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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. 



The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 3 

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for an immediate offer, in effect, as follows: "We have practically withdrawn from 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 



6 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

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. 



The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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! 

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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 
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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 
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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- 
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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 
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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. 

1925 
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 
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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 
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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. 

1926 

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. 

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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. 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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- 
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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 
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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 
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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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15 



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, 
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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, 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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- 
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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 
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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 
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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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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. 



10 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

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 
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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 
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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: 
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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 
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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. 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 



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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 


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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 
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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 
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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 
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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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