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lifts her into a dynamic leader. I n an ultra-conservative regime
she has often had to suffer for her views. Our patriotism she
wants a reality, no sham. Ethical values are to be sensed and
lived, to be a sincere effort and not to be made a transitory con-
venience. She tolerates no hypocrisy. I n New Y o r k City, as-
signed to what many would consider not the most desirable
appointment, in a Boys' High School on the borders of "Hell's
Kitchen," with much of the disciplinary activities allotted to her,
daily she finds nobility and the joy of service as a teacher. I
would say that Jessie Wallace Hughan is the greatest friend to
her students, and more admired by them and appreciated by their
parents of any teacher in the system. She is a friend to and a
worker for the unfortunate and oppressed.

Helen St. Clair Mullan was awarded the highest scholastic
honors, including Phi Beta Kappa, at Barnard, and followed
her baccalaureate degree with a law course at New Y o r k Univer-
sity. While registered at the latter institution she assisted with
the organization of the group that became N u chapter. Judge
George V . Mullan, of the Supreme Court of New York State, is
her husband and by her training as well as her other gifts, she
has been of vast assistance to her distinguished husband. Alpha
Omicron Pi, of course, believes that Helen would add dignity and
learning to the bench were she ever so honored herself. During
the Mitchell administration she was a member of the School
Board of New York City and is always to the fore i n educa-
tional and civic movements. A t present she is a Trustee of Bar-
nard College to which position she was recently re-elected, and
during her service she has accomplished much in working on
administrative student problems, as well as aiding in promotion
of an extensive building program for the institution. Two
daughters, Georgia and Janet, are growing now toward their
college days and seem to be following in their mother's foot-
steps. Helen Mullan is famous f o r the speeches she does not
make; she will tell you all the facts and figures you request, but you
will never find her by choice on the platform. Although modest,
she is a friend well-met and jovial and hospitable. I n the early
years she was a President of Alpha Omicron Pi. A t present
she is on her seventh year as a Trustee of the Fraternity A n n i -
versary Endowment Fund.