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ANNUAL 
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October 
1924 



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Come Back Commencement ! 

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



Class Reunions 

'95  '00 
'05  ,' 10  '15 

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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 



Stye Mml nf % Qhtlkge 

"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. 



8 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

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, 
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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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BOARD OF EDITORS 

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Student Editor. .. 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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January. 1925 



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 




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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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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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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 



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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 
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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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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. 



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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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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 

NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM 
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