Page 6 - To Dragma January 1934

To D R RNUAKV. 1934
Superintendents
S I N C E M A N Y a chapter report started, "We
enjoyed a visit f r o m Ann Anderson Sale,
our District Superintendent, this f a l l " ; "Our
District Superintendent, D o r o t h y Womrath,
helped us rush"; "Mrs. Norgore, our District
Superintendent, inspired us with her charm,"
we know that most of the u n d e r g r a d u a t e
chapters have made an early acquaintance with
their District Superintendents. Three of the
eight served as s u p e r i n t e n d e n t s last year;
Edith Ramsey Collins ( N ) , Atlantic District,
has served a biennium.
Our space is so limited that we can't repeat
all of the details of life, careers, and per-
sonalities of the superintendents reappointed.
The issues f o r October, 1931, and for January,
1933, will supply those i f you wish to refresh
your memories. Suffice it to say that Edith
Hall Lansing ( Z ) , M i d w e s t e r n District, is
kindly and gracious beyond description; that
Ann Anderson Sale ( K ) , Southern District,
writes beautifully; Betty Stow Norgore ( E ) ,
Pacific Northwest, is much younger than this
picture reveals and is a distinct addition to
any party; and, when Edith Collins ( N ) , A t -
lantic, wires that she's coming, you must pre-
pare f o r a flash of wit, prettiness and good
judgment.
Now f o r the four whom you don't know
so well.
EDITH HALL LANSING (Z)
Irma Fliehr Regan ( T ) , who has know*
Dorothy Womrath long and intimately, writ?1
of her:
"To those of you who have not met th
new Great Lakes District Superintendent I
have a very real pleasure in introducing Doro
thy Womrath. She has been very dear to all
the Tau girls since her affiliation in 1922.
" I n her undergraduate days she was one of
these hustling, active campus leaders. She
was Tau president her senior year, and grad-
uated the spring of 1926. From then until
now she has left us with mouths agape. And
for fear you will think that a bit exaggerated
let me relate a few of the high spots in her
career since she left Minnesota.
"The June of g r a d u a t i o n she sailed for
Paris. A f t e r some traveling about she en-
rolled at Sorbonne University. Some months!
later she was presented with a 'Degre supe-
ANN ANDERSON SALE ( K )
rieur de la civilisation franchise.' Whereupon
she returned to the States and took a very
intense business course. That fall I remem-
ber her in Powers* Book Store under the ex-
cellent guidance of Mr. Wells, a well-known
bibliophile. But that winter she bid us good-
bye again and took up a post as secretary
with the National F e d e r a t i o n of Business
Women in New York. I t was not until Octo-
ber, 1929, that Paris beckoned again. She
sailed again, traveled a little until Christmas
and returned to Paris, where she studied piano
with Professor Weckslar. That must have
given her an appetite f o r music from winch
she hasn't recovered. But there was another
Eight Strong
Hventure in the business world before she
ntinued her music. The spring and fall of
tO^O saw Dorothy in the advertising firm of
Benton, Bowles & Company, Newr York. The
fallowing year she came home and started
practising her piano in earnest.
"Now she is under the e x c e l l e n t tutelage
4 Gabriel Fenyves, Hungarian pianist, who
onies from the same musical center as Eu-
gene Ormandy, the conductor of Minneapolis'
Symphony Orchestra. She has three recitals
to her credit thus far. Beside her diligence
as a pupil, we cannot help but marvel at her
BETTY STOW NORGORE ( E )
ability to teach less advanced students, sand-
wich in an occasional research program f o r
Benton, Bowles & Company, not to mention
her responsibilities as District Superintendent
to the six chapters under her care."
Elizabeth Quarles (IT '26) introduces Char-
lotte Voss Kearney, South Central District
Superintendent:
"Charlotte Voss Kearney ( I I '26) merits
this new position of honor primarily because
of her college c a r e e r and her outstanding
work and loyalty to the chapter. When a
freshman, Charlotte was chosen as a member
'.of the varsity debating team and that year
'went to Agnes Scott College as the Newcomb
r e p r e s e n t a t i v e in the annual Agnes Scott- as alumna advisor to Pi Chapter for two
Randolph-Macon-Newcomb debate. During
her sophomore year, Charlotte won the de-
bate with Randolph-Macon which was held in
[New Orleans. She was president of the debat-
ing team her junior year, and this time revis-
•ted Agnes Scott, where she was once more
victorious. She was also class president at
that time, which made her an ex-officio mem-
'Per of the Newcomb Student Council. As a
EDITH RAMSEY COLLINS ( N )
senior, Charlotte was again successful in the
debate with Randolph-Macon. This year she
was elected president of the chapter, and was
also chosen as a maid in the May Day Pag-
eant. As a fitting climax, she was awarded,
the day of her graduation, the 1909 prize,
which is a bronze trophy given each year
by the class of 1909 to the senior who, dur-
ing her four years in college, has been the
most outstanding in scholarship, school spirit,
leadership, and general ability in all college
activities. Three candidates are chosen f r o m
the senior class by the juniors and seniors
for this prize, and the faculty gives the final
decision.
"Since her graduation, Charlotte has taught
school in Morgan City, Louisiana, Gulfport,
Mississippi, and New Orleans, and has served
years. I n June, 1931, she married Richard
Kearney of New Orleans, and now lives in
Mobile, Alabama."
Dorothy Bogen F a r r i n g t o n ( A ) says of
Claire McGregor ( A ) :
"The bare facts of the last three years of
Claire McGregor's existence point more elo-
quently than anything else to her personality,
ability and service to Alpha O. Taking her
Master's Degree in Public S p e a k i n g from
Stanford in 1930, she was sent in 1931 to
Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls, South Da-
kota, to act as the head of the Public Speaking
Department, and gained thereby the title of
"The Youngest College Professor in the Unit-
ed States.'' I n her year at Sioux Falls, Claire
undertook varied phases of her work, such as
reorganizing the department, radio broadcast-
ing, managing the debating team, and produc-
ing elaborate dramatic productions so brilliant-
ly that she was recalled to Stanford to fill a
position on the Public Speaking faculty there.
She was immediately elected alumna advisor of
Lambda Chapter and filled that exacting office
with such expertness and responsibility that she