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HI G H L A N D P A R K Country Club was the scene of the second annual lunch-
eon which City Panhellenic sponsored Saturday when approximately 500 fra-
ternity women from Birmingham and throughout Alabama attended this interesting
event. The outstanding feature of the program was the address by Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair, of Joplin, Mo., nationally known writer and politician.

The ballroom at the clubhouse was converted into a large dining room, dec-
orated with bowls and baskets of early spring blossoms. At regular intervals
upon the tables were noted bowls holding jonquils, tulips, roses, and iris.

Many interesting visitors were seated at the speakers' table, which was placed
in the center of the room. Among them Miss Elizabeth Wyman (Alpha), of
Ridge Park, N . J . , national president of Alpha Omicron P i ; Mrs. Hazel Mauck,
of the University of Alabama, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Thelma Chisholm,
Kappa Delta; Miss Helen Swisher, national president of Theta Upsilon; Miss
Frances Youngblood, Beta Phi Alpha; Mrs. Kenneth Penhallegon, Pi Beta Phi;
Miss Ernestine Gordon, Delta Delta Delta; Miss Catherine Byrum, Chi Omega;
Mrs. W. D. Smith, Jr., Zeta Tau Alpha; Mrs. Craig Blakey, Alpha Gamma Delta;
Miss Evelyn Hix, Alpha Delta Zeta; Miss Mae Chapman, Phi M u ; Miss French
Haynes, Alpha Delta Theta; Miss Mary Walter Smyer, Alpha Chi Omega, and
Miss Ethel M . Wilson.

Mrs. Blair, a charming figure in a smart brown silk ensemble with yellow
figured blouse and brown straw hat, proved to be a delightful speaker. Her
subject was "The New Freedom of Women," and as one who has found this new
freedom for women a great boon to personal success her remarks were most ap-
propriate. She believes the modern woman will not be satisfied to make a "cult
of house-keeping" nor with just rearing two children, when she considers the mani-
fold tasks and the large family with which her grandmother filled her life. She
believes woman will take a new place in this industrial civilization that is here.

Miss Mary Walter Smyer, president of City Panhellenic, presided. She was a
smart figure in a black suit with black straw and corsage roses and valley lilies.

At the conclusion of Mrs. Blair's address representatives from each sorority
took part in the pageant, which was an interesting part of the program. Miss
Rochelle Rodd Gachet ( P i ) , directed the following girls in this number: Alpha
Chi Omega, Zemma Singleton; Alpha Delta Pi, Eloise Bass; Alpha Gamma Delta,
Katherine Ivy; Alpha Omicron Pi, Charlotte Matthews (Tau Delta); Alpha Delta
Theta, Lonnell Smith; Beta Phi Alpha, Sylvia Sisson; Chi Omega, Jackie Hutche-
son; Delta Delta Delta, Mrs. Virginia Price Deason; Delta Zeta, Frances Mosley;
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mrs. James Lewis; Kappa Delta, Edna Earle Emith;
Pi Beta Phi, Kathleen Scott; Phi Mu, Olivia Prescott; Theta Upsilon, Rhona
Meriwether; Zeta T a u Alpha, Alice Mae Perry; "Mother Panhellenic," Mrs. Cecil
Hackney.

A chorus of fraternity women was directed by Mrs. Walter Heasty and the

rnusic by Gillespie Melody Makers added much to the pleasure of the guests.

—Birmingham News