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Come Back Commencement !

May 23 (Sat.) May 26 (Tue.)

Class Reunions

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Class At Large

Parades, luncheons, stunts! Lots of pep and plenty of
fun. Make your plans to be here.

The Class at Large holds
a reunion every year!

Ol)e .Agnes Scott .Alumnae Quarter l?

Vol. Ill OCTOBER. 1924 No. 1

Entered as second class matter under the Act of Congress, August, 1912.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE TOWER OF MAIN Frontispiece

THE IDEAL OF THE COLLEGE Dr. E. A. Alderman

TO ALL ALUMNAE, GREETINGS .. ...Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson, '12

AGNES SCOTT'S ACADEMIC STANDING.... .-Lucile Alexander, '11

THE LOTUS EATERS FAREWELL, POEM ... .Marjorie Lowe, '23

COLLEGE AFTER COLLEGE ...Nell Buchanan, '11

BOOK REVIEWS f_ Miss Louise McKinney

IN THE DARK THY POEMS WRITE Alice Virden, '23

ALUMNAE GATHERINGS
In Atlanta, Ga.
In Montreat, N. C.
In Richmond, Va.

ON THE CAMPUS

Miss MacDougall is Honored ',',' ,'\*'j , ' ''''..

Sophomore Week ' '

The Lecture Association ' ' ',

CONCERNING OURSELVES
Alumnae Association

Report of the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association
Minutes of the Executive Committee
Minutes of the Alumnae Council
Report of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club
Report of the Decatur Agnes Scott Club

ANNOUNCEMENTS

OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION

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The Tower of Main

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"My ideal for this university is that it should be a
place where there is always a breath of freedom in
the air; where a sound and various learning is taught
heartily without sham or pretense; where the life
and teachings of Jesus furnish forth the ideal of
right living and true manhood; where manners are
gentle and courtesies daily multiply between teacher
and taught; where all classes and conditions and
beliefs are welcome, and men may rise in earnest
striving by the might of merit; where wealth is no
prejudice, and poverty no shame; where honorable
labor, even rough labor of the hands, is glorified by
high purpose and strenuous desire for the clearer air
and the larger view; where there is a will to serve
all high ends of a great state struggling up out of
ignorance into general power; where men are trained
to observe closely, to imagine vividly, to reason accu-
rately, and to have about them some humility and
some toleration; where, finally, truth, shining pa-
tiently like a star, bids us advance, and we will not
turn aside."

Dr. E. A. Alderman,
Ex-President of U. of N. C.

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TO ALL ALUMNAE GREETINGS

In this first bulletin of the year 1924-1925, I wish to greet the mem-
bers of the Alumnae Association, to tell you of the things we are striving to
do this year, and to ask your best wishes, your helpful advice, and your
co-operation in these plans. As you see by the reports of last year, given in
June, the Association, in all its branches, is a splendidly functioning organi-
zation and, with our beautiful Alumnae House as a centre of our activities,
with our efficient secretary, Miss Nell Buchanan, and our Alumnae Bulletin,
we are planning for an even more helpful Association.

There seems to be no better way to accomplish this than by putting
the Association on the sound basis of as nearly perfect an organization as
we can achieve, building on the work of those who have gone before us.
Immediately you see the records in our Alumnae office must be correct, we
must have a geographic file as well as the card index system giving necessary
information about every girl who ever attended Agnes Scott, and a file also
of the married names of our girls. To accomplish this as quickly as possible
Miss Buchanan is bending every energy and the office will soon feel that
no request for information about former students can come to us which we
cannot answer quickly and accurately.

Of course, this work lays the foundation for our club formation plan.
It is our ambition this year, under the leadership of Mrs. DeLeon Little,
chairman of Local Clubs Committee, to form several new clubs in the towns
where we have a large and interested group of Agnes Scott girls. The
Atlanta and Decatur Clubs have been such a joy to the Association and to
their members that we feel it is worth every effort to form other clubs, giving
the Alumnae an opportunity to meet together, to refresh their memories of
college days, to hear the news from Agnes Scott in short, to keep an in-
timate connection with the best college in the world. October 24th is to
be called our Club Formation Day, and we hope to tell you about the good
results in our next bulletin.

Our third endeavor this year is to be the closer linking of the classes
to the work of the Association. Mrs. Hazen Smith, chairman of Class
Organization, has already begun an intensive campaign to organize the
classes and is making plans especially for reunion classes and their day in
the commencement program.

These are only a few of the plans which present themselves to us at this
time, for the vision of what we can do in and by means of our Association
for our college, our community and ourselves is great and engrossing.

Nothing could be more appreciated than letters from you telling us
what you think of the plans, and any suggestions you can make "to promote
the welfare of the College and its Alumnae by increasing the interest of its
members in the college and in each other", which is our purpose.

Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson,
President of the Alumnae Association.

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AGNES SCOTT'S ACADEMIC STANDING

Lucile Alexander, ' 1 1

If there is one thing more than another of which Agnes Scott Alumnae
can be proud, it is the readiness with which every standardizing agency has
responded to any claim to recognition made by Agnes Scott. Our late presi-
dent, Dr. F. H. Gaines, was known in the educational world for his fine
integrity; when he saw fit to make a claim for his college, there was a general
conviction that he was ready to substantiate his claim. In 1906 Agnes
Scott was chartered as a College. The very next year, in 1907. the "Asso-
ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States" admitted
Agnes Scott to membership, Agnes Scott being the first institution in Georgia
and the third College for Women in the South to receive this recognition.
From that time, Agnes Scott graduates were received as members of the
"Southern Association of College Women." (S. A. C. W. )

In 1920 our College was placed on the approved list of the Association
of American Universities, an honor which gives international recognition
to our B. A. degree. A member of the class of '24 (Miss Vivian Little of
Atlanta) is now in Paris where she is to put to the test at the Sorbonne
her B. A. degree, having received one of the forty-two French scholarships
offered by the French government to American College Students.

In 1921 graduates of Agnes Scott were accepted as eligible to member-
ship in the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (A. C. A.), the organization
of the women graduates of eastern colleges. The American Association of
University Women (A. A. U. W. ) three years ago was organized by merg-
ing the A. C. A. and the S. A. C. W. This great national Association of
more than 18,000 members and 280 organized branches, (one or more in
each state, one each in Shanghai, Tokio, Manila, Honolulu. Faris) accepts our
graduates as members without the restriction or probation prescribed for
many Southern institutions. One of the important committees of the A. A.
U. W. is the Committee on Recognition of Colleges. This committee is
composed of four regional committees whose duty it is to investigate the
colleges seeking recognition and membership in the A. A. U. W. It will
certainly interest every Agnes Scott alumna to know that Miss Cleo Hearon,
head of the department of History at Agnes Scott is chairman of the South
Atlantic Division of this committee. Anyone interested in the requirements
which an institution must meet in order to be admitted to national member-
ship, has only to write for a copy of a booklet published by the Committee
on Recognition entitled "Information Concerning Institutional Membership
in the A. A. U. W."

Agnes Scott is rapidly becoming much more widely known. The
present student body has students from Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois, California,
Utah, Mexico, Cuba, Belgium, China, Japan, Korea. At the opening of
the school year, President McCain received an application for entrance to
Agnes Scott for the second semester from a native Korean graduate from a

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Christian College in Japan. The Japanese government refused recognition
of her work until she has had training in an American College. The matter
was taken up with the State Department at Washington. The letter to
President McCain stated that Agnes Scott was approved by the Secretary of
Labor and instructions to that effect had been sent by a circular telegram to
every consular service in the U. S. This is our first bit of publicity by wire!
We have never applied for recognition by any State or University
classifying agency without obtaining in full the standing sought. Agnes
Scott Alumnae, are we all living up to our opportunities and assuming the
responsibilities that come with the privileges? Have you shown your appre-
ciation of the recognition of the A. A. U. W. by joining the branch in your
town, or if there is none, by becoming a national member? If you haven't,
do it today. The good name and standing of your college in the Association
depend on our response to the call for increased membership. Do your duty
and yours will be the joys that come from a work done in common with
those who share your interest and your ideals, and an interest and a contact
that goes beyond the confines of your village, your state and your nation.

The Anna Young Alumnae House

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COLLEGE AFTER COLLEGE

The term "College After College," when used in the ALUMNAE QUAR-
TERLY, has a definite meaning. It consists of a plan whereby the faculty will
co-operate with the Alumnae Association to direct the reading or study of
any Agnes Scott Alumna who may desire their help and suggestions. This
plan is not unique to our college. All over the country, the colleges are
beginning to feel that their responsibility to their graduates does not abruptly
end with the conferring of degrees. In a recent edition of the Vassar Quar-
terly, there is an article which summarizes the activities of the various uni-
versities and colleges along this line. The article states that at Princeton,
for example, the University sends out bulletins to its graduates, giving a
statement of recent developments in the field of learning. At Columbia,
Home Study Courses under the University Extension Department have been
inaugurated particularly to gratify the desires and meet the needs of the
alumni. Amherst sends out to her alumni reading lists in the following
subjects: Astronomy. Biblical Literature, History, Industrialism. Literature,
Philosophy, and Political Science. The Association there will provide book
lists with annotations, outlines of college courses, bulletins, personal corres-
pondence, conferences at Amherst, etc., on request. Smith has inaugurated
the plan under the title of "Directed Reading." and Vassar is using her new
Alumnae House as headquarters for her educational secretary, who will try
to satisfy Vassar's demand for adult education.

Are Agnes Scott alumnae interested in the College After College move-
ment that is gaining headway in our leading institutions ? Dr. Meiklejohn,
former President of Amherst College, is quoted as having said. "I sometimes
think that the only real test of our teaching is that of the extent to which
the pupils continue to study our subjects after they leave us. If philosophy
be successfully taught, it must become a permanent intellectual interest from
which the learner will never depart. If economics be not studied by the
graduate, it was studied to very little effect by the undergraduate." (Vassar
Quarterly, August, 1924). Agnes Scott girls are ambitious, are interested
still in the studies that stimulated us during our college days. Many of us
have perhaps let our reading and studying drop, because of no authoritative
guide or plan to follow. The book reviews which have been printed from
time to time in the QUARTERLY have been designed to help alumnae select
good current literature to read, but some of the alumnae desire individual help.
If enough of us are interested, we are assured of the co-operation of the faculty
to advise us, and help us work out a feasible plan for our greatest benefit.
Now again do we have the opportunity to become essentially a part of the
College, and to broaden and enrich our lives through the cultivation of our
minds.

Your opinion as to the value of "College After College" would be read
with interest at the Alumnae Office, and any suggestions will be given prompt
attention.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Louise McKinney

Department of English, Agnes Scott College

Among recent books of fiction there are a few outstanding publications.
"The Little French Girl," by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, holds a very high
place in the affection of those who have read it. And this not only because
of the poignancy of the story, but because of its exquisite literary craftsman-
ship. Gamaliel Bradford speaks of its "surpassing perfection of workman-
ship," and Dorothy Canfield Fisher calls it a "lovely and truth-telling story."
The author of the book is an American who is married to Basil de Selincourt.
himself a writer of reputation.

Another novel that holds justly a high place among discriminating
readers is "So Big," by Edna Ferber. also an American. The story holds
your interest from beginning to end. But it is the characterization of the
mother that makes the book linger in the memory.

"The End of the House of Alard" by Sheila Kaye Smith, an English
woman, is one of the strongest of the recent novels. It is not a book that
will allow one to sleep while it is in one's hand, for it is too gripping for
that. And in spite of much that is unpleasant in the story, it is distinctly an
acquisition to have read it.

"The Lost Lady," by Willa Cather, published in 1923, has some of
the poignancy and much of the literary charm of the "Little French Girl."
It is one of the few novels recently published that will bear re-reading.

There have been a number of unusually interesting biographies pub-
lished during the past two years. Among others there is "Ariel." by Andre
Maurois, translated into English by Ella D'Arcy. Those who have read
it in the original say that this translation is an excellent one. It is a life of
Shelley, as the title may indicate, written by one who rightly understands
that poet's nature. The author does not go into a study of his poetry, his
object is to make his readers understand Shelley and his surroundings.
Whether he is prejudiced or not in favor of Shelley, he has succeeded in put-
ting out an eminently readable book.

Another biography, and one that has called out only favorable com-
ment is "The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson," by her neice, Martha
Dickinson Bianchi. This is one of the books in which is found a style
commensurate with its subject. One sees the lovely poet, always in white,
as she seems to flit through the lives of her family and friends, as loving as
she is beloved. Her letters, of course, are as interesting as she is. This
biography is a beautifully written book about a rarely lovely character.
Both of these books stand out because they have left to us our ideals. Fol-
lowing the example of Strachey in his "Life of Queen Victoria." a number of
biographies have been written recently with apparently the avowed intention
of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Such a

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piece of truth-telling is Harold Nicolson's "Life of Tennyson," pronounced
by one critic "a beautifully sincere essay in salvage." He also has written a
"Life of Byron" published this year (1924) .

Another biography that should be of interest to students both of his-
tory and literature is that of "Erasmus" by Perserved Smith.

Among the books of essays published during this year (1924) there
is certainly one outstanding collection, "My Dear Cornelia," by Stuart P.
Sherman, an American idealist, or one who believes that there are ideals
among Americans. In this book we find discussions of modern girls, relig-
ion, the eighteenth amendment, and other similar subjects.

There have been published in 1924 two books of poetry that will
interest Southern students: "Skylines and Horizons," by DuBose Hey ward,
of Charleston, S. C. and "Ships in Harbor." by David Morton, of Louis-
ville, Ky. The first book is worth reading if only for its dedication But
there are in it other poems that have both strength and beauty. The poems
in "Ships in Harbor" are most delicately and beautifully wrought.

THE LOTUS-EATER'S
FAREWELL

If I can keep my mind like a polished shield,

And hold it up before me as I go,
I shall not fear the darts that any wield,

Or hesitate to face the strongest foe.
If I can keep my heart like some bright stone

That scatters light in myriad sparkling
hues,
I shall not fear to go my way alone,

Or murmur over treasures I must lose.

Forgive me if I linger not, my friend.

With you beneath this fragrant lotus tree,
For I have heard a voice that whispered down
the wind
Of new delights beyond the calling sea:
And blossoms drifting 'round your lovely

lace
Will haunt my steps for but a little space.

Marjorie Lowe, 'lb.

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AGNES SCOTT MEETINGS

On September 1 6 at the
IN ATLANTA home of Carol Stearns Wey,
'12. Carol and Fannie G.
Mayson Donaldson were joint hostesses to the
Atlanta Agnes Scott Club. Dr. McCain and
Miss Hopkins were present, and gave inter-
esting talks about the many happenings of
note on the campus. About fifty alumnae
were present.

After the business meeting, a pleasant so-
cial hour was enjoyed, and lovely refresh-
ments were served. Jane Harwell Rutland is
the President of the Club.

Our alumnae selected
IN MONTREAT the Copper Kettle Tea
Room as the ideal place
to hold an Agnes Scott dinner this summer
because it is run by two Agnes Scott girls,
Kathleen Kennedy and Louise Ashe, for the
benefit of the Grundy Mission School,
where they teach. July the sixteenth found
this attractive little mountain tea room filled
with Agnes Scott girls of different ages, hav-
ing as a common bond to draw them togeth-
er, the love of one alma mater.

Mrs. Hazen Smith (Ruth Slack) presided
as toastmistress. introducing first our dis-
tinguished alumna. Mrs. Andrew Bramlett

(Minnie Mae Maclntyre), now president of
the Women's Synodical Auxiliary, and chair-
man of the Woman's Advisory Committee
of the Southern Presbyterian Church, the
highest honor that may be conferred on any
woman in the Church. Mrs. Bramlett told
of some interesting escapades of the Agnes
Scott girls in the '90s. Mrs. W. A. Turner

(Annie Kirk Dowdell) added to the rem-
iniscences of early days, while Mrs. Motte
Martin (Bessie Sentell) made an appeal to
uphold the standards of Agnes Scott. Short
talks were made by Mrs. Leigh R. Scott

(Margaret Anderson, '15), and Beth Mc-
Clure. '23.

Elizabeth Lynn, of the present student
body, '27, told of the new Agnes Scott
athletic camp, Pine Lodge, built out at Stone
Mountain during the past year, and Eliza-
beth Norflcct. '27, gave an account of some
of the amusing incidents of the past year.
Besides the alumnae who were there, the
occasion was honored by the presence of one
of the senior members of the Board of Trus-

tees, Mr. L. C. Mandeville, who expressed
his pleasure at being there, and by our
President, Dr. J. R. McCain, who outlined
the immediate building program of the Col-
lege.

Miss Grace Chay, of Korea, the especially
invited guest of the alumnae, who entered
Agnes Scott this fall, told of how long ago,
in that far distant land she had heard of
Agnes Scott through Mrs. J. F. Preston
(Annie Wiley), and later of how she had
come to know other Agnes Scott graduates.
Always she had thought it a most wonder-
ful place, and had longed to go there, and
now her dreams were almost realized. Her
talk made the alumnae feel their responsi-
bility to uphold the standards of Agnes
Scott, so she and others like her would
not be disappointed.

After the dinner was over, the alumnae
sang "Hottentot." "Whooper Up," and the
Alma Mater, and left feeling that they had
really had a bit of Agnes Scott.

Among those present were Mrs. Andrew
Bramlett (Minnie Mae Maclntyre), '96,
Mrs. C. K. Henderson (Nell Mandeville) ,
'99. Mrs. W. A. Turner (Annie Kirk
Dowdell), '02, Mrs. Motte Martin (Bessie
Sentell). '03. Mrs. Hazen Smith (Ruth
Slack). '12. Sarah Williams, ex '13, Char-
lotte Jackson, '14, Mrs. Leigh R. Scott
(Margaret Anderson) ,'15, Grace Harris, '15,
Kathleen Kennedy, '14. Louise Ashe, '14.
Eloise Knight, '23. Beth McClure, '23, Nan
Lingle. '26, Nancy Lou Knight, '27, Eliza-
beth Lynn. '17. Elizabeth Norfleet, '27,
Elizabeth Lilly. '17. Elizabeth Ruff. '28,
Grace Carr, '26. and Miriam Preston, '27.

Dr. McCain was re-
IN RICHMOND cently asked to be present
in Richmond, Virginia, to
speak at the meeting of the Woman's Edu-
cational Alliance, on the subject of the ad-
ministration of student aids. He was met
at the station by a group of resident Agnes
Scott alumnae, and entertained at breakfast.
Both Dr. McCain and the alumnae enjoyed
this "get-together" in Richmond, and they
discussed at length plans for the develop-
ment of the College.

Among those who were present were
Nannie Campbell. '23, Mary White Cald-
well, ex '23, Beth McClure, '23, and Jose-
phine Logan, '23.

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ON THE CAMPUS

MISS MARY STUART McDOUGALL
IS HONORED

Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science
to Print Thesis.

The following is a very modest account
of Miss MacDougall's (head of the Biology
Department) wonderful discovery while do-
ing research work in Embryology. It is of
so much value to the scientific world that
an English publisher has asked that it be
given a place in the "Quarterly Journal of
Microscopical Science." This is one of the
leading biological publications and has a
wide circulation both abroad and in this
country. Agnes Scott should, and does,
greatly feel the honor that has come to Miss
MacDougall and to the college in having
her as one of our faculty members espe-
cially as she has refused some very flattering
offers in order to come back to Agnes Scott.

"Miss MacDougall, head of the depart-
ment of Biology, who has been doing re-
search for the past two years, has just learned
that her paper. 'Cytological Observations on
Chlemydodent Ciliates,' with descriptions of
the Maturation Phenomena in Diploid and
Tetraploid Forms of Chilodon Uncinatus, is
to appear in the Quarterly Journal of Micro-
scopic Science.

"Prof. Goodrich, who is editor of this
journal, while on a visit to this country last
summer, saw the paper at Woods Hole, and,
being interested in the tetraploid form, sug-
gested that it be sent to the Q. J. M. S."

SOPHOMORE WEEK ENDS WITH
STUNT NIGHT

The Sophomores, as usual, enjoyed to
the fullest their privileges of upper-classmen
during Freshman-Sophomore Week. During
the week the Freshmen were at the mercy
of the Sophomores and were compelled to
obey all their commands and instructions

The initiation ended on Saturday night
when all disobedient Freshmen were tried at
the Rat Court, and sentenced to perform va-
rious tasks.

The rules for the Freshmen as read in
chapel by the Sophomore committee, attired
in Senior caps and gowns were:

1 . All Freshmen must be able to sing
any tune written since 1492.

2. All Freshmen must be able to sing the
laundry list.

3. All Freshmen must be able to sing the
stations between Decatur and Atlanta.

4. Freshmen must appear on the campus
attired in light dresses, on backward, with
dark hose striped with white chalk, baby
caps, rubber bibs, name placards and abso-
lutely without cosmetics.

5. Stunts are to be given each night by
different groups of Freshmen.

Freshman and Sophomore rivalry reached
its height on October 4th. when each class
presented a stunt before the college com-
munity. The winner of the stunt this year
was the Sophomore Class, who now has the
privilege of being the custodian of the Black
Cat for the current year.

LECTURE ASSOCIATION SECURES
PROMINENT SPEAKERS

The first lecture of the year that has taken
place under the auspices of the Lecture As-
sociation, was that of Mr. Stephen Leacock,
who has been called America's foremost
humorist. Mr. Leacock quite captivated his
audience with his talk on "Frenzied Fic-
tion."

Among other speakers who have been
asked to lecture at Agnes Scott during the
current year are Fannie Hurst, Carl Van
Doren, Editor of the Century Magazine,
Gutzon Borglum. the sculptor, Carl Wilson
Baker, the poetess, and others who will be
announced later.

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Concerning Ourselves

Please send all news for this column to your Class Secretary, or to the Alumnae Office

Alumnae Marriages

Sallie H. Carrere, '15, to Mr. James S. Bussy,
Jr.

Marguerite Stevens, '17, to Mr. James Duer
Price.

Bessie Ham. '19. to Mr. Thomas Leonhardt
Harmon.

Dorothy Havis. '21, to Mr. Joseph Charles Mc-
Cullough, of New York.

Edith M. Davis, '22, to Mr. Lanham Croley, of
Dallas, Texas.

Eunice Dean, to Mr. Harold Major.

Charlotte Keesler, '23, to Mr. LeGrand Everett.

Sarah Belle Brodnax, '23, to Mr. Granger Han-
sell.

Olive Hardwick, '18, to Rev. Eason Cross, Los
Angeles, Calif.

Marguerite Watkins, '21, to Mr. William F.
Gocdman, of Biloxi, Miss.

Clara Whips, '16. to Dr. William M. Dunn,
of Atlanta.

Maud Foster. '23, to Mr. E. L. Jackson, of
Cleveland, Ohio.

The following engagements are
announced:

Gene Calloway, '22, to Mr. Kenneth Holmes
Merry.

Lucile Little, '23, to Mr. Neal Morgan, of
Heflin, Ala.

Elizabeth Lockhart, '23, to Mr. Victor Manget
Davis, of Atlanta.

Elizabeth Flake. '23, to Mr. Frederick W. Cole,
Jr., of Conyers, Ga.

Annabel Burkhead, ex '24, to Mr. E. H.
Greene.

Born To

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hogshead (Margaret Mc-
Laughlin. '21). a daughter.

News By Classes

1893 Secretary, Mary Josephine (Barnett)
Martin, (Mrs. A. V.), Clinton, S. C.

1894 Secretary. Mary Neel Kendrick (Mrs. W.
J.I, Fort McPherson. Ga.

1895 Secertary. Winifred Quarterman, Way-
cross, Ga.

1896 Secretary. Mary Ethel Davis, Decatur,
Ga.

1897 Secretary, Cora Strong, N. C. C. W.,
Greensboro, N. C.

1899 Secretary, Nellie Mandeville Henderson,
(Mrs. C. K.L Carrollton, Ga.

Bernice (Chiversi Smith (Mrs. Chas. B.I, of
Savannah, writes that her daughter is to enter
Agnes Scott. She has a son at the University
of Georgia. Bernice is active and helpful in
club and church life in Savannah.

Nell (Mandeville I Henderson spent the entire
summer at Montreat. Her son has entered the
McCallie School for Boys, at Chattanooga. She
is getting up a booklet advertising Nacoochee
Institute, the Synod's mountain school, and is
planning to spend the first week in October
with Mr. and Mrs. Coit, at the school.

An interesting letter has come to us, written
on stationery bearing the imposing heading,
"Drs. Winn and Winn, Clayton, Ala." We take
pleasure in printing excerpts from it :

May 23, 1924.
Dear Nellie (Mrs. Henderson):

I was glad to get our "President's" letter. I
am sorry I can't be at A. S. C. the 26th. I was
in Columbus recently, spent a night with Mabel,
and we talked over aTT our "old" friends and A.
S. C. days. I came through Decatur a few
years ago and walked through the Main build-
ing our only one. A little girl followed me
down the hall suspiciously and then asked me
what I wanted as though I were an intruder. I
felt like (don't let Miss McKinney see this Eng-
lish ) saying to her what are you doing here
and why do you speak to me in that tone. I was
here before you were born !

Wouldn't it be fine if we all could go back ?

As for news Somebody asked "Aunt Polly,"
one of our people, once, "where do you live?"
and she said, "Way down to the back side o' the
world." We don't have much news down here.
You asked about my children. I have six four
nieces and two nephews no husband 1 I am one
of the Drs. Winn above my father, 82 years old,
is the other. It is the finest work that ever
was but the "scaringest." It keeps me praying
all the time. If I get a call to somebody an
emergency while I am running to it I'm praying
that I may have sense enough to know what it
is and then know what to do and do it. If it
isn't an emergency and I have time I go for
help beforehand. I don't see how one who
hasn't that Help can go into the Doctoring
business.

I am just remembering that you said you would
show this letter to Miss Buchanan Don't you!

Your friend,
Nannie Wir.n.

1900 Secretary, Ethel Alexander Gaines (Mrs.
Lewis M.l, 18 Park Lane. Atlanta. Ga.

1901 Secretary, Adeline Arnold (Loridans),
(Mrs. Charles), 16 E. 15th St., Atlanta.

1902 Secretary, Laura Caldwell Edmonds
(Mrs. A. S.), 240 King St., Portland, Ore.

1903 Secretary, Eileen Gober, Marhtt i. Ga.

1904 Secretary. Lois Johnson Aycock (Mrs. C.
G.I. 170 Penn Ave., Atlanta.

Annie Shapard is teacher of English in the
Coosa County. Alabama. High School, and with
her usual enthusiasm is very much in love with
her work. She and her sister, Jeannette Shap-
pard, are doing a splendid work throughout
the county by originating and conducting a
circulating library. Books are obtained from
the library in Montgomery and the Shapard
girls and their auto are taking much pleasure
and real benefit to many homes.

1905 Secretary, Mabel McKowen, Lindsey, La.

1906 Secretary. Ethel McDonald Castellow,
Cuthbert. Ga.

The marriage of Mary Kelly to Mr. John Van
de Erve has been announced. They will be at
home in Summerville, S. C.

Annie King is living at her home in Selma,
Ala., and is a popular teacher there.

Ida Lee Hill Irvin (Mrs. I. I.. Jr.), is living
in Washington, Ga. Her husband is very suc-
cessful in business, political and social circles,

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and they have three lovely children a daughter,
and two sons. Ida Lee makes frequent visits
to Atlanta, and keeps up a lively interest in her
Alma Mater.

Ethel McDonald Castellow (Mrs. B. I.), lives
in her childhood home, Cuthbert. Her husband
is a lawyer, and they have one child, Gertrude
McDonald Castellow, ten years old.

All members of the Class of 1906 are requested
to write news concerning themselves to the
Secretary.

1907 Secretary, Sarah (Boals) Spinks, 501
Gloria Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.

1908 Secretary, Louise Shipp Chick, 306 C. St.,
N. W., Washington, D. C.

Lizzabel Saxon is now living with her brother
and sister-in-law (Zollie McArthur, '14), who
have moved to Decatur. Lizzabel has bobbed
her hair.

1909 Secretary, Margaret McCallie, 611 Pal-
metto St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

1910 Secretary, Agnes (Nicolassen) Wharton,
(Mrs. T. J.), Central City, Ky.

1911- Secretary, Theodosia ( Willingham ) An-
derson, (Mrs. W. W.), 63 Avery Drive, Atlanta,
Ga.

Gladys (Lee) Kelly (Mrs. H. B.), keeps busy
with her three little girls at her home in Monti-
cello, but does not neglect her piano.

1912 Secretary, Marie (Maclntvre) Scott (Mrs.
J. T. )

Ruth Slack Smith recently spent a week at the
Alumnae House, on an official visit to the Col-
lege. She made quite a "hit" with the girls,
who brought to her all their college problems.

1913 Secretary, Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. J. S.),
North Decatur Road, Atlanta, Ga.

Helen (Smith) Taylor (Mrs. J. W.I, has a
young daughter, Viola, in school this year, and
a young son at home. She and her husband have
recently been to New York to a medical con-
vention.

Kate Clark spent the summer studying Italian
at the University of California, visiting Yellow-
stone, Salt Lake, Denver, Colorado Springs, and
other points of interest on her return trip. Kate
is head of the Latin department of the High
School in Montgomery, Ala.

1914 Secretary, Lottie Mav ( Blair I Lawton,
(Mrs. S. C), Greenville, S. C.

ZolHe McArthur Saxon (Mrs. J. Harold"), has
moved from Moultrie to Decatur. She has a fine
baby boy.

1915 Secretary, Martha (Brenner) Shryock
(Mrs. J. N.), 1018 Main St., Evanston. 111.

Marion Black Cantelou (Mrs. A. L. I, spent
part of the summer in Massachusetts. She and
her husband were in Chicago in August.

Gertrude Briesenick Ross (Mrs. J. H.), has a
son, George Briesenick Ross, born about the
first of July, Jacksonville, Fla.

Martha Brenner Shryock (Mrs. Jas. N.), has
returned to her home in Evanston, 111., after
having spent the summer in Connecticut. She
and her husband will spend the Christmas holi-
days with her parents in Augusta, Ga.

Frances West spent the summer at the Univer-
sity of California, making a delightful tour of
interesting points on her return.

Mary Hyer Vick (Ma's. J. E. ) , will spend a
greater part of the fall with her sister in Kirk-
wood. She will no doubt see lots of the old
girls and visit Agnes Scott.

Mary West Thatcher (Mrs. S. E.t, will spend
from October until May in Miami.

Mary Kelly Coleman (Mrs. E. L.), has just
returned from an automobile trip to Florida,
visiting mainly Ft. Myers and Miami. She was
a recent visitor at Alumnae House.

1916 Secretary, Louise Hutcheson, McDonough

St., Decatur, Ga., is studying at Columbia this
year.

The marriage of Clara Whips to Dr. W. M.
Dunn, has been announced. Since graduating
at Agnes Scott, Clara has taken an M. A. degree
from Columbia, and a B. M. from New York
University. Her husband is well known in At-
lanta's medical profession.

1917 Secretary, Laurie Caldwell Tucker (Mrs.
J. H., 1223 South Howard Ave., Tampa, Fla.

India Hunt has changed her address to State
Board of Health, State Office Bldg., Richmond,
Va. She has won an appointment to the Mayo
Clinic, where she will be after the first of
January.

Mary Eakes Rumble, president of our class,
has at last honored us with a letter, which is
characteristically delightful, and should be print-
ed in full. Her husband. Rev. Lester Rumble, is
pastor of a church at Trion, Ga., and Mary says
that "being a preacher's wife is really worlds
of fun and from the way people find something
for you to do, you could well imagine that you
were back in college with committee meetings
hanging from every finger tip." She says she
is pianist for the church, president of the mis-
sionary society, teacher of the Bible Study class.
Superintendent of the Primary department and
she wishes she could do more ! "But my very
best fun," she continues, "is my two-year-old son,
Lester, Jr., who has just discovered the English
language. He puts it to good use from six a. m.

to six p. m and no language or literature

has ever been so dear to me as Mother Goose is
now."

Katherine Simpson studied at Emory Univer-
sity last summer and then had a lovely trip,
which included visits to Madison, Wis., and
Minneapolis, as well as a stop at Lake Min-
netonka. At present she is teaching first grade
in one of the Atlanta schools.

Margaret Pruden goes to Flora MacDonakl Col-
lege, Red Springs, N. C, as head of the depart-
ment of Latin.

Mary Spottswood Payne spent last summer
in a camp at Lake Sebago, Maine, twenty miles
from Portland. She writes that she "helped with
dramatics, and since that was easy," she fat-
tened (who believes it?), burned black and had
a good time generally. She includes in her letter
the fact that Alice Fleming, ex '17, has a son,
but she doesn't say whom Alice married.

(Secretai*y's Note: Will all the members of the
class of 1917 please write "news letters" to the
Secretary without waiting to receive an inquiry
from her.) LAURIE CALDWELL TUCKER.

1918 Secretary, Margaret Ley burn, 70 5th
Ave., New York City.

Emma (Jones) Smith (Mrs. Harwell F.), is
president of the A. A. U. W. of Montgomery.
She recently paid a visit to the Alumnae House,
which she says, "feels like another home" to her.
Her address is 412 S. Perry St., Montgomery,
Ala.

Virginia Lancaster is at the Presbyterian Hos-
pital, New York City, doing X-ray work. She
has been there a year, and finds her work fas-
cinating.

1919 Secretary. Almeda Hutcheson, McDon-
ough St., Decatur Ga.

Julia Ingram Hazzard (Mrs. L. B. ) , ihas
changed her address to Grace Court Chambers,
Grace Court, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Trueheart Nicholassen is correspondent in the
Atlanta office of D. C. Heath and Co.

Mary Kate Parks is assistant to a doctor in
Dallas, Texas.

"Pete" Hutcheson is correspondent with Allyn
and Bacon Publishing Co., in Atlanta.

1920 Secretary. Mary Burnett Thorington
(Mrs. W. L. ) . Taft, Texas.

Ruth Crowell is staying at home this year.

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She is active in the work of the A. A. U. W. of
Charlotte.

Julia Hagood Cuthbertson's (Mrs. Reynolds),
new house is completed, and she is enjoying it
thoroughly. It is a Dutch Colonial, next door
to her mother, and to Cama (Burgess) Clarks-
ton. '22.

Louise Johnson is Publicity Manager for
Rich's new store in Atlanta. She is very in-
terested in Agnes Scott and active in Alumnae
work.

Marion McCamy is teaching in LaGrange,
Ga. She and "Crip" Slack have great times
together. Crip has been keeping house for her
mother this year, but has found time to pay
an occasional visit to the Alumnae House. She
has recently accepted a position with the church
that will take her to various southern cities.
Her first stop will be in Charlotte, N. C.

Margaret (Shivel Bellingrath is planning to
study at Columbia next year, with her husband,
preparatory to going to the mission field.

1921 Secretary. Frances Charlotte Markley,
901 Manor St.. Lancaster, Pa.

In July. Margaret Wade, '21, was sent by her
church as a delegate to the All South C. E. Con-
vention in Richmond. Va. She and Mary White
Caldwell, ex '23, and Nannie Campbell, '23, got
together and talked Agnes Scott, especially the
Alumnae House. Margaret Wade is going to
teach in Lexington this year.

Frances Charlotte Markley has had a won-
derful summer in Europe in company with Miss
Gibbons, of the Agnes Scott history department.
1921-23.

Janef Preston, although a member of the Agnes
Scott faculty, has bobbed her hair. She has had
a wonderful summer in New York, studying at
Columbia.

Lina Parry is doing secretarial work for a
business firm in Atlanta.

1922 Secretary, Mary Knight, 101 Linwood
Place. Atlanta. Ga.

Frances Harper is teaching in Mississippi. She
stopped by the Alumnae House on her way
south, to see her old friends and show off her
bobbed hair.

Ruth Reiser, after having had dancing lessons
in New York, stopped by to see Caroline Far-
quhar on her return. Caroline is staying at
home this year.

Ruth Evans is staying at home, after a
wonderful summer in Europe. "Liz" Brown is
also in Fort Valley this winter.

Louie Dean Stevens is teaching in Marietta
this year.

Frances White has changed her address to
135 Lakeview Ave.. Peachtree Heights. Atlanta,
Ga.

1923 Secretary, Emily Guille. Ingleside, Athens.
Tenn.

Lib Hoke. '23, is principal of a school in her
home town, Lincolnton, N. C.

Lucy Howard. '23, was maid of honor in Betty
Brown's, ex '23, wedding. She expects to be at
home again this year.

Josephine Logan. '23, after a year with her
family in Japan, is coming to Richmond, Va.,
this fall to attend the General Assembly's Train-
ing School,

Eva Wassum, '23, after being a bridesmaid in
Aimee D. Glover's. '21. wedding, taught Nature
Study at Camp Juliette Law, the Girl Scout
Camp. After a trip to New York and Norfolk,
she visited Nannie Campbell and Lib Hoke, '23.
She is head of the Chemistry department in the
Macon Girls' High School this year.

Beth McClure stopped off for a visit wit'i
Emily Guille on her way to Richmond. She is
going to be in the Training School there this
year, training for "Pastor's Assistant' we sup-
pose.

Emily Guille has had a wonderful summer at
Miss Randolph's camp. She is staying at home
this winter, helping to run the farm, reading
and riding horseback. On her way home from
New Hampshire. Em stopped for a week-end
with Mart Hay, ex '23. Mart is to be the
social secretary of the wife of the president of the

University of Michigan this year. Mart keeps up
with all her studies, including Greek and Em
says, "She inspired me not to let the spirit of
learning forsake me altogether."

Eloise Knight is back at Nacoochee. She has
bobbed her hair.

Mary Stewart McLeod is teaching at Palmer
College. De Funiac Springs, Fla. She was in
Europe with Miss Gooch this summer.

Valeria Posey is teaching in Fort Valley, Ga.

1924 Secretary. Carrie Scandrett.

Francis Amis is back at Agnes Scott, as Miss
Gooch's assistant.

Emmie Ficklen assisted in the Chemistry de-
partment at Agnes Scott for the first month
of this year, taking Miss Skeen's place. Miss
Skeen has just returned from a trip to Europe.

Margaret McDow is staying at home this year.
She was at the College recently, visiting Mar-
garet Bland.

Mary Mann and Margaret Griffin were recent
visitors to the Alumnae House.

Cora Morton and Daisy Frances Smith are
new additions to the Agnes Scott faculty.

Polly Stone and Dick Scandrett come out to
Agnes Scott often, with Beulah Davidson and
Hilda McConnell. Polly had a most exciting
summer in New England, acting in the Little
theatre in Gloucester, Mass.

Dick and Hilda are living at 157 Myrtle St..
Atlanta. Dick is doing Y'. W. C. A. work, and
Beulah and Elizabeth Henry are teaching at Tate.
Ga.

A good many of the 1924 girls are teaching
this year. Among them are :

Montine Pharr. at Ocoee. Fla.

Janice Brown and Marv Greene, at Honea
Path, S. C.

Nancy Evans, at Sayre College.

Grace Bargeron. at Langdale, Ala.

Barron Hyatt, at Norton. Va.

Sarah Kinman, at Bartow, Fla.

Mary Mcbberly. at Laurel. Miss.

Dell Bernhardt, in Newnan. N. C.

Martha Eakes, in South Georgia.

Class At Large

Eva Powers (Comly), ex '16, is working in a
bank in Anniston, Ala.

Helen Moore, ex '17, since leaving Agnes Scott,
has had an Easter song published by Fischer
and Brothel's of New York. She is now teaching
in the North Carolina School for the Deaf. Mor-
ganton, N. C, and is local editor of the school
paper, "The Deaf Carolinian."

Mary White Caldwell, ex '23. is starting on
her third year at St. Luke's Hospital in Rich-
mond. Va.. where she is training to be a nurse
in China.

Margaret McColgaon. ex '23. is teaching in
Norton. Va.

Margaret Ravenel (Mrs. J. W. Mansfield), ex
'04, is superintendent of the Junior department
of the First Presbyterian Sunday School. Spar-
tanburg. S. C. She has four children, Agnes,
who is a high school senior ; Ravenel, a high
school sophomore, and Margaret and Elizabeth,
age 10 and 5, respectively.

Any information concerning any of the follow-
ing would be gratefully received bv the Alumnae
Office:

Bernice May Beason Mrs. Forrest A. Jennmg
Helen Brown Elise Lewis Bohannan

Mary Bedinger Mrs. J. C. Stickney

Adele Louise Bize Flora Bowden

Annie Sue Boaks Eva Boniske

Mrs. W. W. Rushton Ellen R. Allen
Margaret McPharl Augusta Helene Brewer

Mrs. C. E. Bishop Mrs. C. H. Trotter
Mrs. Robert L Ryals Katherine Baker
Clifford Hunter Frances Arant

Rose Davis Ruth Sanders

Mrs. S. A. Roberts Frances Thomas

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Alumnae Association

REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING
MAY, 1924

The Alumnae Association held its annual
after the trustees' luncheon, on May 24, 192
dance. The following reports were given:

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

Annual Meeting of the Agnes Sectt
Alumnae Association May 24, 1924.

This annual meeting of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association of May 24th. 1924,
marks the close of the work of our adminis-
tration and with the election of officers later
in our program, the beginning of the third
era since the adoption of our new Constitu-
tion in 1920. making of us a general organi-
zation, rather than a local. At this time it
is interesting and. we hope, profitable, to re-
view briefly just what has been accomplished
and just what progress has been made toward
furthering the purpose of our Association,
which, you will remember, is "to promote
the welfare of the College and its Alumnae by
increasing the interest of its members in the
College and in each other."

Your opinion as expressed at the last an-
nual meeting was that the first requisite to-
ward this end was the establishment of the
QUARTERLY as a definite part of our work.
We had hoped then to have four issues a
year, as the name implies, but finding the
cost running way over our appropriation, the
executive committee decided upon three full
issues rather than four scanty ones. Two
of these have been published, and the third
is now at the printer's. They have all been
experimental and not as successful as we
might wish, but judging by the many en-
thusiastic letters we have received concerning
them, have been appreciated by Alumnae far
and near.

The growth of our organization is directly
attributable to our Alumnae House and to
this new means of communication.

Your president has enjoyed her office as
Trustee, finding the members of the Board
very ready to co-operate with us and appar-

meeting in the Mnemosynean Hall immediately
4. A large number of Alumnae were in atten-

ently appreciative of our efforts in behalf of
the College. They agreed with us heartily
in re-opening the question of an inaugura-
tion service for Dr. McCain, and were as
disappointed as we when the plans had to
be abandoned through circumstances beyond
our control. The value of this close asso-
ciation with that body is too evident to need
comment and is borne witness by the beau-
tiful luncheon they have given us today.

We have stayed well within our budget
appropriations this year with the excep-
tion of two items. At the January meeting
the executive committee found it necessary
to amend the budget to increase the appropri-
ation for the House Committee and for print-
ing and stationery. We were hoping then
to have the privilege of entertaining the
distinguished guests at the inauguration and
felt that we must put the house in as nearly
perfect condition as possible. The other
amendment was to take care of the unlooked
for cost of the Quarterlies. Fortunately our
receipts have also over-run our expectations
and we are closing the year with a consider-
able surplus in our treasury.

The Alumnae House has lived up to the
standard it has set for the last two years in
being the social center of the College and
the financial backbone of our Association.
If it were possible to enumerate the parties,
teas and luncheons that have been held there
this year you could readily see the extent to
which it has been used and the part it has
played in fostering the social life of the Col-
lege. The use of the rooms by Alumnae and
guests has increased to such an extent that
the Executive Committee finds it necessary to
recommend a small charge to cover wear and
tear. Miss Bishop well deserves the thanks
of each member of our Association for the
careful and efficient management of the House

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and Tea Room. Our annual payment of one
thousand dollars was promptly met and we
have on hand about two hundred fifty dol-
lars in cash and enough pledges to take care
of the payment for 1925.

The College Council has held its two reg-
ular meetings during the year. These have
proved as valuable as formerly in providing
an opportunity for discussion of our College
and Alumnae problems by representatives of
all the interested groups.

We have had three rather interesting and
flattering opportunities to appear publicly
during this year. The first was at the
Woman's Activities Exhibit held in New
York in September, at which we were privi-
leged to have a booth through our member-
ship in the Southern Woman's Educational
Alliance. This was ably managed by our
Publicity Chairman. Miss Markley. and
brought us many favorable comments. The
second occasion was at the meeting of the
Association of Alumni Secretaries, held at
the University of Virginia in April, at which
we were asked to have a part on the program
with Princeton. Mt. Holyoke, University of
California, Ohio Wesleyan and University of
North Carolina, during the discussion of the
ideal Alumnae Association. Miss Nell Bu-
chanan, our General Secretary, represented us
and gave a ten-minute talk on th's subject.
Again, we were asked to send a representative
to speak on Co-operation between Alumnae
Associations and College Executives at the
meeting of the Association of Affiliated
Alumnae, held in Washington on April 26th
in connection with the annual meeting of
the American Association of University
"Women. It was impossible to find an
Alumna who was available at that time, but
we were very fortunate in being able to
persuade Miss Hearon. of the College fac-
ulty, to speak for us. Considering that we
had sent delegates to the meetings of these
organizations only once before, we felt
greatly honored by these requests, and wish
to express our appreciation now to both
Miss Hearon and Miss Buchanan for repre-
senting us so splendidly.

In congratulating ourselves upon the
things we have done we must not fail to con-
fess the things we have not done. We have
felt very keenly the need of fur-
thering the work of the committee on local
clubs and on class organizations and records.

as well as giving more consistent support
to the work of all our standing committees,
but with the increasing amount of routine
work in the office, due to our larger mem-
bership, it has not been possible.

Dr. McCain is much interested in the es-
tablishment of local clubs in such cities as
Montgomery, Charlotte. Augusta. Birming-
ham, etc., where we have large numbers of
alumnae. We have found by past experi-
ence that it is not so difficult to organize
these groups, but that they wither away like
the grass unless they are kept in constant
touch with the College and Alumnae work,
and have programs and definite objects for
work suggested to them. This means much
more time in the office if the Secretary is
to carry out the work of the committee
charged with the supervision of these clubs.

The same is true of the class organization
committee. We have endeavored this year
to foster a keener interest in reunions, and
have arranged to give reunion classes a spe-
cial day on our commencement program for
their luncheons and for an alumnae parade
and stunts. You can easily see the immense
amount of correspondence necessary to work
up these reunions successfully, a great part
of which should be handled through our
general office. I can hardly express strong-
ly enough our need of a full time secretary
if we are to do these things effectively.
half time work is only about one-third as ef-
fective as full time work. The Executive
Committee did not feel that our income
quite warranted as large an appropriation as
this would require at this time, but we do
want to keep the need before you as an im-
perative one. We have been able to accom-
plish practically nothing toward completing
our files and locating alumnae who are lost
or strayed. Up-to-date files are one of the
most important assets of an efficient alumnae
association, and one in which we are woe-
fully lacking.

Also among the things we have not done
we must list the Shampoo Shop! It has
proved a veritable Will o' the Wisp now
we have it and now we haven't. Again as
last year our plans had to be abandoned be-
cause of the great expense entailed in fitting
up the one or two available spots on the
campus. The financial possibilities of this
project are so tempting that we leave it to

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your new Executive Committee with our
best wishes for its ultimate success.

No steps have, so far, been taken toward
incorporating our Association, though the
Executive Committee so recommended at its
January meeting. Our annual budget and
our invested funds are growing so rapidly
that we should have a legal identity apart
from the college, and hope that this may be
undertaken promptly by the new officers.

In resigning this office I want to express
to all those with whom I have worked so
closely my sincerest gratitude for their con-
stantly willing co-operation and help, with-
out which the work would have been a bur-
den instead of the pleasure it has proved
to be. I wish the new officers every success
in carrying on and adding to and can assure
them of our continued interest and help. We
feel sure that the work of this Association
and the well being of Agnes Scott College
will be as near and dear to their hearts as it
has to ours.

Very respectfully submitted,

Carol Stearns Wey,

President.

REPORT OF TREASURER:
RECEIPTS

Balance on hand. Sept., 1923 .___.$ 329.38
Rent from Tea Room _ .... 400.00

Net income, Tea Room ._. 973.75

Dues 719.27

Life Memberships 112.50

Gifts and Pledges.... . 1,082.50

Miscellaneous 154.31

Poetry Contest Prize 50.00

Total Receipts .. ...$3,821.71

DISBURSEMENTS

Secretary's Salary $ 3 67.50

Postage 40.67

Stationery and Printing 577.02

Office Supplies _ 50.23
Furnishing and Upkeep Alumnae

House 421.92

Maid 180.00

Entertainment 48.10

Dues 2 7.50

Traveling Expenses 100.00

Gift to Day Students' Cottage.... 100.00

Miscellaneous 17 3.82

Pledge on Alumnae House .. . 1,000.00

Poetry Prize 50.00

Transfers to Savings Accts:

Life Memberships 112.50

House Fund 82.50

On Hand 489.95

Total $3 ,821.71

Respectfully submitted,

Emma Pope M. Dieckmann,

Treasurer.

The Finance Committee recommends the
following budget for the year 1924-25:

Secretary $ 450.00

Printing, Stationery and

Postage 65 0.00

Office Help ... 225.00

Supplies 50.00

Gift to Day Students' Cottage.... 100.00

Full-time Maid 320.00

House Furnishings 300.00

Entertainment 50.00

Dues 27.50

Traveling Expenses 12 9.00

Miscellaneous 75.00

New Investment 143.50

Telephone 5 5.00

Total $2,575.00

BUDGET 1924-25
RECEIPTS

On Hand (estimated) . $ 250.00

Tea Room Rent 400.00

Tea Room Income 750.00

Rooms 100.00

Dues 750.00

Miscellaneous 25.00

New Investment 300.00

Total $2,5 75.00

Respectfully submitted,

Emma Pope M. Dieckmann,

Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL
SECRETARY

The duties of the Alumnae Secretary are
hard to define, for, as the office is a com-
paratively new one in the colleges through-
out the country, it has received a varied in-
terpretation and its opportunities in every
phase of college life are very great. The
Secretary may help carry out the President's
plans for the College, keep in touch with
the Board of Trustees, co-operate with the
Faculty, keep College and Alumnae in touch

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with each other, and be big sister to the
under-graduate.

Since the present Secretary came into of-
fice in January, she has tried, in a limited
way, to take advantage of the above privi-
leges of the Alumnae Secretary. However,
the Secretary's time in the Alumnae office
is so limited under the present regime of
twenty hours a week, and the Alumnae files
are so incomplete, due to an insufficient
office force, that much constructive work
has been impossible. We have tried to con-
centrate on completing our files, compiling
facts about our Alumnae, and preparing for
real organization next year.

To these ends, approximately 7.000 com-
munications have gone out from this of-
fice since January. 1924. This number in-
cludes bulletins, circulars, receipts, notices,
invitations to the Trustees' luncheon, and
to class reunions. Consistent effort has been
made to locate lost alumnae.

The sum of $850.10 has passed through
this office during the year, in dues, room
rent, gifts, and the sale of such articles as
pictures and books. This of course does
not include any money which was sent di-
rectly to the Treasurer.

The Association sent the Secretary to the
University of Virginia to make a talk at
the meeting of the Association of Alumni
and Alumnae Secretaries. The subject of the
talk was "The Best Form of Alumni Organi-
zation for the Accomplishment of Effective
Work." The conference was helpful and
enjoyable, and the Secretary thanks the As-
sociation for sending her.

After five months of work in the Alum-
nae office, the following recommendations are
forthcoming :

( 1 ) That we work toward employing a
full time Secretary, to take care of the ever-
increasing work of this office.

( 2 ) That plenty of office help be pro-
vided to insure prompt attention to Alum-
nae matters, and the completion of alumnae
files.

(3) That we work toward employing a
paid editor for our QUARTERLY, who could
give a certain number of hours a month to
the editing of our publications.

Our year has. on the whole, been suc-
cessful. The officers of the Association
have been efficient and untiring in their ser-

vice, and the way has been paved for con-
structive work next year.

Respectfully submitted,
NELL BUCHANAN, General Secretary.

REPORT OF THE PUBLICITY COM-
MITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1924

The two main interests of the Publicity
Committee for the past year have been the
Alumnae Bulletin and the Agnes Scott rep-
resentation in the Women's Activities Ex-
hibit held in the Hotel Commodore, New
York City, during last October. This ex-
hibit was planned and executed by the Busi-
ness and Professional Women's Club of New
York City, and had representation from all
the phases of work and activity in which
women are interested. For the latter the
committee prepared a pamphlet for general
distribution, supplied wall posters, books of
views and various college publications.
Through the kindness of several of our New
York Alumnae Agnes Scott hostesses were in
attendance at this exhibit to answer any
questions relative to the college.

The ALUMNAE QUARTERLY has been a
source of mingled pain and pleasure. The
chairman feels very sincerely that under the
present conditions it is impossible for the
editor to do satisfactory work at a great
distance from the College. We have not
met with the desired response from those to
whom we have addressed communications.
And yet. feeble as our results have been, the
QUARTERLY seems to have been a source
of pleasure to many of the Alumnae. There
is no reason that the ALUMNAE QUARTERLY
should not grow to a position of real joy
and provide many happy contacts among
ourselves.

More than one hundred and fifty letters
have been sent out by the committee during
the past year. These were addressed not
only to our own alumnae, but also to those
engaged in similar work in other organiza-
tions.

We. of this committee, feel that there is
no phase of alumnae work which better
adapts itself to individual service than that
of the publicity, and we ask the associa-
tion that it as individual members assure the
committee entering upon its new year of its
loyal support.

Respectfully submitted,
FRANCES C. iMARKLEY. '21, Chairman.

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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON
PREPARATORY SCHOOLS

On account of a misunderstanding I did
not realize that my term of office as Chair-
man of the Committee lasted two years, so
very little has been accomplished.

Last year I found it rather difficult to
get anybody to take charge of an Agnes
Scott stunt or talk or anything of that
nature; most of the Agnes Scotters I know
have been out so long that they have gotten
timid about appearing in public. So, as I
have done a good deal of camp work in the
last few years and have gotten to know
girls of college age, it occurred to me that
camp is a splendid place to work. For the
most part the girls are very desirable. Often
they need just a hint as to what sort of
school they shall choose and a councillor can
often influence them easily. This summer
Llewellyn Wilburn, Mary Kate Parks and I
will be at Nakanawa together so I am plan-
ning a stunt for us there. I wonder if there
are any posters or pictures there that I might
use as exhibits and send to the different
camps. If you have any suggestions will
you please send them to me. There are
about six camps where I am anxious for
us to have representation and I believe the
results will be good.

Please excuse my stupidity in this mat-
ter and if you have any posters or pictures
that you could spare, please let me have
them.

Lucy Durr,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE CURRICULUM

COMMITTEE

Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

(1923-1924)

The curriculum committee of the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association in its report for
the past year tried to present a comparative
study of the curriculum of Agnes Scott and
that of different representative women's col-
leges from the East, South, and West of the
United States. The committee also left two
recommendations: namely, that an attempt
be made to come to an understanding of
the lack of real scholarly interest on the
part of college students and that an effort
should be encouraged to help college women
to meet with Christian fearlessness the in-

ternational and interracial problems of the
day.

The work this year has been based entirely
on these two recommendations. The com-
mittee feels that these are two vital prob-
lems far too intangible for any definite solu-
tions but that information in the line of
curricula may throw light on the sources
of the problems. First, then, let us con-
sider the relationship of scholarship and cur-
riculum. Surely, the curriculum of a col-
lege should be a real factor in producing
and encouraging scholarship. The question
is often discussed as to whether a college
gains in scholarliness of its pupils by re-
stricting the work to that leading to a B.A.
degree or whether it should widen its field to
include courses leading to degrees in sciences
and fine arts. Fifteen representative colleges
of the United States including Agnes Scott
have been chosen for investigation of their
curricula. The following table will show
the results:

Table of different degrees offered:

B. A. only Agnes Scott. Bryn Mawr,
Goucher, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Randolph-
Macon, Smith, Vassar.

B. S. Barnard, Florida State, Meredith.
Sophie-Newcomb, Sweet Briar.

B. S. in Home Ec. Florida State. Hood
College.

B. of Music Florida State, Mills College,
Sophie-Newcomb.

B. of Design Sophie-Newcomb.

Another aspect of curriculum that might
influence scholarship is the presence of a
graduate school. Graduate students may
stimulate the ambitions of the undergraduates
so that colleges offering higher degrees may
be able to maintain higher standards of schol-
arship than those which offer only the B. A.
or B. S. degree. Taking the same fifteen
colleges as examples, we have here a table
indicating the higher degrees offered:

No Higher Degree Agnes Scott, Florida
State, Goucher, Meredith. Sophie-Newcomb,
Sweet Briar. Hood College.

M. A. Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holy-
oke. Mills College, Radcliffe, Randolph-
Macon. Smith, Vassar.

Ph. D. Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe.

A. A. (Associate in Arts) Radcliffe.

It is generally believed that students in
foreign universities have more of a scholarly
attitude than students in American colleges.

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The study of the curricula of representative
foreign colleges and universities should bring
some information of value to the considera-
tion of our first problem as well as to our
second problem. It may seem strange to some
that our attempt to encourage the facing of
international problems should be based on a
study of college catalogues; yet, this is true.
The solution of such problems lies with the
college students and college graduates of the
different countries: consequently, an under-
standing of the likenesses and the differences
of the education and training of these stu-
dents of different countries may help in some
small way to a larger understanding of the
problems and aims of each.

Let us take, first, a few representative
colleges of Europe:

( 1 ) Bedford College for Women, Regents
Park. London. England.

(a) Method of admission

Two examinations, one to test
general information and one on a
special subject to be chosen by the
applicant from two groups; Arts
(Greek, Latin, Dutch. English
Literature, etc.) or Science (Bot-
any. Biology. Chemistry, etc.)

(b) Requirements for a B.A. degree
Four subjects are required for each
of the four years of which two
must be languages and of which
one language must be Latin or
Greek. Other courses may be chos-
en from the groups of Arts and
Sciences.

(c) Courses offered not generally of-
ered in American colleges: Dutch,
Geography, and Russian.

(d) Courses not offered at Bedford for
a B.A. degree and generally of-
fered in American colleges: Courses
in social science. There is a special
training school for social workers
in which certificates are given after
two years' work, but these courses
do not count toward a B.A.

(2) Universite de Paris, Paris, France. Here
it is difficult to make a satisfactory con-
trast or comparison, for there are no
colleges for women in France corres-
ponding to ours and there are no de-
grees given in the Universities where
the men and women study together
which correspond exactly to the A.B.

degree. In general, advanced courses
correspond to those in our colleges with
additional emphasis on classical studies.
Method of admission is by a series of
oral and written examinations, much
more rigorous than ours.
( 3 ) Universities in Italy

(a) Method of admission:

By satisfactory certificate from a
High School.

(b) Requirements for degree:

( 1 ) Study in residence for 4, 5,

or 6 years.
( 2 ) Courses of study not given in
detail in material that we
found available.
(4) Universities in Czecho Slovak Republic
(There are 11) (no institutions of
higher learning exclusively for women
and the percentage of women in all the
universities is only 8.9 r 'r ) .
We have not been able to find much
definite information about the courses
offered except that the language require-
ments are much greater as three languag-
es, Czech, German, and Magyar are
spoken as mother tongues in the repub-
lic and since there is generally the belief
that a knowledge of French, German, or
Polish is necessary to a well educated
person.
After this brief survey of European uni-
versities, let us consider the differences and
startling likenesses evident in the oriental in-
stitutions of higher learning.
(1) Women's Christian College. Madras,
India.

(a) Method of admission:
Certificate of satisfactory school or
examination.

(b) Requirements for a B.A. degree:
(1) An intermediate course of

two years, requiring three
subjects Language and lit-
erature in English, including
plays of Shakespeare, Mil-
ton's minor poems or one
book of Paradise Lost, and
essays from classical writers;
composition in one of the
Indian vernaculars or trans-
lation in English from
Greek or Latin; and a choice
of or.e of the following
groups (a) mathematics,

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Physics, and Chemistry, (b)
Natural Science, Physics and
Chemistry or (c) History,
Logic, and a classical lan-
guage.

(2) Final two years.

(a) English - composition
based on works of fic-
tion, philosophy, and
literary criticism; Eng-
lish verse of the 16th.

17th, 18th. and 19th
centuries and prose of
the 17th, 18th and
19th centuries.

(b) Optional group (1)
Mathematics, (2) Phys-
ical Science, (3 ) Natur-
al Science, (4) Philoso-
phy or Logic, (5) His-
tory, (6) Languages.

(2) Canton Christian College, China.

(a) Degrees awarded B.S. and B.A.

(b) Admission by certificate or ex-
amination.

(c) Requirements for degree similar to
ours except that foreign languages
other than English are not re-
quired.

(3) Yenching College. China.

College of arts and sciences of Peking

University.

Curriculum similar to that of Canton.

We have not succeeded in obtaining a
catalogue from any college in Japan but, from
a bulletin of the bureau of Education (1916-
1918), we learn that there is a great de-
velopment of special schools, schools of
foreign languages, schools of literature and
science, schools of fine arts and music. In
connection with these schools a step of far-
reaching results is the ordonnance of the
ministry of public instruction which placed
private schools of higher learning on a par
with imperial universities.

In conclusion, it is the hope of the com-
mittee that this general information with re-
gard to degrees offered in colleges in the
United States and the curricula of foreign
universities may be the basis of a more de-
tailed study of the committee in the future,
a study that may aid to some real extent in

the problems of scholarship and of interna-
tional understanding.

Respectfully submitted,

Margaret Bland,
Gertrude Manly,
Ruth Scandrett,

Curriculum Committee.

List of References:
Catalogues from Agnes Scott College,
Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Florida State, Goucher,
Hood College. Meredith. Mills College, Mt.
Holyoke. Radcliffe, Randolph-Macon, Smith,
Sophie-Newcomb, Sweet Briar, Vassar, Bed-
ford College, England; Universite de Paris,
France: Women's Christian College, India;
Yenching and Canton Christian College,
China; and bulletins from the Institute of
International Education, New York, with
regard to opportunities for education in
France, Italy, and China: and reports from
the Department of the Interior. Bureau of
Education, Washington, on the conditions of
Education in Japan and Czecho Slovakia.

REPORT OF WORK OF HOUSE AND
TEA ROOM COMMITTEE

The Committee would like to begin its
report with acknowledgments of the generosi-
ty and co-operation of our good friends
which have made possible the realization of
a larger per cent of our dreams for beautify-
ing our home, dreams that were much too
ambitious for our resources.

Through the influence and co-operation of
Dr. McCain and Mr. Cunningham, we have
all broken glasses repaired, the front door
freshly painted, walls of college guest room
retinted, silk comfort, spread and desk set
for the guest room.

Miss Anna Young's family continue to re-
member us on Miss Anna's birthday. The
private dining room has been beautified by a
silver basket, a silver tray and silver candle-
sticks, gifts of Mrs. Young and of Anna
Young Eagan.

To Decatur Club we are indebted for two
long table cloths and two dozen napkins.

Acknowledgment also is due Miss Florine
Brown for service in Tea Room during Miss
Bishop's illness, to Miss Gaylord (of A. S.
Faculty) for her efficient work in keeping
the Tea Room books, to our hostess. Miss
Martha Bishop who continues to grace our
home and charm our guests, to Mr. Graham

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of the Brown Decorating Co., for the gift
of two table runners, candlesticks, and fruit
compote for the buffet.
Purchases for the House and Tea Room:
Tea Room funds equal 5% per month of
Tea Room profits.

3 gallon nickel coffee urn.

4 dozen after-dinner coffee spoons.
4 dozen after-dinner coffee cups.

1 vacuum freezer.

Fund from Alumnae Budget
Gas range.

20 Tea Room chairs
Buffet

Draperies and shades for lights
Bridge lamp
Console mirror
Carpet for upstairs hall
Knockers for bedroom doors
Framed parchment to hang on wall

Financial Statement
Total receipts . $7,113.13

Total profits __ 95 7.24

75% of profits to Alumnae Ass. _ 717.93
20% of profits to Miss Bishop- 191.45
5% of profits to Tea Room Fund 47.86

This is the statement of our wealth and
outward estate: but we feel that the interest of
our report does not end with things material.

The house is becoming an increasing joy
to the returning alumnae. The house has
been much more extensively used this year.
We have averaged three or four guests each
week end. This increased patronage has
given rise to the problem of taking care of
the wear and tear on the linen and the need
of increased maid services which has led to
the recommendation of the committee to the
Executive Committee.

One of the greatest joys of our house is
the opportunity it affords of entertaining fit-
tingly distinguished guests. This year our
Guest Book carries the names of DuBose
Heyward. Just::; Florence Allen, Dean Ames
of Johns Hcpklj, G. Campbell Morgan.
These guests have all been charmed with our
house. We feel that we have made real
friends of them for our college.

The retiring House Committee is leaving
to the incoming committee along with many
problems, two mementos; a silver vegetable
dish and a monogram designed specially for
us which we hope you will see fit to adopt
as our official coat of arms to be used in

marking linen, silver, china. We feel that
it is something distinctive that will wherever
seen, be a symbol of our Alumnae home and
all it means to us.

The committee has recommended to the
Executive Committee of the Association:

1. That 50c be charged for each night's
stay in the Alumnae House.

2. That Miss Bishop have another maid
for service in the House, her wages not to
exceed $8.00 a week.

Respectfully submitted.

Maryellen (Harvey) Newton,

Chairman.

REPORT OF LOCAL CLUBS
COMMITTEE

The Local Clubs Committee has had a bad
year. No new clubs have been organized, and
one (the New York Club) which was re-
organized last year has been functioning most
feebly.

About all that the Chairman has been
able to do has been to make a survey of the
towns when there are sufficient girls to
warrant the establishment of clubs, and to
draw what conclusions she can from the
meagre information which she could gain.

In the first place, the list, as supplied by
the Alumnae Secretary, seems to be inaccurate
(I should say, probably, not up to date).
It was reported to me that Lynchburg. Vir-
ginia and Macon, Georgia have not enough
girls to form a Local Club. According to
my information Mrs. Sidney Reese, Mrs.
Frederick LeVerne Walker, and Miss Ethel
Brown have left Lynchburg.

The other cities eligible for clubs are
Atlanta. Decatur. Marietta, New York. An-
niston. Jacksonville, Birmingham. Chatta-
nooga. Augusta, Athens, Charlotte. Colum-
bus. Montgomery.

Of these the first four have clubs. That
leaves nine cities where the efforts to establish
clubs have been fruitless. In these cities
there are. in almost every case, some girls
who were outstanding girls at college and
who are. undoubtedly, local alumnae. Prac-
tically none of them are even faintly interest-
ed in Local Clubs.

I believe that the chief reason is that the
girls, when they go home as graduates, have
no club to go to, and soon get so absorbed
in other things that they lose interest. They
have never known the former graduates from
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do not care to put themselves out to form
a club with people who are not particularly
congenial.

I believe that our great aim, in order to
remedy this condition, should be to try to get
graduates who finish College the same year
and who live in or near the same town, to
form clubs just as soon as they get home.
Then, suffering as most graduates do, with
that lost "after college feeling", they will
be more apt to enter enthusiastically into
the club idea. And one or two enthusiastic
people should be able to make the clubs a go.

I also believe that we should make great
efforts to get life members among the grad-
uates each year. Most of them could get a
life membership as a graduation present if
they wanted it. And. if in that way. they
are closely connected with the Alumnae As-
sociation, the need of Local Clubs should be
more keenly felt.

May I say here that, in the case of the
Memphis Club, the Alumnae Bulletin has
been the greatest help. None of the Agnes
Scott girls, except me, is a member of the
Association. None is interested enough to
pay dues. Yet they are all delighted to get
the Quarterly and read the personal notes in
the back. One girl remarked, rather para-
doxically, that if the Association continued
to send her the Quarterlies, although she had
not paid her dues, she would pay her dues,
or perhaps become a life member.

May I suggest that in case there are two
or more girls from the same town in this
year's graduating class, they be urged, before
they leave College to promise to establish
a Local Club just as soon as they go home?

I also think that we ought not to require
too many Agnes Scott girls in a town be-
fore starting a Local Club. In Memphis, for
instance, there is only one graduate. There
are four or five others who went to Agnes
Scott for six months to two years. None are
members of the Alumnae Association. Yet
they come occasionally to meetings, and show
considerably more interest in the college than
when the club was formed two years ago.

I suppose everybody wants Emma Jones
Smith. Just the same I nominate her, if
I may, as local club secretary for this next
two years. I am sorry to have been such
an utter failure at the job myself.
Respectfully submitted,

Margaret Rowe, '19.

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
COMMITTEE

I suppose everybody wants Emma Jones
Smith. Just the same, I nominate her, if
I may, as Local Clubs Secretary for this next
two years.

I am sorry to have been such an utter
failure at the job myself.

NO REPORT

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON

BEAUTIFYING GROUNDS

AND BUILDINGS

In September, just before the Fall open-
ing, the College, at the suggestion of and
with the co-operation of this committee,
refurnished the parlors of Agnes Scott Hall
(Main Building.) The wood work was
painted ivory. Beautiful golden silk shades
were made to cover the three ceiling lights
(which looked like street lights before) by
Mesdames Noble, Head and Patten. A taupe
rug and two small oriental rugs were placed
in the front parlor. A console table and
mirror, two upholstered chairs, two table
lamps, one floor lamp and new table covers
made the rooms look much more homelike
and attractive.

In February, the committee suggested that
a plot be made of foundation plantings of
evergreen shrubs for all the buildings on the
campus. This was done by Wachendorff
Brothers and the plantings were made around
Inman Hall and the White House, with a
view to doing more each winter toward
covering the bare brick foundations of the
campus.

The committee would like to suggest that
a competent gardener be employed by the
College to care for the shrubs on the campus
as they become more valuable with each
year's growth, if properly cared for.

The committee also would like to express
its appreciation of the cordial response of
the college to every suggestion made by them,
which has made the work a very great
pleasure.

Respectfully submitted,

Allie C. Guy,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE

The personnel of the Entertainment Com-
mittee has not changed since last year and

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consists of Mrs. S. E. Thatcher. Chairman;
Mrs. F. M. Sutton. Mrs. W. R. Armstrong.
and two ex-officio members, Miss Martha
Bishop and Miss Nell Buchanan.

The Tea to the Senior Class was given
on April the 18th in the Anna Young Alum-
nae House. The house was appropriately
decorated with a profusion of spring flowers.
The guests were greeted by Mrs. Wey, the
President, and other officers of the Associa-
tion, together with the members of the
Entertainment Committee, and Mrs. McCain,
Miss Hopkins and the honorary faculty
members of the Senior Class. The guests
assembled in the living room and after a
very enjoyable talk by Mrs. Wey were in-
vited into the dining room for refreshments.
The table was attractively decorated with
flowers and little aster chickens, and held
at one end the punch bowl at which Mrs.
Sutton presided. Frozen fruit salad, beaten
biscuits, sandwiches, olives, coffee, punch,
almonds, candy and mints were served. About
fifty guests were present. The total cost
was $38.60.

The Trustees luncheon today took the
place of the regular Alumnae luncheon, but
the Committee has assisted Miss Hopkins in
all the plans and preparations for the Trus-
tees luncheon.

Respectfully submitted.

Mrs. S. E. Thatcher,

Chairman Entertainment Committee.

REPORT OF LOUISE M'KINNEY

PLAY CONTEST COMMITTEE

NO REPORT

REPORT OF SCHOLARSHIP

COMMITTEE

The Scholarship Committee, acting on the

advice of Dr. McCain, has awarded the

Alumnae Scholarship for 1924-25 to a

student whose grades arc excellent, and whose

recommendations are very high.

The student who received the scholarship
for 1923-24 graduated this year.
Respectfully submitted.

Julia Lake Skinner, Chairman.
Frances Stuart.
Ellen G. Wilson.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CLASS
RECORDS AND REUNIONS, FOR
THE SCHOLASTIC YEARS,
1922-23, 1923-24
The Committee on Class Records and
Reunions (including class organization) has

worked for the double end of ( 1 ) increas-
ing the number of Alumnae present at class
reunions. ( 2 ) to organize unorganized
Alumnae classes.

As a means to both of these ends, the
committee wrote letters in the fall of 1922
to at least one member of every alumnae
class, asking for information in regard to
the organization of the class. (See letter No.
1 in accompanying correspondence. ) In
three cases, the committee received prompt re-
plies. In many other cases, no replies were
received, and in several cases the answering
letters told us that the writer could supply
no information. In the last two events it
was necessary to try another member of the
class.

When the committee had finally located
the president, or an alumna willing to serve
as temporary chairman of each class, it asked
these presidents or chairmen to assist in pro-
moting attendance at class reunions. These
chairmen all wrote to the committee, after
some weeks, that the majority of their letters
were unanswered.

In 1923-24 the committee has correspond-
ed with the Alumnae Associations of other
colleges, asking for suggestions in increasing
attendance at reunions, and in particular for
suggestions for special alumnae "events" at
commencement time. Wellesley. Smith and
Bryn Mawr. never answered our letters. Wells
College. Vassar and Mount Holyoke replied
that the only participation their "re-un'ng"
classes had in commencement, was lunches
or dinners, one for each class arranged by the
class itself. At Randolph-Macon there are
stunts on class day by the "Odds" (classes
graduated in years ending in odd numbers)
and the "Evens" (even years). None of the
replies contained any novel and practical
suggestions for Agnes Scott.

Our committee has finallv resorted to
merely asking individual members of different
alumnae classes to urge other individual
members to attend reunions.

In the summer of 1923 the committee
assisted (though again with many unan-
swered letters) in gathering personal items
for the Alumnae Quarterly.

Respectfully submitted by.

Eleanor Carpenter,

Chairman.
Committee Members Mary Barton, Se-
wanee. Tenn. : Marion MacPhail, Charlotte,
N. C. ; Elizabeth Brown. Fort Valley, Ga.

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

A meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association was
called by the President for Thursday after-
noon, January 17. and opened with six
members present. Those attending were
Mrs. Wey, Miss Alexander, Miss Bland, Mrs.
Newton, Mrs. Guy. and the General Sec-
retary.

The first question that was discussed was
that of housing the guests at the Inaugura-
tion of Dr. McCain which is to take place
some time during the spring. The Executive
Committee approved the suggestion that
came from the Atlanta Club that the Asso-
ciation take care of the guests, some of
whom are to be entertained in the Alumnae
House.

The Treasurer, Mrs. Dieckmann, then
made her report, and we find that if pledges
are promptly paid, we shall have enough to
meet the next payment on the Alumnae
House. It was requested that letters be sent
out to those whose pledges are almost due,
and also to those who have not yet sent in
pledges.

The secretary was authorized to have
printed receipt cards to mail out from the
office.

The Committee decided that the courtesy
of the Alumnae House should be extended
to all ex-presidents of the Association, and
authorized the Secretary to write to each
of said ex-presidents informing them of this
privilege.

The question of the chairman of the next
Nominating Committee was discussed, and
it was decided to ask Miss Mary Wallace
Kirk to take this position.

Mrs. Wey brought up again for discus-
sion whether we should have our Associa-
tion incorporated, and it was decided that
since it was the more business like method,
we should do so.

In response to a request from the A. A.
U. W., the Committee voted to send twenty-
five dollars to help clear the debt on the
Club House at Washington.

The President appointed Mrs. Dieckmann
to see that the alumnae should have a gift
for that Memorial Room in the Carnegie

Library which was to be dedicated to Dr.
Armistead on Monday. January 20.
The meeting was then adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,

Nell Buchanan,

General Secretary.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE, MAY 21, 1924

The regular semi-annual meeting of the
Executive Committee was held in the Alum-
nae House at 3 o'clock on Wednesday, May
21. Nine members were present.

The President led in discussion of matters
of importance including the program for the
Alumnae Luncheon, the President's report to
the Board of Trustees and the Commence-
ment announcements of the Louise McKinney
prizes.

The committee voted to offer the follow-
ing suggestion to the Board of Trustees in
regard to the membership of the Alumnae
president: That each Alumnae president
should be a visiting member of the Board
during her term of office and a full member
for the two succeeding years. It was judged
that in this way the president could best
serve as a link between the Board of Trus-
tees and the Alumnae Association.

The Committee passed upon the inter-
pretation of the clause in the Constitution
concerning membership in the Association as
follows: An Alumna is considered a member
of the Association only when and so long
as she pays her annual dues.

Upon request of the House Committee
the Executive Committee makes the follow-
ing recommendations:

( 1 ) That Each Alumna shall pay fifty cents
per night for the use of the Alumnae
House.

(2) That a full-time maid shall be em-
ployed.

(3) That a telephone for the use of guests
shall be installed.

Also the following recommendation is
made concerning the general secretary: That
a half-time secretary shall be employed by
the Association and that she shall have stu-
dent help for routine matters.

The budget prepared by the finance com-

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mittee was discussed and adopted for reading
at the general meeting.

The treasurer was asked to send a check
for $25 to Miss Hearon as part payment of
her traveling expenses at a time when she
spoke for the Alumnae Association.

The secretary was requested to write a
note of appreciation to Mr. M. F. Audsley
for his work in preparing the House Scroll
which has been placed in the Alumnae House.

After discussion of other committee re-
ports she read at the general meeting, the
meeting stood adjourned.

Respectfully submitted.

LIZZA3EL SAXON,

Secretary.

ALUMNAE COUNCIL MINUTES
MAY 23, 1924

The regular pre-Commencement meeting
of the Alumnae Council was held on May
23 at 3 o'clock.

After the minutes of the last meeting were
read, reports were made by the Councillors
present.

Miss Hopkins, Councillor from the facul-
ty, told of the prospects for a much larger
number of upper class students next year.
This will necessarily make the Freshman
class smaller and thus enable the College to
select the incoming students as all who apply
cannot be accommodated. The selection of
Freshmen the past year made quite an im-
provement in the character of the student
body.

Daisy Frances Smith, Councillor from the
day students, reported the continued interest
of the students in the fund for their Cottage.
Also, in the absence of the Councillor from
the student body, she told of the Agnes
Scott Camp which has recently been opened
at Stone Mountain. A week-end visit to
this camp proves a pleasant diversion for
the students.

After reports from the Atlanta and De-
catur clubs, which will be read at the general
meeting, motion for adjournment was made
and carried.

Respectfully submitted,

LlZZABEL SAXON,

Secretary.

ALUMNAE COUNCIL MINUTES

A meeting of the Alumnae Council was
called in the absence of the President, by the
First Vice-President for Wednesday after-
noon. February 13, at three o'clock, and
opened with the following members present:
Mrs. Scott, Miss Hopkins, Mrs. Dieckmann,
Mrs. Newton, Mrs. Guy, Miss Bland, Carrie
Scandrett. Daisy F. Smith, and the General
Secretary.

The first question that was discussed was
that of the inauguration of Dr. McCain,
which is to take place on May 4. Miss
Hopkins gave in detail the plans that have
been formulated for the day, and expressed
the appreciation of the College for the part
that the alumnae are going to take in the
entertainment of the guests. The program
is briefly as follows:

Academic Procession (Alumnae are ex-
pected to take part in this) .

Talks by leading educators of the day,
representing the local institutions, the South,
and the eastern colleges.

Luncheon in Rebekah Scott Dining Hall.
Toasts by the different college organizations.
Coffee in the lobby.

May Day exercises.

Mrs. Scott asked that Mrs. Guy and Mrs.
Newton tell their respective Clubs about
the inauguration plans, and ask for a list
of the alumnae who can place their homes
or their cars or both at the disposal of the
College for that time. This list is to be
sent to the General Secretary.

The editor of the Silhouette has asked that
the Alumnae Association have a page in the
annual again this year, and the Council ex-
pressed its appreciation of the courtesy, and
approved the suggestion. Details were left
to be arranged later.

Miss Hopkins asked that alumnae who
are coming back for Commencement be asked
to bring cap and gown. This led to the
suggestion that the Alumnae Association
might provide the gowns at the Alumnae
House and rent them to those who come
unprovided.

The question of how to make the re-
unions of the classes more generally attended
and enjoyed was also discussed. Among the
suggestions were a luncheon at Commence-
ment, with small tables for each class; a
booth in Main, where alumnae could get

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any desired information; more publicity for
the reunions, both among the alumnae and
in fhe Senior Class, and alumnae hostesses
who would be ready to show the alumnae
around the campus, and explain to them
the changes that have taken place.

The report from the Atlanta and Decatur
Clubs were given by Mrs. Guy and Nell
Buchanan, and that of the Tea Room Com-
mittee by Mrs. Newton.

Daisy Frances Smith told of the progress
of the Day Students Cottage, and discussed
the judges for the Inter-Collegiate Debate.
Carrie Scandrett offered to do anything that
she could to interest the Seniors in joining
the Association.

The meeting was then adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,

Nell Buchanan,

General Secretary.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

ATLANTA AGNES SCOTT

CLUB, 1924

The Atlanta Agnes Scott College Club
has gone through various stages of organiza-
tion and disorganization for the past few
years but at present we feel sure that at
last we are coming into our own and we
send this brief report to the General Asso-
ciation that "when the roll is called out
yonder " in Decatur, "we'll be there" in
black and white anyway.

Much appreciation and many thanks are
due our former President. Miss Katherine
DuBose for her faithful, and untiring efforts
in gathering the present sheep into the pres-
ent fold and for instilling into them a de-
gree of responsibility. Under her regime we
have grown from a pitiful little handful to
the large number of ninety.

Mrs. Jack Rutland, President for the
coming two years, means growth and pros-
perity for our club and we feel justly proud
to have her as our chief administrator.

We are organized primarily as a financial

aid to our College and secondarily for so-
cial contact with our fellow alumnae sisters.

Our outstanding financial effort of the
year is the Children's Carnival which is
annual and occurs the second Friday in May
at the home of Mrs. Clyde King, 1010
Ponce de Leon Ave. In addition to this
we have a series of rummage sales which
take place quarterly and when we are not
having these we are racking every available
brain to contrive some way to swell the
coffers of our tribe.

Being yet in our infancy as a thriving
organization, we have nothing more to say
concerning ourselves except to add in clos-
ing that it will be our duty and our pleasure
to serve the Association in any way it sees
fit to use us, to accept suggestions from it,
and to uphold it in whatever it undertakes
to accomplish.

Respectfully submitted,
The Atlanta Agnes Scott Club.

Mary Lamar Knight,

104 Linwood Place,

Secretary.

REPORT OF DECATUR AGNES
SCOTT CLUB

The Decatur Club has a membership of
about thirty-six members, with twenty of
them active. Within the last year they have
finished paying for the Anna Young panel
for the Alumnae House, given some linen
for the dining room, and contributed toward
the building fund. The club has taken in
during the year from dues, an Alumnae
play, a rummage sale, and a baby show, two
hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-five
cents ($269.55). They have spent two
hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-four
cents, leaving a balance on hand of fifty-
three dollars and sixty-one cents ($53.61).
Respectfully submitted,
FLORINE BROWN.
Secretary.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MAILING LIST

Those alumnae who have paid dues for
the current year will receive the Quarterly
and be on the Alumnae Mailing List. Other
names will be dropped within a short time
after dues have expired.

NEW ALUMNAE HOUSE
REGULATIONS

For this year it has been found necessary
to charge fifty cents a night to alumnae
occupying the Alumnae House. This charge
is to cover the expense of buying new linen
and towels, and of securing the services of
an additional maid.

OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION

President FANNIE G. (MAYSON) DON-
ALDSON, '12.

First Vice-President MARY ( WEST)

Thatcher, '15.

Second Vice-President HELEN (BROWN)

Webb. '14.

Secretary MARGARET BLAND, '20.

Treasurer MARGARET PHYTHIAN, '16.

Publicity Committee Chairman. Louise
Johnson. '20; Nell Buchanan, Elizabeth
(Denman) Hammond. Frances Charlotte
Markley, Elizabeth Wilson.

Preparatory Schools Committee Chair-
man, Julia ( Hagood ) Cuthbertson. '20;
(Committee not yet selected.)

Curriculum Committee Chairman. Jane
(Harwell) Rutland; Julia Ingram Hazzard,
Charis (Hood) Barwick.

House and Tea Room Committee Chair-
man, Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott. '15;
Treasurer. Cora Morton. '24; Ex-officio,
Martha Bishop, ex '18; Nell Buchanan. '22.
Florine Brown, ex '07; Emma Pope (Moss)

Dieckmann, '13: Georgiana (White) Miller,
'17; Eileen (Dodd) Sams, '23.

Local Clubs Committee Chairman. Aimee
D. (Glover) Little, '21; Cama (Burgess)
Clarkston. '22; Emma (Jones) Smith. 18:
Margaret Leyburn. '18: Helen Wayt. '21.

Vocational Guidance Committee. Chair-
man. Ruth Scandrett. '22: Elizabeth Brown,
'22: Polly Stone, '24.

Committee on Beautifying Grounds and
Buildings Chairman, Allie (Candler) Guy:
Martha (Rogers) Noble. '14; Mrs. Sam
Head.

Entertainment Committee Chairman Eu-
genia (Johnston) Griffin. '21; Martha
(Rogers) Noble. '14.

Scholarship Committee Chairman. Ethel
(Alexander) Gaines. '00: Emma Pope
(Moss) Dieckmann. Mary (Kelly) Van de
Erve.

Class Organization and Records Chair-
man. Ruth (Black) Smith; Louise Slack,
Eleanor Frierson.

IN THE DARK THY POEMS WRITE

In the dark thy poems write

Ere they quickly slip away.
Warn them not with candle light;
Catch them in the dark and write.
Visits poems pay at night

Briefer are than those of day:
In the dark thy poems write

Ere they quickly slip away.

Alice Yirden. '2 3.

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Published By
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BOARD OF EDITORS

_. .. r Louise Johnson, '20

bdttors | Nell Buchanar . 2 2

Associate Editors.

[Elizabeth Wilson, '22
Polly Stone, '24

Student Editor. .. EDITH RICHARDS, '27

[Mary Freeman, '26
Advertising - | Edith Richards >27

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Vol. Ill

JANUARY, 1925

No. 2

Agnes Scott Alumnae Bulletin.

Entered as second class matter, under the Act of Congress,

August, 1912

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ALUMNAE HOUSE MANTLED IN JANUARY SNOW . Frontispiece

DR. CHARLES R. THWING VISITS AGNES SCOTT

INVESTITURE ADDRESS .._.Lucilc Alexander, '11

"'TO RESCUE TODAY FROM OBLIVION." Poem Janef Preston, '21

AGNES SCOTT'S BUILDING PLANS __.Carol Stearns Wey, '12

THE VASSAR ALUMNAE HOUSE Margaret Hay, ex '23

"THE PATH," Poem Marjorie Lowe, '23

AGNES SCOTT'S GRANDCHILDREN

CONCERNING YOUR CLASS REUNION Polly Stone, '24

BOOK REVIEWS Margaret Bland, '20

ON THE CAMPUS Edith Richards, '27

The Alumnae-Varsity Hockey Game

Day Students' Plans

Blackfriars Enter Intercollegiate Contest
FROM OUR LOCAL CLUBS

Charlotte, N. C.

Richmond, Va.

Atlanta, Ga.

Decatur, Ga.
CONCERNING OURSELVES
THE ALUMNAE OFFICE

Guests of the House

Alumnae Letters
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION

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DR. CHARLES W. THWING VISITS
AGNES SCOTT

President of Phi Beta Kappa Addresses College Community

Among the distinguished visitors who have been at Agnes Scott this
year, there has been none more distinguished than Dr. Charles W. Thwing,
President Emeritus of Western Reserve University, and National President
of Phi Beta Kappa, who with Mrs. Thwing was a guest at the Alumnae
House last week. Dr. Thwing has for many years been prominent and
influential especially in the educational world. As an author also, he is
quite well known, among his books being "The College Woman". "The
American College in American Life", "The Choice of a College", and "A
Liberal Education and a Liberal Faith".

Dr. Thwing delivered three addresses to Agnes Scott audiences during
his stay at the College. On Monday afternoon, he talked to the Faculty,
emphasizing the responsibilities and opportunities of the college teacher, in
training the students to think, and in helping them to get the most out of
their lives. On Tuesday morning he addressed the College community on
"Elements of Power in Our Lives". Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Thwing gave
a talk before the Agnes Scott Classical Club on "The Value of the Classics".

During their stay at Agnes Scott, Dr. and Mrs. Thwing were the honor
guests at many entertainments, among them a luncheon in the Agnes Scott
Dining Hall, and a dinner at the Alumnae House, given by the faculty mem-
bers of Phi Beta Kappa. They were entertained at luncheon at Emory
University, and were the guests of honor at a dinner at the Georgian Ter-
race, given by the Georgia Society of Phi Beta Kappa. The Trustees of
Agnes Scott also entertained Dr. and Mrs. Thwing at a luncheon at the
Georgian Terrace Hotel.

Dr. Thwing said that he was favorably impressed with the educational
system of the colleges and universities of the South, and spoke of their able
faculties and splendid students. We take pleasure in printing excerpts from
Dr. Thwing's lecture to the Agnes Scott community:

ELEMENTS THAT ARE OF POWER IN OUR LIVES
Charles W. Thwing

"I am very happy to be here on this day. The service has been a prep-
aration for what I want to say, for the psalm, hymn, and prayer have touched
the heart and enlightened the mind. I want to talk of elements that are of

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power, force and value in our lives. This day and place lend emphasis and
origin to what I have to say about first, the power of reverence for life. This
is Armistice Day a day that touches us closely. I have a son who shed his
blood on the soil of France. It is a holy time so holy that we can not
speak of it nor think of it we can just feel. It represents the power of
Death, but also the giving of Life for the sake of Life to make life fuller.
Every day we read in the papers of the taking of life, but after all, these out-
lawries and horrors and catastrophes emphasize for us the value of the essen-
tial gift, the force of life. The very spot where we stand represents life given
for the sake of life. We. the children and grandchildren of those who went
on before, have a consuming love for life as life. The trees about us the
animals have life. We are children of life everlasting.

Another element of power and your beloved President has used the
phrase I would like to use in speaking of it is the power of thinking. It
belongs to us, as college people in an especial way the power to think.
Psychologists have discussed the question, "Do animals think?" However
that may be, man is the chief, if not the only thinking animal. The glory
of this college is that it teaches the girls to become thinkers the best think-
ers. True learning is the result of thinking the ability to take one fact,
then another, to relate them, and bring forth a new fact: from references to
gather inferences: to reason, to judge: to assess facts at their true values.
Here is one illustration. I have the privilege of knowing John D. Rocke-
feller. One day there came to his house a caller to see the master. The caller
was denied. As he had come on important business, he persisted, and asked.
"Why can I not see Mr. Rockefeller. 3 What is he doing?" The answer was.
"Oh, he is upstairs, and I presume that as usual, he is just thinking." Now
Mr. Rockefeller is recognized as a man of will. He even has the reputation
of being ruthless. I don"t think he is. but above and beyond all else, he has
the power of thinking. It may be that he has thought unjustly in com-
mercial ways but he thinks. One business man said that in his business, if
he wanted to buy up crude oil in the open markets three weeks ahead, he
found that John D. Rockefeller had been there before him. He has that pre-
meditation, that "before four o'clock in the morning" thinking that makes
men great. He has been a great benefactor of colleges. Now Mr. Carnegie
has thought in a different way. His decisions were immediate, almost im-
pulsive, but they came from an unconscious, long-continued process the
results of unconscious thought. Rockefeller was once asked for money for
the Harvard Medical School. He investigated, through experts, the demands
of the building, and the money which he advanced was given as the result of
a thorough investigation. Mr. Morgan was also asked to give. He requested
that the plans be given him. He took them to Europe, and probably never
opened them, but he gave a million dollars. He thought unconsciously, but
he reached his conclusions by a long-continued process of unconscious think-
ing.

Now girls to you, the thinkers, now is your best chance, for some,
almost the only chance, to make yourselves thinkers to fill the orbit of your
thinking full, to ascertain the Truth. I like to think of the motto of Harvard
College "Veritas" written on the seal, not across one book only, but
across three books. The truth of the Bible, of God. of yourself with Nature.
The great people of the world are thinkers in Truth. Bishop Butler said he
hoped to make Truth his field oi influence. Truth is the conquering force
of life.

I want to put in a word about seeing Truth in its proper perspective.
There is the truth of the atom, of life about us. of flowers, of self, of the

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relations of men to each other, of history, of great literature. All of these
things are important, but they are not equally important. It is for us to give
the proper relationship and proportions to Truth to put first things first,
secondary things second, and. I may say, tertiary things third.

I want to talk of another great power which has been given to us, the
power of a pure, enlightened conscience. An enlightened conscience belongs
to us college people especially. Often as we see the stars at night, we stand in
awe of the heavens, and of something else, of the moral law within. Whence
came it? We know not. There is the voice of God in our own hearts "I
ought" an imperative that must be obeyed, and that if disobeyed, costs all.
In our own time, we sometimes seem to be losing it, indifferent to it.
careless about it. With intellectual altruism, we go on with careless indiffer-
ence, leading our simple lives. We are just through the national campaign
which illustrates with force the evil of intolerance. Democracy, grace, and
virtue for selves ought they not to allow to others the same virtue and
grace? It is just about seventy years since John Stuart Mills wrote his great
book on Liberty the mightiest principle in the world. It is a plea for
tolerance of judgment and opinion.

You have, you ought to have, we want you to have, an increasing full-
ness of life as life increases. There is the power of a great ideal, of a con-
suming idealism for yourself and life. Saturday, I was in the Cleveland Art
Museum, and as I always do, I went to see a picture of Carthage, by Turner.
The picture is typical of that master of color and shows the glory of
Carthage's free empire. Carthage, that once swept the seas, sent argosies to
the East, North, and West, rivaled Rome for the supremacy of the world, and
that Rome felt she must destroy, to save herself from destruction. It was a
glorious Carthage. We have been reading lately of some excavations made
there a few walls, tiles, bricks. What else? Carthage was destroyed, not
only physically, but as an influence in all civilization. We once took a ship
in Alexandria, and approaching a promontory, we saw in the sky a singular
square formation. Was it clouds? Presently we saw that it was the
Acropolis the Power. Beneath it, beneath the Parthenon. Demosthenes,
Sophocles, Euripides, Aescuylus, and Sophocles reasoned out some of life's
problems for us. Plato and Aristotle prove Carthage vanished, but Athens
still moves. If you will go a ship's journey to the west, you come to another
peninsula the Seven Hill City. It is not the same Rome of Caesar, Cicero
and Seneca, but it is still Rome for their influence still lives, and the govern-
ment of Rome has gone all over the world. If you go to the east, you come
to Palestine, sterile and poor. It is as small as Vermont, and like Vermont,
it has mountains and rivers and lakes. Palestine lives, because there by the
Sea of Galilee, in Capernium and Jerusalem, the city of great kings, Jesus
walked and taught. In His soul was a great ideal. Palestine, Athens and
Rome live, and will so long as civilization exists. Carthage alone belongs to
the archeologists. Carthage was physical, tangible, immediate.

Girls, you have the power of a great ideal.

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Investiture.

CLASS OF 25 FORMALLY INVESTED NOV. 5

Miss Alexander Makes Address to Seniors

The Senior Class of 1925 was given its formal right to the hard-earned
cap and gown on November 5th, when Investiture Service took place. This
service is one unique to our College, and Investiture Day is second in import-
ance only to Commencement Day, in the lives of our Seniors.

To the inspiring strains of "Ancient of Days", the academic line marched
down the chapel aisle; first the faculty, followed by the Sophomore sisters
dressed in white, and lastly the Senior Class. Miss Lucile Alexander, Profes-
sor of Romance Languages at the College, and one of our alumnae, made the
address of the occasion, after which the Seniors marched singly to the stage,
where Miss Hopkins placed upon their heads the caps significant of their sat-
isfactory completion of three years of college work. The auditorium was
packed with spectators the parents and friends of the Seniors, and others
of the college community.

Miss Alexander's address was as follows:

Mr. President, Fellow Members of Class of '25:

Today you are the heart of a ceremony that marks you as somehow
different from your fellow students. The cap and gown is symbolic of a dis-
tinction. Now everything which sets you apart from the crowd must find its
justification in what you bring of "sweetness and light" to the smaller social
group of which you are now a part, and later the larger group without, of
which, in no small sense, you are soon to become the leaders. Else this is a hol-
low distinction and you have failed to sec back of the symbol the reality. Soon
you are to join the ranks of those labelled "educated", the ranks of the think-
ing men and women who are shaping the future. This word "educated" will
give you pause if you have read in the November Century an article by
Nathaniel Peffer entitled, "The Treason of the Educated". He finds the only

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ray of hope in the night of the European situation just this: that higher edu-
cation as it now exists may end, that the universities may have to close. The
same reaction under different names is in progress everywhere in Europe al-
ways hate is the basis, weapon, chief product: brutality the mode of expres-
sion; chauvinism and militarism the outward signs. The nurturing ground of
this reaction, certainly in Central Europe, is the University whose influence
reaches down through the secondary school to the little child, hardening his
mind by the bigotries of his elders and making it impervious to a vision of the
new and more merciful social order. The author raises the question: Why are
institutions of learning sacred as such? Why tolerate such bitter fruit in
institutions whose avowed function is to dispel ignorance and put the test of
truth to prejudice?

Nor does he spare the American University in his arraignment. Here
he finds an inertia more deplorable than bad ideas for the reason that bad
ideas raise their own opposition.

We should like to believe that the darkness of the picture is overdrawn.
But if we open our eyes and see the truth we must realize that forces are at
work, which, if they succeed, mean another catastrophe, the end of European
and white civilization. The task of creating new ideas, conditions, atmos-
phere, in order to save the future of humanity, is one that challenges every
thinking person. In this task the college women are aspiring to their full
share. At the third Biennial Conference of the International Federation of
University Women last summer in Sweden, the keynote of every speech
was the formation of the international mind which will work for all nations
and not for one only, the cultivation of the spirit of wide-mindedness, tolera-
tion, sympathy. These were discussions by thinking people of twenty differ-
ent nationalities in an atmosphere of trust and mutual understanding. Surely
it will inspire you to know that of the one hundred-and-twelve delegates,
sixty-six were from the United States. If the large majority of our hun-
dred-and-ten-million citizens persist in keeping in power a party more con-
cerned with American rights than duties, whose leaders maintain a "back-
ward look upon the new problems of the world", is it idle to say that to
these organized college women may come the high privilege of making it
certain that America is "to enter into the fullness of that peace and prosperity
and reap the benefits of that enduring brotherhood which are the just in-
heritance of a nation exalted by righteousness"? (John W. Davis. Novem-
ber 3, 1924.)

Your four years at Agnes Scott have opened for you this door of oppor-
tunity. We alumnae of Agnes Scott, we who "have gone on before", are
convinced that our Alma Mater has not given you as your weapon that doubt
which never has since the world began, inspired the energy and courage re-
quired for the real crises of life. We fervently believe that our college is built
on the principle of life for the life of others, the only sure basis on which
a stable and decent world can be established. We believe that you have
learned that education is not a gift to the able, but an investment for the
future. The nation chosen of God for the greatest of world missions failed
when she thought only of her privileges: a chosen generation, a royal priest-
hood, an holy nation, a peculiar people. We believe you have been inspired
with the vision of loving service and that, remembering always that "Ye are
that ye may", you will be obedient to the vision.

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New Gymnasium-Auditorium Front View.

WORK ON NEW GYMNASIUM BEGUN

Building to be Completed by June, 1925.
Carol Stearns Wey, '12

The first shovelful of earth for the new Gymnasium-Auditorium has
been turned and the first unit in the half-million-dollar program of building
for the Greater Agnes Scott is actually under way.

To go back a bit those of you who have been receiving your ALUMNAE
QUARTERLIES regularly will remember that in one issue of last year the plans
of Messrs. Cram and Ferguson, Architects of Boston, for the comprehensive
development of the college area were explained, and mention made of the
buildings for which the need was greatest at the present time. Foremost on
the list was a gymnasium to take the place of the present outgrown and in-
adequate structure, which might serve also as an auditorium until such time
as it may be possible to erect a building for that purpose. At the May meet-
ing of the Board of Trustees of the College it was decided to commence work
on this first unit just as soon as sufficient funds were on hand to justify the
undertaking. Apparently these were forthcoming, for during the summer
the firm of Edwards and Sayward, of Atlanta, were commissioned to pre-
pare detailed plans for the new gymnasium. Their experience covers a wide
range of school and university work, among which may be mentioned the
beautiful buildings of the University of Florida at Gainesville, -'the Florida
State College for Women at Tallahassee.

Bids on the gymnasium were opened about three weeks ago, and in

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spite of the fact that the low bid of $168,000 left a deficit of $40,000, as
only $128,000 is available at the present time, the trustees decided to com-
mence work at once, and the contract with M. C. McCaulay Construction
Co. is actually signed and the work of excavation has begun. Some cutting
and trimming and changing will take care of part of this deficit and the rest,
we hope, will be raised before the completion of the building. If not, some
features in the proposed plan will have to be postponed until later.

As for details of the plans, we quote from the December second issue
of the Agonistic:

"When completed, our new gymnasium will surpass all other buildings
of its kind in this part of the country. It is planned to accommodate a thou-
sand students. On the ground floor, the swimming pool, an up-to-date tile
affair, 25x60 feet, covers one side. Midway in the room are individual basket
lockers and box lockers arranged in rows, where all gym clothes are to be
kept, and showers. On the other side of the ground floor, there is a special
gymnasium for girls taking individual exercises. Besides this, there is on the
ground floor, a laundry, where gym suits are to be laundered and put back
into the basket lockers (they are never to be removed from the gym build-
ing), a hair-dryer established for the benefit of swimmers: and a kitchen,
from which lunches can be served.

On the main floor are the offices of the physical directors and the college
doctor, rest rooms and physical examination rooms; a main gymnasium floor.
70x90 feet, on which two games, of basketball, for instance, can be played
at once: and, on one end of the story, a smaller gymnasium floor, raised three
and a half feet. The raised floor can be converted into a stage by means
of movable foot-lights, and the main floor into an auditorium, with the use
of folding chairs which are stored under the raised floor.

The third floor will consist only of a balcony, seating two hundred
and seventy people, and six rooms for college organizations, on one side:
and, on the other side, of a room where lights can be shifted upon the stage
below."

All this, and we haven't told you where you will find this newest thing
on the campus when you next come back to Agnes Scott. The infirmary
has been moved to a very convenient location just behind Dr. Sweet's house
and the gymnasium is to be built practically on its former location at the
head of the athletic field. It is to be College Gothic type of architecture, in
Harvard brick with Indiana Limestone trim. A telephone call to Dr.
McCain this morning in order to have the very latest of news before the
QUARTERLY goes to press, disclosed the fact that he was just starting to town
to select the brick. Doesn't that sound as though it were going to be there for
us all to see very soon? It is hoped that the building will be completed by
June, 1925. and that Commencement exercises can be held in our new
auditorium.

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New Gymnasium Side View.

"TO RESCUE TODAY FROM
OBLIVION"

As trees print coolness on the heated grass,

In clear, sharp images that lie outlined,
So beauty lays cool fingers as I pass

Upon the parched places of my mind:
The honeysuckle hedges' breathing bloom

That fills a little lane with fragrant May;
The star that swings her taper through the
gloom

That gathers at the closing of the day;
The sudden glowing of a gracious thought.

Akin to wonder, on a lifted face;
These cool imprints of beauty have been
wrought

Upon the dullness of the commonplace;
And beautiful as bloom, or thought, or sky,

A shining name today one called me by.

Janef Preston, '21.

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THE VASSAR ALUMNAE HOUSE

Margaret Hay Ex. '23 Agnes Scott, B.A. Vassar, '23

The Vassar Alumnae House is about as much a work of love as can be,
in these days when things are so obviously made with money and with
machines. The two alumnae who gave the house wanted to make their love
for Vassar into a visible beauty, and since to them the college has always
been a restful place to come back to, they decided to let that beauty take the
form of a house fit to receive all who should come again to scenes of glory
not yet entirely departed.

So they arranged to have built, on some of the college land, a big,
rambling, comfortable house in the English style, with living-room, dining-
rooms, flagged terrace-garden, bed-room suites, and a dormitory. Various
classes have given the appointments and furnishings. There is an Elizabethan
dining-room, and a living-room furnished with beautiful antique furniture
most of it brought from Europe by Miss Violet Oakley, the artist who
painted the triptych of allegorical design, which is the chief glory of the living-
room, and the very heart of the house. Such accessories as bridge-lamps and
candlesticks were made to order by people in New York things fit to live
with venerable Spanish chests and Italian Renaissance tables. In fact, the
whole house seems to have the dignity of an old one that people have enjoyed,
because of the exquisite care that has been spent on the details as well as on
the general plan.

Many of the bed-rooms have been furnished by families, in memory of
daughters who went to Vassar, and so are as scrupulously beautiful as love
could make them. This may sound too sentimental for any tolerance, but
one does really get quite affected in the presence of what is obviously spiritual.

No one can say that this house does not exist spiritually, after the open-
ing it has had. Last spring, all of the workmen who had had anything at all
to do with the house, were given a special party in it. They and their wives
were received by the donors, the president of Vassar, and several others, so
that they might see what they had helped to make, and recognize it as their
own. There had been such a spirit about the work, that these perfectly
average workmen had responded with more than Union hours in return for
Union wages, and had given what they could of interest and of good in-
tention.

The formal opening of the house was at Commencement last June.
There was quite an elaborate little ceremony arranged, with trumpeters in
medieval costume, and bearers of the deed of gift (Miss Oakley's beautifully
illuminated roll of parchment), of light to the house and of the key to the
triptych. There was a notable poem done by the daughter of one of the
donors, and some lovely music by the daughter of the other. Both girls were
in college at the time, so the "old alums'' were stirred at "two generations
of such splendid Vassar women".

One of the chief attractions of Vassar has always been that there one
is allowed to be one's best self as completely as possible. In other words.

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the college is avowedly for the girls who come to it. The older people advise,
stimulate and best of all tolerate, each one of them as a potentially splen-
did individual. The effect is sometimes miraculous, sometimes only pleasant,
but always fairly lasting, it seems. So it is no great wonder that tired
mothers and harassed business-women come back to Vassar to regain self-
control and correct perspectives. Now that there is such a place to stay, they
expect to come and take courses which they aspire to (even though Vassar
does not give graduate degrees) , or listen in on them, and talk to interesting
people again. Some want to do writing that has been knocking to get out
of the cupboards of their minds, and some want to walk through the country,
take a turn on the old bikes again and come home in time for tea.

At any rate, whatever one wants to do or say that is, within the
bounds of reason, one can always do it or say it there and be sure of some-
one joining in or even agreeing, for a change, perhaps! If one is too poor to
live in luxury (but actually at little cost) in one of the bed-rooms or suites,
one gets a congenial room-mate, or takes a bed in the very attractive dormitory
on the top floor. This last is a merry place, too, on account of the number-
less young grads who are holding down bread-and-cheese jobs in New York!

But there is no use to go into the joys of coming back to college and of
rehashing adventures of one's youth. Every alumna knows them, and Agnes
Scott people more than others. I claim that college, too, and have my own
tales to tell if ever I get down to Decatur again to my other Alumnae House.

THE PATH

There is a little path that lies

Outside my window, where my eyes T , , .. . t ,

1 ve never bothered to explore

Can travel at the break of day -r U .* ,, . ,- ,

1 his path that lies so near my door.

Along the flower-bordered way; E r _ 1 n ,1 a

b ' ror 1 am busy all the day

And when I go to bed at night t u- i. \- .u

5 & In town, which lies another way;

I still can see it shining white. a , < t u.

6 And evenings when 1 might go roam

I'd rather far stay here at home:

I know not where the pathway ends My rocking . chair , a book , a fire>

I only know at length it bends, In wmter fi my hear , s dcsjrc

And hides itself among the pines. And al] T ask of May or Junfi

And leaves for me no outward signs h JMt a bjt of sUver moon
That there is any path at all
Beyond the pines' dark gleaming wall.

Should I grow tired of Every Day,
Or Trouble come to me to stay.
I might decide to follow out
The path, and settle any doubt
I may have had about the end
But how I'd dread to round the bend
And view the tingling mysteries
That lie beyond the dark pine trees!

Marjorie Lowe, '2 3.

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AGNES SCOTT'S GRANDCHILDREN

It is well known that grandmothers are inordinately proud of their
grandchildren, and Agnes Scott is no exception to the rule. There are fifteen
grandchildren here this year, and an attractive lot they are! Agnes Scott is
fortunate to have attained the age where her daughters can send their daughters
to Agnes Scott, for they are drawn closer to the college and to each other,
through the love of a mutual alma mater. Many of our Alumnae make
their plans to send their daughters to Agnes Scott in plenty of time to insure
their having places in the dormitories. Allie (Candler) Guy (Mrs. J. S. ) ,
1913, had her little girl registered at College when she was only one day old,
and Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal (Mrs. Alan S. ) . 1918, writes that her small
daughters. Nancy who is three years old, and Ruth, aged thirteen months,
would like to correspond with other members of the classes of 1942 and
1944 at Agnes Scott!

This year we have fifteen grandchildren enrolled. They are:

Mothers Daughters

Alice Coffin (Mrs. W. F. Smith) Sara Smith (Junior)

Claude Candler ( Mrs. Branch McKinney) , Caroline McKinney (Sophomore)

Melrose Franklin (Mrs. R. J. Kennedy) .... Evelyn Kennedy (Junior)

Anais Cay (Mrs. Selden Jones )__ _ Anais Jones (Freshman)

Ethel Alexander (Mrs. L. M. Gaines)- Eloise Gaines (Freshman)

Vera Reins (Mrs. I. E. Kamper) Vera Kamper (Freshman)

Annie Wiley (Mrs. Fairman Preston)- ...Miriam Preston (Sophomore)

Estelle Webb (Mrs. D. W. Shadburn) . Susan Shadburn (Junior)

Belle Jones (Mrs. C. R. Horton) ...Sallie Horton (Senior)

Rosa Harden (Mrs. Selden Jones) Emily Jones (Junior)

May Goss (Mrs. M. I. Stone )_ Delia Stone (Freshman)

Lucy Green (Mrs. G. H. Gardner).. _ Frances Gardner (Senior)

Lillian King (Mrs. F. H. Williams). .Lillian King LeConte (Freshman)

<~i r- n , s * T ii -7ii * I Emily Zellars (Senior)

Clara Fuller (Mrs. T. M. Zellars) I ' ,, T . ,

I Mary Ella Zellars (Junior)

All Agnes Scott alumnae are urged to come back often to visit the
College, and the Alumnae House, but those who have daughters in College
always receive an especial welcome.

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CONCERNING YOUR CLASS REUNION

Polly Stone, '24

Wouldn't it be fine if we could all come back?

Can't you imagine little Decatur simply bursting at its seams because it
was packed so full of the many A. S. C. girls who all came back the same
May? and can't you see us pouring in from every state in the union, and
catching boats at Boulogne and Kobe and Calcutta' Can't you hear the
mighty roar that the united voices of our Fords would make if all of our
alumnae who have "struck it rich" elected to drive down and parade the
new twin two before the dear old faculty?

Can't you see the school teachers and business girls among us stride
up the long walk to Main with their Cantilever shoes and brief cases and
tortoise-shell specs? Can't you see our debs and idle rich tripping through
Main for a peep at the phone pad, just for old time's sake; while the dear
married souls ecstatically drag a husband (apiece) and babies (the number
varies) across the campus to meet old room-mates, with the husbands (still
only one apiece) and babies they have in tow?

Of course we can't all come back, for some of us live in India and
China and the very utterest uttermost parts of the world, but most of us are
within a day's journey of Agnes Scott, and wouldn't it be wonderful if
when Commencement comes this year, hundreds of us could come back to the
College we love most?

There are lots of us who haven't been back since the day we marched
across the colonnade while the chapel rang with the "Alma Mater", and tears
came into our eyes because we suddenly realized that we too had joined
"those who have gone on before ", and that College days were over.

Of course we love Agnes Scott! The recollection of our years there
gives us a tender little tightness of the heart. And as to classes well, we
are each positive that the class we were graduated in, had the finest old girls
in the world in it. And we are each right! Those girls will all be coming
back this Commencement, how can you keep from coming, too?

There will be special class tables in the dining-rooms, and we'll vie
with each other in songs and stunts like we used to do. Then of course there
is the big Alumnae Luncheon where we hear all the gossip about each other,
the alumnae meetings and the grand parade with each class in special costumes.
Several of the classes are planning to have reunion "cottages" on wings, so
they can all stay together and have good old after-light talks the way we
used to do. And anything else we may think of to do Nell Buchanan has
promised that we may, if we only let her know about it far enough ahead
of Commencement for her to make all arrangements.

Are you hungry for a sight of the tower of Main? and the little winding
walk from the front gate up to Rebekah? Wouldn't you like to swing your

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feet from that mail-room shelf again? and could anything be jollier than to
meet Miss McKinney coming down the walk in front of Science Hall, or to
see Mr. Tart bolt around the corner to open the bookstore promptly at two?

There's really no argument about it: we simply must come back this
year indeed we must.

Classes holding reunions this year are:

1924 1st year
1922 3rd year
1920 5th year
1915 10th year

1910 15th year
1905 20th year
1900 25th year
1895 30th year

Main Tower

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BOOK REVIEWS

Margaret Bland, '20

France, Russia and England are familiar countries in the books we read,
but, after an early interest in Hans Bnnker, we seldom have or read books
whose scenes lie in the picturesque country of Holland. It is delight-
ful then, to discover Pallieter by Felix Timmerman and to find admirably
portrayed the peasant life of that little country. The passing of seasons, the
eating of food, the praying of monks, and the making of love are the only
stirring events of the story. Pallieter is not a novel, it is a pastoral poem in
prose.

Carl Van Doren is the first literary critic who announced a determina-
tion to specialize on the works of American authors. People who were then
astounded at his temerity are now astonished at the results of his work.
Many Minds, his recent book of criticism, shows that he has discovered
writers of worth and that he can describe them with understanding, from a
popular language realist, like George Ade to an imaginative realist like James
Branch Cabell: from an ironical iconoclast, like H. L. Mencken to a whim-
sical dreamer like Edna St. Vincent Millay. But his understanding and keen
analysis are not confined, as with most critics, to others, but he understands,
analyzes and appreciates himself in a delightful, final chapter, entitled Carl
Van Doren.

Historical works are frequent. But histories written in the fascinating
style of a novel, histories that teem with dramatic incidents and high moments
of pathos: histories that present personalities rather than politics, are rare.
Such a one, however, is Phillip Guedalla's Second Empire. The little man
with great ambitions, ridiculed and respected, honored and hated, is a strange
figure in the brilliant pageantry of French History. And Guedalla's pre-
sentation of this Charles-Louis-Napoleon, is perhaps, as vivid and intimate
as Lytton-Strachey's portrait of Queen Victoria.

In a little volume, The Ancient Beautiful Things, Fannie Stearns Davis
appears at her best. Her dreams have been delicately woven into a rhyth-
mical form of beauty. Most delightful are the poems of her home and of
her little daughter, Rebecca, an echo of herself. Through all the poems is
seen a deep contentment, yet an ever keen desire to live more and to dream
more and more.

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On The Campus

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ALUMNAE TIE VARSITY IN
HOCKEY GAME

The varsity hockey team played the Alum-
nae last Friday afternoon. Each team played
well: in fact so well that the final score was
2 and 2. It is needless to mention the mer-
its of the Varsity, each of us know them al-
ready: but oh. you should have seen those
Alumnae play. The saying goes. "Practice
makes perfect": well, this game was the ex-
ception to the rule, for the Alumnae team
came near perfection, and when have they
had opportunity for practice?

It was some two weeks ago that the Var-
sity challenged the Alumnae. And those
that "have gone on before" responded:

It may be we're thought passe

Compared with those we are asked to play.

Out of practice, we may lack

Wind enough, but not the knack

To give the Varsity a scare;

Name the day and we'll be there.

This reply was extremely apt, for the
graduates of "days gone by" certainly did
have the "knack." and the Varsity without
a doubt had its "scare."

Varsity vs. Alumnae:
J. Walker, c.f. .. Ethel Ware, '22, c.f.

Bull, r.i. .. ...Helen Wayt. '21, r.i.

B. Walker, l.i. .. ...XX F. Smith. '24, l.i.

Preston, r.w. Elizabeth Henry. '24. r.w.

D. Owen, l.w ....Betty Floding. '21, l.w.

Spivey. c.h. Nonie Peck, '24, c.h.

E. Powell, r.h. . .Augusta Thomas. '24. r.h.

Fain. l.h. Janef Preston. '21, 1 .h.

M. A. McKinney. r.f... Ruth Hall, '11, r.f.
G. McKennon. l.f...Mary Goodrich. '23. l.f.
Bowers, g.g. ._ ...Martha Eakes. g.g.

Agonistic.

DAY STUDENT COTTAGE TO BE A
REALITY

Day Students have long cherished a plan
for building a cottage on the campus where
they may spend the night, and which they
may use for various purposes.

This plan is now about to be realized.
The cottage will cost three thousand dol-
lars. Fifteen hundred dollars of this has
been accumulated by the day students of
previous years, and the day students of this
year are determined to raise the remaining

fifteen hundred dollars. As a beginning for
their "money-raising" campaign, the day
students presented a play in the college chapel
on November 8, entitled "The String 'Em
Girl." This was a clever play in three acts
written by one of the day students. Miss Mary
Lynes. of Atlanta. About one hundred and
fifteen dollars was realized on this play. On
December 3. they repeated the play at Egles-
ton Hall in Atlanta, and cleared a consider-
able amount on this second performance.

During the following week the day stu-
dents started a sale of "bricks." These were
brick-colored tags bearing the words. "I am
a brick." This sale is to continue as long
as purchasers can be found. The day stu-
dents are also acquiring money through the
sale of old papers, tin-foil, candy, and by
clipping hair.

Their capable president for this year is
Miss Isabel Clark, of Atlanta.

BLACKFRIARS TO PLAY AT
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Early this fall, Blackfriars received an in-
vitation to participate in a dramatic contest
to be held at the convention of the National
Association of Teachers of Speech at North-
western University on December 31. 1924,
and January 1, 1925. Only nine colleges,
all of which are standard institutions, may
enter this contest. The winners will receive
a loving cup and two hundred and fifty
dollars.

After careful consideration. Blackfriars
chose to present "The Conflict." a one-act
play by Clarice Vallette McCallie.

This will be Blackfriars' first perform-
ance outside of Atlanta, and since this is
the only intercollegiate activity Agnes Scott
participates in aside from the intercollegiate
debates, they are especially anxious to do
their best at Northwestern. There is splen-
did material in Blackfriars. and under Miss
Gooch's able supervision, they are making
rapid progress in the dramatic world.

The cast which has been selected to play
at Northwestern is as follows:
Mother ...Mary Ben Wright, '25
Emilic Isabel Ferguson. '25

Bess . . ..Mary Freeman, '26

Bob _ Louise Buchanan, '25

w From Our Local Clubs w

Mil 'ill!

immmmmmmmimm mmmm mimi mum : mimimi mmmmmimmimm m

Miss McKinney

Piofessor of English at Agnes Scott College.

CHARLOTTE

The Charlotte Agnes
U [ *|\ \l. I ! iJB Scott Alumnae Club
ORC AXT/Fn was organized Thurs-
day, November 13th,
at the home of Julia Hagood Cuthbertson
(Mrs. W. R. ) . '20, with about eighteen
present. Miss McKinney came up to help
organize, and everyone was delighted to see
her again. As each alumna came in. Miss
McKinney guessed who she was, and didn't
fail to recognize one.

Julia Hagood was appointed temporary
chairman, and after explaining the objects
of the Club, appointed a nominating com-
mittee in order that officers might be elected
at the next meeting. It was found that Char-
lotte has a potential membership of thirty
or more, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that the Charlotte Club will develop
into one of our strongest.

After the business was over. Miss McKin-
ney took charge and told the girls about the
latest developments at the college, especially
about the plans for new buildings. She
had pictures and blue prints of how they
would look and be placed on the campus and
the girls became enthusiastic about the plans
for a greater Agnes Scott. Miss McKin-
ney enjoyed seeing Mrs. Arbuckle, the wife
of Dr. Howard Arbuckle, whom many of
us remember at Agnes Scott. Dr. Arbuckle
is now a professor at Davidson.

Among our Charlotte Alumnae are: Sar-
ah Brockenbrough Payne (Mrs. E. G.),
Augusta Cannon, Anne Gilleylen Quarles

(Mrs. J. P.). Katherine Graves Clarke
(Mrs. A. B.), Aline Harbey Moore (Mrs.
Leland), Augusta Laxton. Marion MacPhail.
Midge McAden Cothran (Mrs. J. C. ) .
Janie McClintock Cole (Mrs. E. A.),
Rosa Milledge Pattillo (Mrs. E. L.) , Sarah
Lillie Wolfe Keerans (Mrs. J. L.) , Annie
Dow Wurm Moore (Mrs. W. W. ) . Mary
Brockenbrough White (Mrs. G. D. ) . Lida
Caldwell Wilson (Mrs. G. E.. Jr.), Ivylyn
Girardau, Lucy Naive, Mildred Shepherd.
Elizabeth Fore, Mary Spier. Lula Groves
Campbell Ivey (Mrs. G. M. ) . Sarah Dun-
lap Bobbitt (Mrs. William), Cama Bur-
gess Clarkston (Mrs. Francis), Julia Ha-
good Cuthbertson (Mrs. W. R. ) , Ruth
Crowell. Selene Hutcheson Dalton (Mrs.
C. I.), May (McDonald) Mills, Eddie
Hunters Pease (Mrs. Norman). Louise
Wadsworth Patton (Mrs. J. C. ) . Julia
Christian Preston (Mrs. E. R. )

Helen Wayt, '21. of the Atlanta Club, was
a visitor in Charlotte and attended the first
meeting of the Charlotte Club.

On December the 4th. the second meet-
ing of the Charlotte Club was held at
Queen's College, Lucy Naive being hostess.
The constitution was adopted and the fol-
lowing officers elected:

President Lula G r ov e s ( Campbell )
Ivey (Mrs. G. M.) .

Vice-President Ethel Rea.

Secretary Midge (McAden) Cothran
(Mrs. J. S.)

Treasurer Lucy Naive.

Executive Committee Julia (Hagood)
Cuthbertson (Mrs. W. R. ) , Sarah (Wolfe)
Keerans (Mrs. J. L.) and Louise (Wads-
worth) Patton (Mrs. J. C. ) .

Miss Alice Springs, who was formerly
head of the art department of the College,
and Mrs. Howard Arbuckle. were elected
honorary members of the Charlotte Club.

The Charlotte Club is bending its efforts,
along with the other clubs, toward lifting
the debt off of the Alumnae House, and plans
are being made for a silver tea, on Febru-
ary the 22nd, for that purpose. It will be
a combination of George Washington and
Founders Day celebration.

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THE A G N ES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

On Saturday afternoon.

RICHMOND November 15th , t hc
CLUB Richmond chapter of thc

Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation was organized. Miss Louise Mc-
Kinney was sent to Richmond by the Alum-
nae Association for thc first meeting of the
Chapter. While in the city Miss McKinney
was entertained by Kate (Richardson)
Wicker (Mrs. J. J. Jr.). 1915. Mrs. R. C.
Wight. Mrs. Dick Johnson. Miss Maggie
Watkins and Miss Nannie Campbell. 1923.
At thc meeting Saturday afternoon, thc
Alumnae were told of plans for several new
buildings and shown pictures of proposed im-
provements and enlargements at Agnes Scott
College. A second meeting was held on
December 4th at the Richmond Training
School, and at that time thc following of-
ficers were elected: President. Elizabeth Mc-
Clure: Secretary, Josephine Logan: Treas-
urer. Mrs. H. J. Williams: Chairman of
Publicity. Mrs. J. J. Wicker.

Among our Richmond Alumnae are:

Josephine Logan, 1923. of Japan- Beth
McClure. 1923: Margaret McDow, 1924:
and Elizabeth Doggett, ex 1926: all of
whom are at the Richmond Training
School.

Kate (Richardson) Wicker (Mrs. J. J..
Jr.), 1915, is thc mother of two little
girls, and is active in Y. W. C. A. and
American Legion work.

Miriam Reynolds Towers (Mrs. A. R.).
ex 1918. is kept busy with her home and
such activities as the Community Fund
Drive.

Louise Payne, ex 1911. is with the Rich-
mond Art Company.

Mary White Caldwell, ex 19 23. is a
Senior at St. Luke's Hospital, and is now
head nurse on one floor.

Hattie Blackford Williams (Mrs. H. J.).
1903, has just moved with her family of
four to Forest Hill, and is very active in
church work of all kinds.

Bessie Sentcll Martin (Mrs. Mott) , ex
1908. is studying at the Training School,
enjoying Greek especially. Much of her
time is taken up making talks at all kinds
of missionary meetings.

Louise Sanders, ex 1925, is having a
good time, as usual, at home.

Bessie Winston Williams (Mrs. W. A.),
ex 1925. is enjoying her home and keeping
busy filling her social engagements.

Nannie Campbell (1923), is bookkeeper

at the Richmond Exchange for Women's
Work. She writes that it was wonderful to
have had Miss McKinney there for the first
meeting of the Club, and such a help in get-
ting the girls together.

The November meeting of
ATLANTA the Atlanta Agnes Scott
CLUB Club was delightfully en-

tertained by Mrs. Lewis
Gaines at her home on Park Lane.

Mrs. George Griffin accepted the respon-
sibility of chairman of a bazaar thc club
is giving to help meet the yearly pledge
of $500 to the Anna Young Alumnae
Fund. The bazaar was held at Tenth and
Peachtree streets on Fridav afternoon and
all day Saturday. December 5th and 6th.

Miss Hopkins and Miss McKinney were
honor guests and gave the club most in-
teresting news of the college and of new
Alumnae chapters that are being organized.

Another enjoyable feature of the meet-
ing was a solo by Mrs. W. M. Dume.

Among those present were. Mrs. Wm.
Anderson. Miss Bell Cooper. Mrs. Asa W.
Candler. Mrs. Frank Beall. Mrs. J. L. Camp-
bell. Mrs. P. W. Hammond. Mrs. George
Griffin. Mrs. Sam Guy. Mrs. W. Quillian,
Mrs. Paul Potter. Mrs. H. B. Wey. Mrs.
F. Kamper. Mrs. Stewart McGinty, Mrs.
Homer McAfee. Mrs. C. J. Lewis. Mrs.
Gheesling. Mrs. Lewis Hoppe. Jr.. Miss
Clair L. Scott. Miss Alice Green and Mrs.
D. B. Donaldson.

The officers of the Atlanta Club are:

President. Clair Louise Scott.

Vice-President. Mrs. Harold Wey.

Secretary. Mrs. Lewis Hoppe.

Treasurer. Mrs. Frank Beall.

The new officers for the
DECATUR Decatur Agnes Scott
CLUB Club for this year arc:

President. Mrs. F. H.
Robarts (Louise Maness) .

Vice-President. Mrs. Walter Miller ( Geor-
gia na White ) .

Secretary-Treasurer, Frances Amis
The Decatur Club has started the year
well. They are planning this year to con-
tribute SI 00 to the Alumnae Fund, over and
above thc pledges of individual members. To
this end, the members are planning rummage
sales, and an Alumnae play.

Thc Decatur Club was delightfully enter-
tained at its last meeting, by Mrs. Robarts
and the outgoing officers.

Please send all news for this column to your Class Secretary, or to the Alumnae Office

News of Former Faculty
Members

Professor and Mrs. Algernon Coleman, of the
University of Chicago, and their daughter. Polly,
age 9 years, have just returned from a delight-
ful stay of sixteen months in Paris. Mrs. Cole-
man is remembered as Miss Mary Gude, at Agnes
Scott, where she taught for several years. Mrs.
Coleman is always eager to hear Agnes Scott
news. Every once in a while Martha B. Shryock
goes from the extreme north of Chicago to the
extreme south of Chicago to have a good Agnes
Scott talk with Mrs. Coleman.

Miss Alice Springs, former head of the Art
Department, recently visited the college as Miss
Hopkins' guest. Miss Alice spends her winters
in Charlotte. N. C, and her summers in her
delightful home at Blowing Rock. She has a
great niece at Agnes Scott this year, Mary
Keesler, of Charlotte.

All of us who remember Mr. McClain will be
sorry to hear of his continued illness at the
home of his cousin, Mrs. D. F. Finlay, in York.
S. C. Mr. McClain is confined to his bed most
of the time, and while he himself is not able
to write. Mrs. Finlay writes that he has so
enjeyed the letters of his Agnes Scott friends.

Miss Susanne Colton. former head of the
French Department, who for several years has
been a missionary to Korea, recently paid a visit
to the College. She gave an interesting talk
to the students and faculty on her experiences
in Korea, and on the field for mission work
there. Miss Colton will leave for Korea next
July, stopping by the Philippines on the way
to visit relatives.

The following engagements are
announced:

Dorothy Elyea. ex '24. to Mr. Calhoun Emmet

Minchener, the marriage to be solemnized at the

home of her parents on Peachtree Road, on
January 6th.

Elizabeth Enloe. '21, to Mr. Gerald Raleigh
MacCarthy.

Alumnae Marriages

Laura I. Cooper, '16. to Mr. Claude Christo-
pher, of Barnesville, Ga.

Lutie N. Powell, ex '10, to Mr. J. L Burck-
lardt, Jr, of Atlanta

Katharine Glasgow, ex '19, to Mr. Dean Owens,
of Rome, Ga.

Helen Lockhart, ex '25, to Mr. Thomas Wat-
kins, of Decatur, Ga.

Elizabeth Lockhart, '23, to Mr. Victor Manget
Davis, of Atlanta.

(Helen and Elizabeth Lockhart had a double
wedding).

Vivian Gregory, ex '21, to Mr. D. C Duncan
of Salisbury. N. C.

News By Classes

1893 Secretary, Mary (Barnett)
Martin, (Mrs. A. V.), Clinton, S. C.

Mrs. W. B. Ardrey's (Mary Mack) oldest son.
William, was married on June 26th, to Miss
Madaleine Kelly, of Easlev, S. C He is living
at Fort Mill. S. C, and is in the lumber busi-
ness. Her only daughter. Elizabeth, is a sopho-
more at Winthrop College.

Mrs. A. V. Martin's (Mary Barnett) oldest son,
Edward, is at McCallie's School in Chattanooga
this session.

1894 Secretary, Mary Neel Kendrick
(Mrs. W. J.), Fort McPherson, Ga.

1895 Secretary, Winifred Quarter-
man, Waycross, Ga.

1896 Secretary, Mary Ethel Davis,
Decatur, Georgia.

1S97 Secretary, Cora Strong, N. C. C.
W., Greensboro, N. C.

1899 Secretary, Nellie Mandeville
Henderson (Mrs C. K.), Carrollton, Ga.

Emma Wesley is the principal of a school in
Atlanta.

1900 Secretary, Ethel Alexander
Gaines (Mrs. Lewis M.), 18 Park Lane,
Atlanta, Ga.

Jean Ramspeck Harper (Mrs. W. R.) is living
at 626 W. Hortter Street. Germantown, Pa.

Rusha Wesley is assistant principal of the
O'Keefe Jr. High in Atlanta.

1901 Secretary, Adeline (Arnold)
Loridans (Mrs. Charles), 16 E. 15th
Street, Atlanta, Ga.

1902 Secretary, Laura Caldwell Ed-
monds (Mrs. A. S.), 240 King' Street,
Portland, Ore.

1903 Secretary, Eilleen Gober, Ma-
rietta, Ga.

Hattie Blackford Williams (Mrs. H. J.I has
changed her address to 4017 Dunston Ave., Rich-
mond, Va.

Emily Winn, who is a missionary *t> Japan,
expects to return to this country in Ju.is, 1925.
Eilleen Gober is a stenographer '7jn- Marietta.

1904 Secretary, Lois Johnson Ayco.c'k
(Mrs. C. G.), 170 Penn Ave., Atlanta..

Virginia Butler Stone (Mrs.'. Char.' F.Y, is liv-
ing in Atlanta. She has two lovely children.
Lucile and Charles. Jr. Mr. and *M>y. Stone
have recently completed a very a^aStiVt', i;w
home on Oakdale Road. Druid Hills." ;

Kathleen Kirkpatrick Daniel (Mrs. J. L.) lives
in her childhood home. Decatur. Her husband
is Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the Geor-
gia Tech. They have three fine children. Kath-
leen Laura, John L., Jr., and Elizabeth Kirk-
patrick.

1905 Secretary, Mabel McKowen,
Lindsay, La.

Lulie Morrow Croft (Mrs. R. C.) is teaching in
West. Point, Ga. She and her five bright, attrac-
tive daughters go to school together every morn-
ing. They range from second grade to High
School and are all headed for Agnes Scott. In
addition to her home and school work Lulie teach-
es their Woman's Bible Class on Sunday. She
hasn't lost any of her girlhood energy.

1906 Secretary, Ethel (McDonald)
Castellow, Cuthbert, Ga.

It has been said that "a country without a
history is a country without dissension and strife."
Such must be the record of the class of 1906,
since a plea from the Secretary for news from
the members met with such few responses from
the various members of the little graduating
class of 1906. I must explain that by "little"
I mean few. for otherwise I am sure our latest
bride, Mary Kelly "that was'" would rise up in
all the dignity of her height, learning and gen-

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era] lovableness (except as a correspondent) and
give poor little me a real "calling down." Well,
those pood old days are gone when we had our
ups and our downs, our big members and our
little members, our perfect marks and alas ! our
Hunks. But I am sure that each member of
the class of 1906 still loves her Alma Mater
and recalls with pleasure the good times we used
to have together. I am sure we are all doing our
patriotic duty and voting, even if some of us
don't care much for suffrage. Some of us are
teaching and some of us are housekeepers and
mothers. I do hope that all of us are happy
and that we still remember our p's and q's
which the dear and patient teachers of those old-
en times tried so hard to teach us.

Ida Lee Hill Irvin (Mrs. L. T. >, of Washing-
ton, Ga., spent the summer with her three chil-
dren at M on treat, and later had a visit to Hot
Springs, Ark., where I know we shall all be
glad to learn her husband's ill health was much
improved.

Mary Kelly and her new husband, so I hear
(I'm telling on you, Mary), are now living in
Charleston, S. C. We all know Mary makes
him a grand wife and is a great help in his pro-
fession as a minister, but we do think she might
write and tell us so. Don't you, girls?

I am now reduced to talking about myself,
which I know Miss Hopkins would consider ill
taste, so I must refrain.

And now. Girls of 1006, I feel just like I
used to when I flunked in Physics for I know
there are so many things I ought to know about
you and don't. Do please send me news of all
the interesting things which I know you must be
doing or which must be happening to you and
yours. How can I be your class secretary if I
have no news to send in ? My love to each of you
and a cheer for dear old Agnes Scott.

1907 Secretary

1908 Secretary, Louise Shipp Chick,
306 C. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

1909 Secretary, Margaret McCallie,
611 Palmetto Street, Chattanooga, Tenn.
, * 1910 Secretary, Agnes (Nicolassen)
.Wnarton (Mrs. c l.< J 1 ..), Central City, Ky.

1911 Setre-tary; Theodosia (Willing-
ham) .Anderson (Mrs. W. W.), 63 Avery
"Ejrive, Atlanta, Ga.

191* 2f Secretary, Marie (Maclntyre)
-S3ott-;(M*'s. J. T), Scottdale, Ga.

'sMS--Ailie- Candler Guy, Secretary.

Eleanor Pinkston Stokes is now at Camp
Crook, Omaha, Neb., where her husband. Captain
Stokes, is stationed.

Mary Enzor is teaching in Troy, Ala.

Janie McGaughey is director of Young Peo-
ple's Work in the First Presbyterian Church of
Knoxville, Tenn.

We have a class letter, and treasure box which
is on the road. Please pass this along as quickly
as possible, so that all news will be in by the
next Quarterly. When it returns it will be
placed on file at the Alumnae House and read
at the next reunion when another will be start-
ed. In this box we have asked that each class
member have a letter which tells all about her-
self, her family, or her career, and also pictures
of herself and her family. Twelve out of the
sixteen of 1913 class are married, and we are
anxious to have a Husbands Gallery. We have
14 sons and daughters, and loyally to Agnes
Scott a majority are daughters. At one time we
were 100 per cent members of the Alumnae As-
sociation, but I do not know whether or not
any of us have "fallen from grace," in these
later days.

1914 Secretary, Lottie Mae Blair
Lawton (Mrs. S. C.), Greenville, S. C.

Florence Brinkley is an instructor in English

at Goucher College. She received her Doctor's
Degree in English at Yale in June, 1924. She
has been chosen Second Vice President of the
Administrative Council of Sigma Tau Delta, the
professional English Fraternity.

Annie Tait Jenkins writes that after two
years at home with no regular work all the time,
she is again teaching. This time she is teach-
ing English in the high school of her home.
Last year she was associated with the National
Girl Reserve Secretary in Mississippi, half of the
time in Jackson, Miss. She says that living at
home, keeping up with her many duties of church
and civic clubs and teaching, fill her days to
overflowing.

Mary Brown Florence (Mrs. W. P.i, of Stamps,
Ark., writes that she reads the Alumnae Quar-
terly from cover to cover, and enjoys hearing all
about her old friends.

Bertha Adams is writing insurance and is tak-
ing an active part in club work. She lives at
home.

Lottie May Blair Lawton is living in Green-
ville. S. C, where her husband is a cotton brok-
er. She is having a fine time this winter, being
advisor to a club of girl reserves under the
Y. W. C. A.

Mildred Holmes Rickert is living on a farm
with a "husband, 600 chickens, little turkeys,
butter" and a sturdy boy. all of which kept
her from our wonderful reunion.

Kathleen Kennedy with Louise Ash's assis-
tance- is doing wonderful work with mountain
boys and girls at Grundy, Virginia, where they
take them from seven years up and have crim-
inals, former bootleggers, all sorts of violent
tempers and not often enough dishes to go
around. Being miles from a railroad and often
tw-enty-four hours by communication with the
outside world, they nurse, doctor and what not.
Kathleen puts it all down to experience and
loves it.

Sarah Hansell Cousar is in the states for an-
other year. We are so delighted. Her husband's
health is not at its best so he is having two
churches and they are settled in Waterford. Vir-
ginia, where they aren't too far from Johns
Hopkins. Sarah has a new "Agnes Scotter" in
her family now Mary Nancv, who was born last
July.

Mary Pittard is teaching in Winterville this
winter to be near her father, but she finds time
for occasional week ends in Atlanta.

Charlotte Jackson spent the day in Greenville
not long ago where *'Lott" had her for lunch
(canabalistic idea) and they nearly choked to
death trying to talk and eat at the same time
the reunion, of course, being the real topic of
conversation.

Theodosia Cobbs Hogan is still in Columbia.
Missouri, where her husband is chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Chemistry. She's had
her hair bobbed, of course, like her small Cath-
erine's, whose head hasn't Ted's curls can you
believe that ?

Ethel McConnell Cameron has recently moved
to Opelika. Ala., though before that Lott says
she bought her butter from Ethel's husband's
creamery. Ethel has a precious year-old son
who doesn't look now as though he had been
an incubator baby. Ethel and her husband both
do most interesting work with young people
both in church and other welfare work.

Martha Rogers Noble and her two small daugh-
ters had a lovely trip to Maine this summer and
missed seeing Marguerite only by a few miles
and hours. One daughter is in school this year
and says "Mother, it's funner than kindergar-
ten."

Marguerite Wells Bishop has moved to 9037
144th Place, Jamaica. N. Y., where she is a
little nearer her mother. Her husband is in
business in New York.

191 5 Secretary,
Shryock (Mrs. Jas.
Street, Evanston, 111.

sent return postals to every member of the class.

Martha Brenner
N.), 1018 Main

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She received the following replies :
Margaret (Andei-son) Scott (Mrs. Leigh R. ),
Valdosta, Ga., writes: "I hope to be at our re-
union, but of course this far ahead it is impos-
sible to know definitely. I'll certainly be dis-
appointed if it can't be done. There is nothing
exciting to tell about the Scott family. We
enjoyed our trip to North Carolina, and was
particularly glad to be at an A. S. C. supper
at Montreat with Ruth Slack Smith, Charlotte
Jackson and about twenty others."

Elizabeth (Bulginl Hamilton (Mrs. G. A.), Fort
Myers, Fla., writes: "Afraid you can't count on
me for reunion, but will come if possible.
Dreamed last night that we were back at A. S.
C. and 1915 had a splendid representation. Dr.
Gaines was there, too. It will seem strange with
so many familiar faces gone. You see where
my heart lies with dear A. S. C. Come to see
us in our little bungalow among the pines.
Weather glorious now. Sunday school class.
Ladies' Aid work, flower garden, housekeeping,
etc.. etc.. keep me busy. Oh, yes; forgot to
say Gilbert has a good appetite three times a
day."

Mary (Hyerl Vick (Mrs. Earl), Orlando, Fla.,
writes: "How can a fellow tell this far in ad-
vance whether she can go to reunion ? I am
going if I can, but am not planning to for
something may happen. Was in Atlanta, but
didn't get out to college. Had a husband along
with me. Have just gotten back from a two
months' stay in South Georgia, where I gained
ten pounds. Saw Mary ( Kelly I Coleman on the
way up to Atlanta ; went through in the car.
Saw Mildred (Holmes) Dickert in Poulan. Had
dinner with her. Think she'll move to Florida
like everybody else in Georgia."

Frances (Kell) Munson (Mrs. E. O.), Pasca-
goula. Miss., writes: "Am not sure whether I
will be at the reunion. How I would love to see
everybody ! As for news about myself, there's
none. It takes all my time to watch after my
three babies. Wish you could see them. Edward
is nearly six, Bettie Del three, and Dick Kell
is ten months."

Mary (Kelly) Coleman (Mrs. Emmettl, Barnes-
ville, Ga.. writes: "Am in a mess, having our
drive fixed, also some work on porch. There is
always something to do to a house. I have
been working too hard outside with all my church
and club work, one meeting after the other.
Think 1925 I will resolve to stay at home more.
Expect to be at reunion. Will meet you at
Alumnae House when you come south. Mary
Hyer Vick with her family drove up to my house
this fall in a grand car. All are fine. So glad
to have seen them."

Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner (Mrs. H. J.), of
McDonough, Ga., writes: "I am planning to
come to our reunion and will surely be there
unless some contagious disease strikes my fam-
ily. Am enjoying the Alumnae Quarterly so
much. Wish all the girls would send in items. I
am busy all the time. My son is in the second
grade. I am acting as superintendent of the
Primary Department of our Sunday school, and
that with the Woman's Club work, the U. D. C.
and Parent-Teacher Association, keeps me hur-
rying."

Mildred (McGuirei Bulgin (Mrs. L. J.1, 920
Mills Street, Salem, Oregon, writes : "Owing to
the distance between here and Atlanta it will
be quite impossible for me to be there for re-
union. Would like to go and then have a visit
at home later. It would be grand to see every-
body as well as help win that prize for our
class. I live rather a quiet life, although a busy
one so have no news of particular interest for
the Alumnae Quarterly."

Grace Reed, Decatur. Ga., writes: "I am sorry
I neglected to answer your last postal. I have
no interesting news about myself. I am not
teaching this year, but simply enjoying a winter
at home. All that I am doing that even looks
like work, is a little coaching in Latin. As far
as I know I will be here in Decatur at the time
of reunion in May."

Frances West, Saint Petersburg, Fla., writes:
"I was so sorry you were out of town when I
passed through last summer. I would have liked
to say, 'Hello,' at least. I trust we can have
a large number at reunion. It would be grand
to win that prize. I am hoping, but am quite
doubtful as school will not be out here."

Martha (Brenner) Shryock says: "Please

answer communications promptly. Send in cor-
rect address. We are interested in every detail
of your life. The Quarterly comes out October
1st, January 1st and March 1st, so keep in mind
these facts and send in news without waiting
for notices. I am all excited for I shall see
some of you soon. We leave on December 20th
for a glorious holiday with our families. We
stop in Philadelphia for three days with Jim-
mie's people and then get to dear old Georgia
and home on Christmas Eve. I will stop by at
the Alumnae House the last week in January,
and any member of 1915 who can meet me there,
please do.

Committee for Reunion "1925"

Mrs. Samuel Eugene Thatcher. Chairman ; Mrs.
Ben Head, Mrs. M. C. Scott, Miss Grace Reid.
Miss Catherine Parker.

Kate (Richardson! Wicker, Mrs. John J., of
Richmond, Va., writes: "I am 'crazy' to be at
the reunion, and am going to try to come. Fran-
ces West even offers to nurse both babies for
me if I'll come. She doesn't know what she's
getting into ! Saw Mary Hamilton and Lois Eve
in Italy summer before this last one. It was
great. Saw Miss McKinney not long ago in
Richmond. It was so good to see her again and
hear Agnes Scott news."

Sallie May King, of Elton, Tenn., writes:
"Your card finally reached me here. Since you
designated that I must tell you something "thrill-
ing" I wonder whether it is worth while writing.
I am studying at Columbia this winter and it
goes without saying that I find both Columbia
and New York very interesting. I fear I shall
not be able to attend the reunion in 1925, but
sincerely hope that we will win the prize and
that as many members as possible will be pres-
ent."

Sallie May's address for the present is 417
W. 120th Street, New York City.

Mary (West) Thatcher (Mrs. Eugene), writes:
"You probably know we are spending the winter
in Miami, Fla. We have rented a little bunga-
low and I have a good servant so that I am get-
ting along beautifully, but miss being at home
more than anything. It nearly kills me to be
away from Atlanta while Agnes Scott is open,
and there is so much to be done in the Atlanta
Club and the Alumnae Association. We will re-
turn to Atlanta in April, so I'll be there for re-
union. Frances Dukes Wynne lives here now,
and I see a lot of her." Mary's Miami address is
2912 N. E. 4th Ave.

Gertrude (Briesenick) Ross, Mrs. Joseph H.,
of Jacksonville, Fla., writes: "Only a short
note for I am dead tired. Little Robert has
been teething and I have been having a strug-
gle with this dreadful servant problem. I used
to brag that I did not know what it meant, but
'those days are gone.' There isn't much to tell
about 'us.' Little Robert B. Ross is our big
item. He is really going to make a handsome
sweetheart for some A. S. C. daughter some
day."

1916 Secretary, Louise Hutcheson,
McDonough Street, Decatur, Ga.

Magara Waldron Crosby (Mrs. L. S.) says that
Magara, Jr., called Baby Gay, is almost a year
old. She has big dancing brown eyes and brown
curls a heart smasher though yet so young.

Charis Hood Barwick, Mrs. Arthur, was in
Chicago recently attending a congregational con-
vention. She spent one day with Martha Bren-
ner Shryock, and they talked, and talked of Ag-
nes Scott. Charis' husband is pastor of a church
in Sterling, 111. She has one son, five and a
half. Charis is a busy woman, looking after

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her family and responding to all the calls put
upon a minister's wife.

191 7 Secretary, Laurie ( Caldwell )
Tucker (Mrs. J. H.), 1223 S. Howard
Ave., Tampa, Fla.

Janet Newton has changed her address to 14
Stoneland Road, Worcester. Mass. She is a pri-
vate secretary.

May Smith is spending her fourth year in
Chicago. For the first two years she lived in a
dormitory on the campus of the University of
Chicago, studying medicine, enjoying the novelty
of a co-educational school, and seeing Chicago.
Beginning in the summer of 1023, she studied
half-time, "worked evenings at the information
desk of a big hospital where one sees life in the
raw, and lived with a charming western girl in
a Bohemian, cozy, basement apartment near the
campus."

Later she was appointed to a place in Lind-
blow High School, "a perfectly beautiful school
with four thousand students and a bobbed-haired
faculty." This winter she and Sarah Branham,
of Oxford, Georgia, are sharing an apartment;
next summer they are planning to go to Eu-
rope "on a freighter, as guests of the captain."

Rita Schwartz Aroustam writes most interest-
ingly of her family. The son. Charles, is five
years old, and her daughter. Jean, is almost two.
The entire family spent a great part of last
summer in Atlantic City ; at present they are
enjoying the prospects of building a lovely new
home on Lullwater Road ( near Atlanta ) . Rita
says that she finds the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club
most enjoyable.

Mildred Hall Pearce has a daughter (Mary
Ann, for her two grandmothers) , who was born
last July; she demands by far the greater part
of her mother's time, the remainder of it being
devoted to keeping house as an occupation and
working cross-word puzzles as a recreation.

Ellen Ramsey Phillips has lived for two years
in the city of Jalapa, Mexico, where she and
her husband are Presbyterian missionaries. Pre-
viously they resided at Merida, Yucatan, but were
forced to leave the low altitude because of Mr.
Phillips's health. Last winter, when the Mexi-
can Revolution occurred, she was on a visit to
the States ; for a while all communication was
severed and it was more than six months be-
fore she could return to Jalapa. At present,
she writes, there have been frequent rumors of
expected fighting ; cannon and machine guns have
been planted in different places, homes seized
and trains attached, but her family has been un-
molested. Her daughter, Jean Sue, is nearly six ;
her son, Andrew Ramsay, is three ; besides
caring for them, she teaches a class in English,
teaches in the Sunday school and assists in the
medical work attached to the mission.

Elizabeth Gammon Davis is located at Oliv-
eira, Brazil. She has three children, two daugh-
ters and a wee baby boy, and her family is one
of the two American families in the town. The
four adults are responsible for a very large mis-
sion field, part of which has known no previous
Protestant work. "The two men are away a
great deal on evangelistic trips," she writes, "but
we have Sunday school and preaching service
here every Sunday. ... I do what visiting
I can and am teaching a young girl to play
hymns. We are trying to organize

charity work among the poor in a systematic
way, for there is so much suffering here."

Vallie Young White Archibald has a little
daughter. Edward, who was two years old last
July ; she is named for her father, who was
killed in an automobile accident. '"V. Y." is edi-
tor of the Birmingham District of the
Alabama Federation of Woman's Clubs and a
member of the Educational Committee of the
Birmingham branch of the A, A. U. W.
Her closing thought is one which will un-
doubtedly reach the heart of every member of the
class of 1917: "Start now urging our class
to hold its reunion in 1927. Wouldn't it be

wonderful if many of us could come back and
bring our children ?*'

1918 Secretary, Margaret Leyburn,
683 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.

Dorothy Moore is teaching in Gastonia. N. C.

Caroline Randolph is a bacteriologist. Her ad-
dress is care of the Child Health Demonstration.
Mur frees boro, Tenn.

Katherine Seay is a Y. W. C. A. Secretary,
at the Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis,
Oregon.

Ruth Anderson O'Neal (Mrs. Alan) reports
that she has two small daughters, Nancy aged
three, and Ruth aged thirteen months. She says
they would be delighted to correspond with other
members of the classes of 1942 and 1944 of Agnes
Scott College. Her address has been changed
to 423 Brookstown Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.

Rose E. Harwood Taylor (Mrs. L. B.) is liv-
ing in Brownsville. Tenn.

Olive Hardwick Cross (Mrs. Eason) is living
at 635 Tombstone Canyon. Bisbee, Ariz., where
her husband is Rector of St. John's Church.
Rev. Cross is a graduate of Emory University.

1919 Secretary, Almeda Hutcheson,
McDonough St., Decatur, Ga.

Claire Elliott McKay (Mrs. R. W. ) says that
she went on a wonderful trip in her car this
summer up through the Adirondacks to Quebec
and back through the New England States.
They stopped to see all the big colleges and
universities along the way. but found none that
could touch Agnes Scott.

Jane Bernhardt is an instructor at the Uni-
versity of California.

Llewellvn Wilburn is Phvsical Director at the
Y. W. C. A., 211 Seventh Ave.. Nashville. Tenn.
Last year she taught at the University of Michi-
gan.

Minnie Claire Boyd is studying American His-
tory in New York at Columbia.

Lois Eve is teaching at Tubman High School.
Augusta.

Frances Glasgow and her husband are civi-
lizing China.

Goldie Ham, who got her M.D. at Tulane. is
now at St. Joseph's Infirmary. Houston. Texas,
but hopes soon to have her own office.

Almeda Hutcheson is with Allyn & Bacon. At-
lantasort of sedentary book agent.

Mary Brock Mallard is doing secretarial work
with an insurance company in Atlanta. She and
her mother and Margaret Leyburn (1918) have
a charming apartment at 683 Peachtree.

Trueheart Nicholassen is the College corres-
pondent with D. C. Heath and Company, Pub-
lishers, and lives at 176 Westminster Drive.

Mary Katherine Parks, who studied at Colum-
bia last year, is doing corrective physical train-
ing with a doctor in Dallas, Texas.

Elizabeth Pruden I Mrs. Joe P. Fagan"! lives in
the Lombardv Apartments, at 57 West Fifteenth
Street, Atlanta.

Ethel Rea is teaching English in the Central
High School. Charlotte, North Carolina and im-
buing the maidens of the Old North State with
the idea that Agnes Scott is the very college for
them.

Margaret Rowe. our own '"Peanut,'* this sum-
mer traveled through Europe, from Scotland to
Southern Italy with her mother and Mildred
Goodrich, stopping in Paris to buy modish frocks
and harmonizing rouge. She is now in Eng-
land visiting friends and relatives, making Felix-
stowe her headquarters, but will spend the rest
of the winter with her uncle at Teneriffe. Can-
ary Islands. Afterwards she will tour Spain
and Portugal. Incidentally, she has gained five
pounds.

Dorothy Thigpen (Mrs. Edmund B. Shea) lives
at 295 Ogden Avenue. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and
says that she is engaged in the fascinating,
difficult, and wholly absorbing business of child-

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raising, her young hopeful now being almost
three years old.

Mary Ford (Mrs. W. J. Kennerly) is still
breathing the college atmosphere, her husband be-
ing the head of the Alabama State College for
Women. Montevallo. Her days are well filled-
household duties, club and church work.

Lulie Smith Westcott, Dalton, Georgia, has just
completed her new home and says that life is
just as much of a rush now as it was in the
good old days at A. S. C, before she marched
up the chapel aisle on graduation day and took
the degree of M. R. S.

1920 Secretary, Mary Burnett Thor-
ington (Mrs. W. L-), Taft, Tex.

Margaret McConnell is a kindergarten teacher
in the city schools of Asheville, N. C. She is
planning to take a course at Columbia, next year.

Marian MacPhail is teaching at G. W. C.
Greenville, S. C.

Alice Cooper is stenographer for Harris-Forbes
& Co., Atlanta, Ga.

Margaret Sanders is teaching French and Span-
ish at Arkansas College, Batesville, Ark.

Laura Stockton Molloy is teaching in Colum-
bia. Tenn.

Julia (Reasoned Hastings (Mrs. H. H) is
living in Bradentown, Fla. Her husband is an
electrical contractor.

Nell Aycock is staying at home this year, re-
covering from an operation.

Emilie Keyes is a reporter on the Palm Beach
Post. Her address is 705 S. Poinsettia Street.
West Palm Beach. Fla.

1921 Secretary, Frances Charlotte
Markley, Miss Fines School, Princeton,
New Jersey.

Mary Ann Justice is teaching French and Psy-
chology at Greenbrier College, Lewisburg, W. Va.

Thelma Brown is teaching in Atlanta this
year. She had a lovely trip abroad this sum-
mer. She spent two months in Paris, studying
piano with Cortot's first assistant, Madame Bas-
courret de Garaldi. The rest of the time was
spent in travel.

Marguerite Cousins is teaching English and
French in Due West, S. C. She taught reading
at North Texas State Teacher's College, Denton,
Tex., the summer session of 1924.

Jean McAllister is doing Young People's Work
in the church, and Girl Scout Work at her home
in Greensboro.

Eula (Russell) Kelly was married November
14. 1923, to Mr. J. O. Kelly, an orchardist and
planter in Jeff, Ala. They are keeping house
in their new bungalow.

Nell Frances (Daye) Clarke (Mrs, Jas.l is
teaching in Huntsville. Ala. She attended Colum-
bia University the summer session of 1924.

1922 Secretary, Julia Jameson,
Franklin, Tenn.

Helen Barton Claytor (Mrs. E. McC. I is liv-
ing in Edgefield, S. C. Her husband is a min-
ister, and has the churches of Edgefield, Tren-
ton and Ridge Spring.

Ruth Virden writes that she is still at her
old job. She says "Please don't send me any
more of those personal blanks asking for my hus-
band's name. As soon as I know I'll wire you."

Ruth Hall is teaching in Lexington. Miss. She
spent the Thanksgiving holidays at Agnes Scott.

Carolyn Moore is teaching in Eufaula. Ala.

Annie May Strickland is teaching at Spring-
fields, Ga., right near her home.

Laurie Bell Stubbs is teaching French in Dal-
ton. Ga.

Mary Barton is Assistant Librarian at the
University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn.

Martha Lee Taliaferro is staying at home this
year She spent some time at the Alumnae House
recertly.

1923 Secretary, Emily Guille, Ath-
ens, Tenn.

Maude Foster Jackson (Mrs. E. L. ) is keep-
ing house at 9701 Lamont Ave.. North East,
Cleveland, Ohio. She finds time to do some
cataloguing of private libraries on the side. Her
husband. Dr. Jackson, is connected with the
Chemistry Department of Western Reserve.

Eleanor Hyde is teaching French at St. Mary's
College in Dallas. Tex.

Catherine Dennington Jervey (Mrs. C. P.) is
living at 149 Lee Street. Apt. 7, Atlanta, Ga.

Clara Mae and Imogene Allen are both teach-
ing school this winter : Clara Mae at Elberton
and Imogene at McDonough, Ga. Imogene is
teaching Math and Latin and says she has learned
a lot about both !

Ruth Almond is teaching Math in the High
School of Leesburg, Florida, and is having quite
a gay time as well as a busy one.

Dot Bowron's wedding is to be in January.
The Agnes Scotters "who will be in it are Lib
Ransom, Lois McClain and Margaret Colville.

Brooks Grimes visited Jane Knight this fall
and was most popular in Albany. Jane is at
home for the winter.

Queenelle Harrold returned in October from a
wonderful European tour, and will be at home
for the winter.

Anna Meade is also at home from a Euro-
pean trip. Her mother has been quite ill for
some time, and Anna has been in quarantine
for a month.

Ruth Sanders is teaching at the School of the
the Ozarks, Hollister, Mo.

Frances Stuart, ex '23, is in Knoxville again
after a year of study in New York, She is
teaching this winter.

Lucy Timmerman is another of our teachers
who likes her work. She is in Conway, S. C,
for the winter.

Mary Harris and Jessie Dean Cooper are teach-
ing at Holley Springs, Miss.

1924 Secretary, Carrie Scandrett,
747 N. Blvd., Atlanta, Ga.

Evelyn King is supply teacher in Cape Charles,
Va. She spent Thanksgiving at Agnes Scott.

Dell Bernhardt is having an interesting win-
ter, teaching at Newland. N. C. Newland is
the highest county seat east of the Rockies.

Attie Alford and Gwynn Cannon are teaching
at Thomaston. Georgia.

The Latin Department is well represented by
'24. Helen Wright is teaching Latin at St.
George, S. C. She is also taking a very active
part in the athletics of the High School, quite to
the surprise of those who know her best. Emily
Arnold is teaching Latin at Burnsville, N. C.
Victoria Howie is teaching Latin at Union, S. C.

Josephine Havis is taking a kindergarten
course at Atlanta Normal School. Jo admits
that the hardest thing she has to do there is to
call Hilda, Miss McConnell.

Margaret McDow is in Richmond, Virginia at-
tending the Assembly Training School. As far
as we know, this was rather a sudden decision.

Mary Mann has had a lovely trip to New York.
She expects to go to Florida after Christmas.
She certainly is making good use of her first
year out of school.

Margaret Griffin is working at the Retail
Credit Company. She is in the Reviewing De-
partment.

Polly Stone spent her Thanksgiving holidays at
Blairsville. Ga. She spent her time riding the
family horse and gathering new material for her
next play or novel.

Margaret Powell is playing the society lady
this winter. Although she isn't making her de-
but, she is going to all the parties and having a
good time. She is expecting to go to Texas after
Christmas.

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Thanksgiving plus Agnes Scott proved quite a
drawing card for '24. Clara Waldrop, Grace
Bargeron, Nonie Peck, Speedy King, Augusta
Thomas, Beulah Davidson, Elizabeth Henry,
Janice Brown, and Jinks Burt were here for the
holidays. Those who are teaching give varying
reports of their profession. The others give re-
ports of a good winter at home and elsewhere.

Class At Large

Clyde White, ex 1899, is a pastor's assistant
of the Presbyterian Church in Blowing Eock.
N. C.

Mildred McFall, ex 1924, is teaching in Mari-
etta, Ga., this year.

Minnie Liebheit and Olivia Liebheit, ex 1923,
have been at Columbia since leaving Agnes Scott,
completing work for their degree. They were
married with a double ceremony on September
2, to Mr. J. Bartlett Segur. a Chemist, and Mr.
Roland Ure, a theologian, respectively. Both
have apartments in New York.

Dorothy Dyrenforth, ex 1908, is a designer of
knitted sport clothing in New York. Her ad-
dress is St. Andrew Hotel, 72nd St. and Broad-
way.

Florence Stokes Henry (Mrs. M. E.I. ex 1910.
is living in Ridgefield. N. J., where her husband
is a professor of English.

Sarah B. Gober, ex 1911. is in publicity work
for the Children's Welfare Federation in New
York. Her address is 144 Waverly Place, New
York City.

Effie (Doe) Huber (Mrs. W. M.l, ex 191V, is
living at Coral Gables, Miami, Fla. She is an
organist and professional accompanist.

Julia Walker Rogers (Mrs. W. H.I. 1921. of
Dendron, Va., announces the arrival of Walter,
Jr., last August.

Eliza Bennett Young, ex 1921, was married on
August 9th to Mr. Wade Hampton Heavey, of
Louisville.

Pauline Smathers, ex 1919. is living at 48
Macon Ave., Asheville, N. C. She is supervisor
of Physical Education in the Asheville city
schools.

Marian Conklin. ex 1920. was graduated from
the American School of Osteopathy in June,
1923. She is now practicing in Miami, Fla.

Julia McCullough, ex 1921. is now a librarian
in Atlanta.

Frances Stuart, ex 1921, is teaching in Knox-
ville, Tenn. Her address is 2117 Lake Ave.

Rebekah Harmon Lindsey (Mrs. Jno. C.) is
living in Moultrie, Ga. She pays frequent visits
to Atlanta and Agnes Scott.

Allie Felker (Mrs. J. R. Nunnally i . ex 1911, has
a daughter who is almost ready for college.
She says that perhaps they can get their B. A.
degrees together.

Vivian Gregory, ex 1921, was married on De-
cember 1st to Mr. D. C. Dungan. Her address
is Carolina Apartments, Salisbury, N. C.

Katherine Glasgow, ex 1919. of Lexington. Va.,
was married to Mr. Dean Owens, of Rome. Ga.,
on November 8th.

Fannie Rhea Bachman was married in Oc-
tober to Mr. Thos. P. Summers, of Rogersville.
Tennessee.

Louisa Faucette. ex 1917, was graduated from
the Biblical Seminary in New York in 1923, and
for the past two years has been head of the De-
partment of Religious Pedagogy in the National
Bible Institute.

Elizabeth Dickson Steele (Mrs. W. T.'i is a
missionary in Shanghai, China.

Elizabeth Dunwody Hall (Mrs. W. D. I. ex 1913,
writes that her daughters have been three pre-
cious boys, but she is still loyal to Agnes Scott.

Margaret McLean, ex 1922. is getting her de-
gree at the University of Mississippi this year,
after having been out of school two years.

Sarah Mildred Ham, ex 1923. is Secretary of
the Georgia Department of Archives and History.

Florence Light Roberts (Mrs. A. H.I, ex 1908,
is living at Accotink, Fairfax County, Virginia.
Accotink is near Mount Vernon, and any Agnes
Scotters and especially those belonging to the
Class of 1908. are invited to get in touch with
Mrs. Roberts if they happen to be near Mount
Vernon.

Katharine Logan Good (Mrs. Jno. E. i . ex
1893, is teaching in Cedartown, Ga.

Marie Edgerton Grubb (Mrs. Jno. H.). ex
1921, is living at High Point, N. C. Augusta
Brewer, her room-mate in college, is teaching at
High Point.

Lida Caldwell Wilson (Mrs. G. E.. Jr.), ex
1912. is very busily engaged watching over a
two months' old son, Geo. E. Wilson, the third.
With her little girl, 7 years old and in the sec-
ond grade at school, and her infant son her
time promises to be well taken up this winter.

Margaret Houser Woodruff (Mrs. L. H. I. ex
1910. announces the arrival of Margaret Houser
Woodruff. Jr.. born February 29th. 1924.

Sarah Dunlap Bobbitt (Mrs. W. H. i , ex 1925.
is keeping house at 304 Kingston Ave.. Char-
lotte. N. C.

Beulah Adamson. ex 1910. has changed her
address to 119 Peachtree St.. Atlanta. Ga. She
is a teacher in the Atlanta public schools.

ALUMNAE LETTER BOX

So many nice alumnae letters find their
way into the Alumnae Office, and it is such a
shame to hide their light under a bushel, that
we are starting in this issue of the QUAR-
TERLY an Alumnae Letter Box.

We are glad to get letters, not only from
our graduates, but from any who have ever
attended Agnes Scott. Many of us will re-
member with pleasure "Mart" Hay who.
after spending two years at Agnes Scott, took
her degree at Vassar in 1923.

815 South University,
Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 29. 1924.
Dear Nell:

How perfectly grand to see what sort of

job you have! It seems almost as good as
talking to you to be able to write you at this
address! How is the old A. S. C. and can I
be doing anything besides giving you dues
at the Alumnae Association?

I have never had any notice before, and
have always let slip any plans for getting
in touch with the Alumnae Association, but
am duly thrilled to be sending you a check
now.

One of these slips asks for "Personal
items." so 1 suppose that you would like to
know my adventures since leaving Agnes.

Well. Vassar gave me hour-for-hour credit
for all my work for the two years that I
was at Agnes Scott which, by the way.
does not speak so badly for our standards of
scholarship, does it? I spent two very gay

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and stimulating years at Vassar, and gradu-
ated with the class of 1923, then ' spent a
winter at home, in Easton, Pa., where I did
the regular college girl stunts of being sec-
retary to the new Symphony Orchestra, head-
ing an educational Committee in the Wo-
man's Club, belonging to a class on Con-
temporary Printing, teaching Sunday School,
running a Mission Band with the help of
Curv Farquhar, and doing the family mar-
keting! Now ] am out here at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, where Llewellyn Wil-
burn was last year, and am holding down a
job as social secretary to the wife of the
President. Dr. Burton, and taking some
graduate work in the Economic History of

Europe and in the International Aspects of
Contemporary Drama those titles all sound
so very high-brow !

Last winter I did enjoy so much seeing
Frances Stuart, ex ',23, in New York and
at home, and I even prevailed on that slip-
pery, but very nice Emily Guille. '23, to
stay with me for a while on her way home
from a Camp in New Hampshire.

We had a great time swapping gossip, but
I should love to hear more at first hand
from you. if you ever have a spare moment.

With best wishes to the Alumnae Asso-
ciation.

MARGARET V. HAY, Ex '23.

ALUMNAE HOUSE GUESTS

The Alumnae House is our Agnes Scott home, and we are free to come there whenever
we wish and to stay as long as we like. The House is being used more and more every
year, and yet there are many girls who have never taken advantage of their privileges in
regard to the Alumnae House. Not only can we ourselves come, but we may have three
guests a year, each of whom may stay as long as two weeks, and longer if the room they
occupy is not needed. As many of us as can should make an effort to visit Agnes Scott
from time to time, and stay in the Alumnae House and entertain our friends there.

Among the guests who have been there
this year are:

Mrs. C. H. Newton. Athens. Ga.

Mrs. Charles H. Newton, Athens. Ga.

Mrs. L. R. Scott. '15. Valdosta, Ga.

Mrs. Marguerite Watkins Goodman. '21,
Biloxi. Miss.

Mrs. H. F. Smith, Montgomery. Ala.

Mary Mann, '24, Newnan, Ga.

Margaret Griffin. '24, Atlanta. Ga.

Gail Harrison, New York City.

Mrs. R. L. Rives, Augusta. Ga.

Mrs. Ruth Slack Smith. '12, LaGrange,
Georgia.

Miss Isabel Norwood. Montgomery. Ala.

Mr. C. H. Howe, Montgomery, Ala.

Miss Maryellen Newton, Jr.

Miss Margaret K. Leyburn, New York
City.

Mrs. Ida Lee Hill Irwin, Washington, Ga.

Mrs. W. H. Keith. Greenville. S. C.

Miss Alice V. Springs. Charlotte. N. C.

Dr. Charles F. Thwing, Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. E. L. Keesler. Charlotte. N. C.

Miss Grace H. Loucks. New York City.

Mrs. D. Clay Lilly. Winston-Salem, N. C.

Rev. D. Clay Lilly. D.D.. Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.

Dr. Iva Lowther Peters, Goucher College,
Baltimore. Md.

Ruth Hall. Laurel, Miss.

Elizabeth Brown. '22. Fort Valley. Ga.

Ruth Evans. '22. Fort Valley. Ga.

Alice Whipple. '22. Cordcle. Ga.

Quenelle Harrold. '23, Americus, Ga.

Mary Evelyn King. '24, Cape Charles, Va.

Ruth Hall. '22, Lexington. Miss.

Weenona Peck, '24, Montgomery, Ala.

Augusta Thomas. '24. Montgomery, Ala.

Laura Oliver, '22. Montgomery, Ala.

Helen Wayt, '21, Atlanta. Ga.

Aimee D. (Glover) Little, '21, Marietta,
Georgia.

Nita Patterson, Montgomery, Ala.

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Whether you're hungry and needing to dine
Or whether you're merely socially inclined;
Whether you're happy, or whether you're
blue.

The Silhouette Tea Room's

the place for you.

SILHOUETTE TEA ROOM

ALUMNAE HOUSE
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION

President FANNIE G.
ALDSON, '12.

(MAYSON) Don-

First Vice-President MARY ( WEST)

Thatcher, '15.

Second Vice-President HELEN (BROWN)

V/rBB, '14.

Secretary MARGARET BLAND, '20.
Treasurer MARGARET PHYTHIAN, '16.

General Secretary NELL BUCHANAN,
'22.

Publicity Committee Chairman, Louise
Johnson, '20; Nell Buchanan, '22; Elizabeth
(Denman) Hammond, '18; Frances Char-
lotte Markley, '21; Elizabeth Wilson, '22.

Preparatory Schools Committee Chair-
man, Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson, '20;
(Committee not ye'c selected.)

Curriculum Committee Chairman, Jane
(Harwell) Rutland, '17; Julia Ingram Haz-
zard, '19; Charis (Hood) Barwick, '16.

House and Tea Room Committee Chair-
man, Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott, '15;
Treasurer, Cora Morton, '24; Ex-officio,
Martha Bishop, ex '18; Nell Buchanan, '22.
Florine Brown, ex '12; Emma Pope (Moss)
Dieckmann, '13; Georgiana (White) Miller,
'17; Eileen (Dodd) Sams, '23.

Louise McKinney Play Contest Commit-
tee Chairman: Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.

Local Clubs Committee Chairman, Aimee
D. (Glover) Little, '21; Cama (Burgess)
Clarkston, '22; Emma (Jones) Smith, '18;
Margaret Leyburn, '18; Helen Wayt, '21.

Vocational Guidance Committee, Chair-
man, Ruth Scandrett, '22; Elizabeth Brown,
22; Polly Stone, '24.

Committee on Beautifying Grounds and
Buildings- Chairman, Allie (Candler) Guy,
'13; Martha (Rogers) Noble (Mrs. Geo.).
'14; Mary Helen (Schneider) Head (Mrs.
Ben), '15; Louise (Maness) Robarts (Mrs.
Fa ye) ,'13.

Entertainment Committee Chairman Eu-
genia (Johnston) Griffin, '21; Martha
(Rogers) Noble, '14.

Scholarship Committee Chairman, Ethel
(Alexander) Gaines, '00; Emma Pope
(Moss) Dieckmann, '13; Mary (Kelly) Van
de Erve, '07.

Class Organization and Records Chair-
man, Ruth (Black) Smith, '12; Louise
Slack, '20; Eleanor Frierson, '10.

Alumnae Aid League-
Cooper, '18.

-Treasurer, Belle

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BOARD OF EDITORS
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Edltors - [Nell Buchanan, '22

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Polly Stone, '24
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

J . R. McCAIN Frontispiece

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT .._J. R. McCain

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

DuBOSE HEYWARD Picture

MR. AND MRS. DuBOSE HEYWARD AT AGNES SCOTT. .Emma May Laney

COURT HOUSE WINDOW Poem Elizabeth Cheatham, '25

MISS HOPKINS RECEIVES NEW HONOR

WILL YOU BE HERE FOR REUNIONS? Nell Buchanan. '22

MEDITATIONS OF A PSEUDO-EDITOR Elizabeth Wilson. '22

TO THE REUNION CLASSES Ruth (Slack) Smith. '12

THE POETRY CONTEST .. .. Nan B. Stephens

BOOK REVIEWS

ON THE CAMPUS Edith Richards. '27

Founders Day Celebrated
"Poets of the Future''
May Day

NINE O'CLOCK Poem Pocahontas Wight. '25

WITH OUR LOCAL CLUBS
CONCERNING OURSELVES

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL Poem Marjorie Lowe, '23

ALUMNAE LETTER BOX
SWIMMING POOL FUND
FROM THE ALUMNAE OFFICE-
CLASS SONG 1924
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND COMMITTEES

J. R. McCain. Ph.D
President of Agnes Scott College

Ol)e .Agnes Scott .Alumnae Quarterly

APRIL, 1925

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

J. R. McCain

Dear Agnes Scott Alumnae:

We cannot remind ourselves too often that you are our chief joy and
pride. The product of the College must be its great object. If we did not
have you Alumnae as our "hire," Agnes Scott would have lived for nearly
36 years largely in vain. We can all get pleasure out of the yearly opera-
tion of the institution, but it would be expensive as mere entertainment.
We render some constructive service to the community from week to week;
but if the round of college activities were the "be-all and end-all" of our
labors, we really could not justify our existence. We live, therefore, because
you are living and serving and because we hope each year to add to your
numbers and power and influence.

Since you have this relation to us, we like to report our progress and
plans to you and claim in return your suggestions as to how we may make
Agnes Scott all that it ought to be. The two outstanding things that have
engaged our interest this year are the attentions of Phi Beta Kappa to us
and the building of the first unit in our development plans.

Agnes Scott has never applied for membership in Phi Beta Kappa
largely because Dr. Armistead, so long the president of the faculty group,
felt strongly that it was an honor that should seek the college. As if in
response to his feeling, the Society adopted in 1922 the policy of inviting
such institutions as they wished to file applications. Last fall was the first
time that invitations were issued, and Agnes Scott was immediately voted
an invitation by the chapters in the South Atlantic District, extending from
Delaware to Florida the only institution, we have been told, so honored
in this section. The Senate of Phi Beta Kappa has unanimously endorsed
our application, and we believe that the granting of the charter will be
ratified at the Council meeting in September. This is the last academic
recognition that we need, and of course we will be gratified to have it.
There will still need to be improvement in every way in our work, but the
educational world will have classed us as A-l in quality.

The building of our new Gymnasium-Auditorium is going along very
satisfactorily. The contract calls for it to be complete by September 1st.
We have been hoping that we might have the Trustees' Luncheon for the
Alumnae in it at Commencement, but the builder cannot as yet give a
promise regarding that. We were greatly surprised to find the lowest bid
on it $165,000: and we may not just now finish every detail, but the
students of the College are waging a spirited campaign for $7,500 to com-
plete at least the swimming pool and stage for the giving of plays, and
when that is successful we will certainly see that they are not disappointed
in these items.

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The new bujlding will add immeasurably to our efficiency and com-
fort, and it will besides be a source of pride as a really beautiful addition
to the plant. There are other buildings which must come as soon as we
can possibly get the means for them. A new heating plant, with power
house and laundry, is the next essential. It will be located at the extreme
south end of our holdings. The next most urgent is an administration
and recitation hall. It should be the finest in the South, for it will be our
workshop to no small degree and should represent the finish and perfection
of our scholastic efforts. And the erection of a chapel a real place of
worship in memory of our beloved Dr. Gaines must certainly be pro-
vided soon. We have a big and important program, and I have mentioned
only major enterprises, at the same time not forgetting a day student cot-
tage, a Y. W. C. A. hut, and other smaller matters.

All these things must come before we can grow. In the meantime we
can improve each year in the quality of our admissions and in the achieve-
ments both of our students and of our alumnae. The public needs to be
more aware of us. They do not yet realize either our growth or our oppor-
tunities. We need you to help us by your contacts with others to truly
make the College live in the hearts of those who should become our friends;
and we know we can count on you for this and any other service for which
your Alma Mater calls.

Cordially.

J. R. McCain.

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
UNIVERSITY WOMEN

Its Achievements and Its Purpose

The annual convention of the American Association of University
Women, which is to be held in Indianapolis from April 8-11. is near at
hand, and Agnes Scott is planning to be represented as usual. The purpose
of the A. A. U. W., as outlined in the charter, is that it "Hereby constitutes
a body corporate, for the purpose of uniting the alumnae of different insti-
tutions for practical educational work, for the collection and publication of
statistical and other information concerning education, and in general, for
the maintenance of high standards of education." Founded in 1882 by
66 alumnae of eight of the colleges then open to women, the Association
now boasts nearly 18.000 members, and is a branch of an international
organization. It has 290 branches, 145 colleges and universities on its
approved list, and 31 alumnae associations pay dues and send delegates to
its convention.

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The activities of the Association are many, and of great importance to
every one who is interested in education. To quote from their report, they
are as follows:

( 1 ) Recognition of Colleges Passing upon credentials, and gradually
increasing the list of colleges whose alumnae are eligible to membership.

( 2 ) Standards Looking into standards of colleges, with a view to
raising them, especially in relation to conditions provided for women stu-
dents and the status, promotion, and tenure of women members of faculties.

(3) Fellowships 11 graduate fellowships supported or administered.

(4) Educational Projects The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Founda-
tion grant of $12,000 for each of two years for work in pre-school and
elementary education through 1 09 round tables in Branches.

( 5 ) Information and Assistance Given in many forms to university
women from all parts of this country and from other countries.

(6) Legislative Policies Co-operation with other organizations in
furthering the success of legislative measures endorsed by the Association.

(7) The National Club Operating a National Club in the Head-
quarters building, and extending the Association's hospitality to national
and international guests. The Club has paid $1,000 rent to the Association.

( 8 ) Publications Journal of the American Association of University
Women, reports, surveys, pamphlets of information, and other special
articles.

(9) International Relations To this Committee Oxford and Cam-
bridge Universities have delegated the selection of American women students
whom they will accept. Sixty-three international relations round tables in
the Branches.

(10) Educational Co-operation With the American Council on Edu-
cation (A. A. U. W. representatives on the Executive Committee and the
Committee of Standards); Association of American Colleges: Co-operative
Bureau for Women Teachers; Association to Aid Scientific Research by
Women: Bureau of Vocational Information: Women's Joint Congressional
Committee; National Association of Deans of Women: National Education
Association: Progressive Educational Society: International Kindergarten
Union; National Conference on Educational Methods.

Many of our graduates are taking an active part in A. A. U. W. work,
among them Emma (Jones) Smith, who is President of the Montgomery
Branch: Lucy Durr, Laura Oliver, in Montgomery; Mary Spottswood
Payne, in Lynchburg: Lois Eve, in Augusta; Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson
and Ruth Crowell, in Charlotte: Ruth (Blue) Barnes, in Savannah: Lucile
Alexander and Daisy Frances Smith in Atlanta, and practically all of the
graduate members in our Atlanta Agnes Scott Club.

It is through the A. A. U. W. that we have the opportunity to keep
in touch with the educated women of our country, and to keep abreast of
the times in the educational world. Even if there is no branch near our
home, it is well worth while to become a member-at-large in the Association
and receive the A. A. U. W. Journal, thus linking yourself with other
graduates of our finest educational institutions.

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DlBose Hevward

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MR. AND MRS. DuBOSE HEYWARD SPEND
WEEK AT AGNES SCOTT

POET AND DRAMATIST INSPIRE COLLEGE COMMUNITY

Emma May Laney

For more than a decade American Colleges have placed increasing
emphasis on the creative side of English composition. Courses in short
story writing, play writing, and verse writing have become an important
part of the curriculum, and the University of Michigan has gone so far as
to establish a Professorship for a poet, giving him no more definite duties than
living on the campus and consulting with students interested in writing
poetry. Agnes Scott has kept pace with this development in English work
not only through such formal courses as English 4 and English 18, but
also through poet lecturers such as Harriet Monroe and Vachel Lindsay,
through the Louise McKinney drama and poetry prizes, and through the
student organizations BOZ and the Poetry Club.

In recognition of this enthusiasm for writing, the Administration
arranged to bring to the College for the entire first week in February two
distinguished artists, Mr. and Mrs. DuBose Heyward, of Charleston, South
Carolina. Mr. Heyward, first known in literary circles by a book of verse,
"Carolina Chansons", in which he collaborated with Hervey Allen to
preserve some of Carolina's "haunting memories and rich atmosphere", has
also published a volume, "Skylines and Horizons", which the editor of the
Bookman characterizes as carefully written and beautifully visioned verse.
Mr. Heyward has, in addition, attained fame as an interpreter of the poetry of
others through his lectures and criticisms, and has written a novel Porgi.
which Doran will publish in the fall. Mrs. Heyward is known for her
Harvard prize play, Nancy Anne, which was produced on Broadway last
April; her second play, Cinderelative, is scheduled for production at the
Punch and Judy Theatre, New York, in the spring.

It goes without saying that the week which brought two such artists
to Agnes Scott was most significant. Through Mr. Heyward's lectures,
we came to know that the MacDowell Colony is a place of green-hills and
rustic studios where poets, novelists, musicians, painters "invite their souls"
and that the best in Southern life is finding adequate expression by groups of
poets at Charleston, Norfolk, Nashville, and Dallas: we became acquainted
with Edwin Arlington Robinson of "pregnant silences" and stoic endurance
of poverty, and with Amy Lowell of the long retinue and the need of an
entire Pullman car when she travels; we heard that the way of the poet or
short story writer into print is a devious one and none too rewarding
financially. Mrs. Heyward, on the other hand, took us behind the scenes
of a Broadway theatre and held us breathless as we listened to the mishaps
at the hands of manager and star which threatened Nancy Anne's appear-
ance on the boards and made it almost unrecognizable by the author when it
finally did appear.

And so for a week the miles that separate Decatur, Georgia, from the
literary center of America were obliterated. Yet the finest results of the

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visit of this poet and dramatist came not from these formal lecturers but
from hours "when from the circling faces Veils pass and laughing fellow-
ship glows warm". Chatting around the tea table, criticizing a poem for
this student and reading a play for that one, walking down Candler street
or motoring to Stone Mountain, they shared our daily life. As they did this
or as Mr. Heyward read his own "shining words" to the Poetry Club and
Mrs. Heyward talked of plays to Blackfriars, they were

" . . . . spendthrifts who believed
That only those who spend may keep;

Who scattered seeds, yet never grieved
Because a stranger came to reap."

Thus they gave us a new understanding of the place of art and the
artist in the community, a quickened faith in spiritual verities, an enhanced
sensitiveness to beauty.

The Administration, in its experiment of having a resident poet and
dramatist at Agnes Scott for a week, has not only brought fresh inspiration
to those who write, but has enriched life for us all.

COURT-HOUSE WINDOW

Elizabeth Cheatham. '25

I watched the rain come gray and silver- white
Advancing very voicelessly and still,

And saw it spread abroad enchanted light.
And let my thirsty spirit take its fill.

It hung in thin unearthly mystic veils.

On city buildings, brick and drab concrete.
And made long quivering white paths and trails

Down far below me on the asphalt street.

How fairy-like the spires rise from the rain!

And that blue looming dome how near it seems!
My spirit tiptoes up, all glad again.

And 1 am lost in wonder and in dreams.

'More rain." Miss Button says; "just look at it!
You reckon it ain't never goin' to quit:'"

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Dean Hopkins

MISS HOPKINS RECEIVES NEW HONOR

It is only fitting in any book lauding the prominent women of Georgia,
that Miss Hopkins should have an important place, for those of us who
have been fortunate enough to come under her influence realize that it has
been lasting, and one of the biggest things of our college life. We are
therefore pleased but not surprised then that Miss Hopkins' picture is to
appear in a new book that is being published, called "The Representative
Women of Gerogia."

Miss Hopkins has been at Agnes Scott ever since the founding of the
institution, and has seen it grow from a small preparatory school, to the
equal of any college in the land. With a great vision for the possibilities
of our College, she and Dr. Gaines played the major parts in its development,
and laid the foundation for its present structure. In 1922. the degree of

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Doctor of Pedagogy was conferred upon her, and her honors have been
many, but her chief claim to fame, and the one that Miss Hopkins cherishes
most, is that she ever lives in the hearts of Agnes Scott girls.

The book "Representative Women of Georgia" can be found at all the
libraries and press offices in the country. We will have a copy in the Agnes
Scott Library as soon as the publication is complete.

Among other Agnes Scott people whose pictures may be found in
"Representative Women of Georgia" are Nan Stephens, noted playwright,
and Mrs. Samuel Inman. leader of many Georgia activities. Georgia has
many prominent women, and Agnes Scott has every right to be proud of
her contribution to the new book.

Alumnae House Hostess and Guests.

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WILL YOU BE HERE FOR REUNIONS?

Nell Buchanan, '22
General Secretary Alumnae Association

Already the plans for the reunions have assumed proportions unheard
of before. Committees from the various reunion classes have met here at
the Alumnae House to discuss class books and class luncheons, stunts and
parades. The Alumnae House and cottages are being chartered, alumnae
tables are being planned. There has never been so much excitement over a
Commencement, and it seems to be the purpose of each reunion class to show
that the "alums" have lost none of their enthusiasm and vivacity, but are
just as much a part of the College as ever, and a very real part of Com-
mencement. We will have our annual alumnae Baby Show as usual, and
we hope to make even a bigger feature of it than it has ever been before.

Ruth Slack Smith is reunion hostess this year, and she and Martha
Bishop, the House hostess, as well as your General Secretary, are at your
service whenever you need them.

Reunion classes are '85. '90. '95, '00, '05, '10. '15. '20, '22. and '24.
This year and every year hereafter, the Class At Large will hold a reunion.
The Class At Large is made up of all those who attended Agnes Scott and
are interested in her welfare, but who were not graduated. Some of our
most loyal and enthusiastic alumnae belong to the Class At Large, and we
are glad to have them organized so that they can be of greater service to
their College, and can keep in closer touch with her. There will be a dinner
for the Class At Large, and if you would like to attend, please send in your
reservation to the alumnae office at your earliest convenience.

The Commencement Program for this year is as follows:

Friday. May 22
10:00 A. M. Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees.
3:00 P. M. Alumnae Baby Show.

Saturday, May 23
1:30 P. M. Trustees' Luncheon to Alumnae and Senior Class.
3:00 P. M. Annual Meeting of Alumnae Association.
8:30 P. M. Glee Club.

Sunday. May 24
11:30 A. M. Baccalaureate Address, by Dr. George Stuart. D.D., Pastor
of the First Methodist Church in Birmingham, Ala.

Monday, May 25
1:00 P.M. Luncheons for Reunion Classes.
2:30 P. M. Parade and Stunts by Reunion Classes.
4:00 P. M. Class Day Exercises.
8:30 P. M. Blackfriars.

Tuesday. May 27
10:00 A. M. Address to Senior Class, by Professor Edwin Mims, Ph.D.,
Head of the English Department of Vanderbilt Uni-
versity.
Conferring of Degrees.

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MEDITATIONS OF A PSEUDO-EDITOR

Elizabeth Wilson. '22

You can recognize one any place: embedded in the subway, perched
aloft on a bus, or strolling innocently on the Avenue. You have but to
note the sardonic curve of the lips, the cold, unsympathizing eyes, and the
nervous twitching of the red-stained fingers, and you know at once that
you are face to face with an Alexander of the publishing world a pseudo-
editor. If you are an author, a young and timid would-be author with
no past and little future, you will quiver and possibly stop long enough to
admire: but if you are a real author, one who has "arrived ", so to speak,
or in technical terms, one who can demand a "stet" on each page of her
copy, you will glare viciously and click your teeth in an audible snap. But
whether you quiver or glare is of no concern to the pseudo-editor. Both
come in a day's work. Despised by the authors, blamed by the printers,
ignored by the phlegmatic editors, she is forced to appreciate and admire
herself as she heartlessly pursues her course through endless manuscripts,
leaving behind as much devastation and gory ink as possible. That is the
pseudo-editor's only revenge. I know, for I am one.

Now, I am not destructive by nature. On the contrary, I love peace
and quiet, and I asked only to be allowed to learn the editing game so that
I might be able to place colons and commas with meticulous as well as
artistic care, and then in that cultured and literary atmosphere that is sup-
posed to hover over an editorial office, I could write The Great American
Novel. After months in a publishing house and constant association with
contemporary pseudo-editors, I have changed my mind. I shall never write
anything. I cannot bear the thought of having the "silent places of my
soul ", or the "warm blush of tears around my heart" (quotes from two of
our latest books) bandied about in mirthful revelry and chortled over by
a group of callous college girls. And the joy that they would derive from
reading aloud with sneers and giggles my heroine's self-analysis or my
hero's disclosal of his passionate love, would cause me anguish of soul and
body. No, I shall never write for that reason and several others.

At first I felt very sorry for the poor author when I saw the "child
of her brain" (academically speaking) slashed to pieces, and I felt faint
when 1 looked upon the bleeding remains. But all sentimentality soon
vanishes in a publishing house. In one week I edited five best sellers,
crudely described by a few trite phrases: (a) "the great open spaces where
a man's a man" and virile besides (Harold Bell Wright we have always
with us. ) ; (b) the love affairs of an English actress, age fifteen (of course,
she married the Earl.) ; (c) what happens when mother and daughter both
love the same man? (Edith Wharton allows mother to suffer through
fifteen chapters with a complex called "sterile pain".); ( d ) a tale of arti-
ficial mystery full of impossibilities, wily detectives, and bloody murders
(Who committed them.'' Why. of course, the person you least suspected.) ;
(c/)and the psycho-analytical dissertation of a woman who loved too well
(Not wisely, but too well!). After that week I lost all rsepect for authors,
acquired the sardonic curve, and started the career of a pseudo-editor.

^c ^ : ^ ^ ^c

And now a word to the young college girl who would like to work
in a publishing house, any publishing house, but simply doesn't know how
to get in one.

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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?"
Alice began, rather timidly.

"That depends a good deal on where you want to go", said the Cat.

"I don't much care where " said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you walk", said the Cat.

" so long as I get somewhere" . Alice explained.

"Oh. you're bound to get somewhere" . said the Cat. "if you only
walk long enough."

It's mostly a matter of physical endurance.

TO THE REUNION CLASSES

Members of Reunion Classes:

You don't have to be a Confederate Veteran to go to a reunion, for
one of the happiest events of our after-college life is an alumnae reunion
when we come back to the old campus, meet with friends of former years
and recount the experiences of college days.

Agnes Scott always gives a cordial welcome to her daughters at any
time and especially during Commencement Week when Monday is desig-
nated for Class Day Exercises and Alumnae Reunions. This is reunion year
for the classes of '85. '90, '95, '00, '05, '10, '15, '20, '22, and '24. If
your class is one of them, I'm hoping each of you will do all you can to
get a large representation and have a live reunion. We need to begin work
early so that busy women can plan to come, not only for Reunion Day, but
for the whole of Commencement, May 22-26. A cup is to be given by
the General Alumnae Association to the class having the largest percentage
back. Why not win it?

I'm going to be there for Commencement and I hope I'll see you and
all the "old guard" there.

Sincerely yours,

Ruth Slack Smith. '12 (Mrs. Hazen Smith).

Chairman Class Organization Committee.

POETRY CONTEST

Nan Bagby Stephens

The great interest in and success of the Poetry Contest, last year, made
it a cause for rejoicing that a prize of fifty dollars will again be offered to
alumnae and undergraduates for the best poem submitted before April 15th,
1925.

Each contestant may submit only one poem, and this poem must be
in triplicate. The judges are Charles Hanson Towne. DuBose Heyward,
and Hervey Allen, distinguished authorities, who have consented to give
their services because of their great interest in the talent of Agnes Scott.
The award will be announced at Commencement.

Poems should be sent to Miss Nell Buchanan, General Secretary, Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., before April
15th.

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BOOK REVIEWS

John Keats, by Amy Lowell. Houghton. Mifflin & Co.

The event of the year 1925 in the book world is the final arrival of
Amy Lowell's John Keats. This notable biography, the result of years of
study, not only throws light on the life and work of Keats, but it shows a
poets understanding of another poet's psychology. Bliss Perry, in a review
of the book, says: "Part of the extraordinary interest of her book is due.
no doubt, to the inherent fascination of the subject. Part is due to her
endeavor to explain Keats in the light of what she calls 'mental impulse' of
the present century. Miss Lowell believes that students of modern psychol-
ogy can understand Keats better than the nineteenth century could under-
stand him. Included in this volume are nine hitherto unpublished letters
of Keats and five unpublished poems.'' To quote from another review,
"The book is written with the insight of a poet, the verve of a novelist, and
the clear acumen of a scholar." Evidently the book has no drawback but
its price $1 2.50!

Orphan Island, by Rose Macaulay. Boni & Liveright.

To those who have read Dangerous Ages by this author, the above is
a welcome announcement. Such people will remember her fine satiric touch,
but they will not have known it at its brightest and best until they have read
this satire on Victorian England. Miss Isabel Paterson, in a review for the
March Bookman, says: "It is excellent satire, and if to youthful readers it
seems inapposite, that is because they cannot visualize the object. Their
elders will enjoy it."

Wild Cherry, by Lizette Woodworth Reese. The Norman. Remington Co..
Baltimore.

Christopher Morley says:

"In poetry there is one test of art,
With whispering stealth and keeping delicate time,
It creeps into your mind: you find it there."

This delicate, memorable quality is found in most of the poems in
Lizette Woodworth Reese's slender volume of verse, Wild Cherry. The
book has an outside of lovely soft colors, and an inside of "King's wares, and
dreams, and April dusks." Spring ecstasy, "when the weather has gone mad
with white", blows through its pages: there is an almost mystic quality in
the shy and exquisite beauty of some of the briefer poems: and through
many of them runs the intangible, haunting theme of something old and
gone, "lost springtimes".

"Spent loveliness that hurts me like a cry.
The step lost on the stair, the face gone out."

To the bookshelves of poetry lovers. Wild Cherry will be a welcome
addition. Better still, it will fit their coat pockets, and perhaps match their
moods when they go April-rambling.

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On The Campus

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Edith Richards. '27

THE MINUET DANCERS

FOUNDERS' DAY AGAIN
CELEBRATED

The exciting February 2 2 has once more
come and gone, the celebration this year
having taken place on the twenty-first, since
the twenty-second fell on Sunday. As
usual, there was a tenseness in the atmos-
phere all day of "something afoot", which
reached its climax at 6:20, when, after
everyone else was seated in the softly lighted,
patriotically decorated dining rooms, the
Seniors walked in dressed in the picturesque
colonial costumes. The traditional char-
acters were present: George and Martha
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick
Henry. Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross. La-
Fayette. Francis Scott Key, and Daniel
Boone, each of whom made appropriate and
entertaining speeches. After dinner, every-
one went to the gymnasium, where some of
the handsomest of the colonial gentlemen

and the daintiest and most graceful of the
hoop-skirted ladies danced a beautiful
minuet. Then general dancing was enjoyed
until the late hour of 9:45.

Tradition and sentiment, both school and
patriotic, combined with enthusiasm and the
picturesque beauty of the gay-colored cos-
tumes and powdered wigs, brought back fond
memories to alumnae present, and gave the
students another day to star in their college
calendar.

AGNES SCOTT REPRESENTED IN
"THE POETS OF THE FUTURE"

When the 1922-1924 volume of "The
Poets of the Future" came out last fall.
Agnes Scott was delighted to find that five
of her girls had received the honor of having
one of their poems printed in this book, and
that six others had attained "honorable men-
tion", listed in the book under the title.

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"Other Poems of Distinction". "The Poets
of the Future" is a college anthology con-
taining all the best poems of American col-
lege students selected by a group of judges
from the college magazines. Over two hun-
dred colleges and universities have one or
more poems printed or mentioned in this
volume, it being the largest of the seven
volumes of the College Anthology which
have been printed.

Agnes Scott is very proud to have so
many girls represented in this book, there
being only four colleges having a larger
number of poems printed, and only seven
having a larger number of "other poems of
distinction", and most of these are large
universities.

Those Agnes Scott girls who have poems

printed in "The Poets of the Future", and
the names of the poems are:

"Confidants" ...Janice Stewart Brown, '24
"The Deserted House". ...Marjorie Lowe, '23
"Court-House Window",

Elizabeth Cheatham, 25
"Wishes" .. Margaret Bull, '26

"Sonnet" Nancy Evans, '24

Those who have poems mentioned under
"Other Poems of Distinction" are:
"Stream Edge Autumn",

Dell Bernhardt. '24

"Adolescence" Helen Faw, '23

"Georgia Hills" Maud Foster. '23

"Aelfric" Margery Speake. '25

"Haven" Margaret Tufts, '26

"Riding by the Sea".. . Ellen Walker, '25

MAY QUEEN CHOSEN

May Day will soon
be here a day full of
sweet memories for all
alumnae. Each of us
has taken part in it
some of us as dancing
nymphs others, less
endowed as mere
mortals. The May
Queen. Mary Breed-
love, has recently been
elected and she is as
pretty as a May Queen could be. All alumnae
will like to come back and reminisce, and talk
about how it was done in their day. Last
year it was interesting to stand by and hear

Mary Breed love, '25

grjups of them talk. The conversation ran
something like this:

l.ulie (Harris) Henderson: "Isn't that a
lovely dance! Adelaide, do you feed your
baby orange juice?"

Anne (Hart) Equcn: "Just think. 1
used to dance like that. And now I get
all the exercise I can stand running after
Anne. Jr."

Sarah (Hall): "Oh girls, all of you arc
ladies of leisure. I have twins to look after."

But May Day is May Day. and in the
spring the hearts of all Agnes Scott girls
turn to the wisteria and the dogwood on
the old campus, and the flowers in the boxes
in front of the library. May Day is the
time to come back.

NINE O'CLOCK

Yellow wood with edge of black
Laughter, yawning, sliding, crack
Scratched with jiggling, slipping feet-
Slick old yellow chapel seat!

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I~he January meeting of the
ATLANTA Atlanta Agnes Scott Club met
with the President, Miss Claire
Louise Scott, at her home on West Peach-
tree. We were all very delighted to hear
from Miss Gooch about the splendid trip the
Blackfriars had to Chicago.

Our December bazaar was quite a success,
since we cleared a little over $99.

In February, our club met at Mrs. William
Anderson's, with Mrs. Anderson and Mrs.
Paul Potter joint hostesses. Mrs. Donaldson
was made chairman of our rummage sale
which was held on February 28. Miss
Alexander and Miss Phythian. of the French
department at Agnes Scott, made interesting
talks on the progress of their department
during the past few years. Miss Bates, of
Agnes Scott, gave several delightful vocal
numbers, accompanied at the piano by Miss
Annette Carter.

The Atlanta club has paid to the General
Association the five hundred dollars which
we pledged to the Alumnae House Fund.
We are now planning for our children's
carnival, which is held every spring.

MARIE S. HoPPE. Secretary.

We are glad to an-
NEW nounce the organization

AGNES SCOTT of four new Agnes
CLUBS Scott Clubs. The first

of these is in New
York, where, under the leadership of Eliz-
abeth Wilson, we have excellent material for
an enthusiastic club.

Lynchburg. Virginia, has started a new
club, which is being organized by Spott
Payne. Anniston. Alabama, under the lead-
ership of Fan McCaa and Virginia Ordway,
is planning a club, and in Birmingham,
with Elizabeth Ransom and Anna Meade and
Vallie Young (White) Archibald, a club is
well under way. We hope to have several
others organized before the year is out.

The Richmond Alumnae have
RICHMOND had four lively meetings, and
have discussed various plans
of serving their Alma Mater.

The members of the club have secured
pamphlets and pictures of the college from
Dr. McCain and Hoasc. We arc planning
to use this material on posters which we will
make and place in the various High Schools
of Richmond. In this way we hope to
arouse even greater interest in Agnes Scott
College among the High School girls of
Richmond.

The last meeting of the club was more of
a social meeting, to which we invited a num-
ber of High School girls who arc thinking
of going to Agnes Scott. There were seven
of these girls present, and each one was given
a cross word puzzle to work out. These
proved to consist of interesting facts about
Agnes Scott.

Nannie Campbell made a short talk about
Student Government and its privileges. Then
Margaret McDow talked on the good times
had at Agnes Scott.

The girls showed a great deal of interest
in the college, and we hope that we succeeded
in giving them a glimpse of the Agnes Scott

Spirit.

JOSEPHINE LOGAN, Secretary.

The March meeting of the
CHARLOTTE Charlotte Club was held at

the home of Mrs. J. S.
Cothran. the Secretary. Mrs. Ivey. the
President, had just returned from a visit to
her mother in Atlanta, during which time
she had been at the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Office. The Charlotte Club is doing good
work, and the March meeting was an en-
thusiastic one.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

DECATUR

Mrs. F. H. Roberts, President

of the Decatur Club, has been
forced to resign, and Daisy-
Frances Smith has been elected to take her
place. At the February meeting the club
pledged one hundred dollars above individual
pledges to the Alumnae House Fund, and
one hundred toward the maintenance of an
instructor in the technique of the drama.
Our hundred to the House Fund was
promptly paid on the first of March.

Plans are being made for an alumnae play
to be given soon, and Frances Amis was
made chairman of the play committee.

The club is also planning to entertain the
Decatur High School Seniors, and also to
sponsor the Annual Baby Show at Com-
mencement time.

The rummage sale, held on February 28,
under the chairmanship of Margaret Phyth-
ian, cleared $85.00.

Frances Amis. Secretary.

IN On Thursday evening, March

NEW YORK 26, the Agnes Scott alumnae
in New York met at an in-
formal dinner at the Peg Woffington and
unanimously voted the organization of a
New York chapter of the Agnes Scott Alum-
nae Association. Miss Nan Stephens, of At-
lanta, was the honor guest and told of the
course in playwriting that is to be given at
Agnes Scott. Immediately a motion was
made and seconded that the club for its
maiden venture pledge $100.00 toward the
Chair of Playwriting. Several plans for
raising this sum were suggested and are to
be considered by a committee.

The second meeting of the club will be
held in April at Mary Kirkpatrick's apartment
on 5 7th street. Elizabeth Wilson was elect-
ed president; the other officers will be elected
at the second meeting.

The dinner party was very informal and
each person had to tell her special joy and
sorrow at Agnes Scott as well as her activities
in New York. Reminiscences came thick
and fast. Mary Kilpatrick recalled the time
that lamps were in vogue and the "midnight
oil" was burned for the purpose of cooking
fudge. Dorothy Dyrenforth told of the
opening of the swimming pool (which was
not a thing to be laughed at in those days) ,
and of her athletic prowess at the track meet

where she won a blue ribbon. The anguish
suffered at the hands of the "math" depart-
ment was recalled by Sarah Gober and Jean-
nette Archer. If there had been more time
a "favorite teacher" vote would probably
have been taken.

The New York members and their occu-
pations are:

Mary Kirkpatrick. play producing.

Sarah Cragwell, taking her masters degree
in costume designing at Columbia University.

Julia Ingram Hazzard (Mrs. L. B. ) , keep-
ing house and studying chemistry.

Jeannette Archer, training at the Presby-
terian Hospital.

Dorothy Dyrenforth. designing.

Gertrude Ammudsen. Y. W. C. A. secre-
tary.

Sarah Gober. publicity.

Minnie Claire Boyd, taking masters degree
in history at Columbia University.

Florence Stokes Henry (Mrs. M. E.),
keeping house in Jersey.

Cornelia Archer, studying piano.

Rebecca Dick, publicity.

Alma Rowe. studying at Columbia and
assisting in secretarial work Dr. Harry Emer-
son Fosdick.

Corene Berman. studying at Barnard Col-
lege.

Norma Burke Hearn (Mrs. Murray) . keep-
ing house in Brooklyn.

Nelle Esslinger. concert singing.

Ruth Nesbit Morehouse (Mrs. Ward),
publicity.

Elizabeth Wilson, editorial.

IN One of the most outstanding of

MACON the Agnes Scott meetings that
have been held this year will take
place in Macon. Georgia, on the seventeenth
of April, during the convention of the Geor-
gia Education Association. About thirty
Agnes Scott teachers will meet for a lovely
dinner at the Dempsey Hotel. Dr. McCain
and Miss Hopkins both will grace the oc-
casion with their presence, and Miss Thyrza
Askew of the North Avenue Presbyterian
School will act as toastmistress.

Eva Wassum, '2 3. of Macon, is making
all arrangements.

Alumnae Marriages

Lewis Murchison, ex '24, to Mr. Rivers Thomas
Jenkins, Saturday. February 21.

Georgia Weaver, ex '22, to Mr. M. S. Wig-
ington. Her address is 120 S. Decatur St.. Mont-
gomery. Ala.

Dorothy Bowron, '23, to Mr. John Belgrave
Collins, on Jan. 14.

Ruth Hall, '22 to Reverend Virgil L. Bryant,
December 23, 1924.

Elizabeth Enloe, '21 to Mr. Gerald MacCarthy,
an instructor of geology at Chapel Hill, N. C.

Dorothy Elyea, ex '24, to Mr. Calhoun Emmet
Minchener, Jan. 6, 1925.

Sidney Morton, ex '24. to Mr. Hugh Nelson
Montgomery, on Dec. 26, 1924.

Susie Stokes, ex '25, to Mr. Rosser Howard
Tavlor. on Dec. 24. 1924. Thev are at home
in Chapel Hill, N. C.

Caroline Hutter, ex '22, to Mr. Cranston Wil-
liams, in January. Her home is in Chattanooga.

Vivian Dowe, ex '21, to Lieutenant Frederick
A. Irvin. of West Point, N. Y.

Jean Douglas, ex "21 to Dr. William Randolph
Smith on March 11.

Frances Gilliland, '24, to Mr. Samuel Guerry
Stukes. of Agnes Scott College on March 28. They
are temporarily living with Mr. and Mrs. Dieck-
mann, on Erie Avenue.

Lucile Boyd, '16, to Mr. Edward Okel, Jr.,
in December. Mr. Okel is an architect in
Montgomery. Their address is Oak Crest, Elmore,
Ala.

The following engagements are
announced:

Elizabeth Moss. '20, to Mr. Henry Harris of
Asheville, N. C, the marriage to take place in
April.

Annette Carter, '25, to Mr. E. C. Caldwell, Jr..
of Emory University.

Laura Oliver, '22 to Mr. Justin Fuller, of
Birmingham, Ala.

Born To:

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Cordle (Minnie Lee
Clark, 1923) a son, Charles Clark. February 18,
1925.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Marty (Elizabeth Nis-
bet. ex '221. a daughter. Mary Elizabeth. Nov. 3rd.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Barker (Mary Cath-
erine McKinney, '22) a son, Henry Howe, Jan.
7th.

Mr. and Mrs. John Walter Rutland (Jane
Harwell, '17 1 a daughter, Ruth Lovejoy, Feb. 10.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Summer, (Linda Miller,
'14), a daughter. Jan. 20, 1925.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bachman (Margaret Brown,
ex '14) a daughter, Sept. 20, 1924, Catherine
Clara.

Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Hogan (Theodosia Cobbs,
'14 1 a daughter, Amelia Burr, Dec. 27. 1924.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Summer (Linda Miller,
'14), a daughter, Marion Mcintosh, in January.

Mr. and Mrs. David G. Henderson (Lulie Harris,
'20), a daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Robt. C. Mizell (Louise Felker,
'19), a daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Parsons (Louise Wells,
'12), a daughter, in February, Jean Wells.

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Burns (Montie Sewell)
a daughter, Betty Emmeline, February 6, 1925.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Newton, of Decatur,
(Maryellen Harvey, '16), a daughter, in March.

Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Miller (Georgiana White),
a son, in March.

News By Classes:

1893 Association members, 0: non-
members. 2. Secretary, Mary Barnett Mar-
tin (Mrs. A. V.), Clinton, S. C.

1894 Association members, 0; non-
members. 1. Secretary. Mary Neel Kendrick
(Mrs. W. J.). Fort McPherson, Ga.

1895 Association members. 4: non-
members. 1. Secretary, Winifred Quarter-
man, Waycross. Ga.

1896 Association members. 1; non-
members. 4. Secretary, Mary Ethel Davis,
Decatur. Ga.

1897 Association members, 2: non-
members. 1. Secretary. Cora Strong, N. C.
C. W., Greensboro. N. C.

1899 Association members. 3: non-
members. 6. Secretary, Nellie (Mandeville)
Henderson (Mrs. C. K.), Carrollton, Ga.

1900 Association members. 4. non-
members. 3. Secretary, Ethel (Alexander)
Gaines (Mrs. L. M.), 18 Park Lane. At-
lanta. Ga.

1901 Association members, 1: non-
members, 1. Secretary, Adeline (Arnold)
Loridans (Mrs. Charles), 16 E. 15th Street,
Atlanta, Ga.

1902 Association members. 3; non-
members, 2. Secretary. Laura Caldwell Ed-
monds (Mrs. A. S.), 240 King Street, Port-
land, Ore.

1903 Association members, 5; non-
members. 2. Secretary, Eileen Gober, Ma-
rietta, Ga.

1904 Association members, 6; non-
members, 3. Secretary, Lois Johnson Ay-
cock (Mrs. C. G.), 170 Penn Ave., Atlanta.
Ga.

Mattie Duncan Johnson (Mrs. Thad B.) lives
in Atlanta, at 46 Avery Drive. Mr. Johnson is
in the manufacturing business, being corrected
with the Alco Feed Mills. They have two hand-
some sons, Thad, Jr., nine years old, and Dun-
can, 14 months old. Besides her duties as a
mother, Mattie finds time for other activities,
being a member of the Woman's Club and the
Modern Topics Club.

As my letters to our girls are still unanswered
the secretary is a little embarrasseo. at having
so few items to contribute to the Alumnae
Quarterly. I suppose I will have to tell you of
myself. My husband is in the realty and in-
surance business in Atlanta. I am very proud
of our three children Helen, eight years old ; C.
G-, Jr., six, and Caroline, four. I can frankly
say they are pretty children as people often
look at me and say, "They don't favor you at
all. Whom do they look like?"

1905 Association members. 3; non-
members. 2. Secretary. Mabel McKowen,
Lindsay. La.

Sallie Stribling has been Primary Supervisor
for the City School of Greenville. S. C, for the
past two years.

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

1906 Association members. 4; non-
members. 2. Secretary, Ethel McDonald
Castellow (Mrs. B. T. ) . Cuthbert. Ga.

1907 Association members, 3: non-
members. 3. Secretary.

1908 Association members. 4; non-
members. 5. Secretary. Louise Shipp Chick.
306 C. Street. N. W., Washington, D. C.

Elva Drake is president of City Y. W. C. A.
of Raleigh. N. C. Her young daughter is nine
years old, not quite old enough for A. S. C.

Jane H. Brown's official title just now is
"In Charge of Traveling Libraries." but her
real job is the rural work of Pennsylvania under
the Extension Division of the State Library, and
the development of the County Library idea.
She has all the places of less than a thousand
population. Her "'home town" is East Water-
ford, where she has an apartment. The latch-
string is on the outside.

Lizzabel is not the only one with bobbed
hair. It is the most sensible thing for busy
people. Louise Chick's will be short just as
long as anyone wears it that way. She was
at home for the Christmas holidays.

1909 Association members. 3: non-
members. 9. Secretary. Margaret McCallie,
611 Palmetto Street. Chattanooga. Tenn.

1910 Association members. 6: non-
members, 7. Secretary, Agnes (Nicolassen)
Wharton (Mrs. T. J.), Central City, Ky.

Flora (Crowe I Whitmire writes that she is
planning to visit her father and mother this
spring, and is very much tempted to stay over
for commencement. She spends most of her
time with her three year old daughter. Mary,
and keeping house, for she is a stranger in East
Orange. N. J. Her new address is 77 Pros-
pect street, and she would like very much
to hear from members of the class.

Eleanor Frierson says she hopes to be at the
reunion, if they will allow her to enter with
bobbed hair.

Mildred Thomson 1238 Nelson Ave., Apt. 18, St.
Paul. MinnJ has a wonderful title, "Supervisor
of the Department for the Feeble Minded," under
the State Board of Control. Her vacation comes
the last of May, so she will be with the class
at some of the festivities at least.

The other members of the class have not
responded to the secretary's letters, but we hope
that many of them will attend the reunion.

1911 Association members. 7: non-
members. 6. Secretary, Theodosia (Wil-
lingham ) Anderson. 6 3 Avery Drive, At-
lanta, Ga.

Mary Wallace Kirk recently visited Emma
(Jones I Smith in Montgomery, and on her re-
turn stopped by the Alumnae House during the
Heywards' visit.

1912 Association members, 9; non-
members. 3. Secretary, Marie (Maclntyre)
Scott. Scottdale, Ga.

Antoinette Blackburn Rust (Mrs. Ernst) has
gone to Columbus. Ga.. to live.

1913 Association members, 13: non-
members, 3. Secretary, Allie (Candler)
Guy (Mrs. J. Sam), North Decatur Road,
Atlanta, Ga.

Lily Joiner Williams writes that she has
enjoyed the Quarterly so much. She has two
children, a girl and a boy. and her husband
is a Methodist preacher, now stationed at Sum-
merville, S. C. She invites all the girls to
come to see her in wisteria and azalea time, as
Summerville is a fairyland then. Numbers won't
bother her, she says, for she keeps open house
the year round !

Frances Dukes Wynne lives in Miami. Her
little girl. Pauline, is in the third grade in
public school, and "Fritzie" is taking a very

active part in Parent-Teacher work there. She
had charge of a big pageant by all the schools
in Miami in February, and is very enthusiastic
over her work. She also has a little boy in kin-
dergarten.

Laura Mel Towers Yager has been in Daytona
Beach instead of Rockledge. Her husband is
still in bad hearth. She also speaks of how much
the Quarterly means to her. She says she reads
every word from cover to cover and finds every
one interesting.

What has become of our class treasure box ?
Please send it on as quickly as you can. for we
are anxious for it to get back to headquarters as
soon as possible.

1 9 1 4 Association members. 1 7 : non-
members. 6. Secretary. Martha (Rogers)
Noble (Mrs. Geo. H. ) . West Andrews Drive,
Atlanta. Ga.

Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Hogan announce the birth
of a daughter. Amelia Burr. Dec. 27. 1924. (Ted
Cobbs.l

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Summer announce the birth
of a daughter. Marian Mcintosh, in January.
(Linda Miller. I We claim Linda as our most
loyal "Agnes Scotter" for this is her fourth
daughter for our Alma Mater.

Essie Roberto has been staying in Atlanta for
the last few weeks while her mother has been
in the hospital. We are glad to know that she
is very much improved.

Martha Rogers Noble is thrilled over a week-
end visit which her family is planning to
make to Mary Pittard.

Mary is teaching in the High school in Win-
terville and has been lately holding down the
principal's job as well. The rest of her spare time
she is visiting sick relatives.

We are sympathizing with Marguerite Wells
Bishop in the death of her father in January.
Her mother plans to come to Atlanta to keep
house for her son who is working here.

We hear that Ruth Blue Birnes. after the ter-
rible ordeal of having her hair bobbed last May
is letting it out again.

Louise McNulty was a visitor at the Alumnae
House in February on her way home from Chat-
tanooga, where she and her small nephew have
been visiting his grandparents.

1915 Association members. 14: non-
members. 11. Secretary. Martha (Brenner)
Shryock (Mrs. Jas. N. i . 1018 Main Street,
Evanston, 111.

Mary Kelly Coleman and Martha Brenner
Shryock have recently visited the Alumnae House.
On Wednesday afternoon, February 25th, they
had the pleasure of having in for tea several
members of 1915. Every one was enthusiastic
over plans for reunion in May. The following
committees were appointed :

General chairman for Reunion, Annie Pope
Bryan Scott (Mrs. Milton C.I. 306 Avery St..
Decatur, Ga.

Parade and Stunt Committee. Mary Helen
Schneider Head (Mrs. Ben I and Catherine Parker.

Class Biography Committee, Henrietta Lambdin
Turner (Mrs. Hugh J.i and Martha Brenner
Shryock (Mrs. J. N.l.

Class Luncheon Committee. Mary Kelly Cole-
man I Mrs. Emmett) and Grace Reid.

It was decided to engage the use of the
Alumnae House for members of "1915" coming
back for reunion. This is a special privilege,
and we know the girls will appreciate this op-
portunity of being together in the lovely Alumnae
House.

Those present for tea were Annie Pope Bryan
Scott. Mary Helen Schneider Head. Catherine
Parker and Martha Bishop.

Tea was served in the attractive dining room.
The tea cloth and napkins, Mary had brought
from Venice, and the handsome silver-service,
a recent gift from Mrs. John Eagan and her
mother, made the tea table most charming. If
the Alumnae could only realize how pleasant it
is to entertain in the Alumnae House, Martha
Bishop would be kept busy.

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Martha Bishop and Nell Buchanan do everything
in their power to make it home-like for the
old girls.

This is our tenth reunion. Let us make it
the best reunion possible. There have been
lots of changes and improvements, but we shall
find the same old A. S. C. dearer to our hearts
than ever. Have your pictures taken, of your-
self, your hueband. your children or "your
school children," because we want them for the
the class biography. If you have any sugges-
tions or plans, please notify the chairman of
the different committees. In order to make this
a successful reunion everybody must come. Talk
about the reunion to your family so they will
be ready to have you absent from home from
Saturday. May 23 to Tuesday. May 26.

1916 Association members, 18; non-
members. 15. Secretary, Louise Hutcbeson,
McDonough Street. Decatur. Ga.

Josie (Jones) Paine (Mrs. Leon A.I. is kept
busy at her home in Valdosta, with her baby
and house.

Clara (Whips) Dunn (Mrs. W. M.) is living at
1047 Peachtree St., Apt. 4-B, Atlanta. Ga.

1917 Association members. 18; non-
members, 22. Secretary, Laurie (Caldwell)
Tucker (Mrs. J. H. ) , 1310 South Howard
Avenue. Tampa, Fla.

Augusta Sheen had a wonderful time in Europe
last summer, after having won her M. A. at
Emory University the year before. She is now
at Agnes Scott, teaching chemistry.

India Hunt has again changed her address,
this time to Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

1918 Association members. 19; non-
members, 12. Secretary, Margaret Leyburn,
683 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.

Hallie Alexander Turner writes : "Have just
been reading the Alumnae Quarterly and enjoyed
it thoroughly. My time is taken up with raising
my two year old daughter, Nell, keeping two
school teachers as boarders, and coaching a few
tourist pupils. Would certainly love to see all
the old girls of '18. Will you ever forget our
Senior camp?" Hallie's married name is Mrs.
Francis Turner. Thomasville. Georgia.

1919 Association members, 23; non-
members. 15. Secretary, Almeda Hutcheson.
McDonough Street, Decatur, Ga.

Margaret Leech, who is teaching in the Miami
High School, writes that Agnes Scott is well rep-
resented on the faculty there, with Marion
(Lindsay) Noble (Mrs. Leon L.), '21, Elizabeth
Marsh, '20, Sarah Coston, ex '20, Willie Belle
Jackson, '18, and Margaret Leech, '19. She says
there are a number of other Agnes Scott girls
in the city, and they hope to have an Agnes
Scott party soon.

Shirley (Fair-ley) Hendrick (Mrs. L. F.) is
planning another trip to Georgia this spring to
visit Louise (Felker) Mizell and her baby. She
will stop by Agnes Scott to see her friends there.

Elizabeth iPruden) Fagen's husband has been
very ill recently, but has now completely re-
covered his health.

1920 Association members, 30; non-
members. 11. Secretary. Mary (Burnett)
Thorington (Mrs. W. L.), Taft, Texas.

Margaret Sanders, who is teaching at Arkansas
College, writes that she would love to come back
for her reunion this year, but can't as Agnes
Scott is out before Arkansas College. Otherwise
she would be here with bells !

Crip Slack and Marion McCamy are teaching
in LaGrange. Ga. They recently spent a week-
end at the Alumnae House. Crip has been
managing the Junior Red Cross for the LaGrange
District and now has all the schools 100 per cent
membership in it.

Delia Gardner. '20, has been in Johns Hop-
kins Hospital for several months taking treat-
ment. She is improving.

1921 Association members, 45; non-
members, 15. Secretary, Frances Charlotte
Markley, Miss Fine's School, Princeton,

N. J.

To all members of 1921, Greeting: If any of
you are planning to go to summer school at Co-
lumbia University this year, you must plan to
meet the rest of us who will be there. The pres-
ent prospects seem to be Caroline Agee St
Katherme's School. Bolivar, Tenn. ; Eleanor Car-
penter. 1310 Second St.. Louisville. Ky. ; Frances
Markley, Princeton, N. J. We want to get
together in New York, but our addresses there
are mere conjecture at this time, so write to the
secretary with your address, and we'll see that
1921 can spree even in New York.

C. Agee is teaching modern languages, history
and coaching athletics at St. Katherine's School!
Bolivar, Tenn. This summer she embark? on
work for her M. A. Her sister, Ellen, plans
to enter A. S. C. next fall.

H. Hall, according to her own words is "in
on the newly organized dramatic club" at Salem
College, Winston-Salem. N. C. What that means
is left to the imagination and H. H. !

E. Enlce. since Christmas. 1924. has been a
"faculty wife" at Chapel Hill, N. C. Her hus-
band. Gerald MacCarthy, is an instructor in
geology, but Elizabeth is keeping her position
as assistant cataloguer in the University Library
until the end of the year.

F. Whitfield is teaching Latin at Osceola H. S.,
Kissimmee, Fla.

Peg Bell tells me that I forgot to announce to
you that she had married C. Morton Hanna last
June ! But. honestly, I thought you all knew it.
Mr. Hanna is from Shelbyville, Ky., and grad-
uated last June from the Louisville Seminary.
They are doing Home Mission Work in Hitchins,
Ky , a firebrick manufacturing settlement of two
thousand people.

M. Wade is teaching Physics and French in
Lexington. Va.

M. Blackmon keeps house for her family dur-
ing the winter, but makes up for all ennui then
by trips through the Canadian Rockies, Florida
and Cuba.

Genie Johnston Griffin (Mrs. George C.) has
been very active in alumnae work and has been
doing volunteer work at Atlanta Y. W. C. A.
Address: The Tremont, 18 E. 11th St.

Charlotte Bell Linton (Mrs. William) writes of
her two sons, Billy and Eugene, who keep life
active. Address Kunsan. Korea.

Eleanor Gordon Elliott (Mrs. Harry B.) is
living in Davidson, N. C.

Tilly Spence is teaching history in Kinston,
N. C. sponsoring the senior class and dramatic
instructor. For the coming summer she is plan-
ning a trip to California and the Canadian
Rockies.

S. Fulton is teaching English at Bass Junior
High. Atlanta.

E. Carpenter, who cast the first woman's vote
in the state of Georgia (though it was an ab-
sentee vote I, is following her Republican ten-
dencies by serving on the Kentucky State Re-
publican Committee. One of her bon mots is
"You may say ambition is gone it has, com-
pletely, and I'm glad of it, because I get so
much pleasure out of things which would have
been trivial to Napoleon."

S. Stansell is teaching English in Chattanooga
Girls' Preparatory School. One incentive to her
writing is membership in the Chattanooga Writers'
Club.

Isabel Carr Battles (Mrs. Benjamin) has a
daughter, Betty Ashmore.

M. Hanes is teaching English in Griffin, Ga.

C. Newton is studying at the Library School
of the University of Illinois. Address 1107 W.
Oregon St., Urbana, III.

If one is to judge from a picture, Nelle Brown
Hogshead is going to have the jolly temperament
of her mother, who is none other than Margaret
McLaughlin Hogshead (Mrs. Fulton), Moffat's
Creek. Va.

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E. Wilson, after a year at the Biblical Semi-
nary in N. Y. C, and a summer of Home Mis-
sion work in Blackey, Ky., is teaching Bible in
Peace Institute. Raleigh, N. C.

Julia Watkins Huber (Mrs. Harry) is certain-
ly fulfilling the class prophecy "darning socks by
a soft light," though she says it isn't really as
soothing as it sounds !

P. L. Hamner is teaching Science in Columbus,
Ga.

E. Floding is teaching French and Latin at
the North Avenue Pres. School.

Of the sixty-odd members of our class only
about half have answered the secretary's card
which asked for information and history since
June 1921. The card index of the class needs a
little fattening, and if the following girls will
send their data, it will gain in size: D. Allen.
A. Brewer, M. Caw-then, E. Clarke. Lois Compton
Jennings (Mrs. Forrest A.) Cora Connett Ozen-
berger (Mrs Ralph L.I, M. Cousins, M. R.
Finney. L. Fluker. M. L. Green, S. Harrison.
Anne Hart Equen (Mrs. Murdock S.I. D. Havis.
M. Hedrick. Emily Hutter Stewart (Mrs. Arthur
P.) A. Jones, M. Laing. M. Lindsay, F. McCaa.
S. McCurdy, V. M. Murphy, T. Newton, L. Parry,
R. Rushton. J. Saunders. L. Smith, A. Twitty,
Marguerite Watkins Goodman (Mrs. Wm. F.),
H. Wayt.

1922 Association members. 47; non-
members. 11. Secretary, Julia Jameson.
Franklin, Tenn.

Twenty-Two-ers ! This is our reunion year.
Plans are being made to get us all back here,
to swap experiences and tell yarns. Who would
miss seeing our class stunt, written by Laura
Oliver and Elizabeth Wilson as of yore, and
acted by the incomparable Sarah K. and Mary
Knight? Who wouldn't like to hear Ruth Hall
(now married, but not forgotten I lead sings
again ? Who dares to miss the opportunity to
all get together and reiterate what we all know
that '22 is the best and most enthusiastic class
any college ever had Nell Buchanan is there
in the Alumnae Office to give each of us the
glad hand. Let's charter a cottage for '22's big
third-year reunion. Please let her know imme-
diately how many we can expect.

Ruth Evans has been elected Queen of the
Georgia Peach Festival, which is held in Fort
Valley every year. Among her maids were
Christine Evans, '23, Pearl Lowe Hamner, '21.
Marion Park, ex '21, Elizabeth Brown, '22,
Dolly Hart, ex '22 and Nell Buchanan. '22.

Ruth Scandrett recently paid a visit to Amy
Twitty, '21, in Pelham, Ga.

Nell Buchanan is planning another trip to
Europe this summer a Mediterranean and North
Sea cruise. About fifteen or twenty Agnes
Scott people will be in the party.

Susan Malone is opening a beauty parlor in
Greenwood, Mississippi. She expects to make a
fortune in a few days.

Helen Barton Claytor (Mrs. Edward M.) now
lives at Edgefield, S. C.

Cama Burgess (Mrs. Francis Clarkstonl is
living at Clement Ave.. Charlotte. N. C.

Gena Calloway (Mrs. Kenneth Merry I is still
at Augusta, Ga.

Margaret Colville had enough of teaching in
one year. She has returned from Birmingham
where she visited Lib Ransom, and was a bride's
maid in Dorothy Bowron's wedding.

Sue Cureton is still teaching at Conyers. Ga.

Catherine Dennington is now Mrs. Charles
Jervey.

Jeannette Archer is planning to attend our
reunion. She is making quite a name for her-
self in New York and we have every right to
be quite proud of her.

Otto Gilbert is Mrs. Charles Frederick Williams.

Ivvlyn Giraudeau is at Queen's College, Char-
lotte, N. C.

Ruth Hall (Mrs. Virgil Bryant I is now liv-
ing at Lexington. Miss. Sh has made Ruth
Virden several visits.

Frances Harper's address now is Box ?3,
Cov : ngton. La.

Roberta Love (Mrs. Eugene Bost Browerl is
at 510 Brookstown Ave.. Winston-Salem, N. C.

Mary Catherine McKinney (Mrs. H. N. Barken
is quite proud of her seven-weeks-old son. Harry
Nase. Jr. She lives at Johnson City. Tenn.

Elizabeth Nichols (Mrs. Richard Lyons I lives
at Blue Ridge Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Frances Oliver's address is 124 E. Park Ave.,
Greenville. S. C.

Laura Oliver has made two visits to A. S. C.
this year. Now she is busy with plans for
her wedding which will be the last of April.

Ruth Scandrett is delighted with her work as
student Y. W. C. A. secretary at Florida State
College for Women, Tallahassee, Florida.

Margaret Smith (Mrs. J. E. Lyon I. with her
husband and son, lives at 233 N. Belleme, Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Althea Stephens is at Logan College. Rus-
sellville, Ky.

Sarah K. Till has received an M. A. degree
from Columbia University. She is now at Hood
College. Frederick, Md.

Ruth Virden, as Associate Secretary of the
Y. W. C. A. at Jackson, Miss., is doing Girl
Reserve and Physical Education work. She has
as an adviser in one of her Girl Reserve
Clubs Marguerite Watkins Goodman, whose hus-
band holds a position in a bank at Jackson. Ruth,
Marguerite and Alice Virden are the only A. S.
C. representatives there in the A. A. U. W.

Alice Whipple is in Greenville. N. C.

Elizabeth Wilson is with D. Appleton & Co..
New York City. She lives at 43 Riverside Drive.

Lucy Wooten (Mrs. Carl Wiegund) is now
at Chapel Hill. N. C.

Eunice (Dean) Major (Mrs. Harold) was mar-
ried last June and is greatly interested in her
housekeexiing in a little new bungalow in Ander-
son. S. C.

Anna Meade is spending a month in Daytona
Beach. Fla., and plans to stop by Agnes Scott
on her way back. She and Elizabeth Ransom
are much interested in the Agnes Scott Club
in Birmingham.

Charlotte (Keesler) Everett spent the month of
March with her parents in Greenwood. She will
stop by Agnes Scott on her way back to her
home in North Carolina.

1923 Association members. 44; non-
members. 1 7. Secretary , Emily Guille,
Athens, Tenn.

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Cordle (Minnie Lee Clarke!
announce the birth of a son, Charles Clarke,
Feb. 18, 1025.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grady Harris (Eugenia
Pou, ex '231, announce the birth of Albert Grady.
Jr.. Jan. 18.

Quenelle Harrold continues traveling around
at her usual gait, and spent February in Florida.

Lois McClain writes that she has been very
busy working for her father in his bank. She
often sees Beulah Davidson, Elizabeth Henry
and Elizabeth Askew, who teach at Tate. Ga.,
near her home.

Nancy Tripp is having an interesting year
in Orlando, Florida. She teaches French and
Spanish in the Cathedral school.

Alice Virden says her occupation (and it is
one ! I is teaching the third grade of one of
Jackson's (Miss. I schools.

Further news of '23 is most ardently desired
by the secretary.

1974 Association members, 4; non-
members. 5. Secretary. Carrie Scandrett,
74 7 North Boulevard. Atlanta, Ga.

Frances Amis is making quite a success at
A. S. C. this year as assistant to Miss Gooch.
She is planning to study this summer at the
Little Theater School. Gloucester. Mass. We shall
hear great things of Frances yet.

Emily Arnold. Barron Hyatt and Lillian Mc-
Alpine visited Agnes Scott during their Christ-
mas vacation.

Katie Frank Gilchrist has been visiting
I'hilippa and Edith. She has a handy "position"

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23

which allows for months as winter vacation.
She says that she works when she works and
so is allowed time for visiting. Father is the
boss.

Mary Mann postponed her trip to Florida
and accepted a place in the Newnan High School
to teach Latin and arithmetic. What do you
think of her taste !

Frances Myers is having a most interesting
time this winter. When she isn't teaching Latin
she is going to dances and parties and getting a
taste of English life in Japan. She likes it
and it may prove fatal.

Virginia Ordway has been visiting in Atlanta-
She has added a number of unusual experiences
to her list since she left the watchful care of
her Alma Mater.

Margaret Powell and her mother spent January
in San Antonio. She was initiated into army
life and found it most interesting. Margaret and
Dell are planning a trip abroad this summer.

Polly Stone spent a week with Frances Arant.
Frances is instructor in English at Birmingham
Southern. Birmingham is all that Polly could
wish for and she plans to go back every
week-end.

Pauline Wheeler is planning to go to Columbia
to study this summer.

Mary Greene and Janice Brown are planning
to go to the University of California to study
this summer.

Vic Howie came to Atlanta in January to
play the wedding march for Coyle Goodrich.
Her next person to "plav off" is our own Frances
Gilliland.

Don't forget class reunion !

Class At Large

Ruth Brown, ex '23, is a librarian at Chat-
tanooga.

Ella Louise Landress. ex '24, is teaching ex-
pression at Baylor School.

Agnes White Sanford (Mrs. Edgar L.), ex '21.

will be home in August with her husband and

address will be in
Ward, Pennsylvania

young son, Teddy. Her

care of Rev. D. L. Sanford,

Letters from her are full of interesting tales

of the Chinese Revolution, Bolshevism in the

schools and other lurid bits.

Parrish Little, ex '23 is an assistant in the
Psychology Dept. at Princeton University.

Ethel Brown, ex 1900, is doing Mountain Mis-
sion work.

Romana Galloway, ex '25, is attending the
U. of N. C.

Edith West, ex 1901, is busy with kindergarten
work in Savannah.

Anna (Colquitt) Hunter (Mrs. G. S. C), is
social editor of the Savannah morning paper. Her
address is 114 W. 38th street.

Lilla Sims, ex' 25 is studying in New York.

Olive Hall, ex '26, is working in Atlanta this
year. She was one of last year's intercollegiate
debaters and says while she would love to be in
it this year, it is something of a relief not to
have that responsibility and to do all that work.

Edna Anderson, ex '27. is attending National
Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Md.

Louise Falligant, ex '07 is a teacher of Eng-
lish in the 35th Street Junior High School in
Savannah, Ga.

Mary Kelly, ex *24, is now Mrs. J. D. Luten,
Jr., of Waverley, Tenn., where her husband
is in the wholesale grocery business. She met
her husband while visiting his sister, Dorothy
Luten, ex '24.

Elizabeth Nisbet Marty (Mrs. Samuel M.),
644 E. 46th St.. Kansas City, Mo., writes: "You
probably wouldn't recognize me, I've become
matronly. I have two fine daughters, Susan
Jane, who will be nineteen months old on the
third of February, and Mary Elizabeth, who will
be three months old on the same date. Please
enroll them as probable Agnes Scotters in the
dim distant future."

Josephine Gardner, ex '22 is holding down a
responsible position with the largest cotton firm
in Mississippi.

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL

Marjorie Lowe. '2 3

She had come at last to the end of the way

Where the road divides, as the night and day;

Tired she was and sore of feet,

For the way is long and the torturing heat

In visible waves crawled lazily down

On the road and the girl in her tattered gown.

Her limbs were drained of their youthful strength,

Her bare feet wavered and faltered at length:

Dead were her dreams, her hope, her power

She dropped to the earth like a crumpled flower,

With never a sigh from her soft red lips

And the heat lashed her limbs like stinging whips.

(Ah God. to rest for an hour in shade,

Deep in the depths of some woodland glade.

Ah God. to sleep in the blessed shade!)

Slowly her slender fingers stirred

In the sterile dust of the hateful road.

Slowly and with a sweet caress

Her moving fingers seemed to press

The earth, as if the dust had been

Flowers in some woodland glen.

And a stray breeze came, from God knows where,

Troubling the dark of her dusky hair:

Two tears slipped down from her soft-shut eyes,

And her white lips trembled in two soft sighs:

"Ah God, to sleep for an hour in shade,

Deep in the depths of some woodland glade

Ah God. to die in the blessed shade"

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

ALUMNAE LETTER BOX

So many of our girls are doing interesting
things. If only more letters like the follow-
ing found their way into the Alumnae
Office!

705 South Poinsettia Street.

West Palm Beach. Fla..

Feb. 27, 1925.
Dear Nell:

Here is the last installment on my
Alumnae House pledge. Ten dollars of it is
not due until next year, but I made a little
extra on some special work lately and I am
attempting to pay all my obligations while
I can.

The Alumnae Quarterly was quite a

joy and I read it from cover to cover, I
think, especially the alumnae notes of the
different classes. As nearly as I can de-
termine I seem to be one of the few in my
class who is living up to the prophecy as I
outlined it. though I am glad to say the
"cub reporter at ten a week" is not literally
true.

I have been reporting now I judge long
enough not to have to be termed a "cub",
though I do not lay claim to being the
"star". We have a very precocious young-
ster on the staff of the Palm Beach Posf
who eats up all the sensations and is far
more of a "sob sister" than I, and I would
not lay claim to his laurels, though I did
have a thrilling suicide the other night ! I
was on the Posf for fifteen months, then
went to New York to try my fortune for
the winter of 1 92^-24. Had a wonderful
time in many ways but not much fame. I
ended up on a dude ranch in Montana last
summer and had the most wonderful time
of my life. Then, back to Florida and the
Posf in October and work. work. work.
But it is work I like.

Do you keep up with your writing. I
wonder? I am still interested in it. but find
little time for fiction after chasing facts
half the day and night.

I surely wish we could have an Agnes
Scott club here, but I think Helen William-
son. '20. who teaches in the high school and
I are the only ones here.

My best to the college, always.
Most sincerely,

EMILIE C. KEYES. '20.

From Dan to Beersheba we are scattered.
It's good to have this note from Korea and
Anna Marie Landress:

Seoul. Korea. Jan. 18. 1925.
Dear Nell:

The letter from you as General Secretary
of the A. S. C. Alumnae Association has
been misplaced. Between my Korean ser-
vants and my inquisitive son. Billy. I have
a hard time keeping anything. But please
accept the enclosed order as my dues to the
Alumnae Association for this year.

You don't know how much I enjoy all
the news I am able to receive from Agnes
Scott. I am looking forward to being there
in the spring of 1926. or if not then, some-
time during the year 1926-27. We are
hoping to sail early enough, however, to
reach Emory and Agnes Scott by Commence-
ment time.

It has been four years since our debating
days together, hasn't it? They have cer-
tainly been full years for me. and I know
they have been for you. It makes me feel
quite old to think of returning home on
furlough next spring with a son nearly four
and a daughter who will already be two
years old.

With best wishes to all the alumnae.

Anna Marie Landress Cate.

SWIMMING POOL FUND

The campaign for the completion of the
new swimming pool and auditorium in 1925
is progressing nicely. Those alumnae who
look back to asking during Freshman year,
"Will they build a swimming pool before
I'm a Senior?" will be glad to know that
to Freshmen in 1 9 2 5 asking this the cam-
paign committee hopes surely to answer.
"Yes", and in the next few months.

The committee wishes to express here
appreciation of the Alumnae Association's
pledge and the individual gifts and pledges
that have come in from the alumnae.

So far, 2^5 students have pledged or

raised $5.^80.00 of the desired S7.500.00.
It is a gratification, too to remember that
Mr. Hermance will give us the last $500.00
which brings that far-away goal ever so
much nearer.

Any "alum" who would like to put a
"drop" in the swimming pool or a plank
in the stage, can do so by sending a check
to A. S. C, made out to the Swimming
Pool- -Auditorium Fund. Or I shall be glad
to send pledge slips on request.

Isabel F. Randolph.
Chairman Committee.

= rrom 1 he Alumnae (Jrtice =

MORE ABOUT COLLEGE AFTER
COLLEGE

Some time ago an article appeared in the
Quarterly explaining the College After Col-
lege Movement that is taking place among
the colleges and universities of the country.
and asking Agnes Scott alumnae for their
opinions concerning it. We have received
so many enthusiastic replies that the Alumnae
Association has decided to try the experiment
next year, and to offer certain courses to all
alumnae who pay dues. Miss Alexander, the
head of the French department, has consented
to be in charge of the program, and she asks
that you fill out your questionnaires and
return them to the alumnae office as soon as
possible.

Alumnae are now, through their organi-
zation, so closely connected with their college
that it is only fitting that they should have
the opportunity to continue to be essentially
a part of the college through continuing the
studies they began there. The professors as-
sure us of their co-operation, and if enough
alumnae take advantage of the opportunity
to justify it. the plan is assured.

Of course, these courses are given entirely
by correspondence.

LIFE MEMBERS

W are quite proud of the following life
members in the Alumnae Association.

Ethel Alexander (Mrs. Lewis M. Gaines),
Lucile Alexander, Edna Anderson. Jennie
Eleanor Anderson. Nelle Bryant Aycock,
Margaret Bell (Mrs. C. M. Hanna). Ruth
C. Brown (Mrs. Alvin Moore). Louise
Shipp Chick. Margaret Belle Dunnington
(Mrs. T. W. Sloan), Eleanor Frierson,
Grace Hardie. Lulie Speer Harris (Mrs.
David George Henderson). Alice Hocker
(Mrs. T. P. Drake). Orra Hopkins, Mary
Wallace Kirk, Mary Kirkpatrick, Frances
Charlotte Markley. Margery Stuart Moore,

Margaret E. McCallie. Ethel McDonald
(Mrs. B. T. Castellow), Lena Orr (Mrs.
E. E. McCarthey), Margaret Phythian,
Helen Ramspeck (Mrs. E. P. Thomas), Sue
Ethel Rea. Margaret Rowe. Florence N.
Smith, Laura Mell Towers (Mrs. Geo.
Leslie Yager), Juliet Webb (Mrs. Marion
Hutton), Annie S. Wiley (Mrs. J. F. Pres-
ton), Susan B. Young (Mrs. J. J. Eagan).

THE VOCATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE

Ruth Scandrett, '21

A few days ago I received a letter from a
friend who has been out of college five or
six years, stating her indecision about what
she shall do next year and saying, "I am as
bad as a college Senior!" We have only to
look back to our own college days to remem-
ber how concerned we were as to what we
would do after college, and the acuteness of
that concern during our Senior year.

I know from my own experience and from
those of my friends that this puzzle often is
not solved our first few years after college.
It may be, though, that if we, as alumnae,
share some of our after-college ideas and
experiences along the line of choosing a vo-
cation, we can be of service to each other
and to undergraduates.

You have received a questionnaire asking
you to give certain information about what
you are doing. Will you not fill this out
and send it to your Vocational Committee?
The general secretary is going to list the vo-
cation of each alumna in the Alumnae Di-
rectory, so send the qusetionnaire in, even
though you do not care to fill it out com-
pletely.

Please notice that by the term "voca-
tion", we do not mean only salaried po-
sitions. We want to know what you are
doing.

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1924 CLASS SONG

Hail, Agnes Scott! We sing to thee!

We'll forget thee never!

We'll remember ever!

Aye will we hold thee, Agnes Scott,

Of all the world the dearest spot

Hail!
Class of old '24
Lift we our voice in song.
Sing to our Alma Mater,
Sing of our deep love for her.
Soon we shall scattered be,
Parted by land and sea.
The years we spent with thee a memory.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MAILING LIST

Those alumnae who have paid dues for
the current year will receive the Quarterly
and be on the Alumnae Mailing List. Other
names will be dropped within a short time
after dues have expired.

NEW ALUMNAE HOUSE
REGULATIONS

For this year it has been found necessary
to charge fifty cents a night to alumnae
occupying the Alumnae House. This charge
is to cover the expense of buying new linen
and towels, and of securing the services of
an additional maid.

OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION

(MAYSON) Don-

-Mary (West)
-Helen (Brown)

President FANNIE G.
ALDSON. '12.

First Vice-Pcesident-
THATCHER, '15.

Second Vice-President

Webb. '14.

Secretary MARGARET BLAND. '20.

Treasurer MARGARET PHYTHIAN. '16.

General Secretary NELL BUCHANAN,
'22.

Publicity Committee Chairman, Louise
Johnson. '20: Nell Buchanan. '22; Elizabeth
(Denman) Hammond. '18; Frances Char-
lotte Markley, '21; Elizabeth Wilson. '22.

Preparatory Schools Committee Chair-
man. Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson (Mrs.
W. R.), '20, 2002 E. Ninth St.. Charlotte.
N. C.
(Committee not yet selected.)

Curriculum Committee Chairman, Jane
(Harwell) Rutland, '17: Julia Ingram Haz-
zard. '19; Chris (Hood) Barwick. '16.

House and Tea Room Committee Chair-
man. Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott. '15:
Treasurer. Cora Mortoa, '24; Ex-officio,
Martha Bishop, ex '18; Nell Buchanan. '22:
Florine Brown, ex '12; Emma Pope (Moss)
Dieckmann. '13; Georgiana (White) Miller.
'17: Eileen ( Dodd ) Sams, '23.

Louise McKinney Play Contest Commit-
tee Chairman: Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.

Local Clubs Committee Chairman. Aimee
D. (Glover) Little, '21: Cama (Burgess)
Clarkston, '22: Emma (Jones) Smith. '18;
Margaret Leyburn. '18: Helen Wayt. '21.

Vocational Guidance Committee Chair-
man. Ruth Scandrett. '22: Elizabeth Brown.
'22; Polly Stone. '24.

Committee on Beautifying Grounds and
Piuildings Chairman, Allie (Candler) Guy,
'13: Martha (Rogers) Noble (Mrs. Geo.).
'14: Mary Helen (Schneider) Head (Mrs.
Ben). '15: Louise (Maness) Robarts (Mrs.
Faye), '13.

Entertainment Committee Chairman Eu-
genia (Johnston) Griffin. '21; Martha
(Rogers) Noble. '14.

Scholarship Committee Chairman, Ethel
(Alexander) Gaines. '00: Emma Pope
(Moss) Dieckmann, '13; Mary (Kelly) Van
de Erve, '07.

Class Organization and Records Chair-
man, Ruth (Slack) Smith. '12: Louise
Slack. '20: Eleanor Frierson. '10.

Alumnae Aid League Treasurer, Belle
Cooper. ' 1 8.

28 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Whether you're hungry and needing to dine
Or whether you're merely socially inclined;
Whether you're happy, or whether you're
blue.

The Silhouette Tea Room's

the place for you.

SILHOUETTE TEA ROOM

ALUMNAE HOUSE
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

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Five Reasons Why

You Should Attend

Your Class Reunion

1 . To keep you in touch with your college.

2. To let your college keep in touch with you.

3. To see your college friends.

4. To help your class win the cup.

5. To have the best time you've had since you left Agnes Scott.

COMMENCEMENT DATES
May 23 (Saturday) May 26 (Tuesday)

FOR REFERENCE

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THIS ROOM