiltence, one tb a t pr oved to be most inte r est ing and profitable. About lix· t ee n member., some total Itrangers in the city. became firm and fa st friends and loyalty to Pi Phi was once more r enewed for those. who with recent marriagu and more r ecen t babies, ha d l ost contact with Pi Phi. Those who had tried t o get to the city alumrul: meetin ,. and all t oo fr equen tly fa i led to a rriv e found lbat in the home meetings much could be accomplisbed for Pi Phi
The attendance du r ing the yea r was very 100d and the membership i. Il o wl y bu t s teadily gro win g. The first con tributi on to Settlement Sc hool was $37.00, which was raised by contributions from the m embers. Severa] soc.ia l function. for busband. and elCo rts were held and most congenia l hus· bands were found, it was felt this was not t o be lightly discounted.
It is hoped to do something for tbe acti.e
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da.ptc:r lIut year---timc it all Usat is needed and it i. bopcd that 1930 may PfO'f: to be as enjoyable and instructive.
TOLEDO ALUMNJE CLUB
Orlaaizcd. 191J-ClIlrtercd, 1914 P,.,ridnl, Mi Isla Owen, 2784 Inwood Dr. Via P,uidrtlJ. Mig Clare Humphrey, Corre,po"di"l1 Mu ,V lL Kirk, IS30 Addincton Rr. Tn4S"rer. Mu R. F. ellts. Rcsident Alunlnae, 29. Membcn of Club, 2 Avcraae Attendance, 18.
The year ju,t "Sled bas been onc of the molt luece,.lu l the Toledo alumnae club hal n-er bad. Tbi. i. attributed to
the prOlTaml and e.-cnins meetinp-bolh of whicb were tried thi year for tbe tir.t time. Each meeting wu preceded by • Iprnd and held in the bomtl of the memo "'''-
1n the fall a very aucccu£u l rwuma"c &ale wa. held. Tbi, mean. of raisin, money for tbe Settlement School i. uRd every other year and the Ale lastl two day •. Also there i . an evening bridge dub for the member. and their husb.ncb which meet. once a month.
Thi. apring the cluh was very fortunate to have Mr Curti., Province Vico Pn:.idcnt for the Founder', Day Luncheon.
The attendance at the meetings hu been very regular and an even better year in 1931 i, being looked forward to.
GAMMA PROVINCE
AnANTA ALUMN£ CLUB
Or,aniled, J9 20-Charle re<i, 192 1 Presid,,.t, Mra. Ray Hlltinp. 1193 Fair· view Road. Viu Pra;.,,.,, Mra. K. T. McKinstry Co",,,poaJi"lI S,crnory, Martha E. Pratt.
Avondale Eatatea, Ga.
Mrs. M. R Graybill. Resident Alumnz, 31. Members of Club, 22. Avera,e Attendance, 12
The Atlanta alumnz dub terminated a very ple"'Dt year with • Founders' Day Luncbeon, Saturday, April 26, a t the Mary Barnard Tea Room.
Regul a r meetin,. are held the firat Tuuday of each month and will continue on this date in tbe fall. Last September it was decided to have one meetin, in the afternoon and the next a cooky-ahine in the evening. Tbia proved very .uccea.rul, in that many member. who were not at leisure in the daY-lime could attend the nening meetings_
The memberahip of the Atlanta club is conatantly changina. 10lin, a nd ,ainin, but keeping about the me number_ The club il happy to have Hven new Pi Phi. in town thi. yClr and hope more will come and stay.
Three Pi Phi, from the club were at Connotion and broulht back a great lupply of first hand information.
In November the club WII happy to have pleuure of Mra. \V_ H. Damale" Gamma Pro presiA cook,-ahlne wu at the beautiful home of Mra. F M R obinson and the club WII especially in hearing of Florida Gamma'a installation from Mra Barn.Ie,.
Before Cbristmaa a sale of Settlement School products waa spolllOred and from tbe aale of Chri s t mal cardl and a benefit bridle we were able to send $ t 00 to GatJinbur,. The club allO COlltribu te to the
lupport of the Atlanta Child'. Home with materiala and aewin,.
The regular February meet in, waa turned into a lOCiaJ and financial affair. The memben with their husbanda and friendl enjoyed a benefit bridge at the home of Vera Beemer Adam... Thia proved very enjoyable and of course, remunerative, wbich must be considered.
The club lookl forward to a very auccessfut year and cordially invitel any of you to join whenever possib l e.
THE BALTIMORE ALUMN..£ CLUB
Pruid"d. Emma Drury Sippel (Mra. Wm. P.). 4311 Rugby Road, Guilford. Viet Pruidl"', Louise Murphy Cort'upo"di"fI Slc"ltory. Joaephine Spencer, 2106 St. Paul St. Tr,asN"lr, Gertrude A Kutzleb, 2101 Garr iso n Blvd. Resident Alunlnae. 15. Member. of Club, 38. Avera,e Attendance. 30_
The club haa enjoyed a very nt, intereatinl'. and satillactory year. Active membership haa increaaed somewhat, and there haa been a great dea ,1 of interest in cluh meetinga and activitiea. The meetings were held - every month, frequently at homel of member.. The Octobe r bUline meeting Wat devoted to Convention report by Hel e n Lankford. the active ehapter de legate, and Marraret TorKh, the alumnae club deltaate_ At the November meetin, the club wal disappointed not to have Afra. Barnsley. tb e Province Vice President, as their CUell_ At tbia meeting the Settlement School Chriatmaa box waa packed.
The T h ankagiving and Christm meetinga took the form of partie.; the former, a buffet supper and bridge, and the latt e r, a c hildren' s party, which proved a g r eat succHI, beine enjoyed by the children and grown-upa equally well.
The January business meetin, Will partly devoted to the 'Iudy of paasagu in the eon· stitution, and in February the .nnual Valentine party for the active chapler took place and provided plenty of (lin for all.
At the March meeting officers for the new year were elected , the plans for the trip to Wa shinaton for Founders' Day Banquet were disculsed. On April 26 tbis celebration took pt:r.cc, and all of the Balti· more chapter and alumnae who ent over had. de li ghtful weekend.
10 May the club was entertained at a picnic at Gibson Island, on Chesapeake Bay, and on lI.londay, June 2, immediately after Goucher College Commencement Exereilel, the annual lun cheon and reunion with a Jwimming party included, was held at Mn Tottlc'. home
Throughout the year Pi Phil have been for luncheon on Mondays at the May Company Tea Ro om. This has I;een an experiment and it ha s met with more o r less success. but it is hoped tbat next year more Pi Pbis wbo arc downtown for busi · ntU or shopping will make it a babit to drop in for the weekly luncbeon.
Th e club made the followin g co ntributioTl s during the ytar : Loan Fund, $10; Endow. ment Fund, $25; and Settlement &hool Fund. $200, raised through a theater benefit, maguine subscrip t io ns, and individual pledges made a t the beginning of the year and paid by spring.
The advi t ory board met re gular ly the fint Monday of eacb montb witb tbe officen of tbe active chapter, a nd in tbis way were ahle to keep in clOle toucb with tbe actives, both during rushing and during tbe r ut of the year.
The club is completely or.anized for the coming year and wiIJ be rtady to begin mtetings and activities promptly in the faJl.
DELAND ALUMN.t: CLUB
Prtrideft', Mu Tom Rod es ( Helen Dutton). Yitl P,..eridt.t, Mrs. :Max Acree (Eliza. beth Hargreavcs).
The Deland alumnz dub meets reau ' larl,. once a month at the various homes of tbe members but occasionally the meet· inp arc held more frequently The meetings are deyoted to informal bUlineu di.cullion. with a .ocial hour followin,
In February the new Pi Phi chapter at Roll i ns entenained Mrs. Cal "in Coolidge at a delightful ttl , with a number of alumna: and all of the active chapter in attendance In tbe latter part of Februar,. the club held an annual benefit hridae pt,rt,. for tbe Settlement School at the Hotel College Arms. The party was, usual, a sucusa
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which enabled the club to lend $50 to the Settlement School.
The Alumnz advisory board has met regu larly thr ouahou t the year with the executive board of the ac t ive chapte r and this contact has proved very valuable to both the chapter and tbe club.
The Orlando alumnz club invited the DeLand alumnz club for luncheon on Founders' Day.
JA CKSONVILLE ALUMNA:! CLUB
Organized, 1926--Chartered, 1921 Pruidf"" , Reita Chamben, 1819 Perry St Via Prts id t "', Erma Drayer, 355 W. Sth St.
Corrupondinll
Carolyn Sc hultz, 3689 Hedrick SI. Tr-eoSNrtr, Mr s. A. B Conley.
Re si dent Alumn.Je, 24.
Mem l:e rs of Club , 1 i'.
Average Att endance, 13
Tbe Jacksonvil 'e a lumn z club hal had a very pleasant year. M ee tings arc held on the third Monday of ea c b month at the homes of the vari ou s members. They cons ist of a cooky ·shin e and a busine ss meeting, usually followed by cards The dub is plan. ning on continuing meetings throughout the summer a lthougb many of the members will be away
Much pleasure and inlpiration were de· rived from the visit of the Province Vi e President , Mrs. W H Barnsley. She made a most interestin, talk on the conven tion and the Sett lem ent Scbool, and ,ave many new and clever ideas for tbe dub.
Founders' nay was celebrated by a bridge lunch eo n at an attractive tea room on the beautiful St J obn's River about fourteen miles from Jacklonville. Mrs. A H Maflh, Jr., wal in charge of this deligbtful event.
The club year opened with the May meet· ing at which time the officers were installed. In June the meeting was beld with Mil · dred Connibear at ber new home in Tampa and the club had the pleasure of meeting several of the Tampa alumme. In Jul,. the duh picniced at Lucile Bryant's and entertained the local Panhellenic at a ca rd partJ.
It was a real misfortune to lolC Mar· guerite Stanton u a member of tbe club during August. Due to the deatb of her husband, .he returned to Illinois to make her borne with ber parents.
September brought great joy to the club for it was their privilege to attend the installation of Florida Gamma at Ro1lios CoIlqe and thus to be closel,. and illSpi.-· inaly u!lCCiated with tbe beloved Grand president, Mi ss Amy Onken, and province
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preaident.. Kisa Lois Thompson. and the pro.!nee president, Mrs Mabel Barnsley.
At Christmas t ime. th e dub uprelsed love for .11 p ast members by Hndinl' each a card, .orne going .1 (ar u 1l1inoi.. Abo the club enjoyed. ddigbUul Cb r iatllWl tree at Catherine Gra.hma.
The J anuary meeting wu bcld at Southern Colieae ith Dean Helen H.ill Jones and April Founder,' Da, ,. celeb rat ed in Winter Park with the Orlando alumnz and tbe R oHin. active
The club entertainM with I cooky.shine (or HeI,-n Sneed, who i. to be married June 12
The year w as dosed with th e election of offieen and their installatien. It i felt that the club year has been a h appy and lucceasfu l o ne; a printed yeu book was iuued •• 11 holidays a nd r equired meetinp were obserTcd. monthly meetingl have been held and the club bas contributed toO both the loan fund and tbe Settlement Sc h ool.
Cathui ne Oeveland Grahm and Julia Zac.ka ry ha.,e been we!comed a. new memo ben and 8Cveral gueats b ue been enter· t ined
PALM: B&ACH AL U M N£ CLUB
Organized, I 927-C hart ered, 1927 Ma rge ry Nevin. Coa t e. (Mrs. C Adrian)
S,c"ct",., ,md T"""s""t!r'. Bethel Webb
R eli dent Alumme, 12.
M e mbers of Gub, 10 . Average Attendance. 7.
Th e Palm Beach a lumn z dub waa un· l ort unate tbis year in h..,in g among ita m e mber s an impos tor and u ntil ber ere· dentiab were verified the club could not funtion properly Howev er a ve ry good time and a . plendid Pi Phi Illir it prevai l ed at all gatherings.
F o ur meetings were he l d. three a t tbe homea of members and the othe r at a dub bOUAe
The first meeting was in January A s hort business meeting w as followed by a .ocial bour, when 1Irs. George \V Coleman gave an interesting and in spi ring talk on the Settlement School which s he had visited in the fall.
The next meeting wa a a cooky.a hine and a hor t bus iness meeting with queltion s on the conlti tution and history, followed by bridge The member. were ve ry pleased to welcome a guest Mfa Fannie Porte r Herlocker of Galesb urg, III
At Founders' nay at the Palm Beach Winter Club the Miami Alumnz Cl ub were guests. A fter a .hart but cbar· acteriatic Founders' Day prova m , the re o mainder of the afternoon wu spe nt pllying brid,e.
Election of officer. was held at the final meetin, in May
Deep regret was felt wben one of tbe
best workers and a c.barter membe r Bethel \ Vebb, club .ceretary and tru.urer remO'ted to New Y ork.
In addi tion to the regular medin,., tlle Pi Phil were hosteases to the Panhellcnic Astoeiation and their b usband. at the home of Mr and Mr Gail C. Porter of Hart · ford, Conn., wbo spent the winter at Palm Beach. They ahowed .scnral motion pic· tur e reel. of their r ecent trips abroad with appropriate and amu.ing "talkie.a."
WASHINCTON ALUMN£ CLUB
Tbe Wasbington alummc club has had a ve ry intere.ting and a u cceuf ul year , the major accompli.hment being the ra iai ng of $1,000 for the Settlement SchooL Thil wa. accomp l ished this year by the pledge ay.· tern a n d rumm age sale. Tbe club aent $10 to the U ndersraduate Loa n Fund Ind made a $50 gift to the Columbia Alpha chapter to be used to improve their room.. The Oub had an increase in ill membership from 98 last year to 104 active member. thia yea r , and had very well attended meet· ings.
Th e fint meetiflg l ast year was a cooky· shine at the home of Mrs Hyn lOn. It was a v e ry happy get·t oge th e r party after the su mm e r vacation and there were several reJKIrt from th ose wbo had attended the Con v en ti on at ]'as.ad ena, including a very inspirins one from the f o rmer Grand vi ce president, Emil,. Margar et White. Sixty members were present.
The next m ee ting was a Settlement School meeting. witb a di.play of lov ely articles from the School whi c h were for Ie. The deligbtful Cbristmss party meeting in Dc· ce mber d ese rve l apecia l ment io n . It was a progresaive party beld in three apart men ts 01 Pi Phi s living in the same apartment house First the members were received by Mis a Ru th M cGo wan, dr essed i n Korean cos tume a nd a most inte reatin, collection of t hinga abe bad brought with her from the Orient were hown. Then they went to the arartment of Mi lS Emily Margard White, where a a bort business meding was beJd and a special program of Chriatmas muaic. The great sUrpri8C of the e.,ening was a beautifu l Christmas Tree at Mill Johnlon'. w itb gifll for everyone. Last , but no t least of course, were the Christmas ,oodies and many happy exchanges of Chri s tmas greet· ings.
The January meeting waa beld at the club house of the A.A. U. 'V Tbe members were very proud to hear tbat $12 5.85 fro m tbe rummage .a le had been cleared and over $900 bad been pledged for the Settleme nt School. Mi g Mathew , librarian of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who was an offi c ial delegate to tbe Int ernationa l Library and Bibliographic Con · gresa held in Rome last year, pvc a mOlt i nterelting account of ber trip, including th e a u dience witb tbe Pope.
One of the most interesting meetin,s was an afternoon meeting at the home of Mr. Ritter, when a mOlt enlightening talk, "Ob lervations and Experiences in Soviet Rus · sia" was given by :Mrs Gault, wife of Professor Robert Gault of Northwestern Uni. versity. This very intellectual and personal talk on Ru u ia as Mr.. Gault saw it togetber with Pl"ofeS50r Gault was extremely interesting. A delightful cooky-shine supper followtd
I n Mar ch a revival of college daYi was held. We masqueraded in drc.sscs WOfn in college. Some, how ever had not preserved tbe ancient costumes, but bad many good laughs at those who wore them. :Misl \ Vhite conducted an examination for our information on fraternity questions. Eleclion of officers followed.
A joint tea was given in Mar c h by the Columbia Alpha chapter and alumnz club, at which occasion members of the aJumnz dub were 'ery happy to be given a chapter
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girl as a daughter, which it is hoped will prove to be a stren,thening bond betwcen the chapter and dub.
A very charming party was given at Easte r lime for the babie s and small children of Pi Phis and the c hildren and grown·ups alike enjoyed the game. of finding Easter eggs and pinning the tail on tbe donkey.
Founders' Oay was observed by a lovely banquet at the \Vasbington Hotel, tbe Balti more and Richmond alumnz clubs, Mary. land Alpha, Virginia Gamma, and Columbia Alpha chapters join in, in the celebration. There were 1 SO prescnt, including thrC':e past Grand Officers. Mi n Keller, Mi n Tur· ner, snd Miss \Vhile, and the new est memo ber of the national Seltlement School Corn· milt ee, :Mi ss Tollie.
At the April meeting the new officers were installed and plan s were made for a picnic June 14 at Miss Lettie Stewart's sum mer cottage on the banks of the beautiful Severn river.
DELTA PROVINCE
ANN ARBOR AL UM NtE Cl.UB
Organired, 1913-Chartered, 1913
President, Mrs. Rose Edmond Aldrich, 1412 Pon.iac Road.
Vice Preriden ', Mrs Edith Stanley Marshall, 1209 Henry St. CDrrespofildifllg Suretory. Helen Hall, 103 6
Oakland Ave.
Tretutwer, Hope Chipman, 1041 Olivia Ave.
Re.ident Alumn z, 52.
Members of Club, 33.
Average Attendance, 20.
The Ann Arbor alumnz club feels that a most successful and enjoyable year has been the result o( the combination of business meetings interspersed with entertaining for the active chapter of Michigan Beta; since the most important thing i s t o promote con· tact and friendships with the younger girl •. The advilOry board has as in former years been very active in keeping in dose touch with tbe chapter, and the club feels justified in centering the interest in the girls by the splendid records they have achieved.
The usual first bu.ine.! meetin, of the year was replaced by a rummage sale, which was very ,uccessfully managed, and whicb will probab l y develop to considerable proportions in another year. The funds earned in this undertaking helped to buy a very nice gift for the active chapter and to sweU tbe treasury of the dub.
The first actual bUlinelS meeting was held Saturday, November 16, at which time tbe progTam for the year was announced and plans were
On Sunday. December 8, the annual Supper for tbe pledges of Mi ch igan Beb. was held at the lovely new home of Mrs.. Homer Heath. As alwayl, new contacts with the entering ,irll were made, which lasted
thr oug h the year and made the alumn;!!! take an added inte rest in the initiation ceremonies.
A bu s iness me e ting, with a very enjoy. able and instructive tal le on the Settlement School by Mrs. Alfred H. White, was held on Saturday, January 25, at the home of Mrs White. The Ann Arbor dub fcels itself e specia lly fortunate in having alone of its members, Mrs. \Vhite, who is a member of the Settlement School Committee, and who passes on to the memben of tbe club her knowledge and enthusiasm for tbe School. Founder.' Day was celebrated with the active chapter. at a banquet held on Monday, April 28, at the Michigan League bui l ding, which was arranged by the active girls. A business meeting, with election of officers, wal held following the banquet. The very short but charming visit of Mis. Ruth Wil · son , Delta Province Vic e President, was ter minated by her spcakin, at tbe banquet and later informally at the meeting of the club. The club will work all tbe better next year f o r baving known Mi sl Wilson and in know. ing how "t"itally interested she ia in the prob lem. of the alumnae dubs.
The lalt gath e rin, (I f the year was the annual luncheon held on Saturday, May 10, at the home of Mrs Henry Rigg., in honor o( the seniors of Michigan Deta and in honor of the mothers of the girls who are visiting in Ann Arbor {or the M(ltbera' house party.
As in former years I directory was com· piled and reviled by tbe secretary and dis· tr ib uted to all the members. The work of the m a:r.ine chairman was quite auccc.ssful thia year. Settlement School contribution. were made lbia year by individual gifts and plcdgca.
The Ann Arbor Club waa fortunate in be·
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ing visited not only by Miss \Vil50D. our own special ,uide. but also in s harine with t he active c hap ter the visit of Min Onk.en. who b r ought new inspiration for the work of the club with its own members and with the girls.
C H ATTA NOOGA AL U MN.tE CLUB
O r ga n i:led. 1923
Mrs. Landon H Gammo n (Katheri n e Conn), 3 12 Li ndsey 5t. Y iet P"nidtmt, Mar ga r d Kadedy. COn'tspo"di"l1 Surdar y, Amy Chase Loftin, 752 Vine St. T rtosvrer. Mr. G. E. \Vb e land Re s ident Alumnz, 5 1.
Members of Club, 26.
Average Attendance, 20.
While this year has not been one of great acbievcmen , it has been one of steady progress. One of t h e policies has been to keep in touch with tbe acti ves and help them as much as possible. Ru shi ng was materially aided by parties give n by Mrs. Jesse Hend t: r lJ() n, and Mrs A. C. Stephenson, alumnae, and Mrs. John A Patten, a patronns. At the beginning of the school year the actives decided to undertake some much· needed redecorating of the chapter house.. The club gave them $25 and personal assistance in paintin g and in making curtains. At the end of tbe year the club entertained the &eoion, we \comi na' them into the alumnz club and also awarded an achievement prize t o the o ne who had don e the most for her chapter during her college career.
The October luncheon was held at the c hapter house and was served by the pledges, enabling them to make a smaIJ amount to bu y .amething for the house..
The chief mean s of raising money for the Settlement School and Loan Fund have been: benefit bridge parties, candy sales, and the &elling of C hristmas cards. Next year it is hoped to derive a good deal through the l ale of Settlement School products.
The monthly letters from the province vice president and from the Settlement School have been a wonderful source of inspiration and enjoyment.
The club was honored at the FoundeTIJ' nay banquet by the presence of Mi Eva Hathaway and Mi ss Evelyn Bishop of the Settlement School.
FAUS
C ITY ALUMNJE CLUB
Organiz.ed, 1923-C hartered, 1925
Pr-,sid,nt. Marie Bonia, 4458 S. Siltth V iet Pr,sid ,n t. Ruth WillOn, 1251 S Brook Cor-r"poJldi"" S,c r-,tar-y, Lillian Elrod. 129 W. Ormsby
Tr'lUur-lII' Louise: Frantl!:, 1204 S. Second. Relident Alumnz, 46.
Members first half year, 43.
Members second half year, 35.
Average membership, 39. Falls City', alumnz club feels as if it
has been establisbed financially tbi s year. The president, 10larie Borriea, appointed a budget committee to prepare a sutement o f the actua l expenses per capita of the duh for one year. Thi s commi tt ee presented its r epo rt aa follow s:
Tot al $12.86
It was decided that $10 s h o uld be the annu al due. of each member, the remaining $2.86 to be raised by the Ways and Mean s Committee. Now there is only one call {or money dUrin, the year thus eliminating the need for asseument {Or every individual expense. Members are permitted to pay tbe $10 in two installment., one in October and one in February.
The Ways and Means Committee has not only raised the Quota to complet e the budget, but has exceeded its amount by $45. Money wu raised as {ollows:
The Club continued to enj o y the plan of dinner meetings. The membership com· mittee , with Peggy Chambers as chairman, has added ten new members to the roll . With the aid of a very a c tive telepbone committee Peggy had every member called before ea c h meeting. Thus the bostess com · mittee was given the definite number of those who mia'bt be expected at dinner.
The Settlement School Committee, with Ferrold Huncilman as chai rman, raised $160 by th e sa le of pencils and magatines.
Pi Phi has been repre sen ted at the Pan· bellenic meetings Marie Borriea has been elected vice president of the loca l organitation.
The work of the advisory board has cen· tered around two projects this year, helping Kentucky Alpha get her records in order, and helping her establiah a scholarship standard fot" admission into the chapter.
Everyone thinks that the Falla City' s Alumni!! Club has bad a s uccessful year.
GRAND RAPIDS ALUMNJE CLUB
Pr tsideftt, Eleanor Verdicr. Vi" Pres;d,ft', Kathryn Clarke. Su r-dary, Mrs. L P Schuck. rrttu1ll r ,r-. Mrs. L. N DeWesse.. Resident AJumnz, 8. Members of Club, 16.
The Grand Rapids alumnz club held four rnettings, each of which was devoted to a
particular phase of th e c harter requir eme nt s Mrs. Verdier and Eleanor Verdier were ho stesses at a deligbtful Halloween party and a special treat was Eleanor's account of ber tdp to Convention. She brought back not only a vivid report of tbe proceedings hut abo a very real inspiration and fresh enthusiasm for Pi Beta Phi. which rekindl ed the fraternity Ipirit. In February, Mrs. Schuck entertained with a beautifully appointed tea. Eliubeth Adamson gave an able review of the c hart e rin g of the three n ew chapters and the program concluded with "the cons tituti on in a 1Iut· sbell," arranged by the secretary. Founders' Day was celebrated in the form of a dinner at the Woman s ' City Club, a t which the honor guest was Ruth \Vilson Delta Province vi ce president, wh o delighted the members with an informal talk on matters of alumnz interest.
In May, Mrs. Whinery graciously opened h er home for the annual Settlement School brid ge party, arrangements for which wer e made by Mrs Sc huck, Mrs. De\Vccse, Kathryn Clarke and Eleanor Verdier. Delicious refreshments were served and Arrowcraft prizes were awarded.
At the final meeting in May, Mrs. Hagerman, assist ed by Elh:abeth Adamson and Kathryn Clarke entertained at a charming tea.
THE INDIANAPOUS ALUMN..E CLUB
Organized, 1900-Cbartered, 1915 Pnside"" Mrs. Robert S. Wild (Marianne Reid), Route 16, Box 14. Vice p,.esiden'-Mrs O. A. H offman (Ruby Donahue), 404 E. Fifty-fift h St. CO,.,.upo,.dinl1 Secreta,.y, Marjori e Oke s, 1935 N. New ]ersey St. r,.eas,.,.e,., Fannie Miner, 3915 N. Pennsyl. vania St.
Resident Alumnz, 298.
Members in Club, 110.
Average Attendance, 65.
The program of the Indianapolis Alumnz Club opened with a Prcaident's Day luncheon in September at a cou ntry duh. A report of the California convention was given and Pi Phi Songs were sung. A cooky-shine he ld in the evening; a Settlement School program; a benefit lun c heon bridge at a FoodCraft Studio; a constitution- meeting; a joint meeting of actives and alumnz held at the c hapter house with s tunts given by actives; a current events meeting; a health program; a guest tea; and a June luncheon followed throughout the year_
The membership campairn wu begun early and the year·books were issued at the second meeting in the fall. A special effort .as made to interest ne Pi Phi residents in the city in membership. There .as an increase in attendance at meetings this year. The group system of rai si ng money for the Settlement School as used and f ound quite
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utisfactory. The club was divided into donatin g and workin g members.
Mi ss Onken was speaker at the Founders' Day Luncheon. S he was a guest of the president, Mrs. Robert S. Wild, while she was in Indianapol is. She was entertained at dinner by Mrs. Wild, and also by the Butler University chapter. The Franklin College chapter entertained her at t ea at Franklin.
The alumnz club offered a Pi Phi crest bracelet to the girl from each of the four Indiana chapte r s who made the highest grade in her chapter for the pas t year. These were awarded at the Founders' Day luncheon.
The alumnz advisory board for the Butler chapter gave a dinner party in hono r of th e seniors as a means of interesting them in the a lumn z dub.
MEMPHI S ALUMN£ CLUB
Organized, 191i' - Chartered, 1924 p,.eside,,', Mr s. Gerald Marshall, 125 N. Evergreen St., Memphis. Yiu p,.esiden', Mrs. ]. E. H ooks, 693 N. Belvedere, Memph is.
CON'espondiftg Secreta,.y, Mrs. T. H. Baker, 1887 Lindale St., Memphis.
Treasu,.f!I', Mrs Clyde L Patton, La Blanche Apts., oil N. Bellevue, Apt. No. 42, Memphis
Resident Alumn z, 12.
Members of Club, Ii' (11 town or local members, 6 out of town).
Average Attendance, 10
The Memphis alumnz dub of Pi Beta Phi has comple t ed a very utisfactory year. The year started with informal meetings during the summe r cont inuin g from early faU throughout the year with lun c heon s at the homes of various members on the third Wedne sd ay of each month, with an occasio nal bridge party between tim es.
The year's Settlement School donation of $55 was rai sed by the concent rat ed effort of the entire group. This fund was raised by tbe sale of Settlement S c hool products. Ch ri s tma s cards, Aplets, Ch ri stma.s Santa C lau s favors, stationery, and by an in. spect ion trip to a laundry
The Septemher meeting was devoted to the Convention report of the delegate, Mi ss Myrtle Raith.
A meeting of special interest was tb e one devoted to the study of Pi Phi history. A lively interest was shown in the examination prepared by the president, Mrs. Hubert Garrcc:ht, and the hostess, Mrs. ]. E. Hooks. Founders' Day Luncheon was held at the Parlcview Hotel. Invitations were sent to numbers of Pi Phis in surrounding towns. Mrs. .J. E. Hooks acted as toastmistre ss and pared tribute to our Pi Phi founders. The committee consisted of Mrs. Gerald MarshaJl and Mrs George Nicol who presented a Settlement School dialogue. Mrs. Marshall in typical mountaineer cos tume represented a mountain woman taking her handwork to
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the Arrowcraet •• oP. while Mr a. Nicol represented a touriK. The tourist as well the audience WIS ,reatly enli,btcoed as to the activities of the school by her converaation with the mountain ",oman..
After tbe election of the DCW officert for the Ilcxt Jur the remainder of the aCternoon was spent in playing bridae. Art;c.lu {rom the Arrowcnft .hop were ri en as priz.es.
EPSILON PROVINCE
CHICAGO WEST SUBURBAN ALU,MNJE CLUB
Organiz.ed. 1926-Chartcred, 1926
The lut year bu been both a profitable and enjoyahle one for the Pi Phi. of tbe Chicago \Ve s t Suburban Club. Meetings arc beld once a month, usually on tbe third Saturday, with intcrClling programs.
Mrs. Yeaton Wat bostess :Il the open ing meetin•• the higblilbt of the afternoon being Marjorie Landphuc's report on Conycnlion. In October the met for luncheon and discussed plans for the bridge which wu held in November. This party for the Settlement Scbool bas become an annual event to which the club loo ks for· ward. Tbis year Mrs. Trow opened her home to tbe club :lnd their guests. The afternoon was fDOit delightful and of help to Little Pi,con.
The annual Christmas party for the chil· dren of the members was at Mr Berry's in December. There was a lovt'ly tree, stories and gamel, and a present for each child
The January meeting was a luncheon at Mrs. Gaylord's, and Ft'bruary was a bridge at Mrs. Carpenter'.. In Mar ch, the club met at Mrs. Whitner'1 for lunch. The April meeting was a second benefit hridge, given at Mrs. Nott's hOlOe in Downen Grove, all the arrangements being made by the Pi Phis of that luburb. The last meeting of the year was the May breakfast held at the flower shop in Western SprinlL
On Founder's Day the club joined with the Chiealo Alumnz Club and with Illinois Epailon at luncheon at the Palmer House in Chicago.
The club h.a. been particularly fortun.ate thia year in havio, quite .a few memo bera who are alread, enthusiastic lupportera. In .addition to the benefit bridge parties, money has been raised by aelliog metal 1C0uring spongea, •• ich, since they are most uaefuJ articles. have .old .ith ,ratifying rapidity. Mra. Yuton, the maguine sub. IC r iption chairman, has allO helped awell the .amount sent tbe Settlement Scbool.
Mra. Gale has a,reed to serve again next year as president Ind the club is looking forward to contillued succe.. under her leadership.
DECATUll
ALUMN'£ CLUB
Organized. 191Z-Chartcred, 1912 p,.,side,.t, Mis. Emily Johnson. Viu P"sid"'t. Ali. Margaret De"ein. Ctwnsplmdi"l1 Secrtfaf".'l, Yiu France. Arm· stronr·
Tbe DKatur alumnz duh under the di· rection of Mra. Carl R. Dick ha. had a most interesting year. One of the outatsnd· ing events wa s the Founders' Day banquet held on Saturd.ay, May 3, .ith Miu Amy B. Onken, Grand President, al s lpecial (uest. Of the 104 (r;tternity memben pres. ent .at Ihe party, fifteen were alumnz club women of Springfield, Illinois, who observed Founders' Day with the loea] club. A fashion pageant representing the fraternity from the time of lIS installation in 1912 until the present was given after the banquet.
Decatur .alumnae club bas been Yery fortu · nate in having its memben ioteruted and active. With the exception of two who 6nd it impossible to join, all of the fraternity alumnz women pay tbeir dues and are memo bers of the club. Mrs. Roy DOTe and ber daughter, Mrs. Noel Bolinger of Shelby· ville have joined the club during the last )'ear.
Two successful rummaae IUI00s were hO!ld --one October 4·5, when $143.66 was made and a second one, April 19-20, when $103.35 wal c.1e.ared.
The 1929 June bruHalt was given in Dement with lixty-one activel, plwlel, and alumnz in attendance. The annua l meeting of the corporation il held at this time. Mrs. Ottelr Owen of Ea.t Orange, New le.rsey, and :Mra. James M. Gray of Chkalo with a number of members from surrounding tOWDli came b.ack to attend t be party. The June breakfast this year is to be linn Saturday, June '1, in Mt. Zion .and promises to be one of the most interestinr events of the year .
One of the activities of·tbe club this last fall was .a tea aiven for the Pan· hellenic members in the chapter house. Dur· inr the afternoon more than ISO guelta called.
Seven of the nineteen freshmen pledgw lut fall by the active chapter were Decatur re.idents. The,. are: Dorothy Knau , Sarah Ann Huston, Sarah Elizabeth Morri., Au· brey Royce, Loia Mason, Betty Starr and Marianne Barnea.
G ALESBURG CLUB
In the year 1929·30 the five regular meetingl were held planned on the prOl1'am, including the Founden' Day banq uet. Cooky.• hine suppers were se"ed by d i fferent
committees and the business meetings and programs
The first m«tin(f was beld at the h ome of Delia Conger, the president. At that time convention reperU were given by H den Trask Yates, delegate to the Convention in CaJifornia. Changes in th e constitution were report ed by Dorothy Weinberg,
The December meeting was with Inez \Veb ,ter. At that time plans were discussed for the benefit dance for th e Settlement Scbool fund. Tbis was held January 15 and cleared a profit of about $175. Credi t for it s success i s due to Amber Ca rl ey Parsons and ber committee
At the January meeting the Settlement Schoo l report was give n by Mildred Fuller Harv ey. A very interesting l etter was read from Mildred Mabee Hill, who bad visited in Little Pigffln and had also attended the installation of the new chapte r at \V inler Park, F1orida.
The M arch meeting was held in the lovely new home of Josepbine Haw s Webster. After the cooky-shine a re port on Fraternity Ex· amination Questions by Hortense Gehring also a report on "Other Fraternity Happen ings" by Genevieve Thomas were given.
During the yea r the club aent $200 10 the Settlemen t School, $10 to the Loan Fund and made n ecessary replacements in the Ho spital room.
The Founders' Day Banquet was a sue· cess due to the work of Esthe r Hall, c hair· man, and her assistants. The dinner was beld at thc Calc.burg Club with about 80 in attendance including the two active chap. ters from Knox and Lombard. Dinner was followed hy the awarding of prizes to the chap ter girls. The president, Delia Conger, presided and gave a reading of "Hai l to Our Founders" and also read l e tt e rs and tele· grams which had been received. The pro· gram following consisted of a theater presentation, the feature picture being "A M ad Love" given by ]JJinois Delta girls and "The Merry Minst r els," a clever vaudeville act, give n by Illinois Beta girls. A solo dance and community singing were also inclu ded in the program This was the lalt meeting and completed a successf ul year ' s work.
NORTH SHORE ALUMNAE CLUB
Presid,"" Mrs. Harris Frazier, 65J Hinman Ave., Evanston. Yict Preside,,', Mrs F. W. Ringley, 810 Forest Ave., Evanston. Corr,spondinfl Sun/Dry. Mrs. D. S. Sutton, 909 Elmwood Ave., Evanston.
TretUurn, Mrs. Mervin F. Cotcs, 114 South Boulevard, Evanston. Resident Alumnz, 250. Members of Club, 98 Anrage Attendance, SO. Before the first meetinll of the year a telephone committee got in touch with all resident alumnz, in,iting them to attend
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meetillgs and ascertaining whether or not they were interested in receiving notices of meetings and in the general work of th e Club. As a result of this sol icitation, an unusually large number were present at the first meeting on September 28 which was a bridge tea held at the home of Mrs. Fred Schroeder in Wilmette.
The October meeting, following the genera l plan of alternating teas at the homes of members with luncheon -bri d ges at the chapter hous e, was held at the Illinois Epsi Ion house
James L. Lardner, program chairman, reviewed "Dodsworth" by Sindair Lewis at the November meeting which was a tea at the home of Mr s. Eugene Arms ill Wilmette. In December, the Convent ion report was given at a lu ncheon-b ridg e at the chapter house. Mrs. C. H. Taylor of Evan s ton opened her home for the January meeting which was featured by a talk on Russia by Mrs. R. E. Gault. Mr s. Gault accompanied her husband, Dr. Gault of Northwestern University who, with a number of other professors of American universities, went on a conducted tour of Russia at the invitation of the Soviet government.
In February, the regular luncheon meet· ing was held at the Illinois Eps ilon chapter house and in March the Settlement School meeting was held in Kenilworth at the home of Mrs. John Cosner. Mrs. James L. Lardner and Mrs. Edward L. Middleton gave a most inter esting and enterlai nillg skit de · picting, by means of an imaginary tdcl,bum: conversation, the hopes, fears and enthu· siasm with which the club members of a number of years ago regarded th e then young Settlement School project. Ther e was also an exhibit of Settlement School products which we re l ater displayed at the Illinoi s Epsilon chapter hous e and at the benefit bridge party.
A large benefit bridge was given by the Club with the active chapter cooperating, on April 23. Mrs. Cordon D. Guilliams was general chairman of the affair with a most efficient corps of assistants. The proceeds from this party were divided between the club and the Illinoi s Epsilon house fund
Exclusive of the sum reali ted from the benefit bridge, the Club also sold Christmas cards and the total amount sent as a contribution to th e Settlement School was $500.
An other event in April was the Founders' Oay lun c heon he1d at the Palmer House in Chicago in con junction with the Chicago alumnz club and the active chapter.
In May, Itudy of the constitution and the annual dection of officers were combined at a tea held in the home of Mrs. J. M . Larimer in Evanston. Mrs. Harry Eugene Kelly gave a very interesting talk and displayed pictures relating to the early beginnings and growth of the fraternity.
A lun c h eon and bridge was held in June
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at lh Kildeer Country Club tbroqla the courluy of Mr \V. Carey Mathews an4 at this writing there i. a j)CKaibility of aD AUf\I.t mcctioc in the guiac of a picnic: in LibertyviJle, lIIooiL
Great credit (or- • luccusful and worth· while year i, duc to the unlirinc effort.. of Mrs Robert P. Luker, 1929-30 Iltelideut and ber officers and chairmen who were: Vice President, Mrs. W. H. Millted; Recordin, Secretary. Katharine Diglcrtf Corrupondinc Secretary, Mr.. Oail GoodlOn j Treasurer, Mrs. \V. Carey Mathew.; Social Chairman , Mr.. Fl"ed Rin,leYi Pf'OITam Chairman, Mu lame. L Lardner; Settlement School, Mr J. J. Sharon; Magazine•• Mra. E. F. Lethen, Jr .; and Cbriatmu Card., Edith Guttzeit.
OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST ALUMN.£ CLUB
Chartered, 1929
Preside,". Mrs. Geo r ge Jenkins, 7JI Monr oe St., River FaruI, Ill. Vic, Pr.,t'd.,4t, Mrs. Austin FOI, 1029 Ple...,nt Place, Oak Park, III. Ctwrtl!u,"di,.{/ SecrnGry. Mrs Theodore Robie, 431 Wisconsin Ave .• Oak Park. rr.Utl.rer, Mrs. C. D. M cEac hran, 0" WHley Ave., Oale Park R etident Alumnz, 36. Members of Cub, 28. Attrage Atteodan ce 22.
The Oak Parle and River Forest alumnz dub meets on the second Wednesday of each month from September to June at the homes of members. The meetings are held in the evening pre<:eded by a st.ven o'clock dinner. Three members se rve as hostesses at each meetin,. The dinner is followed by a busine.. meeting, and then a formal pro· gram or bridge.
The October meeting offered an Hpeciai treat for the members, as tbe Pasadena Con· vention Delegate-Mrs. Dorothy Seidel Preble, lliinoi a Zeta '21-told of her de · lightful and inspiring dan at Convention. At the end of the meelin, members felt that the,. had almost experienced the thrill of meeting tbe beloved f o unders, sat at Conventio n mtetings, joined in tbe spirit of the Ca rn iva l, and 6nally been among tbe 986 Pi Phis to ait around tbe banquet table.
At the December meeting tbe club was hapP1 10 have tbree Pi Pbi alumnz from Gllten Ellyn who :U"e a bit too far away to allow them t o join any club.
For the January meetin!f the dub was entertained by two unmarried members at Alra. Maynard's Tea Room
On Saturday, March IS, tbe dub enter· tained tbe members of the Oak Park Pan· hellen ic organization at a brid,e-tea. The aff.ir w held at the home of MTS. A J. JobnlOO, mother of Mra. Helen Johll5On Knox . It waa a delishtful party••pring
flowen decorated the rooma, and about seventy women were pretenl.
On March 22 a larllt. number o£ the memo ben attended the Chieago Panhellenic lunch · eon hdd al the Medinah Athletic Oub on Michilan Bouln.rd .
For the June meetin. the annual party for husbands and friend. was beld. Thi, year, Mr N. Lealie Towle, nee Huel Hedstrom invited the club to ber Jovel,. home and a very ddiahl£ul evening was apent lOCially and at bridae. Bcsidea entertaining the hu sband., Ihi. is a means of raj.ins S..,Uleml"nl School money. The Club was very proud this year to be the fint in Epsilon Province to send in ita contribution.
M • result of the aplendid ...,'iciency on the part of the Preaident, Mrs. George Jenkins nee Dorothy Grace, and tbe en. thusiaJlic ,upport of all the memben, th is past Jur has h«n a very happy and pros· perou. one for the Oak Park and Ri er Fore.t alumnz club which i. only two years old. We feel tbat We have gained in or,aniution, in ,,/Wit d. corpl, and materially in membership, bavin, made an effort to call on every resident Pi Phi and bring her to the meelin!f ll.
PEORIA ALUMNtE CLUn
Or,anixed, J 91 '1 Pr"idt'"t. Mra. L. C. Cox, J 109 W. Gift. Ctwrelpo"di,,{/ S.cr.tory, Mrs . C. G, Far· mun, 337 Parklide Drive.
Trlttullr.r. Mrs. F. L. Hazell, 1009 Columbia Terrace.
R ident Alumn2, 17.
Non·Re.ident Members. 6. Average Attendance, 17.
The tint meeling of th e year was a luncheon held at the Univenity Club. The other three meetin,. were buRet suppers held at the home. oC the members--one in Peoria, one in Chillicothe and one in Pelein. Tbe Settlement Scbool money was raised by sellin!f Christmas cards, and maple ayrup and by auessment. In this way $75 waa sent. Three members of tbe club moved from Peoria but four new onea moved in.
ROCKFORD ALUMNA:: CLUB
Or,anixed, Chartered, 1929 Pruid.,.,. Mrs. Hugh Wi , 525 Palm St_ Vice Prelidlt"t, Mr a. Keitb Reynolds. 122 Regan St. CorrltlPo"di,,{/ S.cretory, Lynort Andreas. N. Main Road.
Treonr.r, Ruth Ralston, 626 N. Court St. Resident Alumnz, 19.
Memben of Club, 20.
Ave,;a,e Attendance, 16.
Tbe meetin,a of the Rockford alumnae club were held on the Jast Saturday of each month from September to June, inclu.ive. In addition to thc required meeting, dUring the year, a cooky shine and luncheon. were !fiven.
Tbe club has been very successful in ae:lling the Arrowcraft articles and Aplet In order 10 com plete the cont r ibution to Settlement Scbool, a benefit bridge has been planned for June .,.
Mrs.. Otcar SpauJding of Phi waplcr of I. C. Sorosi., is h ono rary president.
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Founders' Da y was celebrated on April 26, at a luncheon in conjunction witb the Bdoi!, Wi.conain, alum OrE club.
A splendid Ipirit of cooperation haa been shown in tbe many activitiu which are necessary to establish lucceurully a ncw alumnae club.
ZETA PROVINCE
CoLUMBIA ALUMN£ CLUB
Organi%.cd, 19I5-Chartered, 1923 P,uidt!"', Mrs Sherman Dic\cinllOn, 5 S Glenwood Avenue. Yic, Pr.side"t, Mrs Gene I. Smith, 325 E. Parkway. Sttrdo"y, Oueen Smith. 50 1 Rol lins St. Trrasu".", Mrs. Laws \Vat son , 8 Watson Place.
Resident Alumnr, 23. Memben of Club, 21.
Average Attendance, 12.
The Columbia alumn:.: dub members are enthusiastic over the new home of Missouri Alpha which is located on RoUins Street near tbe old chapter hou!C. The opening of IIChool finds the new soro rit y home in complete readinu!I for tbe girls, eve ry dietail having been given careful attention by the alumnr committees who haye worked with untiring zeal for many months. Even Ibe grounds have been landscaped, \ViIlyne Crewdaan Sta rk of Louisiana, Mi l5Our i, hay· ing donated the ahrubs and also furnished a drawil1g 10 s how where each should be placed. The St. Louis alum nz dub scot a rift of $200 which was greatly appreciatled. ny mean. of a rummage sa le last s pring $56 was added to the hou se fund The a t umnz as well as the chapter are very proud of tbe bou se which is co n sidere d b, many to be the mo st bea utiful serority h ome at the University of Mi sso uri
DUring tbe fall tbe alumnr plan to se ll Cbristmas cards again, the proceeds to be lent to the Settlement Scbool and also to hold another sale of article. from the school.
DES MOINES ALUMN..£ CLUB
Tbe year just completed has been a very lua:essfu l and happy one except for the 10M or several of our oldest and most belOyed member.. Everyone bas worked in harmoo" enthusiastic about the Settleme:nt School work in particular and Pi Deta Phi in gen· n-al. With the Province Vice President a member of the club, an added interest in both Settlement School and national affairs has been created.
The first event of the yur was both social and businea in nature-a Settlement School tea, beld at the home of Mrs. Marlc Disolway. Many basket.! and a l arge amount of weaving were sold.
The annual Christmas party was beld at the born e of Mrs. J. M. Burrough, at which time it was announced that three members
wert workinr with the "Sally" Charity orgaDilalion and that Sally herself was none olber than Esther Fuller. A box o f gifts was tben packed and sent to the settlement schoo l, which was f ollowed soon after by a box of books donated by Mrs , H . R. Howe11 in memory of her daughter.
Benefit bridges were held three times dur· ing the year, each of which was well at· tended, aiding materially in swelling the Settlement School fund to the $300 goal, the aim of the club.
The establishment of an all ,tate Found· crt' Day banquet which alumnz from su rrounding town. can attend was accomplished thit year. Many invitations were sent out over the state, resultinr in a large attend· ance wbich it is hoped to double next year. Some of the Ames and Simpson actiyCl and alumnz furnished the entertainment wbich was delightful.
In M aya box of baby clothes was scnt the SetUemlellt School upon request and in June another box of boole, will be sent.
The biggest event of the yesr is to come the .econd weelc in June when the club will have a log-cabin booth at the flower show. The chairman plans to have the cabin completely furnished with Settlement School weaving, rug s , furn it ure and baskets. A5 there will be hundred. in attendance, it i5 fclt this will be: a splendid opportunity to introduce sett lemen t schoo l goods to the public, making many new friends for the industry and many sales as well.
ST. LoUIS ALUMNA!! CLUB
Organized, 1909-Chartered. 1909 Pruidefitl, Mrs William Gentry, 5517 Maple. Vict P"f!sidt"t, Mr s. W. K. Rliss. COrr'f!.$po"di"D Secrdary, Clara Deard51t:e, 417 W. S.-on, Webster Groves. Trlos.,,.e,., Mr.. Kenneth Daker.
Resident AJumnz, 243.
Members of Cub, 118.
Meetingl arc held on the second Tuesday of each month and are foUo.-ed by a buffet supper. Thi. year they bne been better attended than ever before.
The chief interest, money for tbe Settlemmt Sc.bool, has been we11 attended to. Due to the efforts and cooO)Cration of every member of the club, .-e were able to makt the fo!lowing giftl this year:
The money _as r.iKd by muna of a rummaa:c aa1e. brid,e tournament., an Orpheum benefit, malhine IUb.c...-iptioos. and the Ie of Aplets. ilt.alioncry. miniatures, and Cluutmu cardA.
Eadl r,1I the alumlUr: club manqes onc party for ruabin&'. The cooperation between the acti'fc and cr-aduate (fOUPS i. aplendid. M i.. Ibldwin, President of Zeta Provo ince, "iailed tbe chap ter and the alumnae in December. The dub WI. so glad to have her attend • rCIUI . r The high spot in the ycar occurred when Misa Onken .rrived {or tbe Foundera' Day ban(Iuet on April 28. There ,,"cre ODC hundred and twent,.. of the chapter and alumnz prea. ent at the Hotel Jefferson Thi.ollportunily i, taken 10 again thank Mi n Onleen for com· ing and inc rea ling the plcature in the ban· quet for everyone.
SIOUX
CITY ALUloIN.tE CLUB
Or,aniJ:ed. 1914 bartered. 1914 p,.uideJ". Mra. W E Cody, 3 11 6 Jackson S • • Vic, P,.ui4,,.t, Mi lIud Conway, Elk Point, S.D. Co,..,.espo_ di"iI Croucb, 4318 Mip Ave. S,c,.dO,." Mra. Mornin ,aide Ave. Clarice Lytle, 2203
Resident Alumnz, 23. Members of Club, 19. Ave-ra,e Attertdance, H. w. s. Heightl \Vith tbree new membera to add inspiration to the meetinal, Sioux City alumnae club has enjoyed a Yery pleasant and in· terestin, year. Eight meetinga have been held • .even in the home l oC members, and one luncheon meeting at a down town tea room.
South Dakota Alpha chapter, wbich, since iu organization bas been the apecial care of the dub, i. nearly three yeara old. Tbe club, however, still keepa in close touch witb tbe active chapter, throuab frequent meeting l or tbe dub advisory board and tbe chapter aecutive committee. Every year
ainu ita inat&llation South Dakota Alpha chapter bas met with the Siowt City club ro,. Founders' Day. Thi. yltar, in cdebra. tion of the neDt, about filty enjoyed a luncheon party at a Sioux City tea room. nil number included, besides the actin chapter and the alumaz club, ltt'Yeral Pi Phi. from nearby townl.
No money makine projects hue been at. tempted this year, although the club h sold some articles from the Settlement School and some Pi Phi pencila. Thil year, as lor senral ye.ara, tbe club levied a tax to pay tbe lubscription to tbe Seulement School.
SPR1NCFIELO ALUMli.t£ CLUB
Organized, 1914-C hartered, 1914 Mn Homer Goas, 642 S. Pick · wick Ave.
Vic. Pnsid.,.t, Hazel RobertlOn. Co"upondi"g Sec,.dory, Elizabeth Baldwin, 711 E. Walnut SL r,.easvr#t', MrL Robert \Vaptaft' Resident Alumnllt, 65. Me.mbe of Club , 30. Average Attendance, IS.
The Sprill,field alumoz club has e.n· jored a mot;t iaterestina Ind luccesslul ye.ar Meelina_ have been held twice each month a1ternatina between a bu.incas luncheoD, held at a local tea room, and an aite.moon meeting with a program, he.ld in tbe 01 the me.mberL The. prOl'raml tbil year bave been very bendicial and enjoyed by a large group.
The active cbapter bat been entertained acve,.al time. tbrougbout the ye.ar by the. dub, which bas fostered a wonde.rful le.eJing between tbe two groups. A ve.ry IOC' cessful benefit bridge 1Y" eiven by the actives and alumnz M one.y wal alao raiae.d tbis ye.ar tbrougb a Settlement School tea, and the sale of Italian Balm hand lotion. Founders' Diy Banquet waa we.1I attended by both activel and alumnae:.
The. club officers eJected for tbe yur 1930 1931 we.re: Eliube.th Baldwin, President; Vice President, Mildred Merritt; Cor· responding Secreta r y, Mrs. Morria Ie••, 534 South Ave.; Tre.asurer, Mra. Harry l-'ansburg.
ETA PROVINCE
DENVER ALUMNIE CLU8
Orlanilt:ed, I 89S-Chartered, 19 10 P,ujde"t, J.{rL Sbrive. B. Collins, 1765 Glencoe St. Vic, P,uid,"" Mrs \V n P1ettne.r, 2225 Bellaire St. Co,.,.es/Jt",di"l1 S#cr,tory, Mrs. Frank H Prouty, 280 1 Alb St. 1t[rL Barney Whatley. 2260 Bellaire St.
With a club membership Ilrler tban eYer be.lore, the De.nver alumnz club has bad a mOlt succeuful ycar in nery way Starting with the Septe.mber meeting where EJla Jane Fd low. gave her report or Convention, Jane Ione l rrom Colorado B told of the instaUation of Utah A, and Virlinia Hu taon, Eta Province President, told o f the rushing at Colo r ado A wh ich Ihe had just witne.$scd, all the meetings wtre wdl a ttended and thoroughly enjoyed.
In October the club he l d a Settlement School tea at th e born e of M ra. J. F. Downer. Each member brought a IUest, the
goods from the Settlement School were on display, and many thing, were sold and more ordered. During the yeat the Settlement School committee, under the able lead e r s hip of Louise Brandenburg, sold $760 worth of goods. The magazine aleney bas done well too, Mrs ThehuJ r eportinK' $140 worth of magazinu subscribed for.
At the annual rumm age sa le $163 was made, and at the benefit card party $225 was cleared. Five complete layettcs have been riven to the Denver branch of the Needlework Guild. $10 to the Loan Fund, $10 to the Collegiate Bureau of Occupation, fifty ce nts per member to the Denver Panhellenic A ssociatio n, $425 to the Settlement School. and $50 to each of the active chapteu-Co lorado A and Colorado 8.
All tbe m ee tings of tbe yur have be(D lun c heon s except the tea in October 'and a lIuppe r in February at M rs. Morton ' s where the aueltl of honor were Min Onken and Misl Fenn attending N.P.C. held here. Mi ss Onken spoke of the work accomp lished by Panhellenic, the altruistic project s- if any - undertak en by the different N. P.C fraternitiel, and th e n tol d thin gs of interest about the Settlement School and Pi Phi i n general. Mi st Fenn spoke of the An ow and its superio rity to other fraternity maga· zine.. The members were happy to hal'e met Miss Onken and Mi ss Fenn and prouder than ever before to be Pi Phis.
In January the meeting was a lovely luncheon and card party, and in Mar c h belidel a program, the study on Pi Phi hiltory and cons tituti on Wa5 held and fra · ternity examination questions answered. Founders' Day was celebrated with Colorado A and Colo rado B at the Wilshire Club in Denver, and in Maya garden party was h eld at the home of Mary Roberts. Year l y reports were given and election of new officers took place.
OMAHA CoUNCIL BLUFFS ALUMN.£ CLUB
The club had a cooky·sbine at the h orne of Henrietta B. Edgerly, April 1 2 Each member brou g ht par t of th e luncheon
On April 30, the club had a benefi t brid,e luncheon. The proceeds went to Settlement Scbool. Queen Cox was chairman and bad
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some very unique ideas for it. In s tead of giving tbe party in a hotel or dub, ten gir l s offered their homes on that day. It il hoped to have from seven to ten tables in each home, serve the same menu and have the same prizes at each party. In this way it will seem more penonal and friends ' will be all together. The charge will be one dollar a person and it is hoped to make a lot for the school.
P UEBLO ALUMNAl: CLUB
Organized, 19 15-Chartered, 1915 P"eside"t, Mrs D. P. Ducy, 2223 West St. Vice Pruid,nt, Mrs Gus \V. Epeneter, 20 17 E l izabeth St. Co rr cspondiftg Secretary, Mrs C. M. Hamil ton, 316 \Ve st Routt St. T,.tas,.,.cr, Dorothy Thompson, 1619 Lake
Re siden t Alumnz, 30. Members of Club, 28.
Average Attendance, 22.
The Pueblo alumnz club, under the le a d ers hip of Madelyn Petersen, has enjoyed a most profitable year, meeting o nce eac h month.
I n addition to the r egular meetings the club as hostess at a lawn party alone of the active's home s in September, honoring a number of the girls l eaving for college. At Thanksgiving lime the club ente rt ained all the Pi Phi m ot her s at a lunch eon party at the Golf club. The active girls furnished the music f or tbe affair and Mrs Ri ce, a talented reader, gave an interesting account of the Settlement Sc h ool.
The club memhcrs presided at a large tea in April wilh each memhcr inviting her guests. M rs. Frank Hoag, a Pi Phi mother , offe red her l ovely borne for the occasion.
Social function s have not been all our activities; as payments to both the loan fund and Settlemen t School were sent, the money being raised at a rummage sa le. It is planned to have another sale later to raise more funds.
It is felt that the past year ha5 one of the most lIuccessful yean for the group. The membership has grown and each one has been enthusiastic. Already the work fo r the ensuing year has heen outlined and it will be equally luc«:ssful.
THETA PROVINCE
ARDMORE ALUMNtE CLUB
Chartered, 191 7
The roisoff dc c'r. is frankly lOCi al There are twelve resident alumnz, twelve paid member.. Some are almost forty and some are almost '.enty. Some smoke, and IIOme conside r it a low, pernicious habit. We like each other tremendously aDd t.he meet· ingl mun a great deal to UL It is fdt year by year that Pi Beta Phi mean. just as much as it was always hoped it would.
The c1uh has mel each month during the past c1uh year, and devoted the attention 6rmly to the constitution and the Settle· ment School. The active c.baptcr i s always conside red, sometimes bitterly, sometimes lovingly. The club refuses to assume re o sponsibility for the epidemic of mumps which cauiH:d the po5tpoacment of tbe Founders' Day dinner and it is hoped there will be • serum for it by next year.
Nearly three hundred dollars has been riven this year to the Settlement School,
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about ninety·6YC pc.r ce.at of this being due to Luinia Hickman Hoard and ber Gift Shop.
Two member Trene Ambriner Jone and Jeanette Youn, Poland ban mo.ed away. M&.rTine Cochran, who b been "out" a couple o f eemcatera, returned kI School, Martha Lou ]obnlOR graduated and began to PIIJ' duH. Mrs Hill came 10 sec UI, during a bliuard.
The medin,s ordinarily take tbe (orm or afternoon teat, varied with an occ.uionel 14I\cheon, or dinner. The ritual il used wben pouiblc. The average attendance is nine. Last year the "activu" gave a very swanky house-party for ru ,heel, and onc of the club member b ad an afternoon party for the club and the house - part,
Inez McMillan Gibson i. the DCW presi dent. Elise Potter£ Chapman, who Wat a mOlt effective president last ),UT. i. our inc oming "Vice:' a nd we b n e the prize rc cordinl' secretary. Elizabeth Abernathy She can write minute l cleyuly you enjoy li o; tening to them
AUSTIN ALUMN.tE CLUB
Meeting. bave been vcry intercsting and so me very good work bas b«n accompli.bed.
Of COUrioe, tbe re.ponsibility of tbe chap. ter houle comes a. onc of the first duties. The past lummer brought in a profit of $13 2.49. Tbis was made from tbe rent. Two notes haTe been paid off amounting to $ 987 74, and in five years time flftttn notes have b«n paid off, which i, Yery good. A new incinerator in the yard has been built and M rs. Lutcher Stark has given a new bathroom on the third Boor.
There are thirty·seven alumnz in Austin and twenty eight active members. The duel arc $2.50. Those girls not lervin, as hosteues durin, the year are assesscd $3.00 hOBtesS feu.
In February a rummage sale was held and $153 was cleared. The club also cleared $130 on t he laic of Christrn.u cards. This is the ways and mean. of making the quota to lend to the Sett'ement School. which is $8.00 per member.
The club had a mo.t enjoyable yi,it from our province vice pre.ident, Mrs. Raymond Hill. She talked on the purpoleS, bond. and pleasure. of Pi Beta Phi. Her talk wa.s an in.piration. She told many intercstinr thinr., including the Settlement School and Conven· tion.
In MaTe-h, the club was honored by a brief visit from Mr.• nd Mrs. Coo!idge who were pauing through Austin on their way home from California. This opportu nity was taken in pre.fCnting ber with Bowen from the active chapter and the alumnt. Mr a.. Coolid,e w •• most charmin, and pride was felt in tbe fact that she is o ne of the happy thron,.
In April, Miss De\VolC yi.ited at tbe chapter house. for a few day.. She met with
the adyi.aory board and P.Te loti of DeW ideas and sUI'CC5tion. to be earried OUL The club entertained her with a beautiful lune-Ilcon at the Austin Club, and all enjoyed her ellarminc
Foundcn' Day was c.e.lebr.ted witll a banqueL There were sixty -eiaht Pi Phis pre-.. ent includina the Province President, Mrs. Lutcber Stark. The freshmen entertalRed. The San Antonio club had been inyitcd guests for this oc.c.a.ion, but owinr to con· flicting date. this could not be .rranced. It is hoped to have them next year.
Owing to the new rushiD&' rulca at Texas University, the alumna: club wu un.ble to give tbe girls a tea aa alwayL The club scnt them flowers for their different parties which amounted to $30.00.
In June, a number hope to attend the Theta Province Conference at Calveston. Mrs. Stark who is in charge of this baa made Ie \'eral vi s its in the put yur. She is al· y. a help and inspirstion and it is a great happiness to have her near.
FORT SMITH ALUMN.-£ C L U B
Organized, 1915- Chartered, 1915 Pru,d".,. Mrs. Dorset Crane, 210 Belle Ave., Fort Smitb, Ark. Vic. Prujdut, Min Thyra Cordell, 409 Broadway, Van Buren, Ark. CorrupoMdi1lg Mrs. Juanisc John. son, 2711 Reeder. Fort Smitb, Ark.
Miss Ruth Morton, 1214 Grand, Fort Smith, Ark.
Resident Alumnz, 12.
Members of Club, 12.
Average Attendance, 7.
The Fort Smith alumnz dub haJJ en· joyed a very successful year, holding regular meetinis the first Monday niaht of each month.
The meeting. have been devoted to the Settlement School, study of the constitution, the hillory and in tbe interest of tbe nearest chapter, Arkan Alpha.
$33.77 was raised for the Settlement School by selling Christmas cards. $3.00 was donated to the Underaraduate Loan fund. $45 wu contributed to Arkansas AIpba HOUle fund.
Founders' Day was celebrated with a din. ner at the Blue Dragon Tea Room in V.n Buren.
The Club is vitally interested in the pl.n. to build a chapte r house soon at Fayetteville. Arkan
A lar,e deleaation from tbe club cxpectS 10 attend the tate Convention at Little Rock to be held January 9.
HOUSTON ALUMNJE CLUB
Greetinrs from Texu' laraut city I
The H o u ston .lumnz club report s a very sucecsafu l year. There were fifty.two Pi Phia in the city and an active membership of thirty four. Two of these came in from
nearby town.. Average attendance was about twenly. This. of course, varied.
The club con tribut ed $10 to the student loan fund, and $400 to the Settlement School. Locally the dub finaneed a little Girl Scout in a summer c amp Table linen was ,iven to the active chapter. M oney wu raised this yea r by dividing the entire active membership into groups; and each group either raised or pledged an amount which was at lea.! $10 per member. Onc group made CbriJtmaa wruth. (rom bolly IU)). stitutes and we e very successful. Anotber ramed • beautiful woven coverlet from the Auowcraft Shop. Another did tbe same {or IWO lovely hooked ruga Several bu sy groups contributed their amounts.
Nine meetings were held during the year induding the required onu This year Founders' Day was celebrated in a somewhat different manner. The "Hos tesses" arranged a "Barbecue" at the country place of Mr John Townu, and husbandl were allowed to "participate." A large group enjoyed the occasio n
Lrrn E ROCK
ALUMNJE C L U B
The Little Rock a lumn z club counts th i, year as one of great accomplishment, under the leadersb ip of Mr s. E. S. Carmack. Mu c h time and e'Qergy have been lpent in effectin, plan. for a state corporation to build a chapler house for Arkansas Alpha. Tbe delegate of the club met with other club dele gate, and the atate alumnae department at Fayetteville, April 26, at which time defi nite plana culmina ted for the purchase of a lot and building of the chapter house
Little Rock Pi Phi. will be hostess f or t.he biennial alate convention on JUlie 9, at which time, at least fifty Pi Phis will be the ruesta of tbe club for a business session and a ae r ics of socia l affain. Florence Kruger of Little R ock i, president of tbe association.
The membership committee bas called upon all new Pi Phis in the city and has secured an increase in the enrollment of the club.
Tht. is the fust year that the club has used a yearbook with relfular meetings and prorrams achedu lcd in advance. Meeting' have been held every seco nd Tuesday after· noon in the m o nth; with occasional nigbt meetings for the girll who are unable to attlod during the day. This coming year plau are being made to alt erna te evenin, and afternoon meetings.
Probably the mOlt enjoyable and inspirin, occ.asion waa the vilit of the province vice prcaident, Mrs. Hill, which came late in January During the one night and dar Mrs. Hill waa here, every member learned supper wben Mrs Hill made a most in · to kno,," hu i ntimately, either at the CJ[ccu· tin comm ittee luncheon, th e informal tea given by Pauline Hoc.ltr:el, or at the buffet spiring talk to all.
Several bridge parties were held, to which
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onl,. Pi Phi. were invited. Founders' Day Wal celebrated with a dinner at tbe count ry home of Mr \Y T. Oorou&'h, with almost all the Pi Phis here attending. Durin, the past summer tbe c1uh gaye several rush parties.
No new acbemel have been devised f or makinl' mone" hut t.he club has been suc · cessfu l in a big benefit bridge party, rum· mage sales, Chris tm as card sa le s, and station ery sales. Alao orden for Settlement School produ cta have netted a bit. Under the direction of :Mra. Jesse Cook an active drive for mlgazine sub!ICriptions has been Itartcd.
A donation of fifty dollan was made to the Settlement Schoo l, one of fifty dollars to the bOUle fund, and l essc r I'ifts were made to the Loan Fund and Friendship Fund.
The c1uh utends best wishes for a suc· celsful alumnae year.
MUSKOGEE ALUMNJE CLUB
Organized, 1 922-Charte reu, 1925 President, Mrs. Ralph Patterson, lOIS S. Terrace Boulevard.
Viu p,.,.ndeN' , Mrs . Mayes Thompson. Co,.rtspoMdl·Ng Secntar;J, Miss Martha Loy, 5 16 N. Seyenteenth.
TretuKre,.. Miss Louise Rosser
The club bas had one of the most enjoy. able and profitable years work since its or· ganization. The membership has increased. new interest a have been aroused and thr ough a very successful rummage sale it was po• sib le to send $5 . 00 to the Loan fund, $5.00 to the Scholarship and $J 5 to the Settlement School.
The meetings are in the form of lun cheons on the last Satu rday of each month and arc ulually held at a downtown hotel for the convenience of thoa e giris who work. In January a bridge party was held with Mrs Hill as the ,"cst of h onor. Founders' Day wa s celeb r ated with a cooley shine.
OKMULGEE ALUWN£
Organized, 1928-Chartered, 1929
P"side"t, Frances Campbel l, 801 S. Seminole.
Viee P,.uidtNt, Mrs Harley H. Harris, 1227 S Delaware.
CtwrupMWliNIl Sure,a";J, Carolyn Bassett, 51g N. Seminole.
Average Attendance, 10. Okmulgee Ilumnae dub 15 younr, enthusianic and active.
This year the main object hu been to contribute tbe utmost to the Settlement School Fund At the fint meednr of the club year tbe plan of filling a hope chest with fancy linens, PiUOWI, Hc., wu con · centrated on. The result of this work was;
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a source of aatiJIfaction, for the proceecb enabled this club to contribute to the Settlement School fu n d and a'" to the Loan fund.
Not only has tbe dub ,..orked for the Settlement School, which is conaidered of paramount importance, but it haa made en· deayor. to mould the .man ,roup into a real Pi Phi minded body. The members bye been conxientiOUI in c.hapter study for it i. fclt tbat all that ia neceuary for the crowth of a youn, club. The discussion. ba.e carried one idu.--that of accomplish. ing for Pi Fb i.
Sevr:rat mee:tinp of elpecial interest have been hdd. On December 1. onc hundred 6fty guut. were served at tea and ,hOWD Settlement School prodllcu which were on display in the borne of Mn Harry naker, mcmbtr of the club On January 24, the " honored with. visited from Mfa. Frankie Hill, province vice pre.ident. who brought a sincere Pi Phi mesuge. On April 28, Foundeu' nay banquet w.. heM at Hettie Jane Loar'. Tea Shop, a pretty. deli,htful affair, after whkh a regular meeting wat conducted at Mrs. Jack Dalton'. borne, at which meeting new officers (or the coming year were elected.
The last meeting of the year was (or the installation o( officers.
NEW ORLEANS ALUMN"'£ CLUB
The club gave $100 to Settlement School and $30 to the Loan fund, thia year. A movie benefit was attempted hut was not as successful as for. The annual bridge party took place, as did the banqud. wbich .a. in tbe nature of a celebration, being given on Founders' Day. On tbis day a plan (or purchasing an alumn.ae hOUK wa.s propoloCd an d d i.5Cussed and since then there hal been a meeting for all interested in t he idea. but nothing more definite baa been accomplished.
A visit from Mra. HIli was most interest· ing to the club and at a tea which was given for her ahe advised on many matters and pvc a very good talk on her experiences since ahe became a Pi P h i.
Five have been hdfl since the firat of the year, these meetings not huing been as well attended they ahould hue been-hut otherwise the year has been quite successfu l.
SHREVEPORT ALUMN£ CLUB
Orpnized. 1924-Chartered, 1926
The Shreveport alumnE club has enjoyed the past aeason very muc h in apite of the
fact that popular and Yliued memhe.n have mDnd to part&. Mrs. J. E. Hooka (Elizabeth Smiley) Miatouri A la Ii · ing in Mempbl.. Tenncuce, where, ahe writes. abe haa met and enjoyed tbe Pi Phia in that city ery much. M r s. S. N. Powell (Lillian Crews) IUinou Z. ia li ...iq in De Ridder. Louiaiana., and is dOH eDOu,h to come over once in a while. Mrs. J. O. Nelson (Floren« Lyford) Nebraska B. i.s living in EI Dorado. Arkan....
The Club'. year of activities beaan with a wonderful chicken barbecue, which waa enjoyed by everyone, but moat of all by the hUlbands. They are most interested in know· ing if it will be repeated and when. There are two members of the dub who drive quite a distance to the meet in which by the way. are held at noon with a luncheon (01· lowed by the business or .odal meeting. Visiting Pi Phis and those of the neighboring townl are welcome to meetin.s.
Mrs. R. H. Hill, province vice president. who has rec::ently returned from the Settle. ment School, paid the club a vi.it in Jan u ary, and needle.. to asy every minute of her stay in Shrenport was enjoyed. There were sixteen at the luncheon given in her honor and that night a real cooky·shine was the center of IUraction. Chests awelled with pride wben it waa learned of the won· derful 1Vork the Settlement Sc.bool is doing, due to efforts laree and small of each Pi Phi.
The most exciting thing that has bappened to thil club is that the game on t h e hiatory and constitution of Pi Pbi haa been printed and is rudy for aale. Any club. luge or small, which wantl to make its constitutional meeting a real "bonest-to·aood· nus" interestin as well as inatructive one, .hould have one of these games. The club hopes to aid the Settlement Schoo l quite rna· terially from tbe sale of thil game so any orders ",ill be greatly appreciated.
At the April meeting, officers will be elec.ted for next year and Founders' Day wi ll be celebrated as ulual. T"'enty.eig h t Pi Phil were present at the luncbeon last year, many coming from the lun-o un din, towns. Lois Rogers (Mrs. R. \ V. Hami lt on) North Carolina AJpba came from Tyler. Te.xu, and gave a very interesting talk on tbe Settlement School. S h e bas worked there in the tchool and 10 gave first hand information. Mrs. Frank Ellis, delegate to Convention, has thrilled us "th rough and through" over the wonderful time she had at Pasadena, and if the next convention is near enough, the who!e Shreveport club feels like attending In a body.
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BOISE ALUMN.t£ CLUB
The year 1929 and 1930 has been one of growt h and increased acti ity for tbe Boise alumn.ae club.
With a paid membership of ninetee.n t h e r e bas been an average attendance of fi f teen .t the eigbt meetings , which included t h ree bridge partiea, a Ch r istmaa party (or the active ,iris home (or the holidays, an after·
noon devoted to book talks. and the Founders' Day banquet.
The meetings take the form of luncheons at the homel of the members with a hostess and two uliatanttl IhaTing the duties. This has proven superior to the previous arrangement of ha ing the luncheon. at downtown hotels u it promotes a feeling of informality and gives tbe members an opportunity to become better acquainted.
The financial obligationa of the club hayc: been met satisfactorily by means of the Alc of Christmu cards, hand lotion, and the benefit from magazine subscription•.
The achievemenU of the year include gifts of fifty dollar s to the Sett l ement School, ten dollars to the loan fund, a gift and flnancial aid in ru shing for the active ler, and assistance in giving the annual Panhellenic dance, the l atter for the purpose of providing IC.holars hips.
CoRVALLIS ALUMNJE CLUB
Organized, 192J -C hart e red, 1924 Pruid,,.,, Mrs Harry Roger s. Vic, Pr.lid.,.t, Mra. A. \V , Oliver. S.c rtltarll , Mrs. A M. McCapes. r",.aSf4r.r, Mr s. \ Vm. Teutsch.
Resident Members, 10.
Average Attendance, 10.
The Corvalli. c1uh meets reguliuly the KCond 'Vednesday of each month from October to May inclusive. The meeting. are held in tbe home. of the members, begioning with a cafeteria .upper and followed hy the busine meeting. The club is small but the members are interested and tbe meetings are well attended. A representative from the active chapter is alway. pre.ent.
In October a rummage sa l e was held. the proceedl from which were used to auist in furnishing the house,
The pledges were ente rtain ed at a baked ham dinner given at the home of Iva Lee, From the enthusium shown by the pledges it was decided that the party bad been a :mccess.
The seniors were entertained at a very informal supper at the home of Alice McCapes.
The club was very happy indeed to have Mrs. Doualal vilit. A formal tea was ,iven for her by the active chapter and the alum· nz entertained her at a luncheon.
Founders' Day was celebrated with a formal dinner at the house , Both active chapter and alumnz, lOme from Salem. joined in celebratin, this happy occasion.
SPOKANE ALUMNJE CLUB
Organized. 1914-C bartered, 1914 Pr.sid,,.,, Mr s. C harles Canup. S. 1117 Ash Vic, Pr,sid,,,,, Grace Campbell, E. 627·9th Ave, Co",,.,.spo,.di"l1 Suntcu'1, Mrs kslie A Stil· son, 'V. 43 2·2Jrd An.
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Tr.G..tur,,,,, Mrs William Rusch, Breslill Apt•.
Resident Alumnr, 54.
Membera of Club, 49.
Average Attendan ce, 25.
The Spokane alumnz club bas enjoyed a most interesting and successful year. The meetings were hdd the third Monday night of each month at the home of various memo bers. An afternoon club ha. recently been formed by several memben who found it impouible to attend the evenini' meetin,s. This club has become very popular and its membership is expected to be I"reatiy in· creased next year,
The first meeting of the year was held in September and started out with much en· thusiasm when the preaident, Min l.Jar,aret Bement , gave a full report on Convention. This enthu.iasm baa co ntinued to grow throughout the yur, under her leadership
The club ia very proud to have been able to increase its contribution to the Settle· ment School this year to $150 and also to have sent $25 to the Endowment Fund and $10 to th e Fellowship Fund. This money was raised by a rummag e sale. food sale. sale of C hri stmas urd5, and a benefit hridge tea.
In November a dinne r. followed by bridge. was given for the hu sbanda and friends of the memberJ at the home of Mrs Robert Banks. It was 50 successful tbat it is hoped to make thi s an annual affair,
During the holiday s a tea was held at the Davenport Hotel for the active girls ho me for vacation. With Washinston A, Washing. ton B. and Ida ho A 10 near. this tea is always very well attended.
Mn. Frank Douglas, Iota Province Pres i · dent, was the guest at the April meeting and her vi si t was an inspiration and he l p to the a l umll;e club.
Founden' Day was celebrated on April 28 with a formal banquet a' the Spokane Hotel and a clever program was presented by the conlmiuee.
The last meeting of the year will be a picnic in June. to be held at a nearby lake, for the memben and their families_
PORTLAND ALUMN..£ CLUB
Organized, 19 1J-Chartered , 1914 Pr,sid."" Mu. H. W Whitlock (Janelle Lund (Montana A). JIl E. Forty sixth St. N. Vic, Pruid,,.,. Edith Bader (Oregcm A). 1070 E Oak St. CornsPo"d i,.{/ SUrd Or), Mr a. 'V. H Tobey (Charlotte J. Ayres, lIIinoi. 6), 887 Fremont St, RecordiNII S.cre tor ), Mrs. \V M Clarke (Eloiae T Wright, Iowa B), 1354 Mi chigan Ave r"eosl4r.r. Mu, Willi. Earle (Francelle Hawley, Oregon B), 195 E. Twelfth St. Resident Alumnz, 130.
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Membtn of Club, 97. AYe-rap Attendaoce. 4S.
In the fall before the regular acUVltles of the ,e.u ltartltd. tbe Portland alumnz dub had the nre of meeting Min Evelyn Bishop, who told the wonderful atory of the Settlement Sehool in ber own inimitable W.Y. at • breakfut linn in the prdens of Mrs. GeorlC B. Guthrie', lovely home.
In September the first recula,. meeting or the year WI. held at tbe borne of Mra. Horton Pownan. Thi. year tbe ahernoon and evenin, meetm,. were alternated, giv. ing members who could not attend the afternoon an opportunity to go at night. All meetin,. were interesting and wcre well attended. The cooky-.hine, Christmas party. Pot Luck lupper, and Ga rden Party brought many Pi Phi, together, a. they are all very l)C)pular. April 28 waa celebra ted with tbe unuI) banque t This ynr it was at the Ben.eon Hotel, and "u one of the loveliest banquets in the history of the PO'rtland club. M.,.. Roy Mane: and beT efficient committee planned a pe'rfect banquet. Muy Jones wu I charming toastmistreu and her program wu interesting, inlt'ructive, and deligbtCul.
It may aeem a bit malerial to alway. mention financH, but the Pi Phis who attend national conventions lOOn dilCove'r thai the delecates Ind visilo.,.. are "itally Concerned to find out how other alumn;e clubs raise money 80 tbat their Iltruistic work s may not .ulfe r All are eager to know tome new method of enticing the dolla'r' into the
''reuury, tIIat will alYe plellure and value recei,.ed. ne Portland club has bad a suc· cessful year lCCo'rdiD, to thOlt: pales in the treasurer'1 book called reccipU and di buraementa. The Settlement School baa re o ceived $1,000, tbe Loan Fund $10, Ore· ,on A and Orecon B have rccei.-ed birth day rifts oC $100 each, Ind an additional $200 wu knt to Oregon B to meet a nefll. in finanein, ber ne'" house. The donation f'rom the Cbriltmll party wu riven to the Boy. and Girl. Aid Society, I worthy or· ,aniution. The entire amount of money received thil year Crom all sources ",as $1,775.52. Thi. money WI' raised at 'rum · mage aale., I "Fashion Tea," a DuCwin Tbeater benefit. Pi Phi bridge c1ubl, sale o£ Settlement School products. bridge tourna · ment, sale of Chri.tmas ca rd a, &ale oC wute pape'r, IPices, Ind can opener.. Mr s Carl G. Kinney bought can opener. and sold tbem herself, and presented Ibe profit.a-$J8.4()to the dub. RecentJy a dry c1eanin, estab. Iishment offered 20 pe'r cent oC the pr06ts for III wO'rk lent by membera of the club. This may become one oC tbe most ,.aluable sources oC re l'eDUe in tbe future. This sto'r' of accompli.hment could not have been wfllten if the Portllnd club had nol bad a president ho w as tire leu in her efforts to secure Iplendid re.ulu. She waa small in .tature but sbe was mighty in her effort Hoige BaJbacb and ber Execu tive Board ..... it h the a,sistance of her commit· tees and many willin, workers made the year just dosed the banner year financially for the Portland alumnz club.
KAPPA PROVIN C E
BURLINGAME ALUMN..£ CLUB
Chartered, 1.929
Mr s. Glenn H Stern. Vic. Prnid,,,e. Mrs Howard Taylor. COP'P'.spo"dj"lI S,cnto ry, Mrs. H. Robinson Plate.
Tp"OSNrfN', Mra Julian MacFarland Members. 22.
Average Attendance. 16.
After meeting for orClnization and elec· tion of officer. in the spring oC 1929 , the Burlingame Ilumnz dub held ill first meeting of tbe winter with a cooky·shine at the home oC Mfa. Earl Anderson. The prog-ram for the year was decided upon and hu been enthuliastically carried out.
The second meet in, wa, a very ,uccess. Cui benefit brid,e party Cor the Settlement Sehool. held at Mra. Oryille Vau,hn'. new borne. At thi. part,. tbere .as a display and sale of Arrow-cnft ,oad., and at each monthly meetin, .ince, Settlement School articles have been shown and sold.
For Founders' DIY celebration. the club joined the Ilrae l uncheon on April 5, in Ssn FrancilCo. which wa. organized by the San FranciJco alumnz club Ind attended b y
the Berkeley club and the active chap ters from both California and Stanford.
At tbe March meeting it decided to change tbe name of the club from the Burlin,arne alumnz dub, to the Palo Alto alumnae club, because of tbe number of member. who do not re .ide in Burlingame. It was thoutht the present name WII not very accurate. While it is realized that "Palo Alto" doea not correct that Cault. it is felt not ooly doel tbat name mean llIo're to more Carliforniaol. but it expresscs the do.e interell tbe club has in, and the cooperation it wi.he. to extend to, the acti.e chapter at StanCord.
GLENDALE ALUMN..£ CLUB Organiud, 1927-Chartered. 1928 Presid'N'. Mrs. C. E. Milliken (Gertrude Pentland).
Vic. Prutd,fd, Mra. Stanley Mark (Ruth Miller).
RecordiN{/ Secr,jary, Mrs W A. Haine. (Flo'renee Kepple).
TreasIH"r. lIra. Glen Simmons (Irma Carlton).
CON',spoftditJQ S.u,t tlry, Mn. T. C. Bowles (Florence M cGratb).
Resident Alumnae. 50.
Active Members, 31.
ATcragc Attendance, 22.
This year has been a most luccessful onc for the Glendale alumnz club under the effi · cient leadersbip of tbe pruident. Mfa. Charles Milli ke n. A definite progra m w •• worked out during the summer montha by the president and the executi.e committee, so that when the lint meding took place. printed programs of aU the meetings and the activities of the dub were riven to each member. This sened to arouse great en· thu .iaam in the work to be carried out and this Arne sp irit prevailed throughout the year with the result thal much was accom · pli s hed.
The meetings this year ""erc held on the fourth Friday of each month as they were lut, with luncheon and followed by • bUliness medin, and program. A cbarge of 6fty eCRU for the luncheon was continued, tbi. amount takin, the place of local due this year.
The September meeting Wal ta .ken up with a discu •• ion of the program, planning of method. of raising mone,. Ind the laun c b · ing of new projects for tbis year. It was decided to bave. botb tbe benefit bridge and rummage sale again this yur as the major means of railing funds and in addition the sale of Christmas cards, maguine subscriptions, and Settlement School a rticles. Committees were appointed for each of these A courtesy committee was appointed, the duties or which WQ to cal i on all new Pi Phi. and invite them to the meetings and to telephone memben before meetings in addition to the regular notteH; to report ill · nessel; and, all in all, to make all Pi Phi. here feel that the club was interes ted in them_ Mn. Harry Ellingston proved a very able chairman of this commi ttee and brourht man,. new Pi Phi. to the club. \Vhile the actual active membership was not considerabl, increased, man, new girla became active, replacing acme who were unable to attend regularly this ,ear.
A new idea, probably in.pired by connn· tion, wa. tried out this yelf, that of making the club • ainging dub. It was decided to devote a partion of each meding to .inging. and this was earried out, quite successfully, throughout tbe year.
Ju an Vl:periment, the dub attempted hay· ing an Arrow-c:raft ,hop this ,ear, borrowing Sett.lement School articles from the Los Angeles club and displa,ing them in a ce ntrally located home of one of the members. Later, becaUIC of the enthuliasm of th e owner of one of the rift sbop! of Glendale over the article., they were transf erred to her ,hop to be IIOld on commiuion. At the dose of the year, the dub f«la tbat the project, while not big, was worth while and paid for the effort, and bopes that nut year rna, be a more prosperous one than this, and more can be realized from thf! IIle of the articles..
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The club inaulurated the idea this year of paying for one·half the ticket to any activity IponM)red by nurby clubs, including the Founder,' Day banqueL Thia was found to be very l u cCCQ ful and tbat it enabled many of th e members who would not other· wise go, to attend many fun ct ion . o ut side the club, and also belped the club to make a good representation
It was decided that each year the cluh should do 80mething for the two nearby chapters. Thil year the custom of giyin.. a recognition pin to the fresbman holdin, the highest scholarship was continued Tn addi tion to this, some small gifts were given to the D e lta c hapter to help in furni s hing its new h ome.
At the October meeting there were thr« girls present from the Gamma and Delta chapters and Mias Gail De Wolf. Grand Secretary, ,ave a yery interesting talk on the installation o f the Utah chapter
In November the 6rst benel1t. a brid ge t ea, was given at the Oakmont Count ry Club. There were seventy -five tabl es with many Pi Phi groups of the vicinity r epresented. A mUlical program followed bridge. It was a very delightful party and added $125 to the club treasury.
The December mwing wa s held in the evening with a cooky.shine. The idea in doing this waa to give the Pi Phis who were teaching or otherwise employed in th e daytime, a chance to attend at l ea.st one meeting. Many new faces were ICen and tbe party was a ,reat 5UCCeu. A program of stunts was given and the informality of the gathering gaye the members a chance to become more intimately acquainted tban a t the regular meetings.
The program at the January meeting was given over to the Settlement School. Min Grace Post, Treasurer of the Settlement School Board, gave an inspiring talk on the school and heightened the interest by showing a most interesting collection of pi ctures taken at the school.
Early in February a rummage sale was held for three days. Mrs . Harry Ellingston was chairman thi s yea r , and with the sp l endid cooperation of her a.siltanta, made a great success of it, the proceeds amounting to $119. From this and the bridge benefit. the club made its contribution to both the Settlemen t Scbool and the Endowment Fund.
The March meeting was deyoted to the constitution. The club was fortunate in having as honor guests Mrs. \Varr en G. Smith, Assillant to the Grand Vice President. She conducted a contest in which questions concerning the conl1itution were involyed. She also told members of plan. for baying the aix living founders of the fraternity visit the Settlement School during the coming summe r .
This year the Pasadena a1umnz duh continued the CUltom of joining with tbe Glendale club in celebration of Founders' Day
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witlt a cooky-woe. It ainn .t the bnulifu] IKIme of llrL Norman Stevens and wu • dclilhtful party. the entertainment con.lniol of .tunts ri"ca by both club. and musical .election, by • Quartet from the Glendale dub.
Fifteen member. attended the Day banquet ginn by the Los Angelu alumrut club at the Beverl, Hill Hotel. Thil was the best repreRfttatioD the dub cyer made .t the annual banquet.
One of the most out.tA-ndin, evenu of the year wu • Panhdleoie brid,e tea ai"en at the home of the dub president. There were twenty -two rueau repreaenLinr fifteen Greek-letter group.. Special gue.tl were Miu Gail De WoU, Mn Warren C. Smith, and Mrs.. Donald Forker, Province President. Decoration. were curied out in wine and blue and prize. con.i.ted of article:. from the Settlement School. It wa. the first .ffair of it. kind attempted by this gTOUP or .ny other local ,roup 10 it aeemed like a bi, accompliahment, and jud,in, from the enthusiasm of the SUcsta, wu a ,reat sue.,....
The final event of the year will be a chil· dren's part, at Fremont Park the last Fri · da, of June. Thjl will wind up a splendid year for the dub, both from a financial Itandpoi nt and that of activity and enthusi · astic cooperation, and it is to be hoped that neltt year may ace even sreater accomplish. ments than thil a1on, with a bi, increase in membership.
Vice Purid,,,,, ?fr.. William Hatfield . COf'",zpo"di"lI Seuda"y, Mrs. Lillian Guthrie DrHaler, 436 Zona Ct. T",uv".r, Mrs. L. A. Patch
Resident Alumnae, 65. Member. or Club, 4l. Average Attendance, 30.
A VUT pleasant and successful year has been enjoyed by tbe Lon, Beach alumnae club. The dub was very happy and en · thusiutie. to bc./rin the year with the conycntion as an inapiration to rcnew ita pledge in Pi Phi.
The annual benefit brid,e tea for the Settlement School was chan,ed this year into an evcoinc benefit bridge which wu held March 27 at tbe new Recreation Park club houle.. Twcnty eight tables of bridge was followed by a delicioul lunch. The six pritH awarded ere purchaaed from Barker Brothers at hal( price and were exceptionally beautiful. The sum of $48 waa deared and in addition to this two Settlement School baskets were ramed with a profit of $8.25.
MrL Smith, tbe president, eave the memo bers a new idea (or railing money. She luaeelted bavin, a meeting in a residence with (our hOiteSki e.harginl' the usual (ee
of $1.25 (or club pr06t instead of havin, Ike mc.ctin, in a club or botc.l with two hOfle&ael and tbe (ee eo to the hotel.
The Noyemhc:r meet in" wal a "tryout" of tb.is idea. It a deli,btful IUDCheoQ and brid.-e at the bome o( Mn Lillie \Vehc:r , 319 Hermon, with Mra. 'V L Cooper, MrL Harold Nicholson, MrL R. V. NicholIOn, and Mra. Weber as hostusea. The tables were tastefull, decorated with Howers in the fralernity color.. At this meetin, a lurprise shower was given in honor of MrL Charles G. Cone.. f ormerly Mrs. En Hopper Shepard.
The club wu fortunate thi l day in bavina at guestl of bonor yilitinc Pi !'his who accompanied their husbands to the Kiwanil conven tion . They were: Mr•. Horace Me · nujd, wife of the Internationa l Prelident ; !drl. Cbarle. G. Millikan , Prelident of the alumrnc club of Glendale, whoK husband is Go"ernor of California -Nev:l.da district; and MrL John D ' Aule, past president o( the alumnz club o( Los An,eleL Thirty- lhru dollar. were made at thiJ; meetin,. Rainbo ·hued candles in silnr holders, with Iweetpea. and delphinium intertwined io aaparaJUI fun trailinl' between them, formed exquisite t.ble decorations (or the luncheon ,iyen at the Paci6c Coast Club by Mra. L. A Patcb, MrL Vin«.nt Martin, and !diu Gertrude Clark for the JanuaTJ meetin,.
In February, two very succellsful (ood pIa in cbar,e of Mra. Lillian Dressler ndted "'4.
.fOUf cars of Pi Phis motored to Glendale (or the February meeting. At this beauti (ull, appointed luncheon hdd in the home of Mra. Dougl.1 Malin, spring ftowers and clever Valentine motifs were. used. Tbe assutant bOslelle.1 were Mrs. C. A. Peterson, Mra. Lynde Smith. aDd Mi sl Kittie Freed. Guats for thil day were Mn Fred Henry , Mrs 'Villiam Buxton, Mrs. jamel McGrana · han, Sr., an of IndianOla, Iowa. AIIO Mra. Cooper o( Milwaukee; Mrs. Young, mother of Mra. Smith; and Mrs. H F. Guthrie. mother of Mr•. Breuler.
A ways snd meanl committee wu appointed with Mr Lillisn BreMler ia cbarge. The IeUin, or Apleu from \V hinaton ClYe a profit of $8. The rafBe of two towels (rom the Settlement School ,ave a profit or $1.50.
The club haa u a total amount for the year $186.66 net, $10 o( which was voted (or the Loan Fund, $170 to be lent to the Settlement Scbool, the balance to remain in the new treUW'y.
At the lut meetin, of this ,car, April 11, the club voted to celebrate Founders' Day, April 29, with a cook,·lhine at the home of Mias Josephine Kenkle
Los ANCELES ALUM NAt CLUB 1929- 1930
Endowed with a very charm in, alit1. Mrs. 'Valter F Burbank, as preai-
dcnt of the Los Angeles alumnae club tbi. year, was the inspiration (or onc of Ike moat luttcu ful yean the club hu ever known.
The firat meeting wilh a very Jarrc a t· tendance atarted the ycar off in splendid Cubioo Tbi. was a tea held October 11, at the Wil s hire Country Club. After a short busine •• meet in, Mary Wilkes Last, soprano, rendered several delightful num· bera, which added greatly to a most cnjoyable afternoon
In November we had a verT nice luncheon at the Dew Ddt. chapter ho use Alter luncheon a mOlt interesting prOgTam followed in which Mrs. Hunnewell, dramatic tucher at the University of Califcrnia at Los Angclu, gave a very Iplendid reading. Phylis Han · sen FergldOn, a student of Mrs. Hunnewell, and also a member of CaHlOTni. 4, gave leY. era] clever little characteriutions. This program was indeed an interesting one, and was enjoyed by a very lar,e crowd of en· thusiastic members.
At the home of Mrs. Ruful B. von Kleinsmid, a most wonderful Cbristmas program in December was enjoyed. Parties at Mf S. von Kleinamid'. are alwaya enjoyable, and this one proved no exception. Mra. Price read a very lovely Christmas story, followed by Christmas songs of different l ands.
January 11, at the borne of Mra. Jesse Wilson was another deli,btful luncheon. Helena \Vhitford, an illustrator of Oriental art, gave a moat intere"ing talk, following a Cbinese luncheon. Helen Norlhmore Jones, soprano, also contributed to the alttr· lloon's pl eas ure by singing several numbcra a propos of just such a meeting.
The bridge benefit ICheduled for February was postponed until March, which made it possible for another meeting in February. This wa l he ld at the California r chapter hOUle, and was a vcry delicioul luncheon followed by a short business meeting Nell Wilson Baldwin of California A then ,ave !leveral delightful reading •.
In March the annual Settlement School bridge benefit was held at tbe Biltmore This is by far the outstanding event of the year. Tbis year, due to a very effi · cient committee in charge, the party was a huge suueS!. Everyone remarked on such ucellent management. Brid,e was f ol· lowed by a fuhion show, in which the active girls took part. As a rClult of this benefit, we are sending $1,000 to the Settlement School, $100 to be credited to each active c hapter
The Founders' Day banquet wa s ht:!d tbis year at the Beverly Hill H otel. Thi proved 10 be a very lovely affair, and one of the nice.c banquets the dub has eycr hid. The program, which was very inspirational, wu enjoyed by one of tbe largest crowds in man y years.
In May the bridge t ournamen t wu htld at the Gamma House In s taUation of olli·
The September ARROW
cen took place, following lun c heon, which wa. th en followed by bridge. At this time the person. holding tbe high .cores of the various bridge .roups, a custom originated by Mrs. Warren T. Smith, playoff. The afternoon proved to be a big succelS, several beautiful prius being awarded to the win· ncrs, at the close of the afternoon. Mrs. Robert Snow, who ha s had charge of the bridge groups this year, has collcc::ted $380. and it is in thie manner that enough money was raised to pre sen t each (Ga mma and Delta) active chapter with a love ly girt, con· sisling of a table and three cbairs for each chapter room.
In June, lhe last meeting, tbe club will honor the Gamma and Delta se n ion.
Concerning tbe various committees, the Settlement School products were b a ndied most successfully by Mrs. J M Hamilton. wbo sold better lhan $850 worth of goods. The Christmas cards sale amounted to aboul $50 due to the efforts of Mary Hubbard Tbe commiUee in cbarge of the magazine subscription agency reports that the sale of maguincs tbis year bas been very good. And lhe membersbip c hairman, Mrs How ard Burrell, announces 160 memhcra.
Altogether the year 1929 1930 ba. been a very actiTe and successful year, and the membership may feel gratified that their en· terpriacs have been so well administered.
PASADENA CLUB
Organi:tcd, 1923- Chartered, 1924 Prcsidc1Il. Mrs. Aubr ey D evine (Kat herine Hamilton, Iowa Z).
Vjc, PruUlut, Mrs V. C. Larson, Jr (Ellen M Holton, ll1inoi s Z).
Sccr"or:y.Tr'fUWru. Mrs. Kenneth C. Jones (Ruth Ik e rd, Indiana B).
CorrcJPo'ICdi'ICO Secretory, Mrs Daniel C. Miller (Marguerite Reed. Michi,an 8), 844 N. Hollinon Ave. , Pasa dena Resident Alumnae, 115.
Active Memben, 54.
A'ferage Attendan ce, 30.
The Pasadena alumnz dub beld the fiTSt meeting of the club year at the home of Mrs. Harold Carewe, in Sierra Madre , in May. Mr. Carewe, feature s lory writer and editor of the book page in the Pa sade na SlUr Nnvl, gave a moat interes ting talk.
In June the meeting was held at the born e of Mr s. Lloyd Steff,en. Mr s. Carl M oon, author of several books for children. brought an interesting collection of lndian photographs wbich her husband, the artist, bad taken in Arioton a. Mrs Moon and her bus· band have spent much of their time in Arizona, studyin, tbe Indians , and her talk was intensely interetlting.
The October meeting wa s held at the bome of Mrs W M Dcrthick, in South Pasa · dena. The meetin, was given over to the report of the Convention deleeate, after which many deli,btful rem inisc:ences of Con· vention were indulged in The club feel s
that the TaTC pTiyilege of haying Convention in Pasadena, witb itl attendant intimate CGlltac t with the grand officen. and four of iu bel0yed founders, has given it an increased national feding and inlerest, a keener appreciation of what tbe (raternity is accomplisbing and a greater strengthening of fraternity friendships.
Later in October a rummage sale wu held, at which $100 was cleared. This was presented to California 4, the newcst neighbor. inc chapter, •• a gift to their new bOUK.
The November meeting of tbe club was beld at the borne of Mrs.. E. H. Kelly. in Sierra Madre. Mrs KuJ Vonderahc Tead 10 the club. sbort story by Helene Powner (Arizona A) which had appeared in John Martin's Magazine. Itlrs. Dasber gave several delightful selections on the piano.
In December the was h eld at tbe borne of Mra. Robert Moore, in San Marino. Mrs Vonder.he again deJighted dub by interpretation of Barrie's "The Twelve Pound Look." The guests of the day were Miss Gail De Wolf and ber silter.
In January tbe club met with Mrs. E. H. KeinhoIz, in Eagle Rock. At this time Grace Post, tre;uurer of tbe Settlement School, gave an interesting account of her visilt to Gatlinburg during tbe s ummer, of the growth of the school, and the scope of its work.
In February the annual bridge tea for the benefit of tbe Settlement School was held at the Shakespeare Club house. This year the alumnae dub rented the club house and provided for its own caterers, thereby re· ducing tbe overhead to a minimum. The club was very mucb gratified with a balallc. of $170, which constitutes tbe year's con· tribution to the Settl ement School.
In March tbe meeting was held at the home of Mrs. R. C Nelion, in San Marino. The members were particularly fortunate in having a vocal program, given by Mr s. Ada Shearer Frost, of Chicago, and were de· lighted by Mrs. Frost's loveJy voice and her charmin&" gracious manner. Afterward her instructor, Mme. Barbareau.x Parry, gave an interesting talk on her method of vocal tnstruction.
PHCENIX ALUMN..£ CLUB
In October a cooky·shine wa s giVen by the officers and at this time the program for the was decided upon. In November a rummage sale was held, which was very lucceslful and which netted $78 to the Set· tleillellt &huul. Regular monthly meetings followed and were varied in March by a benefit dinner for Pi Phi husbands. Twenty. five dollars was netted and sent to Arizona A.
Some money was made from the magazine agency and the Christmas cards and $10 was sent to the Loan Fund.
The olle th ing which it was desired to accomplish was to increale membership and
tbi, wu doubled as far as paid membeu ,aet. The club fuls it bas accomplilht'd much this past winter and are lookin, for · ward to mOTe ne",t year.
Tbe close of tbe year finds the club a much stronger organization largely due to the enthusiastic effort of the president. She haa been very efficient and through her work the club bas ba:ome more united and the members more friendly and congenial. Thi s is tbe problem of a club in a large city with it. ever changing personnel.
The four meetings of the year were very successful and enjoyable.
The tea on September 12 at the charm· ing home of the prelident, Mra. Edward Maples, was attended by thirty·seven memo bers, while several motored up from Bur· llIliame
On October 11 a bridge tea was riven at the new Sir Francis Drake Hotel for the benefit of the Settlement School. Many took tables and entertained their friend •. Mrs- Preston King acted as chairman while Mrs- S. J. and Mrl. Alex Sherrills had charge of the candy and Arrowcraft booth.. The party cleared $125 besides t he profit! on the sale of eigbty.five dolhrs worth of Arrowcraft goods.
The most successful meeting of the year from the viewpoint of renewal of interest was the cookY'lhine held at the home of Mrs- Royal Mingins on January 30. The COSl of the party was partly financed by the club. A delicious supper was served cafeteria style and everyone praised the hostess and her committee for the splendid way in which the group of forty guests was entertained. Supper was followed by a Ihort business meeting and roll ca l l. Par ticularly gTatifying were the number of de · lightful newcomers and the recent graduatel joined the club that night.
The fourth meeting of the year was the regular Foundeu' Day lun cbeon which wall held this year on April 5 at the William Taylor Hotd. Mra. Fred E. Palmer acted as chairman There were 150 Pi Pbi, pres · ent representing members from two active chapters and three alumnae clubs. Wine and silver blue were typified in the table decora · tions of lilacs and red tulip s. \Ve hear d speeches from tbe active girls and from alumnz of the three c lub s. Mi ss Yancher, a member of the faculty at the University of C.lifornia, acted as toastmi.tre85.
The officers beld a number of meeting. during the year. 1t was found advisable not to print a yearbook but to keep ty pe·writt en Ii.u revised and to rely on tbe t elephone committee. The club a l 50 donated $10 to the Loan and has endeavored to lend IIUpport to the California A chapter.
Report of Treasurer of SeUlement School
AL UMNA: (LU
AlpJaa Provitcc6
Dos ton. Mass. Buffalo, N. Y Durlina-ton. VI
Connecticut New Jersey New York, N.Y R oc huter, N Y. Syracuse, N.Y•.. Toronto, Ont., Ca n . \V(' s tern M assachusetts
ntta Provi"ce Aleron, Ohio $ Central Pennlyivania Cine;mlati , Ohio Cla r ksbu rg, \V.Va. C l eveland , Ohio Columbus. Ohio Harrisburg-Lancaster, Pa M aboning Valley. Ohio Miami Valley. Ohio Morgantown, W.Va. South Hills, Pa. Toledo. Ohio
. Ohio Gamma Alumnz Club Philadelphia, Pa. , Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gllmmo Provitcc, Atlanta, Ga.
Baltimore, Md
Ddand. Fla. Jackaonville, Fla Lakeland, Fla.
Miami. FIL
North Carolina Palm Beacb, Fla. .
Ricbmond, Va. St. Petersburg. Fla. W .. hington, D.C.
Ep. ilo n Proviace Zeta Province Eta Province •.... Kappa Province I' i Beta Phi Fraternity A CT IVE CUAPTOS A/PM p,.ovinCl Ontario Alpba $ M.ine Alpha
Ohio Delta \Velt Virginia Alpha Pc:nn §ylvania Gamma ••....
Comma Province
District of Columbia Alpha ... $
Maryland Alpha Virginia Alpha Virginia Gamma
North Carolina Alpha Florida Alpha Florida Beta Florida Gamm a
AL UM N& CLUU
Delta P,.ovi,.u
Ann Arbor, Mi c h ....•..•.... $
Birming h am , Ala. .....•....
Bloomfield Hill s, Mi c h
Detroit, M ic h
Bloomi ngton , Ind ............ . Falls C iti es-Lou isv ill e. Ky F o rt Wa yne , Ind .•........... Franklin, lod.
Grand Rapids, M ich
I ndianapolis. I nd. _ Lafayette, Ind. Memph il, Tenn. Nashville. Tenn
Epsilo ,. P,.DViru:I
Beloit, W is _ $
Carthage, lIl. Champaign·Ur bana, 11 1. C hi cago, 11 1. C hi cago Wesl Suburbs
Decatur, Il l. _ , Duluth, M i nn
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Galesburg, 111. Grand Forb, N D ..•
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Mil wau kee, Wis.
Minn eapo l is, Minn • M o nmouth, III North Shore Oak Park, Ill. .• •
P eo ria , Ill
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Ames, I owa
B u rlington Iowa Ceda r Rapids, Iowa Columbi a, MOo Des Moin es, Iow a .....•••.. Ind iano la , I owa ...•..•..•... Iowa City, I owa ..•..... Kauu City, M o. • Mt. P leuant, l o ,.-a St . Loui.. ],[0. . . . .••.......
Sio ux City, Iowa Springfield, Mo
PrtwiI'Jce ' M innesota Alpha $ Wiscon s in Alpha Wisconsin Beta Nortb Dakota Alpha Ill inois Alpha Illinois Uela Illi nois De ha Ill i nois Ep si l on Illinoi s Zeta
WE, the fraternity undergraduate memben , stand for good Kholarship, for the guarding of good health, for wholehearted cooperation with our college's ideals for student life, for the mamtenance of nne social s tandards and for the serving, to the beat of our ability, of our college community . Good college citiuruhip as a preparation for good citizenship in the larger world of alumn z days is the ideal that s hall guide our chapter activities.
WE,
the fraternity alumnre members, stand for an active, sympathetic interest in the life of our undergraduate sisters, for lo yal support of the ideals of our Alma Mater, for the encouragement of high scholarship, for the maintenance of healthful physical condi· tions in chapter house and dormitory, and for using our influence to further the best standards for the education of the young women of America. Loyal service to chapter, college and community is the ideal that shall guide our fraternity activties.
WE, the fraternity officers, stand for loyal and the realization of these fraternity standard. earnest worle for Cooperation for maintenance of fraternity life in harmony with its best possibilities is the deal that shall guide our fraternity activities.
WE, the fraternity women of America, stand for preparation for service through the character building inspired in the close con· tact and deep friendship of fraternity life. To U', fraternity life is not the enjoyment of special privileges but an opportunity to prepare for wide and wise human service.
Volunteer Service SUp
In order that the Grand Council may have at hand a li st of women interested in the national work and free to devote some time to it , the following ca ll is issued to obtain volunteers. If you are willing t o serve Pi B e ta Phi nationa ll y, please s ign and mail the following slip to: Grand President, Amy B. Onken, Chapin, III.
A lumn re (graduates and non-graduates) who are paid members of the A lumn re Department and sen iors in active chapte rs (who are required to pay alumn ", national d u es) are e li gible for this enro ll me nt.
I am a member of A lumn re Club or a paid isolated member of the national alumnre department . I desire to place my nam e on file for national work in Pi Beta Phi in the e vent th at a need should arise for my services. ( )
I wou ld be interested in chaperoning a ch apter h ouse in one of th e following states
I h ave had training or experience in secretar ia l work, journalism , c lub work, etc
Date of Signing
Endorsers: (chap ter or dub president, comm itteewoma n , n ati o nal office r ).
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TWENTY - SEVEN BRANCH OFFICES
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COLUMBUS, LOUISVILLE" BIRMINGHAM
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BETHLEHEM, PA. , ITHACA, TUSCALOOSA, AlA.
COLLEGE PARK, MO. , , KNOXVILLE
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as Follows:
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Alumnz AdvilOty_ Committee Manual 15c.
Alumnae Club Officcn' Manual •.
Blanks f or acknowledging letten of recommendation 15c per 25.
Blanks for affiliation
Blanks for broken pledges.
Blanks for chaperonage
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Blanka for lilll of alumnz club officers.
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Chapter file cardl, 3xS inches (in Iota o( not le.!s than 100) 3Sc per 100.
Chapter file instruction booklet. 15c each.
Chapter Manual. ISc each. $1.50 per doa.
Chapter Officers' Manuala. 2Sc each.
Chapter Pre.idents' Reference Binder. $1.75 . Constitution. JOe eacb.
Constitution Covers. $5.00 each.
Directory. $2.25 each.
Financial statement to parents of pledges.
Hi.torical Plsy. SOC each.
Historical Sketch. 10e each
Hi.tory of the Settlement School, 1927. SOC.
Ioltialton CeFemony 15e each $1.50 per dozen.
Instructions to viaiting officers.
Letters to chaptert and chaperon.!.
Letten to Parenta of Pledges.
"My Seven Gifts to Pi Beta Phi." 5c eacb. SOc. per dozen.
Official Auow chapter letter stationery. 15c per 25 sheets.
Official Correspondenec stationery. 500 sheet. and 500 $5 .50.
Pattern for model initiation gow n SOc..
Pi Beta Phi Symphony. JOe each.
Pledge Manual lSc each $1.50 per dozen
Pledge Ritual. 2Oc::,.... • "CD
Pledaing CeremotT JOe eacL $1.00 per dozen
Record of (uJl leather, $10.00.
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Senior Applicartons (or Membership in Alumnz Club.
Senior Far<.well Ceremony. 15c eacb.
Uniform House Rula.
BY CHAlltMAN OF EXTENSION COMMITTEE: InatTUctions to petitioning ,roups.
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Duplicate copies of Anow file•.
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Anow Handbook for Corresponding Sccretariu.
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But they didn't testify how they subscribed • • • • and there is but one way for a loyal Pi Phi to subscribe •••• Give your renewals or new subscriptions to your club member in charge of the magazine agency or send di· rectly to Mrs.
