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Vol. VI NOVEMBER, 1927 No. 1 

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

The President's Home Frontispiece 

By Way of Introduction 3 

Doing Graduate Work in the South 4 

The Beginner in Graduate Work in Chicago  Isabel Ferguson 5 

History at Louisiana State University  Frances Flarper 6 

Medicine at Tulane  Ivylyn Girardeau 7 

A Summer at an Art Academy  Leone Bowers Hamilton 8 

Specializing in New York City  Helen Lane Comfort 8 

Old Heidelberg 9 

I. F. U. W. Council Meeting, Vienna, July, 1927 9 

The Spires of Oxford 9 

A Student in Paris  Vivian Little 11 

Eternal Rome  Leslie Gaylord 13 

Studying French in Geneva  Cara Hinman 1 5 

The University of Grenoble  Marion Greene 16 

What Price Graduate Study? 17 

Open Forum ' 19 

Come Back Thanksgiving! Moving Pictures of Commencement 20 

Local Alumnae Clubs 20 

One Alumna's Gift 21 

On the Campus 21 

Faculty Notes 2 1 

"Little Sisters" in '27 22 

Quenelle Harrold Scholarship i 23 

A Glimpse of a Chinese University 24 

Concerning Ourselves 26 



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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION 

Graduate study! 

The connotation of those two words to the average Agnes Scott graduate is quite 
different today from what it was fifteen years ago. Even then there were a few 
pioneer souls who pushed on in the field of education and attained degrees higher 
than a B.A., but the majority of Agnes Scott graduates during those years were 
quietly satisfied to frame their diplomas and settle into matrimony or school teaching. 

The Southern woman's problem has been, in several respects, a little different from 
that of her sister in the North or West. For a number of years after this prejudice had 
been outworn in other sections of the country, Southern families did not take seriously 
the acquiring of an academic degree by a woman. In the early days at Agnes Scott, 
the students wanted to leave college in the early spring. Why wait and take exam- 
inations? They did not care at all about getting a degree, nor even receiving credit 
for the year's work. The strange part is that they were staunchly upheld in this 
position by their families. Nancy or Sallie or Bessie would probably be married 
sooner or later anyway. What good would a degree or college credits possibly do her 
then? 

Marriage was, of course, the great career. While waiting to embark on this 
career, a young Southern lady, like Mrs. Micawber, "lived at home with her papa and 
mamma." If the waiting drew itself out a bit, or the family were distressingly em- 
barrassed financially, the daughter of the house might teach school  a pleasant 'and 
easy occupation  practically the only occupation for daughters of the first families. 

Another idea that is still largely current in the South is that with marriage any 
other career ceases for a woman. Married women  no matter how successful a start 
they may have made in some profession  do not, as a rule, work. Whether this old 
idea will completely crumble under the onslaught of present day living conditions is 
a moot question in the South today. But it has crumbled somewhat. A few Southern 
married women are continuing careers; a few Southern married women are doing that 
unheard of thing  carrying on an organized course of study with some university. 

Teaching continues to be the greatest door open to Southern college women. The 
teaching profession is so overcrowded that the holder of a B.A. degree finds herself 
pushed into the background by the master's and doctor's degees among her competi- 
tors. If she is to hold her own, she, too, must acquire a higher degree. The married 
woman who, after several years spent in the quiet sheltered back-water of her home, 
comes out again to join the main current of the workers of the world, finds that she 
is rusty on a number of things  she must do a little graduate work to get herself back 
into the "feel" of things. 

Twenty-one members of the class of '27 are engaged in graduate study this winter. 
By leaps and bounds, the percentage of our graduates who study for higher degrees is 
increasing. Girls who are not financially able to carry on their studies the year fol- 
lowing graduation teach a year or two, and then enter some university. Graduates  
some of them married women from the early nineteen hundreds' classes are (to use a 
late nineteen hundreds' term) crashing the gate of universities and matriculating for 
graduate study. 

The merits and disadvantages of the various centres chosen for their later work 
form one of the chief topics of conversation at informal gatherings of alumnae at 
the Anna Young Alumnae House. 

"When I think that I saved three years, and then went to the wrong place for 
my master's in English!" wails one. 

"Knowing what I do now about the department of psychology at Such-and-Such, 
I thank my lucky stars every day that I chose it," breathes another, with a satisfied 



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" And I came so near going West for that work!" 

"I wouldn't take a million for that winter I spent in New York," vows one girl, 
while another answers her with: "And I shouldn't advise anybody to do graduate 
work in that mob." 

"Is it very expensive to spend a year studying abroad?" "Where is the best place 
for sociology?" "Aren't there any good graduate schools in the South? Are we as 
provincial as all that?" are questions heard over and over in these informal discussions. 

And so for the benefit of numbers of the alumnae who are scattered here and 
there, working out their problems alone, unable to get back to these Alumnae House 
gatherings, yet deeply interested in the subject, we have planned in this Quarterly six 
or eight very informal articles on graduate work by Agnes Scott people. 

They are most decidedly not ads for these specific universities and schools. Several 
years ago it looked as if Agnes Scott girls did not know any other graduate school 
than Columbia existed, judging from the number who went there. In these short 
sketches we strive to put before you old Agnes Scott girls the existence and possibilities 
of other universities, too  North, West, in our own South, and abroad. 



DOING GRADUATE WORK IN THE SOUTH 

"Home-keeping youths have ever homely wits." Being familiar with this saying, 
I have always had an ambition to sally forth into the big wide world to get an edu- 
cation. In my prep school days I had rosy visions of Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and 
all the farthest of the far-away Eastern colleges, but when the time came, I could 
get no farther away from home and homely wits than Agnes Scott. 

At first, I was disappointed, but after two days on the campus, I have never 
regretted for a moment that I did my college work in the South, and at Agnes Scott. 
Yet always there has lingered in my mind the thought that, for graduate work, I 
should go far away  to Columbia, to Chicago, or above all, to Yale. But, again, my 
plans had to change, and it was in the little village of Chapel Hill at the University 
of North Carolina that I had my first year of graduate study. 

It seems that, among Agnes Scott girls, I am a pioneer at staying South for 
study, for nearly all the master's degrees acquired by "Hottentots" have been from 
Northern, Western, or Eastern universities. And the alumnae secretary, in her zeal 
to get material for the Quarterly, has tried to persuade me that the alumnae would 
be interested to hear about graduate work in the South. 

Having had no experience with graduate work in other places, I can make no 
comparisons nor contrasts. I can only assert that it is hard to imagine a more con- 
genial atmosphere for study than a little University town like Chapel Hill, full of old 
trees and old buildings and old books  a village where practically all the inhabitants 
are professors or students, and where casual conversation is less of the weather or 
the movies and more of what one has been studying or reading or thinking. There 
one finds none of the attractions that a large city might offer to lure away from work, 
and it is only too easy in a dim seminar room in the library to lose one's hold on the 
world of the twentieth century and slip back into the world of Plato, of Dante, or of 
Shakespeare. There where graduate students are numbered by hundreds rather than 
thousands, professors have time to know and to help, and there can exist a feeling of 
real comradeship between those who teach and those who study. Often seminar 
courses are held around the fire in the hospitable home of a professor instead of in 
the usual stiff lecture rooms. 

It is comfortable to feel that, though the graduate schools of our Southern uni- 
versities are less widely known than those of the eastern ones, their influence on the 
cultural life of the country is felt. In the Bookman of October, 1927, Herschel 



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BrickelPs article, "The Literary Awakening of the South," speaks of the University of 
North Carolina as "one of the most active social and cultural centers in the country 
at the moment." 

My purpose in writing this is not to encourage you to stay away from the larger 
and more distant universities, but to encourage you to go on with graduate work, 
even if you are unable to go North or East or West, for sometimes home, and the 
South are best. 



THE BEGINNER IN GRADUATE WORK AT CHICAGO 

By ISABEL FERGUSON 

(Isabel Ferguson is a graduate of Agnes Scott in the class of '2 5. She did personnel 
work in Atlanta for the year following graduation, and from that entered the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. She was awarded her master's degree in history in 1927. Miss 
Ferguson is now teaching at the Western Kentucky State Teachers' College in Bowling 
Green. ) 

Biologists say to be great you must choose your grandparents with care. To make 
a success of graduate work it is necessary to choose carefully the place where your 
undergraduate work is done. 

We who have had our training at Agnes Scott have done this, and if history is the 
chosen field, I know of no better place for subsequent graduate work than the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. A very powerful voice has already prepared the way for us. 

"I'm from Agnes Scott College in  " the new student at Chicago begins timidly. 

"Oh, so you're one of Cleo Hearon's students! I suppose you know all about 
Mississippi and the Compromise of 1850. Well, if you are from Agnes Scott, I 
guess you are all right." 

Then, after such a reception, all that remains is to prove that you are! So 
with the added spur of the fear of reflecting discredit on Agnes Scott and Miss 
Hearon, as well as yourself, you begin the grind. 

This grind (or perhaps it is not the proper term to use in regard to study which 
is done for the love of it, as graduate work is supposed to be!) is lightened and as 
a matter of fact made much more pleasant due to the similarity in the methods used 
at Agnes Scott and Chicago. When you have found your way to the library, had 
a desk assigned to you in the history reading room and obtained a "stack permit," you 
are ready for your graduate work. Oh, what a grand and glorious feeling it is to 
make the great discovery that a term paper for a graduate course is really no different 
from the one you wrote in History VII, even to the pernicious way op. cit.'s and 
ibid's in footnotes get mixed. 

As consciousness of what it is all about dawns, you find that the department is 
interested in you and your efforts  puerile though they may be. You can take your 
troubles to them and find sympathy, and what is better, usually a solution. The 
head of the history department is now Professor William E. Dodd, who is from 
North Carolina, and who makes Southerners feel quite at home. 

After the preliminaries of getting started, comes the joyful realization that you 
are not a bewildered freshman but a graduate student. Then it is you want your 
term papers to be good and get a thrill of exultation over writing something from 
original sources which is possible only in a splendid library. 

The climax of all your experiences is reached when your thesis is accepted. You 
feel that you are now an author  although of a document which, it is true, not 
even your own family would read. But you can understand why not, for you 
wouldn't yourself if it were not your creation and each word had its memories  
pleasant and otherwise. But a thesis is a valuable possession for it furnishes an excel- 
lent threat to hold over future generations. "If you are not good, I'll make you read 



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my thesis!" Aladin's magic lamp was not more powerful than this threat can be. 

All of these classes, term papers and theses go on in a very delightful setting of 
beautiful granite buildings, modelled after Oxford, and hidden by ivy. Gargoyles 
peep out to jeer at you when you weep and to deride you when you laugh. Then 
there is the Midway, stretching from Lorado Taf t's lovely Fountain of Time to Jack- 
son Park and Lake Michigan. In your earned or stolen leisure you can walk down 
this Midway and know you are going the way your mother trod before you when 
she was young and with the rest of humanity attended the World's Fair of 1893. 
You, too, can see the Japanese pagodas and gaze at the exposition buildings once new 
and imposing, now old and cracked  the last evidences of that former glory. This 
is all part of the University of Chicago. 

As for Chicago  the Windy City, the Crime Center, the Hog Butcher of the 
World, Second Largest City  it is fascinating. 



HISTORY AT LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 

By FRANCES HARPER 

(Frances Harper is another of the class of '22 who is doing splendid work in 
the department of history. A native of Philadelphia, she has spent all her time 
since graduation in Louisiana, teaching and studying. Miss Harper is at present living 
in Baton Rouge.) 

The University of Louisiana itself is so beautiful that the mere sight of it is an 
inspiration. Imagine how it looks: on a hill overlooking the Mississippi River, the 
buildings all in the Italian style, of cream-yellow stucco with red tile roofs, the 
center and lovliest of them all is the Campanile, a thing of exquisite beauty and sim- 
plicity, facing the green expanse of the parade ground. The second "wonder" of the 
campus is the Greek theatre, built on a natural slope, the stage having a background 
of giant, moss-hung live-oaks and magnolias. The theatre is used for the university 
and high school commencements as well as for dramatics. 

But I suppose you do want to know something about the graduate school here. 
First, however, I must tell you about something that properly doesn't belong in this 
letter at all: the Audubon Sugar School. It is more than nationally famous: men 
come here to study sugar chemistry from South America, the Philippines, Hawaii  
and even Columbia University! 

Of the academic departments of the university, that of history is especially fine. 
I can say that without fear of seeming prejudiced, for I went to L. S. U. with the in- 
tention of majoring in English, and after one term's work changed to history. The 
instruction offered in the history department is of the most superior type. There are 
five professors, all men trained in the best universities of the North, and specialists 
each in a particular field. In contrast to many of the larger universities, each of the 
history professors teaches at least two freshman classes; he offers work in his special 
field for more advanced classes, and seminar courses for graduate students. The latter 
may enroll in regular classes if they can attend them; otherwise the courses are con- 
ducted through weekly conferences between professor and student. Again in con- 
trast to some other universities, graduate students at L. S. U. receive the greatest 
help and encouragement from their professors. They require a very high standard 
of scholarship; and any serious student of history will find a deep satisfaction and 
inspiration in his work here. 

The library facilities are good, and are constantly being improved. In particular, 
original sources for the study of the history of Louisiana are available, through several 
complete newspaper files and other such valuable material. Relics and documents are 
being collected; in short, L. S. U. is becoming a center for the study of Louisiana 
history. By the way, did you know that General Sherman was L. S. U.'s first 



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president? That was just before the war. During the war, the university was used 
for army headquarters, and the old barracks are still in use as dormitories. 

You know it is rather a stupendous task, introducing a university to nearly a 
thousand people. I hope this will serve at least to let them know that L. S. U. is "on 
the map," and is becoming more firmly settled there all the time. 

MEDICINE AT TULANE 

By IVYLYN GIRARDEAU 

(For the past two years, Ivylyn Girardeau, '22, has been studying medicine at 
Tulane University in New Orleans. This year she is teaching in Silliman College, and 
in the fall of '2 8, she plans to return to Tulane for her last two years in the medical 
school. ) 

I landed in New Orleans two years ago, not knowing a soul in the whole big city. 
After registering at the university and finding a boarding place I began to enquire 
about opening exercises, but being unable to elicit any information concerning the 
same, I decided the best course to follow would be to report to the first class which 
was scheduled for the following afternoon. This I did, expecting to be given a few 
polite directions and allowed to go home. I was soon disillusioned. One hundred and 
twenty-seven of us reported for class and there being only room enough for one 
hundred, twenty-seven of us stood for one hour while Dr. Smith lectured. Then we 
were ushered into the anatomy dissecting room where, upon thirty-two tables, as 
many colored gentlemen cadavers were waiting to be carved upon. 'Twas a warm 
day, the dissecting room was close, the odor of preservatives heavy upon the air and 
the job not a very inviting one, but I would have bitten my tongue out before I 
would have admitted that I preferred to be anywhere else than right there. To 
add to my troubles, the supply man downstairs had given me a size forty-four dis- 
secting gown which completely swallowed me and trailed all over the floor. After 
spending about thirty busy minutes with a razor on "Roscoe's" head I asked an in- 
structor who happened to be passing if that would do. 

"Oh, yes," he replied, "his hair will all grow out again in a few days, anyway." 

There were seven girls in our class, the largest number ever at Tulane. We lost 
one at the end of the first trimester but the other six stuck until last June. On all 
hands I heard reports of Goldie Ham of the class of '19. She had been most popular 
with the Tulane and Newcomb students and had made a splendid record in her 
studies. She finished her course in twenty-three, interned for a year at Charity and 
is now practicing in Houston, Texas. 

The first two years of medicine are largely theory, with a great deal of memory 
work attached but we were given a few peeps into the practical side of medicine 
the last part of the Sophomore year. We learned to percuss hearts and lungs, to 
auscult chests, to apply bandages of all types, and to make Plaster of Paris splints and 
casts. Occasionally we visited the wards of the hospitals and were shown interesting 
cases. With dogs under ether we made numerous interesting experiments, being in 
turn chief surgeon, assistant surgeon, anesthetist and technician. During the Christ- 
mas holidays my partner and I visited the various hospitals and saw some real oper- 
ations. That was the biggest thrill of all, and I found myself wishing for the Junior 
year with its practical work to hurry along. 

The medical students are so very busy that they have no time to enter into the 
social life of the college at all. In fact, we hardly know the rest of the crowd is on 
the campus. But if you want to know where you can get the blackest coffee at the 
old French market any of us can give you the information, and we can also describe 
all of the night noises of New Orleans for you. Yes, the work is hard, but it's ever 
so interesting, and that makes up for the long hours of study. 

Dr. Reavis has just written me that my application to the foreign board has been 
favorably passed on, so in about four years from now I hope to be prescribing pink 
pills to our Chinese brothers across the sea. 



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A SUMMER AT AN ART ACADEMY 

By LEONE BOWERS HAMILTON 

(Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, '26, has done outstanding work in the art department 
all during her four years at Agnes Scott. The year following her graduation, Mrs. 
Hamilton returned to the college on an art scholarship, awarded for exceptional work, 
to continue her study under Miss Lewis.) 

Informality reigns at the summer session of the Pennsylvania Art Academy, held 
in historic old buildings at Chester Springs, each year. Our little art world was a 
medley of races  Russians, Italians, English, French, Norwegian, Indian,  each seek- 
ing to realize his ambition by putting on canvas or into clay whatever is beautiful. 
Every week the students in painting and sculpture check their work at the office, and 
some are chosen for the exhibition room. The instructors are such men as Daniel 
Garber, George Harding, Joseph Pearson and Albert Laeslie,  all wellknown names 
in the world of art. 

Living arrangements at the summer school are simple, and very inexpensive. A fee 
of twenty dollars a week covers everything, including working materials. And al- 
though the students work hard, after work hours are over, they are very gay! Tennis, 
swimming, croquet, baseball, and masquerade balls are the chief forms of diversion. 



SPECIALIZING IN NEW YORK CITY 

By HELEN LANE COMFORT 

(Helen Lane Comfort, '24, is now in charge of the library at the Presbyterian 
College in Clinton, S. C. Miss Comfort studied at the New York School of Library 
Science in 1926.) 

Back in the dim dark past of the writer's career, she heard a talk by the head 
of the Atlanta Library School, presenting the possibilities of work in the library field. 
With the superb nonchalance of the undergraduate, the lecture was commented on 
with indifference and straightway forgotten. But life has a fatal propensity for 
thrusting one into the most unthought of positions. Accordingly, as a result of one 
of these queer turns, in the fall of 1925, an Agnes Scott graduate came to New 
York with the firm determination to acquire the mdiments of library methods, to be 
acquired from the school of the New York Public Library. 

The purpose of this article is by no means autobiographical; on the contrary it is 
hoped to be of some assistance to those contemplating such work. Since 192 5 three 
library schools of the State of New York have merged and now form the Graduate 
School of Libraries and Library Science of Columbia University. There will be built 
up eventually an undergraduate course. At present two years' work will give an 
accredited college graduate a degree of Master of Library Science. This may be 
taken in "broken doses"  one year of school, one year of work, and the second year of 
school. 

The school work is made up of regular class and laboratory periods. There are 
visits to libraries in and around New York City on certain afternoons. And if the 
new school follows the methods of the School of the New York Public Library, an 
inspection trip of a week in the spring is taken  either as far south as Washington, 
or north to Boston. Tn addition, there is one month of practice work, during which 
time there is no school work. This practice work is assigned as nearly as possible 
according to the desires of the students. 

Tuition at Columbia is on the usual graduate basis and therefore more ex- 
pensive than formerly. Arrangements, however, can be made for part time work 
in some nearby library. Three hundred and fifty dollars will probably cover the 



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school cost. Room and board are to be had at very reasonable rates in Johnson 
Hall, the woman's graduate dormitory of the University. The whole year might be 
had  living expenses and school  for $1,100. 

The personnel of the school is pleasing. One finds college graduates from all 
sections of the United States and a few from foreign countries. Tea at four in 
the afternoon is a custom of librarians. Sometimes most delightful personages are 
invited to meet the school then  such as Christopher Morley, Babbette Deutsch, 
Alfred Knopf. 

To one considering this work the choice of undergraduate courses is of ut- 
most importance. The advice of experts in the field is to take all modern languages 
possible, especially German, French and Spanish. A general liberal arts education is 
the prime requisite. 

A winter in New York City is in itself a liberal education. I count that girl 
fortunate who is able to combine special training for her vocation with a year's 
residence in this most fascinating city. 



OLD HEIDELBERG 

The University of Heidelberg offers a six-weeks' holiday course for foreigners, in- 
cluding lectures and practical instruction in the German language. The lectures 
cover a wide range, dealing with subjects drawn from German literature, folk-lore, 
music, art, pedagogy, history and economics. 

The historic old Castle of Heidelberg, the museum and botanical gardens, will be 
visited, and excursions will be conducted by the professors to nearby cities and points 
of interest. The fees for these courses will be twenty-five dollars; board and room 
may be had in Heidelberg for the six weeks for sixty dollars. Anyone interested in 
studying at the University of Heidelberg may obtain more detailed information from 
the Institute of International Education, 522 5th Ave., New York City. 



I. F. U. W. COUNCIL MEETING, VIENNA, JULY, 1927 

The Austrian members of the International Federation of University Women were 
hostesses to the Council on the occasion of its eleventh meeting, which was held in 
the University of Vienna from the 2 5 th to the 2 8th of July. Besides the officers of 
the Federation, delegates from twenty-one national groups were present, the Ameri- 
can Association being represented by Mrs. Edgarton Parsons, of New York. 

Frau Dr. von Zahn-Harnack, the German delegate, spoke on the interest of the 
Federation in establishing international fellowships. Professor Winifred Cullis (of 
Great Britain) gave an account of the clubhouses established in many parts of the 
world. Mme. Puech (France) spoke on international intellectual co-operation, dis- 
cussing the work of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. 
The question of inequalities in the educational standards of various countries was 
discussed by Mrs. Skonhoft (Norway). The Council accepted the invitation of the 
Spanish delegate, Dr. Clara Campoamor, to hold its next meeting in Madrid. 



THE SPIRES OF OXFORD 

In these latter days, with our broadening horizons, there has come to many 
American college students a glimpse of those towers of Oxford that through the 
ages have beckoned scholars of all lands. These young persons have been fired with 
the ambition to study within sight and sound of these spires. It's a laudable ambition, 
a splendid idea, but  there is not room for all of them! Not every student is quali- 
fied for admission. The Rhodes Scholarships have provided opportunities for a 
number of men to satisfy this ambition, and returned Rhodes Scholars have been a 
source of information about Oxford for men students. Their enthusiasm has added 



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to the eagerness of women students to study there, but in the nature of the case 
they have not been able to disseminate information about the admission of such 
students to the University. It is in regard to the women students especially that this 
column is written. 

Although women students have been admitted to lectures and examinations for a 
good many years, it is only since 1920 that they have been admitted to degrees in 
the University. Even now, the number of students in the women's colleges is not 
large. But each year, in the interests of international friendship, the women's colleges 
 Somerville, Lady Margaret Hall, St. Hugh's, St. Hilda's, and the Society of Oxford 
Home Students  reserve a limited number of places for American women graduates. 
The candidates are admitted on the basis of recommendation of a committee on selec- 
tion in this country, of which President Mary E. Woolley, of Mount Holyoke Col- 
lege, is chairman  a sub-committee of the Committee on International Relations of 
the American Association of University Women. 

The task of selection, difficult enough in itself, is complicated by two things: 
first, the fact that the Oxford colleges welcome warmly only students who will re- 
main for two years and read for an Oxford degree; and second, the profound lack of 
understanding by many "intending students" of what an English university, and 
especially Oxford, really is  of what it offers to and expects from its members. 

Probably the very best thing for any student who contemplates study at Ox- 
ford to do is to read "Oxford of Today," by Crosby and Aydelotte. President Ayde- 
lotte, of Swarthmore, himself a Rhodes Scholar, knows American colleges and stu- 
dents, and he knows Oxford. This manual for Rhodes Scholars, if it were more wide- 
ly known and read, would considerably lighten our darkness. Women students should 
apply for detailed information and for blanks of application to the committee on 
selection. 

Degrees: Students are admitted to read for degree of B.A. (Honours), and for 
the research degrees of B.Litt., B.Sc, and D.Phil. 

The Oxford B.A. In "Oxford of Today," Laurence Crosby says: "This degree is, 
practically speaking, the most important and certainly the most characteristic Oxford 
degree." Students who have received an American A.B., but who have done no inde- 
pendent research and even those who have done some graduate work, are admitted to 
read for the Honour Schools for this degree. (It should be noted that the term 
"school" here means a set of university examinations and a distinct course of lectures, 
not an institution with separate administrative officers and separate buildings.) The 
Honour Schools are: Literae Humaniores (consisting of "Honour Moderations" in 
Greek and Latin Language and Literature, and a final examination in Greek and Latin 
Language and Ancient History and Philosophy) ; Mathematics; Natural Science (in 
one branch) ; Jurisprudence; Modern History; Theology; Oriental Studies; English 
Language and Literature; Modern Languages; Philosophy; Politics and Economics. 
The work for this degree is specialized, being taken in one of the Honour Schools. 
Each school is devoted to one subject or a group of closely related subjects belonging 
to the same general field of knowledge. Graduates of approved American colleges 
usually complete the work for the B.A. degree in two years. 

The M.A. It should be especially noted that the Oxford M.A., like the Cam- 
bridge M.A., is consequent on the B.A. without further study or research. It is con- 
ferred in the 21st term after matriculation, provided the candidate has kept his name 
on the books of his college and paid during the period certain college and university 
dues and fees. 

The B.Litt. Oxford B.A.'s are admitted to this degree, and American students 
who have done a year or two's research after receiving the B.A. should choose care- 
fully between the B.Litt. and the Honours B.A. The courses for the B.Litt. are of 
narrower scope. The candidate begins her work as a probationer student under a 
supervisor, receives training in research, and, when the supervisor is satisfied of her 



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fitness to pursue independent research and approves her subject, supplicates for per- 
mission to read for the B.Litt. Residence in Oxford of six terms is required for the 
degree. A student who has already kept residence for the B.A. will be allowed to 
take the B.Litt. or B.Sc. after three more terms' residence. 

The B.Sc. See B.Litt. (The course for the B.Sc. omits the probationer stage.) 

The D.Phil. Only students who are at an advanced stage of research can be 
advised to apply to be admitted for this degree. 

Terms: The Oxford academic year is divided into three terms of eight weeks 
each, beginning about the middle of October, the middle of January, and the end of 
April. No list of lectures is published until about three days before each term, and 
"classes," in the American sense of the word, are not part of the Oxford scheme. 

Expenses: Board, lodging, and tuition are estimated at about 45 to 60 per term 
($225-$300). There are in addition certain expenses on admission, and certain fees 
and dues. In the Society of Oxford Home Students the expense varies according to 
rooms  board and lodging costing from 3 to 5 a week. This does not take into 
account the expenses of vacations between terms, about six weeks in length, nor of 
such expenditures as are necessary for books, clothes, travelling, entertaining, etc. 
President Aydelotte estimates that a Rhodes Scholar could not expect to meet his ex- 
penses under $2,000. 

Undergraduates: American undergraduates may apply for admission to Oxford 
in the regular way, on a basis of competitive examination and personal interview, 
taking their chances with the English candidates. 

Lectures: It is possible for residents in Oxford to obtain permission to attend lec- 
tures, but such persons are not in any sense members of the University, and under 
such circumstances it is difficult to get tutorial assistance. 

A summer vacation course for American women teachers and graduates will be 
given in Oxford, England, from July 6th to 27th, 1928. The subject, "England in 
the Nineteenth Century: 1815-1900," will be treated in its various aspects  literary, 
historical, artistic, political, economic and scientific. There will be lectures by emi- 
nent men and women, and discussion groups under the leadership of tutors. Excur- 
sions to Stratford, Sulgrave Manor, and other places will be undertaken. The fee 
of $125 will include full board and residence in the Women's Colleges, lectures and 
classes, and one or two excursions." This is an opportunity for a glimpse of what 
Oxford is  stimulating lectures by English scholars, classes with tutors, such as 
the Oxford student has, a view of England through English eyes, a growing ap- 
preciation of the distracting beauty of Oxford, a knowledge of the friendliness of 
English hostesses. Application blanks can be obtained from the secretary of the 
Committee on International Relations, Miss Esther Caukin, 1634 Eye St., N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 



A STUDENT IN PARIS 

By VIVIAN LITTLE 



(Following her graduation in '24, Vivian Little studied in Paris for a year on a 
scholarship offered by the French Government to American college students.) 

Changing autumn skies, dinner by lamplight, yellowing leaves on trees that are 
beginning to shiver  of what do they remind you? Every fall they brought back 
to Anatole France memories of the return to school, of the daily walks through the 
Luxembourg Gardens on October days when the Gardens are "a little sad and more 
beautiful than ever, for it is the time when the leaves fall one by one onto the 
white shoulders of the statues." 

If you have classes at the Sorbonne, and live near enough to walk to them every 
morning, you will soon understand why those days were memorable, and why so 



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many of the French poets have found their Muse in the Luxembourg. In fact, the 
Muses love the whole Latin Quarter. And the Sorbonne is the heart of it. 

I wish you could loiter at one of the tables on the sidewalk in the Rue Soufflot, 
the rendezvous of the students and artists of the Quarter, at the bookstalls of the 
Odeon, or at the windows of the fascinating book-shops in front of the Pantheon. 
This is that "promised land of booksellers where every byway seems one more shelf in 
an endless library." 

But it is "le jour de la rentree," so you must be about the business of registering 
for classes, and finding a pension. You will do well to stop at the entrance next 
to the Sorbonne Chapel, and buy from the concierge, the University of Paris Catalogue, 
the "Livret de L'Etudiant." It has in it all the information you can possibly need  
the requirements for admission, directions for registration, information about the 
degrees, diplomas, and certificates offered, schedules of classes, names and addresses of 
all the professors and some valuable suggestions for solving the problems of your social 
life and material welfare. There you will find addresses of recommended pensions, 
and restaurants, explanation of the various student organizations and societies, of 
the loans and scholarships available, suggestions for possible employment for those who 
may desire places as part-time stenographers, teachers, or tutors. This catalogue will 
undoubtedly be your best friend for the first few days, and Monsieur Henri Goy, 
second-best. He is the director of the Bureau des Renseignements. He will see you 
through the registration if you can produce a birth certificate, a passport, an identity 
card, your Agnes Scott diploma, and any others you might have. There is a small 
registration fee. The tuition is very low  ranging from seventy to four hundred 
francs. The exact amount depends on the degree for which you are a candidate, 
and the kind of courses you take. 

The courses are of two sorts, the "cours publics," which are open to everyone 
gratuitously, and the "cours fermes," which may be followed by the registered students 
only. The Sorbonne is primarily for graduate work in philology and French literature. 
But there are for the foreigners who possess an elemental knowledge of the language, 
certain courses which give surveys of French civilization. Each course is a three-hour 
one, and consists of two lectures a week, and an hour of "travaux partiques." After 
having completed at least four of these courses and successfully passed the examinations 
given at the end of the semester, the student receives the "diplome d'etudes de civilisa- 
tion francaise." This is the easiest of all the diplomas to obtain. The majority of the 
others require at least two years residence. Of these, the "diplome d'etudes uni- 
versitaires" and of the doctorates, the "doctorat de L'universite," are generally taken 
by foreign students. 

There are no dormitories at the Sorbonne, so you must seek room and board in 
French families or in a "pension." If you are very lucky, you may find a place in 
the home of one of the professors. The American University Women's Paris Club 
offers a charming home, to those who are not trying to forget the English language. 
The American University Union will give you a list of addresses and help you to 
make living arrangements. Then, there is the "Maison des Etudientes," where many 
of the students find pension. And out near the Pare Montsouris, on a seventy-acre 
campus, a University City is being built. It will have eventually a population of 
three thousand five hundred students of all nationalities. The aim of the City is to 
furnish at low prices warm, comfortable, cheerful rooms for students. If you have 
lived a while in the Latin Quarter you will appreciate that adjective "warm," and the 
fact that each building of the City is to have "chauffrage central." Each nation is 
constructing its own dormitory on land given by the University of Paris. Seven of 
the buildings have been completed and have not a single vacant room in the dormi- 
tories. Of the foreign buildings, those finished or under construction are the Canadian, 
Belgian, and Argentine. Japan and England have secured the funds necessary for 



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theirs. Spain, Holland, Cuba and Mexico have applied for building sites. And funds 
are now being raised for an American House. So in the near future, you may live 
in this student city. The greatest advantage of this sort of life is, of course, the 
association with students from all over the world, who are thrown together at 
meals, in sports, in the student organizations and in the varied activities of this "new 
Latin Quarter." 

While this delightful colony is only in the making, there exist already several 
student organizations to which you will enjoy belonging. First of all, there is the 
"office National des Universites et Ecoles francaises." It seems to participate in all 
the student activities and interests. As its aim is to make known to the outside the 
workings of the French educational system, and to encourage the international ex- 
change of students and professors it is always an unfailing source of information on 
any subject educational. If you need help in the least problem, you will find it there. 
The director, Monsieur Petit-Dutaillis, has even been called Mr. Petty Details. But 
his work and influence, and that of the office is enormous. And their services to 
governments, universities, foreign schools and societies for the development of the 
study of French, of French libraries, museums, etc., are invaluable. 

The assembly room and library of the American University Women's Club will 
probably prove to be the most homelike spots that you will find in Paris. And after- 
noon teas in the garden or on the sun-parlor overlooking it, will be among the 
most enjoyable hours of your sojourn there. 

The library, reading room, and study-hall of the American University Union are 
favorite haunts of the students. And downstairs in the Atelier, they gather every 
Sunday evening for the musical programmes and plays put on by the students them- 
selves and sponsored by the American Church. 

Another, and in many ways, the most interesting, of these organizations is the 
"Association d'Acceuil aux Etudiants des Etats-Unis." It was formed by a group of 
French families who wished to express their gratitude to the young American volun- 
teers who fought at the beginning of the war with the Escadrille Lafayette, the 
American Ambulance and Field Service, and to the "godmothers" and "godfathers" 
who adopted the thousands of war orphans. These families of the Amico-America 
group receive the American students of Paris in their homes, and entertain them all 
during the school year. In a word, each family "adopts" temporarily a student or 
two. They arrange excursions to towns of interest around Paris  at Christ- 
mas, to Rouen, probably; and at Easter, to the battlefields around Verdun. Then 
there are many sightseeing trips in old Paris. This is a unique organization and one 
that is very successful in realizing its aim to make known to the students an 
aspect of French life  the family life  which many of them would miss but for the 
friends made there. 

Of course, a year at the Sorbonne is not all work, for there is Paris all around 
you. And Paris  but that is another theme. 



ETERNAL ROME 

By LESLIE GAYLORD 

(Miss Gaylord, who received her master's degree from the University of Chicago, 
has been instructor in the mathematics department at Agnes Scott for the past five 
years. In 1925-26 she obtained a leave of absence from the college to spend a year 
studying at the University of Rome on a scholarship offered by the Italy-America 
Society. During the summer of 1927, Miss Gaylord chaperoned a group of Agnes 
Scott students and alumnae in Europe.) 

In comparison with the number of American students who flock to the uni- 
versities of France, particularly to the Sorbonne, those availing themselves of the 
opportunities for study in the Italian universities are few. This very fact of the 



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scarcity of Americans is to me one of the major arguments in favor of the Italian 
university, for it results in personal interest and cordiality on the part of professors 
and fellow students and affords an opportunity for an American to become really 
acquainted with students of another nation. At the University of Rome I found 
everyone most hospitable to foreign students and eager to do all possible to en- 
courage an exchange of students with other countries. The professors gave 
most generously of their time and counsel: one held weekly at his home a 
seminar for foreign students (we were of six different nationalities), which was no 
part of his scheduled work. 

It is difficult to speak of the University of Rome as a unit, for it is lacking en- 
tirely in centralization. Its many departments are scattered over the city and have 
absolutely no intercourse with one another. There is no printed catalogue; each 
professor begins his lectures when he pleases. This may be six weeks or more after the 
so-called official date of opening. Classes are conducted entirely as formal lectures; 
attendance is voluntary and the student's credit rests wholly upon the final examina- 
tion, which may be taken at the conclusion of the course or any time thereafter 
that the student may wish to present himself. 

The foreign student may enroll either as a listener, for which no tuition is 
charged, or as a candidate for the laurea, in which case he is charged only half the 
regular tuition  either by way of courtesy, or as encouragement to foreigners. In 
either case it is necessary to present full credentials from birth certificate to diploma, 
duly legalized by an Italian consul in the United States, and officially translated into 
the Italian language. 

It is scarcely necessary to mention as the first essential for study in an Italian 
university a knowledge of the language. Summer schools for foreigners are conducted 
in many of the Italian universities, giving short and comprehensive courses in the 
language and literature. Private instruction may be had at low rates, or in ex- 
change for English lessons, and a knowledge of the language sufficient to carry on 
work at the university can be acquired in a comparatively short time. 

The university makes no provision for living accommodations for students. There 
are, however, numerous pensions where Americans can live most comfortably at 
moderate rates; also the International Federation of University Women has an ar- 
rangement with one of the hotels whereby members of that organization can live 
there most reasonably. 

It is needless to speak of all that Rome as a city has to offer the sojourner there; 
rather would I complain of the diversity of attractions, and the futility of attempting 
to explore them all in the short span of one year! Rome is still the Eternal City, 
the center of the world's art and history, and a lifetime would be too short a period 
in which to absorb all that it offers to one seeking knowledge. 

The University of Rome is only one of seventeen universities, administered by 
the Italian government, similar in organization and standards, though varying in the 
prominence of different departments. One of these, the university of Bologna, was 
the first university established in Europe, as well as the first to admit a 
woman within its halls: in 1400 Andrea Novella, the first woman to wear the 
doctor's gown, was made Professor of Law in the University of Bologna, under the 
amusing restriction that she must be separated from the male members of her class 
by a curtain! In the five centuries that have elapsed since that day, Italy has de- 
veloped a system of co-educational universities, unlike those of any other country, 
ind as she took the lead then in educational progress, so today her universities rank 
imong the first. 

If you are planning to study in Europe and are investigating the merits of various 
universities, may I ask that you do not forget that "beyond the Alps lies Italy?" 



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STUDYING FRENCH IN GENEVA 

By CARA HINMAN 

(Miss Hinman is a member of the class of '29. The winter following her sopho- 
more year at Agnes Scott she spent studying in Switzerland.) 

Geneva, Switzerland, is an ideal place to study French. It is truly French in 
tongue and tradition in spite of the fact that it is part of the Swiss nation. The 
language of Geneva, with a few minor differences, is the same as that of Paris. Be- 
hind all the international spirit of the town, is carefully preserved the French way 
of doing and thinking, purified by the wholesomeness of the mountain atmosphere of 
the Alps. 

There are so many things to tell about this historically renowned town besides 
its great international assemblies, that it is necessary to confine oneself to the part 
which is of immediate interest to the readers of the Quarterly  the university and the 
student life. 

When we went to Geneva to settle for the winter, the first thing of importance 
was to find a place to live, for there are no dormitories in European universities. 
Through the American Express office, the International Students' Union, and the 
secretary of the university, we obtained names of recommended families and pensions. 
Then it was a real task to find the right one, for we were hard to please with our 
requirements. The home must be near the university, only French must be spoken 
in the family, the house must be warm (the French people do not heat their houses 
nearly as much as we do) . The average charge for board in Geneva in a nice private 
family is $60 a month. But it does not stop there: that is only the "first price." 
Heating, lighting, baths, afternoon tea, even eggs for the "petit dejeuner," are 
extra. The board really amounts to about $80 a month. We finally found a home 
which filled all our requirements. 

After getting settled in our new home, we went to the university to arrange 
my course of study. We made an appointment with the rector of the university, 
Monsieur Rappard, who was very gracious and spoke beautiful English. After satis- 
fying himself that I was pleasantly located, and informing himself as to my plans 
for a course of study, he asked me if I was interested in any of the fine arts. 
He explained that the Geneva Conservatory and the university collaborate; that is, 
the students of the one are encouraged to take courses in the other. He also sug- 
gested taking lessons at the Dalcroze Institute. Fie emphasized the importance of 
rounding out the mental and spiritual development by the study of the arts. 

"I can not help you much in selecting your course," continued Monsiuer Rappard," 
as our plan of work is so entirely different from that of the American university. 
Until recently there have been no American college students trying to exchange a 
year here for one in the American college. In the last three years there have been 
quite a few students doing this, but the courses here do not correspond with yours. 
If the influx of students continues, courses of study can be established to meet the 
needs. The initiative, however, will have to come from the American colleges." 

During the first three weeks of a semester the students visit the various classes 
and make their choice of courses before registering. Meanwhile, M. Rappard sent 
me to M. Martin, dean of the "Faculte des Lettres," who would give me more definite 
information in the line of studies I was to pursue. But the dean of literature could 
not be of much more assistance than the rector: he did not understand my col- 
lege catalogue. The courses in European universities are not standardized as they 
are in America: they are more flexible. There are no Freshman, Sophomore, Junior 
and Senior years there: a student may take as many years as he likes to complete his 
work and acquire his diploma. My original plan of substituting a year's work in 
Geneva for my Junior year at Agnes Scott seemed so hopeless that I decided to give 
it up and take advantage of the wonderful opportunity offered me in Geneva in 



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learning to speak French, especially as in other courses I could do quite as well 
at Agnes Scott. To this practical course I added courses in French literature. 

In the "Ecole Practique" twelve hours a week were devoted to the study in 
French of advance grammar, translation of English into French, oral and written 
composition, conversation, and phonetics or pronunciation. The requirement for en- 
trance at the university is a degree called the "Bacchaulaureate," or its equivalent. 
This is about equal to the completion of the Sophomore .year in our best American 
colleges. My credentials from Agnes Scott did not come until later, but I was taken 
at my word and allowed to enter, without examination. There is no standard tuition 
fee for a year's work. The matriculation fee is $5, the charge for courses is $1.20 
a semester hour. As the "Ecole Practique" is a special course taught by private in- 
structors, not paid by the state, it has its own fee of $36 for the twelve semester 
hours. 

I consider my actual work in the university a small part of my instruction. 
Wherever I went French was spoken. I took advantage of the concerts, operas, 
and theatrical performances, of which Geneva, being central in Europe, has a fine 
choice. The professors' families were very cordial in inviting students to their homes 
and kept things lively for us. My professors in the university were men of the highest 
type. One of them, M. Velleman, was an internationally renowned interpreter of 
European languages, and spent much of his time at the League of Nations. He 
was a personal friend of Woodrow Wilson's long before Wilson was President. An- 
other professor, M. Portier, was head of the dramatic department in the Moscow 
Conservatory before the war. Our professor of phonetics, M. Thudicum, had such 
a keen ear that after a few words of French from any foreigner, he could detect the 
accent and tell the student from what section of any country he came, even to the 
town, and could often tell if he had lived in other countries than his own. 

The International Students' Union has attractive club rooms where one could 
always find congenial companions for recreation hours. Here students of all nation- 
alities and from each of the Geneva institutions met for frivolity and exchange of 
ideas. On Thursday, the weekly holiday, and on week-ends, the students went in the 
train to nearby mountain resorts for winter sports. During Christmas vacation they 
went to "stations d'hiver," and had their fill of skiing, skating, tobogganing, and 
mountain climbing. In spring and summer, tennis, swimming and boating follow 
winter sports. All this takes the place of our organized college athletics. Many 
beautiful homes of English and American residents in Geneva are open to students. 
Thus there is no lack of social life and recreation. 

I thought, spoke, slept, ate, drank and breathed French to stich an extent that 
when I awoke on the Crescent Limited in the good old United States, I looked at 
the conductor and said, "Comment?" I lost out a year towards my college degree, 
but I feel that my time and effort were by no means wasted. I hope that in the 
future Agnes Scott will establish a connection with the European universities, so that 
students majoring in a foreign language, may be able to spend their Junior year 
studying in Europe. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF GRENOBLE 

By MARION GREEN 
(Marion Green, who will be graduated from Agnes Scott in 1929, spent the year 
1925-26 as a student at this French university.) 

Those who really want more than a passing acquaintance with French and would 
like to acquire it in the most pleasant surroundings possible, would do well to go to 
Grenoble, France, and attend the university there. Grenoble, a town of about 
seventy thousand inhabitants, is situated at the foot of the French Alps. In the 
winter time when the tall peaks are covered with snow a huge autobus piled inside 



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with students and outside with skiis plows its way every Sunday far up into the 
Alps to the Grande Chartreuse region where skiing is indulged in with great zeal. In 
the springtime, the mountains are even more beautiful, for as the snow melts jonquils 
and lilies of the valley bloom in profusion on the slopes. During the summer session 
special excursions into the "land of eternal snow" are arranged by the university. 

A course for foreigners is offered at the University in three sessions during the 
year  from November to February, from March to June, and from June to the last 
of August. This includes for the tuition fee of ninety francs, work in French poetry, 
prose, history, civilization, psychology and two courses leading to the "certificat 
d'Etudes Francaises"  a composition and translation conference. An Institution of 
Phonetics is maintained in connection with the university, and many delightful hours 
are spent in trying to shape the lips so that the right sounds will issue forth. Foyer, 
or dormitory life is very interesting, as well as cheap, costing only about three dol- 
lars per month. Here are girls of every nationality, and you will be consoled by 
the fact that it is just as hard for a Chinese or Rumanian to speak French correctly 
as it is for you. If you do not care for dormitory life, there are many cultured 
families at Grenoble where one can live in a real French atmosphere. Some of our 
best friends were French girls to whom we gave exchange lessons  one in French, 
the next in English. The French girls were especially keen on learning American slang 
but could never apply it at the right time in the right place. The "certificat" men- 
tioned above is obtained by passing an examination given at the end of each session. 
It is not, however, required of the course. 

Grenoble is a very cultured city, many of the best artists in France and else- 
where coming there in concerts, plays, or operas. And as it is in the center of 
France, Paris, Italy, or the Riviera are easily reached in holidays. 

If you do not know much French you will find ample opportunity to learn it 
here. If you do know French well, you will enjoy the courses and atmosphere all 
the more. 



WHAT PRICE GRADUATE WORK? 

That American institution  Mr. Rube Goldberg  originated the well-known 
sentence, "Now you've got it, what are you going to do with it?" This is pertinent 
to graduate degrees as well as to a number of other things. 

When you finally have a graduate degree in your grasp, and look back over the 
way you have come, do you find it was worth all that it cost? Would you advise 
others to go on with graduate work? Standing at commencement time with your 
newly acquired B.A. diploma, and looking far ahead, counting the cost, dividing up 
the years of your life into the most profitable employments, do you think you will be 
wise in devoting some of those years to further organized study? By "most profit- 
able," I do not mean necessarily in money profits; by "cost," I mean cost of health, 
of time, of creative energies. Years are prescious things. Is she who spends them in 
graduate study wise? 

As of every other subject under the sun, much can be said on both sides. The 
majority of the articles in this Quarterly so ardently advocate graduate work, that a 
little leaven of opinion on the opposite side may not be amiss. Two anonymous 
alumnae speak very feelingly on the subject. 



"So obvious and laudable are the virtues of graduate study that numbers will 
rise up and call it blessed. I am not among them; I choose rather to set forth cer- 
tain imperative disadvantages  thorns that mightily beset the rose. 

"Among graduate students there are several types. There is the practical indi- 
vidual who invests in graduate work as he does in shoes and soap, because it is indis- 
pensible to his profession  teaching: more degrees, more dollars. Then there is the 



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genial soul who continues academic pursuits as the line of least resistance. Habits of 
study have come to fit him like an old coat. It is pleasanter to get another degree or 
so than engage in business wholly new, for that demands the learning of new tricks. 
And there is the genuine enthusiast who would drink deep of beauty and truth, in the 
company of the immortals. They may have varied motives but they all share one 
common reward: they are cheated of much of the fullness of life during the year 
when they could best enjoy it. 

"Too much life about classroom and campus is enervating. A college is not a 
world in miniature. The song that mourns the Seniors "f-a-r out in the wide, wide 
world" implies the truth  that the college is a corner cosily fenced away from the 
rest of life, with special conditions, conventions, requirements. It offers what 
Sylvia Thompson in "The Hounds of Spring" calls "a temporary artificial irresponsi- 
bility, a freedom to read and wander and think one's own thoughts and see one's 
own friends." This freedom is probably a good thing for a few years, conducive 
as it must be to a liberal attitude, a broad vision, a spirit of inquiry. But it should 
be granted only to the adolescent. One who has reached maturity ought to get 
out and rub his theories up against the hoi-polloi of actual conditions. Lingering 
too long in the dim cloister makes one blink on coming outside, where there is 
such brilliant sunlight and sharp shadows. 

"The academic life is, of course, a sort of living; but it is second-hand  seeing 
things through other people's eyes  eyes expert and gifted, but after all not as 
satisfying as one's own. Vicarious living is a pallid substitute for actual experience. 

"Now your graduate student may conceivably prefer vicarious life among im- 
mortals to actual life among mediocre contemporaries, and perhaps he has a right to 
indulge his preference. But there is  certainly where purely creative activity is con- 
cerned, another objection to graduate work. Formal study tends to destroy original- 
ity. Research, though termed original, follows certain grooves, involves wearying 
detail of note-taking, card-indexing, compiling of bibliographies, delving in countless 
dry-as-dust tomes. It has a deadly effect upon enthusiasm. Some geniuses survive 
years of formal study, but if their creative ability continues to flourish it is in spite 
of, not because of, the experience. 

"Such, then, are my 'impressive disadvantages.' They do not deter the hoards 
of aspirants to degrees from their onslaught of the universities. For graduate study 
is a phase of our modern cult of uniformity. A.B.'s are but preliminary to M.A.'s 
and Ph.D.'s  circumstances in keeping with an age that must have not a bob merely, 
but a permanent likewise. Perhaps graduate study is a necessary adjunct to civilization 
as we interpret it. But it makes severe demands on the individual that might give him 
pause: it robs him of spontaneity, of the capacity to create, and of wholesome delight 
in the life of emotion and action." 

"Speaking very casually, I should say that general statements about the value of 
graduate study would be difficult to make  either pro or con. It depends so much 
on the person and what she wants to do and what equipment she already has, and 
so on. But I will say this much: I think that the importance which is being placed 
on graduate degrees is stupid. It is not only that one is economically handicapped. 
There are a number of people who would accept the economic handicap, I suppose, if 
they might have a position commensurable with their ability. As far as I am person- 
ally concerned, neither of these reasons entered into my decision to do graduate work. 
I realized that I most wanted to do something connected with industry, and I chose the 
university I did because of the personality of the head of my department there. Now, 
another person might have gone about the whole thing differently  getting a job in 
industry, studying on the side, and so on. Maybe that would have been better. Maybe 
not. Various people have various methods of approach. 

"But I really do not feel capable of writing on this subject; I reckon graduate 
study just about wore me out!" 



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OPEN FORUM 

"What do you think of the idea of an Agnes Scott House in New York?" writes 
one alumna studying there this winter. "Couldn't an apartment for ten or twelve 
be started as a second Alumnae House, where Agnes Scott girls in New York could 
stay together?" 

Of course, to live in an apartment with ten other girls with the same background 
and from the same environment would defeat the purpose for which some of them 
chose New York City as a location for graduate work, but on the other hand, out 
of the number who are always to be found boarding  often uncomfortably  in the 
neighborhood of Columbia, ten or twelve might easily be found who would enjoy the 
home environment. A person cannot live in New York at all nor attend Columbia 
classes without coming in contact with numerous new and varied sorts of people 
and conditions. At the end of a day of these new, different people and experiences, 
Southern girls working in New York might be quite content to rest in a place where 
English was spoken, where the dear old familiar "you all" and "I reckon" and "tote" 
were not verboten, and where in the midst of the world's seething melting pot, "we 
all" could preserve our individuality as Southerners, and find together a little of the 
welcome atmosphere of home. 

What do other alumnae thing of this plan? You who have stayed in New York in 
the past, if there had been such a place where you could have gotten a room and 
breakfast at a reasonable rate, would you have boarded there? You who are in New 
York now, do you wish you were living in such an apartment? And you others who 
are considering, even distantly, spending a while in that city, would the fact that 
an Agnes Scott House was available to you, influence you perhaps in your decision 
to go to New York? 

The alumnae office is anxious to have letters from alumnae on this question. 



"Do Agnes Scott girls smoke?" ask numerous alumnae, in writing back to the 
college. I am constantly seeing articles in the newspapers about smoking in girls' 
colleges in the country, appropriations for smoking-rooms at Vassar, etc., and I wonder 
how our Agnes Scott students stand on the subject." 

Agnes Scott students stand together on the subject. "Do we smoke? We do not," 
is their emphatic answer. 



"Please tell me what happened to the triangular debates," writes an alumna. "Did 
they die a natural death?" 

Since 1921 the three colleges, Randolph-Macon, Newcomb, and Agnes Scott 
have had the agreement to meet annually in triangular debate. After the debate 
on the Mexican agrarian situation last spring, Randolph-Macon withdrew from the 
triangle, and the old agreement was terminated. Although Agnes Scott went down in 
a double defeat last spring, we are very proud of our record over the period of seven 
years covered by the debates. Out of fourteen debates Agnes Scott won eight; twice 
with a double victory. 

But although the triangular debates are a thing of the past, our debating days are 
far from over. We are going further afield this year and seek to win new laurels. 
Vassar College has accepted our challenge and their debating team will come to Agnes 
Scott in the spring to meet us on our home ground. Besides the pleasure of crossing 
swords with a type new to us  the Northern college girl  we are glad of the op- 
portunity of entertaining on our campus representatives from this college with which 
we have always had only the most pleasant relations. 



20 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

COME BACK THANKSGIVING! MOVING PICTURES 
OF COMMENCEMENT 

The week-end of Thanksgiving has been regarded for the past two years at 
Agnes Scott as homecoming time for alumnae. Commencement gatherings of alumnae 
are divided very sharply into class groups. The various working departments of the 
college are through then with their work for the year. But in November, no class 
distinctions are made: old friend hobnobs with old friend; in the absence of an 
imminently graduating Senior class, the spotlight is turned on alumnae, and students 
and faculty, not occupied with packing for the summer vacation, have time to talk 
to "the old girls." All old Agnes Scott girls who can possibly get back at Thanks- 
giving, are urged to come then, regardless of class, and see the college departments 
in action. 

The program for this year's Thanksgiving day will include interclass hockey 
games Thursday morning, Tech-Auburn football game in Atlanta Thursday after- 
noon, formal six o'clock dinner at Agnes Scott, faculty and alumnae coffee in Rebekah 
lobby. 

Friday morning the college schedule will be resumed, and alumnae can visit the 
art studio, gymnasium, or any other department that especially interests them. The 
annual alumnae party given on Miss Anna Young's birthday will be Friday afternoon 
between the hours of four and six in the Alumnae Flouse. (This occasion has been 
designated as the correct time for anyone who wishes to make a gift to the Alumnae 
House to do so. The crying need this year is for more cover. If you cannot give an 
entire blanket, give a small check which can be put with several more small checks 
to purchase the blanket!) 

Saturday night the Blackfriars will present three one-act plays, "The Trysting- 
Place," by Booth Tarkington; "Purple Dream," by Donald Breed; and "Figureheads," 
by Louise Saunders. Between plays, the moving. pictures taken last commencement of 
the faculty, trustees, Senior and reunion classes will be run. Just this one feature 
is enough to draw you back, Alumnae, surely? 

Besides these definitely stated attractions, there are always good shows in Atlanta, 
the new gym pool to be tried, old friends to chat with, and the two special gatherings 
for some of you: a reunion of the old members of Hoasc, and the 1927 "baby 
alumnae class" dinner. 

The maple trees on the campus are scarlet and gold  brown oak leaves float down 
from the tall trees and cover the old brick walks and worn little crooked paths 
you know so well. Won't you come back to Agnes Scott now? 



LOCAL ALUMNAE CLUBS 

Since the January issue of the Quarterly is to be turned over almost entirely to the local clubs, 
,t seems wise not to give club news at length in this issue. Mention should be made, however, of 
;everal of our outstanding clubs and their activities. 

On October 18th, fifty-odd members of the Atlanta club met in the Alumnae House living 
room, Dr. McCain being host on the occasion. The Atlanta club has bought almost six hundred 
dollars worth of new furniture for the living room, which will be in by Thanksgiving week-end. The 
:lub is busy planning their annual Christmas bazaar. 

On the next night, the Decatur Alumnae Club met in the Alumnae House Tea Room for 
dinner. The fact that the Atlanta club meets in the afternoon and the Decatur Club meets at 6 
P. M. makes it very convenient for mothers and business girls, who join the club whose hours best 
suit their own schedules. 

The Alumnae House linen closet already bore testimony to the skill and love of the Marietta 
Alumnae Club, and on October 8th another beautiful box arrived from them, containing hemstitched 
linen tea-table covers and napkins. Since afternoon tea is an institution on the campus, these lovely 
gifts have already fitted into the scheme of things and been used and enjoyed numberless times. 

There are hardly enough alumnae in Columbia, S. C, to form an organized club, but on 
October 2 5th, nine of them met for luncheon at the Green Parrot Tea Room. The alumnae secretary, 
Polly Stone, who was in Columbia to represent Agnes Scott on the annual A. A. U. W. college day 
program, was the guest of the Columbia alumnae on this occasion. 



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ONE ALUMNA'S GIFT 
In September, Mrs. Augustine Sams, chairman 
of the grounds committee, received the following 
letter from an alumna: 

"Having read in the June Quarterly of your 
efforts to beautify the college grounds, I thought 
that you might like some evergreens from North- 
ern Michigan. As this is the season at which we 
gather in the supply from the woods, I am 
taking the liberty of sending you some spruce and 
pines. I knew Anna Young, and I should be glad 
if some of the little evergreens could be planted 
near the Aumnae House, which is named for 
her. You will find my name among those ex '96, 
and I am sure that Miss McKinney and Miss Hop- 
kins are the only residents that remember 

"MARIE SCHLEY BROWN." 
The little evergreens arrived the next week. 
A man from Wachendorff Florist Company was 
engaged to set them out, and they are all doing 
nicely. Two are planted in front of the Alumnae 
House, four along one side, and the others between 
the Tea House entrance and Inman Hall. This 
was one of the loveliest gifts that the Alumnae 
House has ever received. 



ON THE CAMPUS 

Since Miss Hearon's illness, Miss Torrance has 
taken charge of that flourishing organization, 
the Lecture Association, which offers each year 
to the college community four prominent speak- 
ers. 

Three contracts have already been signed for 
this season, promising John Erskine in March, 
Ellenor Cook on November 15th, and Dr. Gordon 
Jennings Laing about the first of the year. John 
Erskine is widely known as professor of English 
at Columbia University, and author of "Helen of 
Troy," "Galahad," and "Adam and Eve." Miss 
Cook does folk songs and dances in costume. Dr. 
Laing is dean of the graduate school at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, and is a personal friend of 
several of our faculty members who have done 
work there. The exact date of his lecture will 
be decided later. In addition to these three the 
Lecture Association promises one more speaker who 
has not yet been chosen. 

The Senior class this year is following exactly 
in the footsteps of the class of '27 so far as num- 
bers are concerned. Again there will be one hun- 
dred and three in the graduating class! Numbers 
in the other classes are: Juniors, 77; Sophomores, 
122; Freshmen, 15 5. There are twenty-nine girls 
whose exact class standing has not yet been de- 
termined, bringing the student body total up to 
48 6. 

The Freshman class is a decidedly up-and-com- 
ing group! They made their debut in college 
affairs by winning the coveted black cat from the 
Sophomores on the annual Fresh -Sophomore stunt 
night. Adele Arbuckle, daughter of . Professor and 
Mrs. Howard Arbuckle, now of Davidson College, 
but formerly of Agnes Scott, is chairman of the 
Freshman class. 

Several interesting dates and occasions have 
already marked the college calendar. The open- 
ing exercises of the college featured as the principal 



speaker Dr. Wade H. Boggs, of Atlanta. Mr. 
Wilfred B. Shaw, the alumni secretary of the 
University of Michigan, and president of the 
American Alumni Council, spoke on October 7th. 
On November 4th, with the usual impressive cere- 
mony, the Seniors were formally invested with 
cap and gown. Margaret Bland, '20, Senior class 
faculty member, made the address of the morning. 
On November 15 th, Miss Ellenor Cook opened the 
college Lecture Association's year. 



FACULTY NOTES 



Miss Hopkins, beloved dean and "College 
Mother" to every Agnes Scott girl, has received 
a new honor. At the meeting of the board of 
trustees of the college in May, she was elected to 
a place on that body. 

Dr. George P. Hayes, who succeeds Dr. Good 
as head of the English department, is a Harvard 
man. Elis latest teaching has been as head of 
the English department of Robert College, in 
Constantinople. Mrs. Hayes, who is French, is 
a charming addition to the circle of faculty 
wives. 

Miss Jean Davis is teaching at Chicago this 
year, and to replace her, Agnes Scott now has 
as professor of sociology and economics Dr. James 
M. Wright, of Johns Hopkins. 

Miss Howson and Miss Phillippa Gilchrist are 
both studying at the University of Wisconsin. 
During Miss Howson's leave, Miss Helen Gilroy, 
B.A. Bryn Mawr, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 
is acting as head of the physics department. Miss 
Gilroy comes directly to us from Canton Chris- 
tian College in China. Elizabeth Lynn, '27, is 
taking Miss Gilchrist's place. 

Dr. Charles A. Logan, while on furlough from 
mission work in Japan, is assisting Mrs. Syden- 
stricker in the Bible department. Dr. Logan is 
the father of Josephine (Logan) Hamilton, '2 3, 
and Mary Nelson Logan, '2 8. 

Miss Cleo Hearon had not sufficiently recovered 
from her summer's illness to take up her classes 
at the beginning of the fall session, so Miss Flor- 
ence Smith, who is completing work on her doc- 
tor's thesis at Chicago, is supplying for her. 

Martha Stansfield is working on her Ph.D. at 
Chicago, and in her absence, Charlotte Hammond, 
'17, is acting as assistant professor of Latin. Miss 
Hammond took her M.A. degree at Chicago. 

Since Cora Morton deserted mathematics to be- 
:ome Mrs. Fraser Durrett, there was a vacancy 
in that department to be filled. Miss Grace 
Strouss, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Georgia, was elected to this position. 

Daisy Frances Smith and Sterling Johnson are 
studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Miss 
Smith's place is taken by Elizabeth Cheatham, '2 5; 
and Miss Johnson's by Helen Lewis, 27. Frances 
Rainey, '27, is a fellow in chemistry. 

Miss Isabel Randolph is back this year as head 
of the Physical Education department. Miss Har- 
riet Haynes is on leave of absence. Miss Carrie 
Curie Sinclair is studying at William and Mary 
College in Virginia, and Miss Estelle North, of the 
University of Wisconsin, is taking her place. 



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"LITTLE SISTERS" in '27 IS 





ma Mater 
and three 



Not only do the daughters of Agnes Scott alumnae choose Agnes Scott as their Al 
too, but "so do the sisters and the cousins and the aunts!" Thirty-three of the one hundred 
members of the 1927 graduating class have near relatives among the alumnae. They are 

Maurine Bledsoe, Asheville, 
N. C, cousin of Kathrine 
Pitman, '26. 

Grace Carr, Bainbridge, 
Ga., sister of Alice Carr, ex 
'24. 

Marion Daniel, Charlottes- 
ville, Va., cousin of Bell 
Dunnington, '02. 

Emily Daughtry, Jackson, 
Ga., cousin of Annie Stone. 

Mary Lloyd Davis, La- 
Grange, Ga., cousin of Ruth 
and Louise Slack, '12 and 
'20. 

Frances Dobbs, Woodstock, 
Ga., sister of Marguerite 
Dobbs, '24. 

Eugenie Dozier, Atlanta, 
Georgia., cousin of Lily 
Wade Little, '97. 

Mary Ferguson, Madras, 
India, cousin of Janet, Vir- 
ginia and Charlotte Newton, 
'17, '19 and '21. 

Marcia Green, Corinth, 
Miss., sister of Mary Louise 
Green, '21. 

Mary Hedrick, Bristol, 
Tenn., sister of Peg Hedrick, 
'21. 

Elizabeth Henderson, 
Brunswick, Ga., cousin of 
Lilly Joiner, '13. 

Ann Heys, Americus, Ga., 
cousin of Ruth and Christine 
Evans, '22 and '23. 

Elizabeth Norfleet, Life President of '27 

Virginia Hollingsworth, Dawson, Ga., niece of Susie Christie, ex '16. 

Katherine Houston, Fairfield, Va., cousin of Frances Bitzer, '2 5. 

Martha Johnston, Greensboro, Ga., cousin of Elizabeth Hoke, '2 3. 

Helen Lewis, Maxwelton, W. Va., cousin of Peg Bell, '21. 

Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Rome, Ga., sister of Margaret Leyburn, '18. 

Louise Lovejoy, Decatur, Ga., cousin of Jane Flarwell, '17. 

Elizabeth McCallie, Atlanta, Ga., sister of Edith McCallie, '23. 

Marcia Horton, Decatur, Ga., aunt of Sallie Horton, '2 5. 

Caroline McKinney, Decatur, Ga., daughter of Claude Candler. 

Evalyn Powell, Little Rock, Ark., sister of Margaret Powell, '24. 

Miriam Preston, Soonchun, Korea, daughter of Annie Wiley, ex '97; niece of Janef Preston, '21. 

Douglass Rankin, Fayetteville, N. C, cousin of Susan Rose, ex '2 6. 

Marguerite Russell, Washington, D. C, cousin of Hattie Blackford, '03; Eloise Gay, '16; Aimee 

D. Glover, '21. 
Elizabeth Sanders, DeValls Bluff, Ark., sister of Margaret and Ruth Sanders, '20 and '2 3. 
Mamie Shaw, Gainesville, Fla., sister of Elizabeth Shaw, '2 5. 
Sarah Shields, Dawson, Ga., cousin of Martha Bishop, ex '14. 
Willie White Smith, Thomson, Ga., sister of Carolyn Smith, '2 5. 
Edith Strickland, Concord, Ga., cousin of Mary Lynes, ex '2 6. 
Courtney Wilkinson, Lynchburg, Va., cousin of Spott Payne, '17. 

Grace Zachry, Atlanta, Ga., sister of Roberta Zachry, ex '09; cousin of Janie McGaughey, '13. 
A complete list of the class of '27 will be found in the August Alumnae Register. 




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QUENELLE HARROLD FELLOWSHIP 

Mrs. Thomas Harrold, Americus, Ga., gave the College in 1926 the sum of $10,- 
000, the income of which is to be used to establish "The Quenelle Harrold Fellowship 
for Graduate Work," in honor of her daughter who took her degree at Agnes Scott 
in 1923. For the present the annual income is $600. 



The award is to be made 
either to some member of the 
present Senior class or to some 
alumna who graduated not 
more than three years prior to 
the election. Unless there is 
a candidate of recognized 
merit, the income may be 
undergraduates, preference 
use for scholarship a i d 
for undergraduates, preference 
being given to Seniors and 
Juniors. 

The award is to be made by 
the Academic Council of the 
College, and it is not neces- 
sarily made to the most out- 
standing student scholastical- 
ly. It should go to the one 
who will profit most from in- 
tensive work in some particu- 
lar field, and who will con- 
tribute most to the world be- 
Mamie Shaw, '27 cause of the special training 

she will receive through this fellowship. Personality should be given careful con- 
sideration as it is desired that the holder of the fellowship reflect credit on Agnes 
Scott wherever she goes. It is to be hoped that "prospective genius" or "prospective 
leadership" will be selected as far as it may be ascertained. 

Applications should be filed before Christmas with the President of the college. 
These may be informal in nature, but each should contain a statement of the course 
desired in graduate work, and preferably the name of the institution where the can- 
didate wishes to study. 




24 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

A GLIMPSE OF A CHINESE UNIVERSITY 

By HELEN GILROY 

(Miss Gilroy is head of the Physics Department at Agnes Scott. She is a Bryn 
Mawr graduate, and has taught at Vassar College and at Canton Christian College 
in China.) 

To acquire a complete idea of life in a foreign country it is well to picture the 
physical surroundings, then the people and finally their aims and ambitions. We 
arrive in Canton on an English river boat, landing at a warf along the Bund, if the 
strike pickets are not too active, otherwise the boat anchors in mid-stream opposite 
Shameen, the small foreign concession, and we go ashore in a launch. In either 
case, as soon as the river steamer is anchored, sampans by the dozen crowd around her 
like chicks about a hen. Some take off passengers; others boxes of canned goods or 
fish in barrels and still others are only interested in baskets of squawking chickens. 
Our way leads to the Bund and to rickshas, which, for twenty cents local silver, will 
take us to the Lingnan University wharf, a small wooden shed containing a few 
benches and a fruit stand, out of the sun and rain. There we "talk price" with a 
boat woman who will eventually agree to thirty cents, provided a "tai fung" is not 
threatening. After about half an hour's row past hundreds of similar sampans, flat 
bottomed boats bringing fruit, vegetables and wood from up river, steamers pulling 
five or six flower boats full of soldiers from Wampoa, and gaily painted salt junks, we 
reach our destination. 

The entrance to Lingnan University is not through a grey stone arch nor along 
a stately colonnade, merely a wooden gate in a barbed wire fence with a frame 
house to protect the gatekeeper. Time and money have been spent on the essentials; 
decorations will come later. The campus covers about fifty acres of land which was 
bought literally grave by grave from the village people. In south China land which 
cannot be used for rice fields or vegetable gardens is the village burying ground. 
Trees now grow where there was only a barren hillside, and more than fifty brick 
buildings in place of gravestones. Two dormitories house the college boys, one the 
girls and four the Middle School. Just beyond the Middle School is the Oversea's 
School for Chinese boys born in foreign lands, many of whom know no word of 
Chinese. In another group is the Primary School and way to the south, the Agricul- 
tural College with its silk filature and fruit farm. 

If we arrive in the afternoon after most of the classes are over, the campus will 
be full of boys playing basketball, tennis, socker, running, some swimming in the 
pool by the north gate and one group from the Oversea's School playing baseball. 
Where are the long shams, long nails and queues of the Chinese pictures? The 
last two are a thing of the past for these students. 

The next morning some long shams will appear. Many of the Chinese on the 
faculty, especially those who have studied in the United States or Europe, have adopted 
foreign style clothes. The students also, who have lived in one of the port cities or 
travelled much are as likely to wear foreign as Chinese dress. But in warm weather 
they nearly all choose Chinese style, as it is much cooler. Classes begin at 7:3 5 in 



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the morning and continue, with an hour for lunch, until 5 P. M., a few even until 6. 
This is due to the limited space for classes and the wide range of subjects taught. In 
the college of arts and sciences the curriculum reads much like that of any first 
class college in the United States, except that Latin and Greek are absent and Chinese 
and Japanese take their places. Also Business Administration and the Sciences are 
much larger groups than modern languages. Originally, because this is a college 
started by Americans, and now, because there are so few text books of Western 
learning translated into Chinese, most of the college instruction is given in English. 
That necessitates the teaching of English in the lower schools as a second language to 
their own. One required science course is given the year before the students enter 
college. In spite of the difficulty of study in a foreign language these students do as 
well as many freshmen college classes in this country. 

Foreign music and foreign plays, adapted to their own modes of expression have 
a strong appeal. And the Chinese are naturally gifted actors. To read "The Doll's 
House" on Wednesday, have group practices on Thursday and give the play, in 
Chinese Friday night is typical of their methods. Most of the boys love to make 
speeches and all are keenly interested in politics. The Nationalist movement is theirs 
as much as any one's, however high in rank or honored with years. In the production 
of foreign music they show more enthusiasm than skill, but can be trained to do very 
creditable singing. 

In recent years the work has been somewhat interrupted by government proclaimed 
holidays, but that is balanced by a longer school year and fewer vacations set by the 
college itself. Most of the students are eager to learn all that the West can teach, 
at the same time keeping a strong feeling of the superiority of their own nation in 
almost everything but science. As an illustration of the desire of boys of High 
school age for an education, there is one event of last spring: when the college was 
forced by local labor trouble to close for three months, two classes below college 
rank organized themselves, rented two floors in one of the hotels in Canton and asked 
members of the staff to come and lecture to them. Two weeks would be spent in- 
tensively on history and maybe the next two on physics. The surroundings were not 
conducive to quiet study but they stuck to it and completed their year's work. 

Of the staff more than half are Chinese, some foreign trained and some graduates 
of Chinese universities on the western plan. A few have the old style Chinese classical 
education, but all speak English more fluently than the foreign staff, with a few excep- 
tions, speak Chinese. There must, of necessity, be some divergence of interest and 
activities between the two groups. But the main interest is the same in both, the 
building up of a Chinese University, under Christian influence, which shall be able 
to train its students to supply the needs of a great nation, and make itself one. 
link in the chain of international friendship. At present international friendship is 
being stretched to the breaking point, but not there between foreign staff and Chinese 
staff nor between foreign staff and students. It may be apropos to add that the 
university held a summer session and has opened this fall under the new board of 
directors, of whom the majority are Chinese. 



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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 



Concerning Ourselves 



Institute Alumnae News 

Myrtice Brown is secretary of the Southeastern 
department of the Franklin Life Insurance Com- 
pany in Atlanta. 

Emily (Divver) Moorer's only son, Ernest 
Samuel, Jr., is a Sophomore this year at the 
Citadel, a boy's military school in Charleston, S. C. 

Bertha (Lewis) Adamhoff is living in Atlanta. 
She is widely known throughout the South for 
her coloratura soprano voice. Mr. Adamhoff is a 
pianist and orchestra director. 

Katherine (Logan) Good is teaching in Ac- 
worth, Ga. She did some graduate work in the 
Department of Education at Emory University this 
summer. 

Hallie (Robertson) Stayton is living in Austin, 
Texas. Her husband is professor of law at the 
University of Texas. 

Susan Lott Sharpe was married on August 14th, 
in Columbus, Ga., to Mr. Thomas Eason Sams. 
Mr. Sams is an alumnus of the University of 
Georgia. He served in the naval aviation corps 
during the World War, and is now an account- 
ant with the Atlantic Coast Line Railway in 
Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Sams spent their 
honeymoon motoring through the mountains of 
Tennessee. 

Marjory Paschal, 16-year-old daughter of Jetta 
(Womack) Paschal, was instantly killed on July 
22nd when a truck crashed into the sedan in which 
Marjory and a group of her young friends were 
returning from camp. Jetta was studying music 
at Washington University in St. Louis at the time 
the accident occurred. 

Royal E. Ingersoll, husband of Louise (Van 
Harlinger) Ingersoll, has been recently appointed 
a captain in the United States Navy. He is the 
youngest officer of that rank in the service. Cap- 
tain and Mrs. Ingersoll will remain at the war 
college in Newport for the next two years. 

Clyde White is spending some time in Mon- 

treat, enjoying that wonderful North Carolina 

mountain air, and getting strong and well again. 

College 

1906 

May (McKowen) Taylor, her sister, husband, and 
three children, May, Jane, and John, motored 
through Atlanta during September. They stopped 
by the Alumnae House, and May and Jane looked 
over their future Alma Mater. 
1908 

Elva (Drake) Drake has moved into a new 
home at number 2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh, N. 
C. Elva's husband is in the banking business. 
They have one daughter, Julia Rogers, 12 years 
aid. 

The husbands of '08 seem to have a bent for 

banking. Mary Josephine (Sullivan) Whitley's 

husband is a banker in Albemarle, N. C. They 

have two little girls : Mary, 7, and Josephine, 5. 

1909 

Mec (Maclntyre) McAfee has moved to San 
Francisco, Cal. Mail will reach her addressed 
to 833 Market Street. 

Anne (Waddell) Bethea's address is given in- 
correctly in the register. It is 3665 Oak St., 
Jacksonville, Fla. Anne's husband is with the 
Graybar Electric Company. They have one son, 
Frederick Waddell Bethea, born in 1923. 

Caroline (Candler) Branan, ex '09, has a new 
address in New Orleans. She is living at 4 Rosa 
Park. Mr. Branan is the editor and publisher of 
the Cotton Trade Journal. Their daughter, Caro- 
line Candler Branan, is now 16 years old. 

Hattie Lou (Miller) Martin, ex '09, is still in 
Columbus, Ga., where her husband is a promi- 



our church. I shall have some Bible teaching 
nent realtor and the owner of a chain of theatres. 
They have two sons, Roy, Jr., 10, and Edwin, 7. 

Katharine (Miller) Calhoun, ex '09, is kept 
busy with her home and five children. They are 
Lawton Miller, 17 ; Patrick Noble, Jr., 16 ; Kathar- 
ine Miller, 12 ; John Francis, 6 ; and Andrew 
Pickens, 2. Katharine says she has them all the 
way from college to kindergarten. Mr. Calhoun 
is the Columbus manager of Swift and Com- 
pany. 

Jean (Powel) McCroskey's two children are Wil- 
liam H., Jr., 15 ; and Ailsie Powel, 13. 
1910 

Flora (Crowe) Whitmire writes from New 
Haven : "My visit South last spring was the big- 
gest thing that happened to me. You have to 
live in the 'frozen North' for a while really 
to appreciate Georgia. We had a lovely vacation 
trip to Yarmouth, Maine. Then we have taken 
several short trips around Connecticut. New Eng- 
land is so beautiful in the summer  clean, pretty 
little towns where everything looks newly painted. 
This winter I am attending William Lyons Phelps' 
weekly lectures here and enjoying him very 
much." 

Fay (Dillard) Spratt has moved from Virginia 
to Miami, Fla. Her address is 11th floor, Hunt- 
ington Building. 

Lutie Nimmons (Powell) Burckhardt, ex '10, 
has moved into a new home at 83 Brighton Rd., 
Atlanta. Her little daughter, Anne Nimmons, 
will be two years old in February. 
1911 

Adelaide Cunningham has moved to 1428 Peach- 
tree St., Apt. 409, Atlanta. 

Mary Wallace Kirk spent a delightful summer 
in New York and along the New England coast. 
She visited Sadie (Gober) Temple, ex '11, in 
Marietta, and was at the Alumnae House in 
September. 

Erma (Montgomery) Mize and her lawyer hus- 
band are raising three daughters for Agnes Scott. 
They are: Florence, 11; Kathleen, 4; and Marion 
Virginia, 3. 

Julia (Thompson) Gibson has a family of 
three, too, but only one is Agnes Scott ma- 
terial. Her two boys are Sam Thompson, 11, 
and Count, Jr., 3. The other member of the trio 
is Claudine, who was born in May, 1926. Julia's 
husband is professor of civil engineering at Geor- 
gia Tech. 

Louise (Wells) Parsons' two daughters are: 
Barbara Louise, 7, and Jean, 2. 
1912 

Ruth (Slack) Smith is one of the deans of 
women at Duke University, Durham, N. C. 
1913 

Kate Clark spent the summer traveling abroad. 

Frances (Dukes) Wynne and her family have 
returned to their Florida home for the winter. 
They are all much improved in health and 
Frances' little daughter is going to school again. 

Mary Lois (Enzor) Bynum is teaching this 
winter. Her husband is superintendent of schools 
in Troy, Ala. 

Lilly (Joiner) Williams is engaged in her 
usual busy life as the wife of a Methodist min- 
ister and the mother of three children. The 
three are: Mary Wynne, 7: David, 4; and Clarence 
Daniel, 2. 

Janie McGaughey writes from St. Louis: "I am 
loving my new work, that of helping to direct 
the spiritual life of the woman's auixiliary of 
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Scott." Her address is 270 Field Bldg., St. 
Louis, Mo. 

Margaret (Roberts) Curry, her husband and 
two children drove through Atlanta during the 
summer on the way home to New Orleans. They 
had lunch with Allie (Candler) Guy, and Mar- 
garet and Allie enjoyed introducing their families 
to each other. Margaret's children are : Cather- 
ine, 5, and "Brother," 2. 

Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker and her family visited 
Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann during the sum- 
mer. 

Helen (Smith) Taylor still lives in Tampa. 
Her husband is an eye, ear, nose and throat spe- 
cialist. 

Lina (Andrews) Rauschenberg, ex '13, moved in 
July to one of the most beautiful residence sec- 
tions of Atlanta on Habersham Road. Mr. Rausch- 
enberg is head of the Westchester Fire Insurance 
Company in Atlanta. They have three children  
Lucy, 12 ; Ann, 8 ; and Georgia, 5. 

Elizabeth (Dunwody) Hall, ex '13, has moved to 
Clifton Road, Druid Hills, Atlanta. 

Bessie (Standifer) Gammon, ex '13, is living at 
2044 College St., Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Gammon, 
who is special agent for the Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, of New York, has recently been sent on 
a business trip to Alaska. Their son, Franklin 
Gammon, Jr., is now 12 years old. 

1914 

Ruth Graham (Blue) Barnes writes that two 
little sons, 8 and 4 years old, keep both her 
hands full. They live in the lovely old seaport 
town of Savannah, where Mr. Barnes is a cot- 
ton exporter. 

Annie Tait Jenkins is taking a rest from teach- 
ing and is trying a year of leisure at home. 

Margaret (Brown) Bachman, ex '14, has moved 
to 1751 Chatham Drive, Columbus, Ga. Her hus- 
band is a Boy Scout executive. Their two little 
daughters are : Margie Louise, 5, and Catherine 
Claire, 3. 

Beth Duncan, ex '14, is teaching piano, voice 
and public school music in Moorefield, W. Va. 

Robina Gallacher, ex '14, was married on 
August 23rd in Jasper, Ala., to Mr. Edward Stock- 
ton Hume, of Louisville, Ky. After a wedding trip 
in Kentucky, they are living at 754 Juniper St., 
N. E., Atanta. Mr. Hume is in the bond busi- 
ness. 

1915 

Margaret (Anderson) Scott visited Agnes Scott 
in September when she and Mr. Scott attended 
the meeting of the Georgia Synod in Decatur. 

Martha (Brenner) Shyrock is planning a trip 
South shortly after new year's, and she writes that, 
of course, she will put the Alumnae House on 
her itinerary. 

Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner moved on Sep- 
tember 1st to 208 Yancey Ave., Montgomery, Ala. 
She writes: "After a siege of scarlet fever, when 
sve were quarantined for six weeks, I have 
settled down to a more or less normal life." 

Mary (West) Thatcher's second son, John West 
Thatcher, was born on August 20th. He is as 
perfect a little brunette as Mary's other son, 
Sammy, is a blonde. The Thatcher family will 
spend the winter in Florida. 

Queen Evelyn (Walker) Reep, ex '15, has a little 
1-year-old daughter, Grace Evelyn, who has already 
decided on Agnes Scott for 1940. 

1916 

Mary (Bryan) Winn is now living at 724 S. 
34th St., in Birmingham, Ala. Her husband is a 
physician. 

Louise Hutcheson is teaching again this winter 
in Kansas City. Her address is 3716 Walnut 
Street. 

Margaret Phythian studied during the summer 
at the French School in Middlebury, Conn. She 
is back at Agnes Scott this year in the French 
Department. 

Alice (Weatherly) Inzer and her mother spent 
a week at the Alumnae House during October. 
Alice's husband is a lawyer in Gadsden, Ala., and 
an ex-state Senator. They have three children  



Alice Stone, 6 ; James Clarence, Jr., 4 ; and Martha 
Weatherly, 2. 

Clara (Whips) Dunn was recently elected presi- 
dent of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club  the largest 
of all our local alumnae groups. 

Annie Cameron, ex '16, is studying at the Uni- 
versity of Georgia this winter. Her permanent ad- 
dress is 919 Todd Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 
1917 

'17 gave such a thorough account of itself at 
reunion, and Isabelle Dew wrote such an inter- 
esting report for the June Quarterly that I am 
sure we all feel pretty well up with class news. 
We have had some vacations since, however, and 
some moves and plans and joys and sorrows that 
everybody wants to share. 

We were sorry to hear of the death, early in 
September, of Martha Dennison's mother, and we 
all sympathize deeply with Martha in her loss. 

Isabelle Dew and Sarah Webster are teaching 
again at the Fulton High School in Atlanta. 

Mary (Eakes) Rumble has just recovered from 
a tonsil operation. The operation was performed 
on her small daughter, but Mary insists that of 
the two, she suffered more. 

Mildred (Hall) Pearce and Frances (Thatcher) 
Moses sent snapshots of their charming daughters 
to add to the interest of the 1917 scrapbook. 
Frances' daughters have recently assisted in the 
wedding of her brother and an Agnes Scott girl, 
Margaret Gholston, '27. Frances says she is no 
longer teaching, except for an occasional substitu- 
tion. She plans to busy herself with Music Club 
and D. A. R. work during the winter. 

Charlotte Hammond has returned to Agnes 
Scott as instructor in Latin. She says that it 
feels quite natural to be walking those halls again, 
but she and Augusta Skeen miss the rest of '17. 

Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter has moved 
to 200 Montgomery Ferry Drive, Atlanta. Willie 
Belle was elected president of the Atlanta Agnes 
Scott Club early in the summer but had to re- 
sign later on account of illness. She spent Au- 
gust with her father in Philadelphia. 

Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin "continues to marvel" 
that people can be so lovely to brides and new- 
comers, and finds her time quite taken up with 
her social duties and home affairs. 

Mary (Mclver) Luster is now in Bishopville, 
S. C, visiting her father, Dr. D. M. Mclver. 

Jan Newton's office address is 1424 Barnett 
National Bank Building, Jacksonville, Fla. She 
lives at 1404 Riverside Drive, and urges that any 
Agnes Scotter passing through or stopping in 
Jacksonville look her up. 

Spott Payne writes : "This winter I am back 
at home in Lynchburg. I loved Lucy Cobb Insti- 
tute and my work there, but I really ought to 
be here  and here I am. I had a lovely trip 
abroad this summer. Met Nell Buchanan, '22, and 
Amy Twitty, '21, in Stratford, and in Edinburgh." 
Spott is much too energetic to be idle, so she is 
teaching in the Lynchburg High School. 

Margaret Pruden is taking a rest from working 
on her Ph. D. and is spending the winter in 
Rome on account of her mother's ill health. 

Rita (Schwartz) Aronstam spent August at Cape 
Cod. Rita's son is now in the fourth grade, and her 
little daughter has entered kindergarten this year. 

Katherine Simpson attended the summer session 
at Emory and is continuing her work as grade 
teacher in the Atlanta schools. 

Augusta Skeen reported an interesting vacation 
in New York and Atlantic City. 

May Smith is teaching science in the Lindblom 
High School, and going to Rush Medical School, 
University of Chicago. She is within six months 
now of getting her M. D. 

Louise Ware is teaching in New York again 
this winter. 

Sarah Webster enjoyed many delightful trips 
around New England while attending the sum- 
mer session at Harvard University. 

We continue to regret the loss of our secre- 
tary, Laurie (Caldwell) Tucker, who served us 
so faithfully and efficiently for ten years. She 
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responds because she knows how the secretary 
feels when her letters are not answered. Perhaps 
when we have all taken our turn as secretary we 
shall feel equally responsible and then when 
Laurie's time comes again, won't she have a 
great time sitting in the chimney corner, reading 
the piles of letters from her white-haired sisters ! 

The new secretary wants to thank all those who 
have co-operated so willingly and responded so 
promptly to her plea for assistance. She thorough- 
ly enjoys getting the news first and urges that 
she not be allowed to miss anything of interest or 
importance. 

Julia Anderson, ex '17, was married on July 
27th to Captain Oscar DuBois McNeely, of the 
United States Army Coast Artillery. Julia had a 
very beautiful wedding, and wore the now famous 
wedding veil that she and two other girls bought 
one summer when the three of them were 
traveling in Belgium. Julia is the last of the 
three to wear the veil. Captain McNeely is sta- 
tioned for the time being at Fort Monroe, Va. 

Ann (Colquitt) Hunter, ex '17, has moved to 
Lakeland, Fla. 

Mary Ellen (Stanley) McCoy, ex '17, is busy 
with the raising of her two little daughters, 
Mary Eleanor, 10, and Patty Elizabeth, 2. Mr. 
McCoy is a road and bridge contractor in Lafay- 
ette, Ala. 

1918 

Anna Leigh McCorkle will receive her M. A. in 
Elementary Education from Teachers College, 
Columbia University, this year. 

Katherine Seay is studying at Columbia Uni- 
versity for her master's degree. She is living at 
99 Claremont Ave., Apt. 302, New York City. 

Miss Betty Park celebrated her fifth birthday 
on June 13th. Betty's mother is Eva Maie (Wil- 
lingham ) Park. 

Marie (Shippen) Hoppe, ex 18, has moved to 
Huntington Rd., Atlanta. 

1919 

Lois Eve spent the summer months cruising 
on the Mediterranean. 

Louise (Felker) Mizell has moved to 886 Rock 
Springs Road, Atlanta. Her husband is in the 
real estate business. They have two children, 
Margaret, 2%, and Robert, who was born last 
January. 

Frances (Glasgow) Patterson has a new baby, 
born in China last spring. Frances is living in 
Lexington, Va., this winter. 

Almeda Hutcheson spent the summer abroad. 
She and Mary Brock Mallard are working in At- 
lanta again. 

Mr. and Mrs. William Collier Cook announce 
the birth of William Cook, Jr., on July 17th. 
Mrs. Cook is Margaret Leech. 

The stories of how doughty Fire Chief "Pea- 
nut" Rowe terrorized Inmanites with her mid- 
night fire drills with real smoke, seem pure my- 
thology now when we see how placid and domestic 
Margaret May Ford (Rowe) Jones has become. 
She writes of her thrills over each seed that 
sprouts in her flower beds. Mr. Jones is in the 
real estate business in Memphis, Tenn. 

Llewellyn Wilburn is back this winter in the 
Physical Education department at Agnes Scott. 
She says it is a joy to teach in the splendid new 
gymnasium. Llewellyn remembers very vividly 
(as do we all!) that old gym! 

Margaret Brown, ex '19, is now Mrs. Richard 
Harding Davis, of Lewisville, Ark. She has a 
nine months old daughter, who, she writes, expects 
to belong to the class of '45. 

Louise (English) Moore, ex '19, has moved from 
Statesboro, Ga., to Barnesville. 

Beth McConnell, ex '19, owns and manages an 
interior decorating shop in Asheville that is the 
despair of all poor folk and the delight of the 
rich. Beth has done a number of the beautiful 
homes around Asheville. 

We sympathize with Amaryliss (Peay) Arm- 
strong, ex '19, in the recent loss of her father. 
At the time of his death, Mr. Peay was Governor 
of the state of Tennessee. 

Pauline Smathers, x '19, is athletic director in 
the Asheville, N. C, High School. 



1920 

Beff Allen visited the Alumnae House early in 
October. She was on her way to New York, where 
she will spend the winter studying. 

Margaret Bland is back at Agnes Scott in the 
French Department. She received her master's 
degree last June from the University of North 
Carolina. 

Mary (Burnett) Thorington has had a good deal 
of trouble lately with her eyes. For a time the 
doctor would not let her use them at all, but 
she is beginning to get better. She writes : "I 
have two babies now  Mary Burnett, 2%, and 
Elizabeth Chilton, who arrived last March. In 
Texas, where servants are rare specimens, two 
babies and a house to keep are all-engrossing both 
as to time and thought." 

Emilie Keyes says : "There is little to relate 
about myself. I am still at the job I have had 
several years  reporting on The Palm Beach Post, 
morning paper here. Morning paper work keeps 
my nose very much to the grindstone, but I like 
the work immensely, and am quite accustomed to 
the life of a night-hawk. I do straight reporting, 
city hall and political stuff largely, with a little 
feature work on the side  such as a weekly book 
review column I am now doing. I was as- 
tounded to find in the new register that so many 
Agnes Scott girls are here in Palm Beach. They 
are most of them strangers to me, but I trust 
some time we can all get together." 

Margaret McConnell is teaching kindergarten in 
Asheville, N. C. 

Elizabeth Marsh is teaching French and Latin 
and coaching the Glee Club at North Avenue 
Presbyterian School in Atlanta. 

Laura Stockton Molloy was married on Septem- 
ber 14th to Mr. Angus Mancill Dowling. Mr. 
Dowling is an electrical engineer. Their address 
is Apt. 2-G, Kew Arms Apts., Kew Gardens, 
Long Island, N. Y. Laura Stockton says that 
Angus is quite as nice a name as David. 

Margery (Moore) McAulay brought little 1-year- 
old Margery Jane McAulay on a visit to her par- 
ents in Decatur this summer. 

Margaret (Sanders) Brannon writes: "We are 
in Austin, Texas, for the winter again  the last 
one, as Bruce will graduate from the Seminary 
in May." 

"Crip" Slack visited Agnes Scott in September. 
She is still traveling for the Presbyterian Church, 
with headquarters at 1620 Monument Ave., Rich- 
mond, Va. 

Pauline (Van Pelt) Claunch is living at 2009 
N. Brazos St., San Antonio, Texas. Her husband 
is a civil engineer. They have no children. 

Margaret Winslett writes that if she has to sit 
in a chimney corner all the rest of her life, the 
adventures she had in China last spring will still 
have given her more than one life-time's share 
of excitement. 

Alice Slater (Cannon) Guille, ex '20, writes that 
she is very much occupied with little Alice Slater 
Guille, Jr., who arrived on April 3, 1927. "A 
baby, and especially a first one, keeps a person 
mighty busy." 

Louise May, ex '20, is Mrs. Charlie Mell. She 
has one little daughter. 

Elizabeth (Reid) LeBey, ex '20, has a year 
old son. She lives at 3434 Piedmont Rd., N. E., 
Atlanta. 

Margaret Virginia (Woods) Happel, ex '20, has 
moved to 7210 Maryland Terrace, St. Louis, Mo. 
1921 

Dorothy Allen was married in the early fall 
to Mr. William Henry Tucker, of Lafayette, Ala. 
Dot has a little sister, Katherine, at Agnes Scott 
this year, and she drives over occasionally to see 
her. 

Peg (Bell) Hanna has two little sons  Charles, 
Jr., 2, and Edwin Bell, 1. Mr. Hanna is the 
pastor of the New Providence Presbyterian Church 
at Raphine, Va. 

Myrtle Blackmon is teaching English in the 
Columbus High School. 

Marguerite Cousins is teaching expression and 
gym at LaGrange College, LaGrange, Ga. She 
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Emory University during the summer. Helen is 
back at Salem College, and Sarah is teaching in 
Atlanta again. Marguerite's brother, I. W. Cous- 
ins, was married on September 9th to Lillian Ade- 
laide Wurm, ex '29. 

Aimee D. (Glover) Little spent the summer at 
home on account of the ill health of her hus- 
band. 

Mary Louise (Green) Morrow is living at 514 
Line St., Decatur, Ala. 

Little Anne Hart Equen celebrated her fourth 
birthday recently with a huge party at her home 
on 17th street in Atlanta. Over one hundred and 
twenty-five children were present, among them 
were little Essie Roberts DuPre, Frank Beall, 
Perrin Nicolson III, Ruth Hoppe, Montague Boyd, 
and William Dunn, all children of Agnes Scott 
alumnae. 

Dorothy (Havis) McCullough has moved to 107 

E. Clark PL, corner Walton Ave., New York City. 

Peg (Hedrick) Nickles came from Virginia to 

see her sister Mary graduate from Agnes Scott 

last June. 

"Sis" Jones has been at Searsport, Maine, all 
summer where friends of hers have a summer 
cottage. 

Five-year-old Billy, and 3-year-old Anna Marie 
contrive to keep Anna Marie (Landress) Cate very 
busy. She writes that lately they have emulated 
Christopher Robin's example in having the sneez- 
les and wheazles. 

Sarah (McCurdy) Evans is teaching at Stone 
Mountain. The Evans have a new home on the 
highway that leads around to the carving on 
the mountainside, and Sarah says that any old 
Agnes Scott girls who are driving by must be 
sure to stop in and see her. 

Janef Preston received her master's degree from 
Columbia in August. She and Polly Stone, '24, 
Frances Arant, ex '23, and Dick Scandrett, '24, 
kept house for a while this summer in Dr. 
Sweet's cottage while Dr. Sweet was in New 
York. Janef is back at Agnes Scott this year. 
Rachel (Rush ton) Upham was in Montgomery 
during October for her sister Mary's wedding. 

Martha Stansfield is working on her doctor's de- 
gree at the University of Chicago. 

Amy Twitty spent the summer in Europe with 
Nell Buchanan, '22. Amy will teach again this 
winter in Miami. 

Margaret Wade is teaching again in Surgoins- 
ville, Tenn. 

Helen Wayt has moved to 1251 Peachtree St., 
Apt. C-4, Atlanta, of course. Where else in the 
world would people name the main street "Peach- 
tree" ? 

Ellen Wilson spent the summer at home in Vir- 
ginia and is now in New York where she is com- 
pleting work on her master's degree at New 
York University and studying at the Biblical Sem- 
inary. 

Lila Boswell, ex '21, is now Mrs. James Bayard 
Carson, 1091 Blvd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Mary Olive (Gunn) Howard, ex '21, has three 
little girls  Mary Olive, 6 ; Beverlyn, 4 ; and 
Jeanne, 2. Mr. Howard is the assistant tax col- 
lector of DeKalb County. 

Louise Jones, ex '21, is now Mrs. Stephen Mc- 
Giffert. Her husband is an army officer, stationed 
at present at Fort Sill, Ark. 

Marion Park, ex '21, is spending the winter at 
812 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 

Claire Louise (Scott) Beall's father died in 
October after a very short illness. 

Nell (Upshaw) Gannon, ex '21, is principal of 
the high school in McCormick, S. C. 
1922 
It is so good to hear directly from our own 
particular "daughters" that being class secretary 
is a privilege. For days each mail has held let- 
ters, no two from any one state in any one day. 
Sealed, there was no way to choose which to 
open first, so they were opened all at once, ripped 
open. Unsealed, they were read all at once, and 
this is what they said : 

Jeanette (Archer) Neal has been very ill for 
several months at her father's hospital in Mon- 
treal N. C. 



"Do announce the arrival of Samuel Barton 
Claytor, Sept. 9," brother of Helen, "now almost 
two." Their mother, Helen (Barton) Claytor, 
and father are moving to Quincey, Fla., Oct. 20, 
where "Ed" will be rector of St. Paul's church. 
Their address will be, St. Paul's Rectory, Quincey, 
Fla. Do you suppose Helen has forgotten "Bar- 
ton's Brewery" of Silhouette fame? Those of '22 
who lived on second floor Inman have not. 

The other partner in the "Brewery," Mary, has 
gone to Baltimore to be reference assistant of the 
Enoch Pratt Free Library, after spending part 
of the summer with Helen at their family home in 
Sewanee. She is "delighted with my new job." 
Her present address is, 809 Cathedral St., Balti- 
more, Md. 

Since the days when she took all our money, 
almost painlessly, for the budget, it was written 
that Liz Brown would acquire an unusual job, 
and handle it. Her very businesslike stationery 
says: "Miss Elizabeth Brown, County Welfare 
Worker, Executive Secretary Red Cross, Juvenile 
Probation Officer, Phone 1464, Albany, Ga." 
Wouldn't you know that Liz would do some- 
thing as unexpected as that, and aren't you glad 
she wasn't Juvenile Probation Officer on Little 
Girl Day when we took red apples to Anglo- 
Saxon class ? She says, "I'm chasing truants from 
morning 'till night." She promises details later. 

Nell Buchanan, as usual, is doing a dozen 
things at once. She manages a bridge party with 
one hand and writes to '22 with the other, in the 
meantime planning more European travel  two 
more trips immediately, one in the spring to the 
Mediterranean, sailing April 17, then a general 
European tour in the summer, sailing June 23. 
Let's go, too ! She half plans to go to Agnes 
Scott this fall. Let's go, too ! 

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson and her small daugh- 
ter, spent the summer in the mountains at Little 
Switzerland, N. O, and now she is building a 
new house and going to parties for brides-to-be. 
Her excuse for not writing more is characteris- 
tic of many of us, and made one of us homesick 
for Agnes Scott, "Then everything has started 
meeting again  we are having committee meet- 
ings, etc., every minute, it's as bad as college." 
She adds, "I hope to get to Atlanta and out to 
school sometime this winter. It's hard enough 
to move around after you get a husband, and 
when you get a baby  it's harder still." She 
and Nell  and all of us  had better be planning 
now to "get to Atlanta" in the spring of 1929. 

Gena (Callaway) Merry, after going by boat 
last summer from Savannah to New York and 
returning by motor, has just experienced the anti- 
climax of having tonsils removed. She will be at 
the Georgia-Tech game in Atlanta. 

Sue Cureton had to take her summer trip in 
a rolling chair, because of her arthritis, and her 
winter plans consist of a big chair, a fire, an 
exciting book, and our part of the Quarterly. 
"I hope you can find lots of news to write about 
the rest of '22. I'll enjoy that immensely." And 
there's no news of some of us ! Surely these will 
be present in the next issue. Sue says the most 
shocking news of her is the loss of fifty pounds  
that we wouldn't know her. Try us and see  in 
1929! 

Edythe (Davis) Croley, says that her past, 
present and future plans center in the rearing 
of a daughter. Since May, 1922, she has "re- 
ceived a certificate from the Carnegie Library 
School, June, 1923, spent the summer in Maine, 
worked seven months with the Georgia Library 
Commission and married in June, 1924." Now, 
"I'm just one more perfectly contented and happy 
wife and mother." 

Mary Floding had an exciting month with 
Elizabeth Wilson in New York last summer. She 
went up by boat to Boston, attended a dinner- 
dance for Chamberlain, "did" New York  in fact, 
went to Saratoga for the races, to Atlantic City, 
to Virginia, and home, en route to Jacksonville 
to be maid-of-honor in Mary Goodrich's wedding. 
To think that all that was in Mary's head when 
she went demurely out to Agnes Scott for the 
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do ! She is back at work in Atlanta now. 

Ellen French went to Canada last summer, is 
teaching in Thomasville, Ga., this winter, and 
says, "of course," she is about to be married ! 
That's all she said ! 

"We are four, now," says Otto (Gilbert) Wil- 
liams. "Glenn's (my 2-year-old son) little sister 
arrived on July 8. Her name is Nell and she has 
auburn curls." The family took a short trip to 
Washington the first of September, and they 
are planning to move this fall. After four years 
at Benns Church, they are anxiously awaiting the 
verdict of the Methodist Conference at Danville, 
November 10, as to their new home. She promises 
us her new address as soon as she knows it 
herself. She hopes to see Jessie (Watts) Dunton 
at the Conference, her husband also being a mem- 
ber. 

Ivylyn Girardeau is teaching at Silliman College, 
Clinton, La., this year, planning to return to Tu- 
lane next year for the fearful Junior year of 
medical school. She says teaching is play com- 
pared with medicine. She has passed her examina- 
tions for foreign-mission service, and hopes to be 
in China about four years from now. We hope 
she'll come to reunion before she goes. 

Frances Harper is "fast in the clutches of the 
'dead monarchs,' " finishing her last two hours and 
thesis for an M. A. in history, at L. S. U., and 
teaching high school Latin in Baton Rouge, La. 
Her thesis is a translation from a mediaeval 
Latin historical document. She and Otto Gilbert 
are just 30 miles from each other. Her address 
in Batin Rouge is 525 Jackson Street. 

Lilburne Ivey spent the summer abroad, and is 
teaching in Greenwood, Miss., again this winter. 
She was so busy scolding the secretary that she 
forgot to add details about herself. 

Julia Jameson spent six weeks last summer at 
Columbia University, coming home down the At- 
lantic and stopping at Charleston and Jackson- 
ville. This winter she is teaching Latin and 
Physical Education in the Franklin High School. 

Juanita Kelly motored to Washington, D. O, 
last summer and is now teaching at Cumberland 
Mountain School, Crossville, Tenn. 

Mary Knight's mother has been very ill, but 
she has taken time to remember us. '22 is plan- 
ning surprise and she is pledged to help. So are 
we all ! In the years, 1918-1922, we weren't very 
athletic, but we managed to finish everything 
else we started. And we can yet. So please look 
forward to your mail  and answer it. We've 
proved our loyalty before. We shall again  '22 ! 

Roberta (Love) Brower has become a Virginian, 
moving from Winston-Salem to 3414 Monument 
Ave., Richmond, and is keeping house for the first 
time in four years of married life. She sends 
news of a number of A. S. C. girls well-known 
to '22. She, with Nannie Campbell, '23, saw Ellen 
Wilson, Margaret Wade, and Peg Bell, plus hus- 
band and children  all of '21  in Lexington in 
July. Elizabeth Hoke, '23, visited her in July. 
Eloise (Knight) Jones, '23, and her husband are 
living in Richmond. Margaret (McLean) Mc- 
Laurin's husband is in medical school in Rich- 
mond and Margaret is with him. Louise Slack 
("Crip"), '21, is also in Richmond, and Char- 
lotte McMurray, ex '24, is at the training school 
there. Roberta and Nannie are planning to have 
a meeting of them all soon. Wouldn't Roberta 
make a good class secretary ! 

Mr. and Mrs. Judson Manly, of Dalton, Ga., 
announce the birth on October 17 of Mary Mc- 
Lellan Manly, weighing six and a quarter 
pounds. 

Susan Malone is working in Greenwood, Miss. 

Frances Oliver spent two weeks in Atlanta and 
two months at Camp Dixie in the North Georgia 
mountains this summer. She is teaching math 
and history in Plains High School, "getting fat 
in spite of it all !" 

Ruth Pirkle is one of the Agnes Scott faculty 
who subscribed to the "off the campus" movement 
this fall. She is living with relatives in At- 
lanta and commutes. 

Emma Proctor was married August 24 to Mr. 
Ernest Dudley Newton, a cotton man from Lan- 



caster, S. C, where Emma has been teaching 
Latin for the past few years. 

After a strenuous year of graduate work, Ruth 
Scandett is enjoying a five-months' vacation. 
She spent last winter at the University of Wis- 
consin, and last summer as Director of Students- 
in-Industry in Chicago under the National Student 
Y. W. C. A. Council. Then a short vacation 
at a farm in the North Carolina mountains, and 
now she is visiting Dick, '24, at Agnes Scott. 
Then she will be in Tallahassee, Fla., for ten 
days, after which she will visit her sister in Mobile 
until January  then  "uncertain." 

'22 announces the marriage of Miss Merle Sellers 
to Mr. Timothy Houston Faulk at Samson, Ala. 
(her present address), June 15, 1927. Viola 
(Hollis) Oakley was a guest at the wedding. After 
an exciting New York, Quebec, Boston honey- 
moon, Merle is keeping house in an equally excit- 
ing bungalow. She has lost trace of Catherine 
Haugh and wants news of her. Please ! 

Margaret (Smith) Lyon spent last May in New 
York and Providence (Really, New York is a 
sort of suburb of Agnes Scott!) and had a short 
trip to the Ozarks in the summer. Now she is 
looking after home and family  three and a 
half year old Roy  at 2221 Court Ave., Memphis, 
Tennessee. 

Althea Stephens is back at Logan College as di- 
rector of music. 

Louie Dean Stephens Hays is in Memphis now, 
97 North Belvedere being her new address. She 
has seen Margaret (Smith) Lyons and "Peanut" 
Rowe, of good old Blackfriar days. Louie Dean 
motored through North Carolina this summer. 
She hopes for a Memphis Agnes Scott Club and 
is eager for suggestions. She supplied more than 
her share of pep at our May reunion, but the rest 
of us won't be missing in 1929. 

Laurie Belle Stubbs is teaching at the Emory 
High School and working for her master's degree 
at Emory University. She is living at 306 El- 
mira PI., N. E., Atlanta. 

Emily Thomas came over to Atlanta for the 
Tech-Alabama football game in October. She is 
still enthusiastic over her work as probation officer 
in Selma, Ala. 

Sarah Till  the new class secretary  is suffering 
from writer's cramp ! She had the time of her 
life last summer putting on "The Old Peabody 
Pew" in her small home town, with a cast of 
matrons who had never before appeared on the 
stage. The authentic costumes were furnished 
by the town at large, and everybody else did the 
work! (Sarah is the best class secretary ever! 
'22 is lucky to have her!) 

Ruth Virden is back with the Y. in Wilmington, 
North Carolina. 

Ethel Ware is still teaching at North Avenue 
Presbyterian School in Atlanta. 

Alice (Whipple) Lyons would also make an 
excellent secretary ! Her young daughter, just a 
few days old, kept us from having Alice at re- 
union. Next time we shall have Alice and Alice 
II. At a party given the other day by Cama 
(Burgess) Clarkson's mother for Alethea Bland, 
sister of Margaret Bland, '20, she saw Margaret, 
Helen Wayt, '21, and Louise (Felker) Mizell, '19. 
Alice sees frequently Elizabeth (Pruden) Fagan, 
'19, whose young son is just nine days older than 
Alice Whipple II ; Georgia (Weaver) Wigginton, 
ex '22, has moved to Nashville, Tenn. ; Ruth Evans 
visited Christine in Atlanta not long ago and 
plans to be in Fort Valley this winter; Faustelle 
(Williams) Kennedy with her 4-year-old son and 
1-year-old daughter spent the summer with her 
mother in Cordele, and plans to return to Florida 
this month; "Thelma (Cook) Turton lives in 
Vienna, Ga., and has a little boy about sixteen 
months old." And Alice says a young mother 
can talk of nothing but "baby" ! Alice's new 
address is, 1420 Peachtree, Apt. 38, Atlanta. 

Elizabeth Wilson writes: "I have just gotten 
back from Chicago where I did some of the fight 
stuff from the woman's viewpoint, and the latter 
part of this week I am to go down to Baltimore 
for a feature story. I have the personal responsi- 
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me have to spend hours of research in the 
library. Then too there is the never-ending pub- 
licity writing we have to keep at constantly." 
Elizabeth is with the Newspaper Feature Service, 
Inc., of New York. She will visit in Atlanta in 
November. 

Lucy (Wootten) Wiegand studied at Duke Uni- 
versity during the summer session. She is teach- 
ing again this winter in Durham, N. C. 

Betty (Brown) Sydnor, ex '22, and Charlie Syd- 
nor announce the birth of their first son, Charles 
Sackett Sydnor, Jr., on August 16th, in Oxford, 
Mississippi. 

Lillie (Maril) Jacobs, ex '22, has moved to 818 
S. Oregon Ave., Tampa, Fla. 

Helene Norwood, ex '22, was married on June 
22 in Asheville, to Mr. Claud John Lammers, of 
Cleveland, Ohio. Helen Hall, '21, was maid of 
honor. After a honeymoon in the North Carolina 
mountains, the Lammers are at home at 327 
Adams Street, Decatur, Ga. Mr. Lammers, who 
is a landscape architect, is a graduate of Massa- 
chusetts Tech, and has done post graduate work 
in the Arnold Arboratum in Boston. 

Dorothy Speake, ex '22, is just at present teach- 
ing English to three Brazilian girls in Switzerland. 
Until January her address is Hotel Beau Rivage, 
Lausanne, Switzerland. She serves as chaperone 
for them, too  takes them shopping, to tea, and 
to dances. 

Georgia (Weaver) Wigginton, ex '22, has moved 
to Nashville. Her little daughter was born in 
October. 

Died  Ruth Keiser, beloved member of the class 
of '22, in Birmingham, Ala., on October 18, 
1927. 

1923 

Clara Mae and Imogene Allen are both at home 
this winter. Imogene is teaching in the De- 
catur High School. 

Ruth Almond is teaching at the Coffee High 
School in Florence, Ala. She and Julia Pope, 
'25, are rooming together. 

Nannie Campbell is cashier for the Virginia 
Life and Casualty Company in Richmond. 

Minnie Lee (Clarke) Cordle's husband is pro- 
fessor of history and German at the Junior College 
in Augusta. She is busy with Charles Clarke 
Cordle, who will be three years old in Febru- 
ary. 

Eileen (Dodd) Sams frequently drives out to 
the Alumnae House in her big new Buick. 

Helen (Faw) Mull and Maud (Foster) Jackson, 
once roommates in Main Building, are reunited 
after several years separation. Dr. Mull has ac- 
cepted an appointment on the staff of the medi- 
cal school of Western Reserve University in Cleve- 
land, where Maud and her husband have been 
living for some years. Helen writes: "Maud 
was wonderful about helping us find a place to 
live and getting us settled. After the tiny apart- 
ment in Iowa City, we feel quite expansive with 
a front porch, back porch, and yard all our 
own." 

Phillippa Gilchrist has a leave of absence from 
Agnes Scott and is doing graduate work in 
physics at the University of Wisconsin. She and 
Miss Howson are living together at the Irving, 
415 Sterling Place, Madison, Wis. 

Mary Goodrich was married on September 17 
in Jacksonville, Fla., to Mr. Alfred Poston 
Meredith, of Boston, Mass. 

Brooks Grimes was a member of the party of 
Agnes Scott students and alumnae chaperoned to 
Europe this summer by Miss Gaylord. 

Emily Guille is director of young peoples work 
with the First Presbyterian church in Spartan- 
burg, S. C. She lives at 127 Alabama Street. 

Quenelle Harrold sailed for Europe during the 
early summer with her aunt. She is now in 
Paris and is planning to return to America just 
before Christmas. Mail will reach her care the 
American Express, 11 Rue Scribe. 

Viola (Hollis) Oakley has never announced the 
arrival of her son in the Quarterly. Little Marion 
is over a year old now, and is the chubby, blue- 
eyed, curley-haired type. 



Lucie Howard is at home in Lynchburg, Va. 

Eleanor Hyde is studying in New York during 
the winter. 

Eloise Knight was married in August at a love- 
ly outdoor ceremony at Nacoochee to Mr. Wal- 
lace Theodore Jones, of Richmond, Va. Evelyn 
Knight, ex '29, was her sister's maid of honor, 
and Adah Knight, ex '28 ; Genevieve Knight, '29, 
and Mary Stewart McLeod, '23, were bridesmaids. 
Mr. Jones is assistant superintendent of the Ma- 
sonic Orphans home in Richmond. 

Elizabeth (Lockhart) Davis spent a month in 
New York during the summer. She is living now 
at 220 S. Church St., Decatur, Ga. 

Marjorie (Lowe) Haley is living in Atlanta, at 
373 Moreland Ave., N. E., Apt. 3. Her husband is 
with the Western Union Telegraph Company. 

Lois McClain studied at the University of Geor- 
gia summer school for six weeks, and is now 
teaching playground and recreation work in the 
public school system of Birmingham, Ala. She 
and "Pat" Turner (ex '24) are living together. 
"Pat" is teaching art. 

Beth (McClure) McGeachey is living in Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. Her husband is studying at 
the University of Edinburgh. 

Hilda McConnell is teaching in the Atlanta 
Normal School again. 

Hall (McDougald) Terry is living at 1409 N. 
Osceola, Clearwater, Fla. She has a baby daugh- 
ter, Patsy Terry, whose mother declares she_ is 
quite as peppy a young lady as her name would 
imply. 

Mary Stewart McLeod visited Eileen (Dodd) 
Sams and Helen (Norwood) Lammers, ex '22, in 
Decatur in September. She will be at home this 
winter. 

Fredeva Ogletree visited Viola (Hollis) Oakley 
in Columbia, Ala., in the early summer. Freddy 
will teach in Valdosta this winter. 

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

Catherine Shields is teaching in Albany, Ga. 

Nancy Trippe was married on October 29 at 
All Saints Church in Atlanta to Mr. Alexander 
Capie Shand, Jr. Mr. Shand is in the real estate 
and contracting business in Philadelphia. They 
sailed immediately for a honeymoon in Europe, 
and will be at home after December at Burr 
Oaks, Merion, Pa. 

Margaret Turner was married on September 
20 in Pelham, Ga., to Mr. Thomas Eskridge Twitty. 
Amy Twitty, '21, Virginia Burt, '24, and Christine 
Turner, ex '25, were bridesmaids. Mr. Twitty 
is a graduate of Georgia Tech and the Yale Law 
School, and is now a member of the law firm of 
Armbeicht and Hand in Mobile. Margaret's ad- 
dress is 1308 Azalea Street. 

Eva (Wassum) Cunningham has moved to 1820 
Lower St., Columbia, S. C. 

Sarah Bryan, ex '23, has left her position as 
director of the Girl Scouts in Tampa and is 
studying in New York this winter. 

Mary White Caldwell, ex '23, after a hair-rais- 
ing escape from China with only as much bag- 
gage as she could carry on her back, is at 300 
Argyle Ave., Pueblo, Colo. 

Anna Harwell, ex '23, is instructor in violin, 
theory, and harmony at the Atlanta Conservatory 
of Music. 

Mart Hay, ex '23, spent the summer in Europe 
again, attending the Geneva School of Interna- 
tional Studies, and looking in on the conference 
of new education fellowship in Locarno, Switzer- 
land. Mart is back at the Katherine Branson 
School in California this winter, as resident 
mistress and teacher of 8th and 9th grade Eng- 
lish. 

Margaret (McLean) McLaurin, ex '23, is back in 
Richmond, Va., where her husband is a medical 
student. 

Dolores Moragues, ex '23, is now Mrs. Robert 
Edward Williams, Jr., of Chickasaw, Ala. She 
was married in 1924. 

1924 

Attie Alford is teaching again in Ocala, Fla. 
She spent her summer in being lazy except for 
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a tour through the North, visiting Detroit, 
Niagara, Toronto, New York City, Philadelphia, 
Atlantic City, and Washington. Attie has in her 
class in Ocala a little boy whose mother studied 
under Miss McKinney. She told Attie she knew 
she was a good teacher if she was one of Miss 
McKinney's old pupils. 

Francis Amis is living at Morgan Apts. 6, El 
Dorado, Ark. 

Emily Arnold was married the first part of 
October, so we magnanimously forgive her for 
neglecting to answer the letter asking for class 
news. 

Elizabeth Askew is studying in New York. She 
and Frances Gardner, '25, are living together. 

Janice Brown and Mary Hemphill Greene, and 
Margery Speake, '25, have an apartment together 
in New York, while the three of them are study- 
ing at Columbia. Janice is doing library work, 
and Mary and Margery are working on their 
master's degrees in English. Their address is Apt. 
8, 430 W. 119th St. 

Virginia Burt went from '24's reunion to be 
bridesmaid in Gertrude Green's wedding. From 
there she went on to New York for a visit, and 
then on a house-party on the Leviathan to Bos- 
ton, as guest of Captain and Mrs. Hartley. Vir- 
ginia is at home in Opelika this winter. 

Helen Lane Comfort visited that adored brother 
in Milwaukee this summer. She is back as 
librarian at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S. 
C, now. She writes : "I plan to sail in August 
of next year for Europe, travel around in a leisure- 
ly fashion 'till January, and then settle in a 
French provincial university to study French until 
June. If you know of anyone who would like 
to join me on such a jag, let me know." 

Beulah Davidson studied at the University of 
Georgia during the summer. She is back at Tate, 
and has become very interested in the dramatic 
club there. 

Marguerite Dobbs is teaching again at East 
Point. Her address is Ware St., East Point, Ga. 

Martha (Eakes) Matthews is spending this year 
in Chicago, where her husband is serving his 
interneship in a Chicago hospital. Martha has 
amused herself by teaching a young Japanese 
student to speak English. Her address is 210 
S. Ashland Blvd., Chicago, 111.  

Nancy Evans is teaching at home this winter, 
and turning her attention to a number of things 
she never bothered about during college days. 
More from Nancy anon, as Shakespeare might say. 

Katie Frank Gilchrist spent the summer travel- 
ing over the United States. She is at home this 
winter, keeping books in a cotton business. 

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes returned in Septem- 
ber from a summer in Europe. Among other in- 
teresting experiences she was in Brussels for the 
celebration of their Kirmiss. She brought back 
some lovely purchases, and the very latest thing 
in a Paris bob ! 

Margaret (Griffin) Williams spent several weeks 
in Atlanta this summer where friends saw for 
themselves the perfections of Lewis, Jr. She is 
leading a busy mother's life in Birmingham. 

Jo Havis is changing her career from kinder- 
garten to the business world, but fortunately she 
can still be at home. Jo has had a lovely trip 
to New York and to Cuba. 

Elizabeth Henry says that if the class secretary 
really wants to know just how she spent her 
summer, she can give an itemized account. 
"One week in the Berkshires, three days in New 
York City, eight weeks abroad from Spain and 
Africa to Norway and Sweden, three weeks in 
Kentucky and Alabama  one in Louisville, one 
in Bowling Green and one in Anniston, with 
Nonie (Peck) Booth." The addition of all these 
weeks and days makes a prodigious long summer, 
E. We may call in one of our mathematical ex- 
perts, like Katie Frank, to check up on your idea 
of how many days make a summer anyway ! E. 
is teaching again at Tubman High in Augusta. 

Vic Howie studied at the University of North 
Carolina during the summer. She is teaching 



again at Union, S. C. Forty Shillings reward to 
any member of '24 who can produce a letter that 
Vic has written to her since graduation ! 

Barron Hyatt has entered the University of 
Virginia Hospital to study nursing. 

Marion (Johnson) Merritt says she is having the 
joy of living in her own house of dreams, which 
has recently been completed. Also, her son has 
his first tooth. 

"Speedy" King was married on October 23 to 
Mr. Harry Day Wilkins, at Bay View, Va. 

Sarah Kinman went to Emory University Sum- 
mer school and said that about half of Agnes 
Scott was there. She is at home teaching for 
the fourth year. 

Vivian Little studied at the Middlebury Col- 
lege summer school and talked and read only 
French for six weeks. She and Margaret Phythian, 
'16, were together. After school she went to 
Montreal sightseeing, then stopped in New York 
for a visit to Elizabeth McCarrick, ex '24. Eliz- 
abeth is now head of the children's department in 
one of the branch libraries in New York. Vivian 
helped her with the final proofreading for the 
book of children's poems that Elizabeth has com- 
piled and that Dutton published in October. It 
is a most attractive volume, and you mothers 
in '24 who will buy copies for your offspring, 
might get Elizabeth to autograph them for you. 

Lilian (McAlpine) Butner writes "We are com- 
fortably fixed in a new house, and are enjoying 
our new furniture. I revel in the shining white- 
ness of my new gas stove and kitchen cabinet and 
table, and all my gleaming pots and pans. 
(And I wonder how long they'll stay that way ! 
It's up to me, you know.)" Lil's new address is 
302 S. Church St., Winston-Salem, N. C. 

Mary McCurdy is teaching in Stone Mountain. 

Margaret McDow is a member of the faculty of 
Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S. C. 

Mary (Mann) Boon writes that she is the hap- 
piest married person in the world, and that after 
ten months of married life she can make edible 
biscuits. 

Cora Morton was married on August 3 to Mr. 
James Frazer Durrett at a beautiful outdoor cere- 
mony at her home near Athens, Ga. Dick Scan- 
drett, '24, and Reba Bayless, '27, were brides- 
maids, and Mary Ella Hammond, '26, kept the 
bride's book. On their wedding trip, the Dur- 
retts motored up through New York and New Eng- 
land and into Canada. They are now at home at 
1109 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta. Mr. Durrett is 
a graduate of Mercer, a member of the Kappa 
Alpha fraternity. He is a bond salesman con- 
nected with J. H. Hilsman and Company. In 
May, Cora was elected secretary of the General 
Alumnae Association to fill the place left vacant 
by Martha Stansfield. 

Fran (Myers) Dickely says that it feels very 
natural to be back at the old address, 112 Ya- 
mamato dori, in Kobe. She accompanied Mr. 
Dickely to Japan on a business trip and then 
stayed on for a little visit with her parents. She 
wrote in July: "I've been a widow for two days 
now, and it's no fun ! George has sailed for the 
United States, whence in a short while he is to . 
sail for Europe, so I'm staying on here through 
October and will meet him on his return to New 
York  on the dock waving a red hanky ! Mother 
and Pop and I are up here at our mountain sum- 
mer place having a cute old rustic time. Pop 
never will stay here long with us, because there 
is not enough work to do here  but Mother and I 
take to leisure !" 

Catherine (Nash) Goff is enthusiastic about mar- 
ried life. On August 20th she severed relations 
with Emory University and left for Kentucky 
where she has been ever since. During the sum- 
mer she and her husband took an auto trip to 
tour the state and to visit some of her newly 
acquired relatives. They also went to Ohio and 
Indiana. Her husband is to study in Washington 
this year and Catherine is to join him just as 
soon as he finds a place to live. He will study 
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and at the same time work on his Ph. D., after 
which he can either enter the diplomatic service 
or keep on with his teaching. Catherine says she 
will miss all the reunions if they go abroad to 
live, but she will certainly be with us in spirit. 

Virginia Ordway is teaching at home in Annis- 
ton, Ala., this winter. 

Nonie (Peck) Booth writes: "I wish you could 
drop by and help me sling dishes in the sink 
and cook biscuit. I am going to hire out as a 
professional chef before long if I continue to 
improve so rapidly. I certainly do like Anniston. 
I see Mary Evelyn (Arnold) Barker, ex '24, and 
her darling daughter, Jane, and Virginia Ordway 
all quite often. I have not had so many glimpses 
of Virge since school started. Diddie lives right 
behind me, and I see her two cherubs coming 
out of her back door now and starting for mine, 
so I am in for a noisy half hour. Then I must 
snap the beans for dinner. Can you believe it is 
Nonie Peck writing this?" 

Montine Pharr is teaching Chemistry and Biol- 
ogy at Easley, S. O, for the third year. She went 
to Europe this summer, visiting England, France, 
Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. She 
had one very thrilling experience, that of being 
caught in a fog when the ship gave a sudden lunge 
and it was discovered that it had hit an iceberg. 
The lifeboats were lowered and everyone was 
petrified, but not much damage was done. The 
ship stood still for two days. At the end of 
that time the fog lifted and the passengers saw 
to their horrow that the boat was completely 
surrounded by icebergs. 

Margaret (Powell) Gay's little daughter, Mar- 
garet, was born in September. 

Cora Richardson is teaching at Douglas, Ga. 
Dick Scandrett spent the summer working at 
Agnes Scott and visiting in Birmingham and the 
North Carolina mountains. She is back at Agnes 
Scott this year as secretary to Miss Hopkins, and 
assistant registrar. 

Daisy Frances Smith is working for her 
master's degree in History at the University of 
Pennsylvania. Her address is 3439 Woodland 
Ave., care the Red and Blue Inn, Philadelphia. 

Melissa Smith is the assistant principal of the 
school at Ormond, Fla. 

Mary Stewart is head of the Latin department in 
the Selma, Ala., High school. She is crazy about 
her work and is planning to organize an alumnae 
club in Selma. Her address is 720 Tremont 
Street. 

Polly Stone spent most of her summer working 
in the Alumnae House on the Register. Then 
she visited her mother and two brothers in south 
Georgia and New York City and reassured her- 
self that the wonderful niece and nephew are 
just as wonderful as she has been telling people 
they are. Polly attended the executive meeting of 
the American Council of Alumni and Alumnae 
Secretaries at Colgate University, and spent a day 
at Vassar College and the beautiful Vassar Alum- 
nae House. 

Elma (Swaney) Nelson is quite happily married. 
She went on a lovely trip this summer, besides 
spending quite a while on Lookout Mountain. 

Annie Will Terry is back at Lanier High School 
in Montgomery. This is her second year of teach- 
ing English there. She lives at home and so is 
very happy. 

Augusta Thomas drove down from Chicago in 
the summer and decided to stay south this winter. 
She is at home in Prattville, Ala. 

Pauline Wheeler is doing a prodigious lot of 
sewing and china painting in her busy days 
at home. 

Helen Wright writes : "I am teaching in the 
High School at Columbia, S. O, and in addition, 
am in quest of higher learning at the Uni- 
versity of South Carolina. In time, if I don't 
get too old and grey, I hope to get my master's. 
While in Hendersonville this summer I called on 
Peggy (Murphy) Gradick, ex '24, who was there 
keeping house in an apartment. Her husband 



was away then, but the baby was there in full 
force, and he was the very cutest that I have 
ever seen. Peggy is a grand little mother." 

Mary Shorter (Bardwell) Murray, ex '24, has 
a son, Leonard Ely, Jr., born April 4th, 1927. 

Augusta (Cannon) Hungerford, ex '24, has a 
young son, Clarke, Jr., born September 18th. 
Augusta is living in Charlotte now, at 500 E. 
Boulevard, but after Christmas they will move to 
Alabama. 

Alice Carr, ex '24, is teaching piano in Bain- 
bridge, Ga. 

Estelle (Chandler) Bennett, ex '24, has two 
little girls  Virginia, 3, and Frances, 1%. Mr. 
Bennett is a jeweler in Atlanta. 

Anabel Dowdy, ex '24, was married July 19 at 
home in Commerce, Ga., to Mr. William Leon 
Oliver, of Vidalia. Anabel received her B. A. 
from the University of Georgia after leaving Agnes 
Scott, and has been teaching for the past three 
years. Mr. Oliver is vice-president of the South 
Georgia Produce Company. 

Elizabeth Epes, ex '24, is teaching in Norfolk, 
Va. Her address is 1615 Colonial Avenue. 

Mattie Mae Jennings, ex '24, was married in the 
early fall to Mr. James Awtrey Seay. Mr. Seay 
is connected with the mansfield Mills in Lumber- 
ton, N. C. 

Betty Sue Lane, ex '24, is now Mrs. F. C. Ray, 
Bainbridge, Ga. 

Elizabeth Perry, ex '24, studied at Columbia 
University during the summer. She is teaching 
in Columbia, S. C. 

Marguerite Priscilla Porter, ex '24, was married 
on October 8 to Mr. Vivian Richards in Wash- 
ington, Ga. 

1925 

Frances Bitzer and Jacqueline Rolston are con- 
tinuing to disprove the theory that cousins can't 
be friends, too. They spent the summer together 
again, studying at Vanderbilt. Before returning 
to Virginia, Jack visited Montie (Sewell) Burns, 
ex '25, in Atlanta and Theta Manly in Dalton. 
Bit is teaching French again in the Mississippi 
Synodical College in Holly Springs, and since 
Margaret McDow, '24, has taken a' position at 
Winthrop College, Bit is teaching Margaret's 
classes in Bible. 

Elizabeth Blalock visited Eunice Kell in Mis- 
sissippi during the summer. She has a little 
sister, Mary, in the freshman class at Agnes Scott 
this fall, and stopped by the college on her way to 
Salem, W. Va., where she will teach science for 
the third year. 

Whenever you hear of Mary Bess Bowdoin and 
Theta Manly they are traveling over the state 
attending meetings of the Georgia Press Associa- 
tion. A lot of business may be transacted at these 
meetings, but they sound very much like pro- 
gressive house parties. Mary Bess and Theta are 
firm believers in "the power of the press." The 
Dalton newspaper, of which Theta is society edi- 
tor, won a loving cup at the state meeting as one 
of the best sheets in Georgia, and Theta was the 
proud editor who had to walk up the aisle and 
receive it. The Georgia Press Association will 
take a trip to New York next spring, so it is a 
sure thing that Mary Bess and Theta will con- 
tinue to be newspaper women at least that long. 

Idelle Bryant says : "Oh, well, one can't expect 
to go to Europe every summer"  but she should 
have had a glorious summer just the same, for 
she stayed in Fort Valley, the Peach Town, during 
the season when Georgia peaches were ripe ! 
This winter Idelle is teaching at Bushnell, Fla. 

Louise Buchanan was married at twilight on 
September 20 to Mr. Thomas Fletcher Proctor, 
Jr., formerly of Decatur. Lou wore a lovely old 
lace veil that has been in her family for gener- 
ations, and she made a most beautiful bride. After 
a motor trip through the North Carolina moun- 
tains, the Proctors are at home at 879 7th St., 
W., Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Proctor is connected 
with the G. M. A. C. there. 

Lucile Caldwell is back at Agnes Scott in the 
Biology Department, finishing up her work at 
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month this summer on a ranch in Wyoming, and 
says that after riding western horses, her Dodge 
coupe seems very tame. Sine's sister, Elmina, 
ex '30, was married in August to Mr. Dudley 
Wade, Jr., of Albany, N. Y. 

Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland is keeping 
house in an apartment at 705 Piedmont Avenue, 
K. C, in Atlanta and is supremely happy with 
home, and church and club work. She and Mr. 
McFarland motor out of town almost every week- 
end on trips that sound suspiciously like second 
honeymoons. Mary Palmer was recently elected 
secretary of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae 
Club. 

Catherine Carrier drove her family down from 
Asheville in October, and they spent a week at 
Agnes Scott visiting Virginia Carrier, '28. 

Elizabeth Cheatham is instructor in English at 
Agnes Scott. She says she sympathizes deeply 
with the freshmen in their abhorence of the daily 
theme idea, for she now has to correct them all. 

Agatha Deaver spent the summer in Brevard, 
N. C, with her family, and is spending this 
winter in Tampa with them. "I have been doing 
some substitute teaching in the High Schools 
here, otherwise I am not doing much of anything 
but acting as chauffeur for the family. I enjoy 
seeing Floy Sadler, who is working in the library 
here, and Sarah Tate, who is teaching in Bartow, 
near Tampa." 

Ruth (Drane) Tatum has moved to 209 14th 
St., Columbus, Ga. "I am teaching English in the 
Phenix City, Ala., High school, just across the 
river and state line from Columbus. I am also 
still happily married and as fat as ever." Ruth 
studied at Auburn this summer. 

Araminta Edwards is still with the Retail Credit 
Company in Atlanta. 

Isabel Ferguson received her master's degree 
in history from the University of Chicago in Sep- 
tember.' She visited Agnes Scott in the early 
fall and is teaching now in the Western Ken- 
tucky State Teachers College in Bowling Green, 
Ky. Her address is 1405 State Street. 

Sarah Fullbright is working on her master's de- 
gree at Emdry University and living at home. 

Frances Gardner did community work with the 
Cuba district Presbyterian Church in south Geor- 
gia all summer, then left in September with Eliz- 
abeth Askew, '24, to spend the winter studying in 
New York. Frances will do part-time library 
work. Her address is 235 E. 49th St. 

Alice (Greenlee) Grollman has moved from Gil- 
more Street in Jacksonville. Will someone please 
send her new address to the Alumnae office? 

Elizabeth Griffin writes : "Honestly, the effort 
of working in bridge parties, horseback rides, 
teas, cross-country car trips (on these perfect 
North Carolina roads, to which after having 
passed the greater portion of my adulthood bump- 
ing over the Georgia specimens, I cannot become 
accustomed), semi-daily trips to the drugstore, 
shopping excursions to Charlotte, picture shows 
and all of the remaining glitter of the present- 
day world, and still managing to find spare 
moments in which to teach, is proving too great 
a problem for my feeble brain to fathom. I am 
staying with my aunt and uncle here, in their 
new home, with everything to delight my soul  
from a bowl of goldfish to an automobile." Lit's 
address is 401 W. Franklin St., Monroe, N. C. 
Incidentally, Monroe is the town where Lit made 
her initial bow to the world, back in the nine- 
teen-somethings. 

Louise Hannah was married on July 23 to Mr. 
Holland R. Melson, a fabric technician with the 
Goodrich Tire Company. Their address is 54 W. 
Portage Path, Akron, Ohio. 

How many times do two friends in college plan 
to work together after graduation, and how seldom 
any two do ! But Ruth Harrison and Tootsie 
Janes have made a reality of all their planning. 
They are in charge of the advertising for Rich 
department store in Atlanta, and have an office 
together. 

Vera Hickman, Emmie Saxon, and Myra Sadler, 
ex '27, are studying at Columbia University. They 



are living at Johnson Hall together. Vera is 
working for her master's degree in psychology, 
and seeing New York in her spare moments. Myra 
is studying at the Fifth Avenue Hospital. 

Sallie Horton is teaching geography and 
science in Birmingham, Ala. Her address is 2714 
Pine Ave., S., "Grace Carr, '27, and I are to- 
gether. We have loads of Agnes Scott girls here 
and have many good times. I visited Grace and 
Bit this summer in Montreat and saw Theta Man- 
ly and Jack Rolston and a lot more Agnes Scott 
alumnae. We talked ourselves sick, but it was 
worth all the after effects to have another good 
old Agnes Scott session." 

Martha Jackson writes : "After a month at 
camp at Roaring Gap, North Carolina, and two 
months of rest at home, I am beginning my 
third year of teaching at Winston-Salem. Five 
classes of Latin, a study hall, and a troop of 
Girl Scouts keep me quite busy." 

Ruth Johnston is teaching Latin and history 
in Lanier Girls High school in Macon. She and 
Anne McKay had an apartment in New York for 
a month this summer, and Ruth says that in that 
one month she spent every cent she saved all last 
year. "But," she adds, "it was worth it ; we saw 
New York." Ruth and Frances Buchanan, '27, 
visited Ruth's sister, Baby Sara, '28, at Agnes 
Scott in September. 

Dot Keith is teaching again in Abbeville, S. C. 

Eunice Kell is teaching history and civics in the 
high school in Pascagoula, Miss. Kell had another 
of her famous houseparties on the gulf this sum- 
mer. 

Margaret Ladd was at home in Cheraw all sum- 
mer except for a short visit to Helen Wright. 
"I am going to stay at home this winter and 
take a vacation from school and teaching, which 
has been my program for the winter since I 
was the tender age of six." 

Georgia May Little is writing ads for J. P. 
Allen Company in Atlanta. 

After that memorable month in New York with 
Ruth, Anne McKay is teaching again at home 
in Macon. 

Mary Anne McKinney spent the summer in New 
England, and in visiting Virginia Peeler, '26, and 
Lib Norfleet, '27. Mac stopped by Agnes Scott 
on her way home to teach again this winter 
in Texas. 

Thela Manly is leader or secretary or presi- 
dent of just about every Girl Scout troop and 
woman's club and missionary society in Dalton. 
As society editor of Dalton's newspaper, she has 
a drag with all the town's hostesses and she 
spends all the time that is left driving to Chatta- 
nooga and Atlanta to football games, and poring 
over Roget's  Thesaurus for new terms to de- 
scribe table decorations and wedding parties. 

Lillian Middlebrooks writes : "I spent the sum- 
mer at Emory University, nearing the last lap 
of my master's degree work. At present I am 
teaching again in the East Point High school." 
Lillian's address is 129 W. Princeton, College Park, 
Georgia. 

Frances Moore is back in Tennille, Ga., teaching 
French and algebra. "My summer was rather un- 
eventful. I did have two delightful camping trips 
which strengthened the belief that I have always 
had that I was meant to be a gypsy, because I 
like nothing better than camping. We went from 
one extreme of Georgia to the other, first camping 
on an island  a sort of Robinson Crusoe affair, 
off the coast of Brunswick, and then up in the 
mountains at Lakemont. Most of my vacation I 
spent at home in Atlanta." 

Ruth Owen is teaching Latin and French in 
the high school at Avon, N. Y. 

Martha Pennington writes : "I am teaching 
math in junior high school, and chemistry in 
senior high. The work is very pleasant, in spite 
of the fact that we have about eight hundred 
enrolled, and some are from all kinds of homes 
and all kinds of people. How I should love to 
step in and see everybody at Agnes Scott !" Martha 
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Eugenia (Perkins) Harlow says: "My first wed- 
ding anniversary is almost here. We are keeping 
house in a three-room apartment, where I am chief 
cook and bottle washer and everything else. I 
really am getting so I can cook a meal without 
wondering whether Tom will be able to live 
through eating it." 

Walkie Perry: "I stayed at home most of the 
summer, and this winter I am still enjoying being 

Lucile (Phippen) Shingler says: "We have had 
a busy time of it this summer, though I suppose it 
is the preacher's family's regular routine-^ holding 
revivals, entertaining company, paying visits, etc. 
Among other things, I have taken in two regular 
old-fashioned Methodist camp meetings and they 
are certainly experiences of a lifetime." 

Mildred Pitner spent a delightful summer "visit- 
ing' eight foreign countries and learning how 
small the world is after all. The week before I 
left, I was a bridesmaid in Mary Hewlett's wed- 
ding. Katie Frank Gilchrist, '24, and Lois (Pol- 
hill) Smith, ex '22, were also attendants. I am 
once more the daughter of the family this year, 
and surprising to say, I am finding a great many 
things to keep me busy. I am thoroughly en- 
joying life." 

Julia Pope is teaching math at the Coffee High 
school in Florence, Ala. She is rooming with Ruth 
Almond, '23, at 204 W. Tuscaloosa Street. "There 
are about twenty Agnes Scott girls in this dis- 
trict, and we are going to form an Agnes 
Scott club soon." 

Catherine Randolph is teaching kindergarten in 
Asheville, N. C. 

Maria Rose writes : "I am teaching again this 
winter. Have five classes of seventh grade 
math  about a hundred and sixty-five children 
a day. I'm still saving to go to Europe and 
hope to make it some time in the near future. 
I didn't do much of anything this summer. Did 
spend two weeks at Montreat and saw lots of 
Agnes Scott girls. We had an A. S. C. luncheon 
one day." 

Floy Sadler was at home in Oakland, Fla., this 
summer until the first of July. "I was having a 
good old time at home and for once in my life was 
playing bridge as often and as long as I wanted, 
for bridge parties were our chief source of 
amusement, with some swimming, tennis and golf. 
Then the first of July I took a position with the 
Tampa Public Library in the reference depart- 
ment. I am staying on here in Tampa this winter, 
living at the Cargyle Inn. Sarah Tate, who is 
teaching over at Bartow  forty miles from here  
runs over for week-ends. Agatha Deaver is living 
here, and Brownie Smith runs up from Wauchula 
quite frequently to visit her sister." 

Emmie Saxon is working in the New York Pub- 
lic Library. 

Elizabeth Shaw is back in Gainesville, Fla., 
teaching. 

Carolyn (Smith) Whipple has the most adorable 
little dark-haired baby daughter. She says : "I 
hate to write a letter now because my communi- 
cation revolves chiefly around such topics as 
orange juice, cream of wheat, and cod liver oil. 
I realize, however, that the majority of the class 
won't be interested, so I'll spare them. Suffice it 
to say that Barbara is a most interesting per- 
son  to me, anyway. She and I are both looking 
forward to the Baby Show in the spring, particu- 
larly since we are under the impression that most 
of the class babies are boys. Even at the tender 
age of five months she has already showed a de- 
cided preference for the stronger sex. Elizabeth 
(Lockhart) Davis, '23, and I have worked out a 
very nice system of co-operative housekeeping. It 
is working fine, and anyone interested may com- 
municate with us at 200 Church Street, Decatur, 
and find out how it's done. Best wishes to the 
rest of '25 !" 

Charlotte Smith received her M. A. in English 
at Emory University last year. She is at home 
this winter, "enjoying the life of a lady." 

Ella (Smith) Hayes is living at Brentwood, 
Tenn., in a lovely old Southern mansion, "Mid- 



way," that has been the Hayes home for four 
generations. Mr. Hayes is an alumnus of the 
University of Tennessee. 

Not content with a master's degree, Brownie 
Smith has recently topped it with a business course 
at Tampa. She is at home this winter. 

Margery Speake is working for her master's de- 
gree at Columbia. "We are having a glorious 
time. Even the housework is amusing. Mary 
and Janice are really splendid cooks. We are 
living in style on $3.25 per week per capita for 
food, and getting fat  all except Mary ; she is 
staying fat ! The work at the University is hec- 
tic. We look over the lists of examinations in 
the scrapbook in the library and tremble. But 
we are so delighted that we can even find our 
classes and understand the Northern vocabulary 
that we forget such troubles as examinations and 
go rejoicing on our way. It's a beautiful relief 
from school-teaching, at any rate." 

Emily Spivey is teaching again in Hartwell, Ga. 

Sarah Tate writes : "This summer our house 
was a regular hospital and I was the only well 
member of the family. I am now teaching Math 
in Bartow, Fla., and staying in Mary Stewart 
McLeod's home." 

Frances (Tennent) Ellis divided her summer 
between New York, Atlanta, Atlantic City, 
Charleston, Lakemont, and Augusta. 

Eugenia (Thompson) Aikin's little new daughter, 
Eugenia Lyle, born September 26, is absorbing all 
her time and thoughts right now. 

Ellen Walker is at home doing nothing this 
winter. She visited in New York and New Eng- 
land during the summer and had the good time 
that Ellen always does have of dances and 
motor trips and boat races. Ellen and Theta 
Manly spent a week together in September at 
the Alumnae House. 

Belle Walker "spent a month this summer in 
Batavia, N. Y., and also a few days in New 
York City. Then in August and the first week 
in September I was in Louisville, Ky., visiting 
the girl who married my brother on September 
10. On my way to Louisville, I spent a day with 
Frances (Tennent) Ellis in Atlanta. This year 
I am teaching again at Tubman High in Augusta. 
I have five classes of civics each day." 

Poky Wight writes : "In May I set out with 
three other girls to listen to Ghibant's interpreta- 
tion courses at the Ecole Nororde de Musique 
where I studied before, and to translate Cartot's 
piano courses for one of the three while the other 
two studied French. I visited a week in Dun- 
fernshire, Scotland, then we got to London at 
the time of the derby. We were in London when 
Lindbergh landed there. I had a contract from 
a store in Richmond to buy models for them, with 
the firm offering to pay the duty and one hundred 
per cent profit if each model was distinctive. 
I came back from Europe with thirty dresses in 
two suitcases, and they took them all ! I am 
teaching French in the high school in South 
Boston, Va." Poky's street address is 1307 Bar- 
bour Street. 

Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie is back home in 
Carthage. She writes : "I am just now beginning 
to feel strong after spending the greater part 
of August and September in bed. Three weeks 
in a hospital away from your home town and a 
serious operation are bad experiences, to say the 
least. Just as soon as I am able to do so, I 
shall start my housekeeping again. We are so 
very happy with Wilbur's mother, but keeping 
one's own new house is such fun that I can 
hardly wait to begin again." 

Mary Ben Wright left Emory last June. "I 
kept house all summer and am now doing adver- 
tising with the Macmillan Publishing Company 
in Atlanta. Am still enjoying the Alumnae Regis- 
ter, learning people's married names and ad- 
dresses." 

Emily Zellars was married on October 19 to 
Mr. Duncan Campbell McNeill. Jr., of Laurin- 
burg, N. C. Melly (Zellars) Davidson was the 
only attendant. Mr. McNeill studied law at Har- 
vard, and is practicing with his father and 
brother in Laurinburg. 



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Florence Brawley, ex '25, is teaching Latin and 
modern languages in Mooresville, N. C. 

Katherine Elizabeth Hadley, ex '25, is now at 
Ocean Springs, Miss. 

Rebecca (Harmon) Lindsey, ex '25, is living 
with her mother at 1449 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. 
E., Atlanta. Her second son was born in Sep- 
tember. 

Virginia (Perkins) Nelson, ex '25, is back in 
Nacogdoches, Texas. Her husband is a medical 
student. 

Mary Stuart (Sims) McCamy, ex '25, is keep- 
ing house in Dalton, Ga., and enjoying using 
her new car and lovely wedding presents. Mr. 
McCamy is assistant to the manager of the Dalton 
Hosiery Mills. 

Louise Tucker, ex '25, is teaching at home in 
Royston, Ga. 

Florra Parks Wheeler, ex '25, is teaching in 
Hot Springs, Ark. Her address is 641 Quapaw 
Avenue. 

1926 

Helen (Bates) Law is living at 1613 Rugby 
Road, Schenectady, N. Y. She had a beautiful 
church wedding with Virginia Browning, and Vera 
Kamper, '28, as bridesmaids. Helen's husband is a 
mechanical engineer. 

Louise Bennett is at home in Atlanta. 

Eleanor (Berger) Blumenthal's Baltimore address 
is 2508 Elsinor Ave., Walbrook. Dr. Blumenthal 
teaches mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. 

Leone Bowers was married on September 1 
at "Elmwood," Kearneysville, W. Va., to Mr. 
Clarence William Hamilton. Jack McClellan 
played the wedding march. The Hamiltons went 
to New York on their honeymoon and then drove 
south. They are living at 233 Atlanta Ave., De- 
catur, Ga. Mr. Hamilton is a statistician in the 
sales department of the Georgia Railway and 
Power Company. Before her marriage, Red studied 
this summer at the Pennsylvania Art Academy at 
Chester Springs, Pa. One of the inspiring teach- 
ers at the summer session was Mr. Daniel Garber. 

Mary Dudley Brown chaperoned a group of 
young boys and girls  Mary Martha Lybrook's 
cousins  out to their father's ranch in New Mex- 
ico, where she spent the summer. She writes : 
"We expected to be back east by now, but are 
staying to try a school for the boys here near 
Farmington (New Mexico). It took a day and a 
half to get home from Albuquerque that last trip 
we took in. We left truck, then car, and finally 
walked in the last three miles by moonlight with 
coyotes howling in the distance, to a neighbor's 
ranch where we spent the night. We shall prob- 
ably leave in a week or so now for Chicago, New 
York and Atlantic City to collect material for 
the Miami house, and recover from this wild 
western life." 

Margaret Bull is teaching history in the high 
school at Cheriton, Va., down on the eastern shore. 

Edythe Carpenter visited Helena Hermance dur- 
ing the summer. "Since returning, I have been 
busier than the proverbial one-armed paperhanger. 
Right now I am attempting to teach fifty-two 
members of the younger generation, and keep 
house for dad while mother is in Vermont." 

The coming of the first class baby is an event ! 
But 1926's first baby will never attend Agnes 
Scott ! He is Carl I. Pirkle' Jr., born September 
15, 1927. His proud mother is Betty (Chapman) 
Pirkle. 

Edythe Coleman is at home in Atlanta. 

Clarkie Davis is teaching in Columbus, Ga. 
She stayed at the Alumnae House the week-end of 
the Tech-Alabama football game. 

Ellen Fain is teaching English in the high 
school in Hendersonville, N. C. 

Elise Gay is at home in San Antonio this 
winter. She has a position as assistant to an 
analytical chemist. 

Catherine Graeber was married on October 25 
to Rev. William Crowe IV, Presbyterian minister 
of Tuscumbia, Ala. 

Juanita Greer will continue her studies in 
chemistry in the graduate school at Johns Hop- 
kins Unrversity. Her address is 307 E. 30th St., 
Baltimore. 



Virginia Grimes and Brooks Grimes, '23, were 
members of Miss Gaylord's party in Europe last 
summer. 

Helena Hermance and Lib Lilly, '27, are study- 
ing at the University of North Carolina. Helena 
is continuing work in sociology begun last year 
at the University of Toronto. She writes that 
after four years of it at Agnes Scott, the re- 
sponsibility of representing the Dominion of 
Canada still rests upon her shoulders, as she is 
the only Canadian resident in the graduate 
school. 

Sterling Johnson is doing graduate work in 
history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her 
address is 416 Sargent Hall, Philadelphia. 

Evelyn Kennedy is teaching science in the high 
school at Thomaston, Ga. 

Mary Knox is still with the Retail Credit Com- 
pany in Atlanta. She was elected president of 
the Decatur Alumnae Club at their October meet- 
ing. 

Ruth Liggin is teaching at the Scottish Rite 
Home for Crippled Children in Decatur. 

Betty Little is taking a kindergarten course at 
the Atlanta Normal School. 

Helen Clark Martin is teaching in the Rosemont 
school just a mile out from Charleston, S. C. 

Jo North is teaching in All Saints College, 
Vicksburg, Miss. 

Grace Augusta Ogden is at home in Mobile, 
Ala., this winter. 

Dorothy Owen writes : "I have a job and a 
half. Am teaching history and English and 
French, and coaching basketball at Walpole, 
New Hampshire." 

Virginia Peeler spent the summer at their home 
in Cohasset, Mass., gaining back her strength after 
the illness of last spring. She visited Edythe 
Coleman in Atlanta and Dick Scandrett, '24, at 
Agnes Scott in October. She will spend the winter 
at their home in Pasadena, Calif. 

Florence Perkins accompanied Miss Gooch to 
Boston last summer and took some work at the 
Curry School of Expression. Florence is teaching 
again at Washington Seminary in Atlanta. 

Louise Pfeiffer is steno-bookkeeper for the Geor- 
gia-Carolina School of Commerce in Brunswick, 
Georgia. 

Kathrine Pitman had a trip through the east in 
the summer, and then on September 16 was mar- 
ried to Mr. Webster Colburn Brown, of Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. 

Allene Ramage is working in the cataloging 
department at the Duke University library. 

Nellie Richardson is teaching at Warrenton, Ga. 

Sarah Slaughter is in charge of the insurance 
library in the Atlanta Hurt Building. 

Sarah Smith has moved into a lovely new home 
on Anjaco Rd., Route 6, Atlanta. Sarah has been 
supplying as organist at the North Avenue Presby- 
terian Church. 

Evelyn Sprinkle is teaching in Richmond, Va. 
She has adorable twin sisters, Mary and Martha, in 
the freshman class at Agnes Scott. 

Margaret Tufts has recently undergone an oper- 
ation for appendicitis. 

Ladie Sue Wallace decided that those who are 
busiest are happiest, so she has accepted a posi- 
tion this year in the high school at Rutledge, 
Georgia. 

Margaret Whittington is back in the Chemistry 
Department at Agnes Scott. 

Virginia Wing is a feature writer for the Hearst 
Georgian newspaper. She counsels housewives on 
such topics as draperies for the living-room, what 
to do with left-over coffee, Sunday night suppers 
that appeal to men and how to remove grease 
spots. She says it is grand fun, and that whether 
anybody else gets any help from the articles or 
not, she is certainly learning a lot herself. 

Rosalie Wootten is teaching math at Queens Col- 
lege, Charlotte, N. C. 

Melly (Zellars) Davison spent part of her time 
at Georgia's fashionable mountain resort, Lake- 
mont, Melly was the only attendant in Emily's 
wedding in October. 

Lucy (Offutt) Ulrich, ex '26, writes that there 
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scarum Hollywood  hers. And one girl in Holly- 
wood who isn't trying to break into the movies. 
Mr. Ullrich is an architectural designer. 

When Elizabeth Randolph, ex '26, motored with 
her family to the west coast in October, she had 
an idea in her head beside reaching California. On 
October 8 in Little Rock, Arkansas, she was mar- 
ried to Mr. Joseph Dill Rivers. 

May Reese, ex '26, is starting on her last year 
of nurses' training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

Johnnie Vieve Thomasson and Dr. Charles 
Robert Jones, Jr., were married in June at the 
Emory University Chapel. Marianne (Strouss) 
McConnell, '25, was matron of honor. Dr. Jones 
is a graduate of Emory and Henry college in Vir- 
ginia, and of the medical department of Emory 
University. They will live at Dorchester, Va. 

Frances Watterson, ex '26, is directing amateur 
plays in Georgia for the Wayne P. Sewell Pro- 
ducing Company. 

Margaret Shortridge Terry, ex '26, is sten- 
ographer and bank clerk for the Page Trust Com- 
pany in Hamlet, N. C. 

1927 
Just last May the one hundred and three mem- 
bers of the class of '27 were all together at Agnes 
Scott, and now, only five months later, we have 
scattered east and west and settled into various 
positions, schools and universities. Some of us 
have crossed the ocean since that never-to-be-for- 
gotten graduation day, and some few have started 
on the great adventure of matrimony and are now 
in homes of their own. But though interested in 
so many different things, though living in so many 
different cities and states and even countries, the 
love of class and college will always hold to- 
gether those who marched in cap and gown under 
the elm trees last May while the strains of Ancient 
of Days floated out across the campus. The class 
roll-call finds us engaged in the following things : 
Eleanore Albright is studying at the Normal 
School in Richmond, Va. She lives at home and 
is getting a taste of a day student's life. 

Evelyn Albright is teaching in Chipley, Ga. 
Ewin Baldwin, Maurine Bledsoe, Dorothy Cham- 
berlain, Pearl Kunnes, Hulda McNeel, Willie 
White Smith and Grace Zachry are all studying in 
New York City. Maurine is living at 549 River- 
side Drive, Apt. 4-B. Dorothy is living at home 
in Maplewood, N. J. She writes : "I'm taking the 
course in library service at Columbia this year, 
and as I am commuting, it keeps me terribly busy. 
I was glad to find a familiar face in my class   
Janice Brown, '24, is taking the same course. There 
seem to be quite a few Agnes Scott girls at Co- 
lumbia this year  that leaves only about fifteen 
thousand strangers ! Emmie Saxon, '25, is working 
in the Fordham Branch of the New York Public 
Library up in the Bronx this year. She lives in 
the same building as Janice, Mary Greene and 
Margery Speake. And they didn't know it 'till I 
discovered that they were neighbors !" Willie White 
and Hulda are living at Johnson Hall. Pearl is. 
taking a secretarial course. 

Louise Bansley is working with the Georgia 
Railway and Power Company in Atlanta. 
Reba Bayless is at home in Athens, Tenn. 
Leila Bell is teaching French and English in 
Mayo, Fla. Lucia Nimmons has science and math 
in the same school. 

Emma Bernhardt and Stella Pitman are going 
to library school in Atlanta. 

Blanche Berry is at home in Lexington, Va. 
She is amusing herself with V. M. I. and Wash- 
ington and Lee boys and says that staying at 
home isn't a bit boring. 

Jo Bridgman is teaching math and science at 
Merry Hill, N. C. She says it is not so merry 
as it sounds, as the population of the town was 
one hundred and fifty until she arrived. She is 
looked on as a public benefactor since now the 
Chamber of Commerce (if there is one) can truth- 
fully boast "population one hundred and fifty-one !" 
Frances Buchanan is teaching English in the 
Lanier Girls High School in Macon, Ga. 

Charlotte Buckland spent the summer in the 
Maine woods and is teaching this winter at home. 



Her address has been changed to 2623 Hershell 
St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Grace Carr was in Montreat for a while during 
the summer. She is teaching in Birmingham, 
Ala., and is living at 2714 Pine Ave., W., with 
Sallie Horton, '25. 

Cephise Cartwright is teaching at Gibson, N. C. 
Frances Chambers is teaching at the Peachtree 
Heights Grammar School, Atlanta. 

Lib Clark is at home this winter in West Point, 
Miss. She spent two weeks in October at Agnes 
Scott with Carolina, and declares that since she 
isn't tied at home by a job she will visit Agnes 
Scott every month. 

Lillian Clement is at home in Decatur. After 
Christmas she plans to study voice in Washington. 
Willie May Coleman was married in August to Dr. 
Glenn Duncan, of Decatur. They own a new brick 
bungalow at 605 Clairmont Ave., and Willie May 
says she is getting used to being a doctor's wife, 
and knowing that her husband not only may, but 
is always called away from every dinner party 
and bridge game she plans. 

Annette (Carter) Col well and her husband spent 
the summer in Chicago where Mr. Colwell did some 
work at the university. He is teaching at Emory 
University this winter, and Annette has her old 
job of contralto in the quartet at the Decatur 
Methodist Church. 

Mildred Cowan is teaching at the Avondale 
Estates High School. Her address is 109 W. How- 
ard St., Decatur, Ga. 

Martha Crowe is in the personnel and educa- 
tional department at Rich department store in At- 
lanta. One thing she has to do before really tak- 
ing up her work is to clerk a while in each de- 
partment, so she can get the salesgirl's view- 
point. "And after only one day of standing on 
my feet and snipping off elastic and tape, I got 
it," Martha writes, "but the end is not yet." 
Martha has been elected vice president of the 
Decatur Alumnae Club. 

Marion Daniel is teaching the third grade in 
Charlottesville, Va. She worked in the University 
of Virginia library this summer. 

Mary Lloyd Davis is teaching English at the 
Coffee High school in Florence, Ala. Mary was 
called home during October by the death of her 
father. 

Frances Dobbs is teaching at Blackville, S. 
C. She and Louise Capen visited Dorothy Chamber- 
lain in New Jersey this summer. 

Eugenie Dozier has a studio of dancing in con- 
nection with the Atlanta Conservatory of Music. 
Mabel Dumas, Lillian Clement, and Ruth True- 
heart Thomas, ex '27, sang in light opera in At- 
lanta for six weeks this summer. Then Mabel 
went on a motor trip through Tennessee. She 
is at home this winter, studying voice again and 
singing at the First Christian Church. 

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger came to Atlanta in 
October for Hermenia Weil's wedding. 

Mary Ferguson left Agnes Scott almost before 
anyone in May, and sailed immediately for a sum- 
mer in Europe with her parents. Mary had not 
seen them since she left India eight years ago, 
and her story of how she met and recognized 
her father on the pier at Liverpool is really thril- 
ling. Dr. Ferguson is teaching Hebrew at the 
University of Chicago this winter, so the family 
have taken an apartment there, and Mary is en- 
joying family life again. She will do some grad- 
uate work at the University. 

Besides teaching expression in the Decatur High 
School, Frances Freeborn has over a dozen pri- 
vate pupils. She studied French at the Emory 
University summer school. 

Katharine Gilliland is teaching in Griffin, Ga. 
She comes home every week-end. 

Venie Belle Grant and Louise Lovejoy studied 
in the dissecting rooms at Emory University Hos- 
pital in the summer, and are now working in the 
laboratories at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. 
Marcia Green is teaching in Capleville, Tenn. 
Mary Heath is teaching science and gym in 
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Elizabeth Henderson is teaching in Orlando, Fla. 
Her address is 623 Palmer Street. 
Ann Heys is at home this fall. 

Virginia Hollingsworth is teaching English in 
Greensboro, N. C. 

Marcia Horton and Mabel Dumas went to 
Wrightsville Beach together this summer. Marcia 
h?.s gone into the real estate business. 

Mae Erskine Irvine is teaching in the high school 
at Tuscumbia, Ala. 

Anne George Irwin is working in the Alabama 
State Laboratories. 

Elsa Jacobsen was counsellor at Camp Parry- 
dise for the first part of the summer, then dur- 
ing July she left to take up her duties as assistant 
girl reserve secretary for "the city of Indianapolis. 
Elsa's address is 329 N. Penn Street. 

Martha Johnston is teaching voice and piano 
at home. 

Leila Joiner will be married on November 8 in 
Hollywood, Calif., to Ensign Jock Cooper, of the 
United States Navy. After the ceremony, Mr. 
and Mrs. Cooper will go to Long Beach, Calif., for 
their honeymoon. They will live in San Pedro until 
January when they will stay in Seattle for a few 
months. After this, they plan to live in Honolulu. 

Ida Landau is working with Dr. Bunce in At- 
lanta. 

Louise Leonard is teaching at Trough, S. C. It 
is near Spartanburg, and she goes home every 
week-end. 

Helen Lewis, Elizabeth Lynn and Frances 
Rainey are back at Agnes Scott as fellows. Lib 
and Frances were counsellors at girls camps dur- 
ing the summer. 

Ellen Douglass Leyburn is studying at Radcliffe. 
She and Toya Junkin, ex '28, are living with a 
cousin at Wellesley Farms, Mass. 

Lib Lilly spent the summer in Europe. This 
winter she is getting her master's degree at the 
University of North Carolina, where Helena Her- 
mance, '26, is studying also. 

Lamar Lowe toured Europe during the summer 
with her aunt. She is at home in Atlanta now. 

Carolina McCall is back at Agnes Scott this 
year "with a list of duties a mile long. I help 
Mr. Tart in the new book store, correct freshman 
themes, put up the mail, and do many and so 
forths. But it is simply wonderful to be back at 
Agnes Scott." 

Elizabeth McCallie is working in the office at 
the North Avenue Presbyterian School in Atlanta. 

Ruth McDonald is at home in Atlanta. 

Caroline McKinney is working in the junior de- 
partment of the Community Employment Service 
of Atlanta. She says that an employment office 
is certainly the place to get human interest stories, 
that after she had been there only a week she 
could have written a book on the experiences her 
clients confided to her. Callie and Lib Norfleet 
drove to Washington in June to see the Lind- 
bergh celebration. 

Cleo McLaurine writes : "As for excitement, 
nothing of that kind has come my way so far this 
fall. We moved from Atlanta in August, and 
since then it has been a process of getting straight 
and becoming accustomed to a new home." Cleo's 
address is 2008 Norton Rd., Charlotte, N. C. 

With the exception of a house party in North 
Carolina, Ruth McMillan spent all of the sum- 
mer in Atlanta. She will be at home again this 
winter. 

Kenneth Maner is teaching in Covington, Ga. 

Catherine Mitchell left immediately after gradua- 
tion for June week at Annapolis, then visited in 
Lynchburg, Va., and while there she went to the 
final dances at Washington and Lee and the Uni- 
versity of Virginia. Then she took in the Uni- 
versity of North Carolina. Four sets of finals ! 
That is a record, all right. This winter she is 
teaching the sixth grade at Kissimmee, Fla. 

Middie Morrow was counsellor in dancing and 
archery at Camp Junaluska, N. C, this summer. 
She is doing club work at home this winter, and 
visiting. "After Christmas, I shall either study 
music and dancing, or take a position here at 
home." 



Lib Norfleet is at home this winter. She is 
working with Shepherds, an exclusive gift and 
decorative furnishing shop in Winston-Salem, and 
helping coach hockey at the high school. Lib 
visited Agnes Scott in October. 

Louise Plumb is at home. 

Evalyn Powell is making her debut in Little 
Rock, Ark. 

Miriam Preston spent the summer with the 
American part of her family in Montreat, then 
in August she and her mother sailed to join the 
rest of the family in Korea. Miriam will have 
a tiny school of the missionaries' children there 
at the Soonchun station. 

Peggy Rankin is teaching near Fayetteville, 
North Carolina. 

Marguerite Russell is teaching in the A. and M. 
School in Clarkesville, up in the beautiful North 
Georgia mountains. 

Elizabeth Sanders is at home in DeVall's Bluff, 
Arkansas. 

Mamie Shaw is studying at the University of 
Florida this winter. 

Sarah Shields was married on October 18 in 
Dawson, Ga., to Mr. John Pfeiffer. She had a 
large church wedding and an elaborate reception 
afterward. After a wedding trip to New York, 
the Pfeiffers are at home at 3 Forest Rd., Kenil- 
worth, Asheville, N. C. 

Edith Strickland is head of the English depart- 
ment at the high school in Wrightsville, Ga. 

Margie Wakefield is doing office work with the 
Presbyterian board in Atlanta. 

Mary Weems is teaching English and Science in 
Cartersville, Ga. 

Louisa White is working with the Coca-Cola 
Company in Atlanta. Her address is 751 Piedmont 
Ave., N. E. 

Ro Winter is teaching in Athens, Tenn. 

Edna (Anderson) David, ex '27, has moved to 
3017 Chapin Ave., Tampa, Fla. 

Ethel Brown, ex '27, was married in June to 
Mr. Arthur Sackett Talmadge, dean of music at 
Shorter College. Sarah Stillman, '27, was a 
bridesmaid. 

Mary Childress Crenshaw, ex '27, is studying at 
the University of Tennessee. She will receive 
her bachelor's degree in June. 

Evelyn Eastman, ex '27, who has been working 
in Russia with the Near East Relief, is now in 
Cairo, Egypt. She will return to America the 
last of the year by way of Japan. 

Grace Etheredge, ex '27, is studying voice and 
art in New York. Her address is 606 W. 116th 
Street. 

Louisa Howard, ex '27, is taking a kindergarten 
course. 

Virginia Owen, ex '27, is living at 1309 Roberts 
Aye., The Bronx, New York City. She is working 
with a college outfitting company. 

Jane Small, ex '27, is at home in Atlanta. 

Louise Smith, ex '27, is teaching at Cartersville, 
Georgia. 

Betty Virginia Wootten, ex '27, was married 
August 20th in Chattanooga, Tenn., to Mr. Ben 
Robert Padgett, Jr. Mr. Padgett is a graduate of 
Georgia Tech in the class of '25, and is now 
with the Southeastern Underwriters. 

Kathlene Gray, ex '28, is doing secretarial work 
in Charlotte, N. C. 

Adah Knight, ex '28, and Evelyn Knight, ex '29, 
are teaching at Nacoochee Institute. 

Margaret Mixson, ex '28, is doing stenographic 
work in Dunnellon, Fla. 

Evelyn Josephs, ex '29, is taking a business 
course in Charlotte, N. C. 

Alice Louise Kelly, ex '29, will be married on 
Thanksgiving Day to Dr. James Wylie Crowder, a 
dentist in Chester, S. C. 

Academy Alumnae News. 

Martha Eugenia (Bitting) Hill is living at Sum- 
merville, Ga., where her husband is the Chevrolet 
dealer. They have one son, Archie Wallace Hill, 
Jr., born July, 1919. 

Josephine Erwin is registrar and secretary to 
the president at Coker College, Hartsville, S. C. 

Lillian Everett (Jones) Greey has two little 



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39 



daughters, Inez, aged 6, and Alice, 4, who have 
already decided to come to Agnes Scott. 

Since her home, "Sleepy Hollow," literally took 
wings and blew away last year in the Florida 
hurricane, Lucile Quinn has been living at Himar- 
shee Park, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 

Maria (Park) Harris is living at Greensboro, Ga. 
She has one little daughter, Anne Poullain, born 
in 1913. 

Jean (Robson) Rooney has moved to 315 Maple 
Ave., Westhampton, Richmond, Va. 
The Lost Is Found! 
Since the "lost sister" lists were sent out, a 
number of addresses and married names have been 
sent in to the Alumnae Office. Almost every 
alumna, in returning her questionnaire and dues 
slip, sent in some help in locating the lost 
alumnae. It would be an impossible task for the 
office to thank each of them individually for 
this most valuable help, so the secretary takes 
this opportunity to tell them all how much their 
help was appreciated. Some alumnae sent in as 
many as twenty "clues." These are being fol- 
lowed up now, and .as soon as the addresses are 
verified, they will be printed in the Quarterly. 
There are still, however, a number of alumnae who 
persist in remaining lost. Please be on the look- 
out for them, and continue your help in tracing 
them down. 

The following "lost sisters" have been located 
definitely since the Register was published : 
College 
Nell Akin is Mrs. Carl Betts, Rome, Ga. She 
has two children. 

Louise Ayers, ex '10, is Mrs. Chip Robert, 137 
15th St., N. E., Atlanta. Chip Robert is the 
former famous Tech football star, and is now a 
prominent realtor. He was recently instrumental 
in bringing an enormous Northern mill South. 

Eleanor Gary Baker and Jean McAdory Baker 
are living in Gadsden, Ala. 

Margaret Barrier, ex '17, is living at Kemp 
Kort, Wichita Falls, Texas. 

Annie May Boyd, ex '10, is Mrs. Nesbit Ken- 
drick, of Waynesboro, Ga. 

Margaret Briscoe, ex '11, is Mrs. W. A. Mc- 
Callie, Island Home Park, Knoxville, Tenn. 
She has a 13-year-old daughter, Mary Bruce. 

Banche Copeland (Mrs. H. H. Gifford), '19, is liv- 
ing at 933 S. 39th St., Birmingham, Ala. 

Jessie Eames (special) is Mrs. Fred Merrick, 938 
Somerset Ave., P'ort Garry, Winnepeg, Man., Can. 
She has a boy and a girl. 

Lollie Belle Fuller, ex '15, is Mrs. James A. 
Watson, Jr., 543 Seminole Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 
Sydney Gabbett, ex '11, is Mrs. Grosvenor Ster- 
ling Wright, Castleton Park, New Brighton, Staten 
Island, N. Y. 

Celia Hirsch, ex '27 (Mrs. S. I. Frank), is living 
at 32 Irwin St., Winthrop, Mass. 

Irene Lupo (Mrs. Ernest Bell) ex '09, lives at 
735 Piedmont Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 

Ora McGriff (special) is bookkeeper for an in- 
surance company in Atlanta. She lives at 470 
Clifton Rd., N. E. 

Hattie McCallie is now Mrs. J. F. Briscoe, R. 
F. D. 3, Bristol, Tenn. She has a little 8-year-old 
daughter. 

Edith Mabry, ex '22, is Mrs. Edward Willis Bar- 
nett, 3832 Summit Ave., Birmingham, Ala. She 
was married April 20, 1927, in Anniston at the 
Episcopal church of St. Michaels and All Angels. 
Sarah McCarty, ex '22, was graduated from 
Barnard College in 1922. She is now laboratory 
technician at the Hillman Hospital in Birmingham. 
She lives at 3403 Highland Ave. 

Jane Massie, ex '22, is Mrs. Fendall Marbury, 
1116 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. Last year she 
was secretary to the head mistress of a girls' pri- 
vate school, Roland Park, Md. 

Clare Elizabeth Miller, ex '18, is Mrs. J. B. 
Shaw, Hartwell, Ga. 

Exa Mills, ex '24, is now Mrs. Exa Mills, 29 
Peachtree PL, N. W., Atanta. She is private 
secretary to the store manager of Davison-Paxon- 
Stokes, affiliated with Macey's. 

Maggie Ruth Moore (special) is Mrs. Nevin W. 
Jordan, 240 Richardson St., S. W., Atlanta. She 
has two children, Hunter and Jeannette. Her 



husband is with the Armstrong Cork and Insula- 
tion Company. 

Nina Murrah is Mrs. J. E. Passmore, 1517 18th 
Ave., Columbus, Ga. 

Eula Norton (Mrs. Karl Howe), ex '25, is at 
Apt. 8-B, Woodmere Arms, Idlewild Circle, Bir- 
mingham, Ala. She has one son, Karl J., Jr., 
14 months old. 

Louise Calhoun Phinizy, ex '08, is Mrs. Robert 
C. Neely, Jr., Waynesboro, Ga.. 

Mary Rawlings, ex '15, is Mrs. Bob Hueston, 
Monroe, N. C. 

Caroline Stapler, ex '18, is Mrs. R. D. May, 
1512 Ernest St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Kathleen Sparks, ex '20, is Mrs. Fred Yarbrough, 
Dothan, Ala. 

Annie Louise (Saxon) Wilson is now Mrs. Annie 
Louise Saxon, 379 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta. 

Olive (Smith) Allen, ex '23, is now Mrs. Olive 
Smith Allen, 2205 18th Ave., Columbus, Ga. 

Fannie Sterne, ex '13, is Mrs. Monteseliz, and 
can be reached through Mrs. L. Michael, 5 Bryant 
Ave., White Plains, N. Y. 

Katie Sturdivant, ex '11, is Mrs.- Colin C. Os- 
borne, Burlington, Ont., Can. She is keeping 
house and raising a family. 

Erma Rebecca Timmons, ex '19, is living in 
Huntsville, Ala. 

Enid Watson, ex '17, studied law in Atlanta, 
but decided that matrimony was more alluring. 
She is now Mrs. Lawson, 182 Eizabeth St., N. 
E., Atlanta. 

Rosemary Whitaker, ex '24, is Mrs. R. C. Chil- 
lingsworth, West Palm Beach, Fla. Rosemary 
studied at the University of Georgia after leaving 
Agnes Scott. 

Maude Whittemore, ex '26, is at 61 Winterhill 
Rd., Tuckahoe, N. Y. 

Sarah Inez Wilkinson, ex '11, is Mrs. George 
S. Lowndes, Jr., 67 Huntington Rd., Atlanta. 

The name "Fannie Wheeler" should be printed 
"Fain Wheeler." She is teaching in one of the 
Atlanta schools, and lives at 2066 Boulevard Dr., 
S. E. 

Louise Wise, ex '11, is Mrs. J. Railsback, 959 
Jordan St., Shreveport, La. 

Louise Williams is Mrs. C. C. Dabney, 104 Cam- 
bridge St., Decatur, Ga. Her husband is a con- 
tractor. They have no children. 

Martha Winsborough (special) is Mrs. Archi- 
bald Davis, Jr., 164 Frontenac Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Amelia Worthington (Mrs. B. Fisk) ex '08, is 
living at Pelham Heights, N. Y. 

Estelle Zellars, ex '08, is Mrs. Brack Blalock, 
Fayetteville, Ga. 

Institute 

Jule U. Armstrong is Mrs. Cohen, Athens, Ga. 

Mattie Boyd is living at 850 Ponce de Leon 
Ave., N. E., Atlanta, where she is keeping house 
for her two brothers. She recently returned from 
a trip around the world. 

Bertha Brawner is Mrs. Franklin B. Ingram, of 
Griffin, Ga. 

Effie Corinne Bugg is Mrs. D. P. Few, Madison, 
Georgia. 

The address of Fannie Burwell (Mrs. John Chis- 
olm) was given incorrectly in the Register. It is 
1220 Whitaker, Birmingham, Ala. 

Ethel Cassin is living at 149 S. McDonough St., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Elva Crenshaw is at College Park, Ga. 

Ethel Davant is Mrs. T. A. Goodwin, 44 S. 
Auburndale St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Meta Duke is Mrs. Ralph J. Brown, 135 Superior 
Ave., Decatur, Ga. She is the sister-in-law of 
Myrtice Brown. 

Bessie Harris is Mrs. T. A. Clayton, 273 Oxford 
PL, N. E., Atlanta. Her daughter, Susan, was 
an honor graduate of Agnes Scott in the class of 
'27. 

Ruby Hurst is Mrs. E. P. Gibbs, Gainesville, Ga. 

Ethel Kelly is Mrs. Charlie White, Oakhurst, Ga. 

Pearl Kelly is Mrs. Cuthbert Hewey, 120 S. 
Church St., Decatur, Ga. 

Louise Kirkpatrick is Mrs. B. F. Johnson, 839 
Park St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga. She is doing secre- 
tarial work. 

Sue Lancaster has been in library work for 
several years. Her last position in America was 



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with the 42nd Street Library in New York City. 
From there three years ago she went to Paris 
and was with the American Library there for two 
years. For the past year she has been con- 
nected with the Library for American Studies in 
Italy. Her address is Palazzo Salviati, 271 Corso 
Umberto I., Rome, Italy. 

Annie Lee Lemon is Mrs. Z. L. McLain, Rome, 
Georgia. 

May Lemon is Mrs. L. H. Smith, Cedartown, Ga. 

May McCandlish is Mrs. Henry D. Archer, Pine 
St., New Orleans, La. 

Janie MacDuffie is Mrs. Frederick Hughes, 
Meridian, Miss. 

Mamie MacDuffie is Mrs. Sam H. Williams, 
Florala, Ala. 

Pearl MacDuffie is Mrs. Johnnie McLean, 
Meridian, Miss. 

Bessie Morgan is Mrs. E. V. Austin, R. F. D. 
No. 1, Decatur, Ga. 

Nellie (Pratt) Griffin is now Mrs. Rhodes, Nor- 
mal School, Athens, Ga. 

Kate Tolleson is Mrs. A. S. Thurmond, Monti- 
cello, Ga. 

Polly Webb is Mrs. Myron W. Southwell, 1301 
N. Highland Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 

Lula Wright, who has the distinction of being 
one of the first boarders, is Mrs. J. P. Sturgeon, 
946 North Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 
Academy 

Emma Kate Amorous is Mrs. C. G. Vretman, 
38 W. 10th St., Atlanta. 

Marie Abrams is Mrs. Robert Lawson, West 
Port, Conn. 

Clara Addy is teaching in Greenville, S. C, her 
address is 33 Tindal Ave. During vacation she 
is at home with her brother at 232 W. College 
Ave., Decatur, Ga. 

Marguerite Bratton is Mrs. T. F. Joerg, 2930 
Beacon Ave., Columbus, Ga. She has one girl 
and three sons. 

Marion Howard Butt is Mrs. Don Houseman, 
Highland Park, Dallas, Tex. 

Mary Disbro (Mrs. Ruy C. Morrison) lives at 
67 N. Muscogee Ave., Atlanta. 

Irene Arnold Hardwick is Mrs. F. E. Beckham, 
15 E. Boulevard Dr., Atlanta. 

Dorothy Hebert is Mrs. George Wood Pigman, 
1201 Jefferson Ave., New Orleans, La. 

Emily Jennings is Mrs. R. W. Crenshaw, East 
Lake, Decatur, Ga. 

Marie Johnson is Mrs. Fred Shaeffer and is liv- 
ing at the Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta. 

Winnie McKinnon is Mrs. D. M. Lord, Bruns- 
wick, Ga. 

Winnie Perry is Mrs. E. W. Romberger, Austell 
Way, Atlanta. 

Leila Richardson is Mrs. John F. Hester. Her 
husband is a major in the United States Army, 
now stationed at Fort McPherson, Ga. 

Sue Frances Shelor is Mrs. Edwin Sudderth, care 
Southern Railway, Hawkinsville, Ga. 

Elise Shepherd is Mrs. Andrew Prather, Colum- 
bus, Ga. 

Agnes Smith is Mrs. Lindsey Forrester, Atco, 
Georgia. 

Grace Troutman is Mrs. R. C. Wilson, 287 Hen- 
derson Ave., Athens, Ga. 

Anna Kirby Willingham is Mrs. Walter W. 
Young, 1050 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 
Her husband is a prominent nerve specialist. 

Frances Evelyn Wilkinson is Mrs. Holland B. 
Lowndes, San Antonio, Texas. 
Misplaced! 

While all the energies of the office have been 
concentrated on finding the "lost sisters," some 
perfectly definitely located "sister's" have gone and 
misplaced themselves ! These addresses were cor- 
rect last spring, but the Registers mailed out in 
September, were returned from the following ad- 
dresses. Please, Alumnae, come forward as 
va'iantly as you did with the "lost sisters," and 
help locate these newly misplaced ones ! 

Josephine Beason, from 1015 Piedmont Ave., N. 
E., Atlanta. 

Maude and Minnie Clare Boyd, from Geneva, 
Alabama. 

Mrs. A. B. Cummings (Annie Connell), from 
Oakland, Fla. 



Mrs. C. H. Draper, Jr. (Helen Watkins), from 
Virginia Apts., Greenville, S. C. 

Mrs. W. H. DuBose (Mary Louise Jones), From 
Clinton, S. C. 

Helen Farmer, from 977 Ponce de Leon Ave., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Mrs. Douglas Fryer (Lorine Pruette), from the 
University of New York. 

Mrs. -W. C. Griggs (Adalene Dortch), from 
Bessemer, Ala. 

Mrs. Foster Guice (Jessie Mae Hatcher), from 
Anniston, Ala. 

Mrs. J. H. Grollman (Alice Greenlee), from Gil- 
more St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Mrs. W. E. Harrington (Amelie Adams), from 
Greenville, Aa. 

Claire Harirs, from 113 Culver St., Macon, Ga. 

Mrs. T. L. Harmon (Bessie Ham), from Clarks- 
dale, Miss. 

Mrs. J. R. Henderson (Florence 'Ellis), from 3 
Limehouse St., Charleston, S. C. 

Mrs. J. G. Hazlehurst (Cornelia Hutton), from 
122 McQueen St., Sumter, S. C. 

Rebecca Robertson Harrison, from Route 5, 
Buntyn, Tenn. 

Mrs. F. A. Irving (Vivian Dowe), from Fort 
Benning, Ga. 

Martha Ivey, from 128 5th Ave., East Roselle, 
New Jersey. 

Mrs. J. W. Jackson (Pearl Woodward), from 
Tallahassee, Fla. 

Mrs. E. M. L. Lee (Elsie Myrna Lutz), from 
Glenn St., Orlando, Fla. 

Martha Elizabeth Lawrence, from Cordele and 
Baxley, Ga. 

Mrs. Hugh McFadden (Maude McKowen), from 
Clinton, La. 

Mrs. George Marvin (Agnes Randolph, from Kes- 
wick, Va. 

Mrs. W. C. Meyers (Marie Lederle), from North, 
South Carolina. 

Mrs. T. M. Plonk (Mary Louise McGuire), from 
Rutherfordton, N. C. 

Mrs. T. J. Redding, Jr. (Minna Alford), from 
Tallahassee, Fla. 

Mrs. Nina Lynn Rheile, from 328 Ponce de 
Leon PL, Decatur, Ga. 

Florence Smith, from Box 525 Hayward, Calif. 

Mrs. J. H. Smithwick (Jessie Vereen), from 
Pensacola, Fla. 

Mrs. W. H. Strong (Julia Dancy Eve), from W. 
Jones St., Savannah, Ga. 

Marie Scandrett, from Cordele, Ga. 

Mrs. H. R. Speak (Allie Dekle), from Line St., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Mrs. A. F. Zachry (Lula Kathryn Brown), from 
Atco, Ga. 

Deceased 

In correcting the August edition of the Alumnae 
Register, star the following names : 

Edith Appleyard. 

Isabelle Block (Mrs. Brooks Morgan). 

Annie Parks Bond (Mrs. Arthur L. Matthews). 

Katherine Briscoe (Mrs. Cowan Rodgers). 
Katherine died June 2, 1922, leaving two sons, 
Cowan, Jr., and Ernest, both yet just young- 
sters. 

Charlotte Lowrie Caldwell (Mrs. D. H. McCul- 
lough). 

Annie Parks Hutchison (Mrs. W. E. Parker). 
Willie Venable ("Vennie") Holt (Mrs. J. Lynn 
Walker). 

Faith Johnson. 

Ruth Keiser, died October 18, 1927. 

Frances Kendrick (Mrs. T. O. Miller). 

Lucy Lore. 

Katie MacDuffie (Mrs. A. L. Wynn). 

Annie McCormick. 

Ollie Pritchard (Mrs. F. C. Snow). 

Catherine Cameron Reed (Mrs. C. W. Rothe). 

Mary Rebecca Shelor. 

Roberta Strickland. 

Rubie Strickland (Mrs. N. J. Newsome). 

Mary Marguerite ("Polly") Warner (Mrs. A. B. 
Littleton). 

Lois Wiley (Mrs. M. B. Folmar). 

Annie Wilson. 

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 5 

CLEO HEARON 
For Ten Years, Head of the Department of History 

Miss Cleo Hearon was born in Lowndes County, Missis- 
sippi, October 27, 1879. She received her preparatory educa- 
tion in Denver, Colo., and in Bristol, Va., and her college 
training at the Mississippi State College for Women at Colum- 
bus, Miss., and at the University of Chicago. She was grad- 
uated with the Ph.B. degree at the University of Chicago in 
1903, and she received her M.A. in history from the same in- 
stitution in 1909. 

She became a member of the faculty of the Mississippi 
State College for Women in 1907, at first in the department 
of English, and later in history. During the years 1912-13, 
she was on leave of absence from the college to work towarcf 
her Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago, and she held 
a fellowship from the University during that year. 
Her work was of such excellence that she was elected to membership in the honor 
society of Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1913 received the degree of doctor of philosophy 
with highest honors. Her dissertation on Mississippi and the Compromise of 1850, 
which she presented in fulfillment of the requirements of this degree, is an important 
contribution not only to state, but to national history. 

After completing her work in Chicago, she taught in Westhampton College, Rich- 
mond, Va., in Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and in Ripon College, Wisconsin. 
From 1918 until her death she was head of the Department of History of Agnes 
Scott College. During the summer of 1926 she was one of the group of uni- 
versity professors sent by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to study 
conditions in Europe. For several years she was regional director of the South At- 
lantic district of the American Association of University of Women. 

Exacting in her standards of scholarship and citizenship, she never compromised 
when it was a matter of fundamentals; and everyone on the campus  faculty and 
students  knew that Miss Hearon always could be counted on to champion and 
encourage every movement which looked to the advancement of her beloved Agnes 
Scott; and everyone could be equally as certain of finding in her an implacable foe 
if the matter under discussion involved the lowering of the standards and ideals of 
the college in any way. 

Her services to Agnes Scott have been manifold, and it was only fitting that they 
should be recognized last year in her election to Hoasc. She was the founder of 
the Lecture Association, and the International Relations Club, she sponsored the 
college branch of the Junior League of Women Voters, and the American Association 
of University Women. With Dr. Armistead, she has been largely responsible for the 
development and phenomenal success of intercollegiate debating at Agnes Scott for 
the past ten years. Again, with Dr. Armistead, it was in great part due to her 
untiring efforts that Agnes Scott secured a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. 

But over and above everything else, her greatest service to our college has been 
her presence with us for the last ten years. The very fact of her being a member 
of the faculty has given the college prestige in the outside world. We were always 
proud to have her represent us in any capacity, and her gracious and charming 
personality won the college many friends. 

Miss Hearon had been very ill for several months, so that in one sense her death 
was not a shock to us. But it will always be with a strange feeling of unreality that 
we remember that she does not walk our campus still, and that though we climb the 
stairs to her little room in Lupton, she is not there. 



6 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

DR. McCAIN DISCUSSES AGNES SCOTT'S FUTURE 
If We Had Forty Million Dollars 

A few days ago, a friend asked me this question: "What kind of an institution 
would you try to build if Mr. Duke had left you forty million dollars for the develop- 
ment of Agnes Scott?" While it was a strictly hypothetical question, it caused me to 
think over again some things that always face us at Agnes Scott, and I would like 
to share with the Alumnae some of the considerations. 

Purpose and Ideals 

Would an unlimited sum of money affect our general purpose? I do not believe 
it would. From the days when the institution was Decatur Female Seminary with 
two teachers and sixty-two grammar-grade children as pupils, its founders purposed 
that it should be a standard college, and only that. Since it has gained recognition 
in that class, the question is raised as to whether we should not look forward to grad- 
uate or professional schools. The answer has always been in the negative. We want 
Agnes Scott to be the best undergraduate college in all the world either for men 
or women, and we wish the curriculum to be so rich and varied that every strong 
girl may find provision for her special talents and interests; but we still feel that the 
cultural college is our field. It is a great one and it is a distinctive one. 

Also our ideals as to thoroughness of scholarship, simplicity of living, interest in 
world service, and a vital (but non-sectarian) religious life, would not conceivably be 
affected in large measure by either our poverty or our wealth. They are as much 
a part of us as the very spelling of our name. 

Physical Development 

If we had $40,000,000 we would no doubt see the greatest changes in the campus, 
buildings and general equipment. We should want at least five hundred acres of 
land and an entirely new plant, perhaps with Gothic stone architecture, and certainly 
with plenty of room, with space for everybody and for every activity. It would be 
great to get rid of the packed, cramped, crowded feeling we have had for many 
years. 

There would be a satisfaction about a new plant that would be thrilling, and it 
would be impressive on the country, but would it be an unmixed blessing? Perhaps 
there is something of value in being so poor that we must keep some of the old 
things. Associations and traditions around a campus may be educational. Would 
Harvard have quite the same flavor without its old-fashioned, antiquated Adminis- 
tration Building in the very heart of the campus? Columbia is in great need of 
building space, but it still has room for little, old East Hall. In some such manner, 
perhaps "Main" and the tower and other familiar objects around our campus may 
link the old to the new in such fashion as will make us of the new day better able 
to "carry on" the spirit of the College. 

Size of the College 

One of the most interesting questions that would arise if we had unlimited 
money would be to determine the number of students to take. Is it ideal to have a 
small college or a large one? A great deal has been said and written about the ad- 



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vantages of the small institution, but some of these things are seriously questioned. 
What are some possible weaknesses of a small institution? (1) If it is strictly first- 
class, though small, the overhead costs are quite large, and the college will have to 
charge high rates. The same officers could of course handle large numbers and 
distribute the cost more easily. (2) It is difficult to have enough students in the 
elective classes to make them interesting. This involves not only the quality of the 
work, but also the question of getting and keeping the strongest teachers, as these 
prefer the advanced courses. ( 3 ) The ranges of friendship are somewhat limited 
in proportion, as the numbers are reduced. (4) The smaller the college the less 
likely it is to come to the attention of prospective students or prospective givers. 
(5) As a rule, the curriculum of the small institution will not measure up to the 
larger one in richness of meaning or in the variety of courses. (6) It is hardly to 
be expected that the Alumnae of the small college will make as great a total impress 
on the world as if there were more of them and if they could be gathered in larger 
numbers in the centers of influence. 

On the other hand there are certain definite values in keeping the College small, 
and we mean by that about 500 to 700 students. (1) The selection of students 
is possible when the number of acceptances is small and the applicants are relatively 
numerous, as with us now. There is a consequent higher average of student quality. 
(2) The maintenance of democracy in campus life, so prized at Agnes Scott, is 
easier; for the larger numbers call for more complex social organizations, sororities, 
and the like. (3) Friendliness is one of the real assets possible in the small college 
and beyond question a valuable one. (4) The contacts between faculty and students 
are blessings that are more likely to be simple and helpful in the small college. It 
depends somewhat on the teachers themselves. The officers certainly have a chance 
to know the students better and to know about them if there are not so many of 
them. The Alumnae also can know one another, and all realize what a satisfaction 
this is. ( 5 ) Perhaps the greatest single argument for the small college is the fact 
that an average girl will have so much more opportunity to take part in college ac- 
tivities. The very active student will participate anywhere, and the very poor one 
nowhere; but in the small institution an average one may have a leading part in some 
worthy organization. 

When we weigh all the considerations, it seems best for our day at least to 
keep the college of modest size, whether wealthy or not; and as we have no choice as 
yet of anything but respectable poverty we can all agree that this must be the Agnes 
Scott policy. 

It is interesting to let our fancy play around the spending of a huge sum of 
money. As I think of it myself, there are remarkably few things, comparatively, that 
money would make us change; and yet there are some that we need a very great deal, 
quite a sufficient number to keep us from dreaming long at a time. It is for these 
new building and equipment needs that I hope we may have the help of all our Agnes 
Scott forces, especially a new steam plant, a recitation building, and a chapel. 



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FOUNDERS' DAY CELEBRATION FEBRUARY 22ND. 

Through the courtesy of the Sears Roebuck radio department, who have given 
us their hour on the air that night, February 22nd  Founders' Day  will be cele- 
brated this year by the third annual radio program broadcast over WSB, the Atlanta 
Journal's station, beginning at six-thirty P. M., central time. 

Mrs. Lewis Johnson (Gussie O'Neal) is arranging the musical numbers and the 
program of speeches is being gotten in shape by the alumnae secretary. 

The idea of reaching Agnes Scott alumnae through a radio program was first 
conceived two years ago. An enthusiastic response from the alumnae body greeted 
the first program on February 22nd, 1926. Last year even more alumnae were 
notified in time to listen in on the program, and this year, with the alumnae 
address list in better shape than it has ever been before, we hope to have a larger 
audience than last year's. 

Plans are well under way for alumnae dinners and gatherings in the towns and 
cities where there are large groups of alumnae. The following alumnae are in charge 
of arrangements for the Founders' Day program in their towns: 

Anniston, Ala.  Mildred Goodrich, 1018 Christine Ave. 

Birmingham, Ala.  Mrs. Herbert Hahn, 1012 4th St., W. 

Mobile, Ala.  Grace Augusta Ogden, 1121 Montank Ave. 

Selma, Ala.  Annie Graham King, 432 Church St. 

Jacksonville, Fla.  Mrs. J. H. Ross, 1544 Talbot St. 

Orlando, Fla. Mrs. W. I. Miller, 17 Pine St., W. 

Albany, Ga.  Mrs. George Nail, 811 N. Monroe St. 

Americus, Ga.  Quenelle Harrold, 301 College St. 

Athens, Ga.  Mrs. Audley Morton, 279 Henderson Ave. 

Augusta, Ga.  Mrs. I. C. Levy, 2541 Walton Way. 

DaltOn, Ga.  Martha Lin Manly, Thornton Ave. 

Griffin, Ga.  Mary Ella Hammond, 605 W. Poplar St. 

LaGrange, Ga.  Margaret Edmonson, 602 Broad St. 

Savannah, Ga.  Mrs. Clarence Strasburger, Forsyth Apts. 

Statesboro, Ga.  Mrs. R. J. Kennedy, 241 Main St., N. 

Stone Mountain, Ga.  Mrs. J. R. Evans. 

Thomaston, Ga.  Mrs. W. O. Britt, Jr. 

Washington, Ga.  Mildred Pitner, Main St. 

Waycross, Ga.  Mrs. Henry Newton. 

Shreveport, La.  Mrs. Clyde Gay, 417 Rutherford. 

Asheville, N. C.  Maurine Bledsoe, Lakeview Park. 

Chapel Hill, N. C Mrs. Gerald McCarthy, Box 723. 

Charlotte, N. C.  Mary Keesler, 212 E. Morehead. 

Durham, N. C.  Mrs. Hazen Smith, Duke University. 

Fayetteville, N. C.  Peggy Rankin, Hillside Ave. 

Hendersonville, N. C.  Ellen Fain, Druid Hills. 

Winston-Salem, N. C.  Elizabeth Norfleet, Country Club Road. 

Anderson, S. C.  Ann Gambrill, 652 W. Market St. 

Clinton, S. C.  Helen Lane Comfort, P. C. Library. 

Greenville, S. C Mrs. J. A. Winn, 117 Capers St. 

Greenwood, S. C.  Annie Aunspaugh, Lander College. 

Bristol, Tenn.  Mary Hedrick, 420 6th Ave. 

Knoxville, Tenn.  Frances Stuart, 2117 Lake St. 
Memphis, Tenn.  Mrs. W. L. Hayes, Jr., 97 N. Belvedere. 

Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Ward DeWitt, 1231 17th Ave., S. 

Richmond, Va.  Nan Russell Lingle, 1204 Palmyra Ave. 

Other alumnae gatherings will be arranged later, but the notices did not arrive in 
time to get into print in this issue of the Quarterly. 



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CAMPUS EVENTS 



Nov. 2 8  Debate between Agnes Scott and the National Union of Students' Debating team of England. 
Agnes Scott won the decision, given in the English custom, by vote of the house. Question: 
Resolved, That the Only Effective Attitude Towards War Is Uncompromising Pacifism. 

Dec. 6-10  Dr. F. Crossley Morgan, of Augusta, Ga., conducted a week of religious services. Topic: 
"The Call of Christ." 

Dec. 7  Alumnae-student basketball game. Alumnae players were Helen Wayt, Ethel Ware, Betty 
Floding, Elizabeth Lynn, Almc-da Hutcheson, Llewellyn Wilburn, Sarah Slaughter, and 
Ruth Trueheart Thomas. 

Dec. 10  Glee club presented operetta, "La Gitana." Christmas tree in gym for Orphans Home 
Children. 

Dec. 1 1  White Christmas service. Choral society gave Handel's "Messiah." 

Dec. 13  International Relations Club presented Paul Blanchard in a talk on China  the workers in 
' the new industrial system, foreign gunboats and the fight against imperialism, influence of 
communist propaganda, and America's relation to the struggle. 

Dec. 16-Jan. 3  Christmas holidays. 

Jan. 12  Blackfriars present Mrs. Jeter in a reading of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." 

Jan. 14  Lecture Association presented Mr. Richard Halliburton, ny'eiis.T. ' ** , "' J , ' ; 

Jan. 17-2 8  Mid-term examinations. , , } 

Jan. 28  North Carolina University Glee Club concert. >   ' >  ' ** \ \, , 



Feb. 4  Sophomore class gives take-off of the Agnes Scott student body- of "i 4 Airier 'yeips. *, / 

Feb. 10  Lecture Association presents Dr. Gordon Jennings Laing, dean of the graduate school at 
Chicago University, on "Literature and Leisure." 

Feb. 1 1  University of Alabama Glee Club concert. 

Feb. 18  Dr. J. H. Kirkland, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, will speak at chapel. 

Feb. 22  Founders Day. Radio program over WSB by Glee Club, and alumnae artists. 

Feb. 2 5  Blackfriars present one-act plays written by Miss Stephens' class in dramatic composition. 

March 3  Agnes Scott Glee Club concert. 

March 6  John Erskine, of Columbia University, under the auspices of the Agnes Scott Lecture 
Association. 

March 16  Debate with Vassar College at Agnes Scott. Subject: Resolved, That the United States 
Should Cease Protecting by Force of Arms Capital Invested in Foreign Lands, Except After 
Formal Declaration of War. 

March 21  Agnes Scott Lecture Association presents Mrs. H. H. A. Beech in a lecture-recital. 

March 3  Spring vacation begins. 

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OUR LONG NEGLECTED ALUMNI 

Agnes Scott a co-ed institution? Unthinkable! We are quite used to the young 
men callers who throng the halls and parlors and colonade every evening, but the 
idea of boys attending classes, dashing with the crowd to the mailroom at 9:30 in the 
morning, or draped over the library tables taking History 101 notes, is simply pre- 
posterous! Yet there are six men who can truthfully claim to be alumni of Agnes 
Scott. 

Back in 1889 when Agnes Scott was founded as the Decatur Female Seminary, 
there were six little town boys enrolled as pupils  the name of the institution to 
the contrary. They were so far outnumbered by the young ladies, that they felt 
they must resort to very violent measures in order to make their presence known. 
And so in the classrooms they pulled curls, threw spitballs, dipped plait-ends in ink- 
wells, and made themselves such general nuisances that at the beginning of the 
second year of the Seminary's existence the faculty were firm in insisting that only 
females be admitted as pupils. Poor little boys! Thrust out of the Seminary gates 
because they would assert their masculinity! Thus, in 1890, co-education at Agnes 
Scott was pronounced a failure. 

As the years passed, the Seminary became an Institute, and the Institute a Col- 
lege, and the fact of our alumni's existence was almost forgotten. Hundreds of 
alumnae are ignorant of the fact that living in California, in North Carolina, in 
Alabama, and in Georgia, there are six men who have the right to be rather bewildered 
when the "Alma Mater" contains such lines as "The love of our girlhood is thine." 

But Miss Hopkins did not forget her boys! And in October, just after the 
Alumnae Register had' b^een mailed out, she received this letter, which we partially 
quote; .." , V . * , " " ' 

"*'-' ' ' f  * Riverside, California. 

"Dear Allss Hopkins: 

Last -Sunday -..at ternoon I so far waivered from your early training as to spend 
part of the time 'looking twer the last number of the Alumnae Register. I find it 
extremely interesting, especially as it recalls so many things, and memories of a great 
many friends. It seems to me, however, that this publication is very deficient in 
one respect: I don't find my name therein, either as an ex-student, or as a "lost sister." 
Personally I have been rather proud all these years of having been at one time con- 
nected with such a wonderful institution, and I am rather disappointed that the powers 
that be have not been equally as proud to have had me with them. Knowing as 
you do the aggressiveness of the modern young female, and the shrinking, violet- 
like nature of the modern young male, you can probably appreciate the courage 
it required on the part of six little boys back in '89 to be associated with so many 
of the opposite sex. Really I think we should have received a Carnegie medal, and 
here we are ignored in all the publications relating to the early history of Agnes 
Scott! . . ." 

Mr. Mead is right: we have ignored our alumni too long. To prove to them 
that we are repentant, and truly "proud to have had them with us," the Alumnae 
Quarterly (which will probably have to change its name to the Alumnae and Alumni 
Quarterly now) is glad to print in this issue something of the lives of these six "sons 
of Agnes Scott." 

David Crockett was married to Miss Ruth Stephens, of Atlanta. They are living 
now in High Point, N. C, where he is in the lumber business. They have two sons, 
David, Jr., who was graduated last year from the University of Alabama, and 
Stephens, who is at present a student at Emory University. 



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Donald Donaldson is living within two blocks of Agnes Scott, at 726 S. Candler 
St., Decatur. His wife was a Miss Greenlee. They have no children. He is em- 
ployed by the government as deputy collector of internal revenue. 

After completing his education at Hampden-Sidney, the University of Virginia, 
and Johns Hopkins University, Lewis Gaines is practicing medicine in Atlanta. His 
home address is 52 Park Lane. He was married to Ethel Alexander, a graduate of 
Agnes Scott in the class of 1900. Their three children are Eloise, who is now a 
Senior at Agnes Scott; Alexander, who attends the Atlanta Boys High School; and 
Virginia, of grammar school age. 

Malcolm Hendee has lived in Augusta, Ga., since he was eighteen. He married 
Miss Donna Verdery of that city. Their two sons are Malcolm, Jr., graduate of 
Clemson College in '27, now working with the General Electric Company in Schenec- 
tady, New York; and Parks, who is a student at the Junior College in Augusta. Mr. 
Hendee holds the responsible position of commercial agent with the Augusta-Aiken 
Street Railway Company. The Hendees live at 220 Greene Street. 

Albert S. Mead was a brother of Florence (Mead) Cheney and Helen (Mead) 
Carrey. Like Lewis Gaines, he married an Agnes Scott girl  Susie Hunter. They 
are now living at 318 Brocton Avenue, in Riverside, Calif., where Mr. Mead is head 
of the Riverside Mortgage Company. They have four children. To quote again 
from Mr. Mead's letter to Miss Hopkins: "Elizabeth, the oldest girl, having taken 
two years in college and one in the library school which is equivalent to one year in 
college, is now holding down a good position in the Los Angeles County Library. 
Hunter is in Pomona college, enjoying his work very much. He is majoring in pipe 
organ. The two youngest are still in school here, and are growing like weeds." 

The sixth little boy was Albert Swanton, brother of Estelle (Swanton) Kerr and 
Eleanor (Swanton) Thomasson, and brother-in-law of Estelle (Almand) Swanton. 
He is living in Birmingham, Ala., at 1575 Sloss Avenue. He gives his occupation as 
electrician, traveling for the Chicago Fuse Company. He is married and has no 
children. 

This is the history of our alumni. If they are not careful the alumnae office will 
form them into a men's auxiliary and have them ardent workers for the Alumnae (and 
Alumni!) Association. 



OPEN FORUM 

More Talk About the Agnes Scott House in New York. Four 
Alumnae Give Their Opinions. 



An Agnes Scott House in New York would not have appealed to me at all this 
time last year, when I was preparing to go to New York. I had the idea that I 
wanted to get away from familiar things and people and make all new contacts. But 
after trying a winter of all new contacts in New York, I say let's have an Agnes 
Scott apartment there by all means! Living alone in New York among strangers is an 
experience I shouldn't care to repeat. 



Indeed, I should like to stay at an Agnes Scott apartment if I were studying in 
New York, though for a very different reason from the one I imagine most alumnae 
would use. My point in staying there would not be to live with people I know in 
such a homelike atmosphere that I should hurry home to it each evening, but to 
have my living arrangements so normal and familiar and perfectly safe that I 
should not have to think about them at all, but could dismiss that from my mind 
and spend my spare time out doing the things I'd like and hobnobbing with the new 



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friends I hope to make. This is going at it backwards and not at all as I know 
the people who want to establish the Agnes Scott apartment there mean for alumnae 
to look at it. Nevertheless, it is the frank statement of why I am an ardent supporter 
of the plan and should be the first to sign up for space there during my stay in 
the city. 



Because I went to the same college with Mary Doe and Mary Roe is no reason why 
I should spend the rest of my life with them. Living on the corridor with them in 
Inman Hall where there are a hundred other girls is a very different proposition from 
living with them in a New York apartment where there are only eight or ten. If 
they happened to be my close personal friends, all right; but about eight chances out 
of ten they would be merely college acquaintances. Another thing: during my 
undergraduate days I simply adored dormitory life: the more the merrier. I moved 
heaven and earth to move from Lupton College over to Rebeckah Scott Hall. But 
now that I am out of school I don't feel the "gang urge" so strongly. Ten girls are 
too many to live intimately with in a more or less family group. You asked for a 
frank expression of opinion on this subject: here is mine. I should be glad to drop 
around at the Agnes Scott apartment about two afternoons during the winter for 
tea, but as to living there  never! 



The idea of having an Agnes Scott House in New York is the best I've heard in 
a long, long time. Last summer I was in New York for two months and the ques- 
tion of where to stay was not very easily settled. Had an Agnes Scott House been 
there, I might have seen more of New York instead of spending two-fifths of the time 
going to the far ends of the Bronx and Brooklyn. 

Sometime in the near future, I am going back for more than a few months, and 
to be able to stay with "Hottentots" will be ideal. Every Agnes Scott girl goes to 
New York at one time or another, and not every one has friends there. This means 
staying at a hotel. I should think that each Agnes Scott girl would be willing to pay 
so much a year to support the apartment in New York, so that when she does go, 
she will be sure of a room among friends. I am willing to do anything to see this 
Agnes Scott House materialize. 



ALUMNAE LOCAL CLUBS 



On December 13, 1927, ten Agnes Scott alumnae in Jacksonville, Fla., met at 
the home of Louise (Capen) Baker and formed an Agnes Scott club to meet on 
the fourth Monday of every month. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and 
the following officers were elected: 

Gertrude (Briesnick) Ross, president. 

Alice Lake Jones, vice-president. 

Charlotte Buckland, secretary-treasurer. 

Mary Ellen Colyer and Janet Newton, members of executive committee. 

The next meeting will be on January 23 at the home of Alice Lake Jones. It 
was voted to' include in the Jacksonville club the alumnae of Fernandina and Gaines- 
ville, also. 

Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes, who were in Jacksonville for the meeting of the 
Southern Education Association, were guests of the club at its first meeting. 



The Birmingham, Ala., club is doing well this year. Elizabeth (Ransom) Hahn 
is the new president. The club secretary writes: "We are meeting in the homes this 
year, and having sandwiches and tea at the end of the program  a thing we haven't 



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done before. We have had some dandy meetings: one at Dorothy (Bowron) Collins' 
where her grandmother talked on 'Travel;' one at Nell Esslinger's studio, where 
Nell and Mary (Bryan) Winn gave a musical program; one in charge of Louise 
(Buchanan) Proctor on 'Antiques.' We are so delighted to have Lou with us now." 



The Memphis, Tenn., alumnae meet the first Friday in each month at 3 P. M. 
Louie Dean (Stephens) Hays writes: "On January 6th seven of us met with Margaret 
(Leavitt) Turner. She was elected president and I was elected secretary. Here is a 
list of those present: Nell (Coats) Pentecost, Sarah (Hightower) Barnes, Mabel 
(Hyland) Cunningham, Margaret (Rowe) Jones, Cecile (Bowden) Mayfield, Mar- 
garet (Leavitt) Turner, and myself. Margaret (Smith) Lyon is a member, but 
she was visiting in Alabama. Laura (Speck) Steele is also a member, but was pre- 
vented from attending the meeting that afternoon. We are planning to listen in on 
February 22nd to the radio program. The next meeting will be with me on 
February 3rd, and we are looking forward to the news 'letter from the alumnae 
office." 



Roberta (Love) Brower entertained the Richmond, Va., alumnae at their Novem- 
ber meeting. 



The annual Christmas bazaar sponsored by the Atlanta Alumnae Club was held 
at the home of Mrs. Asa Warren Candler (Hattie Lee West) in Druid Hills. The 
Agnes Scott Glee Club came out from the college to sing. There were tables of 
dolls, baby clothes, aprons, cakes and candies, bridge sets, kitchen things, linens, etc. 
Each member of the club furnished the names of ten people whom they thought 
would be interested in coming, and a general invitation was issued through the 
Atlanta newspapers. 

The regular November meeting of the club was held at the Atlanta Woman's 
Club Building in the Palm Room. Plans for the bazaar were completed at that 
time. The Alumnae Secretary was the guest of the club for the afternoon, and told 
in an informal way of the happenings on the campus recently. 



The Decatur Club gave a tea to the Senior girls of the Prep Schools in Atlanta 
and Decatur on December 9th at the Anna Young Alumnae House. Christmas dec- 
orations were used throughout the house, and a welcome log fire burned in the big 
fireplace in the living room. The receiving line was composed of Mary Knox, presi- 
dent of the club; Martha Crowe, vice president; Elizabeth Lynn, secretary and 
treasurer. Ethel Ware, Sarah Fulton and Polly Stone met the girls at the door. Miss 
Alexander poured tea in the dining-room, and was assisted in serving the girls by 
Frances Rainey, Ruth Thomas, Ruth Pirkle, Margaret Phythian, Elizabeth McCallie 
and Louise Bansley. The Yellowjacket Quartet from Georgia Tech came out and 
furnished songs and banjo solos for the occasion. After the tea, some of the students 
carried the High School girls over to the gym to see a water polo game that was 
in progress between the Seniors and Juniors. 

At the January meeting of the club, Mrs. Sydenstricker spoke to the girls. The 
Decatur club meets in the living-room of the Alumnae House in the evening, so that 
the girls who work in town can attend. This is by far the most successful year 
the club has ever had. 



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SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT 

Dr. McCain has announced that through the Institute of International Education 
a Fellowship will be given next year for some French girl to study at Agnes Scott. 
This Fellowship includes room, board, laundry and tuition. The Institute will select 
for this fellowship some French student who speaks her own language fluently and 
who will be able to aid in the Romance Languages Department of the College. 

The aim of the Institute of International Education is to develop international 
good will and understanding through educational agencies. For a number of years 
it has been bringing over to the United States a fine body of students from France, 
Germany, Czecho-slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, and just recently, Spain, in in- 
ternational exchange fellowships granted by our colleges and universties, and has been 
sending American students abroad on reciprocal fellowships to study at the universities 
in those countries. 

There are a number of these Fellowships to study in foreign countries which Agnes 
Scott alumnae might be interested in investigating. Since each country naturally 
requires a knowledge of its language, study in Czecho-slovakia and Hungary need 
not be discussed here. The German universities  Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Frankfort, 
Giessen, Goettingen, Heidelberg, Marburg, Munich and Tuegingen, have established a 
number of fellowships covering tuition, board, and lodging. Evidence of a good 
working knowledge of German is required of all candidates. American fellows are 
required, to reside in Germany at least ten months. Applications must be submitted 
on or before February 15. 

The Universities of Switzerland offer to American students a number of tuition 
scholarships. Last year these were available at the Universities of Basle, Berne, Frei- 
burg, Geneva, Neuchatel, and Zurich. Evidence of a good working knowledge of 
French or German, preferably both, is required of candidates. American fellows are 
required to reside in Switzerland until the end of the academic year, which usually 
ends about the middle or end of July. During the long vacation periods, especially 
between terms (March 1 to April 15), exceptional opportunity is afforded to visit 
in Switzerland and the surrounding countries of Europe. Applications must be sub- 
mitted on or before March 1. 

Application blanks and information about the international exchange fellowships 
and scholarships may be obtained from Archie M. Palmer, Assistant Director, Institute 
of International Education, 2 W. 45th St., New York, N. Y. 

There are a number of fellowships and scholarships available for study in the 
American Universities. An announcement just received at the alumnae office is from 
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York  Dr. Sweet's alma mater. They offer ten 
fellowships of $500 with free tuition; ten fellowships in the School of Citizenship 
and Public Affairs of $500 and free tuition, and sixteen scholarships of $170, covering 
graduate school tuition. Applications should be in by March 15. For more detailed 
information, write the Dean of the Graduate School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 
New York. 



LETTERS FROM FAR-AWAY ALUMNAE 

I. Emmie (Ficklen) Harper, '24, writes from Jubbulpore, India: 

There is so much to tell you about India and our work that we will not say much about our 
trip out. We did not find the sea too rough and managed to enjoy the long days on the water. 
Our two weeks in England and France will long be remembered. We saw most of the "sights" in 
London and Paris and made side trips into the Shakespeare country in England, and to Versailles 
in France. We crossed the Channel in the daytime and were able to see the chalk cliffs of Dover 
and the scenery around Calais. The most delightful trip by train was from Paris down to Marseilles. 



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We ran along through farms and villages and saw the quaint villagers at their work. Prom Marseilles 
our ship skirted along the coasts of Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy, and with the aid of glasses we could 
see a bit of the villages and people whom we passed. Our first real contact with the Orient came 
when we put in at Port Said. The water around our ship soon became filled with the boats of the 
merchants who came out to haggle with the passengers over the prices of their wares. The boats con- 
tained almost every conceivable thing which one could buy. It is true that we saw no heavy 
furniture, but there were rugs, boxes, baskets, fruit, cigars, candies, beads, shawls, clothing of all 
kinds, etc. When we went ashore we were beseiged by the hawkers who insisted on trying to 
sell us something which we insisted that we did not want! Here we had our first experience with that 
system which is a vital part of the life of the Orient  bargaining. The one who is buying attempts 
finally to make the purchase for one-third or one-fourth of the original price asked. Then he knows 
he is paying about twice what the article is worth! After the trade is made the merchant shows 
that he holds no ill will toward you by asking for a bakshish  a tip. The world out here moves 
forward on the bakshish. 

We landed in Bombay on September 9th. After spending the day there we proceeded on up 
country to Jubbulpore. One would hardly say that the Indian "Pullman" was built for comfort. 
It consists of a compartment about twelve feet long. On either side and down the middle are 
benches, sometimes slightly padded. The benches are about two feet wide. The "uppers" consist of 
shelves of the same width. One carries his own bedding, towels, soap, etc. Naturally one enjoys 
great privacy during his evening repose. There are only eight or ten other people in the compartment, 
and for safety the lights are kept burning all night. At each station there is usually much confusion 
as passengers depart and others take their places. But in spite of these petty annoyances we managed 
to sleep well on our way to Jubbulpore, and on the other trips which we have taken. One never 
drinks water out here unless it has been boiled. 

No doubt you will be interested to know something about the College, about Jubbulpore, the 
other missionaries, and just what we are doing. The India Methodist Theological College is the only 
English speaking theological school of our church in India. This means that we have men here 
from all parts of India. About eight different language groups are represented. In order to under- 
stand each other the students have to speak English. The students present a very interesting sight 
when they come together, for there is considerable difference in costume and in general appearance. 
Some of the men wear ordinary trousers, others wear loose fitting trousers of white cloth called 
"pyjamas," and still others wear a kind of skirt. They either throw a shawl around their shoulders 
or wear ordinary coats. The wives of the students wear many-colored saris which consists of a 
piece of cloth about five yards long draped gracefully about them. In the two months which we 
have been here we have come to think a lot of these students. There are numerous social occasions 
as well as the class room work which bring us together. In the afternoons we often visit with them 
or take part in their athletic contests. We have found that learning Hindi is not our only language 
problem. We are the first Southerners with whom the students have come in contact, so they have 
as much trouble and amusement over our Southern accent as the folks in New York had last year! 

We have a real large missionary family here in Jubbulpore. In addition to the faculty of the 
Theological College there are four Methodist ladies in charge of a large girls' school operated by 
the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. Jubbulpore is the headquarters for the work of the Disciples 
Church in India and they have quite a number of people here. The Wesleyan Methodist and Church 
of England also have work. In all there must be about thirty missionaries at work in the area of 
Jubbulpore. Once each month there is a business and social meeting of the missionaries. At other 
times there are frequent tennis matches followed by tea, or dinner parties and musical programs at one 
or another of the missionary homes. Furthermore, since Jubbulpore is quite the centre of things for 
this province various religious workers are frequently passing through. We need not ever have 
occasion to say that we are lonesome for other missionary company! 

We were very much surprised to find how comfortable our house is. When compared to our 
apartment of last year the size of our cottage seems to us like a mansion. But because of the heat 
the rooms must be large and the ceilings high. All of the walls, inside and out, are made of brick 
whitewashed over. The floors are large slabs of stone. There are many windows and doors. But 
with a few curtains and pictures the place can be made quite homelike. Things grow exceedingly 
well here, so our yard is filled with trees and many varieties of flowers. Emmie finds home life far 
from monotonous. There is the weekly visit of the dhobi, or washer-man. His approach is always 
viewed with fear and trembling. Mark Twain once said, "India is the land where they split rocks 
with the tail of a shirt." This is an accurate statement, for the dhobi does his washing down on the 
river bank and uses a stone for his scrub board. He dips the garment into the river, gathers it up 
by two ends, twirls it around his head several times, and then brings it down on the stone with a 
whack! Under such treatment buttons have no show and one's favorite dress or shirt is liable to 
come back with ventilation holes where they were never intended. Then there is the durzi, or sewing 
man. There is no limit to the number of things which he will attempt to make out of a piece of 
cloth. You just give him the cloth and a dress or suit as a pattern and finally he will hand back 



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to you a duplicate. It is said that one of them accurately reproduced a patch on a new suit in 
exactly the same spot where he found one on the old suit! And then one can look forward to 
the visits of the various merchants. One sits on his own veranda and looks at the wares of the cake 
walla, the basket walla, the cloth walla, the vegetable walla, etc. There is the usual bargaining and 
bakshish mentioned before. 

Jubbulpore is a city of about 100,000 inhabitants. It is quite an important military post, so 
there are a number of English soldiers here. The English civil population also amounts to several 
thousands. The city is really divided into two sections, the native and the foreign. The College 
is located in the foreign area in order to avoid the various epidemics and plagues, but we all go 
over into the city quite often. In the shops we are able to buy most of the necessities of food and 
clothing. It is true that European things cost a bit more than Indian, and it's almost impossible 
to get American-made articles. The shops of the bazaar are most fascinating. They usually con- 
sist of a kind of shed built along the edges of the streets. There are no sidewalks, so the carts 
and people almost brush up against the wares on display. There are the cloth shops, the brass shops, 
the food stalls, hardware shops, trinket shops, etc. Shopping is an . interesting procedure. One goes 
in and sits down, usually on the floor since Indians do not use chairs. Then the merchant displays his 
wares. He will show you everything he has in his store in order to make a sale of only a few 
cents. Time is no consideration with him. It usually takes a whole afternoon to buy a few yards 
of cloth and the necessary thread. There will be the customary bargaining and a whole lot of talk 
over each purchase. Our great difficulty at present is in withstanding the temptation to buy 
everything we see! Many things are really very pretty, and the prices seem ridiculously low. 

The Hindu community seems to have a holiday of some sort almost every week. During 
the past two months there have been two long holiday periods, each more than a week in length. 
Yesterday and the day before were Mela days, that is days on which the Hindus took special baths 
down at the sacred river. The Melas are important occasions and remind an American of the County 
Fair days at home. Booths of all sorts are erected on the river bank, and marvel of marvels, there 
is a merry-go-round and a ferris wheel to furnish entertainment for young and old. Of course the 
Hindus observe as many European holidays as they can, so one wonders how they ever get any 
work done! One of the holiday weeks ended in an interesting ceremony. Just as dark fell each 
Hindu home and place of business was lighted with dozens of little lamps. These were placed 
along the edges of the verandas and on the roofs. A few lamps were also placed in the windows. The 
electric lights of the city were shut off so that the little lights would show up better. Then sky- 
rockets and roman candles were set off to give a little color to the occasion. 



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OUR ALUMNAE HOUSE GUESTS 

"Who has been to the Alumnae House recently that I know?" This question is 
asked so often by alumnae, that we are publishing a few pages from the Guest 
Register Book for them to look over. 

Mary Hemphill Green, '24, Abbeville, S. C. 

Caroline Agee, '21, Anniston, Ala. 

Victoria Frederick, Vineyard Haven, Mass. 

Davella (Ramsey) Gorham, Lake Charles, La. 

Elizabeth Kyle Gorham, Lake Charles, La. 

Alike (Felker) Nunnally, ex '10, Monroe, Ga. 

J. Roy Nunnally, Monroe, Ga. 

Mary O. Southgate, Norfolk, Va. 

Kate West McLendon, Marion, Ala. 

Cornelia Cooper, '12, Marion, Ala. 

Sarah (McKowen) Blackshear, ex '10, Jacksonville, Fla. 

E. Juanita Greer, '26, Johns Flopkins University. 

Mary S. Bonham, Birmingham, Ala. 

Virginia S. Woolverton, Birmingham, Ala. 

Betty Bonham, Birmingham, Ala. 

Margaret (Brown) Bachman, ex '14, Columbus, Ga. 

Margie Louise Bachman, Columbus, Ga. 

Catherine Clara Bachman, Columbus, Ga. 

Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23, Lovejoy, Ga. 

Romola Davis, '20, Clearwater, Fla. 

Isabel Ferguson, '2 5, Waynesville, N. C. 

Frances Denton, Waynesville, N. C. 

Ethel McKowen Payne, Baton Rouge, La. 

May (McKowen) Taylor, '06, Baton Rouge, La. 

B. B. Taylor, Baton Rouge, La. 

May, Jane, and John Taylor, Baton Rouge, La. 

Mary Stewart McLeod, '23, Bartow, Fla. 

Louise Slack, '20, Richmond, Va. 

Mrs. Julian M. Fields, Savannah, Ga. 

Mary B. Mever, Davis, W. Va. 

Mrs. C. A. Williams, Lee Town, W. Va. 

Beff Allen, '20, Lafayette, Ala. 

Elizabeth Warden, Greenville, S. C. 

Ellen Walker, '25, Summerville, S. C. 

Martha Lin Manly, '2 5, Dalton, Ga. 

Alethia Bland, Charlotte, N. C. 

Mrs. J. A. Montgomery, Birmingham, Ala. 

Catherine Carrier, '2 5, Asheville, N. C. 

Mrs. T. J. Stuart, Macon, Ga. 

Mrs. I. L. Domengos, Macon, Ga. 

Wilfred B. Shaw, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Eunice Thomson, Macon, Ga. 

Jennie Loyall, Macon, Ga. 

Mrs. W. H. Weatherly, Anniston, Ala. 

Alice Stone (Weatherly) Inzer, '16, Gadsden, Ala. 

Florence Smith, Raleigh, N. C. 

Julia (Pratt) Taylor, Garanhus, Brazil. 

Robert T. Brown, Bushbury, Wolverhampton, England. 

Frances Arant, ex '23, Birmingham, Ala. 



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Allie Louise Travis, ex '22, Covington, Ga. 

Emily Thomas, '22, Selma, Ala. 

Clarkie Davis, '26, Columbus, Ga. 

Hugh Nelson Montgomery, Birmingham, Ala. 

Sidney (Morton) Montgomery, ex '24, Bessemer, Ala. 

Katherine Butler, New York City. 

Dorothy Mitchell, ex '19, San Antonio, Tex. 

Mrs. Arthur Stuarts, Troy, N. Y. 

Howard P. Page, New York City. 

Lucile (Little) Morgan, '23, Heflin, Ala. 

Virginia Peeler, '26, Pasadena, Calif. 

Helen Sandusky, Pensacola, Fla. 

Margaret P. Sandusky, Pensacola, Fla. 

Margaret (Anderson) Scott, '15, Valdosta, Ga. 

Ruth Scandrett, '22, Cordele, Ga. 

Mrs. McCoy, Washington Court House, Ohio. 

Ruth Johnston, '2 5, Macon, Ga. 

Frances Buchanan, '27, Macon, Ga. 

Beulah Davidson, '24, Tate, Ga. 

Mrs. R. E. S. Reese, Oteen, N. C. 

Elizabeth Norfleet, '27, Winston-Salem, N. C. 

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

Mary Wallace Kirk, Tuscumbia, Ala. 

William Crowe, IV, Tuscumbia, Ala. 

Mrs. William Crowe (nee Catherine Graeber), Tuscumbia, Ala. 

Mary (Bryan) Winn, '16, Birmingham, Ala. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert C. Morfey, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Emily Spivey, '25, Eatonton, Ga. 

Olivia Swann, '26, Ensley, Ala. 

Elizabeth Sadler, Ensley, Ala. 

Grace Carr, '27, Bainbridge, Ga. 

Sallie Horton, '2 5, Birmingham, Ala. 

Dr. William B. Clark, Atlanta. 

Dr. James R. Lavendar, Manderville, Ala. 

Meta Glass, Sweet Briar, Va. 

John Ramage, London, England. 

Frank Darvall, University of Reading. 

Andrew Haddon, University of Edinburgh. 

Laurence B. Smelser, Vanderbilt University. 

Charles A. Logan, Tokushima, Japan. 

Eilleen Gober, '03, Marietta, Ga. 

Grace Hardie, 03, Glen Ridge, N. J. 

Marion Bucher, '03, Decatur, Ga. 

Bessie (Sentelle) Martin, ex '08, Ltiebo, Congo Beige, Africa. 

Samille (Lowe) Skeen, '18, Orange, N. J. 

Mrs. G. G. Sydnor, Charles Town, W. Va. 

F. Crossley Morgan, Augusta, Ga. 

Louise Todd, Altamaha, Ga. 

J. E. Johnson, University of Florida. 

Mrs. K. Koenig, Kassel, Germany. 

B. Miller, Hamilton, Ont., Canada. 



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HOME-COMING TEA NOVEMBER 2 5 th. 

On Friday, November 2 5th, the alumnae cele- 
brated Miss Anna Young's birthday with Annual 
Home-Coming Day. The House and Tea Room 
Committee were hostesses from four to six in the 
afternoon at tea, and a number of Atlanta and 
Decatur alumnae, and out-of-town girls who were 
here for Thanksgiving week-end, called during 
the afternoon. In the receiving line were Miss 
Anna's mother and sisters  Mrs. Samuel Young, 
Mrs. J. J. Eagan, and Mrs. Paul Brown  Mrs. J. 
Sam Guy, president of the general Alumnae As- 
sociation, and Miss Margaret Phythian, chairman 
of the House and Tea Room Committee. Miss 
McKinney and Miss Lewis poured tea in the 
dining-room. This home-coming day has been 
selected as the annual occasion for the dona- 
tion of gifts to the Alumnae House. Beside sev- 
eral very generous checks, the House received 
this year some lovely linens from Quenelle Har- 
rold, Dr. Sweet, Miss McKinney, Miss Lillian 
Smith, and Mrs. Fraser Durrett, and a pair of 
blankets from Evelyn Kennedy and Mary Ella 
Hammond. 



MAY DAY PLANS 



The history of the dance in all its delightful 
phases has been chosen to be presented at Agnes 
Scott's annual May Day fete. Opportunities for 
color, dance, and pantomime in beautiful com- 
binations are given in the representative dances 
from practically every country. The scenario 
was written by Carolyn Essig, '28, of Atlanta, 
whose scenario was chosen in the contest last 
year also. The physical education department 
has already begun work on the dances. The May 
Queen and her court have not yet been chosen. 
These will be announced in the April Quarterly. 



A unique feature of the commencement week- 
end this year will be a Hoasc reunion the first 
ever planned. 

Since 1916, when the order was founded, one 
hundred and sixty-three Seniors have been ad- 
mitted to membership. These girls, leaders as 
students, have gone out from the college to be 
leaders in their home communities. They are 
widely scattered, and engaged in a number of 
professions, but they are all asked to heed this 
call sent out from the college by the student 
members of Hoasc to return to the campus this 
year for a joint meeting. 

Nell Hillhouse, secretary of Hoasc, will be 
glad to answer any communications from former 
Hoasc members about the reunion. Address her 
care the college. 



FACULTY NOTES 

Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes attended the 
meetings of the Association of Colleges and 
Secondary Schools of the Southern States held 
in Jacksonville, Fla., during December. Dr. 
McCain is a member of the Council of the Com- 
mission on Higher Institutions, and chairman of 
the committee on triennial blanks. 

From January 10th to 13th, Dr. McCain was 
in Atlantic City, at the meeting of the Associa- 
tion of American Colleges. 



Miss MacDougall spent the Christmas holidays 
in New York City where she is doing some spe- 
cial research and teaching at Columbia Uni- 
versity. She has a leave of absence from Agnes 
Scott during January to complete this work. 

No definite announcement has yet been made 
of the new head of the history department to 
succeed Miss Hearon. Miss Florence Smith, of 
the University of Chicago, will continue to sub- 
stitute for Miss Hearon during the second semes- 
ter of this year. 



Miss Nan Bagby Stephens, professor of play- 
writing, is putting the finishing touches to her 
play, "John Barleycorn," which will be produced 
in New York next year by the American Theatre 
Association. Marx Oberndorfer, conductor of the 
Chicago Opera Association, is writing the score for 
the first negro opera, the libretto of which was 
done by Miss Stephens from her play "Roseanne." 

The new 1927-28 college bulletin has gone to 
press and will be ready to be mailed out by 
February 1st. Any alumnae who are interested 
in their daughters, little sisters, or young friends 
coming to Agnes Scott will receive a copy of the 
bulletin by writing to Mr. S. G. Stukes, regis- 
trar, at the college. 



LOST ALUMNAE 



The alumnae office is making use of every possi- 
ble means to clear up the remaining "lost sisters" 
on the files. From the bottom of very grateful 
hearts, the office force wishes to thank again all 
those loyal alumnae who have helped by sending in 
married names, addresses, or any other informa- 
tion. Won't you look once more at the lists of 
lost alumnae scattered through the Concerning 
Ourselves columns of this issue, and see if by any 
chance there is a name there whose address you 
know? 



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Concerning Ourselves 



'89-'05 

Zula Adkins is Mrs. Lewis D. Sharp, 179 E. 
17th St., Atlanta. Mr. Sharp is connected with 
the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
pany. They have one daughter, Lundie, in her 
teens. 

Estelle Anderson is Mrs. R. J. McNeil, Tignall, 
Georgia. 

Leila Anthony is dead. 

Elise Armor is Mrs. C. C. Wills, wife of the 
superintendent of schools in Greensboro, Ga. She 
is active in church and civic work. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loridans, who have 
spent the past four months visiting Mr. Lori- 
dans' former home in France, sailed for New 
York on November 9th. They motored to At- 
lanta immediately on their arrival. Mrs. Lori- 
dans was Addie Arnold, '01. 

Annie Austin is still living near Decatur, Ga., 
on route 1. 

Bessie Baker is Mrs. Richard Milliken, of Jesup, 
Georgia. 

Susie Barr (Mrs. J. A. Addy) died during the 

first flu epidemic in 1917. She left her husband 

and two young sons. They live in Newnan, Ga. 

Grace (Barstow) Murphy has moved from Long 

Island to 45 Oriole Ave., Bronxville, N. Y. 

Margaret (Berrie) Lyons has moved to Pros- 
pect Hall, New Rochelle, N. Y. 

Leola (Birdsong) Middlebrooks has two sons 
and one daughter. They have moved to 169 
Laurel Ave., Macon, Ga. 

Jeanie Bowie is Mrs. Charles Culberson, 607 
W. 1st St., Rome, Ga. 

Jennie Boyd (Mrs. Robert Wood) died several 
years ago. 

Kate Bradley is Mrs. J. R. Combs, Tunnel Hill, 
Georgia. 

Lady Kate Branner is Mrs. Sanford Burnett, 
Jefferson City, Tenn. 

Margaret Brewster was graduated from Shorter 
College about five years ago. She is not teaching 
this year, but is staying at home in Newnan 
with her mother. 

Fannie (Brown) Bethea has a son at Georgia 
Tech, and a daughter who is a Junior in high 
school. 

Marie Schley Brown writes from the Rex 
Arms, Los Angeles: "You see I have flown away 
from my north pole and am here enjoying the 
California sunshine for a few weeks." 

Flora Burbank is affiliated with her father 
in the Burbank Drug Company in Cedartown, 
Georgia. 

Kittie (Burress) Martin is organist at the First 
Baptist Church in Greenville, S. C. She lives at 
the McDavid Apartments, number 3. Before com- 
ing to Greenville, she held the position of organ- 
ist for thirteen years at the First Baptist Church 
in Anderson, S. C. Kittie has three boys: Oscar 
L., Jr., 30 ; William B., 27, and A. Rolledge, 
18. Mr. Martin was before his death a Baptist 
minister. 

Annie Maude Burt has been dead a number of 
years. 

Eva Caldwell is Mrs. Frank B. Haynes, of 
Union Springs, Ala. She is assistant in the 
office of Bullock County Board of Education. Her 
three children are Boykin, 20 ; Catherine, 18, and 
Sam, 14. Mr. Haynes is dead. 



Carrie Louise Calloway is Mrs. W. C. Spence, 
420 Broad St., Albany, Ga. 

Lucy Childress is teaching at home in Bristol, 
Tennessee. 

Wanted: Address of Sara Collier, now Mrs. 
Langston, and living in New York City. Also 
information about addresses of Johnie Adams, 
Isabelle M. Alexander, Douscha Alford, Essie M. 
Anderson, Jessie Arnold, Mary Lou Arnold, Flora 
Auxford, Beulah Baker, and Alice Beck. 

Annie Connerat is Mrs. James E. Thursby, 
Twin Hills Orchard, Cornelia, Ga. 

Annie Mell Cramer went to California after 
leaving Cameron, Texas. Does anyone have her 
present address ? Also the addresses of Blanche 
Beecher, Annie Claire Bone, Eleanor Brice, Annie 
Bruce, Jennie Lou Byrd, and Louise Calloway. 

Clyde Crockett is dead. 

Claude Elizabeth Dabney is Mrs. Ben O. Fus- 
sell, 889 Edgewood Ave., N. E., Atlanta. Mr. 
Fussell is a traveling salesman. They have no 
children. 

Roberta Davey is Mrs. Charles M. Mason, 201 
Pierce St., Clearwater, Fla. Her husband is 
business manager of the city. 

LeVancia Davidson is living at 1486 Fair- 
view Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Annie O. Davis died in March, 1901. 

Lucy Dillard's married name was erroneously 
given in the Alumnae Register as Mrs. Gannett 
Greene. Lucy Dillard is Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., 
of Washington, Ga. She is active in American 
Legion Auxiliary work in the state. 

Ada Doster is Mrs. Frank Smith, R. F. D., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Deceased  Julia B. Dudley (Mrs. Brown Small), 
of Americus, Ga. 

Mary Evans is Mrs. Phil Goodwin, Decatur, Ga. 

Elfrida Everhart was married July 14, 1911, to 
Mr. Ralph Brainard Van Wormer, a mechanical 
engineer and business manager. They are now 
living at 119 St. Mark's Place, St. George, Staten 
Island, New York City, where Elfrida is busy with 
women's club work. In 1910 the H. W. Wilson 
Company published her "Handbook of United 
States Public Documents." 

Katherine Fain died at Fort Worth, Texas, on 
March 12, 1923. She is buried at her old home, 
Carrollton, Ga. 

Katie Faith is Mrs. A. P. Phillips, 1073 Spring- 
dale Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Annie Farrar is Mrs. Mell Blanchard, Craw- 
ford, Ga. 

Flora Fite, who for years has been one of 
Cartersville, Ga.'s most beloved teachers, is very 
ill at the Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. 

Mamie Lou Fulcher is Mrs. H. H. Chandler, of 
Waynesboro, Ga. Her name was erroneously 
printed "Minnie Lou" in the Alumnae Register. 

Eula Gamble (Mrs. A. G. Guerard) lost her 
husband early in the fall. Mr. and Mrs. Guerard 
had been living abroad for several years. 

Rosa Gammon is Mrs. E. H. Osborne, 918 E. 
Henry St., Savannah, Ga. 

Annie Jean Gash, after a visit to her brother in 
New Orleans, and a flying call on Miss McKinney 
in Decatur, is at Apt. 2-B, 124 E. 84th St., New 
York City. 

Leila Glover is Mrs. A. M. Hughie, College 
Park, Ga. 



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Flora Hamil is Mrs. George Duncan, Lee St., 
Americus, Ga. 

Edith Hardy is Mrs. John Harvey, Lexington, 
Missouri. 

Cobbie Hood still lives in Cuthbert, Ga. She is 
Mrs. J. H. Walters. 

Caroline Hunt Harris is Mrs. Sam Hollis. She 
still lives in Sparta, Ga., and has a son and a 
daughter. 

Bessie Claire Hefley is Mrs. Waller, and lives 
at 4545 Swiss Ave., Dallas, Texas. 

Wanted : The addresses of Elise Gerding, Sallie 
R. Gloster, Emma Gray, Ethel Pauline Gray, M. 
Eufaula Gregory, Alice Hager, and Clifford Hard- 
age. 

Maiden Heiskell is Mrs. C. D. Boykin, Whittle 
Springs Hotel, Whittle Springs, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Deceased: Willie Hogue (Mrs. Warren Pollard). 

Mary Howell is Mrs. W. J. Egbert, Signal 
Mountain, Tenn. 

Carrie Hulsey is living at 706 Edison Ave., 
Tampa, Fla. 

Clifford Hunter, '04, is now in Fort Valley, 
Ga. Her work with the Baptist board in the 
Orient was most interesting. She was instru- 
mental in starting a number of schools for 
married women to teach them practical things. 

Wanted : Addresses of Adalyn Hyde, Eldreanna 
Hillman, Pattie King Hill, Julia A. Hill, and 
Katherine Henderson. 

Nannie Gilmore is living at 1912 Pearl St., 
Jacksonville, Fla. She is ex-ray technician with 
the Duvall County Hospital. 

Addie M. Hill is Mrs. A. H. Summerson, Hotel 
Walton, 104 W. 70th St., New York City. She 
works at the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory. 

Marian (Johnson) Bell has recently moved to 
Dothan, Ala. 

Ruth Johnson is Mrs. H. W. Lyons, P. O. Box 
253, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Myrtle Jones is Mrs. W. P. McGuire, 221 How- 
ard Ave., Decatur, Ga. 

Nettie Jones was married in January, 1927, 
to Mr. D. M. Alexander. 

Maude Jossey is Mrs. J. T. Pecot, 349 W. Ponce 
de Leon Ave., Decatur, Ga. Her sister, Nannie 
Lou, is Mrs. C. A. Blackstock, Marshall St., De- 
catur. 

Raisa Kamensky (Mrs. John Wick) died in 1926. 

Charlotte Kefauver is Mrs. J. C. Johnes, Madi- 
sonville, Tenn. Her husband is a doctor. 

Lizzie Kendrick is Mrs. A. W. Cline, 281 
Blvd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga. 

Wanted : Addresses of Hazel Knox, Louise L. 
Kirksey, Louise Kendall (Mrs. Francis), Annie 
Keenan, Beulah Kendrick, and Derrelle Kilpat- 
rick. 

Grace Kolb lives at Rua Backer 42, Sao Paula, 
Brazil. She is a very successful music teacher, 
and is active in church work. 

Alma Lane is now Mrs. Benson Cain, 3447 Cliff 
Rd., Birmingham, Ala. She was married in 1898. 
Mr. Cain is a banker. They have no children. 

Lucile Lane is Mrs. W. V. Bailey, 31 Kings- 
bury PL, St. Louis, Mo. 

Elizabeth Lanier is Mrs. Allen F. Johnson, of 
Lynchburg, Va. Catherine Mitchell, '27, visited 
her home in June. 

Georgia Leeper is the manager of the Alabama 
College supply store a Montevallo, Ala. 

Ruth Lewis is with the American Woolen Mills, 
and lives at Apt. 7, 8 Barron St., New York City. 

Bessie Link lives at 2109 DeKalb Ave., N. E., 
Atlanta. 

Mary Little is Mrs. James W. Clark, Louisville, 
Georgia. 

Deceased : Bertha Lohman, of Fernandina, Fla. 



Kathleen Lohman is married and living in 
Knoxville, Tenn. Will someone with more definite 
information about her please send it to the Alum- 
nae office? Also any information about Nettie 
May Langford, Leila S. Lawrence, Miranda E. 
Lawrence, Claribel Leary, Grace Lewis, Imogene 
Lovejoy, Jean Lutz, and Marguerite D. Lockwood. 

Mary McCandlish is Mrs. Henry D. Archer, 1330 
Pine St., New Orleans, La. Her husband is a 
salesmen with the Electric Hose and Rubber Co. 
They have two daughters and one son. 

Maggie McCaskill is Mrs. J. S. Dunn, R. F. 
D., Camden, S. C. Her occupation is farming. 
Mr. Dunn is on the staff of the Governor of South 
Carolina. 

Marianne McClellan is treasurer of the Georgia 
U. S. Daughters of 1812. She lives at 204 S. 
McDonough St., Decatur, Ga. 

Helen Octavia (McCormick) Kirk's husband is a 
Presbyterian minister in Baltimore. They have 
three children: Harris Elliott, Jr., Mary Louise 
(who is now Mrs. J. Lane Wilson) ; and Helen 
L. Kirk. 

Maud McDaniel teaches in the Atlanta public 
school system. She lives at the Piedmont Hotel. 

Arie Lee McFadden is Mrs. Forest Griffin, 219 
W. 6th Ave., Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Frankie McGinnie is Mrs. W. P. Morgan, Oak 
St., Decatur, Ga. 

Jennie B. (McPhaul) Myers is working at the 
Georgia Agricultural College in Athens, Ga. 

Pearl Matthews is Mrs. Albert Moore, Cedar- 
town, Ga. 

Helen Mead is Mrs. L. W. Caffey. Her husband 
is a colonel in the U. S. Army, in charge of 
the army post at Camp McCellan, Ala. 

Anna Mixson is Mrs. D. G. Haley, Terra Cei, 
Florida. 

Bessie Morgan is Mrs. Elmore Austin, R. F. D., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Carrie V. Morrissette is Mrs. John Pollard, 
Selma, Ala. 

Annie Morton is Mrs. M. E. Dodd, Summer- 
ville Rd., Rome, Ga. 

Belle Randolph Nash is Mrs. William L. Mc- 
Pheeters, 2893 Berkshire Rd., Cleveland, Ohio. 

Lilliam (Ozmer) Treadwell lives in Hampton, 
Georgia. 

Maud Rucker Powell is Mrs. Turner, 2809 
Waverly Way, Norfolk, Va. 

Deceased: Ollie Pritchard (Mrs. F. C. Snow). 

Deceased : Mabel E. Quillian. 

Marie Quillian is Mrs. L. A. Harrold, 648 Pio 
Nono Ave., Macon, Ga. Her husband is a 
Methodist preacher. 

Sarah Quillian is Mrs. W. W. Baldwin, Madi- 
son, Ga. Mr. Baldwin is dead. 

Davella (Ramsey) Gorham writes: "The op- 
portunity to keep in touch with my former class- 
mates is one of the happiest experiences I enjoy, 
and I know of no way to do this more effectively 
than through the Alumnae Association. I was 
very happy to find my daughter's algebra and 
grade teacher in High School is an Agnes Scott 
girl (Mildred Scott, of Oakdale, La.). She is mak- 
ing an excellent teacher. I remember very pleas- 
antly my visit to the Alumnae House with Ethel 
Reid, ex '08, last June." 

Leila C. Reese works in the Citizens and 
Peoples Bank of Pensacola, Fla. 

Lola Robinson is Mrs. Charles F. Hogue, 910 
Montgomery Ave., Sheffield, Ala. She has one 
daughter, Coraline, who is almost ready for col- 
lege. 

Mrs. George Bucher Scott, mother of Louise 
(Scott) Sams, and mother-in-law of Marie (Mc- 
Intyre) Scott and Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott, died 
on November 10th, at her home in Decatur. 

May (Shepard) Schlich, of Loxley, has a fam- 
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Annie and Jeannette Shapard have moved to 
Wetumpka, Ala. Annie writes : "I hope that 
after a quarter of a century, the class of '04 will 
be able to appear an unbroken band in 1929." 

Mary Louise Simpson is living at 1206 Munro 
Ave., Columbus, Ga. 

Mabel Smith is Mrs. William Home, Oakdale 
Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Wanted : The addresses of Nannie, Reba, and 
Rowena Smith, formerly of Sherman, Texas. Also 
information or addresses of Carrie Sisson, Annie 
Lou Ryan, Bertie Rucker, Rosalind Royall, May 
Ce Robinson, Rachel Shellman, and Kate Shivers. 

Eliza Stickley is Mrs. R. C. Kimbrough, Madi- 
sonville, Tenn. Her husband is a doctor. 

Julia Stokes is working with the Presbyterian 
Community House at Cuba, Ga., route 3, Blakely, 
Georgia. 

Deceased: Sal lie Swanton (Mrs. A. A. Ivy). 

The American Theatre Association has an- 
nounced that New York will see its production of 
"John Barleycorn" early next year. This is a 
play of the North Carolina mountain moonshiners 
written by Nan Bagby Stephens, whose play, 
"Roseanne," dealing with Georgia negroes, was 
successfully produced in New York two years ago. 
While a guest at the famous McDowell colony in 
Peterborough, N. H., this past summer Miss 
Stephens completed work on "John Barleycorn," 
and converted "Roseanne" into a libretto, which 
Marx Oberndorfer, conductor of the Chicago Opera 
Association, is adapating as an opera. This will 
be the first negro opera. Mr. Oberndorfer is com- 
posing the music himself. Dorothy and Dubose 
Heyward, of Charleston, were also at the Mc- 
Dowell colony during Miss Stephens' visit, and 
she assisted them in arranging and writing the 
spirituals which are employed in the stage pro- 
duction of "Porgy," now running in New York. 

Eunice Tabor is living in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

Edith Sydnor Thomson, who is now Mrs. Edwin 
Booth, is living in Paris. 

Pearl (Wallace) Cowan has a lovely home on 
Columbia Rd., Bristol, Tenn. She has three sons. 

Rose Wallace died several years ago. 

Anderson (Walter) Graham has two girls and a 
boy. One of her daughters, Florence, expects to 
come to Agnes Scott next year. Mr. Graham is 
a farmer. 

Essie Warren is Mrs. J. M. Floyd, Redan, Ga. 

Eloise (Watson) Herbert moved on January 
1st to Indianola, Miss. 

Helen West is Mrs. B. M. Long, of Carrollton, 
Ga. She has two daughters. 

Marion West was Mrs. B. C. Bass. She died 
at Dunedin, Fla., in 1918. 

Allatia Westbrook died about twelve years ago. 

Jeannette Wey lives at 197 Elizabeth St., N. E., 
Atlanta. She holds a secretarial position. Carol 
(Stearns) Wey is her sister-in-law. 

Sallie (Williamson) Roberts is now living in 
Mexico, Mo. Her husband is dean of Harbin 
College there. 

Margaret Wilson is Mrs. Karle McCulley, 
Sharon, S. C. 

Deceased : Blanche Winter. 

Katie Wooten is Mrs. Katie Lokey, Thomson, 
Georgia. 

Marybeth (Word) Richmond has moved from 
Detroit to the Morrowfield Apts., Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania. 



COLLEGE 

1906 
Next class reunion, 1930. 

1907 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Class secretary, Sarah Boals (Mrs. J. D. Spinks), 
302 Gloria Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C. 



Mary Elizabeth (Curry) Winn's three children 
are Elizabeth, 15 ; John, 11 ; and Albert, 6. 

Clyde Pettus received her M.A. in English at 
Emory University in 1927. She is a librarian in 
Atlanta. 

1908 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Class secretary, Louise Shipp Chick, Treasury 
Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 

Louise Chick left Washington in the early fall 
for a position with the government in San Fran- 
cisco. 

Estelle Zellars, ex '08, is Mrs. D. Brock Bla- 
lock, 1050 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 
Her husband farms and is in the machinery 
business. 

Dorothy Dyrenforth, ex '08 (Mrs. Wm. W. Lu- 
man), announces the birth of Miriam Lorraine 
on September 21, 1927, a splendid eight pound 
little girl. The Lumans are living now at 1529 
Adams Ave., Dunmore, Scranton, Penn. Dorothy 
has just returned from a trip south, visiting 
Greenville, S. C, and Decatur, Ga. She is con- 
tinuing her writing and has had several articles 
published recently. 

Lost '08 addresses are those of Zemula Dooley 
and Amelia Worthington (Mrs. Fisk). Surely 
some member of '08 has kept up with them and 
can send in correct addresses to the Alumnae of- 
fice. 

1909 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Class secretary, Margaret McCallie, 833 Fort 
Wood St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

The name of Adelaide Nelson's street has been 
changed, so her present address is 990 Forrest 
Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Irene (Newton) McGeachy's three children are 
John David, Henry Newton, and Lauehlin Mc- 
Lean. Her husband is a minister at White- 
ville, N. C. 

Corinne Funkenstein, ex '09, is married and 
living in New York City. Will someone send 
in her correct street address ? Also the ad- 
dresses of Dina Wisdom, Adalene Dortch (Mrs. 
W. C. Griggs), Marie Lederle (Mrs. W. C. 
Meyers), Johnnie Adams, Ethel Cooper, Letitia 
Green, and Eleanor Somerville. These girls all 
belonged to '09. 

Lucie May Howald, ex '09, is Mrs. L. H. Ad- 
kins, Box 416, Dania, Fla. She has four chil- 
dren, Louise, Frances, William, and George. 

Sara Smith, ex '09, is Mrs. A. S. Carnes. She 
still lives in Sparta, Ga. They have one son. 

1910 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Class secretary, Agnes Nicolassen (Mrs. T. J. 
Wharton), 1612 6th Ave., Bessemer, Ala. 

Mattie Louise (Hunter) Marshall's three chil- 
dren are Martha Hunter, 10 ; Thomas Oliver, Jr., 
7 ; and Daniel Rountree, 4. Mr. Marshall is a 
lawyer in Americus, Ga. 

Clyde (McDaniel) Jackson has two boys and 
one girl. They are Barton, 12 ; McDaniel Bush, 
10 ; and Zach Frank, 5. Barton is the daughter. 
Mr. Jackson is a cotton merchant in Charlotte, 
North Carolina. 

Annie Smith is general secretary of the Y. W. 
C. A. in Portsmouth, Va. 

Sarah Baker, ex '10, is Mrs. Carl Harrison, 
of Miami, Fla. 

Isabel (Stewart) Terrell, ex '10, has moved to 
Decatur, Ga.  120 Clairmont Ave. Her daugh- 
ter is a student at Agnes Scott this year. 

Mail has been returned from Mary Donnelly, 
1932 Biltmore St., Washington, D. C. Will some- 
one send her correct address to the Alumnae of- 
fice ? Also the addresses of these former members 
of '10 : Ethel Alderman, Gwendolyn Bailey, Etta 
Burch, Lilly Satterthwait, Ethel Thornton, and 
Marian Wood. 



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1911 

Next class reunion, 1931. 
Class secretary, Theodosia Willingham (Mrs. W. 
W. Anderson, 63 Avery Dr., Atlanta, Ga.). 

Geraldine Hood is living in Atlanta this winter. 
She is private secretary to Governor Hardman. 

Mary Wallace Kirk was maid of honor at Char- 
lotte Jackson's wedding during the Christmas holi- 
days. 

Mary Elizabeth Radford is teaching English in 
Emory High School, and studying French at 
Emory University. She writes: "How can you 
have the heart to ask a Methodist preacher's 
daughter for a permanent address ? We are liv- 
ing temporarily at 1209 Clifton Rd., N. E., At- 
lanta." 

Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson's children 
are: Emily, 6; and Bill, Jr., 4. 

Nealie Belk, ex '11, is Mrs. A. F. Stevens, at 
639 W. 5th St., Winston-Salem, N. C. 

Mattie Love Blau, ex '11, is Mrs. Cliff D. 
Smith, Peachtree St., Columbus, Ga. 

Mary Dillard, ex '11, is Mrs. W. E. Millsaps, 
"Chesterwood," Mentone, Ala. She is in Miami 
for the winter. 

Mail has been returned from Helen Hilliker, ex 
'11 (Mrs. L. T. Robinson), Benton Harbor, Mich. 
Will someone help out with her address ? 

Lillian (Mather) Sawtelle, ex '11, has moved 
from Athens, Penn., to 8 Roosevelt Ave., Bing- 
hamton, N. Y. 

Julia Warren, ex '11, is now Mrs. W. B. Yearns, 
Louisville, Ga. She has two children, Billie, 9 ; 
and Juliet, 5. 

Katherine -Wheatley, ex '11, is Mrs. J. D. 
Hooks, Lee St., Americus, Ga. 

Addresses needed for the '11 class book are 
those of Nina Anderson, Ethel Clark, Margaret 
Murphy, Julia Preston, and Alice Weathers. 

1912 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Class secretary, Marie Mclntyre (Mrs. John I. 
Scott), Scottdale, Ga. 

Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust's children are: 
Nona Martin, 4, and Ernst, Jr., 2. Mr. Rust is 
vice president of the Julius Friedlaender Com- 
pany in Columbus, Ga. 

Janette (Newton) Hart has four children: 
Richard Milledge, Jr., William Cunningham, 
Robert Henry, and Sarah Janette. Her husband 
is in the insurance business. 

Ruth (Slack) Smith writes from Duke Uni- 
versity, Durham, N. C, that she is enjoying 
Duke and likes her work very much. Ruth is 
an assistant dean of women. 

Katherine McKay, ex '12, is Mrs. Charles Ram- 
sey, Gallatin, Tenn. 

Lost members of '12 are Fannie Anderson, Ber- 
nice May Benson, Hortense Boyle, Lula Davis, 
Alice Houston, Archye Speir, and Jess Williams. 

1913 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Class secretary, Allie Candler (Mrs. J. S. Guy), 
1669 North Decatur Rd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga. 

The secretary has had troublous times at her 
house during the Christmas holidays. Her little 
daughter, Florrie Margaret, was ill with pneu- 
monia, and Sam, Jr., with mastoiditis. They are 
both well on the way to recovery now, and Allie 
has taken them to Florida for a month of sun- 
shine and warm weather. 

Walter Lewis, ex '13, is Mrs. Pence Ryal, 
Toccoa, Ga. 

Margaret Slemons, ex '13, is Mrs. Harold Brit- 
ton, Maple St., Johnson City, Tenn. 

Addresses wanted at the Alumnae office are 
those of Florence Smith, Lillie Lanier, and Fan- 
nie Sterne. 



1914 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Class secretary, Martha Rogers (Mrs. Henry 
Noble), 980 Peachtree St., Atlanta. 

Mary Rebecca (Brown) Florence has just moved 
to Magnolia, Ark. Mr. Florence is a motion pic- 
ture exhibitor. They have one son, W. P., Jr., 
born May 3, 1923. Hazel and Helon Brown, 
twin cousins of Mary's, are students at Agnes 
Scott now in the class of '29. 

Theodosia (Cobbs) Hogan has three children: 
Theodosia Catherine, 6 ; Amelia Burr, 3 ; and 
Madge Harden, who will have her first birthday 
on April 17, 1928. Mr. Hogan is a physiological 
chemist. 

Charlotte Jackson was married on December 26, 
1927, in Memphis, Tenn., to Colonel Americus 
Mitchell, a retired army officer. Mary Wallace 
Kirk, '11, was Charlotte's maid of honor and only 
attendant. The Mitchells will live at "The 
Homestead," Nashville, Tenn. 

Kathleen Kennedy is helping Louise Ash, '17, 
run the Prichard School for Orphans at Ona, W. 
Va. She writes: "We have eight little tots, all 
under six, and five more are to arrive in a few 
days. We have one perfectly adorable little 
baby girl two. years old." Any of you Agnes 
Scott alumnae who have babyless homes might 
apply to Kathleen as prospective parents for her 
orphans. 

Zollie (McArthur) Saxon announces the ar- 
rival of Anne Elizabeth Saxon, born October 
11th, in Wauchula, Fla. 

Jessie Daves, ex '14, has made a wonderful 
success in advertising. She edits the catalog for 
Best and Company in New York, and goes to 
Paris frequently for them. Her address is 114 
E. 62nd St., New York City. 

Mignon Harlan, ex '14, is living at home in 
Calhoun, Ga. 

Agnes 
Wright, 

Louise 
Z., Jr., 
year old 
Georgia. 

Madge 
Emerson 
Frances 
Kirkley, 
'17, are 

Lost addresses of '14-ers are Ruth Blair, Nell 
McLean, and Bertha Wood. 
1915 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Class secretary, Martha Brenner (Mrs. J. N. 
Shryock), 1018 N. Main St., Apt. 2, Evanston, 
Illinois. 

Gertrude (Briesnick) Ross was instrumental in 
forming the Jacksonville Alumnae Club this fall. 
She will serve as its first president. 

Elizabeth (Bulgin) Hamilton's little daughter, 
Margaret Adelaide, is now two and a half years 
old. Mr. Hamilton is in the plumbing business. 

Mary (Hyer) Vick's sons, John Henry and Ed- 
ward Hyer, are two of the luckiest little boys 
we know, for next to having your papa own a 
drug store where endless ice cream cones can be 
procured, what could be nicer than a papa who 
is an orange grower in Florida? John Henry is 
10, and Edward Hyer 8. 

Frances (Kell) Munson has moved to Jackson, 
La. She has three children : Edward Omar, Jr., 
8 ; Bettie Del, 6, and Dick Kell, 3. Dr. Munson is 
a retired dentist. 

Kate (Richardson) Wicker's girls are Kathar- 
ine Lumpkin and Lila Richardson. Mr. Wicker 
is a lawyer. 

Beverley Anderson, ex '15, was married De- 
cember 29th in Lynchburg to Dr. Alfred Chanutin, 
of University, Va. 



Houseal, ex '14, 
301 Clement Ave., 



is Mrs. William F. 

Charlotte, N. C. 

(McMillan) Vance has two sons: George 

7, and James MacMillan, not quite a 

Mr. Vance is a grocer in Cedartown, 

White, ex '14, is Mrs. S. F. Puckett, 
, Ga. Keturah (White) Marshall, ex '10 ; 

(White) Oliver, ex '17 ; Emy (White) 
ex '15, and Lillian (White) Felton, ex 
all her sisters. 



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Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner writes from her 
new home in Montgomery: "I am certainly hav- 
ing a time this year. I have not even had a 
chance to look up any of the Agnes Scotters 
here, as the scarlet fever left my little daughter 
with a leaking heart. I have to watch her like a 
hawk and stay with her all the time to keep 
har from over-exercising. She has always been 
so well and active that it is quite an under- 
taking. I have seen Emma Jones and Claude 
Martin." Henrietta's other child is Hugh J., Jr. 
Mr. Turner is with the Alabama Farm Bureau 
Cotton Association. 

Virginia Lee, ex '15, is now Mrs. William Mc- 
Rae, of Rockingham, N. C. 

Ethel (McKay) Holmes, ex '15, has moved to 
106 Vista Circle, Macon, Ga. Her husband is a 
dentist. 

Annie Montgomery, ex '15, is Mrs. Thomas 
Phillips, Jr. She and her sister, Mary, married 
brothers. Annie has two sons and one daugh- 
ter. 

Katherine (Summers) Birdsong, ex '15, has a 
baby boy a year old, and a lovely home in 
Thomaston, Ga. 

Addresses wanted of old '15 girls are: Myrtle 
Bost, Annie Brower, Julia Davis, Esther Everett 
Frierson, Annie Gully, Louise Schimelphenig, 
Margaret Smith, Margaret Dorothy Smith, Jean 
McAdams Staples, Louise Stratford, Grace Ter- 
rill. 

1916 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Class secretary, Louise Hutchison, 3716 Walnut 
St., Kansas City, Mo. 

Mary (Bryan) Winn has a brother at Columbia 
Seminary in Decatur, and she comes over oc- 
casionally to visit him, her numerous relations 
in Decatur, and Agnes Scott. Mary and Nell 
Esslinger, ex '23, were in charge of one of the 
most delightful programs of the year at the Bir- 
mingham Agnes Scott Alumnae Club. 

Ora Mast (Glenn) Roberts writes from her 
home in Brazil: "The Quarterly was full of in- 
terest as usual. Keep up the good work. I am 
still teaching music, my husband teaches science, 
and together we 'parent-ize' a dormitory full of 
little boys during the school year. The school 
has three departments : a normal school for girls, 
high school for boys, and Junior Agricultural Col- 
lege." 

Charis (Hood) Barwick writes from Des 
Plaines, 111. : "The First Congregational Church, 
of which my husband is pastor, has just gone 
over the top by $5,000 in its drive for funds. The 
whole plant of new church and parish house which 
we shall begin on right away will cost $200,000 
or more. The drive was a fine thing for the 
church and the city. It gave the men something- 
big to do and the women served ten dinners 
to the canvassers. Mr. Barwick has taken in 
ninety-three new members this year on confes- 
sion of faith. I often wish I did not have a thing 
to do but church work, for I like it, and it is 
much needed here. New subdivisions are opening 
up all around the city and people are building 
and settling. Over ninety-five per cent of our 
citizens own their homes, so it is a stable popu- 
lation to build on. I spent an afternoon with 
Martha (Brenner) Shyrock recently. She had been 
to A. S. C. not long before, so we had a great visit. 
Best wishes for my alma mater's finest year !" 

Margaret Phythian visited her father in Fort 
Thomas, Ky., during the Christmas holidays. 
She saw the former Miss Bertha Trebein, now 
Mrs. Patrick Flinn. 

Mary Will Kennon, ex '16, is now Mrs. Jim 
Clements, Fort Myers, Fla. 

Mary Louise (McGuire) Plonk, ex '16, has 
moved to Spindale, N. C. 

Mary Katherine Pope, ex '16, teaches piano 
in Franklin, Tenn., her old home. She is organ- 
ist for the Methodist Church. 



Eva (Powers) Abel's husband is a banker with 
the Army National Bank, Schofield Barracks, 
Territory of Hawaii. They will celebrate their 
first wedding anniversary on January 21, 1928. 

Agnes Robertson, ex '16, is Mrs. E. S. Gregg, 
Bell Ave., Bayside, Long Island, N. Y. 

Ruth Waddell, ex '16, is Mrs. F. M. Cantrell, 
Smyrna, Ga. 

Lost addresses in '16 are those of Vivian Hart 
(Mrs. C. W. Henderson), Leila Johnson (Mrs. L. 
P. Moore), and Lillian Johnson. 

1917 
Next class reunion, 1932. 

Class secretary, Regina Pinkston, Box 215, 
Greenville, Ga. 

Gjertrud Amundsen writes from Brooklyn, N. 
Y. : "In the midst of all the wild rush of things 
I find myself pausing and thinking about the 
wonderful reunion we 1917-ers had ! It's absolutely 
worth while to take the time off and pay even 
an enormous railroad fare to see the old alma 
mater and the class again. It's worth ten years 
of life!" 

Louise Ash is teaching in the Prichard School 
for Orphans at Ona, W. Va., R. F. D. Kathleen 
Kennedy is with her. 

Gladys Gaines is holding down a responsible 
position with an insurance office in Mobile, Ala. 
She says : "It takes lots of time and strength to 
keep it going but I love the work and find it 
intensely interesting." After business hours, 
Gladys seems to have her hands full of a num- 
ber of things. Among the most interesting of her 
activities is acting as superintendent of a surbur- 
ban Sunday school with an enrollment of 150, 
and teaching the kindergarten department. Her 
address is 1154 Dauphin St., Mobile, Ala. 

Mildred (Hall) Pearce announces the birth of 
a second daughter, Sara Hall. The young lady 
arrived on November 23rd, in time to have her 
Christmas stocking hung up by the side of big 
sister Mary Ann's. 

India (Hunt) Balch announces the birth of 
Franklin Greene Balch, III, on December 9th, 
1927. The Balchs moved on October 1st to 39 
Pond St., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Dr. .Balch is a 
surgeon. 

Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin's latest undertaking 
is that of supervising the children's home study ! 
Dollars to doughnuts the children know quite as 
much about "the little red button on top" as 
they do about the multiplication table (if, indeed, 
they study multiplication tables now). At any 
rate, we know of one home where the study 
hour is never dull. 

Jan Newton enjoyed seeing Dr. McCain and 
Mr. Stukes and all the other Agnes Scotters at 
a get-together meeting held in Jacksonville dur- 
ing the convention of the Colleges and Prepara- 
tory Schools of the Southern States recently held 
there. 

Virginia (Scott) Pegues is living in Florence, 
Ala., where her husband has recently located as 
an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. She re- 
ports a number of Agnes Scott girls in the 
neighborhood and hopes that they can soon organ- 
ize a local club. 

Mary Virginia Yancey was married on Decem- 
ber 10th in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. Joseph Au- 
gustus Fahy, of Rome, Ga. 

Lost address of '17-ers are: Florence Ellis 
(Mrs. J. R. Henderson), Lena Louise Dyer, Elsie 
I. Hendley, Josephine Mayer, Georgia Riley, Irene 
Sterne, and Fanny M. Thomas. 

1918 

Next class reunion, 1928 ! Plan now to come 
back ! 

Class secretary, Margaret Leyburn, 110 E. 5th 
St., Atlanta, Ga. 

Samille (Lowe) Skeen has been visiting Augusta 
Skeen, '17, in Decatur, Ga. 



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Rose Eleanor (Harwood) Taylor's little daugh- 
ter is named Melissa Jane. She celebrated her 
second birthday on September 23, 1927. Mr. Tay- 
lor is a salesman for the Borden Milk Company 
of New York. 

Virginia Lancaster visited the Alumnae House in 
November. She is in charge of the Physicians' 
Building in Columbia, S. C. 

Mary Rogers (Lyle) Phillips' four children are 
David Wendell, born Nov. 1, 1920 ; Betty Jean, 
born Aug. 25, 1922 ; Roger William, July 10, 1925, 
and James Albert, who will not be one year 
old until next November. Jean is already plan- 
ning to attend Agnes Scott. Mr. Phillips is 
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Toqua. 

Carolyn (Ballantine) Blasingame, ex '18, has 
one son eight years old. Her husband is a 
merchant in Jersey, Ga. 

Marie Wilson (Henderson) Thompson, ex '18, 
died in 1926 at the birth of her child. The baby 
did not live. 

Delia (Terry) Tait, ex '18, has moved to 16 
Broadship Rd., Dundalk, Md. Her husband is 
employed in the Bethlehem Steel works. 

Jessie Lee (Varnell) Gore, ex '18, lives on the 
Murfreesboro Pike, just out fr.om Franklin, 
Tenn. She has four children. 

1919 

Next class reunion, 1928 ! Only five months off. 
Make plans now to be here 

Class secretary, Almeda Hutcheson, 220 S. Mc- 
Donough St., Dcatur, Ga. 

Let's clear up the lost addresses of our class 
members right now ! Look over this list and 
send in to the Alumnae office any information 
that may lead to the tracing of these former mem- 
bers of '19: Minnie Clare Boyd, Bess Ham (Mrs. 
Leonhardt Harmon), Martha Elizabeth Lawrence, 
Laura Ellis, Mary Frances Hale (Mrs. C. H. 
String), Anna Bourne Harrell (Mrs. M. E. Bal- 
lard), Mary Emily Houston, Madeline Maury 
(Mrs. Gray Hayes), Rosalie Scharff (Mrs. E. H. 
Simon), and Jessie Thompson. 

Frances (Sledd) Blake was in Atlanta for the 
celebration of the golden wedding of her grand- 
parents, Bishop and Mrs. Warren A. Candler. 
Frances has a new baby daughter born on No- 
vember 22nd She is living now at 3518 Berch- 
man St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Llewellyn Wilburn spent the Christmas holi- 
days visiting in Nashville, Tenn. 

Margaret Fain, ex '19, writes : "I am always 
rushed with housekeeping, church work and 
library work. For nearly eight years I have given 
my services free of charge to the town library. 
I enjoy the Alumnae Quarterly immensely." 

Katherine Graves, ex '19, formerly Mrs. A. B. 
Clarke, was married in January 1927, to Mr. Gor- 
don Watt, a cotton dealer of Charlotte, N. C. 
They are living at 939 Ideal Way, Dillworth, 
Charlotte. 

Lois (Leavitt) Ragon, ex '19, spent most of the 
summer in bed, but she writes that she is just 
about back to normal now. Her little daughter 
was ill at the same time. 

Dorothy Mitchell, ex '19, was married on Janu- 
ary 4th in St. Mark's Episcopal Church, San An- 
tonio, Texas, to Mr. Leroy Johnston Ellis, Jr. 

Clauzelle Whaley, ex '19, is living in Florida. 
Her address is Box 514, Avon Park, Fla. 

1920 

Next class reunion, 1928 ! This very May ! 

Class secretary, Mary Burnett (Mrs. W. L. 
Thorington), Taft, Texas. 

Beff Allen's New York address is 599 1st Ave. 

Margaret Bland spent the Christmas holidays 
at home in Charlotte, N. C. 

Ruth (Crowell) Choate announces the birth of 
Joseph Leighton Choate, Jr., on November 22nd. 



So that we may get in touch with these girls 
right away about reunion plans, won't the mem- 
bers of '20 help find correct addresses for the 
following members of our class : Nell Gene Cald- 
well, Cornelia Hutton (Mrs. J. G. Hazlehurst), 
Mary Jones (Mrs. Warfield Ryley), Emily Walker, 
Mary Louise Jones (Mrs. W. H. DuBose), and 
Agnes Randolph (Mrs. George Marvin). 

Romola Davis visited Louise (Brown) Hastings, 
'23, at Lovejoy, Ga., in September. She is busy 
with real estate and insurance in Clearwater, Fla. 

Marion McPhail is teaching French again at 
Hood College, Frederick, Md. She lives at 358 
Park Ave. Marion is one of the members of 
'20 with a Master's degree from Columbia Uni- 
versity. 

Marion McCamy's marriage has been an- 
nounced to Frank Knight Sims, Jr., of Dalton, 
Ga. Marion's brother, Bob, married Frank's sister, 
Mary Stewart, in the summer. 

Gertrude (Manly) McFarland visited the 
Alumnae House in December. Her daughter, 
little Gertrude, is a year and a half old, and 
walking everywhere. 

Eugenia Avary Peed is in charge of the Inman 
Park branch of the Atlanta Carnegie Library. 

Julia (Reasoner) Hastings' new daughter was 
almost six months old before she let us know 
about her. Eunice Dorothy was born on May 
23, 1927. 

Frances Byrd, ex '20, is Mrs. Charles Temple, 
7 Fair St., East Lake, Decatur, Ga. 

Hariette Ellis, ex '20, is Mrs. George Martin, 
608 Camilla Ave, Walnut Hill, Roanoke, Va. 

Marion Hart, ex '20, is still living in Roanoke, 
Va. She is a stenographer. 

Wanted: Address of Mary Emily Hudson (Mrs. 
G. S. Andrews), formerly of Americus, Ga., now 
living somewhere in Mississippi. 

Josephine Ennis (Kerr) Thompson is living at 
240 Atlanta Ave., Decatur, Ga. 

Sara Reese, ex '20, is on the staff of the Middle 
Georgia Sanitarium at Macon. 

Rebecca (Whaley) Rountree, ex '20, lives in 
Fort Myers, Fla., where her husband is a con- 
tractor. 

Gladys Hope Watson, ex '20, is Mrs. Kilgore, 
3415 University, Blvd., Dallas, Texas. 

1921 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Class secretary, Janef Preston, Agnes Scott 
College, Decatur, Ga. 

Caroline Agee writes: "I am still enlightening 
the world by way of St. Mary's School at Raleigh, 
N. C. My chief joy is a composition class which 
is a combination of Freshman English, the short 
story course, and Miss Laney's poetry course. 
My children are most successful as poets." 

Lois (Compton) Jennings has moved to Ponca 
City, Okla. 

Charlotte Newton is back at the library of the 
University of Florida. 

Frances (Whitfield) has moved from the ad- 
dress given in the Alumnae Register. Will some- 
one send in her present address ? 

Marjorie Allen, ex '21, is teaching at the Mar- 
garet Booth School in Montgomery, Ala. Her 
street address is 754 S. Perry St. 

Martha Pemberton Ashcraft, ex '21, is Mrs. C. 
A. Chandler, of Pinehurst, N. C. 

Jennie DeLand, ex '21, is now Mrs. M. B. Mc- 
Cain. She is keeping house temporarily at 1506 
County Ave., Texarkana, Ark. Her six-year old 
son is in the first grade at the Fairview School. 

Edna Katherine (McRae) Burkhart, ex '21, is 
living at 1205 E. Silver Ave., Albuquerque, N. M. 
Mr. Burkhart is a salesman. They have no 
children. 



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Martha Laing is at home in Lewisburg, W. Va. 

Frances Charlotte (Markley) Roberts writes 
from Shanghai : "China is a bit of an uncertain 
spot, but it is the place I want to be just at 
present. St. John's University is closed just now, 
but there are quantities of things that are in- 
teresting. I am studying Chinese history quite 
seriously this winter in two courses at the School 
of Chinese Studies, and I am perfectly fascinated 
with it. I should like to do more Chinese study- 
ing than I do, but I have several things, among 
them several classes at the tutoring school, which 
is bridging over the St. John's gap. Teaching 
western history to orientals is doubly interesting. 
T have seen the Prestons at Chiri San and heard 
from Mrs. Preston all about Agnes Scott com- 
mencement. I visited Charlotte (Bell) Linton for 
two weeks. Before we went to Chiri San, we 
went into Manchuria and had a walking trip 
through the Diamond Mountains. News from 
your section of the world is rather faint, but I 
suppose it is a case of blessed is the country 
which has no annals  everything must be going 
well. Two nights ago I went to a meeting of 
the University Men's and Women's Club in 
Shanghai, and as we rode along in the car, a 
man who was with Donald said to me, 'You didn't 
happen to be at Agnes Scott when Jake Armistead 
was there, did you ?' They had been roommates 
at college, and had kept in touch with one 
another until Dr. Arm's death. It is strange the 
contacts which one discovers." 

Ruth McClellan, ex '21, is doing graduate work 
in expression in Boston this winter. For the 
past few years she has taught expression. 

Louise Morgan, ex '21, is Mrs. Goree Johnson, 
Birmingham, Ala. 

Helen (Scanlon) Wright, ex '21, has a young 
daughter, born in December. - 

Mary Willie Wilson, ex '21, is Mrs. Fred Under- 
wood, Russellville, Ala. 

Lost members of '21 : Ann Abernathy, Louise B. 
Jones (Mrs. S. Y. McGiffert), Eddith Mae Pat- 
terson, Vivian Dowe (Mrs. F. A. Irving). 



Next class reunion, 1929. 

Class secretary, Sarah K. Till, Fayette, Miss. 

Members of '22, won't you help find these 
"lost sisters?" Irene Barr (Mrs. Thomas Mar- 
lowe), Louise Dean, Mary Levonia Dudley (Mrs. 
Race), Mary Margaret Hix, Edith Mabry, Char- 
lotte Randle. 

Ruth (Hall) Bryant announces the birth of a 
daughter, Flora Wylie, on November 26th. "Save 
a place for her at Agnes Scott," writes Mamma 
Ruth. 

Mary Harris is working on her master's de- 
gress at the University of Michigan during sum- 
mer vacations. She is back this winter at 
Palmer College, DeFuniak Springs, Fla. 

Catherine Haugh received her M.A. from the 
University of Chicago last summer. She is teach- 
ing now at Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. 

Mary Knight's address has been changed to 990 
Forrest Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Roberta (Love) Brower entertained the Rich- 
mond, Va., alumnae at her home in November. 
She writes : "We had quite a nice time at our 
get-together of Agnes Scott girls. There were 
eight of us here. Everyone enjoyed the letter of 
news sent from the Alumnae office ; it made us 
all quite homesick to be back." 

Ruth Scandrett spent Christmas in Mobile, Ala., 
with her sister. She left the first of the year 
to take a position in New York City. 

Louie Dean (Stephens) Hayes helped organize 
the Memphis, Tenn., Agnes Scott Alumnae Club 
in January. 

Ruth (Laughon) Dyer, ex '22, has moved to 417 
Stanley Ave., S. Roanoke, Va. 



Lola Rogers, ex '22, is Mrs. Douglas Ancott, 
Laurel, Miss. 

Catherine (Smith) Edgar, ex '22, has moved to 
1738 Wood Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. 

Jessie Mae Smith, ex '22, is Mrs. Tom Patten, 
and lives at Smyrna, Ga. 

Julia Whaley, ex '22, is Mrs. John Richard 
Guthrie, of Fort Myers, Fla. Mr. Guthrie is a 
banker. 

1923 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Class secretary, Emily Guille, 127 Alabama St., 
Spartanburg, S. C. 

Everyone who comes through the Alumnae 
office from Birmingham has tales to tell of the 
beauty of little Patricia Collins. Dot (Bowron) 
Collins is her proud mother. 

Louise (Brown) Hastings writes from her 
lovely home, "Floweracres," near Lovejoy, Ga. : 
"Romola Davis, '20 visited me during September, 
and while she was here, Ruth Evans, '22, Georgia 
(Weaver) Wigginton, ex '22; Christine (Evans) 
Murray, '23, and Sally (Brodnax) Hansell, '23, 
were out for a luncheon. We had a great time 
together. Christine and Sally drive out often 
from Atlanta." 

Jessie Dean (Cooper) Young announces the ar- 
rival of Margaret Lee Young, on July 1, 1927. 
Mr. Young is a banker of West Blocton, Ala. 

Phillippa Gilchrist is enjoying the snow at 
Madison, Wis., but all the same, she said that 
Alabama weather suits her better. She was at 
home for Christmas. 

Geraldine Goodroe received her master's degree 
last summer at Columbia. She is teaching at 
Schenectady, N. Y., and spent the Christmas holi- 
days in New York City. 

Quenelle Harrold landed in November, just in 
time to be bridesmaid in her brother's wedding 
in Baltimore. She visited in Atlanta and at 
Agnes Scott, and is now at home for the rest 
of the winter. 

Josephine (Logan) Hamilton met the rest of 
her family in Greensboro, N. C for Christmas. 
This is the first Christinas for years that half 
of them haven't been in Japan and half in 
America. 

Beth (McClure) McGeachy's address is: Care 
Ross, 8 Sciennes Rd., Edinburgh, Scotland. She 
writes : "Here I am, a stranger in a strange 
land, but having one grand and glorious time. 
A marvelous trip over, fourteen days in London, 
two in Oxford and Stratford, then on to Edin- 
burgh. We are settling down to our first real 
housekeeping and I am having a grand time 
buying queer Scotch food with queerer looking 
money." Dr. and Mrs. McGeachy, Sr., will visit 
Beth and Pat on their way to the Holy Land in 
February. 

Hall (McDougall) Terry has moved to the 
Hillsboro Hotel, Tampa, Fla. 

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail has moved to 811 N. 
Monroe, Albany, Ga. She writes : "You should 
see our prescious little daughter. She is strong 
and solid and at ten months weighed twenty- 
five pounds. She rode with Santa Claus in his 
sleigh when he visited Albany last week and be- 
haved as beautifully as any young lady could 
under such exciting circumstances. We had a 
lovely time with her Christmas. George couldn't 
keep the first things we bought for her ; he had 
to give them to her at once, so she really had 
two Christmases." 

Fredeva Ogletree is living with Julia (Saunders) 
Dickerson, '21, at 1408 N. Slater St., Valdosta, Ga. 

Lib (Ransom) Hahn says: "I am now living in 
my own home, right back of mother's, near enough 
to run over and borrow anything I need ! Our 
house is gray shingle with green blinds, and 
though I know it isn't becomingly modest of me 
to say so, it really is too adorable." 



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Frances Arant, ex '23, was married on Decem- 
ber 29th in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, New 
York City, to Mr. William Holland Wilmer, Jr., 
of Baltimore, Md. Agnes Scott Alumnae who 
were guests at the wedding were Polly Stone, '24 ; 
Mary George (Kincannon) Howorth, ex '23, and 
Hulda McNeel, '27. Mr. Wilmer is connected 
with the Southern Railway System, with temporary 
headquarters in Knoxville, Tern. Their street ad- 
dress is Laurel Heights Apt. 22, 1605 Laurel 
Avenue. 

Clara Bright, ex '23, has moved from Vir- 
ginia to Alamo, Ga. 

Harriet Coston, ex '23, is a stenographer in 
Little Rock, Ark. 

Alma Crenshaw, ex '23, is Mrs. H. E. Page, 424 
Barcelona St., Pensacola, Fla. 

Rowena (Dorn) Odom, ex '23, has moved to 
715 Elkmont Dr., N. E., Atlanta. Her two little 
daughters are Joyce Lorraine, born December 15, 
1923, and Jacqueline Inez, born June 1, 1926. Mr. 
Odom has a position with the Treasury Depart- 
ment of the government. 

Mildred Ham, ex '23, works in the Department 
of Archives and History in the State Capitol build- 
ing in Atlanta. 

Lula Elizabeth (Hammett) Green, ex '23, has 
two sons  W. F., Jr., 6 years old, and James H., 
who is 4. Mr. Green is the Dodge Brothers dealer 
in Anderson, S. C. They live at 424 W. Whitner 
Street. 

Margaret Vance Hay, ex '23, writes from Cali- 
fornia: "The proposed walking trip through the 
Italian hill towns came to be a most soul-inspir- 
ing time at Locarno, at the conference of the 
radicals in education in August, and I spent my 
time conversing in German, French, English, and 
Esperanto with some most attractive young men 
and girls of the German youth movement, whom 
I afterwards visited en masse in Stuttgart. Be- 
fore that I had three frivolous and cosmopolitan 
weeks at the Geneva School of International 
Studies, and some good sport in Paris with a 
few very nice American and French and South 
American Bohemian bums. Just now I am hav- 
ing Christmas vacation with an aunt in LaJolla, 
fourteen miles from Mexico, and a delightful place, 
full of color and Spanish architecture." 

Margaret McColgan, ex '23, is studying for the 
second year at Columbia University. She lives 
at Whittier Hall, Amsterdam Ave. Marg spent 
Christmas at home in Virginia. 

Janie (Mann) Craig, ex '23, has a young son, 
Raymond Craig, Jr., born this fall. 

Helen May, ex '23, is busy with Junior League 
work in Augusta, Ga. 

Eugenia Rennie, ex '23, was married on October 
13th in St. Joseph, Mo., to Mr. Louis Rose. 
Lib (Nisbet) Marty's little daughter was flower- 
girl in the wedding. The Roses live at 603 E. 
Morehead St., Charlotte, N. C, where Mr. Rose 
is in the real estate business. 

Anabel Smith, ex '23, is living at 1421 Bush 
Blvd., Birmingham, Ala. She has niece, Frances 
Rowe, at Agnes Scott this year. 

Mary Owsley Stone, ex '23, is a stenographer in 
Danville, Ky. 

Died : Margaret Carolyn Terry, ex '23, on De- 
cember 28, 1927, of pneumonia. 

Helen (Watkins) Draper, ex '23, has moved to 
200 Montgomery Ferry Dr., Atlanta. 

Jessie (Watts) Rustin, ex '23, has moved to 
Washington, D. C, where her husband has been 
called to be pastor of the Mt. Vernon Place 
Methodist Church. Jessie's address is 507 High- 
view Apt., 2515 13th St., N. W. 

Margaretta (Womelsdorf) Lumpkin, ex '23, is 
living in Dalton, Ga. She has one son, Billy. 

Lost members of '23 : Eva Boniske, Minnie 
Merle Carter, Ethel Cochrell, Rosalie Engel (Mrs. 
M. S. Greentree), Helen Marie Guy, lone Moore 
(Mrs. J. G. Hudson) Sarah Olive Moore (Mrs. 
R. E. Robinson). Wilba Richardson, Annie Shur- 
man, Jessie Mae Hatcher (Mrs. Foster Guice), 
Pearl Woodward (Mrs. J. W. Jackson). 



1924 
Next class reunion, 1929. 

Class secretary, Helen Wright, 2718 Lee St., 
Columbia, S. C. 

Emily Arnold was married in October to Mr. 
Clarence A. Perry. After an extensive wed- 
ding trip through Virginia and New York, they 
are at home in Aboskie, N. C. 

Elizabeth Askew was called home from New 
York just before the Christmas holidays by the 
death of her father. The other members of '24 
sympathize with Betty in her loss. 

Janice Brown and Margery Speake, '25, spent 
their first Christmas away from home this year 
in New York. They have an ideal little apart- 
ment on W. 119th Street, where Elizabeth 
Cheatham, '25, Grace Augusta Ogden, '26, and 
Polly Stone, '24, visited them during the holi- 
days. Judging from the size of the boxes, Mrs. 
Speake and Mrs. Brown sent their daughters, they 
will be feasting on fruit cake, sugar-cured ham 
and beaten biscuit until the term is over in 
June. Mary Greene, who is the third occupant 
of the apartment, spent the holidays at home in 
South Caroilna. 

Virginia Burt's engagement has been announced 
to Mr. John Parker Evans, of Birmingham, the 
wedding to take place on February 16th. Carolina 
McCall, Helena Hermance, and Lucy Oliver will 
be bridesmaids. Gertrude I Greene) Blalock will 
be matron of honor, and Edythe Coleman maid 
of honor. 

While watching a play given in the Tate school 
auditorium the night before the Christmas holi- 
days, Beulah Davidson discovered that the build- 
ing was on fire. The audience marched out quiet- 
ly, and twenty minutes later the whole building 
collapsed in the flames. They are holding classes 
in the Methodist Church temporarily, while work 
is already being begun on a new schoolhouse, 
made entirely out of the beautiful Georgia marble 
quarried in Tate. 

Martha (Eakes) Matthews and her husband 
spent Christmas in Cincinnati with Martha's 
sister, who teaches at the Cincinnati Conservatory 
of Music. 

An interesting letter has arrived from Emmie 
and Marvin Harper in Jubbulpore, India. The edi- 
tor took out her red pencil and her big shears 
with the serious intention of cutting it down to 
fit into a news item for this column, but she 
became so absorbed in it as she read along, that 
she put the pencil and shears away. The let- 
ter is printed in full in another part of the 
Quarterly. 

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes spent Christmas at 
her former home in Greensboro, N. C. 

Kate Higgs writes : "My permanent address has 
been changed to Tucson, Ariz., where I have 
spent the last two years. Until September of 
this year I worked with the Tucson Sunshine 
Climate Club, then I began teaching the 5th grade 
in the Ajo public schools. This is my first ex- 
perience as a teacher." Kate's address temporarily 
is Ajo, Ariz. 

Victoria Howie was at home in Abbeville, S. O, 
for the Christmas holidays. 

"Speedy" (King) Wilkins writes: "Harry and 
I were married on the 29th of October. We had 
a lovely trip through the valley of Virginia and 
on to New York. Now we are settled at 626 
Rosalind Ave., Roanoke, Va. We spent the fall 
taking in the football games. I met Styx Lincoln, 
'25, at the V. P. I. and W. and L. game." 

Lilian (McAlpine) Butner announces the ar- 
rival of Betsy Jean Butner on Christmas night. 

Edna McCurray is taking a business course in 
Atlanta. Her address is 1096 Arlington Ave., 
S. W. 

Eugenia (Warlick) Brooks, ex '24, has moved 
to 805 Virginia Circle, N. E., Atlanta. Mr. 
Brooks is in the insurance business. They have 
one daughter, Dorothy Eugenia, born Oct. 31, 
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Catherine (Nash) Goff writes from Washing- 
ton, D. C. : "After two weeks of sightseeing I 
became tired of doing nothing, so I have taken a 
position at the Public Library here, and like it 
ever so much. I am secretary to the assistant 
librarian  office work  so I do not have to come 
in contact with the multitude of blacks which in- 
fest the library. Washington is truly a beauti- 
ful city, and too much cannot be said in describing 
it. I have met some delightful people and am look- 
ing forward with much pleasure to the arrival of 
Jessie (Watts) Rustin, ex '23, and her husband, 
who has been transferred to a church here. We 
hope to see a lot of each other to make up for 
the years she has been away from Decatur. 
My husband and I are planning to go to New 
York to spend the Christmas holidays  I have a 
week off then. I missed seeing the class during 
the Thanksgiving holidays, but remember what a 
nice time we had at our little 1924 reunion 
luncheon last Thanksgiving." Catherine's ad- 
dress is 1873 California St., N. W. 

Dick Scandrett spent Christmas in Mobile, Ala., 
with her mother and sisters. 

Polly Stone spent Christmas in New York 
with her brother and with Janice Brown. "I 
saw a number of Agnes Scott people. Met Sarah 
Bryan, ex '23, by chance one night in a theatre ; 
ran into Geraldine Goodroe, '23, and Corena Ber- 
man, ex '27, in the subway. Grace Augusta 
Ogden, '26, and Elizabeth Cheatham, '25, were at 
the apartment with Margery and Janice, while I 
was, and one afternoon Hula McNeel, '27 ; Willie 
White Smith, '27 ; Vera Hickman, '25, and Dorothy 
Chamberlain, '27, came in to tea. Fran (Myers) 
Dickley had Mary Greene, Janice, Margery, Grace 
Augusta, and me for lunch at her apartment one 
day. It is a lovely little place. Fran says they 
own everything in it 'except the furniture !' Mary 
George (Kincannon) Howorth, ex '23, is living in 
New York now  her husband is a surgeon at the 
New York Orthopaedic Hospital  and of course I 
saw them. Their son, Beckett, Jr., is five years 
old and going to kindergarten. He is one of 
the handsomest little boys I ever saw." 

Jack (Evans) Brownlee, ex '24, was in At- 
lanta for the Georgia-Tech game the first week- 
end in December. Other alumnae who were in 
town that week-end were Frances Watterson, 
ex '26 ; Martha Lin Manly, '25 ; Virginia Sevier, 
'27 ; Cleo McLaurin, '27 ; Grace Carr, '27 ; Sallie 
Horton, '25 ; Quenelle Harrold, '23 ; Beulah David- 
son, '24 ; Reba Bayless, '27 ; Martha Rose (Chil- 
dress) Ferris, ex '27 ; Julie (Sanders) Dickerson, 
'21 ; Lois McClain, '23 ; and Pat Turner, ex '24. 

Elsie Fairley, ex '24, is living at 4 Holenwood 
Ave., Asheville, N. C. 

"Lost sisters" in '24 are : Ruth DeZouche, 
Gertrude Fainbrough, Ann Hertzler, Anna Lewis, 
Madre Page Rogers, Evelyn Smith, Josephine Bea- 
son, Maude Boyd, and Nina Lynn (Mrs. Rheile). 

1925 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Class secretary, Belle Walker, 558 Greene St., 
Augusta, Ga. 

Only three lost addresses in '25 ! Can't we clear 
them up right away and start the new year 
with all members accounted for ? Can you help 
the Alumnae office locate these girls : Eula Nor- 
ton (Mrs. Karl Howe), Harryette Payne (Mrs. 
Britton Johnson), and Fay Douglas Tate. 

Mary P. Brown is teaching science at Row- 
land, N. C, again this year. 

Catherine Carrier was operated on for appendi- 
citis in the fall. 

Elizabeth Cheatham spent the Christmas holi- 
days in New York City visiting Janice Brown, 
'24, and Elizabeth's uncle. She saw a number of 
good shows and enjoyed her first experience as an 
ice skater. 

Larsen Mattox is teaching again in Pensacola, 
Fla. Her address is 820 N. Baylen St. 

Ruth, Dorothy, and Virginia Owen traveled 
from their various jobs and schools to be with 
their mother and sister, Carrington (class of '30), 
in Springfield, Mass., this Christmas. 



Margaret Hines was married on July 2nd to 
Chaptain C. W. Gallaher, of the United States 
Field Artillery, in the Rowland, N. C, Presby- 
terian Church. Douglas Rankin, '27, was a guest 
at the wedding. Captain and Mrs. Gallaher are 
stationed for two years at Camp Stotsenburg, in 
the Philippines, and Margaret writes that she is 
enjoying keeping house out there. 

Charlotte Smith writes : "I took my M.A. at 
Emory last year with the intention of teaching 
in a college or junior college. Since a position 
of that sort was not immediately forthcoming, I 
have been doing other things this fall, none of 
whicjh have any pecuniary remuneration connected 
with them, however. Being a minister's daugh- 
ter, it is the church that I have always with me, 
so this fall I have been quite busily engaged in 
church work. I have done everything from wait- 
ing at tables at the church restaurant, to acting 
as half a dwarf in a circus put on by the Young 
Peoples Service League." 

Margery Speake spent a far from lonesome 
Christmas, in spite of the fact that she was in 
New York City, and away from her family for 
the first, Christmas. Grace Augusta Ogden, '26, 
visited her for the first week of the holidays, 
and they were kept busy going to shows and 
seeing the sights of New York. 

Eugenia (Thompson) Aiken's little daughter has 
been named Eugenia Lyle Aiken. "We are going 
to call her Gene. She is the dearest little blue- 
eyed baby you ever saw. As soon as she can talk 
I'm going to begin teaching her Agnes Scott 
songs, and in about seventeen years you can be 
expecting her to be strolling across the campus 
wearing a green Freshman cap." 

Frances Britt, ex '25, was married in Thomaston, 
Ga., on December 6th to Oscar Leon Betts, Jr., 
of Charlottesville, Va. 

Vivian Gregory, ex '25, was quite seriously 
injured in an accident just out of Thomaston, Ga., 
when the car she was driving overturned in a 
ditch. She is in an Atlanta hospital, and is not 
yet out of danger. 

Elizabeth Kirk, ex '25, is teaching at Flomaton, 
Ala. 

Ruth McMurry, ex '25, teaches expression at 
Carrollton, Ga. 

Olive (Ruggles) Glenn has two little daughters: 
Olive Eugenia, born in 1924, and Mary Katherine, 
born in 1925. Mary Katherine was a twin. Mr. 
Glenn is assistant cashier for the Atlanta-Lowry 
National Bank. 

1926 

Next class reunion, 1930, which really isn't so 
far off. It might be a good idea for some of our 
impecunious school teachers to begin now to save 
up butter'n egg money for the railroad ticket 
back to Agnes Scott in May, 1930. 

Class secretary, Elen Fain, Druid Hills, Hender- 
sonville, N. C. 

Grace Boone writes from Newnan, Ga. : "I am 
just staying at home this year and being a lady 
of leisure. It is the first time since I was six 
that I haven't been in school in some capacity 
or other, so I am enjoying the rest. Newnan is 
not very gay, but we generally manage to find 
soem form of amusement." 

Mary Dudley Brown passed through Atlanta in 
January on the way to spend the rest of the 
winter in Florida. 

Margaret Bull: "I am still teaching school. If 
variety means anything, I should be very pro- 
ficient by the end of this year, for I have a 
little of everything from giving the fourth grade 
exercise to teaching the Seniors history." 

Isabelle Clarke is still busy with her girls' 
club work in Atlanta. Emilie (Ehrlich) Strass- 
burger visited her in October. 

Verna (Clark) Dalton has moved from Texas 
to Arkadelphia, Ark. 

Corena Berman, ex '26, is teaching Latin in 
the Girls High School in New York City. 



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Ellen Fain and Grace Augusta Ogden visited 
Catherine (Mock) Hodgin just before Christmas. 
Catherine has a new home modeled after an 
English cottage that both Ellen and Grace Au- 
gusta say is absolutely perfect. 

Edith Gilchrist is teaching again this winter 
in Birmingham, Ala. Her address is 1010 21st St., 
South. Edith, Philippa, and Katie Frank were 
all at home for Christmas. 

Gertrude (Green) Blalock writes from Braden- 
ton, Fla. : "We have moved into our darling new 
rock house, and 1 am busy poring over the Peter 
Henderson catalog and ordering flower seed. I 
have high hopes of the success of our first gar- 
den." 

Helena Hermance spent the Christmas holidays 
at home in Toronto. She is to be one of the 
bridesmaids in Virginia Burt's wedding in Febru- 
ary. 

Sterling Johnson explains why she never writes 
to any of her old friends this year: "If you were 
involved in the tangles of pre-war diplomacy, 
medieval institutions, modern economic expansion 
and such, perhaps you wouldn't have time to 
come up for air either. I truly have been work- 
ing, which any close friend will testify is con- 
trary to my nature, but I have been having a 
great time too. Most of the New York things 
give their first tryouts here, so we have chances 
to see such as Otis Skinner, Mrs. Fiske, Helen 
Hayes, Ethel Barrymore, Glenn Hunter, and even 
Atlanta's sweetheart, Louise Hunter. The theatre, 
plus the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra every 
week and a bit of sightseeing occasionally keep 
one busy. Daisy Frances Smith and I have four 
classes together." Sterling spent Christmas in 
Decatur with her brother. 

Evelyn Kennedy and Mary Ella Hammond spent 
a week-end at the Alumnae House during Novem- 
ber. And they have endeared themselves to re- 
turning alumnae forever, for they sent out from 
town a lovely pair of warm blue woolly blankets 
as a gift to the House. 

Grace Augusta Ogden spent six weeks in the 
mountains of North Carolina with her brother, 
Dunbar, who has charge of a Presbyterian church 
there. Grace Augusta said Indian summer in the 
mountains was lovely, but when winter came she 
deserted him, and visited Catherine (Mock) Hodgin 
in Thomasville, N. C, and later Margery Speake 
in New York. It was her first trip to New 
York, and she defies anyone to mention anything 
she did not see. 

Virginia Peeler stopped in Nacadoches, Texas, 
to visit Mary Ann McKinney on her way to 
Pasadena, Calif., where she is spending the 
winter. 

Allene Ramage stopped by the Alumnae House 
on her way back to Duke University after spend- 
ing the Christmas holidays at home in Alabama. 

Ethel Redding was recently married to Lieut. 
Emmett A. Niblock, U. S. A., formerly of Jeffer- 
son, now stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. 

Fanny Swann is teaching in Mobile, Ala. Her 
family has moved there, so this will be Fanny's 
permanent address, 1562 Bruister St. 

Olivia Swann drove over to the Alumnae House 
during December in her new car. She planned to 
drive to Florida during the Christmas holidays, 
and to California next summer. 

Harriett Fearrington, ex '26, is tutoring high 
school pupils in Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Sarah Mackenzie, ex '26, is studying at Colum- 
bia University this winter. Her address is Johnson 
Hall. 

Mildred Scott, ex '26, is teaching algebra in 
Lake Charles, La. Her address is 1103 Hodges 
Street. Her little sister, Violet, is a student at 
Agnes Scott now. 

Marjorie Clinton's address is lost. Please send 
it to the Alumnae office. 



1927 

Class secretary, Marcia Green, Capleville, Tenn. 

Next class reunion, this very May, 1928 ! "Them 
as knows" have told us that nothing can quite 
equal the joys of that first reunion. Let's come 
back in May and see if they know what they are 
talking about ! 

We have some lost ex-members to clear up 
first. They are Mary Virginia Carson, Evelyn 
Eugenia Leonard, Inez Patton, Jeannette J. Rosen- 
feld, Helen Farmer, and Claire Harris. 

Reba Bayless and Martha Rose (Childress) Fer- 
ris, ex '27, visited Agnes Scott during December. 

Maurine Bledsoe spent September in New York, 
where she saw a number of Agnes Scott people. 
"Not that I liked New York less, but North 
Carolina so much more  that's why I am at home 
in Asheville now." 

When Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes were in 
Jacksonville recently, they met with the Agnes 
Scott alumnae there at Charlotte Buckland's home. 

Grace Carr and Sallie Horton were at Agnes 
Scott in December. They have already engaged a 
room at the Alumnae House for Senior Opera 
week-end. 

Lillian Clement is studying voice in Washing- 
ton, D. C. Her address is 534 Hotel Gordon, 916 
16th St., N. W. 

Marion Daniel, Nannie Graham Saunders, and 
Helen Lewis had a "get-together" during the 
Christmas holidays in Charlottesville, Va. Marion 
was at Agnes Scott for Thanksgiving, and visited 
Rachel Henderlite on the way home. 

Mabel Dumas was married on December 20th 
at the Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in At- 
lanta to Mr. Douglas Crenshaw, of Clinton, Tenn. 
Mr. Crenshaw is a University of Kentucky man. 
He served in the navy during the world war, 
and is now an auditor with the Magnet Knit- 
ting Mills. 

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strassburger was one of the 
out-of-town guests for Hermenia Weil's wedding 
in Atlanta on October 30th. Emilie is president 
of the Alumnae Playwriting Club. 

Mary Ferguson's address is 3030 W. Washing- 
ton Blvd., Chicago, 111. She writes : "I ran into 
Miss Jean Davis on the campus, the other day. 
She was rushing to the stacks, as usual. So far, 
I haven't seen Martha Stansfield. It's a huge 
place out at the university, and you are totally 
out of things if you aren't as far along as a Ph.D., 
but I am crazy about it. I am working for my 
M.A. in bacteriology. I heard about Agnes Scott 
beating the English debating team ; will there be 
any more worlds left for her to conquer in a 
few more years? We are promised a white 
Christmas here, and I do hope it isn't a trick to 
hearten poor Southerners like me, so we'll spend 
our money and then not get anything for it !" 

Marcia Green, Roberta Winter, and Mae Ers- 
kine Irvine visited Carolina McCall at Agnes 
Scott at Thanksgiving. Ro has had the one-act 
play produced by the Blackfriars last year, 
"Bishop Whipple's Memorial," published in the 
September issue of the Journal of Expression. 

Elizabeth Henderson was at Agnes Scott in 
January. 

Anne George Irvin and Marguerite Russell met 
at Agnes Scott at Thanksgiving. 

The members of '27 had a reunion dinner to- 
gether one night during the Thanksgiving week- 
end. Eighteen girls were present. 

Maude Jackson is teaching Latin in the high 
school in Lawrenceville, Ga. 

Elsa Jacobsen met Jack Anderson, Miriam An- 
derson and Ruth Worth in Cincinnati for Christ- 
mas. 

Martha Johnston visited Elizabeth (Moore) 
Harris in Decatur at Thanksgiving. 

Leila (Joiner) Cooper is living at S. Court Apt. 
53, corner Warren and 7th Streets, Bremerton, 
Washington. 



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Cleo McLaurine and Virginia Sevier met at the 
Alumnae House at Thanksgiving. Virginia says : 
"Yes, I'm loafing. I spent a month in St. Louis 
in the fall but am at home in Hendersonville for 
the winter now. No, I'm not married or anything 
like that, so myself as a source of possible inter- 
est to the Quarterly editor ends here." 

Hulda McNeel's sister spent Christmas in New 
York with her, and brought Hulda back as far 
as Philadelphia with her for a visit. Hulda is 
doing graduate work in economics at Columbia. 

Mildred Morrow visited Ruth McMillan in At- 
lanta during December. 

The engagement has been announced of Eliz- 
abeth Troop Norfleet to Mr. Jack Miller, the 
wedding to take place the fourth of March in 
Winston-Salem, N. C. 

Frances Rainey continues to dispense hospital- 
ity at East Lawn Cottage. The members of '27 
and the younger faculty on the campus this year 
count that time lost which is not spent in making 
merry in Frances' apartment. 

Mamie Shaw has made definite plans to take up 
the study of medicine at Johns Hopkins next 
year. 

Willie White Smith writes from Johnson Hall, 
Columbia University : "Graduate work in zoology 
isn't at all gruesome. The lab is quite a friendly 
meeting place as well as an institution for labor. 
And the celebrities walk about as calmly as mere 
mortals ; I never know when I should become 
excited because of their presence. Days are too 
full for reminiscing, and I scarcely see the other 
Agnes Scott people here except in passing, but 
the thoughts that creep in of you all down there 
are among my happiest." When Miss McDougall 
was at Columbia during December and January, 
she and Willie White celebrated together. 

Courtney Wilkinson is teaching in Lynchburg, 
Vigrinia. 

Margaret Gholston, ex '27, was married on Sep- 
tember 10th to Mr. William Craighead Thatcher II, 
a brother of Frances Thatcher, '17. They are 
living at 1608 Duncan Ave., Riverside Apt., Bat- 
tery Place, Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. Thatcher is 
in the insurance business. 

Louise Harvey, ex '27, is teaching in South- 
port, N. C. 

Nancy Lou (Knight) Narmore, ex '27, is living 
at 476 Greenwood Ave., Atlanta. Mr. Narmore is 
a professor at Georgia Tech. Nancy Lou, Evelyn, 
Adah, and Genevieve were all at home for Christ- 
mas. 

Mary Ruth Logan, ex '27, is Mrs. M. A. Cam- 
bell, Highland Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Martha Malone, ex '27, is teaching in the East- 
man, Georgia, High School. 

The engagement has been announced of Sue 
Marie Wilds, ex '27, to Mr. Paul Robertson Davis, 
of South Bend, Ind., the wedding to take place 
in the early spring. 

Other Alumnae News 

Lillie Pearl McElwany, ex '28, is Mrs. George 
Royals, 207 S. Monroe St.. Albany, Ga. 

Jennie Dell Simms, ex '28, is a Senior at the 
Alabama Woman's College in Montgomery. 

Emily Watkins, ex '28, will graduate from Mill- 
saps College this year. She is head of the Phi Mu 
chapter there. 

Mary Ansley, ex '29, daughter of Roba (Goss) 
Ansley, was married in September to Mr. Roy 
Roberts, of Decatur, Ga. 

Laura Barrett, ex '29, is studying at the Ameri- 
can University in Washington, D. C. 

Amanda Groves, ex '29, is a clerk in the Citizens 
and Southern National Bank in Atlanta. 

Ernestine Hirsch, ex '29, is studying at Wheaton 
College, Norton, Mass. 

Eleanor Mauze, ex '29, is attending Greenbriar 
College, Lewisburg, W. Va. 



Lula Isabelle Leonard, ex '29, was married on 
December 31st in Columbus, Ga., to Mr. Gabriel 
Bonner Spearman. 

Lost: Address of Julia Dancy (Eve) Strong, of 
Savannah, Ga. 

Hermenia Weil, ex '29, was married at her home 
in Atlanta on October 31st to Charles Louis Hohen- 
stein, of Savannah, Ga. Her sister was her only 
attendant. Dr. Hohenstein is a dentist. Their ad- 
dress is 102 W. Gordon Street. 

ACADEMY 

Carl Gustav Adolf McSon Vretman, Jr., little 
four-year old son of Emma Kate (Amorous) Vret- 
man, died at the home of his parents in Atlanta 
on November 16th. Funeral services were held 
from Sacred Heart Catholic Church. 

Louise Archibald is Mrs. John D. Gillespie, 
wife of the Presbyterian minister at Quitman, Ga. 
They have no children. Charlotte (Jackson) 
Mitchell stayed with the Gillespies recently on a 
trip through Georgia. 

Augusta Arnold is Mrs. David F. Barrow, 260 
Cherokee Ave., Athens, Ga. 

Pauline Austin is Mrs. Frank W. Barnett, 413 
Callan Circle, N. E., Atlanta. 

Wanted : Addresses of Belle Atkins, Jessie 
Arnold, Florence Frances Andrews, and Isabel M. 
Alexander. Please send any information about 
them to the Alumnae Secretary at the college. 

Patty Howard Blair is studying at Peabody this 
winter. She has taught several years in Shef- 
field, Ala., and in Arizona, and has traveled ex- 
tensively. 

Ruth Lynn Brown lives in Doerun, 'Ga. She is 
married, and three different names have been sent 
in to the Alumnae office as hers. Will someone 
please verify one of these married names : Mrs. 
Fred Smith, Mrs. Paul, or Mrs. McPaul? 

Mary Guyton Bradley is Mrs. Willard Cooper, 
Oak Circle, Wynnton, Columbus, Ga. She has 
three daughters, one almost ready for college. 

Kitty Grey Coleman is now Mrs. H. L. Smith, 
Lapsley St., Selma, Ala. 

Annie (Connell) Cummings has moved to Or- 
lando, Fla. 

May T. Cooper is Mrs. C. A. Trice, 403 Daw- 
son St., Thomasville, Ga. 

Lucille Davis is Mrs. G. H. Hall, Greensboro, 
Georgia. 

Florence Rose Dent has moved to Miami, Fla. 
Will someone please send her street address to 
the Alumnae office ? Also the addresses of Ruth 
Leila Baker, Hattie Barnes, Mildred Beatty, Grace 
Behring, Elizabeth Laurie Benning, Grace Mc- 
Pherson Berry, Mary Joe Ruth Brown, and Nora 
Bliss ? 

Anna Erskine Fi-azier is now Mrs. A. H. Eid- 
son, Lakeview Ave., Atlanta. Her husband is a 
certified public accountant. 

Marion Gay is Mrs. E. E. Stafford, Eufaula, 
Alabama. 

Jane S. Going (Mrs. Herbert Stockham) died 
several years ago. 

Theodora Myrtle (Hicks) Holbrook moved on 
November 30th to 2025 North Boulevard, Atlanta. 
Her husband is credit manager for the G. M. A. 
Corporation. They have two children : Catherine 
Odessa, born April 12, 1923, and Theodora Myrtle, 
born October 8, 1926. 

Susie Emma Johnson, who graduated from the 
Academy in 1911, still lives in Decatur. She is a 
show card writer. 

Inez (Jones) Wright is living in Atlanta. Her 
husband is in the real estate, loans and leases 
business. 

Miriam Lee Jones is Mrs. John L. Doggett, 
Jacksonville, Fla. 

Stella (Julian) Shingler has moved to Ash- 
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Wanted: Addresses or information about Annie 
Louise Hutchison, Grace Johnson, Jeanne Leslie" 
Jonas, Addie Willis Kerr, Lucile Kendrick, Senie 
{Catherine King-. Effie Ledbetter, Alberta Lewis, 
and Annie Lou Killebrew. 

Hazel Grey Larmon is Mrs. R. Richards, Mul- 
berry, Fla. 

The name of Harriet Elizabeth McGill, lost 
Academy, should be starred, as she has been dead 
several years. 

Trilby McGoodwin is Mrs. W. R. Dortch. Route 
1, North Little Rock. Ark. 

Lost: The address of Marjorie Morse McKin- 
ley, niece of former President McKinley, and once 
a student in the Academy. 

Susie Martin is now Mrs. Henry Key Milner, 
Milner Heights, Birmingham, Ala. 

Margaret Lewis Miller (Mrs. J. M. Doswell), 
of Richmond, Va., died January 28, 1927. 

Reinette Miller is Mrs. A. Clarke Frazier, 1302 
West Peachtree St., N. W., Atlanta. 

Louise Minge is keeping house in Faunsdale, Ala. 
She is Mrs. T. C. Cameron. 

Mary S. Pharr is Mrs. Robert Williams, McLen- 
don Ave., LaGrange, Ga. 

Barbara Reynolds, formerly of Waynesboro, Ga., 
is living at Apt. 209, 900 19th St., N. W., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Mary Phillips is Mrs. Edgar Price, of Sarasota, 
Florida. 

Edna Rosasco (Mrs. Walter B. Decker) is living 
at 261 Claremont Ave., Montclair, N. J., while her 
husband, who is an officer in the United States 
Navy, is on shore duty. They have two daugh- 
ters: Barbara Elizabeth, born December 6, 1913, 
and Suzanne Dupuy, born September 4, 1920. 

Katherine Seay (Mrs. Harry Reid) lives on 
Broad St., in LaGrange, Ga. Mr. Reid died several 
years ago. 

Bessie Veni Tappan is Mrs. A. S. Farris, 1101 
Springdale Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Sappho Thrash is now Mrs. R. G. Booker, Route 
3, Atlanta. She lives with her father, Mr. E. C. 
Thrash. 

Wanted : Addresses of Lucy Roberts, Clara 
Rusk, Irene May Siler, Elizabeth Shepherd, Re- 
becca Smith (Mrs. Caldwell Thompson I, Lillian 
Catherine Stewart, Florence Taylor, Natalie 
Thomas, and Frankie Tennell Thompson. 

Margaret Wehler is living in Frederick, Md. 

Pearl Wilkinson lives with her sister, Sarah Inez 
(Wilkinson) Lowndes, at 67 Huntington Rd., At- 
lanta. 

Wanted : Addresses of Willis Josephine West, 
Mary Weldon, Elizabeth lone Warner, and Mary 
Lynn Walker. 

The birth of Hooper Alexander Turner on May 
22nd, 1927, has never been announced in the 
Quarterly. He is the son of Hallie (Alexander) 
Turner, '18. Hallie's other child is Nell Gardiner, 
aged five. 



SEVERAL LETTERS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED 

FROM ALUMNAE, JUST IN TIME TO 

GET INTO THIS ISSUE 

A new address is that of Ruth Thomas, ex '11  
7 Pelham PI., Norfolk, Va. 

Ida Lee (Hill) Irwin, '06, writes: "I am 
thoroughly dissapointed not to have been to the 
Alumnae House this fall, but I am hoping to come 
with the spring. Today I took Charles to begin 
his music lessons. He is so eager to take and 
really has talent, I think. I am afraid that 
some of my ancestors who thought no man fooled 
with music would be horrified. The college glee 
club and something to amuse him when he is* 
growing up is the extent of my musical ambitions 
for Charles. At present. Tucker's ambition is 'to 
be a carpenter, and know all about automobiles.' 
I hope he changes." 

A letter from Chunju, Korea, excuses Charlotte 
(Bell) Linton, '21, from neglecting her cor- 
respondence. She says : "When you see the 
names of my four little sons on the accompany- 
ing sheet you won't ask for further explanations 
of why I don't write oftener ! I was glad to get 
a little Agnes Scott news from Mrs. Preston, and 
1 am anxious to see Miriam, too. We expect to 
spend next winter in Georgia, so I hope to 
drop in at A. S. C. once in a while." Charlotte's 
fourth son, Thomas Dwight, was born December 
4th, 1927. 

Catherine Shields, '23, is teaching again in 
Albany, Ga. Her address is 425 Pine Street. 

Geraldine Goodroe's present address is 16 Eagle 
St., Schenectady, N. Y. 

Gertrude Samuels, ex '23, is librarian at the 
University of North Carolina. 

News has just been reecived of the death on 
January 16th, of Catherine (Graeber) Crowe's 
father. 

Agnes Scott alumnae who knew Miss Coma 
Cole while she was a member of the History 
faculty of the college will be interested to hear 
of the birth of her daughter in Memphis, Tenn., 
on January 16th. Miss Cole is now Mrs. Walter 
Willard. 

Announcement has just been received of the 
marriage on December 27th of May Smith, '17, to 
Mr. Jimmie Parsons at "The Wee Hut," the 
country home of Miss Allie Mann, near Norcross, 
Ga. Mr. Parsons, a native of Maryland, is work- 
ing on his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chi- 
cago, where May is finishing her work for the de- 
gree of Doctor of Medicine. 



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Four more groups of alumnae in as many 
different states have sent in notification that they 
will meet on February 22nd to listen in over WSB 
to the Founders' Day Program. The alumnae in 
charge are : 

Evelyn Wood, 24 Caplewood, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

Mrs. Redden Parramore, 206 Wells St., Valdosta, 
Georgia. 

Mrs. B. B. Taylor, 925 Convention St., Baton 
Rouge, La. 

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It will soon be commencement time at Agnes Scott. 
White-clad Sophomores, bearing the daisy-chain, and 
Seniors in academic gown will march beneath those 
old oak trees you know and love so well. 



Come Back Again to Agnes Scott! 

Classes holding reunions May 26-29 are : 

'93 '99 '00 '01 

'18 '19 '20 '27 

Write the alumnae secretary for reservations in the 
Alumnae House or dormitory space. 



The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 3 

FOUNDER'S DAY CELEBRATION 

Through the courtesy of the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation Agnes Scott 
was given time on the air on the night of February 22 to celebrate Founder's Day by 
reaching all of the college alumnae. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johnson, directors of music at the college, arranged a program 
of songs by the glee club, and Dr. McCain and Miss Hopkins made short talks. 

Out at the college there were formal dinners in the two dining-rooms with George 
and Martha Washington leading the seniors in colonial costume. Bee Keith, of Green- 
ville, S. C., and Mary Riviere, of Columbus, Ga., took the role of George, and Mary Bell 
McConkey, of St. Louis, Mo., and Miriam Anderson, of Winston-Salem, N. C, were the 
two Marthas. After dinner there was a dance in the gym, and the seniors danced the 
minuet. 

Away from the college, all those other daughters of Agnes Scott who once danced 
in the gym on the night of February 22, gathered around their radios and heard the 
familiar voices from the campus, and thought with love of their college and the happy 
days they spent there. 

So many messages were received from alumnae that it is impossible to publish 
them all, but since the weather was so stormy and the static so much in evidence that 
a number of listeners could not get WSB, we have had requests that we do publish 
a few of the messages, so that disappointed alumnae could hear what luck others had in 
getting the program. News of the local clubs on that night will be found in another 
part of the Quarterly. 

Sarah (Boals) Spinks, of Winston-Salem, N. C, writes to Miss Hopkins: "I can't 
express the thrill that came to me that night at hearing your familiar voice over the 
radio. It seemed to blot out the more than twenty years since I used to hear it daily 
and to take me back bodily to those four delightful years under your care. Grouped 
that night with very modern graduates  Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, Lillian (Mc- 
Alpine) Butner, Helen Hall, Martha Jackson, etc., I felt very ancient in the history of 
Agnes Scott, but I doubt if any of your present-day girls have more happy memories or 
abiding enthusiasm for our alma mater than I. And perhaps you will be interested to 
know that the things that stand out in my mind today are not the books or the 
courses that I dug so hard for then, but the personalities of you dear people with whom 
I was thrown so constantly. You and Miss McKinney, the Arbuckles, the Gainses, 
Miss Massie, Dr. Armistead, Miss Anna Young  not all are left, but all have left in- 
fluences that are ever fruitful and for which I shall ever be grateful. I was glad to know 
from the telegrams read over the radio that evening that many of my Vintage' are 
still able to make their voices heard. Thank you again for your delightful greetings to 
us 'old girls' on the 22nd." 

May (Walden) Morton, of Athens, Ga., tells of the alumnae gathering there. "I 
called the Athens alumnae together on February 22nd for a five-o'clock tea party. 
The day was perfectly awful, so there were only eight of us present. Catherine Evelyn 
(Pratt) Secrest, Ruth (Cofer) Welchel, Jule (Armstrong) Cohen, and Marguerite 
(Thomas) White wanted to be with us. We spent a delightful time together talking of 
our days at Agnes Scott. Martha Comer and LaGrange (Cothran) Trussell were at 
school together; the rest of us ranged from the cradle to the grave in age. But we 
all felt that we had a strong tie that bound us together in our love for dear old 
Agnes Scott. Those of us who were at school under Dr. Gaines talked of him and 
what he did for Agnes Scott. Those who were under Dr. McCain had lovely things 
to say of him. Dear Miss Hopkins and Miss McKinney, whom we all knew, were 
spoken of in great affection, and other members of the faculty came in for their share 
of compliments. Mary Pittard read the messages from the faculty which were greatly 



4 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

enjoyed." Those present were Rubye (Carroll) Walker, Martha Comer, Grace (Trout- 
man) Wilson, Jennie B. (McPhaul) Myers, Annie Laurie Hill, Mary Pittard, LaGrange 
(Cothran) Trussell, and May (Walden) Morton. 

Maurine Bledsoe writes from Asheville, N. C: "It was a terrible night and we could 
rot get WSB any too well, but we thoroughly enjoyed the little part of the radio pro- 
gram that did come through. We should have known Miss Hopkins' voice anywhere, 
and Dr. McCain almost made me feel I was in chapel again. We really had a gorgeous 
time swapping tales about the 'good old days.' Beth Taylor, ex '16; Elizabeth (Moss) 
Harris, '20; Edyth (Clarke) Alexander, '21; Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer, '27, and I were 
the ones who listened in here. We are hoping to have better weather and a larger crowd 
next year. All of us send love and best wishes to everyone at Agnes Scott now and all 
the alumnae. The faculty letters were greatly enjoyed, and our love is for them, too." 

The Orlando, Fla., alumnae met with Georgiana (White) Miller. She says: 
"There were five of us here together tonight trying to hear the radio program, but the 
static was terrible. The only thing we could really hear clearly was Miss Hopkins' 
speech, but we felt that the evening was a success when her voice came over so well. 
Lucile (Smith) Bishop, Mae (Curry) Rockwell, Elizabeth Henderson, Grace Bargeron 
and I were the ones who met here. We all talked at once and had quite a typical 
Agnes Scott gathering. This is the first time that the Orlando alumnae have gotten 
together, and we were so pleased with each other that we decided to have lunch to- 
gether some time in the near future." 

Mobile, Ala., celebrated the night of February 22 with a deluge that prevented 
the radio program from coming in. Grace Atigusta Ogden writes: "It was a great 
disappointment, but we read all the things you had sent from the alumnae office, and 
were simply thrilled over the messages from each member of the faculty. Fanny Swann, 
'26, added a lot to the enthusiasm of the occasion. We are so glad to have her in 
Mobile now." 

And this from Janie McGaughey: "Just a note to report that our St. Louis, Mo., 
bunch gathered at Mrs. W. V. Bailey's, 3 1 Kingsbury Place, on February 22, and Mr. 
Bailey worked manfully to get Atlanta. Another station continued to cut out WSB, 
and although we were distressed not to get all of the program, still we enjoyed each 
other, and I hope that it may mean the beginning of more A. S. C. fellowship here. 
We appreciate all you did to help with our alma mater day. I am sure that it meant 
a lot to hundreds of Agnes Scott daughters." 

In Shreveport, La., five old Agnes Scott girls met with Margaret (Powell) Gay. Nanna- 
beth (Preas) Smathers, Mary dean (Preas) Moore, and Esther (Jordan) Roper listened in 
at Johnson City, Tenn. Billie (Cowan) Dean got the College Park, Ga., girls together. 
In Nashville, Tenn., the alumnae found it impossible to get together as a group on 
the 22nd, but each one listened in. Memphis, Tenn., finds it almost impossible to get 
Atlanta's wave length, so their plans for an alumnae dinner that night did not 
materialize. 

On the night of the broadcast telegrams were received from Ruth Perrine, Dallas, 
Tex.; group of alumnae meeting with Pearl Smith, Rome, Ga.; Katherine (Dean) 
Stewart, Ethel (McConnell) Cannon; Erma (Flarwell) Cook and Lurline (Torbert) 
Shealy, in Opelika, Ala.; Martha Lee (Taliaferro) Donovan, Evergreen, Ala.; Edith 
(Lockhart) Stanton, Marguerite (Brandy) Griffin, and Ada (Williams) Robertson in 
Waycross, Ga.; Elizabeth Henderson, Orlando, Fla.; Grace Overstreet, Baxley, Ga.; 
Margaret Mixon, Dunnellon, Fla.; the Arbuckles, Davidson, N. C; Birmingham Alumnae 
club; Mary (Brown) Florence, Stamps, Ark.; Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal, Winston- 
Salem, N. C; Mary Ann McKinney, Nacogdoches, Tex.; Emily (Divver) Moorer, 
Estelle (Felker) Chipley, and Annie Aunspaugh, Greenwood, S. O; Frances Lincoln, 
Mrs. Sprinkle, and Nell Buchanan in Marion, Va.; Katherine (Mock) Hodgin, Thomas- 
ville, N. C. ; Lucile (Lane) Bailey and alumnae in St. Louis, Mo.; May (Shepard) Schlich, 



The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 5 

Loxley, Ala.; Charlotte, N. C, alumnae who listened at Mary Speir's home; Ellen Fain, 
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Grey, Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Brown in Hendersonville, N. C; Dr. and 
Mrs. W. D. Jennings, Augusta, Ga.; Mrs. Bessie Scott Harmon and Mrs. Kendrick, At- 
lanta, Ga.; alumnae meeting in Griffin, Ga., at the home of Mary Ella Hammond; 
Elsa Jacobsen, Indianapolis, Ind.; Josephine Bridgmen, Merry Hill, N. C. 

Lib Clark wired from Mississippi: "Entire West Point Alumnae Association gathered 
at my home in one chair to enjoy concert. A heart full of love to Agnes Scott." 

The Richmond, Va., alumnae telegram read: "Cannot tell a lie on Washington's 
birthday. Could not hear all of radio program. We thrilled at Alma Mater and shud- 
dered at static." 

Laura Mel (Towers) Yager wired from Rockledge, Fla.: "These radio reunions 
lack only television to be complete. Keep them up!" 

Edith (Lott) Dimmock entertained the Waycross, Ga., alumnae in her home. The 
telegram they sent was signed by Winifred Quarterman, Hattie (Grace) Bellinger, Mary 
Letford, Clyde (Lott) Hereford, Edith (Lott) Dimmock, Jessie Kate Brantley, Maggie 
(Trawick) Aiken, Ethel Littlefield, and Mary Ellen (Harvey) Newton. 

An interesting telegram read: "One of Agnes Scott's first graduating classes sends 
love to her only classmate  Mary (Barnett) Martin in Clinton, S. C.  and greeting to 
all connected with the Institute in the days of '93." It is signed by Mary (Mack) 
Ardrey, Fort Mill, S. C. 

Others who were listening in were Helen (Bates) Law, in Schenectady, N. Y.; Helen 
Lane Comfort, Clinton, S. C; Julia (Judge) Harkness, Eutaw, Ala.; Mary Stuart 
(Sims) McCamy, Mary (McLellan) Manly, Gertrude (Manly) McFarland, and Martha 
Lin Manly in Dalton, Ga.; Helen Wright, in Columbia, S. C; Louise (Inglis) Love in 
Quincy, Fla.; Sarah Katherine Frost, Margaret Gunn and Cornelia Cooper, Marion, 
Ala.; Mary Harris in DeFuniak Springs, Fla.; Ruth Virden, Wilmington, N. C; Margaret 
Tufts, Banner Elk, N. C; Charis (Hood) Barwick, Des Plains, 111. 

Other groups who met on Founder's Day were: Augusta, Ga., with Jeannette (Vic- 
tor) Levy; Valdosta, Ga., with Dinah (Roberts) Paramore; Chattanooga, Tenn., with 
Genie (Johnston) Griffin; Anniston, Ala., with Mildred Goodrich; Vicksburg, Miss., 
with Myrtis (Burnett) Bellan; Fayetteville, N. C, with Lila (Williams) Rose; Durham, 
N. C, with Ruth (Slack) Smith; Anderson, S. C, with Ann Gambrill; Knoxville, 
Tenn., with Frances Stuart; Bristol, Tenn., with Mary Hedrick; Chapel Hill, N. C, with 
Elizabeth (Enloe) McCarthy. 

So that in spite of the unforeseen unfavorable weather that night, the radio program 
was a decided success. This was our third annual program. When February 22 
comes around again, we shall hope for less static and even more alumnae listening in. 



PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTIONS Alabama. 

Emma Pope Moss (Mrs. C. W. Dieckman), '13, 

At the annual election meeting of the Georgia Decatur Ga 

Beta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Agnes Scott held _, , , , , r ,-, i 

,, J , r it i i The members or the class of 1928 who were 

in March the tollowing were chosen alumnae mem- , , . , . 

, r i i elected to membership were: 

bers or the chapter: T ., , . ,,  

Leila Anderson, Macon, Ga. 

Sarah Boals ( Mrs. J. D. Spinks), '07, Winston- Frances Brown, Staunton, Va. 

Salem, IS. C. Elizabeth Grier, Suchowfu, China. 

Janie McGaughey, '13, St. Louis, Mo. Myrtle Bledsoe, Atlanta, Ga. 

Mar}' Enzor (Mrs. L. D. Bynum), '13, Troy, Evangeline Papageorge, Atlanta, Ga. 



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Miss Ella Young, who for seven years was principal of the Agnes Scott Academy, 
paid the campus a visit this spring for the first time in a number of years. There were 
many parties given in her honor, one of the most enjoyable being the tea in the Alumnae 
House on March 9th at which Miss Hopkins and Miss Torrance were hostesses. Many 
of Miss Young's former Academy girls, now living in Atlanta, were invited. Just be- 
fore the guests began to arrive, the above picture was taken on the steps of the 
Alumnae House. After seeing the proofs, Miss Young said she would name the 
picture "Ye oldest inhabitants," but finally she decided on "Who are we?" as a better 
title. For the benefit of those of the alumnae who may not be able to answer this 
question, "we" are, reading from left to right, beginning with the first row: Miss 
Torrance, Dr. Sweet, Miss Young, Miss Hopkins, Miss Smith, Mrs. Sydenstricker, Miss 
Lewis, Miss McKinney. 



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LETTERS FROM FAR-AWAY ALUMNAE 

NO. 2 A NOMAD'S MATE 

Some years after leaving dear old Agnes Scott I ceased to be Onabell Wellborn and 
became Mrs. Homer Brett. As an American consul's wife I have been privileged (or 
doomed) to make homes in many lands. First toMaskat, ancient city of Arabia, dubbed 
by Lord Curzon the most picturesque town in the world, which is a place of many 
minarets, pitiful lepers, camels, donkeys and fish. The people were Arabs, Persians, 
Beloochis, Hindoos, Goanese, Khojas with 57 varieties of dress, religion and language. 
All water was brought in goatskin bags and fourteen servants were the minimum for 
two persons. Because of the terrible heat it was possible to sleep only on the roof. 
Rain falls only in January. British residents very friendly and tennis, swimming, teas 
and dinners made life something more than agreeable. Two years pass and a telegram 
comes. 

The Hesperides, or, in other words, Tenerife, Canary Islands. People all white and 
more Spanish than those of continental Spain. Little rain and much sunshine. Awful 
servants but a good one found at last. Beautiful banana farms and lovely hills 
cultivated to their tiptops. A trip to Orotava, wonder vale of beauty. Delightful 
climate and many friends  British, German and Spanish  make social life delightful. 
The war begins. Ships vanish from the harbor, commerce is dead and the sad town 
suffers from the quarrels of others. Another telegram sends us across the Atlantic. 

Three of us, one aged 8 months, cross the ocean on a French freighter and shiver at 
the thought of submarines. We find La Guaira as unattractive as a town can be but 
life there not so bad. Caracas, the charming capital, is 22 miles away by rail or 9 miles 
over the mountain and sometimes we go on foot. All cooking is done on charcoal pots 
and everything is primitive but there are plenty of good things to eat. We have tennis 
to play, mountains in the back yard to climb, dinners to give and accept and friends 
from Caracas dropping in to lunch. A baby girl joins our family; we have trips 
home and back; America enters the war and H. B. has to work day and night. War 
over and, after a few delightful months in Caracas another telegrm says, "Move." 

Three posts: Tacna, Arica and Iquique, all in northern Chile where rain occurs once 
in thirty years and earthquakes almost every night. In Iquique we have perfect servants 
and the house runs itself beautifully. The social world is dominated by British and is 
somewhat frenzied the round of picnics, teas, tennis and dances being interminable. In 
order to get a little breathing time  and to have some rest  we eschew bridge utterly. 
Children are in an American missionary school and life is very pleasant but another 
telegram says, "Roll on." 

We had two unforgettable weeks in Rio de Janeiro en route, including the breath- 
takng view of the Bay from Corcovado. Then on to Bahia, oldest and most romantic 
city of Brazil, where the Rockefeller men were fighting yellow fever. Swarming negroes 
talking Portuguese abound and all servants are black again. We have a home on the 
beach, swimming every day, golf for the first time, more Americans than we have ever 
encountered abroad and a fine tennis club. The state balls at the Governor's Palace are 
marvelous. Life is very delightful but there is no school for the children and they 
are getting big. A wonderful vacation in Washington, Meridian and Mobile and then 
come orders to go to Nottingham. After many quiet years in turbulent republics we 
reach staid old England just in time for the wild excitement of the General Strike but 
this is soon over. The children are both in good schools and doing well. We are living 
in a fine, big, modern city, have a multitude of friends and are quite content, so at any 
moment another moving telegram may come. If it does we will try to remember that 
there are nice people in every country and that rolling stones should not complain. 



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NO. 3 BELGIUM 

(Elizabeth Burke, '16, is now Mrs. W. C. Burdett. Her husband is in the United 
States Consular service, and at present they are located in Brussels.) 

"Brussels is our third post in the consular service and we feel that if we cannot 
be in the United States this is the next best place. First we were at Ensenada, a sleepy 
little seaport in Lower California. From there we moved to Seville, one of the most 
interesting old cities of Spain, but where one was forced to conform to a certain extent 
to the old Moorish customs. Now here in Brussels one can live with modern comforts 
and conveniences, and at the same time find much that is old and historically interesting. 

"We like the Belgian people. They are a stolid, peace-loving race and seem very loyal 
to their king, while really giving him no power. It is surprising to me who have just 
been reviewing my Belgian history to see how the Belgian people have been able to 
make so much progress when they have been the center of so many European wars. 

"Belgium is a Catholic country, that is, the royal family is Catholic, but there is 
religious freedom and besides many French Protestant churches, there are two English 
churches, two American Methodist missions, and a Scotch Presbyterian church here in 
Brussels. 

"One thing we like best about Brussels is that it is so good for the children. The 
climate is cold and rainy most of the time but it seems to agree with the little Burdetts. 
Then our home is quite near the Bois de la Cambre, a big beautiful park where children 
are allowed really to play and have a good time, not stay in the paths, as in most 
European parks. And most important of all, we have found a perfectly splendid school, 
the Decroly school, where they seem to combine work and play in such a way that the 
children learn without realizing it. We have one boy in the third grade, one in the 
first, and the baby, now four, is in the kindergarten. 

"Brussels is a very beautiful city with its wide boulevards lined with trees, its parks 
with gorgeous flowers, its interesting old buildings and monuments. There are 
museums of every kind, ancient art, modern art, tapestry, lace, furniture, natural history. 
One has the opportunity of hearing good music at any time at the Conservatory and 
the opera here is considered one of the best in Europe. For the last two years we have 
had an American, John Charles Thomas, as one of the leading baritones. The theatres 
are very good and we go often as we find it one of the best ways to learn French. 
They often give plays of Moliere and Corneille and whenever I see one I think of the 
time when I was reading those plays at Agnes Scott, never dreaming that I should be 
seeing them in Brussels. 

"Aside from being a fascinating city in itself, Brussels is a central point from which 
to make short trips. Waterloo is only a quarter of an hour away and while not much 
remains now of the original battlefield, they have a large panorama showing the battle. 
Malines, where one loves to go in the summer evenings to hear the bell concerts of the 
cathedral is only a half hour away. 

"Last spring we drove to Holland for the week-end, just when all the fields of 
Darwin tulips were in full bloom and it was a lovely sight. Another week-end we 
went to Germany along the Rhine, passing the Lorelei, the mouse tower, besides many 
other interesting old castles. 

"At Mardi Gras we went down to the little town of Buiche to see the carnival, 
where they still use the same costumes they wore when Marie of Hungary was regent 
here under the Spanish rule. It seems her favorite jester was a hunchback so they all 
began to dress as hunchbacks with many bells around their waists, wooden shoes on 
their feet, and tall plumes more than a yard high on their heads. 

"But these trips cannot be taken every day. Most of the time my husband is busy 
in his office and I with my family just as we would be in the States. And the large 
American colony here in Brussels with its social activities makes us feel after coming 
from Spain, where they were so few, that we must really be back home." 



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SOUTHERN WOMEN AND THE SOUTH'S RACE PROBLEM 

By ROBERT B. ELEAZER 

In the South's entire history there has probably been no sociological development 
more unique and important than the recent movement for interracial co-operation, which 
took organic form in Atlanta in 1919, through the creation of the Commission on Inter- 
racial Co-operation. 

The purpose of this organization and its affiliated state and local committees is to 
bring about better understanding, justice and fair dealing between the white and 
colored races. The Commission believes that the white race, as the more fortunate group 
and the one responsible for the Negro's presence in America, is under obligation to be 
both just and generous toward the latter. It believes further that the welfare and 
even the racial integrity of the two groups can be effectively preserved in no other way. 

The results of this policy, as worked out by hundreds of inter-racial committees, have 
attracted nationwide and even international attention. Though the Commission has 
made no effort to organize outside the South, similar committees have recently been set 
up in many Northern states and cities where there are considerable Negro populations. 
The plan is even being put into effect in South Africa. 

In this movement Southern women have been a most important factor. At the 
call of the Commission on Interracial Co-operation, a hundred women, leaders in their 
respective circles, met in Memphis in October, 1920, for the purpose of considering the 
situation. Four representative Negro women were invited to interpret to the meeting 
the viewpoint and the needs of colored women and children. 

A profound impression was made upon the group and out of the meeting came a 
remarkable statement, expressing "a deep sense of responsibility to the womanhood and 
childhood of the Negro race and a great desire for a Christian settlement of the prob- 
lems that overshadow the homes of both races." The statement recommended the 
conservation of the life and health of Negro children through day nurseries, kinder- 
gartens, clinics and playgrounds; the study of Negro housing and sanitary conditions 
with a view to their improvement; equitable provision of educational opportunities; 
improved conditions of travel; justice in the courts; and, with especial emphasis, the 
suppression of lynching. A Continuation Committee of seven was created, representing 
respectively the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Disciples Churches, the 
Y. W. C. A., and the Women's Clubs. 

As a result of this meeting the Interracial Commission created a department of 
woman's work, and began organizing the women of the South. Strong state commit- 
tees of women, all in positions of influence and leadership, have been set up in eleven 
states, in most of which they are doing good work. Each of these committees has 
formulated and given to the public a vigorous pronouncement in behalf of interracial 
justice and good will, and in unmeasured condemnation of lynching. Coming from 
hundreds of the most representative and respected women, these statements have done 
much to create a new public conscience relative to this question. There are also a 
great many local interracial committees of women, who seek to find out the conditions 
and needs of Negro women and children, through studies of their homes, schools, 
sanitation and health, and then to lay out plans for such improvement as may be needed. 

The work of the Atlanta Woman's Committee may be cited as typical. This group, 
made up of thirty women of the highest standing, set out on a study of the Negro 
homes of Atlanta. The conditions which they found in certain sections were heart- 
breaking  tumbledown tenements, congested houses, unpaved, dark streets, and lack of 
the commonest facilities for sanitation and decent living. In one crowded section they 



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found three small children, one of them a baby, locked out of the house by the mother, 
who turned them into the street every morning when she went away to work, fearing 
to leave them inside lest they be burned to death. The need of a day nursery was 
evident and imperative. The committee purchased a building and established one. The 
sanitary laws of the city were examined, to see what could be done toward the permanent 
improvement of housing conditions. 

All the colored schools were visited and in many cases deplorable overcrowding was 
found. These conditions were immediately taken up with the school authorities. Re- 
peated visits were made to Washington Park, a Negro recreational center, and the needs 
of additional equipment and proper sanitation and oversight were brought to the atten- 
tion of the Park Commission. The appointment of Negro probation officers and the 
improvement of the county detention home for delinquent Negro boys were other 
worthy objectives. Similar work is being done in a great many communities, and is 
deeply needed in practically all. 

It is increasingly evident that in the interracial situation existing here, the people of 
the South have not so much a problem as a grave human responsibility  a challenge to 
their sense of justice, their magnanimity, and their Christian conscience. The problem 
will diminish and disappear in proportion as the obligation is seriously assumed and 
faithfully discharged. The thousands of public-spirited, high-minded women who are 
assuming that responsibility and assisting in working out the problem in the direction 
of mutual confidence and helpful co-operation, are doing a public service for which 
generations to come will call them blessed. 



FAMOUS ALUMNAE FAMILIES 

COOPER GILCHRIST MACINTYRE NEWTON 

When groups of three or four sisters graduate from the same college, and each is an 
outstanding student, and later each becomes an outstanding alumna and citizen, it is 
something to read about! We have a number of such sister-groups among the Agnes 
Scott alumnae, and from now on the Quarterly plans to print short write-ups of one or 
two of these families in each issue. 

For more reasons than that it begins with a letter near the first of the alphabet, 
the Cooper family, of Atlanta, is an excellent one with which to begin the series. In the 
space of eight years, four sisters received diplomas from Agnes Scott  Cornelia in 1912, 
Laura in 1916, Belle in 1918, and Alice in 1920. Cooper history since graduation makes 
interesting reading. 

Cornelia began teaching soon after graduation, in the Atlanta public schools. She 
went abroad one summer, taught French in the John Marshall High School, at Rich- 
mond, then got an M. A. at Columbia in English in 1924. Then she taught English 
at Galloway College, Searcy, Ark., and for the last three years has been teaching English 
and Journalism at Judson College, Marion, Ala.; also handling their college publicity and 
supervising the college publications; and helping inspire the girls' literary club. She 
spends her summers in Atanta. 

Belle is now teaching Biology in Fulton County High School, Atlanta. After 
graduating she taught two years in the science department of Kissimmee, Fla., High 
School, coming straight from there to Fulton. One year she got leave of absence to 
get an M. A. in zoology at Columbia, in 1926. Belle has gotten over her former 
abhorrence of bugs and worms, and enjoys revealing their "innards" to the girls 
and boys. When they want to please her, instead of bringing her flowers, they present 
snakes and grasshoppers, horned toads, and such like, for her collection. 



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Laura taught history first at Washington Seminary, then worked one year in Civil 
Service at Camp Jesup; spent a year at Columbia and got her M. A. in hsitory in 1921. 
She taught history at North Carolina College for Women, then a year at Agnes Scott. 
She married in 1924, Claude Christopher, a lawyer. They live at Barnesville, Ga., and 
Laura has her hands full caring for her two frisky little sons: Kent, twenty-eight months 
old, and John Frederick, ten months. She enjoys entering into small town life, and 
presiding over her little white cottage. 

Alice says: "I have been following a zig-zag path toward my present occupation  
writing advertisements. Three days after graduation I started doing clerical work in 
an office, then took up stenographic work. For a while I became so interested in the 
bond business, working for Harris, Forbes & Company, that I nearly forgot my original 
ambition of wanting to write for a living. I spent about a year in New York, dividing 
attention between learning a fascinating new business and the delights of discovering 
the big city. Part of that time I was in an apartment with some other Agnes Scott 
girls. It was a continual inspiration the way Caroline Agee used to spout Browning 
during those months  pasting his poetry all over the mirrors! Now I am working for 
an Atlanta advertising agency, James A. Greene & Company  writing copy and planning 
layouts  having to rave over everything, from stoves to tractors!" 

Phillipa, 1923; Katie Frank, 1924, and Edith Gilchrist, 1926, of Courtland, Ala., 
form one of the newest alumnae families. Phillipa, who is studying at the University 
of Wisconsin, writes: "The last five years have been full of travel and study for 
the Gilchrists, with Agnes Scott as the pivot around which we seem to have revolved. 
During the summer of 1924, Joy (Trump) Hamlet, '22, and I took a trip through 
the east and up into Canada, returning to Savannah by boat from Baltimore. That fall 
iound me back at Agnes Scott as an assistant in the physics department; Edith was still 
in college then. Katie Frank was at home that winter, but she came to Agnes Scott 
for commencement, and the campus was quite overrun with Gilchrists. Ladie Sue 
Wallace joined Katie Frank and Edith that summer for a tour of the west, stopping six 
weeks at Berkeley for a summer course at the University of California. I met them there 
and we all came home together through Yellowstone Park. The winter of '26 found 
the three Gilchrists in the same formation as the previous winter. Edith graduated that 
May, so again there was a gathering of the clan at Agnes Scott. That summer I stayed 
at home while Katie Frank and Edith traveled through the east. The next fall I was 
again at Agnes Scott in the physics department, with Katie Frank as a frequent visitor, 
although she was presumably spending the winter at home. Edith taught in the South 
Highland School in Birmingham, Ala., as supervisor of Recreation. She lived with 
Eleanor Gresham. During the summer the two of them and Katie Frank visited in 
North Carolina, and I was chief boss on the farm. Edith has her same position in 
Birmingham this winter, Katie Frank is at home (when she isn't visiting her sisters and 
her cousins and her aunts!), and I am here in Madison with Miss Howson, working 
very hard in the graduate school, longing for spring and warm weather, and the time 
when I can come to Agnes Scott again." 

Upon the shoulders of Lois (Maclntyre) Beall, 1920, falls the task of chronicling 
the history of the four Maclntyre sisters  Mec, 1909; Marie, 1912; Julie, ex '16, and 
herself. 

"Mec was married on January 4, 1911, to Homer A. McAfee, who is now vice- 
president of the Independent Trunk and Bag Company. They have two daughters, 
Marie Randolph, born December 13, 1911, who in two years will be ready for Agnes 
Scott, and Mec Lawson, born July 20, 1916. They have a very attractive Dutch 
colonial home on Montgomery Ferry Drive in Atlanta, although for the past year they 
have been living in Berkeley, California, where Mr. McAfee's business called them. They 
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"Marie married June 4, 1913. Her husband is John I. Scott, a grandson of Mr. 
George Washington Scott, founder of Agnes Scott College. He is in the insurance busi- 
ness in Atlanta. They have four children  Elizabeth, born April 11, 1916; Marie Louise, 
born July 9, 1917; George Bucher, born June 6, 1920; and Rebekah, born January 20, 
1927. Marie's married life has been spent on a lovely little farm near Scottdale, where 
she enjoys the conveniences of the city with the advantages of the country. She was 
president of the Alumnae Association in 1914. Most of her time now is taken up with 
her little family, but she finds time for two study clubs. 

"After leaving Agnes Scott, Julie studied at Columbia University. Then she taught 
in the domestic science department at North Avenue Presbyterian school in Atlanta, and 
did war work in Atlanta. While engaged in this she met Mr. John Edwin Gates, to 
whom she was married. He is a lawyer, practicing in Syracuse, N. Y. They have two 
children, Jack, Jr., four, and Constance, one." 

Lois was married February 19, 1921, to Frank R. Beall, who is sales manager of 
the Franklin Automobile Company of Atlanta. They have one son, Frank, Jr., born 
November 6, 1924. Lois is interested in the Atlanta Agnes Scott club and the auxiliary 
of the First Presbyterian Church. The Bealls have a little bungalow on Peachtree Way 
where they have lived for the past four years. 



Jan Newton, 1917, writes of her branch of the Newton family  Charlotte, 1921, 
and Virginia, 1919. 

"As for the tribe of Newtons: I begin with the youngest of the three. Charlotte, as 
you know, taught for several years in Lewisburg, W. Va., at Lewisburg Seminary, then 
she decided to give up teaching and went to the University of Illinois, at Urbana, for a 
year of work in the Library School. She found a Western University a most interesting 
community and hopes to go back there for her second year's work sometime before very 
many years, and will then receive her Master's degree in Library Science. For the past 
two years she has been head of the cataloging department at the University of Florida 
Library, at Gainesville, Fla. This is her third year there. Both summers that she has 
been in Gainesville she has taught classes in library work at the University Summer 
School. Gainesville being only about seventy-three miles from Jacksonville, Charlotte 
and I manage to see each other quite often. Charlotte says the only trouble about 
library work is that she never has a chance to read! 

"Virginia is now teaching English at Montevallo, Ala. She has had rather varied 
experience in her teaching. She was for a couple of years at the A. & M. College at 
Douglas, Ga. Then she spent a winter in New York and received her M.A. from Colum- 
bia in English. She then taught a year at Montevallo College, then spent one year at 
the Presbyterian College, Milford, Texas, where she acted as Dean and did some teaching 
in English and history. After the Texas experience she went back to Montevallo which 
she seems to like very much indeed. She is a most enthusiastic teacher. Last summer 
Virginia took a western trip and spent six weeks at the University of California Summer 
School at Los Angeles. 

"As for me: I went back to A. S. C. as a Fellow the first year after I graduated, 
then taught for one year at Lewisburg Seminary, Lewisburg, W. Va. (French, of course) , 
then went back to A. S. C. as instructor in French for two years. The lure of the busi- 
ness world made me decide to give up teaching, so I went to Simmons College, Boston, 
Mass., for a year's work in the School of Secretarial Science and received a B.S. in this. 
My first secretarial job was in Worcester, Mass., where I stayed for three years. You 
know I really liked it or I shouldn't have kept on staying, but finally the cold 
weather was too much for me and I decided to come South. Just at that time Charlotte 



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had just gone to the University of Florida Library. She heard of an opening for me and 
through many wires we finally arranged everything and I came from Boston straight 
down to Gainesville, Fla., where I stayed for a year as secretary to the university archi- 
tect. A year ago last fall I decided to go to Savannah, Ga., as secretary to Mr. George 
J. Baldwin. In the spring Mr. Baldwin died and since his death most of my work 
has been in connection with his estate. The Savannah office was closed last June and 
I came to Jacksonville as secretary to Mr. Baldwin's son, who is executor of the estate. 
Mr. George H. Baldwin is executive vice-president of Bisbee-Baldwin Corporation, who 
handle mortgage loans, insurance, rentals, etc., so aside from the bookkeeping of the 
estate and Mr. Baldwin's personal work, there is lots of the company's work to keep 
me busy. 

"I might add that most of my 'tripping' has been up and down the Atlantic coast, 
and two of the trips have been by boat from Savannah to New York. The West and 
Europe and still in the future." 



GREATER AGNES SCOTT BECOMING A REALITY 

Erection of a $125,000 power plant will be the next step in the Greater Agnes Scott 
College building program. Two other projects will follow the completion of the power 
piant. One will be the administration building, to cost $300,000 and the other 
the chapel, which will cost $125,000. 

A survey for the power plant is now under way, and plans are being prepared. It 
will be large and complete enough to take care of existing buildings and also the 
new ones. 

The administration building will include the offices of the college and additional 
class rooms. It will be one of the most complete buildings of its type in the country. 

The chapel will be a memorial to Dr. F. H. Gaines, founder of Agnes Scott, and 
its president until 1923. 

The gymnasium was the first unit to be erected under the new building program. 
It is considered a model of its kind. With the completion of the other buildings, the 
college will be equipped not only for its present expansion, but also for its future require- 
ments. We do not want Agnes Scott to grow very much more in the number of stu- 
dents, for we believe that in a small college the individual student has the best chance for 
development. There are now 500 students in attendance, against 200 in 1913. The 
increase has been 100 per cent in the past ten years. Students are now in attendance 
from 27 states, and from Korea, Mexico and Venezuela. 



NEWS FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS 

A huge box of linen, tied with Agnes Scott purple and white, arrived in February, 
with this card enclosed: "For the Anna Young Alumnae House with love and best wishes 
from the Birmingham branch of the Alumnae Association." There were towels, bureau 
covers, tea cloths, tea napkins, table covers  all sorts of linen, so needed in this busy 
Alumnae House, and so appreciated. 

The Birmingham club has one meeting a month, and one alumnae luncheon a month. 
They are well attended, and most enjoyable. They had a banquet on the night of Febru- 
ary 22 to celebrate Founder's Day. "We didn't get the radio program, worse luck, but 
enjoyed the faculty greetings that we received through the mail. We sang Agnes Scott 
songs and had toasts and felt as if we were right back on the campus again." An open 
meeting was held in March at the home of Annie (Lee) Barker's mother. Each member 
invited a friend. Annabel Stith read two one-act plays. 

Nan Lingle entertained the Richmond, Va., girls on the night of February 22. "You 
should have seen us on the 22nd. We had such a good time! We met at Nan's and 
went next door to Dr. Buchholz's home for the radio part of the program. He has a 



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splendid radio, but you know what sort of a night that was, and the static was against 
us. But the Alma Mater came through, and we nearly hit the ceiling! After that 
we adjourned to Nan's again. The best part of the whole thing was discovering a new 
Agnes Scott girl  or rather having one discover us, for that is what happened. She 
is Saidee (King) Harrison. She saw a notice in the paper that the Agnes Scott alumnae 
would meet that night, and she came with pictures of her children  two adorable boys 
who are starring in athletics in prep school, and a splendid girl who is away at school 
winning all the honors. Then she showed us an Agnes Scott annual  The Aurora of 
1898! We screamed with delight and had a grand time over the basketball team 
playing in skirts ten yards wide and touching the ground; the Cooking Club; the 
Embroidery Club; and the Hemstitching Club coyly biting threads and threading needles 
on the lawn in front of Main. After that hilarity, we read the faculty greetings and 
enjoyed every word of it. It was just like having a little visit on the campus and talking 
to the members of the faculty we had known. It was altogether a splendid celebration. 
Those present were Nan Lingle, Charlotte McMurray, Ruth Hillhouse, Mary Cunning- 
ham, Mary Shive, Eleanor Albright, Eloise (Knight) Jones, Saidee (King) Harrison, 
Kate (Richardson) Wicker, Nannie Campbell, and Caroline Lingle, who will belong to 
the class of 1933." "Crip" Slack and Flattie (Blackford) Williams entertained the 
Richmond club at its March meeting. 

The Jacksonville, Fla., alumnae club met at Alice Jones' home on February 22. Their 
secretary, Charlotte Buckland, '27, sends in this report of the meeting: "There were ten 
of us present. Dr. McCain's voice came in strong and clear, but Miss Hopkins' voice was 
not quite so distinct, although when she read the telegrams we could hear her nicely. 
We all enjoyed the program and it made me homesick for my alma mater and I feel 
quite sure the others felt that way too. The only fault we had to find with the 
program was that it wasn't one-tenth long enough: we could have listened all night! 
After the radio program we had a short business meeting and then played bridge until 
delicious refreshments were served. Those present were Gertrude (Briesnick) Ross, '15; 
Alice Jones, '21; Charlotte Augusta (Hedges) Kellogg, ex '17; Anne (Waddell) Bethea, 
'09; Sarah (McKowen) Blackshear, ex '10; Gertrude Henry, '25; Ellen Colyer, '26; 
Janet Newton, '17; Eleanor Bennett, ex '28; and Charlotte Buckland, '27." 

And from Agnes Scott Donaldson, '17, in Los Angeles, comes this delightful letter: 
"Greetings from the California Alumnae! Due to the kindness of Stella (Austin) Stan^ 
nard, we had a delightful tea party and chat at her house on February 22. There were 
nine present, eager to get in touch with our other college sisters who live in this part 
of the country, and they asked me to be responsible for getting them together again. I 
am only too glad to, for all our reminiscing was so much fun, and we find we really 
have much of common interest in our college days. Ye good old school spirit waxed 
strong, and we are grateful to the alumnae secretary for getting us started. Just after 
I wrote you, my family in Colorado became very ill, and I had to dash off, leaving all 
the work and arrangements for our February 22nd meeting to Mrs. Stannard, which 
certainly was a successful thing to do! The family improved, and I returned in two 
weeks to find everything planned delightfully. We hope to meet at my club house be- 
fore very long. We feel that there is little we can do, but the loyalty and interest of 
all the nine were inspiring to me  perhaps we really can do something? At any rate, 
we send hearty good wishes to our dear alma mater. The radio remained silent, to our 
sorrow. We just couldn't get Atlanta, but the feeling that throughout the country 
Agnes Scotters were gathering in their clubs at the same time we were together gave 
us a happy feeling of belonging to something we all really prize." 

Another letter from Los Angeles says: "Nine of us have spent a great afternoon 
together, reminiscing and gossiping about Agnes Scott, friends whom we wish could 
have been with us, talking of everything, food, songs, beloved faculty, all the many 
good times we used to have at Agnes Scott. Only two of us had known each other 
beforehand! We are planning to have another 'get together' soon because we all feel 



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that Agnes Scott has given us much, and that our common bond in our alma mater is 
a real and precious enough one to deserve renewing. We can scarcely call our informal 
plan to meet occasionally a club, and we doubt if we shall be much of an asset to the 
college since we are so far away, but we want you at headquarters to know that we 
should like to be useful to you, and we send you our very best wishes." This was 
written at the gathering on February 22, and is signed by Dorothy (Walker) Burruss; 
Lucy (Offutt) Ullrich; Agnes Scott Donaldson; Jane Walker; Ida Belle Feldman; 
Marcia (Meldrim) Fisher; Florence (Mead) Cheney; and Stella (Austin) Stannard. 

The Decatur and Atlanta alumnae clubs celebrated together with a dinner at the At- 
lanta Athletic club, to which they asked husbands and escorts. Mary Palmer (Caldwell) 
McFarland was in charge of the program for the banquet, and much of the success 
of the evening is due to her, and to Clara (Whips) Dunn and Mary Helen (Schneider) 
Head. Dr. McCain, Miss Flopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Dieckman, Mr. and Mrs. Stukes, Mr. 
and Mrs. Johnson and the girls in the glee club were guests from the college. Clara 
(Whips) Dunn welcomed the alumnae from the Atlanta club, Mary Knox from the 
Decatur club, and Allie (Candler) Guy, from the general alumnae association. Ethel 
(Alexander) Gaines spoke to the husbands, commending their bravery on coming to an 
alumnae dinner, and Dr. J. Sam Guy responded valiantly for the husbands. Polly Stone, 
alumnae secretary, introduced Dr. McCain, the chief speaker of the evening, and "the 
sweetest and best, our Agnes Scott mother, Miss Flopkins," who greeted her "sons 
and daughters." Mary Ruth Rountree, '30; Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24, and the 
glee club rendered a musical program, accompanied by Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson. Mary 
Ben Wright, '2 5, gave two readings. This is the first time that the Atlanta alumnae 
have celebrated Founder's Day in a body, and the occasion was such an enjoyable one 
that they have decided to have it an annual event. Ninety-nine were present at this 
first dinner. 

The March meeting of the Atlanta club was held at the home of Clara (Whips) 
Dunn on Peachtree Street. Dr. George Flays, head of the English department, spoke on 
his year in Constantinople, and made a most interesting talk on the customs and life 
in modern Turkey. In April, Dr. Hayes spoke to the Decatur club. The Atlanta club 
has sent out two new chairs for the Alumnae House living room. They are carved 
wood, upholstered in damask, and are lovely additions to the room. 

Quenelle Harrold writes from Americus, Ga.: "We have formed an Agnes Scott 
club here, and it is a most enthusiastic one. There are ten or twelve members that we 
can count on. We have all agreed for the present at least to keep the club a purely 
social and literary affair and not try to make money. We have dues of twenty-five 
cents a month, and with that we have joined the Book-of-the-Month club. To our next 
meeting we are inviting two girls who are thinking of going to Agnes Scott next 
year. Every Thanksgiving when the Alumnae House has its birthday party, we hope 
to be able to present some little gift." Quenelle Harrold is president of the Americus 
club, and Alice McNeill secretary-treasurer. 

From Albany, Ga., comes this letter from Martha (Mcintosh) Nail: "With three 
hundred and sixty-five other nights in this year, why did it have to pour in torrents on 
February 22nd? Ten faithful and true Agnes Scott alumnae weathered the elements and 
got together in spite of the deluge, only to be greeted with 'squeek-squank, grr, grr, 
eee-ow!' from the radio! We were bitterly disappointed, but we had a delightful evening 
together and became obsessed with the idea of forming a club here. We are all house- 
keepers, mothers, or teachers and are flushed with neither time nor money, but we 
are interested in Agnes Scott and each other and like the idea of getting together." . 

Savannah, Ga., is forming a club this spring. Alice Weichselbaum writes: "On Febru- 
ary 22nd we managed to gather six or seven old members of Agnes Scott together for 
a very pleasant little dinner, at which we decided to form a Savannah club. Please tell 
us just how your other alumnae groups have formed, what they are doing, and what- 
ever else you might wish to contribute in helping us organize. We want to become 
active at some time in the very near future." 



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IN APPRECIATION OF MISS HEARON 

Among the many letters from alumnae which have poured into the alumnae office 
ever since Miss Hearon's death, we choose this one to print since it puts into words just 
the feeling that so many of us have about her loss. 

"The news of Miss Hearon's death was a great shock to me. I knew that she had 
been ill, but had no idea how critical her condition was. Without minimizing my 
love and respect for a number of others there at Agnes Scott, Miss Hearon was one 
of my best-loved professors. How many times I went to her little room in Lupton for 
a long talk! And I was always welcome, no matter how busy she might be. It was 
her faith in me, along with that of others too, that carried me through some rather 
tempestuous periods. When I went back to my class reunion, she was one of those 
whom I most enjoyed seeing. So I feel a real personal loss, without mentioning the 
loss to the college as a whole." 



PLANNING TO STUDY ABROAD? 

Bulletins have been received at the Alumnae office from a number of foreign col- 
leges and universities, offering summer courses as well as regular winter work. 

One of the rare opportunities offered to American women for vacation study is 
that presented by the Women's Colleges at Oxford. From July 6 to 27 the facilities of 
these institutions will be at the disposal of American secondary school teachers and col- 
lege graduates. The topic of the course is "England in the Nineteenth Century," and 
the lectures are planned to approach this subject from the angles of philosophy, liter- 
ature, economic and scientific achievement, and political and social development. One 
lecture is devoted to Queen Victoria. The Oxford Committee has secured the services 
of prominent British scholars for this course. In addition to the lectures there will be 
discussion classes organized on the Oxford tutorial plan. The fee is $12 5 covering full 
board and residence, lectures and classes, excursions and plays. Requests for information 
and application blanks should be addressed to the Secretary of the Committee on Inter- 
national Relations of the American Association of University Women, 1634, Eye St., 
N. W., Washington, D. C. 

With the co-operation of the Campagnie Francaise du Tourisme, the Sorbonne has ar- 
ranged seven weeks of study and travel in France, lasting from July 7 to August 27. 
The general plan includes 60 hours of French language and literature, 36 hours of uni- 
versity lectures, 92 hours of conducted visits, and an academic tour of two weeks. 
The price of this is approximately $230. More information may be obtained from M. 
Henry Goy, head of the university information office, Sorbonne, Paris. 

Through the International Federation of University Women it will be possible this 
summer for those of the members of the A. A. U. W. who plan to go to Europe to be- 
come acquainted with university women in other countries and to visit places of interest 
under their guidance. If you are interested in this, you may secure further informa- 
tion from Miss Esther Caukin, 1634 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

The International University Cruise, Inc., has announced its curriculum and around 
the world itinerary for the 192 8-29 session. They will sail from New York on October 
6 and arrive in New York eight months later, on June 1, 1929. The charges range from 
$2,500 to $4,150. Further information may be secured from them at 11 Broadway, 
New York City. 

If you would like to study French or Spanish but cannot manage a trip abroad this 
summer, the Middlebury College in Vermont offers you the next best thing: native in- 
structors, splendid curricula, and seven weeks of study when you will not hear 
a word of English spoken. The French and Spanish schools are separate, and students 
in each are bound in honor to speak only the language studied, even among themselves. 
Margaret Phythian, '16, and Vivian Little, '24, studied in the French chateau in Middle- 
bury last summer, and they will be glad to give you more information about the school. 

The University of California, while not "abroad," is quite as far as Europe to many 
of us, and a trip there involves a tour of the west. The University at Berkeley will 
have Intersession from May 21 to June 30, and the regular summer session from July 2 
to August 11. Their branch in Los Angeles will hold summer session at the same time. 



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COLLEGE CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

March 3  Davidson College Glee Club Concert. 

March 4  Mr. R. H. Akagi, secretary of the Japanese Student Christian Association, spoke on the 

problem of the second generation of Japanese in California. 
March 5  Mr. John Erskine, of Columbia University, lectured on "The Delight of Great Books." After 

the lecture, Mr. Erskine gave an informal piano concert. 
March 10  Miss Anne Wiggin, Foreign Student Secretary of the Y. W. C. A., spoke on the World Student 

Christian Federation. 
March 1 1  Mr. Gavrelouchuk, Russian student at Emory University, spoke on Russia, its history and 

religion. 
March 15  Dr. Erdman, of Princeton University, spoke in chapel. 
March 16  Debate with Vassar College. Subject: Resolved: that the United States should cease protecting 

by force of arms capital invested in foreign lands except after formal declaration of war. There 

was a two to one decision in favor of the negative, upheld by Agnes Scott. The Agnes Scott 

debaters were Janet McDonald, W. Va.; Mary Shepherd, Tenn., and Eleanor Lee Norris, S. C. 
March 19  Student elections for year 1928-29. 
March 19  Lecture by Mr. J. Carroll Hayes on the Cathedrals of Europe. Mr. Hayes, father of our 

Dr. George Hayes, head of the English department, is a graduate of Harvard, and said that it 

was while a student there under Charles Eliot Norton, friend of John Ruskin's, that he received 

his inspiration to study European cathedrals. 
March 21  -Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, composer, in a lecture-recital. Mrs. Beach is a member of the Mac- 

Dowell colony at Peterboro, N. H. 
March 2 5  The Agnes Scott Choral Society gave Mendelssohn's oratoria, "Elijah," directed by Mr. Lewis 

Johnson, and with Mr. Christian Dieckman as organist. 

March 27  Annual Blackfriar banquet in ballroom of the Hotel Candler in Decatur. 

April 7  Play-day, on which the Athletic Association is hostess to the athletic teams of the high schools 
of Atlanta. Basketball, tennis, swimming and dancing contests. 

April 9  Unveiling of statue of Robert E. Lee at Stone Mountain. Agnes Scott student body greet 
official train. 

April 9  Hoasc banquet in Alumnae House. 

April 12-14  Meeting in Atlanta of Georgia Education Association. 

April 13  Alumnae dinner at Alumnae House for teachers attending Georgia Education Association. 

April 14  Freshman-Sophomore carnival. i 

April 16  Baron Heyking presented in lecture by the International Relations Club. 

April 17  Mr. William Cole Jones spoke in chapel on "Books." 

April 17  Atlanta alumnae club entertain at Alumnae House for sophomores of Atlanta prep schools. 

April 18  A. A. U. W. entertained Agnes Scott seniors in Alumnae House. 

April 18  Voice department recital. 

April 20  Alumnae Association entertained senior class at home of Mrs. J. Sam Guy in Druid Hills. 

April 21  Blackfriars present three one-act plays written in Miss Nan Stephens' class. They are: "Pink 
and Patches," by Margaret Bland; "The Hero," by Frances Hargis, and "Dust of the Mines," by 
Janet McDonald. The first of these plays will be taken to New York by the Blackfriars in May 
when they compete for the Belasco cup. The second play was awarded the first prize of $100 
in the Savannah Town Theatre contest. 

April 23-28  Metropolitan Opera Company offered a week of opera in Atlanta. M. Rich and Company 
annually presents the classes with sixteen tickets. 

May 5  May Day. Mary Bell McConkey, of St. Louis, Mo., is May Queen. (She is also president of the 
'2 8 senior class.) The scenario this year was written by Carolyn Essig, of Atlanta. 

May 5  Senior Opera. 

May 12  Recital by piano department. 

May 1 5  Final examinations begin. 

May 22  Luncheon to General Assembly. 

May 2 5  Junior-Senior banquet. 

May 26  Alumnae meeting. Trustees' luncheon to General Alumnae Association and senior class. Black- 
friars present "Taming of the Shrew" in modern dress. 

May 27  Dr. Ben Lacy, of Richmond, Va., will preach the baccalaureate sermon. Senior vespers. 

May 28  Alumnae Day. Class luncheons. Glee club recital. 

May 29  Mr. William T. Ellis, of Swarthmore, Pa., will deliver the commencement address to the senior 
class. 



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CAMPUS NEWS 

A new custom which has proved very popular 
on the campus this spring is called "vagabonding 
courses." It began at Harvard, but has spread 
rapidly to other colleges, and faculty, students, 
and visiting alumnae enjoy it at Agnes Scott. Each 
week in the Agonistic is printed a list of the most 
interesting lectures which are to be given the fol- 
lowing week  their time of meeting, professor, 
classroom, etc. These special ones are chosen as 
most interesting because they have a general cul- 
tural value, and are complete in themselves. The 
professors have been interviewed beforehand and 
permission to attend these classes granted. A num- 
ber of students take advantage of this permission to 
drop into classes that their full schedules do not 
permit them to take for credit, but in which they 
are interested. Art history, Greek thought, com- 
parative religions, English lietrature, French and 
Economics are proving most popular. And now 
that spring has come, there are frequently tag-a- 
longs on Miss Westall's botany field trips. 

Miss Gooch, Mary Freeman, '26, who is a grad- 
uate of the Curry School of Expression in Bos- 
ton, and Mrs. Janet Millis Shepherd, a former 
Carnegie Tech student, are to conduct a branch 
of the Curry School of expression in Decatur this 
summer. Miss Gooch had charge of the summer 
school in Boston last year, and is thoroughly capable 
of managing this new branch. The students will 
use Rebekah Scott Hall for work, and Boyd Cot- 
tage as dormitory space. 

After fighting like cats and dogs all during the 
year, the Freshman and Sophomore classes have 
surprised the entire college community by joining 
forces quite amicably and giving a joint Carnival 
on April 14th. Posters flaming with the fresh- 
man green and the sophomore red smote the eye on 
every campus tree, advertising the "Freshmore 
Carnival." Sister classes have occasionally given 
joint entertainments, but this is the first time that 
such avowed enemies have smoked the pipe of 
peace together. 

When the Georgia Education Association met in 
Atlanta the middle of April, it brought together 
a number of the Agnes Scott alumnae who are 
engaged in educational work throughout the state. 
On Friday, April 13, these Agnes Scott alumnae 
teachers met for a dinner at the Alumnae House. 
Among those present were Misses Mary and Meta 
Barker, Nell Buchanan, Louise Fluker, Gertrude 
Pollard, Ethel Ware, Katherine Simpson, Frances 
Spratling, Belle Cooper, Gwynne Cannon, Clarkie 



Davis, Louise Hendrix, Kenneth Maner, Elizabeth 
Marsh, Frances Oliver, Mary Lizzie Radford, Emma 
and Rusha Wesley, Laurie Belle Stubbs, Edith 
Strickland, Mrs. Katherine (Logan) Good, Mrs. 
Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis, Mrs. Anne (McClure) 
Simpson, Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins, Miss McKin- 
ney, Mr. Stukes, Polly Stone, Marguerite Dobbs, 
Beulah Davidson, Marion Park, and Julia McCul- 
lough. 



BLACKFRIARS TO PLAY IN NEW YORK 

Two of the plays done in Miss Nan Stephens' 
play-writing class at Agnes Scott will be presented 
in New York during the week of May 7 in the 
Little Theatre Tournament, in which victory means 
possession of the coveted Belasco cup. They are 
"Pink and Patches," by Margaret Bland, '2 (which 
was first presented in 1926 at the college under the 
title "The Darned Dress"), which the Blackfriars 
will play, and "The Hero," a Civil War play by 
Frances Hargis, '28. This play won the $100 
prize offered by the Savannah Town Theatre re- 
cently. It was given at Agnes Scott for the first 
time during February. 

The Little Theatre Tournament in New York 
attracts entries from all over the United States. 
Twenty plays arc presented, four each night, and 
the four best of this collection are selected by 
the judges for a final tryout on the sixth night. 

"Pink and Patches" will be presented on the 
New York stage by almost the same group of 
Blackfriars who took the roles in the original per- 
formance. They are: Elizabeth McCallie, '27, At- 
lanta; Frances Freeborn, '27, Decatur; Mary Say- 
wood, '28, Decatur, and Louisa Duls, '26, Char- 
lotte, N. C. This cast will be taken to New York 
by Miss Frances K. Gooch, director of Blackfriars. 

"The Hero," by Frances Hargis, will probably 
be presented in the tournament by a Savannah 
cast. It will be rather unique to have two Agnes 
Scott plays competing against each other, and it 
is decidedly unique that of twenty plays given in 
this tournament, two were written on our campus. 

Tickets will be on sale in New York, and alum- 
nae there are urged to attend these performances. 
Alumnae in other places are asked to write any 
friends in New York whom they think would 
be interested. 



CLASS OF '2 8 LEAVES MEMORIAL TO MISS 
HEARON 
The gift of the class of 1928 to the college as 
they leave the campus will take the form of an 
Hearon Memorial History room in the library, 
similar to the Armistead Memorial English room 
there. For this purpose the present Economics 
room will be redecorated and refurnished by the 
class, and a memorial tablet to Miss Hearon and 
three hundred of her personal history books  one 
of her gifts to the college  will be placed there. 



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AGNES SCOTT HEIR TO VALUABLE 
PROPERTY 

Agnes Scott became the heir to valuable property 
in Waynesboro, Ga., on February 4 when Judge 
W. H. Davis died. Judge Davis' wife, who was 
Marie Wilkins, of Waynesboro, attended Agnes 
Scott Institute from 1893 to 1897. She died 
shortly after her marriage. Her mother, in making 
her will, specified that if Judge Davis did not 
remarry, the home lot and adjoining place would 
be left to Agnes Scott. He did not marry again, 
and the Wilkins land was transferred to the 
college. 

In 1920 this property was appraised at $34,000 
and will probably bring about $20,000 now. The 
money will be used as a scholarship fund. 



RECOMMENDED BOOKS 
Preschool Education. A historical and critical 
study, by Use Forest. New York: Macmillan, 1927. 
Pp. xi, 3 89. 

In "Preschool Education,* Dr. Forest has assem- 
bled in one book extensive data which until very re- 
cently a student interested in this subject must col- 
lect for himself from many and various sources. 
It is of primary value to parents and teachers 
of young children and to students of child de- 
velopment. 

Why Stop Learning? by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 



Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. 

This is a valuable survey of one of the most re- 
markable features of modern life, the comico- 
magniflcent struggle of the average American for 
more education. The author surveys, chapter by 
chapter, the most conspicuous methods by which 
the adult public is voluntarily putting itself to 
school  the correspondence school, free public 
libraries, women's clubs. The chapter, "What 
Other People Are Doing," touches on foreign ex- 
periments. 

America Comes of Age. Translated from the 
French of Andre Siegfried by H. H. and Doris 
Hemming. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927. $3.00. 

M. Siegfried, a professor at the School of Social 
Sciences in Paris, reviews in turn race assimilation, 
fundamentalism, the American conception of the 
state, the limitations placed on free association, 
the Negro problem, immigration, birth control, the 
Ku-Klux Klan, the Anglo-Saxon's attitude, mass 
production, high wages, the inferior part played in 
America by politics, the lack of national unity 
in regard to foreign relations, the Yellow Peril, 
Anglo-American relations, Franco-American rela- 
tions. The book shows how we of America are be- 
coming standardized as the result of human sub- 
ordination to mechanical production. The New 
York Times remarks: " 'America Comes of Age' 
is the most uncannily penetrating and most excit- 
ing commentary on America." 



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Concerning Ourselves 



Alice May (Ansley) Brandon lives at Thomasville, 
Ga. She has a daughter, Mary, about twelve years 
old. 

When the French ambassador to the United 
States, M. Claudel, and his daughter, Mile. Marie 
Antoinette Claudel, visited Georgia in April as 
guests of Governor and Mrs. Hardman, Addie (Ar- 
nold) Loridans entertained for them. 

Helen (Bagley) McDuffie has a beautiful home 
on Cherokee Road in Atlanta. Her husband is head 
of the P. C. McDuffie Real Estate Company. 

Fannie May Baker was married to Mr. Daniel 
Thompson Webster in 1923. They live in the Oak- 
Ion Apartments, Highland Ave., and 30th St., 
Birmingham, Ala. Dr. Webster is a druggist. 

Grace Bate, formerly of Marietta, Ga., is living 
now at 5855 Glenwood Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Alice Etheridge Beck was married in 1919 to Mr. 
Norman Dale, an insurance man in Columbia, 
Tenn. They have three children : Edith Ailing, 
seven ; Margaret McLean, five, and Alice Beck, 
nine months. Eleanor Frierson writes "she is one 
of my good neighbors, is a very useful member of 
the Presbyterian Church and is active in literary 
and music club work. Her three little girls are 
adorable." Mrs. Dale is a graduate music pupil 
of A. Barili, and studied under Sigismond Stajowski. 

Agnes Irvine Bidwell is teaching primary grades 
at home in Alexandria, Pa. 

Pauline Burns still lives in Clarkesville, Ga. She 
is now Mrs. I. H. Sutton. 

Josephine Burroughs married Mr. Clyde A. Tay- 
lor, of Brunswick, Ga. 

Addie Cannon, of Concord, N. C, is now Mrs. D. 
H. Blair and lives in Wardman Park, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Howell returned to their 
home in Atlanta in March from San Francisco, 
having enjoyed a delightful cruise from New York 
through the canal to California. Mrs. Howell was 
Margaret Cannon. Mr. Howell is editor of the 
Atlanta Constitution, the Atlanta morning paper 
founded by Henry W. Grady. 

Mr. Jack Dempsey, principal of the Jackson, Ga., 
high school, has announced his candidacy for county 
school superintendent. Mrs. Dempsey was Bertha 
B. Carmichael (and not Estelle Taylor this time). 

Edna Belle Cheshire is Mrs. Walter Sims, 277 
Moreland Ave., N. E., Atlanta. Mr. Sims is the 
ex-Mayor of Atlanta. 

Ellen G. Cheshire is Mrs. Harry Kemp and 
lives at 532 S. 3rd St., Missoula, Montana. Her 
daughter, Carolyn Sarah Kemp, has registered as 
a member of the freshman class at Agnes Scott 
next year. 

Lorine Colmery is Mrs. Cade Lee Armstrong, 
Vaiden, Miss. 

Genie Cousins is Mrs. B. F. Duke, 142 Michigan 
Ave., Decatur, Ga. 

Maury Lee (Cowles) Weisiger's husband is con- 
nected with the Southern Bell Telephone and 
Telegraph Company in Louisville, Ky. Their street 
address is 2734 Shippen Avenue. They have two 
children. 

Alice (Davidson) Baxter and Marjorie Davidson 
are living together at 22 W. 49th St., New York 
City. 

Katie Dunwoody is Mrs. Wright Jackson, Bain- 
bridge, Ga. 



Ella Belle Emery is Mrs. Frederic W. Moser, 5 
Penn Ave., Greenville, Pa. 

Jean Evans, formerly of Meridian, Miss., is living 
now at Union Springs, Ala. She is Mrs. Sterling 
Rainer. 

Olivia Fewell is Mrs. Jerry Taylor, 370 Sin- 
clair Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 

Flora Fite, who for many years was one of the 
most beloved teachers in Cartersville, Ga., died 
in January, 1928, at the Georgia Baptist Hospital, 
in Atlanta. 

Sallie Gaston was married to Mr. B. M. Everett 
and lives in Trenton, Fla. 

Miriam, Grace, and Mattie Banks George, of 
Lithonia, Ga., have all married. Miriam is Mrs. 
Marvin Venable ; Grace is Mrs. Macky, and Mattie 
Banks is Mrs. William F. Jones, of Lithonia. 

Jennie B. Glover, of Marietta, Ga., is Mrs. J. 
M. Dunn, 2701 Connecticutt Ave., Washington, D. C. 

Charlotte (Green) Adams has three girls: Allison 
Hoyle, Charlotte Caryl, and Georgia Hoyle. Mr. 
Adams is a lawyer in Atlanta. 

Laura Green is Mrs. Judson Heard, 660 Forsyth 
St., Macon, Ga. 

Letitia Green is Mrs. George H. Gillon, 588 Bar- 
nett St., N. E., Atlanta. Mr. Gillon is a lawyer. 

Margaret and Ruth Green live at 122 Erie Ave., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Rebecca Green is Mrs. J. H. Hinds, Prattshore 
Hotel, Apt. 810, 1137 Pratt Blvd., Chicago, 111. 

Died  Anne Tinsley Griffin, on March 14th in 
Atlanta, Ga. She was the granddaughter of Dr. 
Alexander Means, third president of old Emory 
College. She was buried in the historic old ceme- 
tery at Oxford, Ga. 

Isabel Hamilton is Mrs. D. B. Spratt, Belmont, 
North Carolina. 

Rosa Harden is Mrs. Malcolm Jones, Crescent 
City, Fla. 

Marion Haynes married Mr. John Wesley King, 
an orange grower, of Zellwood, Fla. She writes : 
"I was glad to get the copy of the Alumnae 
Register and the Alumnae Quarterly. I am glad to 
be in touch with Agnes Scott again after so many 
years. I even lost sight of my roommates for a 
few years, but have gotten in touch with Louise 
(Inglis) Love again. In 1914 I was passing through 
Atlanta and went out to Decatur to see Miss Hop- 
kins and Dr. Gaines, and again in 1918 I was there 
for a few minutes and saw Miss Hopkins and Miss 
McKinney. After my student days at Agnes Scott 
I taught in our country schools here, then I was 
a stenographer and bookkeeper until my marriage 
in 1919. Some of the girls on the 'lost sister' list 
I should like to hear about, and possibly later on, 
after you have had time to hear of them, I may 
ask you about them. I should like so much to see 
Miss Hopkins and Miss McKinney again." And in 
this same letter came a splendid list of married 
names and correct addresses for lost alumnae ! 

Lillian Mary (Helmer) Davidson's husband is an 
electrical engineer in Canastota, N. Y. They have 
two daughters: Charlotte, 15; and Mabel Church, 
13. 

Nell R. Henderson is Mrs. W. A. Wilson, Tampa, 
Florida. 

Kate (Hightower) Daniel has one son, who is 
engaged in textile work in Hogansville, Ga. 



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Alice Walton (Hocker I Drake, of Ocala, Fla., has 
two sons: Trusten Polk Drake, Jr., who is 25, and 
William Hocker Drake, 19. 

Eliza ("Missy ) Hull stil lives in Savannah, Ga. 
She was married in 1914 to Mr. Dana Stevens, Jr., 
a cotton factor. They have three children : Corinne, 
Henry, and Dana Stevens III. The Stevens live 
at 104 E. 34th Street. 

One of our six alumni, Alfred S. Mead, writes 
from Riverside, Calif. : "In spite of all the very 
scandalous things you said about the alumni of 
Agnes Scott, you are forgiven, as the write-up in 
the January Quarterly makes amends for past 
offences. You are right in blaming our 'ousting' 
from the Decatur Female Seminary on the fact that 
we would assert our masculinity. The effect of 
so much masculinity among so many girls was 
demoralizing to the latter, and the trustees real- 
ized that the girls would never do good work under 
the circumstances. The fact, however, that all 
of these boys have since married, and two of them 
(Lewis Gaines and I) went so far as to marry 
Agnes Scott girls is clear proof that the early 
impressions we received were favorable. Some day 
Mrs. Mead and I hope to make a trip East during 
the school year and will try to plan it about com- 
mencement time, as I think it would be quite an 
experience for one of the alumni to be at Agnes 
Scott on this important date." Mrs. Mead is 
Susie Hunter. 

Louise (Inglis) Love is living in Quincy, Fla., 
where her husband is a merchant. They have two 
children : J. Inglis Love, who is 20 ; and Sarah 
May Love, 16. She writes : "I hope to have my 
daughter go to Agnes Scott when she finishes 
High School two years from now." 

Irene Ingram is Mrs. Dan Y. Sage, 47 Inman 
Circle, Atlanta. Her husband is a physician. 

Lillian Johnson was married to Mr. M. R. Hun- 
nicutt, a merchant, of Ocala, Fla., in 1903. They 
have six children: M. Reese, 24; Daniel J., 17; 
Charles T., 14 ; Nellie, 13 ; Rebecca, 11, and 
Herbert A., 8. 

Sallie Key still lives in Quincy, Fla. She is 
the constant companion of her invalid sister. 

Derrelle Kilpatrick is Mrs. Bailey Monday, Har- 
lem, Ga. 

Lula L. Kingsberry is principal of the English 
Avenue School in Atlanta. 

Lela Lee Lewis is Mrs. Horace England, 1411 
Beechwood Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bessie Liddell is Mrs. J. G. Johnson, 2056 N. 
Blvd., Atlanta. 

Jessie Litchfield still lives in Marietta, Ga. She 
is Mrs. Kerley. 

Annie Gene McCalla is living at 623 Whitney 
Ave., Wilkinsburgh, Pa. 

Olivia McCalla is Mrs. Perry Smith, Elberton, Ga. 

Elizabeth (Mable) Cloud lives in Hamlet, N. O, 
with her six children. She has been a widow several 
years. i 

Lucy (Mable) LeSueur has four children: Maury 
F., Henrietta E., Joel M., and Helen B. Mr. 
LeSueur is a merchant in Ore Bank, Va. 

Mary (Macy) Audrey (1893) writes that she and 
Mary (Barnett) Martin are planning to come to 
their class reunion this year at commencement. 
"We are the first graduates of Agnes Scott Insti- 
tute, and we are anticipating much pleasure in re- 
turning together to our Alma Mater and are hoping 
that quite a few of those early Institute girls will 
be there too." Mrs. Ardrey has three children : 
William, 28 ; Elizabeth, 22, and John, 16. Another 
little daughter, Mary Mack, born in 1901, died in 
November, 1906. 

Madge (Medlock) Ozmer is living at 536 Merrimac 
St., Oakland, Calif. 

Ardelle Mills is Mrs. F. W. Farnsworth, Box 
477, Sapulpa. Okla. 



Minna Maria (Millerl Hamilton is manager of 
the children's department at Miller's Book Store 
in Atlanta. 

Ellabell Morrison is Mrs. John Carlton, Moul- 
trie, Ga. 

Elizabeth Pearl (Parks) Jones lost her husband 
during the past winter. She is living in Atlanta. 

Annie Joe Peter, of H" v Grove, Ark., is now 
Mrs. John S. Perrow, Salem, Va. 

Gertrude Pollard is living at 1025 Peachtree 
St., Atlanta. 

Mary Pearl (Powell) Everhart has moved to 
38 Clay St., S. E., Atlanta, where her hus- 
band is in the physicians' and surgeons' supplies 
business. They have three children : Laurence 
Powell, 25 ; Wade Hampton, 24, and Hazel Mar- 
low, 22. Mrs. Everhart spends her spare time 
in writing. 

Wyllanne Pruett is Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee, Mont- 
gomery, Ala. Mail will reach her addressed to 
the state capitol building. 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Peeples Thomas, of Plain- 
field, N. J., have announced the marriage of their 
daughter, Helen, to Mr. Edwin Behr, of New York, 
on April 10th. Mrs. Thomas was Helen Ramspeck. 
Mr. Thomas is one of the leading officials of the 
United States Steel Corporation. 

Ada Rosasco still lives in Pensacola, Fla., at 518 
N. Palafox Street. 

Anna Rosasco is Mrs. Henry G. Wells, Box 47, 
Bagdad, Fla. 

Clara Rusk is Mrs. Clara R. Lee, Lithonia, Ga. 

Isabel Salbide is Mrs. Isabel S. Odom. Mr. 
Odom died about nine years ago, leaving Isabel 
with a young son. She is teaching this year in the 
Newnan school system. 

Adeline Schaefer is Mrs. F. H. Blundell, of Yazoo 
City, Miss. She writes: "I have been corresponding 
with Agnes Scott in regard to sending my daughter 
there." 

Hilda Schaefer is Mrs. Hilda Edsall, 403 Central 
Ave., Hot Springs, Ark. She manages a gift 
shop. 

Florence ("Fancy") Schuler is Mrs. O. C. Cathey, 
Keatchie, La. 

Louise Scott is Mrs. John H. Taylor, E. Fort 
King St., Ocala, Fla. Mr. Taylor is dead. 

May (Shepard) Schlich has five children: Carl 
Linck, 21 ; May Shepard, 19 ; Mary Frances, 17 ; 
Friedrich Clinton, 14, and Metha Ann, 3. Mr. 
Schlich is the cashier of the Loxley State Bank 
in Loxley, Ala. 

Annie Lide Smith is Mrs. Ted Alexander, Tuske- 
gee, Ala. 

Annie Spence is Mrs. William McKay Bellamy, 
Wilmington, N. C. 

Florence (Stokes) Henry writes from her home 
in Ridgefield, N. J. : "Life is very full these 
days. I am busy with my church work, being 
president of my missionary society and vice-presi- 
dent of the Jersey City Presbyterial, besides shar- 
ing my husband's hobbies of mountain climbing 
and book collecting. We have over seven thou- 
sand books in our home library shelves, but don't 
suppose for one minute that I spend much time 
dusting them !" 

Margie (Stribling) Tuck has quite a thriving 
business as a grower and shipper of achimenes 
bulbs in Westminster, S. C. 

Effie Virginia (Strickler) Timmons is living in 
Batesville, Ark. 

Willie Tanner is Mrs. W. C. Bennett, of At- 
lanta. Her husband is the head of the Bennett 
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Lucy Tarver is Mrs. James Rountree. She still 
lives in Selma, Ala. 

Pearl Trogdon is Mrs. Herbert A. Love. Her 
husband is the president of Palmer College, De- 
Funiak Springs, Fla. They have two children : 
Mary Woodward, 24, and Herbert Alexander, 22. 

Mary Craine Turner is Mrs. T. S. McLauchlin, 
Wincer Haven, Fla. Her husband is a jeweler. 

Pearl Turnipseed is Mrs. J. O. Adams, Gaines- 
ville, Ga. 

Bob Venable is Mrs. W. G. Roper, Habersham 
Rd., Atlanta. 

Annie Lucie Weatherbee is Mrs. Nan W. Abbott, 
725 North Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, Calif. 

Emily Winn's letters from Korea are always in- 
teresting. "I have been in the country finishing 
up fall itinerating work. My last class was in 
a seaport town on a bay of the Yellow Sea. My 
brother, who was in those regions, too, took me 
over in our Ford. I was the first American lady 
that had ever been to Chulpo, and was evidently 
an interesting show. Each window in the church 
was crowded on the outside with little faces peer- 
ing in and we had to bolt the doors to keep them 
from romping in for a closer sightsee. The first 
night the church was packed and many faces at 
the windows too  many young brides too bashful 
to come in, though they were urged to. One woman 
came in bringing with her three of her friends, 
all elderly women and evidently from well to do 
homes. They were all so interested and the first 
one asked such earnest questions about the Chris- 
tian's hope of eternal life, especially about the life 
beyond the grave. I remember she said she had 
read the whole Bible through to find the answer to 
something she wanted to know ! 

Annie and Julia Wright live in Thomasville, 
Ga. They travel a great deal, returning to "the 
city of roses" for the winter. 

1906 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin drove up from Washing- 
ton with a party of friends during April and en- 
joyed a week's visit at the Alumnae House. 

1907 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

1908 
Next class reunion, 1930. 

Louise Shipp Chick writes from San Francisco, 
Calif. : "Thank you for sending me the informa- 
tion about the American Alumni Council conference 
in Berkeley in February. Since we work until 
1 P. M. on Saturdays I could not attend, but 
I went over as soon as I could. I met Mrs. 
fernsten, chairman of the program commit- 
tee, and had a pleasant visit with her. I have 
been looking up our Agnes Scott alumnae out 
here. I spent a pleasant afternoon with Mary 
(Bedinger) Echols over in Oakland not long ago. 
She has three lovely boys, the youngest just 
two, and a perfect dear. They are an interest- 
ing family. Vivien (Hart) Henderson has called. 
She has a young son and husband whom I'm 
to meet as soon as I can find time to go over. 
If my wishes would come true, I'd be home next 
winter, for I am really homesick, but just now 
they are decentralizing the treasury work and so it 
may be some time before a transfer can be put 
through." "Chick's" breezy letters are always a joy 
to receive ! 

1909 

Next class reunion, 1930. 
1910 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Gwendolyn Bailey, ex '10, is Mrs. Charles D. 
Richards, 424 Maryland, Bristol, Tenn. She has 
three children. 

Virginia (Crane) Reeves, ex '10, has moved from 
Macon to Lakeland, Fla. There are quite a num- 



ber of Agnes Scott alumnae living in Lakeland : 
Marie (Bailey) Strauss; Helen (Brown) Austin; 
Olive (Caruthers) Blake; Anna (Colquitt) Hunter; 
Martha (Knight) Cardinal; Marie (Way) Powers, 
and Ella (Young) Denmard. 

Sarah (McKowen) Blackshear, ex '10, has moved 
to 27 E. Memorial Park, Jacksonville, Fla. 

1911 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Mary Wallace Kirk has had many experiences 
while training into the ways of her southern home 
the two English maids she brought back from her 
last trip abroad. She writes: "I had planned to 
attend commencement this year, but I seem to 
have gotten the habit of being bridesmaid. The 
wedding is to be commencement week, so my 
trip back to Agnes Scott this year can't ma- 
terialize." 

Louise (Wells) Parsons writes: "Please change 
my address once more on the alumnae mailing- 
list. This time we have moved nearer Agnes 
Scott and rejoice to be south again. We drove 
from New York to Chattanooga the first week in 
January, and knew by the friendliness of the peo- 
ple when we reached the Mason-Dixon line ! Mar- 
garet McCallie has been a genuine friend in need 
to me. I have also seen Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes 
(who was moving away from Chattanooga the 
next day), and Helen (Brown) Webb." 

Army wives do move! Hazel (Brand) Taylor, 
ex '11, left Fort Benning and is now living at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Clyde Cranford, ex '11, has been married some 
time. She is Mrs. W. G. Brantley, 2843 29th St., 
Washington, D. C. 



Next class reunion, 1931. 

Bernice Mae Benson, ex '12, is Mrs. W. A. 
Trimble, Walnut St., Birmingham, Ala. 

Hortense Boyle, ex '12, one of our "lost sisters," 
is living at 112 W. Cervantes St., Pensacola, Fla. 
She is Mrs. B. M. Bell. 

Lucy Fitzhugh, ex '12, is Mrs. C. W. Maxfield, 
Jr., 563 Boswell St., Batesville, Ark. 

Maizie (Whitfield) Nelson, ex '12, has moved to 
347 W. Hancock St., Athens, Ga. She is frequently 
in Atlanta, and has visited Agnes Scott recently. 

Another lost ex '12 who has come to light is Jess 
Williams. She is Mrs. Irvine, 111 W. Avenue 
N, LaCrosse, Wis. 

1913 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Allie (Candler) Guy's husband has just had a 
book published by Ginn and Company  "Quantita- 
tive Chemical Analysis." Dr. Guy formerly taught 
at Agnes Scott and will be remembered by a num- 
ber of Agnes Scott alumnae. 

Kate Clark's brother, Alex, died March 2nd 
from injuries received in an automobile accident. 

Margaret (Roberts) Graham has moved to 2616 
Lowerlins St., New Orleans, La. 

Nir.a l Bain) Mason, ex '13, is living at 6005 
Burris Circle, Birmingham, Ala. 

Flemma Henry, ex '13, whose address was asked 
for in the lost column, has been located. She was 
married in 1912 to Mr. William W. Denton, a banker 
planter of Shelby, Miss. They have four children : 
William W., Jr., 14 ; Joseph R., 13 ; and John Mason 
and Charles David, twins, born in 1921. Flemma 
writes that a family of four very wide-awake sons 
keeps her more than busy. 

Kate I Perry I Leach, ex '13, has moved to Rich- 
mond, Va. Will someone notify the alumnae office 
of her street address there? 



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1914 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Zollie (Mc Arthur) Saxon is living at her old 
home in Fort Valley, Ga. Her husband is teach- 
ing in Macon, and commutes. 

Linda (Miller) Summer has moved to Cordele, 
Ga., where she is busy bringing up her four little 
future Agnes Scotters : Hulda, 13 ; Linda, 9 ; Martha, 
7, and Marian, 3. Mr. Summer works with a build- 
ing supply company. 

Alia B. Carmichael, ex '14, is Mrs. A. W. Walker, 
Jr., McDonough, Ga. 

Anna (Colquitt) Hunter, ex '14, has moved to 
Lakeland, Fla. Mr. Hunter is an auditor. They 
have three children : Harriet, 13 ; George S. C., Jr., 
9, and Nancy, 8. 

Mary M. Harris, ex '14, visited Agnes Scott and 
the Alumnae House during April. 

Florence Munnerlyn, ex '14, was married again 
on February 18th. She is now Mrs. Bob Nichols, 
Orlando, Fla. 

1915 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Ninuzza Seymour, ex '15, is living in the Hotel 
Aragon, Cornell Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Jean Wallace, ex '15, lives with her mother at 
815i North Bonnybrae, Los Angeles, Calif. They 
have been out there several years, and Jean's health 
has improved a great deal in that climate. 

1916 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Elizabeth (Burke) Burdett's interesting letter 
from her home in Brussels appears in another part 
of the Quarterly. She writes : "We are hoping 
to come back to hte States on another visit next 
spring, and I am certainly counting on a visit to 
Agnes Scott." Elizabeth's address is 100 rue Al- 
phonse Renard. 

Laura (Cooper) Christopher and her two young 
sons are written up in another part of the Quarterly, 
too. 1916 is certainly playing an important part 
in this April Quarterly ! 

Jane Anne Newton celebrated her third birthday 
on March 21st. She is Maryellen (Harvey) New- 
ton's baby, but after such an event as a third birth- 
day, she is rapidly developing into the "big girl" 
class. 

Mary (Ferguson) Boote, ex '16, has a darling 
little daughter about five years old. 

Vivien (Hart) Henderson, ex '16, is living at 
2380 Washington St., San Francisco, Calif. Her 
husband is a doctor. They have one child, a boy. 

1917 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Louise Ash is delighted with her work at the 
Prichard School for Orphan boys and girls in 
Ona, W. Va. "We are in the adopting business 
instead of supplying children where homes are 
offered. All of our children are to be ours until 
they are twenty-one years at least. We couldn't 
bear to part with a one. Our family at present 
consists of thirteen children, Kathleen Kennedy, one 
of our Grundy graduates, who assists, and myself. 
With ten of these thirteen children between two 
and five years we all keep busy all the time. I 
wish we had a picture of the whole lot, but 
haven't, for as soon as we get a group picture, 
then we get more children ! We have a lovely 
home for them on a big dairy farm and are all 
as happy as can be. We should be delighted to 
have some of our Agnes Scott friends come to 
see us any time." 

Agnes Scott Donaldson writes from Los Angeles 
that she has joined a California Agnes Scott 
group that has been started recently. She saw Jane 
Walker and Jane Bernhardt at a meeting of the 



club, and enjoyed hearing about the Alumnae House, 
the new faculty, and the many changes that 
have been made since she was at A. S. C. 

Martha Dennison is living at 957 Piedmont Ave., 
N. E., Atlanta, and keeping house for her broth- 
ers. 

Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis and her missionary 
husband are at home on furlough this year. They 
are living at 409 E. College Ave., Decatur, Ga., 
while Mr. Davis studies at Columbia Seminary. 
Their three children are Willie, 8 ; Margaret Lee, 
6, and Samuel Augustus, 4. 

Katherine (Lindamood) Catlett amazes us with 
the list of her numerous and varied activities. She 
is living in Kellyville, Okla., and getting a real 
taste of the west. There are no servants to be 
had, so besides being a very efficient mother and 
housekeeper, Katherine serves as cook, nurse, seam- 
stress, and general handy-man. In addition to all 
this she finds time to enjoy a circle of con- 
genial friends and takes her turn at keeping the 
neighborhood children while the mothers do society. 
She plans to visit in Mississippi this spring. 

Mary (Mclver) Luster is back again in Miami, 
living at 2453 S. W. 23rd St. Her little daughter 
was two years old on February 6th. Mr. Luster 
is an electrical engineer. 

Ruth (Nisbet) Jan-ell is living in "Cascade, 
Colo., a tiny hamlet tucked away in the Rockies, 
where there are exactly seventeen inhabitants be- 
sides ourselves. Sanford will probably write the 
Great American Novel before the winter is over. 
At any rate we are having lots of fun and we are 
getting some work done, both of us. I am going 
to write to every Agnes Scotter that may be inter- 
ested in hearing from me, as I have more time than 
I've ever had before." Ruth has two children : 
Ruth Nisbet Morehouse, 8, and John Sanford Jar- 
rell, not quite 2. 

Virginia (Scott) Pegues' two children are Rosalie, 
4, and James Gary, Jr., 2. 

Willie Duncan, ex '17, is Mrs. Edward C. Beall, 
3719 Cliff Rd., Birmingham, Ala. 

Elsie I. Hendley, ex '17, is teaching piano at 
Celina, Ohio. She was graduated from the Cali- 
fornia Conservatory of Music in San Francisco in 
1915. 

Josephine Mayer, ex '17, who was on the lost list, 
has been found in Ellisville, Miss. She is Mrs. 
Lowrey Collins. 

Jessie Plunkett, ex '17, is Mrs. Mason Richard- 
son. Mail will reach her care Citizens Bank and 
Trust Bldg., Tampa, Fla. 

Mary Etta Thomas' married name is Mrs. J. 
W. Stephenson. Both she and her husband are 
teaching in the State Normal School at Jacksonville, 
Alabama. 

1918 

Next class reunion  this very May, 1928 ! 

Hallie (Alexander) Turner writes from 2206 
Wynnton Dr., Columbus, Ga. : "I am looking for- 
ward to the 1918 reunion. Though it has been so 
long since that year, it seems only yesterday that 
I was a scared freshman, then so soon, a dignified 
senior, and now, to the present students, I'll appear 
an old, old lady. Fortunately, however, I don't 
seem so old to myself, and shall be so glad to see 
how ten years have affected the other '18, '19, and 
'20 girls." 

Olive (Hardwick) Cross has moved to Maynard, 
Mass., where her husband is the recor of St. 
George's Episcopal Church. 

Lieut, and Mrs. Keith K. Tatom left Fort Ben- 
ning on March 1 for a month's leave to be spent 
in Florida and the West Indies. Mrs. Tatom was 
Edith Hightower. 

Virginia Lancaster has been visiting her sister 
in Chicago, and friends in Florida. She returned to 
her home in Columbia, S. C, in March. 



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Annie White Marshall is teaching Latin in the 
Lulie Compton Seminary in Birmingham, Ala. 

When the Decatur High Seniors gave "The Flap- 
per Grandmother" recently, one of the little girls 
in the Rag Doll chorus was Fan Pitman, daughter 
of Fan (Oliver) Pitman. Another of the rag dolls 
was Beverly Howard, daughter of Mary Olive 
(Gunn) Howard, ex '21. 

A delightful letter from Evamaie (Willingham) 
Park says: "The world do move! Imagine the 
girls of old '18 out of college ten years ! Why, I'm 
sure we don't look older than seniors ! Well, any- 
how, sad as I feel about the ten years, yet I am 
mighty glad to get to see all the old girls again. 
I am planning to take in all of commencement 
that an Atlanta 'working-girl' can." 

Old college friends of Helen (Connett) Amer- 
man's, ex '18, were saddened to learn of her death 
on May 16, 1927, at the birth of her baby. Helen 
and her baby were buried together. 

Helen Trafford Moore, ex '18, has received the 
distinction of being elected to membership in 
"Poetry  of the South," an association of poets 
numbering only twenty-five in the entire South, 
sponsored by Mrs. Alice MacFarland, editor of 
"The Journal of American Poetry." Helen's poems 
have appeared in various publications from time to 
time. Several of them have been set to music 
and have been sung in manuscript form in concerts. 
She is the author of "Awake, My Soul, Arise," 
an Easter song, published by Fisher and Brothers 
of New York. She is a member of the faculty of 
the School for the Deaf of North Carolina at 
Morganton, and spends her vacations in Asheville 
with her parents. 

Marie Morris, ex '18, received her B. S. degree in 
1918 from the University of Alabama. She is teach- 
ing this year in Charlotte, N. C, and living at 
24 Dartmouth Place. 

Caroline Stapler, ex '18, was married in 1920 to 
Dr. Robert Drysdale May. They live at 1495 Avon- 
dale Ave., Jacksonville, Fla., and have two chil- 
dren  Robert Drysdale, Jr., 8, and Caroline A., who 
was born in 1927. 

1919 

Next class reunion, May, 1928 ! 

Jane Bernhardt is teaching at the University of 
California in Los Angeles. Her address is 833 
S. Flower St., care Womens Athletic Club of Los 
Angeles, Room 415. Jane spent last summer at 
Columbia working toward her Ph.D. 

Minnie Clare Boyd visited her sister at Agnes 
Scott during March. She is teaching history at 
the State Normal School in Jacksonville, Ala. 
Next year she will have leave, and plans to re- 
turn to Columbia to work on her Ph.D. Minnie 
Clare received her M.A. in 1925. 

Shirley (Fairly) Hendrick has moved to 618 
North State St., Jackson, Miss. Her husband is 
a lawyer. 

Frances ( Glasgow) Patterson's two sons are 
Houston Patterson, Jr., born in 1924 in China, and 
Robert Glasgow, born last May in Japan. 

Bess (Ham) Harmon is at home in Mississippi 
while her husband is studying at the University of 
Chicago. Her two children are Nancy Eugene, 3, 
and Thomas Leonhardt, who is almost 2. 

Goldie Ham's impressive business letter-head 
reads : "G. Suttle Ham, M. D., 803 Post-Dispatch 
Bldg., Houston, Tex." She writes: "I hope it will 
be possible for me to come back in May for 
1919's class reunion. A doctor's life is never one's 
own, so I dare not plan too far ahead. I hope 
that if any of the alumnae pass this way, 
they will take time to look me up." Since 1923, 
Goldie has been a practicing physician and surgeon. 

"Peanut" (Rowe) Jones announces the birth on 
February 21st of her daughter, Margaret Rosita 
Carrington Jones. If "Peanut" will promise to 



bring "Little Peanut" to the class reunion, 1919 
promises to be there 100 per cent strong ! 

Elizabeth (Watkins) Hulen has moved from Otter 
Burn Plantation to 921 N. President St., Jackson, 
Miss. Mr. Hulen is a realtor. Their daughter, 
Margaret Watkins Hulen, will be seven years old 
on July 7th. 

Jean McAdory Baker, ex '19, was married in 
1922 to Mr. F. M. Todd. They live at 629 Walnut 
St., Gadsden, Ala. 

Marie DuPree, ex '19, is Mrs. J. Boykin New- 
man, 1383 West Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. 

Helen Ewing, ex '19, is doing primary work in 
Birmingham, Ala. 

Elizabeth Lawrence, ex '19, was accompanist for 
the vocal director and glee club of Anderson Col- 
lege, Anderson, S. C, before Christmas. 

Margaret Miller, ex '19, is Mrs. E. Roy Childers, 
800 King St., Selma, Ala. 

Shirley Preston Montague, ex '19, is Mrs. Fred 
Morrow, care Mrs. Harney, 804 Oak St., Jackson- 
ville, Fla. 

1920 

Next class reunion, this very May, 1928 ! 

When the alumnae secretary visited Carrollton 
recently Nelle Aycock and the other Carrollton 
alumnae entertained the High School juniors and 
seniors at tea. Nelle substitutes at the school 
occasionally, but she is not teaching regularly this 
winter. She has a Ford coupe and says that all 
of her spare dimes go for gasoline. She is coming 
back for commencement this May. 

Margaret Bland spent the spring vacation in 
Charleston with her mother. They visited the love- 
ly Magnolia Gardens, which were at the height of 
their bloom at the time. Margaret's play, "The 
Darned Dress," now rechristened "Pink and 
Patches," is to be given by the Blackfriars in New 
York in May in the Belasco cup competition. 
Margaret was honor guest at the banquet given by 
the Blackfriars at the Candler hotel just before 
spring holidays. 

Clara (Cole) Heath announced the birth of Mil- 
ton Heath, Jr., on March 16th. 

Agnes Dolvin is teaching in Cartersville, Ga. 

Cornelia (Hutton) Hazlehurst is living in Savan- 
nah temporarily, while her husband is doing some 
paving there.  Her address is Box 532. 

Lois (Maclntyre) Beall and Alice Cooper are 
written up in another part of this Quarterly, 
under the Famous Family section. 

Virginia McLaughlin is living at 4424 P St., 
N. W., Washington, D. C. She plans to return 
to Europe this summer. 

Margery (Moore) McAulay writes from Green- 
ville, S. C. : "I was so disappointed not to hear 
^the radio concert on Founder's Day, but my little 
son, William Allan, Jr., was born on February 
17th, and we were still in the hospital." 

We sympathise with Eugenia Peed in the recent 
death of her mother. Eugenia's father, Dr. M. T. 
Peed, of Emory University, has been dead only a 
few yeai-s. 

Margaret (Shive) Bellingrath is looking forward 
to moving south again at an early date. Her 
husband will receive his Ph.D. from Columbia 
this spring, and, she writes, "that's all we're wait- 
ing on !" Margaret has done quite a bit of study- 
ing herself since leaving Agnes Scott. She was at 
Columbia from 1924-26, at the Assembly's Training 
School in Richmond in 1922, and was graduated 
from the Biblical Seminary in New York in 1923. 
In 1926 she received her M.A. from Columbia Uni- 
versity. Margaret has one child  Jean Ewing 
Bellingrath, born March, 1927. 

Margaret Winslett's present address is 23 Yuen 
Ming Yuen Rd., Shanghai, China. 



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Rosalind (Wurml Council's little daughter, 
Pauline Ellen, will be three years old on July 24th. 

Hugh Barrett Adams, ex '20, is Mrs. Robert Long 
Lessenbury, of Glasgow, Ky. 

Ellen (Coleman) Johnson, ex '20, has momd to 
1100 Glen Iris Ave., Birmingham, Ala. Her hus- 
band is in the real estate and insurance business. 

Margaret Ingles Ellett, ex '20, was married in 
1921 to Mr. George F. Parrish, who is now athletic 
director and coach at the Potomac State School at 
Keysey, W. Va. They have two children : Agnes 
Lynn, 5, and Patsy, who celebrated her first birth- 
day on March 6th. 

Wilhelmina Rabun, ex '20, is Mrs. M. L. Vanner- 
son, 504 W. 37th St., Savannah, Ga. She is a 
stenographer in the cotton business. 

Maggie Phillips (Trawick) Aiken, ex '20, lives on 
Cherokee Hts., Waycross, Ga. 

Rita Gladys Veal, ex '20, is Mrs. C. J. Prescott, 
426 Avanida Alegera, West Palm Beach, Fla. 

Chloie Walling, ex '20, is Mrs. John Henderson 
O'Neill, 506 Franklin St., Huntsville, Ala. 

1921 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Mary Robb (Finney) Bass has two children: 

Elizabeth Adele, 2 ; and William Alva, Jr., seven 

months. Mr. Bass is a chemist for the T. C. I. 
Co., in Ensley, Ala. 

Mary Louise (Green) Morrow writes that they 
have moved into their new home at 525 E. Walnut 
St., Decatur, Ala. "Our house is a brick English 
cottage, and we are so crazy about it ! I am en- 
joying keeping house and haven't poisoned my 
husband with home cooking yet." 

Sarah Harrison is teaching history in the Shenan- 
doah School in Miami, Fla. Her address is 1236 
S. W. 7th St. 

Emily (Hutter) Stewart is living in Chattanooga, 
where her husband teaches mathematics in the Cen- 
tral High School. 

Eugenia (Johnston) Griffin visited Agnes Scott 
during March. She is the same enthusiastic little 
Genie. 

Martha Laing was married on April 3 in Lewis- 
burg, W. Va., to Dr. Charles Welby Dorsey, of 
Baltimore. They will live in Denver, Colo. Margaret 
(Leavitt) Turner was her only attendant. 

William Lowndes McLaughlin was born in Stoney 
Point, Tenn., on March 30. His parents are Fan- 
nie (McCaa) and John Brown McLaughlin, and 
his two proud aunts are Margaret (McLaughlin) 
Hogshead, and Virginia McLaughlin. 

Eula (Russell) Kelly spent the winter in St. 
Petersburg, Fla. Her husband is a planter and 
orchardist in Jeff, Ala. 

Helen Wayt and her father have just returned 
from several months in Florida. They drove down 
the east coast, spent a month in Miami, and drove 
back up the west coast, visiting in Fort Myers and 
Tampa. This was Helen's first trip down into 
Florida and she is almost as enthusiastic over it as 
she was over California. To Helen belongs a great 
deal of credit for the lovely party that the Alumnae 
Association gave the senior class on April 19, at 
Allie (Candler) Guy's home. On account of the 
illness of the chairman of the entertainment com- 
mititee, Aimee D. (Glover) Little, Helen acted as 
temporary chairman and proved a most efficient 
one. 

Frances (Whitfield) Elliott has moved to Sparta, 
Tenn. Her husband is the superintendent of a 
Limestone mining plant there. Ellen Wilson's New 
York City address is 235 E. 49th Street. 

Virginia Crank, ex '21, is teaching History in 
the High School in Spartanburg, S. C. She studied 
at the University of California in 1924, and at 



the University of Virginia in 1925. Last summer 
Virginia spent traveling in Europe. She writes: 
"I met so many Agnes Scott people abroad. I often 
wondered how many of us had been feeling the lure 
of Europe since the days of Miss Cady's history 
class." 

Virginia Fish, ex '21, was married on March 10 
in Jacksonville, Fla., to Mr. Benson Forbush Tigner, 
formerly of Atlanta. 

Martha Lee Grier, ex '21, is teaching at Spotts- 
wood, Va. 



Next class reunion, 1929. 

(The class secretary of '22 continues to be a joy 
to the general alumnae secretary ! The business- 
like way she goes about garnering in news of her 
class, and the results that girl gets ! Even in all 
the excitement of getting married, Sarah Till did 
not forget her duties as class secretary, but wrote 
to each of the forty-one members of '22 begging for 
news for the April Quarterly. ) 

Agnes Adams has been elected recording secretary 
of the Mu Omega chapter of the Mu Phi Epsilon 
sorority of the Conservatory of Music in Atlanta. 
She takes a leading part in musical affairs in 
Atlanta. Agnes teaches violin at the Atlanta 
Conservatory. 

Mary Barton, in Baltimore, is hoping to attend 
the American Library Association meeting in West 
Baden, Ind., in May. Mary had time only for 
a very small card ; I wish I had fifty small cards 
from the rest of '22 ! Remember when she and 
Ethel Ware tied for first place in the class ? She 
has first place still in the class of prompt cor- 
respondents ! 

Nell Buchanan spent the month of March in 
Tuscaloosa, Ala., the headquarters of the Brownell 
Tour Company, with which she works. Mary Kees- 
ler's mother is to be in the party that Nell takes 
to Europe this summer. 

Eunice (Dean) Major thinks, and justly, that her 
one-time roommate and your erring secretary, is 
at the foot of the class Mary Barton heads. Eunice 
has been doing a number of things since last 
we saw her : two years' teaching, a wedding, a 
home, dinner parties, "and in the space of less than 
two years . . . three of the most adorable babies 
in the world. I defy anyone in the class of '22 to 
better that record !" Hal, Jr., is twenty-one months 
older than the twins. Eunice says that they 
"keep me a whole lot busier than Agnes Scott 
ever did, and I thought I was run to death there." 
She gives the address of Louise Dean, reported 
among the missing, and ex '22, as Mrs. Donald 
Gordon Davidson, 4207 Chester Ave., Philadelphia. 

Ruth Evans was married on March 1 at her home 
in Fort Valley, Ga., to Dr. Joseph William Larimore, 
of St. Louis, Mo. Ann Heys, '27, Ruth's cousin, 
played the wedding march, and among the out- 
of-town guests were Liz Brown, of Albany, and 
Christine (Evans) Murray, '23, of Birmingham. 
Dr. Larimore is a graduate of DePaw University 
in Indiana, and of the Washington University 
medical school, where he is now an instructor. Dur- 
ing the world war he was connected with the 
American base hospital at Rouen. The Larimores 
are spending their honeymoon in Europe and will 
be at home afterwards at the Coronado Hotel in 
St. Louis. 

Otto (Gilbert) Williams writes: "My new ad- 
dress is Franktown, Va., down on the Eastern Shore, 
the country famous for its potatoes, strawberries, 
and sea food. We are most pleasantly situated 
here. If there are any Agnes Scott girls on the 
shore please let me know about them." (Margaret 
Bull, '26, is teaching at Cheriton.) 

And Ruth (Hall) Bryant: "When your note came, 
I had the same home, same baby, same everything, 
but now in addition to our fine son, Virgil, Jr., we 
have a darling little daughter, Flora Wylie. And 
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the Gentilly Park Presbyterian Church in New 
Orleans, so here we are living at 4471 Arts Street 
in this fascinating city. I find the markets especial- 
ly interesting, and how we did enjoy Mardi Gras !" 
Do you suppose Virgil, Sr., ever saw the little 
silhouette below Ruth's senior picture in the 1922 
Silhouette ? Get your Silhouette out and look at it 
again  and your own. It's worth it. The years 
will roll away ! 

Frances Harper is another good correspondent. She / 
is as busy as can be training contestants in first' 
and second year Latin for the State High School 
rally to be held at Louisiana State University in 
April, preparing to march up herself and "receive 
an M.A. in history on the ninth of June in the 
beautiful Greek theatre at L. S. U., and thinking 
about flowered silks and Easter bonnets." Her 
letter begins : "I shall soon be the sole surviving 
old maid schoolteacher of the class of '22. You 
ought to know better than to ask a school teacher 
about plans for the spring : as if she could have 
any, besides doing more of the same thing." 

Mary Catherine (McKinney) Barker has a hus- 
band who is a lawyer, a new daughter, Catherine 
McKinney (you know there is a three-year old son, 
Henry McKinney), and a new home on Taylor 
Street Extension in Bristol, Tenn. She spent most 
of last fall in Nashville, and while there saw sev- 
eral Agnes Scott girls ;  Elizabeth Molloy, '23 ; 
Georgia (Weaver) Wiggingon, and Josephine 
(Douglas) Harwell, '25. She sees A. S. C. girls in 
Bristol, too: Margaret Anderson and Peg (Hed- 
rick) Nichols are members of '21 that '22 remem- 
bers. 

Little Mary McLellan Manly is six months old 
now, and her proud parents say she is quite the 
dearest, prettiest, smartest little baby in Dalton. 
Whereupon Gertrude (Manly) McFarland and 
Margaretta (Womelsdorf) Lumpkin rise up indig- 
nantly to claim that distinction for their young 
offspring. And they are all right ! 

Carolyn (Moore) Gressette has a new house, red 
brick with cream trimmings. Carolyn sent news 
of other alumnae, too. Susye (Mims) Lazenby, '23, 
has just completed a new house in Monroeville, 
Ala. ; Alice Carr, ex '24, is teaching music in Bain- 
bridge, Ga. (she was graduated from the Cincin- 
nati Conservatory), Betty Sue Lane, ex '24, is Mrs. 
Fred Ray, of Columbus, Ga. She has a young 
daughter. 

Lucia Murchison is working in the social service 
department of Johns Hopkins Hospital. She got 
her M.A. last June from Johns Hopkins University. 
Her address is 1237 Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore. 

Frances Oliver was in Atlanta in April to at- 
tend the Georgia Education Association. In the 
summer, she is counting on a trip to New England, 
New York and other places. 

Ruth Scandrett is doing factory work in New 
York city to get the industrial viewpoint. She is 
very thrilled over her work and the girls with whom 
she comes in contact. Her address is 15 St. Luke's 
Place, just a block up from the residence of Mayor 
Jimmie Walker. Ruth will do settlement work in 
Chicago again this summer. 

Louie Dean (Stephens) Hays is very much in- 
terested in the Memphis Agnes Scott alumnae. If 
you who have enjoyed your local alumnae club 
will give her any suggestions for Memphis, I know 
she will appreciate them. 

Annie Mae Strickland has the sympathy of '22 in 
the loss of her mother several months ago. She 
is at home this year in Stilson, Ga. She writes: 
"I taught until this year, but now I am a student 
again : I'm learning to cook. At first I scorched 
something every day, but they say I'm improving. 
Every other day is my rate now." Annie Mae 
speaks for us all when she adds : "I read every 
word of the Alumnae Quarterly." 

Laurie Belle Stubbs holds the teacher's record : 
seven former students at Agnes Scott  six fresh- 
men and a junior. She is teaching French and 
Freshman and Sophomore English literature at 
Emory High School, working on her M.A. at 
the University, and singing contralto in the Emory 
choir. She came out to Agnes Scott for stunt night 



and for numerous week-ends this year. She could 
not come to reunion last spring because of three 
dozen rehearsals and senior exams, but next May, 
1929, she must arrange things differently. Let's 
all be there ! 

Emily Thomas will be married on May 5th at 
her home in Prattville. Ala., to Mr. Ernest P. John- 
ston. Augusta Thomas, '24, will be maid of honor, 
and the wedding will assemble a number of Agnes 
Scott alumnae. Mr. Johnston is connected with 
the Farm Bureau Work in Selma, Ala., where he 
and Emily will live. Emily is so interested in 
her work as probation officer for the county that 
she plans to continue it after her marriage. 

Esther Joy (Trump) Hamlet is another home- 
maker. Her new house at 507 E. 5th St., Tus- 
cumbia, is completed by now. She and her 
family had been renting the manse from the 
unmarried minister, but he did not remain un- 
married, so in the midst of building, they were 
forced to move. Going into the new house makes 
a total of two moves in three months. And still 
Joy remembered to write to '22 ! She says that the 
minister's bride is Catherine Graeber, '26, now 
Catherine (Graeber) Crowe. Joy locates one of the 
lost alumnae, Mettie Moody, who is Mrs. John 
 Louis Hyde, Anapolis Ave., Sheffield, Ala. Mettie 
has a fine young son a year old. 

"Sarah Till can find nothing to say. She is so 
divided between plans for a wedding on the twenty- 
eighth of March and a desire to get this 'family' 
letter into the afternoon mail that all she can 
think of is the formal announcement : Mr. Charles 
Till announces the engagement of his daughter, 
Sarah Knapp, to Mr. Frank Vincent Davis. The 
wedding will take place quietly, in the presence of 
the immediate families of the young people, at 
the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. C. V. 
Knapp, on Wednesday, March 28, 1928. Three 
ideas  no, four  do bob up ! She has a ring that, 
like all engagement rings, is the most beautiful in 
the world ; the minister married her mother and 
father, his mother and father, and the grand- 
mothers and grandfathers. If only Lil (McAlpine) 
Butner and Frances (Gilliland) Stukes could sing, 
and you all could come !" One of Sarah's wedding 
presents was an automobile, and she and Frank 
(who has already been formally adopted into '22) 
drove by Atlanta and Agnes Scott on their way 
home from Charleston and the Magnolia Gardens. 
They had a tiny visit with Eunice (Dean) Major 
in Anderson. 

(Please, '22, write to the secretary in April with- 
out being asked. She cannot write to you, and 
a last letter to the Quarterly must go in the 
first of May. What are your plans for the sum- 
mer ? How many are planning European jaunts ? 
The secretary wishes, most of all, for an April 
shower of letters. ) 

Martha Lee (Taliaferro) Donovan writes: "Please 
announce the arrival of my daughter, Geraldine 
Taliaferro, on April 2nd. If she keeps up the 
yell she practices nightly, she will be a champ 
cheer leader some day." 

Ruth Carmichael, ex '22, is now Mrs. O. J. 
Oosterhoudt, Jacksonville, Fla. Will someone send 
her street addres sto the alumnae office? 

Marjorie Fish, ex '22, is living at 1702 Osceola 
St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Dolly Hart, ex '22, whose name is really Irene 
Horton Hart, was married on February 4 to Mr. 
Toulman Williams Hurt. Her wedding was a 
brilliant affair, taking place at All Saints' Episcopal 
Church in Atlanta. Anne (Hart) Equen, '21, Dolly's 
sister, was matron of honor, and little Anne Equen 
was flower girl. Perrin Nicolson III, son of Eliz- 
abeth (Tuller) Nicolson, was junior groomsman and 
ring bearer. Following the ceremony a reception 
was held at the home of Anne (Hart) Equen on 
East 17th Street, where Erskine (Jarnagin) Forgy 
assisted in entertaining. Mr. Hurt is an alumnus 
of Georgia Tech, a member of the Kappa Alpha 
fraternity, and manager and cashier of the Atlanta 
branch of the Coco-Cola company. All Atlanta is 
glad that Dolly's marriage will not take her away, 
for she is an active member of the Junior League, 
the Cotillion Club, and other organizations. 



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1923 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Clara Mae Allen spent the winter in Florida 
with her family. While they were gone, Imogene, 
who is teaching in the Decatur High School, lived 
at the new Candler Hotel. Having a steady job 
is certainly a drawback, says Imogene, when the 
rest of the family go traveling. 

Dorothy (Bowron) Collins accompanied her hus- 
band on a business trip to Atlanta recently. They 
brought little Patsy, of course, who spent a joy- 
ous afternoon chasing the Agnes Scott campus 
squirrels, and gazing wide-eyed at the big swim- 
ming pool. With her fair skin, Irish blue eyes, 
and black curls, she is one of the most beautiful 
Agnes Scott "granddaughters." 

Christine (Evans) Murray has moved to Birming- 
ham where her husband is connected with the Gen- 
eral Motors Acceptance Corporation. 

Mary (Goodrich) Meredith is living at 3638 Hed- 
rick St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Lucie Howard sailed on January 14 for Europe. 

Lois McClain is enjoying her work in Birming- 
ham, but "every once in so often," as Sarah Maud 
Ruggles would say, she slips back to Jasper, Ga., 
for a week-end. 

Beth (McClure) McGeachy writes from Edin- 
burgh : "I am dreadfully sorry that we won't be 
back by commencement time, but we won't leave 
here until about the last of June. At Christmas 
time we took a trip on the continent  a glorious 
time in Paris, Lucerne, Milan, Florence, Rome, 
Paris again. We went to Rome through the Alps 
and came back by the Riviera. We may spend the 
month of June in the Black Forest of Germany. I'll 
always send you an address, for I don't want to 
miss an Alumnae Quarterly. It is truly good news 
in a far country." 

Hilda McConnell was married on April 7 at her 
home in Royston, Ga., to Mr. Brainerd Rhea Adams, 
formerly of Coral Gables, but now of Columbus, Ga. 
Mr. Adams is an alumnus of Georgia Tech, where 
as "B. Adams" he was a well-known player on the 
football team. He is a member of the Kappa Sigma 
fraternity. He is related to Janef Preston, '21, and 
Nell Buchanan, '22. The Adams are living at Ral- 
ston Hotel in Columbus. 

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail writes: "Between house- 
keeping, running after Alice, and digging in my 
flower-beds I have little time for anything else. 
While Alice sleeps, I plant seed and dig around my 
shrubbery." 

A letter from Anna Meade at the Savoy-Plaza in 
New York may well make school-teachers and 
working-girl members of '23 grind their teeth in 
envy. "I am having a heavenly whirl here. It has 
been three years since I was up, so I had to spend 
a little time to catch up before sailing. We have 
seen some excellent plays, and that magnificent 
flower show last week. Please ask any Agnes 
Scott alumnae I know who are coming to Europe 
this summer to drop me a note at that familiar 
address, care American Express at 11 rue Scribe. I 
have definite hopes of seeing Nell Buchanan and her 
party, and I am thrilled to death over seeing Beth 
and Dan in Scotland. I haven't laid eyes on 
Beth since we graduated. I shall probably be 
gone about six months ; am traveling with an aunt, 
a cousin, and a friend. (Not that the aunt and 
the cousin aren't that too!)" 

Mary White Caldwell, ex '23, writes : "It is just 
a year ago that I was in the midst of all the ex- 
citement in Nanking. I'll never forget that March 
day when, after hearing cannon and small firing 
outside the city all day long, came the consul's 
order to pack light hand-baggage, including food, 
and be ready to leave at a moment's notice. We 
packed by candle-light and left at dawn, to remain 
on a U. S. gunboat for three days until picked up 
by merchantmen and taken to Shanghai. I had a 
wonderful trip back to the States, visited Los An- 
geles and the Grand Canyon. I sometimes wonder 
if I dreamed the Nanking bombardment." Mary 
is working in Alabama. 



Elise Calmes, ex '23, who has gone into vaude- 
ville, made a farewell appearance in Atlanta in 
March before leaving for a professional European 
tour. Her stage name is Ethel Parker. 

Helen (Christie) Lovelace's husband is teaching 
Bible and English at Sullins College in Bristol, Va. 

Mary (Cooper) Gilbert, ex '23, is living on Daw- 
son Street in Thomasville, Ga., again. She has two 
children. 

Frances Barron Harris arrived in this world on 
April 7, weighing seven and a half pounds. Her 
mother is Eugenia (Pou) Harris, ex '23. 

Margaret (Walker) Sellers, ex '23, has moved to 
Waynesboro, Ga. 

1924 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Dell (Bernhardt) Wilson has moved back to 
Lenoir, N. C. Her husband is in the furniture 
business there.  

Virginia Burt was married on February 16th to 
Mr. John Parker Evans, of Birmingham, Ala. The 
wedding was a brilliant affair at the First Method- 
ist Church in Opelika. Edythe Coleman, '26, was 
maid of honor, and Gertrude (Green) Blalock, '26, 
was matron of honor. Helena Hermance, '26, 
Lucy Oliver, '24, and Carolina McCall, '27, were 
bridesmaids. Little Herbert Hartley, Jr., son of 
the former captain of the Leviathan, was ring- 
bearer. Jinks was married in the lovely Venetian 
point veil in which Gertrude (Green) Blalock was 
married. Mr. Evans is a graduate of Auburn and 
a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He is 
vice-president of the Bankers' Mortgage Bond Com- 
pany of Birmingham. 

Gwynne Cannon is teaching again in Carrollton, 
Ga. She and Louise Hendrix, Marguerite Dobbs, 
and Sarah Fullbright plan a reunion at Agnes 
Scott when the Georgia Education Association meets 
in Atlanta during March. 

Helen Lane Comfort is busy planning her year 
abroad, getting addresses of hotels and pensions, 
and looking into the curricula at Eui-opean pro- 
vincial universities. She asks that any other 
Agnes Scotter thinking of studying abroad next 
year get in touch with her. 

Martha (Eakes) Matthews is still in Chicago. Her 
husband is preparing for his National Board Exam- 
inations, and Martha is working in the business 
office of the hospital. She has learned to take 
dictation on the typewriter, but says that the 
spelling of those yard-long medical terms is her 
Waterloo. 

Katie Frank Gilchrist visited Margaret (Griffin) 
Williams in Birmingham during February. 

Josephine Havis visited the Magnolia Gardens at 
Charleston during April. 

Louise Hendrix and Clara Waldrop are teaching 
in the High School in Newnan, Ga. They are 
sending two excellent students from there to Agnes 
Scott next fall. 

Kate Higgs writes from Arizona: "I like teaching 
much better than office work although I never ex- 
pected to teach in the grades and felt pretty shaky 
about making a success of it when I began. The 
principal informed me the other day that he is 
very well satisfied with what I have done, and 
his opinion of one's work is very important just 
now since re-election of teachers comes up the 
middle of this month. Our school is out May 25th. 
My sister, Mabel, who teaches in the Tucson High 
School, and I are planning on going to Los Angeles 
in a car which we have just bought. We shall 
attend the University of Southern California, where 
I hope to get my California Secondary Certificate in 
six or eight weeks. The rest of the time we want 
to do a little touring of California. Charlotte ('27), 
who is with Mabel in Tucson, is also going." 

Margaret McDow's engagement to Mr. Robert 
MacDougall was recently announced at a lovely 
luncheon. Mary Keesler, '25, was among the 



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guests. The wedding will take place in York, S. C, 
in June, and Margaret Bland, '20, Margaret's 
cousin, will be maid of honor. Araminta (Ed- 
wards) Pate, '25, will be matron of honor. Mr. 
MacDougall is in the lumber business in Atlanta. 
Margaret was in Atlanta during April to buy 
her trousseau and to serve as maid of honor in 
Araminta Edwards' wedding. 

McDow-MacDougall ! That certainly is a Scotch 
crowd, as Miss Hopkins used to remark when she 
gave Margaret permission to meet him in town 
back in '23 and '24. 

Mary (Mann) Boon has moved into her new 
bungalow on Bowling Road, in Garden Hills, At- 
lanta. 

Margaret (Powell) Gay writes from Shreveport: 
"E. is planning a trip to Agnes Scott this spring, 
and I certainly should like to come with her and 
show off my child. We get more enamored of her 
all the time, but try not to talk about her all 
the time to other people. It is such a temptation, 
though, for she is a darling !" Little Margaret will 
be a year old on September 12th. 

Daisy Frances Smith has moved to 223 S. 36th 
St., in Philadelphia. 

Mary Stewart says that her entire time "is taken 
up with Latin, Latin, Latin ! Next week I am 
going to give standard tests to my classes. Here's 
hoping I won't be mortified to death at the results. 
Elvie (Wilson) Wiley sent me a picture recently 
of her husband and baby. She seems blissfully 
happy and the picture certainly explains why." 

Polly Stone spent the spring holidays with her 
mother and brother in Blakely, that wild little 
South Georgia town. She says things were unusually 
quiet, for during the whole five days that she was 
there there was only one murder and one incendiary 
fire. 

Augusta Thomas has been visiting Nonie (Peck) 
Booth in Anniston, Ala., Jack (Evans) Brownlee, 
in Anderson, S. C., and E. Henry in Augusta, Ga. 
She says that Nonie is "muchly married," that Jack 
keeps house easier than anybody she ever saw, and 
that E. Henry has the travel bug and now that 
she has conquered Europe, talks darkly of Cali- 
fornia and the west. Augusta stopped by the 
Alumnae House twice in the course of her travels, 
and she and Dick Scandrett and Polly Stone did 
a lot of gossiping about the other members of '24. 

Helen Wright has been very ill this spring, but 
is back with her Latin classes now. She is glad to 
be back, but to most of us illness would be vastly 
preferable. 

Cornelia Cartland, ex '24, is teaching at High 
Point, N. C. Her address, is 230 Washington Street. 

Ruth DeZouche, ex '24, after leaving Agnes Scott, 
attended the University of Illinois. She is living 
now at 3916 Botavical Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

Selma (Gordon) Furman, ex '24, has moved to 
Apt. 5L, 940 Grand Concourse, New York City. Her 
husband is a certified public accountant. Selma 
was married in 1925. 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff D. Luten, Jr., announce the 
birth on March 6th, of Rebecca Mary Luten, 
weighing eight pounds. Mrs. Luten was Mary 
Kelly, ex '24. 

Virginia Merrin, ex '24, is Mrs. Clarence Nuckles, 
Plant City, Fla. She was marired in 1926, and 
has one boy eight months old. Her husband is an 
automobile dealer. 

Lewis (Murchison) Jenkins, ex '24, has moved to 
Riverland Terrace, Charleston, S. C. 

Elizabeth (Parks) Drake, ex '24, is living at 
200 Merritts Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 

Emma Sue Robinson, ex '24, is teaching kinder- 
garten in Prattville, Ala. 

Marcelle Robinson, ex '24, is living at Tell 
City, Ind. 



Lucy Merle (Rhyne) Walker, ex '24, has moved 
to 1045 Williams Mill Road, Atlanta. She has a 
little daughter, Frances Cornelia, three years old. 
Mr. Walker died in April, 1927. 

Ruth Spence, ex '24, is living at 1230 Peachtree 
St., Atlanta. 

1925 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Frances Bitzer spent her spring vacation in At- 
lanta visiting Montie (Sewell) Burns. Theta Manly 
came down from Dalton for the week-end with 
them. 

Sine Caldwell drove to LaGrange and Baxley, 
Ga., during spring holidays. She plans to study at 
Woods Hole, Mass., this summer. 

Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFar land's address 
has been changed to 1935 Ponce de Leon Ave., 
N. E. Mary Palmer is very busy being secretary 
of the Atlanta Agnes Scott club and an active 
member of the Alliance Francaise, Womans Club, 
and a tireless church worker. 

Catherine Carrier's family have divided their time 
this winter between Fort Myers, Fla., Albany, 
Ga., and Asheville, N. C. It must be lovely to have 
so many homes ! Catherine is the family chauffeur, 
and on their drives from one home to another, 
she always routes them by Agnes Scott. Her 
sister, Virginia, will graduate in May. 

Mary Key Dolvin is at home in Siloam, Ga. She 
helps keep house and drives for her father. 

Araminta Edwards will be married on April 16 
to Mr. Ralph Copeland Pate. Mr. Pate graduated 
from Georgia Tech in 1921, where he was a mem- 
ber of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Margaret 
McDow will be Araminta's maid of honor. The Pates 
will spend their honeymoon in Florida, and after 
May 1st, be at home at Sterling Court, Nashville, 
Tennessee. 

Isabel Ferguson will act as social director of 
women in the Junaluska summer school, affiliated 
with Duke University. There are some of the usual 
duties of a dean attached to it, and we are all 
very proud that such a responsible position has 
been offered to "our Izzy." 

Alice (Greenlee) Grollman is living at 5320 
Country Club Dr., 31 Meadow Apts., Los Angeles, 
California. 

Elizabeth Griffin will come to Atlanta for opera 
during April. 

Sallie Horton and Grace Carr, '27, are frequent 
visitors to the Alumnae House. Their last visit was 
the week-end of April 13th. 

Annie Barnes (Johnson) Sylvester is back in De- 
catur temporarily and is finishing out the term as 
a teacher. 

Mary Keesler's engagement has been announced 
to Mr. Harry Lee Dalton, of Charlotte, N. O, 
the wedding to take place on April 28th. Mr. 
Dalton formerly lived in Winston-Salem, N. C. 

Dorothy Keith and her mother visited B. Keith 
at Agnes Scott during March. Anne McKay spent 
the week-end at the college with them. 

Margaret Ladd was married on March 7th at 
her home in Cheraw, S. O, to Mr. Jesse Leroy 
May. 

Georgia May Little had as her guest during 
spring holidays (which she, as a business woman, 
doesn't have) Elizabeth Cheatham, who lives right 
around the corner from George on Tenth Street. 
"And we had just as much fun." said George, "as 
if I'd had five days off and E. had really gone 
off somewhere for a sure-enough visit. We have 
decided that it's the company, and not days off 
nor distance that makes a real vacation." 

Theta Manly will attend the Georgia Press As- 
sociation meeting in New York City and Montreal 
the first week in May. She will go up by boat 
from Savannah. 

Mary Walker Perry came south this spring for 
the first time since her graduation. She visited her 
sister, Elizabeth, in Columbia, S. C, Jack (Evans) 



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Brownlee in Anderson, S. C. ; Nonie (Peck) Booth 
in Anniston, Ala. ; Lucy Oliver in Montgomery, 
Ala.; Laura (Oliver) Fuller in Birmingham, Ala., 
and Grace Boone in Newnan, Ga. This was Walkie's 
first look at a number of her old friends' husbands 
and offsprings, and when she stopped by the Alum- 
nae House on her way home, she was loud in her 
praises of them. 

Lucile (Phippenl Shingler's young daughter, Mary 
Claudia, was born in March at Mrs. Phippen's home 
in Decatur. Lucile was one proud mother when 
she boarded the train taking Mary Claudia back 
home to Grover, S. C. Since arriving home, she writes 
that every soul in town has been to call and see 
the new baby, and that the Methodist parsonage 
has almost burst out at the seams. 

Julia Pope has been visiting her sister, Lettie, 
at Agnes Scott. She has given up her school 
and will be at home this spring. 

Emmie Saxon finds children's work in the New 
York Public Library fascinating, and life in New 
York City as thrilling as ever. 

Will someone send in the present addresses of 
Josephine Schuessler and Carolyn (Smith) Whipple? 

Ella ( Smith ) Hayes writes from her beautiful old 
home out from Nashville : "The Quarterly means 
more to me now than ever before, since I am no 
longer able to run out to Agnes Scott for news in 
person. My husband gets a course in Agnes Scott 
from each issue, as I always read them aloud. 
Isabel Ferguson was down from Bowling Green, 
Ky., a week-end in February. She impressed me 
greatly with all her newly acquired education, 
and 1 am afraid I walked her to death showing 
her lambs, calves, pigs, and everything else to be 
seen on the farm. We talked about everyone 
we could think of, and wished the whole bunch 
of our old friends could have been here. Daffodils 
have been in bloom here for some time and the 
country is green again. I am truly glad for a 
little spot in which I can dig for flowers. But 
though it's nice to be married, how fine it would 
be now to have a bunch of old Agnes Scotters 
before a fire discussing the weighty problems of 
the world  racial relations, orthodoxy, strikes, and 
the financial possibilities of a tea room supper !" 

Emily Spivey lost her father in the early spring. 

Eugenia (Thompson) Aiken's husband has hung 
out his shingle for himself, and Eugenia cordially 
invites Agnes Scott alumnae who need a good doc- 
tor to walk right up and consult him. Their 
baby, Eugenia, has blue eyes and golden hair 
that can't quite decide whether to curl or not. "I 
use all my powers of persuasion on it and brush 
it backwards with a damp brush. What else can a 
mother do?" asks Eugenia. 

Ellen Walker writes that her sleek black bob 
has almost disappeared, and that by summer she 
will have long enough hair to make quite a respect- 
able knot. Ellen saw a number of Agnes Scott 
girls who came to Charleston for spring holidays. 

Poky Wight writes that she is still engaged in 
"the weary work of school teaching. The year has 
not been dull, however, since I believe with Henry 
Ford in a five-day week, and usually get away 
for the week-ends. South Boston is near a lot of 
places, so I've had a bit of Danville and Chase 
City, five Lynchburg visits in as many homes, 
and more of Richmond. I am going to Knoxville to 
be a bridesmaid in April and may run by At- 
lanta on the way back. At the sound of the 
wedding march I am more apt to stop at the 
church door and work my fingers than my feet 
from the habit of playing the violin at so many 
weddings. I am going to take one of my young 
hopefuls to a state declamation contest. He is 
Canadian, and we talk across the board in 
French. Isn't that a good trick for debate chaper- 
ones ?" 

Mary Ben Wright is kept busy helping with 
programs at various functions in Atlanta. She read 
recently at a delightful afternoon at the Atlanta 
Normal School. 

Emily (Zellars) McNeill writes from Laurinburg, 
N. C. : "I suppose you know that I closed the 
history book and took unto myself a husband last 



October. We had a perfectly delightful trip to 
Havana and the Panama Canal." 

Mazie (Ferst) Burgunder, ex '25, has moved to 
2410 Rogers Ave., Mt. Washington, Baltimore, Md. 
Her husband is a merchant. They have one son, 
James H., born in September, 1926. 

Frances Formby, ex '25, is teaching in South 
Ensley, Ala. She lives at 2600 20th Ave. 

Loy Hardy, ex '25, is doing secretarial work 
at home in Monticello, Ga. 

Lallah Mayfield, ex '25, is at home in Amory, 
Mississippi. 

Anita Minter, ex '25, completed the Graphic- 
Arts course in the New York School of Fine and 
Applied Art, and since last September has been 
employed as designer for the Westchester County 
Commissioners in the building of Playland Park 
at Rye Beach, Rye, N. Y. She spent July and 
August of last summer at Glocester, Mass., on a 
scholarship given her by Parson's as the best 
student finishing in the class. She finished the first 
two years in one. She was also offered a 
scholarship to Paris. 

Margaret Mitchell, ex '25, is working in a 
jewelry store in Thomasville, Ga. 

Louise Powell, ex '25, is a post office clerk in 
Macon, Ga. Her address is 115 Rogers Avenue. 

Elise Spooner, ex '25, is temporarily in Atlanta, 
at 1336 Northview Avenue. 

Lillian Thompson, ex '25, is now Mrs. A. A. 
Johnston, Wadesboro, N. C. 

Helen (Bates) Law writes from Schenectady, N. 
Y. : "I have started more than once to write how 
great I thought it would be to have an Alumnae 
House in New York City. I'd adore it especially 
now since it would be a haven for me when I go 
down I'm just four hours away. I saw by the 
Quarterly that Jerry Goodroe, '23, was here, so 
immediately dashed over to see her. She teaches in 
the Washington Irving School, and happened to be 
out that afternoon. I'm going to try again, 
though. We have moved into an apartment at 
2216 Plum Street." 

Lois Bolles is working in the Theological library 
at Emory University. 

Grace Boone is at home this winter in Newnan, 
and she heartily subscribes to the theory that no- 
body is so busy as the person who supposedly 
"has nothing to do !" She is interested in the 
lunch room that the Junior League is beginning in 
Newnan. Grace comes to Atlanta frequently, as 
Newnan is not very far away, and there is a 
paved road all the way. 

Since the fall Mary Dudley Brown has been in 
Chicago four times, New York ten days (in which 
she saw fifteen shows!), Rochester, Minn., twice, 
at home in Salisbury three weeks, Davidson Col- 
lege with her brothers, Chapel Hill with Lib Lilly 
and Helena Hermance, Winston-Salem with Lib 
Norfleet, and moved her family to Greensboro. She 
writes : "I was ready to leave Greensboro the day 
after Christmas when a wire came saying that the 
boys were stranded in New Mexico with no one to 
bring them to Florida, so I got on the train 
and ran out to Albuquerque, picked up the boys 
and met the chauffeur and car in Jacksonville. 
Since my arrival in Miami Beach, where we are 
spending the winter, I have done everything from 
having one of the boys in the hospital with 
pneumonia and dance at Coral Gables, to interview- 
ing the man who sells top soil and the bootleggers 
who brazenly ring front door bells in Miami Beach. 
Mary Martha has been here, but left some time 
ago. The house is Spanish, on the bay, looking 
toward the city, and the three small boys that 
I've inherited are dears." 

Does anyone in the class hear from Mrs. Pilley 
Kim Choi ? Please pass the letters on to the 
alumnae office. 

Clarkie Davis was in Atlanta for the Georgia 
Education Association. 

Mary Freeman is to assist Miss Gooch this 
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be conducted as a branch of the Boston Curry 
School. The classes will be given in Miss Gooch's 
studio in Rebeccah Scott Hall. 

Mary Ella Hammond is teaching math in the 
High School in Griffin, Ga. 

Eloise Harris and Olivia Swann drove over to 
Agnes Scott recently from Ensley in Olivia's famous 
Ford. 

Helena Hermance visited the campus on her way 
back to North Carolina from Virginia Burt's wed- 
ding in February. 

Charlotte Higgs is spendnig the winter with 
her sister in Tucson, Arizona. She and her sisters 
are planning to tour California this summer. 

Evelyn Kennedy was forced by ill health to give 
up her school in Thomasville. She and her mother 
(who is also an Agnes Scott girl  Melrose Frank- 
lin, of Institute days) are spending some months 
in Asheville, N. C. Her address is Wellington 
Place, Edgewood Road. 

Nan Lingle is secretary to the President, her 
father, of the Assembly's Training School in Rich- 
mond. 

Josephine North and Evelyn Sprinkle met at 
Agnes Scott to spend their spring holidays. Evelyn 
has twin sisters, Mary and Martha, in the fresh- 
man class. 

Virginia Peeler is back at Columbia University 
where she is continuing the work interrupted last 
winter by a severe attack of pneumonia. She is 
living at Whittier Hall, 1230 Amsterdam Avenue. 

Louise Pfeiffer was married on the twenty-eighth 
of February to Mr. Philip S. Ringel in the ballroom 
of the Oglethorpe Hotel in Brunswick, Ga. After 
a honeymoon in Florida and Cuba they are at home 
in Atlanta. Mr. Ringel is an alumnus of the Uni- 
versity of Florida, and is now engaged in the prac- 
tice of law. 

Kathrine (Pitman) Brown is living at 752 Oak 
St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Susan Shadburn is teaching in the High School 
in Decatur, Ga. 

Frances Spratling writes: "I am still teaching in 
the High School at Norcross, Ga., and since this 
is my second year here, I feel quite at home." 

Margaret Tufts is teaching in the Lees-McRae 
Institute for Girls in the North Carolina moun- 
tains. She writes: "The Alumnae Quarterly came 
a few days ago to rescue me from the depths of 
exam papers. I always enjoy every word of it as 
I would a family letter. Why, I even read the 
Institute news just as avidly as if I knew person- 
ally every one of those alumnae who came to 
Agnes Scott before I was born ! I wish I could 
send an account of interesting experiences, but mine 
is the uneventful tale of the schoolroom which 
many of our number know too well to enjoy 
reading again. If 1 only lived near enough to 
drop by the Alumnae House now and then! It 
would be good to see you all and that blesed old 
campus this afternoon. I make frequent visits 
through the annuals and kodak pictures, and am 
never more thrilled than when the school children 
crowd around with "Tell us about when you were 
in college." I love my work here. We are almost 
in the clouds and apparently inaccessible, but there 
are bus routes now from almost any of the nearby 
towns. College is more the unusual than the 
usual thing for girls in this mountain section, but 
numbers of them are deeply interested and will go 
if they are given a chance. I have two little girls 
in the third year High School who will make fine 
college students if I can dig up the money for 
them from somewhere." 

Elizabeth Beverly, ex '26, was graduated from 
Shorter after leaving Agnes Scott. She is at home 
this winter. 

Eunice Bird, ex '26, is teaching in Chattanooga, 
Tenn. Her address is 1935 Rossville Avenue. 

Zona Hamilton, ex '26, recived her B.A. at the 
University of Georgia ,and M.A. last year at Brown 
University in Rhode Island. She is teaching now 
in the Tallahassee, Fla., High School. 



1927 

Next class reunion, May, 1928. And we plan to 
prance back with bells on, and show the older 
classes just what a real reunion is ! 

Reba Bayless is working in the bank in Athens, 
Tennessee. 

Maurine Bledsoe sent in a splendid letter of news 
about other alumnae for the Quarterly, but she neg- 
lected to say one word about herself ! The letter 
was postmarked "Asheville," so at least we know 
where she is, if nothing else. 

Josephine Bridgman is teaching away in Merry 
Hill, N. C, and entertaining her erstwhile room- 
mate, Blanche Berry, who, having no serious oc- 
cupation can visit her friends and enjoy life. 
Blanche writes : "While Jo spend the days at the 
school, I wander over the plantation, and lie in 
the sand by the sound, and read, and strive to do 
some practice of Bach and Schumann. Also I 
sleep, so in all, my existence at Scotch Hall is 
ideal." Blanche promises to come to Atlanta for 
opera and to Agnes Scott for May Day. 

Louise Capen says : "I really was married on 
March 3rd. And to the same man too, Clinton 
Baker, who is a professor at Millsaps College in 
Jackson, La. Since my engagement was an- 
nounced at the alumnae luncheon last commence- 
ment, the Alumnae Register printed me as already 
married, and I have had a number of letters to 
arrive during the fall and winter addressed to 
Mrs. Clinton Baker. But there is such a person 
now, and I shall welcome all letters addressed to 
her." 

Emily Daughtry is at home in Jackson, Ga. Her 
father has been ill this winter, and she is his 
companion-nurse. 

Eugenie Dozier was recently elected president of 
the Mu Omega chapter of the Mu Phi Epsilon soror- 
ity of the Atlanta Conservatory of Music. She comes 
out to Agnes Scott frequently. Her younger 
brother came to Agnes Scott recently as a member 
of the North Carolina University glee club. 

Ann Heys is teaching science at the Americus, 
Ga., High School. 

Virginia Hollingsworth is teaching in Greens- 
boro, N. C. Her address is 416 W. Washington 
Street. 

Lelia (Joiner) Cooper has been visiting her mother 
in Albany, Ga. A letter received from her in 
Bremerton, Wash., just before she came home states : 
"I love the navy as much as ever. In nine weeks 
I have traveled six thousand miles, and I'll cover 
just about as many miles in the next few weeks 
and the next and the next, on, on  ad infinitum. 
I can't say enough in favor of navy life. Nothing 
monotonous about it, and the people you do meet ! 
And the places you do see ! We are having fine 
duty here in Washington. The Colorado is in dry 
dock for overhauling so Jock's duty is easy and 
I'm really having time to get acquainted. We leave 
here very soon for Long Beach, Calif. Had an 
interesting five-day boat trip up. Twenty-eight 
hours in San Francisco  just long enough for 
three young navy brides to take in Chinatown, the 
tea shops, dress shops, etc. Next week Jock and 
I intend to be in Canada  Vancouver and Victoria 
will be our main stops. I go to dinner on the 
ship twice a week, so now I'm beginning to feel 
at home on it. Rank in the navy doesn't in any 
way touch naval officers' wives. Rear-admirals' 
wives and captains' wives are just as cordial to you 
as wives of ensigns and junior grade lieutenants." 

Pearl Kunnes is taking a secretarial course in 
New York City. Her address is care Mrs. S. 
Hausman, Apt. 4H, 227 Haven Ave., New York. 

Helen Lewis spent the spring vacation in Charles- 
ton, S. C. She drove over with Margaret Gerig, '28, 
and her father. 

Lamar Lowe has been assisting in the Bible de- 
partment at Agnes Scott. "Those voluminous Bible 
notes !" she wails. "I complained about them 
when I was a student taking them, and now that 
I have to correct them I wail even louder !" 

Elizabeth Lynn visited in Clinton, S. C, and 
Carolina McCall in Opelika, Ala., during the spring 
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Margaret Neel is in Sheridan, W. Va. She 
writes: "I am teaching a one-room country school, 
making desperate stabs at all the grades except 
the third and the seventh. I am going to go to 
summer school at Marshall College and study edu- 
cation methods, and all that sort of thing. I am 
longing, hoping, and saving to come back for 
reunion." 

Lucia Nimmons is teaching at Reddick, Fla. 

1927's beloved little life president, Elizabeth 
Norfleet, was married on March 3 at the Reynolda 
Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, N. C, to 
Mr. Milton Edward Miller. The wedding occurred 
at high noon ; Dr. Clay Lilly, father of Elizabeth 
Lilly, and Bishop Edward Rondthaler of the 
Moravian Church, officiating. Before the ceremony 
Mrs. Norfleet sang "All for You," and "O Perfect 
Love." Elizabeth Lilly was maid of honor, and 
Mrs. Norfleet, Lib's mother, was matron of honor. 
Among the bridesmaids were Caroline McKinney, 
Mary Martha Lybrook, Hazel (Norfleet) Thomas, 
Nancy Jones, and Louisa (Kochtitzky) Crowford. 
After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet enter- 
tained at a wedding breakfast at the Country 
Club, after which the Millers left in their car 
for New Orleans. They came by Agnes Scott on 
the way and Lib's old friends at the college were 
so glad to see her that they almost stopped 
the honeymoon right there and refused to let them 
go on to New Orleans. Only by promising to stop 
again on the way home to Winston-Salem were they 
permitted to go on. Mr. Miller is a graduate of 
Davidson College and a member of the Kappa Sigma 
fraternity. He is in business in Winston-Salem, 
associated with Fogie Brothers. They will make 
their home temporarily with Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet. 

E. Powell is planning a trip back to Agnes Scott 
this spring. E. made her debut in Little Rock this 
winter. 

Marguerite Russell is working in the library 
of Duke University at Durham, N. Y. Other Agnes 
Scott girls connected with Duke are Ruth (Slack) 
Smith and Allene Ramage. 

Mamie Shaw is finishing her year of graduate 
work at the University of Florida and has made 
definite arrangements to go to Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity next year to begin on her work for her M.D. 
She has a sister I red-headed, too !) in the fresh- 
man class at Agnes Scott. 

Sarah ( Shields ) Pf eiffer has moved to the Westall 
Apartments, Coleman Ave., Asheville, N. C. She is 
vastly excited over the prospect of keeping house 
for "Chick." 

Willie White Smith will study at Woods Hole, 
Mass., during the summer, and has accepted a 
position of assistant at New York University for 
the winter of 1928-29. Willie White is doing 
splendid work, and '27 is justly proud of her. 

Sara Stillman is taking a business course in At- 
lanta. She comes out to Agnes Scott occasionally 
to visit Frances Rainey. 

Alice Weichselbaum is doing secretarial work 

in an office in Savannah where there are twenty 

good-looking men and she is the only girl ! Some 
people have all the luck. 

Miss Gaylord of the mathematics faculty visited 
Roberta Winter in Athens. Tenn., during spring 
vacation. 

Grace Zachry writes on the official stationery of 
the Charity Organization Society of the City of 
New York: "As to what I'm doing: I'm having 
the time of my life. I'm going to the New York 
School of Social Work, have classes four days a 
week, and field work at the above address on Thurs- 
days and Fridays. I love New York, and the variety 
of my work. I'm living with my brother and his 
family out in the country- -in Sput Spuyten Duyvil, 
so I'm a commuter, too. Said frere is now in 
Europe, and his wife joins him in March leaving 
me to keep house and take care of two children, 
aged two years, and six months, until June. Please 
remember me to all the campus." 



Grace's address in New York City is Kappock 
St., Spuyten Duyvil, if there is such a place. She 
didn't print it, and the editor worked that out as 
well as she could, but it looks so heathenish she is 
afraid she has made some mistakes. If only alum- 
nae would stick to "Main Street" it would simplify 
matters so for the editor ! 

Margaret Edmundson, ex '27, will graduate from 
LaGrange College in May. 

Catherine Goodrich, ex '27, is living at 411 North 
B St., Arkansas City, Kas. 

Clarice Hollis ex '27, is working in Atlanta. 
She comes out to Agnes Scott to visit Frances 
Rainey. 

Martha E. Malone, ex '27, is teaching at East- 
man, Ga. 

Roberta Thomas, ex '27, was married last Oc- 
tober to Mr. Walter Lunn McKeel, a traveling 
salesman. They are living at 595 Boulevard, N. E., 
Atlanta. 

Eleanor Bennett, ex '28, is living at 703 Park 
St., South Jacksonville, Fla. 

Eleanor Dunn, ex '28, is now a student at New- 
comb College in New Orleans. 

Lochie Grace Fountain, ex '28, is at home in 
Reynolds, Ga. 

Eloise Slocumb, ex '28, will graduate this year 
from Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss. 

Julie Ellen Wayne, ex '29, dropped out of college 
at Christmas to be married to Mr. Carl Winfrey 
Poss, of Atlanta. 

Frances Fletcher, ex '30, visited the college in 
April. Catherine Craighead and Elmina (Caldwell) 
Wade have been out several times to visit their 
sisters. Elmina is living in LaGrange, Ga., now. 

ACADEMY ALUMNAE NEWS 

Ellie Mae (Archibald) Haley has moved to Louis- 
ville, Ky. Her address is 2218 Village Dr., Cherokee 
Village. 

Louise Archibald is Mrs. John D. Gillespie. Her 
husband is the pastor of the first Presbyterian 
Church in Quitman, Ga. 

Mary Chollet Berney is Mrs. W. D. Smith, 960 
Linwood Rd., Birmingham, Ala. 

Grace M. Berry is Mrs. J. B. Luckie, Pasadena, 
California. 

Marguerite Brantley is Mrs. Harvey Griffin, Black- 
shear, Ga. 

Lillian Burns is living at 950 Rupley Dr., N. E., 
Atlanta. She is Mrs. Troy G. Chastain. 

Elsie (Dougan) Barton has two children, Robert, 
and Betty. Her husband is a lieutenant in the 
United States Navy, at present stationed at 
Beaufort, S. C. 

Ruth Green is doing stenographic work in At- 
lanta. She lives with her sister at 122 Erie Ave., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Elizabeth Harllee is Mrs. McQueen Quattlebaum, 
Johnston, S. C. 

Mary Hubbard is Mrs. Ray Teter, Broad St., 
Charleston, W. Va. 

Pattie Hubbard is Mrs. G. P. Stacey, Lewisburg, 
West Virginia. 

Marie Johnson is Mrs. Fred C. Shaefer. Her hus- 
band's occupation is with cotton mill machinery. 
They live at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. They 
have no children. 

Tracy L'Engle is living at the Women's Uni- 
versity CJub, 106 E. 52nd St., New York City. She 
writes : "I am working this winter in the Encyclo- 
pedia Britanica to pay for my Paris bonnets and 
theatre tickets." 

Lucy Monk is Mrs. H. C. Falkenberry, 316 Pettus 
St., Selma, Ala. 

Marie Pearce is Mrs. William Glenn. She still 
lives in Decatur, Ga. 

Eloise Steele is Mrs. A. B. Ellis, 2601 Arch St., 
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NECROLOGY 

In checking over the Institute alumnae since the 
Register was published last August, we find records 
of the death of the following: 

Grace Baxter. 

Josephine Briere. 

May Bynum. 

Maude Cox (in 1905). 

Sue W. Crabtree. 

Sarah Deaver. 

Bessie Dobbs (in 1917). 

Eula Denton. 

Ola G. Foy. 

Hope Herrick (Mrs. John Earl Henry). 

Ida Hineley (Mrs. Royal Dunn). 

Bell Johnson. 

Margaret Joyner. 

Mamie Lupo (Mrs. Emmett Walsh). 

Marielle Nesbit (Mrs. Tom Glover). 

Katherine Lewis Patty. 

Louise Scott. 

Claire Stringfellow. 

Susie A. Tucker (Mrs. Hayes) (in 1925 in 
Palisades, Colo.). 

Among the Academy alumnae: 

Kate Elder (Mrs. J. Parks Hays) (in 1923). 

Ethel Pennington (Mrs. D. P. Knapp). 

AS THIS GOES TO PRESS 

The announcement has been received of the en- 
gagement of Anna Harwell, ex '23, to Mr. Marion 
Dwight Sanders, the wedding to take place in June. 
Mr. Sanders is the brother of Rosaltha Sanders, of 
the class of '28. He is a graduate of the University 
of Georgia and is assistant chief of the fertilizer 
laboratory of Swift and Company, located in Chi- 



Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark Monoghan, of Fayette- 
ville, N. C, have announced the birth of Joseph 
Clark, Jr., on April 15th in Fayetteville, N. C. 
Mrs. Monoghan was Hazel Huff, '26. 

Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Blalock, of Atlanta, announce 
the birth of J. C. Blalock, Jr., on April 17. Mrs. 
Blalock was Louise Johnson, '20. 

Charlotte Robertson Hardesty was born in Emi- 
nence, Ky., on March 29. She is the daughter of 
Charlotte Robertson (Bell) Hardesty, ex '28. 

Several new addresses have just been received at 
the alumnae office : 

Elizabeth Marsh, '20, has moved to 629 Kenne- 
saw Ave., N. E., Atlanta. 



Martha (Brenner) Shryock, '15, has moved to 912 
Greenwood Blvd., Evanston, 111. She writes: "I am 
all excited over my new apartment for it is so 
pretty and brand new. Also I have a lovely guest 
room which is ready to accommodate any dear 
old Agnes Scotter who feels inclined to come this 
way." 

Martha's letter enclosed a card from Sallie May 
King, also of '15, written from Funchal, Madeira 
Islands. It reads : "We sailed from New York on 
February 25 and had a most delightful voyage on 
the 'Adriatic,' which is considered one of the best 
of the Mediterranean cruisers. I am traveling with 
Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Chattanooga. The trip came 
as a surprise to me but I have already enjoyed it 
thoroughly. Yesterday we sighted land for the first 
time in a week. The Madeira Islands first appeared 
as a very indistinct silhouette. Then gradually as 
the mist lifted we came in sight of the beautiful 
little city of Funchal. It was most picturesque at 
the foot of these high mountains. From here we 
go to Gibraltar, Algeciros, Nice, Naples, Athens, 
Constantinople, then the Holy Land and Egypt and 
on to Paris and London." 

Mildred and Lillian Margaret Beatty, Academy 
alumnae, have been located. Mildred is Mrs. Gailord 
S. Miller, 2958 Tuxedo Ave., Detroit, Mich. Lillian 
Margaret is Mrs. Byron J. Schuman, 2836 E. 77th 
PL, Apt. 304, Chicago, 111. They both married 
dentists. 

Charlotte Thompson, Academy alumna, is Mrs. 
W. B. Williams, Haddock, Ga. 

Sarah E. Eason, ex '19, is Mrs. Robert R. Ma- 
honey, 804 W. Pine St., Johnson City, Tenn. 

May Owens, lost institute alumna, is Mrs. W. E. 
Rogge, New York City. Will some one send her 
street address to the alumnae office ? 

Josephine (Logan) Hamilton, '23, visited her par- 
ents in Decatur in April. The Logan's year of 
leave is up in September, and they will sail for 
Japan the last of the summer. 

Eloise (Knight) Jones, '23, is finishing her Senior 
year at the Training School in Richmond, Va. Mr. 
Jones will have a church in St. Petersburg, Fla., 
for the summer. 

Elizabeth Doggett, ex '26, has returned to her 
home in Tennessee, after spending the winter in 
Florida. 

Mayor and Mrs. Emmett Coleman, of Barnesville, 
Ga., had the pleasure of entertaining the French 
ambassador to the United States, M. Claudel, and 
his daughter. Mile. Marie Antoinette Claudel, on 
their recent tour of the state. Mrs. Coleman was 
Mary Kelly, '15. 

Evelyn Powell, '27, visited at the Alumnae House 
in April. E. was on her way to be bridesmaid in 
Mary Keesler's wedding in Charlotte, N. C. She 
will visit in North and South Carolina, and return 
to Agnes Scott for commencement and '27's class 
reunion before returning to her home in Little Rock, 
Arkansas. 



The last word with a woman 
is so important! 



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WHAT SHOULD BE THE RELATIONSHIP OF ALUMNI 
TO THEIR ALMA MATER? 

By LOTUS D. COFFMAN, 
President of the University of Minnesota. 

(This article is taken from an address delivered by President Coffman before the 
American Alumni Council in Minneapolis in May.) 

The attitude of alumni toward higher institutions of learning seems to differ greatly, 
depending upon whether they were graduated by private institutions or by tax-sup- 
ported institutions. I think it must be admitted that those graduated by the privately 
endowed colleges have a different sense of loyalty and of obligation toward their alma 
maters from that possessed by the graduates of tax-supported institutions. For some 
reason or other, whether it be due to the selection of the students or the atmosphere of 
the institutions, or to some other more subtle cause, the graduates of the tax-supported 
universities have not been imbued with the spirit of constant, loyal, and intelligent sup- 
port that the graduates of the great privately endowed institutions seem to be imbued 
with. 

The whole system of higher education seems at the present time to be in a state of 
flux. It deserves special consideration and attention. That special consideration and 
attention is something to which the layman, particularly the alumnus, might well give 
some of his time. An alumnus who thinks only of the welfare of the particular 
college that may or may not have been fortunate enough to graduate him, has caught 
little of the real meaning of higher education. An alumnus who contributes only to 
that institution by his utterances and by opening his purse, who thinks that in building 
up bis school it is quite right for him to speak disparagingly of other schools, has been 
provincialized by college education. 

We would not have any one disinterested in the institution that he attended; on the 
contrary we would look with pleasure and approval upon such manifestations of interest 
and loyalty as he might exhibit toward the institution of his undergraduate days. At the 
same time our conception of him, as a broad-minded man truly interested in public wel- 
fare would be greatly enhanced if he gave with corresponding generosity to the institu- 
tions within the state in which he resides. We expect a college graduate to continue to 
be loyal to the institution that poured out its soul to him in such generous measure. 

The struggle of the small private college merits special sympathy and consideration. 
These institutions are in hard lines. Many of them are suffering from loss of attendance 
and annual deficits. They are wondering what the future has in store for them. No 
one, of course, can lift the veil of the future and tell with an absolute degree of cer- 
tainty just what is ahead. There are those who maintain that many of these institutions 
must go out of existence during the next two decades. It also seems likely that some of 
them should deliberately go upon a junior college basis. Very few of them, certainly, can 
survive and maintain the level to which they aspire without greatly increased resources. 
No one, so far as I know, who is familiar with the history of American education or 
who takes a large over-view of American society would suggest that the small private 
college is without its distinctive function. It has its place and it is deserving of en- 
couragement and support. That support should come not merely from its own alumni 
but from all worthy citizens who are in any sense interested in providing college educa- 
tion for the youth of the land. 

One of the encouraging things about college alumni is that they are becoming in- 
creasingly group-conscious and that consciousness is a consciousness of kind rather than 
a consciousness which clusters about a given institution. There is not enough of this 
as yet, to be sure, but there are signs that it is developing. A consciousness is emerging 
that a program to be worthy of alumni support must be a program for which all col- 
lege graduates can work. The development of this consciousness of kind is of lasting 



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importance and would be greatly stimulated if the objectives for which the alumni should 
strive were more clearly defined. 

One thing to which the alumni associations might devote more attention is the 
movement for continuting education, otherwise known as adult education. This move- 
ment is world-wide. Just now we are interested in it particularly as it applies to Amer- 
ica. It is not confined to colleges and universities. We find that there are more 
adults engaged in educational work in institutions not associated with colleges or universi- 
ties than there are carrying on work within the colleges and universities. 

We wonder sometimes why so many hundreds of thousands of citizens of this 
country are engaged in continuing their education. Certainly many factors must con- 
tribute to it. One is the desire to keep the road to promotion open. Another perhaps is 
the desire simply to learn more about more things, to become broader-minded and more 
liberally educated generally. I suspect that there are some forces responsible for this 
that we are not fully conscious of, whose meaning we do not fully comprehend or under- 
stand. I am frank to say that I do not know just what these forces are, but I do have 
an opinion as to one of them. 

The college graduate of a comparatively few years ago was trained for one of the 
professions. Now we find that thousands upon thousands of college graduates are going 
out with the expectation of entering business or industry in some form. They do not 
find that it is possible for them to set up their own independent business. They find, 
en the other hand, that it is necessary for them to secure employment in one of the great 
corporations, mercantile or manufacturing establishments, where they are expected to 
spend long years as apprentices at very modest salaries. Thousands upon thousands of 
the youths of today are entering upon these long-term industrial apprenticeships. The 
inevitable outcome of this process is the development of a clerical mind and a docility 
of spirit so far as industry is concerned. When men cannot build a business for them- 
selves but must on the contrary be salaried employees during most of their lives, the 
meaning is clear, we are in the process of developing a new social order. 

The changes I have described do not apply to business alone. They have invaded all 
of the professional fields. There are more doctors working on a salary today than ever 
before; great corporations of lawyers have been created, employing many young lawyers; 
large-scale farming with many tenants is being introduced; everywhere we look we find 
this process going on. The manhood and womanhood of the nation by the tens and 
hundreds of thousands, caught in this network of industry, are seeking an antidote 
through the processes of education: they are looking for emancipation; they want to 
keep the road to promotion open; they are more or less unconsciously trying to find 
something that will furnish them with pleasant if not useful employment during their 
leisure time; they want help. I should think that colleges and universities through their 
alumni associations could assist in providing this help. The University of Michigan has 
already attempted to do this and is to be commended, in my opinion, for the step it has 
taken, insofar as that step is intended to provide actual help for the various groups of 
college people in the field. 

Alumni associations should not confine themselves to alumni alone. Why shouldn't 
they aid the child guidance clinics in providing education for parents, for prospective 
mothers, mothers of young infants? Why shouldn't they help spread knowledge of 
health in order that human life may be lengthened and efficiency increased? Why 
shouldn't they help with the spread of information that will aid in developing interest 
in fine music, in art, and in other things that contribute to the better life and spirit of 
their communities? Why shouldn't they help in every way which will promote human 
betterment, extend human knowledge, increase human happiness? Alumni associations 
should help spread the worthiest ideals of the institutions they represent; they should 
stand for catholicity of spirit and of mind; they should be cosmopolitan in attitude; 
they should be essentially educational in character; they should uphold the hands of 
those who are fighting the battle to preserve the freedom of the institutions that grad- 



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uated them; they should insist upon a still higher and better type of education within 
these institutions. 

Alumni Associations of this country may become great agencies for the development 
of democracy. Let them show to the world that the great experiment of American edu- 
cation has succeeded and that the institutions which our sacrificial forefathers estab- 
lished are being strengthened and expanded under their fostering care. Let them say 
to the college authorities: "we are here to help, never to hinder; always to support, never 
to limit." Let them say: "we hereby dedicate our learning, our trained minds, and 
the ideals which our beneficial institutions sought to inculcate, to the making of better 
colleges and universities, to the building of finer manhood and womanhood, and to the 
liberalizing of the minds of men for the sympathetic consideration of the problems of 
all mankind." 



NOW ABOUT CLASS REUNIONS 

The classes holding reunions this year were '93, '99, '00, '01, '18, '19, '20, and '27. 

Since those first classes were so small  (boasting sometimes as many as two or four 
members!)  The reunions of '93, '99, '00, and '01 were decidedly slim affairs so far as 
numbers were concerned. But when percentages were figured up, they weren't so bad. 
'93, for instance, the first class to be graduated from Agnes Scott, has only two members, 
and they had a fifty per cent attendance at commencement! Mary (Mack) Ardrey came 
from Fort Mill, S. C, and alone and single-handed rolled up that enormous per cent! 

Two of '99's ten members returned, giving them twenty per cent. Two of '00's 
seven members gave that class twenty-eight per cent. There are only two members of 
'01, and neither of them could be present, so they went down in ignoble defeat before 
'93's brave fifty per cent. 

But by the time '18 was graduated, Agnes Scott was a college, and the graduating 
class had reached the enormous (as it seemed to us then) proportions of thirty Seniors. 
Eight of these graduates and three non-graduates returned for their reunion this year, 
giving them a twenty-seven per cent score. 

Of '19's thirty-eight graduates, seven answered present when the class roll was 
called at the May, 192 8, reunion, and six loyal non-graduates attended the class reunion 
luncheon on Monday. '19's per cent amounted to eighteen. 

Twelve graduates and two non-graduates of '20 gave that class of forty-one grad- 
uates a per cent of twenty-nine. 

The appalling numbers of '27 made the other reunion classes gasp! 

"There once was a class named two-seven, 
The finest we know under heaven, 

When asked to arise 

And display their great size 
They did. They had back forty-'leven!" 

I mean they actually did! '27's very efficient secretary, Marcia Green, and her sub- 
secretaries covered the face of the earth with reunion letters during April and May, with 
the result that fifty-two out of a hundred and three graduates returned for their first 
class reunion. At first the count gave only fifty-one, making not quite fifty per cent, 
and so giving the reunion loving-cup to Mary (Mack) Ardrey, of '93, with her fifty per 
cent, but later it was discovered that another '27-er had returned to the campus, bring- 
ing the '27 per cent just over fifty, and giving the coveted loving-cup to them. Vir- 
ginia Sevier came back to '27's reunion, but the day she arrived on the campus she had 
to go to the infirmary with the flu. "But I most certainly came back to reunion," she 
declared from her infirmary cot, "all the way from North Carolina, and I'm most 



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certainly spending every minute of the commencement week-end right here on the cam- 
pus, too. Don't you dare not count me in the '27 bunch, especially if it will give us 
that cup." 

So '27, the youngest reunion class of them all, won the attendance cup! Besides 
the fifty-two graduates, Mary Bulloch Smith and Nancy Lou (Knight) Narmore, non- 
graduate members of that class, were present at the reunion luncheon on Monday. 

Classes holding reunions next year are 
'03, '04, '05, '21, '22, '23, '24. 



WE CAME BACK FOR COMMENCEMENT! 

The first thing that alumnae do on returning to Agnes Scott is to breeze in the 
alumnae office and demand, "Who else is back?" And the first thing that those who 
could not come to commencement want to ask is "Tell me who came!" 

And so although long lists of people are as a rule extremely boring, we think that 
the list which follows will be interesting to a number of people. 

Out-of-town alumnae who registered in the Alumnae guest-book during com- 
mencement week include: 

'93 Mary (Mack) Ardrey, Fort Mill, S. C. 

'97  Caroline (Haygood) Harris, El Paso, Tex. 

'03  Eileen Gober, Marietta, Ga. 

'04  Jane Curry, Memphis, Tenn. 

'07  Sarah (Boals) Spinks, Winston-Salem, N. C. 

'10  Em (Eldridge) Ferguson, Americus, Ga. 

'10 ;  Lucy (Reagan) Red wine, Fayetteville, Ga. 

'10  Mildred Thompson, St. Paul, Minn. 

'11  Julia (Thompson) Gibson, Covington, Ga. 

'11  Louise (Wells) Parsons, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

'12  Marie (Mclntyre) Scott, Scottdale, Ga. 

'13  Mary Lois (Enzor) Bynum, Troy, Ala. 

'13  Janie McGaughey, St. Louis, Mo. 

'16  Anne (McClure) Simpson, Norcross, Ga. 

'17  Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis, Brazil, S. A. 

'17  Regina Pinkston, Greeneville, Ga. 

'18  Julia (Abbott) Neely, Waynesboro, Ga. 

'18  Hallie (Alexander) Turner, Columbus, Ga. 

'18  Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal, Winston-Salem, N. C. 

'18  Ruby Lee (Estes) Ware, Tuscumbia, Ala. 

'18  Carolina Randolph, Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

' 1 8  Emma Catherine Anderson, Marietta, Ga. 

'18  Sarah Patton, Marietta, Ga. 

'19  Ruth Hillhouse, Waynesboro, Ga. 

'19  Elizabeth Ruth (Lambdin) Schaeffer, Griffin, Ga. 

'19  Elizabeth Lawrence, Baxley, Ga. 

'19  Lulu (Smith) Westcott, Dalton, Ga. 

'20  Miriam Dean, Opelia, Ala. 

'20  Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson, Charlotte, N. C. 

'20  Lulie (Harris) Henderson, Guntersville, Ala. 

'20  Marion (McCamy) Sims, Dalton, Ga. 

'20  Gertrude (Manly) McFarland, Dalton, Ga. 

'20  Margery (Moore) McAulay, Greeneville, S. C. 

'20  Louise Slack, Richmond, Va. 



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'20  Rosalind (Wurm) Council, Tampa, Fla. 

'22  Allie Louise Travis, Covington, Ga. 

'22  Lucy (Wootten) Wiegand, Durham, N. C. 

'23  Louise (Brown) Hastings, Lovejoy, Ga. 

'23 Helen (Faw) Mull, Cleveland, O. 

'23  Quenelle Harrold, Americus, Ga. 

'23  Elizabeth Hoke, Lincolnton, N. C. 

'23  Lucile (Little) Morgan, Heflin, Ala. 

'23  Josephine (Logan) Hamilton, Appalachia, Va. 

'23  Hilda (McConnell) Adams, Columbus, Ga. 

'24  Elizabeth Askew, New York City. 

'24  Marguerite Dobbs, East Point, Ga. 

'24  Augusta Thomas, Prattville, Ala. 

'25  Elizabeth Blalock, Salem, W. Va. 

'25  Catherine Carrier, Asheville, N. C. 

'25  Dorothy Keith, Greenville, S. C. 

'25  Martha Lin Manly, Dalton, Ga. 

'25  Lillian Middlebrooks, College Park, Ga. 

'25  Emily Spivey, Eatonton, Ga. 

'26  Mary Dudley Brown, Miami Beach, Fla. 

'26  Louisa Duls, Charlotte, N. C. 

'26  Mary Freeman, College Park, Ga. 

'26  Mary Ella Hammond, Griffin, Ga. 

'26  Nan Lingle, Richmond, Va. 

'26  Mary Martha Lybrook, St. Louis, Mo. 

'26  Olivia Swann, Birmingham, Ala. 

'26  Ladie Sue Wallace, Rutledge, Ga. 

'26  Rosalie Wootten, Charlotte, N. C. 

'26  Mildred Scott, Oakdale, La. 

'27  Reba Bayless, Athens, Tenn. 

'27  Blanche Berry, Lexington, Va. 

'27  Maurine Bledsoe, Asheville, N. C. 

'27  Josephine Bridgman, Charlottesville, Va. 

'27  Charlotte Buckland, Jacksonville, Fla. 

'27  Georgia Mae Burns, Bay Minette, Ala. 

'27  Mildred Cowan, Doraville, Ga. 

'27  Frances Dobbs, Blackville, S. C. 

'27  Katherine Gilliland, Griffin, Ga. 

'27  Mary Heath, Augusta, Ga. 

'27  Ann Heys, Americus, Ga. 

'27  Martha Johnston, Greensboro, Ga. 

'27  Pearl Kunnes, New York City. 

'27  Louise Leonard, Spartanburg, S. C. 

'27  Kenneth Maner, Covington, Ga. 

'27  Margaret Neel, Huntington, W. Va. 

'27  Lucia Nimmons, Seneca, S. C. 

'27 Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, Winston-Salem, N. C. 

'27  Louise Plumb, Augusta, Ga. 

'27  Virginia Sevier, Hendersonville, N. C. 

'27  Mamie Shaw, Gainesville, Fla. 

'27 Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer, Asheville, N. C. 

'27 Willie White Smith, New York City. 

'27  Mary Weems, Cartersville, Ga. 

'27  Roberta Winter, Leland, Miss. 



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'29  Eugenia Kirk, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

This is a total of eighty-nine out-of-town town alumnae, coming back to Agnes 
Scott from sixteen different states, as far away as New York, Minnesota, Texas, and 
Ohio. 



THE ALUMNAE BABY PARTY 

On gay children's notepaper, the invitations sent out by the Decatur alumnae club 
to Agnes Scott alumnae-mothers, read as follows: 

"The children of Agnes Scott alumnae are invited to a Benefit Baby Party at 
3 o'clock on Friday afternoon, May 2 5, on the lawn of the Anna Young Alumnae 
House on the college campus. Games  favors  refreshments  ponies to ride! Admis- 
sion, twenty-five cents. Benefit Decatur Alumnae club." 

After a week of deluging rain, the weather-man gave us a perfect afternoon for the 
party, with a perfect morning preceding to dry off the grass, for alumnae babies have 
a habit of tumbling over at unexpected and frequent intervals, and even the staunchest 
pair of legs may suddenly give way at moments of stress and excitement  when one's 
red balloon pops, for example, or when a little spotted terrier runs between one's legs 
at breakneck speed. 

Decatur alumnae were on hand early in the afternoon, arranging the big chairs 
from Inman porch out on the lawn for alumnae mothers and grandmothers and 
nurses, and endangering their lungs by blowing up an apparently endless number of 
brightly colored balloons. A big freezer of ice cream was on hand, and three beautiful 
little ponies for the children to ride. Nell Scott Earthman, daughter of Eliza (Candler) 
Earthman, and Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Marie (Maclntyre) Scott each had brought 
their ponies, and a neighbor of Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack's had loaned the third pony 
for the afternoon. 

Shortly after three o'clock the alumnae mammas and babies and grandmammas 
and nurses began to pour in! The ponies were the piece de resistance of the afternoon, 
naturally. Even the tiniest baby of all, Margery Jane McAulay (daughter of Margery 
Moore McAulay), clung fearlessly on while Nell Scott led the pony up and down behind 
lnman. Ruth and Jean Slack cantered and gallopped and did all sorts of stunts. They 
were certainly a bunch of happy children, but perhaps the happiest of all were Elizabeth 
(Gammon) Davis' three from Brazil. This is their first visit to America, and they had 
never been to an American children's party, nor ridden on a pony before, and their 
beatific smiles as they rode past were lovely to see. 

We are glad that this annual gathering of Agnes Scott babies has been changed from 
a "baby show" to a "baby party," for not only would awarding prizes for the loveliest 
babies have been a dangerous thing to do, but an impossible one as well. 

The children who attended the party this year are Pruden Fagan, Alice Lyons, 
Frances Moore, Ruth, Jean and Julia Slack, Margery Jane and William McAulay, of 
Greenville, S. C.; Gene and Donald LeVert, Willee Gammon, Margaret and Samuel Davis 
of Brazil, Rebekah and Elizabeth Scott of Scottdale, Ga.; Nell Scott Earthman, Louise 
Sams, Anne Bryan, Betty Pope, and Nellie Louise Scott, Betty Park, Polly Council, of 
Tampa, Fla.; Anne Robinson, Ellen and Anne Hayes, Sammy and John West Thatcher, 
Florrie Margaret, Candler and Sam Guy, Bartow Bloodworth, Louise (Brown) Hastings' 
lovely little daughter from Lovejoy, Ga., and Helen (Faw) Mull's two young sons from 
Cleveland, Ohio. 



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ALUMNAE OFFICERS FOR 1928-30 

The new officers who will guide the affairs of the Alumnae Association through the 
next two years were elected at the annual meeting of the Association at 11:30 Satur- 
day morning, May 26, in the college chapel. 

They are as follows: 

Prsident  Hilda (McConnell) Adams, '23, Columbus, Ga. 

First Vice-President  Marian (McCamy) Sims, '20, Dalton, Ga. 

Second Vice-President  Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson, '11, Atlanta, Ga. 

Secretary  Martha Crowe, '27, Atlanta, Ga. 

Treasurer  Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland, '2 5, Atlanta, Ga. 

Chairmen of standing committees: 

Publicity  Mary Wallace Kirk, '11, Tuscumbia, Ala. 

Preparatory Schools  Mary Lloyd Davis, '27, LaGrange, Ga. 

Curriculum  Katherine Seay, 18, Nashville, Tenn. 

House and Tea-Room  Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24, Decatur, Ga. 

Local Clubs  Mary Knight, '22, Atlanta, Ga. 

Vocational Guidance  Quenelle Harrold, '23, Americus, Ga. 

Beautifying Grounds and Buildings  Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23, Lovejoy, Ga. 

Entertainment  Lois (Maclntyre) Beall, '20, Atlanta, Ga. 

Class Organizations and Records  Elizabeth Hoke, '23, Lincolnton, N. C. 

Alumnae Aid League  Ethel (Alexander) Gaines, '00, Atlanta, Ga. 

Ballots were sent out to all absent members of the Association a good while before 
the election, and a number of them availed themselves of the privilege of mailing in their 
votes. The tellers were quite pleased with the response that these ballots occasioned, for 
we are anxious to have every member of the Association help choose the officers. 

It was quite unintentional that approximately all of the nominees were taken 
either from the very early classes, or from the very new ones  a fact that called forth 
from a member of one of the betwixt and between classes the following jingle: 

"The vote I send's not worth a cent 
Because it ain't intelli-gent 
These babies left before I come 
Or anyhow I know that some 
Got there when I had went." 

Changing the time of the annual meeting from the afternoon to the morning of 
the trustees' luncheon has proved a splendid thing in giving us time to linger at the 
luncheon and spend the remainder of the afternoon in joyous idleness rather than in dis- 
cussing the serious problems of the Association. 



THE HOASC REUNION 

An interesting and very enjoyable innovation at commencement this year was the 
Hoasc reunion. The 1928 and 1929 members of Hoasc originated the idea and acted as 
hostesses. The stated purpose of the reunion was to review the accomplishments of 
Hoasc in the past and to consider ways and means of enlarging its field of usefulness 
in the future; and incidentally it served as a very pleasant medium by which a great 
many of the Alumnae who were back for commencement could get to know some of 
the representative Juniors and Seniors. 

In every way the plan was a great success. In a business way both the alumnae and 
student members pledged their whole-hearted support in the forthcoming drive for 
Gaines' Memorial Chapel and in the movement for the Cleo Hearon Memorial Fund, and 
discussed ways by which members of Hoasc could continue to serve their Alma Mater 
after their graduation as well as in their student days. Socially, it was certainly a great 



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success, for it not only helped the students and alumnae to become better acquainted, but 
it also kept a great many alumnae from having that "left-out" feeling that so many are 
too apt to have on coming back after several years' absence. 

The program for the reunion was as follows: 

Friday, May 2 5  Luncheon at the Hotel Candler. The Board of Trustees were 
also guests at this luncheon. 

Friday, May 25  Informal business meeting immediately after luncheon. Talks 
by members of former classes. 

Saturday, May 26  Formal business meeting, 3:30-4:30 P. M. 

Saturday, May 26  1928 and 1929 Hoasc members hostesses at tea for alumnae 
members. 5:00-6:00 P. M. Anna Young Alumnae House. 

The alumnae members of Hoasc who were back for the reunion were: 

Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal 

Louisa Duls. 

Emily Spivey. 

Regina Pinkston. 

Hallie (Alexander) Turner. 

Ruby Lee (Estes) Ware 

Lulu (Smith) Westcott. 

Marion (McCamy) Sims. 

Louise Slack. 

Lois (Maclntyre) Beall 

Quenelle Harrold. 

Martha Lin Manly. 

Hilda (McConnell) Adams. 

Lucile (Little) Morgan. 

Dorothy Keith. 

Maurine Bledsoe. 

Elizabeth Cheatham. 

Rachel Henderlite. 

Josephine Bridgman. 

Helen Lewis. 

Elizabeth Lynn. 

Carolina McCall. 

Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller. 

Roberta Winter. 

Janef Preston. 

Margaret Bland. 

Leone (Bowers) Hamilton. 

Ethel Ware. 

Hoasc certainly owes the members of 1928 and 1929 a vote of thanks for starting 
this splendid idea of a reunion. So thoroughly helpful and enjoyable was it, that those 
attending the reunion voted to make it an annual affair of the commencement season. 
Special thanks are due Georgia Watson and Nell Hillhouse, President and Secretary, 1928, 
to whose enthusiasm and untiring efforts is not a little due the success of the first reunion 
of Hoasc. 

The student members of the organization this year were: Jack Anderson, Janet 
MacDonald, Mary Perkinson, Bayliss McShane, Georgia Watson, Miriam Anderson, 
Virginia Carrier, Mary Ray Dobyns, Carolyn Essig, Elizabeth Grier, Mary Bell Mc- 
Conkey, Margaret Rice, Mary Riviere, Eleanore Morgan, Marion Green, Ruth Worth, 
Charlotte Hunter, Augusta Roberts and Nell Hillhouse. 



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CLEO HEARON MEMORIAL FUND 

In deciding on a memorial for Miss Cleo Hearon, for ten years professor of history 
at Agnes Scott, nothing more fitting has been found than a fund made up by the stu- 
dents, alumnae and faculty who were associated with her and appreciated the ideals for 
which she stood  this fund to be used as an endowment for the Agnes Scott Library. 

Miss Hearon left her own books to our college library, and this fund which is at 
present being raised will be very valuable in providing a permanent income for the pur- 
chase of something extraordinary each year  unusual books, first editions, manuscripts, 
etc. 

Many former students who so loved and esteemed Miss Hearon will be truly glad 
to contribute to such a memorial, and many other alumnae who did not know Miss 
Hearon personally will want a part in helping their Alma Mater in this way. The reports 
made on the progress of this fund by those in charge are favorable in some respects, but 
there are many who have not responded yet. These need only the realization that a fund 
used in this way will be of great benefit to the college, and will also be an appropriate 
memorial to one who gave her life toward helping others in the pursuit of knowledge. 

Subscriptions may be sent to Carrie Scandrett, secretary to the dean, Agnes Scott. 



1918 OUR TENTH! 

Having lived through the years between 1914-1918, class '18 was accustomed to 
diminishing ranks, and so her enthusiasm was not a bit daunted when only six of her 
number gathered for luncheon in the Silhouette tea room Monday, May the twenty- 
eighth. Her number was few and her age great this time, but she soon joined in the 
fun and merry-making with such zest as to surprise completely the witty young class 
of '27. Being called upon by said class for a song, the following was quickly 
composed: 

"We were born ten thousand years ago, 
Ain't nothing ever happened we don't know, 

We knitted and we saved, 

For the dough-boys we slaved 
And we're all Phi Beta Kappas, as you know. 

"We wrote all the songs you young folks sing, 
We ain't forgot a word of anything, 

With the fight we did away 

Put the Black Cat in to stay 
And we founded Founder's Day, another thing." . 

Then after class '27 had repeatedly sung and otherwise manifested pep and brilliance, 
old '18 rose and sang very impressively to the tune of "the old gray mare": 

"Class '18 she ain't what she used to be 
Ten long years ago. 

"Class '27, you won't be what you are today 
Ten long years from now." 



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Thus the fun continued and we "could not but be gay in such a jocund company!" 
The three-course luncheon was delicious and the place-cards lovely, but both gave an 
air to the festive occasion which was utterly foreign to the days of yore when Miss Phi 
so faithfully collected the butter and we had desertless Sundays for the sake of the boys 
at the front. Never the less we tried to appear as though we, too, were accustomed to 
such grandeur and whether we succeeded or not in this, we do know that no other class 
joined in the Alma Mater with more love and loyalty. Those present were: Julia 
(Abott) Neely, Hallie (Alexander) Turner, Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal, Belle Cooper, 
Caroline Randolph, and Evamaie (Willingham) Park. 

By putting our heads together and all talking at once, we managed to collect the 
following information about the members of '18: 

Julia (Abbott) Neely is living in Waynesboro, Ga., where her husband is a most 
successful farmer, thanks to the aid of Julia's scientific knowledge. 

Hallie (Alexander) Turner came up for the Alumnae luncheon planning to stay 
through commencement, but her husband couldn't stand to be left so long, so he came 
for her before the class reunion Monday 

Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal now has a little son almost two years old  Alan 
O'Neal, Jr. 

Ruby Lee (Estes) Ware is living in Tuscumbia, Ala. She has three children. 

Class '18 regretted very much that neither its president, Emma (Jones) Smith, 
nor its secretary, Margaret Leyburn, could come back for reunion. Emma could not 
tear herself away from her fond husband, it was reported, and Margaret, who holds a 
responsible position with Sears, Roebuck and Company, was just recovering from an 
operation for appendicitis. 

Olive (Hardwick) Cross has moved to Maynard, Mass., where she and her preacher- 
husband are living in St. George's Episcopal rectory. 

Helen (Hood) Coleman's first son was born in April 4. He has been named 
Robert Emerson, and Helen writes that he is "such a precious little man that even 
missing seeing my many old friends at dear old Agnes Scott is bearable. Jessie Joy, a 
future Agnes Scotter, is four years old, and a great help to me. As soon as we are able 
to travel we shall start for Kentucky to spend the summer with Mr. Coleman's people. 
He is a cotton broker in this, the largest inland cotton center in the world. Give my 
love to all the girls. Wish I could be there to absorb inspiration and good fellowship." 

Dorothy Moore was married on December 3 1 of last year to Mr. Boyd Horton 
at the Lancaster Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, S. C. 

Fan (Oliver) Pitman has moved to Thomas ville, Ga., where her husband is at the 
head of the X-ray department of a large hospital. Little Fan helped in the always 
strenuous work of moving by coming down with measles right in the midst of it all! 

Porter Pope wrote from Mobile: "How I wish I could come for commencement, but 
Eve been globe-trotting so much this year, and am leaving again on the 30th for nine 
weeks in Europe, so I'll have to stick around here until then. Going back to commence- 
ment is something that is in my mind every spring, and I envy those who are situated 
so that they can enjoy it's reunions." 

Caroline Randolph is most enthusiastic in her accounts of her work in child health 
demonstration in Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

Eva Mai (Willingham) Park reports that she is a business lady in the city of At- 
lanta. Her little daughter, Betty, has such perfect manners that we believe Eva Mai has 
proved that one can be a business lady and a competent mother too. 

Lorine Pruette has sent a lovely picture of herself for the class scrap-book and a 
few jots about her life since leaving Agnes Scott. "Married Douglas Fryer, 1920. Ph.D. 
Columbia, 1924. Published 'Women and Leisure' (Dutton), 1924; 'G. Stanley Hall' 
(Appleton), 1926, and 'Saint in Ivory' (Appleton), a novel, 1927. Taught Smith 
College, University of Utah, Peabody, University of Virginia, New York University  
never allowed to return to any. Lectured various places on various subjects, including 



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advice to parents. Now at work on several important tomes, none of which show the 
slightest prospects of ever being finished, the most delectable being a story of Sappho, 
the young lady who put Lesbos on the map 2500 years ago and still keeps it there." 
Lorine's address is 8 8 Morningside Dr., Apt. 3-E, New York City. 



CLASS OF '19 

The Dix System of reunions is great! Just think of not only seeing again your own 
classmates but those friends in other classes that were in college at the same time you 
were! Perhaps, if the class of '19 had realized how many of the old girls whom they 
knew and loved were to be back at dear A. S. C. more of them would have managed 
somehow to have come back. The silver loving cup awarded each year to the class with 
the largest percentage back was not awarded to '19 since we had only 7 out of 38 (18%) 
back. We judge that since 22 out of the 3 8 are married that most of them were a-t home 
learning "to be good grandmothers," as Dr. W. T. Ellis, who gave the commencement 
address, would have said. According to the latest statistics, 5 of the 3 8 are teaching, 3 
are in business, one in a profession, one in religious work, 2 in physical education work, 
the occupation of 4 is unknown, and the other 22 are married. 

Those of '19 who were back for reunion felt in number, at least, very much like 
'18 who sang with much pep "Class '18 she ain't what she used to be ten long years 
ago." We also felt that one trouble with '19 was that we were in college during the 
war years and that in our patriotic zeal we gave up our annual and class ring and most 
everything else. We were thinking so much about winning the war and "making the 
world safe for democracy" that we failed to organize our class properly to "carry on" 
after college. However, we had a very enthusiastic business meeting with Llewellyn, our 
life president, presiding, in which we discussed plans to rally our class together so that 
next class reunion in 1933 would find many more of us back on the campus. 

Class of '19, keep the date in mind: 1933  and don't be afraid to come back for 
fear the old haunts and people may prove disappointing. Why, those of us who were 
back were so pleased with ourselves and felt that we hadn't changed a particle unless it 
was for the better! We decided the present fashions in dress and hair cuts improved our 
looks and that instead of looking older we really looked much younger. We were so 
delighted that we had maintained our girlish figures and "that school girl complexion" 
to such an extent that we were able to mingle with the student body without being 
stared at as some "antique" that we spent most of the time flattering ourselves. One 
member said to another, "Why, you even talk just the same." Another bright member of 
'19 said, "Well, don't you know your voice doesn't usually change after you are 21." 
We found that everything looked practically the same. There was the same old register 
book and telephone pad and same old Ella to answer the doorbell an' everything. Of 
course, there was the lovely Alumnae House and new gym and soon we hope to see rising 
up on the campus, where his house now stands, the Memorial Chapel to Dr. Gaines. 

Moreover,' every old girl can always be sure of a hearty welcome from Miss Hopkins, 
Dr. McCain and all the faculty members who taught her in school. It is most flattering 
to be remembered by them so readily after 9 years! 

Class of '19, remember 1933 and let's plan to go back and prove that '19 loves her 
Alma Mater just as much as any other class before or since! Those back this year were: 
Louise (Felker) Mizell, "Pete" Hutchison, Mary Brock Mallard, Elizabeth (Pruden) 
Fagan, Lulu (Smith) Westcott, Llewellyn Wilburn, Trueheart Nicolassen. The "ex" 
members were: Elizabeth (Dimmock) Blood worth, Hattie Mae (Finney) Glenn, Ruth 
(Lambdin) Schaeffer, Annie (Silverman) Levy, Elizabeth Lawrence. 

We talked about all the class members and regretted we had not kept in closer touch 
with each other. About all the facts we could gather concerning the various members 
of the class of '19 were: 



14 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

Jane Bernhardt is teaching at University of California in Los Angeles. She spent 
last summer at Columbia Working toward her Ph.D. 

Minnie Clare Boyd is teaching history at State Normal School in Jacksonville, Ala. 

Minnie Clare has her M.A. and plans to work on her Ph.D. next year. 

Blanche Copeland is Mrs. H. H. Gifford, Cortlandt Hotel, Louisville, Ky. 

Lucy Durr, Montgomery, Ala. Last we heard of Lucy she was interested in helping 
to organize a Little Theater Guild in Montgomery. 

Claire Elliott  Mrs. Robert W. McKay of Baltimore. "Bob" is at John Hopkins. 

Lois Eve is teaching. 

Shirley Fairly is Mrs. L. F. Hendrick of Jackson, Miss. We imagine Shirley is in 
politics since we hear her husband is running for the legislature. 

Louise (Felker) Mizell lives in a most attractive home on Rock Springs Road, At- 
lanta. * Louise has two children: Margaret, age 3, and Robert, age 1. "Bob" is in the 
real estate business. 

Mary (Ford) Kennerly sent regrets that she could not be present for the class re- 
union as she was busy taking part in the commencement exercises of the State College 
for Women in Alabama, where her husband is a professor. 

Frances (Glasgow) Patterson has two sons, Houston Patterson, Jr., born in 1924 in 
China and Robert Glasgow, born in 1927 in Japan. 

Katherine Goodbee, Vidalia, Georgia. 

Bess (Ham) Harmon is at home in Mississippi while her husband is studying at 
University of Chicago. She has two children, Nancy Eugene, 3, and Thomas Leonhardt, 
age 2. 

Mary Brock Mallard is assistant advertising manager of Davison-Paxon's lovely new 
store. 

Louise Marshburn is Mrs. H. W. Riley, of Miami, Fla. 

Virginia Newton is teaching in Alabama College at Montevallo. She sent regrets 
that she could not be present for '19's reunion. 

Trueheart Nicolassen is with D. C. Heath & Company, school book publishers. She 
is a business rival of "Pete" Hutchison. 

Alice Norman, of West Point, Ga. Last address was Longdale Mill, Longdale, Ala. 

Mary Katherine Parks  Dallas, Texas, doing therapeutic work at the Scottish Rite 
Hospital there. She goes to Camp Nakanawa every summer where she is supervisor of 
land sports. 

Goldie Ham or rather "G. Suttle Ham, M.D.," disappointed us all because she didn't 
come back to commencement. Members of '19 are so proud of having a member of their 
class a surgeon that we are almost willing to have an operation to let Goldie demonstrate 
her skill. 

Anna Harrell  Mrs. M. Earnett Ballard, Birmingham, Ala. 

Almeda Hutcheson is with Allyn & Bacon, school book publishers. "Pete" says 
she can't get away from school books. 

Julia Ingram  Mrs. L. B. Hazzard, Brooklyn, New York. 

Margaret Leech  Mrs. Wm. Collier Cook, Dickson, Tenn. William Collier, Jr., 
was born July 17th, 1927. 

Elizabeth (Pruden) Fagan is Mrs. Joe Fagan, of Atlanta. Her husband is manager 
of the Visible System Remington Rand. "Pruden" Fagan, age 1 year, is going to be 
a prize fighter judging from his size. He is a perfect speciman of babyhood, and no 
wonder, for "Yittle" gives him all her time. 

Ethel Rea  Last word from Ethel was that she was teaching English in Charlotte 
High School, Charlotte, North Carolina, and sending all her best pupils to A. S. C. 

Elizabeth Richardson (Mrs. John A. Callaway), Rayle, Ga. 

"Peanut" Rowe (Jones) is Mrs. Carrington Jones, of Memphis, Tenn. "Little 
Peanut" is 3 months old. 



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Julia Lake Skinner's new address is 410 Urban Bldg., Louisville, Ky. Her new work 
is traveling for the Southern Presbyterian Church in religious educational work among 
the schools, colleges and state universities of the South. Her title is Extension Secretary 
of the Department of Christian Education. She will spend the summer attending 
young people's conferences in Texas, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. Julia 
Lake wrote how much she regretted not being present for commencement. 

Frances Sledd (Blake) is living in Jacksonville, Fla. Her new baby daughter, born 
last November, was announced in a previous issue of the Quarterly. 

Lulu Smith (Westcott) was back at reunion and discovered that she became famous 
at Agnes Scott due to her marriage in the chapel two hours after graduation. She and 
her husband were back to celebrate their ninth anniversary. They are still living in 
Dalton where her husband is president of the Westcott Hosiery Mills, which manufac- 
tures "Westcott Mode-Modeled" hosiery. 

Dorothy Thigpen (Shea) wrote in November, 1926, from Milwaukee that keeping 
house and looking after Charles Thigpen and Elizabeth Shea occupied all her time. We 
hope she'll take time to write us more recent news of herself and family. 

Frances Thomas' name is listed in the A. S. C. directory  address unknown. If 
anyone knows her address please send it in. 

Ora Mell Tribble is Mrs. J. S. Fleming, Warsaw, N. C. Her husband is a professor. 
Lulu Smith Westcott saw her at Wrights ville Beach summer of '26. . 

Elizabeth Watkins (Hulen) is married and living in Jackson, Miss., where her hus- 
band is a realtor. She has a daughter almost seven. 

Marguerite Watts is Mrs. F. S. Cooper, of Rome, Ga. We had only a glimpse 
of Marguerite Monday night at commencement. We were sorry she was not present at 
'19's reunion luncheon. 

Llewellyn Wilburn is now head of the physical education department at Agnes Scott 
in that wonderful new gym. She has charge of the swimming department. Class '19 
had a hard time grasping the idea of a swimming department and, girls! you have to 
be able to swim the length of the pool to graduate! That wouldn't have been much of 
a job in the old days. Llewellyn plans to spend the summer in Nashville playing golf, 
"etcetra and so forth." 

Agnes Wiley is Mrs. Alfred Marshall, of Garnett, South Carolina. Agnes has a 
daughter. 

Elizabeth Witherspoon is Mrs. Jim Patterson, of Staunton, Va. 

Class '19 was so glad to have the following ex members back for the class reunion: 

Elizabeth (Dimmock) Bloodworth is living in Atlanta, where her husband is prac- 
ticing law. "Dimmock" has a darling son, James Morgan Bartow Bloodworth, Jr., age 
3, who insists he is going to be a fireman, despite parental dreams of his following in 
his daddy's footsteps.  

Hattie Mae (Finney) Glenn also lives in Atlanta. Her husband is with General 
Motors. Betty, age 3, according to Finney has a nose just like her's but has blue eyes. 

Ruth (Lambdin) Schaeffer lives in Griffin, Ga. Her husband sells life insurance. 

Annie (Silverman) Levy must keep busy since she has two children, a boy, 8, and a 
girl, 4, and does lots of club work besides. Annie is interested in the Zionist movement 
and is head of the locap chapter of Hadassah. She plans to attend the national conven- 
tion in Pittsburgh. 

Elizabeth Lawrence deserted the class in 1918 when she received her certificate in 
music. She has been teaching music in Anderson College, Anderson, S. C. 

A letter from Margaret Fain from Dandridge, Tenn., expressed regrets that she could 
not be back for the reunion. 



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1920 EIGHT YEARS OUT! 

We are heartily in favor of this new system of reunions! Why, finding the '18 and 
'19 girls back at Agnes Scott,  our big sister class, and our once sworn enemies  was 
better than anything we could have imagined  unless it was finding the members of 
dear old '20! 

Who came back? "We did," cry Margaret Bland, Alice Cooper, Jule Hagood, Lulie 
Harris, Elizabeth Lovett, Lois Maclntyre, Marion McCamy, Gertrude Manly, Elizabeth 
Marsh, Margery Moore, Crip Slack and Rosalind Wurm. 

Margaret Bland, despite the acquisition of a new degree and quite a bit of fame as 
a playwright with a Broadway performance to her credit, is just the same earnest sweet 
thing with her smooth black hair parted in the middle the way she has always fixed 
it. Alice Cooper and Elizabeth Lovett are our business women  Alice uses that ingenuity 
of hers which was manifest in B. O. Z. stories to write ads, and Elizabeth is working 
in a bank, where we hope she is learning the combination to the safe, so that 
she can embezzle a big sum for the Chapel fund. Jule and Lulie, Lois, Gertrude, 
Margery, and Rosalind put eager heads together and swapped recipes, and discussed 
smocking and house-cleaning and ripe bananas for children, and the thousand other 
things that sound like so much hokus-pokus to the uninitiated. Lulie is really the 
authority on such matters, and others, with only one (Margery Moore does have two!) 
babies apiece defer very humbly to Lulie, mother of three! Elizabeth Marsh proved 
that school teachers are not the prim things people think, for she tripped gayly out to 
class reunion in red shoes! Crip Slack is as irrepressible as ever, though she has gone 
up in the editorial world, and now has two secretaries of her very own. Marion Mc- 
Camy deserted ad-writing for matrimony this spring, and at commencement claimed 
the title of our newest newly-wed. Rosalind and Margery were not content to tell 
about their babies, but brought them out in person to the alumnae baby party on Fri- 
day of commencement week. And Margery laid her young son on the bed upstairs in 
the '20 room, and walked calmly out and left him all by himself all afternoon. And 
he gurgled and laughed and slept awhile and stayed awake awhile and amused himself 
beautifully without a single whimper the whole time! Alumnae mothers writing to 
Margery for the secret of her success, will please enclose a stamped envelope. 

Several new addresses of members of '20 were unearthed at the reunion. Louise 
Abney has been teaching in the Birmingham, Ala., High School. Pauline Van Pelt 
(Mrs. B. W. Claunch) has moved to 143 Ostrom Dr., San Antonio, Texas. She has a 
young son, Robert Worth Claunch, born January 22, 192 8. "And that explains why 
I wasn't at reunion," says Pauline. 



1927 OUR FIRST REUNION! 

The class of '27 came back forty-eight strong for its first reunion, and the only 
unpleasant feature was the absence of the other fifty-five of us. We had time to enjoy 
the pleasures of a collegiate existence without having to work to find a spare minute. 
We drank some of that good Senior Coffee once more, though it was really Miss Hopkins 
and Faculty and Family and Alumnae coffee, too, but it tasted quite as good. And it was 
our especial good fortune to get to drink out of the Alumnae cup for having the most 
back at the Reunion Luncheon. Incidentally we attended the Alumnae meeting (instead 
of tiptoeing across the Colonade as in former years) and in addition to voting on im- 
pressive looking ballots for the new officers, we heard Polly make a speech, so we assure 
Mrs. Guy we greatly enjoyed our first Alumnae meeting. 

We must confess that an added maturity was apparent in our conversation at the 
reunion luncheon. We admired newly acquired engagement rings, we heard about the 
world's most perfect bungalow, now under construction, we saw several real live husbands 
and we were petitioned to surrender any recipes we knew. Others of our number 



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have been engaged in that struggle of uplifting (?) the youth of America. Still others 
were so busy in the pursuit of further knowledge that they weren't there at all, but we 
had messages read to us from several who now have another degree. The class of '18 
insists that we will be vastly different "ten long years from now," so if you want to 
watch the process of our change, remember that the way to Alumnae happiness is the 
Alumnae Quarterly. Don't forget to join up again in September, and send your 
news and your dues to Polly at the same time. Our first reunion was a great success, 
let's keep in touch and make the next one bigger and better! 



ON THE CAMPUS 

The Blackfriars and the entire campus 
are very proud of the excellent showing 
made by the members of the club who 
entered the Little Theatre Tournament in 
New York in May. The play selected for 
presentation was "Pink and Patches," 
written by Margaret Bland, '20, in Miss 
Nan Stephens' play-writing course on the 
campus. Miss Gooch directed the perform- 
ance and chaperoned the cast to New York. 
Those taking part in the play were Louisa 
Duls, '26, Charlotte, N. C; Elizabeth Mc- 
Callie, '27, Atlanta, Ga.; Sarah Carter, '29, 
Decatur, Ga., and Frances Freeborn, '27, 
Decatur, Ga. Little Theatre groups from 
all parts of the country entered the con- 
test, and one troup came over from Scot- 
land. The Blackfriars and the Savannah, 
Ga., Town Theatre, using a play written 
by Frances Hargis, an Agnes Scott senior, 
were both selected as finalists, and these 
two plays won the two prizes offered by 
Samuel French Company for the two best 
unpublished plays presented. The Belasco 
cup was awarded to the group from Scot- 
land, starring in a Barrie play, "The Old 
Lady Shows Her Medals." Although the 
Blackfriars did not win the coveted cup, 
we are quite proud of their excellent per- 
formance and the recognition they re- 
ceived. 

A letter from a member of the class of 
'22 in New York says: "New York alumnae 
poured forth en masse to see Margaret 
Bland's play at the Frolic Theatre, and 
we had a thrilling evening of it. After 
the performance we had a party in honor 
of the 'actors' which lasted far into the 
morning,  when a few timid husbands 
came to claim their collegiate wives." 



PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTIONS 

The alumnae who have been chosen to 
membership in the Agnes Scott chapter of 
Phi Beta Kappa are: 

1. From the class of '07: Sarah (Boals) 
Spinks, Winston-Salem, N. C. 

2. From the class of '13: Janie Mc- 
Gaughey, St. Louis, Mo.; Emma Pope 
(Moss) Dieckman, Decatur, Ga.; Mary 
(Enzor) Bynum, Troy, Ala. 

From the class of '28 the following girls 
have been elected to membership: 
Mary Perkinson. 
Rosaltha Sanders. 
Mary Shepherd. 
Janet McDonald. 
Leila Anderson. 
Myrtle Bledsoe. 
Evangeline Papageorge. 
Frances Brown. 
Elizabeth Grier. 

Miss Lucile Alexander has been elected 
president of the Agnes Scott chapter for 
the coming year; Miss MacDougald, vice- 
president; Miss Torrance, Secretary; Miss 
Edler, treasurer; and Mr. Stukes, mem- 
ber of the executive committee. 



The alumnae scrapbooks, given by Mary 
(West) Thatcher, '15, last year to each of 
the alumnae classes have been brought 
up to date by Blanche Berry, '27, who came 
to commencement a week early, and was 
generous enough to spend many hours of 
that week pasting in the class books. They 
were greatly enjoyed by returning alum- 
nae. Please send kodak pictures and news- 
paper clippings for these books! 



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THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 
REPORTS 

The Board of Trustees held its annual 
meeting on Friday morning, May 25, and 
many important matters were discussed. 
The outstanding action of the Board 
meeting was the unanimous and enthusias- 
tic passing of the motion to open a mil- 
lion dollar campaign, the funds raised to be 
used for the erection of certain very much 
needed units of the college plan, as Ad- 
ministration Building, Power Plant, Gaines 
Memorial Chapel, for increase of Endow- 
ment Fund, etc. The Alumnae Associa- 
tion was asked to assume responsibility 
for raising the funds necessary for the 
building of the chapel. 

After hearing the report of the far- 
reaching and beneficial work of the Alum- 
nae Association in the interest of the col- 
lege, a very generous gift of $500.00 was 
made by the Board to the Alumnae Asso- 
ciation for extension purposes, on motion 
of Mr. Scott Candler. 

Student Loan Funds, purchase of more 
acreage for the college and many other in- 
teresting matters were discussed. 

As your representative, I have been 
chairman of the Health Committee of the 
Board of Trustees and have enjoyed the 
close contact I have had with Dr. Sweet 
and her associates. I made at this meet- 
ing the report of the physical educational 
department which has made a most out- 
standing record this year in its care of 
the health of the college community. 

The privilege of alumnae representation 
on the Board of Trustees by the immediate 
past president of the Association is full of 
possibilities for good, keeping, as it does, 
the alumnae in close touch with college 
affairs and trustees aware of alumnae ac- 
tivities. It has been a joy to serve in this 
capacity for the past two years and I can 
wish for Mrs. Guy no greater honor or 
privilege than she has in entering upon her 
term as trustee. 

Respectfully submitted, 
FANNIE G. (MAYSON) DONALDSON, 

Alumnae Trustee. 



TREASURER'S REPORT 

Proposed budget, 1928-29: 

Receipts: 

Tea Room $ 700.00 

House rent 400.00 

Room rent 250.00 

Dues 1,450.00 

Miscellaneous 25.00 

Gift 500.00 

Total $3,125.00 

Disbursements: 

Secretary $1,300.00 

Office supplies, postage, printing, 

papers, etc. 1,100.00 

Furnishing and upkeep 350.00 



Maid 160.00 

Traveling expenses 100.00 

Dues 32.50 

Entertainment 35.00 

Miscellaneous 47.50 

Total $3,125.00 

Treasurer. 

Report for year 1927-28: 

Receipts: 

Tea Room profits $ 572.80 

House rent 450.00 

Room rent 250.50 

Dues 1,286.02 

Miscellaneous 16.19 

Gifts 273.50 

College after college 6.00 

Return on traveling expense 7.68 

Life memberships 312.50 

Borrowed , 126.50 

Total $3,301.69 

Returned checks 6.00 

On hand *_ 558.33 

Real total $3,854.02 

Disbursements: 

Secretary $1,355.42 

Office supplies, postage, printing, 

papers, etc. 967.58 

Furnishing and upkeep 613.57 

Maid 180.00 

Prize 25.00 

Savings account 312.50 

Dues 32.50 

Traveling and conference expenses 153.00 

Entertainment 23.92 

Miscellaneous 10.00 

Gift money 62.00 

Total $3,854.02 

3,735.49 

Balance in bank $ 118.53 

Respectfully submitted, 

CARRIE SCANDRETT, 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON 
CURRICULUM 

The Committee on Curriculum was asked 
to find out the attitude of the graduates 
of the leading women's colleges toward 
Honors, Euthenics, and other special 
courses which have been recently added 
to the curriculum in liberal arts colleges. 

We wrote to the registrars at Vassar, 
Wellesley, Barnard and Smith, asking for 
the names of representative graduates who 
had taken such courses. A questionnaire 
was sent to these graduates. 

We sent out 89 questionnaires, and re- 
ceived 46 answers  16 from the Vassar 
Institute of Euthenics, and 30 from Honors 
courses at Smith, Barnard and Wellesley. 

We were also asked to find out the at- 
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Economics courses in liberal arts colleges. 
That investigation was taken up later, and 
only three colleges have sent us the lists 
we requested. So far, we have not had 
enough answers on this subject to tabulate 
them. 

The answers to the questionnaires on 
Honors and Euthenics courses are tabu- 
lated on sheets attached to this report. 
Respectfully submitted, 

Katherine L. Seay, Chairman; 

Laura Stockton Molloy Dowling, 

Elizabeth Wilson, 

Elizabeth Allen, 

Elizabeth Somerville Woodbridge, 

Anna Leigh McCorkle. 
(This report, a splendid piece of work, 
has been turned over to the college ad- 
ministration. It is too long to publish in 
full here, but any alumna who would like 
a copy may secure one by writing to the 
alumnae secretary. We regret exceedingly 
that lack of space prevents our publishing 
the entire report in this Quarterly.) 



REPORT OF CLASS ORGANIZATIONS 
AND RECORDS COMMITTEE 

The system of reunions which we use at 
Agnes Scott now, based on the Dix sys- 
tem, is in its second year of trial. There 
seems to be no doubt that we shall con- 
tinue to use this system, as it has proven 
extremely popular in bringing back to the 
campus at the same time girls who were 
in college together. This year the classes 
of '93, '99, '00,. '01, '18, '19, '20 and '27 hold 
reunions. 

The adoption of this system of reunions 
has brought a little added work to the class 
secretaries, as the reunion year is not now 
as easy to remember as it was in the old 
days of the simple scheme of first year 
out, third year out, fifth year out, and 
every five years thereafter. The class 
secretaries now must constantly keep in 
touch with the class members and tell 
them far ahead of time just when their 
reunions will fall. 

The silver loving cup, given each com- 
mencement to the reunion class with the 
largest percentage back, will be awarded 
Monday at the class reunion luncheon in 
the Alumnae House. This cup was won 
by '26 last year, who very proudly had 
their digits engraved on the side under 
'25, and '10, who had won it the two 
previous years. 

The classes have been divided up into 
small groups with captains at the head of 
each group. These captains report to 
the class secretaries, and in this way more 
personal work is done among the class 
members. Letters are written to inter- 
ested non-graduates as well as graduates, 
for if these non-graduates, or ex-members, 
as we call them, are interested and loyal 



to the college, we feel that they are just 
as integral a part of the class organiza- 
tion as the graduates. 

The number of alumnae who have re- 
turned to the campus for this commence- 
ment is a witness to the work of the 
class organizations and records commit- 
tee. 

Respectfully submitted, 
ELIZABETH HOKE, Chairman. 



REPORT OF ALUMNAE LOAN 
LEAGUE 

Due to a scarcity of funds the Loan 
League was not able to make a loan 
at the beginning of the school term and 
since that time there has been no request 
for a loan. The financial report stands 
as follows: 

Credit: 

On hand September, 1927 $ 49.31 

Interest January 1, 1928 2.16 

Payments on loans 300.00 

Gift of Mrs. G. L. (Laura M. 

Tower) Yager 200.00 

Total $551.47 

Debit: 
Exchange on checks $ 1.20 

On hand May 26, 1928 $550.27 

The Loan League has, during its history, 
made loans to sixteen girls. Of these, 
nine have entirely repaid their loan, three 
are, at present, making regular payments, 
and four have, as yet, made no payment. 
Of the latter four, two are still in college, 
one graduated in '27 and one is ex '29 

We wish to express our deepest appre- 
ciation to Mrs. Yager for her splendid 
gift to the loan fund. It is our hope 
that more of our Alumnae will remember 
their younger "sisters" who may need 
some financial aid to acquire their college 
education here at Agnes Scott. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ELIZABETH LYNN, '27, 

Treasurer. 



REPORT OF LOCAL CLUBS 
COMMITTEE 

The local clubs committee begs to sub- 
mit the names of five new clubs which 
have been formed this year. They are: 

Jacksonville, Fla. 

Los Angeles, Calif. 

Chicago, 111. 

Americus, Ga. 

Savannah, Ga. 

During the summer the Baltimore, Md., 



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club will be formed. Older established 
clubs are: 

Atlanta, Ga. 

Decatur, Ga. 

Birmingham, Ala. 

Charlotte, N. C. 

Richmond, Va. 

Marietta, Ga. 

New York City. 

Memphis, Tenn. 

Respectfully submitted, 
MARY LAMAR KNIGHT, '22, 

Chairman. 



These suggestions we leave to the in- 
coming Committee with our best wishes 
and hopes for the hearty co-operation of 
both the College and Alumnae. 
Respectfully submitted, 
EILEEN DODD SAMS, '23, 

Chairman. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BEAUTI- 
FYING GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS 

The work of the Committee on Beautify- 
ing Grounds and Buildings has been 
seriously handicapped this year on account 
of lack of funds. The College did not see 
fit to make any special appropriation for 
any new plantings. However, the shrub- 
bery already on the place was worked 
over and fertilized. 

The Alumnae Association was not finan- 
cially able to make its customary donation 
to this Committee, so all other work 
planned was of necessity postponed. 

We were extremely fortunate, however, 
in being remembered by one of our 
Alumnae, Miss Marie Schley Brown, of 
Michigan. She sent us (entirely at her 
expense) a beautiful collection of spruce 
and cedars from her State. These were 
set out (by Wachendorff Bros.) in groups 
about the Alumnae House. Most of these 
are living and promise to do nicely. We 
feel we can not overestimate the value 
of such Alumnae as Miss Brown. If more 
of us would remember our campus in a 
similar way, we could accomplish great 
things. 

The committee made a donation of a 
Japanese flowering cherry planted back 
of the Alumnae House. 

In closing this term of office we wish 
to make a few suggestions which might 
be helpful to the next Committee. It seems 
to us that a College of this size should be 
able to support a regular professional 
gardener whose duty would be to look after 
the shrubbery, lawns, hedges and flow- 
ers. 

We suggest that further plantings made 
should be more of the varieties of bloom- 
ing shrubs. Also, beds of tulips, hya- 
cinths, daffodils, crocus, etc., might be 
effectively used. Even a formal flower 
garden (somewhere between the Alumnae 
House and Inman Hall)  with gravel 
paths, trellises and a lily pond  is not too 
impossible a feature and would add a 
great deal to the interest of the grounds. 



REPORT OF HOUSE AND TEA ROOM 
COMMITTEE 

A report from the House Committee 
must always begin with an expression 
of appreciation to Miss Polly Stone, 
whom we are increasingly glad to claim 
as our hostess, and whose service is 
so varied that it baffles classification. We 
are also grateful to Miss Florine Brown, 
our tea-room manager, and to Miss Carrie 
Scandrett, who has had the difficult and 
thankless task of keeping the tea-room 
books. 

As in the past, friends have continued to 
remember us in a very substantial way 
this year, and it is to the generosity of 
Mrs. Samuel Young, Mrs. John J. Eagan, 
and Mrs. Paul Brown, that we owe a love- 
ly set of china for use in the private din- 
ing-room. 

The dream of the Atlanta club, which is 
to have a really beautiful living room, con- 
tinues to take shape, and we now have, in 
addition to the rug and draperies pur- 
chased last year, some period furniture, 
consisting of sofa, table, and four very 
handsome chairs. The old furniture has 
been moved to the sewing-room upstairs, 
which has greatly changed the appearance 
of this room and has turned it into a favor- 
ite "get together" spot. Miss Cleo Hearon 
left us a screen for this room. 

The Birmingham club came to the rescue 
of the linen closet by giving a shower, 
which has been a real boon to the house, 
and has helped restock the supply of 
towels, washcloths, tea napkins, etc. There 
is always a crying need here. 

We are also grateful to Miss Elizabeth 
Jackson, a member of the History facul- 
ty, for the addition of eight coffee cups 
to the set of china in the private dining 
room, and to a number of other individual 
givers for donations of money and various 
household articles. 

The House continues to be a joy to re- 
turning alumnae, and is in constant use. 
The college guest room has claimed many 
distinguished visitors this year, and Dr. 
McCain has very generously agreed to do 
some refurnishing and freshening up in 
this room, which will make it more attrac- 
tive to our guests. 

We were very happy to have for a week 
in this room Miss Ella Young, former 
principal of Agnes Scott Academy, who 
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friends on the campus and in the city. 

The annual birthday tea, given each 
year in loving memory of Miss Anna 
Young, stands out as one of the happy 
events of the year, and particularly this 
year when the guests were received by 
Miss Anna's mother, Mrs. Samuel Young, 
and her two sisters, Mrs. Paul Brown and 
Mrs. John Eagan. 

The retiring committee wishes to ex- 
press the pleasure they have had in closer 
contact with the Alumnae House. There 
are a number of problems which have not 
been completely solved, all of which they 
pass on to the incoming committee, includ- 
ing the following resolutions: 

1. That the matter of improving the 
college guest room be taken up with Dr. 
McCain in the early fall. 

2. That a new cash register be pur- 
chased and provision made for more 
strictly business-like handling of the tea- 
room funds. Details of this recommenda- 
tion will be handed to the incoming chair- 
man. 

Financial Statement 

Total receipts of tea room $9,665.30 

Total profits of the tea room 763.74 

75% of profits to Alumnae As- 
sociation 572.80 

20% of profits to tea room man- 
ager 152.80 

5% of profits to House and tea- 
room committee 38.20 

Funds handled by this committee: 

Balance on hand Sept., 1927 $ 42.90 

5% of tea-room profit 38.20 

Sale of rugs 20.00 

Gifts 62.00 

Total $163.10 

Disbursements: 
China $ 57.60 

Candlesticks 25.00 

Kitchen equipment 16.15 

Total $ 98.75__ 

Balance on hand $64.35 

Respectfully submitted, 
MARGARET T. PHYTHIAN, 

Chairman. 



REPORT OF ENTERTAINMENT 
COMMITTEE 

In November, the Anna Young Birthday 
Party was celebrated at the Alumnae 
House with a lovely tea. The House Com- 
mittee had direct charge of this. 

On April the eighteenth, the Alumnae 
Association entertained the class of 1928 
at a tea which they all thought beautiful. 
We thought so too. Amount spent on this 
party was $19.41. 

The last thing the committee has had 
charge of is the decoration for Trustee's 
luncheon to the seniors and alumnae on 



Saturday of commencement week. This is 
not as easy as it sounds and has made 
this report late and caused the absence of 
the committee from the business meeting 
We hope you like the flowers! 

Respectfully submitted, 
AIMEE D. GLOVER LITTLE, 

Chairman. 
HELEN WAYT, 

Acting Chairman. 
 CLARE LOUISE SCOTT BEALL, 
ELOISE GAY BRAWLEY. 



REPORT OF PREPARATORY SCHOOLS 
COMMITTEE 

The purpose of the committee this year 
has been to concentrate attention on a com- 
paratively small number of high schools in 
the south, with the idea of making inten- 
sive efforts to interest desirable girls in 
Agnes Scott. 

The cities selected for this effort were 
Chattanooga, Little Rock, Richmond, 
Birmingham, Jacksonville, Columbia, and 
Charlotte. 

It was suggested that, when practical, 
a tea or reception be given to the high 
school seniors for the purpose of the 
alumnae's becoming acquainted with the 
students and vice versa. This scheme was 
either directly or indirectly carried out in 
several places, but in others, it was con- 
sidered impractical. 

Some schools, through means of a mem- 
ber of the committee, sent in names and 
information regarding certain girls who 
were thought to be good Agnes Scott ma- 
terial. In general, the alumnae have been 
interested and co-operative. 

We believe there is invaluable good to be 
accomplished by the Preparatory Schools 
Committee, working in conjunction with 
the college and the local clubs, but the best 
method of carrying on the work, it ap- 
pears to this committee, is the biggest 
problem to be worked out by the future 
chairman and her co-workers. 

Respectfully submitted, 
HILDA McCONNELL ADAMS, 

Chairman. 



REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 

The outstanding results of the work of 
the past two years not covered by commit- 
tee reports are two-fold  a closer con- 
tact with the student body and the renewed 
interest of many alumnae and locating of 
"lost sisters." 

The closer contact with the student 
body has been made by the Association's 
interest in work on the campus. We offer- 
ed a poetry prize last year and a dramatic 
prize this year. On our Alumnae Coun- 
cil, the student members have been regu- 
lar and interested attendants. These meet- 
ings have been made delightful by the in- 



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teresting reports from Miss Hopkins as 
well as those from the other members. 

The annual tea for the Senior class has 
become a purely social affair, well attended 
and enthusiastically received. The alumnae 
president met with the Senior class at a 
later date to urge one hundred per cent 
membership in the Alumnae Association. 
This was pledged by all present. The class 
of 1927 has one hundred and three mem- 
bers, of whom one hundred have joined the 
Association. It has become the regular 
thing to do! 

The Register has been a great source of 
help to the Association. By sending a copy 
to every person whose name was published, 
and enclosing a list of "lost sisters," a very 
lively interest has been aroused and many 
"lost sisters" have not only been found, 
but have joined the Association. We have 
had fifty-five renewals of memberships 
that had lapsed; seventy-seven new mem- 
berships, not including the class of 1927. 
Also we have had nine life memberships, 
including one from the class of 1928. All 
this happened just after raising the dues, 
too! 

Founder's Day Radio Program also 
creates a great interest and brings many 
groups of alumnae together. Several new 
clubs have been established and all are 
doing splendid work. 

I wish to thank each member of the 
executive committee for her loyal support 
and hard work  to them and to the effi- 
cient and untiring work of our general 
secretary the credit of the progress of the 
Association is due, and my appreciation of 
this work is very sincere. Also I wish to 
thank Dr. McCain for his unfailing help 
and advice and to express the hope that 
the Alumnae will never disappoint him in 
the great things that he expects of us. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ALLIE CANDLER GUY, 

President. 



REPORT OF PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 

Besides the publication of a very com- 
prehensive Alumnae Register in August, 
1927 (copies of which have been mailed to 
approximately thirty-five hundred alum- 
nae), three regular Quarterlies have been 
published this year  in November, Janu- 
ary and April. The fourth number will 
appear in June. 

In the April Quarterlies there was in- 
closed a rotogravure section, giving pic- 
tures of the college and student activities 
this year. 

Respectfully submitted, 
MARTHA LIN MANLY, '25, 

Chairman. 



MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEET- 
ING OF THE AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION MAY, 26, 1928 
College Chapel. 

The meeting was called to order by the 
president, Mrs. Guy. 

After the reading of the reports of the 
President and the General Secretary the 
Recording Secretary read the nominations 
for new officers for the organization. Bal- 
lots were collected throughout the meet- 
ing. 

There was a ratification of the motion 
that the retiring President of the Alumnae 
Association be a trustee of the college. 

Mrs. H. McC. Adams moved that all the 
reports of the committees be accepted at 
the end of the reading. Seconded and car- 
ried. 

Reports were made from the following 
standing committees: House and Tea 
Room, Grounds, Entertaining, Publicity, 
Preparatory Schools, Local Clubs, Aid 
League, Class Organization, and Curricu- 
lum. 

Mrs. Wey moved that the report of the 
Curriculum Committee be turned over to 
the college. Seconded and carried. 

Mrs. Thatcher moved that all the reports 
be accepted as read. Seconded and car- 
ried. 

Mrs. Donaldson reported that the trus- 
tees are planning a campaign for $1,000,- 
000 for the college. The trustees have voted 
a gift of $500 to the Alumnae Association. 
Mrs. Donaldson, as chairman of the 
Health Committee, stated that the health 
of the college girls has been unusually 
good. 

The report of the Playwriting Class, 
given by Miss Nan B. Stephens, was most 
interesting. She stated that the class is 
flourishing as it is because of the alumnae 
interest. Next year the college is going 
to provide for an advanced class with 
credit. This year the class has taken three 
prizes, one from the Savannah Town Thea- 
ter to Frances Hargis, and two Samuel 
French Prizes for the best unpublished 
plays to Frances Hargis and Margaret 
Bland. The two plays entered in the 
Belasco Cup contest were selected to play 
in the finals. The dearest prize that is 
offered is that given by the Alumnae As- 
sociation which will be presented on Mon- 
day. Miss Stephens read a review of the 
plays presented in New York which was 
given by a New York theater paper. She 
stated that much appreciation was due 
Miss F. K. Gooch for the success of these 
plays. 

A rising vote of thanks was given to 
Miss Stephens. 

The report of the Financial Committee 
was read and Mrs. Dieckmann moved that 
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The secretary read the recommenda- 
tions of the Executive Committee. 

1. That a Constitutional Committee be 
appointed by the new Executive Commit- 
tee. 

2. That a Secretary's book be purchas- 
ed. 

3. That a campaign be launched by the 
Alumnae to raise $125,000 to erect a Me- 
morial Chapel to Dr. Gaines on the site of 
his home. 

These recommendations were discussed 
separately. Mrs. Guy explained the need of 
a revision in the Constitution. She told of 
the splendid work which Mrs. Thatcher had 
already done in this field. Mrs. Donaldson 
moved that the new executive appoint this 
special committee. Seconded and carried. 

It was also moved and carried that a 
book be bought for the Secretary's rec- 
ords. 

The last recommendation was discussed 
at large. Quenelle Harrell and several 
others spoke of the great need of a chapel 
and of the privilege of the Alumnae to 
erect this building in memory of Dr. 
Gaines. Mrs. Guy read extracts from sev- 
eral alumnae heartily recommending this 
undertaking. Mrs. Donaldson moved that 
we accept the third recommendation. Sec- 
onded and carried. 

Mrs. Guy expressed her appreciation of 
the splendid co-operation of the Associa- 
tion. A rising vote of thanks was given 
to Mrs. Guy for her excellent work. 

The newly-elected officers were an- 
nounced. 

Adjournment. 

Respectfully submitted, 
ELIZABETH LYNN, Acting Secretary. 



MINUTES OF THE AGNES SCOTT 

ALUMNAE COUNCIL MEETING, 

MAY 24, 1928. 

Alumnae House 

The meeting was called to order by the 
President, Mrs. Guy, who first called on 
Miss Hopkins for any report she might 
wish to make. 

Miss Hopkins beamed with pride as she 
told of the many honors that have come to 
Agnes Scott during the past year. Our 
debating team defeated both the English 
team and Vassar team. Two plays written 
by Agnes Scott students took prizes for the 
best unpublished plays presented in the 
Belasco Tournament in New York. Two 
Hottentots won first and second places in 
the Poetry Contest of the Georgia colleges. 
One of the Seniors translated into English 
a speech (in French) presented at the 
League of Nations. Her translation was 
given honorable mention out of 1600 en- 
tries. An alumna won a prize of $250 for 
the best piece of advertising done by Maier 
and Berkele. One of the Freshmen day 



students was given a letter of commenda- 
tion by the Girl Scouts for outstanding 
work in that field. 

Miss Hopkins stated that the most press- 
ing need of the college at the present is 
a change in the water pipes. It is impossi- 
ble to get a sufficient supply of water 
through the pipes in their present state. 

Other items of interest given by Miss 
Hopkins are: 

A chapter in a National Classical Club 
has been secured. 

The highest commendation of the Quar- 
terly has come both from Agnes Scott 
girls and from outsiders. 

The college entertained the General As- 
sembly Commissioners at the college at a 
luncheon. 

An amplifier has been installed in the 
gymnasium. 

After the reading of the minutes of the 
former meeting the various chairmen gave 
their reports. 

Mrs. Harmon  The trustees are to be 
entertained by Hoasc. Cha Hei Chay is to 
graduate this year and will return this 
summer to Korea. 

Mrs. A. Beall The Atlanta Club has had 
a most successful year. They have given 
a Bazaar, and rummage sales. They are 
still adding to the furnishings of the par- 
lor in the Alumnae House. 

Miss Phythian  The Alumnae House has 
been entirely cleaned, woodwork repainted, 
walls repapered. The college is freshen- 
ing up the college room. A new set of 
china for the private dining room has re- 
cently been purchased. 

Miss Wayt  A tea was given on the 
birthday of Miss Anna Young. In April, a 
tea was given for the Seniors. The dec- 
orations at the Trustee Luncheon are in 
charge of this committee. 

Mrs. Guy  Plans are being made for a 
drive for $125,000 to erect a chapel in 
memorial to Dr. Gaines. Definite plans for 
this are up to the new committee. 

Miss Lynn  Loan fund  financial state- 
ment: 

On hand September, 1928, $49.31. 

on hand May, 1928, $550.27. 

No loans made this year. Payments have 
been made on six different loans. One gift 
of $200 from Mrs. Yager. This concluded 
the meeting of the council. 

Meeting of the Executive Committee 

The minutes of the former meeting were 
read and approved. 

No formal reports except that of the 
Treasurer were given. 

The treasurer presented the budget for 
the next year. It was moved and seconded 
that this budget be accepted. 

Mi*s. Thatcher has worked over the Con- 
stitution and made many suggestions for 
revisions. There was a suggestion that we 



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have a committee to work over the Consti- 2. That a Secretary's book be pur- 

tution. chased. 

The Committee made the three following ?' J^L fT*?^ * \ a ? nched to 

recommendations to the general meeting al * e ^J? 5 .' 000 to build a cha P el m memor y 

ofthoAlumane. Adjournment. 

1. That a Constitutional Committee be Respectfully submitted, 

appointed by the new Executive Commit- ELIZABETH LYNN, 

tee. Acting Secretary. 



LOST ALUMNAE COLUMN 

Are any of these your neighbors ? 

Please send any information about these to the alumnae secretary at the college. 

Alabama 

Florence  Eleanor Somerville. 

Selma  Frances Thomas. 

District of Columbia 

Washington  Mary Lucy Duncan (Mrs. George Howe). 
Florida 

Lake City Ella M. Young (Mrs. D. C. Denmark). 

Lake City  Ruth Julian (Mrs. Roseman). 

Lakeland  Marie Way (Mrs. F. H. Powers, Jr.). 

Miami  Faye Hazel Lichenstein. 

Miami  Frederica Reed. 

Georgia 

Atlanta  Sallie Redwine (Mrs. Mel Newton). 

Atlanta  Dina Wisdom. 

Bowersville  May Mason. 

Brunswick  Ellen Fisher Penniman. 

Cordele  Fay Peacock. 

Doerun  Ruth Lynn Brown. 

Marietta  Pauline Gramling. 

Newnan  Corinne Simril. 

Newnan  Linda Simril (Mrs. E. C. Goodwyn). 
Illinois 

Chicago  Grace Bate. 

Chicago  Rena A. Lenhart. 

Kansas 

Eureka  Faith Burt. 

Mississippi 

Jackson  Ida Beckman (Mrs. Remfrey). 
Meridian  Essie Mae Myer. 
Meridian  Mary Reeder. 

Natchez  Rosalie Scharff (Mrs. E. H. Simon). 
Water Valley  Ida Pearl Hervey. 
South Carolina 
Clinton  Mary Louise Jones (Mrs. W. H. DuBose). 

Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia  Nellie May Hale (Mrs. Surville DeLan). 
Tennessee 

Buntyn  Rebecca Robertson Harrison. 

Chattanooga  Kathleen Robertson. 

Clarkesville  Harriet Beach (Mrs. Rudolph). 

Memphis  Anne Brown. 

Memphis  Eleanor Enslow. 

Memphis  Maggie Mclean. 

Memphis  Elvie Wilson (Mrs. J. H. Wiley). 

Morrisburg  Lucy Lynch. 

Moscow  Margaret Roach (Mrs. C. M. Clvreitzberg). 

Union City  Irene Davis. 



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Concerning Ourselves 



1906 

Next class reunion, 1930. 
1907 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Sara (Boals) Spinks represented the class 
of '07 on the campus this commencement. 
While at Agnes Scott she was initiated into 
Phi Beta Kappa, to which organization 
she was elected in March. 
1908 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Lizzabel Saxon was the only member of 
'08 back for commencement this year. She 
was present at the Phi Beta Kappa initia- 
tion ceremony and supper on Saturday of 
commencement week. 

1909 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Mec (Maclntyre) McAfee came out to 
Agnes Scott during commencement week. 
She is responsible each year for the love- 
ly arrangement of flowers in the centre of 
the speakers' table at the trustees' lunch- 
eon to the alumnae. 

Dorothy (Dyrenforth) Luman has moved 
to 1181 Post Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. She 
is a designer. 

Lillian (Eason) Duncan's husband is an 
architect and electrical engineer in Colum- 
bus, Ga. They have no children. 
1910 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Em (Eldridge) Ferguson came from 
Americus, Ga., and Mildred Thomson from 
St. Paul, Minn., for commencement at 
Agnes Scott this year. Em drove with 
Mrs. Harrold and Quenelle Harrold, '23, 
and Ann Heys, '27. Mildred visited her 
family in Atlanta and was initiated into 
the Agnes Scott chapter of Phi Beta 
Kappa. Lucy (Reagan) Redwine was the 
third member of '10 at the trustees' lunch- 
eon. 

1911 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Julia (Thompson) Gibson, of Covington, 
Ga., Louise (Wells) Parsons, of Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., and Theodosia (Willingham) 
Anderson, of Atlanta, were 'll's represen- 
tatives at Agnes Scott commencement. 
Mary Wallace Kirk was planning to come, 
but some thoughtless friend had set her 
wedding date during commencement week, 
and Mary Wallace had to choose between 
being a bridesmaid and a trustee. 

Geraldine Hood was married in the 
spring to Mr. W. C. Burns. They are liv- 



ing in Miami, Fla. Mr. Burns is a con- 
tractor. 

Mary Norwood is Mrs. Robert W. Wier, 
of Houston, Texas. She has a small 
daughter. 

1912 

Next class reunion, 1931. 

Marie (Maclntyre) Scott, Fannie G. 
(Mayson) Donaldson, and Carol (Stearns) 
Wey were the members of '12 at com- 
mencement. Marie's youngest daughter, 
Rebekah, is the mascot for the class of '28. 
She wore her diminutive mortar-board and 
gown to the class day exercises and helped 
Mary Bell McConkey, the class president, 
plant the ivy by the side of the Library. 
'28 presented little Rebekah with an Agnes 
Scott memory book in which each Senior 
had written a wish for her, and when 
Rebekah graduates from Agnes Scott in 
1948, this year's class has promised to 
come back for the occasion. 
1913 

Next class reunion ,1931. 

Three members of '13 came back at com- 
mencement this year to be taken into the 
Agnes Scott chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. 
They were Mary Lois (Enzor) Bynum, 
Troy, Ala.; Janie McGaughey, St. Louis, 
Mo., and Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckman, 
who lives in Decatur. Mary Louise (Man- 
ess) Robarts and Allie (Candler) Guy were 
also on hand for commencement  Allie 
presiding over the Alumnae Association 
meeting on Saturday morning. 

Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes writes: 
"Major Stokes has been given a four-year 
detail this time, having been made instruc- 
tor for the National Guard of West Vir- 
ginia, and on the strength of that, we have 
bought a home here in Charleston. Our 
address is 839 Spring Avenue." 
1914 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Annie Tait Jenkins expects to spend next 
winter working on her M.A. at Columbia 
University and wants to get in touch with 
any other A. S. C. girls who will be there. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walter DuPre announce 
the birth of a son on May 16, who has been 
given the name of Walter Eugene DuPre, 
Jr. Mi's. DuPre was Essie Roberts. 
1915 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Marion (Black) Cantelou lost her mother 
in May. 

Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott, Catherine 
Parker, and Mary (West) Thatcher were 



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the only graduates of '15 who were pres- 
ent at the trustees' luncheon during com- 
mencement. Annie Pope brought three 
little daughters and Mary brought two 
little sons to the Alumnae Baby party on 
Friday afternoon before the luncheon. 

Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner writes from 
Montgomery of her little daughter's tonsil 
operation. "She is looking forward to the 
experience because somoene has told her 
that she can have all the ice cream she 
wants then! I am very busy all the time 
here. Since March I have been superin- 
tendent of the Primary Department at the 
Court Street Methodist Sunday School, and 
that takes all the time I can spare from 
my family." 

Lucy Naive's engagement has been an- 
nounced to Mr. Charles Stanley Swain. 
They will be married in early July at 
Clarksville, Tenn., and will live in Atlanta. 
1916 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Eloise (Gay) Brawley, Margaret Phy- 
thian, and Anne (McClure) Simpson, were 
at the '16 table at the trustees' luncheon. 

Margaret Phythian has a leave from the 
French Department at Agnes Scott for the 
coming year and will spend it studying in 
France. 

Lillian (Johnson) Ramsey received one 
of the third prizes of $100 in the prize 
essay contest conducted recently by the 
Woodrow Wilson Foundation. There were 
no first or second prize awards. 
1917 

Next class reunion, 1932. 

Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis brought 
her three little "Brazilians" to the Alum- 
nae baby party during commencement 
week, and enjoyed seeing them take their 
first ride on a pony. The other alumnae 
mothers there turned green with envy over 
the handmade Brazilian lace which trim- 
med the little Davis girls' party dresses. 

Mr. and Mrs. Fonville McWhorter an- 
nounce the birth of a son on April 29, who 
has been given the name of Fonville Mc- 
Whorter, Jr., Mrs. McWhorter was Willie 
Belle Jackson. 

Regina Pinkston drove up from Greens- 
boro during commencement for the Hoasc 
reunion. 

The class of '17 is very proud of Augusta 
Skeen and Charlotte Hammond, their rep- 
resentatives on the Agnes Scott faculty. 

Vallie Young (White) Archibald writes 
from Birmingham, Ala.: "I did so want to 
come to commencement this year, but that 
and Europe are too much! 

Eva Mae Futch is Mrs. W. J. Yost, 703 
Felder Avenue, Montgomery, Ala. 
1921 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Charlotte (Bell) Linton, her husband and 
their four sons will have leave next year 
from the mission field and plan to visit 



Agnes Scott during their stay in America. 

Thelma Brown, Betty Floding, Sarah 
Fulton, Lina Parry, Janef Preston, Claire 
Louise (Scott) Beall, and Helen Wayt were 
at the '21 table at the trustees' luncheon. 

Elizabeth (Enloe) McCarthy represent- 
ed Agnes Scott at the recent meeting of 
the American Association of University 
Women in Chapel Hill, N. C. 

Betty Floding will spend the summer 
traveling and studying in France. 

Theressa Newton took the boat trip from 
Savannah to New York and then on to 
Montreal during the meeting in New York 
of the Georgia Press Association. 

Martha Stansfield is just about to get 
that Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. 
Martha will be back at Agnes Scott next 
year in the Latin department. 

Helen Wayt was in charge of the flowers 
for the trustees' luncheon on Saturday of 
commencmeent week. The alumnae who 
were present will remember how beautiful 
the long tables and their baskets of garden 
flowers were. 

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Eaton Coleman an- 
nounce the birth of Julia Ann Coleman on 
April 23, in Baton Rouge, La. Mrs. Cole- 
man was Julia Heaton, ex '21. 

Venice Mayson, ex '21, was married in 
May to Captain Phillip Theodore Fry, 
United States Army. Captain Fry is an 
alumnus of the University of North Caro- 
lina, a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon 
fraternity and of the Scabbard and Blade 
military fraternity. Captain Fry has been 
ordered to the Philippines, and he and 
Venice are on the Pacific as this Quarterly 
goes to press. 

1922 

Next class reunion, 1929. 

Allie Louise Travis, Lucy (Wootten) 
Wiegand, Ruth Pirkle, Mary Floding, 
Laurie Bell Stubbs, and Ethel Ware were 
at Agnes Scott for the trustees' luncheon. 

Jeanette (Archer) Neal was a delegate 
from Charlotte to the meeting of the A. 
A. U. W. at the University of North Caro- 
lina in May. 

Eunice (Dean) Major and her old room- 
mate, Mary White Caldwell, ex '23, met 
at the Alumnae House during May for a 
week-end. Eunice had some adorable pic- 
tures with her of her three babies. 

Roberta (Love) Brower is visiting her 
family in Lincolnton, N. C. 

Elizabeth (Nichols) Lowndes comes out 
to Agnes Scott occasionally with her 
sturdy little son. 

We sympathize with Frances Oliver in 
the death of her father on May 30. 

Ruth Pirkle will spend the summer 
studying at Columbia. 

Ruth Virden, girl reserve secretary of 
the Wilmington, N. C, Young Women's 
Christian Association, writes: "I recently 
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'The Whole Town's Talking.' The girls 
and boys who were my cast were really re- 
markably talented. Why, I am still laugh- 
ing over that play after rehearsing it one 
hundred and seventy-five thousand times 
by actual count! You know they must have 
been good. The Agnes Scott Blackfriars 
certainly passed up a jewel when they 
let me get off the stage after my agoniz- 
ing try-out for them  will I ever forget 
it?" 

Mary (Wharton) Breazelle has moved to 
Westminster, S. C. 

Alice (Whipple) Lyons brought little 
Alice out to the alumnae baby party dur- 
ing commencement. She was too little to 
ride on the ponies, but she thoroughly en- 
joyed falling down on the grass and pop- 
ping her balloons. 

Kathleen Belcher, ex '22, has come back 
from Florida and is living at 682 Peach- 
tree St., Atlanta. 

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Ivey, of Char- 
lotte, N. C, announce the birth of a daugh- 
ter on May 16. Mrs. Ivey was Lula Groves 
Campbell, ex '22. 

Louise (Dean) Davidson, who spent her 
freshman year with '22, and later received 
her B.A. degree from Radcliffe, is living at 
Oakbourne, Chester County, Pa. Her hus- 
band is the superintendent of the Penn- 
sylvania Epileptic Hospital there. 
1923 

Next class reunion, 1929, 

Although it was not our reunion year, 
and no special effort was made to get '23- 
ers back on the campus, we had a good 
representation at the 1928 commencement. 
Margaret Brenner, Sarah Belle (Brodnax) 
Hansell, Louise (Brown) Hastings, of 
Lovejoy, Ga.; Helen (Faw) Mull, of 
Cleveland, Ohio; Beth (Flake) Cole, Que- 
nelle Harrold, of Americus, Ga.; Elizabeth 
Hoke, Lincolnton, N. C, Lucile (Little) 
Morgan, of Heflin, Ala.; Josephine (Logan) 
Hamilton, of Appalachia, Va.; Edith Mc- 
Callie, and Hilda (McConnell) Adams, of 
Columbus, Ga., were on the campus. 

Margaret Brenner's engagement was an- 
nounced at the trustees' luncheon to Mr. 
Slaton Awtrey, of Atlanta. 

Louise (Brown) Hastings was largely 
responsible for the attractive luncheon 
table. She -had sent in from her home, 
"Floweracres," an enormous quantity of 
roses and garden flowers for the Entertain- 
ment Committee to use in the table 
baskets. 

Helen (Faw) Mull, Dr. Mull, and their 
two sons drove down from Cleveland to 
spend a month with Helen's family in 
Marietta. The two little Mulls were at 
the baby party Friday afternoon of com- 
mencement week. 

Maud (Foster) Jackson writes from 
Baltimore: "We folded our tents rather 



suddenly and changed from faculty to gov- 
ernment chemist. But since Johns Hop- 
kins campus is at my back door and I 
have Goucher girls come in to take care of 
my son, I feel that I still benefit by some 
university atmosphere. Helen (Faw) Mull 
writes me that she and her family will be 
in evidence at Agnes Scott commencement 
this May. I have a vague hope for the 
following year myself. Please give Miss 
Hopkins and Miss McKinney a special 
word of love and remembrance for me." 
Maud's address is Hamlyn Apts., E-2, 103 
W. 39th St., Baltimore, Md. 

Philippa Gilchrist has finished her work 
in chemistry at the University of Wiscon- 
sin, and armed with a new degree, will be 
back in the department at Agnes Scott 
next fall. 1927-28 is the first year we have 
failed to have a Gilchrist on the campus 
since Philippa came over from Alabama 
as a little freshman in 1919. 

Quenelle Harrold, the president of the 
newly-formed Americus, Ga., Agnes Scott 
club, came to commencement this year, 
bringing with her her mother and two of 
the Americus club members. Other local 
club presidents, please note! Quenelle will 
drive to New York with Dr. Sweet in 
June and spend a few weeks visiting 
friends there. 

Elizabeth Hoke was in Atlanta in May 
for her sister's graduation from Piedmont 
Hospital. She came out to Agnes Scott 
and wept bitter tears because her school 
was not yet out and she couldn't stay 
through all of Agnes Scott's commence- 
ment. 

Lucie Howard has returned from sev- 
eral months stay in Europe. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Hyde an- 
nounce the marriage of their daughter, 
Judith Eleanor, to Mr. Middleton Perry 
White, on May 26, in the city of Dallas, 
Texas. The Whites will be at home at 
5913 Gaston Avenue, Dallas. 

The poor alumnae secretary thinks that 
she must have a whole column or perhaps 
a whole department each Quarterly for er- 
rata. In the last Quarterly the statement 
was made that Eloise (Knight) Jones 
would spend the summer in St. Petersburg, 
Fla., where her husband had charge of a 
church. After waiting impatiently for 
weeks for Eloise to pass through Atlanta 
on her way from Richmond, Va., to St. 
Petersburg, the secretary learns that this 
address was an error; it should have read 
Petersburg, Va. 

Lucy (Little) Morgan has been visiting 
her family in Atlanta during Agnes Scott 
commencement. 

Josephine (Logan) Hamilton, who has 
been ill at the home of her parents in 
Decatur, was sensible enough to get well 
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raent. She has returned to her home in 
Appalachia, Va. 

Lois McClain, who taught in Birming- 
ham, Ala., during this past year, has re- 
turned to her home in Jasper, Ga., where 
she will work in the Pickens County Bank. 

1923 is really so proud of itself and the 
hand that it is taking in alumnae affairs 
that it must brag a little! At the annual 
meeting of the Alumnae Association on 
May 26 at the college, Hilda (McConnell) 
Adams, '23's life president, was elected 
president of the alumnae; Louise (Brown) 
Hastings was elected chairman of the 
Beautifying Grounds and Buildings Com- 
mittee, and Quenelle Harrold chairman of 
the Vocational Guidance Committee. No 
other class has such a record. 

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail accompanied 
her husband to Atlanta recently on a busi- 
ness trip. It was her first visit to At- 
lanta since the 1923 class reunion two 
years ago. She spent the day with Eileen 
(Dodd) Sams, saw Lucile (Little) Mor- 
gan, Mary (Wray) McCash, and she and 
Eileen and Eileen's young son braved a 
torrent of rain to drive out to Agnes Scott. 
Martha's daughter, Alice, recently won the 
silver loving cup at a baby show sponsored 
by the American Legion in Albany. 

Will any member of '23 who has received 
one of Anna Meade's breezy letters from 
Paris pass it on to the alumnae office? 

Myrtle Murphy's engagement has been 
announced to Mr. S. Lindsay Lemmon, of 
Conway, S. C, the marriage to be solemn- 
ized in June. 

Joyce Alexander, ex '23, will be married 
on June 13 to Mr. Albert H. Ryne. 

Elizabeth Armstrong, ex '23, was mar- 
ried on March 8 in Greensboro, N. C. to 
Mr. George Allen Mebane. Mr. Mebane is 
a graduate of the University of North 
Carolina. 

Mary White Caldwell, ex '23, spent a 
few days at the Alumnae House in May. 
She is very modest about telling her ex- 
periences in China, but has some very 
thrilling tales to relate, and pictures of 
Chinese life and landscapes that are most 
alluring. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace Rustin, of 
Washington, D. C, announce the birth of 
a daughter on May 26. The little girl has 
been named Mary Virginia. Mrs. Rustin 
was Jessie Watts, ex '23. 
1924 

Next class reunion, 1929. "It won't be 
long now!" 

Elizabeth Askew has returned to her 
home in Decatur after a year spent study- 
ing in New York City. 

Marguerite Dobbs, Frances (Gilliland) 
Stukes, Josephine Havis, Vivian Little, 
Mary (Mann) Boon, Cora (Morton) Dur- 
rett, Dick Scandrett, Polly Stone, and Au- 



gusta Thomas were the only members of 
'24 back for commencement this year. '18, 
'19, '20, and '27 cavorted over the campus 
this vear in a reunion-mood, but next year 
when '21, '22, '23, and '24 are slated for 
reunions, just watch what a crowd of '24- 
ers throng the Alumnae House! All the 
classes who were in college when we came 
as freshmen will be here, and we have 
every intention of being just as numerous 
and under-foot as we were back in Sep- 
tember, 1920, when an upperclassman re- 
marked, "The whole face of the earth 
seems to be covered with this new '24 
class!" 

Janice Brown and Mary Greene have 
completed their year's work at Columbia, 
given up their little aparatment on 119th 
Street, and are back south again. Mary 
is working in Greenville, S. C, during the 
summer, and Janice is in the public library 
in Greensboro, N. C. 

Margaret (Griffin) Williams has moved 
to 224 Devon Drive, Hollywood, Birming- 
ham, Ala. Margaret writes: "It is a dear 
little English brick bungalow." 

Speedy (King) Wilkins writes: "We 
have .been transferred to Richmond, and 
like it fine." Speedy's new address is 23 
South Blvd., Concourse Apt., Richmond, 
Virginia. 

Lil (Mc Alpine) Butner encloses a note 
with her ballot. "I wish I could drop in 
for commencement with you all. The Quar- 
terly makes it sound very alluring and I 
know from last year just how much fun it 
is, but Betsy Jean is only five months old, 
and I can scarcely leave her yet, or bring 
her with me. She is very fair with big 
blue eyes, and she really is the most in- 
telligent and adorable baby you ever saw." 

Catherine (Nash) Goff is editing the 
bulletin of the staff of the library where 
she works in Washington, D. C. Virginia 
McLaughlin, '20, works in the reference de- 
partment of the same library. Catherine 
says: "Washington is still as fascinating 
as ever, but there is no place like Atlanta, 
and never will be." This is the first trus- 
tee's luncheon that Catherine has missed 
since she became an alumna. 

Montine Pharr was married during June 
to Mr. Sam D. Harlan, of Greer, S. C. 

Whenever you have a luncheon of three 
hundred and fifty people to handle, call in 
Dick Scandrett. She does most of the work 
for the trustees' luncheon to the alumnae 
and Seniors on Saturday of commence- 
ment, and bobs up smiling after it is all 
over! Dick is working again with the 
Florida State College Extension depart- 
ment this summer, visiting the girls' 
camps all over the state. 

Melissa Smith was assistant principal of 
the Ormand Junior High School at Or- 
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she was busier teaching than assisting, 
however, for she had six classes. "I am 
learning if the pupils are not. Three of 
us have a house in Daytona and a 1923 
model Ford. The town predicted that we 
might get to Bartow in it. We did better 
than that. We got it up here and drove it 
five thousand miles, when all at once, 
just like the famous one-horse shay, the 
rear-end fell into pieces. But it is all 1 
back together now and going fine." 

Polly Stone attended the national con- 
vention of alumnae and alumni secretaries 
in Minneapolis, Minn., during May. On 
the way up she stopped over in Chicago 
where she saw Miss Catherine Gault, now 
Mrs. Ed Harrison, and met with the Chi- 
cago group of alumnae. "Rebecca (Green) 
Hinds entertained us at her apartment, the 
decorations and refreshments carrying out 
the color scheme of Agnes Scott, purple 
and white. Martha Stansfield, '21, May 
(Smith) Parsons, '17, Martha (Eakes) 
Matthews, '24, Mary Ferguson, '27, Charis 
(Hood) Barwick, '16, Martha (Brenner) 
Shyrock, '15, Blanche (Ryan) Brim, ex 
'22, were all there." Coming home, she 
spent a day with Miss Howson and 
Philippa Gilchrist at the University of 
Wisconsin, and met Martha (Eakes) 
Matthews and her husband in Chicago be- 
tween trains. "As to plans for the summer, 
just more work! I'm to be at Agnes Scott 
working in Dr. McCain's office all sum- 
mer with the exception of a two weeks' 
trip to New York. Miss MacDougall has 
asked me to drive up with her in her 
new car, and then I'm to meet my brother 
there and come home with him by boat to 
Savannah." Polly asks that any Agnes 
Scott girls coming through Atlanta this 
summer call her up or come by the college 
to see her. 

Annie Wilson Terry has just completed 
a very successful year as English teacher 
at Lanier High School in Montgomery, 
Ala. She writes: "I have no exciting plans 
for the summer. In this respect I am like 
Mr. Micawber  waiting for something to 
turn up!" 

Augusta Thomas and Quenelle Harrold, 
'23, reserved a room together at the 
Alumnae House during commencement. 
Augusta will spend July and August at 
camp in New England. 

Clara Waldrop did such excellent work 
in the High School in Newnan, Ga., that 
she has been elected assistant principal for 
next year. 

Helen Wright had a visit from Helena 
Hermance and Lib Lilly during April. 
"They left Chapel Hill in Helena's car, ac- 
companied by Mrs. Hermance, for a trip to 
Magnolia Gardens at Charleston. It was 
grand to see them again. We went to see 
Elizabeth Douglas, and the four of us had 



quite a 'talk fete.' Helena is busy trying 
to get her thesis written. Lib will finish 
her work this year, but not her thesis. 
Imagine my surprise the other day when I 
ran into Helen Lane Comfort in one of 
the stores here. She was just passing 
through Columbia on her way back to 
Clinton from a library convention. She 
likes her work at Presbyterian College 
very much, but has decided to travel 
abroad next year instead of working. It 
was mighty good to see her again, and 
Agnes Scott was again the center of con- 
versation. As for myself, I am as busy as 
can be coaching the Senior play, going to 
the University, and incidentally teaching 
school." 

1925 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Elizabeth Blalock, is back in Georgia 
again after spending the winter teaching in 
Salem, W. Va. She came up from Jones- 
boro, Ga., for the trustees' luncheon on 
Saturday of commencement. Other '25- 
ers who were at the luncheon were Lucile 
Caldwell, Mary Palmer (Caldwell) Mc- 
Farland, Catherine Carrier, of Asheville, 
N. C; Elizabeth Cheatham, Sarah Full- 
bright, Dorothy Keith, of Greenville, S. C; 
Martha Lin Manly, of Dalton, Ga.; Lillian 
Middlebrooks, Clyde Passmore, Emily 
Spivey, of Eatonton, Ga.; Mary Ben 
Wright, and Jo Marbut. 

Louise (Buchanan) Proctor has moved 
into an apartment at 2101 Highland Ave., 
Birmingham, Ala. Lou has some lovely 
antique furniture which has been handed 
down in her family for generations. 

Catherine Carrier was recently operated 
on for apendicitis. 

Bryte Daniel has been teaching in Green- 
wood, S. C, this year. 

Sallie Horton came over from Birming- 
ham for Emory University commencement. 

Peg (Hyatt) Walker's little daughter is 
named Johnnie Chloe. 

Dorothy Keith's sister, Margaret, was 
graduated this year, so Dot and her mother 
and father came down for commencement 
week. Dot plans to stay at home next 
year and rest up from teaching. 

Mary (Keesler) Dalton's bridesmaids 
included Virginia Peeler, '26; Evelyn 
Powell, '27; Maria Rose, '25. Virginia came 
from New York City and Evelyn from 
Little Rock for the wedding. 

A guest at Margaret (Ladd) May's wed- 
ding writes: "It was a very lovely affair. 
Margaret and Jesse slipped away out the 
back door after the ceremony and were off 
before anyone missed them. It sounds just 
like Margaret, doesn't it?" 

Mary Ann Mc Kinney writes that she has 
invested in a Victory Six Club Coupe. "I'd 
like to drive the cute thing over to com- 
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comes just at the same time, so I can't get 
away. Uncle Frank and I are traveling to- 
gether again this summer." 

Theta Manly went to New York and 
Montreal with the Georgia Press Associa- 
tion in May, going both ways by boat from 
Savannah, and incurring the hatred of all 
the women in the party going up by being 
the only woman who wasn't seasick. Theta 
met Jimmie Walker and all the dignitaries, 
rode up Fifth Avenue at forty miles an 
hour with an escort of police (just like 
Lindbergh!), and painted the town red 
generally. Theta introduced the reunion 
classes at the trustees' luncheon at Agnes 
Scott. 

Josephine Schuessler has been doing 
family welfare work with the organized 
city charities in Columbus, Ga. 

Carolyn (Smith) Whipple visited 
Frances Rainey at Agnes Scott in May. 
She admits that little Barbara Whipple is 
still the world's cutest, prettiest baby. 

Charlotte Smith was maid of honor at 
the wedding of her sister, Florence, '28, on 
June 12 at the Epiphany Church in At- 
lanta. 

Viola Smith is at home trying to keep 
up with the social life of Wauchula, Fla., 
a real job as there are at least ten parties 
a week. 

Frances (Tennent) Ellis and her hus- 
band sailed the last part of April for 
several months' stay in Europe. 

Sarah (Moorehouse) LeHardy, ex '25, 
has come back from the Canal Zone and 
after June first will be at Newport, R. I., 
where her husband is stationed at the 
Torpedo School. 

The marriage has been announced of 
Ann Rebecca Ewing Shive, ex '25, to Mr. 
Herbert Morris Rice, of Norfolk, Va., on 
May 31. 

Christine Turner, ex '25, will be mar- 
ried during June to Mr. Larrabee Daven- 
port Hand, of Pelham, Ga. Yes, he is one 
of The Hands. 

1926 

Next class reunion, 1930. 

Mary Dudley Brown and Mary Martha 
Lybrook, ex '27, stopped off in Atlanta be- 
tween St. Louis and Winston-Salem and 
came out to Agnes Scott for class day 
exercises. They entertained Nan Lingle, 
Adah Knight, Sarah Smith and Polly 
Stone at a dinner party in town that night. 
Dudley attended commencement at David- 
son College, where her brother, Elmer, is a 
member of the graduating class. 

Edythe Carpenter's engagement has been 
announced to Mr. John Earle Shuey, of 
Miami, the wedding to take place on June 
12. 

Isabelle Clarke represented Atlanta Girl 
Scout leaders at the southern states con- 
vention of the Girl Scouts, held in Winston- 
Salem the last of April. 



Edythe Coleman continues to assist the 
Atlanta debutantes to get married. We 
wonder what the penalty is for "twelve 
times a bridesmaid?" 

Louisa Duls was the star of the play 
carried to New York by the Blackfriars 
in the Belasco Cup contest in May. She 
won that rare article in New York  per- 
sonal applause. Louisa attended Agnes 
Scott commencement. 

Juanita Greer is distinguishing herself in 
her work in the chemistry department at 
Johns Hopkins. 

Mary Ella Hammond came up from 
Griffin for Agnes Scott commencement. 

Nan Lingle has been visiting Frisky 
Cooper and Sarah Smith in Atlanta during 
commencement. Nan will be in charge of 
a daily vacation Bible school in Richmond, 
Va., for the summer. 

Virginia Peeler was a bridesmaid in 
Mary Keesler's wedding in May in Char- 
lotte, N. C. 

Florence Perkins had as her guest re- 
cently Mrs. Walter Willard, known to 
Agnes Scott as Miss Coma Cole, and little 
Patricia Willard. 

Louise (Pfeiffer) Ringel moved from 
Brunswick to Atlanta on June 1. 

Ethel (Redding) Niblock and Captain 
Niblock visited in Decatur during May. 

Olivia Swann, Birmingham, Ala., Rosalie 
Wootten, Charlotte, N. C, and Ladie Sue 
Wallace, Rutledge, Ga., were among the 
members of '26 who attended commence- 
ment this year. 

Virginia Wing's wedding on June 16 to 
Mr. George William Power, of Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., will be one of unusual loveli- 
ness. Virginia lives at Bullock Hall, Ros- 
well, Ga., the old home of Mittie Bullock, 
the mother of Theodore Roosevelt. The 
ceremony will be performed in the lovely 
old colonial home, with the decorations, 
bridesmaids' costumes, and every detail of 
the wedding carrying out the colonial idea. 
Mr. Power is a graduate of the University 
of Pennsylvania and a member of the 
Kappa Sigma fraternity, the Signal Moun- 
tain Country Club and the Dynamo club 
of Chattanooga. 

Myrtice Dunaway, ex '26, was married 
in January to Mr. Frank Clement Shaw, of 
Kingsington, Ga. 

Mary ("Toya") Junkin, ex '28, was among 
the few students at the Vesper George 
art school in Boston who made the honor 
roll this year. 

Martha Turner, ex '28, is now Mrs. 
Gerald Fauntleroy Errambert, of 907 E. 
Adams St., Ocala, Fla. Mr. Errambert is 
an alumnus of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and a member of the Tau Delta Phi 
fraternity. He is connected with the 
United States Forestry service, and is 
citrus inspector for the plant board. 



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Grace Chay, of Korea, a foiTtier student 
at Agnes Scott, was graduated this May 
from the Woman's College in Due West, 
S. C. She plans to return to Korea im- 
mediately to teach. 

Roslyn Patterson Moncrief, ex '29, was 
married in June to Mr. Holmes DuPree 
Jordan. Mr. Jordan is a graduate of Ogle- 
thorpe University in the class of '26, and 
has had a year as a graduate student on 
a trip around the world in the "University 
Afloat." He is connected with the Atlanta 
office of the Scoville Manufacturing Com- 
pany, of Waterbury, Conn. 

1889-1906 

Laura (Anderson) Duke's address has at 
last been found. It is 1808 Ashwood Ave., 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Nell Atkinson is Mrs. Walter Jones 
Hammond, Thomasville, Ga. Her husband 
is a lawyer. 

Essie Marie Baker is Mrs. J. L. Ether- 
edge, 910 Heard Ave., Augusta, Ga. She 
has a daughter studying voice in New York 
City, and a son at the University of Geor- 
gia. 

Ida (Beckman) Remfrey is living in 
Jackson, Miss. 

Rena (Brandon )Lawson's husband is 
secretary of the Georgia Bar Association, 
which met during May in Savannah. 

Laura Boyd is Mrs. William Shallen- 
berger, 82 Westminster Drive, Atlanta. 

Nelle Brown is director of the Tubercu- 
losis Association clinics in Atlanta. She 
lives at 430 Boulevard, N. E. 

Myrtis Buchanan is Mrs. F. A. Risse, 763 
Pulliam St., S. W., Atlanta. 

Delle Carlton still lives in Union Point, 
Ga. She is Mrs. James Hart Sibley. 

Mary Carter is Mrs. George Hamilton, 
of Dalton, Ga. She has three daughters 
and one son. 

Arabella Farr Crane was married in 
1907 to Mr. Des Champs. She is a widow 
now, living in San Jose, California. She 
has no children. 

Corinne Cluis Davis was married in 1902 
to Mr. Wallace J. Fraser, a certified public 
accountant of Atlanta. They have two 
children: Mrs. Lee Carpenter, of New York 
City, and Olive Fraser who is now at the 
North Avenue Presbyterian school in At- 
lanta. The Frasers live at 977 Ponce de 
Leon Ave., N. E., Apt. 5. 

Catherine Dillon is Mrs. Arthur Charles 
Shepherd, of Nashville, Tenn. Her hus- 
band is United States attorney. 

Mamie Dobbins is Mrs. M. M. Shaw, 307 
Soicety St., Albany, Ga. 

Dorothy Dyrenforth (Mrs. Luman) has 
moved to 1181 Post Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

Frances K. Fisher is Mrs. Alfred C. War- 
ren, 902 S. Dakota, Tampa, Fla. Her hus- 
band is with the Coca-Cola Company. They 
have no children. Her diminutive twin 



sister, Lucy, is Mrs. Lucy Smythe, a widow, 
living in Coachella, California. She has a 
general merchandise store and Coca-Cola 
bottling plant. 

Ethel (Flemister) Fite has a son grad- 
uating from high school in Dalton, Ga. Her 
other child is a younger daughter. 

Melrose (Franklin) Kennedy is spending 
a few months at 74 Oakland Road, Ashe- 
ville, N. C, with her daughter, Evelyn. 

Eva Gordon is teaching in the Nicholas- 
ville, Kentucky, city school. 

Mae Griggs is keeping house at 445 
Langhorn St., S. W., Atlanta. She is Mrs. 
Comer L. Parsons. 

Rosa Harden was married in 1902 to Mr. 
Malcolm D. Jones. They are living in 
Crescent City, Fla., where Mr. Jones is 
engaged in the life insurance business. 
Their daughter, Emily Capers Jones, was 
graduated from Agnes Scott in 1925. 

Mattie Ward Henderson is Mrs. A. L. 
Harris, 212 7th Ave., Tampa, Fla. 

Eva Hildreth is assistant postmaster at 
Live Oak, Fla. 

Edith (Hooper) Mangum is living in 
Waynesville, N. C. Her husband is pastor 
of the Methodist church there. 

Addie (Horn) Reece and her young son 
live at Sewanee, Tenn. 

Lyda Jackson is Mrs. J. B. Daggett, 
Marianna, Ark. 

Margaret Jewett is Mrs. Hamel Chesh- 
ire, 491 Lee St., Atlanta. She is a dicta- 
phone operator and stenographer with the 
Otis Elevator Company. 

Mabel Jewell is Mrs. J. N. G. Miles, 857 
Cherokee Ave., S. W., Atlanta. 

Pauline (Johnson) Muirhead's husband 
is a farmer and celery and lettuce grower 
of Sanford, Fla. They have five children, 
two of them grown. 

Julia Baxter (Jones) Holcomb has two 
children, John, 14, and Lorena, 11. They 
are living at 524 Piatt St., Tampa, Fla. 

Julia (Judge) Harkness is assistant 
postmaster at Eutaw, Ala. 

Margaret (Kirk) Cleaver's husband is an 
orchardist in Imbler, Oregon. 

Mary Kirkpatrick's present address is 
Yorktown, Va. 

Elizabeth Lanier is Mrs. Allen Johnson, 
care Martha's Farm, Lynchburg, Va. 

Mary Letford is teaching in the public 
schools in Waycross, Ga. .  

Helen Octavia McCormick's husband, Dr. 
Harry E. Kirk, of Baltimore, was elected 
moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 
the U. S. when the Presbyterian General 
Assembly met in Atlanta in May. 

Maude McKeown is Mrs. M. J. McFad- 
den, Clinton, S. C. Her husband is a dent- 
ist. They have one son, Dossey Howze 
McFadden. 

Eft'ie Means is Mrs. J. D. McFadden, 
Alachua, Fla. Her husband is a farmer. 



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Leola Millette is Mrs. James Jordan, 
730 E. White Oak Ave., Monrovia, Calif. 

Katie Lou Morgan is Mrs. R. B. Simms, 
Spartanburg, S. C. 

Frances Newman's new book, "Dead 
Lovers Are Faithful Lovers," was placed 
on sale May 2 by Boni and Liveright. The 
first edition of 10,000 copies has already 
been ordered by bookstores throughout 
America, placing the novel immediately 
among the season's best sellers. It will be 
published simultaneously by Martin Seeker 
in England. The scene of "Dead Lovers 
Are Faithful Lovers" is laid in Atlanta, 
Frances Newman's home town, and the 
scene of her other novel, "The Hard-Boiled 
Virgin." Some of the most sparkling bits 
of the new book are the pictures of At- 
lanta's social life, especially the discription 
of the week of Metropolitan opera every 
spring in Atlanta. Frances Newman her- 
self is spending several months abroad. 

Nellie Mae Redding is Mrs. J. M. Fen- 
nell, 1257 W. Union St., Gainesville, Fla. 

Caroline Rosborough is in the sales de- 
partment of John Rudin and Co., of Chi- 
cago, with Atlanta, Ga., as her territory- 
She lives at 670 Washington St., S. W. 

Eva Rushing is Mrs. M. L. Ward, 1712 
Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

Bonner Simms is Mrs. Ralph L. Turner, 
McDonough, Ga. 

Nonnie (Tatum) Haile's husband is in 
the seed and feed business in Leesburg, 
Fla. They have three grown children. 

Olivia Tilly is Mrs. John Lipsey, Syca- 
more, Ga. 

Emily Trotti is Mrs. Luther J. Hulsey, 
567 Ridgecrest Rd., N. E., Atlanta. 

Ethel Tye is Mrs. John M. Gilchrist, 5409 
Blackstone Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Allie (Watlington) Barnett and her hus- 
band attended May Day at Sweet Briar 
College in Virginia. Their daughter, 
Frances, who is a sophomore at Sweet 
Briar, was a member of the May Queen's 
court. 

Clarinda (Whetstone) Scarboro is teach- 
ing music in Ellaville, Fla. 

Essie Lee Whitfield is Mrs. Warren S. 
Reese, 420 Alabama, Montgomery, Ala. 

Edith M. (Williams) DuPree is now Mrs. 
M. Philip Schlich, 608 Capitol Hill Apts., 
Little Rock, Ark. She is a social service 
secretary. Her four children are: Mrs. 
H. E. Hampton, San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. J. 
B.: Youmans, Decatur, Ga.; E. L. DuPree, 
Jr., New York City; and Ruth DuPree, At- 
lanta. 

Mattie B. Winn is Mrs. B. H. Wright, 
Thomasville, Ga. 

Sadie Young is Mrs. J. C. Sheffield, Lake 
City, Fla. 



Mary (Zenor) Palmer writes from U. S. 
Veterans' Hospital No. 72, Fort Harrison, 
Montana: "I was transferred here from 
Chicago last July. Am in the same work, 
that of occupational therapy." Mail to her 
must be addressed "via Helena, Montana." 

ACADEMY NEWS 

1906-1913 

While we hunted frantically through the 
state of Idaho for Mary Louise Hagood, 
registered from Rossfork, she was living 
just a few block from the Alumnae House! 
bhe is now Mrs. Hugh Trotti, 230 Wilton 
Drive, Decatur, Ga. 

Louise Harwell is Mrs. Herbert Coons, 
230 E. 47th St., Savannah, Ga. 

Marguerite (Harper) Burke is living at 
214 N. Kildare Ave., Chicago. 

Addie Marsh (Home) Reece is making 
her home temporarily at the University of 
the south in Sewanee, Tenn. She is a 
widow with one son, William Marsh Reece, 
aged six. Her husband was Captain Wil- 
liam Raleigh Reece, a government audi- 
tor with the department of Justice in 
Washington, D. C. In 1924, Addie lost 
her other little son, Harold Thomas Reece, 
at the age of two. 

Ruth (Jordan) Garliel has moved to 1843 
Elm St., Stratford, Conn. Her husband is 
judge of the common pleas court of the 
county of Fairfield. They have a girl nine 
years old, and a boy four. 

Minnie Lee McCaskill is Mrs. William 
Ide Stinson, DeFuniak Springs, Fla. 

Kathryn Parrish is Mrs. L. R. Hanna, 
1628 N. 29th St., Birmingham, Ala. 

Lydia Sherard is Mrs. W. E. Brackett, 
1110 4th Ave., W., Hendersonville, N. C. 

Maybell (Way) Turner is living in 
Thomasville, Ga. 

Louise Wilson is Mrs. Sam N. Clarke, 
Tarboro, N. C. Her husband is a merchant. 

NECROLOGY 

In checking over the alumnae since the 
Register was published last August, we 
find records of the death of the following: 

Madeline Arline (Mrs. Allen T. Holmes), 
died 1918. 

Lilla Hazlehurst Burroughs. 

Louise Caldwell, died 1918. 

Eula Donaldson (Mrs. Robertson), died 
1916. 

Cobbie Hood (Mrs. J. H. Walters), died 
March, 1928. Is survived by her husband 
and three children. 

Mary Lou Nisbet. 

Mattie Whetston, died 1899. 



After the excitement and crowds of commencement week, the 
campus seems now very quiet and deserted. In looking over the old 
annuals, we find this in the '24 book: 

"When June days come to Georgia 

I see my daughters leave, 
And through the three long summer months 

My lonely towers grieve. 
But soon the great oaks scatter 

Their scarlet leaves o'er Main,  
The gates are wide, when autumn comes, 

To Welcome you again!" 



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