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\ THE WINNER OF THE GRADUATE FELLOW-
SHIP IN MEMORY OF RUTH
THELMA FLOURNOY BRUMFIELD CAPEN FARMER
The Graduate Fellowship Committee is happy to announce
thai the winner of the Fellowship f o r the year 1924-1925 is
Thelma Flournoy Brumfield, who has completed her second year
in the Department of Medicine of the University of Virginia, and
is planning to continue her course there.
Thelma is a graduate of Cornell University, and was a mem-
ber of Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi at that institution.
She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. The secretary of the
Cornell chapter at the time of her election writes of her work
at the university as remarkable. She was graduated w i t h honors
in biological science and won the Guildford English Essay Prize
in her senior year. I n addition to her scholastic honors she was
president of an outside house in her junior year and president of
A . O. n in her senior year. She is a member of the American
Association of College Women.
Thelma's record thus far in her medical course has been a
brilliant one. Though announcements of class rank are not made
until the third year, her second year standing is higher than her
first and one of her professors speaks of her as "one of the most
distinguished members of the class." During the past year she
was vice-president of the Woman's Association of the University
of Virginia and is to be president this year. I n the summer of
1921 she was Nature Councillor at Tall Pines Camp. Bennington,
New Hampshire, and is there again this year.
One of Thelma's best assets is her tremendous enthusiasm
for her profession. Her father is a college physician and lec-
turer so that she knows both its difficulties and its opportunities
for service. She considers medicine "the most glorious profes-
sion today." Her ambition is to be associated after graduation
with some research laboratory or public health department or
university, so that the Fellowship award is directly in line with
Alpha Omicron Pi's expressed desire that preference in making
it should be given to "women who are planning study or research
in humanitarian lines with a view to practical service."
