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New York Alumnae Tell of
Founders' Day
By Rosemary Holahan Vioni, N
- f - N E W Y O R K E R S , this fall, centered their in-
terest around the mayoralty election and
we followed suit by holding a political rally in
our own style. Child's Savoy Plaza restau-
rant was the scene of events and each major
party was represented by an able speaker.
Jessie Wallace Hughan ( A ) gave us the So-
cialist P l a t f o r m ; Pinckney Estes Glantzberg
(Sk) spoke f o r the Democrats; Virginia Mol-
lenhauer ( N ) f o r the R e c o v e r y Party and
Mary Kent-Miller Tennant ( O i l ) f o r the Fu-
sionists. We all voted the evening, interesting
and enlightening and were in favor of repeat-
ing the affair at the next election time. Ethel
McGary ('28) is chairman of the social com-
mittee and has planned a fine program f o r the
year, including a theatre party, a visit to a ra-
dio studio to see how things are done there,
and a tea on April 15 at Panhellenic House.
Mrs. Mullan entertained Alpha Chapter on
Saturday, November 25. Josephine Pratt tells
me it was a lovely party and a great success.
We broke precedents this year by celebrating
Founders' Day with a luncheon at Panhellenic
House on December 9. Fifteen chapters were
represented and pledged their allegiance, anew,
to our four beloved Founders. A f t e r having
cocktails (tomato juice) and canapes in the
reception room, we went into a beautiful mod-
ernistic room for luncheon. The traditional
red candles and jacqueminot roses graced the
Pi shaped tables.
Josephine Pratt i n t r o d u c e d the speakers.
Mrs. Perry's talk on the need f o r fraternal
ideals in this materialistic world of ours was,
as usual, most inspiring. Miss Hughan gave
us a short, vital, sketch of Roosevelt and So-
cialism.
I feel like writing, "Stop me i f you'ye heard
this one," f o r some of this news is old, but
for the benefit of those out of touch, please
bear with me. Marjorie Jervis Schell ('32) is
the new alumna adviser to Nu, w i t h Eloise
Tessier and Mrs. Mann as assistants. Mar-
garet Elliman Henry (A, '02) is Sacristan at
St. Paul's church (which George Washington
attended), and is a member of St. Christo-
pher's Guild. She gives lectures on Church
Symbolism and makes the most beautiful stoles
and vestments. We were all interested in the
meaning of the embroideries and symbols on
a stole she was making during our last meet-
ing. Elizabeth Riley ('28) is manager and
buyer for Brentano's Book Store on F i f t h
Avenue and also their W a s h i n g t o n Store.
Added to her other duties, she is assistant to
the owner. Mabel Anderson Mclndoe ('28)
is in the History D e p a r t m e n t at Evander -+- O U R PROGRAM f o r the year started with a
Chiids High School. Harriett Dunham ('30)
is assistant buyer of drugs at Macy's. Helen president, Genevieve Bacon Herrington ('29),
Schlauch Adams ('28) is teaching at Hunter with Helene Brasted Godwin ('23) as assisting
College again, after a year at Cornell, study- hostess. During the business meeting in the
ing f o r her Ph.D. Eloise Tessier ('29) is tak- afternoon we discussed our plans for the win-
ing a course in interior decorating. Helen ter, one of the most interesting being the adop-
Cochrane is teaching in New York.
Zolan Kidwell H a l i i nan ( * ) l e f t Lr,
Beach, California, after the earthquake. I ? 8
and her husband spent the summer tourine tk
National Parks, Indian Country, Rocky Mm
tains, visited the World's Fair and then C a
to New York. Although they intended to
on to Florida, New York attracted them f °
much and they are settling here permanent?0
Julia Tillinghast ('28) is very busy manaein
her two book stores. Katherine Maclntyre
attending Chicago U n i v e r s i t y . A d e i a i , ] ' S y a"jayette for a Community House. Pauline
Brown ( T ) is on the staff of the National Oc
cupational Conference at Carnegie C o r p 0 r a *
tion. For three years she has had her "( ) w
studio of speech and voice in New York and
at the present time is a graduate student in
Columbia University, Department of Speech
Many of our Alpha O's do not know that Elizs
abeth J. Moss, who is a member of the New
York bar, has been a L i f e Underwriter witfi
the New York L i f e Insurance Company. 217
Broadway, f o r a number of years. She has
provided a number of our girls with comfort-
ing Endowments and Annuities. Even some
of the husbands have fallen in line. Shi w j |
be glad to help you, too, with your insurance
problem.
Mary Green ('31) was married to Donald
W'il son on July 14. Donald is connected
with the Laboratories of the Radio Corpora-
tion of America; Marjorie Fitzpatrick ('28)
to Herbert Allison Miller in August; Marjorie
fervis ('32) to Frank Taylor Schell, Jr. (2*E
New York University), on December 16.
Bifihs
A granddaughter, Eleanor Thayer Flint, to
Eleanor Van Cott Brodie ('02).
A granddaughter to Lillian Howard Perrv
C09).
A son, Ellis B. Baker, I V t h , in September to
Amy Dunhaupt Baker ('31).
A second daughter, Barbara Jane Vioni. on
October 29, to Rosemary Holahan Vioni ('30).
Deaths
It is with deep regret that we learned of the
deaths of two of our members. Mrs. Frances
Worstell Marshall ('02) passed away on No-
vember 22, and Mrs. Emma Jane Miller Earp
on October 18, at her summer home at North-
port, L . I . , New York. Our sincere sympathy
is extended to Ethel McGary ('28) in the
death of her father and to Harriett Dunham
('30) in the death of her grandfather.
Oklahoma City Alumnae Adopt a
Family
By Mary Driscol Hunt, ©
lovely luncheon at the home of our new
tion of an unfortunate family. We were glad
to have with us two new members, Be~s Webb
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M wcomb ('24) and Eula Sheldon Jacques
(£x. '3°)' a n d a £"est, Martha Driscol (f2
The October meeting was in the evening
"th Mary Louise Fox Squyres ( E x . '23),
* l \Vebb Newcomb and Willa Mae Webb as
jfstesses- We were all interested in hearing
f our family. Through the efforts of Gene-
•eVe Herrington, the father has obtained reg-
ular work, after being unemployed f o r two
.iars. A f t e r the business meeting, we sewed
Oflls Edwards ('23) gave a most interesting
eview of " W a h - k o n - t a h , " an epic of the
Osage Indian. The author, John Joseph Mat-
thews, an Osage himself, is an O x f o r d grad-
jU 3 November, we met f o r lunch again at the we are caring.
n
home of Faye Daugherty Welch ('23), with
Mary D r i s c o l H u n t (0, Ex. '27), assisting
hostess- During the business meeting plans
for the Founders' Day banquet were discussed.
Helene Brasted Godwin presented a group of
thought-provoking questions on topics of gen-
eral interest.
Our Founders' Day banquet was held in the
Empire room of the Skirvin Hotel. The long
table was centered by the traditional red roses
and places were marked by replicas of our
pin. We were glad to welcome girls whom we
seldom see at other times during the year.
The dinner was f o l l o w e d by bridge. Mary
Hunt, Willa Mae Webb and Emily Hess Hop-
per (Ex. '24) c o m p r i s e d the committee in
charge.
Martha Driscol has just r e t u r n e d to her
home in Liberty, Indiana, having visited her
sister, Mary Hunt, for the past two months.
Several of the girls entertained in her honor
during her stay. Martha's e n g a g e m e n t to
M a r l in I-efBer ( M i a m i , '32) has been an-
nounced, the marriage to be an event of De-
cember 23 in the home of Martha's parents.
The couple w i l l be at home in Urbana, Illinois,
where M r . Leffler will continue work on his
Ph.D. Bess Webb Newcomb and Dr. Leon-
ard Newcomb announce the birth of a son,
Leonard William, on November 17. Bess and
her sister, Willa Mae, moved here f r o m Kan-
sas City this summer and we are certainly
happy to add them to our numbers. We are
sorry to learn of the recent death of Helen
Cole's ('29) father, Robert Cole, of Frederick.
We also sympathize with Leone Fariss Brown
(Kx. '24) in the loss of her father.
Omaha Alumnae Have Circulating
Library
By Luree Combs Douglas, Zeta
A F T E R A B U S Y rush season last summer we
climaxed our work by p l e d g i n g three
charming Omaha girls: Betty Peake, whose
Mother was one of Zeta's founders; Lucile
ffcrger, the president of the pledges; and Mar-
jorie Marsh. The Omaha Alumnae are plan-
ning a tea during the Christmas holidays in
honor of these girls and inviting the active
chapter as guests.
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Our first meeting was held at the home of
Mable Shuman with L a u r a P e t e r s o n and
Helen Ayers assisting. We welcomed Mable
Stoker of Shelby, Iowa. We approved a mo-
tion that alumna? members, unable to pay dues
and entertain, may keep in t o u c h with the
chapter in two ways: (1) I f wishing to pay-
dues and not entertain, pay 25c f o r luncheon.
(2) I f not able to pay dues nor entertain, pay
50c f o r luncheon. We met at Lillian Bihler's
home f o r the October meeting. The co-host-
esses were Bess Mitchell and Mattie Higgins.
This meeting was devoted to the discussion of
philanthropic work. We pledged $5.00 to the
Community Chest and formed an AOIT group
for the Needle Work Guild. Olive Wrightson
reported on the needs of the family for whom
I n discussing ways and means of making
money, we decided to c o n t i n u e our home
bridge parties and circulating library and in
addition to have a "raffle" of a 50c article each
meeting with chances at 10c each. This has
proven popular and profitable.
In November we met with Esther Smith,
Lorraine Davis and Mable Stoker assisting.
We were very happy to have as our guests our
new pledge president, Lucile Berger, and one
of our former Omaha alumna;, Ruth Rhamey
Witt (Ex. '33), now of Lincoln.
The letter f r o m the AOiI Social Service
Committee asking f o r clothes f o r the Ken-
tucky children was read, and a motion made to
send them a box of clothing at our next meet-
ing. We celebrated Founders' Day at our De-
cember meeting with a very impressive and
beautiful ritualistic service conducted by our
president, Mable S h u m a n , and assisted by
Alice Sheehy Parsons, Pauline Hartnett, Mary
Allingham and Luree Combs Douglas. The
meeting was held at the new home of Leola
Jensen McKie ('29). Other hostesses were
Lucile Mauck and Pauline Hartnett.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baird (Zeta Tate A l -
lingham, Ex. '29), 903 South 57th Street, Oma-
ha, Nebraska, announce the birth of a daugh-
ter, November 9.
Philadelphia Alumnae Help with
Rushing
By Anne Warner, *T
•+- T H E A L U M N A R U S H I N G P A R T Y this year was
a rose dinner. Larue Crossan entertained
with a number of songs and members of the
Alumnae gave some excellent speeches. Edith
Collins, our District Superintendent, was there,
and she needs only to be present to be an asset
to any party. Eleanor Culin was in charge of
the affair.
Two girls f r o m P e n n State came to our O c -
tober meeting, E l i z a b e t h Martin and Grace
Bergholz. O n November 28 there was a lec-
ture and moving-picture at the College Club of
the Frontier Nursing Service. While the F.
N . S. is primarily AOII's own philanthropic
work, it has a widespread appeal and invita-
tions were issued to other fraternities and
members of the College Club and to any of