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Vhi Cfreshman Jfonored at (Convocation

U R I E L V O L K E R (Phi), was one of ISO
undergraduates selected at the recent

Honors Convocation at the University of Kan-
sas as honor student for 1930. The honor is
a big one when one considers that the selection
was made from a student body of 4,500.

Muriel is a freshman in the School of
Fine Arts, and her piano instructor tells us that
Phi can well be proud of her, for she is des-
tined to do much with her music. I t was in-
deed an honor for Muriel to be chosen, for
only two Freshmen in her school received the
place, and of the two Muriel made the higher
grades.

In this little honor student, Phi has both

a talented pianist and a scholar, for Muriel

found herself at the end of the semester with

twelve hours of "A" and three of " B . " Be-

cause of these fine grades the Chancellor wrote

Muriel Volkcr (Phi), was se- a letter to her parents filled with praises for
lected ts an honor student at her work.
Honors Coni'ocation at the Uni-
Now, just a bit about Muriel herself. She
versity of Kansas. is a golden-haired, blue-eyed lassie with a

sunny disposition—a veritable Goldilocks. This summer she intends to teach

music, and is already organizing a class. She has also taught other summers, so

she is quite experienced.—By Leah Mae Kimmel

Cfirst Teacher ^presents U. <§.' in Sngland

ISS E . L O U I S E N O Y E S (Rho '11), head of the English department in the
L Santa Barbara high school, has been selected by the Santa Barbara branch of
the English Speaking union to go to Europe this summer to make a study of
English schools and English social conditions, it was announced yesterday by Robert
Hunter, president of the organization.
Miss Noyes will be the first American teacher sent from the United States
to Great Britain under this auspices, though the members of the English Speaking
union in England sent a teacher to this country last year for a stay of several
months. T h e idea was suggested by Walter Hines Page, when he was ambassador
to Great Britain, and the fund raised last year in England to send a British
teacher to this country was called the Walter Hines Page Foundation.

The local union has raised a fund for paying the expenses of Miss Noyes on
her tour of Europe. The fund was contributed by Major and Mrs. Max Fleiscn-
mann, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart C . Chatfield-Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Nelson,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Isham, Mrs. Oakleigh Thome and George Owen Knapp.

President Hunter stated that Miss Noyes will be the guest of members of tne
English Speaking union in their homes in Great Britain while she is on her visit
to that country, and that she will be afforded every facility to visit the schools
and study school methods there, also to visit art galleries, museums, and any other
institutions in which she may be interested.

The theory of this exchange of teachers between the two countries is to famiua»-
ize them with the methods aud customs prevailing in the country they visit, in tn
hope that on their return to their native city they can become an influence u»
furthering the friendship between the two countries by their work among fel'0
teachers and students in their home cities.—Santa Barbara Morning Press.