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                   ALUMNAE NOTES

                               ALPHA

a    On January    26, Jessie  Wallace Hughan and Norman Angell     r  dgearV"e
   lecture on "In  ternationa  l Organization and the New Social O
This lecture was one of a series of six sponsored by the N Y
Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy on the problems
of the new social order.

                               DEATHS

     The following clipping is from the N. Y. Times of January 17
1926. Mrs. Hamilton became a member of Alpha while a graduate
student.

     Mrs. Edith Hulbert Hamilton, wife of Everett Hamilton, died
yesterday at her residence, 30 Fifth Avenue. She was a founder of
the Women's National Republican Club, and prior to her long illness
had been a speaker and worker for the Republican Party. She was
a graduate of Vassar College and held the degree of Master of Arts
from Columbia University. Before her marriage she was for years
a member of the staff of The Nczv York Sun. She had contributed
poetry and fiction to the magazines, her last storv being published in
The Saturday Evening Post.

                               NU

     Jean Burnett Tompkins (Mrs. L. S.), ex-'ll, is regional director
for the Manhattan Borough of the N . Y. League of Women Voters.
She is also a member of the committee on publications of that body,'
which has just prepared a pamphlet and map giving facts relating
to the World Court and the proposed entry of the United States.

      Emma Calhoun Stephens (Mrs. W. C ) , '07, is now living at 102
Lakeview Ave., Cambridge, Mass.

      Alice Day Jackson (Mrs. Percy), '04, is president of the Consum-
er's League of New York.

     Helen Arthur, '0l, who is manager of the Neighborhood Play-
house in New York City, is on the Exhibit Committee of the Fourth
Annual Exposition of Women's Arts and Industries to be held Sep-
tember 21 to 26 at the Commodore. On Tanuarv 2, Miss Arthur spoke
to the International Club on "The Art of the Theatre."

     Frances Froatz, '25. is full-time coach for the girls' hockey team
of New York University. This is the first season of inter-school
hockey for N. Y. U.

     Margaret Welles Swift (Mrs. Frederich J.). '20, is an active
worker for the Florence Crittenden League, which maintains a
home for unfortunate girls in N. Y. C.

                                          KAPPA

                                             ENGAGEMENTS

     Mrs. J. U. Rust announces the engagement of her daughter Clara
to Mr. Ferris Bailey of this city. The wedding will take place in
February and will be of great interest here and elsewhere. Clara
was a member of Kappa chapter for four years.

                                           ZETA
     Helen French, who is teaching this year in Hibbing, Minnesota,
spent two weeks with her mother Mrs. Jennie French in University
Place. Mary Herzing, of Waterloo, Iowa, arrived on Christmas day
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