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In order to claim a provisional gift of
$50,000 towards the greater Agnes Scott devel-
opment plan, the alumnae must pledge $30,000
by January Jst, -.1929.

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We must not Jose this generous gift by
failure to meet the challenge! Read Dr. Mc-
Cain's message to the Alumnae on page three.

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The President's Page

DR. McCAIN DISCUSSES THE AGNES SCOTT CAMPAIGN

For several months the Alumnae have heard that this campaign was pending. At
the last annual meeting you endorsed it and your enthusiasm inspired the Trustees to
go forward.

It has taken some time to work out the details of what ought to be attempted in
this present effort, for we realize that everything else may have to wait for a long
time. The Trustees have finally agreed that the following items surely must be
included:

Administration-Recitation Building $300,000

Gaines Memorial Chapel '. 125,000

Steam Plant and Laundry 125,000

Day Student Club House 25,000

Land and Improvements 115,000

Paving, Sewers, and Steam Lines 25,000

Permanent Equipment 25,000

Endowment and Scholarships 260,000

Total $1,000,000

The Trustees have petitioned the General Education Board of New York to give
us $500,000 if we will do our part, as suggested above. If we can secure this aid,
we would be able to add to our campaign goals the following:

New Dormitory and Dining Room $100,000

(Replacing White House)

Fine Arts Building and Auditorium 100,000

Additional Endowment and Scholarships 300,000

Total $500,000

We have had an interesting time with the General Education Board. They have
helped us three different times and are believers in Agnes Scott. Heretofore they have
helped to initiate our campaigns by making the first offer, and then we have gone to
our friends to match it. We were anxious to have them do this again. It would cer-
tainly be a fine talking point for vis. The Board officials said in reply to our request
for an immediate offer, in effect, as follows: "We have practically withdrawn from
the field of helping colleges, but we are willing to consider your case. We have
been taking the first step and showing our interest to stimulate others. Our Board is
just as human as your other friends. Let the Alumnae and Trust as and others who
believe in you take the initiative this time and make a conditional pledge for us to
meet. We will not promise to do it, but we will be impressed if you make a good
showing."

We must confess that they have given us a fair challenge, and I believe we will
meet it. I am hopeful that the Board will co-operate, perhaps not with so large a
sum as we are asking, but with a generous gift.

In order that we may move as rapidly as possible, without incurring too much
expense, we are beginning our efforts here at the College and in Decatur and Atlanta.
The campus campaign is well organized, with one of our Alumnae Miss Llewellyn \\ il-
burn, 1919) as Captain. Two other Alumnae are on the Committee Misses Lucile
Alexander and Margaret Bland. We are hoping to have the faculty and student pledges
taken before Thanksgiving.

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At the same time we are organizing the Alumnae of Atlanta and Decatur, and
gratifying results have already been obtained. The average pledge, payable over a
five-year period, has been about $240, and the unanimity of responses and the fine en-
thusiasm have greatly cheered us.

How can you help us? We certainly need your assistance as never before. We
are very anxious to finish all the work in Fulton and DeKalb Counties before Christmas.
Won't the Alumnae in this section let us know when we can see you most conveniently?

After Christmas we will be working in the cities where we have groups of Alumnae
and other friends. Where shall we begin? Won't you be planning for a rally, and
we will send Miss Polly Stone or Miss Hopkins or some other Agnes Scotter to help you
plan the work.

Also won't you give Agnes Scott the right of way in making plans for the near
future? If we can all pull together just now, we will win a great victory.

We need some large gifts in order to achieve our goals the gift of the organ for
the Chapel, a donation of the windows for it, the equipping of a memorial class room
any department in the new recitation hall, etc. If you cannot consider this yourself,
please tell us of some friend who might be interested. We need Jists of prospects. We
like to get letters from you even if you wish to criticise the plans on our progress.
Suggestions are most welcome. We do appreciate all you are doing.

NEWS FROM THE FRENCH DEPARTMENT

Miss Lucile Alexander, French department head, discusses plan for Junior year
abroad.

Through the generosity of our Board of Trustees, inspired by the intelligent interest
and initiative of our President, Agnes Scott has taken a forward step: a French student
on her campus this year. Dr. McCain has offered through the Institute of International
Education, to a graduate of a Lycee a scholarship covering tuition and living expenses.
This student's time is to be devoted to such subjects as will lead to a B. A. degree from
Agnes Scott, the only demands on her time being her efforts to help create a French
atmosphere by encouraging the speaking of French among the students of that language,
and by contributing to the programs of the French club. The problem of determining
her academic status by working out equivalents led to a comparison of the French and
the American systems of education. Some of the findings of the Committee to whom
the question was referred will certainly interest the large number of alumnae engaged
in teaching as well as the smaller group intersted in all things French.

There are striking differences in ideal, standard, and basic principles. (See "The
Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe," by W. S. Learned,
issued by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.)

The standard is not the average, but the best: the capable student is never sacrificed
to the average student. The function of the Lycee is to select and train an elite which
the University may later refine for the professions. The ideal is a general culture,
thorough and complete, that assures precision of thought, refinement of detail, delicacy
of discrimination. The basic principles of the curriculum are continuity and correlation;
every subject begun continues to grow and deepen, enriched by a parallel development in
other subjects; materials are constantly re-worked from fresh angles and the student's
attention is constantly fixed, not on amassing of credits, but on the quality of his
thinking. Training is intellectual, not vocational "the twilight zone between general
culture and specialization" does not appear in the Lycee.

The crown and glory of French Secondary Education are the professors: a prepar-
ation of seven years of severe University study is necessary for the competitive aggrega-

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tion by which the professors are chosen and less than ten per cent, of the contestants
are chosen. They are specialists and brilliant examples of intellectual force and refine-
ment who compel respect.

Options exist in the seven-year Lycee course options which permit emphasis on
ancient or modern languages, on a Latin or a scientific training; the fundamental choice
once made, however, the curriculum is not referred to the student's personal taste, to
bis temporary likes or dislikes. No entrance examinations, and only lenient tests for
promotion from year to year; everything depends on the oral and written examinations
in the last two years. These examinations, given, not by the teachers of the student, but
by the University, require long-range thinking rather than memory; the student is always
conscious that his education must bring forth fruit in a final product of which the
public may take account. The quality of the product is the sole consideration and ruth-
less elimination in the final tests encounters no sentimental obstacles.

The decision of the committee was that our French student is entitled to Junior
standing with the privilege of earning her B. A. in two years. The presence among
our students of a girl trained according to such standards cannot fail to be an inspiration
and a stimulus to intellectual efforts.

Of interest to future students of our College is the announcement that the faculty
has approved the plan of the "junior year abroad" for students who can qualify. This
plan was inaugurated in 1922 by the University of Delaware with a group of eight
of their students. Interest in the plan grew rapidly, and Smith College developed a
similar plan to care for Smith Juniors. At the request of other colleges and universities
the Delaware group has been opened to students from other standard instituions. The
1926-27 group numbered forty-five students from twenty institutions.

The Junior Year Abroad is a full calendar year (July to July) with three months
of preliminary training (intensive drill in the language at the University of Nancy) and
nine months at the Sorbonne. The work is strictly supervised by the Committee on
Foreign Study of the University of Delaware, composed of three professors and five pre-
ceptors. The instruction is by formal lecture supplemented by the tutorial system
(based on that of Oxford). The object of this plan is, in general, the broader outlook
and the wider interest, the strengthening of international friendship founded on under-
standing and good will.

The qualifications as formulated by the University of Delaware are: In general,
high intellectual gifts, mature character, industrious habits. Since there is a double task,
the student who qualifies must be willing to work harder and more continuously than at
home. In particular: recommendations from the French Department, the Faculty and
Dean of your College; permission of parents or guardian; health certificate; agreement
to accept the authority of the Delaware Foreign Study Bureau in France.

Undergraduate scholarships of $300 (sufficient for the ocean passage) are available
through the generosity of friends of the Delaware plan.

As Agnes Scott alumnae we are eager to make our college widely and favorably-
known. The sooner our students qualify for this wider contact the nearer we will be
to the realization of our ambition.

ON THE CAMPUS

OPENING
The formal opening of the 1928-29 session took place in the chapel in Rebekah
Scott on September 12th. Dr. McCain presided, and Mr. J. K. Orr, chairman of the
Board of Trustees, and Mrs. B. R. Adams (Hilda McConnell, '23), president of the
Alumnae Association, welcomed the new students and the old. The address of the day
was made by the Bishop of Atlanta, Right Reverend H. J. Mikcll, who spoke on "College
As An Adventure." Mr. Orr disappointed the old students and alumnae present by not

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giving his usual speech on "Modesty," but he laughingly told them that he had grown
hoarse saying that, and that he had hit on the scheme of having it printed and distribut-
ing it in this way.

"How many students does Agnes Scott have, anyway?" Are people constantly
asking you that? And you can't exactly tell them? For your convenience and because
we know you are always interested in the "little sisters" in college, we give the exact
figures of the student body for this 1928-29 session.

Freshmen 157

Sophomores 99

Juniors 85

Seniors 91

Unclassified 11

Total 443

These girls come from twenty-two different states and the District of Columbia.
Though most of them are Southerners, it is interesting to note the distribution by states
and countries among these four hundred and forty-three students. Two hundred twelve
(212) are from the State of Georgia, one hundred ninety-nine (199) from other South-
ern States, fourteen (14) from the- West, nine (9) from the North, and nine (9) from
foreign countries. States as far north as Maine and as far west as New Mexico are rep-
resented, and there are students from China, Japan, Korea, France, Mexico, and Vene-
zuela.

We are glad of the distinctly religious atmosphere that prevails on our campus,
and equally glad of the broad spirit of tolerance. Perhaps the alumnae may be interested
to see the figures showing the church affiliations of the present student body. The
Presbyterians lead with two hundred twenty- three (223); next come Methodists with
ninety-six (96), Baptists with sixty (60), and Episcopalians with thirty-six (36). The
other denominations named below have from one to six members: Moravian, Disciple,
Ethical Culture, Jewish, Lutheran, Christian Science, Associate Reform Presbyterian,
Catholic and Congregational. It is a remarkable fact that in so large a college student
body there are only two students who have no church affiliations.

STUNT NIGHT

For the two younger classes the weeks from the opening of college till October 6th
were one continuous preparation for that big event Black Cat night! The Freshman
and Sophomore stunts were both extremely clever this year, and quite evenly matched
a thing which does not always happen. The Freshmen presented "The Shaming of the
Sheiks" the rowdy Sophomores, of course, being the sheiks. The scenes were laid on the
campus, and in the Decatur desert and the stage effects for the desert scene were really
wonderfully good! The camel (donated by MacDougall and Pirkle, zoologists, according
to the program) was a marvel of co-operation between front and hind legs.

The Sophomore stunt was called "Silhouettes," and transported the audience to
Aggie's Alley on D. Katur's Plantation and to the Black Bury Patch, where ghosts
walked. The Gold Dust twins, watermelon boys, and Hi Yallers were better than any
Al G. Field minstrel, and the entire stunt was so very cleverly thought out and executed
that the judges awarded the coveted Black Cat to the Sophs. You know what pande-
monium broke loose then!

FRENCH STUDENT

Perhaps the most interesting student on the campus this winter is Mile. Marguerite
Gerard, of Paris, France, who is studying at the college on a fellowship offered by Dr.
McCain through the Institute of International Education. She is a graduate of the

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Lycee, speaks excellent English, and is adapting herself to her new environment very
rapidly.

LECTURE ASSOCIATION

Miss Torrance, head of the Lecture Association, has secured six speakers for the
1928-29 season, and the two of these lectures which are already past, have been very
delightful.

Df. H. S. Jennings, head of the department of zoology at Johns Hopkins University,
spoke on "What Can We Hope From Eugenics?" on October 18th.

On October 29th Auguste V. Desclos, assistant director of the office national des
universities et ecoles francaise, spoke on "University Life in Paris Past and Present."
We are especially interested in the "Junior year in France" plan.

The next speaker will be Mrs. Karl Wilson Baker, distinguished poet, from Nacog-
doches, Texas. We are especially glad to welcome Mrs. Baker to Agnes Scott, since she
is a personal friend of one of the '2 5 girls Mary Ann McKinney.

Cecil Roberts, famous English novelist, poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, will speak
on "What Europe Is Thinking," on February 4th.

Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, prominent American clubwoman and press correspon-
dent at Geneva, will speak on "International Relations Viewed From the Press Gallery,"
on February 4th.

The last number on the season's program will be an illustrated travel talk on "Flying
Over Pike's Peak," by Gilbert McClurg, on March 7th.

Tickets for these lectures are priced at $1.00 each. Reservations for tickets and for
a room in the Alumnae House on the night of the lecture may be made through the
alumnae office.

FACULTY NOTES

We welcome to the faculty this year
several of our members who have been
away on leave, as well as some six or
eight new professors.

Miss Laney, who has been working on
her Ph.D. at Yale for two years, is back
with us. Miss Howson and Miss Philippa
Gilchrist have returned from their year of
study at the University of Wisconsin. Miss
Haynes and Miss Sinclair are back in their
old offices in the gym after getting a
master's degree in physical education at
Columbia, and a B. S. at William and
Mary, rspectively. Miss Hale is again
in the French department. She studied at
Columbia last winter.

To take the place of Miss Hearon, we
have Mr. Philip Davidson, Jr. Mr. David-
son is a graduate of the University of
Mississippi and the University of Chicago,
and it is through Dr. Dodd at Chicago that
we secured him. With him, came Mrs.
Davidson and little Page and Philip, Jr.,
to live in the cottage known to many of
the alumnae as Dr. Armistead's home.

Miss Harn is on leave this year, study-
ing in Germany. The acting professor of
German, Dr. Alfred R. de Jonge, is from

Berlin University. Dr. de Jonge has a
good baritone voice, too, having sung in
opera in South America, and he and his
wife are charming additions to the faculty
circle.

During the summer, Miss Eagleson was
married to Mr. Thomas M. Scruggs, of
Seattle, Wash. She is teaching this winter
at Johns Hopkins University. To take her
place, we have Miss Katharine T. Omwake,
M. A. and Ph. D., from George Washing-
ton University, Washington, D. C. Miss
Omwake has served as associate profes-
sor of psychology at her alma mater and
as assistant psychologist of the Bureau of
Public Personnel Administration.

Dr. and Mrs. Logan's year of leave was
up in the summer, and they have returned
to their home in Japan. As her new assist-
ant, Mrs. Sydenstricker has in the Bible
department Miss Margaret L. Engle, of
Johns Hopkins University. She has taught
in North Carolina and West Virginia, and
has served as economic and financial re-
search assistant in the Inter-American
High Commission in the State Depart-
ment, Washington. Miss Engle was at the
Training School in Richmond with Beth
(McClure) McGeachy, '23, and Margaret
(McDow) MacDougall, '24.

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From The Alumnae Office

"The World Does Move"

It is quite evident that the world and
his wife moved on September 1st. Ten
million addresses have changed! Those
who did not return from vacations in time
to get out on September 1st, by a colos-
sal effort managed it by the 15th of that
month; no alumna lives where she did be-
fore! If you have moved, won't you send
your new address to the alumnae office
and so save it the trouble and expense of
chasing you for blocks and weeks? And
don't be selfish and send only your own
new address, but those of any alumnae
friends who have moved.

From Old Trunks and Mothballs

Many and varied are the discussions that
go on the Alumnae House living room
among returning Agnes Scotters! Last
spring a group of '23 girls were discussing
the museum in Washington where figures
of the presidents' wives display the gowns
of their administrations. Why not have
in the museum in the new Fine Arts Build-
ing at Agnes Scott a collection of typical
school-girl frocks from the very begin-
ning of Agnes Scott? It would be an
interesting study to watch the skirts go
up and down and widen and narrow. If
we could get a typical school costume for
every college generation every four
years all the way from 1889 to 1928, and
then keep adding to this every four years,
it would be one of the most interesting
and unique collections anywhere. What
do the other alumnae think of it? Will
those who have old school dresses they
would be willing to donate to the museum
let the fact be known? A typical '19
costume of blue serge middy suit and high
laced shoes has already been sent in, and
as recent as that date is, the costume is
even now interestingly old-fashioned.
A Mighty Splashing Is Heard

Perhaps we are too informal in the
"From the Alumnae Office" columns. We
seem to believe in telling not only the
truth, but the whole truth. Shall we dis-
cuss bathtubs ? The alumnae who once
lived in Main hall will be interested to
know that three new tubs and twelve new
basins have been installed on second and
third floors there, old pipes taken up and
new ones laid, so that there is now such
a thing as water pressure at five-thirty in
the afternoon and nine-thirty at night. A
mighty splashing is heard!

Other changes in Main are the new steps
leading from the phone-pad down to the
basement. Those steps had been worn con-
cave by the hundreds of feet dashing hope-

fully down to the mail room and plodding
(often) dejectedly back. And let us not
forget the beds! Not only in Main but in
all the dormitories the beds have been
done over in dark walnut, so that am-
bitious students trying oh, so hard! to
make their bedrooms look like studies don't
have the problem of the glaring white iron
bed to conceal.

We have saved the best to the last: there
is now a telephone in each dormitory
even the cottages! Those of us who "have
gone on before" remember only too well
the long discussions we had weekly yearly
on Open Forum night in Student Gov-
ernment meetings. How we begged for
telephones! While we were in college we
enjoyed privileges that those who preceded
us had obtained, and now the present gen-
eration of students is enjoying those we
won for them, and planning for even bet-
ter things for future Agnes Scotters.
We Swim and Dive

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, head of the
Physical Education department at the col-
lege this year, and a graduate in the class
of '19, has generously offered to chase
the students out of the pool for an hour
every Friday morning and let the alumnae
have it all to themselves. Nowadays no
student can graduate who cannot swim
the length of the pool, but in ye old days,
when an elongated bathtub was all the
swimming pool Agnes Scott had, there
was no such requirement for graduation,
and a number of land-lubbers received
diplomas. Llewellyn now offers an op-
portunity for those who live near the col-
lege to come back and make good that
deficiency. She has a class for beginners,
and even timid souls whose idea of "going
swimming" has hithertofore been some-
thing along the lines of the old nursery
rhyme of hanging clothes on a hickory
limb and not going near the water, are
gurgling and strangling and swallowing
gallons of the pool and eventually getting
proficient enough to stay in the deep end.
Regulation suits are furnished, and there
is no charge for the use of the pool or
for instruction. At last: something for
nothing!

Fascinating Reading

The class scrapbooks, given by Mary
(West) Thatcher, '15, two years ago, are
becoming valuable stores of alumnae keep-
sakes. Pictures of alumnae, of their
babies, husbands, homes, and newspaper
clippings of their various activities, make
the books fascinating reading for return-
ing alumnae. Send all such material to
the alumnae office.

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Mortarboards and Robes

Last year a plea was published in the
"Quarterly" for alumnae with academic
robes and headgear packed away in old
trunks to unearth it and donate it to the
Alumnae House. Quite a few responses
came from this paragraph. We now have
a number of caps and gowns which are
rented out to the Seniors, the revenue
going into the alumnae treasury. We
still do not have enough to make an im-
pressive showing at commencement, but as
soon as a sufficient number are donated,
we shall stop renting them and keep them
in the House for returning alumnae to
wear as part of the academic procession
at commencement. Take this paragraph
to heart, and if you have one packed up in
mothballs, shake it to the breeze a few
minutes and then mail it to the alumnae
secretary.

"And We Don't Mean May-Be!"

In urging their members to return for
class reunion in May, 1929, the secretary
of '24 has used the catchy phrase, "This
coming May and we don't mean May-be!"
She is a generous soul, and has said that
all the reunion classes might catch on and
use it too.

November isn't one bit too early to be
thinking about plans for next May! Mem-
bers of reunion classes '03, '04, '05, '21,
'22, '23, '24 have all sorts of entangle-
ments to keep them in their various homes
and businesses when next May rolls around,
and it is an excellent idea to begin this
early to foil every scheme that can arise
to prevent their coming. Railroad fare
from far states? Begin saving this month!
Small children? Be nice to your mother-
in-law or sister from now on so that she'll
agree to keep them for just one week-end!
A hard-boiled boss? Begin now to smooth
him down and do an hour's extra work
from time to time so that he'll be glad
to grant a few extra days to such a valua-
ble employee! Obstinate old fi'iends and
roommates whom you don't want to come
back without, and who say they simply
can't get here? You have seven months
to change that opinion! Reunions are so
much more enjoyable if the girls who were
your closest friends in college are here
too. So, how about spending a little time
from now until May catching up with your
correspondence, and urging those you used
to know and love the best here on the
campus to meet you here again? The
alumnae office will be glad to furnish you
with married names and present addresses
of any old friends with whom you have
lost touch.

We Boast Alumni

All the way from California came one
of our five alumni to see his Alma Mater

again! Mr. Albert Mead, president of the
Riverside Mortgage Company, of River-
side, California, was once freckle-faced
little Albert Mead, pupil at the Decatur
Female Seminary. He and the four other
little boys in attendance delighted in such
things as slipping worms and spiders into
the girl pupils' pockets, jerking plaits and
curls, snatching and running away with
lunch-boxes, and being the scourge of
the campus generally. They were banished
from the Seminary after one hectic year,
and had to seek other hunting grounds
in which to pursue their education, but
they carried away under their small jack-
ets an abiding love for Agnes Scott and
its presiding angel, Miss Hopkins. And
when Mr. Mead was east on a business trip
in October, he came many miles out of
his way to see again the dear place and
the dear lady. Agnes Scott welcomed back
gladly one of her '"favorite sons!"

Agnes Scott at Montreat

"Agnes Scott bones have risen again!"
This was proven true on the Lakeside
building porch at Montreat, N. C, the first
of August, when Charlotte (Jackson)
Mitchell, of the class of '14, called together
the Hottentots present on the ground.
Twenty-four answered the call. Seven
states Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia,
South Carolina, Mississippi, North Caro-
lina and Alabama and two foreign coun-
tries China and Korea were represented.
Among the number were two brides.
Classes from 1902 to 1930 were represent-
ed. The following were present: Rachel
Henderlite, '28; Anne Turner, '30; Peggy
Lou Armstrong, '30; Shannon Preston,
'30; Sarah Armfield, '30; Janie Mc-
Gaughey, '13, Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin, '06;
Annie Kirk (Dowdell) Turner, '02; Mary
Wallace Norton, Elizabeth (Curry) Winn,
'07; Jane G. Curry, '04; Julia Rush Bald-
win, Julia Lake Skinner, '19; Mrs. Taylor
Cowan, Ted Wallace, '28; Frances Bitzer,
'25; Grace Carr, '27; Elizabeth Griffin,
'25; Peggy Rankin, '27; Frances (Glasgow)
Patterson, 1'9; Louise Slack, '20; Eva
(Wassum) Cunningham, '23; Jeannette
(Archer) Neal, '22; Charlotte (Jackson)
Mitchell, '14. Many stories were related
of ancient and modern Agnes Scott days
and it was an unanimous conclusion that
"though far from the reach of her shelter-
ing arms," Agnes Scott daughters may
roam, still their hearts "enshrine her, the
crown of the South, with the memory of
youth that has flown." Such a number of
Agnes Scotters are in Montreat every sum-
mer that one might easily think the en-
tire campus had transferred itself to the
North Carolina mountains for a summer
session.

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NECROLOGY

Recent Deaths

Mary Hunter (Institute). "Miss Hunter
left Quitman, Ga., last spring for a Euro-
pean trip with her uncle, Daniel W. Roun-
tree, of Atlanta, and her sister, Mrs. T.
0. Marshall (Mattie Louise Hunter), of
Americus, Ga. Not even the family was
aware that her health was impaired, but
while abroad, symptoms of illness de-
veloped, and when she returned to this
country on the first of September, she and
Mrs. Marshall went directly to Battle
Creek Sanitarium. Miss Hunter died there
on September 27th, following an operation.
Her body was brought home to Quitman
by Mrs. Marshall."

Mrs. C. L. Black (Margaret McEachern,
Academy). Mrs. Black's illness was of a
few weeks, following an operation for ap-
pendicitis in a Fayetteville, N. C, hospital.
She died on July 29th, and is survived by
her husband and three children.

Mrs. R. E. Martin (Hattie Lou Miller,
'09). Mrs. Martin died at her home in
Columbus, Ga., on June 14th. She leaves
her husband and two little sons Roy E.,
Jr., eleven, and Edwin, eight. "Seldom
has the passing of a noble woman been
more deeply deplored than that of Mrs.
Martin. Possessed with ability, charm,
and strength of character, she was an out-
standing figure in the church, club, and
civic life of Columbus. For several years
she was president of the Rose Hill P.-T.
A., and at the time of her death was
president of the fourth district.

Frances Newman (Institute). The well-
known novelist died in a New York Hotel
on October 22, from an attack of pneu-
monia, following a brain hemorrhage.
Since the appearance four years ago of her
short story, "Rachel and Her Children,"
an 0. Henry short story prize winner, Miss
Newman's rise to distinction in letters was
meteoric. "The Short Story's Mutations,"
"The Hard-Boiled Virgin," and "Dead Lov-
ers Are Faithful Lovers," are her three
well-known books. At the time of her
death she had just completed some trans-
lations of LaForgue, which will witness
a posthumous publication some time this
fall.

Mrs. J. B. Kuykendall (Mary M. Wells,
Institute). The particulars of Mrs. Kuy-
kendall's death have not been received
only a note from her daughter telling of
her loss during the summer.

Dr. Nannie Winn (graduated '99). Dr.
Nannie Winn was killed in an automobile
accident in Nashville, Tenn. A huge bus
ran into the automobile she was driving,
killing her instantly.

"LOST SISTERS"

If you do a thing well, you are apt to
be called on to do it again! The "found"
alumnae have done such valiant work in
the past in locating the "lost," that we
publish another list in this issue of the
"Quarterly," and ask you to get to work
on tracing them down with as much vim
and resulting success as you have done
on previously published lost lists.
Institute

Anna Daum (Mrs. Henshaw), Atlanta.

Laura B. Haygood (Mrs. C. D. Roberts).

Ruth Harwell (married), Mississippi.

Annie Lake (Mrs. H. C. Rivers), Jack-
sonville, Fla.

Hatty Mims (married), Montana.

Katie Lou Morgan (Mrs. R. B. Simms),
Spartanburg, S. C.

College

Ex '28 Kathleen Carithers, Columbia,
S. C.

1919 Blanche Copeland (Mrs. H. H.
Gifford), Louisville, Ky.

Ex '24 Rosalie Long, Jacksonville, Fla.

Ex '24 Exa Mills (Mrs. Lamonde), At-
lanta, Ga.

Ex '15 Isabel Norwood, New York City.

Ex '21 Annie Gladys Plaster (Mrs. W.
G. Logue), Montgomery, Ala.

ACADEMY ALUMNAE NEWS

Grace (Berry) Luckie's new address is
1044 Armada Drive, Pasadena, Calif.

Martha Eugenia (Bitting) Hill has
moved from Summerville, Ga., to 317 E.
LaFayette St., Decatur, Ala. Her hus-
band is in charge of the Hill Chevrolet
Company there.

Elma Harwell is teaching the first grade
in Mile. Madelaine Groleau's French kin-
dergarten in Atlanta.

Mary Henry is Mrs. C. F. Silvester. Her
husband is a captain in the United States
army, now stationed at Manila, P. I.

Ruth Hunter is Mrs. Searle Hendee, 2421
Ferncliff Ave., Northwood, Royal Oak,
Michigan. Her husband has the fasci-
nating position of advertising executive.
They have one son, Hunter Hendee, who
will be eleven years old on Thanksgiving
day.

Mrs. Lucy Hoke (Smith) Simpson was
married on October 13th at the home of
her sister, Mary Brent (Smith) Ransom,
to Mr. Spotswood Dabney Grant, of At-
lanta, foi'merly of Richmond. Mrs. Simp-
son's father, former U. S. Senator Hoke
Smith, gave her in marriage. The Grants
left after the ceremony in their car for
Florida. At Jacksonville they will board
a yacht for a cruise in Florida waters. On
returning to Atlanta they will be at
home at 128 8th St., N. E. Mr. Grant is
president of the Atlanta Marmon Motor
Company.

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Concerning Ourselves

Graduates:

1889-1906

1897

Caroline (Haygood) Harris attended the
graduation exercises of her daughter,
Caroline, at the North Carolina College for
Women in May, and then spent some time
in visiting friends in North Carolina and
Georgia. "Caroline, Jr.," hopes to go into
actuarial work in time, as she specialized
in mathematics, but for the present she
will locate in her home city, El Paso,
Texas.

Cora Strong spent the summer doing
Mathematics and Astronomy at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. She is teaching again
this winter at N. C. C. W., arid has
been lovely in welcoming to Greensboro
the new Agnes Scott alumnae who have
come there to teach this year.
1899

Lucile Alexander spent the summer with
her sister in Asheville, N. C.

Bernice (drivers) Smith moved on Oc-
tober 1st to her new home on Maupas
Avenue, Savannah, Ga. Both Bernice's
children are grown. Her daughter, Holley,
ex '29, is at home this winter. Mr. Smith
is in the fertilizer business.

Ruth (Candler) Pope has been ill most
of the summer at her home in Decatur.

Rosa Belle Knox's new book, "School
Activities and Equipment," published by
Houghton Mifflin Company, has created
quite a sensation in the educational world.
"School and Society's" review speaks of
it as "an impartial expert's catalogue of
approved materials to be consulted by ad-
ministrative officers and teachers. The
whole range of the curriculum is covered."
William Whitford, of the University of
Chicago says, "Miss Knox compiles in one
volume the knowledge and experience ac-
quired from a lifetime of study devoted to
the solving of this problem." The Na-
tional Council for Primary Education has
reviewed "School Activities and Equip-
ment" most favorably, calling it "a treas-
ure house of information and guidance."

Nellie Louise (Mandeville) Henderson
has a son in the freshman class at the
University of Georgia.

Emma Wesley and her sister, Rusha
Weslev, '00, studied at Emory University
Summer School. They have had then-
home "done over" this fall, and say that
they have become quite adept at stepping

over and among and between buckets of
paint and rolls of wallpaper.

Dr. Nannie Winn was killed in an auto-
mobile accident near Nashville, Tenn., this
summer, when a bus ran into the car she
was driving.

1900

Ethel (Alexander) Gaines turned her
housekeeping over to her daughter, Eloise,
during the summer and enjoyed a long
vacation in New York City with her
younger daughter, Virginia, and in Ashe-
ville, N. C. Ethel's son, Alexander, is a
freshman at the University of Georgia
this fall. Eloise, who was graduated from
Agnes Scott last May, is studying at the
Atlanta Library School.
1901

Addie (Arnold) Loridans' husband was
made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
on a recent trip to France. Mr. Loridans
was appointed to the position of consul in
Atlanta by the French government. Addie
usually joins him on his frequent trips
home to France, but she has been ill this
summer and remained in Atlanta.
1902

Bell (Dunnington) Sloan has moved
from Ohio to 303 E. 20th St., New York
City.

Laura (Caldwell) Edmonds has changed
her street address to 630 Taylor St., Port-
land, Oregon.

1903

Hattie (Blackford) Williams' friends are
pleased to congratulate her on becoming
Managing Editor of "The Presbyterian
Survey" in Richmond. Her daughter, Har-
riet, is a junior at Agnes Scott. She has
two younger sons. Hattie has moved to
3411 Gloucester Street.

Grace Hardie returned in July from a
most interesting European tour. The re-
mainder of the summer she spent at the
seashore in Connecticut, and on a trip
through the White Mountains. Her friends
in Decatur and Marietta had a little visit
from her on her way back to New York
after a motor trip to Birmingham and
Mobile. She resumed her work at the
New York Public Library on October 1st.

Sarah D., or "Daisy," Moore, as she
was affectionately called at Agnes Scott,
came through Decatur this summer and
came out to see Miss Hopkins and the
college. Daisy is superintendent of nurses

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at the Baton Rouge General Hospital,
Baton Rouge, La. She had just motored
down from a visit to her sister in Virginia,
and was on her way back to Baton Rouge.
Daisy has a little adopted daughter, Vir-
ginia Wilson, whom she has had since
babyhood. Virginia is now almost ready
for college, and shows special talent in
both music and art.

Hattie (Morris) Hughes is now Mrs. H.
M. Gilbert, 663 Elmwood Dr., N. E., At-
lanta. She had one son by her first
marriage, Stephen Hughes, Jr., and two
children by her second marriage: Leslie
Gilbert, and Hugh Gilbert, Jr.

Mamie (Patterson) Williams has a
daughter fifteen years old who is pre-
paring for Agnes Scott.

The Atlanta Journal recently carried
this paragraph: "Miss Estelle Boynton,
one of the most popular of the younger
social set, has been added to the attractive
group of debutantes of the 1928-29 sea-
son. This charming young belle is the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Boynton, and is spending her first winter
at home, after having attended Bryn Mawr
for the past several years. Miss Boynton
will make her formal bow to society at a
brilliant party to be given by her parents
during the winter months." Mrs. Boynton
was Estelle Pattillo.

Mary Payne, another lost alumna, for
whom we have long sought, has been found
during the summer. She is Mrs. Henry
N. Bullard, 3800 Wyoming St., Kansas
City, Mo. Mary was married in 1902 in
Auburn, N. Y., to the Rev. Henry Nelson
Bullard, Ph.D., a Presbyterian minister.
After only six short years of life together,
Dr. Bullard died, leaving Mary with three
children. She has continued to live in
Kansas City since his death, and her oc-
cupation is given as "home-maker and
mother," both of which positions we know
that Mary is filling well. Her son, Henry
Nelson Bullard, Jr., is now 25 years old,
and her daughter, Elizabeth Payne, is 22.
The youngest boy, Porter Howard, died in
1926 at the age of 18. Mary is still loyal
to Agnes Scott, and we hope that before
so very long she can come down from
Missouri some commencement and "show
us" so.

From the Atlanta Constitution comes
the following clipping: "The versatile play-
wright and musician, Miss Nan Bagby
Stephens, head of Agnes Scott College
playwriting department, has betaken her-
self to Peterboro, N. H., to join the Mc-
Dowell colony, a haven where writers who
have proved themselves such are invited
to swell the goodly company of distin-
guished artists gathered from every part
of the globe. She set for her summer's

goal the writing of a new play and the
libretto of the opera 'Roseanne,' which is
being set to music by Marx Oberndorfer.
Among the celebrities at the colony this
summer are Edward Arlington Robinson,
M. K. Wisehart, Lewis Brown, Aaron Cope-
land and Harold Morris, Hudson Strode,
and Grant Reynard."

Eunice Tabor is a milliner in Tusca-
loosa, Ala.

Bertha Thomas is Mrs. John L. Adams,
Eatonton, Ga. They have one daughter,
Mary, 13, and a son, Hammond, 5.

Edith Sydnor (Thomson) Booth has re-
turned from Paris where she formerly
made her home and is visiting her brother
near Atlanta. It is possible that the Booths
will remain in the States.

Wayne Thornton is Mrs. Hal Hugh
White, 204 Graham St., Paris, Texas. Her
husband is a physician. Wayne has stud-
ied music and voice with Frank LaFarge
in New York City, and a few years back
was a professional concert singer. She
writes: "I am quite gratified with the
progress that Agnes Scott has made since
Institute days, and though silent, have
kept up quite a bit with its activities.
Thank you for the Alumnae Register! It
certainly brought back a million memories
to look down those names. I shall spend
an hour or two tonight writing to several
old friends and renewing after twenty-
eight or thirty years friendships long
thought lost. I do hope that I shall have
the pleasure of visiting Agnes Scott and
the Alumnae House some time in the not
distant future."

One of the most interesting things in
the Institute scrapbook at the Alumnae
House is a program donated by Emily
(Divver) Moorer of a Tennyson evening
held at Agnes Scott on Monday evening,
November 21, 1892. All of the names of
those taking part are not given in full on
the program, and if any of them happen
to read this and remember the occasion,
we hope they will write to the Alumnae
Office so that the program can be filled
out. It included "The Revenge," by Rosa-
lind Royal; "The Victim," by Miss Gray
(was this Caro, Emma, or Ethel Paul-
ine?); "Godiva," by Miss Haygood; "St.
Agnes Eve," by Olive Martin; "Locksley
Hall," by LeVancia Davidson; "The
Northern Farmer," by Miss Magee; "Co-
lumbus," by Mary Neel. The second
part of the program took up "Epics, Poems
of the Inner Life, of Love, Death, and of
Doubt and Faith." Those taking part were
Marielle Nesbitt, who said "Blow, Bugle,
Blow;" selections from "Idylls of the
King," by Miss Howell; and "Vastness,"
by Emma Warren. But the most interest-
ing part of the program is the scribbling

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across the back, where a girlish hand has
written "Mary Neel's dress is so pretty!";
"Can you see Miss McKinney? She looks
so sweet." And in another hand is writ-
ten beneath this: "You speak as if I have
seen anything else tonight!" Then the first
handwriting again: "She is the sweetest
ever." And across the corner: "Emma
Lowry is beautiful!" Can some of the rest
of you "early alumnae" be persuaded to
part with any little mementoes of the
past such as this ? They will be preserved
very carefully in the scrapbook in the
Alumnae House, where returning alumnae
may enjoy them.

Since the Alumnae Register was publish-
ed in August, 1927, a number of addresses
and married names have been found. Until
a supplement or a new register can be
brought out, the alumnae secretary will be
glad to do what she can to aid individual
alumnae to locate their old friends. If
you will send her a list of the alumnae
you are anxious to locate, she will correct
it for you from her new address list.
1906

Next class reunion, 1930.

Little Anne Eagan, daughter of Susan
(Young) Eagan, was the flower-girl in
the wedding on October 11th of Mary
Knox, '26, to Albert Happoldt. The Eagans
spent several months at their summer
home in Connecticut and have just re-
turned to Atlanta.

1907

Next class reunion, 1930.

May Elizabeth (Curry) Winn's husband
is an auditor in Greenville, S. C. They
have three children: Elizabeth, 17, almost
ready for Agnes Scott; John, 14, and
Alfred, 8.

Cleveland Zahner, ex '07, motored to
Cincinnati with her brother this summer.
She is back in Atlanta now, working at
the Crippled Children's Hospital, and liv-
ing in the Pershing Point Apartments.

1908

Next class reunion, 1930.

Graduates:

Lillian (Phillips) Williamson has a most
attractive daughter, Martha, in the Fresh-
man class at Agnes Scott this year. Martha
had one of the leading roles in the Fresh-
man stunt on Black Cat night at the col-
lege. Lillian and Juanita (Wylie) Cald-
well were at Agnes Scott together for the
opening of the term in September. Since
returning to her home in Arkansas, Lillian
wrote: "To me Agnes Scott is the same
lovely place, and I know that Martha is
going to love it as much as I do. I was
so glad to see the fine spirit of loyalty
the girls have for their college. In meet-

ing the students of former years, so often

I have had them say to me, 'Isn't it the
finest place?' and the same spirit holds
true in the present student body. I was
impressed with the cordiality of the upper-
classmen for the little Freshmen and their
desire to be helpful."

Lizzabel Saxon received her master's de-
gree in Latin from Columbia University
this summer.

Rose Wood is teaching at the Girls High
School in Atlanta.

Non-graduates:

Marie (Houston) DuPree has moved to
1343 Peachtree St., Atlanta.

Louise (Phinizy) Neely has three chil-
dren: a boy six, and girls fourteen and
ten. Mr. Neely is a bankei*, planter and
merchant in Waynesboro, Ga.
1909

Next class reunion, 1930.

Graduates:

Louise Davidson is doing publicity and
advertising at 220 Madison Ave., New
York City. Her home address is 111 W.
16th St.

Adalene (Dortch) Griggs' husband is
superintendent of public schools in Mobile,
Ala. They have two children, Mary Eliz-
abeth ("Betty"), 2, and Anne Dortch, a
new little daughter, born this fall.

Lutie Pope Head has returned to her
home in Zebulon, Ga.

Mattie (Newton) Traylor's husband is
connected with the Ford agency in La-
Grange, Ga. They have two little girls,

II and 13, and a son, 9.
Non-graduates:

Susie Dowdell was married on October
28, 1917, to Dr. J. J. Spencer, a physician
of St. Augustine, Fla. They have two
children, John Dowdell, 9, and Render Mc-
Caw, 7. Mail will reach Susie addressed
to Box 661, St. Augustine, Fla.

Louise (Dallas) Park is living in La-
Grange, Ga., where her husband is a
physician.

Mamie Frierson is Mrs. Armstrong. Her
husband is the agent for the Southern
Railroad at Columbia, S. C.

Corinne Funkenstein is Mrs. Charles
Newmark, 225 W. 86th St., New York
City.

Katherine (Miller) Calhoun is living in
Columbus, Ga., where her husband is a
railroad official. They have four chil-
dren.

Jean (Powell) McCroskey's son, Wil-
liam H. McCroskey, Jr., was graduated
from the Knoxville, Tenn., High School
in May.

1910

Next class reunion, 1931.

Graduates:

Flora (Crowe) Whitmire writes from

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New Haven, Conn.: "The Whitmire fam-
ily spent their vacation in Yarmouth,
Maine, again and enjoyed it more than
ever before for it was comfortably warm.
Our little girl, Mary, is in the second
grade and I hope some day will be smart
enough to enter Agnes Scott."

Em (Eldridge) Ferguson is managing
a gift shop in Americus, Ga.

Mattie (Hunter) Marshall has just re-
turned from another European trip with
her uncle and sister, Mary. Mary was
taken ill soon after they landed, and died
on September 27th at the Battle Creek
Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich.

Annie Smith has accepted the position
of general secretary of the Y. W. C. A.
at Mobile, Ala. Her address is 1306 St.
Stephens Road.

Lila (Williams) Rose's husband is con-
sulting engineer and city engineer for
Fayetteville, N. C. They have two daugh-
ters, 13 and 9, and a son, 7. The girls
are preparing for Agnes Scott.
Non-graduates:

Chip Robert, Jr., attended a tutoring
camp in St. Albans, Vermont, for two
months this summer to prepare for school
work this fall at Lawrenceville, N. J. He
came home the last of August to visit his
parents in Atlanta before beginning his
work at Lawrenceville. Chip, Jr.'s, mother
is Louise (Ayers) Robert.

Tommie Dora Barker, head of the At-
lanta Carnegie Library, has eight Agnes
Scott graduates in the Library School this
fall. There are only thirty-three students
in the entire school, so Agnes Scott is
decidedly in the majority.

Annie May (Boyd) Nesbit's husband is
a planter at Waynesboro, Ga. They have
four children boys, 13 and 3, and girls,
10 and 8.

Mary Donnelly is living in Washington,
D. C, at 10 10th St., N. E. From April,
1920, to June 30, 1921, she held the
position of army field clerk, with full mili-
tary status.

Evabel Belle (Johnston) Bourne writes
a most interesting letter from her home
in Tulsa, Oklahoma: "You surely know
how interesting the 'Alumnae Quarterly'
is to all the old Agnes Scott girls. Al-
though I was at the college only one year
deciding to go to New York to specialize
in music I love the memories I have of
the life in college and girls I knew there.
Perhaps you will be interested to know
that we have a college club here in Tulsa
to which I belong. There are over two
hundred members. I hope through this
association with other college women to
make Agnes Scott better known out here
in the middle west. In this wonderful,
fascinating, alive city, I am almost the
only girl who has any idea what a splendid

college Agnes Scott is. My young son is
in a private kindergarten this year. I
hope that some day he may at least see
Agnes Scott, though he isn't able to go
there! We think now that he will land at
Princeton." The Bournes live at 1612 S.
Detroit.

Camilla (Mandeville) Newell has moved
to Decatur, Ga., while her two children are
in school and college in Atlanta. She has
a son at Georgia Tech, and a 13-year-old
daughter in High School. Camilla's ad-
dress is Columbus Court Apts., Ponce de
Leon Avenue.

Sarah (McKowen) Blackshear's husband
is a lawyer in Jacksonville, Fla. They
have one son, eleven years old.

Edith (O'Keefe) Susong is one of the
outstanding women in the state of Ten-
nessee, being president of the State's Fed-
erated Clubs, and also president of the
Tennessee Authors and Press. She pub-
lishes the Greeneville, Tenn., daily paper,
and is altogether one of the most talent-
ed and charming young women in the
south today.

Bessie (Powell) Stubbs' husband is an
auditor in the Fourth National Bank in At-
lanta. They have no children.

Grace Smith, long a lost alumna, has
been found. She was married to Mr. A. D.
Reynolds, Jr., a nephew of R. J. Reynolds.
They have just completed a palatial and
beautiful home in Louisville, Ky., furnish-
ed in sixteenth century furniture. They
have one child, A. D. Reynolds, III.
1911
Next class reunion, 1931.
Graduates:

Adelaide Cunningham spent the summer
studying at Oxford University. She thor-
oughly enjoyed the lectures, the English
University life, and the days she spent
in sightseeing. One of the high spots of
the summer (and we really didn't mean to
pun!) was her aeroplane trip from Paris
to London. Adelaide is teaching again at
the Commercial High School in Atlanta.

There was an error in the statement in
the July Quarterly that Geraldine (Hood)
Burns is living in Miami. Mr. Burns is
an orchardist in Maysville, Ga., where they
are permanently located.

Mary Wallace Kirk has been ill at her
home in Tuscumbia, and at the Piedmont
Sanitarium in Atlanta.

Mary Louise Leech's address has been
changed to 128 N. Broadway, Baltimore,
Maryland.

Mary Lizzie Radford is teaching in New-
nan, Ga.

Charlotte (Reynolds) McCathern lost
her husband in September. She is left
with two little children a girl three, and
a boy two.

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Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson has
been kept busy during October entertain-
ing the wives of southern doctors who
came to Atlanta for the annual Medical
Convention.

Non-graduates:

Kathrine (Boothe) Jenkins' husband is
the owner and developer of motion picture
theatres. They have two children, Kath-
rine Boothe and Sarah Kimbrough. The
Jenkins' new address is 115 Huntington
Rd., Atlanta.

Margaret (Briscoe) McCallie has a
daughter in the Knoxville, Tenn., High
School this fall.

Blanche (Collins) Smith has moved to
700 Leighton Ave., Anniston, Ala. Her
husband is the assistant auditor of the
Alabama Power Company there. They
have one son, sixteen.

Allie (Felker) Nunnally's daughter,
Clara Knox, is a member of the sophomore
class at Agnes Scott.

Susie (Gunn) Allen has moved from
South Carolina to Macon, Ga. Her hus-
band is connected with Swift and Com-
pany.

Porter (McCall) Groover lives at 417 N.
Court St., Quitman, Ga. Her husband
is in the fire insurance business. They
have two girls Marjorie, twelve, and Ann,
nine, and a son, Denmark, Jr., aged six.

Kate McDougall is practicing law in At-
lanta. She has an office at 1410 4th
National Bank Building.

Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson and Mr. John-
son are teaching music at Agnes Scott
again this year. Their son, Neal, is in
school at Savannah, Ga.

Louise Payne has recently opened her
own interior decorating shop in Richmond,
Virginia.

Homera Portman is Mrs. Schnitzer,
Glenview, 111., Box 174. Dui-ing the winter
they are at their home in Magnolia
Springs, Ala.

Isabel (Stewart) Terrell's daughter is
a Sophomore at Agnes Scott.

Edith (Wadill) Smith's husband is a
physician in Asheville, N. C. They have
one five-year-old son.

Lavinia (Young) Brown is a widow liv-
ing in Quitman, Ga. She has three chil-
dren Edward, 11; Young, 8, and Mary
Frances, 4.

1912

Next class reunion, 1931.

Graduates:

Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust announces
the arrival on October 2nd of Bryan Milner
Rust.

Cornelia Cooper was in Atlanta this
summer to help her family move from
West End to 1143 St. Charles PI., N. E.
The Atlanta alumnae club enjoyed having
Cornelia attend their summer meetings.

She has returned to Judson College to
teach English again this winter.

Martha (Hall) Young's latest address is
Fort Wayne Army Post No. 10, Michigan.

May Joe (Lott) Bunkley is teaching in
the Miami, Fla., High School.

Ruth (Slack) Smith, one of the deans of
women at Duke University, attended the
conference in Atlanta in October of stu-
dent Y. W. C. A. officers. The Agnes Scott
community and the Searcy Slacks each
claimed her as their own particular guest,
but the Searcy Slacks won, for they baited
her with nieces, and though the Alumnae
House is complete in its way, it can't
truthfully boast the possession of those.

Carol (Stearns) Wey is recovering from
an appendicitis operation. She is practical-
ly well but is not allowed to drive her car

yet.

Non-graduates:

Florine Brown is in charge of the
Alumnae Tea Room again this year.

Louise Darneal is living at 337 Camden
Ave., Richmond, Mo.

Anna Lou (Wood) West's husband is
manager of the Coca-Cola plant in Bax-
ley, Ga. "Anna Lou is active in church
and club work, head of one department in
the Woman's Club, and the best cook in
town! She is a wonderful wife and mother
and a decided asset to the community. Her
one son, John T. West, Jr., is a Senior
in High School, and gifted in oratory."
1913

Graduates:

Next class reunion, 1931.

Grace (Anderson) Bowers has moved
out in the country from Selma, Ala., and
now has her mail addressed to Box 22,
Selma.

Allie (Candler) Guy and Dr. Guy drove
from Atlanta to New England in Septem-
ber, when Dr. Guy attended the National
Convention of Chemists. They stopped over
in New York several days and had a real
vacation.

Frances (Dukes) Wynne's two children
are both in school in Miami this winter.

Louise (Maness) Robarts' mother died
on September 24th.

Helen (Smith) Taylor has moved to 1920
Brookline, Palma Ceia, Tampa, Fla. Her
daughter, Viola, is getting to be quite a
young lady, 13 now. Her son is in the
5th grade.

Non-graduates:

Bessie (Standifer) Gammon works con-
stantly with her husband in the real estate
business in Jacksonville. They have one
son almost eleven.

Sarah Williams runs a poultry farm out
from Fayetteville, N. C.

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1914

Next class reunion, 1932.

Graduates:

Ruth (Blue) Barnes has moved to 523 E.
45th St., Savannah, Ga. Her husband is in
the cotton business. They have three
little sons.

R. Florence Brinkley came south this
summer to visit relatives in Decatur and
Thomson, Ga. She is again teaching at
Goucher College, and living at 203 W.
29th Street, Baltimore.

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie N. Webb, of Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., announce the birth on July
21st of John Leslie Webb, weighing six
and a half pounds. Mrs. Webb was Helen
Brown.

Charlotte (Jackson) Mitchell has moved
to Florence, Ala.

Annie Tait Jenkins is doing graduate
work in mathematics at Tulane University
in New Orleans. "I have fourteen hours
and am enjoying it immensely. Went to
the Georgia Tech-Tulane football game
the other day and clapped vigorously when
their band played 'I'm a Ramblin' Wreck
From Georgia Tech.' " Annie Tait's ad-
dress is 2005 Octavia Street.

Zollie (Mc Arthur) Saxon has moved to
Quitman, Ga., where her husband is super-
intendent of the schools.

Mary Pittard was married on June 23rd
in the Methodist Church at Winterville,
Ga., to Mr. John Lionel Salway. Mr. Sal-
way is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Sargent-Salway, now of New York City,
formerly of England. He was educated at
Ridley College, St. Catherine's, Ontario,
Canada, and during the world war was a
member of the Royal Flying Corps of the
British army. Martha (Rogers) Noble and
Essie (Rogers) DuPre were among the
out-of-town guests at Mary's wedding. Her
address now is Taylor Apt., Milledge Ave.,
Athens, Ga.

Essie (Roberts) DuPre has moved into
a lovely new home at 54 Camden Rd., At-
lanta. It is in a newly opened up section,
and in the summer the street is beautiful
with flaming crepe mrytle trees. Essie's
little daughter, Anne, and her young son,
Walter, Jr., are enjoying the big back
yard at the new house.

Martha (Rogers) Noble is working at
the Doctor's Building in Atlanta. Her ad-
dress is 169 Avery Dr., N. E.

Non-graduates:

Margaret Baumgardner is principal of
the Fairmount School at Bristol, Tenn.

Lucy (Bryant) Houser is living in
Brooksville, Fla. She has two children.

Anna (Colquitt) Hunter has moved back
to Savannah, Ga.

Flo-Wilma (Courtner) Dobson's husband
is athletic coach at the University of
Richmond, Va.

Robina (Gallacher) Hume has moved to
317 10th St., N. E., Atlanta. Robina is
doing a great deal of volunteer work with
the Y. W. C. A. and case work for the
Family Welfare Society, and says she
just beats her husband in at night.

Mary Harris studied at the University
of Virginia summer session. She is teach-
ing primary at a girls' preparatory school
in Mobile, Ala.

Wynelle (Varnadoe) Copeland lives at
1609 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, Ga., where
her husband is a lawyer. They have three
little girls.

1915

Next class reunion, 1932.

Graduates:

Martha (Brenner) Shryock is one good
class secretary! If the '15 column is
not simply bursting with news, it is due
not to negligence on the secretary's part,
but the pure cussedness of the various
class members! Martha sent out return
postals early in the fall asking for news
items for this November issue.

Marion (Black) Cantelou writes: "The
Cantelou household spent July and part
of August seeing the glories of New Eng-
land and the Adirondacks. We went in our
car and the only blot (or splash!) on the
entire trip came from Georgia mud! It
seemed hard that my only glimpse of
Agnes Scott in years should have come
when the campus was as deserted as a
last year's birdnest."

Martha (Brenner) Shryock has moved
to 912 Greenwood Blvd., Evanston, 111., and
she hopes that any Agnes Scott friends
who come to Chicago will be sure to
look her up. This summer she has had a
lovely time with family and friends from
the south visiting her. In September she
and her husband enjoyed a trip to Mon-
treal, Quebec, and Boston, and spent sev-
eral weeks at their summer place at
Sachem's Head, Conn. Martha writes: "I
think we may come south for Christmas
and I shall surely try to stop by the
Alumnae House overnight. Maybe I can
persuade Mary (Kelly) Coleman to come
to Atlanta and do a little Christmas shop-
ping at that time."

Gertrude (Briesnick) Ross is one of the
mainstays of the Jacksonville, Fla., Alum-
nae Club.

Mary Evelyn Hamilton is teaching in
Columbia, S. C. Her address is now 1221
Bull Street.

Grace (Harris) Durant writes: "We have
had a lovely summer on the eastern shore
of Mobile Bay. A number of other Agnes
Scott alumnae who live in Mobile were
there, too: the Ogdens, Mary Donna Craw-
ford, ex '29, and Wesley (Blackshear)
Langford, ex '22, and her beautiful little
year-old son. Frances (Kell) Munson

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spent some time with me Monday, August
27th. She was in town doing some last
minute shopping for her sister, Eunice's,
wedding, which took place on the 28th of
August at Pascagoula, Miss. We are back
home now and started on the winter's
work. I am spending most of my time
taking care of two future Agnes Scott
girls: Grace Harris Durant, Jr., and Mary
Louise Durant. It is the most fascinating
and absorbing job I've ever had."

Mary (Kelly) Coleman spent a very idle
summer, she says. "A trip to the moun-
tains in North Carolina and a visit home
to Monticello were my 'tourings.' Re-
mainder of the time spent in swimming
and bridge."

And Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner says
there isn't much news in her family either.
"We are living in McDonough, Ga., again
and the children are already hard at work
in school. My son is in the sixth grade
and my daughter in the second. This past
year was so strenuous that I have been
sick ever since I returned to Georgia, but
I am better now and feel more like myself
than I have for some months." Another
letter from Henrietta says: "I have little
news to add except that Governor Hard-
man has appointed me a trustee of the
Sixth District A. and M. School for another
term."

Mildred (McGuire) Bulgin writes from
Oregon: "There is so little of interest to
tell about that I am almost ashamed to
send in any report at all. Getting well
again has absorbed most of my time and
energy, but patience and perseverance have
gloriously succeeded and I am as good as
new. We have had several interesting
and last year a never-to-be-forgotten one
trips to nearby coast cities this summer
across the McKenzie Pass and down the
Columbia River Highway." '15 girls can-
not think of more welcome news than that
Mildred is "as good as new" again, and
trips along the Pacific coast seem quite
worth writing about, too!

Lucy Naive's wedding has been post-
poned a few months on account of Mr.
Swain's illness. Lucy is at home now in
Clarkesville, Tenn.

Kate (Richardson) Wicker's husband is
the conductor of the well-known "Wicker
Tours." Kate's daughters are nine and
eleven now.

Mary Helen (Schneider) Head is in
charge of the Atlanta Alumnae Club's an-
nual bazaar the week before Thanksgiving
at Hattie Lee (West) Candler's beautiful
home. If any of you out-of-town alumnae
would like to order anything from the ba-
zaar, Mary Helen will be glad to emulate
Seai-s-Roebuck and take up the mail-order
business.

Mary (West) Thatcher drives out to the

Alumnae House occasionally with her two
handsome little sons.

Non-graduates :

Can anyone in '15 send in the address of
Isabel Norwood? She is singing in either
the Roxy or Paramount Theatre in New
York City, but we do not have her street
address.

1916

Next class reunion, 1932.

Graduates :

Lillian (Anderson) Reid's children are
Antoinette, four, and Melba, aged two.
Mr. Reid is a merchant in Lincolnton, Ga.

Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Winn announce the
arival on September 9th of Leonora Howze
Winn, weighing eight pounds. Mrs. Winn
was Mary Bryan.

Elizabeth (Burke) Burdett has returned
to her home in Brusells, Belgium, after
spending several months with her mother
in Macon, Ga. Elizabeth's' children speak
three languages fluently "more fluently
than I do," Elizabeth admits. She has
enjoyed a visit recently from Maria (Mer-
riy;) Quillian, who has been away from
the States since last spring.

Margaret (Fields) Wilkinson spent the
summer at Atlantic Highlands, N. J.

Ora (Glenn) Roberts is in this country
on furlough now, but expects to return to
South America this fall.

Another new '16 baby is Martha Reese
Newton, daughter of Maryellen (Harvey)
Newton, of Waycross, Ga. Martha was
born August 9th.

An interesting letter has been received
from Charis (Hood) Barwick: "You will
be glad to hear that we broke ground for
our new church and parish house on the
last Sunday in September, and now the
steamshovel is busy digging the base-
ment. The contract calls for $234,000, ex-
clusive of the parsonage and organ. This
is the first time that we have built a
new church, so we are getting quite a
thrill out of it. I went with my husband
on his vacation for the first time this
summer and we enjoyed visiting several
places I hadn't seen before Niagara, Lex-
ington, Concord, Sudbury (where are
Henry Ford's Wayside Inn and the school-
house made famous by 'Mary's little
lamb'), Mt. Vernon, Arlington, and Gettys-
biu-g. In Washington, the hostess of the
house occupied by the A. A. U. W. showed
me through that building so well adapted
to the work of that fine organization to
which I have belonged for several years
now."

Leila (Johnson) Moore is living in At-
lanta, working for the General Elect ric
Company. She is one of the Atlanta
Alumnae Club's new members. Her oldest
son, who is just nine, has never been to
school until this year and has gone easily

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into the high fifth grade.

Margaret Phythian drove home from
Agnes Scott in June, and then on to Johns
Hopkins where she studied during the
summer session. She sailed August 30th
for a year of study at the Sorbonne. Mar-
garet's address is 7 rue Auguste Vitu,
XVe, Paris. In a recent letter she says:
"The 'Alumnae Quarterly,' after having
been forwarded all over the United States,
finally reached me here today. I almost
cried with joy, and devoured every word
even the committee reports, so you know
I was homesick."

Malinda and Mary Glenn Roberts are at
Home in Canton, Ga.

Clara (Whips) Dunn has acquired both
a new baby and a new home this summer.
The baby was born on June 21st and is
called Clara Elizabeth, and the home is at
2801 Andrews Drive, Atlanta. The grounds
are very extensive and give plenty of room
for the little Dunns to play. There is a
fine new playhouse, too, with electric
lights and a big front porch and an enorm-
ous sandpile in the little playhouse's front
yard.

Non-graduates:

Clara (Briesnick) Gardner's husband is
the manager of the Oglethorpe Hotel in
Brunswick, Ga.

Flora Gaillard is teaching in the Spring
Hill School at Mobile, Ala.

Lucille (Harrison) Beggs lives in Fort
Myers, Fla., where her husband is a law-
yer. They have no children.

Katherine (Hay) Rouse has moved from
New York to 227 Hillside Ave., Water-
bury, Conn.

Genevieve McMillan is teaching in Mat-
thews, N. C.

Kathleen Pate is Mrs. Rex Lavender.
She teaches expression and music at Co-
lumbus, Ga. Kathleen is a graduate of
the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston.

Eva (Powers) Abel came from her
Honolulu home to visit her mother in
Anniston, Ala., this summer.

Madge Rodgers is Mrs. J. H. Brown,
Dayton, Tenn.

Irma (Schoen) Wenar has moved from
New Orleans to 1541 N. Decatur Rd., N.
E., Atlanta. She has two children
Blanche, eight, and Charles, five.

Elizabeth Taylor is private secretary to
a lawyer in Asheville, N. C.
1917

Next class reunion, 1932.

Graduates:

Isabel Dew visited in Savannah and New
York on her way to Camp Andree, the
Girl Scout National Camp, where she at-
tended the Nature Lore School for two
weeks. She afterwards returned to Juna-
luska for her thirteenth season as athletic
director. Isabel says she just can't tear

herself away from the peace and beauty
of the North Carolina mountains.

Agnes Scott Donaldson is still in Los
Angeles with Dr. Miriam Van Waters
running a residence club for girls. In ad-
dition to her work, Ag is studying psychia-
try. She spent her vacation in Colorado
and attended the Indian Festival in New
Mexico.

Mary (Eakes) Rumble writes that her
young hopeful, Lester, Jr., has started to
school this fall. "We live right across the
street from the schoolhouse and he could
easily run home for lunch but, no! I must
fix him a lunch-box! He is bitterly dis-
appointed in the location of his home;
confided in me that he did wish he lived
way out in the country so that he could
ride in on the school truck."

Gladys Gaines is doing stenographic
work in a real estate office in Mobile, Ala.

Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis is at Rural
Retreat, Va., recuperating from a sum-
mer in the hospital. The Davises have
completed their furlough and will return
to Brazil as soon as Elizabeth is able to
make the trip. Meanwhile Mr. Davis and
the children are with his sister in Georgia,
where the two little girls are in school.
Elizabeth writes: "Our return will not be
entirely happy, for we will miss my father,
who died this summer after nearly forty
years of work in Brazil." Dr. Gammon
devoted most of his time to educational
work, and the group of schools he founded
is now called Gammon Institute.

Charlotte Hammond lost her father dur-
ing the summer. She is at home this
year in Mississippi.

Jane (Harwell) Rutland has moved into
a new home at 4 Polo Dr., Ansley Park,
Atlanta. Her new baby, Jack, Jr., was
born during the summer.

Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin spent the
month of June with her parents in Lynch-
burg, Va.

Mary (Mclver) Luster is moving from
Miami, Fla., to New York. At present she
is at her parents' home in Bishopville,
South Carolina.

Spott Payne spent the summer guiding
her new car along paths of fame in
Virginia, and visiting in Richmond where
her sister, Louise Payne, has an art studio.
Spott is teaching English in the Robert E.
Lee Junior High School in Lynchburg this
winter.

Regina Pinkston visited her sister,
Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes, '13, at Camp
Perry, on Lake Erie during July. She
stopped in Lynchburg to see Anne (Kyle)
McLaughlin and had quite a reunion with
Anne and Spott and Virginia (Allen) Pot-
ter, who was at home on leave from Africa.
When camp was over, Eleanor and her
seven-year-old daughter accompanied

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Regina back to Georgia for the rest of
the summer.

Margaret Pruden is in New York for
the winter completing the residence work
on her Ph.D. Her address is Johnson Hall,
411 W. 116th Street.

Ellen (Ramsay) Phillips and her family
are at home on furlough. They spent last
winter in California, going from Texas by
automobile.

Virginia (Scott) Pegues has a new son
who has been named John Madison Pegues.

Katherine Simpson spent her vacation
sightseeing around New York and the
Great Lakes. She is teaching at the Capi-
tol View School in Atlanta this year.

Augusta Skeen is back at Agnes Scott
after studying at the University of Chi-
cago during the summer. You all know,
of course, that this work that Augusta
runs away and does during the summer is
towards her M. D. degree, which she will
soon be ready to claim. Augusta has a
sister in the Freshman class at Agnes
Scott.

May (Smith) Parsons is living at the
Cloisters Apts., Dorchester Ave., Chicago.
May is teaching and her husband is work-
ing on his Ph.D. at Chicago University.

Sarah Webster had an automobile trip
from Detroit across the province of On-
tario to Toronto and Niagara Falls and
back to the states via Buffalo. She is
teaching in Atlanta again this winter and
living with her sister on Piedmont Avenue.

Vallie Young (White) Archibald spent
her vacation touring Europe.

Mary Virginia (Yancey) Fahy lives at
1910 K St., N. W., Apt. 804, Washington,
D. C. Her husband is a civil engineer
with the United States Veterans' Bureau.

Non-graduates:

Agnes Ball and her mother have been
in the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michi-
gan all summer. Before she left Thomas-
ville she had a chance to see Fan (Oliver)
Pitman, '18, who moved there in May.
Agnes writes: "We are so delighted to
have the Pitmans with us now and every-
one there has fallen in love with Fan. I
have not had a chance to see Charlotte
(Bell) Linton and all the little Lintons
since they came, but I helped prepare for
their reception as their father and I were
raised next door to each other. I am
hoping to visit Agnes Scott on my way
home from Michigan soon and hear that
you all have made wonderful strides with
the Development Fund."

We have been chasing around after lost
alumnae for two years now, but the
thrill of finding one is still as great as
ever. Annie Louise Barker, long lost,
graduated from the Norton Infirmary in
Louisville, Ky., nursed only a few months,
and then married. She is Mrs. Rason

Morrow, Wheeling, W. Va.

Susanne Elizabeth (Ring) Uehling an-
nounces the birth of Edward Ring Uehling
on August 24th. The Uehlings live in
Milwaukee, Wis., where Mr. Uehling is a
hydraulic engineer.

Charlotte (Thompson) Aiken's baby,
Margaret, was born last January. Char-
lotte lives at 77 27th St., Jackson Hts., N.
Y. Mr. Aiken is a sales engineer.
1918

Next class reunion, 1933.

Graduates:

Hallie (Alexander) Turner has moved to
2300 Marion Street. She writes "Hilda
(McConnell) Adams and I are going to
round up the Agnes Scott girls here and
form an alumnae club if my children and
nurse will condescend to stay put long
enough."

Since the class of '18 seems to be shy of
news for the Quarterly, the secretary nobly
comes forward with a bit about herself.
Her news is that she has moved into a
new apartment at 820 Piedmont Ave., N.
E., Atlanta. And her name (for judging
by the way some of you '18-ers send in
your news, you don't know who she is!) is
Margaret Leyburn.

Samille (Lowe) Skeen and her husband
have moved from New Jersey to 1485
Glencoe St., Denver, Colo.

Porter Pope has returned from a sum-
mer in Europe. She met Vallie Young
(White) Archibald, '17, at the Hague, and
Frances Ervin, ex '20, at the home of
Millais near Paris.

Myra Scott, junior partner of the East-
man-Scott Advertising Agency of Atlanta,
was married in August at Emory Univer-
sity to the other member of the firm, Mr.
E. Guerry Eastman. Who says business
and pleasure won't mix? Myra says she
intends to make both partnerships perma-
nent.

Katherine Seay's address for the winter
is 2221 Iowa St., Cedar Falls, Iowa.
1919

Next class reunion, 1933.

Gi-aduates:

The very first thing '19's news will start
out with this issue is a lost address! Can
ANYBODY locate Blanche Copeland (Mrs.
H. H. Giffoi-d) ? In June she was staying
at the Cortlandt Hotel in Louisville, Ky.,
but has since moved on and left no for-
warding address. Surely somebody in '19
corresponds with Blanche and can give her
correct address.

Claire (Elliott) McKay writes: "I have
moved from Baltimore to 3 Dartmouth
Place, Charlotte, N. C. I am thrilled over
living in Charlotte where there are so
many Agnes Scott girls. Baltimoi-e, of
course, was swamped with Goucherites."

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Lois Eve will be at the Alumnae House
for the week-end of November 17th. Lois
is teaching again in Augusta, Ga.

Louise (Felker) Mizell, as one of Lulu's
able news scouts, has gathered quite a bit
of the news of '19 in this issue. She adds
a tiny paragraph about herself. "There
is really nothing much to tell about my-
self. My life seems very uneventful, but
just as full as can be. The children are
at the age when they are lots of fun as
well as lots of responsibility, and most of
my time is given to them. I have two
nieces at Agnes Scott, both named Louise,
and I go out quite often to see them, and
in that way keep in touch with the col-
lege."

Goldie Ham visited Agnes Scott during
the summer.

Julia (Ingram) Hazzard has moved to
512 Springfield Ave., Cranford, N. J. Mr.
Hazzard is secretary and treasurer of
Windle, Burlingame and Dargan, Inc., ad-
justers and appraisers in New York City.

Mary Brock Mallard is still with Macy,
and likes her job. She spent her vacation
with her brother in New York, and had
such a good time playing with her nephew,
about a year and a half old.

Trueheart Nicolassen is working in Bal-
timore as secretary to the registrar of the
University of Maryland. Her address is
128 W. Franklin Street.

Julia Lake Skinner is enjoying her new
work with the Presbyterian Church. A
great part of her time is spent in travel-
ing through the south visiting the colleges,
and this is work which she loves and at
which she has had some experience. The
"Christian Observer" for August 1st car-
ried Julia Lake's picture and a nice write-
up of her various activities since leaving
college.

Frances (Sledd) Blake has moved to
Monticello, Fla. She has two children a
boy about five and a baby of eight months.
Mr. Blake is a Methodist minister.

Lulu (Smith) Westcott writes that she
and her husband are 'hipped' on the Smoky
Mountains of Tennessee and North Caro-
lina, and for the last two summers have
visited in the proposed National Park,
climbing Gregory Bald and Mt. LeConte
the latter around 6600 feet elevation, and
so steep that even a pack mule can't climb
it. They spent the night on the top, sleep-
ing on balsam boughs and rising early to
see the sun rise from Myrtle Point. Lulu
is doing splendid work as class secretary.
As an incentive to the '19 girls to help
out with the class scrapbook, she sends in
the following jingle:

"Hello! Girls nineteen-one-nine,

Are you going to cause the salty brine

To flow from these two eyes of mine?

"Where's all your pep ? Has it gone a-glee ?
It must have gone, far's I can see;
Few of you yet have written me.

"That scrapbook is looking mighty blue
For the lack of a kodak or a line or two
From 'Peanut' and 'Ham,' or perhaps 'tis
you!

"Now grab your pen and scratch a line
And tell about that baby fine,
How he cut his teeth, or monkey-shine.

"We must fill that book 'fore thirty-three,
And pass it around to you and me.
Let none forget that 'Pep's the Key!' "

Dorothy (Thigpen) Shea has changed
her address to Fox Point Club, Route 6,
Station C, Milwaukee, Wis.

Frances Thomas is now Mrs. Isaac New-
ton Powell, Jackson, Wyoming.

Llewellyn Wilburn visited and camped
during the summer, and had the experience
of getting marooned in Morganton, N. C,
during the floods. Llewellyn is head of the
Physical Education Department at Agnes
Scott this year and is doing missionary
work by teaching decrepit old alums to
swim at the alumnae hour in the pool on
Friday mornings.

"Sleep" (Witherspoon) Patterson had a
nice trip to Atlantic City in July.

Non-graduates:

Elizabeth (Dimmock) Bloodworth and
family enjoyed a visit to the mountains
of northeast Georgia this summer, going to
Clayton and from there to Franklin, N. C.

Helen Ewing has been teaching for sev-
eral years at the Lulie Compton Seminary
in Birmingham, Ala., but she is at home
in Lewisburg, Tenn., this winter.

Jane Tucker (Fisher) Dana's husband is
in the insurance business in Columbia, S.
C. They have four children.

Esther (Havis) Webb has two children
Havis, six, and Betty, three.

Ruth Hillhouse is studying to be a mis-
sionary.

Mary Houston is Mrs. John Weckerling,
the wife of an army captain. The Wecker-
lings sailed June 1st from San Francisco
for their station in Tokio, Japan.

Johnnie (Kelly) Cheney is living in
Huntsville, Ala. She has two step-chil-
dren and one child of her own.

Elizabeth McConnell is an interior dec-
orator in Asheville, N. C.

Frankie McKee writes: "Please change
my address to 251 W. 71st St., New York.
I've moved farther down town not so
much trouble to get to the job o' morn-
ings."

Dorothy (Mitchell) Ellis announces the
arrival on October 3rd, 1928, of Leroy

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Johnston Ellis, III. Dorothy's address is
153 Seaman Ave., New York City.

Kathrine (Penn) Parker's husband is in
the cotton business in Montgomery, Ala.
They have no children.

Pauline Smathers is at Teachers College,
Columbia University, this winter getting
her M. A. degree in Physical Education.
Her address until June is Miami Apts, 1-B,
519 W. 121 St., New York.

Anna (Stansell) Register's husband is
in the real estate business in Jacksonville,
Fla. They have several children.

Alberta Thomas is Mrs. Fred Crenshaw,
Brownville, Ala.

1920

Next class reunion, 1933.

Just by way of a preface, a foreword,
a "shake well before using," the newly
elected secretary would like to ask if the
other forty-nine cards sent to the once re-
sponsive "20's" are reposing in memory
books or "among my souvenirs." Anyway,
said secretary would like to suggest that
these cards be used before December 1st
or dear ole Santy might pass 'em by. Then
the self-same secretary most fervently
hopes that the conscience (if such there
be) of each girl who was at the class re-
union luncheon last May and who promised
more letters of news by "way of helping
make the job of secretary a joy, that this
conscience will ache and pain so that each
naughty '20 will write an "I confess story"
on the dear little postal and send it back.
How 'bout it?

Say, girls, aren't we the stuck-up ones to
have another Phi Beta Kappa. Yes-sir-ee,
the very head of the list. Louise Abney
worked for a M. S. degree at Georgia,
got it and Phi Beta Kappa, too. Louise
spent the summer frolicking in New York
(not at summer school, just plain having
fun without camouflaging it) and is now
teaching Science in Birmingham, Ala.

Beff Allen is so happy to be back South
again she doesn't miss the bright lights of
the Big City even a little bit. This winter
Beff is with the State Department of Child
Welfare at Montgomery, Ala. Incidentally,
Beff said her economical soul would not
allow her to waste the postal sent her.
Now let's all catch that spirit of economy!

Margaret Bland began preliminary work
on her doctor's degree this summer by
plunging into the study of German at
the University of North Carolina. She is
teaching at A. S. C. this winter.

No "malade immaginaire" in the case of
Mary (Burnett) Thorington. Each mem-
ber of the family from the two children to
the grandparents had an equal share of
illness, and when "Polly" wrote September
27th, they were convalescing for a couple
of weeks at Kerrville, Texas. Polly
promises to be with us at our next reunion,

even if she did have to miss that jollifica-
tion of last May.

The thrills of a new home, and the mis-
chievous meanderings of an eighteen-
months-old daughter keep Alice Slater
(Cannon) Guille pretty busy out of mis-
chief, too, perhaps. Alice Slater moved
into this new home September 13. Who
says that is an unlucky number? But no
matter if young daughter is about to swal-
low a button or poke the scissors into
her eyes, there is always time to read the
Alumnae Quarterly from cover to cover!

"Thought I'd be in Miami, Fla., again
this winter. However, have decided to
stay in Opelika, Ala. Have the position of
secretary to the president of the National
Bank of Opelika. Enjoyed seeing every-
body this spring. Hope to go back for
Commencement next year, too." This from
Miriam Dean.

Some people are so modest they won't
admit they do things, but "I seen 'em when
they done it." Garden Club shows, well,
you have been to them and know what
they are like. Tip (Holtzclaw) Blanks'
garden was a vision when I saw it this
summer. My only complaint is she makes
two nasturtiums bloom where there ought
to be only one and my well, I got awfully
tired before the row was half done.

During the recent Florida storm, papers
all over the country copied Emilie Keyes'
news articles in the "Palm Beach Post."

Does "a month fishing and loafing down
on Mobile Bay" sound inviting? And when
that month is October, we all would like to
yield to temptation and join Mirian (Mc-
Camy) Sims.

Margaret McConnell teaches kindergar-
ten at Claxton School, Asheville, N. C.

Virginia McLaughlin spent a lazy vaca-
tion this summer in Maine. Her new ad-
dress this winter is 1622 29th St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C. Agnes (White) San-
ford visited Virginia during the summer.

Gertrude (Manly) McFarland is at home
again after a recent operation in a Char-
lotte, N. C, hospital. Gertrude won the
hearts of all the hopsital staff, and other
patients could die by the dozen while all
the doctors and internes lined the walls of
Gertrude's room.

All of '20 extend to Margery (Moore)
McAulay their deepest sympathy in the
death of her father the- latter part of Au-
gust. Margery writes, "My little Jane still
talks about the Baby Party. The ponies
and ice cream impressed her most ... I
think the Dix System better than the old
one for reunions and enjoyed every bit of
commencement." Incidentally Margery is
the only one of the reunion luncheon bunch
that answered the first call for news, and
she is a busy person, too, being a house-

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keper, a preacher's wife, and a busy
mother.

Laura Stockton Molloy Dowling insists
that everything she does is so hopelessly
domestic that it seems to the outside world
too "stale, flat, and unprofitable for pub-
lication," though personally she insists said
domestic life furnishes her some rather ex-
citing moments. As an example I wish
you could read "Stock's" account of her
young five months old son indulging in a
case of colic! Both John Molloy Dow-
ling and his mother survived. Recently
Laura Stockton moved to 24 Clinton St.,
Apt. 5-J, Brooklyn, N. Y. Of the new
place she says, "We are surrounded by
butcher shops and Chinese laundries, but it
is only fifteen-minute trip to the office, and
I'd live on Tenth Avenue for an extra
hour's sleep in the morning." Shades of
old habits like sleeping 'till the last break-
fast bell crosses the colonade will come
to light!

Perhaps "E" (Moss) Harris has been
studying some of King Solomon's wise say-
ings, especially the one, "A just balance is
a delight unto the Lord." "E" is trying to
get her baby fat and her husband thin.

Eugenia Peed will forsake the profes-
sion of librarian in November to become
Mrs. John Ira Erwin. She will live in
Durham, N. C, where Mr. Erwin is a
public accountant.

"A small boy three years old and a
future Agnes Scotter of sixteen months
kept me too busy at home, but I surely
did want to be at the reunion," writes
Julia (Reasoner) Hastings. Julia has
changed her address, too, from Bradenton
to Oneco, Fla.

Next time any of you are in a Presby-
terian Sunday School, be sure to ask for
a copy of Onward, and if that Sunday
School isn't taking a large number of
these papers, scold them severely and see
to it that they order immediately. Inci-
dentally, Crip Slack edits this illustrious
magazine which is put out by the Presby-
terian Committee of Publication. She lives
in Richmond, Va., at the present and is
always thrilled when any Agnes Scotters
who pass through stop by to see her. But
just try to catch her in her office! A recent
letter from Crip says: "I have been rid-
ing all over Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, and Virginia, just for a slight
change of occupation. I was in Decatur
a few weeks ago and met up with Miss
Phi. Incidentally she was selling Christ-
mas cards. There's no need to continue
the story; you know the rest. I saw Lucy
Beman and Lois Eve in Augusta. Lucy
is working in a bank and Lois is teaching
again at Tubman High."

"As these depart, let others come for-
ward." Just as Eugenia Peed shakes off

the dust of the library from her feet, Helen
Williamson enters the front door of the
same building to start her training in the
library school.
Non-graduates:

Frances Ervin spent the summer travel-
ing in Europe. She is at home in Mobile,
Ala., now acting as secretary for her
father, Judge Ervin, of the Federal Court.
Helene (Norwood) Lammers' husband
had charge of a landscape development on
the New Jersey shore this summer, and
the Lammers spent most of their sum-
mer there. They drove down in Septem-
ber via Helene's old home in Missouri, and
had a gory accident that wrecked their
car but left them both unscratched. Noth-
ing daunted, the Lammers bought a new
car and continued the trip right up to
Agnes Scott's front door. Helene is as-
sistant in Biology at the college this win-
ter.

Agnes (Randolph) Marvin moved back
to Charlottesville, Va., in June.
1921
Next class reunion, 1929 THIS MAY!
Graduates:

Caroline Agee is teaching again at St.
Mary's, Raleigh, N. C. She visited Eleanor
Carpenter during the summer in Louis-
ville.

Charlotte (Bell) Linton, her husband and
four little blonde sons were in Decatur for
a few weeks this summer. They drove to
Kentucky to visit relatives there and are
now at home for the winter at Thomas-
ville, Ga. It is so wonderful that Char-
lotte's year of leave should come at '21's
reunion year, too.

Peg (Bell) Hanna writes: "You ought to
see the company I have continually. They
help me wash the dishes, but there is a
lot to be done besides that. I must stop
writing now, as there is bacon to be burnt
and apples to be scorched for breakfast
and no one else can do the job quite so
thoroughly as I.

Myrtle Blackmon studied at the summer
session of the University of North Caro-
lina and is teaching English again in the
Columbus, Ga., High School.

Eleanor Carpenter writes of her sum-
mer: "In July I had a brief visit from
Mary Barton. She has been to a conven-
tion in Indiana and stopped with me for
one day on her way back to Baltimore.
Caroline Agee came to visit, too, and we
did have gorgeous times on the river
swimming, sailing, canoeing, and motor-
boating. Between swimming and practic-
ing on my music five hours a day I am a
busy woman. Did you ever see an Agnes
Scotter who isn't chronically busy? I
think we acquire both the habit and the
taste for constant busyness. My profes-
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semi-professional and am fortunate enough
to have a really famous teacher. This work
takes all my time and is a constant joy."
Could Eleanor be persuaded to box up
her precious harp and bring it with her
to reunion next May?

Isabel (Carr) Battle writes from 1657
Lenox Ave., Miami Beach, Fla.: "I have
a daughter starting this year on the road
to Agnes Scott. She is in kindergarten,
and will be ready by 1945, maybe. If any
girls that I know are going to be in Miami
this winter, I'd love to know so that I
can look them up. Send my 'Quarterly'
to the address above. The other half of
my family has 'the sand in his shoes' as
they say here, and we shall be here this
winter anyway."

Marion Cawthon writes: "Had a won-
derful trip this summer. Another teacher
and I purchased a new Ford sport coupe
and travelled 11,000 miles. We visited all
the states east of the Mississippi except
the Carolinas. Went as far north as Mon-
treal. I may go to Columbia this sum-
mer and begin to work for my master's
degree; I do want it badly. Please send
that 'Quarterly' along! It will be good to
have news of Agnes Scott, for it has been
a long time since I've seen any of those
'who have gone on before.' " To prove that
she really took that trip, "Kaiser" writes
on hotel stationery from Washington, D.
C, and mails it in a Cleveland, Ohio,
hotel envelope! She is teaching again this
winter in St. Augustine, Fla., and her ad-
dress is 28 Saragossa Street.

Distance certainly has its disadvantages
when it comes to collecting class news! We
read in the Ponca City, Oklahoma, "News"
of August 2nd that "Mrs. Lois Compton
Jennings is a candidate for the nomination
for county superintendent of schools at
the Democratic primaries next Tuesday."
But we haven't been able to find out
whether she got elected or not!

Marguerite Cousins is teaching English
at Tubman High School in Augusta, Ga.

Nell Frances Daye is teaching French in
the Huntsville, Ala., High School.

Betty Floding spent the summer travel-
ing through Europe. Miss Elizabeth Good-
win was on the same boat coming home.

Aimee D. (Glover) Little's daughter was
born on August 1st. She is a little bru-
nette and has been named Caroline Adams
Little.

Mary Lou (Green) Morrow writes that
if all goes well she will certainly be among
those present at the class reunion next
May.

Helen Hall was married on September
8th in the Decatur Baptist Church to Mr.
Omar Carl Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Johnson furnished the musical program
preceding the ceremony. Marguerite Cous-

ins was Helen's maid of honor and only
attendant. Mr. Hopkins is from Crescent,
Okla., a graduate of the Oklahoma State
College, with a master's degree from
Massachusetts Tech. He is a sanitary
engineer with the U. S. Public Health
Service with headquarters in Atlanta.
After a motor trip through North Carolina
and Tennessee, the Hopkins are at home
at 131 Clairmont Ave., Decatur.

Pearl Lowe Hammer was married on
July 23rd to Mr. Robert Barkley Betts of
Columbus, Ga. They are living at 2606
1st Ave., Columbus, and Pearl Lowe is
continuing to teach science in the High
School.

"Sis" Jones does bookkeeping in her
father's drug store in the mornings and in
the afternoons and evenings is an active
member of the Jacksonville, Fla., Junior
League.

Martha (Laing) Dorsey writes from
1843 Cherry St., Denver, Colo.: "I was at
home for a month's visit this fall and have
just returned to Denver. While visiting
at home we took a motor trip to New
York and a few shorter trips."

Anna Marie (Landress) Cate writes:
"Every fall it seems that I should be
packing up and returning to good old A.
S. C. I managed to live through a paper-
ing and painting upheaval this summer,
then enjoyed a number of short visits from
friends from Korea, both going and com-
ing. My sister, Ella Louise, ex '24, is
traveling for the Sunday School and B.
Y. P. U. boards and frequently drops in
for a few hours with me or to spend the
night. She enjoys the work thoroughly,
and seems to thrive on it. Can you realize
that my son, Billy, is six years old and
started to school this fall?"

Marian (Lindsay) Noble's little new son,
William Isband, was born on the 7th of
September.

'21 does have the new babies! And we
name them William, too! Here is the an-
nouncement of another: William Justice
Miracle, born on June 5th to Mary Anne
(Justice) Miracle. An interesting letter
from Mary Anne in August says: "We
have moved from Fernandina, much to my
sorrow, as I love the ocean so much. Roads,
however, have a way of getting built, and
then engineers have to move on! We have
a cottage and a garden with a lily pond
and pine trees beyond, so we are con-
tent. At present I am boosting the lacquer
and cretonne industries in an effort to
make our cottage gay and homelike. The
baby? Twelve pounds of precious human-
ity, with such cunning ways and a sunny
disposition. He is growing prodigiously.
Some one has said that a baby is a liberal
education if so, we are working for a

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degree." Mary Anne's new address is
Callahan, Fla.

Jean McAlister is spending an interest-
ing winter in New York. She writes: "I
went to hear Dr. Sherwood Eddy the other
night and ran right into Miss Cady. I
am taking some science up here you
don't happen to know how funny that is,
but the girls who were in college with me
will appreciate it, I know." Jean's address
is 435 W. 119th St., New York City.

Fannie (McCaa) McLaughlin's son was
christened this summer by his paternal
grandfather at their home in Stoney Point,
Tenn. Fan wrote that he wore the ex-
quisite long baby dress that she had worn
at her own christening, and Fan adds very
practically, "Oh, how glad I am that I
don't have to do up such elaborate frocks
often!"

Dorothy (McCullough) Havis and Re-
becca Dick, ex '23, were in charge of ar-
ranging the dinner which the New York
alumnae gave Dr. McCain in October at
the National Arts Club. Dorothy is work-
ing at the Bowery Branch of the Charity
Organization Society.

Margaret (McLaughlin) Hogshead has
an excellent reason for not calling her new
baby, born May 10 the popular '21 name of
William. The Hogsheads decided that Cora
Frances would be more appropriate. A de-
lightful letter from Margaret says: "I
have come to the conclusion that a maid
is the first necessity of life. I let mine go
on Sunday and Thursday afternoons and
on these days I expect to have not one
peaceful moment. This thing of training
the pre-school ages three at a time is an
all-absorbing job, however interesting.
Nelle Brown is four now, and it is such a
relief for her to be at the stage where she
understands when I correct her. Often
she says, 'Four-year-old people don't do
that, do they?' Dicky is still doing things
like mixing paint and soap flakes and tea
in a mess on the kitchen floor. He is a
husky young one, already shows promise
of a physique like his dad's. Talks quite
plainly and comes out with quaint and ex-
pressive remarks. The little new baby,
Cora Frances, is a love. There is no trace
of me in any of my children; they are
perfect Hogsheads in every respect. This
summer weather makes me crazy for
athletic diversions, but as yet I have dared
only a few walks. I have shopped once,
gone to one party, and to church once or
twice. Otherwise my life has been within
my family, the chickens, the garden, and
those who happen to climb my hill."

Frances Charlotte (Markley) Roberts'
son was born July 24th in Shanghai, China.
And young Master Roberts will have to be
nameless here, for the particular cable
which we saw didn't mention that impor-

tant item. (Could it be William?) Frances'
youngest sister, Emmalyn, died early in
July as the result of a mastoid operation.
She was a most attractive girl just six-
teen. Her greatest ambition was to get to
Agnes Scott. Frances' brother, Gus, gave
a great deal of his blood in a vain effort
to save Emmalyn, and was desperately ill
for several weeks.

Charlotte Newton writes: "Agnes Scott
is certainly being heard from down here
at the University of Florida. Mamie Shaw,
who won so many scholastic honors at
Agnes Scott in 1927, finished up work for
her master's degree and went through all
the ceremonies here in June along with
two other women and thousands of boys. I
felt very motherly as I marched in the
procession along with the other gentlemen
of the faculty of the U. of Florida, and saw
our great tall Professor Black (always
prominent in the formalities connected
with bestowing masters' hoods on account
of his seven feet), drop an orange and
blue affair over Mamie's small red head.
And what do you suppose that child wrote
her thesis about? 'The Myology of
Rodents.' Sue Hill, ex '25, is here as dean
of women. She is to stay on helping with
the Y. M. C. A. work in the winter. I
enjoy telling my friends that I graduated
from college before our dean of women
entered. You can't imagine the amount of
prestige this gives me in the city. To-
day (August 5th) I am busy packing. Yes,
I am going to be like old-fashioned hero-
ines and travel with trunks, not to speak
of a week-end bag, a typewriter, a suit-
case, and probably a basket of fresh pine-
apples and guavas. I'm going back to
Illinois where I shall probably die of the
cold, having become acclimated to Florida
summers. Isn't this funny spend the sum-
mer in Florida, and then go north for the
winter? All this on behalf of the Florida
State documents." Charlotte's address is
1107 W. Oregon St., Urbana, 111.

Lina Parry is working for the United
States Civil Service Commission in At-
lanta.

Janef Preston spent several weeks driv-
ing through New England this summer
with Miss Randolph and Miss Gaylord.
Janef fell all the way down the steps at
Plymouth Rock and had a nice limp for
weeks to remind her of the debt we owe
the Pilgrim Fathers. She is teaching
again at Agnes Scott.

Rachel (Rushton) Upham is living at
200 9th Ave., N., St. Petersburg, Fla. Does
anybody ever hear from Rachel any more ?
Please send in some news from her. The
class secretary swamps her with letters in
vain. Of course a baby takes time, but
other people have them too, and still man-
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Margaret Wade spent the summer in the
valley of Virginia. She wrote: "You have
perhaps forgotten how nice it is to be
at home and not have to live by the ring-
ing of a bell. All winter, nine o'clock in
morning means it is time to begin the
Caesar lesson. I won't tell you what I am
usually doing at nine o'clock now. The
last of June I helped teach in a daily vaca-
tion Bible school about five miles from here
and found it to be interesting work. Mr.
Hanna is a very energetic man (this is
Peg Bell's husband) and keeps things
pretty lively. I am going to be at the
Montreat Normal School next winter and
from all I hear I think it must be a lovely
place to teach. I certainly shall miss see-
ing Fan every Sunday, and our visits dur-
ing the week I think I shall miss even
more. We almost had a reunion at church
yesterday. Margaret (McLaughlin) Hogs-
head, and Ellen Wilson were there, besides
Peg (Bell) Hanna and me. I wish more of
you lived in the valley."

Helen Wayt tore herself away from her
mission Sunday School long enough to
spend several weeks in New York in the
early fall.

Non-graduates:

Isabelle Currie was married June 12th in
Fayetteville, N. C, to Mr. Edward B. Hope.
They are living at 1213 Alberca St., Coral
Gables, Fla.

Jean (Douglass) Smith's son, Douglas
Smith, was born June 17th in Atlanta.

Virginia (Fish) Tigner's husband is
manager of Browne Decorating Company
in Jacksonville, Fla. They live at 2914 St.
Johns Avenue.

Neel Kendrick, who has been living in
New York for several years, visited her
mother, Mary Mel (Nell) Kendrick, '94,
in Atlanta during the summer.

Julia McCullough is studying at Duke
University this winter.

Alice McNeill was married to Lieuten-
ant John F. Eagan in June. Lieut. Eagan
is an aviator located at Selfridge Field,
Michigan.

Venice (Mayson) Fry sends colorful let-
ters of her life in the Philippines calls on
the General at Manila; and her modest
little establishment for two run by twenty-
odd native servants.

1922

Next class reunion, 1929 THIS MAY!

Elizabeth Brown and her friend, Mrs.
Butterfield, went to New York by boat this
summer. Elizabeth celebrated their ar-
rival by an absessed tooth which would
have ruined anyone's vacation except
hers! They stayed several weeks, made
the trip back by water too, and are settled
in Albany, Ga., for another winter. Some
few of her many titles are executive sec-

retary of the Red Cross, County Welfare
Worker, Juvenile Court Probation Officer.
Liz has two younger sisters at Agnes
Scott now Frances, '30, and Cornelia, '32.

Nell Buchanan conducted another party
to Europe this summer, and she is already
working on her next summer's group.

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson has a new
home and a new baby, too! The Clarksons
moved out to 2525 Cherokee Road in the
early summer, and little Cama arrived
during the summer to enjoy the new home.

Sue Cureton's condition is vastly better
after having spent last year at Johns Hop-
kins Hospital. She is at home this winter
at Moreland, Ga. Her sister, Gladys, is
a member of '29.

Eunice (Dean) Major's little family con-
tinues to be "very lively and very sweet.
Three babies and two of them twins
keep me busy," writes Eunice. Eunice lost
her father during July.

Mary Floding visited Elizabeth Wilson
in New York in October.

Otto (Gilbert) Williams and her son and
daughter spent two months in Atlanta
this summer visiting her parents while her
husband attended the Youth Peace Con-
ference in Holland. Mr. Williams was
selected as one of the eighty American
delegates to attend this conference. The
Williams are now living in Franktown,
Va., where Mr. Williams is pastor of the
Methodist Church.

Mary Harris is teaching again at Palmer
College, DeFuniak Springs, Fla. She has
completed half the work on her M. A. at
the University of Michigan.

Lilburne Ivey writes from Eufaula, Ala.:
"I went west this summer with a tourist
party the same that Elizabeth Henry*
'24, went with. Neither of us had dreamed
of the other's being along. Imagine our
surprise when we spied each other in the
Terrace Garden in Chicago, and our further
surprise on learning that we were to be
traveling companions! We talked over old
days and I got so homesick for the 'Lilly
apartments' that I felt I must get back to
the next reunion. I was at home this sum-
mer long enough to see Martha Lee's and
Susye's daughters Geraldine and Patsy,
respectively and they are the cutest pair
you ever saw. Now I am teaching in Eu-
faula, and I would come here after Carolyn
and Jerry have gone! Mary Frances Con-
ner, ex '26, is to be married Friday but
she has chosen that fashionable hour of
high noon at which time I shall be strug-
gling with 'Canterbury Tales' or the
'DeCoverly Papers,' and so shall have to
forego the pleasure of going."

Frances Harper writes from 305 St.
Charles St., Baton Rouge, La.: "I am very
pleasantly located here with one of the
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the delights of boarding after two years of
light housekeeping and occupying a 'room
with breakfast only.' I received my M. A.
at Louisiana State University in June, in
company with about thirty other graduate
students and a horde of B. A.'s. I use
'horde' advisedly, as you would understand
if you had seen them swarm down the
aisle with half the caps over one ear.
After graduation, even, I could not resist
the lure of history, and spent the first term
at L. S. U. summer school working like
a Trojan."

Juanita Kelly studied at Emory Uni-
versity summer school. She is teaching
again at the Cumberland Mountain School
in Crossville, Tenn.

Mary Knight is in charge of the college
text-book department at Scribners' Pub-
lishing Company in Atlanta.

Roberta (Love) Brower has moved back
to Lincolnton, N. C.

And Susan Malone has gone her one
better, and moved to Texas! Please send
her exact address, someone who knows it.

Lucia Murchison has been to Charleston
and then to Columbia, S. C, two weeks
for her vacation. She is doing hospital
social service at Johns Hopkins, where she
secured her M. A. last June, 27.

Laura (Oliver) Fuller has done a bit of
moving herself, though she hasn't gone
outside the city of Birmingham to do it.
Her latest address, or at least, one of her
latest addresses, is 2470 11th Ave., South.
Keeping up with changed alumnae ad-
dresses (Roberta, Susan and Laura, please
note) is making the alumnae secretary
old before her time, and bowing her grey
head with sorrow over the mailing list
which she strives in vain to keep up to
date.

Ruth Pirkle was at home in Cumming,
Ga., during the summer. She is again
teaching Biology at Agnes Scott.

Virginia (Pottle) Riley's husband is as-
sistant manager of the Planters Oil Mill
in Albany, Ga. Their little daughter is six
months old.

Since she finished her graduate work in
Economics at the University of Wisconsin
last year and decided to get some very
practical experience as to "how the other
half lives," Ruth Scandrett has done every-
thing from working in a cracker factory on
New York's east side to running a board-
ing house at Provincetown, Mass. Ruth
worked for a while with the strikers in
New Bedford. She is back in New York
now and still enjoying immensely her
varied experiences.

Louis Louie Dean (Stephens) Hays has
moved to Baltimore, Md.

Annie Mae Strickland is teaching in
Murphy, N. C.

Laurie Belle Stubbs is taking a year off

from teaching to complete work for her
master's degree at Emory University.

Emily (Thomas) Johnston was at the
Alumnae House with her sister, Augusta,
'24, in October to do some shopping for
Augusta's trousseau. Emily is continuing
her work as probation officer of Dallas
County, Ala.

A letter from Joy (Trump) Hamlet
says: "I am envious of the girls at A. S.
C. now. It is the dearest place in the
world, as I realize more every day. I am
teaching again here in Tuscumbia, and am
having a great deal of pleasure fixing up
the new home into which we have just
moved. Hurry and send me a Quarterly;
I literally devour every issue."

Alice (Whipple) Lyons has moved to
1166 Orme Circle, N. E., Atlanta.

From the Covington, Ga., newspaper
comes this note: "Mrs. Carl Wiegand,
formerly Miss Lucy Wooten of this city,
who has been teaching in the public
schools of North Carolina, has been elect-
ed for the chair of history in the High
School here for the coming session."

Non-graduates:

Emily (Allen) Brown has opened a mod-
ern fiction library in connection with her
charming little shop, "The Hat-Box," in
Decatur.

Ruth Houston was married to Mr. J. L.
Fountain on December 15th of last year.
They are living at Woodburn Rd., Raleigh,
N. C., where Mr. Fountain is a practicing
attorney.

Genie Blue (Howard) Matthews has
three charming blonde daughters, ages
six years, three years, and two months.
Mr. Matthews is the president of a do-
mestic refrigerating company in Montgom-
ery, Ala.

Gertrude Hunter was married on Sep-
tember 1st in Johnson City, Tenn., to Mr.
Alfred M. Rebman. After a wedding trip
in their car to eastern cities and Canada,
the Rebmans will be at home in Atlanta,
where Mr. Rebman is a district manager
for the Pyrene Manufacturing Company.
He is an alumnus of Georgia Tech.

Coma McCaskill will be married in No-
vember to Mr. Thomas Rankin, of Fayette-
ville, N. C.

Louise (McCorkle) Kloor is in Crowley,
La., visiting her parents. She will return to
her home in Cuba in December.

Dinah (Roberts) Parramore is the proud
mother of a little son, Redden Lamb Parra-
more, Jr., born August 27th. She writes:
"Of course to me he is the most wonderful
baby in the world, though I will have to
admit that he has plenty of room for
improvement in looks." But we remem-
ber Dinah, and take this last statement
with a grain of salt!

Mary Joe Smith is Mrs. A. M. Ander-

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son, Melbourne Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.

Dorothy Speake returned from Europe
in March. She stayed a while in New
York with her sister, Margery, '25, and
is now at home in Huntsville, Ala.

Katherine Wolcott teaches the 5th grade
in the Griffin, Ga., public school.

Ruth (Woodward) McQuarrie moved on
September 1st to College Park, Ga. Her
husband is an army officer. They have
two children.

1923

Next class reunion, 1929 THIS MAY!

Clara Mae and Imogene Allen are both
at home this winter. Clara Mae is going
to the Atlanta Library School.

Ruth Almand is teaching mathematics
at Joe Brown Junior High School in At-
lanta. She boards at 209 14th St., N. E.

Hazel (Bordeaux) Lyon writes from
Little Rock, Ark.: "Please announce in the
next Quarterly the birth of my son, Wil-
liam Owen Lyon, Jr., on July 30th. I spend
my entire day giving him baths, sunbaths,
and olive oil rubs; he is the dearest toy
I've ever had!"

And Dot (Bowron) Collins has a new
baby too! Little Patsy Collins' nose is
quite out of joint for the new baby is a
little sister too. She was born on the
22nd of September and has been named
Jeanne.

Margaret (Brenner) Awtrey's mother is
spending several months with relatives in
Germany and Margaret and her husband
are holding down the Brenner establish-
ment in her absence. They had an ideal
honeymoon trip through the North Caro-
lina mountains this summer in Mr. Aw-
trey's car.

Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansell is one
of the active workers for the new Chris-
tian Church in Atlanta. She is still doing
work with the Camp Fire Girls, too, and
is a valuable member of the Atlanta
alumnae club. Their September meeting
was held in Sarah Belle's beautiful new
home in Druid Hills.

From the Atlanta Constitution comes
this clipping: "One of the most enjoyable
events of the past week was the meeting
of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club, held at
the home of Mrs. Donald Hastings,
'Floweracres,' near Jonesboro, Ga. The
lovely home was decorated throughout
with a profusion of beautiful gladioli,
gathered from the extensive gardens of
the Hastings' estate. After the short
business meeting, the members of the club
had the great pleasure of seeing the spa-
cious gardens, including the wide fields of
cannas in full bloom. Mrs. Hastings pi'e-
sented each member of the club with sev-
eral dozen gladioli on their departure."
And the most beautiful thing at Louise

(Brown) Hastings' lovely home is her ex-
quisite little daughter!

Nannie Campbell writes from Richmond,
Va.: "You can be sure that I am planning
to come back for '23's reunion at Agnes
Scott. It would break my heart to miss
it."

And Minnie Lee (Clarke) Cordle hasn't
any intention of letting a husband and a
son keep her away from reunion, either!
She writes: "I am counting on attending
our reunion next May. I was at Agnes
Scott in April of last year and ran out for
a minute, but though the campus is still
lovely, how I did miss the girls of '23!"

Do you '23-ers who are reading this
realize that so far down the alphabet we
have had an item of news about every girl
on the class roll? Isn't it splendid? But
now we have to skip over Thelma (Cook)
Turton and Jessie Dean (Cooper) Young,
for we haven't heard a line from either one
all summer, and if we gave any news
about them it would be pure fabrication!

The next name on the list is Eileen
(Dodd) Sams and she comes nobly forward
with a very important piece of news. Her
second baby was born this summer and is
another little boy for big son Marion to
play with.

Christine (Evans) Murray and her hus-
band have had a delightful trip through
the North Carolina mountains and are now
back in Atlanta for the winter. Christine
was apartment hunting as the Quarterly
went to press, so that we can't print her
new address just yet.

Philippa Gilchrist and Colonel Charles
Lindbergh received degrees at the gradua-
tion exercises of the University of Wis-
consin in June within a few minutes of
each other and from the same platform.
Philippa is back at Agnes Scott assisting
in the chemistry department.

Won't someone who gets letters from
Mary (Goodrich) Meredith send us some
news of her? She simply refuses to an-
swer alumnae office pleas for news of her-
self, though it is quite possible that she
never received those pleas, as we have just
learned that she has another address:
2116 Post St., Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Mere-
dith is connected with a wholesale mag-
azine distributing concern.

Jerry Goodroe writes from Schenectady,
N. Y.: "I love the aeroplane view of Agnes
Scott that I received from the alumnae
office today. I have thumbtacked it up
in my classroom to inspii'e my ninth grade
girls to higher things. The north has 'got'
me, I am afraid. I am keeping house this
year have a darling little apartment, do
all my cooking, and love it. Helen (Bates)
Law, '26, sings in the First Presbyterian
Church choir here, next door to where I
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to bask in reflected glory. I see her very
often. I 'don't know much class news
except that Susye (Minis) Lazenby and
Skinny (Seagle) Courtney both have
precious baby girls they are raising for
Agnes Scott." Jerry's apartment is locat-
ed at 211 Union Street, Schenectady.

Em Guille spent her two weeks' vaca-
tion at home in Tennessee and wrote from
there: "I am revelling in freedom, lazi-
ness, horseback rides, swims, food and
family!" Em verifies Jerry Goodroe's
statement about Skinny (Seagle) Court-
ney's baby. "Skinny says that her daugh-
ter looks like 'Boodle' and is a lamb."

Mary Harris is teaching again at Palmer
College, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.

Quenelle Harrold is working on her
master's degree in History at Columbia.
She writes: "I am crazy about Columbia
and Johnson Hall. I have met Margaret
Pruden, '17, and Kenneth Maner, '27, and
we have wonderful times talking Agnes
Scott. Kenneth and I went to the Agnes
Scott dinner to Dr. McCain together. I
ran into that sweet Marg McColgan in
front of Columbia Library yesterday. She
is teaching kindergarten and going to
school too. We are planning to see a lot
of each other this winter."

Frances Harwell is teaching again in
Atlanta.

Lucie Howard is at home again in
Lynchburg, Va., after her trip abroad.
She says: "I went to Maderia, Gibraltar,
Algiers, Monaco, Naples, Athens, Con-
stantinople, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethle-
hem, Cairo, back to Naples, Rome, Flor-
ence, Venice in fact, a Mediterranean
cruise and then up through Italy to Paris
where I joined my sister who had been
studying there for a year. From there we
went to London and the Shakespeare coun-
try, Oxford, and back home. I was away
three months and had planned my second
trip before I landed in New York! And
I went on the cruise by myself sailed on
a Monday at noon and decided the pre-
ceding Thursday night to go. I knew the
names of seven people who were going
but had never laid eyes on any of them.
Can you imagine timid, retiring me start-
ing off like that? It was grand fun,
though, and I wasn't lonesome a minute.
Before I got to Naples I knew about a
hundred and twenty-five of the four hun-
dred passengers and lots of the crew. I
recommend such a trip to all timid girls;
it is as much an education as you get in
four years of college! I am hoping that
Lib Hoke, Eva, and I can come back to-
gether for our class reunion in the spring.
We are certainly writing each fast and
furiously about it. I saw Nannie Camp-
bell for a little while in Richmond in Au-
gust. It was just before that grand trip
she had to New England. Right now I

am working hard on a Paul Whiteman
concert our Junior Welfare League is
sponsoring next Tuesday. I'm in charge
of tickets and I almost live at the tele-
phone!"

Eloise (Knight) Jones and her husband
are back in Richmond, Va., for the winter.
Mr. Jones is studying at the Seminary.
Eloise's sister, Adah, who taught in North
Georgia last winter, is back at Agnes Scott
this winter as a member of the Senior
class.

Lucile (Little) Morgan came over to At-
lanta during October to visit her family
and Agnes Scott.

Marjorie (Lowe) Haley is living on
Drury Ave., in Macon, Ga., where her hus-
band teaches mathematics in the Lanier
Boys High School.

Edith McCallie studied at Emory Uni-
versity during the summer. She is teach-
ing again at Fulton High School in At-
lanta.

One year away from her beloved north
Georgia mountains was enough for Lois
McClain. She is working in the bank at
Jasper, Ga., this winter. Lois writes: "I
visited in Birmingham in September and
saw all the rest of them going to school.
Met Sallie Horton, Grace Carr and Frances
Bitzer going to Teachers meeting, and I
just laughed and laughed because I'm not
teaching this year." During October she
and another Jasper girl drove Lois' Ford
to Richmond for a week's visit.

After wandering over Europe for a year
and a month while her husband continued
his studies, Beth (McClure) McGeachy is
settled in her own home at 746 Erin Ave.,
S. W., Atlanta. Mr. McGeachy is pastor
of the Capitol View Presbyterian church.

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail writes: "Alice
got along beautifully through her second
summer. She has been so well and is no
longer a baby. She has developed 'little
girl' ways and makes her wants known by
telling them. I am doing French coach-
ing work and occasionally substituting in
the High School, although Alice doesn't
leave me much time for outside work."

Mary Stewart McLeod, Beth (McClure)
McGeachy, Eileen (Dodd) Sams, and
Mary White Caldwell represented '23 at
the Agnes Scott opening in September.
Mary Stewart was in Decatur for the wed-
ding of Helen Hall, '21, and to enter a
cousin at the college. Mary White is resi-
dent nurse in charge of health work at the
cotton mills at Scottdale, Ga.

Anna Meade is at home in Birmingham,
Ala., after her trip abroad. She writes:
"I did enjoy my two months in England
more than anything. I was visiting friends
and relatives in London during the season,
and we went to the derby and to other
typical English functions. Father and

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Mother met me in Washington when I re-
turned and we drove down, stopping at
all the interesting places we passed, like
Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg, etc.
I saw Ruth Virden, '22, in Wilmington, N.
C. Now I am back at home working with
the Junior League and the Children's Thea-
tre Movement here."

Valeria (Posey) Brown visited her two
sisters-in-law at Agnes Scott during Oc-
tober. Valeria looks exactly the same,
fixes her hair in the same way, and as she
came out of vesper services the first Sun-
day night, she said she felt as if it should
be '22 instead of '28, and that if Eloise
and Virginia and Mary Goodrich and
Beth and the others had come filing in
with the Y. W. cabinet she wouldn't have
been at all surprised. Valeria's young
hopeful is named Valeria Virginia, but
that isn't what she is called. (How the
gentle White Knight in "Through the
Lookingglass" would appreciate this!) Her
aunt, Liz Brown, '22, gave her the nick-
name of "Spoof" early in life, and now at
the stately age of two, she is "Spoof
Brown" to everybody in town.

Catherine Shields has gone back to
Albany, Ga., this winter to teach in the
High School.

Alice Virden is teaching in Jackson,
Miss., again this winter. Her address is
964 N. State Street.

Eva (Wassum) Cunningham spent part
of her vacation with the Cunningham fam-
ily in Montreat. "My future tripping in-
cludes Decatur at Christmas for a Cun-
ningham family reunion, and Decatur
again in May for that '23 reunion," writes
Eva.

Non-graduates:

Sarah Bryan has returned from New
York and for the present is at home in
Rome, Ga.

Mr. and Mrs. Stilwell Robinson announce
the birth of a daughter on May 28th, who
has been given the name of Marye Ann.
Mrs. Robinson was Maybeth Carnes.

Rebecca Dick was co-chairman of the
New York Alumnae dinner to Dr. McCain
in October. A delightful letter from her
recently is so worth quoting that we are
tempted to turn over the rest of the
Quarterly to it. Becky writes: "Illness
and the trip to Washington followed fast
on Dr. McCain's visit here. The illness
wasn't serious, just a cold but the trip
to Washington was quite serious and I've
been working like everything down there.
Am just back in my 'home town' New
York for two days work here and then
back I go to stay for the rest of the great
General Convention of the Episcopal
Church, for you see my present interest in
it is in St. Luke's International Hospital in
Tokio the child of the church, hence my

activity along publicity lines in, at, and
around the convention. Purely as a pub-
licity matter I carried with me the three
Japanese nurses who are now studying on
Rockefeller fellowships in this country.
The convention is all but eating them;
they are proving the most delightful bit
of color imaginable. If you could only
have seen how happy these New York
alumnae were to get together the night
that we had Dr. McCain with us. And we
enjoyed so much all that he told us about
the college. The plans for the buildings
and equipment sound perfect." And a hur-
ried postscript adds: "The Zeppelin has
just passed over our heads. We all dashed
up to the roof. It is simply unbelievable!"
Becky works at 7 Wall St., right in the
heart of things in New York.

Elizabeth (Dickson) Steel and her fam-
ily landed at Vancouver on July 16th for
their year's furlough from China. They
are at present in Clarkesville, Tenn., with
their people.

Ann Gambrill spent several months at
the Gambrill summer home in Cedar Moun-
tain, N. C, where Virginia Ordway visited
her.

Estelle (Gardner) Baker and her hus-
band drove to Virginia on their vacation.
Mr. Baker is connected with the Cotton
Mills at Scottdale, Ga.

Emma (Herman) Lowe and her hus-
band drove south this summer and came
by Agnes Scott. Mr. Lowe and Mr. Holt
and Dr. McCain had a great time killing a
snake in front of Main while Emma and
Polly Stone stood on the front steps and
screamed. The reptile was at least five
inches long. Emma is again critic teacher
for the fourth grade at Western Kentucky
State Teachers' College.

Mary George (Kincannon) Howorth and
her husband and son spent part of the
summer at the New York Boy Scout camp
up state. Dr. Howoi-th is the camp phy-
sician. Little Beckett is starting to. school
this year, and is a tall, splendid looking
little fellow.

Margaret McColgan studied at Colum-
bia University during the summer. She
and her sister, Frances, '25, had an apart-
ment together. They drove home from
New York, visiting a few days in Balti-
more. Marg is teaching in New York this
winter.

Among our Scotch alumnae marriages,
such as McCaa-McLaughlin, '21; McDow-
MacDougall, '24; McClure-McGeachy, '23;
Mclntire-McAfee, '12; McCormick-McCord,
ex '11; is McLean-McLaurin, ex '23. Mar-
garet (McLean) McLaurin is living this
winter at 107 St. Francis Apt., 1107 W.
Franklin St., Richmond, Va.

Waycross, Ga., is quite thrilled over the
approaching marriage of Alexander Mor-

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rison and the Venerable Charles C. J. Car-
penter. Alex has traveled and studied
abroad for a number of years, and is an
excellent pianist and organist. Mr. Car-
penter has been the Episcopal rector in
Waycross for several years and is much
loved there. He is a graduate of Princeton
University and of the Theological Sem-
inary, of Alexandria, Va. Recently he has
been made archdeacon of Georgia. Mr.
Carpenter and Dr. Frank Morgan of Au-
gusta are warm friends. Alex is planning
an elaborate church wedding.

Rachel Maddox is studying at the As-
sembly's Training School in Richmond,
Virginia.

Lillian (Moore) Rice's husband was
killed in an automobile accident in Atlanta
during the summer.

Harriet Noyes is doing clerical work for
the Royal Insurance Company in Atlanta.

Edith Ruff is teaching in the Hapeville,
Ga., school and living at home.

Christine (Sinclair) Parsons is teaching
in Atlanta this winter.

Mary Stone is doing stenographic work
in Danville, Ky.

Invitations have been issued to the wed-
ding on November 3rd of Frances Stuart to
Mr. Clyde W. Key. Frances went over to
Montreat during September and spent a
day with her Senior sister, Charlotte (Bell)
Linton.

Nell Veal was married in October to Mr.
George Zipfel.

Mary (Wray) McCash announces the
arrival of Wray Barton McCash on July
22nd.

1924

Next class reunion, 1929 NEXT MAY,
and we don't mean MAYBE!

Graduates:

Before we start down the line of Akers,
Alford, Amis, and Arnold, '24 wants to
welcome its new members: Mary Frances
Arnold, daughter of Emily (Arnold) Perry,
born August 20th ("The sweetest, cutest,
fattest little girl ever," brags her doting
mother) ; and Emily Fitzpatrick Booth,
born June 29th to none other than our own
Nonie (Peck) Booth. Won't it be a great
time when they are both Freshmen
at Agnes Scott, and little Margaret
Powell Gay is lording it around as a
superior Sophomore, and Lewis Williams,
Jr. (son of Margaret (Griffin) Williams),
Tommie Merritt (Marion (Johnson) Mer-
ritt's young son), and Harry Gibson Nel-
son, Jr. (Elma (Swaney) Nelson is his
mother) come up Main walk arm in arm to
call on the daughters of their mothers' old
friends ?

Attie Alford spent most of the summer
at home doing everything from eating and
sleeping to skating. She says: "The red-
letter week of the summer was one while

Dick Scandrett was here. She was doing
some work with the Home Demonstration
Agent and I was thrilled to death to see
her again. She had supper with me one
night and we had loads of fun talking
Agnes Scott." Attie is returning to Ocala,
Fla., to teach this year and she is going
to do her best to get to the reunion in May
if her school is out in time.

Frances Amis is back for another year
at the El Dorado, Ark., High School. She
visited two old roommates this summer
Nanabeth (Preas) Smathers at Johnson
City, Tenn., and Polly Stone at Agnes
Scott. Frances spent a week in Montreat
and another with Mary Ben Wright in At-
lanta.

Elizabeth Askew is returning to the
Biblical Seminary in New York to finish
a course she started last year, leading to
a B. R. E. (Bachelor of Religious Educa-
tion), which she hopes to get next May.
She says that she is planning to do Re-
ligious Educational work when she finishes
and sometime not in the far distant future
to be doing it on the foreign field. Eliz-
abeth spent six weeks in Balsam, N. C,
at a camp and enjoyed it immensely. The
remainder of the summer she was at home.

Rebecca Bivings visited Fanny Swann in
Mobile this summer, and now is teaching
again in the Emory Elementary School.
Fanny will teach in Mobile. Rebecca is
another we can count on to be at the
class reunion in May.

Janice Brown writes casually that she
and Mary Gtfeen and Margery Speake
"and Willa Cather" received their de-
grees from Columbia in June. Janice came
home by boat and is now reference libra-
rian in the public library in Greensboro,
North Carolina.

Jinks (Burt) Evans is keeping house in
an apartment at 1313 S. 31st St., Bir-
mingham, Ala., and seems absolutely
happy. She advises all Agnes Scott girls
to throw teaching and other jobs to the
winds and join the ranks of the "happy
because married."

Gwynne Cannon is teaching in Thomas-
ville, Ga.

Helen Lane Comfort traveled leisurely
through Europe this summer with Miss
Gaylord's party of Agnes Scott girls. They
spent ten memorable days at the Villa
Stufa in Florence as the guests of Miss
Gaylord's friend, Countess Ramberg. In
September, Helen Lane wished the rest of
the party bon voyage and turned her face
towards Germany. She will spend the
winter studying at the University of
Heidelberg. Her address is care Dres-
dener Bank, Heidelberg, Germany.

Beulah Davidson is teaching again at
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week-ends at the Alumnae House.

Marguerite Dobbs is teaching science at
the East Point High School again this
winter. Her address is 308 Ware Ave.,
East Point, Ga.

Martha Eakes Matthews writes: "I have
become an author. Would you ever have
guessed it? I am on my fourth manu-
script book, each 500 pages. My material
is made up of patients' names, room num-
bers, doctors, and what is to be X-rayed.
You see I am working at the desk in the
X-ray department of the Presbyterian
Hospital in Chicago. Warren will begin
interning in October and will be here in
January at Presbyterian Hospital for a
year." Martha will arrive in Decatur in
December to spend the month with her
mother.

Nancy Evans had a long visit from her
old roommate, Pauline Wheeler, during the
summer.

Katie Frank Gilchrist spent the summer
motoring in Kentucky and Ohio, and tak-
ing in the horse races at Latonia, and
the dog races at Hamilton, Ohio. Katie
Frank had Margaret (Griffin) Williams as
a visitor for several days after she re-
turned home. Katie Frank says that in-
deed she will be at the '24 reunion in
May!

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes holds the en-
viable record as the only hostess on the
campus who is successful in luring all the
faculty husbands to her teas. Frances
is contralto soloist at the First Baptist
Church in Atlanta this winter.

Mary Greene is teaching English at the
East Carolina Teachers' College in Green-
ville, N. C.

Margaret Griffin Williams writes: "I
have been at home all summer with the
exception of a short visit to the Gilchrists
in Courtland, which I enjoyed very much.
I have been busy most of the time in
and around our new home. Then too
I've had a time to keep from being ruled
by my 16-month-old son. I need more than
I learned in my psychology major to know
how to deal with the problem of disciplin-
ing him. It's all lots of fun though and
I'm terribly happy." Margaret, on re-
quest, sent a kodak of "His Majesty" for
the Alumnae Scrap Book. Margaret's house
number has been changed to 218 Devon
Dr., Hollywood.

Jo Havis worked in the Atlanta library
until October 1st when she left to spend
the winter in New York with her sister,
Dorothy (Havis) McCullough, '21. After
enjoying a good vacation, Jo says she
may look around and offer the New York
Library the privilege of employing her.

Elizabeth Henry spent most of the sum-
mer months in a tour of California and
the west. There soon won't be any place

to which E. has not travelled! In Septem-
ber she visited Miss Tate in the famed
"pink marble mansion" at Tate, Ga. E.
will teach again in Augusta, Ga., while
she plans her next trip.

Kate Higgs is another member of '24
who spent the summer in California hear-
ing about the climate and the San Fran-
cisco "fire."

Victoria Howie was in Atlanta for a few
days during September, and she and
Frances (Gilliland) Stukes and Dick
Scandrett and Polly Stone rehashed old
times of '24 Senior coffee on Sunday
afternoons, and the little room on 2nd
floor Inman where Vic and Mary Greene
used to do Apache dances. In October Vic
went to Marion, Va., to play the organ
at Frances Lincoln's wedding. Vic will
teach in Union again this wintei*. Her
little brother, Tom (those who know Vic
feel that they know him too), is president
of the Senior class at the Citadel in
Charleston this winter, and has been
selected to try for a Rhodes scholarship.

Barron Hyatt is starting on her second
year of training at the University of Vir-
ginia Hospital.

Marion (Johnson) Merritt has moved to
Augusta, Ga. Her new address is Colonial
Court Apts., D-4, Walton Way. Her hus-
band is in the advertising business and
Marion writes occasional copy for him.
But Tommie, Sr., and Tommie, Jr., keep
her very busy in her job as wife and
mother, and there are always such things
as new draperies and Frigidaires to be
bought, and Marion says that every time
she turns around "her baby needs a new
pair of shoes!"

Vivian Little is back at Agnes Scott in
the French Department.

Lillian (Mc Alpine) Butner has the lov-
ing sympathy of all '24 in the death of
her baby daughter this summer. Betsy
Jean would have been a year old on Christ-
mas day.

Mary (Mann) Boon writes: "I spent the
summer having company. We have been
in our new home three months and we
have had guests to spend nights that
count up over a month and a half! Quite
a few of them arrived on the heels of the
departing guests, a la Portia. My hus-
band and I ran away from Atlanta for a
little vacation to Wrightsville Beach, N.
C, during the summer." Mary's new ad-
dress is 167 Boiling Rd., Atlanta.

Cora (Morton) Durrett spent August at
their summer home in the north Georgia
mountains. Dick Scandrett, Polly Stone,
and Rheba Bayless visited her there.

Fran (Myers) Dickley's mother,
"Grace," is with her in America this win-
ter and Fran and Mrs. Myers are plan-
ning to travel around quite a bit to see

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the relatives. They came south recently
for a visit with North Carolina kinspeople
while Mr. Dickley was in Europe on a
business trip. Fran writes that she has
a "Sheik bob" and admits that it is be-
coming.

Virginia Ordway spent two weeks in
New York during the summer and aver-
aged seeing two shows a day. She made
the trip both ways by boat from Savannah,
stopping off en route by Agnes Scott. Dur-
ing August, Virginia visited Anne Gam-
brill, ex '23, at the GambrilPs summer
home in the North Carolina mountains.
Virginia will be at home in Anniston, Ala.,
again this winter.

Nonie (Peck) Booth is as irrepressible
as ever. She writes: "In odd moments
when I'm not disciplining my child, I'm
taking subscriptions to the Curtis Pub-
lishing Company's publications. Why don't
some of you narrow-minded city-dwellers
broaden your horizon by subscribing to
the 'Country Gentleman' and learning all
about bigger and better potatoes and ears
of corn?"

Margaret (Powell) Gay and family are
moving to Hartford, Conn., where her hus-
band is to be in the home office of the
Aetna Liije Insurance Company. Mar-
garet visited her parents in Arkansas be-
fore leaving the south. She says that little
Margaret is almost a year old, and as
dear as a baby can be. She promises to
send some kodak pictures of her for the
class scrapbook just as soon as they are
settled in their new home.

Cora Richardson writes: "Nellie and I
visited our brother in New York this past
summer. We went up by boat and re-
turned by train in order to stop over in
Washington. I am enjoying teaching, and
am so often reminded of Miss McKinney's
remark that we would learn more than our
pupils the first few years. I have dis-
covered that some astonishing accomplish-
ments are expected of a history teacher
and I have done things that I never dream-
ed of doing, from building a miniature
of the whole town for a school exhibit
at the county fair, to cataloguing books
for the school library. Many of these
books, such as Hart's 'Contemporaries'
brought back a flood of memories as the
library at Agnes Scott rose vividly in my
mind. I wish I could run up to the Alum-
nae House sometime during the winter;
I'll be sure to be back to attend our class
reunion and help '24 tear up the patch in
May." Cora is teaching at Douglas, Ga.

After a summer spent in constant travel-
ing over the state, Dick Scandrett is an au-
thority on the Florida bus system. She
claims to be able to quote time of depar-
ture and arrival of any bus going any-
where from anywhere and can tell you the

first name of fifty per cent of the drivers
and the names of their wives and children.
Dick returned to Agnes Scott (by bus!)
the middle of August to help Miss Hopkins
with the Freshman room assignment.

Daisy Frances received her master's de-
gree at the University of Pennsylvania
in June.- She is teaching this winter at
Andrew College, Cuthbert, Georgia.

Melissa and Brownie Smith are free
lances this year with a car all their own,
time to burn, money in their pockets, and
unquenchable spirits. In September the
two of them drove up alone to South
Carolina from their home in Florida, stop-
ping leisurely along the way wherever
they found an old friend or a good hotel.
They stopped over twice at the Alumnae
House (since it combined the merits of
both) and it seemed very much like old
'24 days to see M'lis and Brownie and Liz
Lynn and Martha Stansfield setting off
for a lark in town together.

Mary Stewart spent her summer at Pea-
body working on her master's degree, but
is now back at Selma, Ala., to teach.
Mary gives the address of Elvie Wilson,
a lost sister and her Freshman roommate,
Mrs. J. H. Wiley, 234 Pine St., Memphis,
Tenn. She also tells that Emily Thomas,
now Mrs. E. B. Johnson, gave a little
drama composed of some of her experi-
ences as child welfare worker at the
Teachers' Institute.

Polly Stone writes: "The high spots in
my summer were visits from Amis, Vic,
Virginia Ordway, and Frances (Arant)
Wilmer; a week-end in the mountains
with Cora (Morton) Durrett; the drive
to New York in June with Miss Mac-
Dougall; and the night that Mr. Rivers
sent for Dick Scandrett and me to come
see his night-blooming cereus open."

Elma (Swaney) Nelson is living on
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. She announces
the birth of Harry Gibson Nelson, Jr., on
February 27, 1928. Elma and her hus-
band travelled around quite a bit this sum-
mer going to South Carolina to see her
sister, and stopped by Atlanta and Agnes
Scott. The last time Elma was at the col-
lege was at Thanksgiving time, 1926, when
they came by on their honeymoon. Elma
has sent a splendid snapshot of her hus-
band and baby for the class scrapbook.

Annie Wilson Terry, though she spent
the summer with her grandmother in
Talladega, completed a correspondence
course from the University of Chicago, and
acquired a permanent certificate. We do
keep on studying! That is one habit we
acquired 'at Agnes Scott that seems to
stick. Annie Wilson is teaching again
in Montgomery. Her sister, Mary, '30,
is student government house president for
Sturgess Cottage this year at Agnes Scott,

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and is one of the outstanding members of
her class.

Augusta Thomas was married on No-
vember 8th at her home in Prattville, Ala.,
to Mr. George Wilson Lanier, of Atlanta.
The ceremony took place on the landing
of the impressive stairway in the Thomas
living room, where Emily Thomas, '22,
was married last spring. Emily and Jack
(Evans) Brownlee were matrons of honor,
and Mary Walker Perry was a bridesmaid.
The Laniers will live at 1050 Ponce de
Leon Ave., Atlanta, on their return from
their bridal trip.

Helen Wright writes: "After six weeks
of summer school, I went to Asheville
where I had a lovely time. While there I
met Miss Alexander and had a nice talk
with her. I saw a lot of old Agnes Scott
girls among them were Maurine Bledsoe,
Sara (Shields) Pfeiffer, Catherine Carrier,
Catherine Randolph, and Virginia Baird.
It surely does make you feel on top of
the world to meet the old girls once again
and talk over old times. And by the way,
our times are really getting to be 'old
times,' aren't they? From Asheville I
went to Myrtle Beach, and am now back
at home and at work. Am teaching at the
same place and plan to take some more
work at the University of South Carolina
this winter. So far, a teacher of Latin
at one of the high schools here and I are
the only ones who have signed up for the
particular course I want, and this teacher
has been teaching for about fifty years,
more or less, so I am rather in awe of
her. I have a niece at Agnes Scott this
year, and I am living over my own col-
lege days through Katherine's letters
home."

Helen is a peach of a class secretary!
She has written to all the class members
asking for news for this issue, and those
of you who aren't told about here should
feel so thoroughly ashamed of yourselves
for not answering her cards that you sure-
ly will have long accounts of your sum-
mer and winter plans in the next issue.
Helen says, "Almost every girl who an-
swered my card said how eager she was
to get the November Quarterly and to
hear the news from the others. When
people do delight in the Quarterly news
so much I do wish that the girls would
help by sending in news, no matter
whether they consider it exciting or not.
Our most important item to be thinking
about right now is the class reunion in
May. It is a thing that can't be men-
tioned too often, so prepare to be re-
minded of it constantly from now till the
very day when we meet the other '24-ers
at the Alumnae House in May. Some of
us have long ways to come, so it may be
a good idea to begin saving railroad fare

right now."

Non-graduates:

'24 feels just as close to its non-grad-
uates as can be, and if a lot of them
aren't back in May to help us celebrate,
we'll be bitterly disappointed.

Louise (Adams) Oberholtzer is dietitian
at the Duval County Hospital in Jackson-
ville, Fla.

Maude Boyd lost her mother this sum-
mer.

Augusta (Cannon) Hungerford is living
in Selma, Ala. Her husband has been
steadily advanced with the Southern Rail-
road and is now the superintendent in
Selma. They have one son.

Alice Carr's engagement has been an-
nounced to Mr. Charles Moore McCaskill,
of Shreveport, La., the wedding to be
solemnized in December. Alice has been
teaching music in Bainbridge, Ga., since
she left Agnes Scott, and has kept up a
lively interest in the college and the class.
She wrote recently, "I am delighted to
hear of the Fine Arts Building that is a
part of the new building program there
at the college."

A nice letter from Cornelia Cartland
gives recent news of her plans for this
winter. "I have been very busy getting
started in school again. Giving over two
hundred beginners intelligence tests and
correcting them is a job! I have a first
grade in the High Point, N. C, City School
system. This summer I spent eight glor-
ious weeks in New York City. Six of them
I studied at Columbia and then for two
weeks I visited old classmates up there,
and enjoyed yachting and sailing parties.
I saw Janice Brown the other day over in
Greensboro, and she seems so happy over
her new job as reference librarian. And
have you all heard that Katherine Whar-
ton has been made director of Girl Scouts
for the whole city of Greensboro? She
has had them in our church for quite a
while, but this new honor has just been
bestowed upon her."

Mary Colley has been very ill during
September in a Nashville hospital. She
is at home now and is much better, but
plans not to teach this winter.

Until this summer we haven't had any
news of Catheryne Craig since Dick Scan-
drett came back from Europe on the same
boat with her in 1925. Catheryne received
her B. A. from Vanderbilt in 1926, and
is now teaching at Miss McGehee's School
for Girls in New Orleans, La.

Kate Harrell is Mrs. T. H. Chiles, Rock
Hill, S. C.

Ella Louise Landress is traveling in
Tennessee for the Baptist Board.

Jeannette Landrum teaches English and
history in the Mayfield, Ky., High School.
She spent a lovely vacation at the Riversea
Club, Saybrook, Conn.

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Nina (Lynn) Rheile lives at Warm
Springs, Ga. Her husband is a farmer
and mechanic. They have no children.

Sarah (McDowell) Joiner lives in
Griffin, Ga. She has a young son, born
last spring.

Birdie Rice is Mrs. Herman Meisel, At-
lanta, Ga.

Claudia Sentelle was married on August
5th at the First Presbyterian Church in
Staunton, Va., to Mr. Page Grey Wilson,
of Danville, Va.

Ruth Spence is public school music
supervisor in Miami, Fla. She lives at
1100 26th Ave., North.

Hester (Stephenson) Phillips stopped by
Agnes Scott during the summer, and she
and Frances (Stukes) Gilliland had an
hour or two together.

Eugenia (Warlick) Brooks' daughter,
Anne Burns Brooks, was born in Atlanta
on September 20th.

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Next class reunion, 1930.
Graduates:

There has been such an enormous
amount of marrying and giving in mar-
riage in '25 lately that wedding notices
form the bulk of our news for this issue.
These '25 girls are certainly on their toes:
they realize that leap year is almost over,
and that it will be four long lonely years
till the next one! Weddings are such ex-
citing things, that we think we shall throw
to the winds the alphabetical arrangement
that the secretary usually insists on and
headline our weddings the very first thing.
Ruth Harrison was married at high
noon on October 16th at her sister's home
in Macon, Ga., to Mr. Robert Albert Mc-
Kay. Immediately after the ceremony the
bride and groom left for a wedding journey
to New York City. After November 1st
they will be at home in Atlanta. Mr. Mc-
Kay is a graduate of Georgia Tech and
a member of the Phi Delta Theta fra-
ternity. Another claim to fame is that he
is the brother of Anne McKay.

Vera Hickman took her master's degree
at Columbia in Psychology in June and
was maried about the middle of September
to Dr. Charles Shannan Butts, of Wash-
ington, D. C. A busy summer for Vera.
Dot Keith's wedding details are still
shrouded in clouds of mystery and ro-
mance. All we know is that the groom is
none other than "Nick," of whom we have
heard ever since Dot went to Abbeville,
S. C, to teach school, and that when Mr.
and Mrs. Keith said, "Dorothy, you must
have a big wedding with a long veil," Dot
said, "No, no, no, no," several hundred
times, and it all ended in Dot's being mar-
ried very quietly without any wedding veil
at all. If there isn't a word of truth in
this informal account, it is all Dot's fault

for not writing the Alumnae office an ac-
count of such an important event.

And Eunice Kell is equally delinquent
in letting the alumnae office know of her
wedding! We know the date August 28th
but Eunice sent in the notice of the
wedding on the same morning it was to
occur, and so we suppose a flustered bride
can be pardoned for forgetting to give the
groom's name. Eunice probably didn't
even know her own when she wrote that
letter. 'Watch this space' for an an-
nouncement of the lucky man's name in
the January Quarterly!

But we know all about Frances Lincoln's
wedding heard of it from her, and from
Evelyn Sprinkle's letter to her twin sisters
at Agnes Scott, and from Anne McKay's
account to Ruth Johnston, and from Peg
(Hyatt) Walker, and from the newspaper
account in the Marion, Va., newspaper
(edited by Sherwood Anderson). It was a
beautiful ceremony, taking place at the
Royal Oak Presbyterian Church in Marion,
at 7:30 on the evening of October the
eleventh. The church was beautifully dec-
orated with cathedral candles and pastel
chrysanthemums, and at the organ to play
the wedding march was Vic Howie, '24,
from Union, S. C. Anne McKay, Helen
Atkins, and Evelyn Sprinkle were brides-
maids, and there were three more who
weren't Agnes Scott girls. Sticks' two
sisters were matrons of honor, and her
little sister was maid of honor. There
was a whole column in the Marion paper
describing how lovely Sticks looked other
members of '25 are waiting for a little
space in this Quarterly, though, so we
can't quote it all, but the Italian rose-point
lace veil was so perfectly beautiful that
we must mention that. And we mustn't
leave out the groom, either, though Kell
and Dot have set us a bad example about
that. Mr. Joseph Stafford Moss is a
graduate of Augusta Military Academy
and of Blacksburg, where he was captain
of his company, vice-president of the Ger-
man Club, and president of the corps of
cadets. Sticks says, "He is just a 'little
boy,' six feet, four inches tall! Mary
Stewart and Mary Anne McKinney and
Polly Stone and Rachel Henderlite will
die of envy I know when they read how
tall he is. And it is certainly satisfying
to have a husband I can really look up
to, and not have to crouch down beside all
my life." After the wedding and a recep-
tion at which Nell Buchanan assisted Mr.
and Mrs. Lincoln in receiving the guests,
Mr. and Mrs. Moss left for a motor trip
through New Hampshire and Canada. They
will live in Burke's Garden, known as "the
garden spot of Virginia."

After the excitement of five weddings
among '25-ers, can we come down to earth

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long enough to record the doings of other
members of the class who have the idea
that positions and trips to Europe and
California and graduate study are impor-
tant? We can. They are.

The inseparable cousins, Frances Bitzer
and Jacqueline Rolston, traveled through
California and the west during the sum-
mer. Then Bit joined her family (five
other Bits, and a most attractive family!)
at. Montreat where Martha Lin Manly
visited her. She is teaching in Birming-
ham, Ala., this winter and living with
Grace Carr and Sallie Horton.

Elizabeth Blalock is teaching in Alex-
andria, Va.

Mary Phlegar Brown is teaching again
at Rowland, N. C.

Idelle Bryant is secretary to one of the
Columbia University professors. Her ad-
dress is 105 E. 19th St., New York City.

Louise (Buchanan) Proctor has been
elected president of the Birmingham, Ala.,
Agnes Scott Alumnae Club. Lou spends
her spare time beating and being beat by
her husband* at tennis.

Lucile Caldwell studied at the Marine
Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole,
Mass., this summer. She visited in Mary-
land on the way home and is back in the
Biology department at Agnes Scott this
winter.

Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland ac-
companied her husband to New Orleans
on a business trip during the summer. Mr.
McFarland is a member of the New Or-
leans Cotton Exchange.

Elizabeth Cheatham visited in Chatta-
nooga during the summer. She is back at
A. S. C. holding Freshman conferences and
teaching them how to write the daily
theme. Elizabeth is living in Boyd cot-
tage.

Bryte Daniel is teaching in Greenwood,
S. C, again.

Agatha Deaver is going to the Library
School in Atlanta. She boards with Mrs.
Hardeman at 121 S. Candler St., Decatur.
Agatha was a bridesmaid in Georgia Mae
Bums' wedding at Bay Minnette in Sep-
tember. She has a little sister in the
Freshman class at A. S. C.

Isabel Ferguson is teaching history at
the North Carolina College for Women
in Greensboro.

Frances Gardner will study in New York
again this winter. During the summer she
had a position as social secretary to some
New York woman, so she did not come
home as she had previously planned to do.

Lucile Gause was one of the bridesmaids
in Georgia Mae Burns' wedding in Sep-
tember.

Gertrude Henry teaches in the South
Jacksonville High School in Florida.

Sallie Horton traveled through the east

during the summer with her father and
younger sister. She is teaching again in
Birmingham, Ala., and sends news of the
alumnae club there. "Our luncheon Satur-
day was a great success. We have about
decided to have the alumnae club this year
as a monthly luncheon club. Lou (Buchan-
an) Proctor is our new president, Bit is
vice-president; Pat Turner secretary and
treasurer and Hulda McNeel publicity
agent. With this team we should have a
real wide awake club." Sallie is good
about dropping in at the Alumnae House
for week-ends.

Peg (Hyatt) Walker wrote a lovely long
letter of alumnae news about everybody
else, but when the secretary began to look
for news of Peg herself, there wasn't any
there! She was one of the guests at
Sticks' wedding in Marion. But we found
that out from the newspaper account of
the wedding and not from Peg's letter!
Peg's baby, Chloe Walker, is a mighty cute
child, and any member of '25 passing
through God's country (Virginia, of
course), is cordially invited by Mr. and
Mrs. Walker, proud parents, to stop by
and verify this statement.

Martha Jackson has returned to Win-
ston-Salem to teach in the Reynolds High
School.

Rosalind Janes was a guest at Ruth Har-
rison's wedding in Macon. "Tootsie" is
still doing advertising with Rich's in At-
lanta.

Annie (Johnson) Sylvester is teaching
at Avondale Estates, Ga.

Ruth Johnston and Ellen Fain, '26, spent
the summer together in Europe. Ruth is
teaching again in Macon. She and
Frances Buchanan, '26, drove up to Agnes
Scott in October for a week-end at the
Alumnae House with "Baby Sara," Ruth's
sister in the Senior class.

Mary (Keesler) Dalton has been keep-
ing house while her mother spent the sum-
mer in Europe.

Georgia May Little has gone from
Allen's to Davison-Paxon Company to
write ads for them.

George and Olive Hall, ex '26, went to
New York on their vacations and played
bridge from Atlanta to Washington with
Leone (Bowers) Hamilton and her hus-
band.

Mary Ann McKinney writes: "I am
going to Medical School at Tulane Uni-
versity next September, with a part-time
job too as assistant in the pathological
'laboratory of the Presbyterian Hospital
there. I drove down to New Orleans in my
Dodge in September to meet Virginia
Peeler when she came, and hope to go back
for Thanksgiving."

Martha Lin Manly ate watermelon at
conventions of the Georgia Press Associa-

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tion all over the state during the summer
and wound up in Montreat with Frances
Bitzer for a visit. Theta spent several
weeks in Charlotte during the fall, and
proved herself as susceptible as everybody
else who goes there by falling in love
with the town. Theta's career as society
editor of the Dalton "Citizen" goes merrily
on. She started out by announcing that
she wouldn't write up any party to which
she wasn't invited, and the social whirl
of Dalton keeps her busy every minute.

Josephine Marbut is still liking her job
with Montgomery Ward Company in At-
lanta.

Larsen Mattox is footloose and fancy
free this winter, having forsworn an-
other year of teaching right now. She
visited in Atlanta during the summer
and plans to go to Washington later in
the winter.

Lillian Middlebrooks teaches at East
Point, Ga., again this year. She received
her master's degree from Emory Univer-
sity in June.

Ruth Owen has gone Larsen one better;
she has forsaken teaching forever and is
a probationer at the Nurses School in the
New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Clyde Passmore and a group of other
Atlanta alumnae spent one delightful
week-end during the summer at the col-
lege camp at Stone Mountain.

Catherine Randolph assists in kinder-
garten in the Asheville, N. C, city school
system.

Margaret (Rogers) Law is putting so
much time into her golf game these In-
dian summer days that before long the
brass band that goes down every week or
so to welcome Bobby Jones back from an-
other national or international triumph
may have to do double duty and play "Hail
to the Chieftess."

Jacqueline Rolston will teach the 6th
grade in Staunton, Va., this fall.

Maria Rose went to Europe with Nell
Buchanan for the summer. She is teach-
ing again in Charlotte.

An interesting letter from Carolyn
(Smith) Whipple says: "My hands are
rather full for this winter. I shall try
to send you a picture soon of Babby for
the scrapbook; she is more adorable than
ever. You may also be interested in the
advent of Wendell Knight Whipple, Jr.
He arrived on September 13th and is the
finest, biggest, handsomest young man you
ever saw. I like my children, don't I?
But they really are both darlings. I see
very few if any idle hours ahead of me
any time soon with two young hopefuls
now." Carolyn is living in Dublin, Ga.

Margery Speake is teaching English in
Miss Pape's School in Savannah, Ga. She
is delighted with Savannah, the school, its

students and the faculty. She writes of
the marvelous gym teacher who teaches
physical education to the entire twelve
grades without a gymnasium or any equip-
ment, and the little French girl who
teaches sewing (no, not without a needle)
and French and is her roommate. Mar-
gery's address is 703 Whitaker Street.

Marianne (Strouss) McConnell and little
Anne McConnell have been visituig Johnnie
Vieve (Thomason) Jones, ex '26, in Dor-
chester, Va.

Sarah Tate is teaching mathematics in
the Junior High School in Orlando, Fla.
band have returned from a six months
stay in Europe, and are at home at 2030
Peachtree Rd., N. W., Atlanta.

Frances (Tennent) Ellis and her hus-

Belle Walker entertained the teachers
of Tubman High School at a picnic at the
Walker's beautiful country home at Bath,
Ga., during October.

Mary Ben Wright had Frances Amis,
'24, as her guest during part of the sum-
mer.

Non-graduates:

Elizabeth (Branch) King has moved to
Charlotte, N. C. "Don't try to keep up
with my addresses," she writes. "Even my
family doesn't. While you are printing
one, I am sure to be moving again. It
isn't that we are dodging our rent, but my
husband's business doesn't let us stay in
one place very long."

Florence Brawley is teaching French at
Mooresville, N. C. She spent the summer
in Chicago and at camp in the Michigan
woods.

Mary (Breedlove) Fleetwood now lives
at 1046 Market St., Parkersburg, W. Va.
She has one little daughter, Ann.

Edith (Camp) McLendon is living in Bir-
mingham, Ala.

Anna Mae Dieckmann is teaching in
Douglas, Ariz.

Sarah (Dunlap) Bobbitt writes from
Charlotte, N. C: "You asked me for a
paragraph about myself 'and family' for
the Quarterly. There is precious little to
tell about myself but a great deal about
the 'and family!' We are six: myself,
Bill, three, children, and the nurse! We
live in a red brick veneer house not un-
like a thousand other such houses in the
country but we think it a perfect house
as we planned it ourselves and have been
living in it four years. I believe I hold
the record in my class of 'and family.' If
there is anybody in 25 with more than
three children, I'd like to hear from them.
I am beginning to feel myself an author-
ity on the care and feeding of children.
As for the feeding of children, we get
ninety-seven quarts of milk a month! I
am already preparing my two daughters,

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Sarah Dunlap age 3% years, and Buford
Burkhead, age 2 months, for Agnes Scott.
I know they will love it .the way their
mother does. My only regret is that my
son, William Haywood, Jr., cannot also be
prepared to attend my Alma Mater with
his sisters. He'll have to leave his hat
with Ella, though, while he takes the Sat-
urday evening course in calling in the
Agnes Scott parlors."

Jennie Lin (Duval) Nyman is teaching
music in Decatur.

Elizabeth (Fore) Crawford is busy with
Baby Crawford, who arrived during the
summer.

Eva Moore is still working at the At-
lanta library- She has moved to 719
Myrtle St., N. E.

Erma Morris was married on April 21
to Mr. William R. Wade. They are liv-
ing at Apartado 1715, Havana, Cuba.

Adelle Moss lives at home in Marietta
and commutes to her job at one of the
Atlanta banks.

Margaret Prowell went to Columbia Uni-
versity summer school to study physical
education. She is head of this depart-
ment at the Tuscaloosa, Ala., school.

Lilla Sims is at home in Savannah,
Ga. She was recently a model in the
Fashion Show there.

Susie (Stokes) Taylor's husband is back
at Furman University. They have two
children, ages three and two.

Christine (Turner) Hand had quite a
headline in the Atlanta newspapers be-
cause she and Mr. Hand began their
honeymoon by aeroplane. Mr. Hand has
a plane of his own in which he makes fre-
quent business trips from Pelham to At-
lanta.

Mary Alice Willson is studying at the
Moody Bible School. Her address is 830
North LaSalle St., Chicago Ave. Station,
Chicago, 111.

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Next class reunion, 1930.

Graduates:

Louise Bennett is teaching the 6th grade
at Faith Street School in Atlanta. She
visited Catherine (Mock) Hodgin in North
Carolina this summer.

Eleanor (Berger) Blumenthal and her
husband spent the summer with her par-
ents in Atlanta.

Grace Boon teaches Latin in the High
School in Bradenton, Fla., Gertrude
(Green) Blalock's town.

Leone (Bowers) Hamilton and her hus-
band spent August in Kearneysville, W.
Va. They are back in Decatur for the
winter living at 145 Ponce de Leon Court
in their own little bungalow. "Red" will
study art with Miss Lewis and correct
map books.

Margaret Bull is teaching again at

Cheriton, Va. She went to Chapel Hill,
for the University of North Carolina sum-
mer school session and spent the rest of
the summer in Norfolk. Margaret has a
little sister, Alby, in the Freshman class
at Agnes Scott.

"Frisky" Cooper is doing advertising
at Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company
in Atlanta.

Clarkie Davis visited Gilberta Knight,
ex '29, at Big Stone Gap, Va., this sum-
mer. Clarkie is teaching again in Colum-
bus, Ga.

Margaret Debele is teaching history and
civics at the Chatham High School in Sa-
vannah, Ga., during the week and superin-
tends Junior Christian Endeavor and a
Sunday School class at the Independent
Presbyterian Church.

Louisa Duls is teaching Latin and Eng-
lish in the High School at Charlotte, N. C.
She spent the summer in the mountains
at Little Switzerland.

Ellen Fain writes: "After struggling for
a month with a hundred and twenty-five
children, my trip to Europe this summer
seems so much like a dream that I some-
times wonder if I really went. Ruth John-
ston and I went together, and there were
two trained nurses in our party, so we
were able to be seasick in comfort, if there
is any such condition." Ellen is teaching
English at the Hendersonville, N. C,
High School, and she will spend Thanks-
giving in Atlanta with Louise Bennett.

Mary Freeman is teaching a primary
grade in the College Park, Ga., public
school and has private pupils in expres-
sion in the afternoons.

Elise Gay had a visit from Mary Ella
(Hammond) McDowell and her husband
on their way back from a honeymoon in
California.

Edith Gilchrist and Eleanor Gresham
are both back in Birmingham, Ala., for the
winter. They take their meals at the
same house with Frances Bitzer, Grace
Carr and Sallie Horton.

Catherine (Graeber) Crowe is teaching
in Tuscumbia, Ala., this wintei'.

Juanita Greer has returned to Johns
Hopkins for . her third year of graduate
work in chemistry. Her address is 208
Remsen Hall. She was at home in At-
lanta during the summer and came out to
Agnes Scott for the opening in Septem-
ber.

Elizabeth Gregory writes from Vidalia,
Ga.: "I never have more pleasure than
when I drown my school teacher troubles
by reading the Alumnae Quarterly. For
goodness sake, send it along!"

Mary Ella Hammond was married on
September 29th at twilight to Mr. Emmett
S. McDowell at the Presbyterian church
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lovely, with Mary Ella's two little sisters
as junior birdesmaids and her other sister,
Martha, as maid of honor. Mr. McDowell
is the brother of Sarah (McDowell) Joiner,
ex '24, is a Davidson College man, and
served in the aviation corps during the
world war. The McDowells left immediate-
ly after the ceremony for a month in Cali-
fornia, via Chicago. They will return over
the Southern Pacific and will be at home
at 1206 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, Ga.,
where Mr. McDowell is a public account-
ant. Among the out-of-town guests at the
wedding were Mary Freeman, Sarah Will
(Cowan) Dean, Miss Howson, Cora (Mor-
ton) Durrett, Dick Scandrett and Polly
Stone.

Gladys Harbaugh studied at Columbia
University during the summer.

Eloise Harris teaches English in the
Phillips High School in Birmingham, Ala.
She went to the University of Alabama
for a six-weeks' course of education dur-
ing the summer.

Blanche Haslam is teaching in the High
School in Anniston, Ala.

Helena Hermance was one of the brides-
maids in Edythe (Carpenter) Shuey's wed-
ding in Miami in June. She is taking a
rest from graduate study this winter and
is at home in Toronto.

Charlotte Higgs toured California and
the far west this summer with her two
sisters in their car.

Hazel (Huff) Monoghan has moved back
to Atlanta. She has a splendid baby
boy.

Sterling Johnson received her M.A. in
the University of Pennsylvania in June.
She spent the summer with her family in
Georgia and this winter will teach in the
Upper Darby High School just outside
of Philadelphia. She writes: "It is a well-
organized school in a wonderful section
and I am looking forward very much to my
work there. Two friends and I have a
five-room apartment at 210 S. 39th St.,
Philadelphia, which we are furnishing
with family loans of furniture. And there
will be some time left from teaching
when I am to continue my graduate work
at the University."

Evelyn Kennedy writes: "Please change
my address to Elmhurst, Box 65, Asheville,
N. C." Evelyn has a radio and so, al-
though she is still in bed, is right up to
date on matters musical and political.

Mary Knox was marired on October 11th
at the Central Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta to Mr. Albert Stockton Happoldt.
Betty (Chapman) Pirkle was matron of
honor. Evelyn Barnett, ex '28, was one
of the bridesmaids. Mr. Happoldt is as-
sistant manager of the Atlanta Athletic
Club.

Ruth Liggin is teaching again at the

Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Chil-
dren at East Lake.

Nan Lingle did mission work in the
North Carolina mountains during the sum-
mer.

Betty Little is teaching at one of the
private kindergartens in Atlanta.

Frances McColgan studied at Columbia
during the summer. She is teaching at
home in Norton, Va., this winter.

Helen Clark Martin spent the summer
in Europe.

Catherine (Mock) Hodgin is coming to
Atlanta for Thanksgiving with Louise Ben-
nett.

Jo North is teaching again at All Saints'
College, Vicksburg, Miss.

Grace Augusta Ogden is at home in
Mobile, Ala., for the winter. She spent
most of the summer at their cottage on
Mobile Bay.

Dorothy Owen is teaching again at Wal-
pole, New Hampshire.

Virginia Peeler stopped by the Alumnae
House in September on her way to New
Orleans where she has accepted a position
as research secretary of the High School
Scholarship Association. Mary Ann Mc-
Kinney met her in New Orleans.

Florence Perkins was counselor this
summer at Camp Civitania near Atlanta,
and then she took the troup manager's
course at Camp Juliet Lowe. She visited
Catherine (Mock) Hodgin in Thomasville,
N. C, before returning home. This winter
Florence is teaching again at Washington
Seminary in Atlanta, and leading a busy
and useful life. Among other positions
she holds those of alumnae secretary of
Hoasc, and secretary of the Atlanta branch
of the A. A. U. W. Her classes at the
Seminary and her Girl Scout troop adore
their "Miss Polly Perkins."

Louise (Pfeiffer) Ringel writes from
Brunswick, Ga.: "We have an apartment
and I am trying to keep house, but it is a
good thing I live in the same town with
my parents, so we can run home for a
square meal three or four times a week. I
haven't been back to Agnes Scott for over
two years, so think I'll have to come up
some time this winter. Two years is too
long!"

Kathrine (Pitman) Brown has a daugh-
ter, Sarah Catherine, born August 1.
Margery Speake spent several days with
them this summer. Mr. Brown is in the
real estate and insurance business.

Allene Ramage is back at the Duke Uni-
versity Library after a vacation spent in
visiting her parents in Alabama and Leone
(Bowers) Hamilton in Decatur. She writes:
"I like Duke better all the time."

Nellie Richardson is teaching again in
Warrenton, Ga.

Susan Shadburn was married on August

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4th at the home of her parents in De-
catur to Mr. Robert Lee Watkins, also of
Decatur. Mr. Dieekmann played the wed-
ding march. The Watkins honeymooned in
the North Carolina mountains and Wash-
ington before returning to Decatur to live.

Sarah Slaughter is studying for a phy-
sical education degree at Columbia. Her
address is 1230 Amsterdam Ave., 458
Whittier Hall, New York City.

Sarah Smith is at home in Atlanta. She
is studying organ, and doing some sub-
stitute teaching.

Katherine Speights is teaching at Mor-
ristown, Tenn.

Frances Spratling teaches English at
Lawrenceville, Ga., near enough to come
home for week-ends.

Evelyn Sprinkle was one of the brides-
maids in Frances Lincoln's wedding in Oc-
tober. Sprink's twin sisters, Mary and
Martha, are the cutest Sophomores on the
Agnes Scott campus!

Fannie Swann is teaching in the public
schools in Mobile, Ala.

Olivia Swann spent most of the sum-
mer visiting and traveling. First three
weeks at Gulfport, Miss., New Orleans and
other places on the Gulf. She came home
just long enough to get her Chevrolet
coupe in good condition and accompanied
by a girl friend has driven over ten states,
stopping for a while in all the large cities
east of Indianapolis. They visited Mam-
moth Cave, Niagara Falls, Toronto, and
had a grand splurge in New York and
Washington. On the way home they
visited in Virginia and at Asheville.
Olivia is again to be with the Board of
Education in Birmingham in the depart-
ment of tests and measurements. She is
delighted with her work and finds it deeply
interesting.

Margaret Tufts is teaching again at the
Lees-Macrae Institute in the North Caro-
lina mountains.

Margaret Whittington is back as lab as-
sistant in chemistry at Agnes Scott.

Rosalie Wootten was married on August
21st at the Georgia Avenue Presbyterian
church in Atlanta to Captain Linton Deck.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were in charge of
the music for the ceremony, and Victoria
Miller, ex '20, and Juanita Greer were
bridesmaids. Clema (Wootten) Talley,
ex '19, Rosalie's sister, was matron of
honor. After a motor trip through North
Georgia and North and South Carolina,
Captain and Mrs. Deck are at home at
the Georgia Military Academy, College
Park, Ga.

Non-graduates:

Elizabeth Beverly has just returned
from a summer abroad. She will teach
at Ochlocknee, Ga.

Eunice Bird is teaching in Chattanooga.

She lives at home in Rock Springs, Ga.,
very near the Tennessee line, and drives
back and forth each day in her car. She
visited Nellie Kate Martin in Atlanta
this summer. Nellie Kate works at the
Ajax Rubber Company as a stenographer.

Fannie Brown spent a lazy summer at
home, resting and getting fat. She is
doing reorganization work in kindergarten
primary this winter in Cincinnati.

Bertha (Brunson) Vinson lives in Co-
lumbia, Miss., where her husband has a
furniture store. They have two little girls.

Juliet (Crenshaw) Winship has just re-
turned from a delightful trip which she
and her husband and mother made to-
gether. They sailed from New York for
Cuba, and after a visit there, made the
trip through the Canal visiting Los An-
geles and then made the voyage to Hono-
lulu.

Gene Dumas is a stenographer for the
Dumas Grocery Company in Mobile, Ala.

Nettie Feagin's engagement has been
announced to Mr. Jasper Newton Donald-
son.

Harriet Fearrington was married on
June 16 to Mr. Edgar Shelton Bland. Their
address is 115 W. Harding Ave., Pine Bluff,
Arkansas.

Martha Ivey was married on September
25th to Mr. Frederick N. Farrell, of Los
Angeles, Calif.

Augusta and Virginia Land are both
Duke University graduates. Augusta is
teaching, and Virginia is helping her
father in his department store.

Margaret Lotspeich was married on
September 4 at home in Coconut Grove,
Fla., to Mr. George Paul Witbeck, profes-
sor of English at Bates College, in Lewis-
burg, Maine. Mr. Witbeck is a gradaute of
Hamilton College in New York, and is
preparing to take his Ph. D. at Columbia.

Georgia McCaskill teaches in the gram-
mar school at St. Pauls, N. C.

Sarah McKenzie went to New York Uni-
versity last year and took a business
course and is now doing secretarial work
in Birmingham, Ala.

Louise (Mahoney) Whitney has moved
back from New York and she and her
husband and baby are living at 905 Myrtle
St., N. E., Atlanta.

Betty Malone has moved to Texas.

Mildred Pitts is teaching in grammar
school in Greenville, S. C.

Elizabeth (Riviere) Hudson's husband
has been transferred to Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga. The Hudsons spent the summer in
Decatur, and Lieut. Hudson's brother visit-
ed them in his aeroplane.

Susan Rose worked in the library at
Teachers College in New York during the
summer. She writes: "It was a wonderful
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We stayed in an apartment on Riverside
Drive that had a porch so we could really
enjoy the Hudson breezes. Met up with
Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger in New York.
I shall be back in Rocky Mount, N. C,
teaching this winter."

Mildred Scott's little sister, Violet, who
was a Sophomore at Agnes Scott, was
killed in an automobile accident during
June.

Rebekah Skeen is working in Atlanta
and living at home.

Jane Smith is local Girl Scout director
at Charleston, W. Va.

Elizabeth (Snow) Tilly is helping Miss
White in the college library.

Sarah (Spiller) Mitchell's husband is
teaching at the University of Georgia,
so the Mitchells are located in Athens for
the winter.

Frances Turner studied at Emory Uni-
versity during the summer, and is teach-
ing again in Birmingham this winter. She
and Nell Esslinger, ex '23, live together.

Lucy Winn is a feature writer for the
Montgomery, Ala., "Advertiser."

Mary Frances Wright was maried on
October 2nd in the Emory University
chapel to Mr. Willis Braxton Warnell, of
Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Warnell is a grad-
uate of Emory, where he was a member
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Senior
honorary society. He is connected with
the Retail Credit Company. The Warnells
left immediately after the ceremony for a
motor trip through North Carolina and
the Shenandoah valley.
1927

Next class reunion, 1930.

Graduates :

Eleanore Albright is in New York this
winter studying Physical Education at Co-
lumbia University, and reports that she
has most of her classes with Sarah Slaugh-
ter, who is there for the same purpose.
Eleanore's address is 1230 Amsterdam
Ave., Box 45, New York City.

Evelyn Albright is teaching again at
Chipley, Ga.

Ewin Baldwin, after a summer of travel-
ing, was home again in time to have a
visit from Catherine Mitchell before
Catherine was off to teach school again in
Kissimmee, Fla. Ewin plans to be at
home in Montgomery this fall.

Louise Bansley says, "I'm being worked
to death by the entire staff of the School
of the Carnegie Library School of Atlanta.
Compared to this Agnes Scott wasn't a
circumstance." But we're glad Louise
found time to send us some news about
others of the class of '27.

On October 7 the engagement was an-
nounced of Reba Bayless to Mr. S. B.
Boyer. Reba hasn't made all her plans
yet, but we shouldn't be surprised to hear

about a church wedding in November. Reba
writes that Martha Rose (Childress) Fer-
ris is keeping her school-girl complexion
by going to the University of Tennessee
three mornings a week, and Martha Rose
says she may get her a Ph. D. yet!

Leila Bell attended summer school at the
University of North Carolina this past
summer and is now teaching in Dawson,
Georgia.

Emma Bernhardt has completed her
library course and has a "regular job" at
the Atlanta library.

Blanche Berry was at the class reunion
in May, and drove up to Chicago after-
wards with Miss Eagleson and Miss Edler.
She visited Mary Ferguson in the windy
city and went to a part of the University
of Chicago commencement. They had din-
ner with Miss Jean Davis, and the next
day were sitting down to strawberries
and cream in Madison with Miss Howson
and Philippa Gilchrist. As much as
Blanche loves Lexington she has left for
a winter in New York. She says: "I am
going up there to form my own opinion
of the place. I am tired of other people
telling me what New York is like. We
are driving up so I can take my spinnet
desk, which at present is one of the chief
articles of furniture. We have a gateleg
table, two cots, and a chiffonier. What
more could one ask?" Now that she is
settled in winter quarters, Blanche writes
that New York is doing nicely. She is
enrolled at Columbia for three courses in
Psychology, one in German, and one in
Music Appreciation. She can now sympa-
thise with Agnes Scott day students who
had such a long ride to classes every day,
for she is living at 419 State St., Brook-
lyn.

Maurine Bledsoe is at home this winter
and finds plenty of off jobs to amuse her
and keep her busy. She and Sarah
(Shield) Pfeiffer went to Washington in
May to be pages to the National Conven-
tion of the Daughters of 1812. (They
don't have a black list!) Maurine wrote at
the time: "'Paging' was the least of our
troubles. We shook hands with 'Cal' and
visited everything but the zoo. Met up
with Lillian Clement there (in Washing-
ton, not at the zoo!)." In June Maurine
was a member of the queen's court at
the Rhododendron Festival in Asheville.
She spent most of the summer seeing
Agnes Scott girls who passed through or
summered in Asheville. And now Maurine
writes: "This is the first time I can re-
member that September hasn't found me
schoolward bound, and I am glad! which
proves the deterioration that a single
year can bring. Asheville has been simply
a Mecca of Agnes Scott girls this summer.
I have either seen in person or talked over

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the phone to between sixty-five and seven-
ty Hottentots, which included such sur-
prises as a visit (of five minutes!) from
Mary Ann McKinney, '25, of Texas, and
a lengthy telephone chat with Ewin Bald-
win." Maurine is a splendid class secre-
tary, as the news of '27 in this issue of
the Quarterly proves.

Josephine Bridgman is teaching fifty-
two fifth graders in Gastonia, N. C, and
is staying with Rachel Henderlite. So there
is no need for Rachel to teach herself. She
gets all the pleasures of reports and papers
as it is.

Frances Buchanan is teaching again
in Macon, Ga. She was at the Alumnae
House for a week-end in October.

Georgia Mae Burns was married on Oc-
tober 2nd to Mr. Julian Murphy Bristow,
also of Bay Minnette, Ala. It was quite
a large wedding in the First Baptist
Church, with Agatha Deaver and Lucile
Guase as bridesmaids and Hortense King,
'28, as maid of honor.

Louise (Capen) Baker's husband is
studying for his Ph. D. at Columbia Uni-
versity and teaching at New York Uni-
versity this winter. Louise and her old
roommate, "Dodo" Chamberlain, are over-
joyed to be reunited again.

Grace Carr is teaching in Birmingham
and has an apai'tment there with Frances
Bitzer and Sallie Horton. She seems to
like it fine, and the very active Agnes
Scott club there adds to their enjoyment of
everything. Grace's address is 2819 Pine
Ave., South.

Cephise Cartwright is teaching Latin at
Port Wentworth, near Savannah, Ga.

Annette (Carter) Colwell announces the
arrival in August of Elizabeth Ann Col-
well.

Ruth Casey is still a successful business
woman and is with Proctor & Gamble, the
soap people. A nice clean job. Her new
address is 430 Ponce de Leon, N. E., At-
lanta.

Dorothy Chamberlain writes: "I am now
a full-fledged working girl, commuting to
business every day. I finished the library
course at Columbia in June, and began
to work the first of July in the library
of one of the largest banks in New York
the American Exchange Irving Trust Com-
pany in the Woolworth Building. It is very
interesting work. I have charge of the
vertical file sixty-five drawers chock full
of clippings, pamphlets, etc., on every sub-
ject you can think of, but of course spe-
cializing in domestic and foreign bank let-
ters, Federal Reserve and U. S. Govern-
ment publications, New York Clearing
House, etc. To prove that a library means
something to a bank, I will tell you that
the eight members of our staff are con-
stantly busy; that five telephones and in-

numerable callers deluge us with questions
varying from material on the lumber in-
dustry to a list of firms exporting cotton
to India."

Frances Chambers' father died recently
as the result of injuries received in an au-
tomobile accident in Ely, Nevada. Frances
is teaching again this year at the E. Rivers
School, and finds the fourth grade better
than a combination second and third.

Elizabeth (Clark) Young is happily mar-
ried and near enough home to find life
quite ideal. She and "Bill" move about
quite a bit, but just now the address is
care Mississippi Power & Light Co., Jack-
son, Miss.

Susan Clayton had a lovely trip to New
York during the summer with her mother
and sister. They took in everything in
New York but the Woolworth tower, and
Susan said that the first person they met
on their return to Atlanta said immediate-
ly, "And isn't the view from the Wool-
worth tower simply wonderful?" Susan
is still with the Proctor and Gamble Com-
pany and urges alumnae to remember that
in choosing a soap the quality of floating
is quite an asset.

Lillian Clement, after a glorious year in
Washington is back home in Decatur,
teaching piano and taking pipe organ. If
you are at Agnes Scott much you'll prob-
ably see her there, too.

Willie Mae (Coleman) Duncan has
moved into her own little new home on
South Candler Street in Decatur. It is a
brick bungalow and most attractive.

You have all read in the papers of Mr.
Carnes of the Baptist Mission Board who
absconded from Atlanta with a million
or two of the Baptist money, was caught
in Canada and returned to Atlanta? Well,
Martha Crowe's family have moved bag
and baggage to New York, and poor little
homesick Martha writes: "How I've envied
Mr. Carnes not for his crime, of course,
but because of the fact that he has been
brought back to Atlanta! I'm so desper-
ate and homesick that I feel as if I could
resort to anything just to get back home.
More than likely, though, I'd just be
clamped in jail up here instead of being
taken to the palatial Federal penitentiary
in beautiful historic old Atlanta, the Gate-
way of the South. No, I'm not entirely out
of my mind yet, but if we don't hurry
and get a little more space to move around
and stretch in, any member of my family
is apt to murder the rest of us for the
sake of a little more room. Oh, for a
front porch again! I think I miss that
most. I am planning to begin work on my
M. A. in French at Columbia next semes-
ter, but right now I am just seeing New
York. The automat and the escalators fill
me with joy. Could anything be more di-

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vine than riding to the eighth floor of
Macy's and then (like the King of France
who 'rode up the hill with twice ten thou-
sand men'), riding down again?" Martha's
address is 520 W. 114th St., Apt. 32, New
York City.

Marian Daniel is at home in Charlottes-
ville, Va., and is teaching the second grade
there. Marian was at Montreat a while
this summer, and later went to Virginia
Beach.

Louise Davis is teaching Latin and Alge-
bra in Brookhaven, near Atlanta, and says
she likes it so well she will probably be
there the rest of her life.

Mary Lloyd Davis writes: "After a sum-
mer spent in recuperating from my first
year of teaching, I am back in Florence
again. I hope to visit the campus again
this year and renew old acquaintances. A
few theme subjects from Miss Laney and
a few dots on teaching Shakespeare from
Miss McKinney would certainly come in
handy." Mary and Peggy Rankin were in
Montreat for a while together this sum-
mer.

Frances Dobbs is teaching mathematics
in Gadsden, Ala. Her address is 605 S.
10th Street.

Eugenie Dozier studied at various
schools of the dance in New York this
summer, including the Denishawn, Fokine,
and Dalcroze Eurythmics. Versatile Gene
gave a violin recital on May 25th in At-
lanta. She is back at the Atlanta Con-
servatory this winter, in charge of the
department of dancing.

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger has been
quite interested in the Town theatre move-
ment in Savannah, Ga. Besides writing
several plays and directing several more,
she has found time for an appendicitis
operation (that kept her away from class
reunion!), for golf, for teaching, her hus-
band, and a trip east this summer.

Mary Ferguson writes from Chicago:
"I am still laboring for that elusive M. S.
I'm working on malaria in canaries and
baby chickens. My present difficulty is in
getting such small chicks this time of year.
It seems no hen in her right senses tries
to raise a family in September; and all
the farms go out of business until early
in the spring. But at last I've found a
hen (or maybe it was an incubator) and
the chickens are in the process of being
shipped. I'm hoping to be able to do
enough work on these to get material
for my thesis and maybe I can get that
degree by Spring."

Frances Freeborn was at camp in Little
Switzerland, N. C, this summer. One
of the camp cabins was the original home
of Rexie and Texie in Margaret Bland's
play, "Pink and Patches." Frances is
teaching expression in the Decatur High

School and assisting Miss Nan Stephens
with her playwriting class in Atlanta.

Katherine Gilliland went abroad again
last summer. She is getting quite the
habit of it. She is in Griffin, Ga., this
year, teaching five Latin classes a day
in the high school there.

Venie Belle Grant has moved both her
home and her office. She is working now
at the Steiner Clinic, and is living at 1329
Lanier Blvd., Atlanta.

Marcia Green and Carolina McCall are
both teaching in LaFayette, Ala., and not
taking life too seriously if we can believe
repoi'ts. Marcia is another '27-er who was
in Montreat during the summer. She and
Carolina came to Atlanta for the Tech-
Notre Dame game on the week-end of Oc-
tober 20th.

Mary Heath is teaching General Science
in the Tubman High School at home in
Augusta. There are five other A. S. C.
girls on the faculty there. Mary attended
summer school at the University of North
Carolina.

Mary Hedrick attended commencement
at Princeton last June. This winter she is
teaching the 4th grade at Fairmount school
in Bristol, Tenn. Mary and her sister,
Peg, '21, were in Atlanta for the Tech-
Notre Dame game and came out to the
Alumnae House for waffles.

Elizabeth Henderson writes from Or-
lando, where she is teaching again this
winter: "I certainly was proud to be from
Agnes Scott this summer. I began work
on my M. A. at Columbia. When I would
tell the profs where I was from, they
would invariably say, 'Oh, we have always
had such good students from Agnes Scott!'
It did give me a rather uncomfortable feel-
ing, though too much to live up to!" Eliz-
abeth's address is The Wynnholm, 515 E.
Pine St., Orlando, Fla.

Virginia Hollingsworth is again teaching
in Greensboro, N. C, so the conclusion
is that she likes it there.

Marcia Horton is at home in Decatur,
Ga., and threatening to do everything
from getting married to joining the Sal-
vation Army.

Mae Erskine Irvine had a lovely sum-
mer in Virginia and Washington, D. C,
and is now settled to teach again in the
Junior High School at Tuscumbia, Ala.

Maude Jackson is teaching history and
a teachers' training course in the high
school at Lawrenceville, Ga.

Elsa Jacobsen, after a summer at Y. W.
camp and a visit back to Decatur, is in
Indianapolis once more and likes her work
even better this year. Mary Ray Dobyns
and Elsa were at the same camp this
summer. Elsa is serving on the board of
the A. A. U. W. in Indianapolis this winter.

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She writes: "I am excited, too, over going
to housekeeping. Two other girls and I
have taken an apartment and will move in
on November 1st as soon as it is complet-
ed. We go over there now and walk all
around our future home and feel too pos-
sessive for words."

Martha Johnston is in Dayton, Ohio, at
the Westminster Choir School for the
winter studying sacred music and choir
conducting. She writes: "I've never been
so happy in all my life and feel that per-
haps I've found what I really want to do."
Her address is 213 N. Robert Blvd., Day-
ton, Ohio.

Leila (Joiner) Cooper spent four months
at home with her mother in Albany, Ga.,
while her husband was on a cruise to
Honolulu. She met him in Seattle on his
return and is keeping house this winter
at 97 Lime Ave., Wingard Apts., Long
Beach, Calif. "Jock" will become a junior
lieutenant in January.

Ida Landau is working for an M. A. in
Chemistry at Emory and is the first girl
to be taking some of the courses there.

Louise Leonard had a marvelous trip
West this summer and stopped for a few
courses at the University of California.
She is home now in Spartanburg.

Helen Lewis is teaching in Ansted, West
Virginia, a coal mining town. And Helen
is teaching girls' gym classes and coach-
ing the girls basketball! Wait till the
next Quarterly and there will doubtless
be more from her about it.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn, after being ex-
ceptionally brilliant, takes her newly ac-
quired M. A. from Wellesley, and spends
the summer in Europe with her brother.
Miss Gaylord's party reports having seen
her in Florence, and of course Ellen had
an enthusiastic good time. She is teach-
ing this winter in Boston; English, it is,
in one of those new system schools that
prefer printing to writing. If your post
card from "Doug" was printed, that's why.
She was practicing. Her address will again
be Wellesley Farms, Mass.

Elizabeth Lilly is teaching Chaucer at
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C, and
appears to like it. She visited Helena in
Massachusetts in August.

Ethel Littlefield is teaching in the High
School in her home town in Blackshear,
Georgia.

Lamar Lowe is working at the Fourth
National Bank in Atlanta.

Elizabeth Lynn was a counsellor at Rock
Brook Camp, Brevard, N. C, during the
summer. One of the high spots of her
vacation was the trip she and Rachel
Henderlite made in a Ford to Richmond,
to visit Eleanore Albright. "We got there,"
Liz said, "but we're not telling how that

Ford behaved along the way." Liz is
back at Agnes Scott this year.

Elizabeth McCallie is again at North
Avenue Presbyterian School and is teach-
ing quite a variety of things, history, biol-
ogy, English, and in addition to that, this
year geometry and dancing. Elizabeth
says, "There's one thing about a job like
that you have so much variety that you
could never get bored."

Ruth McDonald lost her father in Oc-
tober. Ruth will be at home this winter.

Caroline McKinney is still with the
junior department of the Community Chest
employment service in Atlanta.

Cleo McLaurine is teaching in one of
the county grammar schools just outside
Charlotte, N. C, but plans to leave her
children long enough to come to Atlanta
and Agnes Scott for Thanksgiving.

Ruth McMillan is at a school for bond
salesmen in New York. She was sent by
the Guaranty Trust Company.

Hulda McNeel is at home in Birming-
ham, Ala., for the winter, and the Birming-
ham papers predict that she will join the
debutante club.

Kenneth Maner is studying this winter
at Columbia University, New York City.

Catherine Mitchell is teaching again in
Kissimmee, Fla.

Mitchell Moore is teaching at Rocky
Mount, N. C.

Mildred Morrow and Carrie Graham
were both at Camp Junaluska for girls
this summer, at Junaluska, N. C. "Middy"
plans to be at home this fall.

Lucia Nimmons divided her summer
between the mountains and the sea, and
is now teaching mathematics at the Girls
High School in Anderson, S. C. Her ad-
dress is 535 N. Faut St.

Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller and her Jack
have built them a darling new house of
dreams, and expect to move into it very
soon. The new address is 725 Arbor Road,
Winston-Salem, N. C.

Stella Pitman is going to library school
in Atlanta.

Louise Plumb is teaching biology,
physics, and general science at the Law-
renceville, Ga., High School. It is near
enough for her to run down to the Alum-
nae House for week-ends. She and Emily
Daugherty met in Atlanta for the week-
end of October 7th. Louise visited Clarkie
Davis in Columbus, Ga., this summer.

Miriam Preston writes from Korea that
she has already made definite plans for her
trip back to the states next summer. The
Prestons spent the summer alternating be-
tween the mountains and the little Korean
island that they own. It has a half moon
beach on each side of the island and is a
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Frances Rainey writes from Clinton, La.:
"If you have me written up in the Quarter-
ly as instructor of Egyptian hieroglyphics
at Silliman Female Institute you won't
have missed it far! Up to date, I am
teaching four physical education classes a
week, a class in biology, one in chemistry,
one in general science, besides directing
the singing, getting up parties for Satur-
day nights, teaching a Sunday School
class and seeing that nine young things
walk the straight and narrow path to
higher education at Silliman. Doesn't that
strengthen your faith in the versatility of
Agnes Scott alumnae? But this is all be-
cause Ivylyn Girardeau, '22, of Agnes Scott
taught here, and it seems that she was
second only to the president of this school
and did everything even to subbing for him
in his absence. The biggest blow I've re-
ceived came on the opening day when the
president announced that the school this
year was offering a class to little tots from
six to twelve years of age, which would
combine training in music, expression, and
aesthetic dancing. You can imagine my
astonishment when I found that my part
in the class would be training the kids in
aesthetic dancing! I have charge of the
discipline of one wing of the dormitory,
too. Lights are supposed to be out and
the building quiet at ten. One night such
a racket was going on in one of the rooms
that schoolmarm Frances felt called on
to go in and be very stern with the young
things. At my knock, deathly quietness
fell on the room, and when I opened the
door, there were ten girls kneeling pious-
ly and in dead silence around the bed.
You know I was flabbergasted but I had
to keep a straight face, so I just sat down
and waited till they couldn't hold out any
longer. If I live through this year at
Silliman, I know I'll live a long time yet."

Peggy Rankin writes from Baltimore:
"Here I am at Johns Hopkins for an M. A.
in biology, and when I compare my feeble
mental capacity with the amount of work
it takes, I wonder why in the world I came.
Things don't seem quite as bad, however,
as they did a week ago, and I am hoping
for a steady improvement in spirits. I see
Frances Brown, '28, and Juanita Greer,
'26, sometimes, and am going to see Mamie
Shaw Sunday. Those familiar faces cer-
tainly are like oases in a desert."

Marguerite Russell writes from Wash-
ington, D. C.: "I am at home this year, and
it surely is wonderful to be here again,
after being away for five years. The
habit of study seems very firmly fixed,
however. I am taking two courses down
at George Washington University, and
aside from that am learning something
about cooking and sewing."

Elizabeth Sanders is teaching at Na-

coochee Institute in the North Georgia
mountains.

Virginia Sevier was in charge of canoe-
ing at her father's camp, Greystone, dur-
ing the summer, and is now in Atlanta
teaching gym at Washington Seminary.

Mamie Shaw is studying this winter at
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.

Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer, has moved into
a lovely new apartment. The address is
the Larchmont Apts., Larchmont Road,
Asheville, N. C.

Willie White Smith visited her family in
Georgia in June and then drove back
north with Miss MacDougall. She studied
at Woods Hole, Mass., during the summer
session there, and is now assisting in
zoology at New York University. Her
address is Washington Square, N. Y. U.,
New York.

Emily Stead is working with the State
Board of Health in Atlanta.

Sara Stillman is a stenographer for the
Holeproof Hosiery Company in Atlanta.

Edith Strickland is teaching at a per-
fectly unpronounceable place in New Jer-
sey. It really is almost as bad as the
Kappock St., Spuyten Duyvil address where
Grace Zachry lived last year. Edith may
be reached at 18 Wyckoff Ave., Manasquan,
New Jersey.

Elizabeth Vary is taking a business
course.

Margie Wakefield is still with the Stew-
ardship Committee of the Presbyterian
Church with offices in Atlanta. Margie
spent her vacation at home in the North
Carolina mountains.

Mary Weems is teaching again at Car-
tersville, Ga.

Louisa White, after vacationing first to
the mountains and then to the sea is busy
again at her regular work in the Hurt
Bldg., Room 701, Atlanta.

Courtney Wilkinson is teaching a grade
in the Lynchburg, Va., public schools.

Roberta Winter studied at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina during the summer.
The Carolina Playmakers gave her leads
in their summer productions and Ro won
laurels with them just the way she used
to crown herself with them at Agnes Scott.
She is teaching again at Athens, Tenn.,
active part in dramatics there, playing
and Reba Bayless says that Ro takes an
feminine roles exclusively.

Grace Zachry was maried at her broth-
er's home in New York on October 13th to
Mr. Raymond Carson McCreery. Martha
Crowe was maid of honor, and Miss Jean
Davis came down from Wells College,
where she is teaching this winter, for the
ceremony. Mr. McCreery is an alumnus of
Lawrenceville Academy and Princeton
University. He has recently accepted the
position of assistant comptroller with

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Halle Brothers in Cleveland, Ohio, where
he and Grace will make their home.

Non-graduates:

Mary Martha Lybrook was married on
November 3rd at the Reynolda Church,
Winston-Salem, N. C, to Mr. Charles
Herbert Neal. Lib (Norfleet) Miller
played the wedding march.

Margaret Martin is teaching at Whit-
mire, S. C.

Inez Patton is teaching playground work
at the Norwood School in Birmingham,
Alabama.

May Reece graduated last spring at
the Johns Hopkins Nurses Training School
and is doing regular work there now as
a graduate nurse.

Rebecah Skeen is doing clerical work
with Allyn Bacon Publishing Company in
Atlanta.

Lora Lee (Turner) Bostwick and her
husband "spent an enjoyable vacation
down on the gulf, fishing, sight-seeing,
sketching. We stopped over for dinner
at F. S. C. W. on our way back, and
there was Dick Scandrett at the head
table! We got so pepped up talking old
times and Agnes Scott that I hardly got
to see anybody else."

Jessica Wright is working with the
Board of Registrars for her county in
Louisville, Ga.

1928

Now, we really want to know: How can
Agnes Scott get along without the class of
'28?

How can the Blackfriars give a play
without Sarah Glenn to manage the light-
ing, and Chugga and Bee (their jaws care-
fully smutted to denote they are men and
may grow whiskers any minute), to swag-
ger around in suits from Daniel Brothers?
What is the use of a swimming pool if
Hilda and Mary Mackey aren't there to
make even mermaids envious at their div-
ing and swimming and prowess at water
polo ? Why have a splendid new circular
drive up the front campus if there is no
little red Ford to sit on it and wait pa-
tiently till Mildred Jennings shall ap-
pear? How can a Senior class hope to
accomplish anything if they don't have a
Mr. Gerig for a patron saint? Is there
need for the tea room to keep open now
that Jack and Mary breakfast there no
longer? Will the tennis courts grow up
in weeds and wonder what has become of
Ginger Carier? Who will collect Beta pins
now that Frances Craighead has removed
her field of operation along this line to
the University of Michigan ? Who will
write prize-winning plays? Who can
ever be a Mayday maid as consistently and
gracefully as Jo Walker? Who, oh who,
will talk to Dr. Hayes since Myrtle
modestly accepted a "cum laude" with her

diploma and departed for fresh fields and
pastures new ?

There isn't any answer. The old college
simply isn't what it used to be! Of course
there are hordes of new green-capped
Freshmen to live in our old rooms and
wrestle with De Senec and Genesis 3:15
and the daily theme. But they don't know
us, poor things!

Members of '28, don't you think it is
rather our duty as college women to help
educate this raw Freshman material? To
show them what heights a college class
can attain? To go back, in fact, and
let them have the privilege of meeting
US ? The Alumnae House is ours its
doors are always open and its beds turned
down for homesick members of '28 who
can dash back to "the sheltering arms"
even for a week-end.

Come back Thanksgiving! What better
way could you spend that second salary
check than in a trip back home to Agnes
Scott? Make your reservation now for a
room in the Alumnae House. There will
be a '28 dinner on Saturday night of
Thanksgiving week-end, and all those who
aren't present are going to get talked
about!

"Where, oh where are the grave old
Seniors
Safe now in the wide, wide woi'ld."

All the members of '28 haven't let their
occupations and addresses be known, but
here are the news items the secretary has
been able to gather. Won't the ones whose
names aren't mentioned here soften their
hearts and write in a few facts about
themselves to the class secretary, Huda
Dement, at 134 S. Candler St., Decatur?

Only two of us have married! Remem-
bering Agnes Scott's high alumnae mar-
riage percentage we feel terribly embar-
rassed over how far short of the mark
we have fallen. But give us time, sisters,
give us time! In the meantime, we should
like to state that there are other things
under the sun worth doing, and here are
some of them:

"If out of the state people rush to Flor-
ida every winter, why in the world should
I, who already live here, leave my happy
home?" chants Sallie Abernethy. So Sal-
lie is at home in Winter Haven, reveling
in laziness and the Florida sunshine. But
she has promised to come to Agnes Scott
for a visit at the Alumnae House sometime
before Christmas.

Harriet Alexander is making her debut
in Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Alexander will pre-
sent Harriet to society at a large dance
at the Augusta Country Club early in De-
cember.

Jack Anderson is church secretary for

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the Episcopal students at the University
of California. She writes: "This is a
marvelous place to meet foreign students.
Part of my work is with them there are
about four hundred here and Christmas
I am going to have ten or twelve to spend
the holidays with me here at this Episcopal
house where I live. A German student
who thinks she is a Buddhist has the room
next to mine." Jack likes the "golden
west," although she says it is the coldest
place she ever struck. Her address is
2629 Haste St., Berkeley, Calif.

Miriam Anderson, "Pete" Greer, and
Sarah McFadyen are studying at the As-
sembly's Training School in Richmond, Va.

Myrtle Bledsoe is teaching at Newnan,
Georgia.

Frances Brown is studying at Johns
Hopkins University. Frances is the smart
little girl who won the Quenelle Harrold
graduate scholarship.

While Estelle Bryan was visiting her
cousins, the Duvals, in Decatur in June,
she received a telegram from her uncle
asking her to have a passport picture
taken immediately and be ready to sail
with him in ten days. They spent the sum-
mer traveling over Europe together. Es-
telle is at home with the Duvals this
winter, doing occasional substitute teach-
ing in the Decatur High School.

Virginia Carrier was a member of Miss
Gaylord's party in Europe during the sum-
mer. "Ginger" is at home in Asheville
for the winter. She spent a few days
during October at the Alumnae House.

Elizabeth Cole is at home in Atlanta,
thoroughly enjoying a surcease from eight
o'clock classes.

Patricia Collins is studying law at
Emory University.

Lucy Mai Cook writes: "I am teaching
English in the Ida, La., High School. I
sure do want to hear all the news from
school. Hury up with that Quarterly!"

Emily Cope, Vera Kamper, Chugga Syd-
nor, and Eliza Ramey spent the summer
in Europe. Emily stayed a month with
Nancy Crowther and her mother in their
Paris apartment and is now at home in
Savannah, Ga. Vera is assistant to the
registrar at Emory University; Chugga is
teaching in a little mining town in West
Virginia; and Eliza is coming back to
Agnes Scott in January to finish up work
for her degree.

Frances Craighead is taking work for
her master's degree in Latin at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. She writes that her
southern drawl is both an asset and a
liability.

Mary Crenshaw and Louise Girardeau
work side by side in one of the Southern
Bell Telephone company's business offices.
"Please tell people we aren't the ones who

say 'Number please,' " they told the class
reporter. "There is a lot more to this
telephone business than just giving people
the wrong numbers."

Elsie Davis is working in the account-
ing department of the Atlanta Sears-Roe-
buck plant.

Huda Dement was at home in Wartrace,
Tenn., during the summer, and is now liv-
ing in Decatur with Mrs. Jacobsen while
she goes to library school in Atlanta.
Eloise Gaines, Mildred Phippen, and Anna
Knight are also going to the Atlanta
library school. "We thought we were
working when we were at Agnes Scott,"
they chorus, "but when the instructor gave
us the assignment to learn everything in
all the foreign encyclopaedias in this
library, we thought with tender tears of
the days we loafed along at college with
only two novels in French, ninety pages
of history parallel, ten analyt problems,
the kings of Judah and Israel, and nine
new Greek verbs as a day's work."

Mary Ray Dobyns was swimming in-
structor at a girls' camp right outside of
Indianapolis all summer. Elsa Jacobsen,
'27, was another counsellor there. Mary
Ray visited Martha Riley Selman and
Elaine Jacobsen at Agnes Scott for several
weeks this fall, and is now spending a
month with relatives in St. Louis.

Mary Jewett Doyal is secretary to one
of the Georgia Tech professors. She lives
in Decatur, rooming with Huda Dement at
134 S. Candler Street.

Carolyn Essig has been doing feature
stories for the Atlanta "Journal" magazine
section all summer. During October she
accepted a position in the advertising de-
partment at Rich's. Frances Hargis is
also a member of the advertising force
there, and Hattie Gershcow is doing edu-
cational work with the salesgirls.

Betty Fuller was in Decatur several
months after graduation, but she and her
mother have returned to their home in
Cuba now. Betty was recently operated
on for appendicitis.

Irene Garretson, Martha Riley, and
Edva Volberg are working with the Geor-
gia Power Company in Atlanta.

Margaret Gerig is keeping house for
her father at their Florida home.

Louise Girardeau lost her father during
June.

Sarah Glenn came down to the opening
of college in September with her Fresh-
man sister. Sarah is at home in Gastonia
this winter, studying music and art.

Eugenia Gobere is studying medicine at
Yale University. Rosaltha Sanders is
doing graduate work in the Biology labor-
atory there, and Emily Kingsbery is study-
ing playwriting under Dr. Baker. Yale

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has drawn a proportionately large number
of '28's members.

Olive Graves is teaching in Hartsville,
Tenn., very near Nashville and she writes
that she spends all her week-ends and
salary checks there.

Lucy Grier is taking nurses training at
the Presbyterian Hospital in New York
City. Ruth Owen, '25, is beginning her
work in the hospital there this winter also.

Muriel Griffin is teaching two classes
of Latin, two of French, and two of his-
tory at the Ridgeland, S. C., High School.
Far from flinging up her hands in de-
spair over such a schedule Muriel writes
enthusiastically that she likes the town,
the people and her work a great deal.

Dorothy Harper is teaching French and
English at Morgan, Ga. She is coach for
the girls' basketball team, too.

Rachel Henderlite is at home in Gas-
tonia, N. C, this winter. Jo Bridgman,
who is teaching in Gastonia, is living with
Rachel.

Nell Hillhouse is teaching in the gram-
mar school at Waynesboro, Ga.

Mary Mackey Hough and Louise Sher-
fesee are teaching in Lancaster, S. C.
Mackey is teaching class C, 3rd grade
children in a cotton mill school. "They are
rated by intelligence class a, b, and c,
so you can imagine what a brilliant set
I'm struggling with."

"Red" Hudson is teaching at Fulton
High School in Atlanta.

Alice Hunter is working with the Royal
Life Insurance Company in Atlanta.

Mildred Jennings is at home in Augusta,
Georgia.

Anais Jones has succeeded Carolina Mc-
Call as Mr. Tart's assistant in the college
bookstore. Her real title, however, is fel-
low in history, and tall is the stack of
history 101 notebooks she corrects every
week. "This place gets harder and harder,"
wails Anais, "some of Mr. Davidson's his-
tory students are even taking their notes
in French! The history fellow will soon
need to be a French major, too."

Hilda and Kathryn Kalmon are at home
in Albany, Ga. Hilda does not plan to
be married until late winter.

Bee Keith's father wouldn't let her teach
school, so she went down and got a job in
his department store. Her idea is probably
to be such a disrupting force among the
Keith salesladies that her father will relent
and send her off with his blessing to
teach next fall.

Hortense King was married on October
24th at her home in Fort Gaines, Ga.,
to Mr. Robert Alexander Fowler, also of
Fort Gaines.

Before leaving for Yale, Emily Kings-
bery learned that she had been selected
as the recipient of the Atlanta Drama

League's prizes for the best one-act and
three-act plays written during the year
at Agnes Scott. The one-act prize winner,
"Slick Talk," was produced by the Black-
friars in February, but the three-act one,
"Mandy's Mansion," has not yet seen pro-
duction.

Anna Knight and Sarah White were in
New York together for a while during the
summer.

Virginia May Love is teaching in Bar-
tow, Fla.

Ruth Evans Masengill is librarian at
Fairmount School in Bristol, Tenn.

Alma Metcalfe is teaching at Mitchell
School, Misenheimer, N. C.

Mary McAlily is teaching at Cowpens,
South Carolina.

Anna Mae McCollum is teaching all four
years of high school Latin and three
classes of English at Baconton, Ga.

Mary Bell McConkey is going to library
school in St. Louis. She writes: "I got
so homesick for Agnes Scott today that I
went down in the newspaper room of the
public library here and read a whole stack
of Atlanta Constitutions. The only familiar
name was Mary Knox's she was having
parties given for her in every issue. I
can't wait to see the first Quarterly, with
news of the '28 girls, but our philosophical
cook says that the only things that really
happen to people are birth, marriage and
death, so we may need a few years to get
going! I am excited over the prospect of
seeing a World Series of baseball here
maybe. We are all hopeless fans at my
house, and I can even compete with the
little boys in the neighborhood when it
comes to giving the players' batting aver-
ages, etc. I was at Agnes Scott a few
minutes this summer on my way from
visiting Nell and on the way to Mary
Weems."

Mary Jane McCoy went to Canada in
October on a big fishing and hunting trip.
Many hip boots and hunting clothes!

Janet MacDonald writes: "Mother has
been so sick all summer that I felt I could
not go as far away as Chicago, where I
had planned to study, so I am working
here in Greensboro, N. C, as church host-
ess at the Presbyterian Church of the
Covenant." Janet came to Agnes Scott
to make the Hoasc announcements on Oc-
tober 6th and to see the Freshman-Sopho-
more stunts that night. Janet says she
lives only a block from Isabel Ferguson,
'25, and sees her often.

Elizabeth McEntire is working at the
State Board of Health Laboratory in At-
lanta.

Gwendolyn McKinnon is teaching the
3rd grade at Hickory, N. C.

Eliot May McLellon is doing secretarial
work at Lansdowne, Pa. Her address is

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107 Lansdowne Avenue.

Bayliss McShane writes: "No news from
me. I'm not getting married or going
to Europe or teaching school they seem
to be the usual things for good alumnae
to do. Am spending most of my time
being sick. Have lost ten pounds (and
you know I couldn't do that!) so I've de-
cided to let my family support me this
fall. Unemployment is so general I can't
get a look-in."

Julia Napier is working with the Depart-
ment of Education at the Georgia State
capital. She is specializing in plans for
rural schools.

Virginia Norris is teaching grammar
school in Greenville, S. C.

Martha Lou Overton is working with
the Southern Bell Telephone Company in
Atlanta.

Virginia Owen is assistant manager of a
Huyler's Candy Store and Tea Room in
Massachusetts.

Evangeline Papageorge is doing work
in the laboratory at the Emory University
medical school.

Mary Perkinson is teaching Latin in
Wadley, Ga. Perk came back to Agnes
Scott for Hoasc and stunt night.

The Ramage twins write: "We have
crashed the gate of New York's business
world, both found jobs, and have no il-
lusions left." A friend of theirs who is
wintering away from New York turned
over her apartment at 310 W. 95th Street
to them and they are enjoying themselves
thoroughly illusions or no illusions.

Margaret Rice has been visiting Mildred
Greenleaf and Polly Irvine at Agnes Scott
during September and October and realiz-
ing what a heavenly place A. S. C. is
when you don't have to rush and get up
assignments.

Martha Riley's engagement has been
announced to Mr. Morris Holt Stephenson,
of Atlanta.

Mary Riviere is studying music in New
York. Mary lives in a French convent at
225 W. 14th St., where the conversation
and the cooking is all in French and equal-
ly divine.

Elizabeth Roark is teaching science in
the Junior High School in Union City,
Tenn. She has six classes each day.

Elizabeth Ruff spent part of the summer
at their lovely home in Montreat, N. C.

Mary Sayward is substituting in the
Decatur High School.

Virginia Skeen is working in Atlanta.
Her little sister, Elizabeth, is a Fresh-
man this fall. "Our family motto seems
to be," say Augusta, '17; Rebekah, ex '27;
Virginia, '28, and Elizabeth, '32, "Never a
year without a Skeen at Agnes Scott."

Florence Smith was married on June 12
at the church of the Epiphany in Atlanta

of which her father is rector, to Mr. John
Harrison Wright. Her sister, Charlotte,
'25, was maid of honor, and Frances
Hargis, and Martha Riley were brides-
maids. During the summer the Wrights
lived at Sautee, Ga., where Mr. Wright
taught at Nacoochee, Institute, but in Oc-
tober they passed through Atlanta on
their way to Mexico, where they will make
their home.

Ann Todd visited in California and
Alaska during the summer and is spend-
ing the winter with an aunt in St. Louis.

Josephine Walker is at home in Summer-
ville, S. C.

Georgia Watson is studying economics
at the University of Chicago. She came by
Agnes Scott in September, met Miss Gay-
lord here, and the two of them went on
together. Georgia's address is 6030
Greenwood Ave., Chicago.

Sarah White is working in the Emory
University library.

Non-graduates:

Pearl Corrie Carter was married Sep-
tember 8th to Mr. R. Graham White. They
are living at 1270 Willow Ave., Louis-
ville, Ky.

Nancy Crowther, who stayed with '28
almost to the "bitter end," but deserted
their Senior year to study in Paris, is
at home again and will make her debut in
Savannah this winter. Rowena Runnette,
who was with Nancy in France last year,
has returned to Agnes Scott and will
graduate with the class of '29.

Lillian LeConte and her mother spent
the summer in Europe.

Emily Watkins was married September
11th to Mr. Brice Cain, of Jackson, Miss.

Florida Richard was married on June
10th at the home of her sister in Decatur
to Lieut. Commander James Kepler Davis,
an Anapolis graduate in the class of '16.
They are living in Bethlehem, Pa.

Christine Wolfle is doing clerical work in
Atlanta.

AS THIS GOES TO PRESS

We have just received an announcement
that is of such widespread interest to
alumnae that we must squeeze it in this
issue, even though its importance merits
for it a more prominent place than this
last-minute writing can give. Professor
and Mrs. C. W. Dieckmann announce the
birth on October 29th at Wesley Memorial
Hospital of Adele Dieckmann, an exquisite
little dark-haired daughter, weighing six
and a half pounds. Mrs. Dieckmann, for
several years a member of the English
faculty, is also a member of the class of
'13, and a past president of the Alumnae
Association.

"A liberal college succeeds only in so
far as it develops in its students some per-
manent intellectual interest."

Are your lives as alumnae proving the
success of your years as college students?

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Agnes Scott's Million Dollar Building
and Development Campaign Goes
Merrily On !

We have raised by January 1, 1929,

$511,000

We must raise by May 1, 1929,

$489,000

Agnes Scott 9 s Future

Is In Your Hands!

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

CAMPAIGN PROGRESS AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAMPUS CAMPAIGN

Since the last Quarterly, we have had some of the most delightful "campaigning"
which any college has ever enjoyed. It is always stimulating to see a piece of work
done exceptionally well, particularly if the work lies very close to your heart; and
lhat is what happened in our Campus Campaign.

As all the Alumnae know, we are in the midst of a strenuous effort to secure ad-
ditional land, buildings and equipment for Agnes Scott. We have been working and
saving and quietly campaigning on this program for more than two years, but the
Trustees formally announced and opened the campaign last commencement. The whole
amount is for $1,000,000; and we are asking the General Education Board of New York
to add to this sum if we are successful in reaching our goal.

The urgency of our efforts this session was due to the offer by Mr. J. T. Lupton of
Chattanooga of $50,000 if we would bring the total of our pledges or improvements
to $500,000 by January 1, 1929. It was too good an offer to let go.

As we have frequently heard, times are hard; and it looked very much as if we
could not reach the half million mark, but when the prospects seemed most gloomy, the
Campus Campaign turned the tide for us with a brilliant victory.

Under the capable leadership of Miss Llewellyn Wilburn ('19) and her committee
of faculty and students, plans were made for taking the subscriptions on the campus
the latter part of November. The selection of a goal was the first problem. In 1919
when a similar effort was made, we had chosen a quota of $15,000 and and we had ac-
tually subscribed $22,000. This time it was finally agreed to try for $40,000, hoping
by sacrifice to reach that goal. It was agreed, however, that the chief feature of the
effort would be to have each person take some part.

The campaign was started with an unusual luncheon in the big gymnasium. For the
first time in the history of the College, all the boarders, day students, faculty and officers
about 600 in all took lunch together. It was a very beautiful and impressive oc-
casion. The objects of the campaign were explained and brief messages given by trus-
tees, alumnae, faculty, and students. This was on November 13.

The Faculty Committee arranged for an airplane race down the long hall of Main
Building to indicate progress being made by the four classes and by the faculty; but
actual figures were not given out until chapel time on November 22. I did not even
know myself what the totals would be, though all of us were aware that sacrificial effort
was being made; and students had taken up with parents the question as what they
might properly give.

There was great excitement at chapel on the morning when the final tabulations
were made, some of the trustees and alumnae coming out to hear the news as soon
as possible. Each group or class made its report to Miss Wilburn in a sealed envelope;
and as she opened each one and read it in the public meeting the atmosphere was so tense
that one scarcely breathed.

The results were gratifying beyond our fondest hopes. At the very first summary,
the subscriptions totaled over $77,000; and when they were finally tabulated they were
as follows:

Campus organizations $ 3,308.00

Freshmen 7,017.25

Sophomores 11,555.50

Juniors 8,501.00

Seniors 22,691.00

Faculty 25,463.50

Total $78,536.25

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The best part of it all was that there was absolutely ONE HUNDRED PER
CENT pledging on the part of students and faculty alike. It was truly a wonderful
victory for the College and all its friends.

Encouraged by this fine achievement, our workers pressed ahead and we were able
to announce on January 1 that we have $511,000 toward our Million Dollar Goal. You
may be sure that we are very happy.

We have now reached the real test of our Campaign. The "easy money" has
been gotten from trustees, patrons, faculty, students, and local alumnae. We are facing
the question, "Where can we find $489,000 that separates us from success and opens
the way for us to approach the General Education Board?" The answer must in large
measure be, "Our loyal Alumnae who are scattered everywhere!"

Even before this Quarterly comes to those who are farthest away, we shall be send-
ing details of the campaign to such as we cannot reach by personal visits. Alumnae who
do not live far away or those who are in places with a number of other Agnes Scotters,
we hope to get together in groups for discussion; but the time is short for much personal
work, as we feel that we must make our showing to the General Education Board by
May 1st. We need the help of every Alumna to the fullest extent possible. Don't let
us by any chance omit you. We want 100 per cent of Alumnae, as of Trustees, Faculty,
Officers, and Students. Please let us know if you do not get the literature and blanks.

We also need suggestions as to the mistakes that we may be making, or as to
persons of means whom we ought to enlist. We can win in this campaign, but it will
take the interest and work and prayers of us all.

FOUNDERS' DAY CELEBRATION, FEBRUARY 22

Our fourth annual radio program will be broadcast over WSB, the Atlanta Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia, on the night of February 22, Founders' Day.

Our holiday and formal dinner and dance at the college on Founders' Day were not
enough of a celebration, for Agnes Scott feels that only a part of the college is touched
unless we can get the alumnae to take part, too. Every year a large number of alumnae
come back to the college for Founders' Day. It falls on Friday this year, so the Alumnae
House will probably be full of "old girls" over that week-end. But even with dozens
of the alumnae back on the campus, we still felt that it was not enough, for to celebrate
rightly we must have with us all those other alumnae scattered so far. Four years ago
we had our first radio program on Founders' Day, linking together all over the country
the alumnae and other friends of Agnes Scott.

Mr. Lambdin Kay, nationally known announcer at WSB, has always been lovely in
helping Agnes Scott arrange an hour for the broadcast, and this year he has given us
the splendid hour of 7 P. M. central time. Radio stations are so tied up in the national
network, that a reasonable hour is not so easy to get, and we are very grateful to Mr. Kay.

The Atlanta and Decatur alumnae and their husbands will celebrate that evening
with a banquet at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins, and other
members of the faculty will be their guests for the evening, and the program of speeches
and music from the college glee club will be broadcast directly from the banquet hall.

There will be dinners and informal gatherings in practically every city and town
in the country where there are a number of Agnes Scott alumnae, and "singletons" who
uphold alone the name of Agnes Scott in distant cities, many smaller towns and rural
communities, will be listening in and singing "Flottentot" none the less vigorously be-
cause they sing it alone.

Again we ask you to telegraph to Miss Hopkins or Dr. McCain when the program
begins coming in, for one of the very nicest parts of the programs on previous years has
been hearing from the distant alumnae and having their greetings relayed over the
air. Address telegrams to WSB Radio Station, Atlanta Biltmore Hotel Studio, At-
lanta, Ga.

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ON THE CAMPUS CALENDAR

Among the interesting lectures of the year was that on "University Life in Paris
in the Past and Present," by M. Auguste Desclos, a leader in the French educational
movement. Last year M. Desclos was entrusted with the mission as special enjoy of the
Ministry of Education in Paris. He is a member of the committee of four Frenchmen
sent to America for a study of American Universities, and is in charge of the educational
exchanges between France and the United States. Introducing M. Desclos at his lecture
at the college was Mr. Charles Loridans, French consul in Atlanta, a Knight of the
Legion of Honor, and the husband of one of our alumnae Addie Arnold.

Dr. Pierre Porohoushikor, former state councillor of Russia, spoke at the college on
December 6 on "Soviet Russia." He brought out the methods and results of the Soviet
rule, giving a clear and enlightening description of his own experiences. Dr. Poro-
houshikor has recently come from a lecture tour of the larger eastern colleges and
universities.

Mr. Archie Sinclair, of New York City, talked to the college community on No-
vember 26 on "The Making of Stained Glass." We are very interested in the subject at
Agnes Scott just now as we plan for our new Gaines Memorial chapel and its rose
window.

Dr. Alfred dejonge, professor of German at the college this winter, spoke to the
Atlanta alumnae club on January 15 in the Alumnae House on "The German Educational
System." This is a mill through which Dr. dejonge has passed himself, and his talk was
intensely interesting.

Mrs. Karl Wilson Baker, Texas poet, lectured and read one evening in the chapel as
a number on the regular lecture association program. Mrs. Baker was a guest at the
Alumnae House for several days, and many of our embryo poets among the students
had the opportunity of meeting her.

Miss Florence Snow, alumnae secretary of Smith College and president of the
American Alumni Council, was a guest at the Alumnae House for a few days during
January. On the evening of January 9 she spoke to a group of college and university
alumni in the Alumnae House living rooms on the alumni's relation to his college today.
("Alumni" is used to include "alumnae.") Alumni were present from Johns Hopkins,
Smith, Radclifre, Vassar, Wellesley, Harvard, North Carolina, Georgia, Emory, Wesleyan,
Cornell, Columbia, Goucher, Randolph-Macon, Agnes Scott, and many other colleges.
The Agnes Scott seniors were also guests for the lecture and the informal reception
which followed Miss Snow's talk.

The Agnes Scott Choral Society presented the oratorio, Handel's "Messiah," on
Sunday afternoon, January 13, in the college chapel. It is customary to give this on
the Sunday afternoon before the Christmas holidays, but on account of the early closing
of the college with flu, the date was changed.

Cecil Roberts, brilliant young English dramatist and novelist, will speak at the
college February 4, at 8:30 P. M., on the subject, "What Europe Is Thinking."

Mr. Roberts' experiences and achievements qualify him to speak with authority upon
current European problems and their bearing upon American relations. He served as
official war correspondent with the Grand Fleet and the British Armies; he was Director
of Overseas Transport in the War Ministry; he held for five years the editorship of the
Nottingham Journal, when he was the youngest editor of England's oldest daily news-
paper. As fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and as novelist in search of color
and material, he has travelled extensively. He has at various times conferred with the
leading politicians of Europe.

Among his novels are "Scissors," "Sails of Sunset," "The Love Marriage," "Sagusto,"
and "David and Diana." His plays include "A Tale of Young Lovers" and "The Right
to Kiss."

For the entire week of February 4th, the college will have as its guest Dr. Frank

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Crossley Morgan, of Augusta, Ga., who will deliver a series of sermons in the college
chapel. Dr. Morgan, son of Dr. Campbell Morgan, has been at Agnes Scott on numerous
other occasions and has won a warm place in the hearts of the entire college community.
Alumnae from Atlanta and Decatur are invited to come out to hear Dr. Morgan during
the week.

Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, prominent American clubwoman, historian, and press
correspondent, will speak on "International Relations Viewed From the Press Gallery,"
on February 11 in the gym-auditorium.

The last number on the season's lecture program will be an illustrated talk on "Fly-
ing Over Pike's Peak," by Gilbert McClurg, on March 7.

CURRICULUM CHANGES

ALUMNAE, READ THIS AND WEEP!

Can you hark back to a day when you gnashed your teeth over Freshman Latin?
Did you ever weep miserably over Horner's Method and the irritating intricacies of
logarithms and cosines? Have you despairing memories of bleak hours in lab, amid fumes
of formaldehyde or the mysterious dinguses sacred to experiments in physics? Did you
ever moan, as you struggled with English 211, "How long, O Lord, how long?"

To one of these questions, at least, you answer a heartfelt "Yes." Whether you
humbly gave thanks for D's, or nonchalantly achieved Phi Beta Kappa, there were some
courses you took only because they were "required."

Well, hear the bitter truth: We were all born out of time. If only we had lingered
along and come to college in the year of enlightenment 1929, we'd have gnashed fewer
teeth and torn less hair. As it is, there is nothing to do but shed a rueful tear and
rejoice in the fortune of our lucky little sisters.

A new system of requirements has recently been approved by the Curriculum Com-
mittee a system which will allow the student far more choice in the arrangement of
courses than ever before. A girl who has a bent for science may take more scientific
studies and fewer linguistic ones. A girl who, on the other hand, finds no pleasure in
science and delights in language and literature, may avoid math and escape with
only one laboratory science. Yet, while the new requirements are more flexible,
they make it impossible for a student to over-specialize, and provide that the degree
represent a varied and liberal course of study.

Some of the more important features of the new system (which will be set forth
in full in the Bulletin for 192 8-29, off the press in March) are as follows:

Specific requirements:

English 101-102 6 semester hours.

Modern language 6 semester hours.

Bible 6 semester hours.

Physiology and Hygiene 2 semester hours.

Requirement with option (5 out of the 7 groups must be elected. Six or 8 hours
must be a laboratory science) :

Group 1 Biology, Physics, or Chemistry 6 or 8 semester hours.

Group II English Literature 6 semester hours.

Group III History or Economics 6 semester hours.

Group IV Mathematics 6 semester hours.

Group V Psychology 6 semester hours.

Group VI Greek or Latin 6 semester hours.

Group VII Science (not elected in Group I) 6 semester hours.

In general the changes in the requirements for the degree will reduce the number of
required hours, and provide more options, in order to offer to each student a course suited
as nearly as possible to her individual aptitudes and tastes. The changes, as Mr. Stukes
stated in explaining the new system to the students, are in line with the tendencies in
the leading colleges in the country.

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SIGHTSEEING WITH A DUCHESS

By ADELAIDE CUNNINGHAM, 1911

Last summer while studying at Oxford University, I came up to London to do a
little sightseeing. Parliament was then in session and I asked a bobby how to get to
the House of Commons.

"You cawn't go thar until Saturday visitors' day," he informed me..

It was Wednesday, and I knew that parliament was to be prorogued on Friday. I
wanted very much to see the commons in sessions, but the guide book declared in no
uncertain terms: "Permission to be present at the debates of the lower house can be ob-
tained only from a member of Parliament."

A bold idea seized me. I dropped into the mailbox a letter special delivery, or as
they say, "express," to Lady Astor, English patron saint of southern girls.

"Dear Lady Astor," it read, "I am an American girl who has been attending summer
school at Oxford, and inasmuch as I am a teacher of English and history (in Atlanta,
Ga.), I am eager to see Parliament in session. I should appreciate it greatly if you would
secure me a ticket for Friday."

The answer came early Thursday morning a penciled note bearing the seal of
the House of Commons: "Alas! I shall not be here Friday, but if you will come to the
house at 11:30 and ask for the Duchess of Atholl she has kindly consented to get you
a ticket for a very dull debate. I am really sorry to miss a Georgia girl. Sincerely,
Nancy Astor."

Now, my acquaintance with duchesses was limited to the one in "Alice in Wonder-
land," but everyone has heard of the Duchess of Atholl, known all over the world for
her Red Cross work during the war, and now parliamentary secretary of the Board of
Education. Her husband is one of the leading peers of Scotland, and is descended from
Lord George Murray, who was chief general to Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Friday morning I came again to Parliament Square with its roar of traffic pouring
from Westminster Bridge, from Whitehall, and from the exits of the London "Under-
ground." Again I asked the policemen to direct me to the House of Commons.

"You cawn't go " he began.

"But I have a letter," I said quickly.

That seemed to change the face of the matter, and he pointed to St. Stephen's gate.
Not once did I have to show my credentials, for the magic word "letter" seemed to be
the open sesame, and the guards with gleaming halberds and swords let me by.

As I entered St. Stephen's porch, the great Westminster hall was on my left and
before me was St. Stephen's hall through which I passed to Central Hall. Here an
attendant handed me a card on which I wrote my own name, the name of the member
I wished to see, and the purpose of my visit.

Central Hall is octagonal in shape, with four entrances and above these are depicted
in mosaics St. George of England, St. David of Wales, St. Andrew of Scotland, and St.
Patrick of Ireland.

Soon the Duchess of Atholl arrived. After filling out my application for ad-
mittance to Parliament, we went into the famous lobby of the House of Commons,
which, it is said, in times of political excitement is more interesting than the house
itself. This hall was filled with gentlemen in animated conversation. The Duchess
led me to the "lift" which took us to the ladies gallery. The famous "grille," or screen,
hiding the women onlookers had been removed in 1917, but there was a picture of
it on the wall in the corridor, and the Duchess declared that as a girl she, who was now
a member of that august body, had been forced to listen to the sessions of Parliament
from behind that barrier.

The ladies' gallery is above the press gallery and above the speaker, facing the
entrance of the long rectangular hall. A few members had remained for the closing
day, and as we came in Major Tryon, the Minister of Pensions, was speaking. The

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Duchess explained who he was, where the Conservative cabinet seats were, and pointed
out her own seat which she occupied as Under Minister of Education. The Liberals sit
together, and behind them are seated the Laborites and Socialists. She also pointed out
the be-wigged clerks at the table in front of the speaker, and the Sergeant-at-Arms
with his sword.

We left the Minister of Pensions to his debate for a while, and she took me down
to a lower corridor, where on the panelled walls were paintings of England's early kings
and their courtiers. There was one which showed Sir Thomas More, the speaker, refus-
ing to grant a subsidy to Henry VIII without due debate in the house. Another paint-
ing represents Sir Walter Raleigh being commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to sail for
America, and still a third shows King John granting the Magna Charta. Alfred is there,
too, fighting the Danes.

The Duchess then conducted me to her private office, through the libraries of
parliament, and out on the river terrace, from which we had a magnificent view of
the Thames, and on to Westminster Hall. After visiting this hall, where so many
episodes of English history have taken place, we returned to the ladies' gallery, and
found the minister of pensions still trying to convince his opponents that the pension
system was "second to none, not even excepting that of the United States of America."

The Duchess told me that last year she was in our country, and she particularly
commented on the beauty and impressiveness of our colonial architecture as typified by
Mount Vernon. After a few minutes she went out in search of tea, which we had in
a little room quite near the ladies' gallery. We talked about educational methods, and
she expressed regret that more English history was not taught in the American schools,
since English history, she said, was really our own up to the seventeenth century. She asked
me about my work at Oxford, and then told me of some interesting spots in London
which I should visit. One of them was St. Bartholomew's, in Smithfield, the oldest
church in London with the exception of the chapel in the tower.

At 1:301 said good-by to the duchess. Parliament was to be prorogued at 2 o'clock,
and she entered the House of Commons to take her place on the floor, while I returned
to the ladies' gallery to watch. Just as the clock hands pointed to the hour at which
the house was to adjourn a Scotch member raised his voice from the Socialist bench:

"Your sacred hour of 2 o'clock and nothing is done! I tell you these people did not
receive their pensions!"

Amid the confusion the loud cry of the king's herald was heard in the corridor
without. Down the center of the House of Commons he marched and stopped before
the speaker. Here he delivered his formal speech of prorogation in the king's name.
Solemnly the members filed out. They went into the House of Lords to hear the "king's
speech," which I understood afterwards, was written by Premier Stanley Baldwin, and
read by the Lord Chancellor before the assembled Lords and Commons.

Visitors are never admitted to the House of Lords while in session, but I came back
the next day when the buildings were open to the public and viewed the historic
room, with its red leather benches and the famous woolsack, upon which the Chancellor
sits. And as I wended my way about among the crowds of sightseers, how I missed the
duchess!

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LETTERS FROM FAR-AWAY ALUMNAE

NO. 4 CUBA

(Louise (McCorkle) Kloor, ex '22, and her husband have been living on a sugarcane
plantation in Cuba for the past five years.)

"I wish I could write something very novel or exciting about life in Cuba, but after
five years here I can't think somehow of the things that most impressed me at first as
being so different.

"Americans at a Cuban sugar central live much the same as Americans in any
foreign country, I believe. That means they stay together and keep up their own customs
and standards of living. They are only slightly influenced by outside conditions only
as necessity demands, in fact. For instance, I never heard of eggs selling in any quantity
but dozens. Prices for eggs in Cuba, however, are quoted by the dollar's worth, and no
amount of Yankee reasoning can convince a Cuban that our dealing in dozens is the
better way.

"My husband and I are very happily situated at Chaparra in Oriente province
the extreme eastern end of the island, as the name, Oriente, implies. We are only about
five miles from the sea, so enjoy the year around the balmy breezes for which Cuba is
noted.

"There are quite a number of states represented in our American colony, with
Louisiana leading in numbers. That is explained by Louisiana's culture of cane, and
the splendid courses in sugar chemistry offered at both the state university and at Tulane.

"As a general rule the grinding season begins the first of January. The mills operate
day and night for a period of six months or longer. They are models of American con-
struction and management. When one sees the tremendous output of just one mill, one
wonders if the world's diet is made up principally of sugar.

"I left my husband at the mercy of a Chinese cook this year and came home for
a real visit to make up for the very short month of last year. A month in the States with
worlds of shopping to do and all one's friends to see can just fly by!

"I have yet to meet an Agnes Scott girl in Cuba, but alumnae travel there occasion-
ally, I know, and I hear that one of the '28 graduates lives in Havana, so we may have
an Agnes Scott alumnae club there yet!"

No. 5 Havana, Panama and the Canal Zone

(By the time this is published, Ivylyn Girardeau, '22, will be back in Louisiana, but
it is such an interesting account of her summer's trip, and so few of our alumnae travel
down this way, that we are glad to give them this glimpse of our interesting neighbors.)

"I left New Orleans in August on the 'Cartago,' a boat of the United Fruit Com-
pany's line, which at that season carried very few cruise passengers. Two days later
we were in Havana. It is a lovely city and from the number of limestone buildings we
judged that only millionaires must live there. If there was a slum we never saw it.
Everything is beautifully kept and so clean that no flies or mosquitoes were in evidence,
therefore screens were unnecessary and all hotel dining rooms, restaurants, etc., opened
right out on the street.

"Our drive the first afternoon took us along the new seawall, out through the lovely
Miramar residential section, by banana and pineapple plantations, through the Tropical
Gardens and included trips to the famous old churches and monuments. The night trip
included a visit to the largest men's clubs, to the Chinese theatre, where a play was in
progress, and to the Casino where we looked on for a while at the gambling.

"The next day we went by launch over to Morro Castle which is now utilitzcd as
a military training school for Cuban boys. It is known as the 'West Point' of Cuba.
Here a lighthouse is also located and the view from it was splendid. The afternoon was

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spent in shopping and to get from one place to another we had to make use of taxis.
As the drivers understood very little English and we no Spanish the confusion in direc-
tions was sometimes comical. It was rather disconcerting to be dropped in front of
Woolworth's (yes they have several) when you had specified the National Theatre.

"Most of the passengers having disembarked at Havana, the few of us who were
left felt like one large family the last four days of the trip. Captain McBride was a
dear, and gave us the run of the ship, so we learned all about navigation, from the work
of the engine room to the actual steering of the ship. The biggest thrill was to have my
hands on the wheel for about five minutes.

"About this time the flying fish put in their appearance, and it was most fascinating
to watch them sail through the air, sometimes for a distance of several hundred yards.
They always brought to mind the 'road to Mandalay.'

"We docked at Cristobal Saturday night, and the next morning the party left by
auto for Gatun locks. We had the good fortune of seeing two large ships go through
the locks and everything was explained in detail. We then boarded the train for Panama
City, which is on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. The view from the observation car was
beautiful but it was blotted out for a large part of the time by a typical tropical down-
pour.

"I stayed for a week with my brother who is the English editor of 'El Tiempo
The Evening Times,' a Spanish-English paper published in Panama City. The Hotel
Tivoli is in the Zone but is just across the street from Panama City, which is not United
States property. Balboa is also a close neighbor so the geography is more or less con-
fusing. During the week we made trips out to the ruins of Old Panama, and also
through Balboa and out to the fortified islands which guard the Pacific entrance to the
Canal. One day we went for a swim in the Pacific and were chased out by stingarees.
The queerest part about the geography is that the sun rises from the Pacific Ocean and
sets in the Atlantic!

"On September 10 I boarded the 'Parismina' for my trip home. We followed the
coast of Central America, staying within sight of land for two days and stopping at
Puerto Castillio in Honduras for a load of bananas. Then back by Havana to pick up
passengers and on to New Orleans. There were a number of aliens on board, including
quite a few young people coming up to school in the States.

"No, this isn't an ad for them, but I must say it. The United Fruit Company
does everything in its power to add to the comfort and pleasure of its passengers, and if
I ever go to Panama again, I shall certainly book passage on a boat of the Great
White Fleet."

COLLEGE OR KINDERGARTEN?

How to educate and why, is a question agitating many of our thinkers these days.
One may read in the public prints almost anything he wants to about mass education,
co-education, the inner college, the outer urge, the new freedom, the old bondage. The
radicals talk learnedly of the new education; the conservatives say it's old stuff with new
names.

Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University, seems to be gradually winning his spurs
these days as a modern critic of university education, as witness his magazine articles,
and especially a new book he has written, "College or Kindergarten?" published by the
New Republic in its "dollar book" series.

Mr. McConn, as he observes higher education, does not sink into deep despair. He
takes it as it is, then proposes to divide all colleges and universities into three general
classes the real colleges, the "superkindergartens" or "gentlemen's" colleges, and the
professional schools. The latter class is already distinct but is included as a matter of
form.

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The real college he defines as an institution of learning where only real students
tvould be admitted; where scholarship instead of "activities" would reign.

The "gentleman's" college or superkindergarten as Mr. McConn calls it, would ac-
commodate the great average level of youngsters with no great aptitude for the academic,
the average boys and girls who go to college because most everyone else does, who enjoy
the luxurious country club atmosphere of fraternity and sorority houses. The group
would naturally include some dumb bells, the nice sons of wealthy parents who will
be set up handsomely in papa's business no matter what happens in college, the boy with
every qualification for real college work except brains.

The professional schools such as law, medicine, journalism, and the like would go
on much as they do now.

Though there is nothing particularly new in Mr. McConn's general views on educa-
tion, he takes decidedly advanced ground when he proposes to set aside the general run
of youngsters in "superkindergartens," where they would get just what they came for
a good time, some additional social polish, and four years of such mild learning as they
are able to take in without too much trouble.

Whether any college or university would be willing to take this feeble-minded
classification or whether any parents would be willing to send their children to such a
place if they knew about it beforehand, is a question. On the other hand, the "real
college" classification would probably be welcomed by many educational institutions.

MORE AND MORE STUDENTS

The number of students who go to college continues to increase, though the gain
this year is only two per cent, as compared with a 25 per cent increase for the last five
years. The enrollment of full-time students this year from 216 colleges and universities
in the United States and Canada is 47,526. (Part-time, 233,425; grand total 650,951.)
These and the following facts are taken from an article by Dean Raymond Walters in
School and Society.

The University of California, as last year, leads in the number of regular, full-time
students (17,337), with Columbia University second (13,691), the University of Illinois
third (12,150), University of Minnesota fourth (11,815), then Michigan (10,954),
New York University (10,711), and Ohio State (10,293).

Speaking again of Columbia University, it has a "super grand total" enrollment of
42,742 when we count in the summer session students, the part-time students, and
those in home study and other extension courses. This total breaks all records at Colum-
bia and elsewhere.

The largest liberal arts college is in the University of California (9,783). Wisconsin
is second, Michigan third, then New York University, Minnesota, College of the City
of New York, Illinois, Texas, Columbia, Harvard.

The largest law school is in New York University (1,785). Harvard is second, then
comes Fordham, Columbia, Michigan.

Michigan has the largest medical school (668). Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Harvard,
and Chicago follow in the order named.

The ten largest exclusively women's colleges are Hunter (4,918), then Smith,
Wellesley, Florida State, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Goucher, Radcliffc, Randolph-Macon,
Elmira.

Columbia has the largest summer school (14,007); then come California, Chicago,
Minnesota, Wisconsin.

The largest faculty reported is Columbia's (2,075). Others in the four-figure class
are California (1,387), New York University (1,383), Pennsylvania (1,362), Harvard
(1,244), Illinois (1,135).

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AGNES SCOTT DEFEATS VASSAR

The victory of Agnes Scott over Vassar
in debate on December 15, 1928, is doubly
gratifying because it marks the second
time our team has defeated the northern
college, and because it took place in "the
enemy's territory."

The subject for debate was, "Resolved:
That the publicly owned resources of the
United States should be developed and
operated by federal and state govern-
ments." The negative was upheld for
Agnes Scott by Esther Nisbet, Eleanor
Lee Norris, with Martha Stackhouse as
alternate. The judges were Norman Hap-
good, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, and Charles
H. Tuttle.

The debaters report that the trip to
Poughkeepsie was in every respect a
memorable one. In New York they were
met by Quenelle Harrold, '23, and had
tea with Martha Crowe, '27; Kenneth
Maner, '27, and other Alumnae. As guests
of Vassar, they were cordially entertained
at tea, luncheon, and a reception, and en-
joyed the unusual privilege of hearing the
Vassar Christmas music.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL

Some girls would consider themselves
sufficiently distinguished if they had help-
ed win a debate against Vassar and spent
a week in the Vassar infirmary with flu.
But not so Esther Nisbet. She dashed
over to Boston; in a manner sudden and
romantic, married, and returned to college
Mrs. Newton Thomas Anderson, Jr.

PRESIDENT AND REGISTRAR
ATTEND MEETING

Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes were recent-
ly in Chattanooga to attend the first meet-
ing held in the South of the Association
of American Colleges, composed of over
five hundred colleges from all over the
United States. Among the topics for dis-
cussion were: "What Constitutes a Good
College Teacher," "The Place of Religion
in Higher Education," "The Training of
College Teachers as Graduate Students,"
and "The New College Curriculum."

'28 HOLDS FIRST REUNION

The first called meeting of the last
year's graduating class always occurs dur-
ing Thanksgiving week-end. On that Sat-
urday night the newest alumnae of them
all gather in the tea room of the Alumnae
House for a class dinner. '28's president,
Mary Bell McConkey, of St. Louis, could
not be present at this time, so the class
secretary, Huda Dement, presided.

Since college opened in September, fifty-
one members of '28 have visited Agnes
Scott. North and South Carolina, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Ten-
nessee and Virginia, have been represent-
ed by these homesick Agnes Scott daugh-
ters who just had to run back for a week-
end or only a few hours, in some cases, to
see to it that Ella was still keeping the
college going.

FACULTY NOTES

After another summer abroad Miss Les-
lie Gaylord is working on her Ph. D. at
Chicago. Miss Annie Mae Baker, of Ran-
dolph-Macon Womans College is supplying
for her this year.

Miss Jean Davis is at Wells College, N.
Y. She was one of the speakers brought
to Atlanta by the Economics Conference
in November.

Miss Isabel Randolph is teaching at
Miss Sayward's School, Overbrook, Pa.

Although none of them were seriously
ill, the flu played havoc with many mem-
bers of the faculty during December. Miss
Wilburn, Miss Sinclair, Miss McKinney,
Miss Dexter, Miss White, Mrs. Syden-
stricker, Mr. Holt, Miss Freed, Dr. Hayes,
Dr. Davidson, Miss Preston, were all too
ill to meet their classes.

Miss Jane B. Brown of Columbia Uni-
versity is the newest addition to the de-
partment of psychology. Before coming
to Agnes Scott, Miss Brown taught at
Winthrop College.

"Mary Gude Coleman, wife of Profes-
sor Algernon Coleman, died in New
Haven, Conn., on December 6, 1928. Fu-
neral services were held there the fol-
lowing day. Her ashes will be interred
in Halifax County, Virginia. A memorial
service for Mrs. Coleman will be held at
the University of Chicago at a later date,
of which announcement will be made in
due season."

"The above card came to me at Christ-

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mas time," writes Martha (Brenner)
Shryock, '15, "and of course caused me
much sadness. I am sending it on for
the many girls who were at Agnes Scott
in my day will remember with love dear
Miss Mary Gude. In those days there
was a member of the faculty at each table
in the dining room, and I had the pleasure
of being at Miss Gude's table for two
years. She was always a dear friend, and
when I came to Chicago as a bride nine
years ago, she welcomed me and was our
first hostess. She was always interested
in Agnes Scott." Mrs. Coleman contracted
a case of influenza while attending a fam-
ily reunion at New Haven, and was rushed
to her home, but died within a few days.

AGNES SCOTT STUDENT HONORED
BY N. S. F. A.

Elinore Morgan, '29, president of student
government on the campus, was recently
elected Southern Regional Representative
to the Executive Committee of the Na-
tional Students' Federation of America at
the meeting held December 12-15, at the
University of Missouri. Other officers of
the Federation come from the Oregon
State College, Wellesley, Oberlin, Uni-
versity of Akron, Southern California, New
York University, University of Missouri,
Bryn Mawr, Harvard and Carleton.

ALUMNAE HOME-COMING TEA

On Thanksgiving week-end, Agnes Scott
alumnae the country over think of return-
ing to their college if it is at all possible.
Several years ago the annual alumnae
home-coming date was set for this time,
embracing as it always does, that especial-
ly significant date, November 25, the birth-
day of our beloved Miss Anna Irwin
Young. Every year at this time all old
Agnes Scott girls are asked to come back
to the campus, to meet old friends among
alumnae and faculty, to see the students
of today and learn of the changes taking
place in the college, to see the college in
action on Friday and Saturday of that
week, visiting any classes they choose, and
on Friday afternoon to gather in the Anna
Young Alumnae House for the annual
alumnae tea. Any alumnae desiring to
make a gift to the silver, linen, etc., of the
house is asked to do it at this time. Many
lovely gifts were received this year.

The tea this year was very beautiful,
and a larger number of alumnae than ever
before called during the afternoon. The
reception rooms of the Alumnae House,
recently refurnished in lovely early Ameri-
can reproductions by the Atlanta Alumnae
Club, were decorated with chrysanthemums
in shades of gold and bronze. Those in
the receiving line were Mrs. Frances Gilli-

land Stukes, chairman of the House Com-
mittee; Mrs. Claire Louise Scott Beall;
Mrs. Samuel Young, mother of Miss Anna;
Mrs. Susan Young Eagan and Mrs. Bessie
Young Brown, Miss Anna's sisters; Miss
Nannette Hopkins, dean; and Miss Lucille
Alexander. Miss Louise McKinney poured
tea in the dining room, and little Miss
Anna Young Eagan received the cards of
the guests.

During the afternoon more than a hun-
dred and fifty guests called. These in-
cluded local and out-of-town alumne, rep-
resentatives of student organizations and
presidents of classes, students now in col-
lege whose mothers were Agnes Scott
alumnae, and other friends of the college.

AMONG THE NEW BOOKS

We suggest (not recommend, mind!):

For the home-maker:

"Children in the Nursery School," by
Harriet M. Johnson. (John Day Company,
25 W. 45th St., New York. $3.00.)

"Beauty in Home Furnishing," by Wal-
ter Rendell Storev. (Rae D. Henkle Com-
pany, New York. $3.50.)

Novels (we are specially intei'ested in
these since all three of the authors have
been guests and lecturers at Agnes Scott):

"A Brood of Ducklings," by Frank Swin-
nerton. $2.50.

"The Silver Thorn," by Hugh Walpole.
$2.50.

"Mamba's Daughters," by DuBose Hey-
ward. $2.50. (All three of these books
are published by Doubleday-Doran Com-
pany. )

General :

"American Negro Folk-Songs, " by New-
man I. White. (Cambridge-Harvard Uni-
versity Press. $5.00.)

"Woman in the Making of America,"
by H. Addington Bruce. (Little Brown and
Company. $2.50.)

"Leonardo the Florentine," by Rachel
Annand Taylor. (Harpers.)

"Witchcraft in Old and New England,"
by George Lyman Kittredge. (Harvai-d
University Press.)

"Whither Mankind?" compilation edited
by Charles A. Beard. (Longmans, Green
Company.)

"Ladies Third, oi< Six Weeks in Europe
on $600," by Marv Lena Wilson. (Duf-
field and Company. New York. $2.50.)

"The House at Pooh Comer," by A. A.
Milne. (E. P. Dutton and Company, 300
4th Ave., New York. $2.00.)

"John Brown's Body," by Stephen Vin-
cent Benet. (Doubleday-Doran.)

"The Cock's Feather," a novel by
Katherine Newlin Burt.

"Elizabeth and Essex," by Lytton
Strachey. (Harcourt, Brace and Co. $3.75.)

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Poetry:

"The Buck in the Snow," by Edna St.
Vincent Millay. (Harper.)

"Trivial Breath," by Eleanor Wylie. This
is her last book. (Knopf.)

"West Running Brook," by Robert Frost.
(Holt.)

Magazine articles:

"Religion Goes to College," by Herbert
Parrish. Century for January.

"The Woman Goes to College," by Bes-
sie Bunzel. Century for November.

"Are the Colleges Playing Poor?" by
William B. Munro in Atlantic Monthly for
October.

"The Women's Colleges Reply," by Wil-
liam Allan Neilson, and "A Brief Re-
joinder," by Mr. Munro in the Atlantic
Monthly for January.

A LETTER FROM ORA MAST (GLENN)
ROBERTS, '16

"My Dear Fellow- Alumnae:

"I have been in the good old U. S. A.
since the last of June and expect to be
here until about the middle of this month,
when my husband and I shall return to our
work in Brazil. It goes without saying
that we are having a wonderful furlough.

"I have seen quite a number of A. S. C.
friends: Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin, Claire
(Elliott) McKay, Charlotte (Jackson)
Mitchell, Margaret Fain, and others. I en-
joyed attending a meeting of the Char-
lotte branch of University Women and
there I met many of the younger gener-
ation of Agnes Scott daughters.

"When I go back to Lavras I hope to
take a new piano for the Charlotte Kem-
per Seminary. Our music department has
grown so much that we must have better
equipment and the beautiful Auxiliary gift
building cries out for a new piano in its
auditorium. I am wondering if there are
not several alumnae who would like to
feel that they are helping spread the
gospel musically in Brazil? Please send
any donations to this address: Mrs. G. A.
Roberts, Rock Hill, S. C."

Emory University, Georgia Tech, Ogle-
thorpe, and Spellman.

CAMPUS VISITORS

Mr. Trevor Arnett, chairman of the Gen-
eral Education Board of New York, two
members of the board, Mr. Leo Favrot,
and Mr. Jackson Davis; Mrs. Arnett, and
Miss Ruth D. Evans were visitors on the
campus on January 17. They attended
chapel services, made a short tour of the
campus, and were guests of the students
in Rebekah Scott dining room for lunch.

Mr. Archie M. Palmer, assistant director
of the Institute of International Education
in New York, was a guest at the Alumnae
House January 12-15. Mr. Palmer is mak-
ing a survey of colleges in the southeast,
and from the Alumnae House visited

AH, FLU!

Agnes Scott had her fair share of the
flu during December, and although there
were no serious cases, it was thought best
to close the college a few days early so
that none of the girls should miss Christ-
mas holidays at home.

Since returning to the campus after the
holidays Dr. Sweet has had the students
under partial quarantine, allowing them to
go on the street cars and to Atlanta only for
necessary errands, and forbidding theatres
and picture shows. The wisdom of this
measure has been proved by the fact that
although the flu is still raging in Atlanta
and Decatur, there is not one single case
in the college infirmary as this Quarterly
goes to press. Picture shows and dances
in the gym furnish entertainment for Wed-
nesday and Saturday evenings, and the
student body is both well and happy.

BACK TO AGNES SCOTT!

Among the out-of-town alumnae who
were guests at the Alumnae House during
the Thanksgiving holidays were the fol-
lowing: Virginia Carrier, '28, and Cather-
ine Carrier, '25, of Asheville, N. C; Beu-
lah Davidson, '24, Tate, Ga.; Mae Erskine
Irvine, '27, Florence, Ala.; Mary Heath,
'27, Augusta, Ga.; Louise (Pfeiffer) Ringel,
'26, Brunswick, Ga.; Ruth Evans Masen-
gill, '28, Bristol, Va.; Edith Gilchrist and
Eleanor Gresham, both of the class of '26,
and both of Birmingham, Ala.; Annie Wil-
son Terry, '24, Montgomery, Ala.; Louisa
White and Maurine Bledsoe, '27, of Ashe-
ville, N. C; Virginia Norris and Margaret
Keith, '28, of Greenville, S. C; Roberta
Winter, '27, Athens, Tenn.; Marcia Green,
'27, Lafayette, Ala.; Nellie Richardson, '26,
Warrenton, Ga.; Cleo McLaurine, '27,
Charlotte, N. C; Rachel Henderlite, '27,
Gastonia, N. C; Marion Daniel, '27,
Charlottesville, Va.; Anne McCollum, '28,
Baconton, Ga.; Ladie Suse Wallace, '26,
Rutledge, Ga.; Annie Lee (Gray) Lind-
gren, ex '19, Birmingham, Ala.; Ellen Fain,
'26, Hendersonville, N. C; Catherine
(Mock) Hodgin, '26, Thomasville, N. C;
Mary Ray Dobyns, '28, Birmingham, Ala.;
Nell Hillhouse, '28, Waynesboro, Ga.;
Mary Perkinson, '28, Wadley, Ga.

Alumnae are welcome at the college at
any time during the year, but it is especial-
ly satisfying to return at Thanksgiving
when there are numbers of other alumnae
on hand, too.

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Concerning Ourselves

1896

Mary Ethel Davis is working at the Vet-
erans Bureau in Atlanta.

Olive (Laing) Hoggins sends her new
address (3914 Walnut Street), and a folder,
describing the book on which she has been
working for the past five years with the
very splendid help of her husband. It is
the "Centenary History of Kansas City
Churches 1828-1928," and is now being
published serially in the Kansas City Post.
"This history was obtained by most care-
ful and painstaking research into church
records, minutes of official meetings, pub-
lished and unpublished memoirs, statistical
reports, newspaper files enlivened and
colored and made real by the word of liv-
ing witnesses. It begins with the arrival
of the first white man to set up resi-
dence on Kansas City soil, and presents a
colorful picture of a cross section of Amer-
ican religious life, showing the history of
one typical American city from the angle
of its religious development. For five years
Mrs. Hoggins has been at work on this
volume, sparing no expense or pains,
searching through libraries in Kansas City,
St. Louis, Topeka, compiling statistical
data for a correct framework from hun-
dreds of published minute books, going
through page after page of old scrap
books. She has had to decipher many
pages of difficult handwriting in old min-
ute books, to spend days and days compar-
ing, studying, evaluating, ironing out in-
consistencies, weeding out published and
traditional error. She has had the earnest
cooperation of thousands of ministers and
laymen."

1897

Lillie Wade (Little) Ryals and her hus-
band have recently returned from a Euro-
pean trip.

1899

Lucile Alexander visited her sisters in
Asheville during the Christmas holidays.

Rose B. Knox was a visitor at the col-
lege during November. After an absence
of several years, she returned at one of the
most exciting occasions in college history
the campaign luncheon in the gym, when
the entire student body, faculty, and ad-
ministrative officers gathered at a mam-
moth launching of the campus campaign.
1902

Annie (Dowdell) Turner was a visitor
at the college early in January when she

attended the meeting in Decatur of the
Presbyterian women of the Synod.
1905

Lulie (Morrow) Croft has moved from
West Point to 256 Mathews Ave., N. E.,
Atlanta, Ga.

Sallie Stribling has bought a partly
furnished cottage in the North Carolina
mountains not very far from Brevard for
a summer home. It boasts a diminutive
lake (christened "the bathtub") and a
real antique in the walnut sideboard once
belonging to General Andrew Pickens of
Revolutionary fame.

1889-1906

Annie E. Aunspaugh visited Agnes Scott
during November.

The new president of the U. D. C. for
the state of California is Stella (Austin)
Stannard. This is a big job in a big state!

Essie (Baker) Etheredge lives at 914
Heard Ave., Augusta, Ga. Last summer
she visited her daughter, Grace, ex '27, in
New York City. Grace has been study-
ing voice there for several years.

Lillian May (Baker) Griggs is secretary
and director of the North Carolina state
library commission, with headquarters in
Raleigh.

Lallie Calhoun is the wife of Mr. Wil-
liam B. Kent, an attorney in Alamo, Ga.
She writes: "We have one son, Billie, Jr.,
who was sixteen years old this month. I
shall give him to an Agnes Scott girl some
day. He is nearly six feet tall and hopes
to follow in his father's footsteps and be
a great athlete at the University of Geor-
gia. I love Agnes Seott devotedly and
want to keep up with her progress."

Adelaide (Cannon) Blair lives at the
Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.
Mr. Blair is U. S. Commissioner of In-
ternal Revenue. She has two children by
her first marriage J. B. Douglas, Jr., of
Washington, and Mrs. Allen Rushton, Bir-
mingham, Ala., and a nine-year-old son,
David Hunt Blair, Jr.

Blanche (Christian) Fagan, her hus-
band and son, Harold, live at 149 Laurel
Ave., Atlanta. Mr. Fagan is an auditor.

The Atlanta Constitution says of Emma
Belle (DuBose) Johnson's new home:
"The charming home of Mr. and Mrs.
Palmer Johnson, recognized as one of the
loveliest of Atlanta's many beautiful resi-
dences, is situated on winding Rivers road
in Peachtree Heights Park. It is con-
structed after the fashion of an Italian

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farmhouse, and is built on the side of a
hill, the various rooms following the levels
of the site, descending and ascending with
the nature of the slope. Many Italian
homes are built in this way, owing to the
fact that the hilly country made it im-
possible to level the land, and the John-
son dwelling is a reproduction of such old
buildings as dot the Italian countryside.
Visitors are enthusiastic in their admir-
ation of its lovely furnishings. Mr. John-
son, who for many years has been foreign
buyer for one of Atlanta's leading firms,
is considered an authority on furnishings,
and during his European travels has added
to the collection which makes his home so
unique in its charm."

To quote again from the Atlanta Consti-
tution: "Georgia's executive mansion was
opened on Tuesday evening, November 27,
at a brilliant social affair complimenting
Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, president of the na-
tional auxiliary to the American Legion.
Governor and Mrs. Hardman stood at the
head of the receiving line to greet the
numerous guests who called during the
evening." Mrs. Ficklen was Lucy Dillard
who once came up from Washington, Ga.,
to be a student at Agnes Scott. She has
won for herself a distinguished place in
the national life of today. American Legion
headquarters are in Indianapolis, and
Lucy is kept busy traveling over the coun-
try. On Jan. 29-31 she presided over the
fourth annual women's patriotic conference
on national defense, held in Memorial
Continental Hall in Washington, D. C. This
conference was composed of representa-
tives from thirty-three national women's
patriotic societies, and over five hundred
women attended.

Nell (Goodwin) Parrish's husband is in
the stocks and real estate business in
Greenville, S. C. They have two daugh-
ters Lily, eighteen, and Mary, nine.

Alma (Greene) Carleton is a widow with
one small daughter, Katharine, aged three.
They still live in Tallapoosa, Ga. Alma
studied at a number of other schools and
colleges after leaving Agnes Scott. She
was graduated from the Georgia State
Normal in 1908, from the University Hos-
pital in Augusta in 1922, and has done
additional work at Columbia University
in New York.

Charlotte (Gunby) Rule's husband is
cashier of the East Tennessee National
Bank in Knoxville. They have three chil-
dren William Rule III, aged seventeen;
F. Gunby, fifteen, and Barbara, ten.

Vera Hightower is Mrs. Luscome Simp-
son, Jamaica, N. Y. She has a beautiful
little thirteen-year-old daughter.

Mary (Jarnigan) Rodman's present ad-
dress is Pennsylvania and 13th St., Oak-
mont, Pa.

Belle (Jones) Horton will always be
known at Agnes Scott as the alumna who
had a year-old son in the Alumnae Baby
Show and a daughter in the graduating
class the same commencement. "I have
them all sizes, ages and dispositions^"
Bell writes from the Horton plantation at
Aliceville, Ala. "Sallie, who was grad-
uated from Agnes Scott in '25 and who
is teaching now in Birmingham; Alice,
graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music and our housekeeper at present;
Charles, a student at the University of
Alabama; Amos, in the military academy
at Greensboro, Ala.; Isabel in High School,
Catherine in Junior High; Clifford in gram-
mar school, and Thomas, who is four and
at home with me still."

Maggie Mable is teaching and doing gov-
ernment work in Cedartown, Ga.

Marjorie (Menefee) Drought has be-
come intensely interested in antiques
both as a collector and a dealer. At pres-
ent she is visiting in Shenandoah County,
Virginia, where countless old Virginia
homes shelter valuable heirlooms.

Another travelor and collector is Nellie
(Pendleton) Armstrong's husband. Nellie
and her eight-year-old son live in Decatur,
Georgia.

Ruth (Prescott) Whitsitt's husband is
president of the Carolina Company (steam-
ship agents), and president and manager
of the Charleston Literage and Transfer
Company. Ruth, her husband and only
son live in beautiful old Charleston.

From East Orange, N. J., comes a note
from Annie Marsh Ragsdale. She lives at
31 N. Arlington Ave., and is doing book-
keeping in her brother's office.

Ida (Sherwood) Bettis lives in Morris-
town, Tenn. She has two sons, Edward
and Charles, both almost grown.

Anna Skinner's mother and father, with
whom she lives in Charleston, S. C, have
both been very ill this winter, but she
has been able to continue her work as
caterer.

Henrietta (Smith) Bradley's husband is
district manager for the Atlanta Georgian.
She has three step-children: Louise, in
junior high; M. L., five, and Dot, three.

Mary (Stribling) Dendy has a daughter
who is a senior at Flora Macdonald Col-
lege, and a son, Jack, at the Presbyterian
College in Clinton, S. C. Jack spent the
summer working in the wheat fields of the
west and sight-seeing in Yellowstone Park,
etc.

Janie (Strickler) Denny's husband is the
president of the University of Alabama.
They have three children Frances, a
teacher, George, studying at the Universi-
ty, and Margaret, in junior high.

Lallie Tipton is Mrs. J. Franklin Rogers,
of 807 Packwood Ave., Tampa, Fla. They

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have two children Lallie, aged two, and
Betty, born last May. Mr. Rogers is an
accountant.

Myra (Trawick) Barganier is a widow,
teaching this year at Greenville, Ala. She
has no children.

Mary Loretta Virgin is teaching in Nor-
man, Okla. Her address is 230 W. Gray
Street.

Lois (Wilson) Perry has two girls and
one son. Her husband is a farmer with a
home at Lawrenceville, Ga.

Virginia Woolley's address is Box 663,
Laguna Beach, Calif.

Amelia Worthington was married in 1920
to Mr. Brenton K. Fisk, counsel for the
United Drug Company of Boston. Their
children are Charles, aged four, and Amelia
Josephine, born May, 1928. The Fisks live
at 82 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass.

1906

Next class reunion, 1930.

On January 9 Miss Florence Snow,
alumnae secretary of Smith College, spoke
to a group of college and university alumni
and alumnae from Atlanta at the Anna
Young Alumnae House. As an alumna of
both Agnes Scott and Smith, Alice Cum-
mings Green was the moving spirit be-
hind the meeting and was largely re-
sponsible for getting in touch with the
numerous group of alumni represented.
1907

Next class reunion, 1930.

Sarah (Boals) Spinks writes: "I have
just read the November Quarterly and find
it intensely interesting even the items
about people I never heard of before! How
I should like to be within week-end dis-
tance of the Alumnae House, as so many
girls seem to be! Those happy days there
at commencement last May are still green
in my memory. I have heard of how glor-
iously the campus campaign went over the
top and I hope the alumnae can do as well."

The engagement has been announced of
Lenore Gardner, '29, to Gilbert Field, of
Atlanta. Lenore is the step-daughter of
Rachel (Young) Gardner. Mr. Field is the
son of Dean Floyd Field, of Georgia Tech.

Hattie Lee (West) Candler and her hus-
band have returned to Atlanta after sev-
eral weeks in Europe. Mr. Candler has
been ill all fall, and it was hoped that the
vacation and rest would benefit him.
1908

Next class reunion, 1930.
1909

Next class reunion, 1930.

Margaret McCallie and Miss Bright, of
the Bright School in Chattanooga where
Margaret teaches, were at Agnes Scott for

a short while during Christmas. They were
on the trail of some early American furni-
ture and stopped in Decatur long enough
to call on Miss McKinney and Dr. Sweet.
Margaret will go back to Europe this sum-
mer.

1910

Next class reunion, 1931.

Eloise (Oliver) Ellis' husband is a law-
yer in Atlanta. They have three children:
Frampton, Jr., John Oliver, and Eloise
Oliver.

Margaret Sienknecht is Mrs. Charles A.
Lutz, 553 Wellington Ave., Chicago.

Dorothea (Snodgrass) Townsend is liv-
ing in Porto Rico now. Will some one send
her full address to the alumnae office?
1911

Next class reunion, 1931.

Adelaide Cunningham has an interest-
ing article in another part of this Quar-
terly describing her visit to the English
Parliament last summer.

Gladys (Lee) Kelly lost her mother dur-
ing last October. Gladys has sent a charm-
ing picture of herself and husband, her
home, and her three little girls: Dorothy
Lee (aged eleven), Martha (eight), and
Caroline (four). She writes: "I enjoyed a
short visit recently to Bessie (Powell)
Stubbs in Atlanta."

Marie Parry was married on July 14,
1928, to Mr. Edwin Howell Blanchard, edi-
torial writer on the New York "Sun." They
are living at 121 30th St., Jackson Hts.,
Long Island, New York.

Rebe (Standifer) Strickland, her army
captain husband, and small son, Harold,
spent the Christmas holidays at her former
home in Blakely, Ga. Bess (Standifer)
Gammon, ex '13, and her husband and son
were in Blakely also.

1912

Next class reunion, 1931.

Annie Chapin McLane writes from
Pensacola, Fla.: "You should see what a
hardworking woman I am this winter as
secretary at high school. I'm enjoying the
work a lot and find I have about as much
time as when I was doing Social Service,
Red Cross, etc. Also there is a pay check
every month, a consideration not to be
sneezed at!"

Carol (Steams) Wey was unanimously
elected head of the Home for the Friend-
less in Atlanta at the board meeting in
January. This is one of Atlanta's great
charitable institutions which at present
is erecting an entirely new plant to house
its many boys and girls. Carol's election
to the presidency carried great responsi-
bility and great honor with it.

Jess (Williams) Irvine is buyer for

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Irvine's Jewelry store in LaCrosse, Wis.
Her children are Williams Westbrook,
fifteen, and George Gurney Irvine, Jr.,
aged eleven.

1913

Next class reunion, 1931.

Lina (Andrews) Rauschenberg has been
in Nashville to attend a conference of
Methodist Sunday School workers.

Agnes (Kendrick) Jarvis lives in Har-
riman, Tenn., where her husband is super-
intendent of schools. She has seven step-
children.

Sarah (Skinner) Starr's daughter,
Lillian, is a senior at North Avenue
Presbyterian School in Atlanta. She is a
member of the school dramatic club, and
takes leads in their productions.

Sara Williams is a social worker in
Fayetteville, N. C.

1914

Next class reunion, 1932.

Bertha Adams writes: "In October I lost
the aunt who reared me, and with whom I
have always made my home. She took the
place of a mother, and I feel her loss
keenly."

From Savannah comes this note from
Ruth (Blue) Barnes: "We have another
son, William Albright, born May 9, 1928.
My family now consists of three sons, and
hopes of sending a daughter to Agnes
Scott have vanished."

Charlotte (Jackson) Mitchell writes:
"We have moved in September back to
Tuscumbia, Ala., where Colonel Mitchell is
now practicing law. Incidentally it is my
old home, so, of course, I am delighted
to be back among the many friends. We
have quite a few A. S. C. girls in the
tri-cities, and when Dr. McCain came to
Tuscumbia to the meeting of the Synod of
Alabama last fall we had a very delightful
little get-together and heard all about the
plans for greater Agnes Scott."

Marguerite (Wells) Bishop writes of her
dissapointment in not getting to the New
York meeting of alumnae in October when
Dr. McCain was there, "but my husband
was out of town and I couldn't leave my
two youngsters. They are very young
youngsters, you see."

1915

Next class reunion, 1932.

Martha (Brenner) Shryock writes: "We
didn't get south for Christmas as we had
hoped, but expect to come as soon as the
flu epidemic gets better. We shall go to
Pensacola for a week to visit Chapin Mc-
Lane and then on to Augusta. If I can
manage it, I shall come by the Alumnae
House and bring my husband along if only

to glimpse things on that dear campus."

Lucy Naive was married on December
eighth to Mr. Charles Stanley Swain in
Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jean (Ashcraft) Huske's husband is in
the insurance business in Fayetteville, N.
C. They have one daughter, aged three.

Margaret (Houser) Woodruff's husband
is the physician in charge of the home for
the feeble-minded children of Alabama.

Virginia (Lee) McRae has two little
girls, aged four and five. Mr. McRae is a
banker and farmer at Rockingham, N. C.

Hattie Earle Montgomery is instructor
in history at the Phillips High School in
Birmingham. Since leaving Agnes Scott
she has studied at Columbia University,
the University of Virginia, and Birming-
ham Southern College.

Zoe (Norris) Rodman is the wife of a
farmer at Hoopeston, 111.

'15's class news seems to be more about
the husbands than about the girls them-
selves! But here is an item "that isn't
about my husband, for I haven't got one,"
writes Isabel Norwood. "Take me out of
the lost column, for I have a perfectly good
address. This is it: 257 W. 86th St., care
Dixon, New York City." Isabel is a pro-
fessional singer.

Almedia (Sadler) Duncan has moved to
Hampton, Va. Her husband is a captain in
the air service, stationed at Langley Field.

Mary (Slade) Pope is another captain's
wife. Her husband is with the 27th In-
fantry, on National Guard duty at present,
stationed at Carbondale, 111. The Popes
have two children: a boy seven and a
girl five.

1916

Next class reunion, 1932.

1916 has two new babies! "The arrival
of Nell Frye on May 7th, 1928, was a big
event for us," writes Nell (Frye) Johnston.
"We add her with great joy to her three
brothers. She has brown eyes and red
hair. We plan to make her a valuable ad-
dition to the class of 1946 at Agnes Scott."
The other new baby is Thomas Glenn
Roberts, born December 11th at Rock
Hill, S. C, to Ora (Glen) Roberts. Ora
writes: "After seven years of waiting I
now know the joy of having a son of my
own! He came on his father's birthday
and just two weeks before Christmas, so
we had a real celebration this holiday sea-
son. Before returning to Brazil we expect
to spend a few months in Porto Rico.
Early in April, however, we hope to be
back at home in Lavras."

Evelyn (Goode) Brock's new address is
21 Rockledge Rd., Newton Highlands,
Mass.

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Maryellen (Harvey) Newton writes:
"Wish I could show off my new daughter,
Martha Reese, at Agnes Scott. She is very
much of a Hottentot already. You know the
Martha of her name comes from her aunt
Mattie (Newton) Traylor, and she was bom
on her cousin Jan Newton's birthday. I
plan that both my daughters will be at
A. S. C. in 1945 and that Adele Pope
Dieckmann will be Martha Reese's room-
mate ... Of course I eagerly devoured
the November Quarterly; stopped my cake
baking on Saturday morning to read it
from cover to cover."

From Des Plaines, 111., comes a nice let-
ter from Charis (Hood) Barwick: "Prob-
ably you will be interested to hear about
a little Agnes Scott reunion here last night.
I invited Martha (Brenner) Shryock and
her husband and Rebecca (Green) Hinds
and her husband to dinner, and a jolly time
we three college sisters had talking over
old times . . . We have laid the corner-
stone for our new church and parish house
and as the minister's wife, of course I am
intensely interested in the progress of the
building."

Leila (Johnson) Moore's fruitcake and
candy have acquired such a reputation
throughout Atlanta that all her spare mo-
ments in December were occupied with
measuring and stirring and baking. The
number of pounds of sugar which she made
into Christmas candies sounds so fabulous
and we won't even quote it.

Lula Hester McMurray is working with
the Southern Bell Telephone Company in
Atlanta.

Mai"garet Phythian writes from Paris:
"I am having the novel experience of find-
ing out how the far away sisters feel when
the Alumnae Quarterly arrives. I've always
been right there on the campus before, and
too near really to appreciate it, but I can
tell you it gives a thrill at this distance.
I am intensely interested in the campaign
plans. If only I could give some rummage
sales over here! Those rummage sales for
the colored sistren in Decatur were my
strong points! ... I am finally settled
in my plans for the winter and am hard
at work at the Sorbonne. I had planned
to work at the University of Grenoble and
went down there about ten days ago in
order to get settled before work began on
November 5th. I spent several days in a
vain search for a comfortable room. Gren-
oble is beautifully located, but it is very
old and there are very few apartments
which have steam heat. In most cases my
question called forth an expression of pain-
ed surprise, behind which I could clearly
read disdain for the luxury-loving Ameri-
can. I finally chose a room in a private
home and spent almost one whole night
there! I was up at 4 A. M. consulting the

train schedule, and before noon was packed
and on my way back to Paris. I got back
in time to register early at the Sorbonne,
and am only number 2080, so I'll certainly
get a front seat. I stood in line exactly
three and a half hours to get registered!
. . . Tomorrow is armistice day. The Arc
de Triomphe and all the buildings and
statues about the Place de la Concorde are
to be beautifully illuminated from 6 P. M.
till midnight. There is a big parade before
dark, and a ceremony under the Arc."

Anna (Sykes) Bryars lives in the native
section of Shanghai. Her mother is with
her. Anna's little daughter who was born
there last year is a beautiful child, say
other Agnes Scott alumnae in Shanghai
who have seen her.

As vice president of the Womans Auxil-
iary of the First Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta, Clara (Whips) Dunn was a splen-
did and efficient worker in their drive for
funds during November.

Louisa Faucette is studying at Dr.
White's Bible School in New York City.

Aileen (Fisher) Freels' husband is the
owner of Freels Drug Store in Morris-
town, Tenn. She has three girls Char-
lotte, Mary Nelson, and Julia.

Ruth (Waddell) Cantrell lives in
Smyrna, Ga., where her husband is an elec-
trician. They have two children Cather-
ine Louise, eight, and Lucy Harrold, five.
1917

Next class reunion, 1932.

Four new addresses seem to constitute
the whole of '17's news for this issue.
Martha Dennison is living at 155 3rd St.,
N. E., Atlanta.

Georgiana (White) Miller has moved to
1216 N. Dixie Ave., Orlando, Fla.

Annie Louise Barker is Mrs. Rosson
Morrow, Birch Lynn, Wheeling, W. Va.
Her husband is a tobacconist.

Florence (Ellis) Henderson has moved
from Charleston to 3608 Rosedale Rd.,
Ashburton, Baltimore, Md.
1918

Next class reunion, 1933.

Hallie (Alexander) Turner is the presi-
dent of the recently organized Columbus,
Ga., Agnes Scott Alumnae Club.

Lois Grier is teaching mathematics again
in the Statesville, N. C, High School.

Helen (Hood) Coleman's new address is
704 Sunset Ave., Dallas, Tex. She has two
children: Jessie Joy, five, and Robert
Emerson, who will be one in April. Mr.
Coleman is a broker.

Samille (Lowe) Skeen and her electrical
engineer husband do move! The new ad-
dress given in the November Quarterly is
the old address now. They may be found
(until the April Quarterly) at 724 Custer
St., Brush, Colo.

Evamaie (Willingham) Park is doing

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substituting teaching in the Atlanta
schools.

1919

Next class reunion, 1933.

For about two years we have called up
and down over the width and breadth of
the land in the blackest of capitals and the
most emaciated italics, "Can ANYbody
furnish Blanche (Copeland) Gifford's ad-
dress?" Issue after issue we published
this plea, and sent private search cards out
too: No results! Then one day in Novem-
ber while looking up a G in the Atlanta
phone book, we find a phone listed for
"Mrs. H. H. Gifford, 2814 Peachtree Road,"
within "hollerin' distance" of the Alumnae
House, almost!

Lulu (Smith) Westcott continues to be
an energetic and news-getting secretary.
She sends in the following: "Lois Eve has
been doing a lot of interesting things, so I
wrote and finally persuaded her to 'tell
the story of her life.' Here it is: 'For
eight long weary years I've been teaching
at Tubman High School here in Augusta.
It's been many subjects, but I usually
teach general science in its concentrated
essence. I'm not wedded to the job, but
'tis most convenient in the summer days,
for I'm infected with wanderlust, and a
three months vacation is wonderful. I've
forgotten what I did in '19, '20 and '21, ex-
cept indulge in a few houseparties. The
summer of '22 was spent in New York,
'23 in Europe, '25 in California. I worked
for professional credit at the University
of Georgia and ended at Beaufort and
Paris Island for a rest in '26. The sum-
mer of '27 Elizabeth Henry, '24, and I
cruised around the Mediterranean and up
to Norway and Sweden. The summer of
'28 found me back in New York at-
tempting to take a serious view of the
work I hope to see bloom into an MA. in
English. The winters are spent doing
various stunts, such as helping direct the
Tubman Dramatic Club, putting on a Little
Theatre play, helping publish 'Public
School News.' I really like bridge, swim-
ming, eating, dancing, and driving Lizzie
Eve.' "

Mary Dwight (Ford) Kennerly an-
nounced the birth on December 27th of a
new daughter. Her other child, Mary
Jeanne, is now three years old.

Bess (Ham) Harmon and her professor
husband are settled in Yazoo City, Miss.,
for the winter.

Mary Katherine Parks started out Janu-
ary 1st on her new job, traveling for Camp
Nakanawa, located at Mayland, Tenn.

Dorothy (Thigpen) Shea is in Mont-
gomery, Ala., for a few months to recuper-
ate from pneumonia.

Llewellyn Wilburn spent the Christmas
holidays visiting in Nashville and playing

golf. Llewellyn has introduced many new
stunts into the gym department at Agnes
Scott; archery and tumbling classes are
her latest.

Helen Ewing has been teaching in Bir-
mingham at the Lulie Compton Seminary
for several years, but she is at home in
Lewisbux-g, Tenn., this winter.

Annie Lee (Gray) Lindgren was visiting
her sister in Atlanta during November and
was one of the alumnae who was a guest
at the Anna Young birthday tea in the
Alumnae House.

Rosa Haynes is living at 103 S. Mt.
Vernon, Prescott, Ariz.

Dorothy (Mitchell) Ellis writes from
New York: "I wish I had a good snapshot
of my three months old son to send for the
scrapbook, but we have not had a bit of
luck in taking pictui-es of him. ... I
wanted to go to Poughkeepsie for the
Vassar-Agnes Scott debate and lend my
voice in cheering our victorious team, but
my son had not attempted that long a
trip yet, and he would not have been
very happy if I went off and left him."

After leaving Agnes Scott, Tilla (Plow-
den) Parkins studied at the University
of Georgia, and at Union College in Ne-
braska. She has one child, Jean Chase
Parkins, aged two. Tilla's husband is an
engineer with the Ford Motor Company
in Shellman, Ga.

Rosalie (Scharff) Simon is living in
Montgomery, Ala. Her husband is travel-
ing salesman for the Whitney National
Bank of New Orleans.

Clema (Wootten) Talley's clear soprano
voice was one of the loveliest features of
the alumnae vesper service held in the
college chapel in November. Clema is
studying with Mrs. Eunice Curry Prescott,
of Atlanta, who will be remembered by
many A. S. C. alumnae as voice teacher at
the college before her marriage in 1923.
1920

Next class reunion, 1933.

"No news is good news" sometimes may be
true.

Much news is good news when it comes
from you.

A Thanksgiving tale a Christmas greet-
ing bright,

And Happy New Year fill this card up
right.

Add personal news, and then send it back,

By December 8th, to Secretary Crip Slack.

Secretary Crip's double postal with its
fetching verse brought in a nice crop of
replies, quoted below. Those of you who
didn't return yours, can do so now and
we'll hear from you in the April Quarterly.

Margaret Bland says: "There is little
news to write about myself. I am saving

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money and studying German with the
hope that I can do more graduate work
next year. My little play 'Pink and
Patches' is just off the press (Samuel
French Company), and the play 'Lighted
Candles' is in the new volume of Carolina
Folk Plays that Henry Holt is publishing
this fall. But news of other folks' plays
like other folks' babies is generally boring
to all except those especially concerned."
Since writing that card Margaret has had
still another play accepted for publication.

Mary (Burnett) Thorington has a third
daughter born during the Christmas holi-
days, and "probably named Helen."

"There is absolutely no news about me,"
says Alice Cooper. "I'm still writing ad-
vertising, and enjoying life about as usual.
But I enjoyed so much hearing about
everyone else in the last Quarterly. It
makes me want to do something odd or
exciting, just to give you some news to
write up! During the past six months
I've been interested in moving; our family
moved to another house and another part
of town, and that was absorbing for
awhile. For five months I worked just
half time, to have a little vacation, but now
am back in the office with the 8:30 to
5:30 schedule on again."

Romola Davis is very busy writing in-
surance in Clearwater, Fla.

Sarah (Davis) Murphy's husband is dis-
tributor for Ford motor cars in Jackson-
ville, Fla. Sarah has two children.

Juliet (Foster) Spear's card reads:
"Your noble efforts deserve more news
than they have henceforth produced from
me. My excuse for not answering the
first card was a sick husband. He was in
bed five weeks. Add to a sick husband a
sick child and a six months old baby
and your hands are certainly full. And by
the way, I don't think William Andrew
Speer's birth was announced in the Quar-
terly. His birthday is March 24."

Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson and Ger-
trude (Manly) McFax'land have sent some
adorable pictures of Marie and little Ger-
trude for the class scrapbook. Surely the
rest of you '20 mothers aren't going to
let them get ahead of you?

Lulie (Harris) Henderson writes: "My
visit to Agnes Scott last May was wonder-
ful. Never have enjoyed anything quite
as much. I had dreaded it in a way, be-
cause of the many changes that had taken
place. There was no need of that dread,
for so many friends were back too that
they took away any sad feeling I might
have had. . . . My oldest child started
to school in the fall. She is delighted with
it, and already talks of going to college.
If I have my way, of course that college
will be dear old Agnes Scott."

"Tip" (Holtzclaw) Blanks and her hus-
band spent Christmas in Cochran, Ga.

Louise (Johnson) Blalock says that her
nine months old baby keeps her so busy
that she has no time even to write postal
cards.

Emilie Keyes is still fascinated with her
job as reporter with the Palm Beach Post.
She writes: "The last request for news for
the Quarterly hit me just at the time the
storm did, and for two solid weeks I did
nothing but 'cover' the storm and try to
repair damages. The hurricane is too
ancient history for it to be interesting now,
but I could write a volume on it. I came
through wonderfully well personally. I
don't know if anyone would have recog-
nized me on Monday, September 17, clad
in a bathing suit, alternately typewriting
furiously and stirring the soup on my pet
oil stove which I had moved up to the edi-
torial offices, and on which I ran a can-
teen for reporters. But Floi'ida has al-
ready come back, and I wish more of you
could enjoy this gorgeous weather with
me."

Elizabeth Lovett's new address is 969 St.
Charles Ave., N. E., Atlanta.

Marian (McCamy) Sims writes: "I can't
imagine anything exciting happening to
me, but my Scotch ancestry won't let me
ignore a stamped postcard, so here is a
line from me just to fill it up."

A new son, born January 14 to Lois
(Maclntyre) Beall, has been named Dan
Maclntyre Beall.

Virginia McLaughlin says that Mc in
her name means she is Scotch too. She
writes: "Was so glad to hear from you,
Crip, in characteristic style. Will you go
on whooping-her-up until the end of time?
Good! In my case no news is good news
more or less. I'm still in the library sys-
tem here and like it. I'd surely like to
see some of the class. If any of them
come through Washington, my address is
1622 29th St., N. W., and my phone is
North 1270."

"School teachers are almost too busy
writing 'merit, pass, fail' to have time to
write postcards," says Elizabeth Marsh.
"I have been working with tests for school
report time and preparing to spend the
week-end in Chattanooga with Sarah Stan-
sell, '21. This summer I was director of
chorus music at the Balsam Mountain Fine
Arts Colony at Balsam, N. C, of which
Mis. W. M. Hutchinson is head. You know
I had a good time when I tell you that
Mrs. Askew and Betty, '24, were also di-
rectors there. We had lovely horseback
rides along those North Carolina trails!
I also visited my aunt in Asheville, and
now I am at home and in my same old
place at North Avenue Presbyterian
School, which to my way of thinking is

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the best prep school in the world for the
best college in the world A. S. C."

Laura Stockton (Molloy) Dowling says:
"No news from me either. Sorry to be
late writing, but my young son has been
such a handful until quite recently that I
have been even more absent-minded than
usual."

Margery (Moore) McAulay writes:
"This is one occasion when I have plenty
of time. I had to keep up with Gertrude
Manly and had an operation. While I'm
convalescing I'm catching up with my cor-
respondence. I've the time, but nothing to
write! Only that from now on I can
preface every remark on any subject at
all with 'now, when I had my oper-
ation!' "

Margaret (Sanders) Brannon has moved
to San Marcos, Texas. She writes: "We
came down here last May when Bruce
finished his course in the Seminary in
Austin. We like the town, the people, the
new manse they built for us, and the
fact that it is a college town. Just wish
it were closer to Agnes Scott when com-
mencement and reunions roll 'round! My
one and only son, Bobby by name, is twen-
ty months old now and I'll sure match him
against any other Agnes Scott 'grandson'
his age."

Margaret (Shive) Bellingrath voices the
sentiment of us all when she says: "It
does seem that the rest of us could do our
part towairls contributing news for the
Quarterly, when the secretary is so faith-
ful! . . . But I haven't a thing exciting
to tell. We moved from Flushing, Long
Island, last may came away with a big
rake-off. The church there was so re-
lieved to see us go that they gave us
everything but their heads: a portable
typewriter, a white gold watch and chain
to George, while gold wrist watch to me,
and a bank account to the baby. And
they gave us a Ford car to drive to Geor-
gia! Talk about Yankees not being grand
folks! . . . We are living in my old home
place on Sycamore Street in Decatur. I
have a cute little toddler named Jean who
is impish and who takes up all my time."

A letter from Crip herself dated Decem-
ber 14 says: "At present I am turning
around at a rapid rate of speed in order to
spend Christmas in Decatur with the little
Slacks, have a day in Mobile, two in New
Orleans, and then take a sixteen-day
cruise on a United Fruit Company Ship.
What could sound better than New Year's
eve and the two following days in Cuba,
four or five in Panama, one in Central
America, and then back again? I am all
for a vacation in the winter time! . . .
I was ever so thrilled over the news in
the last Quarterly, especially the Junior
year abroad plan. I am simply convinced

that I was born about fifteen years too
soon, as I seem to be missing so many
added attractions at Agnes Scott."

A bit about Margaret Winslett appears
in a letter (quoted more fully in the '21
class news) from Frances Charlotte
(Markley) Roberts, '21: "Margaret had
dinner with us when she was in Shanghai
this summer; now she has gone inland to
her missionary station. I read an inter-
esting account of her trip there on boat
and wheel-barrow and on foot. Those who
have gone to such remote spots in these
troublous days are certainly full of high
courage."

There are several new addresses and
other news items from '20's non-gradaute
members:

Formerly lost, Nell Gene Caldwell has
been found at 309 N. Hull St., Montgom-
ery, Ala.

Alice Slater (Cannon) Guille's new ad-
dress is 425 N. Fisher St., Salisbury, N. C.

Mrs. Rubye Rothwell Carroll is the wife
of Roosevelt Walker, one of the most popu-
lar young professors at the University of
Georgia.

Julia Cohen is Mrs. Ralph Wolfe, 372
Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Her hus-
band is a physician.

Elise Hay Currell teaches music in Co-
lumbia, S. C.

Marguerite (Davis) Velte is home from
the Punjab for a visit with her family at
Princeton, N. J. She plans to remain in
America until next August.

Lillian (Jenkins) Middleton has moved
to the Okhart Arms, Okhart, 111. Her hus-
band is a lawyer.

Mary (Jones) Ryley has moved to Lark-
spur, Colo.

Victoria Miller is helping her sister
manage The Irene Hat Shop in Decatur.

Frances Sibyl (Nunnellee) Wells lives at
1225 S. Court St., Montgomery, Ala. Her
husband is teaching in the city schools.
They have one son seven years old.

Mildred Louise (Steele) Anderson's hus-
band has a men's clothing store in Hunts-
ville, Ala. Their two sons are Harvey
Gordon, Jr., nine, and Jack Wilfred, four.

Velma Louise (Walker) Hale's new ad-
dress is 303 N. 13th St., Ballinger, Tex.

Chloie Walling was married in the fall
to Mr. John O'Neal, a traveling man with
headquarters in Huntsville, Ala.

Martha (Webb) Shepard's husband is a
lawyer in Mobile, Ala. They have two
children Mary, ten, and Tazewell, eight.

Hortense Zacharias teaches Latin in the
Columbus, Ga., high school.
1921

Next class reunion, this May!

Dot (Allen) Tucker's baby, Mary Allen
Tucker, was born on November 1. She
has blue eyes, and red hair, of course!

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Class reunion in May.

Peg (Bell) Hanna writes from Virginia:
"Please don't let the next Quarterly come
out without announcing my daughter,
Elizabeth (Betty) Massie Hanna, born De-
cember 1."

Class reunion in May.

Myrtle Blackmon is librarian at the Co-
lumbus, Ga., High School.

Class reunion in May.

Eleanor Carpenter, harpist, was one of
the chief entertainers at the reception
given by the Democratic ladies of Louis-
ville, Ky., to Mrs. Alfred Smith during
October.

Class reunion in May.

Lois (Compton) Jennings was called
home to Atlanta in December by the death
of her mother.

Class reunion in May.

Mary Robb (Finney) Bass has two chil-
dren: a three-year-old daughter and a
son, one. Her husband is a railroad chem-
ist in Ensley, Ala.

Class reunion in May.

Louise Fluker is not teaching this win-
ter, but is spending her time at home
and visiting in Atlanta.

Class reunion in May.

Sarah Fulton is teaching again at the
Girls High School in Atlanta. She lives
at home.

Class reunion in May.

Helen (Hall) Hopkins writes from San
Francisco: "In spite of my fondness for
Georgia and Decatur, when my husband
was suddenly transferred out here in De-
cember, I felt I'd better come along too.
I get furious every time I think of how
many extended visits I was planning to
make to the Alumnae House and to all the
plays and other Agnes Scott events which
I had to miss during my school teaching
spinsterhood days! ... I am looking
forward to the next Quarterly. I read the
last one between cactuses, so to speak, as
we came across the desert. If any alumnae
wander out this way I wish they would
look me up. I'd love to have them out
at my apartment, or go rambling in
Chinatown with them." Helen's address is
180 Mallorca Way, Apt. 201.

Class reunion in May.

Mariwil (Hanes) Hulsey's address is
21 S. 10th St., Griffin, Ga. Her husband
is executive secretary of one of Griffin's
big cotton mills.

Class reunion in May.

Sarah Harrison and Amy Twitty are
teaching in Miami, Fla., again this winter.
Sarah's address is 1236 S. W. 7th St., and
Twitty lives at B-ll, Granada Apartments.

Class reunion in May.

Anne (Hart) Equen has had Lula Groves
(Campbell) Ivy, ex '22, as her visitor early
in December. Anne works at the Junior

League Tea Room occasionally, and keeps
busy with league work and with her two
children, Anne and Carol.

Class reunion in May.

Peg (Hedrick) Nichols and her husband
drove down from Virginia to Atlanta for
the Tech-Vanderbilt game in October and
Peg came out to Agnes Scott for a few
minutes. She has two chlidren ages four
and two. Her husband is manager of the
Nickles Manufacturing Company.

Class reunion in May.

Emily (Hutter) Stewart is teaching
English in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Class reunion in May.

When candidate Al Smith visited Stone
Mountain in October, young Bill Evans
McCurdy, aged five, "did the honors."
Among other things he informed Al that
he had named his fox hound for him, and
that if Al could run as good a race as
that hound could, he would certainly be
elected. Bill is the son of Sarah (Mc-
Curdy) Evans.

Class reunion in May.

In a letter from Shanghai we leam that
Frances Charlotte (Markley) Roberts' son
has been named Harley McNair, for his
father's best friend, a professor at the
University of Chicago. His mother writes
that "he is a good baby who sleeps and
surveys the world alternately. Fortunately
in China it is possible to get a nurse to
help, or perhaps my mother's worst fears
would be realized! The amah keeps an
eye on him while I teach, when I play
my daily round of golf, and when I go
out. Now he is so young that he only
wants to eat and sleep and be amused a
little in the late afternoon. I think he
would be content without this amusement,
but I understand that babies need some
daily conversation in order to be intelli-
gent! Since he was a month old he has
moved around the bed with much agility,
frightening me into fits by poking his head
through the bars. ... I have become in-
tensely interested in far eastern questions,
have done a fair amount of study in the
School of Chinese Studies, and I've kepi
up my reading. The language difficulty is
so great that it is going to be almost im-
possible for any westerners to approach
China in that way. Even those who have
spent most of their lives here still do
their work, in most cases, with the aid
of a Chinese teacher. I find that with my
other work I do not get much language
study. I am teaching six hours a week in
the University in the history department.
I have two sections in European history
from the French revolution, with more
than sixty students. I am making a
syllabus, so if I teach next year I'll be
able to d.i it with less work in preparation
for the students. We are trying to keep

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in very close touch with our student body,
which is smaller this year than formerly,
due to the strict entrance requirements
(academic, but chiefly non-academic) by
which we have tried to eliminate all who
might prove disturbing. The students in
other schools have tried to break us up,
too. For academic excitement, China is
the place to come. . . . One of Donald's
students comes to me to borrow my baby
books, which he takes home and reads to
him wife. He seems to be grieved that
he cannot convert his parents to the "scien-
tific" methods of child-rearing. He told
Donald he feared his wife was a "weak
chai'acter" because she gave in to her
mother-in-law! Imagine a Chinese son
praising that most un-daughter-in-law
quality non-obedience! Surely China is
changing. It is truly difficult to realize
the position of the Chinese student just
now there is so little opportunity for him
after he is educated. A country in the
midst of civil war is not kind to its young
people."

Class reunion in May.

Theressa Newton is at home this win-
ter, working with her father on the
"Madisonian." She is in charge of the
society column.

Class reunion in May.

Lina Parry writes: "I am tremendously
interested in my stamp collection right
now. It has been about five years since I
took this for a hobby, and now I have
about fifteen hundred stamps and three
albums. . . . Lillian (Johnson) Ramsey,
ex '16, works in the same office that I
do. I also see Alice Cooper, '20, occasion-
ally, and Edna ('24) and Hester ('16) Mc-
Murray. Hester has lunch with Lillian
and me quite often."

Class reunion in May.

Janef Preston spent the Christmas holi-
days at Agnes Scott completing her
master's thesis. She moved from Boyd
cottage, her regular habitat, over to Main
Building and set up the thesis-writing
machinery. She slept in one room, ate in
another, wrote in another, re-wrote in an-
other, corrected in another, typed in still
another in fact there was scarcely a room
on second floor Main in which Author
Janef did not strew manuscript. "For once
in my life," says Janef, "I had enough
room in which to spread out things, but it
certainly took in practically the whole
building!"

Class reunion in May.

Martha Stansfield spent the Christmas
holidays in Tampa, Fla., with her parents.
Martha is teaching Latin at Agnes Scott
this year, and chaperoning Sturgiss cot-
tage.

Class reunion in May.

Marguerite (Watkins) Goodman's hus-

band is a bank teller in Jackson ,Miss.
Their daughter, aged two, is named Julia
Watkins Goodman.

Class reunion in May.

Helen Wayt enjoyed her planned two
weeks visit in New York in the fall so
much that she stretched them out into
practically as many months, and visited
in Richmond and with Jule (Hagood)
Cuthbertson in Charlotte on the way home.
She saw Louise Payne and her attractive
shop, "The Green Gate"; Jeannette
(Archer) Neal; Ruth (dwell) Choate
and baby; "and others."

Class reunion in May.

Frances (Whitfield) Elliott has moved
to 1521 Astor St., Norristown, Pa.

Class reunion in May.

Ellen Wilson is teaching in a Training
School for Christian Workers in Philadel-
phia. Her address is 1122 Spruce Street.

Class reunion in May.

Margaret Anderson is a post office clerk
at Bristol, Tenn.

Class reunion in May.

Elise (Bohannon) Maier lives at 2217
Alta Ave., Louisville, Ky. Her husband
is in the real estate business. They have
two children Julia Anne, three and a half,
and George, aged one. Julia Anne was
badly burned in an accident this past sum-
mer and has been very ill during the
fall.

Class reunion in May.

Ethel (Bookhammer) Mason's new ad-
dress is 6 Walnut PL, Great Neck, Long
Island, N. Y.

Class reunion in May.

Dorothy Breese lives at 40 E. Coloveros
St., Altadena, Calif.

Class reunion in May.

Augusta Benning Crawford was recently
married to Mr. H. P. Burgard, II. Their
address is 714 Auburn Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

Class reunion in May.

Louise (Jones) McGibbert is living at
Fort Sill, Okla.

Class reunion in May.

Martha Mcintosh (Brantley) Ball's hus-
band is in the hardware business at
Thomasville, Ga. They have a three-year
old daughter.

Class reunion in May.

Isabel Pope is assistant manager of the
Commercial Transportation Company in
Mobile, Ala.

Class reunion in May.

Olive Berry (Pringle) Brown has moved
to Montezuma, Ga. She has one child
Bobby, Jr., aged two.

Class reunion in May.

Margaret Roach was married on Oc-
tober 23 to Mr. Kennedy Allen, of Tunica,
Miss. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Georgia
Tech.

Class reunion in May.

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Katherine (Still) Kirk's husband is a
surgeon in Tupelo, Miss. They have one
son, Robert Dixon Kirk, III, born October
24, 1928.

Class reunion in May.

Julia (Tomlinson) Ingram lives at Apt.
101, 2726 Girard St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Her husband sells securities. They have
no children.

Class reunion in May.

Evelyn Wade, who will alwyas be re-
membered as the member of '21 who ran
away from college during her freshman
year to marry Bob Harwood, is living in
Trenton, Tenn. She and Bob have two
sons and one daughter.

Class reunion in May.

Eliza Bennett (Young) Heavey graduat-
ed from Goucher College after leaving
Agnes Scott. She has one child Nancy,
aged two. Her husband sells life insurance
in Louisville, Ky.

1922

Next class reunion, this May!

Secretary S. K. T. Davis hasn't let Sec-
retary Crip Slack, '20, get ahead of her!
Her letters to her flock have brought in
the following replies:

Class reunion in May.

Mary Barton is still delighted with her
library work in Baltimore. She spent
half of her summer vacation in Florida
with Helen, the other half in Sewanee,
Tenn., and Thanksgiving holidays in New
York.

Class reunion in May.

Liz Brown writes: "I am here in Albany,
Ga., as executive secretary of the Dough-
erty County Welfare Society. Been here
two years. Spent month in New York
recently during which I saw fifteen shows
and every inch of New York city. Visited
Democratic headquarters (this was be-
fore the election) and was invited to a
reception at the Astor Hotel given to Mrs.
Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Joe Robinson, and
Governor Nellie T. Ross. Was a strong
supporter of Al Smith and can't under-
stand why the country will let religion
blind all other issues and defeat the best
equipped man we or the Republicans have
ever offered for the Presidency. That is
what defeated him. But that's over, and
we shall see what we shall see. ... I
keep busy here in Albany, but there is
no news much that '22 would be inter-
ested to read."

Class reunion in May.

Nell Buchanan writes: "Saw Mary
Catherine (McKinney) Barker in Bristol
not long ago. She was starting down into
Tennessee on a shopping trip with her
husband. Saw Harriet (Scott) Bowen also,
down there buying out the town. ... I
am in a wedding next week, which will
offer a bit of excitement." Nell spent

Thanksgiving in Washington with her
sister, and is planning the usual spring
and summer trips to Europe.

Class reunion in May.

Eunice (Dean) Major says she spends
much time "supervising the sandpile in my
front yard where from ten to fifteen little
children congregate every morning and
afternoon, my three being among the nois-
iest. This winter bids fair to become the
busiest I've spent yet. I am six months
behind with Hal's and the twins' sewing,
and apparently I shan't have a chance to
catch up before spring. My trio are a
veritable rag-bag! The task of keeping
three small children, the oldest three and
a half and the twins two this month, busily
occupied each in his own corner is no small
achievement."

Class reunion in May.

Otto (Gilbert) Williams writes that
Jessie (Watts) Rustin is on the eastern
shore of Maryland this year, and they ex-
pect to see each other often.

Class reunion in May.

Ivylyn Girardeau will complete her work
for an M. D. at Tulane University next
year. This year she is traveling in the
south as a saleswoman. Mail will be for-
warded to her from 1412 Grand Ave.,
Jackson, Miss. Ivylyn's trip to Panama
this summer is written up in another part
of the Quarterly.

Class reunion in May.

Flora Bryant celebrated her first birth-
day on November 26. "She is a darling,"
writes Mamma Ruth (Hall) Bryant. "I
do want to bring my two children to the
alumnae baby party next commencement."

Class reunion in May.

Frances Harper is still pursuing his-
torical knowledge in spite of having
achieved that M. A. last June. She has
added unto herself this fall a new type-
writer and a new Ford, and boasts that
she is an expert in running them both.

Class reunion in May.

The two Agnes Scott girls who attended
the N. S. F. A. conference in Columbia,
Mo., in December, came back telling of the
hospitality of our two alumnae there
Theodosia (Cobbs) Hogan, '14, and
Catherine Haugh, who is teaching at
Stephens College. Catherine had planned
a dinner party, but the college was closed
early on account of flu, and social en-
gagements had to be cancelled.

Class reunion in May.

Julia Jameson writes: "Just two days
before I was to leave for the University
of Colorado last summer, I was taken ill
and of course I didn't get to go. When
fall came I wasn't any too strong, so I am
loafing this winter at home. I hope to
, ome to our reunion in May."

Class reunion in May.

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Mary Knight has the loving sympathy of
Agnes Scott alumnae in the death of her
mother just before Christmas. Mrs.
Knight, who as Edith Nelson, was herself
an Agnes Scott alumna, had been an in-
valid for a number of years.
Class reunion in May.
Roberta (Love) Brower writes that her
son, Gene, Jr., was born August 17. He
has curly red hair and blue eyes. Roberta
and family are moving from Richmond
to Winston-Salem, N. C.
Class reunion in May.
Susan Malone's new address is 3311
Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas.
Class reunion in May.
Lucia Murchison writes: "I came on the
staff of the Social Science Department of
the Johns Hopkins Hospital in August,
1927. I am in the medical department,
and needless to say, I am very much in-
terested in my work. I had the pleasure
of seeing Sue Cureton when she was
here for treatment. I should love to come
to reunion this May, and shall try to work
toward that end."

Class reunion in May.
Frances Oliver was married on Decem-
ber 15 at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Jeter, in Decatur, to Mr. "Waldo C. York,
of Boston. The ceremony took place at
6:30 in the evening, and Frances wore a
lovely white satin wedding gown and lace
veil. Her beautiful wedding ring was a
circle of diamonds. Frances' wedding
will take her away from the South to live,
as Mr. York is connected with the New
England Park Construction Company. Her
new address is 39 Gladstone St., Squan-
tum, Mass.

Class reunion in May.
Ruth Scandrett writes from Province-
town, Mass.: "I have the very pleasant
job of doing half a day's work with Mrs.
Mary Heaton Vorse each day, taking dic-
tation and typing manuscript, and walking
or riding almost every afternoon. The
beach at the tip end of Cape Cod is just
across the street, and I can see the glit-
tering water and anchored fishing boats
through my window every morning. The
house belonged formerly to an old sea
captain, but Mrs. Vorse has been living
here for twenty years."
Class reunion in May.
"Nothing exciting happens to me,"
writes Harriet (Scott) Bowen, "just the
same three meals a day, circle meeting
every month, bridge club every two weeks,"
but Harriet's two saddle horses took some
blue ribbons at two county fairs this fall,
she rides a great deal, she drives all over
the state of Virginia attending football
games and weddings, and she is coming to
class reunion!

Class reunion in May.

Last summer Althea Stephens studied
violin at Chautauqua, N. Y., where she
talked Agnes Scott with Mrs. Syden-
stricker, visited friends in Springfield, Ohio,
and Louisville, Ky. Now she is teacher of
piano and organ at National Park Sem-
inary, Forest Glen, Md., a beautiful prep
school just a few minutes drive from
Washington.

Class reunion in May.
Louie Dean (Stephens) Hays' new ad-
dress is 3200 Elgin Ave., Baltimore, Md.

Class reunion in May.

Laurie Belle Stubbs is a Co-ed at Emory
University, and she says she has broken
into "another firmament" the first dra-
matic club play. She comments on that
"excrutiating tryout for Blackfriars long
ago." A second note from Laurie Belle
says she passed her master's exams suc-
cessfully and received her degree just be-
fore Christmas.

Class reunion in May.

Martha Lee (Taliaferro) Donovan
writes: "You '22-ers should see my daugh-
ter. She is the sweetest young thing in
the world. So far she hasn't but one
tooth, but her anxious mother certainly
hopes she'll improve on that."

Class reunion in May.

Two weeks after Sarah (Till) Davis and
her husband had that happy glimpse of
Agnes Scott last April, her grandmother
fell, and a broken hip keeps her an invalid
to date. Sarah kept house for ten people
all summer, and since September first she
has been attempting to recover from (in
order) ptomaine poisoning, flu, and an
operation for the removal of tonsils. She
wrote those carbons to '22 between the
flu and the tonsilectomy. At this writing
she is just three days out of the hospital,
not yet out of her room, and very wobbly!
She plans to come to reunion.

Ruth Virden's answer to the secretary's
call for news ran thusly: "I am working
this winter at the same job. I haven't had
a trip in four years. If I can save the
money, and leave my job for a few days,
I'll come to the reunion. As you can see,
your letter reached me on one of my most
sparkless days. Well, Sal, how are you?
I am glad to get even a fifth carbon
from you, and I AM coming to reunion if
it is humanly possible."

Class reunion in May.

Ethel Ware spent Christmas in New
York City, visiting her sister, Louise, '17.

Class reunion in May.

Alice Whipple II is just at the investi-
gating age. She has caused Mamma Alice
(Whipple) Lyons and "Bill" to move into
a duplex this fall to provide more room for
her explorations.

Class reunion in May.

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Frances (White) Weems has moved into
a new home at 1173 St. Chax-les Place,
N. E., Atlanta. "We have bought this
house, so expect there will be no more
changes of address from now on."

Class reunion in May.

Lucy (Wootten) Wiegand and her small
daughter are spending the winter with
Lucy's mother in Covington, Ga. Lucy
was a guest at the Alumnae House just
before Christmas.

Class reunion in May.

Sarah (Alston) Lawton has moved to
545 Highland Ave., Aliquippa, Pa.

Class reunion in May.

"Curv" Farquhar writes from her home
in Easton, Pa.: "I have at last attained
unto that perfect state the independent
wage-earner."

Class reunion in May.

The very last of October there was a
terrible explosion in the Birmingham, Ala.,
courthouse which caused quite a bit of
havoc. A number of the court-house em-
ployees and lawyers were hurt among
them Grey Tate, husband of Myrtle (Mc-
Laughlin) Tate.

Class reunion in May.

Anne Ruth (Moore) Crawford is now
registrar for the division of extension at
the University of Georgia. Her address
is 227 Waddell St., Athens, Ga. Mr. Craw-
ford is a poultryman.

Class reunion in May.

Dorothy Speake is spending the winter
in southern California.

Class reunion in May.

Georgia (Weaver) Wigginton is living
in the Albemarle Apartments, Nashville,
Tennessee.

Class reunion in May.

A letter from Rosa Wilkins at Augusta,
Ga., gives an account of her life since she
left Agnes Scott. "I was graduated from
the Wilhenford Hospital here in May, led
the Georgia nurses in the state board ex-
amination- which honor I owe in part to
my Agnes Scott days and returned in
June as night supervisor of my 'home
hospital.' "

Class reunion in May.

Katherine Wolcott is teaching in the
Griffin, Ga., public schools.
1923

Next class reunion, this May! We mean
it after every single item too, although our
secretary says she has writer's cramp now
and cannot write it out thirty-nine times.

Jessie Dean (Cooper) Young writes:
"My daughter Peggy is almost two years
old now and keeps her mother's time well
occupied. She adores open fires and thinks
everything should be thrown in. Mary
Key Dolvin came over last spring for a
week's visit with us, and Mary Harris
stopped by for a week-end in September

on her way to Florida. We are making
great plans for the class reunion in May,
and with Peggy's permisison I'll surely be
there."

Helen (Faw) Mull writes from Cleve-
land: "I had a succession of house guests
that filled September and October the
last one was Elizabeth Smith who roomed
with me a year and a half at Agnes Scott.
It would have been like renewing my youth
to see her again, if my dependable maid
had not quit about that time and I had
to take over the mechanics of housekeep-
ing. ... I have been taking two courses
in the University this fall, but have my
hands too full right now to continue them
into the spring term."

"You ask for news of Mary (Goodrich)
Meredith," writes a Florida alumna, "and
since she won't send in any herself, I'll
contribute a bit about her. Last summer
at a perfectly lovely luncheon which she,
along with some other Jacksonville alum-
nae, seemed to be engineering, she made
a dandy speech about Agnes Scott's im-
mediate needs and inspired us all to work
for the development fund."

Quenelle Harrold was the guardian
angel of our debating team when the girls
arrived in New York on their way up to
debate Vassar in December. Quenelle is
enjoying her winter at Columbia, but she
admits that one of the nicest things about
it so far was the trip home to Georgia for
Christmas.

Mary Stewart Hewlett is living at Con-
yers, Ga.

The Texas girl who was Eleanor (Hyde)
White's maid of honor last May, was mar-
ried in November, and the Dallas papers
carried lovely pictures of the bride and
Eleanor, who was matron of honor. Eleanor
writes that her new step-daughter will be
ready for Agnes Scott in a few years.

Charlotte (Keesler) Everett's husband
is secretary of a cotton mill at Rocking-
ham, N. C. They have one child a boy
two years old.

Eloise (Knight) Jones, Lucile (Little)
Morgan, Nell Esslinger, Valeria (Posey)
Brown, and Mary Stewart McLeod have
a round robin which they started the sum-
mer they left Agnes Scott. It is a husky
bird now, and still makes its regular
rounds.

A cable from Japan just before Christ-
mas brought the sad news of the death
from pneumonia of Josephine (Logan)
Hamilton's mother.

Beth (McClure) McGeachy's husband
brought back with him from Scotland
some bagpipes upon which (or is it into
which?) he will blow when asked very
politely. We have an idea that our ptdanky
song would suit bagpipes to a tee, and
hero and now we speak for Dan Mc-

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Geachy as the official musician at '23's
class reunion this May.

With two cars in a family of two, and
a husband who works with the Pan-Am
Company, Hilda (McConnell) Adams
drives often to Atlanta and on to her old
home at Royston, Ga.

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail's husband died
very suddenly early in November at their
home in Albany, Ga. He had undergone
a slight nasal operation, but had come
heme from the hospital and was thought
to be recovering. Martha and her little
three-year-old daughter, Alice, have given
up their home and are staying with
Martha's parents.

Ruth Sanders is teaching again this
winter in Hollister, Mo., at the School of
the Ozarks.

Pearl Smith is teaching in Thomasville,
Ga. She was at home in Rome for the
Christmas holidays.

Mary White Caldwell is resident nurse
at the Scottdale Cotton Mills, Scottdale,
Georgia.

Mary (Cooper) Gilbert and her son and
daughter, botli of pre-schooi age, are liv-
ing in Thomasville, Ga.

Nell Esslinger is teaching voice in Bir-
mingham, Ala. She and Frances Turner
live together at 403 Ridgely Apartments.
Nell often sings over WBR, and is one of
the most popular young entertainers in
Birmingham.

"Pete" (Farmer) Teague's husband is a
banker in Sanford, Fla., and incidentally
an alumnus of Georgia Tech. They have
no children.

Mart Hay may be reached at 181 W.
87th St., New York City, in care of Miss
M. L. Thomas.

Clara (Johns) Stevenson has moved to
Corinth, Miss.

Myrtle (Johnson) Naff's new address is
915 Unavilla St., Shreveport, La.

Christine Lawrence is private secre-
tary for Mr. William Candler in Atlanta.

Marguerite Martin is teaching in Bir-
mingham, Ala. Her address is 1117 6th
Court.

Janet (Maultsby) Waller lives in Mont-
gomery, Ala., where her husband is a law-
yer. She has two sons, ages four and
two.

Sarah Olive (Moore) Robinson's new ad-
dress is 2983 Remington St., Jacksonville,
Fla. Her husband is manager of lamps
and fixtures for the General Electric Sup-
ply Corporation. They have two small
sons.

Susie Reid (Morton) Pow's second baby
was born in December. She is a girl for
big brother Adam Pow, Jr., to take care of.

Dolores (Moragues) Williams writes
from Mobile, Ala.: "We have no children
so I teach a half day at the Girls' Pre-

paratory School. Mary Harris, ex '14, is
teaching here too, and we often swap
Agnes Scott stories."

Alex Morrison's wedding on November
21 to the Venerable Charles Colcock Jones
Carpenter took place at Grace Episcopal
Church in Waycross. The ceremony was
performed by the Bishop of Georgia, as-
sisted by the Bishop of Florida and the
curate of the church.

Eugenia (Pou) Harris now has a baby
daughter and a son. Her husband is pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian Church in
Seneca, S. C.

Mary Frances (Reed) Allison's husband
is an oil operator in El Paso, Tex. They
have no children.

Rosalie Robinson's engagement has been
announced to Mr. Daniel Benjamin San-
ford.

Angelyn Sassnet is on the staff of the
Emory University library. She has moved
to 906 Arlington PL, N. E., Atlanta.

Dorothy Scott is doing home mission
work at Jewell Ridge, Va.

Christine (Sinclair) Parsons is teach-
ing in Atlanta. Her husband is an archi-
tect.

Eunice (Tomlinson) Owens' husband is
manager of a dry cleaning establishment
in Albany, Ga. They have three children
a boy of six, and twins, aged two.

Margaret (Walker) Sellers has one little
six-year-old girl. Her husband is with the
Ford Motor Company in Waynesboro, Ga.

Catherine (Waterfield) Haskin has
moved from Mexico to Santa Rita, New
Mexico, where her husband is with the
Asarco Mining Company.

Jessie (Watts) Rustin has moved to
93 N. Division St., Salisbury, Md. It is
on the eastern shore, and she can see the
bay and the ocean from her windows.
Jessie's little daughter, Mary Virginia,
was born on May 26.

Margaretta (Womelsdorf) Lumpkin has

moved into a new apartment on Thornton

Ave., Dalton, Ga., just across the street

from Gertrude (Manly) McFarland, '20.

1924

Next class reunion, this May, and we
don't mean May-be!

Mabel Akers is teaching at Register, Ga.

Elizabeth Askew's mother spent Christ-
mas in New York with her.

Grace Bargeron is teaching mathematics
in the senior high school at Orlando, Fla.
Her address is Jefferson Court Apart-
ments.

The past few weeks have brought both
sadness and joy to Dell (Bernhardt) Wil-
son. Several days before Christmas her
brother, Douglas, who was a young lawyer
in Lenoir, died as the result of injuries
received in a fall. Dell's little son, Thomas
Henry Wilson, Jr., was born on January 2.

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Will some member of '24 who has re-
ceived an interesting letter fi'om Helen
Lane Comfort in Heidelberg send it on to
the Quarterly?

Beulah Davidson spent the Christmas
holidays in Fort Valley with her father.

Martha (Eakes) Matthews has returned
to Chicago after a month spent in Decatur
visiting her mother and sisters.

Emmie (Ficklen) Harper's Christmas
cards carried a lovely picture of the Taj
Mahal above her "greeting from India."
Emmie is already an old hand at timing
mail to the states, for her cards reached
their destinations only a few days before
Christmas.

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes and Mr.
Stukes went to Greensboro, N. C, for
the Christmas holidays with Mrs. Gilliland.
Frances enjoyed herself so thoroughly
that when the time came to go home, she
came down with flu and so prolonged her
visit a week.

Elizabeth Henry motored down the
east and west coasts of Florida during
Christmas holidays, and sailed across to
Cuba for a few days.

Kate Higgs has written an interesting
letter about the western trip which she
and Charlotte, '26, took together. "We
first went over the Apache Trail to Roose-
velt Dam. From there we visited the
Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, and
the Grand Canyon. As we went down the
Bright Angel Trail into the canyon, the
guide kept on giving the cowboy yell.
Charlotte started practicing it, and now
she makes it exactly like a cowboy, and
makes it all the time! We stayed some
time in Los Angeles, returning by way of
San Diego. Of course we had to go over
into Mexico to see the much talked of Tia
Juana. We were both rather disappointed
in it after having been in Nogales, Sonora.
Tia Juana is an American town for tour-
ists who go to San Diego. The main street
is just one bar after another. Nogales,
Sonora, is a regular Mexican city. We came
on to Tucson from San Diego and pre-
pared to get back to work. Just the Tues-
day before school was to open in Ajo, the
Tucson City Superintendent of Schools
came out to the tennis court where Char-
lotte and I were playing and offered me
the position I now have. It is teaching
arithmetic from the beginning of the sec-
ond grade through the sixth on platoon
system. Believe me or not, I have all
the work I want." Kate's address is
Palomar Court 1, 621 N. 6th Ave., Tucson,
Arizona.

Vic Howie has had flu twice and a
broken arm. "Otherwise I'm quite as good
as new," writes Vic, "am working hai'd
here in Union, and planning to be back
for '24's reunion. I want to sing 'Vive la

compagnie' again in the tea room, and I
can't wait to hear those '24 girls sing-
ing 'Hail Agnes Scott!'"

"Speedy" (King) Wilkins has moved to
Baltimore, Md. Her address is 2512 Tal-
bot Rd., Windsor Hills.

Sarah Kinman writes from Bartow, Ga.:
"There is nothing monotonous in the life of
an English teacher, even when she stays in
the same high school for five consecutive
years."

Margaret (McDow) MacDougall lives at
301 10th St., N. E., Atlanta. Mr. MacDou-
gall is in the lumber business. Margaret
comes out to Agnes Scott often, and is a
member of the Atlanta Alumnae Club.

Edna McMurray is doing secretarial
work in Atlanta.

Mary Mobberly's address is about as
lost as a thing can be! Will somebody in
'24 volunteer to do a little detective work
and discover her?

Cora (Morton) Durrett and her husband
spent Christmas with her family near
Athens, Ga. She has a new radio for
Christmas, and plans not to let a single
prize fight, presidential election, or new
year's football game escape her.

Fran (Myers) Dickley and her mother
came to Agnes Scott in November to visit
the Logans and the Knights little sisters
of Josephine (Logan) Hamilton and Eloise
(Knight) Jones. Fran stoutly maintains
her republican principles, but she wore a
little brown hat very suspiciously like a
certain brown derby which recently has
received a lot of publicity. Mrs. Myers
returned to Japan for Christmas.

Catherine (Nash) Goff spent September
and October in Atlanta with her family.
She writes from Washington: "My hus-
band and I had planned to return here by
boat, so we went to Savannah to catch
said craft. But of course we would get
the worst of the Porto Rican hurricane in
Savannah so could not sail. A special
train was made up for a group of people
in the same fix we were and after a hectic
two days and nights we finally reached
Washington. I have never seen so much
water where water was not supposed to
be over the railroad bed, up to front
doors, for miles and miles through for-
ests as far as one could see, all over the
highways in North Carolina, etc. There
were trees washed across the tracks so
that the train crew would have to spend
an hour or so getting them cleared off,
while the train stood with water on every
side and passengers had to listen to the
shrieking of the wind as it blew through
the trees and over the water. We were
quite glad to arrive here without drowning
or other mishap."

Margaret (Powell) Gay's new address is
18 Bretton Rd., Hartford, Conn.

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Dick Scandrett spent Christmas with
Cora (Morton) Durrett at Athens, Ga.

Polly Stone was with her brother in
south Georgia for Christmas. "One day
when he had business in Cuthbert, he took
me along, and I had a nice visit with
Daisy Frances Smith at Andrew Junior
College there. D. F. says she is working
hard, teaching all the English for the prep
and college classes, and helping them get
up their annual too."

Annie Wilson Terry came over to Agnes
Scott just before college closed to travel
home with her junior sister, Mary, who
had been one of the flu patients.

Augusta (Thomas) Lanier is enjoying
housekeeping at her new apartment in At-
lanta. She has a young domestic named
"Plum," and between them she says they
are learning in the hard school of ex-
perience that five pounds of steak is a
little too much to buy when you have
only two people for dinner.

Clara Waldrop is teaching in the New-
nan, Ga., high school.

Does someone have Annadawn (Wat-
son) Edwards' address? She has folded
up her tents once more and the alumnae
office has so far failed to locate her. This
gal has certainly earned her title of "the
elusive Annadawn."

Pauline Wheeler is at home in Cordele,
Ga., this winter.

Louise (Adams) Oberholtzer was mar-
ried on December 23 to Mr. John C.
Wright, assistant cashier of the Farmers
and Traders Bank of Weaverville, N. C.

Minnie Allen is now Mrs. John Wilkes
Coleman, Belvoir Rd., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Josephine Beason is doing stenographic
work in Atlanta. Her address is 999 Austin
Ave., N. E.

Mary Brown has moved to 724 Sycamore
St., Decatur, Ga. She teaches music.
Mary visited Romola Davis, '20, in Clear-
water Fla., during the summer.

Alice Carr's lovely church wedding to
Mr. Charles Moore McCaskill took place
in December in Bainbridge, Ga. Her sister,
Grace, '27, maid of honor, and Betty Sue
(Lane) Ray, ex '24, matron of honor, wore
ivory velvet. Mr. McCaskill is connected
with Dodge Brothers Motor Company in
Shreveport, La.

Mary Colley has been working in a book
shop in Nashville this winter. "It is a
good place to meet up with old friends,
for before the holidays everybody in Nash-
ville came in at one time or another to.
get books for Christmas presents. I en-
joyed seeing Anna Marie (Landress) Cate
one morning."

Ruth Craig has moved to Boston, Mass.

Mary (Denny) Pearce's baby will be a
year old in April. Mary lives in Milan,
Tenn.

Mary Hobgood still lives in Fairburn,
Ga. She teaches in the Atlanta public
school system.

Frances Jones is studying chemistry at
Vanderbilt University.

Grace Milliken was married on December
12 in the Episcopal Church of Toronto to
Mr. Richard Gurth Wace, of Toronto,
Canada, formerly of London. Mr. Wace
is the son of Brigadier General E. G. Wace,
C. B., D. S. 0., R. E., of the British army.
He is the English representative of the
Colas Products, Ltd.

Exa (Mills) Lamonde is employment
manager at Davison-Paxon Company, affil-
iated with Macy's.

Peggy (Murphy) Gradick lives at 387
Mills Ave., Spartanburg, S. C. Her hus-
band is a civil engineer. They have a baby
a year and a half old.

Elizabeth Perry is teaching in Mobile,
Alabama.

Ella Joe Powell is now Mrs. Albert
Nichols, of Auburn, Ala. She is doing sec-
retarial work at Auburn University.

Ruth Rickarby works in a finance office
in Mobile, Ala.

Ruth Spence is at home in St. Peters-
burg, Fla., this winter, taking a rest from
directing public school music.

Hester (Stephenson) Phillips lives at
5137 Woodlawn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Her
son is almost four years old.
1925

Next class reunion, 1930.

Mary Bess Bowdoin is at home in
Adairsville, Ga., for the winter.

Lucile Caldwell spent the Christmas
holidays at home in LaGrange, Ga., get-
ting acquainted with her new nephew.

Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland and
her husband were in El Paso, Texas, for
the Christmas holidays.

Catherine Carrier's family, Catherine in-
cluded, are at their winter home in Albany,
Georgia.

Ruth (Drane) Tatum is teaching at Co-
lumbus, Ga. She is a busy woman, keep-
ing house, teaching, doing a great deal
of club and church work. Ruth's husband
is at present a patient in the U. S. Veter-
ans' Hospital in Atlanta.

Isabel Ferguson has an apartment at 309
Tate St., Greensboro, N. C, where she
keeps house all alone and loves doing it!

Sarah Fullbright is head of the mathe-
matics department at the Methodist Junior
College at Ferrum, Va., forty miles from
Roanoke.

Lit Griffin writes: "I am still helping
uphold the profession by teaching the
young 'uns. After three years, I have be-
come more or less hardened to the vicissi-
tudes of said occupation and can peace-
fully revel in its blessings, such as Satur-
days off and also afternoons." Lit is at

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Monroe, N. C, again this year.

Ruth (Guff in) Griffin writes from Flor-
ida: "I spent the summer in Asheville, and
of course stopped over in Atlanta on the
way back. Good old Agnes Scott was
certainly a 'vision of delight,' even if it
did almost make me cry from sheer home-
sickness for all the girls of '25. I shall
certainly be on hand for our next reunion."

Gertrude Henry was married on Decem-
ber 13th to Mr. P. Louie Wall. They will
live in an apartment in South Jackson-
ville, Fla.

Will someone who hears from Margaret
Hines send interesting extracts from the
letters to the alumnae office?

Ruth Johnston and Frances Buchanan,
'27, spent a week-end at the Alumnae
House in January.

And now we know Dot Keith's married
name and address! She is Mrs. Nick
Hunter, Apt. 16, Myrtle Terrace, 755 Oak
St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

"My new husband's name is Donald
Jackson Simmons," writes Eunice Kell
from Ocean Springs, Miss. "We were
married very quietly at the Presbyterian
Church in Pascagoula on August 28th. Don
is a construction engineer, so we'll have
to move often. We expect to leave Ocean
Springs in February. And here is another
bit of news about me that you might
broadcast through the Quarterly columns,
too: I had my tonsils out last summer and
am now a chubby girl."

Theta Manly writes that the roster of
the new evening bridge club organized in
Dalton sounds like a page from the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Register. For instance:
Gertrude (Manly) McFarland, '20, and
husband; Margaretta (Womelsdorf) Lump-
kin, ex '23, and husband; "Squint" (Sims)
McCamy, ex '25, and husband; Marian
(McCamy) Sims, '20, and husband; Martha
Lin Manly, '25. "As you see," writes Theta,
"I am the only forlorn husbandless critter
in the whole bunch. I have the privilege
of choosing an escort each week. We do
have lots of fun the bridge is the least of
it. Dalton has been awfully gay in spite
of flu in nearly every household, but I
must admit some of the gaiety is dimmed
when one's cook is at home with flu. . . .
We gave Milne's 'Romantic Age' recently
all home talent. It was really a good show.
I had a terribly difficult part that of
Alice, the maid, whose only real action
was bringing in the whisky."

Larsen Mattox visited in Chicago be-
fore Christmas. "Having much fun loafing,
sightseeing, etc.," says a postal card.

Frances Moore is teaching in Athens,
Georgia.

Martha Pennington is teaching again in
Perry, Fla. Mrs. Finnell said she and
Martha rode several hours together on the

way home Christmas.

Lucille (Phippen) Shingler and her
daughter have been visiting her parents in
Decatur. Lucille is a busy minister's wife,
but she keeps in close touch with Agnes
Scott.

Mildred Pitner teaches History and
French at Tate, Ga.

Floy Sadler spent the summer in the
North Carolina mountains and is back in
Florida now, and her job as librarian
there goes merrily on.

Emmie Saxon's address is 177 Waverly
Place, New York City. She is working in
the children's department of the New York
Public Library.

Charlotte Smith is teaching at the
Middle Georgia College in Cochran.

A note to Ella (Smith) Hayes asking if
she had any news for the Quarterly
brought this response: "My 'news' is sleep-
ing right now so I have a minute to write.
Mary Elizabeth Hayes arrived December
15, and although the smallest, she is the
most important object on the farm. . . .
I haven't seen an Agnes Scotter in six
months, and my best correspondent is Dot
(Keith) Hunter, who can combine bridge
and housekeeping and do well at both,
which proves she is versatile, to say the
least. The Hayes family hopes to make
the trip to Atlanta in the spring, and we'll
come out to Agnes Scott if we do."

On the way back to Savannah after
spending Christmas holidays at home in
Alabama, Margery Speake called the
Alumnae House and chatted a few minutes
with Polly.

Emily Spivey says "and last summer I
tried to catch up on teaching as if I
don't get enough during the winter! and
went back to Monroe A. and M. summer
school to teach teachers. I am strug-
gling now at Hartwell, Ga., again. I have
a new set of children who insist that the
best place in the United States for oyster
production is on the coasts of India and
Germany!"

Eugenia (Thompson) Aiken's second
baby was born in October, just too late
to be announced in the November Quarter-
ly. His name is John, Jr.

Ellen Walker has been spending a month
with her aunt, Mrs. Axson, in Asheville.

Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie's husband is
the mayor of Carthage, N. C, and Cather-
ine Carrier and Catherine Randolph were
presented with the keys of the city when
they visited Elizabeth in the early fall.

Frances (Alston) Everett has moved
back to Atlanta. She has a son several
months old.

Edith (Camp) McLendon's new address
is 1605 41st St., Central Park, Birmingham,
Alabama.

Ruth Fleming is teaching in the Atlanta

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public school system.

After leaving Agnes Scott, Frances
Formby got her B. A. from Birmingham
Southern College. She has been teaching
in the Bush school in Ensley for several
years.

Rebekah (Harmon) Lindsay is working
in the gift and art department at Davison-
Paxon's in Atlanta.

Irma Heaton is teaching music in Paco-
let, S. C.

Mary Jarmon is director of music at
the junior high school in Columbia, S. C.

Helen (Faw) Mull, '23, writes: "Did you
know that Olivia (Liebheit) Ure has re-
turned from Honolulu? Her address is
918 Bellevue, South Bend, Ind. She has a
son and daughter. Her husband is in Y
work. Her sister, Minnie (Liebheit) Segur,
is living near Chicago, at 42 S. Waiola,
LaGrange, 111. She has three sons."

Margaret (McDade) Dugins' husband
has a shoe store in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Harriet (Payne) Johnson's son was two
years old on the 3rd of December. Mr.
Johnson is a salesman in Springfield, Tenn.

Louise Sanders is with the vital statis-
tics bureau of the state health department
at Richmond, Va.

Adelaide (Schofield) Hudson has three
children. Her husband is the owner and
manager of the Hudson Letter Shop in
Macon, Ga.

Montie (Sewell) Burns is teaching at
the Brookhaven School near Atlanta.

Frances (Singletary) LeSueur works at
Ludden and Bates music store in Atlanta
and teaches piano in the evenings. She
has no children.

Susie (Stokes) Taylor has sent an ador-
able snapshot of her two small boys in
their sun-suits, taken on the shore. Archie,
the younger, has a mop of curls very like
his mother's.

Florra Parks Wheeler was married No-
vember 19, 1927, to Mr. Jack Coleman An-
derson. He is district representative for
the International Harvester Company.
They are living temporarily at Mullins
Court, Texarkana, Ark.

Virginia Williams is Mrs. T. B. Wight,
Buena Vista, Ga. Mr. Wight is the Ford
dealer there. They have no children.
1926

Next class reunion, 1930.

Eleanor (Berger) Blumenthal's new ad-
dress is 2905 N. Charles St., Del Verne
Apts., Baltimore, Md. Her husband is pro-
fessor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins
University.

Mary Dudley Brown spent Christmas in
Winston-Salem, N. C. They will leave
very soon for Miami Beach.

Elizabeth Callen is teaching in Birming-
ham, Ala. Her address is 1124 S. 33rd
Street.

Edyth (Carpenter) Shuey writes: "I
have been moving into my new house for
the past few days. We have a precious
little place, and I am quite intrigued with
it." Carp's address is 721 Majorca Ave.,
Coral Gables, Fla.

Edythe Coleman is the president of the
girls cotillion club of Atlanta.

Dora (Ferrell) Gentry's new address is
73 14th St., N. E., Atlanta.

Mary Ella (Hammond) McDowell and
her husband spent Christmas with their
families in Griffin, Ga.

Gladys Harbaugh is working for her
master's degree at Cornell University.

Sterling Johnson writes from Philadel-
phia: "I spend all my days keeping house
and teaching school. Our apartment is a
dear, we think, even though it is furnished
by ingenuity only. Our guests have helped
a lot, too. 'Toya' Junkin painted some
furniture and helped make curtains, Sarah
Slaughter contributed a rolling pin (we had
been rolling biscuits with a milk bottle),
others have left behind them potted flow-
ers, pillows, sugar scoops, soap shakers
and such. Sarah spent Thanksgiving with
us. Barron Hyatt, '24, spent one week-end
here in November. She is getting on
beautifully with her work at the Univer-
sity of Virginia Hospital, and has only one
more year there. ... I see Miss Ran-
dolph, who teaches a mile or so from me,
occasionally."

Helen Clark Martin writes: "After that
good trip abroad, I am back in Charles-
ton, S. C., teaching in one of our county
schools. I have thirty-seven squirming
second grade children."

Virginia Peeler made the trip from New
Orleans to Pasadena, California, to spend
Christmas at home with "Aunt Grace."

Louise (Pfieffer) Ringel and Nellie
Richardson were two of the alumnae who
visited the college at Thanksgiving.

Sarah Slaughter spent Christmas holi-
days with her family in Atlanta. Sarah
is interested in her work in Physical Ed
at Teachers College. She sees Eleanore
Albright every day, Martha Crowe often,
and Willie White Smith occasionally.

Sarah Smith has been doing substitute
teaching in the Latin department of the
Atlanta Girls High School.

Fanny Swann writes: "I am teaching
Math this year in Mobile, Ala., High
School. It is much more interesting than
grade work. I see Grace Augusta Ogden
very often, and have met Dick Scandrett's
sister who lives here."

Ladie Sue Wallace met Ruth Evans
Masengill, '28, at the Alumnae House for
Thanksgiving week-end.

Fannie Brown came home to Georgia
for several weeks Christmas. She is doing
kindergarten work in Cincinnati.

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Catherine Cannaday is her father's sec-
retary in his New York City office. Her
home address is 115 E. 89th Street.

Anne Hubbard is a commercial artist in
Atlanta.

Betty Malone's new address is 3311
Montrose Blvd., Houston, Tex.
1927

Next class reunion, 1930.

Louise Bansley spent Christmas in New
York with Martha Crowe. She writes:
"During one short week there I saw more
Agnes Scott girls than I see in Atlanta in
a month! Why, in Columbia University
alone there is a whole colony of them!
It did make me feel at home to run into
Ida Landau coming out of the subway, and
to meet up with Mary Ramage at "Cy-
rano.' "

Blanche Berry writes that she caused
a disturbance in the New York public
library lately when she quite accidentally
ran into the Agnes Scott debating team
there.

Maurine Bledsoe and Louisa White spent
Thanksgiving week-end at the Alumnae
House, and then Maurine visited Louisa
at her apartment in Atlanta before re-
turning to Asheville.

Josephine Bridgman and Miss Hopkins
came from Charlottesville, Va., to Gas-
tonia together on the train after the
Christmas holidays.

Louise (Capen) Baker is keeping house
at Apt. 68, 520 W. 124th St., New York,
and doing lab work in the Natui-al History
Museum.

Annette (Carter) Colwell's husband is
at the University of Chicago where he has
a fellowship in the New Testament de-
partment. Annette is taking care of Eliz-
abeth Anne Colwell, and keeping house
at 5552 University Ave., Chicago.

Announcement has just been made of
the marriage on May 19th in Jacksonville,
Fla., of Frances Chambers to Mr. Bartow
Wing, brother of Virginia (Wing) Power,
'26. Mr. Wing travels for the Timkin Rol-
ler Bearings Service Sales Company.

Lib (Clark) Young and her husband
spent Christmas at Lib's home in West
Point.

Lillian Clement is working in the adjust-
ment department of the Southern Bell
Telephone Company in Atlanta.

Martha Crowe still insists that she is
homesick for Atlanta and Agnes Scott,
although she admits that New York is
just the place for Agnes Scott people who
think the world has gone all wrong and
that the only thing that will make it
right again is the sight of a few good old
Hottentots. There are plenty there!
Martha and her mother entertained the
Agnes Scott debating team and the New
York alumnae at tea on the day before the

Vassar debate. Martha has begun work
on her M. A. at Columbia.

Marian Daniel and Rachel Henderlite
spent Thanksgiving at Agnes Scott with
Huda Dement.

Frances Freeborn's mother died on No-
vember 27. The class members sympathize
with Frances in her loss.

Elsa Jacobsen spent the Christmas holi-
days with her mother and Elaine, '29, in
Decatur. Elsa loves her work with the
Indianapolis girl reserves.

Pearl Kunnes is working in New York
City. She lives not far from Willie White
Smith and sees her very often.

When Ida Landau and Louise Bansley
unexpectedly confronted each other in a
New York subway Christmas, they both
exclaimed in one breath: "Why, I thought
you were in Atlanta!"

Well, some go up, and some come down.
Ida and Louise go to New York, and Ellen
Douglas Leyburn comes down to Georgia
from Massachusetts for the Christmas
holidays with her family in Rome. She
spent a day in Decatur with Janef Preston,
'21, and they settled the affairs of the
world over the luncheon table in the Dec
hotel.

Louise Lovejoy is doing lab work at
Grady Hospital in Atlanta. She lives at
home.

Elizabeth Lynn went home for the holi-
days and tells of the joy of Christmas
in the orphanage baby cottage, where Dr.
Lynn is caring for twenty babies.

Carolina McCall has had sinus trouble
for several weeks. Margaret Rice, '28,
been substituting for her in her school in
Lafayette while C'nina recuperated at
home.

Caroline McKinney has a new position
with the Southern Bell Telephone Company
in Atlanta. She lives at home.

Ruth McMillan was married on January
12 at high noon at the North Avenue
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta to Mr.
Roy Sexton Jones, of New York City.
There were no attendants, but Sarah
Smith, '26, played the organ. Mr. Jones
received his degree in law at the Universi-
ty of Georgia, where he was a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He is now
connected with Coca-Cola Company in New
York.

Hulda McNeel was presented to Bir-
mingham, Ala., society at a lovely debut
tea given by her parents in November.

Kenneth Maner is thriving on life at Co-
lumbia University. She is getting not
only an M. A. but a thorugh acquaintance
with New York City.

Evalyn Powell drove from Little Rock to
Atlanta for the Tech-Vanderbilt game in
November. The Arkansas traveler came
out to Agnes Scott, of course.

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Miriam Preston writes from Soonchun,
Korea: "We certainly do enjoy the Quai"-
terly out here. I am having a good time
at home this winter. There are numerous
excitements; tomorrow morning, for in-
stance, we are leaving at daylight for a
big game hunt." Miriam is returning to
America this summer.

Frances Rainey's family met her in New
Orleans for Thanksgiving, but when
Christmas came 'round, she was homesick
for Georgia, so she spent the holidays
in Norcross.

Elizabeth Sanders visited Elizabeth Lynn
at Agnes Scott in December. She has been
ill and will be at home in Arkansas this
spring instead of continuing her teaching.

Willie White Smith is studying, teach-
ing, and keeping house for an apartment
full in New York. Her address is 560 W.
165th St., Apt. 3-A.

Ro Winter and Marcia Green visited
Agnes Scott Thanksgiving.

Judith Wilson writes: "I took special
training last summer in social work, and
now I have the dandiest job ever, as super-
intendent of the Child Welfare Board in
Dale County, Ala. The work is delightful.
I really have three jobs in one: 1, School
attendance officer, in which I have to keep
all the children of school age in school.
If they are poor and unable to buy clothes,
I have to get them some anyway I can.
I have had only one court case since I
have been in the work, for which I am
duly thankful. 2, Probation officer, in
which I supervise any case in which a child
is involved that may come into court. I
also have all the desertion and non-sup-
port cases that come up. I get out and
try to get these people back together when
I think it advisable. I have had ten cases
since September and succeeded in settling
them without having a big court case of it.
3, general family welfare worker, in which
J try to improve home life in homes
where it is needed. I find quite a bit of
this to do, too. ... I have fifty-four white
schools which I visit every month. And
it's quite a job to get to all these with all
the other work I have to do. But the
beauty of the work is when you leave the
office at five o'clock you are through until
the next morning at eight! That is why
I like this so much more than teaching.
I have been on this job since September
and like it more each day. I have a
Chrysler coupe and the two of us manage
to get over a lot of ground!"

Grace (Zachry) McCreery's address is
1886 Lampson Rd., S. E., Cleveland, Ohio.
She writes: "I really like housekeeping,
but it is comic how long it takes me to
do things. Some people ventured a desire
to call on us and Ray said to them in giv-
ing directions for finding us: 'You can't
miss the house; it is the only place in the

neighborhood that hasn't a single cur-
tain!' "

Frances Boyd is at home in Sweetwater,
Tennessee.

Adelaide Cannaday is secretary to the
assistant manager of the Butterick Com-
pany in New York City.

Jo-Ann Cox was married on December
29 in the gardens of the Plymouth Church
in Cocoanut Grove, Fla., to Mr. Doremus
Windsor Dixon, of Jacksonville. Mr. Dixon
is an alumnus of the University of North
Carolina, where he was president of his
class in 1922. He is at present district
manager for the International Accountants
Society with the state of Florida under his
direct supervision.

Louise Gaines is Mrs. J. C. Oates,
Sweetwater, Tenn.

Martha Evelyn Harris is doing sten-
ographic work in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Louise Lewis is taking a secretarial
course at Miss Conklins School in New
York City.

Mary Martha (Lybrook) Neal has
moved into her new home and is spend-
ing the post-holiday days deciding where
furniture and pictures shall go.

Mrs. Alma Lee Rowe writes from Con-
stantinople: "Thank you for the airplane
view of Agnes Scott. It certainly looked
good to me way off in these foreign parts.
Life in the east, however, is very fascinat-
ing, and I know I shall enjoy every minute
of my three years here." Mrs. Rowe's ad-
dress is 40 rue Sira Selvi, Taksim Square,
Constantinople, Turkey.

Myra Sadler is dietitian in the Children's
Village, Hartford, Conn.

Mary Shive has been ill for some months
at Dr. Erdman's Sanitarium in Philadel-
phia.

1928

Sallie Abernathy visited Agnes Scott
during November and was on hand with
refreshments for the crowd that got
presidential election returns in the Physics
lecture room that night.

Mamie Shaw, '27, writes from Balti-
more: "I see Frances Brown and Peggy
Rankin, '27, occasionally. Frances' mother
is with her, and her sister, Laura, '31, was
up from Agnes Scott for the Christmas
holidays."

Martha Brown visited at Agnes Scott
just before the Christmas holidays.

Estelle Bryan is working in the informa-
tion department at Davison-Paxon Com-
pany in Atlanta.

While she was at the Alumnae House
Thanksgiving, "Ginger" Carrier told of her
audience with the Pope last summer. Helen
Lane Comfort, '24; Virginia Cameron, '29;
Helen Sisson, '29; Virginia Sears, '30, and
Kathryn Craighead, ex '30, were in the
same group. The audience was arranged

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by Countess Ramberg with whom they
stayed while in Rome. (As this goes to
press, word has just been received of the
death of the Countess from septic poison-
ing.)

Elizabeth Cole had Jo Houston as her
guest during December.

Sarah Currie has just completed in four
months a regular six months course in
Medical Technology. That is the way
Miss MacDougalPs Biology majors tackle
the world!

Hattie Gershcow is in the educational
department and Frances Hargis doing ads
for Rich's Department Store in Atlanta.

Louise Girardeau's father died during
the fall.

Sarah Glenn and her little sister, who
is a freshman at Agnes Scott, took a de-
lightful cruise through the Caribbean and
to Cuba during the Christmas holidays.

When asked for news of herself, Eu-
genia Gobere writes: "There really isn't
so terribly much to tell about my work
except that medicine is marvelous and
hard. I have to work in lab from eight
until five-thirty, and then study almost
every night for four or five hours. There
are fifty boys in the freshman class, and
only two girls. Emily Kingsbery and I
have an adorable four-room apartment.
We spend most of our time between study-
ing and working at school cooking south-
ern dishes and fixing up our 'home.' It
is quite complete and comfortable now. We
play entirely on the week-ends, and have
met quite a few Yale men. Now that the
big football games are over, we see ice
hockey games. Yale is the most beautiful
place! And we have met some of the well-
known professors such as Dr. Osborne, Dr.
Mendel, and Dr. Harvey, etc. We enjoyed
the alumnae Quarterly immensely and
realized how much it means to know what
the members of '28 are doing now." Mail
will reach Eugenia sent to Box 221, Yale
Medical School, New Haven, Conn.

Do you remember the bear story James
Whitcomb Riley puts into the mouth of a
very little boy? He makes all sorts of
fabulous statements and then when con-
fronted with the real truth, he back-tracks
and says airily, "Aw, that ain't so; I thes
said that." The editor finds herself in that
same predicament. In the November
Quarterly she registered Pete Grier at the
Assembly's Training School, tucked her
books under her arm, and started Pete
off on her year's work. And in this
January issue, she is forced to admit that
"she thes said that"; Pete isn't in Rich-
mond at all, but is teaching Latin and
business English in Statesville, N. C.

Nell Hillhouse returned to Agnes Scott
Thanksgiving and called another error on
the poor editor. She is teaching not in
the grammar school in Waynesboro, but

in High School. There is not only a dis-
tinction but a decided difference, Nell
says.

"Bee" Keith and Ann McCollum breezed
in together for the Thanksgiving holidays
at Agnes Scott. They spent all the first
morning at an Atlanta hotel calling up
their friends and acquaintances, and all
the first afternoon counting up how many
nickels they had spent on phone calls.
"Bee" has forsaken her masculine roles,
and is doing feminine leads with the Little
Theatre in Greenville, S. C. She says the
men in the cast aren't half as manish
as she and Chugga and Ro Winter used
to be in Blackfriar productions. "Yes, I'm
a big business woman, too, and crazy
about it. I don't think I could possibly
work for anybody but my daddy: I can
arrange so many holidays this way."

Announcement has been received of the
marriage of Emily Kingsbery to Mr. John
D. Serrar, on Saturday noon, January 12,
in New York City. Mr. Serrar is a grad-
uate of Villa Nova College, Pennsylvania,
and is now studying medicine at Yale.
Emily and her fiance and a few close
friends motored down from New Haven to
New York for the ceremony, which took
place at the Little Church Around the
Corner. The Serrars will both continue
their studies at Yale, and are at home at
36 Park St., New Haven.

Irene Lowrance writes from Charlotte,
N. C: "I am teaching Latin and Mathe-
matics at the Piedmont Junior High School
here. I enjoy the teaching part, but not
the red tape of records and grades. We
had district teachers' conference here last
week-end. "Pete' Grier, Jo Bridgman, who
has the fifth grade at Gastonia, were with
me for the week-end. Gwen McKinnon,
who has the third grade at Hickory, came
over for Friday night. We did have a ses-
sion! We are all crazy to come back to
Agnes Scott for a visit, and may just up
and do it!"

Bayliss McShane writes: "I am sitting
here listening to Mrs. Stukes sing for
WSB. Was awfully excited when they an-
nounced her name, for I was just idly
going from station to station to see what
I could pick up. I hear from several Agnes
Scott correspondents that the back south
corner second floor room in Inman is
much neater this year than it was last.
This is slander some enemy is putting out
against Georgia and me, I feel sure. For
Miss Calhoun's sake, I hope there is some
truth in the report."

Ermine Malone's father died this fall.

Ruth Evans Masengill visited Agnes
Scott during Thanksgiving.

Alma Metcalf was at home in Decatur
for the Christmas holidays from her
North Carolina school. She brought her

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roommate, who lives in Michigan, with
her, and they came over to Agnes Scott
for a morning ramble.

Virginia Miller is teaching piano and
voice in Gates, W. Va.

Virginia Owen is fashion advisor with a
department store in Boston, Mass. Her
addres is 72 Peterboro Street.

Mary Perkinson writes from Wadley,
Ga.: "Flu, instead of love, is about to con-
quor all here at least in the matter of
strength and school attendance. And those
who were physically able to come back
after Christmas had forgotten all that
we of the faculty had nattered ourselves
that we had taught them in the fall.
School-teaching still gives me the same
old thrill and I love my six-foot high school
boys as much as ever, yet I'd give any-
thing in the world to drop in at Agnes
Scott, be a senior again, and find old '28
there."

"Marked by quiet dignity and simplicity
was the wedding of Miss Martha Doane
Riley to Morris Holt Stephenson which
took place Saturday, December 8, at St.
Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta. . . .
Mr. Stephenson has been connected with
the Citizens and Southern Bank for several
years. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson will
make their home in Atlanta, following a
motor trip through Florida." A lovely
picture of Martha accompanied this write-
up in the Atlanta Constitution.

Elizabeth Roark writes: "I surely miss
Agnes Scott and all the girls, but some
day I'll be back again. In the mean-
time, I look forward eagerly for the
Quarterlies."

When "Skid" Mogran, '29, and Dorothy
Smith, '30, attended a student conference
in Missouri in December, they stopped by
in Memphis for a visit with Mary Shew-
maker, who is enjoying life at home this
winter.

Florence (Smith) Wright was at Agnes
Scott Thanksgiving. She says that the
Wright plans have changed and they will
live in Atlanta instead of Mexico.

Ted Wallace is studying at the Uni-
versity of Tennessee. Sarah Marsh, ex '30,
writes from Knoxville: "Eleanor Castles,
ex '30; Mary Stokely, ex '30; Ted Wallace,
and I get together regularly and discuss
Agnes Scott affairs."

Lillian White is teaching English and
dramatics in the high school at Fort
Pierce, Fla. She writes: "I am keeping up
with all of you there on the campus and
the wonderful new campaign plans
through the Aggie. I only wish my college
days were in the future! And I simply de-
vour the Quarterly. Hadn't realized how
hungry I was for Agnes Scott why I
even read the news of the Institute girls
who left Agnes Scott long before I ap-
peared on the campus. I am doing my best

to send you some worthy material next
year, but the rumors of the stiff work at
Agnes Scott have reached even the coast
of Florida. ... I have my first play
Friday night, and it is with fear and
trembling that I let the curtain go up. At-
tended the state teachers' meeting re-
cently over at Orlando, where I met up
with Kitty Mitchell, '27, and Sarah Tate,
'25. I do wish we had more of our alumnae
down here. It's a fine state and the
schools are good." Lillian's address is 822
Atlantic Avenue.

Elizabeth Williams is teaching high
school mathematics at Carbon Hill, Ala.

Muriel Mathilde Bultman is studying
this winter in Paris. Her address is 7
rue Yvon Villarceau, care Mme. Denis,
Paris, France.

Grace Chay has returned to her home in
Korea to take up her life work there.

Alice Ferrell is teaching kindergarten in
LaGrange, Ga.

Louise Geeslin was married in Novem-
ber, 1927, to Mr. D. W. Brosnan, Jr., a
civil engineer. They live in Macon, Ga.

"Toya" Junkin will finish her art course
this spring. She hopes to get a job in
Boston. "Toya" visited Sterling Johnson,
'26, in Philadelphia in September and
again in January.

Margaret Mixson writes from Dunnellon,
Fla.: "I have spent the entire afternoon
and evening reading the November issue of
the Alumnae Quarterly. Even though I
could not gradaute in our class, I still have
a great love for Agnes Scott and especially
the class of '28. If any of the girls pass
through Dunnellon on their way to points
south, I shall be very glad if they will
call me up. We are right on the Tamiami
Trail, over which thousands of people
travel daily. Since finishing a business
course in '27 at the Jacksonville Business
College, I have been working in the new
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Superintend-
ent's offices, which opened soon after I
came home. I find that being an 'efficient
secretary' is very pleasant work, especial-
ly so since I can live at home, have two
weeks vacation with pay in the summer,
and ride on passes. This summer I am
planning a trip to Chicago, where I shall
visit Miss Catherine Gault (now Mrs. Ed P.
Harrison), who was Spanish teacher at
Agnes Scott during 1924-'26."

Katherine Rickards was married this
fall to Mr. J. Arthur Keil, a member of
the reporting staff of the Palm Beach Post,
where Kay was society editor.

Rowena Runnette and Adah Knight are
back at Agnes Scott as members of the
class of '29. They hated to give up the
numerals '28, but they both said a dip
from Agnes Scott was worth a little sacri-
fice. Rowena studied in Paris last year,

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and Adah taught in the north Georgia
mountains.

Ex '29

Miriam Arrington sailed on October 2
for a year of study and travel abroad. This
winter she is studying voice and German
in Vienna. Her address is Josefstadter
str. 919 Wien VIII, Osterreich.

Grace St. Clair Ball will graduate in
June from the Woman's College of Ala-
bama.

Pauline Brown is studying at the Cin-
cinnati Conservatory of Music.

Bettina Bush is back at the University
of Michigan, and will receive her degree
in June.

Elmina (Caldwell) Wade announces the
birth on December 16 in LaGrange, Ga.,
of her son, Dudley Bradstreet Wade, III.

Mary Donna Crawford works with her
father in the advertising business. She is
an active member of the Mobile, Ala.,
Little Theatre group.

Sarah Mildred Farris is doing sten-
ographic work in Atlanta.

Elizabeth Fleidner is studying at Win-
throp College, specializing in kindergarten.

Ella Mae Hollingsworth was graduated
from Emory University in December. Co-
eds are a very new thing in the liberal
arts college at Emory, and Ella Mae was
the first girl to receive official recognition
in student activities there. She was as-
sistant editor of the Emory Phoenix,
quarterly literary magazine of the student
body.

Mary Clift Hughes is assistant buyer at
Davison-Paxon's department store in At-
lanta.

Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson is a student
at the National Academy of Design in
New York City. Her address is 518 W.
111th St., Apt. 65. She has won quite a
bit of recognition at the school.

Eugenia Kirk, Evelyn Wood, and Clara
Stone are seniors at the University of Ala-
bama. Clara is president of the Tri-
Deltas.

Gilberta Knight is back at Farmville,
Va., at the State Teachers College. Clarkie
Davis, '26, visited her last summer.

Louisa (Kochtitzky) Crawford lives in
Elkin, N. S. Her husband is with the
shoe factory there.

Mary Elizabeth Lewis is employed in
the bookkeeping department of the At-
lanta Georgian.

Sally Lindsay and Rachel Maddox, ex
'23, are at the Assembly's Training School
in Richmond, Va.

Susan Pierce is a student at Emory Uni-
versity this year.

Josephine Pou is working with the Co-
lumbus, Ga., Power Company.

Alden Rowland is studying at Peabody
Teachers College in Nashville, Tenn.

Lena Slemp is at home in Big Stone
Gap, Va. After leaving Agnes Scott she
attended William and Mary College for
a while.

Gulie McLean Stephenson was married
in December to Mr. Harry Arnold Cassady.

Elizabeth Tyson studied last summer at
the University of Virginia. This winter
she is at the Curry School of Expression in
Boston.

Isabel Wilson is attending school in
Washington, D. C.

Katherine Woodberry is a senior at Bir-
mingham Southern College in Alabama.
Academy Alumnae News

Bertha (Adams) Hosale is teaching at
Riverdale, Ga.

Clara Addy is teaching again in Green-
ville, S. C.

Ellie Mae (Archibald) Haley's husband
is traveling salesman for the O'Brien Com-
pany, manufacturers of overalls, etc. They
have two children, a son fifteen and a
daughter six. Their home is in Louis-
ville, Ky.

Ellie (Ayers) Burns is living in Talla-
dega, Ala., where her husband is in busi-
ness. They have three children, Ellie
Ayres, Billy, and Jack.

The arrival of Constance (Berry) Cur-
rie's son has never been announced in the
Quarterly. His name is Charles James
Currie, Jr., and he was born the 14th
of last July.

Patty Howard Blair is studying at Pea-
body Teachers College in Nashville.

Martha (Brooks) Cowan is living in
Buchanan, Ga., where her husband is coun-
ty superintendent of schools.

Ruth Lynn (Brown) McPhaul's husband
is a planter at Doerun, Ga. They have two
daughters, Mary Virginia, ten, and Betty
Brown, who was four this month.

May (Cooper) Trice has a son who en-
tered college this past fall, and a daugh-
ter, Julia, almost ready to be graduated
from high school. Mav lives in Thomas-
ville, Ga.

Julia (Costen) Handley lives on the
Whitesville Road, LaGrange, Ga. Since
her husband's death, she has run their
farm and dairy herself. She has several
children.

Cynthie Farie lives at 48 W. 84th St.,
New York City.

Lillian (Fulcher) BraswelPs husband is
a planter at Waynesboro, Ga. They have
two boys, ages seven and three.

Frances Dolores (.Gill) Brown's home in
Marietta, Ga., is called "Roseland," and
a visitor in the spring and summer can
readily see why. She has two daugh-
ters, nine and eleven.

Bertha Johnston is Mrs. J. J. Moeb. She
has one little boy. They live first in one
city and then in another, but at present

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the address is Mayflower Hotel, Washing-
ton, D. C.

Margeurite (Knight) Rolards' address is
943 E. Mistletoe, San Antonio, Tex.

Frankie (McCrory) Armistead's husband
is in the insurance and coal business. They
have a girl ten and a son six.

Rosie Bell Newton does a great deal of
church work in her old home at Griffin, Ga.

Lucia (Norris) Davis' husband is vice-
president and cashier of the Exchange
National Bank of Albany, Ga. She has
two boys eight and eleven, and a girl who
is seven.

Julia (Pace) Burt's husband is a grad-
uate of Emory University, and prominent
lawyer in Albany, Ga. They have two
sons, eight and two, and a daughter,
five.

Mary (Pharr) Williams' husband is con-
nected with the Goodyear Tire Company in
LaGrange, Ga. Her two sons are ten and
fifteen.

Corinne Rich is Mrs. A. P. Johnson, 36
S. Barksdale St., Memphis, Tenn. Mr.
Johnson is a traveling salesman. They have
one child, Jeanne Rice, aged eleven.

Lydie (Sherard) Brackett's husband is
an eye, throat and nose specialist in Hen-
dersonville, N. C. They have two boys.

Ruby (Smith) Glover's two daughters
are aged fourteen and seven. Mr. Glover
is a cotton exporter in Savannah, Ga.

Elizabeth Stewart is a stenographer in
Milton, Fla.

Mary Storey (Powell) Davis' husband is
with Manget Brothers, cotton buyers in
Newnan, Ga. Their three children are
three, five and seven.

Ruth (Taylor) Burney and her four chil-
dren live in Dublin, Ga. They are Eliz-
abeth, fifteen; Martha Ann, twelve; Glover,
Jr., ten, and Hairy, six.

Edna Earle (Trade) Rosier's address is
401 Powell St., Birmingham, Ala. She has
three daughters and one son.

Miriam Elizabeth (Tribble) McGahee's
husband is an operator for the Seaboard
Railway, with headquarters in Atlanta.
Their children are Joseph, sixteen; Louise,
nine, and Thomas, four.

Margaret Wehler is employed in the Cen-
tral branch of the New York Public
Library.

Evelyn (Wilkinson) Lowndes' husband
is in the real estate business in San An-
tonio, Tex. Their two children are Evelyn
W. Lowndes, and Holland B., Jr.

Mrs. Phil Pomeroy (Marian Atkinson,
ex '21), at Miami Beach, Fla.

Mrs. Herner R. Johnson (Ruth McDou-
gall, ex '22), in Memphis, Tenn. She
was a sister of Hall (McDougall) Terry,
'23.

NECROLOGY

Mrs. Lucian Lamar Knight (Edith Nel-
son, Institute), at her home in Atlanta,
Ga., during December. Mrs. Knight had
been an invalid for many years. She was
a sister of Adelaide Nelson, '09, and
mother of Mary Lamar Knight, '22.

Additional Institute News

Carrie Louise (Calloway) Spence's hus-
band is a bookkeeper with the Steele
Furniture Company in Albany, Ga. She
teaches in the grammar school. They have
three sons one at Annapolis, one work-
ing in LaGrange, Ga., and the youngest
still in High School in Albany.

Lillian (Carter) Riley runs a big board-
ing house in Macon, Ga., at 353 First
Street. She has five very charming and
talented daughters: a teacher, a trained
nurse, a mother, a business woman in
New York City, and her youngest, who is
still at home with Lillian.

Lucy Childress is teaching in Bristol,
Tennessee.

After losing her for a number of years,
we have succeeded in tracing Eleanor
Cloud. After leaving Agnes Scott, she
was graduated at the LaGrange Female
College and taught school for several years
till her marriage to Ben Latham Bryan,
then of Union Point, Ga. Mr. Bryan has
been dead some ten years, leaving her
with three small boys. She then began
teaching again and has for the past six
years taught Latin and French in the
Greensboro, Ga., High School, where she
is this winter. Her oldest son is a junior
at the University of Georgia, and her sec-
ond son a Sophomore there. The youngest
is a Senior in the Greensboro High School.

Levis Colev is Mrs. Marvin F. Owens,
229 E. St., N. W., Miami, Okla.

Maude Collins is Mrs. W. Lawtey Inglis,
Blackstone Apts., 749 Peachtree St., At-
lanta. Her husband is with the Cathcart
Van and Storage Company. They have
one daughter who is sixteen years old.

Eugenia Connally is Mrs. J. Prince Mor-
ris, 4207 Cole Ave., Dallas, Texas.

Annie Mae Cothran works at 311 Jeffer-
son Standard Bldg., Greensboro, N. C. She
is a trained nurse connected with the
Greensboro Clinic.

Arabella (Crane) des Champs spent the
summer on the coast of Monterey Bay and
in the California hills. She writes: "It
is wonderful to see the progress of Agnes
Scott. I want to subscribe to the 'Alum-
nae Quarterly' in January. Just now I am
full up with pamphlets, papers, and mag-
azines on every subject from the heathen
to prunes, but I am starting all over again
in January and will take only two things:
let the 'Quarterly' be one of the two! It has
been so long since I have had any news

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of Agnes Scott." Bell receives her mail
addressed to Mrs. Arabella Farr Crane-des
Champs, 308 S. 9th St., San Jose, Calif.
She has no children.

Georgia (Crane) Clarke moved in Sep-
tember to St. Louis, Mo., where her hus-
band is manager of the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Company. They have two children:
Harriet, 3; and Margaret, almost 2.

Virginia (Crane) Reeves lives at 806
S. Success, Lakeland, Fla.

Elva Crenshaw works with the Ameri-
can Surety Company in Atlanta. She
lives with Mary Louise (Crenshaw)
Palmour in College Park, Ga.

Angie (Cubbedge) Steger's husband is
an army officer. They have two daugh-
ters, ages 20 and 18. At present the
Stegers are stationed in Honolulu.

Mary (Danner) Frazer's husband is a
lawyer in Mobile, Ala. They have two
children: Danner, 11, and Ann, 8.

Venetia (Danner) McClure's husband is
an instructor and composer of music. By
her first marriage to Mr. Bacon in -1906,
Venetia has three children: Robert, 21;
Venetia, 19, and Mary 13. The McClures
live in Mobile, Ala.

Ellie (Dargan) Hanger lives at 40 Edge-
mont Road, Asheville, N. C. She is a
widow with one little six-year-old girl.

Marie (Davis) Douglas' husband is in
the banana importing business in Mobile,
Ala. He is also president of the Mobile
Baseball Association. They have three
girls, Marion, Katherine, and Marie, and
one son, William, Jr.

Willibert Davis is Mrs. L. B. Morton,
311 Brainard St., Houston, Texas.

Carrie (Denmark) Tillman lives in Quit-
man, Ga. She is a widow with one daugh-
ter, Evelyn Joe (Mrs. A. D. Mallory).

Mamie (Dobbins) Shaw's husband is a
cotton exporter in Albany, Ga. They have
one thirteen-year-old daughter.

Mary (Draper) North's husband is the
president of the Manufacturers' National
Bank in Newnan, Ga. Their oldest daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, is now Mrs. Roy Cole; the
second daughter, Emma, is at home; and
their son is a physician in Washington,
D. C.

Louise DuBose is director of Education
and Religious Activities for the Moultrie,
Ga., cotton mill.

Louise Strong Falligant is teaching in
Savannah, Ga.

Mathilda (Fleming) O'Donald lives in
the Ambassador Apts., Jacksonville, Fla.
She is woman's editor of the "Florida
Times-Union," and her daughter is also
connected with the society editorial staff.

Georgia Freeman works at the Y. W. C.
A. in Savannah, Ga.

Mamie Lou (Fulcher) Chandler's hus-
band is teaching in Waynesboro, Ga. They
have four children: girls, 20 and 14, and
boys, 18 and 16.

Eulalie Gamble is Mrs. A. G. Guerard,
care National City Bank of New York,
41 Blvd. Haussman, Paris, France. Eula-
lie is a widow with no children and has
been living abroad a number of years.

Nannie Gilmore is connected with the
administration at the Duval County Hos-
pital in Jacksonville, Fla.

Lucia (Goddard) Halliburton teaches
the 5th grade in the Griffin, Ga., public
school. Her husband is dead. She has
one daughter, Emily, just graduated from
finishing school.

Gussie Mae Goldsmith is an operator at
the Federal Reserve Bank in the Transit
Department in Atlanta. She lives at Apt.
15, 817 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E.

Marie (Gower) Conyers and her husband
are completing work on their new country
estate just out of Greenville, S. C. Mr.
Conyers is a lawyer. Their three chil-
dren, all grown now, are Mrs. Melville
Westervelt (who came to Agnes Scott in
'14 as Sarah Conyers); Priestley, and
Mary-

Hattie (Grace) Bellinger's husband is a
banker at Waycross, Ga. They have three
daughters: Grace, now married; Mary
Wayne, 20, and Louise, 15.

Pauline Gramling is Mrs. J. H. Miles,
5251 Washington Blvd., Indianapolis, Ind.

Elise (Guerard) Bond's husband is in
the i-eal estate business in Savannah, Ga.
They have two sons, both grown, and a
married daughter.

Charlotte Gunby is Mrs. William Rule,
Jr., 1604 W. Clinch Ave., Knoxville, Tenn.
Mr. Rule is cashier of the East Tennes-
see National Bank. Their children are
William Rule, III, 16; F. Gunby Rule, 14,
and Barbara Gunby Rule, 9. Charlotte
writes: "Thank you so very much for
the 'Alumnae Quarterly,' which arrived
today. I wonder how it found me for I
am still listed in it as Charlotte Gunby
of Jacksonville, Fla. As a matter of fact,
I am very much married; we are sending
our oldest son off to college this fall.
Please don't think from that that I am from
the dark ages, though, for I assure you it
was only mid-victorian. But I am still
interested, and there are several of us I
happen to know that are still pretty lively.
I am hoping to work up interest enough
to bring quite a few of us back in 1930."

Louise (Hansell) Whittle is a business
woman in Atlanta. Her husband is dead,
and her only child is a daughter,. Mrs. I.
H. Joffee, of Fort McPherson, Ga.

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Edith May (Hardy) Harvey has been
ill during the summer at St. Luke's Hos-
pital in Kansas City, Mo. She has re-
turned to her home now in Lexington, Mo.
Her children are Katherine, Jack, Eliz-
abeth, and Mary Ellen. Mr. Harvey is
a Ford dealer.

Lizzie Harmon is a nurse, living at 16
E. 39th St., Savannah, Ga.

Blanche (Harper) Warde's husband is a
member of the firm of Warde-Harper Live
Stock Company in Albany, Ga. They
have one daughter, aged eleven.

Annie Louise (Harrison) Waterman's
son, Carol B. Waterman, is nineteen this
year. Mr. Waterman is president of a
steamship company in Mobile, Ala.

Myra Haygood's address is Box 1815,
Capetown, South Africa.

Mary Allen (Henderson) Schilling has
a son at the University of Georgia, and
three younger daughters. Her husband
is cashier of the Merchants and Farm-
ers Bank in Marietta, Ga.

Ellerbe (Holt) Fowler is living at 1019
Terry Ave., Seattle, Wash.

Mary (Holt) McAloney lives in Colorado
Springs, Colo.

Joseph Walker, son of the late Vennie
(Holt) Walker, is pastor of the West
Raleigh Presbyterian Church in Raleigh,
N. C. Vennie's husband is preaching in
Hamlet, N. C.

Harriet Houston is Mrs. C. A. Kerr,
1014 Milledge Rd., Augusta, Ga. She has
been abroad all summer touring England
and the continent.

Rosalie Howell landed on October 26th
on the S. S. President Harding from a
summer spent in European travel.

Lulie (Hurst) Howald will teach again
this winter in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Addie (Jones) Cunningham's husband
has retired from an active business life.
For many years he was connected with
the Central Railroad. They have two
grown children.

Julia (Judge) Harkness, of Eutaw, Ala.,
is an active alumna. Her only child is a
daughter, Sadie Martha Harkness, aged
19. Julia is a widow.

Saidee Hull (King) Harrison has a
daughter, 19, and two sons, ages 16 and
17. They live in Richmond, Va.

Elizabeth May (Laing) Smith lives at
the Washington Hotel, Shreveprt, La. Her
husband is an automobile salesman. They
have no children.

Berta Leckey's address is Hollenbeck
Home, Los Angeles, Calif. She taught
until recently at the Westlake School for
Girls in Los Angeles, but has retired
from the profession now on account of
disability.

Jessie (Litchfield) Kerley is a business
woman in Atlanta. Her three children
are all grown and married.

Mattie (Loyd) Kimbrough's husband is
a farmer. Their only child, Frances, was
graduated from High School last May.

Stella McClelland is Mrs. James A.
Clotfelter, the wife of the Presbyterian
minister at Townville, S. C. Their only
child is a daughter, Dorris Josephine,
born in 1907.

Margaret (McCormack) Lawrence's
children are a daughter, 14, and sons, 16
and 18. Mr. Lawrence is in the insurance
business in Montgomery, Ala.

Ruth McGaughey is Mrs. F. L. Jack,
2704 Scott Ave., Fort Worth, Texas. Her
husband is superintendent of a lumber and
mill company. They have four daughters,
one of whom finished C. I. A. in Denton,
Texas, in May.

Lila McMahon is teaching at C. I. A. in
Denton, Texas.

Mamie (Mayson) Smith's children are
Paul, Cozart, and Dorothy Elizabeth. Mr.
Smith is in the fire insurance business.

Maud (Medlock) Christian's three sons
are all in High School and college this
fall. Mr. Christian is a printer with the
Atlanta Journal. They have a country
home out from Marietta, Ga.

Harriet (Milledge) Salley's husband is
state historian for South Carolina. They
have no children.

Adelaide Montgomery was married in
1912 to Harry Gasque Lewis. They are
living now at 2016 Louisiana St., Little
Rock, Ark., and have one son, Harry Lewis,
Jr., born in 1916. Mr. Lewis is a chemist.

Maggie Peabody is teaching music in
Adel, Ga.

Millie Posey is teaching in the Atlanta
public schools.

Jennie Lou Powell is Mrs. John C.
Grice, 329 Belt Ave., Washington Apts.,
St. Louis, Mo.

Emma (Price) Pillans' husband is a
lawyer in Mobile, Ala. They have one
daughter, Martha, aged 17.

Stella Puleston is Mrs. Stella Arrington,
Sanford, Fla. She is a widow with one
son, Briggs Arrington, aged 19. Stella is
supervising principal of the Sanford Pri-
mary Schools. She has studied recently at
the University of California and at Flor-
ida State College.

Annie Ramsey is the proprietor of a
tea room on Peachtree Street in Atlanta.

Augusta Randall is buyer for the Ladies'
Ready-to-Wear Department at Chamber-
lin-Johnson-DuBose Company in Atlanta.

Helen Clark Rowland was in New York
during the summer. Her permanent ad-
dress is still Savannah, Ga.

Mary Carter Schaefer is Mrs. John Wil-
liam Marks, Toccoa, Ga. Mr. Marks is
a construction engineer. Their one child
is a boy, Edward Schaefer, now nine years
old.

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Institute Reunion of all girls attending
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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

IS AGNES SCOTT UNIQUE?

When we recently approached the General Education Board for a large gift, they
asked: "On what ground would we be justified in helping Agnes Scott when we have
gone out of the college field? Are you unique in any way?" Several other friends of
the college have made similar inquiries. Perhaps it may be helpful to recount some of
the grounds on which we make our plea, and it is likely that Alumnae may help us by
giving other bases or facts on which we may further press our case.

There are approximately 800 "colleges for women" in the United States. Some of
them are weak sisters, and some of them could scarcely qualify as high schools; but how
is any distinction to be made?

Recognition

Agnes Scott has an unusual record for prompt and almost spontaneous recogni-
tion by classifying agencies. The first step any college can take in real classification
is get on the membership list of its Regional Association. In the South, this is the
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States, commonly known
as the "Southern Association". In 1906 Agnes Scott was chartered as a college and
began giving degrees; the very next year, 1907, it was promptly admitted to the Asso-
ciation the first college or university in Georgia to get this coveted honor.

In 1912 we applied for membership in the Southern Association of College Women,
and we were admitted just as quickly as a meeting could be held to consider our case.

In 1920 we applied to the Association of American Universities for recognition on
their Approved List, which gives to our graduates recognition by foreign universities
or countries. Our application was granted at the very next meeting of the executive
committee without even the requirement of inspection or of a formal detailed report
to them.

In 1920 also we applied for membership in the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
which was a kind of highbrow national sister of the S. A. C. W. mentioned above.
There again our application was accepted at the first meeting after it was made. When
this Association and the Southern Association of College Women were merged to make
the present organization known as American Association of University Women, Agnes
Scott was one of the very few Southern colleges to have unconditional membership in
the new Association.

The most significant recognition which has come to us, however, was in the giving to
us of a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In former days, colleges applied for this honor,
and Agnes Scott had been too humble to venture to ask for it. In 1922 the plan was
changed, and it was decided to invite institutions to make applications. On this new
plan in 1925, Agnes Scott was the first institution in the United States, either college
or university, for men or for women or coeducational, to be voted a chapter, receiving
the bid even before such colleges as Bryn Mawr or Wells.

When these recognition tests are applied, the 800 colleges for women dwindle to
only about 10. This is still too large a number for the General Education Board to
help, and the question is whether Agnes Scott is unique in this group.

Location

Our College is located at almost the geographical center of the seven southeastern
states N. C, S. C, Ga., Fla., Ala., Miss., and Tenn. The per capita income of these
states averages $270 per year, while the average for all the United States is $513
nearly twice as much; and the average income in the states where other Phi Beta Kappa

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colleges for women are located is approximately $900. We are in a section where times
are hard and where there is comparatively little accumulated wealth.

The fact that we are an Atlanta institution has great weight. It is noted as a
center for music, art, dramatic interest, education, and other similar activities. There
is an opportunity here to touch the life of other great institutions for white people,
and to lend a helping hand to seven negro institutions. "We are on a great national
highway of transportation so that thousands of people have a chance to come to see
us en route who would never think of going to Vassar, for example, which is off the
beaten paths of travel.

Cosmopolitan Character

While we cannot claim this to an extent greater than most other Phi Beta Kappa
colleges for women, yet it is remarkable in comparison with most other Southern col-
leges either for men or women. We have drawn our students from every state in
the Union and from 13 foreign countries. Our faculty live in 26 different states or
countries and have degrees from 41 first-class universities or colleges. Our Alumnae
are scattered over all the earth.

The general support which we have received in previous campaigns also is of in-
terest. In the last effort we received subscriptions from about 4,900 people besides
our own alumnae and students in raising $870,000, while recently Yale got subscrip-
tions from only 709 people outside her alumni and students in raising $21,000,000. Our
subscribers gave small amounts, but we do show a generality of interest.

Alumnae
The General Education Board has been particular about facts concerning our
Alumnae, and especially concerning the B.A. graduates. Who would think that over
half of our degree graduates have finished within the last six years? Yet this is a fact.
We are a young college, and this must be taken into account in estimating what our
Alumnae have accomplished. We have been able to make a good showing. In educa-
tion, in social service, in religious work, and in some fifty other lines of endeavor,
Agnes Scott girls have made excellent records. We have not sent as large proportion
of students into graduate work as we would like to have done, but the average has
been about 17 per cent for the last six classes. It is impressive that about 75 per cent
of our new students give as a major reason for selecting Agnes Scott the fact that they
know and admire our Alumnae.

Our Relations tvith General Education Board in the Past

Our first application to the Board was in our 20th year 1909 when we had
assets of $262,43 3, and their help gave us our first start in growth.

Our second application was in our 30th year 1919 when we had assets of
$664,90 5; and the help they gave enabled us to develop splendidly.

Now when we are making our application in the 40th year 1929 we can show
assets of $2,131,301. We have made twice as much progress during the last decade
as during the first thirty years put together. Without the help of the General Educa-
tion Board we could not have accomplished so much, and we need their assistance now.

Present Status
On February 26th, we consulted officers of the Board, and they have agreed to
recommend us to their Board at the annual meeting the latter part of May. No one
can tell what the result may be, but we are most encouraged at the progress we
have made in the matter. President Arnett frankly says that our chances will be
greatly improved if we can show at least $100,000 more subscribed before the May
meeting. We are going to have to trust to the Alumnae to help us get it.

J. R. McCAIN.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 5

INTELLECTUAL AMBASSADORS OF GOOD WILL

By ARCHIE M. PALMER

Assistant Director of the Institute of International Education

This summer Elizabeth Cheatham of the class of 192 5 will sail for France to
represent Agnes Scott College and American higher education generally as a Franco-
American Scholar at the University of Toulouse. She is one of eighteen graduates of

American colleges and universities who have been se-
lected to represent the youth of America at the French
universities next year. For the past two years Miss
Cheatham has been a member of the College instruc-
tional staff, having previously spent two years teach-
ing in the Athens (Georgia) High School.

Marguerite Gerard from the Pensionnat la Provi-
dence was selected last summer by the Office National
des Universites et Ecoles Francaises in Paris and the
Institute of International Education in New York, to
accept the generous invitation extended by President
McCain for a French girl to enjoy the hospitality and
facilities of Agnes Scott College as an exchange student.
She has been there all this year and has been very happy in her work and in the congenial
social atmosphere of the College.

During the school year 1924-2 5 Vivian Little of the class of 1924 who is now
instructing in French at the College, was in France on a Franco-American scholarship
at the Lycee Victor Durtty in Paris. While there she also studied at the Sorbonne.

Two hundred and eleven graduate students are this year engaged in advanced study
in American colleges and universities and in foreign universities on the exchange fellow-
ships and other foreign study opportunities administered by the Institute of International
Education. The fundamental idea behind these foreign study opportunities for Ameri-
can students is to make it possible for America to broaden her horizon and to promote
international goodwill through a better mutual understanding between the United
States and foreign countries. That the furtherance of this ideal is being realized is
clearly manifest in the activities of those who have returned after an enjoyment of these
opportunities and the increasing breadth of vision and of interest in international affairs
on the part of our people generally and of our youth particularly. The same results
accrue from the opportunities offered the young intellectuals of the different foreign
countries to come to the United States and to observe and learn at first hand American
culture and university methods. It is hoped that through such exchanges not merely
the beneficiaries themselves may profit but that better understanding and better rela-
tions may be fostered and established among the nations they represent.

Some years ago at a meeting of international societies the late Andrew Carnegie
remarked that in time there would be no place in the world for the peace societies which
he had founded, but that there would always be need for organizations which would
bring different countries together in points of intellectual contact.

Whether one is a foe or a friend of internationalism, whether one believes in a
society of nations or thinks that the human race will prosper best when parcelled into
small, assertive nationalities, one must admit that in the future, as in the past, nations
will be stimulated by the contact of one civilization with another. The understanding
and appreciation of one's neighbors can be best realized through a comprehension of
their culture, of their social life, and of their psychology. In what more effective way
can this end be attained than through the interchange of students and teachers, thereby
effecting the interpretation through the observing eyes of youth.''

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Shortly after the close of the World War the Institute of International Educa-
tion was founded to "develop mutually helpful relations between the United States and
foreign countries through educational agencies." Its general aim of developing in-
ternational education, understanding and good will is accomplished through such ac-
tivities as the interchange of professors and other intellectual leaders, the establishment
of international student fellowships, the holding of conferences on international educa-
tion and the publication of books and pamphlets on the systems of education of the
different countries, including many of great value to students and scholars.

It is quite natural that as an agency for bringing different countries together in
points of intellectual contact, one of the earliest and perhaps one of the outstanding
achievements of the Institute of International Education has been the establishment and
administration of a series of permanent student exchanges between the United States
and the countries of Europe. With the inauguration this year of the Austro-American
Exchange, the Institute now maintains such exchanges with seven European countries:
Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland.

Through these international student exchanges the Institute has for a number
of years been making it possible for a fine body of worthy students to come to the
United States on fellowships and scholarships for study in their special fields in Ameri-
can colleges and universities, and for an equally fine group of American students to
go abroad on reciprocal opportunities for study in European universities. These ex-
change fellowship opportunities are all for graduate study.

This year eighty-five American college graduates intellectual ambassadors of
good will will spend the year abroad on exchange fellowships: one in Austria, five in
Czechoslovakia, twenty-five in France, forty-four in Germany, four in Hungary, and
six in Switzerland. Of the one hundred and four nationals of these countries who are
attending the institutions of higher learning in the United States, one is from Austria,
eight from Czechoslovakia, nineteen from France, forty-seven from Germany, nine
from Hungary, two from Italy and eighteen from Switzerland.

In addition to its international student exchange activities, the Institute of Inter-
national Education administers the American Field Service Fellowships, a group of
fine opportunities for advanced study in France established shortly after the war in
order to develop a more complete realization and consideration of the contributions
made to science and learning by the great minds of France, and also to commemorate
the sacrifice of "the one hundred twenty-seven Field Service men who gave their lives
to the cause and to perpetuate among future generations the mutual understanding and
fraternity of spirit which marked their relations during the war." During the decade
that those fellowships have been in existence one hundred and forty-seven have been
sent to France to study as Fellows. Twelve of them are abroad this year enjoying these
opportunities.

Each year new foreign study opportunities are being entrusted to the Institute for
administration. Last year the Germanistic Society of America decided to establish a
fellowship for an American student who contemplated studying some phase of German
civilization at a German university, provided the Institute would take charge of the
administration. The invitation was accepted and after a very keen competition a fine
young American scholar, an instructor in German language and literature at one of
the midwestern universities, was selected. He is now in Germany studying at the Uni-
versity of Berlin.

For the past few years the French Ministry of Public Instruction has offered to
American men through the Institute of International Education a number of teaching
positions in French lycees and ecoles normales, known as "postes dAssistant dAnglais"
if in the former, or as "postes de Repetiteur dAnglais" if in the latter. This year

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nine American college graduates are in France enjoying these opportunities. Efforts
are now being made to extend these opportunities to American women, and it is hoped
that this end may soon be realized.

In general, graduate students profit most from such foreign study opportunities as
those mentioned above. The organization of education in the European countries and
the methods employed are so different from those under which American students pursue
their work at home that a certain amount of intellectual as well as chronological ma^
turity and development are paramount to the full enjoyment of these advantages of-
fered through study in a foreign university. Nevertheless, the movement described by
the term "Junior Year Abroad", when participated in by organized groups under well-
defined supervision, has won the hearty approval of all the factors concerned in its
operation, the foreign educational authorities, the American college faculties, and
students themselves. It has passed out of the experimental stage and has now apparently
become a permanent factor in international education.

As a means of enhancing and spreading the Junior Year Abroad idea and also of
providing the opportunity for American undergraduates to spend the junior year abroad
studying at some foreign university, the Institute administers a series of undergraduate
scholarships under which this year twenty-five Americans are studying in France, two
in Germany, and two in England. Last year one of these scholarship holders studied
in Madrid and another at St. Andrews in Scotland.

The American student abroad, be he graduate or undergraduate, enjoys the op-
portunity to study a "civilization other than his own" in the making, and is enabled
to interpret and compare his own nation and its institutions with another nation and
its institutions.

COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS NAMED
Dr. McCain and Dr. Sweets to Speak

On Sunday morning, May 26, Dr. Henry H. Sweets, of Louisville, Ky., will give
the baccalaureate sermon. Dr. Sweets has received degrees from Center College, Pres-
byterian College, and Davidson. A Presbyterian minister, he has been secretary of the
Board of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief of the Presbyterian Church, a
trustee of the General Assembly, president of the Presbyterian Educational Associa-
tion of the South, and a member of various important boards.

On Tuesday, May 28, Dr. C. S. McCain, of Greenwich, Conn., will deliver the
commencement address. Dr. McCain is a graduate of Erskine College and Yale Uni-
versity, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is president of the Bankers' Trust Com-
pany and vice-president of the National Park Bank. Among other important positions,
he has been a member of the executive committee of the American Red Cross and
Liberty Loan drives.

Agnes Scott is fortunate in being able to secure two such men as speakers, and the
1929 commencement program will doubtless prove of extreme interest.

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COMMENCEMENT AND REUNIONS MAY 24-28.
"Will Ye No Come Back Again?"

Two by two they come, winding across the campus underneath those great oak
trees, seniors in cap and gown marching with the white-clad sophomores, bearing the
daisy-chain on their shoulders. Across Inman verandah, singing, past Gaines cottage,
down the little elm-bordered walk to the gym, and, still singing, circle around to the
May Day glen.

Don't you remember? Doesn't it all come back? Thronging memories of the
late May afternoon when you walked beside your senior sister bearing the daisy-chain
oh, so proudly! or two years later, when you wore the cap and gown, and your feeling
of happiness was tinged with just a shade of regret because it was the last time when
your throat was unexpectedly tight as the class poem was read when you happened to
catch your family's eye, sitting out there so proudly in that audience of mothers and
fathers and small brothers and sisters, and realized that only the next day it would all
be over, and your family would carry you off with them away from Agnes Scott.
Student days over forever! How still and sweet and green the campus was that day!
And you were leaving, never to come back again!

"Never to come back again?" Never? There ain't no sech word! The alum-
na who doesn't come back to Agnes Scott simply doesn't exist.

All through the year you'll find them there: driving through during the summer
on their way to mountain or seashore homes, walking the husband across the deserted
campus, calling back old memories; they come in throngs for the opening every Sep-
tember, singing the alma mater lustily, showing little freshmen sisters or nieces or
daughters their old dormitory rooms, introducing them to favorite professors; back
for Homecoming Week-end at Thanksgiving, when the Alumnae House bulges out with
returned daughters in their new fur coats, arms full of yellow and white chrysanthe-
mums, telephones frantically ringing, football dates cluttering up Candler street with
their roadsters; back for Founder's Day to toast George and Martha Washington in the
dining rooms, and to dance afterward in a glorified gym; back for May day and Senior
Opera; back for Grand Opera week in Atlanta; and ah, when commencement and re-
union time comes, how they throng back again! Every bedroom in the Alumnae
House full, cots down in the sewing room, cots down in the hall, Lupton and Sturgiss
cottages full of alumnae! Alumnae with husbands in tow; alumnae leading children
by the hand; alumnae who ran away from such "encumbrances" to spend some care-
free days at the college again; new alumnae spending their first checks for railroad fare
back; older alumnae coming to see daughters graduated!

Leaving at graduation "never to come back?" Why, the alumna doesn't live who
doesn't heed the call of Agnes Scott and come back again to "the sheltering arms!"

And this commencement when all the Institute Alumnae are asked to return,
when reunions of '21, '22, '23, '24, and '2 8 are called do you realize that on account
of the size of those later classes, the reunions this May will bring back to the college
more than half of the total number of graduates?

From every nook and corner of Georgia they are coming, from every Southern
state, from faraway states of the union one alumna is coming back from Europe
especially early just to be present at her class reunion.

By train, by automobile, by street car, on foot from far and near the clan is
gathering! Agnes Scott alumnae are "coming home" for reunions the last week-end
in May!

Come back, old girl! Come see the splendid new buildings and plans for future

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development of your college; come see the dear old well-remembered places your fa-
vorite walk; your own old room; the library corner that was always especially yours.
Come back and meet some of the present student body the little sisters of your old
classmates, the girls who are carrying on with love and pride our own Agnes Scott
traditions, and best of all, come back and meet with your old college classmates once
again!

There is nothing else in the world quite comparable to a college reunion, and you
who are privileged to take part in one are fortunate indeed.

May 24-2 8 is the date. Lock up your office desk, give your classes a cut, send the
children to mother's and come you back to Agnes Scott!

Albany Alumnae

On March 13, Dr. McCain met with the Albany, Ga., alumnae to tell them of recent
developments at the college and of the progress of the campaign. Before the meeting
broke up a local photographer made the accompanying picture of the group. Those
present were (front row, left to right): Mrs. George Royal (Lillie Pearl McElwaney),
ex '28; Mrs. Jock Cooper (Leila Joiner), '27; Catherine Carrier, '25; Mrs. J. W. Greena-
walt (Amelia Alexander), '17; (back row) DeCourcy Jones, ex '26; Elizabeth Brown,
'22; Dr. McCain; Mrs. George Nail (Martha Mcintosh), '23, and Mrs. C. Inman Owens
(Eunice Tomlinson), ex '23. We are always glad to get these alumnae group pictures,
and the Quarterly will gladly publish any that are sent in.

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LUCY DILLARD FICKLEN, OUTSTANDING ALUMNA

AND CITIZEN

When the Eighth National Convention of the American Legion Auxiliary, con-
vened at San Antonio, Texas, last October, set itself to the important task of choosing
a national president for the organization for the coming year, its unanimous selection
was Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., of Washington, Ga. Mrs. Ficklen, known at Agnes Scott
College as Lucy Dillard not so many years ago, had been holding important positions
in the Auxiliary ever since the formation of the organization after the close of the
World War and her elevation to the Auxiliary's highest office did not come as a sur-
prise to her friends among the Agnes Scott Alumnae.

Mrs. Ficklen entered the Auxiliary as a charter member of the Jerome A. Wooten
Unit in her home city. She was elected President of the Unit in 1923 and served as
chairman of several important committees of the Georgia Department of the Auxiliary.
At the close of her term as Unit President she was elected President of the Department
of Georgia and her success in this office led to an insistent demand for her re-election.
She refused to succeed herself, however, but in 1926 she consented to serve again and
was elected State President for the second time.

A striking tribute was paid to Mrs. Ficklen's service during her second term as
State President, when the Georgia Department of The American Legion sponsored a
State-wide "Appreciation Week." During this week the members of the Legion through-
out Georgia devoted their efforts to enrolling new members in the Auxiliary in token
of their appreciation of Mrs. Ficklen's work and the aid which the Auxiliary had been
to the Legion during her administrations.

The national organization of the Auxiliary early called for Mrs. Ficklen's services.
In 1924 she was appointed to the National Finance Committee and served on this com-
mittee four years, being its chairman in 1927. In 1928 she served as chairman of the
National Legislative Committee, one of the most important committees in the organiza-
tion, and did an outstanding work in bringing the influence of the women of the
country to the support of legislation beneficial to the disabled veterans and to patriotic
measures.

By the time of the 192 8 national convention, Mrs. Ficklen's record had made her
so much the logical choice for National President that she was unopposed. Her nomi-
nation was greeted by an enthusiastic demonstration and her election followed by
acclamation.

As National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, which is the largest dues-
paying organization of women in the world, Mrs. Ficklen has heavy responsibilities.
All of the Auxiliary's extensive activity for the disabled veterans, the families of the
dead and disabled, the promotion of better American citizenship, the supporting of an
adequate national defense and similar work, falls under her supervision. The adminis-
tration of the huge organization is in itself a tremendous task and requires travel to all
parts of the country.

The question of national defense has had unusual importance to the Auxiliary this
year because of the consideration of the naval construction bill in Congress and the
pacifistic attacks on all defensive movements. The last three days of January Mrs.
Ficklen presided at the Fourth Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense in
Washington, D. C, attended by hundreds of women from every State in the Union.
The conference was sponsored by the Auxiliary and the Daughters of the American
Revolution and was participated in by 3 8 national women's organizations.

As chairman of the conference, Mrs. Ficklen gave the key-note address at the
opening session. She headed a group of distinguished women who took the conference's
resolution in support of the naval construction bill to the Senate, and also led a pil-

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grimage of the conference delegates to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
The arrangement and management of the conference were in her hands and she had the
satisfaction of hearing the conference hailed as the most successful event of its kind
which has ever been held.

The Auxiliary's wide program of aid to the disabled veterans and their dependents
is supported largely through the sale of memorial poppies and one of the endeavors of
Mrs. Ficklen's administration is to increase the volume of this sale. Plans have been
developed whereby ten million poppies are expected to be sold this year. Disabled vet-
erans in government hospitals and convalescent workshops have been given employment
all winter manufacturing the little red memorial flowers and will earn $100,000 through
their work. Last year the poppy sale brought the Auxiliary approximately $900,000
for its welfare activities and this year Mrs. Ficklen hopes to make the sum more than
one million dollars.

Another important activity of Mrs. Ficklen's administration is the obtaining of
educational advantages for World War orphans. Congress granted these orphans an
extension of conspensation beyond the age of eighteen if they remain in school, but as
the compensation payments are not large enough to meet school expenses the Auxiliary,
in co-operation with the Legion, is seeking additional funds for them from the State
Legislatures. Scholarships in state institutions of higher education and vocational train-
ing are also being sought for the orphans so that they will not suffer educational handi-
caps because of their fathers' sacrifice for the country.

Mrs. Ficklen is making her headquarters this year at Indianapolis, Ind., where
national hedaquarters of the Legion and Auxiliary are located. She is continually in
demand at Legion and Auxiliary meetings, conferences and ceremonies and at public
events in all parts of the country and is traveling extensively. In addition to her
Auxiliary affiliation, Mrs. Ficklen is a member of the Georgia Society of the Colonial
Dames of America, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the French Huguenot
Society of Charleston, S. C, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Georgia
Parent-Teacher Association.

When asked to describe her activities since she left Agnes Scott College, Mrs.
Ficklen said that she has devoted most of her time to rearing her family. She has two
sons, one sixteen years old and the other eleven. Her husband is a leading banker of
Washington.

VACATION WHAT THEN?

Before a number of us stretch now three vacation months, and even those who
are not so bountifully blessed with idleness can claim two weeks or so away from the
regular routine. What to do with it now that we have it is the burning question.
Travel? Study? At home? Abroad? A rest? A playtime? A supplementary
job? Several alumnae tell here of the way they have spent past vacations or intend
to spend future ones.

Travel
"Come out of your cage,
Come out of your cage,
And take your soul on a pilgrimage!"

Travel! What do we Americans know about travel? We arc expert on arriving
but we confuse our practical attainment with the leisurely process. Our minds arc
too intent upon proper baggage, comfort, clothes and the schedule of trains in and

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out. Money is a pleasant commodity but most American tourists have too much of
it. One meal at the Negresco is a memory but to stay there would deaden the senses.
(This is surmise; I have only the memory.) Many experiences evade the full purse.

The conducted tourist cannot help himself and for the most part we all go through
this ugly stage of travel as surely as a child must succumb to chicken-pox. But once
having had the disease, why can he not at once enjoy his immunity?

To travel alone is not a handicap if one seeks sharp impressions. Contacts are
then more imperative. But personally I prefer a companion or two to whom I may
say, "This is unique This is not like Chattanooga or Knoxville!" I do not want a
companion whose practicality can foresee an entire itinerary. The unexpected is the
best of the journey. I cannot have the disappointment of a preconceived impression
because by mistake I am landing on Majorca where I never hoped to come.

Of course you may miss your club sandwich or frozen salad but you will never
roam so far afield that Chattanooga and Atlanta will not bring you back to a home
thought. It may be in the Rue de la Paix or on the highest peak of the Pyrenees but
inevitably you will meet an acquaintance and likely enough one you have avoided on
Market or Peachtree, but you will feel mysteriously drawn to him now and will rush to
show him where he may eat a delectable filet of sole.

But the contact is not long. They have more money than you and so move faster.
They have worlds to conquer. They can count out ten countries to your one. But
you have the satisfaction of asking yourself

"What is this life, if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?"

M. McC.

TO CAMP!
Is the summer "just another season passing by" or is it the glorious time when
you can break away from everything and everybody and hasten off to camp? Camp
holds a definite place for everyone not our athletic friends alone. If you are com-
pletely worn out physically and mentally, go to camp. There you "will find the time
for a most perfect leisure reading, sleeping, or loafing. If you are a lover of nature,
go to camp. There collect your butterflies, study local flora, or write your poetry.
No place could be more ideal. If you like athletics but are unskilled and desire instruc-
tion, go to camp. How much easier it is to learn anything when taught by a com-
petent, interested instructor! (I, even I, learned to ride horseback at camp.) If you
are a good athlete and enjoy competing with other athletes, go to camp. There you
will find the best equipment and advantages in every sport. Then too, maybe you
would like a bit of constructive criticism and excellent instruction.

"Everybody happy and having a good time." That's just the way it is at a camp.
That is one place where grouchers and calamity Anns are missing quantities. You
can develop your body, your smile, your good nature, and anything else you want to.
It's a jolly good place to be.

There is a recent devolpment in the south of summer camps for people above the
usual campers age. These camps last for periods of one or two weeks, sometimes longer.
These should be especially attractive to those who have been closely confined to their
work during the winter and to those who have never enjoyed the privilege of spending
the summer in an organized girls camp.

Register for a place in some such camp, or apply for a position as counsellor in
some good camp. You'll feel years younger and you will store up enough energy to
carry you sailing through next year. By all means, spend some part of this summer
camping! E. L.

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UNIVERSITIES CALL

Why able-bodied Americans should work energetically for nine months of the
year, and then call a complete halt and let themselves stagnate mentally during three
months, undoing so much that the past nine months' work have accomplished, is some-
thing I could never understand. I am one person who is heartily in favor of the sum-
mer school idea.

Surely, no one can make a mistake in attending Harvard Summer School, for ex-
ample. Aside from the instruction and charm of the University itself, there are any
number of trips to be taken in and around Cambridge and Boston. These excursions
are arranged by the University for Wednesday afternoons and Saturdays and at a very
low cost.

To the lover of American literature, what could be more inspiring than a glimpse
of the study of Henry W. Longfellow, a visit to the home of Louisa M. Alcott, and
an afternoon spent at The House of Seven Gables? Then too, the interesting boat
trips to Plymouth, Provincetown, Marblehead, etc., offer the most delightful of recrea-
tions.

The dormitory life and its spirit of friendliness are unusually attractive. In the
common room of each dormitory, there are frequent gatherings and you are made to
feel that you are a member of a big, happy summer family. The women students, dur-
ing the summer months, occupy the Freshman dormitories Gore, McKinlock, and
Standish on the banks of the Charles river. These buildings are immaculate, and a
suite consisting of study, bedroom and bath may be had at a very reasonable rate.

Everything considered, I believe that a summer spent at a university may prove
to be one of the most satisfactory methods of refreshing the mind, restoring the energy,
and giving to the spirit that which it needs to "carry on." S. W.

TRY A NEW JOB!

"Now, this summer we want you to take a complete rest," say the family. "For-
get all about school and come down and spend the entire summer doing absolutely
nothing at home."

How wonderful that sounds, but tired school teacher, beware! There is a trick
in it. "Doing absolutely nothing" is so apt to mean taking complete charge of the
children while the rest of the household has a breathing spell, getting the family sewing
caught up and just wait till the study club and the Sunday school and Missionary
Society and Wednesday Afternoon bridge club learns that you are in town! They will
pounce on you with such tenacious claws that you will find yourself trekking wearily
from one meeting to another all summer long, reading papers, leading discussions, plan-
ning programs, teaching classes, taking your turn at entertaining, etc.

"Complete rest?" There ain't no sech animal, and in planning your three months'
vacation you might as well face the fact June 1st and plan accordingly as to admit it
to your sorrow and disappointment on the fifteenth of September when familiar school
bells are calling again.

May I suggest a vacation that is frankly busy, but remunerative (sometimes) and
a splendid rest because it is so very different from your regular job? Try another sort
of work for three months. If you. work ordinarily with small children during the
year, get something to do with grown-ups; if you work with women, get a job where
you'll see a man occasionally; if you teach in a country town, come to a city to work;
if you associate with a rich or even comfortably fixed class of people usually, find
work for the summer among the very poor; if you are in a place of responsibility, it
will rest you wonderfully to take a small job where the work is cut and laid out for
you where you close up your desk at 5 o'clock and arc through until 8:30 the next
day; and the corollary: if you have a stereotyped laid-out job during the year, find a
position for vacation months where you can lead as councillor in a camp, for in-
stance.

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Try to get something as different as possible from your regular work. Do a little
manual labor during vacation if brain-work is your usual diet. Work, even hard work,
will be a decided rest if it is a change from your regular occupation. And the dif-
ferent point of view you'll gain by stepping around to another angle of this making-
a-living picture, the broadening influences thus brought to bear on your general at-
titude, are, I believe, worth more to a vacation-seeking worker than three months of
determined and labored idleness. I have tried both; idleness once (but never again!),
work often, and I'll cast my vote for a gainfully busy vacation every time as a time
of real rest.

How to get the jobs? Ah, that is a horse of another color. There are not enough
summer jobs to go around, of course, but a number do exist, and determination to se-
cure one, and wire-pulling, will often turn the trick. F. S.
THE BLISS OF DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Last summer Elinor wanted me to go to our state university to study, and Alma
was equally insistent that I accompany her on a jaunt through Europe. For some rea-
son, however, I had temporarily lost that "upward and onward" urge which had been
instilled in so many of us with the presentation of our diplomas. I informed both
friends that my plans were already made that I was going to stay at home and do
absolutely nothing that is, unless I found something easier and lazier to do.

Behold, me, then, on two typical occasions. It is nine o'clock on a dull, rainy morn-
ing. I experimentally open one eye and see nothing more interesting than one of
Alma's foreign letters on my desk. Somehow, it strikes me as most amusing that poor
Alma must rise early each morning to chase European culture, to "do" three churches
before lunchtime. And one hears so much about the discomforts of foreign trains
and tubless hotels. With a contented grin, I sink deeper into my pillows and sleep
again.

It is 12:30, exactly the time that Elinor is clutching her fountain pen preparatory
to a frantic dash after Professor Highbrow's remarks on the fauna of the eocene era.
I am ensconced calmly in a corner of the front porch swing. Smilingly I sip a bit of
my cool lemonade and open my magazine. It contains the latest installment of one of
the best murder tales out in years. Culture? No. Intellectual stimulation? Per-
haps not, unless random guessing of the murderer's identity can be called that.

What if Alma does visit all the picture galleries and churches in Europe? She
comes home weary unto death. What if Elinor does complete a course of study and
come off victorious with three A's and a certificate to prove it? Can these brief mo-
ments of triumph compare with the calm feeling of peace which pervades my smug
self, after a blissful summer spent in doing absolutely nothing? E. McC.

FOUNDER'S DAY RADIO PROGRAM

On February 22 we celebrated Founders' Day with our fourth annual radio pro-
gram, broadcast over WSB, from the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. At the college were
held the customary formal dinner (with the seniors in colonial costumes), and the
dance in the gym afterwards. In the Pompeian room of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel,
the "home group" of Agnes Scott alumnae those from Atlanta and Decatur and
nearby and their husbands were gathered for their second Founders' Day Banquet.
They had as their guests Miss Hopkins, Dr. McCain, Mrs. Hilda McConnell Adams
of Columbus, Ga., president of the Alumnae Association; Miss Polly Stone, alumnae
secretary; several of the trustees and their wives; several members of the Agnes Scott
faculty and a special chorus from the college glee club. With Mrs. Clara Whips Dunn
and Miss Polly Stone as toastmistresses, the program progressed easily and with occasional
whoops of delight from the husbands, who either thoroughly enjoyed themselves, or
gave a splendid imitation of doing so.

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The radio program was arranged by Miss Stone and Mrs. Gussie O'Neal Johnson,
who has planned the music for this event on each of our three former broadcasts.
There were inspiring talks by Miss Hopkins and Dr. McCain, and the dear old familiar
college songs brought tears of happy remembrance to the eyes of many an alumna who
was listening, "far from the reach of the sheltering arms."

We have not space to tell of all the messages we have received telling of the joy
the program brought, but we do want to mention a few here:

Messages of "program coming in fine" were received from Margaret Mixon,
Florida; Ted Wallace, Tennessee; Martha Pennington, Florida; Julia (Watkins) Huber,
Louisiana; Margaret (Watts) Cooper, Rome, Georgia; Cornelia Cooper, Alabama; Mary
(Hyer) Vick, Florida; Carolina McCall, Alabama; Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer, North
Carolina; Clyde White and Elizabeth (Harris) Holmes, North Carolina; Evelyn (Walker)
Reep, Kentucky; Belle (Jones) Horton, Alabama; Mildred Jennings, Augusta, Georgia;
Elizabeth Roark, Tennessee; Clara Waldrop, Newnan, Georgia; Margaret Tufts, North
Carolina; Nellie Scott Candler, Florida; Mary Phlegar Brown, North Carolina; Mary
Ann McKinney, Texas; Anna (Harrell) Ballard, Alabama; Alma (Downing) Blodgett,
Gainesville, Georgia; Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow, Alabama; Leila (Joiner) Cooper,
Albany, Georgia; Ladie Sue Wallace, Rutledge, Georgia; Frances Rainey, Louisiana;
Mabel (Dumas) Crenshaw, Tennessee, Ruth Evans Masengill, Tennessee.

Telegrams of disappointment were received from several individuals and groups
of alumnae who, in spite of the fine clear night (there was a disturbing electrical storm
last year) , were prevented by a stronger station or some other circumstance from get-
ting WSB. Some of the disappointed ones who twisted dials frantically, but in vain,
were the group of Savannah, Georgia, alumnae; Grace (Zachry) McCreery in Cleve-
land, Ohio, (Detroit drowned out WSB) ; the Jacksonville, Florida, alumnae club; and
the Richmond, Virginia, club.

Groups of alumnae who were successful in getting the program met in Gastonia,
North Carolina; Winter Haven, Florida, Athens, Georgia; Decatur, Alabama; Greens-
boro, North Carolina; Carroll ton, Georgia; St. Louis, Missouri, where seven alumnae
met with Mary Bell McConkey; Greenville, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee;
Columbia, South Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Green-
wood, South Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; Cartersville, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama.

The Birmingham alumnae club had a banquet that night at the Old Mill in Moun-
tain Brooks Estates. Louise (Buchanan) Proctor presided as president, and Sallie Hor-
ton as toastmistress. Miniature George and Martha Washington dolls made by Pat
Turner held the place cards for each cover. Those present were: Mrs. J. Tate, Vallie
Young (White) Archibald, Grace Carr, Laura (Oliver) Fuller, Eleanor Gresham, Eliza-
beth (Ransom) Hahn, Sallie Horton, Frances Bitzer, Susie Reid (Morton) Pow, Louise
(Buchanan) Proctor, Pat Turner, Annabel Stitli, Annie Lee (Gray) Lindgren, Eugenia
(Thompson) Aiken, Dorothy (Bowron) Collins, Margaret (Griffin) Williams, Mary
(Bryan) Winn, Mary Ray Dobyns, Olivia Swan, Fannie (Burwell) Chisolm, and
others.

As a special treat, Laura (Candler) Wilds in Hendersonville, North Carolina, let
her two small daughters sit up past their usual early bedtime "to hear the program of
their future alma mater."

"I am listening in from the heart of the snowcapped Rocky Mountains," wired
Louise (Hurst) Howald, from Santa Fe, New Mexico. This message was the furthest
received from the west.

Waycross, Georgia, alumnae celebrated royally, and thoroughly enjoyed an Agnes
Scott evening, in spite of the fact that WSB failed to come through. One of them de-
scribed the evening: "Winifred Quarterman invited all of the Agnes Scott girls for dinner
in a private dining room at the Georgian Grill. The table was beautifully decorated
in purple and white flowers, the place cards were telegrams carrying messages from
Agnes Scott, and each of us received a corsage of purple and white flowers as favors.
After the dinner we were joined by Mrs. Dan Lott, mother of Katharine Lott, '29, and

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two or three girls whom we are hoping will go to Agnes Scott. There was a lot of
good fellowship and we felt that we were a part of Founders' Day celebration just
the same."

"Some ten or twelve of the daughters roamed to the radio party on Founders'
Day in spite of eight inches of snow and then not a single note came through! We
kept our ears to the radio, but in vain. So we each turned in and became a local
broadcasting station; many were the tales that were told." This from Richmond,
Virginia.

"I grew so homesick I wept all the time they were singing the alma mater," wrote
one North Carolina alumna. "The reference to Tuesday night sings and yards of
daisy chain was just too much to bear."

"Georgia Watson, Nan Lingle, and I strained our ears to hear the program," wrote
Miss Leslie Gaylord, from Chicago, "but got nothing but static, much to our grief.
We were clutching our coins with which to wire you, and had already composed the
original sentence 'program coming in fine', but it never did!"

The Savannah, Georgia, alumnae met for dinner at the DeSoto hotel, and were
deeply chagrined to find the hotel radio out of whack on that one night of all others!

"Baltimore, Maryland, alumnae having first reunion, and are listening in," wired
Helen (McCormick) Kirk.

"We had a very merry time here Founders' Day," wrote Eleanore Albright from
New York City. "Knowing that it would be almost impossible to get in on the radio
program, we had an Agnes Scott celebration in the form of a tea that afternoon. Quite
a group were collected: Blanche Berry, Willie White Smith, Martha Crowe, the
Ramage twins, Pearl Kunnes, Kenneth Maner, Quenelle Harrold, Pauline Smathers, Miss
Mary Campbell; and at the last minute we got hold of Ruth Scandrett. On Saturday,
the 23 rd, Miss Randolph came to visit Sarah Slaughter and me, and Ruth invited her
and Quennelle and Sarah and me to tea at her apartment in the village on Sunday. So
you see, even when the 'daughters' are in the big city, it is still a holiday event to plan
a gathering."

Charlotte, North Carolina, alumnae met with Lula Groves (Campbell) Ivey. The
following were present: Mary (Keesler) Dalton, Mildred (Shepherd) McMillan, Eddie
(Hunter) Pease, Clyde (McDaniel) Jackson, Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin, Marion
(Symmes) Candler, Alice (Cowles) Barringer, Anne (Gilleylen) Quarles, Cama (Bur-
gess) Clarkson, Jeannette (Archer) Neal, Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson, Ruth (Crowell)
Choate, Groves (Campbell) Ivey, Louise (Crosland) Huske, Rosa (Milledge) Pattillo,
Cleo McLaurine, Elsie Fairley, Evelyn Josephs, Louisa Duls, and Maria Rose.

Lucile (Smith) Bishop and Sarah Tate were responsible for the splendid meeting
of the Florida alumnae in Orlando for Founders' Day. Lucile writes: "We gathered
them in from the surrounding territory. Mrs. Williams (Lou Ella Griffin), a 'daughter'
of thirty-seven years ago, came and brought her son brave young man! He, with Mr.
Webster Bishop (Wilmer Daniel's husband) had to hold down these fourteen women.
My husband would have been handcuffed and dragged to the party if he had not been
in South Carolina on business. Even the host, W. I. Miller, forsook us; his excuse was
serving hot dogs at the fair! Ten of us met for dinner at the Latch-String Tea House
and Agnes Scott colors were visible in the table decorations. Then we went to Georg-
iana (White) Miller's house where the rest of the gang had gathered. The radio pro-
gram came in quite well. Georgiana had some of her old annuals, and we enjoyed
ourselves thoroughly in looking them over. We enjoyed the written messages from
the faculty immensely. Ruth (Guff in) Griffin almost hit the ceiling when I began
with Mr. Holt's familiar: 'Now, my good children.' ' Those present were: Mary
(Hyer) Vick, Winter Garden; Georgiana (White) Miller; Sarah Tate; Grace Bargeron;
Mae (Curry) Rockwell; Wilmer (Daniel) Bishop; Faustelle (Williams) Kennedy, Lou
Ella (Griffin) Williams, Floy and Myra Sadler, Oakland; Catherine Mitchell and Ruth
(Guffin) Griffin, Kissimmee; Mary Stewart McLeod, Bartow, and Lucile (Smith)
Bishop.

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NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

Poetry.

Incomparably the best book we have read of late is John Brown's Body, by Stephen
Vincent Benet (Doubleday Doran) . As an impartial, accurate, and imaginative history
of the American Civil "War; as a study of the spirit of a bygone day, especially of the

Old South; as a moving novel; as a poem of amazing power and beauty as all of these
it surely has not its equal in American letters. From the invocation to the American
muse to the last page and there are nearly four hundred pages there is not a dull
line. The incisive words, the color, the sharp beauty beauty of memorable rhythms,
beauty of negro harmonies, beauty of harsh cannon crashing make well-nigh irresistable
the urge to quote.

Remembering Tristram, with its "white sunlight flashing on the sea", its "bells
of singing gold", we are glad, to learn that a new narrative poem by Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Cavendar's House, is to be published by Macmillan in May.

Lovers of Emily Dickinson, that irredescent shy spirit among poets, will value
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred
Little Hampson (Little, Brown) . Among these poems, withheld by her sister Lavinia,
are some of the most exquisite Emily ever wrote some of the finest expressions of
mysticism in the language. Here is a book to own, for it is silver and air and sing-
ing birds.

Letters:

Of The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murray
(Knopf), a reviewer in The New York Times writes: "Very seldom do letters, par-
ticularly letters which comprise an edited selection, prove so varied, so stimulating, so
genuine, so moving. They have about them at times an intolerable beauty compounded
of many elements suffering, gay courage, the inner loneliness of the heart, apprecia-
tion of the visible and tactile world, and love."
Fiction:

The last S. S. Van Dine novel to date is The Bishop Murder Case (Scribners).
Before the Quarterly goes to press the detective story addicts will all have devoured it,
and the rest will wish they had; for pitiful indeed in these days (we speak feelingly) is
the plight of one ignorant of the current mysterious murders and murderous mysteries.
We have just read in "The Atlantic Monthly" for April an essay by Marjorie Nicholson
of the English faculty of Smith, and learned therein that detective stories are the chosen
food of all true intellectuals. Among the more eminent of the enthusiasts she cites
are Kittredge and Lowes of Harvard, and Lovejoy of Hopkins.

Dodsworth (Harcourt Brace) is the worst that we have read among the opera
of Sinclair Lewis though we admit to having escaped Mantrap. Mr. Mencken metes
out to the author the following high praise: "He is, by long odds, the best reporter

ever heard of Babbitt shaving, Dr. Kennicott operating, Gantry drunk these are

little masterpieces that no rival has ever matched There are plenty of things of

the same kind in Dodsworth." We recommend it to those who can grow ecstatic
over such little masterpieces. We cannot. Yet, despite deliberate prejudice, we must
admire certain undoubted excellences in the book. Fran and Sam Dodsworth abroad
furnish Mr. Lewis an excellent opportunity for contrasting the European and American
civilization; and he does this skilfully and tellingly.

Dark Hester (Houghton Mifflin) is the new novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick,
the author of the memorable Little French Girl.

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A ROMANTIC INSTITUTION
The Allison-James School in New Mexico

By LOUISE HURSE HOWALD, Dean

Before the settlement of our colonies there came into this western country a group
of Spanish conquerors, whose love of the Catholic faith spurred them on to new con-
quests, new adventures. The descendants of these conqtiistadorcs pushed their way up
the narrow mountain canyons following the little snow-fed streams whose small store
of water aided them in their fight against drought and barren soil to raise enough on
which to live. And here, during the passing of the centuries, when civilization has
made such wonderful strides forward, they have been hidden away and forgotten like
those early settlers in our own southern mountains.

From these straggling, poverty-stricken little settlements, or plazas, as they are
called by the Spanish speaking people, come our Allison-James girls. It is a long step
forward for them, for in their home surroundings it is possible for you to think that
you are in some foreign land. They live in small adobe houses with only a tiny window
or two for light and air. Poverty is evident on every side and expressed in many ways.
There are stunted, undernourished and diseased children. There are women draped in
black dresses which sweep the ground, who draw across their faces the black shawls,
a relic of old Spain which still survives here, to hide their sad eyes and dark parched
skins which speak so eloquently of their lives of hardship. There are men whose bent
backs and weathered faces tell plainly the tragic struggle they have to provide the little
they have for their loved ones. These are the pitiable descendants of those proud ad-
venturers from old Spain.

But the girlhood of New Mexico is awakening and within a very short time after
these girls come to our school a great change is apparent. They have learned many
new things, their days are full of new experiences. They have broader contacts than
ever before. They learn how to work systematically, and, what is just as important,
they learn how to play. They have debates and contests, play tennis and basketball,
they have concerts and parties, an orchestra and a glee club. Everything possible is
done to make them happy, normal girls who will develop into happy, normal women.
They have their own Sunday school, Christian Endeavor societies and Life Service Band.
Allison-James School is about sixty-five years old and has grown from a very small
day school into a boarding school whose four years of high school work is accredited.
The school has thoroughly up-to-date and splendidly equipped departments in music,
domestic art, domestic science, and a commercial department. Our Sage Memorial, an
administration building which ranks second to none in New Mexico, and three large
dormitory buildings equipped with all the conveniences that make life pleasant and
comfortable, add to the efficiency and enjoyment of our work and the leaven that goes
out from Allison-James into all parts of New Mexico, who can estimate?

It almost fills my heart to the bursting point when I hear our one hundred and
twenty girls sing:

"From the snow-capped Rocky Mountains,
To the winding Rio Grande,
From the valley of the Pecos
To the desert's burning sand,
In all sections of our southwest
Arched by skies of turquoise blue,
May the honored name of Allison
Stand for girlhood staunch and true."

Do you wonder that I love my work? It is the most absorbingly interesting school
imaginable, to students, teachers, and administration.

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ALUMNAE GROUPS MEET
Washington, D. C.

On February 15, Marguerite Russell, '27,
had a get-together tea for Agnes Scotters
in Washington.

Birmingham, Ala.

Louise (Buchanan) Proctor, '25, is the
president of this group; Frances Bitzer,
'25, vice president, and Pat Turner, ex '24,
secretary and treasurer. "We have changed
into a luncheon club, meeting once a
month."

Jacksonville, Fla.

This group meets the fourth Monday in
every month, having every other meeting
at night and every other one in the after-
noon, so that teachers, married alumnae,
and business women can all attend some
of the meetings.

Atlanta, Ga.

The "home group" of alumnae is one of
the regular outstanding organizations of
Atlanta club life. Their monthly meetings
on Tuesday afternoons are largely attended
and they are doing splendid work. Their
latest feat was to entertain the college
preparatory seniors of the Atlanta high
schools at the college. The girls were in-
vited for a program of games and contests
in the afternoon, stayed for dinner in the
two college dining halls, and were enter-
tained by the student body at a dance in
the gym in the evening. Atlanta alum-
nae and their husbands (all praise to
them, too, noble creatures!) drove out at
nine and carried the high school girls
home in cars.

Decatur, Ga.

The Decatur alumnae, though fewer in
number, do not propose to let the Atlanta
alumnae get ahead of them! They will
entertain the Decatur High school seniors
as their guests for May Day and Senior
Opera at the college.

Greenville, S. C.

A group of alumnae met at the home of
Virginia Norris, '28, on the evening of
April 16 to hear recent news and plans
for the development campaign. Those
present were Louise (Sloan) Thomas, Eliz-
abeth (Curry) Winn, Margery (Moore)
McAulay, Ruth Carpenter, Susie (Stokes)
Taylor, Betty Allgood and Virginia Norris.

MAY DAY ON MAY 4

The annual May Day fete will be held
this spring on Saturday afternoon, May
4, with the Senior Opera Company enter-
taining the college community in the eve-
ning.

Charlotte Hunter, of Davidson, N. C, a
lovely brunette, who for the past two years
has been a maid in the May queen's court,
was elected queen of festivities for this
year. Charlotte is a most representative

student, being president of the Athletic
Association and president of Hoasc.

The theme for May Day this year will
be taken from the story Paris and
the Golden Apple, "and from the original
story," the May Day committee hastens to
add, "not from Mr. Erskine's version."

Reservations for the night in the Alum-
nae House may be made now through the
Alumnae secretary. May Day always
draws out to the college throngs of vis-
itors from Atlanta and out of town and
many alumnae.

The title of senior opera this year has
not yet been made public, but remember-
ing past successes of "Madame Butter-
milk," "Car Men," "Lo, He Grins," "Lucy
the Lawn Mower," "Tan Trousers,"
"Dora's Good Enough," etc., we predict a
brilliant performance on the evening of
May fourth.

CAMBRIDGE SUMMER SESSION

The University of Cambridge, England,
is offering this summer a session from
July 23 to August 20. The session has
been especially designed for graduates of
American colleges and universities and
should prove a most attractive opportunity
for Americans to gain a real understand-
ing of English life and institutions while
following interesting courses in either
English History or Literature. Besides
the x - egular courses, there will be the gain
by residence in Cambridge arid by visits
to neighboring places of interest. There
will also be opportunities of meeting a
number of students from European coun-
tries who will be in Cambridge during the
same weeks. The courses offered are His-
tory of Great Britain, at home and over-
seas from 1688 to 1914; History of Europe,
1789 to 1914; Some Problems of Govern-
ment Today; International Organization
for Peace Since 1919; Shakespeare and his
Contemporaries; The English Novel; Some
English Essayists and Prose-writers; Some
Modern English Poets. Tuition for the
whole session will amount to about $30.00,
and board and room may be secured for
$15.00 per week. No summer courses are
offered to foreigners at Oxford this sum-
mer.

PHI BETA KAPPA ANNOUNCEMENTS

Three members of the class of '29 were
initiated into the Agnes Scott chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa in February. They are
Eleanor Lee Norris, Greenville, S. C;
Genevieve Knight, Safety Harbor, Fla., and
Elizabeth Hatchett, Glasgow, Ky.

Alumnae members elected in February
Kathleen Kennedy, Ona, W. Va.; Marguer-
ite (Wells) Bishop, Rutherford, N. J.;
Louise McNulty, Dawson, Ga.; Annie Tait
Jenkins, Crystal Springs, Miss.; and R.
Florence Brinkley, Baltimore, Md.

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

"Vacation What Then?" has a num-
ber of contributors, some of whom have
said in no uncertain terms that they would
turn editor-murderers if their names were
disclosed. A few, however, are not so vio-
lent. Margaret McCallie, 1909, who ad-
vocates travel, has done quite a bit of
trekking over Europe in the usual and out
of the way places too. During term-time,
she teaches in the Bright School in Chat-
tanooga, Tennessee. The author of "Try a
New Job" is one divine who follows her
own instructions. Her regular, nine
months' a year job is with the idle rich,
and for four summers past she has spent
the entire summer resting up from work
by giving her services to the Family Wel-
fare Society. Sarah Webster, who tells
of her summer at Harvard University is
a graduate in the class of 1917. She
teaches in the High School in Atlanta, Ga.
The advocate of summer camps is Eliza-
beth Lynn, '27, who for the past few
summers has been councillor at Rockbrook
Camp, Brevard, N. C. Elizabeth is in-
structor in Physics at Agnes Scott.

Elizabeth Cheatham, '25, is the new book
editor of the Quarterly. We chose her for
this office before she won the scholarship
to study at Toulouse next year, and al-
though the staff hates to lose her so soon,
our vanity is vastly flattered that the In-
stitute of International Education chose
just as we did. "Notes on New Books" is
the name of Miss Cheatham's department.

In his "President's Page" messages, Dr.
McCain lays before the alumnae in each
issue of the Quarterly the most important
matters confronting the college at that
time. One great advantage of the small
college is the contact between administra-
tion and student body; the "President's
Page" furnishes this contact between pres-
ident and alumnae body.

Until a few weeks ago, Archie M. Pal-
mer was assistant director of the Institute
of International Education, and it was
while still at that post that he wrote for
this issue of the Quarterly, "Intellectual
Ambassadors of Good Will." Mr. Palmer
was a visitor at the Agnes Scott Alumnae
House in January. On August 1, Mr.
Palmer will take up his new duties as
Associate Secretary of the Association of
American Colleges, in charge of educa-
tional research on college administrative
problems.

A FEW FACULTY NOTES

Miss Jean Davis writes from Wells Col-
lege, where she is teaching this winter:
"Last week I was in New York. One nice
thing which happened was that Miss
Campbell (formerly of the Agnes Scott
Greek faculty) gave a tea for me in her

apartment near Columbia. The alumnae
present were Quenelle Harrold, Mary Ri-
viere, Kenneth Maner, Willie White Smith,
Martha Crowe, Blanche Berry, Eleanor Al-
bright, and Sarah Slaughter. They all
seemed to be happy and were doing such
interesting things. The next morning
Blanche Berry went with me and a group
of Wells students to visit the Stock Ex-
change. When we left the Exchange,
there was a panic among the brokers
read the New York Times of April 2 if
you don't believe me!"

Miss Ella Young suffered both a very
painful accident and a heart-breaking dis-
appointment in falling and breaking her
hip just as she was boarding an ocean
liner for a long-looked-forward-to trip
abroad. She was carried to a New York
Hospital.

Randolph-Macon Womans College has
elected to membership in its chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa Miss Mary Westall, one
of their alumnae, who is a member of
Agnes Scott's Biology faculty.

Miss Louise Lewis, Miss Mary Stuart
MacDougall, and Mrs. George P. Hayes,
wife of Dr. Hayes, head of the English
department, will sail on May 18 for a
summer abroad. Miss Lewis and Miss
MacDougall will join Miss Harn in Ger-
many for a few weeks. Mrs. Hayes,
whose home is in Lyons, France, is taking
her two little girls, Ellen and Anne Flor-
inne, for several months' visit to their
grandmother.

LOST ALUMNAE

You have helped locate lost alumnae
in the past; don't "weary in well-doing,"
but look over this list and help us out
again!

Anne DuPre Choate, ex '28, Orlando,
Fla.

Mrs. B. W. Claunch (Pauline Van Pelt),
'20, New Braunfels, Texas.

Mrs. A. B. Cummings (Annie B. Con-
nell), academy, Orlando, Fla.

Mrs. Robert C. Edwards (Annadawn
Watson), '24, Birmingham, Ala.

Willie Mae Elkins, ex '15, Fitzgerald,
Ga.

Katherine Hadley, ex '25, Ocean Springs,
Miss.

Mrs. G. D. Howell, (Georgia Gaston),
Institute, Bristol, Va.

Mrs. A. C. Kelly (Gertrude Ausley), In-
stitute, Thomasville, Ga.

Mrs. A. H. Lichty (Ruth Herndon Mur-
ray) ex '15, Nashville, Tenn.

Mrs. Willoughby Middleton (Lillian Jen-
kins) ex '20, Okhart, 111.

Mrs. James G. Patton, jr. (Katherine
Jones) ex '18, Blacksburg, Va.

Mrs. Luscome Simpson (Vera High-
tower) Jamaica, N. Y.

Louise Schimelpfenig, ex '15.

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Concerning Ourselves

Institute reunion this May!
1893

Mary (Barnett) Martin's son, Edward,
will be graduated from the Presbyterian
College in June.

1899

Annie Jean Gash writes from New
York: "Your letter in regard to the Agnes
Scott- Vassar debaters found me back home
in Carolina, after I had been side-tracked
in a hospital in Richmond. So I missed
out on that, but I ran into Bell (Dunning-
ton) Sloan in the Metropolitan museum
last Saturday and she told me she attended
the tea for the debaters, her first 'alumnae
meeting.' We had not seen each other for
twenty-five years, but I am hoping we can
make up for lost time. Her husband, Dr.
T. D. Sloan, is at the Post Graduate Hos-
pital. I have had a little tilt with flu
but am fast getting well enough to enjoy
New York again."

1903

Annie Aunspaugh visited Agnes Scott
in October. "Miss Hopkins showed me all
through the beautiful Anna Young Alum-
nae House. I wish I could have stayed
long enough to have enjoyed its hospitality.
It was a joy to see the growth of Agnes
Scott."

1904

Laura (Candler) Wilds writes from Hen-
dersonville, N. C: "As a special treat my
two little girls sat up on the night of
February 22 to enjoy the Agnes Scott ra-
dio program. They are already talking
about going to Agnes Scott themselves,
and even my boy says he thinks he will,
too! I had hoped to get to the class re-
union this May, but things are very un-
settled here now, since the schools closed
for flu and will have to run on into June
to make up the time."

A card from Clifford Hunter reads: "In
May, 1926, I returned from Shantung,
China, to help my mother with the care
of the children left by my sister, Jule.
These three years have been spent in Fort
Valley, Ga., acting as home-maker for four
fine children who have grown very dear
to me. The heart has yearned for the
adopted home in China and the Chinese
friends and co-workers during the distress-
ing times there, but I have found com-
pensations in the task at home."

Kathleen (Kirkpatrick) Daniel writes:
"I am living in the same old home place
here in Decatur, keeping house and trying

to bring up my two girls in the way they
should go. This commencement is the time
for the reunion of the class of '04. I do
hope we can get together, as we have had
no reunion since we left school."
1906

Next class reunion, 1930.

Annette Crocheron is teaching at the
High School in Gadsden, Ala., where her
niece is preparing for Agnes Scott.

Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin writes that she
and "the girls" are planning their annual
lark at the Alumnae House this spring.
"The girls" are a group of her married
friends in Washington who each spring
run away from children and husbands and
household cares for a lazy, hilarious week-
end together at Agnes Scott and Atlanta.
A later letter from Ida Lee says: "My
young musician, Charles, aged nine, has
been entered by his teacher in the con-
test to be held by the Georgia Federation
of Music Clubs at their convention in De-
catur April 18 and 19. I am bringing him
up for the entire week-end for I want to
show him the sights of Atlanta all down
the line from the huge pipe organs to the
Grant Park zoo."

Each year as Agnes Scott alumnae flock
by the hundreds to see the famous Mag-
nolia and Middleton Gardens, we envy
those favored mortals who make their
homes in beautiful Charleston. One of
these is Mary (Kelly) Van de Erve, who
has recently moved from Summerville to
Riverview Terrace. Dr. Van de Erve is
minister at the old French Hugenot church,
one of the most interesting buildings in
old Charleston.

1907

Next class reunion, 1930.

Died. In February, Asa Warren Cand-
ler, husband of Hattie Lee (West) Cand-
ler, and brother of Allie (Candler) Guy,
'13. Mr. Candler was one of the most
prominent lawyers and citizens of Atlanta,
and is mourned by a host of friends
throughout the south and the entire coun-
try.

1908

Next class reunion, 1930.

Katherine (Dean) Stewart, her mother,
and sister, Miriam, ex '20, will be guests
at the Alumnae House during grand opera
week in Atlanta.

1909

Next class reunion, 1930.

Edith (Lott) Dimmock is president of

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the Savannah Presbyterial.

Annie (Ludlow) Cannon returned in
March to her home in Concord, N. C, after
a trip to New York.

Rosa (Milledge) Patillo is selling insur-
ance in Charlotte, N. C.

Jean (Powel) McCroskey writes: "I do
enjoy the Quarterly. It usually arrives on
Saturday in the midst of cleaning or some
other such auspicious time, and I sit me
down with the dustcloth in my hand and
am utterly oblivious to everything until
possibly two or three hours later when
the children become too insistent about
lunch."

1910

Next class reunion, 1931.

"I am just as busy as ever traveling to
and fro between Decatur and East Point,"
writes Jennie Anderson, "teaching Latin
and French in the South Fulton High
School, Russell High."

Eleanor Frierson writes: "I too am still
doing the same old things, and it isn't even
hard to keep up with my address, as it
never changes. I did have a lovely trip
west last summer by motor. We went
the northern route, included Yellowstone
Park, crossed all the desert lands of Wyo-
ming and Nevada, followed the Coast
Route through California and returned
through Arizona, (the hottest place on
earth!) and Texas. It was very interest-
ing really to go through the almost un-
inhabited regions along the routes taken
by the early settlers. We felt almost like
pioneers ourselves: by exercising a little
imagination our car became a covered
wagon and hostile Indians waited behind
every clump of sagebrush."

Lucy (Reagan) Redwine has just moved
into a lovely new home where she says
she "has room for all 1910 at once. They'd
be welcomed most heartily too! I expect
my daughter, Martha, to enter Agnes Scott
in the fall of 1931. She is much smarter
than her mother, really a good student,
fine material for Agnes Scott. Two others
complete the family: Jeanne, ten, a little
dreamer; and Hill Reagan, almost five.
I am contemplating a visit to the Alumnae
House very soon with Susie (Gunn) Allen,
ex '10, who lives in Macon now."

Elizabeth (Harris) Holmes, ex '10, is
living at 135 Tacoma Circle, Asheville,
N. C.

On Saturday morning, February 23, the
Alumnae House was the scene of another
lovely wedding. The bride was Marion
Newell, daughter of Camilla (Mandeville)
Newell, ex '10, and the groom was Hiram
R. Cannon, jr., of Atlanta. Camilla's son,
who is a freshman at Georgia Tech, gave
his sister away. Nellie (Mandeville) Hen-
derson, '99, came up from her home in Car-
rollton for the wedding.

1911

Next class reunion, 1931.

Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson has
been spending part of the winter in Flor-
ida.

Dorothea (Snodgrass) Townsend's hus-
band is stationed in Porto Rico for three
years at the Post of San Juan.

Edith (Waddill) Smith, ex '11, has a
niece, Mary Page Waddill, in the fresh-
man class at Agnes Scott this year.
1912

Next class reunion, 1931.

Cornelia Cooper spent her spring vaca-
tion from Judson College visiting her
family in Atlanta. Laura (Cooper) Chris-
topher and her two small sons were at
home at the same time.

Eddie (Hunter) Pease and her husband
have just completed a beautiful new home
in Charlotte in the style of an English
manor house. Mr. Pease is manager for
the firm of Lockwood Green, Engineers,
Inc.

In reply to a card asking for news for
this issue of the Quarterly Janette (New-
ton) Hart writes: "I openly acknowledge
that I am as pleased as punch that any
interest in me is strong enough for you
to be asking for information, for I do
the same thing over so often that writing
with me runs into dittoes. Should you be
in search of the strenuous life, let me
recommend a farm and four small chil-
dren, especially when flu, whooping cough,
and pink-eye are in the air. The game is
worth the candle, however."
1913

Next class reunion, 1931.

We sympathize with Allie (Candler)
Guy in the loss of her only brother ( Asa
Warren Candler, during February.

The first death to occur in 1913's little
circle of graduates was that of Louise
(Maness) Robarts, on February 8, 1929,
after an illness of only a few days. No
alumna was ever more loyal to her alma
mater and especially to her classmates and
college friends, all of whom feel deep sor-
row in her passing. For a few years after
her marriage, Louise lived in Florida, but
returned to Decatur and very promptly
renewed her activities in many lines. She
was a member of the Decatur Woman's
club, the D. A. R., U. D. C, League of
Women Voters, and other civic organiza-
tions, and a devoted worker in the church.
She had held many offices, and always
gave of her time generously and faithfully.
Many beautiful tributes have been paid to
her by all those with whom she worked.
The class of 1913 will miss her, especially
at reunion time, for the class reunions
were particularly dear to her. Her cordial
interest in her friends, her hospitality in
her home, and her zeal for Agnes Scott

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are beautiful memories for us all.

Mary (Enzor) Bynum writes: "The
campaign there at Agnes Scott is so much
more interesting than anything else to all
of us right now, so why write about my-
self? I am teaching and keeping house
as usual and enjoying it all, but that is
no news! One week-end recently I had a
flying trip to Pensacola and saw Annie
Chapin McLane for a little while. Martha
(Brenner) Shryock had been there just the
week before; I was so sorry to miss her.
The death of Louise (Maness) Robarts
was the saddest shock I have had in a long
time. She was a dear friend, and this is
the first break in our class circle."

"I am still teaching Latin at Lanier
High School in Montgomery," writes Kate
Clark. "I have lost count of the number
of years I have been there and do not
wish to be reminded of it. I can think of
no more pleasant place, however, and shall
be there as long as I can hold in my mem-
ory the wise teachings of Miss Lillian
Smith."

The article by Emma Pope (Moss)
Dieckmann in "Modern Philology" for
February is part of the fruit of her work
with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales last
spring. This spring Emma Pope says she
has very little time to spend on Anglo-
Saxon since her new little daughter, Adele,
is so much more fascinating.

Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes accompanied
Major Stokes on a tour of Ohio on an
army inspection detail. "Moving, as usual!"
writes Eleanor. "We poor army folks sim-
ply don't do anything but move. We shall
be back in Charleston April 1."

Louise (Sloan) Thomas writes from
Greenville, S. C: "I am planning to
come to Atlanta within the next few
months and would love so much to stay
a few nights at the Alumnae House with
my little daughter who is looking forward
to the day when she will be a student there.
She is only ten, but says she wants to
pick out her room now. I have not seen
Agnes Scott for eighteen years, so you
can imagine how eager I am to get back."

Can some member of '13 locate Florence
Smith? Mail has been returned from her
Berkeley, California, address.
1914

Next class reunion, 1932.

Martha (Rogers) Noble is a dandy class
secretary! She mailed out postals to all
her flock and (to mix metaphors) has
reaped a real harvest of news.

Lottie May (Blair) Lawton's answer to
the postal comes first. "A letter received
today from Martha (Rogers) Noble in-
structs me to write without fail something
to go in the 1914 column of the next
Quarterly. This is my very obedient an-
swer. Our house and yard have occupied

me a good deal this winter; particularly
planting. Which reminds me of the time
I was doing a little free (very free!) trans-
lating in Miss Smith's Latin class. The
passage concerned the burial of some re-
nowned Roman, and I blithely sang out,
'they planted him !' Miss Smith con-
gratulated me on gathering so aptly the
general idea. This winter I have put out
two pecan trees, some raspberry plants,
a brown turkey fig, three grape-vines,
some cannas, abelia and chei'ry laurel. By
this list one would gather that my mind
runs to food. Perhaps it will assure any
Agnes Scott friend who may visit me that
she stands some chance of being fed. The
only other thing that I can think of to
write is that I am chairman of the Busi-
ness Woman's Circle in the First Presby-
terian Church here. Yet, paradoxically,

I am not a business woman! Please let

me add that I am still and forever burst-
ing with pride in Agnes Scott, all she has
been, is, and is to be!"

"Spurred by Martha (Rogers) Noble's
reminder," writes Theodosia (Cobbs) Ho-
gan, "I enclose replies to her suggested
topics for Quarterly news: My husband
is working on nutrients required for opti-
mum growth. He is the author of the
chapter on nutrition in 'Growth', written
by five men and published last fall by the
Yale Press. Flu? Nobody had it.
Garden? Yes, next month. The package
of vegetable seeds has arrived and the
choice of flowers still under discussion.
Summer plans? The customary trips to
see the grandparents the Hogans in
northwest Missouri and the Cobbs in Mo-
bile, unless they come to see us instead,
for which I hope. I have not learned to
anticipate traveling with three children,
though the good times come when we are
started. Last summer I left the two elder
in Mobile, and with the baby, ran up to
Atlanta for a few days and rejoiced in
peeps at Martha Rogers and Essie Roberts
and their dear families, also at the Alum-
nae House even in its shut-up summer
condition. Work? Yes, always. Since
the children are seven, four and two, I
emerged from the nursery enough to join
the University of Missouri chorus and
attend two semi-social clubs and my church
circle. One gets so lost in the maelstrom
of affairs and meetings if one will, that
Frances, the kindly old cook, offered real
advice when she said a day or two ago:
'I been hearin' 'em hollerin' and hollerin'
to you over the telephone to come do this
and do that. Don't you know folks will
work you to death if you let 'em? Now,
after this week, you tell 'em no and you
stay home and get those children's sewing
done.' "

Annie Tait Jenkins writes: "Have been

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detained at home almost a month on ac-
count of family sickness, but am resuming
my work at Tulane next week. Am in-
terested in alumnae's plans for the chapel."

Kathleen Kennedy writes: "Louise Ash
and I are still running the Prichard School,
a home for orphan boys and girls at Ona,
W. Va. We have fifteen children, all but
four are under six. We have a teacher,
and we do all the other work, run this
large home, cook, make all the clothes (ex-
cept when friends have kindly sent us
out-grown ones), wash, iron, keep a gar-
den and chickens. We sell butter and eggs
to keep the children in books and clothes.
We have organized a Sunday school which
meets here every Sunday afternoon, and
we have a club meeting here one night
each week for the young people of the
community. We are three miles from hard
roads and in winter can't get out except
by wagon or mud sled. We love our work
and our babies!"

A delightful letter from Martha Rogers
herself gives news of other members of
'14. "Linda (Miller) Summer has been in
Atlanta for the last ten days tied up by
the rains from going back home to south
Georgia. She had a bad case of flu and
came here to visit her mother and re-
cuperate. Just before Christmas she
moved into a little brick house that they
built themselves just in time to have her
family down to spend Christmas with her.
Her two oldest girls take piano lessons
and Hulda, the oldest, is being urged to
skip a grade in school since she is doing
such splendid work. Earnest is connected
with a lumber concern in Cordele.

"One of the doctors in our suite is from
Dublin so I hear quite frequently about
Ruth (Hicks) Porter. She has two chil-
dren of her own and her brother's chil-
dren to raise, and no one could have more
praise that she has from Dublin people
who talk to me. They say she is one of
the finest women that ever lived.

"I have had one of the most delightful
winters I have ever spent. We play ar-
chery golf every pleasant week-end. Henry
makes our bows and arrows himself, and
the archery expert from Ashville says that
one of those Henry made is the finest he
has ever seen made by an amateur. We
have gotten together quite a group of peo-
ple who love music, and making music,
as much as we do. I've got my old man-
dolin in tune, so with guitars, ukeleles, and
so forth, you can imagine what a good time
we have. Atlanta has been full of all
sorts of good things this winter and we
have managed to take in most of them.
The girls are looking forward to the Junior
League's production of 'The Wizard of
Oz.' Anne fell off her scooter a few weeks
ago and broke large chunks off both her

new upper front teeth. We were dis-
tressed to death over them, but now that
she has acquired a precious lisp, they don't
look as bad as they did at first, and every-
one says she looks much more interesting.

"I had a letter from Helen (Brown)
Webb to Lottie Mae via me which I wish
I could send on to you complete. A lovely
picture of a beautiful home called 'Clinker-
ledge', a story and a half house, English
cottage type, brick and half timber. Also
one of a plump adorable son the reason
that Helen is taking a course on the pre-
school child given by the college club."

Mary (Pittard) Salway spent Christmas
in New York. She is at home in Athens,
Georgia, now, and if there is any lovlier
place in this world than that little south-
ern university town in the spring time
we should like very much to learn about
it. Wordsworth's "host of golden daffo-
dils" grow riotously along the wide streets
and in old ante-bellum gardens.

The retrogressive plan of taking alum-
nae members in Agnes Scott's Phi Beta
Kappa chapter, this year reached 1914,
and six members of our class received
this honor and will be initiated into the
Beta chapter at the college this spring.
They are Kathleen Kennedy, Louise Mc-
Nulty, Essie (Roberts DuPre, Marguerite
(Wells) Bishop, Florence Brinkley and
Annie Tait Jenkins.

Lost: The address of Florence Munn-
erlyn (Mrs. Bob Nichols). Mail has been
returned from Orlando, Fla.

Margaret (Brown) Bachman's new ad-
dress is 526 N. Royal St., Jackson, Tenn.
Her husband is a boy scout executive.
They have two little girls, Margie and
Catherine. 1915

Next class reunion, 1932.

Margaret (Anderson) Scott visited
Maryellen (Harvey) Newton in Waycross
for the Executive Committee meeting of
the Woman's Auxiliary of the Savannah
Presbytery. Maryellen writes: "Margaret
lives in Valdosta, not so many miles away,
and occasionally we exchange a visit."

Martha Brenner writes: "I did get
south this January but rushed through
Atlanta since I had a husband with me
one time, and the other time I spent with
my brother who is working in Atlanta. I
visited in Pensacola before returning to

Illinois Hope the remiss members of

'15 will turn over a new leaf and send in
some news of themselves for the Quarter-
ly."

Mary Evelyn Hamilton is teaching in
Columbia, S. C.

From Winter Garden, Fla., comes an
answer to the secretary's plea for news.
"I always get one of these cards from
Martha when nothing exciting has hap-
pened," writes Mary (Hyer) Vick. "We

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have all had flu and now that the orange
trees are white with bloom I am enjoy-
ing hay fever. Isn't that the irony of
fate ? You know we live in the middle
of the grove. I enjoy seeing Agnes Ball
every once in so often. She is in Kissim-
mee during the winter. Georgiana (White)
Miller and I spent the day with her not
long ago."

Kate (Richardson) Wicker's husband has
announced his candidacy for the Virginia
state senate and will enter the Democratic
primaries in August.

Lost: The addresses of Annie Brower,
Irene Flegal, Rosebud Saye. These girls
are former members of our class, so it's
up to us to find them. Surely some other
member of '15 has kept up with them since
we left college, or can give the alumnae
secretary some clue to help in tracing
them.

1916

Next class reunion, 1932.

Laui'a (Cooper) Christopher writes: "We
took our rambunctious little family of two
small sons home for Easter and had a
regular family reunion, as Cornelia was
home, too, from Judson College, and Belle
and Alice both work in Atlanta. Kent and
John were the center of attraction, for
it took the combined efforts of Grandma,
Grandpa, the uncle and aunts to keep them
off the sideboard, the dining table, out
of the kitchen cabinet, or from racing
down the steep drive right into the street,
not to speak of stumping toes or skinning
knees. You wonder what kind of sons I
have? Perfectly precious! Kent is three
and a half and John almost two. He is
at the climbing age and can get into more
things than you ever dreamed of. Kent
is older and so more sedate(!) but finds
plenty to keep him and me busy."
1917

Next class reunion, 1932.

Gjertrud Amundsen was married on
March 2, at six o'clock in the evening at
The Church of the Good Shepherd in
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. Sverre Siqueland.
Gjex*t said it was all to be very simple
no "pomp and glory," but we have it on
reliable authority, from an eye witness,
that she made a lovely bride in her cream
moire wedding gown, and that together
with the matron of honor, her only at-
tendant, and the four ushers, and the
groom, it was a fine looking wedding party.
After the wedding there was a dinner at
the Norwegian club in Brooklyn with about
seventy guests present. Later in the eve-
ning Mr. and Mrs. Siqueland left for Wash-
ington, D. C, to share the honors of the
season with the Hoovers. They will live
at 147 68th Street, Brooklyn.

Louise Ashe is still quite enthusiastic
about the large family of children that

she and Kathleen Kennedy are looking
after in their West Virginia Orphanage.
Louise visited her parents in Daytona
Beach, Fla., during January and Jan New-
ton saw her while she was there. Jan
says, "Louise is crazy about the work, the
place and especially the children. And it
all seems to agree with her, for she is
surely looking well and happy."

Laurie (Caldwell) Tucker writes from
Tampa that she answered the secretary's
wild plea because she, too, noticed the ab-
sence of news of '17 in the January Quar-
terly. She sent news of others and added
that for herself the outstanding event of
the winter was a wonderful trip to Florida
east coast. Miami and Palm Beach proved
so beautiful and so charming that her
visit was all too short. She wants to go
back.

Agnes Scott Donaldson has left Holly-
wood and is back home now in Colorado
Springs, Colo.

Mary (Eakes) Rumble is living in
Athens, Ga., where her husband is in
charge of the First Methodist Church.
Also, Mary has acquired another young
son, Frank Eakes Rumble.

Gladys Gaines says she hasn't anything
particularly interesting to write, but that
her days are crowded with twenty-four
full hours. She even has to sleep hard in
order to meet her schedule. She, with the
rest of the Mobile club, enjoyed Polly's re-
cent visit, and has been homesick for A.
S. C. ever since. In lieu of more news she
sends her quota of whoops and cheers.

Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin has such cath-
olic tastes and diverse interests that her
memory fails to reveal more than two
weeks of her past. Acting as kitchen help
during Charlotte's $22,000 Y. W. C. A.
campaign, church suppers, bridge parties,
playing audience to the Drama League,
hearing Miss Elizabeth Carfrae, the Eng-
lish authoress, address the A. A. U. W.,
and listening in on the Founders' Day Pro-
gram are some of the things she remem-
bers. She has a vague recollection that
the week before this the cook was out,
but she happened to be in an experimental
mood and rather enjoyed her ill luck "in
spite of one or two honest-to-goodness fail-
ures." Anne is expecting her mother and
father to visit her around Easter time and
plans a trip with them to Charleston to
see Magnolia Gardens in bloom. Her own
garden is lovely!

Annie (Lee) Barker is employing her
time and talents in the development of
her new home in Birmingham and of her
three-year-old daughter, Minnie Lee.

Jan Newton reports a most delightful
trip down to the Mountain Lake Sanctuary
and Singing Tower at Lake Wales, Fla.
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whole trip was happening upon Georgiana
(White) Miller by the nightingales aviary
pointing out one of those lovely birds to
her young daughters. The first bit of
news she gave me was about Gjertrud
said she was supposed to be getting mar-
ried that very day, I believe. The Sanc-
tuary and Singing Tower are wonderfully
beautiful and are drawing many visitors
to that part of the state. We heard two
concerts of the Carillon bells and I should
love to be near enough to hear them every
day for they must sound different from
different distances. This is a particularly
delightful time of the year to visit the
place, for there are quantities of dwarf
azaleas planted throughout the sanctuary
and they are in full bloom. There are
other flowers there too in profusion."

Spott Payne writes that she took a Uni-
versity Extension course in "The Ameri-
can Short Story" during the fall. It
wasn't so hot as a course, but she en-
joyed the stories. Last month she taught
a mission study class of young people in
the School of Missions at Westminster
Church. She is planning a motor trip at
Easter to Richmond, Fredericksburg,
Washington and Baltimore. In the mean-
time Spott teaches High School English
in her native Lynchburg. Still she says,
"If it is true that those people are blessed
whose annals are few, I am thrice blest,"
and that she was merely trying to invent
news to inspire the cub class reporter.
Spott also states to the alumnae at large
that the Lynchburg group heard not a
word of the Founder's Day program,
though they twisted their dials all night.

Margaret Pruden snatched a vacation
from her studies in New York to run down
to Washington and see the Hoovers in-
augurated. She was properly thrilled so
that she didn't mind the rain, but not even
New York subways had prepared her for
the crowds. Margaret's sister, Elizabeth,
visited her in February and they had a
wonderful time together.

Rita (Schwartz) Aronstam has moved
into a lovely new home in Druid Hills at
834 Lullwater Road, Atlanta.

Frances (Thatcher) Moses visited Doro-
thy Brown (ex '17) last summer. She
says: "Dorothy, who is now Mrs. Bryan
Jennings, of Jacksonville, Fla., still has
her glorious voice in addition to three love-
ly children Leila Mae, 9, and twins Doro-
thy and Bryan, Jr., 7 a grand husband
and a beautiful new really colonial home
on the river front. The Chattanooga club
had a treat in January in having Dr. Mc-
Cain and Mr. Stukes here, and also Miss
Markley, who was visiting Margaret Mc-
Callie." Frances' ten-year-old daughter,
Jane, has just won her way into the finals
in the state music contest in piano.

Georgiana (White) Miller is another one
of these people who manage to live sev-
eral lives in one and have a finger in
every pie. Of her recent visit to the Bok
Singing Tower and Bird Sanctuary she
says: "It is an experience one would
never care to forget. Words fail me," and
further testifies to the charm of the chimes
by stating that their music silenced all
conversation, even that between herself
and Jan Newton who had not met since
the 1927 reunion.

Agnes Ball, ex '17, is spending the win-
ter at their winter home in Kissimme,
Fla. While her sister-in-law, Martha
(Bantley) Ball, ex '21, was visiting them,
Agnes had several Agnes Scott girls for
lunch. Among those present were Georg-
iana (White) Miller, and Mary (Hyer)
Vick, '15. They had quite a reunion.

Effie Doe, ex '17, was married October
8 to Lieut. Eugene C. Batten of the Army
Air Corps. "We came via transport
through the Panama Canal and to Rock-
well Field, Coronado, California, where we
shall be stationed for at least a year. In
the army, you never know how long you
will be in any place. I certainly join with
all my heart in wishing Agnes Scott suc-
cess in her latest undertaking, and I know
she'll make it: she has always succeeded
in everything."

Celia Grant's address is lost from the
alumnae office. Won't the members of
'17 bestir themselves and their memories
and see if they can locate her?

Maude (Shute) Squires, ex '17, is com-
ing to Agnes Scott in June when her hus-
band attends the National Civitan Conven-
tion in Atlanta.

1918

Next class reunion, 1933.

Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal writes that she
is going through the annual spring up-
heaval of painting and papering, that
most of the furniture is stacked uncere-
moniously on the front porch, and that
she and her husband and three children
long for the time when peace and order
will be restored.

We are tempted to quote entire an in-
teresting letter from Rose (Harwood)
Tayor: "For two years now and over,
my husband has been with the Borden
Milk people of New York and is away
from home a great deal. The first year
he was gone I got up a class of children
for dancing lessons and gave a very pretty
recital at the end of the term. The rest
of the time I have been busy with his farm
interests here. He owns a good deal of
land that we can neither sell or give away
and I've been farming it with colored ten-
ants. The latest bee in my bonnet is a
burning ambition for the position of
county superintendent of education. My

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daughter is three years and ten months,
a quaint little child with red curls, fair
skin, blue eyes; dainty and graceful. She
is very precocious, diabolically so, and I
stand in utter amazement before her, and
wonder where she came from: she is not
like me nor her daddy. He name is Me-
lissa."

Emma (Jones) Smith has bought a new
home in Cloverdale, Montgomery. There
is a huge pecan tree in the back yard
under whose shade the chicken fancier of
the family, Emma's young son, aged three,
plays with his little family of bantams.
Emma's new address is 310 1st Street.

Caroline Larendon was in charge of an
Agnes Scott hour at the college prepara-
tory classes' assembly at the Atlanta Girls
High School the last of March. Caroline
teaches French in the High School.

Mary Rogers (Lyle) Phillips writes:
"We have moved from Vonore to Sale
Creek, Tenn., where my husband is the
pastor of the Presbyterian Church."

Anna Leigh McCorkle is supervisor of
Elementary Instruction in Union County,
Monroe, N. C.

Fan (Oliver) Pitman writes from
Thomasville: "Little Fan was quite sick
all fall and winter, but is fine now and
the Pitman family is just beginning to
enjoy the real south Georgia climate. The
flowers are gorgeous and we love it here."

Carolina Randolph has moved from Mur-
freesboro to Nashville, Tenn. "I am glad
I don't have to move any further, and
sorry to leave Murfreesboro. The Child
Health Demonstration closed in Decem-
ber and now things are through as to final
reports, etc., so I am in Nashville, care
The State Dept. of Health."

Catherine Holtzclaw, ex '18, is teaching
the clothing division of Home Economics
at the East Carolina Teachers College,
Greenville, N. C. She and two other
teachers have an apartment in town, where
they are enjoying keeping house.

Marie Morris, ex '18, is an instructor
in the public school system of Charlotte,
N. C. Her address is 1708 S. Boulevard.
1919

Next class reunion, 1933.

Lucy Durr has spent most of the win-
ter since Chi-istmas being quarantined on
account of her nephew's scarlet fever seige.

Frances (Glasgow) Patterson, who has
been living in Lexington, Va., for the past
two years, plans to sail for China with
her family on August 18.

"The only thing new I know about my-
self is that I am examining physician for
the Houston Y. W. C. A.," writes Goldie
Ham from Texas. "I really enjoy being
associated with the Y again."

Anna (Hai-rell) Ballard writes from
Gadsden, Ala.: "I had hoped that I might

be able to go to Agnes Scott about the
last of May, but as the schools here do
not close until May 31, the prospects be-
gin to look doubtful." Anna's address is
246 S. 8th Street.

Louise (Marshburn) Riley writes from
Miami: "I haven't appeared in the Alum-
nae Quarterly for such a long time, I'd
better give some information about my-
self right now. I was so disappointed
when I coudn't attend the '19 class re-
union last May. I felt more than repaid,
however, when the stork left a nine-pound
boy with me in July. Since then I have
been kept very, very busy. My work at
Agnes Scott was mere play in comparison
with rearing a son. If nothing happens
to prevent, I'll be there for commence-
ment this coming May class reunion or
not. I want to come back!"

Mary Kate Parks spent a few days in
Houston in January and she and Goldie
Ham enjoyed seeing each other again. She
writes: "It is almost impossible to real-
ize that it has been almost ten years since
we saw each other last."

Sue Ethel Rea writes: "A letter from
Lulu (Smith) Westcott asks me to tell
something about myself for our class news.
I am just a plain ordinary old-maid school
teacher in Central High School, Charlotte,
where I have been ever since my gradua-
tion. I like my work ever so much teach-
ing English and directing the dramatics
in the High School. Louisa Duls, '26, is
here too, and she and I work together.
The most interesting thing we have done
was our entering the National Little Thea-
ter Tournament in New York two years
ago. The play we had worked on won
first place in North Carolina state dra-
matic tournament, so we decided to enter
it in New York. It was too much for us;
we were entirely too ambitious. Although
we won no recognition in New York, it
was a wonderful experience for the young-
sters and myself. It is a great deal of
pleasure to me to advise my best pupils
to go to Agnes Scott. I am continually
being proud of some of them; this class
of '29 contains some of my former pupils.
I did not get to come to our reunion this
last time, for I had to save up to go to
summer school last summer, but now that I
have my life certificate to teach, I have
already begun saving to come next time
'19 gets together."

Elizabeth Lawrence, ex '19, is teaching
piano and accompanying in the Institute
of Musical Art in Jacksonville, Fla. "I
have enjoyed the meetings of the Agnes
Scott Club very much."

Elizabeth McConnell, ex '19, who is an
interior decorator in Asheville, is spending
the winter studying in New York.

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1920

Next class reunion, 1933.

I wonder how many of us ever look into
the annuals to see the prophecy concern-
ing our class, and how nearly it is coming
true. Nelle Aycock writes: "I just hap-
pened to look at '20's prophecy a few days
ago and strange to say, Emilie Keyes'
prophecy concerning me has partly come
to pass. Here 'tis: 'If you read the At-
lanta Journal, look on the very first page
.' My little poem 'The Song of Eneas'
came out on the editorial page of the
Journal this week. I do hope the last of
the prophecy will come to pass, too!
My latest attempt is selling books! They
are really fascinating containing the best
of classics such as we used to have in
English XI; I enjoy my own sales talk!
I also have a class of girls in Sunday
school and we enjoy reading Crip's 'On-
ward.' "

Margaret Bland joined the migration
southward in January and took a trip
down the east coast of Florida as far as
Miami. Margaret has a leave of absence
from Agnes Scott next year and will spend
it working on her Ph.D.

We sent a letter begging for news out
into the wilds of Texas to Mary (Burnett)
Thorington a long time ago, and until a
few days ago, nary an answer did we re-
ceive! But from the sheet that reached
our hands, we judge that she is properly
penitent and really has an excellent alibi:
"Humiliation, apologies, promises of re-
formation, etc., etc., etc. Excuses: new
baby Helen Guerrant Thorington. Am I
forgiven?"

Marion MacPhail writes: "I am still as-
sociate professor of French at Hood Col-
lege, planning nothing more desperate than
a trip home in the car with a friend from
Buffalo, N. Y. We are lucky to get a re-
spectable spring vacation, so I think I'll
go down to meet the spring, even may
venture to the lovely gardens at Charles-
ton when I've picked up the folks at Char-
lotte. Wish I could see some Agnes Scott
people once in a while: they seem to be
scarce in Maryland."

"There is absolutely nothing about me
to tell, either facts or fancies," writes
Gertude (Manly) McFarland, "though I
do fancy I should enjoy getting out of bed
long enough to unravel something worth
writing about. My operation didn't in-
stantly make everything all right as I had
hoped it would and I have been back in
bed for three months now, trying to get
well that way. Little Gertrude does her
best to make up in friskiness what I lack,
and her best is certainly good! She is a
tom-boy if one ever lived, and speaks a
perfect mixture of Hindu and Choctaw.

She is also expert in the sand-pile art.
At present her object seems to be to move
the sand-pile from outside to the center
of the living room."

Margaret (Sanders) Brannon writes
from San Marcos, Texas: "Bruce (my
husband) finished Seminary in May. We
moved down here to a good church and
a new manse. We like it and the town
and are all well and busy all the time. I
hear news of Mary (Burnett) Thorington
and her family from friends who know
her. I hope to see her some time, but it
is several miles to Taft, if we are both in
Texas! Bobby (my one and only) is now
twenty months old and as big as a three-
year-old. So well and happy; wish I could
bring him to the Baby party in May at
Agnes Scott."

Crip Slack writes: "I had intended
writing up my Panama trip, but Ivylyn
Girardeau beat me to it. It so happens
that we sailed on the same ship Cartago
with the same Captain McBride and
she and I seem to be equally enthusiastic

about it all Not much Agnes Scott

news this time. My wanderings since the
last Quarterly have taken me as far north
as Chicago and Cincinnati and as far south
as Chester, S. C. In Chicago I had lunch
with Anna (Harwell) Sanders, ex '23, at
Marshall Fields. Since going north to live
Anna has become accustomed to the Al-
pine rays and the ultra violet which Chica-
go uses in place of good old Sol as it shines
in Decatur, Georgia. Also heavy snows
and hard freezes in place of cold rains and
frosts. But not me! Two degrees below
is about thirty degrees colder than I crave.
And even Richmond staged six or eight
inches of snow, heavy fog, etc. Just pass-
ing through Rockingham, N. C, which
naturally reminded me of Charlotte (Kees-
ler) Everett. How I wish it was the style
to go watch the train pass through, then
I could catch lots more alumnae news for
you! Incidentally in Chicago I cut one
meeting of the International Council of Re-
ligious Education to see Mitzi play in
'Lovely Lady.' It was great, and again, I
am reminded of Charlotte Keesler and the
time Mitzi played in 'Head Over Heels'
at the old Atlanta theater. Charlotte
could certainly do that about as well as
Mitzi, and it was the request number most
in demand in the gym and at all informal
stunts for months afterward. Am
spending Saturday with my sister, Ruth
(Slack) Smith, '12, at Duke University,
then we are driving to Richmond where
she is shopping a little and visiting me.
Only thing else outside of hard woik that
I know is that I am representing the La-
Grange D. A. R. chapter at the Congress
in Washington in April so as to vote for
Mrs. Julius Talmadge of Athens."

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1921

Next class reunion, this May! Members
of '21, as a certain well-known waldrous
once remarked: The time has come. Pack
up that hat-box and board a train for
Decatur. Do you remember how spring
used to come to Agnes Scott back in the
days when we were there as students?
Well, it's spring time there now and about
as lovely as a place can be. Come back
and see it all again, and best of all, come
back THIS MAY because the other girls
you used to know will be back too! '21,
'22, '23, and '24 all hold reunions this year
all the classes that were in college your
senior year! There's really no argument
on the other side, so get that hat-box out
of the store-room right now!

Caroline Agee is teaching again at Saint
Mary's School in Raleigh, N. C.

Edythe (Clarke) Alexander helps her
husband in his real estate office in Ashe-
ville, N. C. They enjoy working together,
and when the weather is exceptionally
fine, they close up the office and go fish-
ing together!

Marguerite Cousins is a member of the
Little Theater League in Augusta, Ga.
This is an up and coming group, visited
by many prominent eastern theater peo-
ple every winter, among them being Daniel
Frohman, who comes down annually and
directs a production.

Mariwil (Hanes) Hulsey announces the
birth of her son, Ernest, jr., on February
25, at Griffin, Ga.

Genie (Johnston) Griffin's second son,
born in February, is named Randolph Page
Griffin.

Mary Anne (Justice) Miracle and her
family are spending the spring in the Ken-
tucky mountains.

"Miss Mary Markley was in Nashville
in January and we enjoyed seeing her and
hearing a great deal about Frances Char-
lotte," writes Anna Marie (Landress) Cate.

Margaret (McLaughlin) Hogshead
writes: "I saw Nannie Campbell, Eloise
(Knight) Jones and Fan (McCaa) Mc-
Laughlin recently when I was in Rich-
mond. We had a regular kimona party
in Fan's room the first night I was there.
The visit to Richmond was short but
crowded with delights, not the least of
which were the operas that I heard. I
hastened back for the week-end for I am
singing again in the Lexington church.
I really enjoy it and am so impatient to
be entirely rid of the flu effects. They
have been distressingly tenacious. My new
daughter's name is not Cora, but Cara
Fan. It is rather bad to burden one so
young with a double name, but she can
fix that when she is big enough to choose."
If Margaret will only come back for re-
union this May and sing us "Deep River"

and the old negro spirituals again!

An interesting letter has been received
from Fances Charlotte (Markley) Roberts
from Shanghai: "I remember so well the
campaign for endowment we had when I
was in college and how thrilling it was to
be in the midst of it all. There is some-
thing so wonderful about being a close
and integral part of a community which
is making great effort; those are lucky

girls who are in college now Our China

New Year holiday has three more days,
and I must stay up all three nights if I
expect to do all the things I had planned.
Fortunately I have done many unplanned
things, so I can take refuge in that if
necessary. Shanghai is a strategic place
for guests all the world-tour boats come
here, and often there are friends on them.
It is amusing to see them delight in a
corn-beef hash after the luxury of the
Belgenland or some other big steamer!
Very early in my housekeeping days I de-
cided not to do anything for my guests
which I did not do for ourselves, and the
result has been excellent. The cook never
objects to guests, and my mind does not
whirl from too much 'fixing.' I think the
simple life is a much to be desired thing,
and I try to practice it plenty of books,
time to watch the young son crawl and
cut teeth, time to enjoy my teaching and
enough golf to keep me thin. Just now
we want to have more personal touch with
our university students than ever before,
and if we fill every minute with rushing
about there is not time to see them. I
love China. The university students are
intensely interesting, and they are good
to teach. Changes are bound to come in
the next years, and one cannot be a proph-
et where China is concerned. Harley is
stuck in a corner of his bed I must res-
cue him and wash him! No more time for
letters!" "Last summer I had dinner with
Frances Charlotte," writes Margaret Wins-
lett, '20, "when her fine son, Harley Mac-
Nair, was not two weeks old. She looked
well and was already planning his career.
Her husband is charming. I can't yet be-
lieve the baby is hers, but she claims it.
Says she hasn't an idea what to say to
it!"

Janef Preston, Miss Laney and Miss
Thyrza Askew of North Avenue Presby-
terian School, drove over to Magnolia Gar-
dens and Charleston during Janef's spring
vacation.

Lucile (Smith) Bishop's letter from Or-
lando will be found under the radio write-
ups.

Martha Stansfield has a leave of absence
from the Latin department at Agnes Scott
and took up her Ph.D. work at the Uni-
versity of Chicago in April.

Julia (Watkins) Huber has sent an ador-

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able picture of her little two and a half-
year-old daughter, which we will publish
in the Quarterly featuring "Children of
Alumnae."

"On February 14, I was at the hospital
welcoming a precious valentine, William
Flournoy Goodman, jr.," writes Marguerite
(Watkins) Goodman.

Helen Wayt continues to enjoy life and
to trip over the country. Her latest was
to Columbia, S. C, where she was brides-
maid in her cousin's wedding.

Virginia (Fish) Tigner, ex '21, has
moved from Jacksonville, Fla., to Atlanta.
Her husband is connected with the W. E.
Browne Decorating Company. Virginia's
address is 1258 Piedmont Ave., N. E.

Rebecca Saunders, ex '21, is teaching in
the Asheville, N. C, city school system.
1922

Next class reunion, this May! Come
back again to Agnes Scott, '22! Seven is
a magic number, and seven years is quite
long enough for our class to stay away
from Agnes Scott. President Mary Knight
and Secretary Sarah (Till) Davis will be
on hand to plan for returning members
of '22 a jolly time. Come back and be
part of it! Here is a message from Sec-
retary Till: " '22, has the flu been as
dreadful everywhere as in Mississippi dur-
ing December and January? I hope not.
But I am afraid it has been, for my mail
box is alarmingly empty although I have
haunted it for days. When this Quarterly
appears, I hope we shall all be getting
out the old suitcase and preparing to come
to Decatur. The secretary has a brand
new book with a separate page for each
of us, and if your close friends cannot
possibly come, their pages will be there
anyway, with whatever I can 'rake and
scrape' concerning them. And if you can't
come, please, please send me news and a
late snapshot of yourself now."

Mary Barton has been very ill with
pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, and as
if that wasn't enough by itself, she had
pleurisy along with it. But Mary is the
sort of girl that plans her sickness a
long time before reunion, so as not to
let it interfere with her attendance.

Nell Buchanan says that not even a visit
in Washington can ease an impacted wis-
dom tooth. But she has recovered her
usual sprightliness and sailed for Europe
on March 30, taking her mother with her.
Nellie will return to New York the first
of June, spend two weeks at home, and
then sail again to spend the rest of the
summer abroad. She adds that the only
fly in the ointment is that she won't pos-
sibly be able to get back to reunion.

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson's new home
in Charlotte is a huge white colonial struc-
ture, and in front she has clumps of price-

less old boxwood, brought from her hus-
band's plantation. Cama is the delegate
from the Charlotte branch to the A. A.
U. W. convention in New Orleans this
month.

Gena (Gallaway) Merry reports a fall
that has not been pleasant: She and her
husband have both been ill. '22 sympa-
thizes with her in the death of her aunt
and foster mother, Miss Ellen Callaway.
Gena sends a picture which you must wait
until May to see.

Edythe (Davis) Croley, who lives in
Dallas, Texas, has another "mighty sweet
little daughter," Martha Edythe, aged four
months. There is a picture of her for
Edythe's page in the book, and one of the
other little daughter too. Santa brought
Edythe and the whole family the flu for
Christmas. Sarah (Till) Davis can sym-
pathize, for she spent the holiday season
in bed for the same bad reason. But her
group of youngsters, a dozen of them,
went carolling on Christmas Eve, although
for the first time in four years she could
not go with them.

Julia Jameson is teaching in Memphis,
Tenn., in the South Side High School. Her
address is 805 N. McNeil Street.

Roberta (Love) Brower will be on hand
at Agnes Scott for commencement when
'22 holds its reunion.

Susan Malone was married to Mr. Robert
Scales in March. Susan lives in Hous-
ton, Texas.

Frances (Oliver) York writes that she
is delighted with her new home in Squan-
tum, a suburb of Boston.

"Miss Pickle" (Ruth Pirkle, of course)
announces that "I am so busy thinking
up test questions and grading Biology
papers in the making of future alumnae
that I have no interesting information to
impart to readers of the Quarterly. But
I shall certainly be thrilled to talk to
everyone who comes back to reunion."
Ruth took a character role in the glee
club's program in February, and acted with
Miss Gooch in a play for the Atlanta
Drama League in April.

Virginia (Pottle) Riley writes that Ivy-
lyn Girardeau's article about the Canal
Zone brought her pleasant memories of
her trip there. She includes news of other
members of '22: Liz Brown is doing
splendid welfare work in Albany, the Kal-
mon twins, '28, are still fancy free, and
she herself has "gone domestic. Sally
Riley, is the friskiest, fattest, blondest
one-year-old you can imagine."

Ruth Scandrett is traveling through the
south visiting cotton mills and making a
survey of working conditions there. She
saw Em Guille in Spartanburg, Mary
Greene in Abbeville, and hastens to add:
"They weren't working in the cotton mills,

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understand; I mix business with pleasure."
Ruth's address changes almost every day,
but mail sent to Agnes Scott, care Dick
Scandrett, will be forwarded to her.

Merle (Sellers) Faulk lost her father on
February 4.

Emily (Thomas) Johnston says: "Run-
ning a house and office isn't so terribly
much work after all." Emily is still pro-
bation officer of Dallas County, Alabama.
She plans to come to reunion. Augusta
(Thomas) Lanier, '24, is living in Atlanta
now, so Emily can kill two birds with one
stone.

Louie Dean (Stephens) Hays says that
Baltimore is nice, but entirely too far from
Georgia. We think so too. Her address
is 3200 Elgin Avenue.

We learn at last why there has been
no .answer to the many letter we have
written Elizabeth Wilson during the last
twelve months: she wasn't where we sent
them to! Elizabeth writes: "By some
miraculous means your letter dated March
1 has reached me, despite the fact that
it was two addresses behind me, and one
of those addresses being now a mere mat-
ter of excavations. The Republican pos-
tal service wins. I am now assistant
editor, movie reviewer and club chat writer
for those illustrious screen classics, Film
Fun, and Screen Romances in other
words, I am a glorious gift to the morons
and a shining example of why girls should
not go to college. My arduous duties con-
sist in attending opening nights, furnish-
ings friends with passes, attending lunch-
eons given by press agents for their stars,
and appearing at movie parties. There
seems to be no end of homework to this
job. I haven't seen anyone from Agnes
Scott since last spring so know no news
to send for the Quarterly; I get mine from
its pages!"

Lucy (Wooten) Wiegand lives only forty
miles from Decatur, so she is a frequent
visitor at the Alumnae House.

Ruth Brown, ex '22, was married just
before Christmas to Mr. Lawrence. They
live in the Fort Wood Apartments, Clark
Street, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Wilmer Daniel, ex '22, is now Mrs. Web-
ster Bishop, Amherst Apts., Orlando, Fla.

Allie Louise Travis, ex '22, was manned
on February 20th at her home in Coving-
ton to Dr. William White Aiken, of Lyons,
Ga.

Another member of '22 who has moved
to Orlando is Faustelle (Williams) Ken-
nedy. She lives at 113 Vanderbilt Avenue.

May is coming, '22! There is business
of importance to attend to at that class
luncheon, and there are new people to meet
and old friends to greet, and one special
opportunity that is all our own. Come
back, '22!

1923

Next class reunion is just about on us,
May 24 to 28, and anyone who hasn't al-
ready completed plans to get back, had
certainly better do some juning around
right now and complete them! We have
been out of college six years long enough
to get thoroughly homesick for Agnes
Scott and a sight of each other again.
Could anything be nicer than another class
meeting out under the trees on that dear
old campus, with President Hilda and Sec-
retary Era Guille trying to be very par-
liamentary, and all of us privates talking
at once and nobody listening to a word
anyone else is saying? Why, such a meet-
ing sounds irresistable, and besides, those
who stay away are going to get talked
about! Come back again! Our sister
class of '21 will be here do you remem-
ber when we hung May baskets on our
seniors sisters doors early May Day morn-
ing? and '22, those arch fiends who
made our lives miserable when we were
freshmen; and '24, the babies whose in-
fant steps at Agnes Scott were directed
by our capable sophomore commands.
Come back again, old '23, and we'll make
that campus echo and re-echo with our
Pelanky war-cry!

Minnie Lee (Clark) Cordle writes: "I
have only one piece of news and to me it
is a mighty big piece: I am coming back
to '23's reunion, and hoping for a great
time in May."

Eileen (Dodd) Sams and her husband
left their two sons with the grandmother
and ran away for a second honeymoon
trip to Magnolia Gardens and Charles-
ton. When they caught the train in De-
catur there were a crowd of Agnes Scott
students waiting for the same train, and
Eileen said it was just like her first honey-
moon, for the penalty she paid for marry-
ing two hours after graduation was going
north on the same train with practically
the entire Agnes Scott student body!

Helen (Faw) Mull is another member
of '23 who believes in the practice of leav-
ing small sons with the in-laws and trip-
ping off with the husband. She and her
husband are planning a swing through the
east this summer, sans sons.

"We have moved again," writes Maud
(Foster) Jackson, "with all the attendant
joys and evils, the new address being The
Riverside, 401, 2145 C St., N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C. We are so happy to be in
Washington. It is such a satisfying place
to live; for once there is almost enough
beauty to spare. Our apartment is lo-
cated at the edge of Potomac Park, over-
looking the Lincoln Memorial. The glory
of the cherry blossoms is at its height and
right in the front yard, so to speak. The
young son gets an almost unnecessary

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amount of airing with such lovely sur-
roundings. I had one brief and very
pleasant reminder of Agnes Scott the week
we moved from Baltimore. A young cou-
ple came to see our apartment which we
were trying to sublet. Who should it be
but 'Speedy' (King) Wilkins and her hus-
band! We banished said husband and had
a great time until forcibly reminded that
their time was limited. It was the most
thrilling exchange of 'Do you remember
?' and 'What's happened to ?' Since
Helen (Faw) Mull and I used to get off
together for tea at the faculty club of
Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
I also saw Juanita Greer and Mary Bar-
ton while in Baltimore."

Mary (Goodrich) Meredith's husband
works with the Southern News Company
in Jacksonville, Fla.

Em Guille writes: "I am certainly com-
ing to comencement! As for my job,
right now I have gotten swamped by
work. I don't know anything, see any-
thing, do anything but church, and though
I heartily disapprove of such a way of
living, I can't seem to change. The last
time I read a book has been so long ago
I can't remember when, nor the book!
Isn't it disgraceful? Where, oh where,
is the balanced life that we '23-ers all
swore we would lead after graduation?

I had supper with Ruth Scandrett,

'22, last night. She is doing some dread-
fully important-sounding research for the
'Institute of church and social something
or other' and is to be around Spartanburg
surveying various mill villages. I marvel
at the variety of things that girl has done
since she finished college; there's an in-
teresting life for you. Of course it was
good to see her, and equally of course we
talked Agnes Scott. I hope to see her
again when she comes back from her first
mill sojourn."

Lib Hoke was in Charlotte just long
enough in March to pop in on the Agnes
Scott alumnae luncheon at Ivey's and say
hello before her bus left for Lincolnton.

"My life recently sounds like one long
tale of woe," writes Viola (Hollis) Oak-
ley, "but I'm writing just the same, for
members of '23 have always taken each
other 'for better or for worse' and we are
interested in each others lives even though
the tales we have to tell are not merry
ones. For about six months I suffered
from appendicitis which resulted in an
operation about a year ago. Before I re-
covered from that my little son spent two
weeks in the hospital with colitus and
had to be carefully nursed for months.
When the flu was going around, I came
down with that, and so often flu leaves you
far from well. The most heart-breaking
thing occurred on January 5th when my

baby girl was born dead. We are, how-
ever, blessed with a perfectly darling lit-
tle son who will soon be three years old.
He is a smart little rascal, and has lovely
curly hair which is his mother's delight,
and which he will one day hate violently
and try to plaster down, I feel sure."

Fredeva Ogletree is teaching in Val-
dosta, Ga.

Eva (Wassum) Cunningham's daughter,
Martha Elizabeth, was born on March 22.
"She is named Martha Elizabeth for her
two grandmothers," Eva writes. ("The
grandmothers are named Mattie and Bes-
sie!") Eva and Martha Elizabeth are both
coming to commencement. "Aunt Nannie
Campbell is coming by Columbia and
bring us on with her," writes Martha Eliz-
abeth.

Frances (Arant) Wilmer, ex '23, has
moved to Atlanta and is living at 1251
Peachtree Street.

Mart Hay is another ex '23 who is spend-
ing the winter in New York. "I am mess-
ing around at a hybrid job in a progressive
day school in 93rd street, and guzzling
New York by night. It is a fabulous city
and life is thick here." Mart's address is
181 W. 87th Street.

Laura Mae (Hill) Hughes, ex '23, is
spending the winter and spring in her old
home, Montgomery, Ala. Laura Mae's
husband is an Englishman, and she has
recently returned from a trip to England
with him.

Erskine (Jarnagin) Forgy, ex '23, is liv-
ing in New York City. She comes south
often to visit her mother in Atlanta.

Hazel (Lamar) Clarkson, ex '23, has
moved into a new home at 231 Sidonia
Ave., Coral Gables, Fla.

Caroline (Moody) Jordan, ex '23, and her
husband and baby are living in the lovely
new cream brick parsonage built by their
Methodist congregation in Charlotte, N.
C. The new church right next door is
Gothic, of gray stone, and a most impres-
sive building.

Eugenie (Rennie) Rose, ex '23, is living
in Charlotte, N. C, and taking an active
part in Junior League work there.

Rosalie Robinson, ex '23, was married
at her home in Atlanta on January 26 to
Mr. Dan Sanford, of Milledgeville, Ga.
Mr. Sanford is a graduate of both the
Georgia Military Academy and Georgia
Tech, a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma
fraternity, and prominent among the civil
engineers of the state. The Sanfords are
at home at 968 St. Charles Ave., N. E.,
Atlanta.

Frances Turner, ex '23, is the treasurer
of the Birmingham, Ala., Agnes Scott
alumnae club. She writes: "The alum-
nae club here will be tea-ed up this month.
I hope the damages will be paid in even

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cents, since I have a terrible time making
change!"

1924

All you fifty-seven varieties of '24's get
ready to come back to our class reunion!
Five years out! And we've done all sorts
of things to tell about, such as get mar-
ried, and go 'round the world, and have
babies, and teach other people's, and win
prizes, and write things why, there is
practically nothing honorable that one of
our fifty-seven hasn't dabbled in! So far
our record is perfectly stainless: no peni-
tentiary offenses, or at least, they haven't
caught us if we've committed any! No
killings, no divorces, no embezzlements
our lives may have been rather tame, since
we haven't gone in for any front-page
news material, but we guarantee that hap-
py lives will be just as interesting to tell
about and listen to, and if you will come
back to Agnes Scott this May we'll let you
tell all about yours, and make you lis-
ten to all the other fifty-seven tales! Once
more we'll gather around a big table in
the tea-room and clink our "steins" on
the table and roar out our class song
"Hail, Agnes Scott, We Sing to Thee."
And Vic and Mary Green will dance an
apache dance, and Dick will choose her
partner and once more "run fleetly in a
three-legged race before the astonished
eyes of Mr. Holt;" Grace Bargeron will call
out her ballet for senior opera and put
them through their paces; Frances and Lil
will sing for us; Speedy King and Daisy
Frances will stage a race across the cam-
pus; of course Fran and Elma will be found
in the tea-room consuming cake a la mode,
while Melissa Smith will stick to home
cooking and make her own buttered toast
on the Inman ironing board. Nancy and
Nonie will be in charge of athletics (if
alumnae who have been out five years are
not too stiff in the jints to indulge in any)
there'll be no end of things going on,
but the 1925 class says we can't take up
all the room in the Quarterly just because
we are going to have a reunion. Poor
things, they aren't, so since they have to
stay home this year, we'll be generous and
save our reminiscing till May 24-28 and
give them some space now after our class
news. Come back, '24!

Emily (Arnold) Perry took her baby
and husband home to Newnan, Ga., for
Christmas and from all accounts, little
Mary Frances is a dear. Emily says she
has a time to keep from spoiling her, as
she is such a doll that she wants to play
with her all the time.

Janice Brown is an indispensable part
of the Greensboro, N. C, library. She
rides on the truck which takes books out
to the rural districts, pushes the little
book cart long the aisles of the Greens-

boro hospital for invalid readers, advises
old ladies and college professors which
are the latest and goryest murder tales,
and helps take care of the priceless 0.
Henry originals which the Greensboro li-
brary boasts. Janice is coming to com-
mencement.

Jinks (Burt) Evans is keeping house in
a Birmingham apai'tment and seems crazy
about it. She says they have a very good
alumnae chapter in Birmingham and that
Agnes Scotters there keep in touch with
each other through their meetings. Jinks
also says: "Really, I think the Quarterly
is a great institution, for without it I
don't know what I'd do for information
about everybody. It's like getting letters
from everybody without the trouble of an-
swering them all!"

Helen Lane Comfort writes from Ger-
many: "The summer was all that I hoped
for, and more. In the first place, the
group of girls with whom I was traveling
and the chaperons were a congenial group.
Most of us were from the south and a good-
ly number from Agnes Scott. And then we
saw so many wonderful places and things
Paris, Nice, on the southern Riviera;
the leaning tower at Pisa, Florence, Swit-
zerland with its gorgeous mountains and
beautiful lakes, Bruges with its canals,
most of which are now not used and so
on and on. I am now living in Heidelberg
with the widow of a university professor.
And I am doing my utmost to learn French
and German through private lessons as
well as conversation. We speak German
here in the house always. I am a
'hearer' at the University, listening to the
lectures, but not having to take exams
and all that. Heidelberg is a lovely old
town, part of it dating back to the Romans.
And it seems to me that the mountains
around here and the views affoi'ded are
almost as lovely as those in Switzerland.
To go up the main street one would never
imagine that it is a town of over eighty
thousand. The castle, or rather the ruins
of it, with its gardens and walks, is lovely.
I have had a most enjoyable winter here,
full both of work and fun. I had planned
to come back in March and get to Agnes
Scott for our reunion, but now I am to
ti-avel during April and May with my
brother who arrives the first of April.
That will be the most wonderful part of
the whole year for me, for I know all you
'24-ers remember how much I talk about
this wonderful brother! I do hate to miss
reunion, but we won't land till about the
first of June. Anyway, tell all the girls
for me I'll be thinking of '24 then and
wishing like thunder I were there."

Dr. Warren Matthews (Martha Eakes'
husband) has recently gone to the Presby-
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a three months' service at the Durand
Contagious Hospital in that city.

Mary Greene writes from the East Caro-
lina Teachers College: "I still like my
work here very much. I have had to teach
all kinds of things: the worst was teach-
ing English in the grammar grades.
Naturally, I knew nothing about the sub-
ject, but I managed to get through the
term and I didn't notice that anybody was
any worse for having had the course (un-
less I was!) whether any of the poor
girls were any better I cannot say. Yes-
terday I was looking through a Peabody
magazine and came across a picture of
Dr. Salyer. He is to teach in their sum-
mer school this year."

Louise Hendrix is teaching mathematics
and French in the South Charleston High
School, South Carleston, W. Va.

Lil (Mc Alpine) Butner writes: "We
have recently completed and moved into
our new home at 1005 Angelo. I am not
altogether settled yet, and can still find
plenty to keep me busy. We do love our
home it is white colonial, and very con-
veniently arranged inside. I hope our
present address will be a permanent one,
so you may expect to find us here for the
next twenty years at least. Gardening is
occupying my mind and hands to a great
extent now. We plot and plan as to what
will best cover the broad expanse of red
clay that surrounds us. Save me a nook
at the Alumnae House the last week-end
in May; I'm certainly coming down for
that reunion." Lil and her husband are
both singing in the Moravian church choir,
where the lovely and famous Easter serv-
ice is held each year.

Mary Mobberly is teaching French and
Spanish in the Laurel, Miss., high school,
and living at 1020 Seventh Avenue.

Fran (Myers) Dickely writes that she
enjoys "poring over that map of the
proposed lay-out of our new buildings
there on the campus. . . . George and I
have a darling apartment this winter on
Tenth Street (New York City) but we
keep Mt. Vernon as our permanent ad-
dress as our whereabouts are so shift-
ing."

Cora (Morton) Durrett took Dick Scan-
drett home with her to Athens for spring
vacation.

"Now that there is a new bus line from
Anniston to Atlanta, we'll all come over to
commencement at Agnes Scott," writes
Nonie (Peck) Booth. The '24-ers in
Anniston are Virginia Ordway, Mary
Evelyn (Arnold) Barker, Diddie (Peck)
Mallory. Lucy (Little) Morgan, '23, lives
just a few miles away at Heflin, and she
promises to swing on board as that bus
passes through.

Margaret (Powell) Gay has been visit-

ing her family in Little Rock, and plans
to take them back with her to Connecticut
for the summer.

Dick Scandrett and Polly Stone took a
look at Magnolia Gardens during April,
and in June they will drive up together to
New York in Dr. Sweet's car. Dick will
study college administration at Columbia
during summer session, and Polly will visit
her brother in Brooklyn and attend the
American Alumni Council meeting in Tor-
onto.

Helen Wright writes: "I was so glad to
see news of Vic Howie in the last Quarter-
ly. I hope to see her when the South
Carolina Teachers' Association meets here
in Columbia the last of the month."

Cornelia Archer, ex '24, is teaching
music at the Montreat Normal School,
Montreat, N. C, and planning to return
to New York very soon to study some
more.

Martha Baker, ex '24, is Mrs. Francis
Moore, Hampton, Ga.

Augusta (Cannon) Hungerford, ex '24,
has moved to Macon, Ga., where she lives
in the Vineville Court Apartments. Mr.
Hungerford is with the Southern Railroad.
They have two small sons, one of them is
very small indeed, being only three
months old.

Mary Colley, ex '24, is teaching in Ar-
lington Hall, a girls' school in Washing-
ton. She writes that she enjoyed being
in Washington at the time of the inaugur-
ation, but that cherry trees and long horse-
back rides there thrill her a great deal
more than presidential inaugurations.

Lucy Oliver, ex '24, will be married on
April 20 at St. John's Episcopal Church
in Montgomery to Mr. Algernon Sidney
Coleman.

1925

Next class reunion, 1930.

Idelle Bryant writes from New York:
"I have enjoyed reading every word of
the January Quarterly, to say nothing of
the tickly sensations my spinal cord under-
went when I glanced at that picture of
Main towers in the front. When I get my
vacation this spring I hope to visit Agnes
Scott on the way home to Fort Valley.
Eleanor (Bennett) Warlick, ex '28, and
I see each other often up here."

Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland's
former roommate at National Cathedral
has been visiting her in Atlanta. "We
hadn't seen each other for about eight
years, so you can imagine how our tongues
wagged!"

We "point with pride" to our fellow
class member, Elizabeth Cheatham. Eliz-
abeth's feat is the winning of a Franco-
American exchange scholarship foi a
year's study at the University of Toulouse,

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700-year-old university in the south of
France, which is one of the oldest and
most famous on the continent. She is the
second girl in the history of Agnes Scott
to be accorded this signal honor Vivian
Little, '24, having won the first to study
in Paris five years ago. The scholastic
year is from November 5 to June 3, but
Elizabeth plans to sail about the middle of
September and begin her language study
at the university about a month before the
term opens.

Mary Key Dolvin has been spending the
winter in Washington, D. C. Her address
is 221 Eleventh Street, S. E.

Araminta (Edwards) Pate has been ill
this spring and came home to stay in At-
lanta for several months.

Isabel Ferguson has the world's most at-
tractive apartment in an old colonial home
in Greensboro, N. C. A huge old brick
"befo de wah" house with white columns,
twisting wisteria vines and a long path
to the street bordered with daffodils and
tulips and Izzy's apartment is tucked
away up under the roof in what was orig-
inally meant for the attic. But 1855 attics
were larger than 1929 living rooms are
now! Dr. Dodd, under whom Izzy studied
at the University of Chicago, lectured in
Greensboro this winter and she had the
pleasure of meeting him again.

Sallie Horton was toastmistress at the
Birmingham Agnes Scott alumnae's ban-
quet on Founder's Day.

Margaret (Ladd) May says she has had
quite as much trouble as Job here lately
and not near as much publicity. First she
fell down and cut her foot so badly that
she was unable to walk for weeks, then
she and her husband went home for the
holidays and both came down with the
flu. "We are both well again now, so I'll
let Job keep his publicity."

Country life agrees with Styx (Lincoln)
Moss, for she writes that she is putting on
the avoirdupois. "I am living way out in
the wilds, the nearest neighbor lives one
and a half miles away. I have a wonder-
ful horse to ride and I'm still playing
basketball. Am raising white Holland
turkeys and you should see me salting the
cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. I'm a regular
country girl; also, you see, I get plenty of
exercise. Burke's Garden is a beautiful
spot and it really isn't so rural that we
can't see the bright lights occasionally.
It is very close home and we keep the road
hot between here and Marion. Country air
and lots of buttermilk are having such an
effect on me that the nickname Styx will
soon no longer be appropriate; Chubby
would be better."

Genie (Perkins) Harlow writes: "I
should love to come back to Agnes Scott
and get a peep at you all. It looks as if

our class never will have a reunion, but
when it does and it is at last going to be
next year! I sure will be there with the
bells on. I am one of the most domestic
of wives; haven't even been to Augusta in
over a year."

Lucile (Phippen) Shingler's husband was
moved in November at Methodist confer-
ence time to Andrews, S. C, where he is in
charge of a lovely new brick church. Lucile
is still the perfect helpmeet, for when her
husband came down with flu in February,
she conducted Wednesday and Sunday
night services in his place. She has sent a
picture of her little daughter which will be
used in a later issue of the Quarterly.

Catherine Randolph sailed in February
for an eight months jaunt in Europe.

Elizabeth Shaw writes: "I have nothing
very thrilling to write except that I have
just been down to Mountain Lake Park to
see and hear the Bok bells and singing
tower, and the flowers and birds, all of
which are lovely beyond description. I'm
still teaching Bible and Biology in the
Gainesville High School. My little sister,
Jeannette, who is a Sophomore at Agnes
Scott, has just been home for spring
holidays, bringing three girls with her, and
they regaled us with the doings of the
campus now."

Carolyn (Smith) Whipple writes: "I am
enclosing two snapshots of the enfants
terribles. In another year I'll pass them
off as twins, but not yet." (And the snap-
shots are adorable!) "Barbara has pro-
gressed from Mother Goose to bedtime
stories, and if her present supply of energy
keeps up, the piles of work at Agnes Scott
should be very simple. I hope she acquires
more respect for the college property than
she has so far for mine. We are on the
move again to Waynesboro, Ga., this
time."

Sarah Tate writes from Orlando, Fla.:
"Don't call me a voice from the tomb, al-
though flu has almost put me there and
still keeps me from instructing the coming
citizens of Orlando. . . . The Quarterly
gets more and more interesting as the
years roll round. I enjoy them thorough-
ly, even though the printer got a few lines
mixed up last time and almost gave me
part of Frances Tennent's husband."

Frances (Tennent) Ellis was busy during
March with the Atlanta Junior League pro-
duction of "The Wizard of Oz."

Eugenia (Thompson) Aiken writes: "My
two little blonde children are darlings
everyone says so, and you'd better an-
nounce it in the Quarterly so people who
haven't seen them will know. Sonny-boy's
birthday was November 1 just a little too
late for Adele Dieckman, unless Mrs.
Dieckman will move her date back a few
days."

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We copy this item from the Richmond,
Va., Times-Dispatch of March 4, where it
accompanied a lovely picture of Poky. "Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Cunningham Wight an-
nounce the engagement of their daughter,
Pocahontas Wilson, to Mr. Richard Coles
Edmunds, of Halifax, Va. Miss Wight is a
graduate of St. Catherine's School and
Agnes Scott College and spent a year with
Countess Agnel de Bourbon in Paris where
she studied violin under Marcel Chailly.
Mr. Edmunds is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Virginia and a member of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity. He is a grand-
son of the late Judge John William Reily
of Richmond."

Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie announces the
arrival on March 8 of Mary Elizabeth
Currie. "She has golden hair and blue
eyes and looks exactly like her father."

Mary (Breedlove) Fleetwood, ex '25, has
moved to Charlotte, N. C, and is living
at 304 Queens Road.

Sarah (Dunlap) Bobbitt, ex '25, writes
that she has a house full of children, a
yard full of flowers, and what more could
any woman want to make her happy? "My
lucky children have two sets of grand-
parents living right here in Charlotte so
there is always a free week-end if my hus-
band and I want to run off alone for a
little trip together. He is a Civitan, and
I am sending the children to one of the
grandparents and coming to Atlanta with
him in June for the Civitan national con-
vention."

1926

Next class reunion, 1930.

Lois Bolles writes: "I am still librarian
of the Theology Library at Emory. The
last of April I am going to the meeting
of the Georgia Library Association in
Rome, where I am to give a book review.
In May I shall probably go to the meet-
ing of the American Library Association
in Washington."

Mary Dudley Brown has gone to Miami
Beach for several months.

Isabelle Clarke was married on Febru-
ary 20 to Mr. Max Ernest Morrison. They
are living at 58 Lombardy Way, Atlanta.

"There is no news to tell about myself,"
writes Catherine (Graeber) Crowe. "I am
still happily married, teaching Latin in
the High School. I did have diphtheria
in November: pure childishness. Don't tell
anbody." (So we publish it here.)

Elise Gay writes that she has just ac-
cepted a place in the San Antonio schools,
teaching the second grade. "I like it fine
and get lots of fun out of my twenty-
seven children who can find more trouble
to get into than I could imagine. I teach
until two o'clock, then go to the chemical
laboratory and finish the day and also on
Saturdays; so one can see I'm busy."

Juanita Greer will probably receive her
Ph.D. this year. She has been awarded
the A. A. U. W. scholarship of $1,000 to
continue her work at Johns Hopkins.
Juanita was in an explosion in the labor-
atory in April, in which she received some
very painful burns, but was not seriously
injured, although the Associated Press dis-
patches in the newspapers alarmed her
friends a great deal.

Gladys Harbaugh was studying clothing
design and interior decorating at Cornell
before Christmas. She came home for the
holidays, had flu and pneumonia and had
to stay south. She writes: "For a pas-
time I am now teaching English in the
Winter Haven High School. Expect to go
back to Cornell in the summer." Gladys'
address has changed to 150 Ave. O, N. E.,
Winter Haven, Fla.

Helena Hermance visited Lib Lilly in
Winston-Salem during March. Helena's
family has moved to Washington.

Sterling Johnson was home from Phila-
delphia for the spring vacation and visited
Agnes Scott. Another Philadelphia vis-
itor at that time on the campus was Miss
Randolph, formerly of the gym depart-
ment.

Emily Jones writes: "This is my third
year here in Palatka, Fla., teaching mathe-
matics all the while. I started work on
an MA. at the University of Florida last
summer and did fellowship teaching in the
English department at the same time. Shall
go back again this summer, but trans-
ferred to the mathematical division."

Mary (Knox) Happoldt is working with
the Retail Credit Company in Atlanta.
They have an iron-clad rule not to em-
ploy married women and when one of their
women employees marries they are auto-
matically dropped from the pay-roll. But
not so with Mary! They made one of
their extremely rare exceptions and begged
her to stay.

Nan Lingle is studying at the Univer-
sity of Chicago.

In response to Ellen Fain's plea foi
news for the '26 column, Elizabeth
(Moore) Harris writes: "I do hope Ellen
will deem homekeeping as 'interesting, ex-
citing, and beneficial,' because if she wont,
then I'm not doing anything worth writ-
ing about. But she will be forced to ad-
mit that the variety of things I've been
doing lately such as waxing floors, wash-
ing windows and painting furniture is
bound to be interesting; is apt to be ex-
citing, (especially when someone thinks
that your little 'bought' decorations on
said furniture were handpainted) ; and is
certainly beneficial to the house. But I do
manage to find time for an almost too
active group of eleven-year-old camp fire
girls, and a Sunday school class the same

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age, besides doing supply teaching in the
Decatur schools and enjoying occasional
bridge and chess games."

Virginia Peeler writes: "I don't know
when anything has given me as big a thrill
as the news of the way the present stu-
dent body 'went over the top' for the cam-
paign. The alumnae will have to go some
to keep up. Ne wOrleans is rather an
interesting and thoroughly unique old place
and I really am quite enjoying my work
here. Wish it were just a little nearer
Decatur, or that holidays grew on trees,
for heaps of times I'd love to pop in for
a visit at the Alumnae House." Virginia
spent her Easter vacation in Huntsville
with her brother. She says that she has
a month's vacation this summer and will
go either to California or to Massachu-
setts, depending on the whereabouts of her
family then.

Ethel (Redding) Niblack's husband was
hurt in a polo game some time before
Christmas but he is back on duty now at
Fort Bragg. Ethel writes: "North Caro-
lina seems to be full of old Agnes Scott
girls. I hope to look up some of them
soon. I actually would not know where
any of the alumnae are now if it weren't
for that delightful Quarterly."

Sarah Slaughter and Eleanor Albright,
'27, live right next door in Whittier Hall
in New York. Sarah has been enjoying
(?) a rest in the Teachers College in-
firmary on account of a cold and sore
throat, and poor Eleanore was not even
allowed to peep at her. "Sarah's germs
must have been surprisingly capable of
both broad and high jumping, because the
demon nurses of the infirmary wouldn't
let me stand in the door even. Their only
concession was to let us supply her with
ice cream."

Virginia (Wing) Power lives in the Fort
Wood Apartments, Chattanooga.

Mary Frances Conner, ex '26, was mar-
ried on October last to Mr. Dean Black-
mon, a lumberman of Eufaula, Ala.

Olive Hall, ex '26, has just been made
managing editor of the monthly magazine
of Civitan International. The national
Civitan convention is to be held in Atlanta
in June and for the next two months Olive
will probably be the busiest person in
the United States preparing for the vis-
iting brethren and their wives.

Elizabeth Klutz, ex '26, is now Mrs. Bob
Yowell, 34 Tacoma, Montford Hills, Ashe-
ville, N. C. Mr. Yowll is manager of
the Nu-Grape company.

Sarah McKenzie, ex '26, is teaching at
Ensley High School, Ensley, Ala.
1927

Next class reunion, 1930.

Eleanore Albright, Mary Riviere and
Mary Ray Dobyns are going to be coun-

cillors at Camp Tapawingo in Maine this
summer. Eleanore is to be in charge of
canoeing.

Evelyn Albright writes: "I am still en-
joying life as a small town school teacher.
Am as crazy about Chipley as I was last
year. My family think I have deserted
them: I never go home. Our basketball
team beat up the North Avenue Presby-
terian School girls not long ago, and we
are still very elated over that."

Reba (Bayless) Boyer is living in
Athens, Tenn., and finding housekeeping
an all absorbing occupation. Reba says:
"You know cooking is akin to chemistry
anyway. I just pretend I'm doing an ex-
periment and I usually am!"

Leila Bell is teaching at Brunswick, Ga.,
again this year. Her address is 2 Brailey
Apartment.

Emma Bernhardt says she is leading the
life of a poor working girl in the catalogu-
ing department of the Atlanta Library.
Just recently she has catalogued an es-
pecially interesting collection of rather old
volumes.

Blanche Berry, who has always lived in
beautiful Virginia where flowers tumble
all over the fences and little walks, writes
with indignation that daffodils in New
York are two for a quarter. "How much
cheaper and sweeter is Decatur!"

Josephine Bridgman says the poor lit-
tle children she teaches have no I. Q.'s
and how can she get a proper curve? Jo
writes: "And to think I have been en-
couraging all of them to become president
of these United States and they were
never intended for anything but street
sweepers and soda-jerkers, if that."

Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow is quite
willing to recommend married life to all
her friends. Georgia Mae incidentally
finds time for Red Cross work, some sub-
stitute teaching, Civic League activities,
and a regular part-time position as li-
brarian, of which she is particularly fond.
She also confesses to being a "small town
club woman" with a Music Club, Literary
Club and Bridge Club to occupy what
spare time she has. Who could wish for
a busier program ?

Frances (Chambers) Wing lives at the
Wing's old colonial home, Bulloch Hall,
at Roswell, Ga.

Lib (Clark) Young is the best one on
scouting for alumnae news and Polly will
be interested in Lib's proposed invention
of dynamite ink, guaranteed to shake a
response out of the class of '27. Lib is
at present interested in collecting old coins,
dabbling with paint brushes and bright
colors, and keeping an eye on interior
decorating schemes for the perfect home
of the future. Mr. Young is connected
with Coca Cola business in West Point.

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Mildred Cowan writes: "I am teaching
French and Latin at Chamblee High School
near home. Paint on Saturday morning,
teach Sunday School, and do Young Peo-
ple's work on Sunday night. Have been
keeping house for dad part of the time.
Just now, I'm going to make a flying trip
to Atlanta; I have such a little time to
go there this year."

And from Martha Crowe: "Registra-
tion, trying to have high and mighty Co-
lumbia professors approve schedules,
working on my thesis, etc., have absorbed

my time lately I had such a sweet

note from Lila Porcher several weeks ago
telling me about her sister who lives here
in New York. She is an artist and has a

studio on 74th street The Ramage twins

and I are going to see Lynn Fontaine in
'Caprice' Saturday. The twins are plan-
ning to go home in a few weeks, and I
do hate to see them go. They've been
mighty good old Agnes Scotters to bum
around with." The biggest and best news
from Martha is that she is to be in the
French department at Agnes Scott next
year, taking Margaret Bland's place while
she is away on leave.

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger writes:
"Teaching school has just about forced
me to give up my friends in town, and
out of town. Those in town, I scarcely
ever see, and those away, I never have
time to write. I received a promotion in
February, and now I am teaching English
in Junior High School. Miss McKinney's
influence is indelible. Teaching morals to
that mob of high school boys doesn't come
under the head of English, but is abso-
lutely and essentially a prerequisite.
Anne sends me the Agonistic every week
and except for the names that appear on
its pages, I almost feel that I am still at
Agnes Scott."

Valerie Folts is teaching in the high
school at Sale Creek, Tenn.

Marcia Green, Mae Erskine Irvine, and
Mary Collyer Johnson, ex '27, are plan-
ning that European tour for this summer,
and in the meantime are teaching their
heads off as a means to an end. Both
Mae Erskine and Mary Collyer have to
rise at dawn and be at school by seven,
for the High School in Tuscumbia burned
and they must needs hold two sessions a
day in the junior high.

Ann Heys is at home this year in Ameri-
cus, Ga.

Elsa Jacobsen is still engaged in forty-
seven different projects in her Girl Reserve
work, to say nothing of her housekeeping
duties these days in the apartment which
she and two other girls share.

Pearl Kunnes is doing stenographic work
with the Hauson Fabrics people in New

York City. Her business address is 110
Grand Street.

Ida Landau is working in the laboratory
of the Knickerbocker Hospital, 70 Con-
vent Ave., New York City.

Louise Leonard is teaching in Spartan-
burg, S. C, her home town.

Carolina McCall plans to visit Lib
(Clark) Young in West Point in April.
C'nina spent part of March in Florida.

Polly McLeod is teaching French and
Latin in Luverne, Ala. She recently vis-
ited Frances Dobbs in Gadsden.

Lib (Norfleet) Miller has been taking
care of her parents' home while they were
on a Caribbean cruise. Susie Jones, ex
'27, visited her during March.

Miriam Preston will sail the 10th of
May for America. She is coming by Eu-
rope this time and will arrive during the
summer to begin work on her master's
degree at an American university.

Frances Rainey joined her family in
New Orleans for spring vacation. Frances
and her sister will study in New York this
summer, living with Willie White Smith
in her apartment.

"My, but I'd like to drop into the tea-
room for a cup of Laurie's coffee once in
a while and hear ye campus news," writes
Willie White Smith. "You'll be so
changed, so elegant, so expanded, by the
time I get back that I shan't feel at home.
This winter I have been having a great
old time instructing ambitious premeds in
the mysteries of earth-worm digestion,
and studying with meds the same thing,
except in cats instead of worms. I'm not
making tremendous strides toward knowl-
edge, wealth, or fame, but get quite a
kick out of life as is! It's good to have
so many Agnes Scott girls around, and
there are hordes of southerners in New
York always."

Ro Winter is teaching in Athens, Tenn.,
and has gained the name of "Battling
Roberta." It is a little hard to imagine
gentle Daddy Longlegs with such a nick-
name. Reba reports Roberta to be a very
popular young lady in Athens.

Virginia Baird, ex '27, is studying music
at home in Asheville.

Martha Rose (Childress) Ferris, ex '27,
is still attending the University of Ten-
nessee. She is also a member of the
Knoxville Junior League and is secretary
of a Cotillion club.

Mary Davis Guerrant, ex '27, is teach-
ing this year.

Mary Elizabeth Hutchison, ex '27, is
studying art in New York.

Mary Collyer Johnson's mother died re-
cently after years of invalidism.

Nancy Lou (Knight) Narmore's baby
has red hair and is named Phyllis May
for her daddy, Phil Narmore.

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Edith Richards, ex '27, is teaching in
the Mobile, Ala., high school.

Mary Speir, ex '27, is librarian for four
of the Charlotte, N. C, public schools.

Roberta (Thomas) McKeel's little son is
almost a year old.

1928

Next class reunion, this very May! We
simply couldn't wait any longer to come
back some of us haven't waited this long!
But put on your bonnet, '28-ers, about
May 24th and come to our first alumnae
reunion at Agnes Scott. We are going
to show those old-timers what a reunion
can be!

Sallie Abernethy visited Agnes Scott in
March and went home to Arkansas for
spring vacation with Hazel and Helon
Brown. "Skid" Morgan and Jean Lamont
went with the Brown twins, also. Sallie
is in Washington now as a page at the
D. A. R. convention.

Harriet Alexander visited in Atlanta
and at Agnes Scott in April.

Eunice Ball has been out of school for
some time with a bad case of flu.

Martha Brown was a page at the North
Carolina D. A. R. convention in March
in Winston-Salem. Martha attended the
Agnes Scott dinner given at the country
club by the Winston-Salem alumnae.

Frances Brown writes that she will not
tackle her preliminary oral exams until
the fall. She expects to finish her work
in organic chemistry about Easter, and
then start on advanced work in organic.
Johns Hopkins has again awarded the
Virginia scholarship to Frances for the
excellent work she has done in the Chem-
istry department there this past year.

Virginia Carrier began her work as Girl
Reserve secretary of the High Point Y.
W. C. A. in February. "Ginger's" address
is care Mr. J. M. S. Salsbury, Roland Park,
High Point, N. C. She writes: "Just at
present I am hard at work trying to figure
out how I can feed fourteen people on
little or nothing. I am afraid Agnes Scott
didn't give me so much to work on there.
And today I have a terrible charley horse
from four hours of baseball yesterday.
But the work here is coming fine and I
love it. Miss Randolph left yesterday. It
was so good to see her again."

"So often I think of dear old Aggie and
long to be back," writes Sarah Currie,
"although I am thoroughly enjoying my
work here this year. Last fall I took a
course in laboratory and X-ray technique,
finishing a six-months course in four
months, (thanks to Miss Mac's stiff re-
quirements in the Agnes Scott biology de-
partment) and am now working at High-
smith Hospital, Fayetteville, N. C, doing
some lab and X-ray. I'm also illustrative
artist of operations, all of which I like

fine."

Betsey Davidson is at home in Lexing-
ton, Va. Betsey is a splendid news gather-
er and is responsible for more than one
of the news items in this Quarterly.

Mary Ray Dobyns writes that she and
Mary Riviere and Eleanore Albright are
going to be councillors at Camp Tapa-
wingo in Maine this summer. "I don't
know exactly what Mary's job is some-
thing about singing. Mine is playing for
dancing and helping with swimming. It's
quite a spiffy place, judging from what
Mary wrote me about. She met the di-
rector up there in New York and told me
to apply for the job. I did, and got it.
I am planning to visit Agnes Scott for
grand opera week."

And from Cuba comes this interesting
letter from Betty Fuller: "I am really
so far out of the world now that I can
hardly realize that there is one. I am
teaching school out in a sugar central a
million miles from nowhere and enjoying
life immensely, except that I crave to
spend some money. I haven't seen any-
thing new in months and some barbarian
just robbed the mail and took my one and
only new Easter gown which was coming
from Havana. Contrary to popular opin-
ion, I don't have to wear grass skirts with
palm leaf trimmings, however. I'd dearly
love to be at Agnes Scott and watch the
spring come, but I fear it will be years
before I climb out of the jungle. I can't
come back myself but I am trying to send
you folks a new pupil. From all I can
judge she is just the type that Agnes Scott
wants and that will be happy there."

Margaret Gerig is off for a trip to Eu-
rope and the Holy Land. Her father
writes from Jerusalem: "Oh, for a nice
luncheon as served by your good tea room!
Margaret and I are having a wonderful
trip, but will be glad to get into Europe
as we do not particularly care for this
heterogenous mass of people in the East."

Olive Graves is teaching French in the
Trousdale County High School. She
writes: "Indeed I am planning to come
back commencement. Like several of the
other Hottentots, I have had the flu since
Christmas. I went to bed as soon as I
gave my last exam and was out of school
two weeks, which threw me very late get-
ting in grades, etc. I can certainly sym-
pathize with the teachers now having to
grade papers and translate the various
handwritings. I teach all the high school
pupils except the sophomores, and besides
that I have two eighth grade classes. My
subjects are French and Civics in the high
school and English and History in the
eighth grade. I've recently acquired horn-
rimmed specs and am a true school marm.
I saw Elizabeth Roark a few days before

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Christmas in Nashville and it certainly did
seem good to see someone from Agnes
Scott. And I ran into Miss Wilburn on
a crowded street of Christmas shoppers
in Nashville."

Rachel Henderlite has a part-time job
in the library at Gastonia, N. C.

Josephine Houston is at home this win-
ter in Charlotte, N. C.

Lillian LeConte is assistant buyer in
the glove department of Davison-Paxon's
in Atlanta.

Mary Bell McConkey writes that she is
working from nine to six in the St. Louis
library, running all day with her tongue
hanging out, lugging out encyclopedias
and what-nots for the general public, and
more dead than alive when she gets home
at night. "Library School closes June 15
and I'm going to Europe with my sister
in Nell Buchanan's party, sailing June
22nd."

Ermine Malone visited Agnes Scott in
February.

Mary Jane McCoy and her mother drove
down from Ohio before Christmas and
spent December and part of January driv-
ing through Florida and over in Cuba.
They stopped by Agnes Scott on their
way home with a harrowing tale of being
stopped by revenue officers outside of
Macon, and accused of being rum-run-
ners.

"My work this year has been delight-
ful, and of course, my music pupils are
my pride and joy," writes Virginia Miller,
who is teaching piano and voice at the
Union District High School at Union, W.
Va.

Lila Porcher's new address is U. S.
Coast Guard Depot, Curtis Bay, Md.

Margaret Rice is making her debut in
Texas at the home of her army officer
uncle.

Martha (Rilev) Stephenson lives at 1073
W. Peachtree St., Apt. 10, Atlanta.

Elizabeth Ruff is cadeting in the public
school system in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Rosaltha Sanders is doing splendid work
in the Biology department at Yale this
year. She writes: "The weather here has
been extremely mild, quite contrary to
what I expected. We have had only one
real fall of snow, and that stayed on the
ground just a day or two. I have been
down to New York for several week-ends;
the second one in December was spent
very pleasantly with Willie White Smith."

Mary Shepherd writes: "We have just
gotten back to Tennessee after five months
absence. We have been in Mississippi,
Texas, and Colorado. Now, wouldn't you
think that we'd stay at home for a while?
But no, we are packing up this very min-
ute for nearly a year's stay in the far
west." Mary will get mail sent to 532

Equitable Bldg., Denver, Colo.

Mary Shewmaker was a visitor at Agnes
Scott this spring when she came down to
be in her cousin's wedding in Atlanta.

Eleanor Bennett is Mrs. Warlick, and
is living in New York City.

Helen Daher's engagement has been an-
nounced to Mr. Fenton Wilbur Williams,
the wedding to take place April 30.

Josephine Huntley is at home in Wins-
ton-Salem this winter.

Blanche Guffin was married last Sep-
tember to Mr. Amos Alsobrook, Georgia
Tech graduate, now connected with the
Proctor and Gamble Company in Cincin-
nati. Blanche has enjoyed her first win-
ter with snow, but she dropped out of
things long enough at Christmas time to
have an operation for appendicitis. Her
address is 6268 Savannah Ave., Cincin-
nati.

Eveiyn Wood has done splendid work
at the University of Alabama, both for
her degree, and in her teaching in the gym
department. She is instructor in folk
dancing and in indoor athletics, and one
of the most prominent and influential girls
on the campus. She is a member of the
Kappa Delta fraternity there.

CAMP NIKWASI FOR ADULTS
Franklin, N. C.

Swimming, riding, tennis, canoeing
and golf.

Get your old schoolmates together
and come to camp for rest and play.

For further information write to

Miss Laura M. Jones

128 Forest Rd., Raleigh, N. C,

or

Miss Carrie Curie Sinclair,

Agnes Scott College

Where Shall We Send Your
June Quarterly

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The next Quarterly, containing news of
Commencement and class reunions, will be
published the middle of June. Where will
you be then? Remember, second class mail
is not forwarded! If your June address is
different from the one on the envelope of
this April Quarterly, notify the alumnae
office of the change.

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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

OUR GREATEST ENDORSEMENT

The College we love has had many forms of recognition and of endorsement in our
relatively short collegiate history; but the very best of all came at this commencement.
It is fine to have learned organizations and great scholars to "pat us on the back,"
figuratively speaking, and we have had our share of such; but when a very discriminating
Board approves our standards, and in addition votes an appropriation of a half million
dollars to help us in carrying on, it surely is news easy to read.

Wherever Agnes Scott people meet President Trevor Arnett, of the General Educa-
tion Board, I hope we may give him a cordial greeting and a word of appreciation, for
he has done a most unusual thing in getting an offer of $500,000 for our campaign.
In the first place, the Board has repeatedly declared itself out of the college field of
philanthropy; and Agnes Scott was made a clear exception to the general policy. The
size of the proposed gift is also unusual, for the largest sum ever given us before was
$175,000, and that was above the general average of college grants. It is remarkable
also that we are allowed to use the money for building or land or improvements of any
kind, for heretofore the Board has required its gifts to be used exclusively for endowment.

We would appreciate the support from whatever source it might come, but it is
specially valuable since the General Education Board spends no money without the fullest
investigation. Agnes Scott has been scrutinized and visited by the best experts, and the
unqualified endorsement and support ought to make us very thankful. Also we will
certainly want to do our full part in showing that we deserve the offer that has been
made.

We were supposed to have not less than $600,000 pledged before the Board made us
a grant, but we got only $567,500. We must get pledges for the difference before July
1st of this year. The time is short, and we must have help in getting the subscriptions.
If you have suggestions as to good prospects, please let us know.

If the $600,000 is fully subscribed on time, then the Board will begin to make
payments on half their promise, sending their checks just as rapidly as we collect from
other friends. This is another instance of the generosity shown by the Board, for its
normal requirement would be to have us raise the entire $1,000,000 before it would
give a single penny of cash.

j. r. McCain.

We Must Meet This Generous Offer

Oh, Alumnae, We Count on You!

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NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN MAY, 1929

By LUCILE ALEXANDER

Feeling yourself an integral part of a gathering of six hundred and sixty-five uni-
versity -women from the four corners of the earth, many of whom are international
figures, all of whom are inspired by the common purpose of advancing the intellectual
and professional interests of women, is a thrill that I covet for every Agnes Scott alumna.
There was first the inspiration that comes from contact with women who have achieved:
Miss Woolley, president of the association, presided with that dignity, that tolerant
spirit, that intellectual grasp of an intricate problem that reassures as to woman's fitness
to moderate a meeting; Mrs. William Lamb, a charming English woman who claims New
Orleans as her home and who was the official parliamentarian of the meeting, was an
interesting figure; Mrs. Aurelia Reinhardt, chairman of the Committee on International
Relations, inspired even the most apathetic by her dynamic personality; Dr. Agnes
Rogers of Bryn Mawr, chairman of the Committee on Fellowship Awards, by putting
into all she said and did her impressive Scotch personality, succeeded in kindling new
enthusiasm in the Million Dollar Fellowship Fund; Dr. Ellen Gleditsch of the University
of Oslo, Norway, president of the International Federation of University Women, who
was an inspiring example of what a woman may achieve in scientific research.

Then there was the inspiration of worth-while things undertaken by thirty-thousand
college trained women: The association, by an accredited list of colleges and universities
works for the maintenance of high standards in institutions admitting women, requiring
not only academic excellence but recognition of women in the faculty and in the
administration, as well as adequate provision for health, housing and social life of
women students; through its Educational Secretary, the association suggests and directs
educational work undertaken by the local branches, and through the International Rela-
tions Committee it supplies material for this important study; as a member of the Inter-
national Federation of University Women, the Association participates in a program
which includes the creating of international fellowships, the exchange of professors,
the exchange of information and hospitality, and a triennial conference.

One of the most interesting and helpful features of the New Orleans program was
the afternoon discussion groups. The most interesting to Agnes Scott alumnae was led
by Dr. Leslie Marston, a young college president, who discussed the crisis faced by the
liberal arts college, in danger of being crushed between the upper and nether millstones,
the University and the Junior College. With rare understanding and balance, he showed
that to the liberal arts college alone we are to look for leadership, for the realization
of the original meaning of the word "school" leisure, creative leisure. For this reason
he considers it an ill-advised policy to clog the college curriculum with vocational courses
or even with "orientation" courses, since the function of the entire curriculum is orien-
tation. He showed that there is no necessary conflict between culture and vocation and
that it should be the aim of the college to place vocation in the larger scheme of things.
The danger that threatens the liberal ideal of the college is the tendency to make of the
college a university in embryo, is the desire to train specialists.

You will be pleased to know that Agnes Scott was well represented at the New
Orleans gathering: Sue Hill, now of the University of Florida, represented the Gaines-
ville, Fla., branch; Cora (Connett) Ozenberger, president of the St. Joseph, Mo., branch
of one hundred and twenty-five members, her branch; Louise (Buchanan) Proctor the
Birmingham, Ala., branch; Virginia Peeler, the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association. Two
former Agnes Scott professors were members of the convention: Mrs. Brown, formerly
Miss Morrow of the Latin department, and Mrs. Brannon, formerly Miss Lytle of the
English department. But the proudest recognition of Agnes Scott was the award to
Juanita Greer, '26, of the Boston Alumnae Fellowship to enable her to continue her
research at Hopkins after she earns her Ph.D. in June.

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In the reports from the sections, however, the southeastern section did not make
a good showing either in membership, organization, or activities. As Agnes Scott alumnae
we can not escape a large share of the blame, for our Alma Mater is certainly one of the
outstanding colleges of the section. Your degree from Agnes Scott gives you many
privileges: the privilege of associating yourself with women from the one hundred
and fifty-eight approved colleges in the discovery and development of talent for re-
search and of making possible for women the opportunities that men have enjoyed for
generations; of enjoying the advantages of the Washington Club House and, as members
of the International Federation of the European Club House; of being eligible to graduate
fellowships; of repaying in some measure your college debt by using your influence for
advancing the educational and professional interests of women. Your degree opens
wide the door. Won't you come in?

COMMENCEMENT WEEK-END. MAY 25-28

BY AN ALUMNA WHO CAME BACK

The 40th commencement at Agnes Scott was an unusually happy one, owing to the
announcement made then by Dr. McCain that our efforts to interest the General Edu-
cation Board of New York in the college development program have been successful,
and that they have promised us a gift of half a million dollars, if we ourselves will give
and raise a million. This gift assures the future of our college, and we who love Agnes
Scott so dearly are grateful and happy. All alumnae and friends of the college present at
the announcement were deeply thrilled at the announcement, and resolved to redouble
their efforts in the raising of the million dollars.

Dr. McCain reported our progress in the development campaign. Faculty and
students have pledged more than $80,000, and the alumnae have already gone beyond
the $70,000 mark. Future classes at Agnes Scott want to have a hand in this too! A
letter was read from little Caroline Orr, one-year-old granddaughter of Chairman J. K.
Orr, of the trustees, sending a check for $100 in order that "her class of 1949" in which
she expects to graduate at Agnes Scott may be the first one fully paid up. "Ka'line" is
the mascot of the senior class this year.

Mr. Charles S. McCain, president of the National Park Bank of New York, was
to deliver the commencement address on Tuesday morning, but at the last minute was
unavoidably detained in New York. Mr. Arthur McCain, vice-president of the same
bank, was sent to read Mr. McCain's already prepared speech on "Women in Business."
He traced the changes in attitude regarding women from the time they were mere
butterflies and playthings of men through the stages of development to the present
position of equality. He emphasized the fact that women are passing from the level
of typists and mere helpers to that of administrators and executives, citing the illustra-
tion that recently the merging of two railroad systems, with all the complications of
modern problems, was heard by a woman examiner for the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission.

Alumnae events during commencement are always started off "with a bang" by
the trustees' luncheon to the alumnae, faculty, and senior class on Saturday. The entire
morning before the luncheon was taken up with the meeting of the Alumnae Association
executive committee, executive council, and annual general meeting. (Our annual
alumnae baby party on Friday had to be called off on account of a whooping-cough
epidemic in Decatur.)

From far and wide they flocked back! The long, flower-laden, tables in Rcbccka
Scott dining room were filled with alumnae from the very first years of the Institute to
the 95 graduates of 1929. In the absence of Mr. Orr, Dr. McCain acted as master
of ceremonies for the luncheon. There were speeches and more speeches, the reunion
classes were asked "to arise and display their great size," and then there were more
speeches. We remember especially that of the senior class president, Helon Brown, who,

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not only was not overawed by sitting among trustees and other dignitaries at the speakers'
table, but arose quite happily when she was called on, and made a lovely speech in behalf
of the new alumnae class, pledging to the Alumnae Association and its undertakings
the loyalty and whole-hearted support which this splendid class has ever given to campus
enterprises during its undergraduate days.

Saturday night the Glee Club held forth in the gym-auditorium, and our hearts
were delighted with vocal and instrumental music, classical and jazz, with some negro
spirituals and a clog-dance thrown in! Mrs. Johnson, director of the glee club, was
kind enough to let the "poor old decrepit alumnae" put on some stunts after the per-
formance. The alumnae secretary, Polly Stone, pretended to be looking through some
old annuals, and as she described each picture, it was given as a tableau. Miss McKinney
losing her favorite sunbonnet, 1898; the three up and coming, be-bustled young students
who led in the campaign for "another brick walk" back in the '90's; the sweet girl
graduate of 1902; a fashion revue of 1907; Kittie (Burress) Martin and Kate (Logan)
Good, roommates at the Institute, recited with dramatic eloquence an ode to the senior
lamp back in the days when seniors were presented with such an article and a can of
kerosene; a view of the stage during the outdoor commencement play, "As You Like It"
(which we tried to give for three consecutive years, and it poured rain each year!), was
shown, taken from anywhere in the audience: nothing but umbrellas raised to protect
the heads of the audience! The daring costumes worn by girls taking men's parts in
Blackfriar plays back in the teens and early 20's when a long, full, blue serge skirt,
man's coat, collar and tie, and mustache (Oh, never have a man without a mustache!) , or
a linen duster worn over a middy suit were thought to be just too daring and risque!
One brazen hussy dared, on the night of the performance, to wear, instead of the pre-
scribed skirt, long serge bloomers down below the knee! Since it was too late for a
radical change to be made in her costume, she was made to stand behind a table during
the entire play. The awarding of the Shonts prize to the Mnemosthyneian Literary
Society, while the defeated and desolate Propylean president prepared to blow out her
brains; these and many other pictures from the alumnae scrapbook were presented and
were greeted with shouts of laughter from the audience. The hit of the evening was the
bicycle-built-for-two, with Miss Haynes and Miss Alexander, in modish fin de siecle
costumes, perched coquettishly upon it. We wish to thank once more the alumnae who
went through old trunks and attics and produced the costumes worn in these stunts.

The Rev. Henry H. Sweets, D.D., L.L.D., Louisville, Ky., delivered the bacca-
laureate sermon on Sunday, taking as his subject "The Silent Partner," based on II
Corinthians, 13:14, and emphasizing the fullness of life that may be possible when it is
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

After the sermon and dinner on Sunday, Miss Hopkins was hostess to alumnae at
coffee in Rebekah Scott, and at five there was a short alumnae vesper service in the
old chapel. We had planned to hold this service outdoors, but a sudden deluge of rain
drove us inside. Charlotte (Bell) Linton led, and Nannie Campbell, Jo (Logan)
Hamilton, and Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson assisted. Frances (Gilliland) Stukes and Lil
(McAlpine) Butner sang "Angels of Jesus, Angels of Light," and once again we were
back in the dear old college chapel as students living again those happy days so full of
sweetness and light, when friendships, seasoned now by the years, were first formed,
when Dr. Gaines and Dr. Armistead were with us, and our little world was bounded by
the college campus.

The rain continued to pour so that Atlanta alumnae could not get out to the
Alumnae House, but a good number of the alumnae who were staying on the campus
came over to the moving pictures taken at commencement two years ago. We would
that we were rich enough to take some each commencement! Does any philanthropic

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alumna have $2 5 she would like to spend this way each commencement? It would be
a priceless gift. Miss Wilburn, Miss Torrance and Miss Hale, faculty members of '21,
'23, and '24, and Miss Hopkins, braved the storm and came over, too.

Monday morning the sky cleared and there was perfect weather for the reunion
class luncheons and class day exercises. '2 3 and '24 lunched together in the Tea Room,
and '21 and '22 in the Candler Hotel. '28's many "working goil" members in Atlanta
necessitated their lunch being a dinner at 6 o'clock and a very jolly dinner too! Class
day exercises and the daisy-chain were lovely. Little Ka'line Orr is a dear mascot, and
the class of '49 will have in her a charming member.

Who won the reunion cup for attendance? '2 3 did! Since '2 8's meeting did not
occur until evening, we could not work up the percentages until after that time, but
the five reunion classes stood as follows:

Class

Number of Members

Ni

amber Back

Percentage

'21

55

10

18

'22

58

14

24

'23

62

26

42

'24

57

18

31.5

'28

101

39

38.6

There was no Blackfriar play this commencement for the first time since anyone
can remember, and to quote our Shakespeare: "thereby hangs a tale." But Sara Carter,
'29, a Blackfriar, read A. A. Milne's "The Ivory Door" on Monday evening, and there
was the traditional bookburning afterwards.

On Tuesday morning ninety-five seniors were graduated, and we felt the same old
thrill to see them kneel before Miss Hopkins to have the hood slipped on and the tassel
changed. How it carried each alumna back to her own graduation in the old chapel
perhaps.

And in between times all during commencement there were alumnae swimming
parties in the new pool, and Hoasc reunion meetings where they discussed and re-discussed
and re-re-discussed, I'm told. And there was a meeting of old Blackfriars and Play-
writers, and altogether so many things going on on the campus all the time that we
old alums rushed around almost as breathlessly as we used to do during student days.

It was a great week-end! Whatever you do, or don't do in this world, sisters don't
miss your next class reunion, and if you live near enough, make the trip back to Agnes
Scott commencement an annual event.

"Dear mem'ries of our years there fill
Every heart, and we acclaim her Fostering Mother still."

1921

'We know we don't cut a great figger,
We wish our reunion were bigger
But the reason it's small
Is that our class ALL
Are running the world with such vigor!'

So shouted triumphantly the 1921 group at the Trustees' Luncheon when called
upon to rise and match their smiles and numbers with the hordes of "Institute girls" and
of 1928 children 'fore and aft 'em. Who did the shouting? Aimee I)., Helen Wayt,
Charlotte Bell, Thelma Brown, Betty Floding, Lina Parry, Myrtle Blackmon, Sarah Fulton,
and Janef Preston; and they looked as if they were having the time of their lives serving
up delicious chit-chat about all the other 1921 alums, scattered from China to Peru.
Some of those present with the addition of Ida (Brittain) Milner continued their hob-
nobbing at the class reunion luncheon on Monday at the Candler Hotel in Decatur. The

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"festive board" was adorned with much besides food sweet peas, little cap-and-gown
place cards, individual favors, and jingles that were read aloud with much glee; and
best of all, at Janef's place, a pile of letters and telegrams from absent members. The
lucky few who were present heard all about Aimee D.'s nine months' old Caroline
(Helen Wayt says she is a perfect darling) ; we listened delightedly to Charlotte (Bell)
Linton's entertaining tales of her male quartet that she's raising up as model husbands for
future Agnes Scotters, and her first-hand account of Frances Charlotte's honeymoon
several years ago; and we admired Helen Wayt's ring and her composure under the strain
of parties, showers, trousseau, etc. Helen's little bride-and-groom favor, marked June
18, had this rhyme:

"As soon as He Her spied,
'Oh, Helen Wayt!' he cried;

Now it's nearly June

When to Mendelssohn's tune

The thrilling knot will be tied!"

The messages from the absent ones warmed the cockles of our heart and made us
long to have 1921 present one hundred per cent. As each message was read aloud
somebody exclaimed, "Wasn't that sweet of her to write us! Don't we wish she could
be here!"

Frances (Whitfield) Elliott wrote from Norristown, Pa.: "There isn't a chance of
my coming this year. Estelle Willingham Elliott, who will be a year old in June, keeps
me at home these days. Maybe I can bring her down when she enters A. S. C! I'm
crazy about Norristown but surely miss the South. Give all the girls in '21 my love.
Would give anything to be at the reunion. Will think of you while I'm washing
dishes and nursing."

Mariwill (Hanes) Hulsey sent word that her three months' old son was her reason
for not being at the reunion.

Margaret Wade, Montreat Normal School, Montreat, N. C; Caroline Agee, St.
Mary's School, Raleigh, N. C; Mary Louise (Green) Morrow, Decatur, Ala., and Sarah
Stansell, Chattanooga, Tenn., all sent their greetings to the reunion, and their regrets that
either inconvenient schools or suddenly changed plans made it impossible for them
to come.

Anna Marie (Landress) Cate wrote a long, interesting letter about her life in Nash-
ville, where she and Dr. Cate have made their home since they returned from Korea
three years ago. They have a son, and two daughters one of them quite new.

Helen (Hall) Hopkins sent a lovely greeting all the way from San Francisco, and
a cordial invitation to any of the class of_1921 "vacationing" out west to visit her
in her home near the Golden Gate. We hope Helen won't regret her southern hospitality,
because we have all decided to go.

Genie (Johnston) Griffin wrote cheerfully of the slings and arrows of outrageous for-
tune that kept her away from this reunion. Her little son, Clayton, has whooping cough,
and the dormitory in which she lived at the McCallie School, in Chattanooga, burned
down a few months ago, with Genie and the babies safely out but with some of the
ancestral furniture sadly in. But Genie has a new three months' old son, Randolph
Page Griffin, handsome (so Janef testifies) and intact. Genie sent this telegram, that
arrived just before the luncheon: "Lest old acquaintance be forgot. Loving greetings to
you all. Wish I could be with you."

Margaret (McLaughlin) Hogshead sent a perfect prize packet that we gave little
squeals of delight over some silhouettes of her family, including herself, her husband,
and her three adorable children Cara Fan, cute and chubby; Dickey, with his hair stand-
ing up in an aureole, and Nell Brown, who, Peg Bell says, is "a beautiful child, as graceful
as she is pretty." These prized silhouettes will go in the 1921 scrap book. And that

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reminds us: please all of you send snapshots, or interesting newspaper clippings about
your celebrated SELVES or husbands or children. We want to make the Scrap Book
tell the story of ourselves since college days. Think what fun it will be to look at it
together next reunion!

Peg (Bell) Hanna wrote us a spicy letter from her country manse in Virginia,
and sent along attractive snapshots of her children playing with Margaret McLaughlin's.
The pictures were taken especially to be sent to the reunion. Charles (aged four), Edwin
Bell (two and a half), and Bett Massie (five months) are good-looking little Hannas.
Peg says, "As you see, I have three perfectly natural children. But what you can't
see by the pictures is the amount of time and energy consumed daily just in feeding,
clothing, and bathing them, not to mention all the casualties, such as skinned knees,
stumped toes, and bumped heads. I use about a sheet a week in bandages for the youngest
boy, but he beams as soon as he sees a 'banjidge' going on." No wonder with Peg to
put it on! She says to tell anybody going near Lexington, Virginia, please to come to see
her. She lives on the Middlebrook Road between Staunton and Lexington, across the
road from New Providence Church, and she'd love to see any dear familiar face even
on wash-day.

These were all the messages sent back to the sheltering arms, but there were other
choice morsels of news about class members that were collected and exclaimed over by
the reunioners:

Dot (Allen) Tucker has a red-headed baby girl. Dot's sister, Catherine, who looks
like Dot and Beff, graduated from Agnes Scott this year.

Isabel Carr, who lives in Harriman, Tenn., has been in Miami Beach all winter.
She passed by Agnes Scott on her way back to Tennessee a few weeks ago, and told us
about her four-year-old daughter.

Cora (Connett) Ozenberger was sent by the St. Joseph, Mo., branch of the A. A.
U. W. to the national conference in New Orleans this spring. Miss Alexander, who
went from A. S. C, talked to Cora, and reports that she is prettier and more charming
than ever.

Louise Fluker has been visiting about, taking life easy this winter. Helen Wayt
saw her at Magnolia Gardens in Charleston this spring.

Anne (Hart) Equen has two lovely children, whose pictures are pasted in the class
scrap book. Dr. Equen is an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Atlanta. Anne is an
active Junior League worker.

Dorothy (Havis) McCullough lives at Sunnyside, Long Island. She works with
a New York charity organization.

Jean McAlister is studying medicine in New York.

Fan (McCaa) McLaughlin lives at Stoncy Point, Tenn., where her husband (Mar-
garet's brother) is pastor of the Presbyterian Church. They have a son.

Lina Parry works in Atlanta. She is going to Europe in the late summer.

Lucile (Smith) Bishop is getting up a tour to Europe this summer.

Amy Twitty is teaching in Miami.

Martha Stansfield is studying for her Ph.D. in Latin at Chicago University.

"Sis" Jones does a lot of Junior League work in Jacksonville, Fla.

Emily (Hutter) Stewart and her husband are both teaching in Chattanooga.

Peg (Hcdrick) Nichols has two children. She lives in Bristol, Tenn.

Lois (Compton) Jennings lives in Ponca City, Okla. We hear she has two children.
Is that right?

Marguerite Cousins, who is teaching in Augusta, Ga., will study at the University
of Wisconsin this summer.

Betty Floding is OUR NEW CLASS SECRETARY. DO SEND HER SOME NEWS.

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Her address is 8 54 Myrtle St., Atlanta, and she teaches at North Avenue Presbyterian
School. She says our next CLASS REUNION is ONLY FIVE YEARS OFF.

Nelle Frances Daye is teaching in Huntsville, Ala.

Mary Robb (Finney) Bass lives in Ensley, Ala. Her husband is a chemist, and she
has two children, we think. Is this right?

Elizabeth (Enloe) McCarthy has one child. Her husband is a professor at the
University of North Carolina.

Myrtle Blackmon is English teacher and school librarian in the Columbus, Ga.,
high school. She is going to Columbia University this summer.

Janef Preston recently received honorable mention for her group of poems, "Por-
traits," entered for the Southern Prize of the Georgia Poetry Society. The competition
was open to poets of the southern states, and over sixty poems were entered. The judge,
Dr. Hibbard of the University of North Carolina, spoke very highly of the type of
poem represented by "Portraits." But Janef says a miss is as good as a mile, and
she could have used that fifty dollar prize mighty well!

We'd like a lot more news about some people we haven't heard from. Does any-
body know anything about Eleanor Gordon except that she is married and lives in
Davidson, N. C? And what about Augusta Brewer, and Pearl Lowe Hamner, and Sarah
Harrison, and all the others? And we have some non-graduate members of '21 we'd love
to hear from. We cherish Ida (Brittain) Milner, who re-uned with us this year; Ida
is one of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club's most loyal supporters. She asks about Sarah
Hall, who started us off our famous freshman year. Anybody know anything about
Sarah?

The Dix Plan that brings you back for reunions with the classes you knew in col-
lege is simply great. For instance, you can't imagine how good it made us feel to see
members of '22, '23, and '24 wandering familiarly around the campus. Nannie
Campbell and Eva Wassum were all around proudly displaying Eva's new baby; Beth
McClure and Em Guille appeared together; and Janice Brown was here to tell us about
Vic and Mary Green and to delight us with her own self; Frances Gilliland and Lil Mc-
Alpine sang at alumnae vespers; and Liz Brown nearly got mobbed by a joyful crowd
at Sunday coffee in Rebekah lobby.

Don't you wish you'd been here? Truly, 1921 alums, or messages, or rumors flew in
from the east and the west and the cuckoo's nest. Our next reunion will be in 1934.
Plan now to let the world run itself while you come back.

1922 CLASS REUNION

"Come seven, come 'leven!" Never did a class run more true to the lingo of "the
game" than the class of '22. Come their seventh year reunion, come eleven members
returned to gather about the festive board in a private dining room on the second floor
of the cool and comfortable Candler Hotel in Decatur, Monday, May 27th, at 1 P. M.

The date of this auspicious occasion was doubly significant, it being the one hundred
and fiftieth birthday anniversary of the class president! The following were among
those present: Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, Mary Floding, Marion (Hull) Morris, Mary
Knight, Alice (Whipple) Lyons, Emily (Thomas) Johnston, Ruth (Laughon) Dyer,
Ruth Pirkle, Liz Brown, Eunice (Dean) Major, and Helene (Norwood) Lammers.

Due to illness, our class secretary, Sara (Till) Davis, sent in her resignation with
regrets, and Ruth Pirkle was unanimously chosen to "carry on." Sara will have her
competent hands full managing a new son and even though he can never become a
Blackfriar, we feel sure that, sooner or later, the footlights will claim him.

The Hopkins Jewel Award was presented to Miss Hopkins through the class of
'22 to be awarded at the commencement exercises. It is an amethyst pendant with
platinum chain purple and white the colors of our Alma Mater, and is to be given
evey year to the senior who has during her four years most genuinely exemplified the

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true spirit of Agnes Scott. It is presented in Miss Hopkins' name that the class of '22
may show to whom they feel this honor first belongs, and with the hope that it will
express a depth of love and admiration that words are inadequate to convey.

The only pleasant part about happy things coming to an end is that there must
be an end before there can be another beginning. And though we parted mid laughter
and a wee tear, it is but to meet again in 1934, when, upon our heads the dust of the
almond tree will have begun to fall and great fun will be had by all in relating what
havoc time hath wrought in our varied and "sun-dried" lives.

M. L. K.

CLASS OF '23

Dear Reunion- Absentee, Class of '23:

Was your school not out? Was the baby too small to leave? Was the trip pro-
hibitive from a financial standpoint? Or were you reluctant to return to Agnes Scott
lest you find too many changes on the campus, in the faces of friends, in the pervading
spirit of A. S. C? Whatever the reason for your absence, we missed you we wished for
you, and reunion was less than perfect because you were not here.

Of course, no account in words can convey to you the various and unique delights
of such a time as we had, and so in a way, you'll "never know what you missed." Per-
haps the enthusiasm of those attending has reached you in other ways than this, and
if so this will serve, I hope, further to fix your determination not to miss another re-
union.

Not to mention any of the events of the delicious four days there is to do scant
justice to the persons who so thoughtfully planned all the lovely occasions on which
friend met friend, former students and faculty met, and on which visitors and trustees
greeted the alumnae of the college. But they understand, I know, that all can't be said,
and that the actual events of reunion will be elsewhere described. What I am so anxious
to convey to you is a sense of renewed loyalty to Agnes Scott, and thankfulness for
the enduring blessings of comradeship and idealism that Agnes Scott girls possess to a
marked degree.

Added to the joy of seeing the girls who returned (and you'll find all their names
in another part of the Quarterly) , there were the delightful telegrams, letters, snap-
shots and other communications from Dot (Bowron) Collins, Helen (Faw) Mull,
Maud (Foster) Jackson, Anna Meade, Mary Stewart Flewlett, Becky Dick, Mart Hay,
and Nancy (Tripp) Shand.

You can't imagine what fun it was to hear first-hand about the jobs, the husbands,
the babies, the "operations" or other personal news of our crowd of "pelankers"! But
the realization which gave meaning to all the happy events of reunion, was that in
spite of the time that has elapsed and the changes that have come to friends, to the
campus, to us, the essential, beautiful spirit of Agnes Scott is unchanged. When a former
student knows that unfamiliarity of landmarks and strangeness of faces bodes no change
in the moving ideals which pervade the halls and walks of the campus, then reunions
become a joy indeed. And it is the conviction of this alumna that those who attended
reunion this May found a refreshment for their spirit that no other experience could
have given them so fully or so happily.

Come and make the venture with us, next reunion-time, for we missed you at
this one!

L. L. M.

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REUNION OF "CLASS OF OLD '24"

The reunion of '24 really began with the alumnae luncheon in Rebecka Scott dining
room on Saturday. The shrill excitement of seeing everybody in the lobby beforehand
was equaled only by the pleasure of sitting down at the table in a group and talking
about babies and husbands and jobs and old times. We decided among ourselves that
the luncheon would never have been so successful without '24, for our class furnished
the college with Dick, who fixed the hundreds of place cards and the nut cups and
vases of beautiful flowers and mimeographed songs and programs and put a pansy at
each place. Polly's speech in which she announced alumnae engagements was, as always,
the hit of the occasion: and she was ours, too. We were happy also to have Mr. Stukes.
who was the only masculine member of our class, present.

Margaret (Griffin) Williams had darling pictures of her two-year-old son which
everybody oh-ed and ah-ed over; Mary (Mann) Boon was there looking just as she
always did; and so was Rebecca Bivings. Virginia Ordway, who is teaching at Anniston,
was at the College Friday and Saturday; but none of these girls were able to stay through
our class luncheon Monday.

Polly planned a very satisfying alumnae vesper service Sunday afternoon at five.

Frances and Lil sang their lovely duet about "Angels of Jesus, Angels of Light."

That night we enjoyed seeing the moving pictures which were taken at the reunion
in 1927. Mary Greene, Polly, and Dick showed off to great advantage.

It was at our reunion luncheon Monday, though, that we got the most said and
heard the most news. Of the twelve members present, seven were married: Jack
(Evans) Brownlee, Augusta (Thomas) Lanier, Nonie (Peck) Booth, Frances (Gilliland)
Stukes, Margaret (McDow) MacDougall, Cora (Morton) Durrett, and Lilian (Mc-
Alpine) Butner. The unmarried minority was Daisy Frances Smith, Polly Stone, Dick
Scandrett, Katie Frank Gilchrist, and Janice Brown. Frances proved her housewifely
prowess by arranging a beautiful centerpiece of flowers grown in her own garden, seeing
about place cards, table-setting, etc. The favors were fans which were plied vigorously
throughout the meal. We gossiped about our various absent friends until someone
mentioned the inevitable mystery story. It was while we were off on mysteries and
murders that Polly wondered casually whether it would be possible for a person to dis-
appear entirely for say a year without leaving any trace. D. F. at once put her
debater's mind on the problem and planned her vanishing in detail from getting a muscu-
line haircut and costume to leaving her car under a bridge near Macon. Whether we
were influenced by Mr. Orr's little verse about the truest test of woman's worth or not,
I don't know, but anyhow no one agreed with Daisy as to her method of escape; and we
had a grand time proving to her that the police would be on her heels in a half hour.

We sang "Flail, Agnes Scott, We Sing to Thee"; and then proceeded to beat '23
to the living room of the Alumnae House where we sat down to hear Dick read in-
teresting letters from Margaret (Powell) Gay, Martha (Eakes) Matthews and Annie
Wilson Terry. Annie Will's remark that she was doing "some teaching and a little
courting" caused great excitement. Martha wants us all to call her up when we go
to Chicago. Polly and Dick will probably see Margaret this summer while they are
in New York. Dick next read Mary Greene's funny prophecy; and we laughed again
over long forgotten jokes. Dell's last will and testament was read; and then we went
through the class roll comparing our intended professions with what we are doing now.

We did have a simply lovely time. And if all the ones who weren't there could
have heard how often they were wished for and felt how much they were missed, our
entire fifty-seven would surely have been on hand.

J. S. B.

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'28'S FIRST REUNION

A goodly percentage of '2 8-ers trekked back to the Alma Mater to make the most
of the week-end before the Tuesday morning that should bring another graduation,
and take from the class of '28 the satisfying distinction of being the very youngest
alumnae.

We were duly impressed with the new rules that were poured into our left ears
while the right ears reveled in familiar shrieks and greetings all the while our eyes
noticed shining new paint and obvious improvements. It was the same old last-minute
rush scene, but rather rose-tinted, for we had no four-years-accumulation to pack into
two small trunks, no meetings, no last minute decisions to agree upon, and no disturbing
mystery as to what is meant by the line in the song "Out in the cold, cruel world."
None of these, but all of the fun of being back, knowing nearly every one, and un-
deniably "belonging."

We had gossiped as devastatingly as we knew how, but arrived at the luncheon
Saturday without suspicions of a single pending engagement and throughout the lunch-
eon and triumphs of every class from 1911 to 1929 still no announcement to make us
throw arms about our neighbor! That fact isn't as disturbing as it would be if we
couldn't think back upon several marriages accomplished during the fall, winter and
spring.

Our own class supper in the Tea Room Monday evening just before Sara Carter's
long to be remembered reading of "The Ivory Door," truly brought the old days back.
If there had just been about 60% more faces around the U shaped table on the left
of the Tea Room as you enter from the parlor as we did! last year would have been
perfectly duplicated, in scene and spirit.

There was Jo Walker with the most long hair you ever saw one year's training
boast! Vera Kamper, prettier than ever, Anais Jones and Eloise Gaines. Emily Cope
was down for the May Day-Senior Opera week-end, which probably explains her absence
from the group. "Bee" Keith and Virginia Norris represented Greenville. With them
were Pat Collins and Carolyn Essig. Their end of the table was kept hilarious by Lillian
White's tales of how she tried and failed (but it's her own story, remember) to make
Blackfriars of untrained and youthful Floridians and by Virge and "Bee's" accounts
of their summer plans, which include studying at Columbia with Ann McCollum, an
apartment, and all those things you read about.

Mary Crenshaw and Louise Girardeau were there in person to stand up for their
telephone company profession, and to reiterate "we don't say 'number please.' ' With
them were a group of Atlanta pals, including Bet Cole and Julia Napier. There
were a number of "dear familiar faces" oh, so many that I tremble to name them
all for fear I should leave out one and so bring down wrath on my head.

It seemed very familiar and exactly right for Janet MacDonald to be sitting at the
U part of the table, and to second someone's motion that wc use for curtains in Miss
Hearon's memorial room in the library part of the $13 5.00 in our treasury. Huda an-
nounced that it was there, so we took the news like nonchalant business men and started
devising ways and means to employ it to a nobler purpose.

Demi-tasse arrived with the decision to donate the rest of the funds to the Greater
Agnes Scott Campaign, in which we are all so vitally interested.

It was all great fun! Mark the next reunion date on your calendar now! And
class of '29, DON'T miss your first reunion!

C. E.

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OUR MISS HOPKINS

This commencement, May, 1929, marks the 40th anniversary of Miss Hopkins' connection with Agnes
Scott. First as lady principal of the Institute, and later as dean of the college, Miss Hopkins has endeared
herself to hundreds of Agnes Scott students. They are scattered all over the world now, yet still in each
heart there is a very warm affection for the dear Agnes Scott mother who was the guiding spirit of their
schoolgirl years.

The trustees of the college presented Miss Hopkins (elected last year as a member of that board) with
a Plymouth sedan at commencement time as a token of their love and esteem for her. The alumnae, too,
wished to show their love in some tangible way. Hundreds of letters poured in to the alumnae office
with their messages of congratulation to Miss Hopkins on this happy occasion, and at the luncheon
given by the trustees to the alumnae, the Alumnae Association president, Mrs. B. R. Adams, announced
that a radio and orthophonic Victrola, the gift of her "old girls," would be awaiting her in her sitting
room on her return to the college in August after her vacation.

Agnes Scott owes much to Miss Hopkins' presence, and we who spent our student days under her
influence are rich indeed. We cannot say how much she has meant in the lives of the hunlreds of alumnae,
nor how, through them, her gentle, radiant spirit has helped in the building of many a home and com-
munity and state.

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NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

POETRY

Angels and Earthly Creatures, by Elinor Wylie. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1929.

Elinor Wylie's four small volumes of poems, states The Saturday Kevieiv of Liter-
ature, "place her among the eight or nine important poets in American literature, and
the few important women poets in any literature." In profundity of thought and
depth of emotion her last surpasses all her others. "Some of the thought in Angels
and Earthly Creatures is so profound that it is only after many readings that one can
get the full meaning of the verses. And the emotion, for all its intellectual statement,
is so intense that one is stirred to tears that a human being should have felt so deeply
and suffered so strongly."

ESSAYS

The Modern Temper, A Study and a Confession, by Joseph Wood Krutch. New
York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929.

Here is expressed in a series of essays which constitute one essay, the attitude of the
thinking man with regard to modern tendencies. Mr. Krutch makes his pronouncements
in the tone of the informed and cultured conversationalist; he is sane, just, deliberate; he
has none of the bombast of the doctrinaire. The titles of the essays several of which
have appeared in The Atlantic themselves provoke interest: "The Disillusion of the
Laboratory," "Love Or the Life and Death of a Value," "The Phantom of Certitude."

To call the book fatalistic, pessimistic, skeptical, is to apply hackneyed tags. Yet
it is these. And so convincing is the writer that we feel that to be true it must be so.
The future, says Mr. Krutch, will be in the hands of barbarians who will destroy what
humanists of our age have been at pains to build up: those values at present esteemed by
thinking men cannot survive. He arrives in the end only at heroic despair: "Ours is a
lost cause and there is no place for us in the natural universe, but we are not, for all
that, sorry to be human. * w e should rather die as men than live as animals."

LETTERS

Victoria, empress consort of Frederick 111, German emperor, 1840-1901. Letters of
the Empress Frederick, edited by the Right Honorable Sir Frederick Ponsonby. London:
Macmillan, 1928.

These letters written by the mother of Wilhelm II to her mother, Queen Victoria
of England, should vindicate one of the most misunderstood figures in German and Eng-
lish history. Her love for her husband and family, her desire that Germany might
develop along the liberal lines so dreaded by Bismarck, her sincerity and warmheartedness
make her letters an interesting human document. Her intense antagonism to her
son's plans and her feeling that he was constantly and ignorantly rushing in where
angels fear to tread proved themselves in the right thirteen years after her death. She
said in one letter with regard to her eldest son that she felt exactly like a hen who, having
hatched a duck, was sorrowfully watching him swim away from all the things she wanted
him to do and be.

The story told in the introduction of how the letters, committed to the care of the
editor, were smuggled out of Germany under the very nose of the Kaiser makes breathless
reading.

The Intimate Journal of George Sand. Edited and translated by Marie Jenney How.
New York: The John Day Company, 1929.

This Journal Intime consists of three sections the Journal to Alfred de Musset, the
Pirfol Journal (dialogues between the male and female personalities which George Sand
imagined to exist in herself), and a miscellaneous collection of letters and musings. By
far the most important of these is the first, for here the writer reveals with a frankness
striking even in this age of no reticences, all the intricacies of the best known of her

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various liaisons. Some of the effusions seem genuine expressions of emotion, in spite of
the fervent style popular in the 1830's. Others appear tawdrily melodramatic. The
volume is of utmost interest to the student of a woman strangely great and small.

MISS KIRK IS NEW TRUSTEE

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, of Tuscumbia,
Ala., was elected alumnae trustee by that
board at their meeting during commence-
ment week at the college. Miss Kirk, who
was graduated with the class of '11, has
been prominently connected with the col-
lege ever since her graduation, serving at
one time as president of the Alumnae As-
sociation. She has a genius for organiza-
tion, and it was during her administra-
tion that the present organization of the
Association was put into effect.

OUR SENIOR TRUSTEE

A tribute was paid at the trustees' lunch-
eon to the alumnae to Mr. Murphy Can-
dler, of Decatur, who celebrates this com-
mencement his 40th anniversary as a trus-
tee of Agnes Scott. Mr. Candler is the
only member of the board who has been
identified with the college in this capac-
ity from its opening in 1889.

QUENELLE HARROLD SCHOLARSHIP
AWARD

Each year there is keen competition and
rivalry for the Quenelle Harrold Graduate
Scholarship, given by Mrs. Thomas Har-
rold of Americus, Ga., in honor of her
daughter, Quenelle, an honor graduate of
the class of '23. The award this year
was made to Miriam Preston, '27, who
will continue her work at Yale University.
Miriam has been spending the time since
graduation two years ago with her family
in Korea, and was at Port Said when the
cable reached her, announcing that she
was the winner of the scholarship. Miriam
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is
one of the most excellent students who
has ever attended Agnes Scott.

Former winners of this scholarship are
Mamie Shaw, '27, who is studying medicine
at Hopkins, and Frances Brown, '28, who
is doing work for her Ph.D. at Hopkins in
chemistry.

Mrs. Harrold was a visitor at Agnes
Scott for commencement and was present
when the award was announced.

JUANITA GREER, '26, HONORED

The first member of the class of 1926 to
receive a Ph.D. degree is Juanita Greer,
who has been working for that honor in
the Chemistry department at John Hop-
kins University since her graduation at
Agnes Scott. Juanita was one of the first
members of the Agnes Scott chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, installed at the college the
year of her graduation.

Juanita's outstanding work in the de-
partment at Hopkins has won for her a
coveted scholarship offered by the Amer-
ican Association of University Women, it
was announced at the national convention
of that body in New ' Orleans in May.
Juanita will continue her research at Hop-
kins next year.

AGAIN, THE SCRAPBOOKS

The class scrapbooks gained many at-
tractive new snapshots of alumnae babies
during commencement. These are of Dell
Bernhardt's wee son; Martha Mcintosh's
little blonde daughter, Alice; Eileen Dodd's
two sons riding a huge dog around the
sundial in their flower garden; several
adorable pictures of Jule Hagood's daugh-
ter, Marie, in a fetching spring bonnet;
Essie Roberts' two, Anne and Walter, Jr.,
at a diminutive tea party on Christmas
day; Annette Carter's daughter, Betty
Ann, breaking Chicago speed limits on her
kiddie-car; Helen Faw's two blonde sons,
and Maud Foster's happy looking little son
dressed in such a stiff-starchy, immaculate
suit. From the twinkle in his eye, we'll
wager the suit didn't stay in that condi-
tion long! The scrapbooks grow more and
more interesting. If your babies' pictures
are not there, take some good ones this
summer and send them to the alumnae
office. From time to time we intend to
publish groups of these pictures in the
Quarterly.

Remember, they aren't just baby books
either, and a newspaper clipping or recent
picture of yourself will be joyfully received
by the paste-besmeared secretary.

THE HOPKINS JEWEL AWARD

A new and unique award made for the
first time this commencement, but to be
given annually hereafter, was the Hop-
kins Jewel Award. It is presented by the
class of 1922 in honor of the dean, and
is to go to that member of the senior class
who most nearly meets the ideals for
Agnes Scott students which Miss Hopkins
has established during her forty years of
service. These include scholarship, charac-
ter, poise, health, personality, and the
spirit of service. The award was made
this year to Helon Brown, of Stamps, Ark.,
who was also the senior class president.
The jewel is a graceful amethyst pendant
on a white gold chain, carrying out the
Agnes Scott colors. The class of '22 con-
ceived the idea of the award at their re-
union two years ago, and have pledged
themselves to present it each year in honor
of Miss Hopkins.

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WE CAME BACK FOR COMMENCEMENT!

Out-of-town alumnae guests on the
included:

Kittie (Burress) Martin, Anderson, S. C.
Kate (Logan) Good, Acworth, Ga.
Annie Kirk (Dowdell) Turner, '02, New-
nan, Ga.
Hattie Gaston (Blackford) Williams, '03,

Richmond, Va.
Eileen Gober, '03, Marietta, Ga.
Rachel (Young) Gardner, '07, Camilla,

Ga.
Eleanor Frierson, '10, Columbia, Tenn.
Lucy (Reagan) Redwine, '10, Fayetteville,

Ga.
Julia (Thompson) Gibson, '1 1, Covington,

Ga.
Louise (Wells) Parsons, '11, Chattanooga,

Tenn.
Marie (Maclntyre) Scott, '12, Scottdale,

Ga.
R. Florence Brinkley, '14, Baltimore, Md.
Mary (Brown) Florence, '14, Stamps, Ark.
Louise McNulty, '14, Dawson, Ga.
Mary (Bryan) Winn, '16, Birmingham,

Ala.
Elizabeth (Burke) Burdett, '16, Brussels,

Belgium.
Anne (McClure) Simpson, '16, Norcross,

Ga.
Regina Pinkston, '17, Greenville, Ga.
Georgina (White) Miller, '17, Orlando,

Fla.
Juliet (Foster) Speer, '20, Anderson, S. C.
Charlotte (Bell) Linton, '20, Thomasville,

Ga., and Chunju, Korea.
Myrtle Blackmon, '21, Columbus, Ga.
Aimee D. (Glover) Little, '21, Marietta,

Ga.
Elizabeth Brown, '22, Albany, Ga.
Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, '22, Charlotte,

N. C.
Eunice (Dean) Major, '22, Anderson, S. C.
Ruth (Laughon) Dyer, ex '22, Roanoke,

Va.
Emily (Thomas) Johnston, '22, Selma, Ala.
Allie Louise (Travis) White, ex '22, Lyons,

Ga.
Lucy (Wootten) Wiegund, '22, Coving-
ton, Ga.
Mary White Caldwell, ex '23, Scottdale,

Ga.

campus during commencement week-end

Nannie Campbell, '23, Richmond, Va.

Christine (Evans) Murray, '23, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.

Mary (Goodrich) Meredith, '23, Jackson-
ville, Fla.

Emily Guille, '23, Spartanburg, S. C.

Viola (Hollis) Oakley, '23, Columbia, Ala.

Lucie Howard, '23, Lynchburg, Va.

Eloise (Knight) Jones, '23, Milton, W. Va.

Lucile (Little) Morgan, '2 3, Heflin, Ala.

Josephine (Logan) Hamilton, '23, Ap-
palachia, Va.

Lois McClain, '23, Jasper, Ga.

Hilda (McConnell) Adams, '23, Colum-
bus, Ga.

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail, '23, Albany, Ga.

Mary Stewart McLeod, '23, Bartow, Fla.

Valeria (Posey) Brown, '23, Fort Valley,
Ga.

Frances (Stuart) Key, ex '23, Knoxville,
Tenn.

Eva (Wassum) Cunningham, '23, Colum-
bia, S. C.

Janice Brown, '24, Greensboro, N. C.

Jack (Evans) Brownlee, ex '24, Anderson,
S. C.

Katie Frank Gilchrist, '24, Courtland, Ala.

Margaret (Griffin) Williams, '24, Bir-
mingham, Ala.

Lillian (McAlpine) Butner, '24, Winston-
Salem, N. C.

Catherine (Nash) Goff, '24, Washington,
D. C.

Virginia Ordway, '24, Anniston, Ala.

Nonie (Peck) Booth, '24, Anniston, Ala.

Daisy Frances Smith, '24, Cuthbert, Ga.

Agatha Deaver, '2 5, Tampa, Fla.

Araminta (Edwards) Pate, '2 5, Nashville,
Tenn.

Larsen Mattox, '2 5, Moultrie, Ga.

Lillian Middlebrooks, '2 5, East Point, Ga.

Mildred Pitner, '25, Tate, Ga.

Julia Pope, '2 5, Greenville, S. C.

Emily Spivey, '2 5, Hartwell, Ga.

Helen (Bates) Law, '26, Schenectady,
N. Y.

Clarkie Davis, '26, Columbus, Ga.

Louisa Duls, '26, Charlotte, N. C.

Edith Gilchrist, '26, Birmingham, Ala.

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Gertrude (Green) Blalock, '26, Bradenton,

Fla.
Eleanor Gresham, '26, Birmingham, Ala.
Ladie Sue Wallace, '26, Rutledge, Ga.
Eleanore Albright, '27, New York City.
Josephine Bridgman, '27, Gastonia, N. C.
Rachel Henderlite, '27, Gastonia, N. C.
Carolina McCall, '27, Opelika, Ala.
Louise Plumb, '27, Lawrenceville, Ga.
Frances Rainey, '27, Clinton, La.
Virginia Sevier, '27, Hendersonville, N. C.
Evelyn Knight, ex '27, Safety Harbor, Fla.
Sallie Abernethy, '2 8, Winter Garden, Fla.
Harriet Alexander, '28, Augusta, Ga.
Huda Dement, '28, Wartrace, Tenn.
Mary Ray Dobyns, '2 8, Birmingham, Ala.
Mary Jewett Doyal, '28, Rome, Ga.
Sarah Glenn, '2 8, Gastonia, N. C.
Olive Graves, '2 8, Nashville, Tenn.

Mildred Jennings, '28, Augusta, Ga.
Margaret Keith, '28, Greenville, S. C.
Hortense (King) Fowler, '28, Fort Gaines,

Ga.
Lilla Mills, '28, Camden, S. C.
Mary Jane McCoy, '28, Washington Court

House, Ohio.
Janet MacDonald, '28, Greensboro, N. C.
Ellott Mae McLellon, '28, Philadelphia, Pa.
Virginia Norris, '28, Greenville, S. C.
Mary Ramage, '2 8, New York City.
Margaret Rice, '28, Florence, Ala.
Josephine Walker, '28, Summerville, S. C.
Lillian White, '28, Fort Pierce, Fla.

This does not include the Atlanta and
Decatur alumnae, nor a few other out-of-
town alumnae who did not register at the
Alumnae House.

Annual Reports of Alumnae Association

MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEE MEETING

MAY 25, 1929

The Executive Committee was called to
order by the president, Mrs. Hilda McCon-
nell Adams, in the college chapel. Min-
utes of the last meeting were read and
approved.

The committee voted to suggest to the
alumnae that the gift the alumnae should
make to Miss Hopkins be a radio and
Victrola combination.

The treasurer made her report and pre-
sented the proposed budget for the year
1929-1930. The committee then voted to
recommend to the Alumnae Association the
acceptance of the budget.

Report of the House and Tea Room
Committees was read and approved. The
Executive Committee also approved the
following recommendations from this
committee:

1. That Mrs. Vera Nisbet serve in the
capacity of Tea Room hostess and man-
ager.

2. That the charge made, in case of
alumnae, for a bed in the Alumnae House
be raised from 50 cents to 75 cents, while
cots may be secured for 50 cents on spe-
cial occasions.

The Executive Committee appointed the
following as councillors-at-large:

Mrs. Ida Lee (Hill) Irwin.

Mrs. Anne (Waddell) Bethea.

Mrs. Lou (Buchanan) Proctor.

Miss Helena Hermance.

As there was no further business, the
committee adjourned.

CORA MORTON DURRETT,

Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE ALUMNAE COUN-
CIL MEETING MAY 25, 1929

The council was called to order by the
president, Mrs. Hilda McConnell Adams, in
the college chapel.

Minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.

Miss Lois Smith, president of the day
students, reported that a wonderful spirit
of co-operation has existed on the campus
between boarders and day students, and
that efforts to increase the interest of
day students in campus activities have
been made.

Mrs. C. E. Harmon suggested that the
interest of preparatory students in Agnes
Scott should be encouraged at North Ave-
nue Presbyterian School.

Mrs. Guy reported the gift of a
Plymouth sedan to Miss Hopkins by the
trustees.

Mrs. Thatcher as a representative of the
Atlanta club called attention to the
Founder's Day program and the Play
Day given to preparatory students. The
Atlanta club made a contribution of $300
to the campaign fund, and will add more
to this later. The Atlanta club hopes to
give $500 each year of the campaign.

Mrs. Thatcher as a representative of
the alumnae thanked the students for their
splendid work during the campaign on
the campus.

Miss Nannie Campbell reported that the
main handicap of the Richmond Agnes
Scott club is the fluctuating membership.

The Charlotte, Birmingham, Orlando and
several other clubs reported growing in-
terest in Agnes Scott.

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The president, Mrs. Adams, reported
that Miss Polly Stone had applied for a
leave of absence for one year as alumnae
secretary. The president expressed the re-
gret of the alumnae that Miss Stone found
it necessary to make this request.

Motion was made and carried that the
constitution of the Alumnae Council be
revised. The president appointed the orig-
inal committee on revision of the con-
stitution of the Alumnae Association to
serve in this capacity for the Alumnae
Council.

On motion duly made and seconded,
council adjourned.

CORA MORTON DURRETT,

Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE

ASSOCIATION MAY 25, 1929

The meeting was called to order by the
president, Mrs. Hilda McConnell Adams.
Minutes of last meeting were read and
approved.

Motion to receive and adopt as a whole
reports from all officers, and then of all
committees, was made and adopted.

Reports of the president, general secre-
tary and the treasurer were then read and
accepted.

Reports were made by the following
standing committees: Alumnae Loan
League, Finance, Grounds, House and Tea
Room, Entertainment, and Preparatory
Schools. These reports were likewise ac-
cepted as a whole.

The president expressed the gratitude
of the alumnae to the trustees for the
$500 given the past year, and for the $500
voted by them to the alumnae for the year
1929-1930.

Mrs. Guy moved that a letter be written
Mrs. Louise Brown Hastings in apprecia-
tion of her splendid gift of flowers and
shrubs, as well as her untiring services as
chairman of the Committee on Beautifying
Gi-ounds and Buildings.

Action of the trustees in designating
Miss Mary Wallace Kirk as alumnae trus-
tee for two years was duly ratified.

Mrs. Thatcher as chairman of the Com-
mittee on Revision of Constitution, called
especial attention to the following impor-
tant changes:

1. Separation of constitution and by-
laws.

2. Associate membership open to any
one who has been a student in Agnes Scott
College, Institute or Academy.

3. Formation of the Student Loan Com-
mittee, which includes the old Student Aid
League and the Scholarship Committee.
Only students of junior and senior classes
to receive aid, thus allowing the money
to be turned over more rapidly.

4. Vocational Guidance Committee elim-
inated, as college does most of this work.

5. Committee on Class Organization
eliminated, as general secretary does work
of this committee.

6. Audit of accounts of treasurer an-
nually, auditor to be selected by execu-
tive committee.

7. Requirement of minimum of five
members for the formation of a local
branch.

8. One councillor from each five mem-
bers of a local club, with one additional
councillor for each extra twenty-five mem-
bers.

9. Addition to the list of standing com-
mittees of the Committee on Constitution
and By-Laws.

After some discussion, the revised con-
stitution, on motion duly made and sec-
onded, was adopted as a whole.

On motion duly made and seconded, the
Executive Committee was instructed to
select a suitable gift for Miss Hopkins.

The president, Mrs. Adams, reported
that Miss Polly Stone had applied for a
leave of absence for one year as alumnae
secretary. The president expressed the re-
gret of the alumnae that Miss Stone found
it necessary to make this request. A ris-
ing vote of thanks was tendered her for
the untiring and splendid services she has
given for the past four years as general
seci*etary.

It was decided, on motion made and
seconded, to present a gift of money to
Miss Polly Stone at the trustees' luncheon.

It was stressed that dues be paid by
September. The constitution states: "Any
member who fails to pay her dues shall re-
ceive the literature of the association for
one year thereafter, but she shall be en-
titled to vote and to the other privileges of
the association only for the current year
for which she has paid dues."

As there was no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

CORA MORTON DURRETT,

Secretary.

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

The efforts of the Association this year
have been centered almost exclusively upon
the endowment campaign which we plan-
ned in May, 1928. The general response
has been sincere and encouraging, even
though we have not reached our greatest
hopes financially. Five hundred and seven-
ty alumnae have pledged a total of $70,000
more than half of the amount set for
our goal.

The pamphlets and letters sent out to
the alumnae from the college have been
the means of arousing new interest and a
closer relation between Agnes Scott and
her alumnae.

The splendid response of the students
and faculty by their generous contribu-
tions to the campaign is worthy of great-
est appreciation. The Association is grate-
ful to the Atlanta club for the lively
Founder's Day program.

An outstanding piece of work by the
constitutional committee has been a com-
plete revision of the Alumnae Association
Constitution. The results of the efforts
of the other committees will be made
clear by the various reports.

In the rush of campaign work, we have
tried to keep in touch with the student
body. The student members of the
alumnae council have made interesting re-
ports. The annual tea for the senior class
was given, as usual, this spring in the
Alumnae House.

We would express our appreciation to
all of those who have, during the past
year, helped in any way to promote the
growth of the Alumnae Association.
Respectfully submitted,
HILDA McCONNELL ADAMS.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL
SECRETARY

The year's work in the alumnae office
has been handicapped by the fact that the
secretary has had to be away a good
deal of the time on campaign business.
These trips have combined alumnae work
with campaign work, however, for in the
various cities she has visited, she has met
with alumnae clubs and groups, and in
many cases aided the preparatory schools
committee by speaking in the high schools
and interviewing individual high school
students. The secretary has been out of
the office for five weeks since Christmas
doing this work, visiting all the principal
cities and towns in Alabama, North and
South Carolina, and several cities in Geor-
gia. Though this has necessarily slowed
down work on files and records, etc., we all
feel that right now the campaign work

should come first, and that our present
great undertaking, the erection of the
Gaines Memorial Chapel by the alumnae,
must have right of way over every other
alumnae plan.

Three issues of the Alumnae Quarterly
have already appeared November, Janu-
ary and April. The fourth quarterly for
the year containing the good news of the
General Education Board's gift and com-
mencement write-ups will appear in July.

A good deal of work has been done on
alumnae records this year, and the class
scrapbooks have many new items. These
books (the gift two years ago of Mary
(West) Thatcher, '15) are increasingly
interesting as time goes on and new pages
become filled.

The secretary has been in closer touch
with the students this year than ever be-
fore, and she is constantly impressed with
their interest in the alumnae and the
Alumnae Association. The secretary has
addressed the entire student body and
picked groups of students on various oc-
casions this year the one thing of the
year about which she feels entirely satis-
fied is the alumnae-student relationship.
The last class meeting of '29 was held in
the Alumnae House living-room, when the
seniors were welcomed into the Alumnae
Association and the duties and privileges
explained to them in a not-too-dry-as-dust
way.

The part of the secretary's work which
at the end of the year can show no definite
results, yet which consumes an enormous
amount of time is the position of hostess
at the Alumnae House. When she is in
town, the secretary is "on tap" practically
twenty-four hours a day, seven days a
week. This is a delightful, though ex-
hausting, part of her job.

In conclusion may she be allowed to say
that she has really enjoyed immensely her
four years as alumnae secretary, and its
many contacts with alumnae and residence
at the dearest college in the world, and
wishes for her successor what she will
surely find here years as happy.
Respectfully submitted,

POLLY STONE.

TREASURER'S REPORT
Proposed budget, 1929-30:
Income

Tea Room $ 700.00

House rent 400.00

Room rent 200.00

Dues 1,500.00

Gifts 500.00

Miscellaneous 25.00

$3,325.00

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Expense

Secretary $ 900.00

Office supplies, printing, postage,

etc. 1,300.00

Furnishing and upkeep 350.00

Maid 160.00

Traveling expenses 100.00

Dues 32.50

Entertainment 50.00

Miscellaneous 30.00

$2,922.50
Debt (to Life Membership Fund) 330.95

$3,253.45
Report for year 1928-29 :
Receipts

Tea Room profits $ 171.03

House rent 400.00

Room rent 163.25

Dues 1,412.20

Miscellaneous 32.69

Gifts 555.00

Gift for Miss Hopkins 316.10

Gift for Miss Stone 40.85

Interest on Savings Account 47.20

Balance in bank, Sept. 29, 1928_

5,138.32
267.20

$3,405.52
Disbursements

Secretary $1,300.00

Office supplies, printing and post

age 1,030.02

Furnishings and upkeep 241.78

Maid 160.00

Dues 32.50

Entertainment 30.40

Miscellaneous 20.51

Gift to Miss Stone 50.00

Gift to Alumnae House 55.00

$2,920.21
Balance in bank, June 1, 1929 485.31

$3,405.52

Prior to my taking office, the Alumnae
Association had borrowed $330.95 from the
Life Membership Fund, and during my
term of office it has not been possible
to repay this amount.

At the direction of Dr. McCain, the
Alumnae Association returned to Miss
Mary Kirkpatrick, at her request, the un-
used portion of a prize fund which she
had given some years ago, the amount
being $306.66, which was taken from the
savings account. Balance in the savings
account (Life Membership Fund) is
$964.29.

Respectfully submitted,
Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland,

Treasurer.

BEAUTIFYING GROUNDS AND
BUILDINGS COMMITTEE

The committee is composed of the fol-
lowing members:

Christine (Evans) Murray.

Eileen (Dodd) Sams.

Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansell.

Miss Louise Lewis.

Miss Mary Stuart MacDougall.

We report for the year the planting of
500 tulips, 500 daffodils, and 175 hyacinths
in beds about the campus.

Our plans are to try in this coming year
to have a well-planned scheme, that will
keep some flowers in bloom on the cam-
pus the whole year, and the above is only
the beginning. Our plans call for further
development around the drive, new shrubs,
etc., the planning of a formal garden,
which will be a mass of color spring and
fall.

Respectfully submitted,
LOUISE (BROWN) HASTINGS,

Chairman.

ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE

The entertainment committee, composed
of Mec (Maclntyre) McAfee, Eliza (Can-
dler) Earthman, Marie (Maclntyre) Scott,
and Clare Louise (Scott) Beall, has given
two parties this year. The first was the
birthday tea, given at the Alumnae House
on Miss Anna Young's birthday, to which
the alumnae and faculty were invited. The
second was a tea for the senior class.
This was given in April at the Alumnae
House. The committee is also responsible
for the decorations of today's luncheon.
Respectfully submitted,
LOIS (MacINTYRE) BEALL,

Chairman.

STUDENT LOAN FUND COMMITTEE

The members of this committee are:
Mrs. Lewis Gaines, chairman; Mrs. John
Van DeErve, Miss Elizabeth Lynn, treas-
urer.

At the beginning of the year the com-
mittee had in the bank $550.27 at its dis-
posal. Seven applications for loans wer-e
received early in September and after con-
sulting with the president of the college
and looking into the records of the ap-
plicants, loans were granted to these seven
girls. These loans were made possible
by the return of three loans given to stu-
dents in the past.

Our treasurer has sent letters to all de-
linquents with some results. There was
no response from four of the previous
loans. Two addresses seem to be lost,
and letters have been returned unclaimed.

Following is the report of the treasurer:
Respect fully submitted,
MRS. LEWIS GAINES,

Chairman.

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FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE STU-
DENT LOAN FUND

Money on former loans paid in dur-
ing year $708.85

Money loaned out again this year__ 625.00

Balance on hand at present $ 83.85

Loans have been made to seven girls
this year. One has repaid part of her loan
already. Letters have been sent to all
girls who have left school, with the ex-
ception of two whose addresses are incor-
rect. Not including loans made this year,
and mentioned above, $375.00 is still out.
Respectfully submitted,

ELIZABETH LYNN,

Treasurer.

HOUSE AND TEA ROOM COMMITTEE

The popularity of the Anna Young
Alumnae House continues to grow every
year as more and more alumnae are re-
garding it as their permanent home on
the campus. This year there were one
hundred visiting alumnae who spent at
least one night there, to say nothing of
the countless numbers who dropped in
for a friendly chat, tea, or a meal. The
college guest room has had many distin-
guished visitors among whom were M.
Desclos of Paris, Mrs. Percy Pennybacker,
Mrs. Karl Wilson Baker, the poetess; Dr.
Frank Morgan, Dr. Henry Sweets, and
Mr. A. M. Palmer, Assistant Director of
the Institute of International Education.

We have done some refurnishing up-
stairs in the house which has cost very
little but yet has been most effective.
There are new colored rayon spreads on
the beds; two mattresses renovated; there
is a chintz covered boudoir chair in one
room; and Dr. McCain very generously
gave us twenty-five dollars which we used
in freshening up the college guest room.
The cash register in the Tea Room has
been repaired and there is a new gas stove
in the kitchen.

As usual, our friends have been very
generous with us. At the home-coming
tea which is held every fall in memory of
Miss Anna Young, Mrs. Samuel Young,
Mrs. John J. Eagan, and Mrs. Paul Brown
gave the house fifty-five dollars. Linen has
been received from Louisa White, Maurine
Bledsoe, Frances (Arant) Wilmer, Mary
(West) Thatcher, Miss Lillian Smith, Miss
McKinney, and Dr. Sweet. The Atlanta
club, continuing its plan for the furnishing
of the living room, added a very beauti-
ful tilt-top table as a birthday gift to the
house.

Miss Florinne Brown, the manager of
the Tea Room, is leaving us this year.
The committee and, I am sure, the entire
Alumnae Association, will ever be grate-
ful for the work she has done for us and
our best wishes go with her in the new
work which she is taking up. After care-
ful consideration we have engaged Mrs.
Vera Nisbet, who for the past eight years
has been hostess and has had entire charge
of the boarding department at North Ave-
nue Presbyterian School. Mrs. Nisbet
comes to us with splendid recommenda-
tions and we feel that we are most for-
tunate in having her.

A report concerning the Alumnae House
would not be complete without an expres-
sion of our love for and grateful apprecia-
tion of the work of Polly Stone, to whom,
as hostess, most of the fine and genial
atmosphere which pervades the Alumnae
House is due. We hate to think of the
house and the campus without her.

The financial statement is as follows:
Total receipts of the Tea Room,

September- April $7,012.12

Total profits 228.02

. 75% profits to Alumnae Associa-
tion 171.03

20% profits to Tea Room manager 45.59
5% profits to House Committee.. 11.40

Funds handled by this committee:
Balance on hand September, 1928 $ 79.70

5% of Tea Room profits 11.40

Gifts 55.00

Total $ 146.10

Disbursements:

Refurnishing bed rooms $ 47.76

Kitchen equipment and new silver 12.47

Total $ 60.23

Cash on hand $ 85.87

The committee has made a recommenda-
tion to the Executive Committee which has
been approved. We think that there should
be a difference between the amount paid
by returning alumnae who occupy the
guest rooms and those who sleep on cots
in the sewing room. Therefore the com-
mittee proposed to raise the very small
sum of fifty cents per night to seventy-five
cents for those occupying guest rooms.
Those who apply for places late and have
to sleep on cots shall pay only fifty cents.

Respectfully submitted,
FRANCES (GILLILAND) STUKES, '24,

Chairman.
CARRIE SCANDRETT, '24.
EVA (TOWERS) HENDEE, ex '10.
GUSSIE (O'NEAL) JOHNSON, ex '11.
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Concerning Ourselves

1889-1906

Kitty (Burress) Martin and her old
roommate, Kate (Logan) Good, came back
together this year to commencement,
roomed in Main Building again, and said
they had the time of their lives. They
took their meals at Miss Hopkins' table,
and told many tales of institute days that
kept the whole table in a gale of laughter.

Hattie (Blackford) Williams, '03, visit-
ed the college at commencement time.

Ellen (Cheshire) Kemp's daughter, from
Missoula, Montana, is a student at Agnes
Scott.

Alice (Coffin) Smith's daughters, Alice
and Sarah, were both married this spring.
Sarah has moved to Augusta to live.

Corinne (Cotton) Hodges' daughter,
Marian, was graduated from Agnes Scott
this June. Her engagement was an-
nounced at the alumnae luncheon.

Annie (Emery) Flinn's second son, Dick,
was graduated with honors from David-
son this June. He will teach at Banner
Elk, N. C, next year, and then plans to
enter the ministry.

Frances (Fisher) Warren is spending the
summer abroad.

Marian (Haynes) King has written a
most interesting letter telling of her life
and home in Zellwood, Fla. "My mother
and sister live in Leesburg, twenty-five
miles from here, and as we both own cars,
it is not long between visits. I drive my
own car and enjoy it. Those who remem-
ber how terrified I used to be of driving
or even riding in a horse and buggy will
smile at this. We have a nice, comfort-
able home here in Zellwood with all the
conveniences of a city and are only forty-
five miles from Orlando. As to my looks
now well, I weigh a hundred and forty-
six, and have bobbed hair. We Floridians
are making a valiant tight against our
latest pest the fruit fly. As it all started
in a grove in Orlando, we are very close
to the trouble, but the clean-up policy is
being so closely carried out that we are
very hopeful of shipping fruit next winter
even from our section. My pet hobby
these days outside of my home is the
Orange General Hospital in Orlando. I
am a member of the Ladies' Advisory
Board and also a member of the Orlando
Auxiliary of the Orange General Hospital
Association. Our duties are mostly to sew
articles needed in the hospital, and to
raise money everlastingly! My particu-

lar job has been the making of jelly, and
one year I made nearly 300 glasses. At
home, my hobby is my family of Persian
cats. They are thoroughbreds, perfect
beauties, and get a great deal of atten-
tion. I sold two kittens and have one
more to sell. A main industry here in
Zellwood is growing Boston, Sprengeri and
Asparagus Plumose ferns. They are sold
in the Woolworth, McCrory, Kress and
Grant chain stores everywhere. The women
of the neighborhood wrap the ferns and
even the children get jobs on rush days.

Our packing house was making an ef-
fort to ship 60,000 ferns today. My son-
in-law is interested in a new cut fern,
called the leather leaf. These fronds will
last a month standing in a little water,
and are beautiful, too." Marian sends news
of other alumnae, too, among them of
Alice (Hocker) Drake. Alice lost her hus-
band last year. Her son, Trusten, Jr., was
married shortly after his father's death,
and lives at home with his mother. Wil-
liam, Alice's other son, is still in college.
Annie Newton, Agnes Scott's first May
queen, came up from LaGrange to witness
the May Day fete at the college this
spring.

In the midst of this unstable and chang-
ing age, it is refreshing to find one alumna
who does not change her apartment every
September. Carrie B. Scott has lived in
the same home in Kirkwood for over thirty
years. If only there were more like her,
alumnae secretaries would not grow grey
so early in life.

Annie Shields is Mrs. William Prince, of
Chickamauga, Ga. Her husband is a
farmer.

Irene (Stalnaker) Overton is a widow
with three daughters. One is married, one
is a stenographer, and one is still in high
school. They live in Hamlet, N. C.

Maude (Stalnaker) Brewer lives in Cum-
berland, Md., whei-e her husband is the
president of the Liberty Trust Company.
They have one daughter, Virginia, now
seventeen years old.

Effie Tiller is Mrs. Robert E. Work-
man, Box 1156, Asheville, N. C. She
is holding a government position.

Aline (Vance) Allen still lives in Buford,
Ga. She is a widow with two children.

Marion Van Dyke is the manager of a
travel service in Chattanooga, Tenn. She
has an office in the First National Bank
Building.

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Jessie (Vereen) Smithwick lives at 4700
Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. Her
husband is a congressman from the state
of Florida. They have two children, Mary
and William Vereen Smithwick.

Susie May (Wallace) Montgomery's hus-
band is connected with the McNeel Mar-
ble Company at Marietta, Ga. They have
two grown children.

Edith West has a kindergarten in Sa-
vannah, Ga.

Kate Whiteman is Mrs. F. R. Davis,
McMinnville, Tenn. She recently suffered
a nervous breakdown and has been re-
cuperating in a Nashville sanitarium.

Annebel (Williams) Cromartie's husband
is a dentist in Fayetteville, N. C. They
have two boys, 16 and 9, and a daughter
13.

Bessie Wilson is Mrs. J. D. Reardan,
221 Belmont Rd., Washington, D. C.

Margaret Wilson is Mrs. C. W. McCully,
Sharon, S. C. Her husband is pastor of
the Presbyterian church there. They have
five children, among them a daughter who
will come to Agnes Scott in 1932.

Susan (Young) Egan is spending the
summer in England.

1907

Next reunion, 1930.

Rachel (Young) Gardner attended Agnes
Scott commencement to see her daugh-
ter, Lenore, receive her degree. Lenore's
engagement was announced at the alumnae
luncheon.

1908

Next reunion, 1930.

Jane Brown writes: "Doing just the
same as I've been doing for the past two
years, and reveling in a relief from con-
stant change. House and garden, to say
nothing of a job as county librarian, keep
me busy. I belong to the Atlantic City
branch of the A. A. U. W. and have to
drive 18 miles to a meeting."
1909

Next reunion, 1930.

Mec (Maclntyre) McAfee's daughter,
Marie, was graduated from Washington
Seminary in Atlanta in May.

Roberta (Zachry) Jjngle, ex '09, has
moved from Virginia to 1424 12th Ave.,
Greely, Colorado.

1910

Next reunion, 1931.

Lida (Caldwell) Wilson is now first lady
of Charlotte, N. C, her husband having
recently been elected mayor. Linda has a
beautiful home, and an adorable three-
year old son.

1911

Next reunion, 1931.

The engagement has been announced of
Florinne Brown, ex '11, to Mr. Givens
Arnold, of Atlanta, the marriage to take

place this summer. Mr. Arnold is con-
nected with the White Provision Company.

A son, James Grinnell Blanchard, was
born April 3 to Marie (Parry) Blanchard,
ex '11, in New York City.
1912

Next reunion, 1931.

Ruth (Slack) Smith will motor to Yel-
lowstone Park the first of the summer,
and then attend the University of Wis-
consin summer school.

Nellie (Fargason) Racy, ex '12, has been
teaching Latin and French this term at the
Hogansville, Ga., high school. After leav-
ing Agnes Scott, Nellie studied at Emory
and at the University of Chicago.
1913

Next reunion, 1931.

Allie (Candler) Guy made the presenta-
tion speech recently when her father,
Judge John Candler, gave Wesleyan Col-
lege a portrait of Allie's grandmother.
Little Florrie Margaret Guy unveiled the
portrait.

Kate Clark will spend the summer in
Europe again.

Lilly (Joiner) Williams writes that her
daughter, Mary Winn, is making her one
proud mother by winning all the honors
in her school. Besides being a splendid
student, Mary Winn is also musical.

Janie McGaughey was recently made
chairman of the women's work for the en-
tire Southern Presbyterian church. Janie
was at Agnes Scott during May.

Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker and her hus-
band have purchased a beautiful site on
Hillsboro Road in Nashville for their new
home and plan to begin building soon.
1914

Next reunion, 1932.

Mary (Brown) Florence came from
Arkansas to see her twin cousins, Hazel
and Helon, graduate from Agnes Scott.
Both girls were outstanding students,
members of Hoasc, and Helon, besides
being senior class president, was awarded
the Hopkins Jewel as the member of the
senior class who most nearly typifies the
Agnes Scott ideal.

1915

Next reunion, 1932.

Marion (Black) Cantelou writes that her
energetic little son has kept her very
busy at home all winter, and that the
Cantelou family is headed for the coast
this summer.

Mary (Kelly) Coleman announces the ar-
rival of a son, Emmett Lee Coleman, Jr.,
on May 20, 1929, in Atlanta.

Lucv (Naive) Swain's new address is
Apt. 5, 787 Penn Ave., N. E., Atlanta.

Mary (West) Thatcher accompanied her
husband on a business trip to Florida in
May.

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Isabel Norwood, ex '15, is singing at the
Roxy Theatre in New York. Marion
(Black) Cantelou says: "Isabel was in
Montgomery for a short visit this win-
ter lovelier than ever and vastly en-
thusiastic over her work."

Lula (White) Potter has moved into a
new home at 705 Morningside Dr., N. E.,
Atlanta.

1916

Next reunion, 1932.

Mary (Bryan) Winn and her diminutive
daughter, Leonora, visited in Decatur dur-
ing May. Mary was here to see her
brother, Harry, graduated from Columbia
Seminary and to let Leonora look over
her future Alma Mater.

Elizabeth (Burke) Burdett, of Brussels,
Belgium, is visiting her mother in Macon,
Ga., and came up for the alumnae lunch-
eon. She writes: "I don't know when
I have enjoyed anything so much! It is
the first time I have ever been near
enough to come back since I graduated and
I see what I am missing each year by
living so far away."

Nell (Frve) Johnston has moved to 201
W. Flora St., Tampa, Fla.

Maryellen (Harvey) Newton and her
two small daughters have been visiting
her parents in Montgomery.

Margaret Phythian is returning to the
States this month after a year spent in
study at the Sorbonne. She will be with
her father in Kentucky during the summer
and will take up her work in the French
department at Agnes Scott in September.
1917

Next reunion, 1932.

Amelia (Alexander) Greenawalt writes:
"We have lived in Albany, Ga., for the
last five years without any news of in-
terest, but we are very happy now over
the probability of moving back to At-
lanta this summer. Any member of old '17
who comes through had better not try to
skip by without coming out to see me and
my two daughters. Amelia, Jr., will enter
A. S. C. six years from this fall. She is
really making a wonderful record in the
grammar grades. Myra's scholarship is
something to be proud of, too, but that
young lady is certainly a handful."

Gjertrud (Amundsen) Siqueland writes
from Brooklyn: "I have been busy getting
my house in order and running on an ef-
ficient schedule made to be easily broken.
We enjoy watching the garden grow and
are looking forward to a nice quiet sum-
mer here in our own home."

Ellen (Ramsay) Phillips writes from
Mexico: "I have not seen a single one
of my college mates since I graduated. We
were in the states on leave last year, but

spent almost all the time in Texas and
California. We have just moved to Mexico
City. It nearly broke our hearts to leave
Jalapa, but due to the advance in the
development of the native church and the
request of the native Presbytery for all
work to be given over to the entire direc-
tion and support of the native church,
our mission thought it wise for all evan-
gelistic workers to be withdrawn from this
particular territoi-y and so we have gone
into educational work temporarily. We
are living next door to the Girls' Nor-
mal, where Harry teaches English, psy-
chology and logic and I teach arithmetic
in the English school, and music, theory
of music, and sight-singing in the normal
department. Our children ax*e fast grow-
ing up. Jean Sue, our eldest, was ten
a few weeks ago. She has finished the
fourth grade and plays the violin excep-
tionally well. Andrew Ramsey is seven
and a half and will be in the third grade
next year. Foster Maxwell, our three-
year old baby, has just started to kinder-
garten." Ellen's address is Arenal 42,
San Angel, Mexico, D. F.

Vallie Young (White) Archibald says:
"An urgent request from Regina Pinkston
forces me to write, although I have no
news. Have no plans for this summer as
I have to catch up on my marvelous trip
to Europe last summer. My little girl will
be seven years old in July and she is count-
ing on going to Agnes Scott when the
time comes. I had such a nice, though
short, visit from Mrs. Parry several weeks
ago. She is the same dear 'Mother Maude'
as we '17-ers knew at camp that won-
derful time."

Mary Virginia (Yancey) Fahy writes: "I
should like the Agnes Scotters to know
that we (Joe, Joseph, Jr., and I) would
be delighted to see any of them should
they be in Washington. Joseph, Jr., is
now six months old and is a perfect dar-
ling to us. He has big brown eyes and red
hair and is full of mischief a regular
laughing baby. We find Washington a de-
lightful place to live and we are happy to
see many of our friends, for everyone
comes to Washington sooner or later."
Mary Virginia's address is 2807 Ontario
Road.

Celia Grant, ex '17, and a former lost
alumna, has been found at 441 28th St.,
West Palm Beach, Fla.
1918

Next reunion, 1933.

Hallie (Alexander) Turner has bought
a home at 2435 10th St., Columbus, Ga.

Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal has a new baby,
and a most delightful new baby, just like
all the other little O'Neals, to judge from
reports of other Winston-Salem alumnae.

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Winning prizes has become quite the
ordinary thing for Helen Trafford Moore,
ex '18, of Asheville, N. C. Only a few
months ago she won sixth place in an
international contest where eight hundred
poems were submitted. This contest was
conducted by the Poetry Review of London
and the poem of Helen's, "Wings," appear-
ed in the March- April number of that mag-
azine. The Society of Present Day Poets
of America, has just awarded Helen first
prize in a contest in which three thousand
poems were submitted. The title of this
prize-winner is "The City of the Silent
Dead," and it is dedicated to Arlington
Cemetery. A lovely Easter anthem written
by her several years ago, and which has
become widely known in American church
choirs, is "Awake My Soul, Arise."

1919

Next reunion, 1933.

Blanche (Copeland) Gifford's new ad-
dress is 712 S. Edison, Tampa, Fla.

Lucy Durr has recently been made presi-
dent of the Montgomery Junior League. In
addition, she has won all sorts of laurels
for her work in the Little Theatre.

Lois Eve is enjoying the summer at
home in Augusta, and taking long drives
in her new sport roadster.

The engagement of Mary Alice Norman
to Mr. William Wesley Pate, of Tela, Hon-
duras, was announced at the alumnae
luncheon. Mr. Pate is a graduate of Ala-
bama Polytechnic Institute, and is at pres-
ent soil chemist in the research depart-
ment of the United Fruit Company, Tela,
Honduras.

Mary Katherine Parks visited Agnes
Scott just before commencement.
1920

Next reunion, 1933.

Margaret Bland is spending the summer
at home in Charlotte. She will study
playwriting next year with Professor
Baker at Yale.

Juliet (Foster) Speer drove down for
commencement at the college this year.

Anne Houston was married in April to
Mr. David Ira Shires, of Lewisburg, Tenn.
They came by Agnes Scott on their wed-
ding trip.

The life of a newspaper reporter is full
of thrills, and notes from Emilie Keyes
are always interesting. She says: "I did
have a gorgeous winter, interviewing all
the celebrities in Palm Beach everyone
from Rube Goldberg to Sinclair Lewis,
Grover Whalen to Marion Talley. Now
that the season is over, I am back on my
old grind wrangling city hall politics

and looking forward to a few weeks va-
cation up in Minnesota, far from my gen-
erally beloved topics."

Marion (McCamy) Sims was busy com-
mencement time directing the senior play
at the Dalton High School.

"Crip" Slack says: "My summer is going
to be a series of summer conferences and
office work. The only thing different and
new on the horizon is two weeks at Lake
Winnipesaukeei,, New Hampshire, where
sister will join me, and then we will motor
back together. The only Agnes Scott girls
I have seen lately were Mary (Champe)
Raftery, ex '14, and Frances (Glasgow)
Patterson, '19, when I was at Lexington
over the week-end some time ago. Frances
is looking forward to returning to China
with much pleasure some time in August.
Her two little boys are certainly fine. Mary
has a most attractive house with a very
artistic garden and three adorable children.
Then at Natural Bridge I saw Margaret
(McLaughlin) Hogshead, '21, and her little
girl. Incidentally, Margaret (McLean)
McLaurin, ex '23, and I were making this
trip together in her car. The most fun
I have had in some time was a trip to
New York, where I met with a number of
editors, authors, and illustrators, who were
exceedingly funny and thoroughly enter-
taining. The best part of this trip, how-
ever, was lunch with Mart Hay, ex '23,
and Jean McAllister, '21. They are so
full of ambition and higher learning that
it made me feel terribly dull. We had a
large time, though, rehearsing the days at
Agnes Scott and talking of the friends we
had seen at recent times. I will get to
Georgia some time in June and hope to
see a few more girls on this trip. Oh, yes,
I was having dinner last night with Louie
Dean (Stephens) Hayes, '22, who has
moved here from Baltimore and lives just
around the corner from me. It is great
fun having her so near, and I certainly
enjoy being with her. A friend of mine
who is traveling in Europe wrote the other
day that in the same compartment with her
from Lucerne to Paris were Mrs. Bu-
chanan, of Marion, Virginia, and her
daughter, Nell. Sounds familiar, doesn't
it?" Whatever would the Quarterly do
without peripatetic "Crip," who gathers
not moss, but so much good news for each
issue with her traveling?

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1922

Next reunion, 1934.

Agnes Adams, violinist, assisted the col-
lege glee club with thqir program on
Saturday night of commencement.

Nell Buchanan is chaperoning a group
of girls in Europe again this summer.
Mazxia Green and Mae Erskine Irvine, '27;
Lucile Gause, '25; Marion Park, ex '22,
and Mary Bell McConkey, '28, are members
of the party.

Chauffeur Eunice (Dean) Major drove
up to the Alumnae House during com-
mencement with a carfull of alumnae from
Anderson, S. C.

Ruth (Evans) Larimore spent several
weeks in Georgia with her family during
the late spring, and returned to her home
in St. Louis in May.

Ivylyn Girardeau writes: "824 Felicity
Street, New Orleans, will be my address
for the next two years. I have been ap-
pointed junior interne at the woman's dis-
pensary, and am starting on my last two
years of medicine at Tulane."

Lilburn Ivey's school was in the middle
of exams during commencement week-end,
so she was unable to attend '22's reunion.
"As soon as school is out I shall dash
home and try to collect a few clothes to
be in a wedding in Lafayette, after which
I leave for summer school at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin."

Mary (McLellan) Manly writes: "I want
to herald the news to my classmates that
a big new boy at our house kept me from
coming to reunion this year. Judson, Jr.,
was born May 8th. You ought to see my
little daughter, Mary, hang over Bubbe's
bed, kiss his hands, pat his head and keep
me terrified for fear she'll punch his eyes
out."

Lucia Murchison has come home from
Baltimore to work with the Associated
Charities in Columbia, S. C.

Ruth Scandrett has completed her sur-
vey of cotton mill villages in the south,
and after looking in on the strike at Eliza-
bethton and Gastonia, she is at home in
New York City. Ruth will spend August
with friends at Provincetown.

Louie Dean (Stephens) Hays has moved
to Richmond and is living at 1128 W.
Grace St., Sweet Briar apartments. She
writes that she likes Richmond very
much. "Nannie Campbell, '23, and 'Crip'
Slack, '20, came to see me as soon as
we moved in. 'Crip' lives only a couple
of blocks away, so we see each other
quite often."

Sarah (Till) Davis' little son, Charles
Till Davis, was born April 14th. We may
be mean, but we cannot help but hold
grudges against innocent little babies that
insist on arriving just at reunion times.

Ruth Virden writes that she is giving
up girl reserve work, and plans to do
"something different." Now, we wonder .

Rosa Wilkins, ex '22, was married on
May 21 in Augusta, Ga., to Mr. Robert
Erskine Kerr. Rosa has been night super-
intendent of nurses at the Wilhenford
Children's Hospital.

1923

Next reunion, 1934.

A telegram from Dot (Bowron) Collins
to '23 read: "Sorry I could hot make com-
mencement. We hoped to come but our
plans were upset at the last minute. My
love to each member of '23. You should
hear daughter Patsy sing 'Pelanky.' "

Margaret (Brenner) Awtrey announces
the birth of a daughter in May.

Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansell is in-
teresting herself in the Druid Hills Gar-
den club and the lovely grounds around
her own home.

Louise (Brown) Hastings' son, Donald
Madison, Jr., was born April 15th.

Nannie Campbell and her sister are
opening a tea room in Richmond this sum-
mer.

Christine (Evans) Murray has moved
from Atlanta to Chattanooga.

Helen (Faw) Mull was too far away
to attend reunion this year, but she sent
from Cleveland a long, newsy letter to the
class, and several snapshots of her two
little sons.

Philippa Gilchrist had Katie Frank, '24,
and Edith, '26, as her guests during com-
mencement, and then the three of them
drove home in the new car Mr. Gilchrist
has just given them.

Quenelle Harrold was awarded her
master's degree at Columbia in June. On
the way home she visited "Speedy" (King)
Wilkins, '24, in Baltimore. Quenelle is
going on with work for her doctor's de-
gree next fall.

Mary Stewart Hewlett will study at the
University of Chicago this summer.

Lucie Howard's engagement has been
announced to Mr. John Otey Carter, Jr., of
Chattanooga, Tenn.

With a class reunion, two sisters being
graduated, and a new niece in Atlanta to
see, Eloise (Knight) Jones simply had to
come to commencement this year.

Elizabeth (Lockhart) Davis was in New
York during May and was forced to miss
the reunion.

Edith McCallie will be bridesmaid in
Sarah Slaughter's sister's wedding on June
27th, and leave almost immediately after-
ward to spend the summer at Columbia
University.

Hilda (McConnell) Adams has moved to
Atlanta and is living at 2040 Peachtnc
Road, the apartment just vacated by
Christine (Evans) Murray.

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Martha (Mcintosh) Nail is back on her
old job as society editor of the Albany
Herald.

Alma (Seagle) Courtney's baby, Alma,
Jr., is over a year old now, petite and
quite blonde. Dell (Bernhardt) Wilson's
little son sent her a wee corsage at Easter.

Nancy (Tripp) Shand writes off the
birth of Janet Gaden Shand on March 4.
"Am awfully sorry I can't come down to
reunion and show her off, but we had to
move to have room for her, and I am still
busy trying to make the furniture from a
three-room apartment fill a three-story
house."

Eva (Wassum) Cunningham brought her
new daughter, Martha Elizabeth, down
for commencement. "She really is almost
too young to travel, and I never could
have done it if we hadn't had my father's
private car to travel in, Nannie Campbell
to help me on the trip, and Mother Cun-
ningham waiting at this end."

A letter from Becky Dick, ex '23, in
New York, and originator of "Pelanky"
reads: "I'd give a lot to be able to get
there for the reunion, and to sing Pelanky
with the grandest class, but I'm laid low.
I've been out of the running since early
in February, and am now back in the
Presbyterian Hospital where I have been
off and on since February. A pesky old
streptococus germ got into a sinus, and
it's all but wrecked me, at least for pres-
ent usefulness. I've had to take a six-
months' leave from my work after nearly
seven years of being busy. As soon as I
can walk, I'm going to Miami Beach to
bake with a sun cure. Fortunately, I
like heat. I'll be at the William Penn
Hotel, and should like to hear from some
of the girls."

Margaret (McLean) McLaurin, ex '23, is
moving back to Mississippi. They will lo-
cate at Oxford, where Bob will practice
medicine.

1924

Next reunion, 1934.

Elizabeth Askew is home from New
York for the summer with her mother in
Decatur.

Dell (Bernhardt) Wilson has sent a per-
fectly adorable picture of her little son for
the class scrapbook.

Gwynne Cannon has been teaching this
year at Americus, Ga.

Helen Lane Comfort's latest letter from
Germany begins "I am really ashamed of
myself for not having shared more of my
good times this year with my classmates.
My life in Heidelberg seems to have more
or less divided itself into periods at least
in my mind. As I have written before, I
lived with a private family and until the
middle of November I knew only them and

a few of their friends, so I spent my days
studying and reciting German. The Ger-
mans are hospitable in a way, but they
surely don't take you into the bosom of
the family. It is just as difficult to make
friends here as in New York or any other
city. About the only recreation I had in
this time was walking. And I assure you
I know all the paths in these mountains
and have become as good a tramper as
the Germans. I always thought we made
long enough hikes in the good old Agnes
Scott days, but now I think nothing of
walking six miles up a mountain and back
down in an afternoon. About the last of
November, I began to meet the Americans
here. They proved to be a very nice bunch
and we had lots of fun together. After
Christmas, the girl who is my best friend
here from Oregon and I went 'tripping'
together Berlin, Dresden, Nurnburg,
Rothenberg. Being with someone else made
it far more pleasant, of course. Berlin
attracts me with all its modern comforts
the people here simply can't understand
why one should want to see a bathtub
every day! Dresden was very lovely. The
third part of my life here dates from
the trip. We have considered ourselves
very fortunate, for we have been able to
meet and know and enter a little into the
life of the German fraternity students
here. It is seldom that Americans are al-
lowed. For instance, we have seen a fenc-
ing match. They wear no helmets and so
accumulate scars on their cheeks and fore-
heads of which they are most proud. Of
course it was impossible for us to attend
the 'Kneipers' only men are allowed. For
most every one gets drunk on beer im-
agine! I have some pictures of the stu-
dents in their fencing costumes. The
semester ended yesterday, so all my
friends, American and German, are leav-
ing the first of this next week. And so
begins the fourth period of my stay
here, which will consist mainly of reading.
I have a huge long list of German books
to read. I'm sure it will last a life-time!
I leave here the first of April for a few
days in Switzerland and then on to Italy
to meet my brother. We'll land in New
York about June 1st. Please think of me
at the reunion, and remember that I'll be
longing to be with you all."

Beulah Davidson is spending the sum-
mer at home with her family in Fort Val-
ley, helping ship the peach crop.

Mary Greene attended Davidson com-
mencement, where her brother, Bill, was
graduated this year. Mary will be at home
in Abbeville for the summer and writes
that she is expecting a visit from Janice
Brown.

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Vivian Little has begun her work in the
graduate school at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity.

Fran (Myers) Dickley accompanied her
husband to Japan on a business trip in
May.

Catherine (Nash) Goff writes that her
husband received his degree in Washington
on June 10th. They will visit her family
in Kirkwood for several weeks and then are
off to Berkeley, California, where Mr. Goff
has accepted a position.

Montine (Pharr) Harlan writes that her
baby is the first grandchild in both families
and that she has a busy time to keep it
from being hopelessly spoiled.

Dick Scandrett taught at the Florida
State Extension school during June. Then
she visited her sister in Mobile and drove
back for a visit with Cora (Morton) Dur-
rett in Atlanta before leaving for New
York and Columbia Summer School.

Daisy Frances Smith has accepted a po-
sition on the faculty at Peace Institute,
Raleigh, N. C, for next year.

Polly Stone spent June with her brother
in south Georgia, and writes that al-
though it is five weeks since she sprained
her foot on a concrete tennis court, she is
still unable to walk.

Elma (Swaney) Nelson writes: "The
most exciting news I know is that I have
another son. He was born April 23, and
is named William Bentley Nelson, for my
father. Harry, Jr., is not a bit jealous,
but is wild about his new brother. We are
living up on Lookout Mountain now a
fine place to raise boys."

Annie Wilson Terry sent in the prize
letter to be read at the reunion luncheon!
It was partly in verse and was copiously
illustrated by the author. Those of '24
who didn't get back to reunion certainly
missed something! But we are still won-
dering just how seriously to take the
"just a little courting" paragraph.

At the end of our fifth year as alumnae,
it is interesting to look down our class
roll and see what has happened to us all.
Twenty-one are married; thirty-six unmar-
ried. We continue to be the great unwed
class, for this is a low marriage percent-
age for an Agnes Scott class. And we
had not a single engagement announced
from our class at the alumnae luncheon!
Thirty-one of us are working. Twenty-
four of that number are teachers, five are
business women, and Helen Lane and
Janice are librarians. Katie Frank, Pauline
and Melissa are our "idle rich," who
neither pound a typewriter nor maintain
school-room discipline to earn a living.
Lucky girls! Elma is the only member
of '24 who can talk about her "children";

altogether the class boasts five girls and
five boys of the next generation. We are
scattered over seventeen states Georgia,
Florida, Arkansas, North and South Caro-
lina, New York, Alabama, Illinois, Ken-
tucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Arizona,
Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Califor-
nia, and Connecticut. One of us Emmie
is living in India, and if this census had
been taken the first of May it would have
found Helen Lane in Germany and Fran
in Japan. We haven't set the river on fire
yet, or done any other front-page ac-
complishment, but after all, five years
is not so very long. Give us time, sisters,
give us time!

Sarah (Brandon) Rickey, ex '24, is a
graduate of Mississippi State College for
Woman but she is a loyal A. S. C. alumna
and member of '24. She writes that she
wanted to come to reunion, but was kept
at home with her new baby, Sara Wynn.
Sara's husband, who is head of the French
department at Louisiana College, has a
year's leave and will study at the Uni-
versity of Bordeaux next winter on a
Franco-American scholarship.

Charlotte McMurray, ex '24, will sail
for Africa during June to begin her work
as teacher of missionary children. Her
brother, Armistead McMurray, and his
bride, will be on the same boat.
1925

Next reunion, 1930.

"One teacher married and then thei'e
were two." Although Grace Carr, '27, is
leaving the triumvirate for matrimony this
summer, Frances Bitzer and Sallie Horton
plan to teach in Birmingham again next
year and to continue to live together.

Idelle Bryant visited her family in south
Georgia during April. Idelle has a splendid
position with a secretarial school in New
York City.

Lou (Buchanan) Proctor was a delegate
to the A. A. U. W. convention in New
Orleans in May.

Elizabeth Cheatham visited Ellen
Walker in Summerville during June. Eliz-
abeth will be with her family in Atlanta
the rest of the summer, before sailing for
France in the early fall.

Lucile Gause will spend the summer in
Europe as a member of Nell Buchanan's
party.

Rosalind Janes' engagement was an-
nounced in May, the wedding to take place
the early part of the summer.

Mary (Keesler) Dalton accompanied her
husband on a business trip to Atlantic
City in May.

Josephine Marbut's engagement was an-
nounced at the alumnae luncheon to Mr.
Wilkins McCall Stanley.

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Larsen Mattox is working on her mas-
ter's degree at the Emory University sum-
mer school.

Emily Spivey's little sister, Laura Jar-
mon, was graduated from Eatonton High
school this May, and is headed for Agnes
Scott next fall, Spivey writes. They lost
both their father and mother during this
past year.

Marianne (Strouss) McConnell an-
nounces the birth of a son, Judson, Jr., in
May in Decatur, Ga.

Frances (Tennent) Ellis writes: "We are
spending every minute working on and
planning for the home we are building.
It is red brick, colonial, with white col-
umns, and will be ready for us the last
of the summer." Frances and her hus-
band take frequent trips during the sum-
mer to seashore and mountains the
Cloister at St. Simons Island, and Lake-
mont.

Poky Wight was married on May 25th at
her home in Richmond to Mr. Richard
Coles Edmunds. It was an elaborate eve-
ning wedding, and Poky was very lovely
in ivory satin and an exquisite veil of
Viennese lace. The Edmunds will live in
Halifax, Va.

1926

Next reunion, 1930.

Helen (Bates) Law has come from New
York to spend some time with her parents
in Atlanta.

Eleanor (Berger) Blumenthal and her
husband, who is a professor at Johns Hop-
kins, are spending the summer with
Eleanor's parents in Atlanta.

Lois Bolles has accepted a position with
the library at Agnes Scott, beginning next
September.

Mary Dudley Brown and her young
charges are now in Winston-Salem, N. C.

Edythe (Carpenter) Shuey writes:
"Have had a busy winter and now that the
season is over am trying to take life a
little more slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Her-
mance, Helena, Hal and Edythe were here
during April and we had a glorious time
together. The four walls of my tiny house
fairly bulged but stood the strain admir-
ably. We spent most of our time at the
beach and the ocean is heavenly here. I
have been playing a lot of golf lately. We
are only three blocks from the Country
Club and we old women must get our exer-
cise some way. I am keeping myself in
trim for that alumnae hockey game I in-
tend to play in at some future date."

Mrs. Pilley Kim Choi's husband, Dr.
Young 0. Choi, '26 medicine at Emory, is in
charge of the Ellen Lavine Graborn hos-
pital at Kwangju, Korea. This is a 50-bed
hospital, and in addition takes care of
about 60 patients each day in the clinic.

Mary Freeman's engagement has been
announced to Dr. Walker Lewis Curtis,
the wedding to take place June 28 at the
First Baptist church in College Park. Dr.
Curtis is a graduate of Emory University,
where he was a member of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity.

Mary (Knox) Happoldt and her husband
took a trip to Cuba during May, but were
back in time for Mary to lend her capable
aid at the Tea House during the commence-
ment rush.

Elizabeth (Moore) Harris announces the
bii'th of a daughter in May.

Florence Perkins was recently elected
president of the Atlanta Agnes Scott club.

Sarah Slaughter is home from Colum-
bia University with an M.A. in physical
education. She is to be maid of honor in
her sister's wedding at Saint Mark's
church in Atlanta on June 27th.

Sarah Smith, '26's beloved life presi-
dent, was married on June 1 at the North
Avenue Presbyterian church in Atlanta to
Mr. Arthur Brian Merry. Nancy Simp-
son, now a student at Agnes Scott, and
"Frisky" Cooper were Sarah's bridesmaids.
After a wedding trip in their car through
North Carolina and the Shenandoah valley
of Virginia, the Merrys will be at home in
Augusta, Ga., where Mr. Merry is an archi-
tect. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech,
a member of the S. A. E. fraternity, and
brother-in-law of Gena (Calloway) Merry,
'22.

Two other engagements of interest
among ex-members of '26 are those of
Olive Hall to Mr. Laurence Moss Shadgett,
of Australia, and Laura McCullough to
Mr. James Madison O'Neal, of Eustis, Fla.
Olive is the secretary of the Atlanta Civi-
tan club, hosts during June to Civitan
International, and Olive says she has been
so busy with arrangements for the conven-
tion she has hardly had time to think about
getting married. The wedding will take
place in July.

1927

Next reunion, 1930.

Eleonore Albright received her master's
degree at Columbia University and came
straight to Agnes Scott in time for com-
mencement there. She will teach in New
York next winter.

Maurine Bledsoe was back in Decatur
and Atlanta for a few days the first of
May, visiting Louisa White, Agnes Scott,
and of course, senior opera.

Josephine Bridgeman and Rachel Hen-
derlite were also at the Alumnae House for
May Day and the seniorpolitan presenta-
tion of "Ah, Heed Her," and were back
again to see Jo's little sister, Lucile, re-
ceive her diploma.

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Louise (Capen) Baker announces the
birth of Clinton Capen Baker on May 18
in New York. "Dodo" Chamberlain writes:
"I went to see Louise and her baby a few
days later. Louise was doing splendidly,
but I went at the wrong time to see the
baby, much to my disappointment."

Cephise Cartwright motored up to
Charleston during April to see the Mag-
nolia Gardens. Cephise has been teach-
ing in Savannah this year.

Frances (Chambers) Wing's new baby
is absorbing all her attention.

Lib (Clark) Young and Bill are par-
ticularly joyful over being now in Stark-
ville, Miss., just twenty miles from West
Point. They go home every week-end to
see their families.

Willie May (Coleman) Duncan's son was
born just after commencement.

Marcia Green is on the briny deep by
the time this Quarterly comes out, sailing
for a summer in Europe.

Mary Heath's wedding to Rev. James
Godfrey Phillips, of Chapel Hill, N. C,
took place on June 14th in Augusta, Ga.

Virginia Hollingsworth, who has been
teaching in Greensboro, N. C, will be
in Maine and Canada this summer at one
of the beautiful lake resorts.

Mae Erskine Irvine simply can't escape
fires. First the school at Tuscumbia burn-
ed and imposed all sorts of trying hours on
the poor school teachers, and now Mae
Erskine's lovely country home was burned
to the ground. Her family is living in
Florence while it is being rebuilt.

Martha Johnston has moved from Day-
ton to 225 W. Euclid Ave., Springfield, 0.

Leila (Joiner) Cooper has deserted Al-
bany once more and gone back to the
west coast to be with Jock.

Ellen Douglas Leyburn is living this
summer with Mrs. Baker, while Professor
Baker, head of the Yale playwriting de-
partment, is in Europe.

Elizabeth Lynn will be councillor again
at Rockbrook camp, Brevard, N. C, during
the summer. Next fall she will begin work
on her master's degree at the University
of Wisconsin.

Carolina McCall, who had planned to
visit Lib (Clark) Young in April, had to
go to Florida instead. Carolina has had
quite a siege of sinus trouble all spring.
She reports that people in Florida were
little more than a good coat of tan.

Elizabeth McCallie visited Grace
(Zachry) McCreery in Cleveland before
going on to attend Columbia University
summer school.

Miriam Preston has returned to the
states via Europe after spending two years
at her home in Korea. Miriam was at
Port Said when the cable reached her an-

nouncing that she had been awarded the
Quenelle Harrold graduate scholarship.
Miriam will study at Yale next winter.
With Rosaltha Sanders, Eugenia Gobere,
Emily (Kingsbery) Ferrara, all '28, Mar-
garet Bland, '20, and Roberta Winter,
'27, there will be quite an Agnes Scott
colony at Yale next winter.

Frances Rainey hardly waited for her
classes at Silliman College to be over be-
fore she hopped a Decatur-bound train. She
arrived Tuesday morning just before grad-
uation exercises, and by tearing around
the campus at a Daisy-Frances-Smith rate
of speed managed to see everybody before
college closed. Frances will study at
Columbia University this summer.

Peggy Rankin has won a scholarship for
another year's study of Biology at Johns
Hopkins.

One of the big thrills of the alumnae
luncheon was the announcement of the
engagement of Louisa White to Dr. Cullen
Gosnell, the marriage to take place in the
late summer.

Roberta Winter will study at Yale next
winter. She and Margaret Bland plan to
live together.

Edna (Anderson) David's son, Edgar
George David, Jr., was born January 13th.
1928

Sallie Abernethy was back for com-
mencement and '28's first reunion.

Harriet Alexander came up from Au-
gusta, too, to see the thing done proper-

ly.

Jack Anderson writes that she likes
her work at the University of California
so well she plans to stay in Berkeley for
another year.

Emily Cope has spent her winter at
home in taking a secretarial course and
teaching French at Miss Pape's private
school.

The marriage of Frances Craighead to
Mr. Francis Joseph Dwyer on February 7
at Toledo, Ohio, was announced by
Frances' parents during May. Mr. Dwyer
is a student at the University of Michigan,
where Frances is getting her master's de-
gree.

Betty Fuller's engagement has been an-
nounced to Mr. Frank E. Veltre, Jr., of
Havana, Cuba.

Hattie Gershcow's engagement was an-
nounced in May.

"Pete" Grier writes: "I am planning
either to study at Columbia next year or
go back to teach in an American school in
China."

Mildred Jennings will teach next year at
a school over the South Carolina line, but
mar enough for her to drive over every
day from her home in Augusta, Georgia.

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"Bee" Keith, Virge Norris, and Anna
Mae McCollum will study at Columbia Uni-
versity this summer.

Lilla Mills has finished her secretarial
course and has accepted a position with an
Atlanta firm.

Mary Jane McCoy was back for reunion.
"My plans for the summer are still in-
definite," she said, "but mother and I are
both getting the wanderlust again, so we
are apt to be off any time now."

Jack McLellon visited her old roommate,
"Red" (Bowers) Hamilton, during com-
mencement. Jack is very much in love
with her work in the editorial department
of the Board of Christian Education of the
Northern Presbyterian church in Phila-
delphia. "The next time you pick up a
Sunday School Quarterly, think of me,"
says Jack, "for I certainly work on those
things."

Margaret Rice will teach next year with
Marcia Green at Lafayette, Ala.

Judith Wilson writes that she will be on
the job at the Dale County, Alabama,
Child Welfare Board all summer except
for two weeks when she plans to jump
in her car and take a little rest up in
the Carolina mountains.

Edith DuPre Brown, ex '28, was mar-
ried on May 26th at Minden, Louisiana,
to Mr. William Drane Haddox Rodriguez.

Anne DuPre Choate's engagement has
been announced to Mr. John Spier Dodd,
of LaGrange, Ga. Mr. Dodd is a graduate
of Eastman at Poughkeepsie. After leav-
ing Agnes Scott, Anne took her A.B. at
Florida State, where she was a member of
the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

Dorothy Spratt was married June 27 at
the A. R. P. Church in Atlanta to Mr.
Robert Clifford Chestnut. Mr. Chestnut is
a contractor in Atlanta.
1929

The class of '29, all 95 of them, will be
formally introduced to the Alumnae As-
sociation in the first fall Quarterly, but we
have a few bits of news here that really
won't keep till then. "The thing for which
we'll probably go down in history is our
marrying propensity," says '29. Three of
their number Esther (Nisbet) Anderson,
Hortense (Elton) Garver, and Margaret
(Andreae) Hamrick had proud husbands
in the audience when they received their
diplomas, and a sub-rosa census taken
just before graduation revealed twenty-
three engagement rings in a class of nine-
ty-five! Not all of the twenty-three are
ready to have a formal announcement of
their engagement, but the following were
announced at the alumnae luncheon:

Mary Ficklen to Mr. Marion Bamett, of
Washington, Ga., the wedding taking place
June 19th with a number of Mary's class-
mates as attendants.

Nancy Fitzgerald to Mr. Henry Woodall
Bray of Atlanta, the wedding to take
place in September.

Lenore Gardner to Mr. Gilbert Field, of
East Lake, Decatur, Ga.

Elizabeth Hatchett to Mr. Durwood
Haynes, of Kentucky, the wedding to take
place next summer.

Marion Hodges to Mr. Joe Anthony.

Martha Riley Selman to Mr. Otis Her-
ring, of Albany, Ga.

Josephine Pou, ex '29, to Mr. Robert
James Varner. The wedding took place
on May 4 at the home of her sister, Eu-
genia (Pou) Harris, ex '23, in Seneca,
S. C.

Gulie McLean Stephenson to Mr. Harry
Cassady, in December.

Evelyn Wood, who for two years was a
beloved member of this class, serving as its
president during Freshman year, was
graduated in June from the University of
Alabama. On June 14 Evelyn was mar-
ried to Mr. William Sheffield Owen, of
Birmingham, Alabama. They are living
in the Ponce de Leon apartments there.

PREPARATORY SCHOOLS COM-
MITTEE

In an attempt to interest desirable girls
in Agnes Scott, the Preparatory Schools
Committee this year has concentrated its
attention upon those six southern states
whose geographical positions are such that
their proximity to Georgia would furnish
within itself an incentive to attend a col-
lege situated in this state.

Georgia, Alabama, North and South
Carolina, Virginia and Florida were select-
ed as places for intensive work. These
states were divided into either two or
three sections which have as their centers
as many outstanding cities. In each sec-
tion a subcommittee has been at work.
Such committees have been directed by the
chairman, but the details of the pro-
gram have been left largely to the in-
dividual members of their committees.

In general, the attention of high school
seniors has been directed toward Agnes
Scott through letters, group meetings, and
teas, when advisable. The alumnae teach-
ing in various schools have been especially
co-operative.

Although, in some cases, our plans have
failed, and although in other cases, their
success can hardly be measured concretely,
we believe that the Preparatory Schools
Committee has accomplished some good for
our Alma Mater, and we hope that, in the
future, the committee will become in-
creasingly efficient.

Respectfully submitted,

MARY LOYD DAVIS,

Chairman.

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