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Kathryn £iehler Qhosen sponsor forcl^egiment 'Daisy inkle ^ails for Surope

TO P P I N G a list of eleven co-eds honored DA I S Y H I N K L E (B4> '31), one of the
by the senior officers commanding the most accomplished and charming
University of Maryland regiment of the Re- Bloomington alumna? sailed to Europe this
summer to study on the cello. I n company
serve Officers Training Corps, Miss Kathryn with a party made up of her teacher Lan-
nart von Zweygberg (himself a celloist of
Siehler ( I I A ) , has been announced as spon- note), D r . and M r s . George Morris, Pro-
fessor Hoffzimer, Walter Keller, and George
sor of the unit f o r 1931-32. She was chosen K i d d , all of Indiana University, Daisy sailed
from New York on June 5 on the Saturnia.
by Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Watt. They cruised the Azore Islands, through
Gibraltar along the N o r t h coast of Africa
Cadet Majors Berger and Faber selected into Algeria. They continued through the
Straits of Messina to Naples, down around
Esther Hughes and Margaret Burdette the "toe of the boot" then to Venice, Milan,
and into Locarno. There Daisy spent seven
( I I A ) , respectively to act for the First and weeks studying cello.

Second battalions and their staffs. Cadet

Captain James Greely has rested regimen-

tal staff responsibilities i n Elga Jarboe

(IIA).

The sponsors, in addition to those named

above, are as f o l l o w s :

Hilda Wilson, chosen by Captain George Later the party visited Genoa, the
Riviera, to Cannes and Monte Carlo. I n
Openshaw, Co. A ; Minna Cannon ( I I A ) , August they sailed from Portugal and ar-
rived in New Y o r k August 18. Pleasure
chosen by Captain Wilbur Cissel, Co. B ; combined with work made an unusually
interesting trip from which Daisy returned
Vesta Lee Byrd, chosen by Captain Ralph studies.

Sterling, Co. C ; Kathleen Nestor, chosen by

Captain Arthur Turner, Co. D ; Florence

Peter, chosen by Captain John Doerr, Co. rested and zealous to continue her

E ; Frances Vaughn ( A l l ) , chosen by Cap- Her ambition now is to study further, and through a scholarship return and
spend a f u l l year in France and I t a l y . A l l AOII's can expect to hear f r o m Daisy
tain Raymond Koelle, Co. F ; and Genevieve Wright ( H A ) , chosen by Captain and her cello both here and abroad w i t h i n a few years.—By Gertrude Baily
Huntington, B * .
Claude Smith, Co. G.—Diamondback.

zAlpha 0 ^Models Qhaucers Characters Teacher is Co-Author of biology ^Book

H P W E N T Y dolls, representing a year's work i n research and a large amount T~ H R O U G H the initiative and ability of Mrs. Emily Eveleth Snyder (A'14), of
JL of time in the actual dressing, are on display in the seminar room of the Eng- this city and Joseph J. Dudleston of Utica, a former teacher at the local high
lish department of the University of Maine. school, a biology laboratory manual, k n o w n as a biology demonstration-assignment
book, has been' published and is already i n use not only in the local high school,
These dolls, representing twenty of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury but also in the high schools of Utica, Hudson, and Port Jervis. T o have the book
Tales are the w o r k of Miss Muriel Freeman ( r ) , who w i l l graduate in the class adopted in those schools so shortly after its publication is highly gratifying to its
of 1932 f r o m the University, and represent her semester reports i n English 53- authors and to their many friends.
54, the course i n Chaucer.
The book is composed of 92 pages and contains questions on various important
As a basis f o r her work Miss Freeman used Chaucer's o w n description of/1 subjects, covered in the biology course, w i t h a space after each where the answer
the characters in his Tales, the illustrations appearing in the Ellesmere manu- may be written, so that the matter of reviewing w o r k covered is greatly simpli-
script of the Tales, and histories of mediaeval costumes. fied for the pupils. The manual also contains a number of charts and drawings.

The dolls have been housed i n a glass case made especially for them. The Mrs. Snyder is the biology teacher at the local high school, and M r . Dudleston
characters represented are: the Knight, the Squire, the Yeomen, the Prioress, the is instructor of physics and chemistry at Utica High. The idea of such a book, and
Friar, the Merchant, the Clerk of Oxford, the M a n of L a w , the Franklin, the the assistance i t would be to their pupils, was conceived by the t w o about three
Cook, the Shipman, the Doctor, the Wife of Bath, the Parson, the Miller, the years ago, when M r . Dudleston was still a member of the local faculty, and they
Reeve, the Manciple, the Summoner, the Pardoner, and Chaucer himself. have since been working on the volume, at the same time using i t in their class-
rooms, as a result of which changes and improvements were made f r o m time
The course in Chaucer at the University is taught by D r . Ruth Crosby, as- to time. N o w the finished product is already in circulation and fulfilling the pur-
sistant professor of English.—Maine Campus. pose for which i t was prepared—Little Falls, N.Y., Evening Times

Qrand Officers Jfonored in J^os ^Angeles Qhi Delta Thanks Qonventioners

A L O V E L Y garden party was given Saturday, honoring Mrs. Muriel McKinney r T l H E girls of Chi Delta chapter wish to thank the convention delegates who
(A '15), and Miss Helen Haller (SI), who were elected to the grand council JL so kindly gave us the lovely tea napkins. We were so pleased to see so many
in the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority at the national convention held i n Denver recent- delegates in Boulder, and we hope that everyone w i l l come back to Colorado again.
ly. Mrs.. McKinney was elected Grand Vice President and Miss Haller, Grand • —Christine Gustafson ( X A )
Treasurer. M r s . Leroy Dixon, Jr. ( K 9 ) , of 1445 West Ninety-second Street, was
hostess at the affair, assisted by Mrs. Helene Collin ( A '13), Mrs. Charles Older
( A ) , and M r s . Edward Cornish ( N ) . — L o s Angeles Times