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should he experience the embarrassment of approaching successful family ITEMS OF INTEREST
friends, wealthy but indifferent relatives and others f o r assistance in AMONG THE lawyers in London f o r the American Bar Association
meeting and festivities in July, which included a garden party given by
financing his collegiate course? . the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace, were Mrs. George V . Mullan,
Alpha '98, wife of Judge Mullan of the New York Supreme Court; Hen-
W i t h the needy student, what better way to establish his credit on a riette Neuhaus, N u '20, and Helen Williams, N u '20, members of the
New York Bar; and Lucy Somerville, K '16.
sound business basis, than to assume a financial obligation on his own
ROCHELI.E GACHET, Pi.'09, National Panhellenic Delegate of Alpha
initiative, and make his return in accordance with accepted business pro- Omicron Pi, has joined the staff of the Southern Women's Educational
Alliance, with headquarters in Richmond, Va. The Southern Women's Edu-
cedure? I n this way an ambitious, responsible man or woman should be cational Alliance is engaged in educational and vocational work among the
women of the South.
able to finance his own education, and thus have a maximum amount of
T H E CONTINGENT in the press gallery during the Democratic National
time for the proper development of body and brain—so that an efficient Convention held in New York, June 24th-Ju!y 8th, included Gertrude
Lynahan, Epsilon '22, who reported the convention for the Springfield
individual may be added to society, rather than a person who has de- (Mass.) Union.
veloped the habit of skimming through, or whose resistance and energy A L P H A OMICRON P I has three Deans of Women and one Assistant
Dean of Women in colleges and universities in which it has chapters.
must certainly have been sapped by attempting to fan too many flames Anna Many, Pi '07, is Dean of Women at H . Sophie Newcomb College,
Tulane University, New Orleans; Harriet Grevc, Omicron '06, is Dean at
at the altar of higher education.—Harmon Foundation.—News-Bulletin the Universit}' of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Virginia Judy Esterly, Sigma
'06, at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Elizabeth Neely, Epsilon '19,
via Kappa Alpha Thcta. is the Assistant Dean of Women at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
CHAPTER RECORDS PINCKNF.Y ESTES GLANTZBERG. Psi '20, and Mary Figuera, N u '22,
How do you keep your chapter records? Can you go to your files at
any time and look up your members and feel confident that the data are are Assistant Corporation Counsel in the City of New York, the former
correct? The files kept by many chapters would remind us, I am afraid, in Manhattan and the latter in Brooklyn.
of the man in the Contributor's Column of the Atlantic Monthly, who
wanted to look up their butcher in his wife's household files. He looked, SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD. husband of Lucile Sanderson Sheppard,
first, under butcher—no luck. Then under meat—still no luck. Then Kappa '10, has been nominated to succeed himself as United States Senator
he decided to look under Flannigan, which he happened to recall as the from Texas. Mrs. Sheppard's portrait appeared recently in the rotogravure
butcher's name, then under Johnson, for it was Flannigan and Johnson— section of the New York Times.
and still he found no trace of i t . A t last in sheer desperation, he went
to his wife who after brief thought, said briskly, "Why, silly, it's under I N THE June 15th issue of the New York Times there appeared, be-
'r' of course." "But why, in heaven's name, V ? " "Why, because M r . cause of prominence in their respective colleges, pictures of undergraduates
Flannigan has red hair!"—Alpha Xi Delta. of Alpha Omicron Pi from three chapters. Julia Froatz, N u '25, was
the newly elected President of the Women's League of New York Uni-
L e t National W o r k be an active expression of yourself versity. Lily Blanks Clarke, Kappa '24, was pictured in her costume
even as it expresses the ideals you cherish. as the lovely May Queen at Randolph Macon, and the Senior Women's
crew at Cornell included Elsie Smith and Ruth Oviatt, both Epsilon, '24.
JESSIE WALLACE H U G H A N , Alpha '98, has been placed in nomination
for member of Congress to represent the seventeenth district of New York,
as the candidate of the American Labor Party.
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