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the president of one of the Utica banks. Marriage interrupted her
business career, and we know that Utica bank president rued the
day that ever M r . James C. Huntington came across his efficient
secretary's path. Various fraternity activities, from helping out
at the house during rush week in Ithaca to serving as District
Superintendent over the Atlantic district, plus her business training
will make her a wonderfully efficient Grand Secretary.

Rose Gardner Marx is a California product, a member of
Sigma chapter and a graduate of the University of California,
class of 1911. Not satisfied with a B . A . degree and a Phi Beta
Kappa key, she returned to college f o r an M . A . i n Latin. A n
active worker i n Sigma during her undergraduate days, Rose did
not let the possession of two degrees and a wedding ring prevent
her f r o m continuing her work in Alpha Omicron Pi after gradua-
tion. I n 1915 she was chairman of the San Francisco convention.
From 1919-1925 she was our very efficient Extension Officer.
The Founders recognized her service to the fraternity and her
knowledge and understanding of its organization and ideals, by
selecting her as a life member of the Rituals and Traditions' Com-
mittee. Besides managing her home and her two small daughters,
she runs an insurance brokerage business i n San Francisco.
Sound business training and years of f a i t h f u l fraternity service
make Rose Marx a prize Grand Treasurer.

Josephine S. Pratt of Alpha graduated f r o m Barnard college
in 1907. She attributes her presence as laboratory assistant in the
New York City Department of Health shortly afterwards to the
lack of vocational advisors at that time. But those who know her
well place the blame on a scientific interest in bugs f r o m her earli-
est years. She is said to have consumed a June bug at the age
of three. A t any rate, a laboratory assistant she became, and her
professional interests are still scientific. During the war she was
bacteriologist f o r Sanitary Unit 16, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
A f t e r the Armistice she was in various, hospitals and private
laboratories until she became, in 1921, Bacteriologist and Seroli-
gist at the F i f t h Avenue Hospital in New York City. Her busi-
ness hours are spent over the test tube and microscope, and she is
Vice-President of the New York State Bacteriological Associa-
tion, but she finds time to vary her outside interests. She has