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Nil Has Ambitious Philanthropic Program
By MARGARET H . WILSON, New York University
Settled snuggly in its new home at 14 needy family. I t certainly was a cheerful d
Minetta Street, the "Village," Nu has set looking basket. w
out adventurously upon another year. C
The Jessie Wallace Hughan Cup upon our On December 7 just before the Found- p
mantle provides our inspiration. Sep- ers' Day Banquet at the Panhellenic, we m
tember found all the active girls back initiated Jane King, Amy Bernhard, b
in college with the welcome addition of Marian Cohan, Frances Welch, Dorothy o
Mildred Schneider ('30), who had been Hafner, Esther Lyons, and Helen Kropp. W
visiting at the University of Washington We are always so glad that for at least l
for the past year. Mildred told us de- one group of girls at Nu each year, the g
lightful things of the hospitality of our Founders' Day Banquet is the first real i
sisters at Upsilon. AOII experience. I t is, indeed, a rare r
and unforgettable experience. d
Formalities for the year began in Oc- a
tober with a series of teas, to serve as The chapter is making rag-dolls for o
our official housewarming. The first was youngsters' Christmas stockings. At this a
held in honor of Dean Dorothy McSpar- writing there are twelve creations, stuffed o
ran Arnold, who expressed herself as be- with snuggly cotton, frocked in gay reds, P
ing delighted with Nil's cozy new home. blues, and greens, and crowned with lux-
At the other teas, we devoted ourselves to uriant bobs of a most modish appearance. l
entertaining our mothers and such of Six little blondes and six little brunettes l
our fathers as dared to brave the portals are ready, and more to come we under- t
of a sorority house. stand. te
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Rushing came next with the usual Though chapter activities rush along at o
round of gaieties. Two teas, one at the a great pace, there is much of a different f
ever-hospitable Pinckney Glantzberg's sort to say. On October 26, the engage- W
and one atop the Panhellenic house, a ment of our tiny Amy Dunhaupt ('31), lo
bridge, and a supper dance, perennially to Ellis P. Baker (Yale '29), was for- b
popular in our village, comprise our list mally announced at a tea-dance in Hack- b
this time. We are not sure whether it ensack, New Jersey. Amy and Ellis are A
was Pinckney's droll humor or the view being secretive about their plans, but we A
over Manhatten from the roof of the rather suspect that they've a surprise g
Panhellenic, which did the trick, but we for us tucked up their sleeves. Amy, by A
are presenting nine new pledges for your the way, was elected secretary of Ominod, A
approval. Numbered among our nine are Washington Square's enterprising Chris- Ja
one amateur fencing champion, one tian association. A
crack player of the hockey team, one U
sister to a sister, and, strange, strange The appointment of Helen Wilkenson
paradox, one blue-eyed, curly-headed ('32), and Margaret Donohoe ('32), to f
medical student. We just can't describe working scholarships in the office of the q
them all, but taken in toto they are as Secretary of the College keeps Nu well up
merry and lively a bunch of pledges as on the scholarship list.
ever you saw. Before pinning them down
to a pledge routine of washing, scrubbing, Nu has recently gone on record as en-
and polishing,'we feted them at a little dorsing a resolution to introduce prefer-
dinner at Alice Corbett's Coffee House. ential bidding in New York University.
Nu is strongly in favor of modifying tne
While the pledgees were doing their present system, and we hope that some-
chores, Nu girls turned their attention to thing tangible will come of this motion.
Thanksgiving festivities, which consisted
of stuffing a huge basket with all manner The chapter extends its sincere sym-
of good things from turkey and nuts to pathy to Virginia Lee in the loss of ner
milk and cranberry sause for a near-by father, James Melvin Lee. Dr. Lee nas
been for many vears one of the ^ ? "0 U s t a D
ing members of the Journalism depart-
ment of New York University.
