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CONVENTION ACTION

Gamma Phi Beta voted Yes on a n t i - H i g h School fraternity resolution, and
further to adopt same as their policy even i f a l l other Congress Fraternities
were not agreed.

Provided for a Visiting Delegate, and f o r Scholarship and Examination Com-
mittees.

T H E SIXTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF D E A N S AND ADVISERS OF WOMEN

I N STATE UNIVERSITIES

The above title appears upon the program of what is b r i e f l y termed "The
Deans' Conference." This organization of Deans of Women, which met at the
H o t e l L a Salle i n Chicago, December 16, 17 and 18, 1913, kindly invited the
National Pan-Hellenic Congress to send three delegates to meet with them at
three o'clock on Wednesday, December 17, when is was planned to devote the
time to a discussion of women's fraternities.

The three delegates appointed to represent the N . P. C. were Mrs. Louis F .
Nafis, Deputy Chairman of N . P. C , Mrs. E. N . Parmelee, Secretary of N . P.
C , and Mrs. J. L . Lardner, Chairman of the Committee on U n i f o r m House
Rules. Mrs. J. H . McElroy, Mrs. H . M . Collins and Mrs. Wheelihan also
were present.

Dean Martin of Cornell University was Chairman of the Conference but be-
ing unable to attend this session had asked Dean Jordon of the University of
Michigan to preside. Dean Austin of the University of Washington acted as
Secretary. The list of deans present is as follows.

Name University Name University

Miss Antoinette Bigelow, Colorado Miss Eva Fulton, North Dakota

Mrs. Gertrude S. M a r t i n , Cornell Miss Mary Graham, Nebraska

Miss Carrie L. Denise, Indiana Miss Caroline Breyfogle, Columbus, O.

Miss Anna M . Klingenhagen, Iowa Miss Louisa Brooke, Oklahoma

Miss Kyle, Illinois Miss Ruth Guppy, Oregon

Miss Marion White, Kansas Miss Bertha Terrell, Vermont

Miss Anna J. Hamilton, Kentucky Miss Isabelle Austin, Washington

Mrs. Frederick Jordon, Michigan Miss Susan Moore, West Virginia

Miss Eva Johnston, Missouri Mrs. Lois K . Mathews, Wisconsin

Miss Margaret Sweeney, Minnesota

GUESTS OF T H E CONFERENCE

Miss Irma Voigt, Athens, Ohio Miss Marian Talbot, Chicago

Miss Mary R. Potter, Northwestern

A f t e r i n f o r m a l greetings and various introductions the meeting was called to
order by Dean Jordon.

Mrs. Nafis gave a report of the principal features of the recent National Pan-
Hellenic Congress, in which the Deans would be most interested, touching up-
on the resolution i n regard to high school sororities, the adoption of u n i f o r m
house rules and of uniform scholarship blanks, sophomore pledging, the Col-
legiate Bureau of Occupations, the desire of the N . P. C. to encourage f r a t e r n i t y
women to be broad-minded, and the plan f o r better chaperonage f o r f r a t e r n i t y
houses—concluding with the assurance to the Deans that the N . P. C. stands
ready to co-operate with college authorities in all matters f o r the betterment of
conditions surrounding college young women.

Mrs. McElroy spoke in regard to l i m i t i n g the social activities of college stu-
dents and of the u n i f o r m scholarship blanks.