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Delegates Stop at Panhellenic
House
-+- SUMMER AOII TRAVELERS coming to the
Panhellenic were nine memhers who had
attended Alpha Oniicron Pi convention in
Washington, D. C , and who held a honse
party immediately afterwards at the Pan-
hellenic. The delegates were entertained at a
tea given in the solarium, to which many local
AOn's came. The tea was presided over fay
Mrs. Stella Perry. The conventionists were:
Avis M. Hall ( B K ) ; Gala J . Pied ( A D ;
Alice McLean (T) ; Virginia Rembcrt ( I T ) ;
Irma Sigler ( N K ) ; Margery Sigler ( N K )
Hildegarde Mohan (KO) ; Gertrude Moore
(TA) ; Harry Gordon (HA).
Now crisp, autumn days at the Panhellenic
are hringing to this unique hostelry on the
East River in New York, the soher, solid
trunks of permanent residents, back from va-
cations, and the lobby has become almost emp-
tied of the piles of hand luggage bearing for-
eign labels, which were so gayly decorative
during the summer months. For during this
past summer, the Panhellenic became a brief
resting place for hundreds of travelers on
their way by ship to Europe, or by car to the
New England coasts and mountains. Wander-
ing members of the twenty fraternities which
built the Panhellenic, of which Alpha Omi-
cron Pi is one, together with their friends and
friends of friends, gave evidence that the
hotel is becoming known throughout the coun-
try as a comfortable place to park your be-
longings while you see New York, or do the
last bits of shopping before taking your
steamer. This "transient trade" has given
color and life during the months when many
permanent residents are away.
Now the winter residents are back, and the
regular life is getting under way, but there
are still warm days for the roof and solarium,
and to those who yet yearn for heights and
out-of-door places, the harvest moon over the
East River will prove no mean sight.
The Panhellenic management announces a
new program of planned entertainment. Dur-
ing the winter, there will be dances, concerts,
lectures, bridge parties, games nights, and
Sunday afternoon teas. In October, the Pan-
hellenic will celebrate its fifth anniversary
with a gala dinner and dance.
The floor set aside for young sorority girls
who are out of college two years or less, or
who are still students, where they can get any
room at the minimum rate of $10.00 and
double rooms at $15.00, will be continued this
year. These rooms are high up in the build-
ing with wonderful views of the city and
river. The floor is informal; doors are left
open; there is talking back and forth; there
is lending of articles to help a friend in need;
there are pajama parties in the laundry reJ
served for guests. Last year, the floor was a
great success. It was filled mostly by stu-
dents at various schools for art, fashions, re^
tailing, and so forth. It is the only floor
where radios may scream without hindrance.
The special floor for men, also instituted
last year, is popular, and will be continued.
On this floor live the men relatives, brothers]
husbands, couples, and families of 3 Mitchell
Place.
A new bus line was opened in June, which
passes the doors of the Panhellenic, going
north and south on First Avenue.
Pinckney Glantzberg Addresses
Seniors at Erskine
-f- PINCKNEY L E E ESTES GLANT/IIKRC; ( * ) ,
woman lawyer and adjuster of claims in
the insurance department of the state of New
York, did what no woman had ever done at
Erskine College, Due West, South C a r o l i n a -
she made the commencement address before
the graduating class at the recent commence-
ment of this historic college.
Erskine College is a co-educational institu-
tion situated in northwestern South Carolina
near the rolling red waters of the Savannah
River. It is located in a demure and some-
what quaint small town known as Due West
The college is almost a hundred years old.
Tin hospitable Scotch Irish folk of the town
bear such names as Grier, Pressly, McCain,
Young, Reid, Robinson, Brownlee and Gallo-
way. They are all proud of the college and of
its hundred years of wonderful history. These
people remember well the time when Pinckney
Lee Estes came to the college from Chester,
South Carolina. She liked the college and the
town, and the college and the town liked her.
The college has watched her career with in-
terest, as she passed along to a clerkship in
the large Seibel's insurance agency in Colum-
bia, South Carolina, to her position as bursar
in Winthrop College at Rock Hill, to her law
degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and
to her present important post in New York
City. And so they asked her to make the
commencement address.
She did well in her speech, making a hit
with the young graduates and with the thou-
sand people who heard her. While Pinckney
Lee was on her visit to the college community,
she took time out to address a book club in the
near-by city of Abbeville and to broadcast a
message over the station in the city of Green-
ville. She left for New York declaring that
she had had the time of her life. Certainly
those who heard her are ready to declare that
she made an uncommonly good speech at com-
mencement.—Edgar Long, Erskine College.