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NOVEMBER
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THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF AGNES SCOTT

COLLEGE

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President Secretary

Hilda McConnell Adams (Mrs. Brain- Cora Frazer Morton Durrett (Mrs. J.

ard R.), '23 F.), '24

2040 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Ga. 1109 W. Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.

First Vice President Treasurer

Marian McCamy Sims (Mrs. F. K., Mary Palmer Caldwell McFarland

Jr.), '20 (Mrs. Robert M.), '25,

Dalton, Ga. 1935 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta

Second Vice President Executive Secretary

Theodosia Willingham Anderson (Mrs. Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson (Mrs.

W. W.), '11 D. B.), '12

63 Avery Drive Alumnae House, Agnes Scott College

Atlanta, Ga. Decatur, Ga.

CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES

Publicity Louise Slack, '20

Preparatory Schools Mary Lloyd Davis, '27

Alumnae House and Tea Room Frances Gilliland Stukes (Mrs. S. G.), '24

Local Clubs Mary Lamar Knight, '22

Beautifying Grounds Louise Brown Hastings (Mrs. Donald), '23

Entertainment Lois Maclntyre Beall (Mrs. Frank), '20

Class Organizations and Records Elizabeth Hoke, '23

Student Loan Ethel Alexander Gaines (Mrs. Lewis), '00

Constitutional Mary West Thatcher (Mrs. S. E.), '15

. , , CLASS SECRETARIES

'04 Mirs.'C'-'G'.'Aycqek, :_:./;.,.,.;_!,:, 890 Penn Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

'06-j-Mi-3, .1, T.''.Irvm; Jfl'A.'jlLj Washington, Ga.

'07 Mrs.' J. D. Spinks ., 302 Gloria Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.

'08 Miss -.Louse- '.Shipp'ChickJ- 1005 West Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif.

'09 Miss Margaret : l\l.ceal-lie..'- 830 Fort Wood St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

'10 Mrs: J. T. Wharton 1612 Sixth Ave., Bessemer, Ala.

'11 Mrs.- W..'W..'.Artde.rsbii-_*- 63 Avery Drive, Atlanta, Ga.

'12 Mrs. 'Jofyl Scotli -_".,.; Scottdale, Ga.

'13 Mrs. J. Sam Guy'-_'_'__- N. Decatur Road, Atlanta, Ga.

'14 Mrs. Henry Noble 169 Avery Drive, Atlanta, Ga.

'15 Mrs. J. N. Shryock 912 Greenwood Blvd., Evanston, 111.

'16 Miss Louise Hutcheson , 3716 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.

'17 Miss Regina Pinkston Greenville, Ga.

'18 Miss Belle Cooper 1143 St. Charles Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

'19 Mrs. G. Lamar Westcott 38 S. Thornton Ave., Dalton, Ga.

'20 Miss Louise Slack 1620 Monument Ave., Richmond, Va.

'21 Miss Elizabeth Floding 854 Myrtle, N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

'22 Miss Ruth Pirkle Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.

'23 Miss Emily Guille 127 Alabama St., Spartanburg, S. C.

'24 Miss Helen Wright 2718 Lee St., Coulmbia, S. C.

'25 Miss Belle Walker 558 Green, Augusta, Ga.

'26 Miss Ellen Fain Hendersonville, N. C.

'27 Miss Maurine Bledsoe Lakeview Park, Asheville, N. C.

'28 Miss Huda Dement 134 S. Candler St., Decatur, Ga.

'29 Miss Dorothy Hutton 17 E. 36th St., Savannah, Ga.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES
Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.
Mrs. Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. J. Sam), '13.

COUNCILLORS AT LARGE

Mrs. Ida Lee Hill Irvin (Mrs. I. T., Jr.), '06 Washington, Ga.

Mrs. Anne Waddell Bethea (Mrs. Horace F.), '09_3611 Oak St., Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. Louise Buchanan Proctor (Mrs. T. F., Jr.), '25,

2101 Highland Ave., Birmingham, Ala.
Miss Helen Hermance, '26_.3535 Fairview St., E., Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla.

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Published in Nov., Jan., April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Vol. VIII NOVEMBER, 1929 No. 1

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Old and New Steam Plant and Laundry Frontispiece

The President's Page 3

J. R. McCain

Program of Events in November and December- 4

Miss Hopkins to Her Girls 5

College Departments Series 5

I Science Department

By Science Faculty

From the Alumnae President 6

Hilda (McConnell) Adams, '23

A Letter to Each of You 6

Louis (Maclntyre) Beall, '20

Notes on New Books 7

Lois Bolles, '26

Jacksonville Club Luncheon 8

Through the College Gates 9

The Year Begins
Faculty Notes
Campus Chat

Mary McCallie, '3

From the Alumnae Office ; 11

News of the Clubs
Yale and Johns Hopkins Groups
Cleo Hearon Memorial Scholarship
Institute Tea Party
Necrology
Lost Alumnae
Concerning Ourselves 16

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THE OLD AND NEW STEAM PLANT AND LAUNDRY

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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
Dr. McCain Discusses: Campaign Progress

Our campaign reminds me of a mountain road. At times we are among the peaks,
and everything looks rosy. Again we are in the valleys, and we wonder the job is not
too ambitious for a constituency like ours in a depressed financial period. I am glad
that the peaks are more plentiful than the valleys.

I am giving here a picture of the highest pinnacle, financially speaking, our College
has ever reached. It represents the first payment of the General Education Board on
their splendid pledge of a half million dollars. We won it because some 2,000 friends
of Agnes Scott sacrified in pledging a total of $600,000 by July 1, 1929, and because
very many of these sacrificed still more in paying on their pledges.

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The General Education Board has been most generous in trusting us to do our part
of the whole job. Never before have they paid part of their pledge until the conditions
were fully met. We are on our honor to do our part.

We still have $400,000 to raise. We are allowed until July 1, 1934, to get the
actual cash, but the pledges are needed very soon. We have gotten all the easy money
for the campaign, and the hardest part of the drive is ahead of us.

In the completing of the big job, I am looking to the Alumnae. About 5 00 of you
have pledged something more than $70,000-. We have hundreds more on whom we
are counting to help with the same spirit of devotion and sacrifice. I feel that the
Memorial Chapel is a very important item of the development. It will take at least
$65,000 more to have the funds in sight, and of course the collections will not be im-
mediate. I am certain the Agnes Scotters will see this job through, and help with the
other parts of the program also.

The Steam Plant and Laundry have been completed at a cost of about $150,000; and
they are about the prettiest structures on the campus. We are just about ready for the
contract on the wonderful new administration-recitation building, which will cost about
$300,000. It will sit on the site of the old steam plant and will be one of the finest
college buildings in all the South.

We are doing this job with the smallest force that ever undertook a task so big.
We need your help very much. Please send your pledge if possible, and please tell us of
prospects.

A NEW FRESHMAN CLASS

I have begged for just a little more space to tell how delighted we are with our
new girls this year. However busy we may be, it is a delight to spend a little time in

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getting acquainted with the Freshmen. It is for them and others to follow that we want
buildings and equipment and a Greater Agnes Scott.

Some of you will remember the initiating of the new girls. We have not originated
many ways of doing things. They still wear their hair "done up." They have placards
with their names in green ink. They bow and kneel and use the back doors, just as
when you were here. This year the Sophomores did appropriate Mr. Orr's sermon
on modesty and they required the Freshmen to wear dresses that swept the ground, with
the aid of towels and the like pinned on to the somewhat elevated skirts.

We do not have a picture of the Freshmen of this year in costume, but I am printing
one taken ten years ago which may interest you, as it shows our dignified Alumnae
President and our well known Secretary who is on leave this year, Hilda and Polly.

PROGRAM OF EVENTS IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER

November 2nd Investiture. Chapel Service.

November 2nd Senior Hallowe'en Party. Evening.

November 16th Senior Stunt. Evening.

November 17th Organ recital; Mr. Dieckmann and soloist. 4 p. m.

November 20th First lecture of Lecture Association. Sydney Thompson.

November 28th Thanksgiving dinner and dance.

November 28th-30th Reunion week-end for class of 1929.

November 29th Alumnae Home Coming Tea at Alumnae House; 3-5 p. m.

December 8th Organ recital, Mr. Dieckmann; and Christmas carols given under the

direction of Mrs. Johnson; 4 p. m.
December 14th Christmas party; afternoon.
December 15th "Messiah." Given by the Choral Society under the direction of Mr.

Johnson; afternoon.
December ISth "White Christmas"; evening service of Y. W. C. A.

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MISS HOPKINS TO HER GIRLS

Dear Alumnae:

After a restful vacation I returned to my work with thoughts full of preparations
for the opening of another College year. On my arrival Mr. Stukes insisted on my going
immediately to West Lawn. He led the way but gave no explanation. Imagine my
delight, if you can, when I saw in my sitting-room two very handsome radio sets, both
alike except that one had a victrola attachment. They had been sent out on approval. We
tested them and I was simply charmed with their sweet, soft, clear tones. I had not
heard before of "The Temple" but it seems to me as near perfection as human intellect
and skill can reach. I selected the one without the victrola attachment.

If I were to try to describe the pleasure this gift of yours brings me you would
think I had formed the habit of exaggerating. I am especially enthusiastic over the
Sunday Forum from three to four-thirty Sunday afternoons. I wish I could say it is
like being in the seventh heaven but Dr. Campbell Morgan tells us there is no such
place mentioned in the Bible.

I wish to write you of another source of joy. Truly my cup of bliss is running
over. Hilda McConnell Adams and Mary West Thatcher invited me to go with them
to select an easy chair which they said the Alumnae were giving me in addition to
the radio. They insisted on my having one which I thought entirely too handsome.
It is so comfortable and luxurious I never feel like getting out of it.

Girls, I am overwhelmed by your generosity. You may picture me as spending
many happy hours in my luxurious chair listening to most beautiful music and in-
spiring words made more enjoyable by the thought that they are brought to me by the
gift of my own dear girls.

With the best of wishes to each of you, I am,

Gratefully and lovingly yours,

NANNETTE HOPKINS.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENTS SERIES

I THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Compiled by the Science Faculty

Louis Pasteur has said, "Take interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings
which one designates by the expressive term LABORATORIES. Demand that they
be multiplied, that they be adorned: these are the temples of the future temples of
well being and happiness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better."

Having this ideal in mind, the present Science Faculty has tried during the last
ten years to improve the physical equipment of the laboratories as well as the method of
presentation of the subjects taught in them. Approximately tweny-five thousand dol-
lars have been put into the physical equipment of the building during these ten years.
Microscopes have been bought so that each student no longer shares hers with a number
of others; storage cells and a switchboard have been installed so that current may be
used in any room in the building; analytical balances, spectroscope, sterilizer, polariscope,
centrifuge, combustion furnace, and a number of other important pieces of apparatus
have been added.

Space has been made for a portion of the science books to be housed in the build-
ing and this has added much to the efficiency of the laboratories.

Approximately two hundred girls have done advanced work while here in one
or more of the various branches of science. Some of these have gone out into special
fields. Several have entered medicine or research work in zoology, botany, physiology,
chemistry, or physics, and many have selected the teaching field.

The aim of the faculty of the science group has been to give to each girl as she
comes into his or her department a broader idea of this world of ours and, even if she
takes no more than one or two years of science, to give her a better understanding of
life through observation and experiment.

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FROM THE ALUMNAE PRESIDENT

Dear Alumnae:

This might be called a year of "newdom" for our association, with the hub of our
alumnae wheel, Polly Stone, replaced and a number of new spokes, as it were, added.

Polly, who has, for four years, served the as-
sociation unceasingly, with all her powers of
charm and personality, has felt the need of a
year's leave of absence, and we are sure that
she well deserved the rest. The alumnae ap-
preciate her worth and hope that she may be
back with us after a year's sojourn in New
York, Europe, or perhaps it may be in Georgia.
Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, a former
president of the association, as well as one of
our most loyal workers, will be our secretary
this year. We feel that we are fortunate, indeed,
to have her in charge of alumnae affairs.

Since Florinne Brown resigned to assume
the duties of married life, Mrs. Vera Nisbet, a
former matron of North Avenue Presbyterian
School, is to have charge of the tea room; she
will also act as hostess at the Anna Young
Alumnae House. Already the alumnae are
finding a real welcome when they return to
the college and meet Mrs. Nisbet.

You will recall that a large number of
the alumnae last spring contributed to a gift
for Miss Hopkins. At the time, we were undecided as to what she might like, but we
contrived to learn, and, as a result, a radio was installed in her room upon her return in
September. In order that she might, perhaps, be very comfortable while enjoying the
radio, a winged chair of Chippendale style was also given to her by the alumnae.

We shall continue this year to devote a great deal of time attempting to raise our
share of the $400,000, which is still needed for the success of the building campaign, as
Dr. McCain points out elsewhere in the quarterly. Surely, we shall not disappoint him
and ourselves.

By no chance miss the notice of our homecoming and Alumnae House birthday
party, November 29th. We hope that a great many of you are planning to be back for
Thanksgiving and the following week-end.

As the new secretary is anxious to get in touch with all Agnes Scott alumnae,
everyone can help by writing to her and offering support to the association.

Always for Agnes Scott,

HILDA (McCONNELL) ADAMS,

President of Alumnae Association.

A LETTER TO EACH OF YOU

Thanksgiving week-end is Home Coming Time at the Alumnae House.

Last year's graduating class, the good old class of 1929, is to return for its first
reunion and a great many others are planning to spend their holidays "back at A. S. C."

For that reason, the Entertainment Committee of the Alumnae Association felt that
the Friday following Thanksgiving would be a fine time for its annual birthday party.
I know there are many alumnae who cannot be away from home the whole week-end, but,
I feel sure there are a great many who could leave for one day, so I am sug-

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gesting that they all take that Friday off and be on hand to help make this party a
grand success.

In case there are some of the alumnae members who do not know why we have our
birthday party, I would like to explain that it is primarily to honor Miss Anna Young's
birthday, which comes on the twenty-fifth of November. She, as you probably know,
was our beloved alumna in whose memory our Alumnae House was built. During the
years that she was head of the mathematics department at the college, she engraved
her memory indelibly on the hearts of the college community. Her gentle nature, her
noble character, her love for and interest in the students and their activities made her
universally loved. Shortly after her death, the alumnae planned a memorial to her; the
trustees of the college offered $15,000, if the alumnae raised $5,000, all to be used in
the building of an Alumnae House. The Association felt that the dedicating of such a
home would be a fitting memorial to her and were only too glad to accept the generous
offer. By raising $1,000 for five years, we met our pledge, and so the house was built.

We who have homes of our own realize that replacements and additions are neces-
sary. Sheets and towels will wear out, curtains and draperies fade, pillows, lamps, etc.,
grow old and dingy; and we all know the thrill that comes when a cherished piece is
added to our silver chest or china cabinets. The Alumnae House also has its needs and
desires and so this birthday party is a fine opportunity for those who love the Alumnae
House and have enjoyed its hospitality to retaliate with a gift. A list of needs of the
house is given elsewhere in the quarterly. There's just one difference in this birthday
party and the one you went to when you were six, you don't have to have a present
whisper it most of us just bring ourselves, which is a nice present to make to this
occasion and to honor Miss Anna's birthday.

Tea will be served in the lovely living room and dining room of the house from
three to five, the afternoon of November 29 and will be a golden opportunity to see
old friends and make new ones. If you are in Atlanta for the football game or for the
holiday season, take this afternoon and run out to the Alumnae House; especially, do we
urgently invite all Atlanta, Decatur and Marietta girls back.

Write to the secretary to reserve room, if you are to be here over night; we want the
house to be bulging out at the sides, but we do want you to be nice and comfortable,
enjoying late hours at night and morning, hearing no school bells nor cooks' troubles,
nor office, nor library complaints, life just one grand, sweet song!

LOIS (MacINTYRE) BE ALL,
Chairman of Entertainment Committee.

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

LOIS BOLLES, '26

(Miss Bolles is now in charge of Agnes Scott College library, having graduated from the Emory
Library School, following her graduation from Agnes Scott : she was last year the librarian of the
Theological Library at Emory University.)

The Galaxy, by Susan Ertz. New York. D. Appleton & Company, 1929.

This story of the "galaxy of scenes and faces and delights" that made up the
life of Laura Alicia Deverell, from the day in 1862 when she was born, in London,
until her death over sixty years later, belongs, as the Saturday Review of Literature
points out, with the carefully constructed form that would have been accepted as a novel
twenty-five years ago, rather than with the more recent amorphous type. For a well-
defined structure gives a unified pattern to the long time sequence. As a family novel,
The Galaxy recalls Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga; but, while it deals with family life,
it centers around one woman whose life is spent in three successive households. The
"turgid, air-tight, sentimental" atmosphere of Victorian family life closes around one
from the time Laura opens her eyes "upon a large, dark bedroom, badly illuminated by
gas, in a house in Mecklenburg Square." After this period dominated by her father,
Laura's life is influenced by her husband and by her German lover, Sendler. As she is

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dying, her thoughts suggest again the rich background of her experience "a galaxy
of scenes and faces and delights; as many, she thought, as the stars in the Milky Way . . ."

They Stooped to Folly, by Ellen Glasgow. New York. Doubleday, Doran & Com-
pany, 1929.

To see a copy of "They Stooped to Folly" is to want to read it immediately, for
the decorations alone make this comedy of morals hard to resist. Then, there is the
magic of the name of Ellen Glasgow. Amy Loveman says that Miss Glasgow has again
proved her right to be regarded as perhaps the leading woman novelist of America. "No
one of our female writers has her wit, her ironical insight into the foibles of human
nature, her ability to reduce to an epigram the findings of her penetrating insight."

Although the story is of three women who stooped to folly, each in the fashion
of her generation, none of the women of the book is portrayed as well as Mr. Littlepage,
through whose eyes we see most of the story.

In spite of defects of characterization, "They Stooped to Folly" has brilliance
and charm and, within its field, is unsurpassed.

Whiteoaks of Jalna, by Mazo de la Roche. Boston. Little, Brown & Company, 1929.

Although this new tale of Jalna shows a certain loss of power in the somewhat
forced accentuation of the characteristics of the people of the story, both friends of the
earlier book and new friends will enjoy it.

THE JUNE MEETING OF THE JACKSONVILLE, FLA., CLUB

The June meeting of the Jacksonville Club was a luncheon and we are very glad to have this
picture of the club gathering to publish in the quarterly. Those present were: (seated, left to right)
Farris Davis, ex '08; Mrs. P. Louie Wall (Gertrude Henry), '25; Mrs. S. F. Gammon I Bess Standifer),
ex '13; Gladys Harbough, '2 : Mrs. David Blackshear (Sarah McKowan), ex '10; Mrs. H. L. Robertson
(Ada Williams), ex '10; Mr. Paxon, one of our trustees; Mary Ellen Colyer, '26; Janet Newton, '17;
Winifred Quart erman, '95; Charlotte Buckland, '27; Elizabeth Lawrence, ex '19; Mrs. H. F. Kethea (Anne
Waddoll). 'Oil; (standing, left to right) Rachel Paxon, '2il ; Mrs. J. A. Whitner, Jr. (Eleanor Crabtreel.
ex 'US; [Catherine Lott. '20; Mrs. E. D. Dimmock (Edith Lett), ex 'Oil; Mrs. J. A. Register (Anna Vail
Stansell), ex '19.

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THROUGH THE COLLEGE GATES

THE YEAR BEGINS

It was a lovely fall day the 18th of
September when the bell sounded for
chapel, for the first time for the class of
1933, and everybody turned from classifi-
cation committees and routine matters to
the old chapel in Rebekah Scott; maybe
you have forgotten what it is like to go
to opening chapel and maybe the "last few
year" girls won't mind remembering again
how the hubbub outside the doors is very
sternly squelched by two old girls standing
on each side of the door; even Miss Mc-
Kinney walked meekly in under their
supervision.

The opening exercises of college began
with the old hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy."
Would you like to hear singing again?
Come back to Agnes Scott and attend
chapel. The rafters shook and it was sing-
ing that sounded gloriously young and full
and happy.

Dr. McGaughey, pastor of the Presby-
terian Church in Decatur, whom Dr. Mc-
Cain introduced as not only a trustee but
one so close that he is one of us, read
the lesson and closed with prayer.

Then Dr. Louie D. Newton, of the Druid
Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, gave, in a
most inimitable way, what Dr. McCain
said he wanted to be the keynote address
for the year to the girls and surely it
was!

Of course, Dr. J. K. Orr lent his touch
to the opening program; he demonstrated
his ability as a member of the staff of
Agnes Scott by having each class recite
to him his famous lines on "Modesty."
Who has forgotten them? Let's all join
in:

"The surest sign of woman's worth,
The truest test of gentle birth
is Modesty."

Our own president, Hilda McConnell
Adams, welcomed the students and spoke
of the Alumnae House, making them
hungry and ^thirsty with her tales about
the tea house.

After Dr. Craigland's welcome from the
churches and town of Decatur, and Dr.
McCain's report of the campaign pro-
gress, chapel was over. Out poured the
crowd, the newly-painted colonnade came
into its own, as the new and the old
girls met old friends and stopped to chat
awhile.

FACULTY NOTES

May we introduce to you these new mem-
bers of the faculty?

Dr. Amy Chateauneuf, Ph. D., of the
University of Pennsylvania, is to be as-

sistant professor of psychology, filling
the place of Miss Omwake, who resigned.

Miss Martha Crowe, one of our own
graduates, who has been studying at Co-
lumbia University, will be assistant pro-
fessor of French.

Miss Florence E. Smith, who has been
completing her doctorate in history at
the University of Chicago, is one of the
new teachers who has been with Agnes
Scott before, as assistant professor of
history during Miss Hearon's illness.

Dr. Ethel Polk Peters will serve as col-
lege physician during the absence of Dr.
Mary F. Sweet. Dr. Peters is a graduate
of Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia,
and has been a missionary to China for
several years.

In the library, Miss Lois Bolles, of the
class of '26 at Agnes Scott and also a
graduate of the Library School of Emory
University, takes the place left vacant
through the resignation of Miss Genevieve
White, who has recently married. Lois
had charge of the theological library at
Emory, before coming to us.

Among those who are returning this
year after a leave of absence are:

Miss Margaret Phythian, our own Agnes
Scotter, who has spent the year in study
at the Sorbonne in Paris, after a sum-
mer's work at Johns Hopkins.

Miss Muriel Harn comes back to us this
year after a year in Germany, where she
has been preparing material for a book,
which she is to publish soon.

Miss Leslie Gaylord returns from a
year's study at the University of Chicago
to her place as assistant professor of
mathematics.

This year will find many of our faculty
away for study:

Dr. Mary F. Sweet, college physician,
will study at Vienna and in New York.

Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathe-
matics, is to complete work on his doc-
tor's degree at Johns Hopkins and later
at Cambridge, England.

In the history department, Miss Florence
Edler will be away, working toward her
doctorate in history at Chicago and in
Italy.

Miss Philippa Gilchrist, also one of "our
own," is studying at the University of
Wisconsin in her subject of chemistry.

Miss Elizabeth Lynn has chosen the
University of Wisconsin also for her year's
work in the field of physics.

At Yale, with a group of Agnes Scott
alumnae, Miss Margaret Bland will en-
joy special study in play writing. It goes
without saying that Margaret is A. S. C.'s
graduate.

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One of the recent additions to the facul-
ty from the alumnae, Elizabeth Cheatham,
won the scholarship for study at the
Toulouse this year; this is offered by the
Institute of International Education.

It would take many pages to tell all the
good vacation times of the teachers; it is
a story of travel and rest and study and
whatever the variety, each insists that his
or hers was ideal, so if you want to find
out what to do next summer, write the
office your general idea and we'll put you
in touch with authorities.

CAMPUS CHAT
Mary McCallie, '30

You ought to see the new power plant,
especially the smoke stack. It is red brick,
with A. S. C. in white brick it really will
be a rival of Main Tower in the Agnes
Scott heart.

The popular gh*l who never could keep
up with her phone calls will be glad for
the sake of other popular girls that the
ancient regime has been overthrown com-
pletely; now every dormitory and cot-
tage has its own phone. The three big
dormitories have two each; it certainly has
simplified the system and you can now
talk to Joe five minutes instead of three.

Even the tube has caught the fever. Do
you remember how awful it used to be on
Hallowe'en night when you had to rake
up a costume to go to the Senior party
and you tried the tube? Everybody else
was trying the same thing and no less than
five people butted in on you. And wasn't
it awful trying to get Main with Ella at
the phone and Cara letting the dates in?
Now, you just walk up to the tube and
dial the number you want. You can get
Science Hall, the gym or library, anywhere
you want; thirty-eight people can talk at
once, nobody can interrupt but Miss Hop-
kins, Dr. McCain, or the business office.

Did you hear the perfectly naive thing
Mr. Tart did? He ordered nice little pin
trays with the college seal on them for his
book store, but they turned out to be ash
trays.

Speaking of the book store, reminds me
that they have some adorable little stick-
ers there. We took a dime down to buy
about fifty to use on the back of our
letters. Well, they are two for a nickel.
We bought two one for our Bible and one
for our favorite note book.

They have a piano in the tea house now.
Quoting from Shakespeare: "Whoever put
the din in dinner, certainly took the rest
out of restaurant." Alice Jernigan has
had to seek elsewhere for a quiet place to
study.

If you want a 1930 Silhouette, write
the Alumnae Secretary or Lynn Moore
now, so your annual will be counted in
the number ordered.

* * *

By the time this quai*terly reaches you
the ground will have been broken for the
new Administration-Recitation Building; it
will be on a line with the new gym, about
where the old power plant was.

You would never know Sturgis now. It
has such an aristocratic back entrance;
you don't have to dash under the dripping
door when it rains, or break your shins on
dark cellar steps.

The Campaign Office, alias Pi Alpha Phi
room, formerly the Day Student Hut, nee
the "Summer House," reports progress
slow but sure.

Be sure and follow the campaign and all
the interesting new developments through
the Agonistic. Write Anne Ehrlich to put
you on the mailing list.

The Majestic Radio Corporation has pre-
sented a radio to the college, their only re-
quest being that we pose for a picture; the
entire school turned out, and Martha Stack-
house, Student Government President, ac-
cepted the gift for the student body.

Athletics are branching out. Golf and
archery are the latest; we wonder how long
before aviation will be offered.

This year the May Day pageant will be
in celebration of the 2,000th anniversary of
Virgil. A Roman background will be used
and there is some talk of not having a
May Queen. We think, however, that this
is mere idle rumor, for Agnes Scott is
worse than Oxford about tradition.

Dr. Charles T. Olivier, former professor
at Agnes Scott, and for many years pro-
fessor at the University of Virginia, is
completing his first year at the Flower
Astronomical Observatory, University of
Pennsylvania, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
Last year the University sent Dr. Olivier
on a trip to Europe to collect scientific
data for the Observatory, and he is on
some very important committees in this
line of work. Dr. Olivier is president of
the Commission Des Etoiles Filantes.

Armistead McMurray, nephew of Dr. J.
D. M. Armistead, for many years beloved
professor of English at Agnes Scott, mar-
ried Miss Gene Harlan, cousin of Margaret
and Ellen Douglas Leybum, and sailed in
the early summer for his missionary work
in the Congo. Charlotte McMurray, his
sister, went at the same time as teacher
to missionary children.

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FROM THE ALUMNAE OFFICE

ALUMNAE GROUPS MEET

"Scattered far and wide thy daughters,
Some across the sea,
Yet our hearts are bound forever,
Agnes Scott, to thee."

ATLANTA CLUB

The Atlanta Club has certainly been both
useful and enjoyable in the past few years.
The aim of the club is to help the col-
lege as much as possible. To this end,
the parlor of the Alumnae House was re-
decorated during the past two years, as
we felt this would add to the hominess of
the House and would make it more at-
tractive both to the girls and to returning
alumnae.

For the past two years, on Founder's
Day, this club has had a banquet, at which
neighboring clubs joined with us in the
celebration. We have had as our guests,
Dr. McCain, different members of the
Board of Trustees, and the college Glee
Club, under Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. If
there are any clubs who do not get to-
gether on this date, I can only say, you do
not know what you are missing.

For the purpose of interesting high
school girls in Agnes Scott the Atlanta
Club has entertained groups at the col-
lege; in 1928, High School sophomores
were entertained one afternoon on the cam-
pus; in 1929, the high school preparatory
students from all the preparatory schools
in Atlanta were invited to the college.
These girls were taken from their respec-
tive schools in cars. There they were
turned over to a committee of students,
who showed them over the campus, took
them to swim or play tennis, according to
their tastes. They had dinner that eve-
ning in the dining rooms as guests of the
college. At seven, the alumnae entertained
them and the college community at a dance
in the gym with a real three-piece orches-
tra, sandwiches, and punch. At nine o'clock,
the members of the Atlanta Club with the
help of Dr. McCain took the guests home.
So far as we have been able to find out,
"a good time was had by all."

Each year, the club has a Christmas
bazaar the last of November. This has
proven the most profitable method of rais-
ing money. These bazaars are usually held
in the home of one of the members and
tea is served to all the guests. Thus we
combine business and pleasure.

This year the club has taken another
forward step. At the June meeting, the
president of the general association was
telling of the progress of the campaign.
We learned at that time the necessity of

having $600,000 pledged by July 1. The
club had already pledged its earnings for
1929 to the fund, so we decided to send
the $300 in the treasury at that time and
increase the pledge to $2500, to be paid
in five years, the first instalment to be the
$300 on hand.

To raise the remaining $200 for this
year, we are planning a benefit bridge, to
be held at the Ansley Roof Garden on
October 4th; this is an experiment, as we
have never before tried to raise money in
this way; we are not advertising this,
working entirely through the club mem-
bers and their friends.

At our September meeting, Dr. McCain
told of the plans for this year and we
are pleased to hear that the new power
plant and laundry are practically ready
for use and work about to begin on the
Administration Building. Girls, can you
imagine a beautiful building for the sole
purpose of class rooms and offices? Just
think of the change on Saturday night
when the entire first floor of Main is par-
lors.

The Atlanta Club has a speaker from
the college each month, if possible, so that
we may keep in touch with campus and
its activities.

I wish to extend heartiest greetings to
our sister clubs and wish for their success
in all their undertakings and joy in at-
taining their aims.

"Here's to Greater Agnes Scott."
We'll forget thee never,
We'll remember ever."

FLORENCE E. PERKINS, '26,
President of Atlanta Agnes Scott Club.

BIRMINGHAM CLUB

The Birmingham Club has as its officers,
Mrs. Tom Proctor (Louise Buchanan), '25,
president; Frances Bitzer, '25, vice presi-
dent; Frances Turner, ex '25, secretary
and treasurer; Hulda McNeel, '27, press
chairman, and about twenty-six active
members, and when we say active, we mean
active, for this club is one of the prides
of the association with its accomplish-
ments; we have the promise of a picture
for the next quarterly and you can judge
for yourself of the Birmingham club.

The president says: "Our club is about
half school teachers and half married folk
and one or two business or professional
girls. The Saturday luncheon idea appeals
particularly to the teachers. One or two
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that Saturday afternoon is the one time
they have to be with their husbands. Year
before last, we tried meeting at various
members' homes and having a program at
these meetings. The teachers, for the
most part, could not get there in time
and for some meetings where the member
having the club lived far out from town
or off the car line it was impossible for
many to attend. Therefore, at the begin-
ning of last year, we decided to have a
luncheon club, just to try the thing out.
We meet at the Axis Club, right in town,
in a private dining room, have a delicious
lunch "from soup to nuts" for seventy-
five cents, and usually have about twenty
present.

At our initial meeting next Saturday, we
will discuss just how we had best con-
tinue. Personally, I think the luncheon
plan is here to stay, but believe it would
be more interesting if we had some sort
of program or some definite thing to ac-
complish rather than just "to eat, drink
and be merry." Any suggestions will be
most welcome.

The Birmingham Alumnae have been
rather dormant this summer, as a club, but
at our next meeting we will resume ac-
tivities. All the old members say they
will be on hand and Mary Ray Dobyns
is bringing the newest recruits from the
campus, Helen Ridley and Martha Riley
Selman."

Glimpses of Birmingham girls: Mary
Ray Dobyns, '28, on her way to school
as teacher in Loulie Compton Seminary;
Sally Horton, '25, and Frances Bitzer, '25,
hurrying with an arm load of groceries for
their apartment, where they are keeping
house with "Bit's" little sister, Helen, who
is teaching here too (Did you hear about
two of "Bit's" sisters getting married this
summer and that leaves just one little Bit
at home now); Grace Carr, '27, leaving us
with her new husband, Dr. William B.
Clark, for Atlanta; Annie Gray Lingren, ex
'19, packing household belongings for the
move back to Atlanta (she is thrilled but
we count it our loss); a glimpse of Mar-
garet Griffin Williams, '24, and her ador-
able two-year-old buying a ticket for New
York to visit her brother; Fannie Burwell
Chisolm, an institute girl, also, catching
the Birmingham Special for New York;
two belabelled suitcases being can*ied up
the street by Elizabeth Callen, '26, and
Annabel Stith, ex '23, as they arrive from
Europe; by the way, a glimpse inside
Annabel's suitcase, so they say, reveals
much lingerie and fine linen, preparation
for her wedding trousseau this fall; Pat
Turner, ex '24, wearing her new title of
assistant superintendent of schools; lovely
glimpses of Lib Ransom Halm's ('23) baby
girl and another of Mary Bryan Winn's

('16) one-year-old Leonora with her big
birthday cake and candle trust we get a
picture for the scrap-book. More next
quarter.

News arrived from the Birmingham Club
just in time to go in this issue that the
first meeting of the fall was held Satur-
day, September 28th; this meeting was in
the form of a luncheon at the Axis Club.
The purpose was to welcome the new
members, discuss business and elect of-
ficers. After a delicious luncheon, Mrs.
L. E. Winn, as a member of the A. A. U.
W., spoke briefly of that organization.
The executives chosen for the coming year
are: Mary Ray Dobyns, president; Mary
Bryan Winn, vice president; Helen Ridley,
secretary and treasurer.

COLUMBUS CLUB

As we certainly want to be known in
the Quarterly, this is our history. We
are one year old, having been organized
into a club last year, chiefly through the
inspiration and help given us by Hilda
McConnell Adams, who was then living
in Columbus. Through her, we secured a
list of our alumnae and at our first meet-
ing there were about fifteen present, all
interested in forming the club. At our
second meeting, Polly Stone came over
from college and gave us a delightful
newsy talk which took us right back to
Agnes Scott. Those were our best meet-
ings two held later fell upon rainy days
and were small. We met on Founder's Day
and heard some of the program in spite
of the static.

We believe there is real interest among
the alumnae here in having a club. Of
course, we are small in .numbers but we
were not definitely enough organized last
year to feel like a real club.

Yesterday we held our first meeting of
this fall and our new officers are: Presi-
dent, Hallie Alexander (Mrs. Francis
Turner), '18; vice president, Clarkie Davis,
'26; secretary, Josephine Schuessler, '25;
treasurer, Myrtle Blackmon, '21.

We decided to meet upon the fourth
Tuesday of each month and to have nom-
inal dues. We discussed having a course
of study to be followed at each meeting,
and decided upon a Garden Study pro-
gram. We also felt the club could some-
times be resolved into a sewing bee to
make suitable gifts for the Alumnae
House. We formulated plans for a bridge
party benefit to be given at the Country
Club in October, the proceeds to be used
in the spring for a tea to be given to high
school Seniors. We are hoping to manage
a Christmas bazaar, also.

JOSEPHINE SCHUESSLER,

Corresponding Secretary.

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JACKSONVILLE CLUB

The Jacksonville Club sends in a good
account of itself in the picture of its last
meeting which was a lovely luncheon, to
which many old Agnes Scott girls came
from nearby towns, even. Mary Ellen
Colyer, the president, writes that their
next meeting is in October but too late for
this Quarterly to publish an account; it
will be good news for the next issue. The
officers at present are Mary Ellen Colyer,
president; Janet Newton, vice president;
secretary and treasurer, Charlotte Buck-
land, with about eighteen active members.
This club spent a very busy spring work-
ing for the building campaign, raising a
nice sum to send in, planning for its
luncheon in fact, it was so busy that
election of new officers was postponed un-
til fall. One member writes in: "I will
have to admit our club meetings are very
informal but we have lots of fun." Janet
Newton, the efficient membership commit-
tee chairman, will be away this year, sail-
ing for France for the winter very soon.
This club reports lots of housekeepers,
teachers, and one editor in its group.

KOREAN CLUB

Nobody can ever tell us that far away
girls are hard to get together in club or-
ganizations; just look at our Korean Club
and you people in such close distances as
Texas and New York can grow green with
envy at their organization. The Korean
Club has at least one meeting a year,
usually in June when the Agnes Scott
girls, their mothers and daughters and
prospective Agnes Scott girls gather for
a reunion "far from thy sheltering arms"
but very near to each, as talk about old
days and old times flies fast and furiously;
the daughters tell about the new rules and
regulations, the new people and the new
buildings, rather boasting of changes from
mother's day; but these old girls look wise
and say little, for there is a sureness in
their minds that nothing can change their
Agnes Scott.

It was at such a meeting in June, 1928,
that the wish was made that this club
might do something to make even more
beautiful the Anna Young Alumnae House,
which many of these club members have
seen and all have heard much about.
Emily Winn, at whose house the club was
"reuning," suggested that they make a
gift to the house; everyone chimed in with
approval and there was almost an instant
selection of the kind of present a pair of
candlesticks, made in the butterfly design,
of the beautiful Korean brass, a brass
which is famous, far beyond that of other
countries. It was duly bought and packed

with wonderful care by the Brass Depart-
ment of the Watts Boys' School at Soon-
chun and arrived, like all good alumnae,
at commencement time of this year. The
candlesticks are now on the table in the
entrance hall and are the most admired
new possession.

These are the names of the alumnae in
Korea (which, by good luck, we were able
to get through the return visit to the
Alumnae House of Miriam Preston, presi-
dent of this club, in September) who had
a part in this lovely gift; as Miriam said,
"We asked everybody to belong, mothers
of girls who were planning to go to Agnes
Scott, mothers of those who had gone, even
if they were not alumnae themselves, girls
who are hoping to get to Agnes Scott, as
well as every girl who had ever been:"
Annie Wiley Preston, Emily Winn, Char-
lotte Bell Linton (Charlotte was here when
the present arrived), Miriam Preston, Lilly
0. Lathrop, Grace Chay, Bernice Green,
Ally Bull, her mother, Mrs. Bull, who was
once a teacher at Agnes Scott, and Eliz-
abeth Wilson, and Mrs. Pilley Choi, and
others.

Best wishes to you of the Korean Club
and may your next meeting be the best one
of all!

Agnes Scott alumnae will be scattered
all over this country and Europe in study
this year. The individual student in our
alumnae list has her story told in her
class news, but there are two very inter-
esting groups which you will be glad to
hear a little more about and revel in visions
of what they are doing and what good
times they are having, while they work
towards this or that degree in this or that
line of study.

At Yale, this year, there will be this
group of alumnae:

Margaret Bland, '20, who is studying
playwriting under Professor Baker. Know-
ing Margaret and her love for this kind
of writing and her success in it, we can
imagine what a real good winter she is
having.

Miriam Preston, '27, the winner of the
Quenelle Harrold scholarship for graduate
work, sailed all the way back from Korea,
where she has been since graduation, to
spend this year in study at Yale.

With Margaret and Miriam, in their
housekeeping apartment, will be Roberta
Winter, '27, and these three are planning a
happy winter, as well as a busy one.

Another busy three there at Yale will
be Rosaltha Sanders, Eugenia Gobere, Em-
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hope these will let us hear separately or
collectively how the class of '28 is distin-
guishing itself at Yale.

The group at Johns Hopkins is a large
and imposing one:

Juanita Greer will be there, having won
the scholarship offered by the American
Association of University Women.

Vivian Little, '24, Douglas Rankin, '27,
are two others, Douglas working in her
field of botany.

Frances Brown '28, a former winner of
the Quenelle Harrold scholarship, is doing
further research work in chemistry at
Johns Hopkins. Frances is working to-
ward her Ph. D.

Another Harrold Scholarship girl, Mamie
Shaw, '27, is continuing her study in medi-
cine.

A student in the realm of biology and
zoology is Lucile Caldwell, '25; and Flor-
ence Brinkley, '14, has won the Johnston
Scholarship at Johns Hopkins. Florence
has been connected with the English de-
partment at Goucher for several years.

We feel we can almost claim another one,
in that Elinor (Berger) Blumenthal (Mrs.
L. M.), '26, is the wife of one of the pro-
fessors in the mathematics department.

CLEO HEARON MEMORIAL
FELLOWSHIP

A very wonderful but deserved tribute
has been paid the memory of Miss Cleo
Hearon, beloved teacher in the history de-
partment at Agnes Scott for many years,
in an announcement of a scholarship which
has been given in her name by Miss Shirley
Farr. Miss Farr was a warm personal
friend and admirer of Miss Hearon and,
after her death, Miss Farr felt this to be
a tribute which she could make to Miss
Hearon's life and work.

This scholarship, which is to be known
as the "Cleo Hearon Memorial Fellowship,"
offers the income of $10,000, to be used as
a fellowship in the history department of
the University of Chicago. Miss Farr is
herself connected with the history depart-
ment of this university and interested in
its work and students.

The fellowship has been awarded for
the first time this year to Janet McDon-
ald, '28, who is now at the University
doing graduate work in the history depart-
ment. Janet has an enviable record in her
college work and life; she was an excep-
tional debater in her day, president of stu-
dent government, an active participator in
college activities; her major was in his-
tory here; Janet is also a member of Phi
Beta Kappa.

INSTITUTE TEA PARTY

In the spring, Miss Hopkins ami Miss McKinney entertained the above group at a luncheon in
Rebekah Scott dining room. They are, reading from left to right, standing: Miss Hopkins, Kathleen Kirk-
patrick Daniel, '04 ; Susan Young Eagan. '99 : Annie Emory Flinn, '9S : Louise Scott Sams, '03. Seated,
Mary Neel Kendrick, '94 : Bessie Young Brown, '93, and Miss McKinney. This committee planned for
an institute reunion for May, and, as a result, there were twenty-five institute girls at the trustees'
luncheon at commencement time.

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WAYS TO HELP ALUMNAE OFFICE

Ways to help the Alumnae office: (1)
Pay your dues as soon as possible ($2.00
per year or $50.00 life membership); (2)
If you have changed your address, or know
of any Agnes Scotter who has, send in that
information; (3) remember there is a scrap
book at the Alumnae House in which pic-
tures, clippings, etc., about you belong, so
be modest, send something, it will add
greatly to the entertainment of your
friends who see it; (4) And that Building
Campaign, keep it in mind, sending in the
shekels as you can; (5) Thanksgiving
week-end is "Home Coming" time at the
Alumnae House. Come back if you can;
(6) Start a saving fund to be used for
your next reunion, even if it is five years
off make yours the biggest and best re-
union of them all.

Needs of the Alumnae House:

(A suggested list which many of you
may be interested in consulting.)

Dresser scarfs, bath towels, pillow cases,
sheets (double beds), bath mats, luncheon
sets (house needs sets of mats for six or
eight people), luncheon cloths, cup towels,
wire flower holders in flower bowls, curtains
for upstairs lounge room (size furnished
on request), and, we're almost scared to
put this down, for fear we seem too hope-
ful, a new refrigerator; oh, by the way,
we almost forgot the after dinner coffee

cups!

Mortarboards and Robes

Do you know that we are renting caps
and gowns to the Seniors and making quite
a nice sum for our treasury as well as
satisfying a very real need among the
Seniors ? There are now about twelve
gowns and a few more caps in the closet
here which are almost fought over. We
could easily rent twice that many and it
would be another helpful effort of the
alumnae toward their younger sisters. We
would like to have enough, some day, to
make an impressive showing at commence-
ment when you come back, and it is the
intention to keep on till we acquire a good
number, then save them for you to wear in
Academic procession. As Polly wrote last
year, "Take this paragraph to heart and
if you have one packed away in mothballs,
shake it to the breeze for a few minutes,
then mail it to the Alumnae Secretary."

NECROLOGY

Mrs. Emory B. Phillips (Hester Stephen-
son, ex '24). The particulars of Mrs. Phil-
lips' death have not been received, only
that she died in July, after a short ill-
ness.

Miss Mattie Cook. All of the Agnes
Scott girls who were privileged to know

Miss Cook when she was a teacher at
Agnes Scott will regret to learn of her
death on July 30th, at the home of her
niece, Mrs. Guy Hamilton, Waynesboro,
after a short illness, the funeral being
held at the residence and burial in Thorn-
rose cemetery. Although eighty-seven
years old, Miss Cook was very active in her
interests, keeping ever her rather quaint,
kindly humor, which endeared her to all
who knew her.

Mrs. James H. Alexander. Mrs. Alex-
ander, mother of two of our alumnae,
Lucile Alexander and Ethel (Alexander)
Gaines, and grandmother of Eloise Gaines,
another alumna, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. P. R. Allen, in Asheville,
N. C, on Monday, September 30. Mrs.
Alexander had resided in Atlanta for more
than thirty years, and was one of the
oldest members of Central Presbyterian
Church. Mrs. Alexander aided in the bur-
dens of her husband's (Dr. James H.
Alexander) ministry, years of which were
spent in pioneer work in the mountains
of southwest Virginia. The funeral was
from the residence of her son, J. Harry
Alexander, in Atlanta.

MAIL HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM:

(We publish another list in this issue of
the Quarterly of "lost sisters" and ask you
to help us trace them down with as much
success as you have in the past.)

Helen Lewis, Austed, W. Va.

Mary Lizzie Radford, Newnan, Ga.

Evelyn Albright, Chipley, Ga.

Mary McAliley, Cowpens, S. C.

Elizabeth Allen, Decatur St., Montgom-
ery, Ala.

Lois Grier, 122 Water St., Statesville,
N. C.

Elizabeth Grier, 122 Water St., States-
ville, N. C.

Elizabeth Gregory, Vidalia, Ga.

Gwendolyn McKinnon, Hickory, N. C.

Eleanore Albright, 3214 Chamberlayne
Ave., Richmond, Va.

Mary Crenshaw, Kingsport, Tenn.

Jean McAlister, 435 W. 119th St., New
York City.

Mrs. R. L. Hays, Jr. (Louie Dean
Stephens), 1128 Grace St., W., Richmond,
Virginia.

Mrs. W. E. Bowers (Grace Anderson),
Box 22, Selma, Ala.

Myrtle Bledsoe, 241 Kellogg Place, New-
nan, Ga.

Pearl Kunne, care Mrs. Hausman, 227
Haven Ave., New York City.

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Concerning Ourselves

1893-1906

Frances Louise (Ansley) Moon's address
is now 355 22nd St., Santa Monica, Calif.

The little evergreens sent from the Mich-
igan woods by Marie Brown are doing
nicely on the campus around the Alumnae
House. She writes: "Perhaps by next
Christmas two of them may be large
enough to light with electric bulbs during
the Christmastide. We light the trees
outside up here, and with all of our beau-
tiful white snow, the effect is very pretty
and cheering. We have had many bril-
liant, sunny days and tonight we are quite
warm it's zero." (This was written on
the first of February.) "It has been hov-
ering around 15 and 20 below since the
New Year. This is a very fine climate in
mid-winter and in summer. Spring and
fall, except for the glorious coloring of
September, are lacking."

Alice (Hanna) Findley lives at 1401
Colonial Terrace, Peoria, 111., where her
husband is in the manufacturing business.
They have two daughters and one son.

Loulie (Hurst) Howald writes from New
Mexico: "A few weeks ago I saw where
Agnes Scott Donaldson, '17, was regis-
tered at one of the hotels here in Santa
Fe. I rushed to the telephone and called
the hotel but she had gone. Imagine my
chagrin when I found the paper I was
reading was nearly a week old! Last
October the state conference of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution met in
Santa Fe and my D. A. R. chapter here
was the hostess chapter. Mrs. R. M.
Thorne of Carlsbad, New Mexico, state
chaplain, was one of the guests enter-
tained here in our school. Her daughter,
Agnes, is now at Agnes Scott, and we
found much in common to talk about.
Distances are great out here, but it would
be splendid if we could organize an al-
umnae chapter combining in, its mem-
bership those who live in New Mexico
and Colorado."

Addie (Jones) Cunningham's husband
has retired from active business and they
are enjoying life at their home out from
Savannah, Ga. They have two children,
Edward Fairley, and a daughter, Cornelia,
who is an artist.

Belle (Jones) Horton's daughter, Isa-
belle, is planning to come to Agnes Scott
year after next. Belle's oldest daughter,
Sallie, was graduated here in 1925, and
is one of the active members of the Bir-

mingham alumnae club. Sallie was toast-
mistress at their Founders' Day banquet.

Gabrilla (Lanier) Hunnicutt, of Athens,
Ga., has a niece, Mary Lanier, in the senior
class this year.

Louisa (Ludlow) McBrayer's present ad-
dress is 434 Summit St., Winston-Salem,
N. C.

Pearl (McDuffie) McLean is living at
1836 West Beach, Biloxi, Miss.

Maude (Medlock) Christian is justly
proud of the record her three sons are
making. "First they were all three grad-
uated with honors from Marietta high
school. William, Jr., went to Emory Uni-
versity where he received a B.S. degree,
then graduated with distinction from the
Emory Medical School. He is twenty-five
years old now and is practicing at Scotts-
boro, Ala., where he was married last May
to Miss Mary Carter, who is a Brenau
graduate. Our second son, Schuyler Med-
lock, received both B.S. magna cum laude
and M.S. degrees from Emory and is now
a member of the faculty of Harvard Uni-
versity where he is also studying for his
Ph.D. Our baby, Hugh Mason, is a sopho-
more at Georgia Tech. He is eighteen,
which doesn't seem much like a baby to
anyone but his mother."

Jessie (Smith) Young's daughter. Octa-
via, will be graduated from Agnes Scott
this year.

Clyde White is living in Asheville, N.
C, where she holds the position of secre-
tary to an osteopathic physician.

Allie (Watlington) Barnett has a debu-
tante daughter, Finances, this year and a
son, Stephen, Jr., who is studying medicine
at Emory University, preparing to follow
in his father's footsteps in the practice of
medicine.

Estelle (Pattillo) Boynton also has a son
who is at Emory, studying medicine, fol-
lowing an illustrious doctor father. Her
daughter, Estelle, who graduated from
Vassar, made her debut in Atlanta last
year and Mira, the younger daughter, will
be a debutante of this season.

Florence (McCormack) Waller makes the
third one of future doctors' mothers in this
group; she is living at Bessemer, Ala.

Mary (Barnett) Martin has four chil-
dren in school in various places: Edward,
a graduate of Presbyterian College, S. C,
is teaching; Taylor is at Hampden-Sydney;
Venable, after a year in California, is at

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Presbyterian College, S. C, this year; and
her daughter is in the public school in Clin-
ton, S. C.

Clara Belle (Rushton) King's youngest
daughter, Clara Belle, was married in June
to Dr. Troy Bivings, Jr., and will be in
New York while her husband completes his
course in medicine at Columbia University.

Susan (Young) Eagan has returned
from a most delightful summer's travel
with her children in Europe.

Ethel (Alexander) Gaines was in Ashe-
ville, N. C, for the greater part of the
summer with her sisters and mother.
Ethel's daughter, Eloise, is in library work
at the Carnegie Library, Atlanta.

Lucile Alexander is envied of the facul-
ty at Agnes Scott, as she and Margaret
Phythian cook delicious meals in their
apartment on the campus.

Emma and Rusha Wesley's niece, Jose-
phine Marbut, graduated at Agnes Scott
and married this summer; she is living
with them on West Peachtree, Atlanta.

Emily Winn was the instigator of the
scheme of giving the lovely brass candle
sticks from the Korean Club to the Alum-
nae House.

Ava (West) Fleming is living in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and has a lawyer hus-
band and three fine sons, T. F., Jr., Jolen
West, and Foy B. Fleming.

Marian (Hall) Fleming is living at 1766
Ponce de Leon Avenue in her lovely new
home; Marian has one daughter, Ellen, who
is in Washington Seminary in Atlanta.

Fannie Mae (Baker) Webster was mar-
ried in 1923 to Mr. D. T. Webster and left
Gadsden to make her home in Birming-
ham; her address is Oaklon Apartments
No. 6, Highland and 30th Streets; Mr. Web-
ster is in the postal service, so Fannie Mae
gets to travel all over the country, house-
keeping in between trips; she has been in-
terested in the Birmingham club, being
present at its first meeting. She and Mr.
Webster were marooned in Atlanta in the
recent hurricane disturbances and we were
the beneficiaries, as they came out to see
Agnes Scott and signed in the guest book
at the Alumnae House. We have her
promise to come back for commencement
and, having the husband at our mercy, got
his agreement to drive her over.
1904

(Next reunion, 1934).

The class of '04 was not to be daunted
by the fact that they could not get to-
gether in May for their reunion party, but
on July 31st, they held one of the most in-
teresting reunions ever held, all by them-
selves. Laura (Candler) Wilds and Kath-
leen (Kirkpatrick) Daniel entertained the
other members at a tea at the home of

Kathleen Daniel in Decatur; but the real
reunion atmosphere was ideally supplied
by a visit to the college campus, where as
the secretary, Lois Johnson Aycock, puts
it, "We walked around the campus, gazed
at all the familiar spots and wondered at
the changes." Dr. Gaines was the beloved
honorary member of this class, so the class
called on Mrs. Gaines at her home in
Southlawn, then took some pictures of the
"now" of 1904; one of these snapshots is
being earnestly sought for the next quar-
terly that we may all see the class that
just will reune, whether in May or July;
many interesting plans were discussed
when this group of girls gathered back at
their hostesses's tea party, which they ab-
solutely refuse to tell us, in a most mys-
terious way.

All but two of the members were present;
Jane Curry and Mattie (Tilley) McKee
were not able to come and many were the
regrets expressed by them and by their
classmates. Those present were: Annie
Shapard, Clifford Hunter, Virginia (But-
ler) Stone, Mattie (Duncan) Johnson, Lois
(Johnson) Aycock, and the hostesses, Lau-
ra (Candler) Wilds and Kathleen (Kirk-
patrick) Daniel.

1907

(Next reunion, 1930.)

Clyde Pettus holds a very responsible
position in Carnegie Library in Atlanta.
It must be almost an Agnes Scott meeting
when the librarians in this institution gath-
er, and we are sure its splendid record is
due somewhat to the fact that so many of
its workers are Agnes Scotters; not that
we mean to boast at all!
1908

(Next reunion, 1930).

Lizzabel Saxon has changed her address
in Atlanta to 560 Moreland Avenue, Atlan-
ta. She is near enough to come out occa-
sionally to see that the college is running
as 1908 would wish it.

Louise (Shipp) Chick has been moving
so fast that her mail has just caught up
with her; but her quick reply is in time
for us to give her new address, 1005 West
Sixth Street, Los Angeles, California.

Amelia (Worthington) Fisk's (ex. '08)
husband is a lawyer, counsel for the Unit-
ed Drug Company in Boston. Their chil-
dren are Charles Brenton, 3; Josephine,
born on May 13, 1928. The Fisks live at
82 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass.
1909

(Next reunion, 1930).

Mec (Maclntyre) McAfee's daughter,
Marie, is at Oglethorpe University this
year, taking a secretarial course; Lawson,
her other daughter, is in Washington Semi-
nary.

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Ludie Head is teaching in the Junior
High School in Atlanta.

Adelaide Nelson's Scout troop work is
making a record for her, as a scout leader;
her work is in the Druid Hills territory in
Atlanta.

Margaret McCallie has a niece in the
graduating class this year, Mary McCallie;
Mary is the efficient editor of the campus
news for this quarterly and Margaret can
claim some of the credit for Mary's being
on the campus, so we put this under '09
news.

Louise Davidson is the editor of a week-
ly paper, published by the American Wom-
an's Association Clubhouse, 353 W. 57th
Street, New York City. This paper has
recently acquired Mary Knight as an as-
sociate editor. This ought to be an easy
paper to sell subscriptions to; two Agnes
Scott editors are even better than one.

Anne (Waddell) Bethea is an active
member of the Jacksonville club; she is
one of the group in the luncheon picture
published elsewhere in this quarterly.
1911

(Next reunion, 1931).

Adelaide Cunningham is becoming world
famous, as her school paper, "The Co-Ed
Leader," of Atlanta Commercial High
School in Atlanta, which has its inspira-
tion from its teacher advisor, continues to
take every prize for a magazine of its type
in the country; not that this information
came from Adelaide, we had to do detec-
tive work among her friends to learn this.
She is also handling publicity for the Civic
Theatre in Atlanta.

Mary Elizabeth Radford's last quarterly
has been returned, marked "Moved;" can
someone help us locate her quickly, so she
will get her mail?

Mary Wallace Kirk has the sympathies
of all of us in the recent loss of her two
aunts within a brief time; both of them
lived in the same town with Mary Wallace.

Julia (Thompson) Gibson's husband is
now a professor in the Junior College
which Emory has established at Oxford.

Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson is on
the board of the Young Matrons' Circle
of the Tallulah Falls Industrial School;
Theodosia's young daughter recently cele-
brated her eighth birthday with a lovely
birthday party.

Florinne (Brown) Arnold, ex '11, is now
living in Atlanta and enjoying housekeep-
ing very much; we wonder how Florinne
gets her calculations down to two from tea-
room proportions.

1912

(Next reunion, 1931).

Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust divided her
family up into sections and worked out a.

splendid vacation plan; the oldest son trav-
eled with his father, and the little son stay-
ed at home with his aunt, while "Tony"
packed up the little daughter's clothes with
hers and vacationed at Cloudland, near
Rome. I expect the reunion was the best
part of the trip.

Cornelia Cooper always saves the lives
of the Atlanta Club entertainment commit-
tee by letting the club meet with her and
her sisters every summer, while she is back
from her school, Judson.

Mary (Crosswell) Croft has the sympa-
thies of all her Agnes Scott friends in her
recent loss of her mother; Mrs. Crosswell
had made her home with Mary in Aiken,
S. C, for many years.

Nellie (Fargason) Racy has joined the At-
lanta alumnae, since she has a position on
the faculty of Washington Seminary.

Martha (Hall) Young is now the "Col-
onel's Lady," as her husband is colonel at
Fort Wayne Army Post, Michigan.

Annie Chapin McLane visited Martha
(Brenner) Shryock, '15, in Evanston, 111.,
for several weeks in August.

Carol (Stearns) Wey is so busy building
model cottages for the Home for the
Friendless' new plant that her next door
neighbor never catches a glimpse of her.
Carol, as president of the board of this in-
stitution, has done an outstanding piece of
social service work in Atlanta.
1913

(Next reunion, 1931).

Allie (Candler) Guy holds the responsi-
ble position of president of the Parent-
Teacher Association of Emory School and
confesses that it is keeping her busy to
run that and a household.

Frances (Dukes) Wynn insists on equal-
izing Allie's record and is head of the Par-
ent-Teacher Association in Miami, Fla., as
well as being one of the state officers and
attending state conventions.

Elizabeth (according to the book) Lillie
(according to us) (Joiner) Williams tells
a story of much company and much stir-
rings and says, "My bright horizon star
now is the hope of going to Methodist Con-
ference. I have always wanted to go since
I was a parson's wife, but wives are not ex-
pected at that time. However, the laymen
of the district elected me delegate this year
and now I can go as big as Luther, if only
I can get off. It is in Chai'leston a place
I'd rather go than any, for it will be like
going back home."

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann's baby,
Adele, has been to college already and met
the president in what Emma Pope terms
"a scandalous lack of clothes," a fond fa-
ther sneaking her over one summer morn-
ing when the mother's back was turned.

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1914.

(Next reunion, 1932).

Bertha Adams spent some time this sum-
mer with an aunt between New Orleans
and Baton Rouge, so she enjoyed both
towns; in July she had a motor trip to
Florida and visited many places of interest.

Florence Brinkley has won the Johnston
fellowship to Johns Hopkins and will take
the year off from teaching to study there;
Florence has been connected with the Eng-
lish department at Goucher for several
years.

Mary (Brown) Florence writes: "When
Martha Rogers Noble makes a request, 'tis
impossible to turn her down and also 'tis
impossible to find a scrap of news. My
summer has been made most pleasant by
feasting on the memories of the visit to
A. S. C. commencement. It was great to
go back after fifteen years!"

Theodosia (Cobb) Hogan has been vaca-
tioning to the Ozarks of Missouri and Ar-
kansas, and to her husband's home in
northwest Missouri, then back to the busi-
ness of putting children in school and fall
activities.

Sarah (Hansell) Cousar announces the
arrival of a new '14er in the person of
Leonora Muldrow Cousar who was born on
July 23, 1928, and whom Sarah casually
reports now, saying, "I don't believe I have
announced it." The young daughter is
called Leonora and is named for Sa-
rah's husband's mother. Eleanor (Pink-
ston) Stokes had Sarah as her guest
at a luncheon for University and
College Women in Charleston, St. Albans
being only twelve miles from Charleston
on the Midland Trail.

Annie Tait Jenkins is spending a very
leisurely year in the study of German,
French and some mathematics back home
in Crystal Springs, Miss., after receiving
her master's degree at Tulane July 23rd.
She writes that she enjoys receiving the
quarterly and hopes to keep in close touch
with college affairs this year through at-
tendance upon A. A. U. W. meetings in
Jackson, Miss.

Lottie (Blair) Lawton writes, "When Dr.
Olivier broke into the Literary Digest re-
cently, I wrote to him and received a de-
lightfully newsy letter in return. He has
been married ten years and has two little
daughters. He is head of the Observatory
of the University of Pennsylvania."

Mildred (Holmes) Dickert has moved to
Knoxville, Tenn.; we hope she sees this
and sends the office her street address.

Robina (Gallacher) Hume (ex '14) mov-
ed to Louisville, Ky., when the Atlanta Ag-
nes Scott Club made her chairman of the
benefit bridge to be held in September.
She, of course, lays the blame for this

move on her husband's new position with
W. L. Lyons & Company in Louisville.

Mignon Harlan's (ex '14) marriage to
Captain Bernard Franklin of the 122d In-
fantry, occurred on June 20th. Mignon has
been for several years a member of the
staff of the Calhoun Times.
1915

(Next reunion, 1932).

Margaret (Anderson) Scott says, "No
exciting news; just back from visits in
North Carolina and Virginia, with a motor
trip to Washington thrown in, which we
hoped would make the desired impression
on young sons, Neal and Legh, Jr.; it was
a little discouraging to find them more in-
terested in Kress and Woolworth than the
Capitol and Library. I saw Mary Champe
and Mary Hamilton in Lexington."

Marion (Black) Cantelou writes in an-
swer to a postal, asking for news, "Only
a streak of thrift, inherited from New Eng-
land ancestors, keeps me from ignoring
this card, as the Cantelous have done noth-
ing worthy of publication spent a glori-
ously lazy month at the coast and have con-
tinued to vegetate ever since."

Martha (Brenner) Shyrock, the noble
secretary of this class, sends in word that
she and her husband were at White Sul-
phur, West Virginia, then went to Augusta
and Asheville. Her mother spent Septem-
ber with her in Evanston, Illinois. Annie
Chapin McLane visited Martha for three
weeks this August and, as she says, "we
talked a little (?) bit."

Gertrude (Briesenick) Ross answers
Martha's call for news of 1915 by telling
of the doings of the Ross twins, John J.
and Jeanne Carol, who arrived April 24th
"they were and continue to be quite a
sensation; just perfectly adorable babies."

Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott runs the
Presbyterian Church Auxiliary in Decatur
with one hand and with the other brings
up, as they should be brought up, three
lovely daughters two in school, and the
baby, aged three, Nellie, learning the first
grade reader from older sister.

Mary (Kelly) Coleman writes, "After
eleven years of married life it has taken
some time to adjust our daily routine to
Emmett Lee., Jr., who arrived May 20th.
Now, we do not see how we ever did with-
out him."

Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner has bought
a lot in McDonough and expects to build
a new house this fall; the children are in
school and she is busy all the time but
says she can think of nothing spectacular
to write.

Mary Helen (Schneider) Head has her
niece living with her now, as her sister-
in-law, Mrs. A. W. Hodnett, died as the

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result of an automobile accident this sum-
mer. We sympathize with Mary Helen in
the loss of her sister, to whom she was de-
voted.

Mary (West) Thatcher is planning to
spend the winter in Miami again, leaving
in November.

Mary (Bedinger) Echols (ex '15) is now
living at 154 King's Highway, Decatur, Ga.
1916

(Next reunion, 1932.)

Ora (Glenn) Roberts sends in a most in-
teresting letter, part of which is "Dr. Rob-
erts was appointed June 1 as one of the
workers in connection with the Virgin Is-
lands Experimental Station. There are three
of these islands, St. Thomas, St. John and
St. Croix, the last being the largest. The
town of Christiansted, where we live, is very
prettily situated with the hills in the back-
ground and a lovely harbor inside the coral
reef which surrounds the island. The West
Indian steamers of the Furness Bermuda
line make regular stops here and offer
very attractive cruises during the winter
season .... The house in which we are
living at present is Hamilton House and
the hardware store in which Alexander
Hamilton worked as a boy is just below
us."

Maryellen (Harvey) Newton lost her
younger brother in a tragic accident this
summer.

Margaret Phythian is back at Agnes
Scott this year, after a year's work at the
Sorbonne, and the best compliment Agnes
Scott has had in a long time is that Paris
cannot begin to compete for Margaret's
affections.

Clara (Whips) Dunn completed her very
successful year as president of the Atlanta
Agnes Scott Club and in September open-
ed her new home on Andrews Drive to the
club under its new president, entertaining
with tea after the business meeting.
1917

(Next reunion, 1932).

Amelia (Alexander) Greenawalt moved
to Decatur in July and expects to be there
for at least a year. Her oldest daughter
another Amelia who was our first "class
baby," is eleven years old now and will
soon be ready for Junior High School and
Agnes Scott.

Laurie (Caldwell) Tucker writes that
she had a most delightful time discussing
events and people of the 1914-17 era with
Effie Brewer, ex '18, who has been visit-
ing in Tampa recently.

Martha Dennison spent her vacation in
the North Carolina mountains at Chimney
Rock. Martha still spends her days "hunt-
ing up the poor folks" for the Associated
Charities of Atlanta.

Isabel Dew thinks that foreign travel
has become so usual nowadays that there
will be very little interest in hearing about
her trip, though she says it was certainly
the high spot in her life. The brief out-
line that she gave of her ten-and-a-half
weeks in Europe is so interesting and so
different from the usual "tour" that the
class secretary really thinks Isabel should
write a book about it and let us all share
her wonderful experiences. Don't you
agree ? "I went with two friends, entirely
independent of touring companies or other
agencies. We had ten and a half weeks of
easy traveling; ten days in Paris; eight
days in the most excellent of pensions in
Lucerne overlooking the bluest of lakes to
the snow-capped Alps; eight days of travel
through a small part of Germany, but
through the most famous scenic region
down the river by the castles on the Rhine;
on to Cologne, to Brussels, a second Paris,
and to Holland with its canals, windmills,
brilliant flowers and its Isle of Marken
where the people continue to wear the pic-
turesque Dutch costumes. Thence across
the North Sea by night from the Hague to
Harwich, England, where we took the train
at once for Scotland. We stayed in a real
Scotch home two weeks, learning to love
their affectionate, gentle ways. . . . Then
England, with its old castles, its sacred
spots, its lovely countryside and London!
I have to go back now to see Southern
France and Italy."

Gladys Gaines is Director of Religious
Education for St. David's Church, repre-
senting a large parish in Austin, Texas.
Her principal duties are with the Sunday
school and young people's organizations and
she is thoroughly in love with her work.
She likes Texas, and Austin, and as soon
as she gets this full-time job systematized
to her satisfaction she intends to take a
course or two in educational work at the
State University.

Willie Bell (Jackson) McWhorter moved
into her lovely new home in Atlanta in
September, and is quite busy with her
housekeeping and with her young son, who
is eighteen months old and red-headed!
Willie Bell spent part of the summer in
Asheville, N. C.

Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin enjoyed her
six weeks in Lynchburg this summer re-
newing her acquaintance with her friends
and family. It was especially nice to have
Spott Payne living across the street and
to drive to Richmond with her, thus get-
ting in four hours of uninterrupted conver-
cation (can you imagine it?) She also
had a delightful motor trip with her hus-
band around the Virginia coast. At the
Davidson-Clemson game in Charlotte Anne
saw Margaret McAlpine for the first time

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in thirteen years. She says: "The more
I think of it, the more I marvel that Mar-
garet recognized me. Thirteen years and
twenty pounds. Horrors!"

Jane Newton gave a shock to the Jack-
sonville Club in leaving for a winter's
travel and study; she is to be at the Sor-
bonne, continuing her work in French.

During her sojourn in and around New
York in June, Regina Pinkston had a most
delightful visit with Gjertrud (Amundsen)
Siqueland and her charming family. That
was one of the nicest things about the
whole month that, and the wonderful pav-
ed road every foot of the way from New
York to Savannah.

Margaret Pruden writes from Rome,
Ga. : "I really have no news to tell you
about myself, but if I write, you will at
least know I am not dead. I'm going to
take a vacation until after Christmas. I
am planning to spend October visiting in
North Carolina, and later in the fall Moth-
er and I are going to Cuba."

Virginia (Scott) Pegues has moved to
Greenville, Miss., where Dr. Pegues is the
ear, eye, nose, throat specialist for the
Gamble-Montgomery Clinic. She lives at
516 Arnold Avenue. Virginia's daughter
started to kindergarten this fall, and her
two sons, aged three and one, have pri-
vate "instruction" at home.

Louise Ware is teaching English in a
private high school for girls, Kimberly
School, at Montclair, N. J.

After spending most of the summer with
her mother in Griffin, Georgiana (White)
Miller is at home in Decatur. She has
three young daughters in school this year
and two adorable sons at home.

Sarah (Conyers) Westervelt's, ex '17,
husband is a cotton broker in Greenville,
S. C. They have two childi'en, a boy eight,
and girl, five.

Florence Gresham, ex '17, teaches the
second grade in Griffin, Ga.

Augusta (Hedges) Kellogg, ex '17,
taught in one of the county schools out-
side Jacksonville, Fla., last year. She has
two daughters, ages seven and five.

Mary Lewis Holt, ex '17, is teaching in
the public schools in Columbus, Ga.

Helen (Mebane) Steedman, ex '17, lost
her only child, a little son. She is now
with her father in Dublin, Va., but she and
Mr. Steedman expect to spend the winter
in Florida.

Oro (Nichols) Meredith, ex '17, has mov-
ed from Huntsville, Ala., to Etowah, Tenn.,
her old home.

1918

(Class reunion, 1933).

Hallie (Alexander) Turner writes:

"Again my address is changed but this
time we've bought a house, so maybe I can
stay put through two issues of the Quar-
terly." Her address is now 2503 Tenth
Street, Columbus, Georgia.

Eva Maie (Willingham) Park had this
to say for herself: "All those who laugh-
ed so at Class Day exercises over the idea
of my being a missionary will get a kick
out of the fact that the Sunday school, beg
your pardon, Church school, sent me to
Montreat this summer on a conference.
There I met Ellen Wilson, Miss Engle (the
Bible teacher at Agnes Scott) and 'Crip'
Slack. I hadn't realized how important
'Crip' was until I heard an elderly woman
exclaim in awed tones, 'THERE'S Miss
Slack.' I had a lovely time at Montreat
and learned a lot things besides how to
'Yo-Yo.'

"Then Emilie Keys came to town, so I
got Belle and Alice Cooper and Caroline
Larendon and we had a gorgeous after-
noon together. We went out to school and
shed a tear over our lost youth. ... I had
such a good time at the alumnae luncheon
last May (the first I ever attended) that
I must be sure to be in on the next one."

Belle Cooper is the new secretary, so
every "eighteener" remember this num-
ber, 1143 St. Charles Place, N. E., At-
lanta, Ga., and before the first of De-
cember write her a line at least; you've
no idea how many people want to know
where you are and who you are;
don't be bashful, remember the cause, and
pour out your soul to Belle and the Quar-
terly will tell the world.

Non-graduates:

Margaret (Cater) Young is living in
Huntsville, Tex., where her husband teach-
es industrial arts in the Sam Houston State
Teachers College. They have three chil-
dren.

Eleanor (Crabtree) Whitner's husband is
in real estate in Jacksonville, Fla. They
have a boy, five, and a girl, two.

Claude Polk (Dunson) Dunaway lives in
LaGrange, Ga., where her husband sells in-
surance. They have a seven-year-old son
and a girl, three.

Ouida Mae (Herrington) Morris' hus-
band owns a hardware store in Waynes-
boro, Ga. They have a boy seven and a
girl five.

Katherine Holtzclaw is teaching in
Nashville, Tenn. Her address is Hillsboro
Manor.

Lucille Horn is spending this year in
New York as visiting clerk for the Ameri-
can Irving Trust Company. Her address
is care the Parnassus Club, 605 W. 115th
Street.

Isa Beall (Talmadge) Robinson has three
children: Justine, five; William, two; and

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Charles, who will be one on November
16th. Mr. Robinson is a manufacturer lo-
cated in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Dorothy Moorehouse is a trained nurse,
living at 210 W. 12th Street, Cincinnati,
Ohio..

Priscilla (Nelson) King's husband is a
cotton buyer in Corinth, Miss. They have
three little girls and one son.

Miriam (Reynolds) Towers lives at
Hampton Hills, Westhampton, Richmond,
Va. She has two boys and a girl. Mr.
Towers is a manufacturer.

Mary Etta (Thomas) Wilson's husband
is coach and supervisor in the State Nor-
mal School in Jacksonville, Ala. Mary
Etta herself teaches history there. Since
leaving Agnes Scott in 1915, she attended
Kentucky State University for a year and
was graduated from Western College for
Women, at Oxford, Ohio, in 1918.

1919

(Next reunion, 1933).

Mary Alice (Norman) Pate was married,
as announced at the alumnae luncheon, in
June and sailed later for her new home in
Tela, Honduras, where her husband is soil
chemist in the research department of the
United Fruit Company.

Lulu (Smith) Westcott is one of the no-
ble secretaries who go up and down the
land searching for news for this part of
the Quarterly from class members who
mean to write but sometimes wait for an
earthquake to report, when all Lula wants
is "what are you doing and why?" She
practices what she preaches and sends this
about her family: "My husband and I had
a lovely trip this summer Canadian Rock-
ies, Pacific Northwest, California, Yose-
mite and Yellowstone, Salt Lake, Denver,
Colorado Springs, et cetera, et cetera.
May 28, 1929, was our tenth anniversa-
ry ten years since to the strains of
Lohengrin's wedding march, we march-
ed up the chapel aisle at Agnes Scott
College under a trellis of Dorothy
Perkins roses, while our pastor, assisted
by Dr. Gaines, performed the ceremony,
and Ella, in the rear of the chapel, held
the groom's hat. It was this momentous
event we were celebrating, by taking this
trip one of the most enjoyable parts of
which was seeing Samille Lowe in Denver
and Catherine Smith in Colorado (both
bridesmaids)."

Dorothy (Thigpen) Shea says that it is
so long since she has been in touch with
the Quarterly that she doesn't know which
children are in and which are not; so here
are all three: Charles, aged seven; Eliza-
beth, four, and Sheila, a whole eighteen
months of age paragon, of course, but,
honest mother that she is, confesses that

they do all the things they shouldn't; we
suspect this was written at the close of a
rainy day. Her new home on Lake Michigan
sounds wonderful. "I don't believe any set-
ting in Tristam and Isolde, viewed in Miss
McKinney's Swinbourne course, could be
more beautiful." She adds that she hopes
that lots of news of other '19 girls will be
in the Quarterly if you didn't write, we
hope your consicence hurts you.

Eleanor and Jean Baker's, ex 19, sister,
Fannie Mae (Baker) Webster, came
through Atlanta and left this information
about them: Eleanor is Mrs. L. J. Hill, 603
Haralson Avenue, Gadsden, Ala.; she has
one little girl, born on Fannie Mae's birth-
day and named for her; Jean is Mrs. Jean
Baker Todd and is also in Gadsden, 629
Walnut.

Bessie McConnell, ex '19, is now engag-
ed as interior decorator for the George
Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, N. C.

CLASS OF 1920

(Next reunion, 1933.)

You remember our roll always led off
with Louise Abney, and it still does, only
there are some terrible slips, skips and
omissions. The New York Times claims
to give "all the news that is fit to print,"
now your secretary wonders if some of
these silent sisters keep themselves out of
print for just that reason? Louise con-
tinues to enjoy imparting science to the
youth of Birmingham, Alabama. During
vacation she visited Mary Elizabeth Grimm
(now Mrs. Sisk, of Knoxville, Tenn.), who
has a lovely home and two sweet daugh-
ters. Louise reports that she had a huge
time having her breakfast served in bed
just by way of getting even for the many
Sunday breakfasts she carried Mary Eliza-
beth back in the Inman Hall days. Re-
venge is sweet!

What luck to have in our number a lit-
erary light with a taste for knowledge like
Margaret. Most of us felt that we had
earned a rest when we finally received our
A. B. after four years' (and in some extra
dumb cases five years') struggle. But not
Margaret Bland. An A. B. was just a start-
er for her, next she added her Master's and
now it is Ph.D. Think of Margaret among
the wearers of the gold tassel caps in an
A. S. C. procession. Aren't we proud! This
winter she is Prof. Baker's word of inspi-
ration at Yale.

Ashbv Cawthon (Mrs. J. H. Carpenter,
Jr. of DeFuniak Springs, Fla.), ex '20,
writes that she has a daughter eight years
old, who entered third grade this fall, also
two little red-headed black-eyed boys, age
five and almost three. These, she says,
keep her much too busy to write long let-
ters.

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Two other little girls perhaps keep their
mothers from letter-writing also. These are
Bettie Choate and Julia Cuthbertson, who
arrived the same week. We hope this
means that Ruth Crowell and Jule Hagood
will be represented at Agnes Scott about
1948.

Whoops, whoops, and more whoops, Lu-
lie Harris Henderson claims are no fun.
One case is bad enough, but a relay of
cases spread over two girls and one boy
keep a mother busy all spring, summer,
and leave her with a sympathetic cough to
begin the fall. But even whooping cough
has a happy climax sometimes. In this
case it resulted in a rest at St. Simons,
where the water and beach were great fun,
and the memory of it will last a long while
as the children carried home about a bushel
of shells.

Tip Holtzclaw Blanks played in hard luck
for the week-end. One hundred and thir-
ty-five letters were sent to all the '20 grad-
uates and "ex-'20's," too. Crip Slack de-
scended on her for a week-end visit. Tip
spent half a day directing envelopes, but
her flower garden was much too enchant-
ing, so envelopes were put aside to pluck
the prize dahlias and gladioli to use for
decorations at a P.-T. A. reception. Also,
Tip seems to be prize wizard at punch
making. Whenever Clarksville has a big
party, she rolls lemons, squeezes oranges,
and the result is "delicious and refresh-
ing."

The thrills of traveling! Lois Macln-
tyre Beall is experiencing these and then
some. After staying in Atlanta for nearly
two years straight, Lois writes she is more
thrilled over going to Athens for the Yale-
Georgia game than any one else would be
over a trip to Europe. Frank, Jr., has
started to school and is crazy about it. Dan
will be a year old in January.

"A thrilling European tour" that is
what we hear that Margaret McConnell en-
joyed this summer. Also, we heard some
exciting details of a few unusual incidents,
but as it is unofficial, we dare not report
further.

Marion McCamy Sims had just returned
from a visit to Amiee D. Glover Little in
Mairetta. It seems that Amiee D.'s young
daughter was the center of attraction, and
also activity. During the summer Marion
was part of a house party to Lakemont
that sounded like a jolly vacation which
was shared by some other Agnes Scotters
of Dalton.

The very kindest one of all is Gertrude
Manly MacFarland. Gertie is continuing
her rest cure and can't be chasing around
like most of us but she does send in the
news of her friends, or this page would
have been mostly blank as far as '20 notes
are concerned. She also reports on little

Gertrude. "Tut is the same Tut, and I
still claim she can make more conversa-
tion per cubic inch than any child living.
She is mighty busy now trying to gather
our own enormous hickory-nut crop."

Who says 13 isn't a lucky number!
"Henry Moss Harris arrived August 13.
His hair is as dark as his little sister's is
light, and she thinks he is entirely her
baby," so writes E. Moss Harris from Ashe-
ville, N. C. Little E had a visit from
Helen Wayt, who was honeymooning in
that vicinity, and she declares neither time
nor marriage had changed Helen in the
least.

Elizabeth Reid LeBey has a darling lit-
tle boy. According to Lois, E. Reid is a
most enthusiastic gardener and is having
lots of success with her flowers.

Mary (Burnett) Thorington sends her
regrets that she spent hours on French
when the Fates have put her in Texas,
where she needs Spanish to deal with the
Mexican labor; but, philosophically, she
ends, "You never can tell." The new im-
migration law is her excitement, which is
apt to make her Mexican labor scarce and
put a crimp in their cotton farming.

Margaret McConnell met Dr. Sweet,
when they were both at the University of
Vienna this summer.

Margei-y (Moore) McAulay's babies were
sorry, according to the mother, to miss the
Baby Party this commencement. Billy, the
youngest, is fifteen months old, with a head
covered with soft, blond ringlets. Her ad-
dress is now 113 East Avenue, Greenville,
South Carolina.

Rosalind (Wurm) Council is modest and
insists that she is "still poor, and hard-
working, and uneventful." Her little Pol-
ly, age four, is now a child of the age, hav-
ing had her tonsils removed several weeks
ago.

Julia (Reasoner) Hastings' mother died
August 26; her friends among the alumnae
will be grieved to hear of this.

Nell Gene Caldwell, ex '20, after a most
successful career in the insurance field in
Montgomery, decided for matrimony and
is now Mrs. Charles Hugh Heard, himself
an insurance man in Houston, where they
will make their home.

Lucy Beman, ex '20, is working in the
Georgia Railroad Bank. Her address is
1215 Johns Road, Augusta, Ga.

"Dougie" Goodrich, ex '20, is working
in the Anniston, Ala., library. She had
the first new Ford in town and almost had
to call out the traffic police last year when
she made her initial ride down Anniston's
main street.

Marian (Harper) Kellogg, ex '20, has
moved to 156 North Grove St., East
Orange, N. J.

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Katherine Reid, ex '20, is teaching at a
business college in Atlanta.
1921

(Next reunion, 1933).
Dear Old '21ers:

You are dears, every one of you, and
those who answered Janef's and my united
plea for news (25 of you!) are dearer still.
Your cards and letters with the promise of
more (don't forget!) were certainly the
most interesting batch of mail this Agnes
Scotter had received in many a moon. And
your response! It was just another dem-
onstration of that old Agnes Sott spirit
we've been proud of ever since we marched
into the chapel singing, "We are the Fresh-
man Class you've heard so much about!" on
one most memorable occasion. If all the
information you sent isn't in this issue of
the Quarterly it will come next time, and
you may have a well earned rest. Mrs.
Donaldson says it's just a question of
money and adds she'd rather have news
than money! Not to waste any more of
your time or money with my remarks, here
is the news of twenty-six of us since grad-
uation. (I'm glad you liked that idea of
Charlotte's to put this information in our
annuals with each others' pictures. It will
be more fun than ever gossiping as we turn
over our annuals, page by page, won't it?)

Caroline Agee. "Like everyone else, I
look forward to the issues of the Quarterly
and when it arrives I put down everything
else until I have perused its pages. I don't
suppose the incidents which compose my
life since I left A. S. C. would be suitable
for a movie thriller, but they have pro-
vided interest and thrills for me. Not
finding the business world as congenial as I
had anticipated, I entered the wide wide
world of school teaching, which occupation
I have been pursuing ever since. One year
I took a vacation by spending it in New
York, ostensibly for the purpose of get-
ting a degree from Columbia. A few sum-
mer trips, the principal ones being a trip
abroad and a trip to Canada, have made
vacations interesting. This year I am
staying home for a novelty."

Peg Bell (Mrs. C. Morton Hanna).
"Everone already knows about me, because
I have conscientiously reported every move
from a new church to a new baby! We
are living here in the lovely valley of Vir-
ginia in the manse where Ellen Wilson
was born, and where Virginia and Mar-
garet McLaughlin and Fan McCaa's hus-
band (John McLaughlin) grew up. Mar-
garet Wade and Kitty Houston ('26) are
very helpful members of the congregation,
and we are constantly trying to turn the
high school graduates toward A. S. C.

Being the mother of two husky boys and a
precious baby girl (all with brown eyes)
keeps me too busy to read anything but
the Good Housekeeping and The Parents'
Magazine. Don't say my report isn't full."
Myrtle Blackmon. "I have taught Eng-
lish in the Columbus, Ga., High School
for four years, but I have now turned
librarian and am getting my degree in
library service from Columbia in the sum-
mer time. As for my vacations I have
spent three of them in summer school, one
at the University of North Carolina and
two at Columbia. One summer I toured
the West and the Canadian Rockies, and
in 1927 I traveled in Europe. My hobbies
with the exception of books, which is
natural in a would-be librarian, tend to-
ward athletics. I am a dub golfer and
tennis player, both of which I enjoy for
the sport and exercise and not for the
glory."

Thelma Brown. "1921-22 Taught Eng-
lish and history in the high school at
Union Springs, Ala. 1922-26 Taught the
fourth and later the fifth grade at Spring
Street School here in Atlanta. 1926-29
Have been teaching music (piano) with my
studio at home. Summers. 1922-23 Stud-
ied piano with Miss Ethel Newcomb in New
York. Miss Newcomb studied fifteen years
with Leschetizsky in Vienna, and for many
years was his assistant. 1924 A wonder-
ful trip to Europe with Mrs. R. Wayne
Wilson. We both studied piano two months
in Paris with Madame Bascouret de Guer-
aldi, Cortet's assistant. 1925 Lovely trip
to Hendersonville, N. C, wth my brother.
1926 With my mother and brother motor-
ed to points of interest in North Carolina.
1927 Mary Floding ('22) and I spent two
weeks in New York and Boston. Boston
with all its historic sights was particularly
interesting to me as it is my birthplace.
Had the pleasure of studying music this
whole year with Miss Rosita Renard, the
foremost woman pianist. 1928 Ten days
at Atlantic Beach, Fla., and later to
Lookout Mountain Hotel, Chattanooga,
Tenn. 1929 Little short trips with
friends Warm Springs, The Cloister of
Sea Island, and Lookout Mountain Hotel.
As for my hobby that you asked about,
you might say that it is our Bible Class
at North Avenue Presbyterian Sunday
School of which Mrs. Latham is the
teacher. I have had the honor of being
the president for the past two years. We
have grown from twenty-five to about
seventy-five and we have an awfully good
time having contests, luncheons, picnics,
etc. We have as our special charge the
Camp Goi-don Sunday School and also have

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a share in sending a young girl to Co-
lumbia Bible College. If you live in At-
lanta and don't go to any other class, I
want to take this opportunity to invite you
to come to ours."

Eleanor Carpenter (2402 Longest Ave.,
Louisville, Ky. Am only putting in those
addresses which have changed since the '27
Alumnae Register). "Life History May,
1921-1929. September, 1921. Started
teaching French. Studied dancing and harp,
incidentally, along with teaching. Gradual-
ly the harp playing crowded out the teach-
ing, and now I am concentrating on music.
Have an internationally known teacher,
who brought a national harp convention
here in 1927. I was assistant manager
and have been playing more or less pro-
fessionally ever since. Am now working
up four programs for the American Legion
Convention which will be here on Septem-
ber 30th. Am also doing much other work
for the convention and am playing pro-
grams for the War Mothers' Convention
September 26-27, etc. If I should happen
to survive the Legion Convention, I hope
to go either to New York or France to
study more harp but that is uncertain.
No husband or children not even a steady
job but it's a wonderful life!

Isabel Carr (Mrs. Ben G. Battle, 1027
Collins Ave., Miami Beach, Fla.). "Like
most I feel that I have nothing interesting
to tell of myself. But I'm always most in-
terested in hearing of other Agnes Scott
girls. Right now the biggest thing is get-
ting my daughter started in school. Today
was her first day. We live here in Miami
Beach and have been for the last four
years and Betty is my one and only and
she's six. I have no hobbies and my job
is keeping house. I wouldn't miss the
Quarterly for anything."

Edyth Clarke (Mrs. Paul E. Alexander).
"Finished required number of credits in
December, 1920 (3% years) received offer
to teach math at St. Genevieve's of the
Pines, Asheville. Taught that one-half
year and went back in June, 1921, for my
A. B. degree from Agnes Scott. Spent part
of summer in California. 1921-22 term
taught Math again at St. Genevieve's.
Taught Math at Asheville High School
terms 1922-'23, '23-'24; '24-'25. Completed
work for M. A. degree in mathematics dur-
ing summer vacations and received M. A.
degree in 1924. The term of 1925-26
taught Math and was dean at Lucy Cobb,
Athens, Ga. Married Paul E. Alexander,
July 11, 1926. Mr. Alexander is a realtor."

Cora Connett (Mrs. Ralph Lee Ozen-
berger). "I was married in September,
1921. We now have two children Helen,
who is seven years old and Billy who is
three and a half years. I visited Marion
Hull in Atlanta last summer with both

children along and count it one of the best
vacations we have had. This summer we
had a lovely trip to Yellowstone Park,
camping on our way. This year I am
president of the St. Joseph Branch of the
A. A. U. W. and am enjoying the work."

Elizabeth Enloe (Mrs. Gerald Raleigh
McCarthy). "This fall I am beginning my
seventh year at Chapel Hill, so that I
feel quite an old-timer here where the
population is changing so. My husband
is assistant professor of geology. We have
two children Betta, who is three and a
half, and Margaret, who is just a half. I
am breaking away from them long enough
to take Mr. Kech's course in playwriting
and another in play producing, so this
will be a busy year. I saw in today's
paper that Jean McAlister is entered in
our medical school."

Betty Floding. The only distinction that
I can claim is that I'm the only person I
know of in our class who has "stayed put"
for going on nine years. Yes, I've been
teaching that long in the North Avenue
Presbyterian School in Atlanta. One of
the happy features of teaching at North
Avenue is that we send some folks each
year to Agnes Scott, and even if it makes
you feel old when you're wandering about
the Agnes Scott campus and are hailed
with "Hello, Miss Floding!" instead of the
old "Hey, Betty!" it's lots to be hailed at
all. We always have a sprinkling of Agnes
Scott people teaching at North Avenue, too.
Margaret Bland ('20) was there from 1919
to 1922, Martha Dennison ('17) from 1921
to 1923, Ethel Ware ('22) since 1923, Eliz-
abeth McCallie ('27) and sister of Edith
McCallie ('22) since 1927, Josephine
Walker ('28) in charge of the gym this
year and Mary Ellis ('29) in charge of
the library. And what do you think?
Mary Ellis, who is one of the nicest "chil-
dren" we ever had, took her whole four
years of Latin with me and now she's
grown up and graduated from A. S. C. and
is in charge of our library! I asked you
to report on vacations, too, so here are
mine: summer of '21 Eastern tour to New
York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, etc.
(Was a graduation gift and went with Julie
Saunders, my room-mate), then to Emory
University; '22 with Martha Dennison
('17) to a Blue Ridge conference at our
Blue Ridge, N. C, and had a good time
when I came back holding down a posi-
tion in a doctor's office for a friend while
she went on her vacation; '23 a western
tour including the summer session of the
University of California (the only things
I took for "credit" that summer were
teacher's Latin with Dr. Petierson, tennis
and swimming, but visited regularly two
thrilling English courses and irregularly
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the "Play School"); '24 to a Montreat
conference; '25 several weeks at Camp
Juliette Low, Girl Scout leaders' camp near
Rome, Ga., to get some of the training I
should have had before plunging into
Scouting the year before as captain of the
Naps troop; '26 at Columbia with Ethel
Ware really boned that summer a Virgil
course with Dr. Knapp and two courses
with Miss Sabin, director of the Classical
Service Bureau and hours and hours just
reading in the Service Bureau. (Still, Ethel
and I saw all the plays we were interest-
ed in and enjoyed them and other fea-
tures of New York life immensely. I spent
the two weeks before the summer session
opened at Camp Edith Macy, another camp
for Girl Scout leaders near Ossining) ; '27
at Camp Civitania, our Girl Scout Camp
near Atlanta taught "trees" first taught
to me by Eva Wassum ('23) at Juliette
Lowe; '28 Europe (Those of you who
haven't yet been don't know what a world
of meaning we who have been that lucky
put into that one small word!) a two
months' bird's eye tour with a congenial
party of nine (gotten up by Miss Eddie
Dickert, of Alexandria, Va.), which we
thought ideal, and then by myself an extra
month in Paris studying at the Sorbonne,
sightseeing, and just wandering; '29 four
weeks as missionary superintendent of our
D. V. B. S. my main job telling stories
and I loved it, plus six weeks as counselor
at Camp Montreat in Montreat, N. C,
where I loved the camp and, of course, the
mountains.

Sarah Fulton (1921-'23). High School,
Pensacola, Fla. (1923-'24) Greenbrier Col-
lege, Lewisburg, W. Va. 1924-'27 Bass
Junior High, Atlanta. 1927 Present Girls
High, Atlanta. (Best of all.) Always
English. Summers I've liked the places
I've taught enough to go back for visits,
especially West Virginia. I've discovered
I loathe New York. Emory has seen
enough of me for my M. A. to materialize
as soon as my thesis gets written, which I
hope will be this winter. Meantime I pass
the front of A. S. C. every morning, and
the back every afternoon."

Mary Louis Green (Mrs. Thomas Green
Morrow). 525 East Walnut St., Decatur,
Ala. "I taught Latin and French four
years before I married. I loafed two years.
On June 15, 1927, I married Dr. Morrow, a
dentist. We built our English cottage the
first year that we were married. I spent
two weeks in New York this summer.
Mother and I went there to meet my sister
who spent the summer in Europe." But in
the letter Mary Lou sent with the card, she
adds: "Yes, I'm teaching again. I just
can't resist the temptation when the time
comes to say I won't teach the next year.

I adore my work. Every year I hope to
have the courage to stop."

Mary Will Hanes (Mrs. Ernest Hulsey).
"So you want a history of my career
since 1921! It's easy to outline. Easier
than any of Miss McKinney's assignments
if it does cover 8 years.

I. Teaching:

(a) Jackson, Ga.

(b) Hendersonville, N. C.

(c) Conyers, Ga.

(d) Griffin, Ga.

II. Travels. Only as far as some of
the adjoining states.

III. Husbands One, a tall blonde.

IV. Children:
One son, Ernest, Jr.

(e) Age, almost 7 months.

(2) Sits alone. No teeth yet. That's
all."

Dorothv Havis (Mrs. J. C. McCullough),
4331 Carolin St., Long Island City, N. Y.
"Taking a deep breath, and beginning at
the very beginning. Summer, 1921, was
spent in the Family Welfare Society of At-
lanta, followed by 3 years of social work
as history teacher in the Atlanta Schools.
Before taking up that work, Mr. Cator
Woolford, who was sponsoring the visiting
teacher experiment, sent me to New York
to see how things were done here, and
that's where I met my 'fate,' for I met
'Charlie,' and in 1924 married him and
moved to New York. For a while I led
the domestic life, but soon returned to
social work, this time with the Charity Or-
ganization Society of New York. At pres-
ent I am assistant secretary of one of the
district offices working right down in
the heart of the Bowery a very colorful,
picturesque district, with people of every
nation rubbing elbows. Meanwhile 'Charlie'
and I have bought a co-operative apart-
ment in Sunnyside, Long Island, and most
important of all, this summer one of these
little new Fords that are so irresistible.
We toured New England and Canada on
our vacation, and are looking forward to
coming South in the Ford next summer.

Anna Marie Landress (Mrs. Wm. R.
Cate). "September 1, 1921 Married Dr.
W. R. Cate. September 17, 1921, started
on trip to Songdo, Korea, via Chicago,
Canadian Rockies, Vancouver, Yokohama
(Including a side-trip to Tokyo), Kobe,
Shimanosoki, and Seoul. October, 1921-
September, 1923 Lived in Songdo, Korea,
where my husband did medical missionary
work in Ivey hospital. In the spring of
1922, we spent a month in Japan, most of
the time in Tokyo. August 3, 1922 Ar-
rival of W. R. Cate, Jr., in Songdo, Korea.
September, 1923-April, 1926 Lived in
Seoul, Korea, where my husband was head
of the medical department in Severence
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ruary 29, 1924 Arrival of Anna Marie
Cate. We spent the summers of 1923-24-
25 at Wonsan Beach on the east coast of
Korea. One of the happiest memories of
my life will be the vesper services on the
beach, hearing beloved hymns as the sun-
set faded into twilight, and the twilight
into dark, with only the lighthouse lamp
sending its "gleam across the way." Then
came the moonlight on the water, and the
group still there on the beach would sing
those old familiar melodies we all love.
And we would look at the water stretch-
ing out there, and know that the same
great body of water was lapping the shores
of our "America the Beautiful." April 24,
1926 Left on furlough, via Shimoneseki,
Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco,
across American Rockies to Kentucky.
1926-29 Living in Nashville, where my
husband is doing private practice, since we
were kept in America by family responsi-
bilities. He is also doing medical work for
our mission board, is the Scarrett College
physician, and on the clinical staff of Van-
derbilt Hospital, etc. And last but not
least in importance, February 26, 1929
Arrival of Elizabeth (Betty) Bruce Cate.

Fannie McCaa (Mrs. John Calvin Brown
McLaughlin). New Providence Manse,
Stony Point, Tenn. "1921-23 assisted in
biology at A. S. C. 1923-25 teacher of bi-
ology in high school at Anniston, Ala.
1926 at Assembly training School at Rich-
mond. 1927 married Margaret's brother,
John McLaughlin. 1928 son, Bill, arrived
March 30. (Favorite lullaby is Whoop-er
Up). 1929 made a patchwork quilt. Now
I claim distinction on that! Has any
other '21er pieced and quilted every stitch
of a quilt? My pattern is the Morning
Sun."

Lina Parry. Just a card dated Septem-
ber 11, 1929, and marked "Greetings from
Paris, from Lina." But enough, don't you
think?

Charlotte Newton. "Having tried teaching
and library work both, am now combining
the two. I'm teaching in the Library
School of the University of Illinois, I re-
ceived my M. A. here last year. Had eve-
ry expectation of returning to Florida, but
I 'right about faced' during the summer."

Rachel Rushton (Mrs. Nathaniel Wood-
bridge Upham). "I have little to report,
except a new home that we have built, an
infant of 11 months, a recent trip, notable
only in that I managed to leave the infant
and wasn't homesick at all. I live a pleas-
ant life, with plenty of Junior League
work, and much excitement during the
Florida winter season. Sorry I can't re-
port learning to fly or going on endurance
races."

Julia Sanders (Mrs. Glenn Dickerson).
Julia writes her old roomie a most delight-

ful letter and says she's glad she's "it"
(meaning class secretary) 'cause maybe
she'll hear from her more often. But you
may have discovered that Julie is one of
those people who never answer your ques-
tions in a letter and she says nary a word
about "life history." I know she can do it
justice better than I (She took courses at
Agnes Scott like Short Story writing, you
may remember). So I'm not attempting
to accommodate even my room-mate. She
wrote she had a very fortunate accident
this summer when the car overturned
and she "woke up in a hospital with no
recollection of the accident or much of
anything else for a while," yet with-
out serious injury. We're deeply thank-
ful, Julie, so don't mind my teasing only
please remember to send that life history
for the next Quarterly.

Lucile Smith (Mrs. C. Eric Bish-
op, 928 Seville Place, Orlando, Fla.)
"My little doings will sound much
better in conversational form than
in hard, cold facts." You know Lucile's
conversational abilities, and I thought
you'd enjoy this much of her letter, though
I just can't include the good 14 pages of
it all delightful. "I do just love to read
everything in the Quarterlies. Isn't it fun-
ny how we love our college days! There
seems to be an aura of romance about
them, and we love to hear of the doings
of any Agnes Scotter, whether we know
her personally or not. I have just called
a little girl here in town to find out if she
is going to Agnes Scott this year, and be-
hold! she is leaving tomorrow! She's a
darling. The only thing I have against
her is that she says 'Yes, Ma'am' to me!
Have we really arrived at that point?"
Lucile, I hate to interrupt you to say I
had a roommate last summer at camp who
had all but received her Latin M. A. had
gone off for study the year after college,
and I spent all the summer trying to break
her of that habit. "I have burdened this
poor little Freshman with messages to the
various teachers, and I know that not a
one will reach its destination, but I had to
send them all the same. In telling of my
accomplishments since leaving college, I'd
like to hide behind those of my brother and
sister. They have been doing things. As
for me, the first year of college, I spent in
West Virginia, where my uncle was pro-
fessor of Greek in the State University;
studied voice and violin, and toured the
state with the university male quartet, giv-
ing concerts. 0, yes, we were chaperoned;
had a contralto and a girl pianist along.
Much fun. The next winter I lived in
New York City, where sister was studying
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trousseau. Married the following summer,
July 17, 1923. Honeymoon at Grove Park
Inn, where Eric had a brand-new little
coupe awaiting our arrival, and then by
easy stages to Florida in it. The next two
years, I traveled with him from New York
to Havana, and enjoyed those trips great-
ly. Eric has just left Havana, by the way,
and gone over to Mexico, where I expect
to join him soon. For the last four years,
I have been settled here in Orlando, with
mother for anchor, and it has been so much
nicer than constant traveling. I love Or-
lando very much. It is beautiful, with its
many lakes and big oaks. It is a settled,
homey city, and we do have lovely people
and splendid clubs. I can't boast of any
family yet, but I keep more than busy
with the clubs and church. The winter
season is very full, what with the many
social activities. I have been quite active
in music and drama, and in our Sorosis
(Woman's) Club. This year I have three
programs to put on one drama, and two
music, besides participating in many oth-
ers. I have spent some of my lovely sum-
mer days (no joking) in study to this end.
We have a real "Maestro" in our midst,
and believe me, he is stirring up the snakes
here musically. He has conducted for both
the LaScala and the San Carlo operas and
now is head of the conservatory at Rollins
College. He runs our choir (Presbyterian
Church) and just about everything else in
town. He has put on some beautiful mu-
sical festivals here that made the people
gasp, really. I was talking with him last
night, and he says he's going to organize
pronto toute suite Festival Chorus, an Or-
atorical Choir and a Light Opera gang. I
told him I was going to quit everything
but the light opera that's where I live.
We gave an extremely light opera last
winter in which I starred. Oh deah! and
I believe this winter holds much more in-
teresting things in store. Now my dear, I
don't mean all this for publication! Deal
kindly with these poor little doings of
mine. They are infinitesimal and still you
asked for them and I know you meant it."
Forgive me, Lucile, if I've published too
much, but I did enjoy it, so I wanted to
share it with the rest of '21.

Clotile Spence (Mrs. James Lawrence
Barksdale, Jr.) "Today we are expecting
a hurricane, so our household, like every
one else's, is demoralized. Here's all my
information that you wanted. Taught high
school history 1921-25. Columbia, summer
'22. Married J. L. Barksdale June 25.
Western trip to Colorado June '25. Ses-
quicentennial, Philadelphia, summer '26.
Young son arrived October, 1926. Since
then nothing very eventful. Our vacations
in Georgia every summer are wonderful.
Visited Julie in Valdosta this summer."

Sarah Stansell. "I'm teaching English
at the Girls Preparatory School here in
Chattanooga, and spend a good deal of my
spare time working in Sunday school, Girls'
Circle work, and in the activities of the
Chattanooga Writers' Club, and Woman's
Club. My hobby is trying to write poetry,
an occupation in which one or two editors
have been kind enough to encourage me.
Have you ever noticed though, that teach-
ing leaves little time for cultivating one's
hobbies?" If there's one of us that hasn't
noticed that, won't she speak up? She
might give a course of lectures on her sys-
tem.

Helen Wayt (Mrs. David Francis Cocks,
1251 Peachtree Street). "After we grad-
uated in '21, my sister and I kept house
for my mother, who wasn't well. She died
in January, 1924. Then my sister married
and I kept house for all the family. A
thankless job, so I rebelled and went to
California in February, 1927, for three and
a half months. The next fall my father
and I moved to an apartment in town. We
drove to Florida and spent the winter for
his health. In the fall of '28, I went on
my first trip to New York, and in the
spring to Magnolia Gardens in Charleston.
In April of '29, I decided to get married.
The right man had been around for some
time but I didn't know, so on June 18, I
was married a wedding with all the fix-
ings, orange blossoms, veil, satin, etc.
Mary Floding, '22, was one of the brides-
maids. The others didn't go to A. S. C.
It's a great life, this married one, if you
get the right man."

Frances Whitfield (Mrs. Henry Morose
Elliott, Hawkinsville, Ga.) "The facts is
as follows: Since 1921 taught Latin in
Cartersville High, 1921-22. Spent a year
in Louisville, Ky., at Baptist Missionary
Union Training School. Taught Latin a
year in Kissimee, Fla. Manned December
29, 1925. Spent first two years of married
life in New York City, the third year in
Sparta, Tenn., the next in Norristown, Pa.
My husband is with Thompson-Weinman &
Company of New York and Cartersville.
They send him around to superintend their
mining plants, etc. We ai - e now on our way
to Cartersville to live there forever, we
hope, for we are tired of moving! We
have been 'seeing America First!' Our
daughter was born in Sparta, Tenn., on
June 19, 1928. Her name is Estelle Wil-
lingham Elliot."

Ellen Wilson (2714 Main Street, Hous-
ton, Texas). "Assistant principal of Coun-
try High School Virginia and West Vir-
ginia, 1921-23. Biblical Seminary, New
York, 1923-24. Teacher of Bible, Peace In-
stitute, 1924-26. Biblical Seminary and New
York University, 1926-28. Took M. A. at
N. Y. U. and B. R. E. at Biblical, May,

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1928. Taught in Philadelphia, 1928-29.
Member of Dr. Sweet's staff for summer
of 1929. Director of R. E. Second Pres-
byterian Church, Houston, Texts, Septem-
ber, 1929." Helen doesn't mention that
she spoke to our girls at Camp Montreat
one morning this summer a beautiful and
thrilling talk on personality, which is a
magic word to conjure with, anyway. And
she and I reminisced afterwards of the
time when we wrote themes for Miss Mary
Elizabeth Markley on Borrowed Personali-
ties. And Ellen said, "You know, Betty,
that woman meant a lot to me." Was
there one of us she didn't mean a lot to?
I've always been thankful we of '21 were
lucky enough to have Miss Markley and
Miss Cady their last year at Agnes Scott.
I hope they knew somehow without being
told for I'm sure some of us never found
the nerve to tell them that.

Clare Louise (Scott) Beall, ex '21, has
a little son, who has been given the name
of Arthur Beall, Jr.; Clare Louise's hus-
band is in the insurance business in At-
lanta, and they live with Clare Louise's
mother on Fourteenth Street.

Thank you again you who have report-
ed all along like Peg "every move from
a new church to a new baby" and you
who have "contributed through this column
for the first time." And don't forget! I'm
still looking for mail till I've heard from
every one of you. (Three of my notes
didn't reach you, I know returned on ac-
count of address or something but they
will yet!) And these of you who have
written, won't you write again sometime
when you're in the mood, without waiting
for another invitation ? You know we're
interested. May I borrow the close to your
letter, Lucile? I liked it, too.

Much love (and to each of you) for Auld
Lang Syne,

BETTY FLODING, '21.

P. S. I forgot to tell you, Dot Havis
sent a snapshot of herself a welcome con-
tribution to the class scrap-book Janef
started for us. And Lucile Smith sent a
picture of her house labeled "Where I reign
supreme." Isn't that another nice idea?
All of the rest of you who write of build-
ing your own homes, won't you send us
their pictures? Remember, we want in-
teresting newspaper items about the mem-
bers of '21, too. E. F.

1922

(Next reunion, 1934).

Agnes Adams traveled from east to west
this summer. She spent quite a while in
New York City, then went to Tulsa, Okla-
homa, for a visit and from there to Wins-
low, Ark. During the winter she is teach-
ing violin at the Atlanta Conservatory and
at Agnes Scott.

Mary Floding was a bridesmaid in Helen
Wayt's wedding this past summer and vis-
ited in Charleston, Jacksonville, and in
North Carolina. She is now secretary to
W. E. Floding & Company in Atlanta.

Dr. and Mrs. S. L. Morris (Marian Hull)
had a delightful vacation, camping with
friends near Gainesville, Ga.

Mary Knight visited Dell Bernhardt
(Mrs. Henry Wilson) in Lenoir, N. C, be-
fore going on to New York. Copied from
the paper issued by the American Wom-
an's Association Club house of September
21st:

"Mary Knight landed in New York on
Labor Day for the first time in her young
life. She hails from the sunny South, the
sunniest part of it Atlanta, Ga. With the
bright prospects of having to walk the
streets for six months wearing out shoe
leather and disposition hunting for a job,
she snatched the bulls of Broadway by
the horns and landed two in one day.

Miss Knight is a graduate of Agnes
Scott College in Decatur, Ga. Here she
experienced the thrills of being president
of her freshman and senior classes, cap-
tain of the hockey team and May Queen
her graduating year."

The job that Mary chose was on the
editorial staff of this weekly paper and
she writes that this is "the Life." The club
house which issues this paper has twenty-
seven stories, fifteen roof gardens, twelve
hundred and fifty rooms, all with private
baths, swimming pool, gymnasium, libra-
ry, theatre, and everything else one can
think of, with service de luxe, and the
prices run from ten to thirty-five dollars
a week. We do not know yet what you
have to do or be to enjoy this, but since
Mary is on the staff, Agnes Scotters have
a friend at court and we expect there will
be a mad scramble when this is noised
abroad.

Elizabeth (Liz) Brown went home to
Fort Valley for her vacation and is now
back at her post of duty as a social work-
er in Albany, Ga.

Alice (Whipple) Lyons and Mr. Lyons
went to Kentucky on their vacation.

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson took the chil-
dren to Little Switzerland, N. C, for an
extended summer visit.

Sue Cureton is teaching mathematics
and science in her home town high school,
Moreland, Ga.; we are so glad to know that
Sue is a strong lady once more.

Eunice (Dean) Major tells a story of a
lovely vacation trip up the coast to New
York.

Elizabeth (Nichols) Lowndes and her
husband and little daughter had a delight-
ful vacation at Flat Rock, N. C.

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Ruth Pirkle spent her vacation at home
and in driving her Ford over western North
Carolina and through the Shenandoah Val-
ley of Virginia in company with Clara Mae
Allen, '23. She is back at Agnes Scott in
the biology department this winter.

Ruth ("Rellie") Scandrett comes from
Vermont to Alabama; she will probably be
located in Montgomery and will be doing
child welfare work for the state.

Ethel Ware visited in New York City
this past summer and has resumed her
work in North Avenue Presbyterian School.
Ethel lost her father recently.

Helene Norwood (Mrs. C. L. Lammers),
ex '22, attended Emory Summer School and
then studied Zoology at the Marine Biolo-
gical Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., dur-
ing August and September. Helene is
teaching Biology at Agnes Scott this win-
ter.

1923

(Next reunion, 1934).

Clara Mae Allen graduated from Emory
Library School in June and is now engag-
ed in cataloguing Agnes Scott's new books.

Aileen (Dodd) Sam's picture appeared
in the brown sheet of an Atlanta paper re-
cently in connection with the successful ar-
rangement of a garden club exhibit held
by the Lullwater Garden Club at Druid
Hills Golf Club.

Elizabeth (Flake) Cole recently lost her
job of treasurer in the Atlanta Club, de-
spite the regrets of the members, when
new officers were elected in September,
and from the papers is now leading a gay
life, socially; we see where she is assist-
ing at teas for brides, etc.

Quennelle Harrold was the first visitor
to the Alumnae House, coming even before
college began and doing her duty nobly in
bringing a prospective Freshman to see
the house and incidentally, the college; she
will be at Columbia University again this
winter.

Hilda (McConnell) Adams is keeping one
eye on the college and alumnae affairs,
making a weekly visit out to the office in
her capacity as president of the Alumnae
Association.

Lucie Howard sends the interesting
news that after September 21 she will have
a new name and address; she is Mrs. John
Otey Carter, Jr., at the Thomas Jefferson
Apai-tments, Fifth and Lindsay Streets,
Chattanooga, Term.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hahn sent a little
card to let us know that little Barbara
Jane arrived on June 28; Mrs. Hahn is
Elizabeth Ransom, of A. S. C. days.

Catharine Shields was married on July 6
to Mr. Albert Lamar Potts. After a wed-

ding trip by motor through the mountains
of Tennessee and Kentucky, they went to
Newnan, Ga., to make their home, where
Mr. Potts is prominently connected in bus-
iness.

Mary White Caldwell, ex '23, was most
fortunate in fitting in her vacation time
with that of her brother's and they drove
to Kentucky and on to Canada, were at
Chatham, Ontario, for two weeks; then
Mary again played in luck and joined some
friends who were touring through the
mountains of North Carolina.

Anne (Harwell) Sanders, ex '23, return-
ed for a short visit to her parents' home
in Decatur this summer; Anne is now mak-
ing her home in Chicago.

Mary George (Kincannon) Howorth's,
ex '23, new address is 4411 Skillman Ave.,
Long Island, N. Y. She and her son and
husband visited their relatives in Memphis,
Tenn., and West Point, Miss., this summer,
stopping by Atlanta on their way back to
New York by boat; while in Atlanta, they
were the guests of Frances (Arant) Wil-
mer, ex '23.

Rosa Wilkins', ex 23, wedding to Mr.
Robert Erskine Kerr was an interesting
event of this summer; Rosa was a 1928
graduate of the Wilhenford Training
School for Nurses and held the position of
night supervisor at Wilhenford. She and
Mr. Kerr will make their home in Augusta,
where he is connected with the Georgia
Railroad Bank.

Elizabeth (Armstrong) Mebane, ex '23,
has a lovely new home on Sunset Drive, in
Irving Park, Greensboro, N. C. After
leaving Agnes Scott, Elizabeth went back
to Salem College and was graduated from
there.

Betty (Brown) Sydnor, ex '23, writes:
"I think I shall finish my work for my de-
gree here at Ole Miss. I just have
eleven hours yet to get off. We
have built a new home, colonial, brick
veneer, two stories. Everybody was as-
tounded that we were building a two-story
house, as most of the houses here are low
bungalows, and as hot as blazes! As long
as we live in Mississippi we intend to stay
as cool as possible. All of the rooms have
three exposures, and we shall get any
breezes that are kind enough to blow.
Over it all is a big attic. Me for arctic
weather in Mississippi in the summer
time! Lucie Howard's sister who is an
interior decorator planned all our rooms,
making water color sketches of each one,
and telling us just what wall paper, furni-
ture, draperies, etc., to use. Of course
I can't write a letter without telling
about the wonderful son and heir. He
is quite boyish looking, is very tall
and heavy for his age almost two years.

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Although a modest mother, I'll have to say
that he has golden brown hair, very blue
eyes, a most knowing grin, and is just
the down-rightest handsomest baby you
ever saw. (Did I say I was a modest
mother?)"

Louise (Crosland) Huske, ex '23, has
moved into a new home at 4 Hertford Road,
Charlotte, N. C.

1924

(Next reunion, 1934).

The secretary, Helen Wright, sends in
word that she would like all '24 girls to
know that if they escaped a request for
news from her this time it was only be-
cause she did not have married names and
changed addresses; it is such a pleasure
to have a note from Helen that we don't
want you to miss when the next requests
go out to you, so won't you let us hear
from you, if you've moved, changed jobs,
acquired husbands, so that we may cor-
rect your address here and send the new
ones to Helen? Just drop a post card in
the mail box with this information on it
and more, too, if you've time, addressed to
Alumnae House, Agnes Scott College, (you
know the rest).

Elizabeth Askew is doing the most in-
teresting work with the mountain children
of the families who come to Rabun Gap-
Nacoochee School under the new plan of
letting a few families live and farm un-
der the direction of expert teachers send-
ing them back to their homes better equip-
ped for living and earning a living.

Janice Stewart Brown responded to
Helen's earnest request for news from '24
by saying that her job at the public li-
brary as reference librarian is one she
still enjoys inordinately; that as the Cham-
ber of Commerce of Greensboro N. C. puts
it, "it- is a pleasure to live in this town on
the main line of the Southern," for she
sees many Agnes Scotters; Nannie Camp-
bell, Frances Harper and Elizabeth Cheath-
am, on their way respectively to Richmond,
Baton Rouge and France have stopped for a
day or so with her; Mary and Mrs. Greene
were there for a short time during Bill
Greene's Commencement at Davidson; Janet
McDonald, of course, was in Greensboro un-
til August at the Church of the Covenant;
and Lib Lilly was at the Carolina-Wake
Forest game in September (is it the town
or Janice that's so popular?) Her plans for
this winter include the study of German,
joining the Little Theatre, reading, reform-
ing about going to church, drinking milk
and sleeping lots!

Helen Lane Comfort holds out a future
hope that she is going to be a life member
some day soon, and stop the dues slips for-
ever; she is assistant librarian in the Mayo

clinic this year "a long, long way from
Agnes Scott."

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes spent some
of her vacation time in North Carolina;
she and Mr. Stukes were at Montreat for
a while and also at Little Switzerland.
The outstanding news Frances doesn't give
and that is, that as chairman of the House
Committee of the association, she spent
most of September between her house and
this house, opening up and starting off a
new management in the house.

Elizabeth Henry has been visiting Nonie
(Peck) Booth in Anniston, Ala.

Virginia Ordway says it was lovely to
see so many of the girls at commencement
for reunion; that, after a month's visit
with Annie Gambrill at her summer home
at Cedar Mountain, N. C, she is back in
Anniston, teaching at the High School.
"We sent two fine seniors to A. S. C. this
year, and much credit should be given to
Polly Stone, too, for her clever talk to the
student body here meant a great deal to-
ward deciding for Agnes Scott."

Polly Stone is taking a real rest this year
and from all reports she is rapidly out-
growing her clothes, necessitating letting
out seams or even the more drastic method
of giving them to the leaner sisters and
friends. The association misses Polly ter-
ribly this year, but if she doesn't get fat
and lazy, we hope to see her back on the
job soon.

Helen Wright not only rallied her own
forces but sent a nice bit about herself, as
well as some very much wanted bits for
other classes. She says, "When I began
teaching school, someone told me that if a
person taught three years, she would never
stop and I've reached that conclusion I
am still teaching here in Columbia and
still like the work. I taught in summer
school also and, strange to say, I lived
through the seige and then went away on
a wonderful trip to Indianapolis, Lake
Wawasee, Indiana, Chicago to visit Reba
Vinnedge, who was at A. S. C. our fresh-
man year. Of course, we discussed all the
news we knew about Agnes Scott people."

Margaret Cunningham, ex '24, is Mrs.
S. T. Bennett. She lives with her mother
in Atlanta.

Ruth DeZouche's present address is care
First Presbyterian Church, Decatur, 111.

Mildred McFall, ex '24, is teaching Span-
ish at the Fulton High School in Atlanta.
Her address is 1543 Peachtree St., Apt. 34.

Lewis (Murchison) Jenkins, ex '24, was
home in Columbia, S. C, on a visit
with her baby, "which, by the way,"
writes Helen Wright, "is perfectly
darling. Can you picture old Lewis of
the tomboy skirts a demure little mother
with a baby of her own? Yet she is still
the same old sight, full of fun and ready

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for a good time if it doesn't interfere
with 'Baby Lucia.' "

Grace (Millikin) Wace, ex '24, is living
at 195 Wellesley St., Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Florra Parks Wheeler, ex '24, is Mrs. J.
C. Anderson, Mullins Court, Texarkana,
Arkansas.

Cornelia Cartland, ex '24, has a new ad-
dress, 1721 11th Street, Birmingham, Ala.
Cornelia was a freshman roommate of
Frances and Janice.

Elizabeth (Branch) King, ex '24, has a
little son, Wilbur Branch, born August 9,
in Atlanta.

Evelyn Smith, ex '24, was married to
Mr. James Gamble Rogers, Jr., in Atlanta,
on September 28. Evelyn and her husband
will live in Winter Park, Fla.
1925

(Next reunion, 1930).

Louise (Buchanan) Proctor, as president
of the Birmingham group, called the first
meeting of the fall at a lovely luncheon
at the Axis Club and gave up the gavel
to Mary Ray Dobyns. It was during Lou-
ise's regime that the luncheon idea was
established, which has been most success-
ful.

Frances Bitzer and Sally Horton are
housekeeping in a small apartment, and
fortunate are the friends who get invited
in to eat.

Elizabeth Cheatham is sojourning at
Toulouse, where she will study this year.

Ruth (Guffin) Griffin sends best wishes
to all at Agnes Scott and says she does
not want to miss a single issue of the
Quarterly.

Martha Cobb Jackson and Dr. William
Curtis Logan were married this summer
at the Decatur Methodist Church. Martha
has been teaching at Winston-Salem, so
there's nothing surprising in the fact that
the groom is a dentist in Winston-Salem
and that they will make their home in that
town. There is a real colony of Agnes
Scotters now in Winston-Salem.

Rosalind Janes is another member who
married this summer; she is Mrs. Charles
Henry Williams, and her address for the
present is 835 St. Charles Avenue, Atlanta,
Georgia.

Margaret (Ladd) May says that matri-
mony has had a very bad effect on her cor-
respondence, but that she is still vitally in-
terested in A. S. C. and all the girls she
knew; that she was thrilled when "Squint"
Sims and her husband called on her, as
they were passing through her town.
"Squint" had not changed a bit since the
good old days, and her husband is lovely,
according to Margaret.

Frances (Lincoln) Moss's address is
Burke's Garden, Virginia.

Josephine Marbut was married to Mr.
Wilkins McCall Stanley at the home of her

aunts, Misses Bannie, Rusha and Emma
Wesley, and will make her home with them
for a while. It was a goodly company of
Agnes Scott alumnae when this wedding
took place, for Emma and Rusha are also
alumnae.

Margaret (Rogers) Law announces the
arrival of her little daughter, Margaret
Rogers, on the twenty-fifth of August.

Josephine Schuessler is a social case
worker in Columbus; that's her business,
but her real job is secretary of the Colum-
bus club. This summer she was at Emory,
taking some sociology courses towards a
Master's degree. "It will be lovely to re-
ceive the next Quarterly receiving news
of Agnes Scott girls is a joy for which
there is no adequate substitute."

Charlotte Smith is teaching in a junior
college in Waynesboro, Georgia; she prom-
ised to write us a few words to go in the
Quarterly as soon as she had time, but
the time has evidently been scarce, so
here's her new address, only.

Katherine Hadley, ex '25, has a new ad-
dress, also; it is Montreat, N. C. Kath-
erine must have a wonderful time when all
Agnes Scott migrates there in the summer.

Abby (Nichols) Dennett, ex '25, has
moved from California to Atlanta, Ga., and
is living at 664 Linwood Ave., N. E.

Mildred (Shepherd) McMillan, ex '25,
still lives with her mother on Morehead
Street in Charlotte. She has a year-old
baby.

Frances White, ex '25, is librarian in
Winston-Salem, N. C.

1926

(Next reunion, 1930).

Next May, our reunion! Do you remem-
ber that last reunion the year after we
graduated? Do you remember how much
fun we had, having lunch on Mrs. McKin-
ney's lawn, because there was no place in-
side big enough to hold us, and how Polly
came over and presented us with the cup
and we all drank out of it only there
weren't enough straws to go 'round? Of
course, you do, and, of course, you wouldn't
miss the reunion this year for anything.
Think of seeing the new Laundry and
Steam plant. And we have it on good faith
that we are going to have some of these
new husbands, and babies, and hats, and
pictures of the new houses, since they
can't be brought. Let's have 1926 back in
full force.

Helen (Bates) Law writes that it is a
little too early to say positively that she
will be back for reunion, but she sounds en-
couraging; Helen was in Atlanta during
last commencement, but only saw two
'26ers, so that shouldn't satisfy her; this
year will find them in Alumnae House,
Boyd and Lupton; she writes that she is

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a golf fiend and still keeps up her music,
closing last year's work with a concert in
Poughkeepsee.

Eleanor (Berger) Blumenthal just got
her news here in time for the Quarterly,
due to Ellen's card chasing her from Bal-
timore by way of Atlanta and on to Hous-
ton; her husband is on the faculty of Rice
Institute now and their address is 118
Branard Street, Houston, Texas.

Grace Boone went on a visit and decided
to stay, when she got herself a job model-
ing in Macy's, while visiting "Frisky" in
New York.

Mary Dudley Brown and Lib Lilly visit-
ed Helena Hermance in Toronto the early
part of the summer.

Elizabeth (Chapman) Pirkle's little son
arrived just too late to get in the last
Quarterly, so here he is: Allen Chapman
Pirkle, a fine baby, nearly seven months
old and not a bit worried because his moth-
er was disappointed he was not a future
Agnes Scotter. "This is just to say that
I will be at the reunion of '26 in May."

Isabelle (Clarke) Morrison says that
after eight months of married life she is
still too much in the clouds to mind even
dishwashing. "Of course, I'll be there for
the reunion; it will be wonderful to see all
the girls again."

"Frisky" Cooper is still adding to the
electrical display on Broadway being an
advertiser there.

Margaret Debele was married this sum-
mer to Dr. Edwin N. Maner at the Inde-
pendent Presbyterian Church Savannah,
Ga. ; her husband is a specialist in eye,
ear, nose and throat diseases, having grad-
uated from the New York Post Graduate
School and Hospital.

Ellen Fain writes of her summer:

"We started out to have a grand re-
union with Helen Clark Martin, Elizabeth
Gregory, Frances Buchanan, Ruth John-
ston, Louise Bennett, Grace Augusta Og-
den, Catherine Mock Hodgin, and me.
Helen Clark had to clean out the attic so
could not come; Lizzie's mother got sick
at the last minute; and G. A. decided that
getting married was about all she could
manage for one summer. However, the
rest of us did get together at Lake Sum-
mit, near Hendersonville. We had a little
log cottage with a grand lake right in front
of it, and lights and running water in
it in fact, the water ran all the time, even
when we were trying to sleep at night.
Still, I think we all enjoyed the two weeks
thoroughly, with the exception of the Sun-
day that our bootlegger cook failed to ap-
pear when we were expecting five visitors
for dinner."

Mary Freeman has not only married
since the last Quarterly, being now Mrs.
Walker Lewis Curtis, but has been back

for a visit to her former home; she and
Dr. Curtis are now in Sparks, Ga.

Carrie Graham is teaching school in Nor-
folk Virginia.

Juanita Greer was one of the early visi-
tors at the Alumnae House this year and
was the guest of honor at a lovely lunch-
eon which Miss Jackson gave in the tea
room; Juanita will be continuing her re-
search work at Johns Hopkins, after re-
ceiving her Ph.D. there this last year.

Eloise Harris toured a large part of the
territory between Birmingham and New
England during the summer. Eloise will
teach again at home this winter.

Blanche Haslam, also, will be teaching
at her home town, Piedmont, Ala.

Helena Hermance writes that her new ad-
dress, 3535 Fairview Streeet, E. Coconut
Grove, Miami, Fla., is as permanent as any
of hers ever are; Helena and her family vis-
ited Edythe (Carpenter) Shuey in Miami
this summer for a while.

Nan Lingle will continue her work in
religious education at the University of
Chicago; she and Janet McDonald are to
be in the same dormitory, Green Hall; Dr.
Lingle is now president of Davidson Col-
lege, Davidson, N. C, and this will be
Nan's address when she is at home; Caro-
line Lingle is a freshman this year at Ag-
nes Scott and was one reason for Nan's
visit back early this fall to start her little
sister off in the way she should go.

Elizabeth Little, while some of us play-
ed and some of us slept away the hot sum-
mer days, got a thrill out of working with
Miss Doris Wulff, who teaches Eurythmics
at Bryn Mawr College and at the Phoebe
Ann Model School at Bryn Mawr; Eliza-
beth studied at the Southern Workshop in
Grove Park, Asheville, N. C, which is a
branch of the Curry School of Boston.
She says she is grateful for all she learned
at Agnes Scott and and for weary hours
spent in piano practice, for without these
she could never have surmounted the dif-
ficulties of patting different rhythms with
each hand against another with the feet
and . . . Presto! reverse the order of each.

Elizabeth (Moore) Harris's daughter is
named Betty.

Grace Augusta Ogden's sister, Margaret,
a senior this year, stopped in the office
long enough for us to extract more news
of her older sister than just the actual fact
which the wedding invitation gave, that
she was married on August 27 to Mr.
Wallace Henry Moore at the Ogden sum-
mer home, "Oakden," and will live in Cul-
ver, Indiana. Margaret adds that Grace
Augusta claims she is the most married
girl in the world, having three preachers
take part in it: her father, brother, and
the groom's uncle; and that almost the
most cherished wedding present was the

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shiny, new Ford which bore them away on
the wedding trip.

Sarah (Smith) Merry came out to the
college with Nan Lingle and said that her
news consisted of the fact that she was
still "burning the beans" in her new house-
keeping, where husbands come home to
lunch, as well as two other meals; the re-
cent flood had just stopped communication
with Augusta which was hard on a bride
and groom, when the bride was back on
a first visit to Atlanta.

Florence Perkins has just assumed the
presidency of the Atlanta Agnes Scott
Club and in a brief month has organized
and carried out a benefit bridge which net
the Atlanta Club around $100. Florence
is the councillor supreme for summer, she
no sooner acted as that at Camp Civi-
tania than she departed for Camp Grey-
stone, where she had some private expres-
sion students in addition to her regular
duties; her new name there is Polly Per-
kins, in true newspaper style.

Olivia (Ward) Swann continued her
graduate work at the University of North
Carolina summer school, but found time
for a motor trip and a month at camp be-
fore the summer was over.

Rosalie (Wooten) Deck has a little son,
L. L. Deck, Jr., who arrived the last of
June; she and her family are in College
Park, where her husband is connected with
Georgia Military Academy.

Olive Hall, ex '26, was married to Mr.
Laurence Moss Shadgett and is at home
now at 24 Collier Road, Atlanta.

Elizabeth (Riviere) Hudson, ex '26, an-
nounces the arrival of Master Charles
Franklin Hudson, Jr., on September 21 at
the Post Hospital, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.

1927

(Next class reunion, 1930).

The class of Twenty-seven is a large
class, and there must be a large amount of
news. Consequently, when we don't hear
from you we right away imagine all sorts
of things about you. Though some say
truth is stranger than fiction, we at least
maintain that fact is always as interesting
as fancy:, and we would so like to hear
from every one of you. The "Captains"
are doing especially good work this year,
but they cannot send in news about you if
you don't answer their inquiries. In case
you don't know your captain for this year,
won't you send your information either to
Mrs. Donaldson at Agnes Scott or to Mau-
rine Bledsoe, Asheville, N. C. ? And please
send us your correct address.

Eleanore Albright is teaching physical
education to the girls of the Junior and
Senior High School in Woodmere, N. J.,
this winter. Her address is Jones Apart-
ment, Hartwell Place, Woodmere, N. J.

Ewin Baldwin spent the month of Sep-
tember with her sister at Cliff Side House,
Ogunquit, Maine. Though Ewin says she
enjoys the bleak foggy weather on "the
rugged Maine coast," she plans to stop for
a visit in New York on her way home, by
way of contrast.

Louise Bansley is working in a branch
of the Brooklyn Public Library and enjoy-
ing life immensely. Louise writes that
she was lucky enough to "see Gene Dozier
at one of those lovely Sunday afternoon
teas that Blanche Berry is so famous for."
Louise's address is 124 Pierrepont Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Reba (Bayless) Boyer did her good turn
for one day, we know, when she sent in a
lot of Alumnae news, but she quite for-
got to say one thing about herself.

Maurine Bledsoe will be at home in
Asheville this winter and always ready to
receive any news about the members of
'27 apropos of the next issue of the Quar-
terly. Incidentally, her regular occupation
is secretarial work for her father and
brother.

Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow is certain-
ly a living example of the many things one
can do while yet being "happy though mar-
ried." In addition to teaching "an inter-
esting expression class during the sum-
mer" she found time for the thrill of her
first aeroplane ride, and a vacation at
Beuna Vista, on the Gulf of Mexico, which
she and her husband, Julian, enjoyed with
two other young couples. We must admit
we don't believe her fish stories, though.
Fannie Swann, ex '26, and Frances Dobbs
both visited Georgia Mae during the sum-
mer. And after all this excitement she
plans to continue teaching expression this
winter in addition to substitute teaching
in the Junior and Senior High Schools, and
her regular job of assistant librarian in the
Bay Minette Public Library. We must tell
you, too, that Georgia Mae sends in gener-
ous amounts of news about other Alumnae.

Louise (Capen) Baker, with her husband
and young son, spent a month in Brattle-
boro, Vermont, before Columbia University
opened and Clinton had to be back for his
teaching and studying there.

Charlotte Buckland spent the summer
visiting in Ohio, Chicago and Miami, and
studying cooking at the University of Wis-
consin. There she saw Misses Davis, How-
son and Gooch, and a number of alumnae,
among them Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12, and
Marguerite Cousins, '21. After leaving
there, Charlotte stayed at the "family
farm" in Maine until she left for Jackson-
ville, Fla., to teach biology again in the
Senior High School.

Emma Bernhardt writes that she spent
her vacation in the North Georgia moun-

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tains at the family camp. Emma is still
cataloging at the Carnegie Library in At-
lanta, where she enjoys her work very
much.

Grace Carr was married to Dr. William
Burton Clark in August. The wedding
took place in the chapel at Montreat, N.
C, at six o'clock Tuesday evening. Grace
had as her bridesmaids Sallie Horton, '26,
and Frances Bitzer, '25 with her sisters,
Anne Carr and Mrs. C. M. McCaskill, as
maids of honor. Jacqueline Ralston assist-
ed at the reception following the ceremony.
Dr. Clark is a graduate of the Emory med-
ical school and a member of the Phi Kappa
Phi and Phi Chi fraternities. Dr. and
Mrs. Clark will be at home in Atlanta.

Annette (Carter) Colwell will be in Chi-
cago until March, when her husband fin-
ishes his work for his Ph.D. Sarah Carter
reports the baby, Betty Anne, aged one year
and one month, has golden ringlets, blue
eyes, three dimples, a vocabulary of fifteen
words in English and many more in her
own language.

Ruth Casey has returned to Savannah
where she holds a very responsible posi-
tion on the staff of a business school there,
patterned after Opportunity School in At-
lanta. Ruth has the distinction of having
helped found the school in Savannah.

Dorothy Chamberlain writes that the
"high spots" of her summer included a
grand and glorious week-end at Atlantic
City, and an even better vacation of two
weeks when she joined her family the last
of August at their cottage on the coast of
Maine, Tenants Harbor. Back in Maple-
wood, N. J., she is once again a "busy
commuter."

Frances (Chambers) Wing continues to
find her seven-months-old daughter, Har-
riet, a most absorbing occupation.

Lib (Clark) Young says she will be at
home to all Agnes Scott people for the
next twenty years in her bungalow on
Main Street, West Point, Miss. From all
we hear it is a home adorable with chintzes
and rag rugs and maple furniture. And
despite the fascinating and "weary-ing"
task of getting moved and settled, Lib
found time to send in a vast lot of '27
news for this issue.

On June 18 Susan Clayton was married
in Atlanta to Mr. Vernon Edgar Fuller, of
St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Fuller was graduated
with honor from the Co-operative Depart-
ment at Georgia Tech, electrical and me-
chanical engineering. He is a member of
the Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi fra-
ternities. Susan says she and Vernon are
now at home, 15 Marlborough Avenue,
Providence, Rhode Island, where Vernon is
connected with the Grinnell Company.

Mildred Cowan spent the summer at
home and says she did nothing of impor-

tance but teach a class in Bible school, for
it was more fun to spend the rest of her
time visiting. Mildred is teaching again
this winter at the Chamblee High School,
near her home and accessible by bus. Her
subjects are Latin, French and Biology.

There are a number of us who are quite
as glad as Martha Crowe is that she is
back from New York and at Agnes Scott
again. Martha is taking the place of Miss
Bland in the French department while Miss
Bland and Roberta Winter are at Yale for
the winter.

Louise Davis was at St. Simons Island
this summer and will teach again this win-
ter at the Brookhaven Junior High School,
near Atlanta.

Frances Dobbs spent the summer at
home except for a few "near-by" visits to
friends, including one to Georgia Mae
Burns in August. Frances will again
teach mathematics in the high school at
Gadsden, Ala.

Gene Dozier was in New York all sum-
mer studying under the dancing masters
there, and will have her own studio in At-
lanta again this winter.

We understand that Valerie Folts was
married this summer, but we don't know
where, when, to whom. Will Valerie or
someone please tell us?

Katherine Gilliland is teaching for the
third year this winter in the Griffin High
School. Her subject is Latin.

From all we hear (from a number of
sources) Marcia Green really had a BIG
time in Europe this summer. In fact, she
even decided not to teach any more, and
to prove it went flying off for a visit the
first week of school. But habit must be
strong indeed, for when she came home
again and found the best job in town still
awaiting her, she had to change her mind
and become a member of the faculty of the
Corinth High School. Marcia saw Ro Win-
ter for a brief while between trains when
Ro started on her way to Yale.

Mary (Heath) Phillips is now at home
in Chapel Hill, N. C, and as busy with
the cook book and her wifely duties as she
ever was with school.

Ann Heys visited Christine Murray Ev-
ans in Chattanooga this summer.

Virginis Hollingsworth, after a summer
on the lakes in Maine, is again teaching
in Greensboro, N. C. Her address is 226
Ashe Street.

Mae Erskine Irwin "toured the conti-
nent" in the same party with Marcia Green.
Mae Erskine secured what Carolina de-
scribes as "a perfectly good beau" on the
ship going over, and he obligingly met her
at all the best towns and showed her more
than groves and churches. Mae Erskine
plans to lead a life of leisure this winter
at home.

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Maude Jackson stayed at home for the
most part of the summer and "just play-
ed." She will be teaching history in the
High School at Lawrenceville this winter.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn spent the sum-
mer at Silver Lake, New Hampshire, with
Mrs. George P. Baker. This winter her
address will be Buffalo Seminary, Bidwell
Parkway, Buffalo, N. Y., where she will be
teaching English.

Lib Lilly reports a good summer. First,
she and Mary Dudley Brown drove up to
Toronto with a friend of Helena's from
Chapel Hill and imposed an impromptu
house party on the Hermances. Later in
the summer Lib visited Helena at Pitts-
field, Mass., also including a short trip
to New York and Toronto. Lib will teach
again this winter at Salem College, Win-
ston-Salem, N. C.

Elizabeth Lynn was a counselor at Rock
Brook Camp, Brevard, N. C, during the
summer. She is now studying Physics at
the University of Wisconsin and is expect-
ing a winter of hard work, to judge by
early prospects. Her address is 417 Sterl-
ing Place, Madison, Wis.

Carolina McCall, having both grown
tired of and recovered from her numerous
"fashionable diseases" (though we ques-
tion the social standing of mumps), is
teaching two classes of Latin in the Jun-
ior High School at Opelika. She also men-
tions reclining on the sofa in front of the
fire and consuming cookies in such quan-
tities that she will soon have to be trans-
ported to Atlanta in a box car if she is to
get to Atlanta at all. Girls, you won't
want to miss seeing Carolina fat. We'll let
you know when she'll be back at the Alma
Mater so you can be there, too.

Elizabeth McCallie and her sister, Edith,
attended summer School at Columbia Uni-
versity, New York City.

Ruth (McMillan) Jones and her husband
remained quietly at home during the sum-
mer while the husband recovered from an
operation.

Catherine Mitchell visited for ten days
in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the sum-
mer, as well as spending some time in
Montgomery with Ewin Baldwin. Katie
is back in Kissimmee, Florida for the win-
ter, where she will teach for the third
year.

Mildred Morrow sent us all kinds of
news. After a delightful winter in New
York, where she held a position at Lord
and Taylor's, Middy came home in August,
leaving her apartment with Frisky Coop-
er and Grace Boone. And most important
of all, on October 1, Mildred was mai'ried
to Louis H. Renn, of Norfolk and New
York. (Please pardon us if this isn't his
name; it was the one word in her letter we

couldn't read, and whether the fault was
Middy's excitement or our poor eyes, we
can't say, and consequently we hate to
put it down in black and white. So if you
see some name beside Renn following hers
in the next issue you'll know the mistake
was ours and she is not indulging in poly-
andry). But there is more excitement yet.
Following the wedding there is to be a
honeymoon to Miami and Havana, with a
boat trip back to New York from Havana.
And then they will be at home in the same
apartment house with Ruth (McMillan)
Jones, Forest Hills Towers, Forest Hills,
Long Island. And we think anybody who
would take the time to send in four pages
of alumnae news just ten days before her
wedding is a captain truly worthy of praise
and special mention.

Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller announces
the arrival of Charles William Miller on
the twenty-first of July. Lib Lilly says
the baby is as cute and fine as can be and
we know Lib (his mother) is justly proud
of him. Another entry for our baby show
next May!

Louise Plumb will be teaching this win-
ter at Lawrenceville, Ga. Louise spent one
week-end at the Alumnae House.

Evalyn Powell visited her sister, Mar-
garet, in Hartford, Conn., this summer
and stopped by for a visit with Mary Mar-
tha (Lybrook) Neal in Winston-Salem be-
fore she returned to Little Rock.

Miriam Preston won the Quennelle Har-
rold Scholarship and will be studying at
Yale this winter. She shares the apart-
ment with Margaret Bland and Roberta
Winter.

Frances Rainey attended Columbia Uni-
versity this summer, and is doing graduate
work and assisting in Biology and Chem-
istry at Emory University.

Mai-guerite Russell spent most of her
time traveling in the west during the sum-
mer, and the rest of it at Montreat. She
is no longer in library work.

Elizabeth Sanders has been in the hos-
pital for three months but is doing nicely
now, and will spend the winter at home.

Don't think because you have been to
Europe for the summer you have nowhere
else to go. Virginia Sevier is going to
spend the winter in Australia. She and
her mother will first go to San Francisco,
sailing from there on October 10 for Ha-
waii for a two weeks' stay at the Royal
Pines Hotel. Then Mrs. Sevier will visit
in Los Angeles before returning to Hen-
dersonville, while Virginia will conclude
her journey to Australia and be with her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sevier,
for the winter.

And here is news of another entry for
our baby show! Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer's

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son, John, Junior, was bom on June 19.
Young John is already showing prize-win-
ning characteristics and we predict a
great future for him. Sarah and "Chick"
have moved into a house allowing greater
scope for their son's activities, and the
new address is 39 Westover Drive, Mont-
ford Hills, Asheville, N. C.

Willie White Smith will be studying un-
til February in the University of Copen-
hagen under Dr. Krogh. From then until
the following September she will assist
him at the New York University.

On August 28 Louisa White was mar-
ried to Dr. Cullen B. Gosnell, in the Em-
ory chapel. Dr. Gosnell is a member of
the faculty of Emory University. He and
Louisa are at home, 211 Coventry Road,
Decatur.

Courtney Wilkinson spent a part of her
vacation at Montreat.

Roberta Winter and Margaret Bland are
studying together at Yale this winter.

Grace (Zachry) McCreery and her hus-
band had an unusual opportunity to go up
"the lakes" in July, after which Grace
came on to New York and visited in Mas-
sachusetts and Rhode Island. Her address
is 1886 Lampson Road, S. E., Cleveland,
Ohio.

Virginia Baird, ex '27, will be at home
in Asheville this winter studying voice.

Frances (Baldwin) Garretson, ex '27, an-
nounces the birth of a daughter in May.
Frances is living in Dawson, Georgia.

Frances Boyd, ex '27, was in her cousin's
wedding at Knoxville, Tenn., this summer.

Martha Rose (Childress) Ferris receiv-
ed her A. B. at the University of Tennes-
see last June.

Margaret Edmondson seems to have had
a gorgeous summer, which included a trip
to "New York and points East." Mar-
garet is teaching this winter in Five Points,
Ala., which is close enough home for week-
end visits.

Mary Nell Fitts was married on Sep-
tember 24 to Mr. Albert Petty, Jr. After
a wedding trip in the North, Mary Nell
will be at home on Lee Street, Dawson, Ga.

Mary Hedrick's summer activities in-
cluded a motor trip to Canada and the
Eastern States.

Mary Colyer Johnson went to Europe
in the same party with Mae Erskine and
Marcia. We understand on the best au-
thority that Mary Colyer lost ten pounds
seeing art galleries and had proposals in
four different languages, "including the
Scandanavian." As she is teaching in
Birmingham this winter we conclude she
refused them all. Mary Colyer says by
way of explanation that she can't cook in
anything but American.

Nancy Jones, ex '27, after a spree in
New York the early part of the summer,
came back South to summer school at the
University of Virginia. She will teach the
first and second grades in Chatham this
winter. "Susie" makes frequent journeys
to Winston-Salem to visit the Libs and
Mary Martha.

Louise Leonard attended summer school
at Columbia University.

Nancy Lou (Knight) Narmore, ex '27,
reports that her time is very much taken
up by a thriving seven-months-old baby.

Mary Martha (Lybrook) Neal and her
husband have moved into the very attrac-
tive home they have built. The address is
West View Drive, Winston-Salem, N. C.
1928

(Next reunion, 1930).

Sallie Abernathy was one of the coun-
cillors along with Virginia Sevier and
Florence Perkins at Camp Greystone this
summer and is now at Winter Haven,
teaching third grade. She sent in this
word, "I fairly eat those Quarterlies alive."

Frances Brown is again at Johns Hop-
kins for this year, having won the Virginia
scholarship for her work in the chemistry
department.

Emily Pope is preparing to join the
ranks of the employed by taking a business
course in Savannah.

Betsey Davidson sends in a new address,
3329 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn.,
which will be hers from September
through June.

Mary Ray Dobyns is now the august
president of the Birmingham Club, and
the club rests easily in this assurance.

Eloise Gaines, a gi - aduate of the Emory
Library School, is another Agnes Scott
girl who belongs to the goodly number of
our girls at the Atlanta branch of the
Carnegie Library.

Hattie Gershcow has a new name, Mrs.
J. W. Hirsch, but the new address has not
come in yet.

"Pete" Grier ran over to Camp Grey-
stone for a short visit this summer to see
the Agnes Scott bunch of councillors and
girls, and some daughters of missionaries
whom she knew.

Eugenia Gober has the distinction of be-
ing the first woman ever admitted to the
freshman class of the Yale Medical School.
We predict that from being considered "a
pest by the boys," since she had won one
of the coveted places in this school, Eu-
genia will soon be its most popular, and
this is diagnosed from this statement by
her in an Atlanta paper: "I have a four-
room apartment and my classmates discov-
ered that I could cook; they used to beg
me to cook them a good dinner, offering
to buy a big steak and onions, if I would
broil it for them."

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Dorothy Harper joined the ranks of the
married and after so long a time the of-
fice has both new name and address: Mrs.
John Charles Nix, 316 Society Street, Al-
bany, Georgia.

Mildred Jennings and Elizabeth Wallace
were "told on" by Dorothy Hutton, '29,
who wrote that she had lunch with them
in Augusta in August, and that they are
both studying laboratory technique at the
Medical College there.

Hilda Kalmon was married this fall to
Mr. Julian Slager; Katherine Kalmon was
Hilda's maid of honor; Hilda and her hus-
band left for an extended trip.

Vera Kamper is again at Emory Uni-
versity, where she is assistant registrar.

Anais Jones has reached the high pin-
nacle of fame, as the one considered wor-
thy by Mr. Tart of running, in a compe-
tent fashion, the Book Store.

Emily (Kingsberry) Ferrara is study-
ing play-writing at Yale, writing plays,
being advertising manager for Sharten-
berg and Robinson, and living at 34 Deer-
field Street, New Haven, Conn.; that's an
alumna with news to tell! Emily's hus-
band is medical student at Yale.

Mildred Jennings is teaching the why
and the wherefore of wind, rain, storms,
etc., to a class of boys and girls in her
General Science class and life functions of
grasshoppers to her biology students in
the Grantville High School.

Mary Jane McCoy was married August
31 to Mr. James Watts Gardner in Wash-
ington Court House, Ohio, and they sailed
away to make their home in Nueva Ge-
rona, Isle of Pines, Havana, Cuba.

Janet MacDonald is at the University of
Chicago, Green Hall, studying for her Mas-
ter's degree in history; Janet won the Cleo
Hearon fellowship, which has been explain-
ed elsewhere in the Quarterly; she writes,
"Even though they say you can always
find Agnes Scott folks at Chicago, I want
to keep up with all the news through the
Quarterly."

Sally McFadyen spent the summer at
Cornwall, Virginia, doing mountain mis-
sion work, and will be back at the Training
School again this winter.

Mildred Phippen writes, "Please hurry up
the Quarterly; I get so impatient waiting;
I'm having a fine time in the Washington
Memorial Library in Macon, Ga. It is fas-
cinating work and even more so when an
occasional 'Hotentot' walks in then it's
thrilling!"

Mary Ramage is another pursuer of more
knowledge; she is studying play-writing at
University of North Carolina.

Mary Waller Shepherd is returning to
her former address, Sewanee Tennessee,
after having been with her family in Colo-
rado for a while.

Louisa "Chugga" Sydnor and Bayliss
McShane toured the Southern States this
summer and then Louisa returned to
Charles Town, W. Va., where she is teach-
ing.

Anne Todd blew into the office early in
September, looking the fashionable brown,
from two glorious months at Atlantic City,
and when last seen was chasing down a
job.

Josephine Walker is living with Mary
Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland in Atlanta
while she is teaching in the physical edu-
cation department at North Avenue Pres-
byterian School. Josephine has been out
to the college to see all the old and the new.

Georgia D. Watson finished her work on
her degree and received her Master's in
history at the University of Chicago this
summer; she is now teaching history at
the Hannah More Academy, Reisterstown,
Maryland.

Sarah White is in the Carnegie Library
in Atanta, enjoying the company of some
other '28ers and many Agnes Scotters.

Eleanor Bennett, ex '28, writes that her
new husband, Mr. Maxwell Watlick, ac-
quired this summer, with all due ceremony,
"borrowed and blue, etc.," has business
connections in New York and they are to
live there. Eleanor has seen Blanche Has-
lam and is a frequent visitor at Idelle Bry-
ant's apartment in the Village; she caught
a glimpse of Mary Riviere in the subway
the other day, just as the door closed; the
possibility of a New York Club appeals to
Eleanor; won't you New Yorkers get in
touch with her?

Anne DuPre Choate, ex '28, was mar-
ried early in the summer to Mr. John
Speer Dodd, at her home in Montgomery,
Ala.; they will make their home in La-
Grange, Ga., where her husband holds a
most responsible position.

Nancy Crowther, ex '28, after a very
gay debutante year, is doing some real
studying this winter, taking a business
course in Savannah.

Ruth Livermore, ex '28, was married on
October 7 to Mr. Howard Norton, of Chi-
cago. Ruth graduated at Northwestern in
1928 and began to study medicine, but was
forced to give up her studying because of
ill health.

Emily Ramage, ex '28, has been visiting
an aunt in Opelika, Ala.

Ellen Stevenson, ex '28, graduated from
the University of South Carolina last June
and had not yet settled her program for
this winter.

"I have been married and live in Mc-
Rae, Ga.," writes Frances (New) Mc-
Rae, ex '28. "I love to hear from
Agnes Scott and every line about it

makes me homesick I have almost

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contracted while at Agnes Scott. I hope
some day to come home to Agnes Scott
and bring my husband to see the place I
love so well."

Mary Elizabeth Stegall, ex '28, was mar-
ried to Mr. Herbert Stipp. Mr. Stipp is
connected with G. M. A. C. in Birmingham.

1929

(Next reunion, Thanksgiving week-
end).

Here's to our youngest, 1929! And such
a class and such a class secretary! She
evidently had experience in dealing with
the members of her class and they are
well broken in, for it almost reads like
a roll call. Anybody who is not written
about below has either been overwhelmed
with new jobs or new husbands and new
housekeepings, or has been moving so
fast around the country that mail from
Dorothy couldn't catch her. We have de-
cided that the reason Polly decided to
take this year off rather than any other
was that she could not face the idea of
changing names and addresses for 1929
girls. It's a marrying class and a busy
one; those who are not changing both
names and addresses are at least chang-
ing one or the other, and the "office help"
back here at the Alumnae House has worn
out some of the new cards already.

Before Dorothy Hutton begins, we want
to invite the class of '29 back to the
Alumnae House "en masse" the doors
are open, the beds are turned down for
homesick members of '29 who can come
back for a week-end. Come back Thanks-
giving! You'll hear more of that anon.
There will be a dinner for you alone and
a reunion for '29 with the house at your
command, not to mention all the regular
Thanksgiving festivities of the campus.
Won't you come?

Now for the class news:

Says Dorothy:

I have a weird sensation that even news-
gathering for an alumnae class secretary
is not the least of her worries. Take me
for example now that I have the news I
am not at all sure just how I should
send it in. In lieu of any definite example
to imitate, I shall have to resort to the
method of The Savannah Press society
column, and the way with an Agonistic re-
porter.

To begin in a fairly systematic way at
least an alphabetic one I'll start with Per-
nette Adams. Pernette had a house party
right after commencement last spring.
Jo Smith, '30; Myra Jervey, '30; Frances
Glover Welsh, '29, and I went home with
her to Charlotte, and had all sorts of good
times there during the Confederate Veter-
ans' Reunion, when Pernette, Frances and
I were all maids of honor as were all the

girls from Agnes Scott, I do believe. One
of the old girls we came across there was
Ewin Baldwin from Montgomery, a mem-
ber of the class of '27. After that Per-
nette went to Mobile, where she, Frances
Welsh, and Elizabeth Dawson, '30, visited
Myra Jervey. Then Pernette went over
to New Orleans, where she had an apart-
ment in the same apartment house with
a friend of hers who lived in Charlotte be-
fore she was married. In New Orleans
Pernette took a six weeks' course in Edu-
cation at Tulane University. One other
old girl down there was Cephise Cart-
wright, '27, from Savannah, who was also
going to the Tulane summer school. At
present Pernette is back in Charlotte,
teaching French and English at Tech High.

Catherine Allen spent the summer in
New York City, working at a settlement
house over on the East Side, at First Ave-
nue and 34th Street, to be more accurate.
At present she is at home in Lafayette,
Ala.

Mrs. Esther Nisbet Anderson, after
visiting all summer in Maine, is moving to
Louisville, Kentucky, where her husband,
N. T. Anderson, will study this winter.
Her address is 2944 Grimstead Drive,
Louisville.

Sara Frances Anderson is teaching
chemistry, physics, and mathematics in
Lanett, Alabama.

Gladys Austin sends just a word about
herself: "I am becoming more educated
this year by trying to educate some few
members of the younger generation in the
Atlanta public school system. I have
fourth grade in Whiteford Avenue School.
We have a wonderful new building and I
am delighted with my work. I am staying
on Page Avenue, within walking distance
of my school. I saw Ethel Freeland in At-
lanta this summer at Geraldine LeMay's
house. Geraldine, Lillie Bellingrath and
Mildred Cowan spent a week-end with me
in Dunwoody. I am very anxious for the
Quarterly, to hear all the news from all
the Agnes Scotters."

Therese Barksdale and Virginia Cameron
have been going to all the parties being
given in Winona, Miss., for Helen Sisson,
whose wedding will take place tomorrow
(September 27) in Memphis, Tenn., at the
Calvary Episcopal Church. The wedding
is to be a very quiet one, taking place in
the presence of the two families. Virginia
Cameron will be her cousin's only attend-
ant. After their honeymoon Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore V. Morrison will be at home at
48 Briarcliff Circle, Atlanta.

Leonora Briggs spent the summer in
Saluda, N. C. Eleanor Lee Norris and
Mabel Marshall visited her there. Even in
so small a place I never located Leonora

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during my own protracted visit there. She
left September 7 for Seattle, Wash., where
she expects to spend at least a year with
her sister. This winter she is taking some
post-graduate work at the University of
Washington, and planning tours of the
West and sightseeing in California for her
vacations.

Miriam Broach is working at the Car-
negie Library in Atlanta, as are Alice
Glenn, Ray Knight and Geraldine LeMay
out of our graduating class, and Sara
White, '28; Susan Pierce and Marion
Henry, both ex-'29-ers.

Dorothy Brown, after studying type-
writing, shorthand, and bookkeeping this
summer, is going to be an office assistant
in her father's hotel, the Suwannee Hotel
in Saint Petersburg, Fla., this winter. In
addition to her clerical work, Dorothy is
going to be assistant social hostess. While
Helon and Hazel Brown were touring Flor-
ida after college last spring they stayed
at the Suwannee a short time. I would
call that doing things up "Brown" all right,
wouldn't you?

Hazel and Helon Brown are spending the
winter at home, in Stamps, Ark. Helon
has at last broken down and given me
the news of her engagement to Mr. William
Hood Williams, whom everyone will re-
member as the "Bill" Helon introduced
around college last spring. Their wed-
ding plans are still indefinite.

Sara Carter is going to have pupils in
expression at her home in Decatur this
winter.

Dorothy Cheek is teaching in the Eaton-
ton High School in Eatonton, Ga.

Sally Cothran is teaching in the fifth
grade in one of Charlotte's elementary
schools, while Sally Southerland is teach-
ing the same grade in another school there.
Sally Cothran says her job includes in-
struction in drawing, music, and writing.
Olive Spencer is another of the Charlotte
girls teaching there at home. She is teach-
ing history in the seventh grade in another
school.

Sara Douglass had a wonderful trip this
summer to New York via Washington. Now
she is teaching the fourth grade in the
Highland Grammar School in Atlanta.

Berdie Ferguson has been working all
summer in the Chemistry Laboratory of
the State (Board of Health) Health' Bu-
reau. This year she has a scholarship to
Emory, where she plans to get an M. A.
degree this spring.

Mary Ficklen is now Mrs. Marion Hill
Barnett, of Washington, her wedding hav-
ing taken place Wednesday, June 19, at
the First Methodist Church in Washing-
ton, Ga.

Nancy Fitzgerald was married Septem-
ber 14, and will move to Atlanta to live.
She is now Mrs. Henry Bray.

Louise Fowler is teaching in the Depart-
ment of Physical Education at the Uni-
versity of Georgia at Athens this winter.
She is seeing a lot of Mary Gregory, ex '30,
and of Dade Warfield, ex '27, there.

Helen Fox is spending the winter at
home in Norristown, Pa.

Ethel Freeland is at home in Crowley,
La., where she says she is taking a course
in "Domestic Economy" under her mother's
supervision. She is also busy with Chris-
tian Endeavor work and starting music
again.

Lenore Gardner is Mrs. Gilbert Fields,
having been married this past summer.
She is living in Mississippi, where her hus-
band is working.

Betty Gash spent the summer with her
aunt in New York City (124 East 84th
Street), and went to summer school at
Columbia University, where she took a
six-weeks' library course. This' winter
Betty has a job in the children's room of
the public library, 67th St. Other A. S. C.
people at Columbia this summer were Bee
Keith, '28; Virginia Norris, '28; Anna Mae
McCollum, '28; Dade Warfield, and Martha
Crowe, '27.

(Louise Brewer, '30, "Bo" Skeen, and
Miss Haynes were also at Columbia, you
know.)

Elise Gibson is teaching mathematics in
Cornelius, N. C.

Pearl Hastings is working for the South-
ern Bell Telephone Company in Atlanta.

Elizabeth Hatchett had her two room-
mates, Betty Gash and Mary Lanier, to
visit her in Glasgow, Ky., this summer.
This fall she has begun to teach there at
home. (Physics, I believe it was to have
been.)

Hazel Hood is teaching English and
French in Crawfordsville, Ga. She also
wrote that her last year's roommate, Eu-
genia McDonald, ex '30, is teaching in
Woodbury, Ga.

Charlotte Hunter, after spending the
summer as councillor at Miss Sinclair's
camp near Franklin, N. C, is teaching in
Winston-Salem, N. C.

Kitty Hunter is teaching the fourth
grade at Faith Street School in Atlanta.

Elaine Jacobsen spent the summer at
Camp Parry-dise in Highlands, N. C-, as
swimming councillor.

Sara Johnston is teaching Spanish in
Lanier Girls' High in Macon.

Mary Alice Juhan has been in the moun-
tains of Virginia ever since college last
spring, doing mission work there. The end
of September she will begin to teach in
the mountain school at Crabbottom, Va.

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Adah Knight spent a day with Olive
Spencer in Charlotte, N. C, this fall on her
way to Richmond, Va., where she will be at
the William and Mary School of Social
Service this winter.

Genevieve Knight is. teaching in Pensa-
cola, Fla., this winter. She and Adah saw
the Brown twins when they were in Safety
Harbor for a little while this summer.

Jean Lamont is teaching in Lowell, N. C,
and is not far from Hickory, where Sara
Glenn, '28, and Gwendolyn McKinnon, '28,
are both teaching.

Mary Lanier, after being swimming in-
structor at a Girl Scout camp in Langdale,
Ala., this summer, is teaching there at
home this winter.

Mary Nelson Logan sailed July 4th for
Japan, and has been spending the summer
at Karinzawa, playing tennis frequently
and enjoying the swimming there. This
month she will go back to Tokushima.
Mary is planning to return to this coun-
try either in January or next summer
when Dr. Logan plans to come back.

Mabel Marshall is doing post-graduate
work at the University of Kentucky, liv-
ing at home in Lexington this winter. She
will receive a degree of M. A. in Latin
next spring.

Elizabeth Merritt is teaching school at
Ellaville, Ga.

Elinore Morgan has been staying with
Mary Elizabeth Warren, and will soon
move on Ponce de Leon Avenue to live
with her sister. She has a position with
the Atlanta Realty and Construction Com-
pany as stenographer.

Elizabeth Murphy (better known as
"Pat") is now Mrs. Arthur LeCraw, of At-
lanta, where she has an apartment on
Briarcliff Road.

Alice McDonald visited her former room-
mate, Katherine Lott, in Waycross, Ga.,
this summer.

Edith McGranahan is teaching in Ope-
lika, Ala.

Julia McLendon is teaching in the High
School in Cairo, W. Va.

Eleanor Lee Norris is teaching history
and French in the High School in Reids-
ville, S. C, which is near enough to Green-
ville to enable Eleanor Lee to make fre-
quent trips home.

I threatened Katherine Pasco to publish
the fact that she had mumps after col-
lege last spring if she didn't write me
some news of herself. So far she hasn't
accepted the challenge, so that is all I
know of her.

Rachel Paxon was councillor at the same
camp with Sally Southerland this sum-
mer. That was at Camp Rockbrook, Bre-
vard, N. C.

Letty Pope is teaching in the High
School in Livingston, Tenn. She teaches
general science and algebra and is athletic
coach for the girls. The name of the school
is Livingston Academy, and it all sounds
very interesting. Letty writes that it is
in the upper Cumberland mountain district,
and was originally founded by the Chris-
tian Church for the benefit of the mountain
children. The boy^ cultivate the fifty acres
of land owned by the school, and the girls
prepare all the meals. Thus each student
pays for his own board.

Mary Prim is taking a business course
from Mrs. Stevenson at her School of Sec-
retarial Arts, and will be at home in At-
lanta this winter.

Eliza Ramey was married to Mr. Rich-
ard Loren Gatewood on Tuesday, Septem-
ber 10th, at Trinity Episcopal Church in
Marshall, Va. Emily Cope of Savannah,
'28, went up for the wedding. She said
that it was a very simple but a very lovely
wedding, taking place in the small church
there that has been dedicated to Eliza's
mother. While at the wedding Emily saw
Louise Sydnor, '28, and Bayliss McShane,
'28. Eliza's new address will be 1178
Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta.

Helen Ridley went to summer school at
Birmingham Southern this summer, and
will be at home at 1475 Milner Crescent
Birmingham, this winter.

Sarah Mae Rikard is teaching in the
Atlanta schools.

Augusta Roberts is doing social service
work with the Family Welfare Society in
Atlanta. Augusta is associated with Miss
Ada Woolfolk, who has been at one time
connected with the Agnes Scott faculty.

Louise Robertson visited Jo Barry last
summer in Biloxi, Miss. She will be at
home this winter.

Rowena Runnette visited Nancy
Crowther, ex '28, here in June.

Martha Riley Selman is teaching in the
third grade of one of the public schools
in Birmingham. She, Hazel and Helon
Brown and Helen Ridley are planning to
visit the college soon for the stunt that
is if I am unable to inveigle them into
waiting until Thanksgiving week-end, for
our. first big reunion.

I told you of Helen Sisson's wedding, but
I did neglect telling you of the wonderful
time she and Virginia Cameron had this
past summer. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron drove
them out to California, and of course they
visited all the points of interest on the way
out and back.

Lois Smith spent two months in the
north this summer, spending most of the
time near Pittsburgh, and also visiting
Buffalo, Lake Erie, Niagara Falls, and
Washington, D. C.

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Olive Spencer is teaching in Charlotte,
N. C.

Mary Gladys Steffner is working in her
father's office in Atlanta, where she is
assistant bookkeeper.

Louise Thomas has at last gratified even
Miss Daugherty's exacting romantic de-
mands by marrying Lieutenant Richard
McKee, U. S. A. As her husband is mili-
tary instructor at the University of Maine,
Louise will be at home in Orono, Maine,
this winter.

Mary Elizabeth Wan-en is planning to
take a business course and study music in
Atlanta this year.

Violet Weeks is in Canoe, Ky., which
seems to be the last leap from nowhere,
for she writes of having seen an automo-
bile all of four times the first four weeks
she was there. Violet is teaching the fifth,
sixth and seventh grades, and Latin and
arithmetic in the eighth and ninth grades.
On Sundays Violet teaches Sunday School
in Canoe and conducts the Sunday School
in Elsome, about three miles from Canoe.

Frances Glover Welsh spent part of the
summer in Franklin, N. C, with her
mother. While she was there she saw
Charlotte Hunter and Miss Sinclair.

Rosa White is teaching history in the
Junior High in Anniston, Ala.

Frances Wimbish is teaching in At-
lanta, the third grade at Formwalt School.

Ruth Worth and her father toured the
East Coast of Florida after college last
spring. Ruth is now an assistant in the
hospital laboratory of the University of
Virginia, getting experience for a con-
tinuation study of laboratory technique.
Her brother, William, who is a missionary
to Africa, will have his Headquarters in
Staunton when he comes back soon for his
furlough. Ditto, herself, is not far from
Staunton, living as she does with the
Bridgemans, in Charlottesville.

About herself, Dorothy is modest: "After
signing a contract with a hotel at Lake
Chatauqua to be a waitress there this sum-
mer, I was faced with the facts of a
dwindled bank account and an adamant
family. All of which meant I had to give
in and give up, a thing which Savannah
weather makes very easy, I can tell you.

I start to business school next week and
few are those who won't find my letters
hereafter more legible, if not more intelli-
gent."

Bettina Bush ex '29, will return to the
University of Michigan where she will
teach next year.

Miriam Strickland, ex '29, is to be mar-
ried in October to Dr. George Alexander, of
Forsyth, Ga. They will make their home
in Forsyth, where Dr. Alexander has been
practicing his profession, since his grad-
uation from Emory University in 1924.
Harriet Alexander, '28, will be one of the
attendants at Miriam's wedding.

Grace St. Clair Ball, ex '29, was married
in June to Earl Sanders, of Atlanta.

Grace Holding, ex '29, is now Mrs. E.
Barron Glenn, her wedding being on Sep-
tember 24th. This will not change Grace's
address, as they will live in Decatur.

Grace McLaurin, ex '29, writes that she
is teaching first grade at Enfield, N. C, is
enjoying her work, but still wants to see
her friends at Agnes Scott. She would
like to get two old annuals, 1925-26 and
1926-27. Can anyone help Grace out?
Please write to her or to the secretary
at Alumnae House.

Guile Stephenson's marriage (ex '29)
was an event of this summer; Mrs. Harry
A. Cassidy is now housekeeping at 536
Clifton Road. Atlanta.

The president of the class of '29 and the
secretary, Helon Brown and Dorothy
Hutton, have some interesting news for all
the members which will come to you in a
class letter, but which they have asked be
mentioned now, so each one of you will be
sure to know of it. It seems that money
flowed into the class treasury until the
very minute that Miss Hopkins moved the
tassels and Dr. McCain presented the
diplomas, so that it was impossible to com-
pute the wealth of said class. After things
cleared, there was found to be enough sur-
plus to donate an additional one hundred
and fifty dollars to the campaign. The
money was needed before the first of July
and there was no time to consult each
member, so this is to inform you that you
were even greater donors than you ex-
pected to be. We close as we began such
a class!

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Make check payable to Alumnae Association
Mail to

Alumnae Secretary

Anna Young Alumnae House

Agnes Scott College

Decatur, Ga.

Membership in the Association entitles you to use of the Alumnae House
for yourself and guests; the four issues of the Alumnae Quarterly, a magazine
keeping you up to date on campus gossip and alumnae news; an invitation to
the Trustees' Luncheon, on Saturday of commencement, to the Seniors and only
those alumnae who are members of the Association; use of the alumnae office
service.

Life (fMembership

in the Alumnae Association may be had
upon payment of $50.00.

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JANUARY
1930

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THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF AGNES SCOTT

COLLEGE

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President Secretary-
Hilda McConnell Adams (Mrs. Brain- Cora Frazer Morton Durrett (Mrs. J.
ard R.), '23 F.), '24
2040 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Ga. 1109 W. Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.
First Vice President Treasurer
Marian McCamy Sims (Mrs. F. K., Mary Palmer Caldwell McFarland
Jr.), '20 (Mrs. Robert M.), '25,
Dalton, Ga. 1935 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta
Second Vice President Executive Secretary
Theodosia Willingham Anderson (Mrs. Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson (Mrs.
W. W.), '11 D. B.), '12
63 Avery Drive Alumnae House, Agnes Scott College
Atlanta, Ga. Decatur, Ga.

CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES

Publicity Louise Slack, '20

Preparatory Schools Mary Lloyd Davis, '27

Alumnae House and Tea Room Frances Gilliland Stukes (Mrs. S. G.), '24

Local Clubs Mary Lamar Knight, '22

Beautifying Grounds Louise Brown Hastings (Mrs. Donald), '23

Entertainment Lois Maclntyre Beall (Mrs. Frank), '20

Class Organizations and Records Elizabeth Hoke, '23

Student Loan Ethel Alexander Gaines (Mrs. Lewis), '00

Constitutional Mary West Thatcher (Mrs. S. E.), '15

CLASS SECRETARIES

'04 Mrs. C. G. Aycock 890 Penn Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

'06 Mrs. I. T. Irvin, Jr Washington, Ga.

'07 Mrs. J. D. Spinks 302 Gloria Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.

'08 Miss Louise Shipp Chick 1005 West Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif.

'09 Miss Margaret McCallie 830 Fort Wood St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

'10 Mrs. J. T. Wharton 1612 Sixth Ave., Bessemer, Ala.

'11 Mrs. W. W. Anderson 63 Avery Drive, Atlanta, Ga.

'12 Mrs. John Scott Scottdale, Ga.

'13 Mrs. J. Sam Guy N. Decatur Road, Atlanta, Ga.

'14 Mrs. Henry Noble 169 Avery Drive, Atlanta, Ga.

'15 Mrs. J. N. Shryock 912 Greenwood Blvd., Evanston, 111.

'16 Miss Louise Hutcheson 3716 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.

'17 Miss Regina Pinkston Greenville, Ga.

'18 Miss Belle Cooper 1143 St. Charles Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

'19 Mrs. G. Lamar Westcott 38 S. Thornton Ave., Dalton, Ga.

'20 Miss Louise Slack 1620 Monument Ave., Richmond, Va.

'21 Miss Elizabeth Floding 854 Myrtle, N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

'22 Miss Ruth Pirkle Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.

'23 Miss Emily Guille 127 Alabama St., Spartanburg, S. C.

'24 Miss Helen Wright 2718 Lee St., Coulmbia, S. C.

'25 Miss Belle Walker 558 Green, Augusta, Ga.

'26 Miss Ellen Fain Hendersonville, N. C.

'27 Miss Maurine Bledsoe Lakeview Park, Asheville, N. C.

'28 Miss Huda Dement 134 S. Candler St., Decatur, Ga.

'29 Miss Dorothy Hutton 17 E. 36th St., Savannah, Ga.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.

Mrs. Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. J. Sam), '13.

COUNCILLORS AT LARGE

Mrs. Ida Lee Hill Irvin (Mrs. I. T., Jr.), '06 Washington, Ga.

Mrs. Anne Waddell Bethea (Mrs. Horace F.), '09-3611 Oak St., Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. Louise Buchanan Proctor (Mrs. T. F., Jr.), '25,

2101 Highland Ave., Birmingham, Ala.
Miss Helen Hermance, '26__3535 Fairview St., E., Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla.

Cfje Signed Jkott Kilumnae <uarterlp

Published in Nov., Jan., April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Vol. VIII JANUARY, 1930 No. 2

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The President's Page 3

Dr. J. R. McCain

Experimental College of University of Wisconsin 4

College Department Series 6

II. History Department.

Dr. Philip Davidson

A. A. U. W. Fellowships 7

Miss Elizabeth Jackson

1929 Reunion 8

Helen Ridley, '29

Granddaughters' Club 10

Letters from Far-Away Alumnae Series 11

The Lords' Debate 12

What Should a College Expect of Its Alumnae? 13

Miss Leslie Gaylord

Among the New Books 14

Lois Bolles, '26

Through the College Gates __ 15

Campus Chat.
Faculty Notes.

From the Alumnae Office 17

Founder's Day February 22nd.

The Old Swimming Hole.

Reports from Clubs.

List of Home-Comers.

Lost Alumnae.

Helen Moore Wins Prize.

Concerning Ourselves 2 1

It's Not Too Early

to put a ring on your calendar around this week-end

MAY31-JUNE3

AGNES SCOTT COMMENCEMENT

These Are the Reunion Classes:

'06, '07 '08 '09

'25 '26 '27 '28

'29

If these are not your classes, don't wait for your reunion year;
come back and join with all the other "class-at-large" alumnae who
will be here.

The Agnes Scot t Alumnae Quarterly 3

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
Some Educational Comparisons

There are 106 colleges or universities which are members of the Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States, commonly known as the "Southern
Association." They extend from Maryland to Texas, and in size they range from about
10,000 students to less than 300. Agnes Scott has been honored with the chairmanship
of the committee that checks the work and standards of all these institutions, and this
year reports were in hand from more than half of the stronger members. It seemed a
good time to make some comparisons in various important tests of excellence, and it is
gratifying that Agnes Scott shows up well in many respects.

We have always provided a rather large number of teachers for the student body.
The average in the South is one for each 14 students, but at Agnes Scott we have one for
8.8 students. Our teaching load is relatively light also, so that there is time for personal
contact between faculty and students.

The educational expenditure per student is one of the best checks on the quality of
work. This includes salaries for tachers, library cost, laboratory and class room expenses.
In this matter, Agnes Scott shows $351 per student against an average of $280 in the
South.

In the use of the library, Agnes Scott makes by far the most remarkable showing in
the Association. In the monthly circulation of reserved books per student, we run 47
against an average of 8.4; and in 7 or 14 day books we run 20 as compared with an aver-
age of 3. We are somewhat below the average in the number of books and in the staff
expenditures.

The records will surprise many in showing that a Freshman who enters Agnes Scott
has a better chance of graduating than at any other institution in the South whose records
have been tabulated. This is due to our very careful entrance requirements.

For many years we were not satisfied with the per cent of our graduates who went
ahead with graduate work, but this has improved in recent years, and we now run beyond
the average, which is 16 per cent.

Agnes Scott is still below where it ought to be in many phases of its financial sup-
port and endowment and equipment; but we may well be proud of its recognition and of
its achievements.

Brief Campaign Report
,On account of the general feeling of depression that followed the stock market
slump in November, we have not been pressing the campaign except among those most
interested. We hope to begin again early in 193 for a vigorous presentation of our
cause. The very best tonic of all for the workers and stimulant for general giving would
be the successful completion by the Almunae of their part of the effort the raising of
money for the Chapel. There remains very much to be done on that job.

We are making rapid progress on the wonderful building which will house our class
rooms and offices Buttrick Hall. It will be a joy to every Agnes Scotter.

J. R. McCain.

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THE EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY

OF WISCONSIN

(This brief outline of the plan of the Experimental College is composed of excerpts
from material secured from Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Head of the Experimental Col-
lege, University of Wisconsin. Use was made of two bulletins of the University and a
booklet issued by the Experimental College.)

The University of Wisconsin has established an Experimental College which began
teaching with the opening of the academic year, 1927-1928. It is an integral part of the
College of Letters and Science and in common with the other schools and colleges on the
campus takes part in the general work of the University. The College of Letters and
Science has created it by the simple device of segregating a certain number of students
and teachers under special circumstances and with a special commission.

During the first year the teaching staff consisted of eleven men, who are officially
called "advisers." They give most of their time to the Experimental College, but each
of them keeps his place in one of the regular departments of the University and gives
some instruction in the regular classes. The head of the Experimental College is Dr.
Alexander Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst College and now Brittingham Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, appointed a Commission to
study the educational policy of the University in all its phases. The members of the
Commission believed that the first two years the years of beginning liberal study are
at once the most important and the most difficult to deal with in the whole scheme of
university teaching. It was evident that an attempt to tinker with the exising system
would invite chaos, and, instead of accomplishing anything, would defeat its own pur-
pose. The method of escape from this dilemma was to set apart a small group of teachers
and students for the making of an experiment. There was much hard work, and there
were many long debates on method of procedure, but the thing was done. It was a tri-
umph for liberal tendencies of education, for Alander Meiklejohn and Glenn Frank, and
reflected great credit upon the Faculty of the College of Letters and Science and the
Regents of the University, when the Faculty, by its recommendation, and the Regents by
their action made possible a genuine experiment in college education.

Part of Adams Hall, one of the two men's dormitories, was set aside for the use of
the new Experimental College. It was provided by the Faculty that: "Students in the
Experimental College who complete satisfactorily the work of the freshman and sopho-
more years will be admitted to full junior standing with sixty credits in the College of
Letters and Science and will be regarded as having taken the Required Studies of one of
the two general courses." A group of eleven teachers and 119 students was set free with-
out let or hindrance to see what they could do "to formulate and to test under experi-
mental conditions, suggestions for the improvement of methods of teaching, the con-
tent of study, and the determining conditions of undergraduate liberal education."

Dr. Meiklejohn was placed in charge of the experiment, and what he set out to do
had already been told in an article in which he accepted the challenge of the New Re-
public to be "more explicit and outspoken in criticism of current college teaching and in
the formulation of affirmative principles on which new ventures in the field should be
based." He then set forth the main characteristics of a proposed new college. All of
these proposals, it might be said, have been carefully followed out in the building of the
Experimental College, which, at the time of the article of the New Republic, was not
yet in existence. These proposals, then, were: first, that the college should be small and
free from growth, having not more than two hundred and fifty students and not more
than twenty-five teachers; second, that the educational policy of the college be "liberal,"
and based upon the belief that knowledge seeks for intelligence in living; third, that the
faculty be scholars who are doing the thinking on which our life as a people depends, for
only by contact with such thinkers in their work is the art of right thinking acquired;

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fourth, that the method of instruction would replace the present system of lectures and
instruction with a scheme based upon reading, conference and discussion, in which the
student would have to learn to study and judge for himself, recognize problems when
they appear, and find out how to deal with them by means of proper thinking; fifth, that
the content of instruction be based upon the study of human situations, in which the
students would attempt to understand in all their aspects taken together the experiences,
thoughts, conditions, appreciations, successes, and failures of some civilization which in
its own day trod the human stage and played its part in the never-ending drama; sixth,
that it be recognized that the work of a student in a liberal college falls into two parts,
which is to say that he must get acquaintance with the body of knowledge as a whole, and
that he must in some one field of knowledge get the sense of the way in which the spe-
cial students of that field do their work, and that the proposed college must occupy it-
self with the first of these two problems; and, seventh, that, although a self-sufficient
intellectual community, the college be located near a large university whose library and
laboratory equipment could be utilized without cost to the college.

The combination of residence and instruction, of living and learning, in the dor-
mitory is an essential part of the Experimental College plan.

The rooms in Adams Hall have been reserved for the Experimental College. The
Fellows who have charge of the sections are, so far as possible, chosen from the unmar-
ried members of the teaching staff. All of the members of the teaching staff have their of-
fices in these dormitory sections, and spend the greater part of their working time there.
The number of the rooms in Adams Hall determines how many students can be received
into the College.

In accordance with this principle, the teaching arrangements are essentially of the
"individual" rather than of the "class" type. Each adviser is assigned about twelve stu-
dents for his personal direction. These assignments are changed every six weeks and the
student groups are broken up at the same time. Usually the students are given a weekly
assignment of reading and a topic on which to write a paper. The adviser, after receiv-
ing the papers, holds a weekly conference with each of his advisees. At these confer-
ences the adviser may do anything which in his judgment will help the student in his
work. The primary thing is, of course, that the adviser and pupil should get acquainted
that each should know how the mind of the other is working and upon what it is fo-
cussed. Criticism and suggestion may and do range from errors in spelling and punctu-
ation to faults or failures in one's view of the universe. But in any case the College
wants to be sure that some competent person is closely watching the student's mind and
giving it such direction as will develop its own free activity.

Each adviser meets his group of twelve once a week and on this occasion there is
comparing of results and discussion of differences as to fact and opinion. Three or four
times in each week the College meets as a whole, and advisers and other men from within
or outside the University give talks and hold discussions on the matters with which the
community is dealing.

Each adviser makes a careful record of his impressions of the students during the
year, and a good deal of time is given to comparing and collating these impressions. At
the end of the first year each student was asked to write two long papers. Each of these
papers was read by three advisers and the student then met in conference wth the three
readers of his papers. In this case again there was careful recording of the judgments
made upon the ability and industry of the students. On the basis of these records a per-
sonal letter was written to the parent or guardian of the student, telling how the year's
work had gone and advising with regard to study during the summer and the coming
year.

Young Americans need to learn to think intelligently about life as it presents itself
to any one who lives in America today. What should they studv to prepare themselves
for this? The suggestion which we have in mind is that students and faculty together
should take some striking and significant episode in human experience and study it as

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whole. The plan is that in the two years of the Experimental College two great civiliza-
tions should be studied in terms of their likenesses and differences with each other and with
our own. In the freshman year we take the Athenian civilization in its great period and
in the sophomore year, English or American life in the nineteenth century. In each case
the essential attempt would be to discover, chiefly in the literature of the people studied,
an understanding of them and their world in its most important aspects and meanings.
Between such civilizations there would be of course deep and significant contrasts and
also still deeper and more significant similarities. If the attempt should succeed, the young
American might begin to see himself, his fellows, his country, his world, in the light of
likenesses and differences out of which understanding can be made.

It is an approach so radically different from that of the "subjects" of the present
curriculum that no one can too rashly predict its results. But similar experiments in the
lower schools have won large success and on the college level more than on any other the
logic of the situation seems to be drawing us toward them. Our attempts to understand
a civilization by studying "subjects" have had the general success of attempts to make
trees by nailing together planks or gluing together sawdust. Surely it is time that we
tried the experiment of becoming acquainted with a civilization as a living whole.

President Frank says of the Experimental College:

"I have confidence that the methods of study and teaching employed in the Ex-
perimental College will work against the passive acceptance of information and ideas by
students from teachers, and will make for independence, initiative, and originality, and
that with the development of prospective, critical spirit, and initiative will come a genu-
ine zest for thinking, a lively curiosity about human affairs that will remain with stu-
dents throughout their lives, giving to them a living elasticity and effectiveness that will
keep them eager learners after the college days are over."

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT SERIES

2 The History Department
Dr. Philip Davidson.

The History Department has undergone several changes since many of you were
here. Philip G. Davidson (Ph. D., University of Chicago) heads the Department, teach-
ing American History; Miss Elizabeth F. Jackson (Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania)
gives advanced work in European and English History, and Miss Florence E. Smith (Ph.
D., University of Chicago) offers a course in Political Science. The Freshman course is
given by Miss Jackson and Miss Smith. Aside from the change in personnel, there has
been a more important change in the method of teaching the Freshman course and some
of the advanced work. The Department of Education of the University of Chicago has
developed what is known as the Unit system of teaching. Fundamentally the plan is so
devised that the student does the work instead of the instructor. Each course is divided
into certain rather large units, and each unit is subdivided into elements; this organiza-
tion is given to the student in mimeographed form. For each unit there is a list of sug-
gestions for study, and the students are expected to work up the entire unit from these
suggestions. The instructor gives one lecture over the entire unit, and thereafter the
class periods are devoted to student discussions. For example, if a class had for one as-
signment the conditions which produced the American Revolution, each student would
come prepared with her own analysis of the situation. The class discussion would then
develop the correct view, and the fundamental facts are more firmly fixed in the stu-
dents' minds than if the instructor had given a lecture, however good, on the subject.
Frankly, much of this is experimental, and it will take several years to work out a thor-
oughly satisfactory system; the results achieved so far, however, justify the continued
use of this method.

The Department has several plans for its future development. A survey course in
American History is proposed, to be followed by topical, rather than chronological,
courses. It is hoped in the near future additional work in Political Science can be offered.

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FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA-
TION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

Elizabeth Jackson.
(Miss Elizabeth Jackson is associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College,
having been a member of this faculty since 1923. Miss Jackson, a graduate of Wellesley,
has her M. A. and her Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is serving her sec-
ond year as president of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Association of University
Women. )

The American Association of University Women has been striving for many years
to raise the standard of education for women throughout this country and to secure op-
portunities more comparable with those of men. Toward this end the branches have
bent their efforts and secured scholarships making a college education possible for many
deserving but impecunious girls. This work of raising undergraduate scholarship has
been taken up by many of the women's clubs and other institutions of today. For this
reason, it is now felt by college authorities throughout the country that the greatest need
is for graduate fellowships. In this field, the endowments available for the use of women
are entirely inadequate.

Many brilliant women have been and are prevented from doing graduate work be-
cause of their lack of funds. This means that the country is being deprived of valuable
leaders. Realizing these facts, the A. A. U. W. has undertaken a campaign to raise a
million dollars for the purpose of endowing fellowships to aid graduate women. The
raising of this endowment is now the chief project of many of the local branches.

The Association already has eleven fellowships, some of which may be interesting
to the alumnae. In fact, one of these, the Boston Fellowship, is held this year by Juanita
Greer, of the class of 1926. We hope Miss Greer's success will encourage other Agnes
Scott alumnae to apply for some of these fellowships. The stipends range in value from
$1,000 to $1,500.

The directions for applying for fellowship are as follows:

There are no application b'anks. One application may be made to serve for all fel-
lowships for which applicant is eligible, if she so designates. Application should be made
by letter to the secretary of the Committee on Fellowship Awards, ;1<> 34 Ey Street.
Washington, D. C. ,. r ,

The letter of application should contain an account of the -applicant's educational
training, a statement in full of the plan of study or research and tWobjea.'jn'vieNy^ ; [i
should be accompanied by: ?*<,

1. A certificate from the registrar of the college or university' Vwardi'ng-'bhe de-
gree or degrees received by the applicant. - ,

2. Date of birth, testimonials as to health, character, personality, ability and
scholarship of the applicant.

3. Theses, papers, or reports of investigations, published or unpublished, unless oth-
er requirements are specified.

The committee cannot assume responsibility for collecting testimonials for an ap-
plicant.

Theses, papers, etc., and letters submitted by the applicant will be returned if post-
age is sent for that purpose. Confidential ietters sent to the committee are retained; but
if an unsuccessful applicant wishes to make use of them in applying for a fellowship
elsewhere, they will be forwarded at the direction of the applicant.

General Conditions:

The acceptance of a fellowship implies the obligation on the part of the Fellow to
devote herself unreservedly to study or research as outlined in her application. She shall
submit any proposed change in her plan to the secretary for approval of the chairman;
and shall send to the secretary at least two reports on her work, one not later than March
1, 1930, and other upon the completion of her year's work. All material published as a

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result of the tenure of an A. A. U. W. Fellowship shall signify that the writer has held
an A. A. U. W. Felowship, specifying the particular fellowship held, and two copies shall
be sent to the secretary of the Committee on Fellowship Awards. The committee re-
gards the acceptance of a fellowship as creating a contract requiring the fulfillment of
these conditions.

The fellowships are payable in two equal installments on July 1 and January 1. All
fellowships for which the American Association of University Women holds the funds
will be paid by the treasurer of the Association, 1634 Eye Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.j provided the Fellows notify her of their addresses for those days.

THANKSGIVING REUNION OF CLASS OF 1929

Helen Ridley, '29

Hail, Hail, the gang is NOT all here. This is just one group of '"29-ers" caught
on the steps of the Alumnae House after the luncheon.

The baby alumnae, never having attended a class reunion before, cannot say that
this one was the best ever, but our feelings on the matter would seem to lead us into
some similar enthusiastic remark. Though it was undoubtedly the best reunion we have
ever had, we must be a little wary of boasting of its superiority to those of other classes
about which we necessarily know very little. But we insist that there was something
superlative about it it was certainly the best something-or-other.

In the first place, nearly half of the class was back for the luncheon alone, to say
nothing of those who were on the campus for some part of the reunion and could not be
present at that particular event. And that is a record not to be sneezed at when we
recall that our class is scattered from Maine to Arkansas and is busy teaching or being
married. (It might as well be confessed here and now that either,* or both, as in one
case, of these noble occupations seems to have absorbed practically all of '29.)

It was so deliciously and delightfully like old times to amble down to Hewey's for
a dope, run into one's favoi-ite members of the faculty at teas, sit up with a group into
the wee smalls indulging in that favorite indoor sport of collegiates, the bull session.
And believe us, it was rare to listen to some of the experiences of those who have
started bread-winning or bread-baking. Of course everything was not exactly as it had
been before the best people left, because time just will wring (?) a few changes, and a

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few, indeed, had been wrought: the new tubes on every floor, new linoleum on divers
floors, Freshmen in Rebekah, the new power plant with that impressive brick smoke-
stack rising up from the rear of the hockey field, the back entrance to Sturgis, and
finally the excavation being made on the site of the new Administration Building.

That, girls, was the most unkindest cut of all, namely the absence of the old
laundry. We went down to pay homage and perhaps drop an alumnial tear in memory
of the dear old place so full of tender recollections, and doubtless of sundry of our
washrags, gym stockings, etc., and we were met, not by that familiar appearance of
olackness that the facade of that institution of cleanliness used to give, but by an
utter emptiness and even more, for rude and unfeeling hands were directing a mechani-
cal shovel to dig up the very earth upon which the building had rested. In a word, the
old laundry and power plant are no more, and the view from the history room in the
library will never be the same.

Those who planned the program for the reunion should be complimented on their
judgment, for there were enough organized gatherings to bring us all together from
time to time, yet we were not too occupied "going to things" that we did not have
time just to walk, talk, and hang around with everybody, which is perhaps the best part
of coming back. At ten o'clock Thursday morning there was the Alumnae-Varsity basket
ball game, the Alumnae team including Charlotte Hunter, Letty Pope, Rachel Paxon,
Miss Wilburn, Emily Spivey, Mary Ray Dobyns, Miss Sinclair, and Helen Ridley, and
try to refrain from laughing raucously when we tell you that we rusty old alumns nearly
beat the students! If the bell had rung a few moments sooner we should have, to the
everlasting shame of the younger generation, but the spirit of '76 didn't carry on quite
long enough, so that the score was 18 to 16 in favor of the students.

Thursday night there was the Thanksgiving dinner and the usual "Oh, Mrs. Davies,
you're a wonder," and "Miss Hopkins, Miss Hopkins, we greet you with our song," to
say nothing of "Stand up, stand up, stand up alumnae, stand up, stand up" (which
made us feel strangely bashful and proud at the same time). The dance in the gym
followed, and it was so much fun to "shake a leg and act childish" as one '29-er of the
May Queen variety said. Friday afternoon there was an alumnae tea at which one
perhaps saw people as far removed as one's grandmother. The granddaughters of Agnes
Scott served, and there was a pleasureable mixture of students, alumnae, and faculty.

Saturday was the day of our luncheon, and the time when we saw most of out-
class all together. We gathered in the front rooms of the Alumnae House until every-
body had arrived, and you don't know what excitement is until you stand in a crowd of
old classmates knowing that in perhaps another second your roommate, lab partner, best
friend, or what not might pop in at the door. We were quite proud to have as our
honor guests Miss Hopkins, Dr. McCain, Mrs. Donaldson (who is charming, and a
worthy successor of Polly Stone), and our two class faculty members, Miss Hale and
Miss Wilburn. Helen Ridley presided in the absence of Helon Brown. The luncheon
was such a pleasure and so distinctively our own affair, that we wished then, more than
at any other time, that every single member of our class had been there. Letters were
read from several who could not come for the reunion, and it was decided on the spot
that if any of us cannot possibly come to the May i*eunion, we shall certainly send
letters.

Augusta Roberts read a letter from Helon in which the Big Brown Twin told us
about the important event that is going to occur in her life on January 1, and said that
Mr. and Mrs. William Hood Williams will be at home in Little Rock next year to all
Hottentots. Skid Morgan read a letter from Dorothy Hutton in which she of the plaid
eyes said that the kind of Bill that was keeping Helon from the reunion was not of the
same variety as that keeping her down with the "geechees." She added, "There are
quite a few who are outdoing the Sphinx in their enigmatic silences. Being more than
a little discouraged at not having arouse dthem, and more than a little Scotch in resent-
ing a useless outlay of stamps on them, I would like some advice. Shall I enclose T.
N. T., or what?" A letter from Vi Weeks came in at the last minute and was read by
Helen Ridley. It was short but told amusingly of how Vi is faring in Canoe, Ky., a place
where the automobile is unknown to man, and where she, of necessity, is becoming an
expert muleback rider.

At a meeting after the luncheon it was decided, among other things, to have a
scrap book of snapshots of '29-ers which will be kept at the Alumnae House and which
will be sent to anyone who will send postage for it. Another plan passed on was that
of establishing a fund to pay part or all of the tuition through Agnes Scott of the first
class daughter. Members of our class were asked to be thinking between now and the
Commencement bunion of ways and means of making money. The Brown twins pro-
vided an encouraging start in this direction by a gift of $15 to the class treasury, which
they explained was "our part in the reunion since we can't be th^e." We could not

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quite see how the money took the place of the Browns, but since we absolutely could not
have the latter with us, we welcomed the former with open arms and an almost empty
bank account. Though these proposals were voted for, they are still open for revision
since they were presented mostly for thought, and will not be worked upon until after
further attention has been given to them at the Commencement reunion.

Saturday night the French Club put on a cabaret-dance in the gym, an enjoyable
and successful affair with Marguerite Gei-ard as hostess. Sunday evening after supper
Alumnae Vespers were held. Florence Perkins talked on "Purposeful Living," Ethel
Freeland led, and Mary Ray Dobyns played the organ.

That is all there is to tell, but as everyone who was there knows, that is but a
bare outline of our reunion. Being back was a joy not easily set on paper, and so that
an attempt to do so will not be necessary for those who do not attend the next reunion,
everyone plan on coming for Commencement. We missed those who could not be there at
Thanksgiving their absence was the only mar on the whole affair. Those who were not
back can take our word for it that a reunion is well worth the time and expense it takes,
and if all are back in May, perhaps we may be able to say without any hesitation that
"this is the best reunion we have ever had."

THE GRANDDAUGHTERS' CLUB OF THE ALUMNAE

ASSOCIATION

The Granddaughters' Club is composed of girls whose mothers before them were
daughters of Agnes Scott. This picture, which was taken on the steps of the Anna
Young Alumnae House, shows eleven of the fourteen members of the club. Dctavia
Young, '29, is the president. These girls assisted at the Alumnae Tea given during
Thanksgiving week-end Home-coming and are planning to serve their Alma Mater by
writing to the daughters of other alumnae who will be coining in the next few years.
Reading from left to right, they are:

Center picture Octavia Young, '30, whose mother was Jessie Smith, '95.

First row Sara Shadburn, '32, whose mother was Estelle ^'^,^^02; Clara Knox
Nunnally, '31, whose mother was Alii,' J-'p^.m- '10; Florence Graham, '32, whose mother
was Anderson Waller, '0 5; Elise Jones, '3 1, whose mother was Ada Darby, '09; Anne Tur-

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ner, '30, whose mother was Anne Kirk Do wdell , '02; Second row Elizabeth Flinn, '30,
whose mother was Annie E mery , '97; Mary Shepard Schlich, '32, whose mother was May
Shepard, '04; Martha Williamson, '32, whose mother was Lillie Phillrn^, '03; Harriet
Willia"m"s7 '30, whose mother was Hattie G. Blac kford , '03; Shannon Preston, '30, whose
mother was Annie Wiley^ '99.

Not in the picture Jule Bethea, '3 3, whose mother was Fannie Brown, '06; Julia
Blundell, '3 3, whose mother was Adeline Schaeffer, '00; Mary Duke, '3 3, whose mother
was Gennie Cousin,. '00.

LETTERS FROM FAR-AWAY ALUMNAE

NO. 6 ICHOWFU, SHANTUNG, CHINA
Margaret Winslett, '20

For the last year and a half I have not known where I was or would be next, but
now I have come into my funny station with its funny name and funnier people.
Mail gets here, by strenuous methods, to be sure, but contrary to all China's change and
upheaval, the mail comes right along and is more precious by far those those who send
it ever realize.

Speaking of strenuous methods of travel, getting here employs them all. We are
about an inch from the coast as seen on the map, but summer rains, no trains, and
bandit fight, altogether make the journey arduous to say the least. We were six days
on the way, travelling by boat, train, wheelbarrow and on foot, covering the last fifty
miles in three days, all through bandit controlled and mutilated territory with never
a sight of one as such. We arrived at last and I thought to settle for a while in our
buildings salvaged from the war, pockmarked with patches and pitted with bullet holes,
but comfortable and safe. The city people seemed glad to have us here, and we have
been cordially received everywhere.

My work is country evangelistic and these last months I have been in the country
most of the time. Last week my language teacher and I were with a most interesting
and likeable family and I saw a lot of so-called Chinese family life, so prized by them
and so much talked about by authorities on China. There were the old mother and
father, three sons, their wives and children, each group living in its own two small
rooms and each two rooms facing a common court, and all of the family using the one
kitchen. There is a lot to say against such life the authority of the mother, the un-
equal ranking of the sons, the possibilities of injustice and jealousy, uncongeniality and
unhappiness, but to me there is also something strong and fine and valuable in suf:h
a family life. (You see I am still ignorant enough and therefore bold enough, to give
an opinion on very slight acquaintance with the subject!)

While I was there it snowed and "blowed" and turned bitter, bitter cold. Can
you imagine any greater insult to pancakes than serving them across a snowy court-
yard? Can you see Childs Restaurant pancake-man-in-the-window subjecting his famous
cakes to any such treatment? But this is China and my cook flipped beautiful pan-
cakes the morning after the snow and somehow managed (as only a Chinese cook
could they can do anything with nothing!) to get them through the snow, across the
court, and on the table still smoking and butter-melting hot! And the women of
the family washed dishes outside, scraping the snow from the big stone slab to make
room, and indeed they all went to and from kitchen to water jar to living quarters,
as unconcerned with the cold and snow as if it had been a summer's morning. Living
with Chinese does certainly destroy one's confidence in their sanitary methods, but it
increases my admiration for their endurance and ability to keep on under impossible
handicaps. Each of the women always had a baby in her arms, the rooms are so
dark (no window, as a rule, and the one door often closed against the cold) and so
cold and so crowded that there is no possibility of ever doing anything conveniently.
That they accomplish anything, even living, is admirable!

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This particular family is well-to-do as villagers go, meaning that they have enough
clothes, more food than bare necessities, a donkey and a cow, some grain stored up, and
a fire! The latter demands explanation. It is the kind made of dried grass and old
stalks burned in a vessel made of mud and looking very much like a dishpan, sitting
on the floor. At first there is a great warming and cheering blaze that endangers
everybody, then hot flighty ashes powdering everything, rushes of saturating smoke,
and only enough heat to keep the fingers and toes workable. It is a real luxury! These
cold days I put on everything I had in the way of ready-to-wear three pairs of wool
stockings being a good enough example of the stuffed goose effect. Santa Claus has
nothing on me for rotundity.

There is no set routine possible and the days go by with teaching when possible
or visiting when we are invited; sitting with the family and sharing with them the
room, food, the conversation, the babies. These deserve special mention because of
their number and attractiveness and importance. They fight and cry, laugh and play,
drool and spit, eat (anything) and nurse incessantly. They are really adorable and
sweet, for underneath the grime and stickyness and smelly clothes, they are just as
precious as any well-cared-for American baby.

Darkness comes early, and an early supper (we have two meals a la Chinese
late breakfast and dinner at 4:30) helps with the delusion that it is late; seven o'clock
seems like midnight! So after prayers by a candle or lantern-light, we shake off the
curious family sitting around in the shadows and get to bed and sweet sleep sweet until
the dog or cat or mouse or all three begins to make investigations.

At the end of the visit there is a hot bath and windows, a chair with a back and
a real fire, and mail! You know I love it all and I feel as if I have realized in my in-
heritance of this place and work, all my hopes for work in China.

THE LORDS' DEBATE

Anna Meade, '23

The article in an Alumnae Quarterly describing Adelaide Cunningham's visit
to the House of Commons emboldens me to tell of a similar visit I made while in London
recently namely, attendance on a debate in the House of Lords.

I received my invitation as a result of a letter introducing me to the Embassy at
the request of the late Senator Oscar Underwood and signed by the Secretary of State.
Accompanied by my friend, whom I was visiting in London, and armed with my en-
graved and O. K.'d invitation, I directed the cabby to the "Peers' Entrance." We
alighted, under the surveillance of a bobby, and were guided by a "red-coat" into a
hall where we were turned over to a gold-braided person who examined our credentials,
and finally escorted us to another like individual. He, in turn, seated us on a long red
plush seat with the instructions to "wait". After five or ten minutes, which we spent
in noting the portraits, he arose, and called loudly to us and three youths who had
followed us in to "stand and make way for His Excellency, the Lord High Chancellor."
Foremost in the procession were two of the gold-braid variety. Next came a red-
coat with the GOLDEN MACE and then another with the FAMOUS WOOLSACK.
And oh my, the Lord High Chancellor! He wore a marvelous wig, tied with a ribbon,
and robes that would rival any Doctor of Philosophy, and he walked as if he were the
bride in a wedding, train and all. There were one or two more to come, not counting
the page who bore his train, but I was ignorant as to whether they were Lords or lackeys.
After they had filed in, we were shown to our seats "below the bar". The Lords having
already assembled, the Lord High Chancellor proceeded with the business.

After hearing a few bills and a debate as to the strong probability of Durham
Castle's slipping into the Wear river if not immediately repaired, the Lord Chancellor
arose from his sedate seat upon the woolsack, handed the mace to its bearer, and the
whole procession filed out.

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What Should a College Expect of its Alumnae?

(Miss Gaylord, as one of the chosen
lowing talk in chapel on the occasion of
fessor of mathematics on the Agnes Scott
at the University of Chicago.)

The Cornell University Alumni Corp-
oration recently sent to a number of col-
lege presidents the following question:
"What should a college expect of its
alumni?" Almost without exception the re-
plies, coming as they did from presidents
of colleges both for men and women, voiced
the same sentiment, namely, that loyalty
to the college alumnae organizations, finan-
cial contributions to endowment and gift
funds, support of football teams and dra-
matic and glee clubs, all in themselves
worthy expressions on the part of the
alumnae, are but secondary matters; that
a college should wish its alumnae first, last
and all the time to remember that it is an
institution of learning, that they are stock-
holders in an intellectual corporation, and
that their contribution to their Alma Mater
and to American life must be considered
from that angle.

Today we have come together to honor
the Senior class and to make formal recog-
nition of their seniority. In this act of
investiture they are assuming a symbol
both of achievement and responsibility; a
few months hence they will go out as
alumnae of Agnes Scott College, and to-
day I should like to put before them the
question "What may Agnes Scott expect of
you as Seniors, as potential alumnae?" As
an answer to that question I would echo
the response of the college presidents,
namely, I would remind you that this col-
lege is an institution of learning, and that
apart from that function there is no justi-
fication for its existence.

It is because of the greatness of the
word learning that your debt to the college
extends over a period far greater than your
four years of residence here. Colleges do
not pretend to be finishing schools. When
they graduate hundreds every June it is
not admitted by them that they are turning
out a fully completed product of a wise
man. No one has ever dreamed of im-
parting learning to undergraduates; it can-
not be done in four years, nor in forty.
To become a person of learning is the en-
terprise of a life-time. College is only a
stimulus, a place where one may enlarge
one's mental horizon, and undergo a gen-
eral awakening and release of mental
faculties. It is the mission of the college
to provide that stimulus to the best of its
ability, to exercise every care in selecting
as its students the pick of the land; it then

Leslie Gaylord

teachers of this Senior class, gave the fol-
investiture; Miss Gaylord is assistant pro-
faculty, having received her B. A. and M. S.

has the right to expect that those stu-
dents will respond favorably to that
stimulus.

To those on the outside of college circles
it might seem unnecessary to call to the
attention of students yet in college the
fact that this is an institution of learning.
It would seem that the daily routine of
class, lecture, laboratory, and library would
be reminder enough. Yet there are stu-
dents, and not a few, to whom the work
of its classrooms and laboratories has be-
come the merely formal and compulsory
side of its life, while a score of other
things lumped under the heading of "extra-
curricular activities" have become the vital,
absorbing, spontaneous realities. These
activities, embracing dramatic, literary,
social, musical, religious, governmental or-
ganizations of every kind, are a valuable
and indispensable part of college life; yet
they are not the purpose of the college, and
in so far as they monopolize the energies
and initiative, the planning and originating
powers of the best students, they defeat
the purpose of the college. It not infre-
quently happens that the very student
whom the teacher most desires to get hold
of and to enlist in some enterprise of the
mind, the very student whose training
would count for most in leadership after
college, is so absorbed by these necessary
activities that the pursuit of learning gets
only the residue of her attention and
energy, becomes the secondary interest
when it should be the primary. Woodrow
Wilson once aptly said to a Princeton
undergraduate group, "The sideshows are
so numerous, so diverting so important,
if you will that they have swallowed up
the circus, and those who perform in the
main tent must often whistle for their
audiences, discouraged and humiliated."
The sideshows need not be abolished nor
even discredited, but I need not stop to
argue that they must be subordinated, that
the main purpose of education cannot be
successfully realized unless college life is
seen in its proper relation to college work
and to the all-important intellectual in-
terests which the colleges are endowed and
maintained to foster. Your opinions and
values which are forming now are infinitely
important to the future, for the under-
graduates of today will mold the under-
graduates of tomorrow; hence Agnes Scott

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may expect you as Seniors to put the
emphasis where it belongs.

Your duty to the college as a place of
the mind does not terminate with your
graduation. Rather your obligation be-
comes twofold. First your college may ex-
pect of you loyal support in its effort to
exercise its educational function, by con-
structive criticism of its policies, by reduc-
tion of the emphasis on its sideshows, by
doing everything in your power to foster
in your Alma Mater the spirit of true
scholarship. Evei-y alumna should crave
for her college intellectual primacy
primacy in other things also if they may
be had without enmity to it, but the sac-
rifice of eveiwthing that stands in the way
of that.

In the second place your college may
rightfully expect of you as an alumna in-
dependent scholarly pursuit. It is the per-
son of no perception who sees in a col-
lege diploma the end of study. If mental
discipline and training lead to good re-
sults in youth they should not be put
away with childish things. The person of
true perception knows he will never have
done with the need of constructing and re-
constructing himself; he knows with Berg-
son that "For a conscious being to exist
is to change, to change is to mature, to ma-
ture is to go on creating oneself endless-
ly."

Someone has said that the function of
the liberal arts college is the training of
men and women who are to rise above the
ranks. And I would ask rise how ? Meas-
ured by what yardstick ? If it be that of
wealth, of business success and efficiency,
the technical and professional schools can
perform the function as well, in all prob-
ability better. The college men and women
of this country have no special claim to any
distinctive place in any community unless
they can show it by intellectual achieve-
ment. If a college is a place of distinc-
tion at all it must be distinguished by the
conquests of the mind. Your college is
giving to you to the best of its ability the
inspiration to scholarship, the tools with
which it expects you to add later to the
structure of your education. The develop-
ment o fthe mind is a personal thing; in-
tellectual goals are attained only through
free and independent activity; the person
desiring to win the good life intellectually,
to know the joys of originality and crea-
tion, must plan for himself and rely lai-ge-
ly on his own efforts; he must work much
and think much; he must make time for
study, reading, reflection; and in the light
of what others have learned and thought
before him, he must strive to understand
human life, and to take his place among

those who are responsible for the guidance
of our common life by ideas, principles, and
purposes. The intellectual road to success
may seem a long one; it is up to the col-
lege men and women to show that by it
they are brought to higher levels of
achievement than could have been attained
by the pathway of quick returns.

What may Agnes Scott expect of you as
Seniors, as alumnae? She may expect of
you in college and after college an unswerv-
ing loyalty to her purpose as an institu-
tion of learning; she may expect to find in
you proof of the value of knowledge not
the knowledge which consists of mere facts,
but the unified understanding which is in-
sight. She may expect you to live always
in the spirit of the learner, open-minded,
unwarped in judgment, eager to explore
and inquire, striving always to grow, to
improve, to understand.

AMONG THE NEW BOOKS

Lois Bolles, Librarian at Agnes Scott

Library

Poetry:

"Lstters to Women," by Joseph Aus-
lander. Harper & Brothers, $2.00.

"The Testament of Beauty," by Robei't
Bridges. N. Y. Oxfoi'd University Press.

"The Black Christ," by Countee Cullen.
Harper & Brothers, $2.0*0.

For children:

"Poems Selected for Young People," by
Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper & Broth-
ers, cloth, $2.00; leather, $3.00.

Biography:

"Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years,
1827-1927," by Harriet Connor Brown.
Little, Brown & Co., $3.00.

"Richelieu: a Biography," by Hilaire
Belloc. J. B. Lippincott Co., $5.00.

"The Incredible Marquis" (a life of
Dumas. Pere), bv Herbert Gorman. Farrar
& Rinehart, $5.00.

"Henry the Eighth," by Francis Hackett.
Horace Liveright, $3.00.

"Lorenzo the Magnificent," by David
Loth. Brentano's, $5.00.

"Ibsen, the Master Builder," by A. E.
Zucker. Henry Holt & Co., $3.50.

History:

"The Tragic Era," bv Claude G. Bowers.
Houghton Mifflin Co., $5.00.

"Life and Labor in the Old South," by
Ulrich B. Phillips. Little, Brown & Co.,
$4.00.

For parents:

"Heredity and Parenthood," by Samuel
Christian Schmucker. The Macmillan Co.,
$2.50.

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THROUGH THE COLLEGE GATES

CAMPUS CHAT

Annual exercises for the recognition of
unusual scholastic attainments during the
preceding session were held, at which time
22 members of the student body received
honor.

The collegiate scholarship, which is
awarded each year to the member of the
undergraduate classes who attains the
highest general proficiency, was won by
Miss Lois Combs, of Decatur. Miss Combs
is a member of the present Senior class
and a graduate of Girls' High School, At-
lanta, in the class of 1926.

The M. Rich & Bros. Co. prize of $50
was awarded to Miss Miriam Thompson
for having made the highest average in the
Freshman class.

The complete honor roll is as follows:

Seniors: Miss Lois Combs, of Decatur;
Miss Louise Baker, Columbus; Miss Clarine
Dorsey, Glascow, Ky.; Miss Anna Cather-
ine Golucke, Crawfordville; Miss Alice
Jernigan, Sparta; Miss Elizabeth Keith,
Louisville, Ky.; Miss Ruth Malory, Decatur;
Miss Adelaide McWhorter, Lexington; Miss
Sally Peake, Churchland, Va.; Miss Helen
Respess, Decatur; Miss Janice Simpson,
Decatur; Miss Dorothy Smith, Savannah,
Ga.; Miss Martha Stackhouse, Dillon, S. C;
Miss Raemond Wilson, Decatur.

Juniors: Miss Katherine Morrow Mich-
oacan, Mex. ; Miss Laura Robinson, Au-
gusta; Miss Elizabeth Simpson, Decatur;
Miss Julia Thompson, Richmond, Va.;
Miss Louise Ware, Lawrenceville.

Sophomores: Miss Penelope Brown, At-
lanta; Miss Susan Glenn, Gastonia, N. C;
Miss Miriam Thompson, Atlanta.

Cap and gown were bestowed upon each
Senior of Agnes Scott College in a solemn
investiture service held in the chapel No-
vember 2.

The service marked the first formal oc-
casion at which the members of the class
of 1930 appeared clothed in full Senior
garb, and all formal ceremonies thereafter
will be attended by the Seniors in academic
costume.

A processional of the faculty and mem-
bers of the Senior and Sophomore classes
preceded the investiture ceremony. Dr.
McCain, made a short talk, after which he
introduced Miss Leslie Gaylord, the faculty
member chosen by the Seniors to deliver

the principal address on the occasion.
* * *

It is hoped Agnes Scott will debate in
the course of the year with Barnard, Ran-
dolph-Macon, Loyola and Hampden-Syd-
ney. Definite arrangements have not yet
been made with these colleges.

Pi Alpha Phi, the college debating so-
ciety, announced the following eight new
members from among the student body:
Misses Anne Hopkins, Louise Chandler,
Peggy Lou Armstrong, Louise McDaniel,
Virginia Allen, Florence Graham, Helen
Friedman, and Margaret Hyatt.

Formal initiation and reception of
pledges into Hoasc, the Agnes Scott honor
society for the recognition of service to the
school and for the giving of further op-
portunities for service, took place at the
college, and was followed by a banquet in
the tea house. Here the pledges entertained
the old members. The girls are taken in
either at the end of their Junior year or
at the beginning of their Senior year. This
announcement, made in chapel last Satur-
day, included the last of the present Sen-
iors who will be thus honored. The new
members are Miss Eleanor Bonham, Bir-
mingham, Ala.; Miss Anne Ehrlich, Savan-
nah, Ga.; Miss Mary McCallie, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.; Miss Carrington Owen,
Springfield, Mass.; Miss Margaret Ogden,
Mobile, Ala.; Miss Dorothy Smith, Savan-
nah, Ga.; Miss Belle Ward Stowe, Char-
lotte, N. C; Miss Sara Townsend, Ander-
son, S. C; Miss Pauline Willoughby, Bir-
mingham, Ala.

Miss Sydney Thompson appeared in an
original play, old ballads, medieval legends
in costume, before a large audience in the
Agnes Scott auditorium, Wednesday eve-
ning, November 20. This was the initial
number of a series of appearances of dis-
tinguished artists which the Agnes Scott
Lecture Association will bring to the col-
lege this season.

One of the most interesting and enjoy-
able events of the year was the book ex-
hibit held in the Athletic Board Room from
November 20 to 23. During these three
days the exhibit was open in the after-
noon and evening for reading and browsing.
On Thursday afternoon Agnes Kendrick
Gray, of Atlanta, whose poetry has been
recognized in America and abroad, read
some of her poems. "The White Door Way"
and "Ships of Venice" were specially
charming.

* -k *

A collection of two hundred water
color paintings of the French costumes of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by
Gratiane de Gardilanne and Elisabeth
Whitney Moffatt, called "Les Costumes
Regioneaux de la France" has been pur-
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the Library will be of great value to the
French students and a pleasure to all the
campus.

The idea for painting the pictui-es was
suggested by the artists' discovery while
designing costumes for BaliefF's "Chauve
Soures" that nowhere were complete and
authoritative drawings by which eighteenth
and nineteenth century costumes could be
reconstructed. After three years' careful
search through the provinces of France,
they presented the paintings, authentic in
every detail, of the dress of every class of
the people of Flanders, Lorraine, Brittany,
Normandy, Poitou, Auvergne, Provence
perhaps a child of St. Jean d'Arves, a
fisherman of Polet, or a prosperous farm-
er's wifs of St. Bonnet.

It is said that it is not an accident that
France has been for centuries the world
center for costume design. "This pre-
eminence has depended not so much on a
list of illustrious names as on certain
fundamental qualities of the French
temperament. For in France, beauty has
never been disassociated from every day
life." Something of the artistic vitality
of the French people has been caught and
preserved by the painters.

The collection has been exhibited in sev-
eral countries. It was shown in Paris
under the patronage of the Duchess de
Vendome and the American ambassador,
where the paintings received the acclama-
tion of the French people, before they were
brought to New York where they will
remain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
as a final authority on period costumes.

The reproduction of the paintings have
been made on separate mounted plates,
and have been so carefully done that they
can scarcely be distinguished from the orig-
inals. The historical text, is by Henry
Royere, the preface by the Princess Marthe
Bibesco, and the introduction by Robert W.
de Forest.

FACULTY NOTES

Dr. Ethel Polk-Peters, who, for fifteen
years, practiced medicine in China, taught
surgery to young Chinese women students,
and "chaperoned" a unit of these same
students and nurses on a relief expedi-
tion to Siberia in 1918, is now resident
physician at Agnes Scott College, Decatur.

Dr. Ethel Polk-Peters represents the
foui-th generation of doctors in the Polk
family, her father, her gi-andfather and
her great-grandfather having followed the
same profession. In this connection, it is
interesting to learn that when she was
called upon to perform her first amputa-
tion in China she was presented by her
aunt with a kit of surgical saws belonging
to her great-grandfather.

Dr. Peters, as Dr. Ethel Polk, obtained
her medical degree in 1912 from the Wom-

en's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and
afterwards passed the New York State
Board examinations.

* * *

Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall, professor
of biology at Agnes Scott College and well-
known scientist in biological research, has
been recently honored by the publication
of an article in The Science Service Bulle-
tin, Washington, D. C.

Dr. MacDougall's experiments were in
the study of the effect of ultra-violet rays
on one-celled animals, especially the chil-
odon uncinatus. She has found that pro-
found changes in the internal and external
structure of these animals result from this
stimulus. These changes were only tempo-
rally, while others persisted through forty
generations.

It is reported that Dr. MacDougall is
working at present on the malaria parasite
or Plasmodium.

Mrs. G. P. Hays, wife of the head of the
English department, and two children re-
turned to their home on the campus Wed-
nesday after an extended visit to Mrs.
Hays' relatives in France. Mrs. Hays left
last spring for Paris and has been visiting
there and in other cities in France dur-
ing the summer.

Dr. Sweet is back on the campus for a
brief visit, before another trip of interest-
ing inspection of other colleges, with
especial reference to their Physical Edu-
cation Departments. Dr. Sweet had the
privilege of attending, along with many
of the celebrities of this country, the lunch-
eon given at the Hotel Astor to Premier
MacDonald on his recent visit to this coun-
try. She was very much impressed with
the sincerity of the man, and also with the
affair itself in its wonderful gathei'ing of
four hundred of the leading business men
of America, and in its very smooth man-
agement of a tremendous crowd of people.

* * *

Dr. Philip Davidson, of the Agnes Scott
History Department, and secretary of the
executive committee of the Southeastern
Political Science Conference, addressed the
members of the conference in a session
on "Public Opinion" at the Atlanta Bilt-
more Thursday night on the subject of
"The Propaganda Technic of the American
Revolution."

* * *

Miss Elizabeth Jackson, associate pro-
fessor of history at Agnes Scott, entertain-
ed the Atlanta bi-anch of A. A. U. W. in
the Tea House. Miss Frances K. Gooch,
associate professor of English at Agnes
Scott, furnished the entertainment for the
occasion.

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FROM THE ALUMNAE OFFICE

FEBRUARY 22 FOUNDER'S DAY

In the fall we have our Home Coming
Week-end at Thanksgiving time, and in the
spring we have the twenty-second of
February as our day or rather night when
all the alumnae are gathered around the
hearth (the radio, in modern language)
and listen to the old college songs by the
Glee Club and join in the refrain, hear
the voices of Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins
and Miss McKinney, and finally close the
program by singing lustily (even if never
very sure of the words!) the beloved Alma
Mater "When far from the reach of the
sheltering arms." It is a greater home
coming event than the fall one for we can
be for that night 5,000 strong back at
Agnes Scott in spirit.

WSB, the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta,
Georgia, has kindly consented to let us use
their broadcasting station again this year.
The time will be six o'clock, central time,
and the program will last for half an hour.
Of course, we want the groups in the towns
all over the country to gather together for
that time and to let us hear back at the
Journal office how the program is coming
in and that you are listening in and any
other word you can send back. Please
telegraph, for one of the very nicest fea-
tures is the reading of the greetings from
you over the radio that night. Also, don't
you think it would be a splendid idea to
ask any one especially interested in Agnes
Scott to listen in with your group parents
of girls who ars in school here or parents
of prospective students, girls of the high
schools who are deciding on their college
now, for instance?

Whether you be gathered together in
twos or hundreds, or whether you are the
sole Agnes Scotter in your town, please
gather around that night and get the
thrill of hearing familiar voices and songs,
seeing the days of "auld lang syne" rise
up before your eyes, and of joining in with
all "old girls" in a nation-wide singing of
Alma Mater.

Copied from a student publication here:
The Old Swimming Hole

Few spots are dearer to the alumnae of
several years back than the old swimming
hole. Recently when the college decided
to tear it down, hords of the dear departed
returned and refilled the verdant banks
once more to overflowing this time by
their tears. The dimensions of the pool
are ten by twenty and four feet deep at
the deep end. Due to the rather limited
space, only four girls could enter the
pool at the same time. In the days of

voluminous bathing suits, only two could
enter the pool without causing an overflow
of water. The water was heated by a
match. Diving was not permitted in any
form and only the breast stroke for swim-
ming. During the twenty years of its
use, three girls learned to float, eleven to
wade, and two to keep their heads under
water thirty seconds and this at great ef-
fort. Only one case of drowning occurred.
This was due to carelessness on the part of
the deceased. The alumnae have decided
to turn this lovely old spot into a bird
bath. It is estimated that thirty-nine birds
will be able to bathe at one time.

Just to refute the slanderous statements
made in the campus paper concerning the
old swimming pool and the swimming ac-
complishments of alumnae, the alumnae
have formed a class under Llewellyn Wil-
burn to keep in form. This class of At-
lanta and Decatur alumnae and any visit-
ing ones who happen to arrive at ten-thirty
on Friday morning of any week is com-
posed of experts and beginners; but this is
an invitation to all who are near enough
to join, whether you swim or whether you
just wish you could, come on out; the
rescuing hook is on hand and Llewellyn
stands poised for diving, not to mention
that some of those in could catch you in
the proper strangle hold for life saving.
Only a bathing cap and a good heart are
required we hasten to add that the bath-
ing suits are given you free for the morn-
ing no expense entailed, just fun!

REPORTS FROM ALUMNAE CLUBS
Atlanta, Ga., Club

The Atlanta Agnes Scott Club has had
a most successful fall season under the
leadership of the new president, Florence
Perkins. The meetings have been well at-
tended and the programs most interesting.
The speakers have been Dr. McCain, who
spoke on Greater Agnes Scott; Mary Cope,
president of the lecture association at the
college this year, and Marguerite Gerard,
ah exchange student at Agnes Scott this
year from France. The speaker at the
November meeting was Dr. Peters, who is
supplying for Dr. Sweet this winter. Her
talk was based on her experiences in
Siberia in connection with the Red Cross
during the World War.

The Club gave a benefit bridge at the
Ansley Hotel and made one hundred dol-
lars. The bazaar which has been an an-
nual feature of the club was postponed for
this year. Several members of the club
have given individual benefit parties in

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their homes, all of which have been most
successful from a financial and social
standpoint, as it has meant the better ac-
quaintance of the members of the club.
The amounts raised have made it possible
for us to announce at the November meet-
ing with great pleasure that we have al-
ready paid our pledge to the Building Cam-
paign for this year, which amounted to
$500.

The interest of all the members, both
new and old, points to a most promising
year for the club.

ELIZABETH LITTLE,

Secretary.

Columbus, Ga., Club

The Columbus Club has had two very
enthusiastic meetings since the last quar-
terly and begs to report on both of these.
The report of the October meeting is given
as reported by the Columbus paper:

"Mrs. Ernest Rust entertained the
Agnes Scott Club at her lovely home in
Wynnton. Mrs. Donaldson, Agnes Scott
alumnae secretary, in a delightful informal
talk gave information concerning present
activities on the college campus, also of
the Agnes Scott building campaign. She
outlined a general club program.

"Mrs. Donaldson stated that Dr. McCain,
president of Agnes Scott College, is to give
to the club the privilege of granting an
Agnes Scott scholarship to some Senior at
the Columbus high school who will be se-
lected for this honor not by her scholar-
ship alone but also by her influence in the
school and capacity for leadership as well.

"Meeting Mrs. Donaldson were: Miss
Myrtle Blackmon, Mrs. Frank Joerge, Mrs.
Robert Betts, Mrs. Francis Turner, Mrs.
T. F. Taylor, Miss Clarkie Davis, Miss
Martha Bradford, Miss Frances McCoy,
Miss Josephine Schuessler and Mrs. N. H.
Strickland.

"At the conclusion of the meeting de-
licious refreshments were served by the
hostess. Mrs. T. F. Taylor of Fort Ben-
ning, extended invitation to the club to hold
its next meeting with her."

The November meeting held on the after-
noon of the 26th was at Mrs. Taylor's and
was a huge success. In spite of a terribly
rainy day, there were eight present.
"Tony's" boy was sick in bed and Marguer-
ite Joerg's child was about to have the
croup and she knew he'd get in the omni-
present rain if she left home, and a few
other casualties kept members away. But
we who went certainly had a gorgeous
time. And if you think we played bridge
well, we didn't our tongues went too fast
for bridge. Your letter was enjoyed thor-
oughly and we decided to hear the letter

every month and let the rest of the enter-
tainment take care of itself.

Myrtle and Josephine are going to bring
a group of the High School girls up to the
college for the week-end of November 7th,
as we have planned. Myrtle is going over
the list of Seniors, weeding out those who
have definitely decided on another college
and those who have no chance to come up
to entrance requirements of A. S. C. After
she has chosen them, "sub-rosa," as it were,
I will go over and give them an official
invitation to the college for the week-end.
Then we'll send the names and the number
to you and we are sure that they will en-
joy being the guests of the Columbus girls
who are now at Agnes Scott and will get
a real idea of the college. I think it is
lovely of Dr. McCain to let us arrange this
trip.

At the next meeting, I'll try to be "par-
liamentary" enough to find out definitely
what we can do about the campaign. The
next meeting will be in January with
Lillian Eason Duncan.

Mrs. Taylor served us most delicious tea,
sandwiches, cakes and candy and we had
such a good time that we were mighty
late getting home.

We are working on the rules and regula-
tions for awarding the scholarship. We
want to try to give it to some girl who
otherwise could not go to college and want
also a leader among the girls we'll an-
nounce our rules as soon as we are satis-
fied that thev're right.

HALLIE ALEXANDER TURNER,

President.

* * *

Copied from the Columbus Paper:
Columbus Girls Spend Week-End at Agnes
Scott

"Five Columbus girls from the high
school have been invited to spend this
week-end at Agnes Scott college as guests
of the college. These girls will, with other
high school guests be given an intimate
glimpse of college life. This is a part of
Agnes Scott's greater college movement
and will form an excellent means of adver-
tising the school throughout the state.

"The college gave the local Agnes Scott
club the privilege of selecting five girls
from the Senior class. Miss Natilu Mc-
Kenny, Miss Louise Schuessler, Miss Lillian
Jones, Miss Betty Gardiner and Miss Eliz-
abeth Bell were chosen from Columbus.
They left Friday afternoon with Miss
Myrtle Blackmon and Miss Josephine
Schuessler, graduates of Agnes Scott, who
will also be guests of the college for the
week-end.

"The Columbus students at the school
will act as hostesses: Miss Ruth Bradford,
Miss Louise Baker, Miss Emily Harvey,
Miss Marjorie Gamble, Miss Mary Boyd.

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"Among the social functions planned in
their honor is a tea Saturday afternoon
and a dance given by the Cotillion club in
the evening."

* * #

Greenville, S. C., Club

This is our very newest club and we beg
to introduce it to you now, our "baby" club
with its first meeting just held in time
for the Quarterly. This is from a very in-
formal letter from the newly elected leader
of this group:

"Well, we had our first meeting! We
did do a little something and had an awful-
ly good, regular A .S. C. time. We decided
that, for the time being, we would meet
twice or three times a year. It seems
that all of us are so busy and we are of
such different interests that several
thought a monthly meeting might not
work so well right now. We decided to
try to keep in touch with the college by
meeting at intervals, surely on February
22nd, Founder's Day. I was elected leader
and I am certainly going to try to keep
things going.

"We did accomplish one thing. We found
a lost alumna! Isn't that worth meeting
about? I put an announcement in the
paper about the meeting and she called
up and said she would like to come. She
not only is an alumna but has an adopted
daughter who will graduate from high
school in a year or two and whom she is
planning to send to A. S. C. That is worth
a great deal of effort, isn't it?"

VIRGINIA NORRIS,

President.

* * *

Jacksonville, Fla., Club

The Jacksonville club held its November
meeting early in the month and elected the
following officers: President, Charlotte
Buckland; vice president, Rachel Paxon;
secretary and treasurer, Bessie Standifer
Gammon; board member, 2 years, Eliz-
abeth Lawrence; board member, 1 year,
Anne Waddell Bethea.

This club is very much interested in the
idea of awarding one of the scholarships
in Jacksonville and feels the need of it very
much in advertising Agnes Scott among
the pupils of the three senior high schools.

The club is also planning an evening
meeting, as one of their meetings in the
near future.

CHARLOTTE BUCKLAND,

President.

* * *

Richmond, Va., Club

The Richmond Club reports that it held
its November meeting with ten present
four of these coming from the Training
School. There was great rejoicing over the
addition to their numbers of Amy Walden
Harrell, whose preacher husband has come

to have charge of one of the Richmond
churches. This club did enjoy its tea and
the good fellowship of Agnes Scott girls
and plans to continue its pleasant meet-
ings.

NANNIE CAMPBELL,

President.
ALUMNAE HOME COMING TEA

The tea which is given each year as one
of the events of the Home Coming Week-
end when alumnae come back from the four
corners of the earth to greet each other
and to see again the old campus and the
faculty and to pass upon the present stu-
dent body, was held on Friday afternoon,
November 29th, in the Anna Young Alum-
nae House and it was even more beautiful
and more enjoyable than ever before. Many
alumnae from Atlanta and Decatur and
near-by towns, as well as the many who
were back on the campus were guests of
the Association that afternoon.

One unique feature of the tea was the
fact that the members of the Grand-
daughters Club of the Association (girls
who are now students here where their
mothers were students before them) assist-
ed in serving. They were: Octavia Young,
Martha Williamson, Harriet Williams,
Anne Turner, Sara Shadburn, May Schlich,
Shannon Preston, Clara Knox Nunnally,
Elise Jones, Florence Graham, Elizabeth
Flinn, Jule Bethea and Julia Blundell. The
members of the house and entertainment
committees also assisted.

In the receiving line were Mrs. Hilda
McConnell Adams, Dr. J. R. McCain, Mrs.
Samuel Young, mother of Miss Anna
Young, whose birthday at this time of the
year is the occasion of the tea in the house
which bears her name, Miss Hopkins, Mrs.
Frances Gilliland Stukes, Mrs. Susan
Young Eagan and Mrs. Bessie Young
Brown, Miss Anna's sistei's, and Mrs. Lois
MacTntyre Beall. Little Anna Young
Eagan received the cards of the guests.

Among the many beautiful gifts of silver
and linen made the house at this time was
a beautiful silver bowl presented by the
class of 1904 which held its twenty-fifth
reunion this last July and desired to cele-
brate its silver anniversary with this ap-
propriate gift to the house. Four mem-
bers of the class were present: Mrs. Kath-
leen Kirkpatrick Daniel, Mrs. Lois Johnson
Aycock, Mrs. Virginia Butler Stone and
Mrs. Mattie Duncan Johnson and Lois pre-
sented the gift to the house. We could
enumerats for some time on the gifts of
linen by members of the faculty and
alumnae, some gifts of money, very gener-
ously allowing the House Committee to buy
whatever it chooses for the house, gifts of
the Atlanta and Birmingham clubs, but
you must come and see them for your-
self.

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

YES, WE WERE BACK FOR HOME-
COMING WEEK-END!

Among the out-of-town guests who were
back at this time were the following (this
list also includes the girls from Atlanta
and Decatur who were back for 1929 re-
union and luncheon on Saturday, Novem-
ber 30th): Emily Spivey, '27; Louisa White
Gosnell, '27; Elizabeth Henderson, '27
Marcia Green, '27; Cora Richardson, '24
Mary Ray Dobyns, '28; Ethel Freeland, '29
Susanne Stone, '29; Margaret Andreae
Hamrick, '29; Letty Pope, '29; Julia Pope,
'25; Sara Southerland, '29; Rachel Paxon,
'29; Alice Glenn, '29; Julia Mulliss, Char-
lotte Hunter, '29; Helen Ridley, '29;
Florida Richard Davis, ex-'29; Gladys
Austin, '29; Alice McDonald, '29; Frances
Welsh, '29; Frances Wimbish, '29; Pernette
Adams, '29; Sara Frances Anderson, '29;
Olive Spencer, '29; Elaine Jacobsen, '29;
Berdie Ferguson, '29; Mai'tha Riley Sel-
man, '29; Louise Robertson, '29; Katherine
Lott, '29; Lillie Bellingrath, '29; Mary
Elizabeth Warren, '29; Isabelle Leonard
Spearman, ex-'29; Sara Carter, '29; Ray
Knight, '29; Dorothy Cheek, '29; Mary
Gladys Steffner, '29; Mary Prim, '29; Au-
gusta Roberts, '29; Sara Hinman, '29;
Catherine Hunter, '29; Martha Bradford,
'29; Elinore Morgan, '29; Louise Fowler,
'29; Hazel Hood, '29; Rosa White, '29, and
Edith McGranahan, '29, and others.

Alumnae vespers were held on Sunday
of Home-Coming week-end at six o'clock
in the chapel, as the closing feature of the
week-end program, with Ethel Freeland as
leader. Florence Perkins gave an inspir-
ing talk on Purposeful Living, and Mary
Ray Dobyns, as organist, gave some beauti-
ful selections, as overture and organ solo.
* * *

Mr. Albert Meade, president of the
Riverside Mortgage Company, of River-
side, Cal., once little Albert Meade, one of
the five boys who were pupils of the De-
catur Female Seminary, and who were only
pupils for one year, is a shining example
of the abiding love which Agnes Scott puts
in the hearts of her alumnae, pardon us,
alumni! Whenever Mr. Meade is in the
east, he comes miles out of his way to
see Miss Hopkins and his Alma Mater. On
his last visit, which was in October of this
year, he made this statement for publica-
tion and assuring him that we refused to
assume responsibility, we agreed to publish
it verbatim, "I would no more think of
going to Rome without seeing the Coliseum
than of coming near Decatur without
stopping over to see Agnes." He resents
the statement once made in the Quarterly
that he was "the scourge of the campus"
and insists that he was Miss Hopkins' pet.

MAIL HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM:

(Again we ask your help in locating
these alumnae; all but three of those pub-
lished last issue were located through your
efforts; may we ask you to look these over
and send us any you know?)

Mrs. J. B. Stratford (Elizabeth DeGraf-
fenreid), 1105 S. Perry, Montgomery, Ala.

Wilmer Eliot Daniel, Chisolm St., Mont-
gomery, Ala.

Mrs. Edward H. Simon (Rosalie Ach-
arff), 326 Sayre St., Montgomery, Ala.

Mrs. W. C. Logue (Annie Gladys Plas-
ter), 700 S. Court St., Montgomery, Ala.

Mrs. J. P. Blue (Lucile Rushing), 204
Florida St., Montgomery, x Ala.

Mrs. Roy M. Brown (Lovennah Vinson),
131 E. Benson, Decatur, Ga.

Mrs. Macey Miles (Erma Mason), 219
Benson, Decatur, Ga.

Violet Holmes, 252 Oak St., Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Carl Pass (Julia Ellen Wayne),
1125 Oxford Rd., Atlanta, Ga.

Myrtle Swindell, 66 Beachwood Ave., At-
lanta, Ga.

Muriel Griffin, Ridgeland, S. C.

Althea Stephens, National Park Semi-
nary, Forest Glen, Md.

Kate Higgs, 1055 Sanbom Ave., Los
Angeles, Calif.

Lillian Middlebrooks, 212 W. Forest Ave.,
East Point, Ga.

WINS POETRY HONOR

Helen Trafford Moore, ex '18, has re-
cently won first honors in the National
Poetry Contest conducted by the Society
of the Present Day Poets of America for
her poem, "The City of the Silent Dead,"
which appeared in Bellemin's Anthology
for 1929. Three thousand poems were
submitted in the contest. The poem fol-
lows:

The City of the Silent Dead
(To Arlington)
Hail, "City of the Silent Dead," what
think you ?
The dawn has come, and lo the Spring
is here,
The roses turn their blushing leaves to
greet you,
The birds return, the joy of Life is
near
And still you sleep but no, I seem to
hear you
For voices of your fame can never die,
The souls that lie enfolded in your keep-
ing
Speak on for Faith has won their victory.
Enshrined in hearts, extolled in deed and
story
Their glorv lives and quickens into song.
Hail, "City of the Silent Dead," I greet
you
For yours the voice that speaks of ages
gone!

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Concerning Ourselves

1893-1903

Emily (Diwer) Moorer has supplied the
office with a most interesting glimpse into
her diary, kept during her college years
and promises us some more later. She
writes, "I wish I could find my 1891-1892
volume, telling how I "arrove" at the old
Main Building when the long hall still had
lumber stacked in neat piles against the
wall where the scaffolding had been. Three
Toccoa, Ga., girls, Florence (Burgess) Eck-
ford, Reppard (McAlister) Cook, Lida
Ramsay and I were the first four to proud-
ly put our names on the new register. Kate
(Logan) Good came in about the same date
and took us under her wing. The next
year, she, Kittle (Burress) Martin and I
blissfully seniored together in the same
extra large room and today after thirty-
three years are still keeping in closest per-
sonal touch."

And now for the diary: (she heads it,
Some Agnes Scott Ancient History) Mon-
day, September 19, 1892:

Yesterday I had to miss church on ac-
count of an infected toe nail. Miss Cooper
operated on it to my immediate excrucia-
tion but to my present relief.

I got up at five this morning to study
for that horrible old "Trig" written lesson.
If I didn't love Miss Patty so hard, I
wouldn't even try to endure it. What need
will I ever have of sines, co-sines and
logarithms ?

Miss Valeria kept study hall to-night.
After study hall, Josie Stephens treated
me to some perfectly delicious pears from
her Florida home. I'm always famished
after study hall studying so hard ? That's
a riddle for the faculty!

Wednesday, September 21st:

I played tennis to-day for the first time
this year. We Janie McDuffie and I, beat
Janie McBryde and Mattie Whetstone.
Janie is a splendid player and Mattie has
the reach of a gorilla, so I think we did
pretty sniptious work.

Saturday, September 24th:

I'm glad that to-day is over. Miss
Cooper took nine of us to Atlanta to shop,
consequently I'm worn out and "dead-
broke." We all weighed and I weigh a
hundred and ten pounds, a gain of ten
pounds since I left home. So much for
Agnes Scott fare which some girls run
down one girl whispers about twice a
week at supper, "Agnes Scott Hash Fac-
tory." I wonder if she didn't learn at home

that roast beef for dinner just naturally
turns into hash for supper. We had an
interesting meeting of the Mnemosynean
society to-night. We discussed a few new
girls who would like to come into our
ranks. We are planning a new society hall
which we can get on third floor. The girls
outside the society were having a "Ger-
man" when we came downstairs, so we
dropped in to wind up the day with a
little footshaking. The girls who danced
as men wore blazer jackets and false
mustaches. Some of them made awfully
handsome men. I wonder if that is why I
wrote John asking if he didn't want to
subscribe for The Mnemosynean? If I
can't write to him, I guess an occasional
marginal note wouldn't smash rules so ter-
ribly.

Tuesday, September 27th:

Miss Massie has come at last! She was
thrown from a mule while abroad and still
has to hobble on a stick. We were all
excitement when we heard that she was
coming in. We "old girls" shoved each
other in all directions to get to carry her
valise and to hold up the demi-train. Even
if it does mean buckling down to French
class work, I'm delighted that she is back
with us.

Wednesday, September 28th:

We had pineapple sherbet for dessert to-
day. The frozen desserts on Wednesdays
and Sundays are the best of the whole
week.

Thursday, September 29th:

Lottie Kefanver asked me today if I
was engaged! Rather a blunt question.
I should have said, "NO," but I delighted
Lottie's vivid imagination by stammering
out "No-oo." By the way, I ought to hear
from that subscription bid I sent John in a
day or two.

Friday, September 30th:

Well!*I got that letter from John to-day.
Strictly business? Not between the lines.
I had to copy a column of dictionary for
talking in class to-day it seems like it
ought to cancel the demerit, but it does not.

And, so was it ever. If we had a diary
of 1930 to publish by the side of this of
1892, we doubt not that the same discus-
sion of teachers, meals and John would be
on every page of it. Except for the ex-
treme weariness after a morning's shop-
ping and the hesitancy over saying she was
engaged, she sounds extremely modern.

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Annie E. Aunspaugh is back in her place
as violin teacher at Lander College, Green-
wood, S. C. She and Emily (Divver) Moorer
spent an afternoon in Clinton, S. C, with
Mary (Barnett) Martin this fall and the
three of them spun many fine tales of A. S.
I. days.

Mary C. Barker, principal of John B.
Gordon School in Atlanta, Ga., represented
Georgia on the occasion of the celebration
in New York of the birthday of Dr. John
Dewey, when impressive tribute to this in-
ternationally known teacher was paid at
Columbia University.

Addie (Arnold) Loridans returned to At-
lanta after a three months trip abroad,
part of the time being spent by Addie and
her husband with his relatives in France.

Juliette (Cox) Coleman returned for a
visit to her old college and told many de-
lightful stories of the days when she lived
within a stone's throw of the college on
S. Candler Street, from which she graduat-
ed in 1903. Her husband is Dr. C. C. Cole-
man of the Baptist Church in Richmond,
Va., their address is 7 Lexington Boule-
vard.

Florence (Burgess) Eckford, who is by
interesting chance, one of the four girls
who registered first, according to the diary
above, has just announced the engagement
which was followed soon by the marriage
of her daughter, Florence, to Howard An-
thony Fortson of Augusta, at the Little
Church Around the Corner in New York.

Jeannette (Craig) Woods' address is
2492 Observatory Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Bessie (Dickson) Taylor has been a re-
cent visitor back to Atlanta from her
home in Bristol, Va.

Alice Greene is on the woman's board
of Eggleston Memorial Hospital, which is
a hospital for children in Atlanta and is
very much interested in this work.

Lillian (Baker) Griggs is executive sec-
retary of the North Carolina Library Com-
mission with her headquarters in Raleigh,
N. C.

Claire Hancock is the guardian angel of
DeKalb County, for it is she who directs
the work of the Red Cross, as executive
secretary of the DeKalb Chapter, with of-
fices at 140 % Sycamore, Decatur, Ga. She
has her hands full with the work and in
addition is often attending regional confer-
ences and state confer-ences.

Saidee (King) Harrison is an active
member of the Richmond Club and can
boast of a daughter almost ready for
Agnes Scott herself.

Laura (Haygood) Roberts is living at
62 Almeria, St. Augustine, Fla.

Love (Haygood) Donaldson has changed
her address and is now at 4751 Niagara,
Ocean Boulevard, Calif. She has been head
of the University of Arizona Infirmary and

is now taking some special work in the
San Diego hospital where she will get her
diploma. Last year she was dietitian and
house mother for a school for girls in
El Paso, Texas.

Katherine (Logan) Good, also one of the
early Agnes Scotters mentioned in the
diary above, sends in her best wishes for
a good year in the alumnae office and we
indeed grieve to report the sad news of her
letter that she had lost her father very
suddenly on August 3rd at his home in Ac-
worth; we know her friends will be sorry
to hear this.

Daisy (Caldwell) McGinty has recently
returned to her home in Atlanta from a
wonderful six weeks trip to her sister in
Portland, Oregon.

Amy (Walden) Harrell, as a Methodist
minister's wife, has a chance to see lots
of the world and the Richmond Club re-
ports that she has moved to their town now
and they are rejoicing over an addition to
their number.

Cora Strong and Daisy Strong have the
sympathies of their friends in the death
of their mother a short time ago.

Fay (Pendleton) Hill's address is 702
Fort Wood Street, Chattanooga, Term.

Augusta Randall sends her dues in with
word that she wouldn't miss the Quarterly
or let her membership slip for worlds.
That's the Agnes Scott spirit!

Annie (Wiley) Preston sends good
wishes for the Alumnae Association and
for Agnes Scott College from 'way across
the sea in Soonchun, Korea.
1904

(Next reunion, 1934.)

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This picture, made at the twenty-fifth
reunion of this class, held in July, 1929, in-
cludes, reading from left to right: Lois
(Johnson) Aycock, Kathleen (Kirkpatrick)
Daniel. Laura (Candler) Wilds, Virginia
(Butler) Stone, Martha (Duncan) Johnson,
Cliqord Hunter and Ann Shapai'd.

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23

Ann Shapard, to whom we are indebted
for this picture, writes of the reunion, "We
had such a good time all by ourselves
with no modern students to look at us as
if we were antiques on exhibit. Really,
it would be the wise thing for all institute
classes to hold reunions in the summer if
they wish to feel at home. We were re-
minded of our age when Miss McKinney
used the word "ancient" in greeting us. Of
course, Miss McKinney always had priv-
ileges others dared not take, so it didn't
spoil our pleasure. If Janie Curry and
Mattie (Tilly) McKee had been there al-
most anything might have happened, as
they usually led us on."

Lois (Johnson) Aycock made the nice
speech of presentation at the Alumnae Tea
in November when this class made its gift
of a lovely silver bowl to the Alumnae
House.

Kathleen (Kirkpatrick) Daniel stood at
Lois' side during the speech and repre-
sented the class also.

1906

(This is a 1930 reunion class; please be-
gin your planning now to spend from May
31-June 3 on the Agnes Scott campus.)

Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin writes that the let-
ter she meant for the Alumnae Quarterly
was one of the things she was going to
do when the next big job was over but
there was always something else, but at
last a nice, rainy day came along and she
let things slide to catch up with letter
writing (we'll pray for rain, back in the
office, when news is scarce). She and her
mother and three children had a lovely
summer visiting her sister in Valdosta and
in touring through South Georgia and Flor-
ida, Ida Lee doing all the driving. She
says, "From the first day of school until
now, life for me has been hectic. With my
husband dead, I have all the business to
attend to and a home and three small chil-
dren to look after which fills my days to
overflowing, but it doesn't make interest-
ing reading for other people, especially
those who have "careers" charted for their
future. Our class is widely scattered, but
if I hear anything, I will write to the of-
fice. Best wishes to the Association and
to Agnes Scott."

1907

(This is a 1930 reunion class; you will
be back with the girls who were in school
when you were Juniors; please come!)

This Armistice Day, special memorial
services were held for the late Asa War-
ren Candler, husband of Hattie Lee West;
Major Candler was the past Georgia state
commander of the American Legion and
past commander of Atlanta Post No. 1 of
this national organization.

1908

(This class is a 1930 reunion class; you
will see the girls who were in school with
you when you were Sophomores if you
come back in May.)

Jane Hays Brown, whose address is
May's Landing, New Jersey, is running a
county library, a house, a car, a garden
and a furnace; reports that she has just
had the Atlantic City Branch of the A. A.
U. W. for a meeting fifty of them tucked
into her tiny cottage. She spent her va-
cation this year on the Maine coast, camp-
ing with friends, and this fall has had a
glorious trip by automobile up the Dela-
ware valley, when it was in its most beauti-
ful fall stage of foliage.

Louise Shipp Chick is a most helpful sec-
retary, for when news is scarce, she never
fails to write a line herself and always
sends in a nice bunch of changed addresses
and lost ones found. Louise is now in
Los Angeles and is one person who has
lived in California without foregoing her
Georgia birthright, for she admits that
the air is full of dust in Los Angeles, with
no rain to clear the air, or fogs as in
San Francisco, and with the hardest water
she has ever tried to live with. She is
enthusiastic over organizing a club in Los
Angeles, where there are about thirty girls
in near-by range.

We do hope the class of 1908 will answer
the letters that Louise sent out and fill
the page of the next issue with your doings.
1909

(This class is a 1930 reunion class; your
sisters of the upper classes will be back at
the same time. Won't you try to come?)

Adelaide Nelson attended a two weeks'
training course in New Orleans, given by
national officers at Camp Salem on Lake
Oncetrachain, 30 miles from New Orleans.

Annette (McDonald) Suarez, '09, and
her mother came out to visit the college
when they were in Atlanta recently and
Annette promised to send in a long ac-
count of hr delightful summer, but it didn't
come in time for this issue, so we'll have
it in store for next time. She has her niece,
the daughter of Ethel (McDonald) Castel-
low, living with her and she is to be at
Agnes Scott in a year or so, so Agnes
Scott will see Annette more in the future
than in the past, for she promises to be a
frequent visitor at the Alumnae House
then. As to her trip this summer, she and
her husband, after a stopover in Paris and
a Mediterranean cruise, visited friends of
her husband in various cities of Spain, then
went for a six weeks' stay with Mr. Suarez'
family in Northern Spain and Annette says
that was the most fascinating part of her
trip, for life there reminded her of
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and playing together, with its common in-
terest and its quaint customs.

Lillian (Eason) Duncan, ex '09, is one of
the good members of the Columbus Club
and is its hostess in January.
1910

(Next reunion, 1931.)

Jennie Anderson is teaching Latin and
French at Russell High School, which is
in East Point, Ga.

Flora (Crowe) Whitmire has a new ad-
dress in New Haven, 278 W. Elm Street.
"It is a lovely place and we are quite
fortunate to be able to rent such a place.
Thank goodness, now that it is over, that
our landlord wanted our flat and we were
forced to move. I called on Rosaltha San-
ders, but did not find her at home and
she had the same luck when she came to
see me, but I do hope to see all these A.
S. C. girls who are at Yale this year. I
am glad that some of the girls are coming
to Yale to do their graduate work, for it
is so much nicer place to live than in New
York, but may be not so exciting. It is
surely fun to get news from the girls in
the quarterly and I do not want to miss
one."

Eleanor Frierson says that her last trip
of interest was to A. S. C. at commence-
ment, "and as this is my first chance I am
glad to express my appreciation of the cor-
dial welcome given me by both the college
and alumnae officers. It was fine to be
back at Agnes Scott and I hope to go
more often and wish all the "old girls"
could get back together. The growth of
the college is wonderful to one who was
there at the transition from "Institute to
College."

Lucy (Reagan) Redwine: "The story of
this member varies not a bit. The same
place, the same job for 16 years that of
wife, mother, housekeeper. But there is
variety in the job itself, as the years go
by and the three children grow up. Martha,
the oldest, will be ready for Agnes Scott
September, 1931 so you see I'm loyal all
right."

Annie Smith is general secretary of Y.
W. C. A. with her address, 1306 St. Steph-
ens Road, Mobile, Ala., and from hearsay,
we know that she is awfully anxious to
see an Agnes Scotter down there.

Mildred Thomson writes, "Having just
looked at the Quarterly and found the
class of 1910 conspicuous by its absence, I
felt I must at least write that one mem-
ber is living in the same place, doing the
same work, interesting and varied! No long
vacations but even work calls for many
trips in the Chevi-olet coupe and Minnesota
is a beautiful state 1,000 lakes and sev-
eral rivers."

Tommie Dora Barker, ex '10, head librar-
ian in the Carnegie Library in Atlanta, Ga.,

has been quite sick this fall but is once
again back in her important place.

Jessie Kate Brantley, ex '10, is secretary
in the Blackshear Manufacturin gCompany,
of which her uncle is president.

Margaret Hoyt, ex '10, is an important
member of the Home Mission Department
of the Southern Presbyterian Church, with
its office in Atlanta.

Camilla (Mandeville) Newell, ex '10, has
bsen making her home in Decatur, Ga.,
since the death of her husband and is a
most helpful alumna in the work of the
Association.

1911

(Next reunion, 1931.)

Lucile Alexander has been a most active
supporter of the Building Campaign, being
a member of the original campus commit-
tee of last year which raised $80,000 in-
stead of the estimated $40,000 on the cam-
pus at the start of the campaign.

Adelaide Cunningham writes that we
have told all the news about her in the
last issue and then she takes pity on us
and remembers that there is one bit of new
news. She has been made chairman of
the Essay Division of the Atlanta Writers
Club. She is teaching English and His-
tory at C. H. S. in Atlanta and is vry
happy in her work; on her vacation in
North Carolina this last summer, she
taught herself to use the typewriter
sounds like the same Adelaide, improving
every shining moment.

Geraldine (Hood) Burns and her husband
visited the Alumnae House in November.
Mr. Burns is a mechanical engineer; they
make their home on the old family planta-
tion of the Burns family, just outside
Maysville, Ga.

Gladys (Lee) Kelly was at Park Hill
Inn in Hendersonville, N. C, most of the
summer where her husband was manager
and writes of enjoying seeing Frances
(Dukes) Wynne and Laura Mel (Towers)
Yager during their stays in town. Also,
Louise (Wells) Parsons and Esther (Jor-
dan) Roper were with her for a short stay
during the summer. Louise had her charm-
ing family along with her.

Mary Wallace Kirk writes that she is so
eager to see the new buildings and hear
all the plans for future development, and,
regretting that she could not be back for
the Home Coming Week-end, sent her best
wishes for a delightful "gathering of the
clan."

Mary Lizzie Radford is rescued from
the "Lost Sisters" and most glorious-
ly rescued, for through the glowing
account of Cora Richardson, '24, of Mary
Lizzie's teaching abilities, we tracked her
down. She is teaching French in the La-
Grange, Ga., High School, after having
won her M. A. from Emory University.

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Hazel (Brand) Taylor, ex '11, is in Co-
lumbus, where her husband is major at
Fort Benning; Hazel is one of the pillars
of the Columbus Club and a recent host-
ess to it; her three daughters are Hazel,
aged 5% years; Martha, 3 years, and Mar-
garet, two months; all have curly hair
and as Major Taylor says, "No bobs in his
family," from Hazel down, all have long,
curly hair.

Willie Clements, ex '11, is a teacher in
the Atlanta public school system, having
won her degree from Oglethorpe and doing
graduate work now in the summer time at
Emory.

Allie (Felker) Nunnally, ex '11, has the
distinction of being one of the mothers of
one of the members of the Granddaugh-
ters' Club. Clara Knox Nunnally is a very
tall, graceful blonde with Allie's eyes and
plsasing manner.

Eliza (MacDonald) Muse, ex '11, has
moved back from Greenville, S. C, to De-
catur, 249 Winn St.

Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, ex '11, is re-
sponsible for a very enjoyable hour on the
radio, WSB the Atlanta Journal station,
every Friday afternoon, using some of the
Agnes Scott girls in her program.

Rebe (Standifer) Strickland, ex '11, and
her soldier husband are located at Fort
Benning and she and Hazel are having a
great time. Rebe has two sons, Harrell,
Jr., who is in the second grade and hasn't
missed a word in spelling yet, and Henry
the fourth, who is only seven weeks and
naturally hasn't missed a word yet him-
self.

1912

(Next reunion, 1931.)

Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust had a
meeting of the Columbus Club at her home
in Wynnton the last of October and in-
vited Carol (Stems) Wey and Fannie G.
(Mayson) Donaldson, as general secretary,
down for the meeting. The meeting itself
was a lovely one and the reunion time of
three old roommates afterwards was just
as good. Tony has three fine children,
Nona, Ernst, Jr., and Bryan; Carol and
Fannie G. made better nursemaids than
some of their acquaintances might think.

May Joe (Lott) Bunkley is on the Bruns-
wick schools faculty this year teaching
English. May Joe received her M. A. in
English at Columbia last summer.

Janette (Newton) Hart took time to an-
swer a cry for news and welcome it was!
"So far as news, the only new thing under
the sun in my existence is the stream of
mischief my little boys think up. Even
the one in school gets his worst marks in
deportment and effort. As for myself, when
I occasionally stop to consider, I feel as
though I might be a contemporary of the

minor prophets with boll weevils for
plagues."

Carol (Stearns) Wey, being about ready
to open her "Home for the Friendless" in
its new location, is out for more fields to
conquer and has been chosen to head the
social welfare work in the City Federation
of Clubs in Atlanta.

Marie (Maclntyre) Scott, as class secre-
tary, paid a formal call on the office and
brought her news with her in the person
of little Rebekah Scott, Marie's youngest
daughter, aged three, who has the loveliest
brown eyes and is the roundest, nicest little
visitor we have had in a long time. Marie
says she is so busy keeping up with her
two oldest daughters and staying at home
some with the son and little daughter that
she is breathless most of the time.

Susie (Gunn) Allen, ex '12, has moved
from Columbia, S. C, to Macon, Ga.

Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex '12, enter-
tained at an informal tea in honor of Flor-
inne (Brown) Arnold; many faculty mem-
bers and Decatur friends of Florinne's call-
ed during the afternoon.

Effie (Yeager) McGaughey, ex '12, is a
most successful business woman in addition
to her duties as a mother, as she conducts
in her own home a most delightful busi-
ness, dealing in antiques and gifts.
1913

(Next reunion, 1931.)

Grace (Anderson) Bowers has moved
from Selma, Ala. Her new address is 118
Superior Ave., Decatur, Ga.

Kate Clark, in answer to a card asking
for news of anything new from a hat up
or down, writes that she has nothing new
not even a new Latin dictionary. The one
of Agnes Scott fame (Lillie and Lavalette
know of its fame) is still doing service.
"It is on my desk in front of me now,
without a back, dirty, dilapidated in fact,
a regular "Roman ruin," but the words in-
side are good and oh, how I love the thing!
I did have an interesting vacation trip
Germany, Prague, Budapest and Vienna.
The best part of it was seeing Dr. Sweet
at the Pension Atlanta in Vienna."

Frances (Dukes) Wynne sounds like a
person with a full schedule, "I have very
little time for anything but P.-T. A. work,
being president of a local P.-T. A. in
Miami, Fla., on the executive board of an-
other local one (have two children, one
in elementary school, one in Junior High)
and am also corresponding secretary for
Florida Branch of the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers. My family are
all fins. I hear that there is another
Frances Duke(s) at college this year my
love to her and to all the old guard."

Janie McGaughey is now Secretary of
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pointed by General Assembly of Presby-
terian Church, U. S. May, 1929. Janie
says, "I have been in Spiritual Life Office
for two years, so address is not changed,
just work increased!! I have quite a bit of
field work taking me all over the South
and to New York to special meetings; I
have lots of joy in meeting A. S. C. girls
all along the way and am very happy in
my work.

Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes is still enjoy-
ing wonderful horseback rides through the
exquisitely beautiful hills of West Virginia,
near Charleston, where she and Major
Stokes will be for a little longer stay than
usual in army circles. She is working hard
in the A. A. U. W. this winter, being at
the head of the International Relations
Group. "It is interesting work, and we all
enjoy keeping up with the doings of the
present day world."

Helen (Smith) Taylor's address is 1902
Brookline, Palma Ceia Park, Tampa, Fla.

Laura Mel (Towers) Yager spent a while
this summer at Hendersonville, N. C.

Elizabeth (Dunwoody) Hall, ex '13, lives
at 1068 E. Clifton Rd., Atlanta, Ga., and
has three lively sons, Billy, aged twelve;
Dick, nine; John, six. Billy is in high
school at Emory now.

Dorothy (Selby) Howard, ex '13, after
a summer spent recovering from an oper-
ation is herself again and busy in church
and charities.

Sara (Skinner) Starr is a most active
worker in the "Home for the Friendless"
orphanage in Atlanta, Ga. Sara has a
daughter almost grown now.

Birdie (Smith) Houser, ex '13, has a
young son, Fred, Jr., and the Housers are
now making their home on Penn Avenue in
Atlanta, Ga.

Bessie (Standifer) Gammon, ex '13, is
secretary and treasurer of the live Jackson-
ville Agnes Scott Club.

Josephine (Stoney) McDougal, ex '13,
has moved into her new home on Andrews
Drive in Atlanta.

1914

(Next reunion, 1932.)

Florence Brinkley is not only studying
at Johns Hopkins this winter on the Henry
E. Johnston Scholarship but is also writ-
ing a book. Her answer came just before
Christmas and she sent wishes for a Merry
Christmas to all Agnes Scotters.

Helen (Brown) Webb and her sisters,
Margaret (Brown) Bachman and Betty
(Brown) Sydnor, have the sympathies of
all their friends in the loss of their father,
C. V. Brown, on November 23rd in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. His death came suddenly
from a heart attack, although apparently
in the best of health. Margaret was not
able to be with her family at this time,
as she is not at all well. Helen's two boys

(husband and son) are fine. The baby is
walking and trying to talk 16 months old,
is an outdoor child, spending nearly all of
the twenty-four hours each day in the
open, has never had a sniffle, cheeks like
apples a perfect joy, constantly.

Theodosia (Cobbs) Hogan says that her
three children, still under seven, absorb
her days and physical strength, so that if
she attempts to do outside activities there
is serious detriment to health and home
usefulness, so that she has resolved not to
try other responsibilities until the Hogans
are larger.

Mildred (Holmes) Dickert's husband is
fire insurance adjuster and has been trans-
ferred by his company to Knoxville, Ten-
nessee, where they are located at 5 Ft.
Sanders Manor. "I've met one old Agnes
Scott girl, Pauline (Brenner) Bowen, ex
'16. It is hard to realize that it has been
sixteen years since I had seen her, as she
attended A. S. C. in '12-'13. My boy is al-
most twelve. I will enjoy the Quarterly
even more this year as I am in a strange
place."

Annie Tait Jenkins says that all she
previously wrote about a restful winter has
gone up in smoke; she has been busy in
the state work of the Girl Reserve work,
interested in a newly organized Book Club
of twelve members, a Sunday School class,
an Auxiliary secretaryship, but, says Annie
Tait, "Why enumerate ? So far I have only
done twelve hours of German and not one
of Math, which I truly regret. I had hoped
to have my thesis ready by this date but
there is work to do yet on that."

Kathleen Kennedy is still at the Pritch-
ard School, R. F. D., Ona, W. Va.

Essie (Roberts) Dupre was one of those
responsible for the idea of individual bene-
fit bridges among the Atlanta alumnae,
which raised quite a nice sum for the At-
lanta Club.

Marguerite (Wells) Bishop writes that
it is so many years since she left A. S. C.
and that she hasn't been south since her
marriage, thirteen years ago, and feels so
far away from her Alma Mater. "I keep
in touch with educational affairs by my
membership in the A. A. U. W. There
are only two southern colleges represented,
Randolph-Macon and Agnes Scott. It is
such a treat to me to see any of my
southern friends. Almost every one comes
to New York once in a while and Ruther-
ford is only "ten miles from Times
Square," so I hope I'll see some of you in
the near future." Marguerite has two chil-
dren, a son and daughter, the daughter is
in the fourth grade now and according to
her mother will soon be ready for Agnes
Scott.

Ruth (McElmurray) Cothran, ex '14, has
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growing apace, as the children of alumnae
have a way of growing, so that all the
friends of the mother feel their age when
they look at the offspring.

Cornelia (Dunwoody) Cameron, ex '14,
is now in Dallas, Texas, locating a home
to which she and her husband and four
children are to move in the near future.
1915

(Next reunion, 1932.)

Martha (Brenner) Shryock recently had
the pleasure of having another "old girl"
and her husband for dinner, Charis (Hood)
Barwick and Mr. Barwick. This seems to
be an Agnes Scott annual affair with these
two, as they remembered that one year be-
fore these two couples and Rebecca
(Gresn) Hinds and her husband were at
Charis' for dinner.

Grace (Hams) Durant says, "Just re-
ceived a note from Martha Brenner, accus-
ing me of not sending in any news recent-
ly. How can I, when I try to keep up with
my family, the youngest of whom walks
with speed and alacrity, my older daughter
has her first tricycle and my husband,
being a civil engineer, is just as hard to
keep track of as his daughters?"

Mary (Kelly) Coleman is reported on by
Katherine (Summers) Birdson, ex '15, who
says that she sees Mary often as she comes
through Barnesvlle to Atlanta.

Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner promises
that if she ever has a chance she is going
to run out to see Aggie, when she is in
Atlanta for a few days, and catch up on
Agnes Scott news. McDonough, Ga., not
being so very far away, there is no reason
why that visit cannot be made soon.

Lucy (Naive) Swain has a little son,
born at Wesley Memorial Hospital in At-
lanta, November 24th; his name is Charles
Naive Swain, partly for the proud father
and partly for Lucy's father.

Frances West sounds good to this office
when she says that she has been intending
to get all the girls of Agnes Scott in St.
Petersburg, Fla., together.

Mary (West) Thatcher has two fine sons
but the tale about the uncanny ability of
the younger, just four, to tell the name of
any make of car from any picture in any
magazine, not just Fords and Buicks, etc.,
but foreign makes, is a most remarkable
story. Maybe we will have a Henry Ford
yet among the sons of alumnae. Mary has
not gone to Florida yet, as the last Quar-
terly said, and this Quarterly gladly brings
her back to Atlanta for a while longer.

Genevieve (Heaton) Bond, ex '15, lives
at 22 Kensington Road, Decatur, and has
one little daughter, Betty, aged six.

Louise (McMath) Duskin, ex '15, is the
proud mother of a daughter, named Louise,
who was born in November; her only other

child, a son, is eleven years old, so this
baby has a glorious time ahead of her.

Katherine (Summers) Birdsong, ex '15,
and her husband are prominent citizens of
Thomaston, Ga., where Mr. Birdsong is a
leading business man and a Kiwanian and
Katherine is busy running her family,
which includes a "cute son, two and a half
years old," and also taking a hand in run-
ning the town, being interested in many
organizations.

1916

(Next reunion, 1932.)

Mary (Bryan) Winn was the speaker at
the September meeting of the Birmingham
Club of Agnes Scott girls on the subject of
the A. A. U. W. organization; Mary is the
new vice-president of the Agnes Scott Club
in her city.

Eloise (Gay) Brawley and her family,
which means a husband and three children,
Billy, aged seven; Eloise, six, and Boiling,
five, have just returned to their home in
Decatur from a most delightful family re-
union of her husband's family in Memphis,
Tenn., where the two boys had their first
view of the Mississippi River, but little
Eloise, having just returned from a shop-
ping trip with new dresses and gifts, scorn-
ed the Mississippi and in true feminine
style stayed at home to revel in her new
belongings; the second largest zoo in the
United States furnished the children with
all the amusement necessary for the entire
length of their stay. Eloise says she is
bringing up Eloise for Agnes Scott, so
there is a loyal 1916 member!

Charis (Hood) Barwick sent in a good
report of herself which we'll let her tell
you, "We have just dedicated our new
church (Charis' husband is a Congrega-
tional minister), which cost $290,000, in-
cluding land and furnishings. I wish you
could see it, for words can't picture the
way you feel when you enter one after an-
other of the beautiful rooms. Our people
have worked like Trojans and given most
generously of time and money and will
have to for years to come. As for myself,
I have no help, and a ten-room house to
look after; two lively boys ten and four;
I make about a hundred and fifty parish
calls a year; write a good many church
letters to save my husband; and answer
the doorbell and telephone many times a
day. I'm chairman of the program com-
mittee of our missionary society and have
to do a great deal of reading and writing in
connection with that, as well as attend
meetings of it. If I haven't mentioned
enough of my duties, I might add a few
more. I've been a member at large of the
A. A. U. W. but have had to refuse to
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ons. I visited the headquarters in Wash-
ington two years ago last summer."

Annie Cameron, ex '16, received her B.
A. and M. A. degrees from the University
of Georgia and is this year teaching at
Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C, in the
history department.

Annie (Mayson) Lynn, ex '16, lives at
215 Eleventh St., Atlanta, and is very busy
in work among young people in the Chris-
tian Education field.

Vivian (Hart) Henderson, ex '16, as the
wife of an army captain, is changing ad-
dresses constantly; she is now at Station
Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio,
Texas.

1917

(Next reunion, 1932.)

Amelia (Alexander) Greenawalt's ad-
dress in Decatur is 142 Wilton Drive.

Gladys Gaines is not only Director of
Religious Education for a large Episcopal
parish in Austin, Texas, as reported last
time, but she is also doing some student
work in the University and among the
nurses of St. David's Hospital. She has
fallen so much in love with Texas that
her mother and sister are going out from
Mobile to live with her and then, as she
says, "I will be a real citizen of Texas."

Jane (Harwell) Rutland has sold her
home in Atlanta and is to move to Balti-
more where her husband is to be in busi-
ness; she and the children are with her
mother in Decatur until after Christmas,
when they will go for a stay in Florida
and in the spring move to Baltimore.

Regina Pinkston did better than write
when she came for a morning visit to
Agnes Scott and came over to the Alumnae
House with Georgiana (White) Miller.
Regina, as secretary, sent out inquiries to
all the class members early in November
and she apologizes for the entire class in
that she has not a single item of news to
r?port. We hope all the unanswered re-
quests are just delayed and that the news
will pour in for the next Quarterly.

Georgiana (White) Miller's address is
218 Winona Drive, Decatur, Ga. Georgiana
is chairman of the swimming alumnae from
Decatur and rallies them around for the
Friday morning hour each week in the
Gym.

Margaret Pruden lost her little nephew
recently and all the girls sympathize with
her in this loss.

Gjertrud (Amundsen) Siqueland an-
nounces the coming of her son, Torger Al-
bert on December 7th.

Augusta Skeen is in her familiar quar-
ters in the Science Building at Agnes Scott.

Augusta (Hedges) Kellogg, ex '17, has
moved from Jacksonville, Fla., to 43 De-
Hart Place, Elizabeth, N. J.

Frank (Howard) Brooks, ex '17, has a
very happy family; there are two lovely,
interesting children, Frances, aged nine,
and Louise, four.

1918

(Next reunion, 1933.)

Hallie (Alexander) Turner has two chil-
dren, Nell Gardiner, six, and Hooper Alex-
ander, two; she is secretary of the League
Auxiliary and chairman of the Young
Matrons' Circle of her church, in addition
to carrying the destinies of the Columbus
Club very gloriously. Under her leader-
ship, the club is putting over the inter-
esting idea of sending chosen students from
the high schools to be guests at A. S. C.
for a week-end and see the college in oper-
ation.

Katherine Holtzclaw is teaching at E. S.
T. C. in Greenville, S. C.

Helen (Hood) Coleman's new street ad-
dress is 214 N. Willomet Ave., Dallas,
Texas.

Virginia Lancaster is teaching school in
the high school at Greenville, S. C.

Margaret Leyburn is one of four good
Agnes Scotters who are "apartmenting"
together at 819 Peachtree Street, Atlanta,
while they work in the four corners of the
city. Margaret is with that well known
firm which needs no introduction, Sears-
Roebuck. Mary Doyal, '28, Lilla Mills and
Huda Dement, both of '28, are the other
roommates.

Myra (Scott) Eastman, vice president of
Eastman, Scott & Company, advertising
concern of national fame in Atlanta, has
become vice president of Campbell, Low-
itz & Whitely, advertisers of New York,
in the recent merging of the two firms.

Eva Maie (Willingham) Park has moved
into her new home which is on the same
street but just a new number, 1185 Oak-
dale Road, Atlanta; Eva Maie is teaching
the second grade at Grant Park School.

Lois Grier was married to Mr. John C.
Moore in August and is living in Wythe-
ville, Va., where Mr. Moore is instructor
in vocational agriculture in the Wytheville
and Max Meadows High Schools. Mr.
Moore is a cousin of another Agnes Scot-
ter, Blanche (Berry) Sheehan.
1919

(Next reunion, 1933.)

Elizabeth (Pruden) Fagan's little son,
Charles Pruden Fagan, died October 25th.
Elizabeth's many friends will be grieved
to hear of her sorrow.

Mary Kate Parks' present address is
care J. E. Featherston, Newnan, Ga.

Llewellyn Wilburn maneuvered the
Alumnae-Student basketball game on
Thanksgiving Day so masterfully that we
almost won. What with Llewellyn on the
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but had the laurel wreath around our
brows.

Hattie May (Finney) Glenn, ex '19, says
her only news is bad colds all around the
family and when we refused to consider
that outstanding enough, she said to give
her time and she would try to think up
some; in the meantime, her two children
are Betty, five, and Margaret, seven months.

Martha (Nathan) Drisdale, ex '19, has
just suffered the loss of her brother by
drowning during the flood of the Tennessee
River in November. The accident occurred
at Florence, Ala.

Pauline Smathers, ex '19, has her home
address back again after a year in New
York; it is 36 Macon Ave., Asheville, N. C.
1920

(Next reunion, 1933.)

Margaret Bland won the prize offered by
the Alumnae Association for the best three-
act play written in the Playwriting Class;
this prize was awarded to Margaret for
her mountain play, "Effie." Margaret
writes in that all the sign of their new
cook, Polly Stone, as yet is her trunk which
has arrived ahead of her and which can be
placed nowhere, unless the chandelier
proves strong enough to hang it on, as
their apartment is so small and so full
that every inhabitant knocks her shins
against table legs and chair rockers every
time she moves.

Romola Davis was married on Novem-
ber 30th to Mr. Harry Hardy of Char-
lotte, N. C. The wedding was held in
Senoia, Ga., with Louise (Brown) Hast-
ings, as matron of honor and her little
daughter as one of the four flower girls.
Her husband is associated with Publix
Theatres, Inc., with headquarters in Char-
lotte.

Cornelia (Hutton) Hazlehurst's new ad-
dress is Mount Holly, S. C.

Gertrude (Manly) McFarland has been
in Piedmont Sanitarium for several weeks
following an operation but is doing splen-
didly now.

Margaret (Sanders) Brannon's last ad-
dress of Box 218, San Marcos, Texas, is
wrong; can any member of this class tell
us the new one?

Margery (Moore) McAulay organized
the Greenville Club, which has just had its
first meeting. Margery is giving the wed-
ding fees that her preacher husband takes
in to her pledge to the Building Campaign.
We immediately begin hoping that he will
marry a millionaire couple soon and inherit
a fee of a $1,000 or so.

Helen Williamson is writing for publica-
tion again, saying that, "It is frequently
small pay but wonderfully interesting
work." Helen wrote for the Palm Beach
Post when she lived there, being a feature
editor. Her father's death occurred in the

early part of this year, and Helen is now
making her home back in Atlanta, 1069
Washita Ave., N. E.

Marion (McCamy) Sims and her husband
have moved to Greensboro, N. C, where
Mr. Sims is to have charge of the McNeal
Marble Company work for that section.

Tip (Holtzclaw) Blanks went to Rich-
mond for Thanksgiving holidays and was
with her cousin and his wife, Dr. and Mrs.
Ben Holtzclaw, Dr. Holtzclaw being on the
faculty of Richmond College.

Louise Slack spent her Christmas holi-
days in LaGrange where the Slack family
had a real reunion with Ruth back from
Duke and the other members over also.
1921

(Next reunion, 1933.)

The second installment of "life histor-
ies." Thank you one and all!

Charlotte Bell (Mrs. W. A. Linton,
Thomasville, Ga.). "There really isn't
much to tell." (Oh, no!) "Mr. Linton is
at the seminary at Decatur for another
winter. We return to Korea in the spring
or early summer. My oldest little boy is
in the first grade and crazy about school.
Two more are in the kindergarten and the
baby is so independent he looks after him-
self in the mornings! Last Sunday Pearl
Smith, who teaches in the high school here,
helped in the department in S. S. where I
had two little boys. I thought how inter-
ested we'd have been in '21 to look for-
ward and see such a situation."

Mary Robb Finney (Mrs. Wm. Alva
Bass). "I loafed in the fall of '21. In
January, '22, I began to teach Latin at De-
catur High School. That fall I went to
the University of Alabama to take grad-
uate work in Latin. In January, '23, I
came to Birmingham to teach Latin and
Spanish. I taught here until I married
August 6, '25. My husband is a chemist
for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway
Co. On July 10, '26, my first baby was
born Elizabeth Adele Bass. I call her
Betty Del. She is so mischievous and full
of life. She fairly adores books. She re-
marked to me the other day, 'I am so
sleepy I can scarcely keep my eyes open.'
I think her vocabulary a little unusual for
three years. On October 6, '27, my son
was born Alva Wilson Bass. I call him
Wilson for my mother's people. He is just
a great big overgrown baby who won't let
'mama' out of his sight. I wish you could
see his sister who is very little taller than
he, take him to the bathroom to wash his
face and hands. My work since I have
married is just housekeeping. (Mary Robb
also sends some welcome additions to the
scrap book snaps of her "two mischievous
youngsters" who are "literally into every-
thing.")

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Helen Hall (Mrs. 0. C. Hopkins, 1315C
Dwight Way, Berkeley, California).

"'21-'22 Taught languages at Howard
Payne College, Fayette, Missouri. '22-'28
Taught at Salem College, Winston-
Salem, N. C. '23 (summer) Columbia
the inevitable! '24 (summer) Europe.

"September 8, '28 Got married. My hus-
band has his Master's from Massachusetts
Tech and is a sanitary engineer in the U.
S. Public Health Service.

"December 1, '28 Moved to San Fran-
fisco.

"September, '28 Moved to Berkeley,
across the bay."

Emily Hutter (Mrs. Arthur Pierce Stew-
art). "It has taken me a long time to say
that I havs no children to tell about, and
can't even furnish a snapshot of my home
since I live in an apartment. Mr. Stew-
art, an Emory graduate, whom I met while
at A. S. C, follows the same profession
that I do viz., teaching. I believe that I
have already reported that I am teaching
English. These are the places we have
lived during our eight years of married
life: Miami, Fla.; Thomasville, Ga.; Ray-
ville, La., and now we have settled down
in Chattanooga to stay. Our summers have
been spent in travel north, south, east and
west. Canada is our hobby. This summer
we shall make our third consecutive trip
there."

Genie Johnston (Mrs. George Clayton
Griffin, 308 Woodward St., Chattanooga,
Tenn.). "I married a football coach and
it is worse than marrying a doctor at
least during football season. We are wor-
ried to death all the time! George coaches
the McCallie School for Boys. It is a
mighty fine prep school of three hundred
boys. I have two boys, as you know ages
four years and eight months. I can't com-
pete with Charlotte! I haven't a hobby,
though we read more than anything else
and joined the literary guild last January.
We have lots of company mostly boys and
faculty, but it keeps me busy with two
boys and a house. Two hundred pound
football boys are always hungry!"

Martha Laing (Mrs. Dorsey, 1843 Cherry
St., Denver, Colo.). "After I graduated I
stayed home, took a lot of trips, visited
friends, just had a real good time. April
3, 1928, I married and we came to Denver
to live. Charlie, my husband, is an M. D.
and an associate of one of the older doc-
tors here. We like Denver immensely.
We've met friends here we like. Also, the
country fascinates one. There are in-
numerable inns and resorts tucked away in
the Rockies which we explored this sum-
mer during day or week-end trips. I'm
planning to spend October home in West
Virginia. Unfortunately, Charlie can't
leave now but we both hope to go next

summer. I expect to be in Lewisburg, visit
a few friends nearby, and go over to a
lodge of daddy's in the Virginia mountains.
Daddy keeps my horse there for me, and
as the mountains are gorgeous now, I ex-
pect to ride horseback about twenty hours
out of twenty-four."

Mary Anne Justice (Mrs. Clarence Mir-
acle). "1921-'22 Teaching in a North
Carolina mountain school. 1922-'23
Teaching high school Kentucky. 1923-'24-
'25 Teaching college work Greenbrier
College, Lewisburg, W. Va. 1925 Married
to Clarence Miracle a civil engineer.
1925-'26 In Kentucky mountains on engi-
neering camp. 1926-'29 In Fernandina,
Fla. still engineering. June, 1928 Wil-
liam Justice Miracle born. 1929 Moved
to Tennessee Bluff City."

Jean McAlister. "I'm here at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina taking my first
two years of medicine and I love it. Don't
know where I'll go from here. It's hard
work, but wonderfully interesting. Saw
Elizabeth Enloe the other day and was so
glad to see her. I had to stop teaching.
My mouth was beginning to turn down at
the corners I was getting so mean."

Janet Preston. "I have been teaching
at Agnes Scott (Freshmen, "English 11,"
and Short Story) since 1921. No, that's
wrong what I mean to say was that I
have been teaching here since 1921 and
work now includes these subjects! 1925-'26
at Columbia University doing work for
Masters' degree in English."

Janef 's many friends among the alumnae
will be grieved to hear of the death of her
father Dr. Samuel Rhea Preston, at Wes-
ley Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, on Novem-
ber 5th. Dr. Preston had been in bad health
for some time and the last months of his
life were spent in the hospital here near
Janef and her sister.

Eula Russell (Mrs. Josh Kelly). "The
first two seasons after leaving A. S. C.
I taught Latin in the Huntsville High
School of Huntsville, Ala. While in Hunts-
ville Josh and I first met through his sis-
ter Mary Kelly, whom I'm sure you remem-
ber as a Freshman the year we graduated.
On November 14, 1923, Josh and I were
married and the following spring built a
dear little five-room cottage that we've
been enjoying ever since till one month
ago when we moved into our new and
permanent home. I can't refrain from say-
ing a word or so about our new home, for
we think it's so lovely in every respect.
It's an English style brick ten rooms
(with loads of closets) and everything as
convenient as possible. You can easily im-
agine what a busy fall I've had moving
and arranging a new home. It's been such
fun and pleasure though! The best I've
saved till last, to tell you about our little

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daughter Catherine Russell Kelly. She's
fourteen months old and is a perfect pic-
ture of health just wish you could see her.
Josh and I spent winter before last in St.
Petersburg, Fla,, and on our return north
we spent overnight with Lucile Smith
Bishop in Orlando. My! How we did talk
Agnes Scott! You'll probably be interested
to know that I'm twenty-five pounds heav-
ier than when I left A. S. C."

Martha Stansfield. "1921-'29 Taught
Latin at Agnes Scott College. 1927-'28
Studied at the University of Chicago. 1928-
'29 Taught Latin at Agnes Scott College.
1929-30 Teaching Latin at Agnes Scott
College." (She doesn't even mention her
M. A., her work for which Miss Lillian
Smith told me her professors at Chicago
said was far superior to what they required
for a Master's, or that she will have a
Doctor's degree as soon as her thesis is
written. The modesty of Agnes Scott peo-
ple!)

Margaret Wade. "I did enjoy the Quar-
terly and for that reason hesitate to out-
line even so prosaic a life history as mine.
I taught in high schools in Virginia and
Tennessee until last year when I came to
Montreat. I have spent all the summers
but one at home. That one I spent for the
most part at the University of Virginia."
(Another modest person! Some of Mar-
garet's normal school girls were in camp
at Montreat where I was counselor this
summer, and I wish I could know that my
girls say of me the nice things I heard of
Margaret.)

Now may I write at the bottom "to be
concluded" instead of "to be continued"?
Please let's make it a 100 per cent roll call
in the next Quarterly. I know your secre-
tary didn't give you much warning this
time and asked for "life histories" just as
you were vitally concerned with the life
history of the Thanksgiving turkey. For-
give me, and send the life histories when-
ever you have a minute, and I'll preserve
them carefully till time for the next Quar-
terly. Would you be interested in histories
of our ex '21s, too? Tell me that when
you write. Thank you!
1922
(Next reunion, 1934.)
Jeanette (Archer) Neal's little son, Wil-
liam Henry Neal, Jr., born Novem-
ber 14th, only lived a short time; we do
sympathize with Jeanette and her husband.
Their address now is 1717 West First St.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.

Mary N. Barton may be communicated
with at 809 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md.;
to quote from her letter: "I am still ab-
sorbed in my work here as reference as-
sistant in the Pratt Library. It is perefct-
ly fascinating but keeps me terribly busy."
Truehart, '19, visited Mary's library and

gave Mary the thrill of seeing another
Agnes Scotter, which she wishes she could
have often.

Nell Buchanan, on the tenth of Novem-
ber, became Mrs. Harry Watson Starcher,
and this is how she tells the story: "I'm
sorry to cause trouble to the Alumnae of-
fice but I will have to ask you to take me
out of the Bs and put me in the Ss, not to
speak of moving me out of Virginia and
into West Virginia, but I must report that
I was married at the University of Vir-
ginia on the tenth of November, in St.
Paul's chapel to Harry Starcher of Hunt-
ington, W. Va. He is a lawyer and a very
nice person and I hope will find a wel-
come as a new alumnae husband. My
present address is 419 5th Ave., Hunting-
ton, W. Va. I really did not take this
step just to give you alumnae news, though
I know all contributions are appreciated."

Eunice (Dean) Major found time amidst
cooking her Christmas fruit cake, plan-
ning the Thanksgiving dinner, which was
also the third birthday dinner of her twins,
filling Thanksgiving baskets for three
orphans, doing work for the disabled vet-
erans, writing a characterization for the
Book Club program, and collecting night-
gowns for a mission hospital in Korea,
to write a letter brim full of joy and activ-
ity. Eunice is secretary of foreign mis-
sions for the Auxiliary of her church, joint
chairman of the rehabilitation and unit ac-
tivities committee of the Anderson Legion
and does Sunday School class and Book
Club work. Eunice's days are exceedingly
full, but she says she is having the time of
her life and enjoying the most delightful
companionship in her work. Her twins,
"Lady" and "Jimmy," and her older boy,
Hal, are handsome, healthy children, al-
ways busy, bubbling over with good spirits.

Lilburne Ivey's new address is 501 Wal-
nut St., Florence, Ala.

Mary Knight says, "I am still on my ear
with excitement and new work. My grand
editorial job holds me from nine to five
and I have newspaper work at night; met
Amelia Earhart and had an interview with
her last week and she is very nice. To-
day, I have been to Asbury Park and Ocean
Grove, N. J., the next Sunday to Hart-
ford, Conn., and the following one on a
trip up the Hudson. I have met Theodore
Dreiser's assistant and she has become a
good friend. This life is really too full
of thrills and delightful experiences for
one person."

Juanita Kelly is teaching English and
French in the Cumberland Mountain School
at Crossville, Tenn., and, at the same time,
she is broadening her knowledge of lan-
guages by exchanging her English for
Spanish with a Cuban girl. She had a
wonderful trip this past summer through

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the Canadian Rockies and the western
states.

Lucia Mui'chison is working in Columbia
now at the Associated Charities, putting
into practice all the things she learned
while getting her M. A. at Hopkins.

Alice (Whipple) Lyons' little new daugh-
ter just did get here in time to go into
print, arriving November twenty-second;
she is named Jessie Lilliard.

Althea Stephens' new address is badly
needed in the office; do any of you know
it?

Ruth Scandrett stopped by to visit Dick
at Agnes Scott on her way to her new
place in Montgomery, Ala., where she will
be with the Child Labor Department, her
chief responsbility being the enforcing of
the child labor law throughout the state
which means a continual traveling pro-
gram.

Kathleen Belcher, ex '22, was married to
Mr. John M. Gaines, of Charlotte, N. C,
September 14th.

Merle (Sellars) Faulk has had a very
sad year; after her father's death in Febru-
ary, she and her husband moved back to
Samson, Ala., to live with her mother and
sister. In May, her uncle died and shortly
after, her husband was drowned while on a
fishing trip to Lake Jackson. Merle has
the sympathies of all of her friends at
Agnes Scott and among the alumnae.

Esther Joy (Trump) Hamlet resides in
Tuscumbia, Ala. She says, "I am still stay-
ing young by teaching. I love it. Each
year I say is the last, and then it isn't."
Esther Joy and Catherine (Graeber)
Crowe, '26, are teaching in the same school.

Margaret Henry, ex '22, was married to
Dr. W. B. Majors, at the home of her par-
ents on Bush Circle, Birmingham, Ala.

Louise (McCorkle) Kloor, ex '22, has two
homes, one in the spring and summer in
Chapparra, Cuba, when her husband's busi-
ness, as a sugar chemist, take them, and
another back with her parents in Crowley,
La., during the winter months.
1923

(Next reunion, 1934.)

Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansel's little
son, born Saturday, October 26th, is named
Charles Edward Brodnax Hansel, for his
maternal grandfather and for his maternal
great uncle.

Louise (Brown) Hastings gave a lovely
tea in honor of Romola Davis, '20, and was
also matron of honor in Romola's wedding,
which took place November 30th in Senoia,
Ga. Mary Louise Hastings, Louise's little
daughter, was one of the four flower girls.

Nannie Campbell's impressve looking
card announcing the opening of the Fern-
croft Tea Room at 18 North Eighth St.,
Richmond, Va., drifted into the office and

promptly found its way to the 1923 class
book.

Helen (Faw) Mull says that her family
took a big vacation this summer, but not a
word does she tell us about where and
when, so if you want to know about it,
you'll have to write her or maybe she'll
tell us more for next time.

Elizabeth (Flake) Cole is spending the
winter at 37 Muscogee Ave., N. W., At-
lanta, and has leased her home in Ansley
Park for the year.

Philippa Gilchrist really deserves a para-
graph all by herself for she has been made
a member of Sigma Delta Epsilon honor-
ary sorority for graduate women in science
at the University of Wisconsin. She is an
M. S. of the class of '28 at the University
of Wisconsin and is back at the university,
working in chemistry, after having been a
member of the Agnes Scott faculty since
1923.

Eugenia (Pou) Harris' husband is pas-
tor of the Presbyterian Church in Milledge-
ville, Ga.; her street address is 103 N.
Columbia.

Carrie Allison, ex '23, is now at 519 W.
121st St., New York City.

Mildred (Dismukes) Borum, ex '23, has
a new boy, which the class of '23 can
proudly claim.

Annabel Stith, ex '23, was married on
the twenty-second of October in Birming-
ham, Ala., to Mr. Cecil Marvin Self.

Elizabeth (Dickson) Steele's, ex '23, little
daughter was born in Soochow, China, dur-
ing the war times in China, where Eliz-
abeth and her husband are stationed; the
family is now home on furlough in Amer-
ica.

1924

(Next reunion, 1934.)

Rebecca Biving's engagement was an-
nounced to Mr. Water McDowell Rogers
of Atlanta and Baxley, the marriage
solemnized the latter part of December.

Beulah Davidson has been a visitor at
the Alumnae House twice this fall; Beulah
is teaching English in the high school in
Tate, Ga.

Nancy Evans' street address in Rich-
mond, Kentucky, has changed to 323 South
Second St.

Emmie (Ficklen) Harper's announce-
ment of the new daughter, named Celeste
Ficklen, comes from a far away post of
Agnes Scotters, Jubbulpore, India.

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes' friends
will be grieved to hear that she has been
called home because of the illness and death
of her sister, Edna, from pneumonia.

Kate Higgs' mail has been returned from
her California address. Does any member
of '24 know her present one?

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Cora Frazer (Morton) Durrett had Polly
Stone as her guest when Polly passed
through Atlanta recently.

Cora Eichardson spent the Thanksgiving
week-end back in the Alumnae House and
took in all the events of that week; her
new address is 610 Broad St., LaGrange,
Ga., where she is teaching in the high
school and finding many Agnes Scotters in
the town.

Dick Scrandrett is still "Dick" back at
A. S. C. One of the Freshmen was trying
to tell some one else with what authority
she spoke and she said, "That lady every-
body calls Dick told me so."

Polly Stone furnishes plenty of news for
this class, for she is now traveling around
with her thirty pounds of hard earned
weight on a triumphal tour, visiting friends
and relatives from Atlanta to New Haven,
Conn., where she intends to spend the rest
of the winter, having accepted the exalted
position of "cook" for that Yale group,
Margaret Bland, Ro Winter and Miriam
Preston; it seems that the last cook talked
too much and disturbed the students three,
so they immediately thought of Polly and
realizing her sterling virtue of silence, they
insisted on her coming up and running the
apartment; the former cook, Mrs. Bland,
warned Polly against accepting, but "travel
must have its drawbacks, but it is travel,"
says Polly and away she goes.

Augusta Thomas was married to Mr. G.
W. Lanier and is now living in the Pallas
Apartments, 1559 Peachtree, Atlanta.

Minnie Allen, ex '24, is Mrs. John W.
Coleman, Belvoir, Route 1, Chattanooga,
Tenn.

Mary Colley is now living in the Sterling
Court Apartments in Nashville, Tenn.

Priscilla (Porter) Richards, ex '24, wrote
in for an address she wanted; this is a
service the office is glad to render at all
times for alumnae.

Ruth Rickarby, ex '24, has sailed away
from Mobile for her new home in Porto
Rico.

1925

(Next reunion, May, 1930; you will be
back with the girls of '26, '27, and '28; your
chance to see many of the friends of the
Freshman, Sophomore and Junior classes
of your college days, as well as the class-
mates of '25. Can you afford to miss it? )

Idelle Bryant's new address is 118 East
40th St., Apt. 6H, New York City.

Agatha Deaver is one of our librarians,
being in the Tampa, Fla., library; her ad-
dress is 1712 Richardson Place.

Sallie Horton spent the week-end recent-
ly with Montie (Sewell) Burns, ex '25,
whose luncheon for Sallie gathered a regu-
lar Agnes Scott bunch, including Margaret
(McDow) McDougald, '24; Hilda (McCon-
nell) Adams, '23; Grace (Carr) Clark, '27;

Mary Bess Bowdoin, '25, who came to At-
lanta from Adairsville for the meeting,
Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland, '25.

Dorothy (Keith) Hunter is living at 755
Oak St., Apartment 16, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Frances "Styx" (Lincoln) Moss, who is
now living at Burke's Gardens, Va., has a
new member in her family, Miss Ann Car-
olyn Moss, born October 1st, being a
splendid specimen of nine pounds weight.

Anne McKay is spending this winter in
study in New York, her address for the
time being is 16 Christopher, Apartment

Martha Lin Manly was a visitor at the
Alumnae House in November while she
was in Atlanta to be with Gertrude, who
was at Piedmont Sanitarium.

Julia Pops visited the Alumnae House
with Elizabeth Henderson, '27, during
Thanksgiving week-end.

Martha Pennington is teaching in Perry,
Fla., and so the reports come back from
another Agnes Scott girl in the school,
"she is a splendid teacher and holds up
the Agnes Scott standard and tradition
here."

Mildred Pitner is teaching French and
History in the high school at Tate Ga.,
and came down with a friend for a week-
end at Agnes Scott in November.

Catherine Randolph has returned from a
year spent at the University of Grenoble
in Europe and is teaching kindergarten in
Asheville, N. C.

Frances (Tennant) Ellis' new home in
Atlanta means a new address, Chatham
Road.

Josephine Schuessler was one of the two
alumnae who brought up the five high
school girls from Columbus, Ga., to visit
Agnes Scott and Jo and Myrtle Blackmon
spent the week-end in the Alumnae House
while the girls roomed with girls on the
campus.

Sarah Tate, who spent the early fall in
the Alumnae House while she worked in
Atlanta, was called home on account of
her mother's health and will be in Fair-
mount, Ga., for a while.

Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie is living in
Carthage, N. C, and has a baby girl, born
this year.

Susie (Stokes) Taylor, ex '25, has a life
like a book, since she decided to leave
school and marry; while Archie, the baby,
was three months old, and Richard was
seventeen months, she was going to sum-
mer school, rushing back from classes to
bathe and nurse the little one and get the
older one occupied with his play things!
After that, while she and her family lived
in the dormitory at Wake Forest and
boarded out to make things easier for her,
the hours were spent, with considerable
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Ward an A. B. She is now planning her
M. A. thesis to be worked up while she is
in distant libraries with her constantly re-
searching husband, at the same time she
writes of her lovely little home and babies!
Can any of us ever say we are busy again?

Helen Atkins, ex '25, is back home this
winter in Marion, Va.

Eva Moore, ex '25, left Atlanta for
Washington, D. C, to be with her mother
there.

Elizabeth (Watts) Beal, ex '25, is one of
the most ardent swimmers in the Alumnae
Swimming Class every Friday morning.
1926

(Next reunion, next May, 1930; wouldn't
you love to see the girls of your own class
plus the girls who were Seniors, Soph-
omores and Freshmen, when you were
Juniors? This will be the time when you
can meet with these classes of '25, '27, '28;
please make your plans for May 31-June
3rd.)

Dudley Brown writes, "Dear girls: I
heard that Nan Lingle went to Chicago by
way of Atlanta straight route, I'd say.
The last time she went I met her there,
perhaps the next! I have just come home
from a week of New York and two weeks
of hiking along the boardwalk in Atlantic
City. It is almost equal to one of those
romps down Whitehall. Lib Norfleet's son
has grown so while I was away that I will
not be able to influence him any longer
I was the first woman to inveigle him out
to see the moon. Mary Martha is a mar-
velous housekeeper. Lib Lilly, Jo Huntley
and I played bridge with her this after-
noon."

Helen (Bates) Law is doing a great deal
of studying in her music, as well as car-
ing for a large upper duplex of six rooms
where, as she puts it, "the good old nigs
are a minus quantity." She wishes for
more Agnes Scott girls to marry Tech men
and come up to General Electric in Schen-
ectady, for she is the only one.

Mary Dudley Brown has changed her
address from Miami to Box 1648, Winston-
Salem, N. C.

Edythe Coleman was the guest of Helena
Hermance in Miami this fall.

Louisa Duls writes, "Please write some-
thing about yourself on this card " brazen
thing to do; still Ellen says just that. I
spent six weeks at the University of North
Carolina this summer, taking work for my
teacher's certificate and toward my
master's degree. Many Agnes Scott girls
were there: Olivia Swann, Mitchell Moore,
Maria Rose, Ellen Colyer, all studying;
then Mary Heath there with her husband.
This winter I'm teaching English in the
Charlotte High School again. As usual,
I'm strongly interested in my class in cre-
ative writing, which has fifteen students

this year. OF COURSE, I'M COMING TO
CLASS REUNION, if I don't save enough
money to go to Europe next summer."

Mary Ella (Hammond) McDowell has
moved across town in Valdosta, but has
not changed towns, only box numbers, her
new one being Box 541.

Helena Hermance was in Atlanta for the
opening of the Hermance Stadium at Ogle-
thorpe University, when her father and
mother and brother were special guests of
honor at the university.

Virginia Peeler is taking a rest cure of
six weeks in Pasadena, California.

Elizabeth (Moore) Harris is a weekly
visitor at the college for she is a member
of the swimmers' club of the Alumnae As-
sociation on Friday morning of each week.

Nellie Richardson is teaching in the
Thomson, Ga., school, where they have just
built a beautiful new building.

Susan Shadburn's little sister, Sara, is
a sophomore this year at Agnes Scott and
is also a member of the granddaughters'
club which has its picture in this issue.

Sarah Slaughter is at home this winter,
at 16 Prado, Atlanta.

Evelyn Sprinkle is in Marion, Va., this
year.

Gene Dumas, ex '26, is Mrs. Marion Vick-
ers; her address is 169 S. Houston, Mobile,
Alabama.

Alice Frances Matthews, ex '26, was
married to Mr. John Ray King at her home
in Decatur.

Florence Tucker, ex '26, and Mr. William
Weston of Columbia, S. C, were married
in the Beaufort Baptist church; her hus-
band is a graduate of U. of N. C. and is
connected with the State Board of Health.

Maud Whittemore, ex '26, says she
wouldn't miss one of the Quarterlies for
anything and after reading one, grows ter-
ribly impatient for the next one. One way
to make the time between Quarterlies pass
quickly is to edit it the next one seems to
step on the heels of the one just out!

Susan Rose, ex '26, is back home with
her family in Chapel Hill this winter and
is teaching in the public schools there.
1927

(Next reunion, this coming May, 1930!)

From the way our letters didn't get an-
swered in time for this issue of the Quar-
terly we realize more than ever how very
important it is for every member of good
old '27 to plan to be back for our reunion
in May! We won't guarantee any other
way of finding out news about each other.
Maybe we get rushed and don't write, but
was there ever a woman who didn't talk
when she had a chance? Next May is
OUR opportunity, and we want to start
planning for it now. Save up your picture
show money for bus fare, or start show-
ing road maps to your husband, or talking

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the need of a vacation to your boss man;
we want you, each one of you, back for our
reunion. You're none of you ancients yet,
and think how "grand and glorious" it will
be, all of us back at A. S. C. together.
"Light rules" and "quiet rules" will cer-
tainly be off for '27, and you'll feel like a
Senior again, talking far into the night,
and planning to conquer the world, or
maybe telling the rest of us how you have
already done it! Make your plans now.
The last of May for OUR reunion.

Evelyn Albright is spending the winter
at home, 401 Arnold St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Blanche Berry was married October 6th
in New York City to Mr. Geoffrey Bernard
Sheehan and is now living at 24 Jane St.,
New York City.

Josephine Bridgman is teaching the fifth
grade again this winter in Gastonia. Jo is
staying with the Henderlites, while Rachel
is teaching high school English at Belmont,
N. C. Rachel reports Belmont to be be-
tween Gastonia and Charlotte, and that
teaching there is more work than college
ever was! Rachel lives in a teacherage
with some forty other teachers, meanwhile
developing a new sympathy for the strug-
gles Miss Preston had correcting the re-
sults of '27's "daily theme eye." We con-
clude that correcting papers is not one of
Rachel's chief joys.

On Friday, October 18, Marion Daniel
was marired to Mr. Charles E. Blue, Jr.,
of Charlottesville, Virginia. Marion's
young sister, Margaret, was her only at-
tendant.

Charlotte Buckland's write-up in the last
issue" needs lots of correcting; she did not
peruse the study of culinary art, as we re-
ported, but it was the study of bacteriol-
ogy which kept her at the University of
Wisconsin this summer. We are glad to
bring Charlotte "out of the kitchen" and
put her in the laboratory, for to tell the
truth, we never did like the kitchen our-
selves and were puzzled all the time about
why Charlotte picked out that subject for
the summer time. Charlotte is the newly
elected president of the Jacksonville Club.

Emilie (Ehiiich) Strasburger has moved
from Savannah to 1010 Benning Road, Co-
lumbus. Ga. Emilie's sister, Anne, is one
of the busiest Seniors on the campus this
year.

Mary Ferguson received her M. A. from
the University of Chicago last spring, after
writing her thesis on "The Natural Infec-
tions of Chickens With Bird Malaria." To
quote Marion, "I am writing from my room
in the bacteriology department of the
Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. I've
been here since the first of April and am
just crayz about the work. I'm doing all
sorts of things, from routine bacteriology
to bleeding medical and law students who

want to give blood transfusions." Mary's
address is 3030 Washington Ave., Chicago.

The last we heard Marcia Green was
making big preparations to visit Agnes
Scott and Atlanta and the erstwhile Jimmy
for Thanksgiving. We are hoping the
Alumnae office will have seen Marcia and
added something more. Indeed the Alumnae
office can add to this! Marcia was here
for Thanksgiving but we must admit that
"Jimmy" got more chance to talk to her
than we did, as we only could catch a fleet-
ing glimpse of her as she came in or went
out.

Mae Erskine Irwin visited Carolina Mc-
Call for three weeks in November and they
evidently settled half the world's prob-
lems. Carolina reports that they at least
reached the conclusion of a belief in "the
divine right of the individual to leisure."
While admiring the zeal of their energetic
friends and classmates for further learning
and lucrative employment they seem more
pleased with a personal application of leis-
ure for themselves. We very much like to
give news about people who really like
what they're doing, whether it is work or
play.

Elsa Jacobsen had a busy summer at
camp and after that a trip back to De-
catur via an overnight stop in Asheville,
and a visit at Camp Parry-Dise with
Elaine. Elsa is again doing Girl Reserve
work in Indianapolis this winter. Her ad-
dress is 329 North Penn Street.

Martha Johnson had planned to return to
Ithaca Conservatory for her degree in
music this fall, but was unable to on ac-
count of her mother's illness; she is quite
a busy person in Jefferson, Ga., this winter,
keeping house, teaching voice and piano
pupils and doing church woi'k.

Elizabeth Henderson, one of the
Thanksgiving visitors to the campus, is
teaching French, in fact, is the head of the
French department in the Brunswick school
and is finishing up the second "installment"
on her M. A.

Marcia Horton was married to Mr. Wil-
liam Paul Speir on December 12th; her
husband, a graduate of Georgia Tech, is
now with the Georgia Power Company in
Atlanta.

Louise Leonard is still delighted with
teaching English in the High School at
her home in Spartanburg, S. C. From the
way Louise is traveling about, school teach-
ing must be "on the boom" she went to
the University of California in the sum-
mer of '27, to Columbia in '28 and plans to
go to Europe in '30.

Pearl Kunne's address is 338 Rugby
Road, Cedarhurst, L. I. She and Frances
Rainey spent a most delightful time to-
gether this summer at Far-Rockaway
Beach.

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Helen Lewis is teaching in the Frank-
fort High School.

Ethel (Littlefield) Williamson lives at
Fort Myers, Fla., where her husband has
a large fruit farm.

Elizabeth Lynn is one of the two women
graduate students in the department of
physics at the University of Wisconsin,
and writes there is at least one important
advantage, all the faculty and their wives
deem it necessary to entertain her. The
week-ends are festive but retribution and
quizzes unfortunately coincided with
Thanksgiving week and Lib planned to
postpone her celebration. "We had zero
weather yesterday," Lib writes, "but it
wasn't as cold as you would think. The
lake (Mendota) was one of the prettiest
sights I've ever seen. The temperature
drop had come so suddenly that the lake
water couldn't keep up with it and as a re-
sult has been vaporizing the past three
days. It reminds me of the mountain mists
in the early morning."

On the evening of December third Cleo
McLaurine was married to Mr. Duke Bald-
ridge in the Myers' Park Methodist Church
at Charlotte, N. C.

Hulda McNeel is at home this winter
in Birmingham.

Kenneth Maner, having won her M. A.
from Columbia in history, is teaching this
year in Pennsylvania.

Lucia Nimmons is at home this winter
in Seneca, S. C.

Elizabeth Sanders has been in the Mayo
clinic for some time, but after a brief stay
at home will be with her sister, Margaret,
in Laredo, Texas, for the rest of the winter.

Sarah (Shields) Pheiffer took her young
son home to Dawson with her for a visit in
October. Sarah was matron of honor in
her cousin's wedding in Fort Valley and
visited in Atlanta before returning to
Asheville.

Frances Rainey did not do but one of the
three things we accused her of in the last
issue; she did not study at Columbia our.
only excuse is that she had intended to
but she spent some time with Willie White
in Boston and in New York and she and
Pearl Kunne and Helen Fanner were all
at the boat to see Willie White off when
she sailed for Copenhagen on September
7th. She is doing graduate work at Emory
this winter this is the one right state-
ment but not assisting in biology or
chemistry departments, having a fellow-
ship in the biochemistry department. She
and Berdie Ferguson, '29, who also has a
fellowship, and Evangeline Papageorge,
'28, who is assistant in the department,
are working together and enjoying each
other a great deal and are happy to be
close enough to go back to the campus
every now and then.

Willie White Smith will not return to
teach at New York University in February,
but has decided to continue her work under
Dr. Krogh, her address being Julianne
Maries, Mj. 32, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Margie Wakefield writes, "I do a bit of
everything from bookkeeping to wrapping
and stamping packages for the Steward-
ship committee of the Presbyterian church.
There is no monotony connected with this
job!" Margie and her mother and two
friends are living together in an apart-
ment this winter and find it quite an im-
provement over boarding.

Alice Weichselbaum is in New York
working for S. W. Strauss and Company,
having given up a delightful place in Sa-
vannah for the larger opportunities of New
York. Her address is A. W. A. Club House,
Room 723, 3535 West 57th Street, New
York City. She says it is a marvelous club
for women with beautiful period lounges
and bed rooms that boast secretary desks,
private baths, day beds, and windows over-
looking the Hudson. Alice writes that she
has met any number of fascinating people,
including a girl who accompanies explor-
ation parties and does deep sea painting.

Louisa (White) Gosnell, accompanied
her husband to Briarcliff, New York, in
October, when Dr. Gosnell, at the request
of the Carnegie Endowment, attended the
Institut de Droit International. This is the
first time the Institut has met in the United
States. Among the social activities was
a reception for Premier Ramsay MacDon-
ald. Louisa enjoyed her first experiences
in New York and visited in Washington be-
fore her return to Decatur.

Louisa came in the alumnae office to pay
her fine of fifty cents the other day, be-
cause that is the penalty for holding up
the round robin letter which nine girls
keep going; they are Maurine Bledsoe,
"Bee" Keith, Virginia Norris, Ann McCol-
lum, Caroline Essig, Pat Collins, Olivia
Swann, Edith McGranahan and Louisa.

Virginia Baird, ex '27, is in New York
for the winter, and is associated with a
school of dancing. She is living with her
brother and sister.

Mary Martha (Lybrook) Neal visited
Evalyn Powell for two weeks in Little
Rock in November.

Olive Gardner, ex '27, was a bride of the
early autumn, being now Mrs. Sheldon
Bandy, of Montgomery, Ala.

Emma Allen, ex '27, is an ardent worker
in the Young People's Work of the First
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.
1928

(Next reunion. 1930, this COMING MAY.
The reunion we had last year was not ac-
cording to the regular schedule, since the
last class out always has a reunion the

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next May, but according to the good old
Dix plan, this is our first formal reunion.
Do you remember the long, long table of
us that rose up at the Trustees' luncheon
when the class was called? Let's make
it two tables this year and show 'em what
a reunion means!!)

Leila "Jack" Anderson sent in a letter
to the office on such impressive letter head,
with National Student Council of the
Episcopal Church, at the University of
California in Berkeley, across the top, and
in the corner, Leila W. Anderson, Student
Secretary.

Martha Brown's changed address is 608
McCormick, Clifton Forge, Va.

Mary Doyal, Huda Dement, Lilla Mills,
are the three members of '28 who are keep-
ing house in an apartment with Margaret
Leyburn, '18, at 819 Peachtree, Atlanta.

Mary is working in Tech, as secretary to
Professor McDaniel in the co-operative de-
partment.

Huda Dement is in charge of the Theo-
logical Library at Emory and says she is
never able to get out to Saturday night
affairs at the college for that is her night
on duty at Emory.

Lilla Mills is out in the business world,
being with the Electric Storage Battery
Co. in Atlanta.

Margaret Gerig and her father came out
to Agnes Scott, her father being almost
an alumnus himself, for he spent some
months in Decatur when Margaret was in
college and was the noble "maker-up" of
the girls in Senior Opera of that year. He
and Margaret have been in Europe for
six months, their trip including a won-
derful Mediterranean cruise. Mr. Gerig
says he will be back for Senior Opera.

"Pete" Grier is studying on her Master's
at Columbia and is at 400 W. 118th St.,
New York City.

Mildred Jennings wrote in that she was
truly homesick for Agnes Scott and was
bound for here as soon as possible.

Virginia Love's new address is Oviedo,
Fla.

Mary Bell McConkey writes that the
Quarterly means so much to her because
she is just a little too far away to get
much first-hand news. "Lf you are inter-
ested in class news (there is nothing we
are so interested in!) my one big bit is
that Grace Augusta Ogden, '26, came thru
St. Louis with her husband, Wallace Moore,
on their honeymoon and I got to see them,
to my great joy." Mary Bell is working
now in the public library in St. Louis but
"I WOULDN'T START TILL I MADE
SURE THAT I COULD GET DOWN TO
DECATUR FOR MY CLASS REUNION
THIS MAY."

Virginia Miller uses almost the same
words as Mary Bell when she says she

can not do without the Alumnae Quarterly
it means so much to her. She is teach-
ing piano and voice in Union High School
and sends best wishes to the Alumnae
Association and its new secretary.

Mary Robinson misses the Alma Mater
way down in Southern Alabama where
everyone speaks of Alabama Woman's Col-
lege and Auburn "rather than the South's
best."

Elizabeth Roark is teaching in Magnolia,
N. C.

Elizabeth Ruff teaches math in St.
Petersburg, Fla., but took time off to come
up to Atlanta for the Tech-Florida game in
October.

Lillian White says she can hardly wait
for the Quarterly to find out about "all
the old crowd."

Blanche (Guff in) Alsobrook, ex '28, has
moved to 100 Stuyvesant, St. George,
Staten Island, N. Y.

Margaret Mixon, ex '28, is employed in
the office of a large lumber company in
Guntown, Fla.

Geraldine (Menshouse) Weekes, ex '28,
lives in Decatur and is an interested church
worker in Decatur.

Nannie Graham Sanders, ex '28, writes
how glad she is to have one other Agnes
Scott girl in her town, Lois (Grier) Moore,
to talk over school news with her. Nannie
has been substituting in the Max Meadows
high school for the last three years and
says she has had a sample of everybody's
work but the janitor's. She sent in a most
glowing account of Marian (Daniel) Blue's
wedding which was a very lovely church
wedding in Charlottesville, Va. Marian's
marriage was a regular Agnes Scott re-
union, for, besides Nannie, there was
Rachel Henderlite, '28, and Helen Lewis,
'27; Lucile Bridgeman, '29; Ruth Worth,
'29, who enjoyed a happy week-end to-
gether after the wedding was over.
1929

(Next reunion. May, 1930.)

If any complaint ever reaches me of a
member of my class who finds that time
hangs heavy on her hands, I shall prompt-
ly appoint her secretary in my stead, for
that position I find is one that makes the
time roll by x~egrettably fast.

Out of the 94 questionaires I sent out
recently there has been an almost immed-
iate response from 46 of the girls, and an-
swers are still coming with every mail,
which I consider a good sign in itself. Out
of these replies I have been able to com-
pile some rather interesting statistics. For
example

Under occupations I evolved the follow-
ing: 24 are at schools all over everywhere,
teaching; 2 were brazen enough to admit
"doing nothing"; 5 are housekeeping, 2 for

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husbands at that; 2 are full-fledged librar-
ians; 1 is "trousstauing" (Helon, of
course); 1 (even more obviously Hazel) is
busy "marryng off a twin"; 3 are in the
business world as secretaries or sten-
ographers; 8 are doing student work of
some sort or another, ranging from work
toward higher degrees, laboratory techni-
que, dancing, library study, business
courses down or up to a special training
course in one of the country's largest and
finest department stores.

Also out of these 46, 32 are at home
this winter. And only 4 announced en-
gagements out of that lot. And of these
46 all had either paid Alumnae dues or
promised prompt payment.

Margaret (Andreae) Hamrick is teach-
ing school in the S. M. Inman School in
Atlanta.

Therese Barksdale is to be married to
Mr. George Vinsonhaler of Little Rock
early in January. And here we might
strike up all sorts of comparisons what
with Bs, wedding bells, January and Little
Rock Listen to this from Helon: "I am
getting married on New Year's Day in
the evening. Jean Lamont is the only
bridesmaid everybody at school will know.
Oh! We are so excited! The thrillingest
of all things is a cute little white house
Bill and I have bought already. My ad-
dress after January 15, 1930, will be 207
Pearl Street, Little Rock, Arkansas." And
the one time we could forgive our presi-
dent for being the proverbial absent-mind-
ed-because-in-love type, Helon has run true
to form and thought of the class, as those
reuning can witness for and verify.

Lillie Bellingrath writes: "I am work-
ing (not in a positioin) at the National
Library Bindery in Atlanta. I am general
office girl, but my real title is secretary to
the manager. And this after having had
two months in business school this sum-
mer."

Lucile Bridgeman is at 960 High Street,
Farmville, Virginia. Ditto Worth says
that she is living with a friend there,
and has a charming room furnished with
antiques. Lucile writes that she is "teach-
ing Frnch, History, Biology, and Physical
Education all on an English major. And
again I may quote Ditto: "She seems to be
enjoying her work very much, the only
trouble being that some of the children
just will be typical high school children,
thinking football the only incentive to
study." Louise Slack sent this in: "Last
week when I was teaching Adolescent Psy-
chology in Farmville, Virginia, just went
there in an emergency to fill out a class
for Dr. Robertson, and incidentally he had
told me that there was one A-grade pupil
in the class. Imagine my surprise on look-
ing into the class to discover that the one

A-grade pupil was Lucile Bridgeman. It
was piles of fun to see someone from school
again, and I had very pleasant chats with
her between classes."

Leonora Briggs is at 4005 15th Street, N.
E., Seattle, Washington, going to the Uni-
versity of Washington. She says, "The
West is lovely and I'm enjoying it lots, and
of course university life among 7,000 is
quite different in every way, but Agnes
Scott is always home, you know."

Hazel Brown confided, "Helon and I
felt quite important staying at the Alum-
nae House the week-end of the stunt, which
was one of the most exciting things I have
done. We stopped over in Birmingham with
Martha Riley, Mary Ray and Helen Rid-
ley on the way back from 2:40 one after-
noon until 11:00 that night." Helen said,
"We had a gay time trying to divide up
six hours for three houses."

Sara Douglass, teaching in the Highland
Grammar School in Atlanta, writes: "You
don't know anything until you try to teach
48 fourth grade, spoiled children." Which
must make the rest of us teachers wonder
if she wouldn't say the same with any
grade.

"Little Mary" Ellis is librarian at North
Avenue Presbyterian School. She confesses
that "since leaving the hustling life of
college I find myself in such an apathetic
state over having a few spare moments,
that I accomplish nothing, positively
nothing. I'm hoping that something big
will soon inspire me to hard labor once
again. North Avenue is a wonderful place
and I love it. I hied me to Emory Sum-
mer School, took a library course, and am
now settled as guardian of the stacks.
The work is most fascinating and I en-
joy the girls immensely. I have a room
with pale green walls, inlaid hai'dwood
floors, a rose rug and drapes, oak book-
cases, and French prints on the walls.
Ritzy, say what! My hours too are lovely
8:30 to 2:00 and no night work ever.
So you see how nicely Little Mary is pro-
gressing!"

Berdie Ferguson is a fellow in Biology
and Chemistry at Emory, and is "hoping
for an M. S. degree in June, 1930."

Helen Fox is taking a special training
course with Gimbel Brothers Department
Store in Philadelphia.

Lenore Gardner's address is A. & M.
Normal College, Americus, Ga.

Betty Gash is in the chikrren's depart-
ment of the 67th Street branch of the New
York Public Library. Betty says, "I am
enjoying my work a lot. These little East-
siders, while not all that could be desired
so far as cleanliness, etc., is concerned,
are really awfully interesting. And there
is never any telling what they will say."
Mary Ellis says that "Betty is now quite

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the cosmopolitan. She makes me feel so
country, that I feel ill at ease with her.
She loves New York, and I'm afraid that
we'll never get her back in the southern
regions again."

And another "G" Mary told on was
Marion Green! "And coming to Marion
makes me feel aged and old maidish. You
know the Englishman came all the way
from England for a two weeks' visit. I
talked to them both over long distance one
Monday night. He sounds perfectly
precious quite the Englishman in accent,
as he should. And Marion told me to
buy my blue dress for the wedding and
everything thrilling like that. I don't know
when it will be but next summer, I be-
lieve."

Katherine Lott is teaching this winter in
Perry, Fla., and she came all the way
through two states to attend the Thanks-
giving reunion.

Mabel Marshall writes, "I enjoy going to
the University of Kentucky. However, I
haven't a snap course with Greek, an oral
exam and a thesis hanging over my head."
But I daresay her M. A. next spring will
compensate for those trials.

Alice McDonald went to Emory for a
time this fall, taking post-graduate courses
in Education. She said that it was quite
a campus joke that an Agnes Scott grad-
uate was going to Emory for her "Educa-
tion." Whether the razzing was too hec-
tic or not Alice didn't say. However, she
now writes of being "a lady of leisure."
And adds, "I hate to disappoint you but
I'm not even writing poetry. No, I'm not
even criticizing it!"

Alice also sent me the low-down on sev-
eral other '29-ers. "Julia McLendon com-
plains that nobody in Cairo, West Virginia,
can understand the way she talks, and they
all think she's provincial because she calls
their hills mountains. Conscientious Phi
Beta making mountains out of mole hills!"

Also Kitty Hunter and Frances Wimbish
are reported as "Alternating their evening
pastimes by crying one night and sitting
up until twelve the next learning Viking
architecture and fractions."

Pasco wrote her regrets for our first
reunion, being forced "to attend some old
school convention here (Pensacola) at that
time." And Pasco states: "My health at
present is fine in spite of the aforesaid
mumps in June. I spent July and August
in New Hampshire as a councillor, and
had a fine time except that I gained 12
pounds. I stopped over in New York on
my way up, and saw Betty Gash one day
I was there. At present I am busily en-
gaged trying to teach math to over 200
little kids in the 7th and 8th grades. Dad
and I went over to New Orleans one week-
end recently, and had a fine trip."

Rachel Paxon took seven State Board
examinations in June, passed, and secured
a place teaching "hyenas" (she says) in
junior high in Jacksonville.

Esther Rice is teaching in an industrial
school for Mexican boys and it's some
life. "Our neighbor has a radio and I'm
going over to listen in on the Founder's
Day program. Sometimes I get really
homesick for Agnes Scott." Esther is at
the Tex-Mex School, Kingsville, Texas.

Helen Ridley writes in an individual and
refreshing note of having so little to do,
that she has joined The-Book-of-the-Month
Club. And with that too she writes of hav-
ing enough time and more than enough
enthusiasm to see all the new talkies af-
fecting English accents no less than twice.

Louise Robertson is staying at the Anna
Young Alumnae House and studying danc-
ing under Gene Dozier in Atlanta this
winter. Lou says that "it is great to
be back."

Suzanne Stone wrote of being "engaged
only in school teaching." She also report-
ed a visit from Skid Morgan and Louise
Fowler one afternoon.

Elinore Morgan, alias "Skid," and Louise
Fowler are rooming together in the Alpha
Gamma Delta House, 623 North Milledge
St., Athens, Georgia. Elinore is "half
professor of Zoology and in charge of the
beginning Zoology lab." In addition to
which, she is studying physics, organic
chemistry, and parasitology toward a
Master's. She is hoping to go to Colum-
bia University next year. Fowler is get-
ting her Master's in Physical Education at
Georgia this winter.

Mary Elizabeth Warren has been ar-
ranging for the 1929 reunion luncheon. She
says, "One to see me dash around madly
would think me manager, bookkeeper, cook
and bell boy for a big summer hotel. Also,
my orphan's home kindergarten class has
increased from 8 to 22. They are under
five years of age and have well developed
lung and vocal apparatuses. It's worlds of
fun, but I surely have a lot to learn be-
fore I can do any good!"

Frances Welsh is going to Creighton's
Business School in Atlanta. Pat confides,
"It is a mess! Fifty typewriters in one
small room and fifty Greta Garboed heads
chewing to the rhythm of the typers it
has made me swear off of Wrigley's for
life. Bo Skeen and Lillian LeConte are
there too. It does me good to glance at
their college bred beings every now and
then. I am still keeping house too, so I
spend my afternoons buying groceries and
planning meals. I taught geometry over
at Marietta High recently and realized that
as a teacher I wasn't so good. As a discip-
linarian I just wasn't there. The children
laughed in my face."

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Ditto Worth says that she can sympa-
thize with A. S. C. day students now, for
she gets mail only once a day, being away
from her house from 8:00 a. m. until 4:00
p. m. She is taking a laboratory tech-
nician's course at the University Hospital
in Charlottesville, and is attending some
classes with the medical school.

Ditto wrote of Marion Daniel's wedding
on Friday evening, October 18, to Mr. Ed-
win Blue, Jr. In the event that this news
has not reached you I am sending on
Ditto's account. "The wedding was very
lovely. The bride's only attendant was
her younger sister, Margaret. Three of
her brothers were ushers. Marion and her
husband went to Bermuda on their honey-
moon, and will be at home this winter in
his country home near Charlottesville. Sev-
eral Hottentots were three for the wed-
ding: Rachel Hendeiiite, '28; Helen Lewis,
'27; Nancy Graham Sanders, '27, and Lucile
Bridgman."

Dorothy Hutton is going to Ryan's Busi-
ness College except those few days when
she gets a substitute call for one of the
city schools. "I am doing this substitute
work to help out for my not having the
required number of hours in education to
make me a full-fledged teacher. So far I
have had all sorts of amusing experiences
in two junior high schools here. They call
me at eight-thirty almost any morning,
and I am instructed to such-and-such a
school for such-and-such a teacher. So far
I have been called on to teach commercial
training, math, English, French and Latin.
The finishing touch was when I had charge
of Boys' physical training for two days this
past week. As I told Father, all I could do
was to call the roll, turn them loose, and
offer up a prayer that none would die
under my eyes. And now I am coaching
one boy for Loomis Prep School and an-
other for Georgia Tech next fall. Adding
those up to the time I have to take out
for cleaning up after class mimeograph-
ing, I guess you can see I am not so idle."

I had Elizabeth Hatchett doped out
wrong. She is teaching General Science,
two classes in Algebra, and a third Algebra
class with only five in it. Lib says, "There
must be something in Darwin's hypothesis
after all. Most of these children I am
teaching are in from the country where
they haven't been half taught. And do I
dish out F's? Yes! And without feeling
in the least contrite, for F is more than
some of them deserve. And in addition to
school work, Lib is spending her after-
noons typing her father's legal letters for
him. To say nothing of the other things
we might infer!

Marion Hodges has announced her en-
gagement to Mr. J. L. Anthony of Atlanta.
This winter, however, Marion is working in

a Western Union office in Atlanta.

Hazel Hood, who is teaching in Craw-
fordsville, writes: "It is getting easier to
teach as time goes on. I suppose you could
become used to anything in time. Really,
I love my pupils they are darling but
teaching even at that is no cinch. I saw
Dade Warfield in front of Costa's when I
went to Athens recently to a teachers'
meeting. I also saw Dorothy Cheek, who
is teaching in Eatonton, not so very far
from Crawfordsville."

Elaine Jacobsen is at 369 College Street,
Cuthbert, Georgia. She is teaching in the
High School there.

Gebe Knight is "raising the status of the
youth of the U. S. by teaching in the Junior
High in Safety Harbor, Florida." "And,"
adds Gebe, "nobody can preach to me the
ideal of professionalism. All a school
teacher is is a glorified nurse who keeps
Mama's and Papa's bad little boys from
shooting pig tails and killing each other."

And news from across the world! Mary
Nelson Logan sent me an answer written
the very same day that my letter reached
her. Would that all would follow her shin-
ing example! She says, "I am trying to
keep house for Daddy and entertain in-
numerable guests who come to visit us.
They stay for hours and my entire Jap-
anese vocabulary is exhausted after the
first fifteen minutes! But I am enjoying
everything out here." Mary Nell is plan-
ning to come back to college for the May
reunion.

Bettina Bush, ex '29, married Mr. Hay-
den Anthony Carter, October 5th, in the
Methodist Church at Ann Arbor. Bettina
and her husband are on the staff of the
university and both are studying for de-
grees; they are living at 1330 North Uni-
versity Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich.

Mary Hughes, ex '29, was married in
October to Mr. Phillips Jones of Newnan,
Ga.

Helen Thompson, ex '29, is another mem-
ber of this class to join the ranks of the
married; her husband, Mr. Arthur Hill,
is now teaching in the school of engineer-
ing at Tulane University.

Holly Smith, ex '29, was married to Mr.
George L. Harman, Jr., at the Independent
Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Ga.

Evelyn Josephs, ex '29, is working in
the accounting department of the Federal
Reserve Bank, has had two raises and a
promotion since January 16th; but, money
is not all, for Evelyn says she is only living
till the spring when she is going up to
Princeton for the spring hop.

Isabelle (Leonard) Spearman, ex '29, is
at 1130 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Corrie (Carter) White, ex '29, announces
the arrival of Richard Graham White, Jr.,
on the tenth of September.

Program of Events

FOR

February and March

February:

Feb. 4 Homer St. Gaudens, director of Fine Arts at Chicago
Institute; Mr. St. Gaudens is one of the artists on the
Lecture Association program of the college.

Feb. 11 Dr. W. T. Thompson. Religious service.

Feb. 1 5 Cotillion Club Dance.

Feb. 19 Thornton Wilder; the third speaker of the Lecture As-
sociation is the author of the popular "Bridge of San
Luis Rey."

Feb. 22 Founder's Day.

March:

March 1 Blackfriar's performance.

March 25 Dr. McLaughlin; this is the last program of the Lec-
ture Association for the year. Dr. McLaughlin is of
the history department of the University of Chicago.

Choose the event that pleases you

Write for reservations in the Alumnae House to the Secretary
Pack up your suit-case and

COME BACK!

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THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF AGNES SCOTT

COLLEGE

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President Secretary-
Hilda McConnell Adams (Mrs. Brain- Cora Frazer Morton Burrett (Mrs. J.
ard R.), '23 F.), '24
2040 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Ga. 1109 W. Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.
First Vice President Treasurer
Marian McCamy Sims (Mrs. F. K., Mary Palmer Caldwell McFarland
Jr.), '20 (Mrs. Robert M.), '25,
Greensboro, N. C. 1935 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta
Second Vice President Executive Secretary
Theodosia Willingham Anderson (Mrs. Fannie G. Mayson Bonaldson (Mrs.
W. W.), '11 B. B.), '12
63 Avery Brive Alumnae House, Agnes Scott College
Atlanta, Ga. Becatur, Ga.

CHAIRMEN OF STANBING COM3IITTEES

Publicity Louise Slack, '20

Preparatory Schools Mary Lloyd Bavis, '27

Alumnae House and Tea Room Frances Gilliland Stukes (Mrs. S. G.), '24

Local Clubs Mary Lamar Knight, '22

Beautifying Grounds Louise Brown Hastings (Mrs. Bonald), '23

Entertainment Lois Maclntyre Beall (Mrs. Frank), '20

Class Organizations and Records Elizabeth Hoke, '23

Student Loan Ethel Alexander Gaines (Mrs. Lewis), '00

Constitutional Mary West Thatcher (Mrs. S. E.), '15

CLASS SECRETARIES

'04 Mrs. C. G. Aycock 890 Penn Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

'06 Mrs. I. T. Irvin, Jr Washington, Ga.

'07 Mrs. J. B. Spinks 302 Gloria Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.

'08 Miss Louise Shipp Chick 1005 West Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif.

'09 Miss Margaret McCallie 830 Fort Wood St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

'10 Mrs. J. T. Wharton 1612 Sixth Ave., Bessemer, Ala.

'11 Mrs. W. W. Anderson 63 Avery Brive, Atlanta, Ga.

'12 Mrs. John Scott Scottdale, Ga.

'13 Mrs. J. Sam Guy N. Becatur Road, Atlanta, Ga.

'14 Mrs. Henry Noble 169 Avery Brive, Atlanta, Ga.

'15 Mrs. J. N. Shryock 912 Greenwood Blvd., Evanston, 111.

'16 Miss Louise Hutcheson 3716 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.

'17 Miss Regina Pinkston Greenville, Ga.

'18 Miss Belle Cooper 1143 St. Charles Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

'19 Mrs. G. Lamar Westcott 38 S. Thornton Ave., Balton, Ga.

'20 Miss Louise Slack 1620 Monument Ave., Richmond, Va.

'21 Miss Elizabeth Floding 854 Myrtle, N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

'22 Miss Ruth Pirkle Agnes Scott College, Becatur, Ga.

'23 Miss Emily Guille 127 Alabama St., Spartanburg, S. C.

'24 Miss Helen Wright 2718 Lee St., Columbia, S. C.

'25 Miss Belle Walker 558 Green, Augusta, Ga.

'26 Miss Ellen Fain Hendersonville, N. C.

'27 Miss Maurine Bledsoe Lakeview Park, Asheville, N. C.

'28 Miss Huda Bement 1302 W. Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.

'29 Miss Borothy Hutton 17 E. 36th St., Savannah, Ga.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.

Mrs. Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. J. Sam), '13.

COUNCILLORS AT LARGE

Mrs. Ida Lee Hill Irvin (Mrs. I. T., Jr.), '06 Washington, Ga.

Mrs. Anne Waddell Bethea (Mrs. Horace F.), '09-3611 Oak St., Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. Louise Buchanan Proctor (Mrs. T. F., Jr.), '25,

2101 Highland Ave., Birmingham, Ala.
Miss Helena Hermance, '26__3535 Fairview St., E., Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla.

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Published in Nov., Jan., April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Vol. VIII APRIL, 1930 No. 3

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The President's Page 3

Dr. J. R. McCain

The Librarian 4

1. Books And a Profession

Clyde Pettus, '07

2. My Work as a Librarian

Mrs. Lillian (Baker) Griggs, '97

3. The Children's Department of a Library

Betty Gash, '29

Founder's Day Radio Program 7

State Presidents 1 1

Commencement and Reunions 12

Letters from Far Away Alumnae 13

Notes on New Books 14

Eloise Gaines, '28

Through the College Gates 15

Phi Beta Kappa Announcements
N. S. F. Meeting of America
May Day Scenario
Grand-Daughters Club Meeting
Faculty Notes

From the Alumnae Office 16

Introducing Dorothy

Alumnae Clubs and Group Meetings

Laying of Buttrick Hall Cornerstone

Report of American Alumni Council

New Allison-James Building

The Present Day

Gifts to the Alumnae Association

Necrology

Lost Sisters

Concerning Ourselves 21

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Wont you come back once more and, arm in arm with old friends, tread once
again the shadowed paths beneath the old oak trees you loved so well?

COME BACK, OLD GIRL!

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 3

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

HOW HARD IS AGNES SCOTT?

Frequently we hear reports like this, "Agnes Scott simply kills its students" or "Its
students do nothing but grind." In order to ascertain the facts, we submitted a
questionnaire to all students now in college, asking them to write frankly about a number
of matters bearing on these points. We gave them the option of signing their names or
of writing anonymously so as to feel more free. Perhaps the Alumnae will be interested
in some of the results.

We have been doubtful whether the 12 grade schools are sending a better quality
of preparation than the 1 1 grade ones, and one of our questions was about the length of
time spent in school before coming to college. We found that only 20 per cent of our
girls had 12 years before entrance, and nearly one- third had only 10 years because they
skipped a grade. Apparently the length of time in the grades or in high school is not
the most important factor.

Another question was about the relative rank in high school; e. g. upper or middle
or lower third of class. We find that 8 8 per cent came from the upper third, 12 per
cent from the middle third, and none from the lower third of their classes.

We find that 96 per cent of our students participated in the high school activities,
and about 78 per cent are active in student affairs in college; but 97 per cent enjoy
social or amusement off-campus activities, such as, movies, theatre, invitations to homes
in the community, parties, dates, and the like.

This was one question asked, "In general how have you found your college studies;
e. g. easy, reasonable, hard, extraordinarily hard, etc.?" In reply 10 per cent said "easy";
5 per cent "extraordinarily hard"; 31 per cent "hard"; and 54 per cent "reasonable." In
general we find that the Freshmen were more pessimistic on this subject than those in
the upper classes.

Another question dealt with the amount of time spent in class preparation during a
normal week. The answers varied from 2 hours per day to about 7 hours per day, but
the average was 7.7 l /z per week, which would be about 4/4 per day. During examina-
tion or term paper weeks, the average would run higher. In no case was there evidence
that it took "all the time to bone."

We also asked about the time spent in definite recreation or social engagements or
activities other than "loafing"; and the average time, excluding Sunday, was 21 hours,
or an average of 3 J4 per day.

Another question was, "Is your health as good as when you entered college?" In
reply 70 per cent answered that it was about the same; 10 per cent said it was worse,
in most cases due to eye strain; and 20 per cent stated it was better.

A final question was, "Do you think that a girl from a good high school, with
average ability and preparation, and with reasonable application, can succeed at Agnes
Scott?" Nearly three-fourths (74 per cent) of the replies were "Yes" without any
qualification; 21 per cent answered that it would take "hard study" to succeed; and 5
per cent stated that it would take "more than average ability" to do the work.

If we may take the present student opinion as any guide, there is no reason why
first-class girls from recognized schools need hesitate to come to Agnes Scott.

The same conclusion may be reached by taking statistics from another angle. We
graduate 56 per cent of the girls who enter with us. The average per cent in the South-
ern Association is only about 40 per cent. We do not know of any institution in our
section of the country that has a higher proportion than ours. The girls do succeed.

We will be glad if these figures can be made generally known; for the College is
being misrepresented, unintentionally we think, and we feel that the girls are entitled to
know the facts.

J. R. McCAIN.

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THE LIBRARIAN

(These three articles on the subject of the librarian and her work are by our alumnae who are engaged
in different departments of this interesting and appealing vocation. Clyde Pettus, '07, is a most valuable
member of the staff of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta, Ga., being in the catalog department; Lillian
(Baker) Griggs, '97, is president of the League of Library Commissions; Betty Gash, '29, is a recent ac-
quisition to library work ; since her graduation last May, she has won a place in the children's depart-
ment of the 67th Street Branch of the New York Public Library.)

BOOKS AND A PROFESSION
By Clyde Pettus, '07.

In times not long past and in centres less populated than Atlanta it has been cus-
tomary to think of library work as the not too exacting occupation of gentlewomen
with a taste for reading. A love of books and a certain preference for the quiet life
have been considered the chief requirements an idea containing just enough truth to
make it misleading. A glance at the librarian in action at the Carnegie Library of
Atlanta may do something to dispel the gentle illusion.

Not one of the departments that are open to the public, which are four in number,
is sufficiently remote from the mulitude of knowledge seekers to possess the atmosphere
of retired peace once associated with storehouses of books. The public library of today
is a democratic institution designed for the community as a whole, where business and
professional men, mechanics and housewives, have as large a share in the resources and
service as the scholarly reader in whose sole interest the library is popularly supposed to
function. A sight of the long line of borrowers waiting to pass the circulation depart-
ment charge desk during the noon hour is convincing enough, or a glimpse of the books
stacked on the floor inside that desk at a late hour on Saturday afternoon. An "infor-
mation desk" assistant serves as middleman between this large and varied public and
the collection of books a trained assistant who must be equipped with at least the
second half of that modest reqirement of every librarian, who is expected to know "every-
thing about something and something about everything."

Not that the needs of the student, from the grammar school age to that of the
most seasoned scholar, are neglected. A busy department for boys and girls takes care
of the first; the reference department includes among its many services the answering
of as many as may be of the erudite questions propounded by the second. In this depart-
ment study-club programs are made, stray bits of fugitive verse run to earth, debate
material prepared and bibliographies compiled on subjects as varied as the community
interests. Information by telephone has become popular enough to require a double
line to take care of requests ranging all the way from the translation of a Greek quota-
tion to the selection of the proper mythological name for a Pekinese dog.

The only departments that have no direct contact with readers are those in which
the book ordering and cataloging are done. These departments, however, lend their
staff members for certain hours during the day so that they may keep in touch with the
public for whom they are selecting books and making card indexes. The fascination
of searching reviews and publishers' catalogs for the book to fill a special need is the
joy of the private collector multiplied by whatever sense of social service the selector
possesses. From her the cataloger receives the book, and she it is who furnishes the key
to unlock the treasures of the collection of which it soon becomes a part. She searches
out the full names of authors, she reads introductions and dips into contents so as to
know how to classify and make entries under subject for the books that pass through
her hands, and from her labors result the neat cards that show the reader where he can
find a play by Ibsen, a manual on bee-keeping, or a novel called "Orlando."

The librarians in charge of Atlanta's nine branch libraries enjoy most varied activ-
ities combining in one person the functions of reference worker, children's librarian
and book selector. They serve communities having their own peculiar needs, often radi-
cally different from other sections of the city.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 5

Such demands for technical efficiency show the necessity for the special prepara-
tion of all library assistants except those whose duties consist solely of the charge desk
routine and purely clerical work. Every kind of knowledge counts in the librarian's
favor, but well-rounded as her general education may be she needs professional training
in problems of administration, choice of books, and methods of cataloging a necessity
which explains the existence of the Library School. Atlanta's school, housed in the main
library, is one of Emory University's graduate schools, and requires for entrance a degree
from a recognized college.

The graduates of Agnes Scott, and those who claim her because of a short privi-
leged period, are well represented in the Atlanta library. Their activities vary from the
administrative functions of Tommie Dora Barker, the chief librarian, to the assistance
rendered in the circulation department by two members of Agnes Scott's youngest class
who are finding out from practical experience what library work is and whether they
want to choose it as their profession. These two assistants are Alice Glenn and Miriam
Broach. Anna Knight presides at the busy information desk for high school students.
With me, in the catalog department, are Julia McCullough, who thinks her job the
pleasantest of all because the new books fall to her share; Emma Bernhardt, whose special
task has been the preparation of cards for an interesting collection recently given to the
library; Eloise Gaines, who catalogs part of the books for an ever growing children's
department; and Kathryn Johnson, who duplicates cards and helps in numerous ways.
All of us come in contact with books and with people. We believe ourselves the hardest
workers in the world, but are convinced or are on the road to the conviction that
there is no profession so compensating as ours.

MY WORK AS A LIBRARIAN
By Lillian (Baker) Griggs, '97.

Fifteen years after I left Agnes Scott Institute I found it necessary to earn a
living for my young son and myself. The library profession appealed to me and after
a conference with Miss Julia Rankin who was then Director of the Carnegie Library
School, Carnegie Library, Atlanta, I decided to take the competitive examination, which
was the method then used for choosing the personnel of the school. The examination
was successfully passed and in September, 1910, I entered the school, completed the
course and received a certificate in June, 1911. My first position was that of librarian
of the Durham Public Library, Durham, N. C. This was a small library supported in-
adequately by an appropriation from the city. I remained there until January, 1924.
At this time the library was in a new modern building, supported by appropriations from
both city and county. A book truck, the gift of the local Kiwanis Club, was being
used for work in the county a house to house service being maintained. This was the
first book truck in the state.

In 1918 a leave of absence was granted me by the Durham board and I entered the
Library War Service of the American Library Association. My first assignment was
on the Gulf coast with headquarters in New Orleans; here I had charge of the libraries
for the naval and coast guard stations. My next assignment was to the Overseas Ser-
vice, and in February, 1919, with five other librarians, I sailed for Europe, stopped at
the American Library in Paris for a few weeks, and then was assigned to the Library
Service for the Third Army (Army of Occupation), with headquarters at Coblenz, Ger-
many. My particular work was with the hospitals, later being in charge of the re-
quests for books and other material which were sent in by the soldiers. Many of the
soldiers were studying in schools and needed supplementary books and books of reference.
In November, 1919, after eight months of varied experience and work, I returned to the
library in Durham, where I remained until January, 1924, resigning to accept my pres-
ent position, Secretary and Director of the Library Commission of North Carolina. The
major activities of this position are the promotion and establishing of libraries in the

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state and the operation of a loan system of books to individuals and communities in the
state without public library service.

I had the opportunity of entering into the library life of the state even before I
accepted this position, having been treasurer and president of the state library asso-
ciation.

At the annual meeting of the League of Library Commissions held in Washington,
D. C, during the conference of the American Library Association last May, I was
chosen president of the League for two years. The League of Library Commissions
represents the library commissions of 3 8 states all that have commissions.

I am also a member of the American Library Association Committees on Federal
and State Relations and Publicity.

THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT OF A LIBRARY
Betty Gash, '29.

When I received Mrs. Donaldson's letter asking me to write an article about my
work, I was rather overwhelmed. It makes my position seem so much more important
than it is, for after all, I am only a substitute in one of the forty-seven branches of the
New York Public Library.

I am in the children's department of the 67th Street Branch of the New York
Public Library. This does not mean, however, that I work only in this department.
We all have to do a certain amount of work in the adult and reference departments
as well. The children's room is the most active of the three, and there is an average
circulation of from three to four hundred books a day.

The children who come to this room are of course mostly foreigners. We have
Italians and Irish in large numbers, a good many Hungarians, Poles and Czechs, and
a sprinkling of French, Germans and others. To me these children are a constant
source of amusement and interest, because I am never prepared for what they are liable to
say. Frankness is a common trait among them. Reticence about family affairs is un-
known. To sit at the registration desk while the children make application for cards
is an education in itself. One child, when asked his father's occupation, replied, "I
don't know what he is doing right now. You see, he's dead." Over and over again
we get as an answer to this question, "I don't know. He doesn't live with us any-
more." And then unless they are stopped, they are perfectly willing to give more
details of their family affairs.

Besides the routine work of circulating books, there are other phases of our work.
The room is open to the children only from three to six on week days, and from nine
to six on Saturdays. A large part of the remaining time is taken up with work with
classes from the schools. Classes from four public schools, one parochial school and
one Catholic orphanage come to this branch. They come for an hour each. About
half of this period is given to them to read and look at books which have been placed
on tables for them. After this they are given a book talk by one of the staff. That
is, a brief talk about three or four books is made to try to arouse their interest in the
books. To me, this is the hardest part of our work, for the children are more or less
indifferent, and unfortunately some of the teachers are a little antagonistic. They con-
sider these trips to the library a waste of time, necessitating breaks in their regular
routine and they come only because it is required. The children usually enjoy them,
however.

I much prefer the other important part of our work story hour. This is held
on Saturday afternoon and there are usually from thrity-five to forty-five children
present. Occasionally the children furnish part of the entertainment themselves by
giving a little play. This fall they gave Pinocchio on several successive Saturdays one
act each time. They dearly love this and are very good little actors.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 7

FOUNDER'S DAY RADIO PROGRAM

On February 22nd we celebrated our fifth annual nation-wide Agnes Scott night,
when, through the courtesy of WSB, we broadcast from the banquet table of the
Atlanta and Decatur alumnae and those of nearby towns, the program of Glee Club
music under the direction of Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, and the talks of Dr. McCain,
Miss Hopkins, Mr. J. K. Orr, Sr., and Hilda (McConnell) Adams, and when far and
near the daughters of A. S. C. sang lustily, if a little bit chokingly, at times, the
"Purple and the White" and the "Alma Mater." The story of the local dinner is given
under Club News and we are saving every inch of this space for messages that came
to us that evening over wire and by telephone and have come since by letter. If you
girls far away could have seen the joy which your messages brought to Miss Hopkins
and Dr. McCain and what a thrill we all got from them as they came in and were
read, you would have had even a better time than you did have. The names given
in these telegrams are often maiden names but we are printing them, as they came to us.

Stand by, Alumnae:
Alabama:

Tuscaloosa: Am enjoying program. Margaret (Houser) Woodruff and family.
Marion: Congratulations, and best wishes to Agnes Scott on Founder's Day. Cornelia

Cooper, Judson College.
Loxley: Mighty good to hear A. S. C. on the air. May (Shepard) Schlich.
Opelika: Agnes Scott program coming in fine; congratulations. Mr. and Mrs.

Watson.
Birmingham: Birmingham Club sends greetings; program coming in fine; eighteen
alumnae and one trustee listening in; it was good to hear Dr. McCain and
Miss Hopkins; both sounded natural over the radio; we have room for thir-
teen more words but can't think of any more. Mary Ray Dobyns and Martha
Riley Selman.
Stockton: Listening in with two alumnae; best wishes for Agnes Scott. John

McMillan.
Bay Minnette: We are eagerly awaiting program; love and best wishes. Georgia

Mae (Burns) Bristow and Lucile Gause.
Montgomery: Montgomery girls having supper together while program revives old

memories. Montgomery Alumnae.
Tuscumbia: Congratulations on program; joining in on Purple and White. Mary
Wallace Kirk, Charlotte (Jackson) Mitchell, Joy (Trump) Hamlett, Ruby
Lee (Estes) Ware.
Opelika: Happy to hear you every one; love to Miss Hopkins and Dr. McCain.
Carolina McCall.
Arkansas:

Little Rock: Greetings for Founder's Day; wish I could be there. Helon (Brown)
Williams.
California:

Berkeley: Sorry could not hear Founder's Day program; had to be in woods on
camp; ask more Hottentots to take Horace Greeley's advice. "Jack" Ander-
son.
San Francisco: Here in San Francisco it was four p. m. when you were having
program; had accepted invitation before your letter reached me, but next
February 22nd I will tune in. Marie S. Brown.
Florida:

Miami: Enjoying Hottentot program in Miami; best wishes. Edyth (Carpenter)

Shuey and Helena Hermance.
Dunnellon: Program coming in fine; wish I were there. Margaret Mixson.
Winterhaven: Am purple and white thru and thru, even here in Florida. Sallie
Abernethy.

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St.Petersburg: Program coming in fine; alumnae injoying it together. Frances West.

St. Petersburg: Fine reception of program. Mrs. Walter Calley (Miss Hopkins'
sister.)
Georgia:

Brunswick: Only an Agnes Scott alumna who has listened to Founder's Day
program can experience the thrill one gets in hearing the dear, familiar voices
and the unforgettable songs of A. S. C. I could hardly keep the tears back as
memory after memory rushed over me during the program. Louise (Pfeiffer)
Ringel.

Acworth: Bessie (Carnes) Hull and I listened in and heartily enjoyed the program
on Founder's Day. Katherine (Logan) Good.

Athens: I enjoyed the program so much; tell Miss Hopkins it was lovely to hear
her voice again. Dear old Agnes Scott is one of the sweetest places in the world
to me. Tender memories which cannot be expressed in words are awakened
whenever I hear the college mentioned. May (Walden) Morton.

Donaldsonville: So happy to hear your pleasant voice last evening; seemed as if we
were face to face. Dr. and Mrs. Smith.

LaGrange: Faculty and students of LaGrange College enjoying your excellent pro-
gram; congratulations. W. E. Thompson, president.

Columbus: Loving greetings from seventeen members listening in at Columbus.
Columbus Club.

Columbus: Congratulations; program coming in fine. Mary Boyd and Blanch
Lindsey.

Columbus: It was certainly lovely to hear your dear voice over the radio (to Miss
Hopkins) and your sweet message to all of us was surely appreciated; you
made us all homesick tho and we vowed we'd get to commencement this year.
Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust. (Antoinette sent a picture of her three rea-
sons for never coming back to visit Agnes Scott).

Cartersville: Listening in; coming in fine. Octavia Young.

Athens: Greetings. Ellen (Pratt) Rhodes, Dean of Women at U. of Ga.

Monroe: Florence (Day) Ellis, Allie (Felker) Nunnally and Willie (Peel) Almand
are hostesses at the home of Mrs. Roy Nunnally and Clara Knox Nunnally
and are entertaining seven young girls, all prospective students of A. S. C.
Program coming in fine. Love to Miss Hopkins.

Decatur: Telephone call from the oldest trustee in point of service, Mr. C. M.
Candler (now in his 41st year of service).
Illinois:

Chicago: Greetings from Chicago alumnae. May (Smith) Parsons, Annette (Car-
ter) Colwell, Nan Lingle, Reba Vinnedge, Martha (Eakes) Matthews, Blanche
(Ryan) Brim, Charis (Hood) Barwick, Martha (Brenner) Shryock, Janet
MacDonald.

Urbana: Charlotte Newton and three friends listened in and writes that every-
thing came in wonderfully. "When you (Miss Hopkins) and Dr. McCain
and Mr. Orr spoke, it was as clear as if you had been in the room with us. It
was the first Founder's Day program that I had ever heard and the songs and
your voices brought all my Agnes Scott memories crowding back."
Louisiana:

Crowley: All Louisiana alumnae awaiting program; love to Glee Club. Ethel Free-
land.

Keatchie: Florence (Schuler) Cathey: "I felt like Rip Van Winkle when he woke
up and found that he was alive again. I just couldn't realize that I wasn't
in that study hall and hadn't done something that shouldn't have been done
when Miss Hopkins said, "Girls," I could see that blue silk waist with white
polka dots in it, almost. Perfect reception this year."

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Baton Rouge: Bessie Sentelle, Marguerite Sentelle, Julia Heaton, Clara McKowen,
May McKowen, Frances Harper, Edith Hightower: Greetings.

Ida: I enjoyed listening in to the program; it made me homesick for school again.
I get rather lonesome here where Hottentots are "few and far between," and
I am always glad to hear any Agnes Scott news. Lucy Mai Cook.

Lindsay: Mabel McKowen: I am such a back number that Miss Hopkins was the
only familiar one; I thoroughly enjoyed the program.
Maryland:

Baltimore: Mrs. Robinson enjoyed the program in Augusta last evening. I could
not get W. S. B. here; wish I could have heard it. Henry Robinson.
Mississippi:

Greenwood: Greenwood, Miss, girls meeting with Mildred Hall, listening in, send
greetings to Agnes Scott. Old Agnes Scott Girls.

Meridian: Greetings and best wishes to my Alma Mater. Hattie (Bardwell) Arnold.

Oxford: Congratulations; wish we could be with you. Betty Hudson, Ditty Win-
ter, Catherine Owen, Carolyn Payne, Ella Somerville.

Tupelo: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Laney (Miss Laney's sister and brother) heard pro-
gram clearly. Their little nine year old daughter wanted to know why "May
May" (Miss Laney) didn't speak. (We'll remedy that next year.)
Missouri:

Kansas City: Assembled together; our hearts with you. Louise Hutcheson, Edna
(Field) Taylor and Olive Hoggins.

St. Louis: Greetings to Agnes Scott; failed to hear most of the songs, but heard
Mr. Orr's famous three lines. Janie McGaughey, Ruth (Evans) Larimore
and I joined in Alma Mater. Mary Bell McConkey.
Ohio:

Cincinnati: Love and best wishes; fine reception; all homesick for Agnes Scott.
Jeannette (Craig) Woods, Anne (Dean) Norman, Anne (Rowland) Heit-
kamp, Fannie Virginia Brown.
New Mexico:

Santa Fe: I heard a little of the program. I could distinguish a sentence now and
then when Dr. McCain was talking. Louise (Hurst) Howald.
North Carolina:

Raleigh: Greetings from Clara Bucher Scott, Elsie Estes, Frances Stuart, Olivia
Russell, Daisy Frances Smith.

Davidson: Greetings to Agnes Scott friends everywhere. The Arbuckles.

Winston-Salem: Love and best wishes from Winston-Salem girls. Ruth (Ander-
son) O'Neal.

Charlotte: Charlotte alumnae meeting with Mrs. Milton Candler, enjoying program;
love. Charlotte Alumnae.

Hendersonville: Banner Elk, Asheville, Hendersonville send greetings from dinner
party at Hendersonville. Ellen Fain.

Hendersonville: Enjoyed program last night so much. Gladys (Lee) Kelly.

Asheville: Greetings from Asheville; program splendid. Mrs. P. R. Allen, Miss
Eloise Alexander and Elizabeth R. Taylor.

Gastonia: We enjoyed listening in on February 22nd. Josephine Bridgman, Rachel
Henderlite.
South Carolina:

Greenwood: Your Greenwood girls are happily listening in; loving greetings. Emily
(Divver) Moorer, Annie Aunspaugh, Estelle (Felker) Chipley, Bryte Daniel.

Westminster: Greetings to all Agnes Scott. Grace Hajrdie.

Columbia: Seven strong awaiting Founder's Day program. Columbia Group.

Charleston: Small but interested group enjoying Atlanta program; greetings from
all. Mary (Kelly) Van de Erve.

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Greenville: Thirteen listening in at Susie (Stokes) Taylor's; best wishes. Bessie
Moore, Eleanor Lee Norris, Elizabeth (Currie) Winn, Margaret Laing, Ruth
Carpenter, Margaret Keith, Marjorie (Moore) McAulay, Lottie May (Blair)
Lawton, Virginia Wilson, Virginia Norris, Julia Pope.

Anderson: Nannie L. Harris, Kittie (Burress) Martin, Eunice (Evans) Brownlee,
Anna Belle Glenn, Euphemia Young, Eunice (Dean) Major listened in at "Jack"
(Evans) Brownlee's house and heard Miss Hopkins' voice with delight. Kittie
(Burress) Martin writes that no one says "Girls" as she does; all sent love and
best wishes.

Allendale: Hattie (Erwin) Perkins, "Can't resist writing to you (Miss Hopkins)
tonight as I've been listening in to A. S. C. program and would have wired
you but office is closed at that hour. You may be interested to know that I
have five adorable daughters, the oldest 17 and the youngest 3 J/2.
Tennessee:

Brentwood: The program was greatly enjoyed here though we only heard frag-
ments of three songs and enough of Mr. Orr's speech on the "truest test" to
bring up many happy occasions in the past.

Chattanooga: Program sounds fine to seventeen A. S. C. alumnae. Frances (That-
cher) Moses.

Clinton: Mabel (Dumas) Crenshaw sent a long distance call of greeting.

Memphis: Agnes Scott girls in Memphis send greetings. Margaret Lyons, Jane Curry,
Melville Jameson, Julia Jameson, Mary Shewmaker, and Margaret (Rowe)
Jones.

Johnson City: Again I have been made terribly homesick; I have just heard Foun-
der's Day program and you will never know what a thrill it is to hear the
familiar voices of people I love as dearly as I love all connected with Agnes
Scott and how I longed to be there when I heard the program; it was so clear
that my two canaries sat quietly until time for the Alma Mater and then
they split their throats singing with the Glee Club. Elizabeth (Cass) Bailey.

Sewanee: A number of people here listened in and enjoyed the Founder's Day pro-
gram. Mary Waller Shepherd.
Virginia:

Staunton: Love and congratulations; reception of program perfect. Mrs. J. S. De
Jarnette and Miss Orra Hopkins (Miss Hopkins' two sisters).

Lynchburg: The Lynchburg chapter organized Thursday sends love to all alumnae
and to everybody on the campus; getting program fine. Courtney Wilkinson.

Wytheville: Enjoying program together; so glad to hear your voices. Lois (Grier)
Moore and Nannie Graham Sanders.

Charlottesville: Certainly good to hear your voice and Dr. McCain's and the Glee
Club; plan to come to commencement and bring a earful. Ruth Worth.

Hot Springs: If you (Miss Hopkins) had been standing beside me, your voice
would not have been clearer; music charming. Mrs. Frank Hopkins.

Farmville: Lucile Bridgman sent greetings and reported that she heard the voices of
Dr. McCain and Miss Hopkins very clearly.
West Virginia:

Huntington: Thrilled to death to hear your voice. Margaret Neel.

Charleston: Coming in fine over Betty Preston's radio; greetings from this chap-
ter. Edith Kerns, Margaret Hardway, Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes, Charlotte
Reid, and Betty's mother.

Union: Virginia Miller sent greetings.

Moorefield: I was thrilled to hear Miss Hopkins' familiar voice and to hear of girls I
have known in days gone by as well as to sing the old college songs again. I
would like to shake Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson's hand. Several prospective
students meeting with us tonight. Beth Duncan.

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Huntington: Mrs. Francis Calley (Miss Hopkins' sister) says the program came
in as clearly as if the speakers and singers had been in the room.

Ona: Just had to tell you that "Girls" sounded good to us; it brought back so
many happy memories; sixteen children from our school placed over the floor
in our sitting room to listen with us. We heard every word perfectly and
longed to send a message that night but are three miles from a telephone;
proud of our Alma Mater. Louise Ash and Kathleen Kennedy.
Wisconsin :

Madison: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Elizabeth Lynn and Philippa
Gilchrist.

Any reports from group meetings and club meetings which have been received in
this office are published under Alumnae Club News.

STATE PRESIDENTS OF OUR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

One of the greatest steps in the closer organization of our alumnae has been the
creation of the office of state president in the states where there are a sufficient num-
ber of alumnae to warrant it. We feel that the Alumnae Association is more fortunate
than we had ever dreamed in securing the girls whom we have in these positions.

Just a little about the hopes and desires of these officers: they are to be the point
of contact for this office with the alumnae in their respective states, to bring the asso-
ciation in a more intimate way home to the alumnae scattered over the towns of the
states, if possible to organize clubs, to divide their states into districts, meeting for
at least the one great Agnes Scott night on February 22nd, to further the cause and
to advertise the name and worth of A. S. C. whenever the chance arises thruout their
states, to keep in correspondence with appointed leaders of these towns and divisions,
to aid the Alumnae office in keeping close track of its members thru reporting any
changes of addresses that come to them, as they correspond with the girls.

Already for this year's Founder's Day radio program, these presidents grouped
small towns and corresponded with a girl for each group about a meeting, sending lists
to them, arranged for meetings in their larger towns by correspondence, and even wrote
to each town where there was only a "lone Agnes Scotter" within range and told her
of the program; as a result of the work of the state presidents, the news of the Febru-
ary 22nd meeting was more widely known and enjoyed than was ever possible when
all the work had to come thru this office. These are the alumnae who have accepted
this office:

Alabama Marian (Black) Cantelou (Mrs. A. L.) '15 Montgomery

California Louise Shipp Chick, '08 Los Angeles

Florida Frances West, '15 St. Petersburg

Georgia Sarah Slaughter, '26 Atlanta

Kentucky Nancy Evans, '24 Richmond

Louisiana Ethel Freeland, '29 Crowley

Massachusetts India (Hunt) Balch, Jr. (Mrs. F. G.), '17 Jamaica Plain

Mississippi Annie Tait Jenkins, '14 Crystal Springs

New York : Helen (Bates) Law (Mrs. F. B.), '26 Schenectady

New Jersey Jane Hays Brown, '08 May's Landing

North Carolina Maurine Bledsoe, '27 Asheville

Pennsylvania Jean (Ramspeck) Harper (Mrs. W. R.), '00 Philadelphia

South Carolina Eva (Wassum) Cunnnigham (Mrs. R. B. Jr.), '23 Columbia

Tennessee Margaret (Rowe) Jones (Mrs. C), '19 Memphis

Texas Gladys Gaines, 17 Austin

Virginia Mary Spottswood Payne, '17 Lynchburg

W. Virginia Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes (Mrs. C. A.), '13 Charleston

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COMMENCEMENT AND REUNIONS
MAY 30 JUNE 3

You daughters "far from the sheltering arms," do you sometimes catch a sound
or does the spring time breeze one day have just the sweet smell or is it a sudden glimpse
thru the trees or the way the shadows fall that gives you that funny little catch in your
breath and a queer feeling somewhere inside, and then you see your college days spread
out before you? You may not even have been thinking of them but 'way down deep
in that inner consciousness something stirs and they all troop by, scenes, loved teachers,
dear friends, school day pranks, even the fears of college days, now faded into a hazy
back-drop in that mind of yours, but waiting only a faint memory to blaze forth
again in all its rosy colors.

Sometimes it seems that the spring time was made for the college happenings;
there's the gradual blossoming from February 22nd, when the George Washington
dinner, with its Martha and its George, begins festivities thru all the happenings of
March and April, then May day with its dances down in the glen, till that glorious
time when Seniors begin to fill the entire stage of college life. Can you hear the song,
across the Inman veranda, down by Gaines, under the fresh green of the elms, the daisy
chain on the shoulders of your sister sophomores, as you walked with stately stride and
a sad little feeling in your heart over these last few days, down to class day? Can you
see, if you shut your eyes tight and think real hard, the still, green campus of that
time? Why you'll vow you are settling that cap close down on your head to step in
line for "Processional" and that last kneeling before Miss Hopkins to change the
tassel, as the organ rolls its sweet undertone.

Then, the bubble bursts! There's a loud shriek from Jimmie who has bumped
his head, or the typewriter next you begins to work its way thru your day dreams,
or the third boy in the last row shoots a "spit ball" across at Susie, or someone wants
to know in what part of the library to look for "How to play Contract Bridge," and
you shake yourself and there you are, a way off from A. S. C, doing your job. We
know the only safe place to have your dream out! Come back to Agnes Scott for
commencement and live again all the joys of commencement, plus the added ones of
seeing girls you haven't seen for a long time, teachers whom you have longed to visit
again, the old walks and old trees. We want you every one, you of reunion classes
and you who just find this is the year you want to come.

When commencement and reunion time comes, how the old girls do throng back!
Till all the cots in the Alumnae House are full, till Lupton and Sturgis are bulging
out at the sides, with shrieks of joy at meetings, with proud stories of the baby's latest
tooth, or the first check of the new job, it may be, they'll be coming back on May
30th. Virginia Sevier is leaving Australia just to get back in time for her reunion. From
New York State to Texas, they'll be trekking back. And all the nearby alums will
be on hand to welcome back and, would you believe it, get a first glimpse, probably, at
the new buildings now going up.

The dates: May 3 0th- June 3rd. This is a little later than usual and will give all
our teachers time to put the last zero on their report cards and away with a clear con-
science to reunion; it will be a nice time for all "job-holders" to take a vacation and
spend the first part of it under A. S. C.'s roof; and as for the mothers and wives, one
time is the same as another, so send the husbands and children to mother's and
COME BACK.

Classes holding reunions this May:

'06 '07 '08 '09

'25 '26 '27 '28

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LETTERS FROM FAR AWAY ALUMNAE

NO.7 ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI, CHINA.
Frances (Markley) Roberts, '21.

Of interest to university and college students in America is the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of St. John's University, the oldest Christian college in China,
a mission college in the sixth largest city in the world. Agnes Scott has no close co-
operation with the Orient as has Yale in China at Changsha, Hunan province, or
Princeton in Peiping (Peking) at Yenching University, but two alumnae have been
connected with St. John's Agnes (White) Sanford, ex '21, formerly in the English
department, and Frances (Markley) Roberts, '21, now teaching modern European his-
tory in the University.

The college was founded by a Lithuanian Jew, Bishop Schereschewsky, a Bishop in
the American Episcopal Church and remembered as the translator of the Bible into
Chinese. Fifty years ago, when Bishop Schereschewsky came to the campus with a few
students, he had to take a half day boat trip from the city of Shanghai. How different
today! All round-the-world tourists step into automobiles and in twenty minutes they
have arrived to see the sights of the campus, one of Shanghai's interesting show places, and
they never realize they are riding over what was field and irrigation canal a few years ago.

The college has had a modest beginning. Not until 1906 did it receive its char-
ter of incorporation in the United States in Washington, D. C. Since that time it
has been authorized to confer degrees not only in the arts and in science but also in
theology and in medicine. It was just at this time that an imperial decree abolished
the old system of literary examinations and embarked China upon a modern system
of education. Thus St. John's was making continuous progress in higher education
at a time when the nation was only slowly being converted to this need. The medical
school was begun in 1880, and in 1914 the Pennsylvania Medical School, formerly at
Canton, united with it. The School of Theology was started in 1879.

NO. 8 KAISER WILHELM INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Willie White Smith, '27.
Dear Alumnae Quarterly,

True, distance stirs up great curiosity and interest even, and it's true that accord-
ing to latitude one dwelling in the South might think that the people of Denmark
must live in snow houses. As a matter of fact, the Gulf stream is kind and this day,
the eighth of January, is beautiful and mild, and many degrees warmer than the same
day in Atlanta, I should wager. This winter unusual, they say has brought neither
snow nor ice. The greatest disappointment is that the sun rises so late we're never
in the lab before ten, creeps round the horizon, and setting early, leaves a long evening.

Probably what is most puzzling to people who read this is what I am doing and
why. Quite simple the answer is. When I mentioned to my professor at Columbia
that I would like to spend the winter in a European laboratory, he suggested this
one, Professor Krogh consented, and I am here as a guest. Professor Krogh is con-
ducting a rather large piece of research, almost all of which his private technician
and I carry out. Both association and experience are valuable. After this year I shall
return to Columbia, there, if possible, to complete the requirements of a degree.

During Christmas I made a journey through Germany and into Switzerland,
lingering longest with friends in Berlin, Munich and Arosa the most beautiful place
high up in the snow-covered Alps; and stopping to sightsee in several places on the
way. Traveling alone is not too difficult, and if one becomes lonesome, all one has to do is
to climb into another third class compartment and companions in plenty will be at
hand. It seems that it will be years before I can get down to a reunion. Best
wishes.

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We are adding an extract from a letter from Willie White to Miss MacDougald.

"I have been to Potsdam and to the Winter Garden, to the Kaiser Frederick
Museum, Die Flidermous, but best yet to Bach's Johannes' Passion, the Philharmonic
orchestra and the most wonderful choir in the world, I'm sure! I must come back
to study in Berlin some day. Einstein was pointed out to me at the concert. He wore
a great hat such as Beethoven might have worn. Am I not fortunate? W. W."

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

Eloise Gaines, '28.

The Woman of Andros, by Thornton Wilder. New York: Boni, 1930.

Those who have read and enjoyed The Cabala and The Bridge of San Luis Ray
will open Mr. Wilder's new book with great expectation and we may prophesy that these
hopes will not be disappointed, for The Woman of Andros is generally conceded to be
the best that has come from Mr. Wilder's pen.

He has again written a story of mythical content and he is still concerned with
the search for a meaning in lives, but the pattern is changed there is a stronger in-
fusion of poetry, a more subtle rhythm.

Although the author acknowledges his indebtedness to the Andria of Terence for
the basis of the story he has, as Mr. Carl Van Doren points out, shaped all his material
to his own design, touched them all with his own colors, set them all to his own music.
He concerns himself neither with the little mysteries of a clique, which are unim-
portant, nor with the great mysteries of God, which are indecipherable. Instead he
has turned from these ingenious speculations to the more profound and yet more compre-
hensible mysteries of the human heart.

Coronet, by Manel Komroff. New York: Coward McCann, 1929.

This novel of adventure has the richness of background, the strength of indi-
vidual characterization, the sweep, and narrative interest that the revived historical
romance of the last few years has too frequently lacked. The two symbols used
throughout the story are the coronet and the whip symbols of aristocracy. In re-
viewing the book Mr. Canby says that it is a philosophy of history which holds this
long story together for four centuries, in which the same families appear and reappear
with the whip and the coronet; but the holding together is its only important service.
The narrative is the thing.

Bcrkely Square, a play in three acts, by John L. Balderston. New York: Mac-
millan, 1929.

Stark Young pronounces the play a great success as it is now being given at the
Lyceum Theatre in New York, with Leslie Howard in the role of Peter Standish.

The plot was suggested to the author by Henry James's posthumous fragment,
The Sense of the Post. The plot is very simple; it is the theme or idea that remains
after the play is over. It is expressed best in the quotation from Maeterlinck given in
the front of the book, "En soi, il est a peu pres certain qu'il n'est qu'un immense
Present, eternel, immobile, ou tout ce qui a en et tout ce qui aura lieu a immuablement
lieu, sans que demain, excepte dans l'esprit ephemere des hommes, se distingue d'hier
ou d'aujourd'hui."

The final result achieves a pleasurable, lovely mood, a rarity of spirit and fresh-
ness of stage theme, and certain moments of great beauty.

Ra-Ta-Plau-! by Dorothy Ogburn. Boston: Little, 1930.

The fact that Miss Ogburn is a southern author and also an Atlantan will in-
terest many readers in her book who might not otherwise be inclined to read a mystery
story.

The southern scene Snooky Island, off the Georgia Coast with all of its at-
mosphere and the southern characters are well drawn, and add greatly to the enjoy-
ment of the book. The title is taken from the refrain of a strange old French song
about a lover and a poisoned bouquet.

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THROUGH THE COLLEGE GATES

PHI BETA KAPPA ANNOUNCEMENT

On Wednesday, February 19, announce-
ment was made, at the chapel services, of
four new members of the Beta Chapter of
the national honor society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Miss Alexander, the president of the
Agnes Scott Chapter, after an introduc-
tory speech read the names of the follow-
ing girls, amidst great applause from the
students and faculty:

Lois Combs

Alice Jernigan

Dorothy Smith

Martha Stackhouse
The chapel was packed almost to capa-
city, for news of the coming announce-
ment had spread around and breathless
expectancy prevailed as the members of
the Chapter filed up the aisle to the pro-
cessional, "Ancient of Days."

Our Chapter was founded in 1926 and
comprises a considerable number of Alum-
nae in addition to the students named
above. This announcement is the first of
the student year 1929-1930.

NATIONAL STUDENT FEDERATION
MEETING OF AMERICA

Martha Stackhouse, president of Student
Government, represented Agnes Scott at
the National Student Federation of Amer-
ica, which met at Stanford University,
Palo Alto, California, December 31st to
January 4th.

There were present 175 delegates, repre-
senting over 150 colleges and universities.
Two Japanese students and the president
of the association in Canada were guests
at the meeting.

Of particular interest to Agnes Scott
is the fact that the meeting will be held at
Georgia Tech next year.

This was the most important meeting
in the history of the Federation. Mr.
Chandler, Editor of the Los Angeles Times,
offered the Federation $30,000 as the be-
ginning of an endowment fund provided
that the students showed an interest in
the Federation. The endowment will go
toward establishing in New York a per-
manent clearing house for student prob-
lems and, eventually, traveling secretaries
throughout the states. As a proof of their
interest, the delegates voted to assess dues
of 2 cents per capita with a minimum of
$15 and a maximum of $100.

It was voted to establish a Board of
Advisors of prominent men and women of
the United States. It was also planned
to form a local committee on each campus
to be a link between the student body and
the national organization.

MAY DAY SCENARIO.

"Vergil The Immortal Bard," written
by Lillian Thomas, '30, has been selected
as the scenario to be presented at the May
Day exercises. This work, selected from
a number of excellent scenarios, displays
remarkable talent and skill and promises
to make May Day one of the most color-
ful and successful in the history of the
school. The scenario will be submitted in
the national Vergil anniversary contest.

THE GRAND-DAUGHTERS' CLUB
MEETS

On February 28th, eight of the grand-
daughters of our association met for tea
in the Alumnae House and began their
alumnae work by writing to as many more
daughters of alumnae who are due to
come to Agnes Scott within the next few
years. Those present were: Octavia
Young, president of the club; Elizabeth
Flinn, Florence Graham, Clara Knox
Nunnally, Shannon Preston, Mae Schlich,
Anne Turner, Harriet Williams.

FACULTY NEWS

Miss Florence Smith of the history de-
partment received her degree of doctor of
philosophy at the University of Chicago
this winter.

Dr. Davidson and Miss Florence Smith
were delegates to The American Histori-
cal Association, which held its annual
meeting in Durham, N. C."

Dr. Sweet has been made a fellow of the
American College of Physicians at a recent
session in Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Sweet has
been on leave this year from the college,
being abroad in the late summer and fall,
studying at the clinics in Vienna. Since her
return, she has attended post graduate
clinics in New York. All the alumnae will be
happy in this recognition of Dr. Sweet
which we know was so richly deserved.

Miss Mary MacDougall is president of
the Georgia Academy of Science and is the
only woman in the United States to be
president of such a body. This gathering
of scientists was held recently at Agnes
Scott, with Miss MacDougall presiding,
and with a large and interested group in
attendance. Miss Mary Westall is the only
other woman member of the Georgia Acad-
emy.

At this meeting of the Academy of
Science Miss Gaylord made one of the most
advanced talks, speaking in "Certain
Quadratic Cremona Transformations."

Miss McKinney, Dr. Sweet, Miss Alex-
ander and Miss Phythian will form one
of the groups going abroad this summer.

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FROM THE ALUMNAE OFFICE

INTRODUCING DOROTHY

Through the generosity of the college to
the Alumnae Association, Dorothy Hutton,
'29, is assistant alumnae secretary with the
editing of the new Alumnae Directory as
her especial responsibility. Dr. McCain is
very anxious to have an up-to-date direc-
tory of the alumnae and their addresses as
soon as possible and has allowed us to have
another worker in the office that it may be
possible. Dorothy has proven herself in
her hard job as class secretary of the new-
est alumnae class and brings to her work
in the Alumnae Office the finest qualifica-
tions and a very deep love for Agnes Scott.
Dorothy will also do some of the actual
alumnae work and we want you to know
her when you come back to visit us, and
you who know her already we are sure will
be hurrying back to welcome her and be
welcomed by Dotty Hutton.

COLUMBIA, S. C, CLUB

The Columbia, S. C, Club met with Eva
(Wassum) Cunningham on the twenty-sec-
ond of February to listen to the Founder's
Day program. Those present were Lucia
Murchison, '22; Eloise Annel, Jane Tucker
Fisher (Mrs. Frank Dana), ex '19; Janie
Lapley, who will enter with the class of
1934, and Eva Cunningham.

Eva says Rob was quite elated over
Miss Hopkins' greetings to the sons-
in-law of Agnes Scott! Eloise and Jane
Tucker hadn't been back in years and they
thoroughly enjoyed the view book, and
Lucia especially the new building. The last
Quarterly provided much entertainment and
gave us many opportunities for oh so-and-
so had done this, and how many children
has so-and-so and have you heard the lat-
est and so far into the night did we chatter!
The next year's freshman, although unable
to join in much of the chatter, listened with
shining eyes and mouths watering for the
good times."

MEMPHIS, TENN., GROUP

"How much we enjoyed the Founder's Day
program! This is the first time that we
have been able to hear anything but a sput-
tering and rumbling that sounded like Des-
tiny predicting false teeth for us all in the
immediate future rather than a message
from 'the dear guide of our youth.'
The alumnae met with me and when we
rose to sing the Alma Mater, my two year
old baby stood up, too, looked hard at each
of us, to be sure that she was doing the cor-
rect thing and then threw back her head
with great gusto and sang 'Mary had a
little lamb.' I am sure no old girl could

have heard the program without enjoying
herself thoroughly."

Margaret (Rowe) Jones.

ATLANTA AND DECATUR, GA., CLUBS

These two clubs and a few other alumnae
from nearby towns held their February
meeting jointly at the Atlanta Biltmore
Hotel and had the interesting pleasure of
watching from their banquet table the
broadcasting of the Founder's Day pro-
gram to the "far away" alumnae. After
the half hour radio program, the alumnae
and their husbands and escorts enjoyed a
delicious dinner, followed by a very short
after-dinner program. Florence Perkins,
'26, the president of the Atlanta Club,
welcomed the Atlanta and Decatur groups
and the visitors in a most charming greet-
ing and then introduced Mr. S. G. Stukes,
who gave a short talk on the type of stu-
dents wanted for Agnes Scott and what
we, as alumnae, could do to help in this
selection. Miss Bowen, a student at the
college, gave some beautiful selections as
solos and the evening closed after a very
happy time together with the Singing of
the Alumnae song. One unique feature
of the evening was the presence of Betty
Sams, daughter of Louise (Scott) Sams,
the little grand-daughter of George Wash-
ington Scott, whose birthday we were cele-
brating. It was also Betty's birthday and
she had chosen as her birthday present to
be present at this banquet.

BIRMINGHAM CLUB

Part of this is from Mary Ray Dobyns'
letter and part is copied from the news-
paper report of this meeting.

"We had such fun at the banquet Satur-
day night. There were eighteen alumnae
all the way from the Institute to '29 and
Daddy was there as a trustee. He tried to
find our alumnus (one of the six little boys
who once went to A. S. C. now lives in
Birmingham) but he wasn't in the tele-
phone book. We had a terrible time get-
ting WSB and finally found out after the
program was over that the aerial hadn't
been connected up properly! When we did
get it at last, it would be fine for a time
and then fade out. We heard Hilda Adams,
the first Glee Club song, most of Dr. Mc-
Cain's and Miss Hopkins' talks, then the
program failed but came back in time for
us to join in with the Alma Mater which
we did lustily. It faded out in the middle,
we kept on singing and it came back a line
behind us!"

The Birmingham Club held its annual
banquet on February 22nd at the Thomas

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Jefferson Hotel in a private dining room,
containing a radio where the radio program
from WSB was received. Those present
were: Mrs. John Chisolm, Misses Sallie
Horton, Frances Bitzer, Katherine Wood-
bury, Pat Turner, Cornelia Cartland, Olivia
Swann, Martha Riley Selman, Grace Geo-
hegan, Helen Ridley, Mary Ray Dobyns,
Mrs. E. S. Archibald, Mrs. Sheffield Owen,
Mrs. Adam Pow, Mrs. John Akin, Mrs.
Jack Bowron, Mrs. L. M. Winn and Dr. Ray
Dobyns, a trustee of Agnes Scott College.

CHARLESTON, W. VA., CLUB

Members of the Charleston, W. Va., Club
met to celebrate Founder's Day at the
home of Mrs. B. S. Preston and had a
most enjoyable time listening in to WSB
and singing with the Glee Club. This club
is our newest branch and has the state
president, Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes as
its prime mover. Tne members are: Mrs.
Preston, whose daughter, Betty, is now at
Agnes Scott; Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes,
Sarah (Hansell) Cousar of St. Albans,
Kathleen Kennedy and Louise Ash of Ona,
Margaret Ellen Hardway, Pauline Adkins,
Edith Kerns, Mary (Hubbard) Teter,
Patti (Hubbard) Stacy, Eliot May Mc-
Clellon, and May Reece. Charlotte Reed,
a prospective student, was an honor guest
at the meeting. This club reports that it
was able to hear the program fine and
that it joined in strongly on the college
songs. The next meeting will be held the
first of April.

CHICAGO, ILL., GROUP

"Our February 22nd celebration was in
the form of a luncheon as it is virtually
impossible to get WSB here and because
of the distance some of us would have to
go at night and because the 22nd was on
Saturday when husbands are at home. We
met at the Woman's University Club,
thanks to Reba Vinnedge, who is a mem-
ber. There were nine present and all
wrote messages for the Quarterly about
themselves. These are the Chicago nine:
Janet MacDonald, Nan Lingle, Annette
(Carter) Colwell, May (Smith) Parsons,
Martha (Eakes) Matthews, Blanche
(Ryan) Brim, Reba Vinnedge, Martha
(Brenner) Shryock, Charis (Hood) Bar-
wick."

Martha (Eakes) Matthews.

COLUMBUS, GA., CLUB

The Columbus Club sent in a report of
its benefit bridge held on Friday, February
7th, Lillian (Eason) Duncan, general chair-
man, with every member working hard,
and with a nice profit to rejoice the souls
of these alumnae.

The February 22nd meeting was held at
the home of Clarkie Davis, with seventeen

present, twelve A. S. C. members and five
lovely high school seniors. The purple and
white sandwiches went nobly with the
"Purple and the White" as it came over
the radio, and all enjoyed the whole pro-
gram immensely. The speeches came in
well and the club joined in lustily on both
songs, led by Miriam Kaufman. The presi-
dent, Hallie (Alexander) Turner, says,
"We're swinging onto our bank account
and are going to have a tea of some kind
at Lillian Duncan's in the spring if it's
a silver tea we will increase our 'b. a.';
if it is a tea honoring the high school
seniors, we'll decrease it. Of that, more
anon."

GREENVILLE, S. C, CLUB

"Our meeting on February 22nd went
over even bigger than we had hoped. There
were eleven alumnae, one prospective stu-
dent and one visitor. Everybody was en-
thusiastic and seemed to have a good time
in fact, it was a regular good A. S. C.
time. We are planning to do something
for the senior high school girls this spring;
we have two certain prospects now and one
rather doubtful one so far. I'm real proud
of our 'baby' club here in Greenville."

Virginia Norris.

The Alumnae Office is obliged to add a
postscript to this report and call your at-
tention to the ads which are the results
of the work of the Greenville alumnae
under Margery (Moore) McAulay, which is
such a wonderful contribution to the financ-
ing of the Alumnae Quarterly that we feel
praise fails us when it comes to what we
think of this club.

ASHEVILLE, HENDERSONVILLE,
BANNER ELK GROUP

The alumnae of these three towns com-
bined their meetings into a dinner held at
the Hendersonville Inn in Hendersonville,
when the radio program was received and
when, after dinner, plans were discussed
for a meeting of all the alumnae in a state-
wide gathering on February 22nd of next
year. As Maurine Bledsoe tells it, "The
occasion started off auspiciously with
purple and white decorations and place
cards displaying Main decorations. Seven
o'clock and the main course of the dinner
arrived simultaneously but no program
from Atlanta. After minutes of extreme
agitation that improved neither the radio
nor our nerves, the alumnae made a hasty
exit from the dining room and a dramatic
rush a block up the street to the nearest
drug store, thereby adding a collegiate
touch to the evening. The druggist gave
up his 'Amos and Andy' program and we
sang the 'Purple and the White' with

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gusto and were vastly amused at the soda
jerker's reactions to the famous three lines
on 'Modesty.' After the singing of the
Alma Mater, Agnes Scott and chaos de-
parted from the drug store and did not care
if our dinner was cold, or our husbands,
fathers, and brothers a little bewildered
by the recent flight."

Those present were: Mary and Pauline
Brown's parents, Virginia Sevier's mother
(Virginia being in Australia), Jean Grey's
parents, Ellen Fain and Mr. and Mrs. Fain,
Gladys (Lee) Kelly, Laura (Candler)
Wilds, granddaughter of Col. Scott and
daughter of that trustee, Mr. Candler, who
has served forty-one years on the board, all
of Hendersonville; the Asheville party in-
cluding Rheba Barnard, Pauline Smathers,
"Chick" and Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer,
Maurine Bledsoe and her brother, Taylor.
Margaret Tufts and Jane Grey came all
the way from Banner Elk and were very
special guests.

Plans were discussed for a district meet-
ing in April of this year, then the meeting
adjourned with a peppy, "I'm a Hottentot
from Agmes Scott."

LYNCHBURG, VA., CLUB

This is one of our very newest chapters
which we are delighted to welcome to the
Club News Column. It was organized on
Thursday, February 20th, and sent a mes-
sage to the broadcasters on February 22nd,
signed by Courtney Wilkinson, saying that
they were getting the program splendidly
in Lynchburg.

RALEIGH, N. C, GROUP

The Raleigh group, at Daisy Frances
Smith's instigation, held a meeting on
February 22nd and five were present for
the broadcast. They are considering form-
ing a local organization just for the pleas-
ure of meeting together once in a while.
Those present were: Elsie (Estes) Clark,
Clare Bucher (Scott) Johnson, Olivia Rus-
sell, Frances (Stuart) Morrison and Daisy
Frances Smith.

WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, CLUB

"During the Christmas holidays we had
a nice meeting of the A. S. C. girls. We
did not organize at that meeting, for we
felt that at the Christmas season all the
girls would be more interested in just an
informal meeting, so the old girls invited
all the girls now in college to have tea
with them at the country club. There were
about fifteen of us gathered around a
huge log fire, so you may well imagine
what a good time we had. We will all
meet together to hear the Founder's Day
program and we shall discuss organiza-
tion work then."

Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal.

This group met on Founder's Day and
sent one of the interesting telegrams re-
ceived that evening.

Many other groups and clubs held their
meetings on this evening but reports of
their meetings were not received in time
for this quarterly and will appear in the
next issue. Many of the meetings sent
telegraphic messages from their meetings
and are published under the account of
Founder's Day.

LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE OF
BUTTRICK HALL

On the afternoon of Friday, May 30th,
at 2:30 p. m., the cornerstone of the beauti-
ful new Administration and Class Room
Building to be called Buttrick Hall in honor
of the first president of the General Edu-
cation Board of New York, a staunch
friend to Agnes Scott, will be laid with im-
pressive services.

This statement is enough to bring you
"old girls" back from the four corners of
the earth and if you are planning to ar-
rive on Saturday, we know you will want
to make it Friday and be here for the
great day. Dr. McCain made this date one
of the commencement days so that our
alumnae would be able to be here when this
great unit of our building program is of-
ficially begun. Already it is rearing its
head over Home Ec. and the old gym and
by that time you will be able to get a great
thrill out of its outline and just a short
distance below, you'll see the new laundry
and power plant with its chimney high
against the sky and A. S. C. dropping down
the side of the chimney in white letters a
second rival for Main Tower.

The college extends you a most cordial
invitation to be present at this corner-
stone laying and we give you the warmest
welcome back for all commencement, sure-
ly beginning on Friday, May 30th.

REPORT OF AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

The regional conference of District III
(Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida and Alabama) of the
American Alumni Council met in Charles-
ton, S. C, January 17 and 18, with secre-
taries from the colleges and universities
of these states in attendance. As it was the
first conference this secretary had attend-
ed, she got a real thrill out of that many
alumni and alumnae secretaries in one
spot, discussing about the same problems
and plans, and "swapping stories" about
their schemes for collecting dues and catch-
ing the wary alumnus or alumna's atten-
tion for this and that endeavor.

Charleston itself, as a convention city,
has no superior, for it offers more inter-

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esting sightseeing places than can be
crowded into a day and in addition to the
city itself the historic Fort Sumter was
visited by the delegates as the guests of
the Chamber of Commerce, which meant a
most delightful boat trip.

And then the conference settled down to
steady business, although some of the
most helpful ideas we received were
through the little group talks we had been
having all through our sightseeing. Be-
ginning with a talk on "Organizing for Ef-
fective Alumni Work," by Miss Byrd of the
N. C. State College for Women, the dis-
cussions ranged along many lines: the part
of the alumni budget which the college
should bear was most interestingly and in-
formally discussed, with the general con-
sensus of opinion being that the trend now
is to operate the association as a part of
the college, its budget in the college and
its collecting of funds returned to the col-
lege; by questioning all present, it was
learned that all save one represented re-
ceived help from its college, some entirely
supported to the extent of $5,000, others
on a fifty-fifty basis, or forty-sixty, or
smaller proportion; local clubs, alumni
magazines, effective ways of interesting
alumni in actual constructive work of their
institutions, campaign methods, work
among prospective students, etc., were dis-
cussed in round table fashion, and many
good ideas were advanced.

Mr. McKee, Alumni Secretary of Woost-
er, national president of the Alumni Coun-
cil, was present at this conference, while
Mr. A. J. Hahna, of Rollins College, pre-
sided, as director of District III, with Ray-
mond Nixon, Emory University, chairman
of the program committee.

One of the ideas used in practically all of
the college associations represented was
the Loyalty Fund. We would like to ask
your careful consideration of this plan and
then please take the time to tell us here
at the office what you think about its
adoption in our own association in the fall.
We would like to hear, as it will help us
to do or not to do, as we see the opinion
is.

When the dues slips go out, in the event
you approve, there would be something
like this printed:

Dues $2.00

Loyalty Fund

This loyalty fund would be anything you
might want to give, from $1.00 to hun-
dreds and would go immediately to the
college, not to the Alumnae Association,
for some one particular branch of the work
or for some need in the college. This might
enable many who have not felt able to
give to the endowment campaign, to give
something, as they felt they could, to have
a part in the growth of the college. The

next year you might feel able to do more;
be that as it may, it would be a contribu-
tion to education which each of us, as col-
lege women, wishes to make. There would
be no pledge, no obligation that is, you
could send in your dues, if you wished to,
without any loyalty fund and that's that,
but it would give some, we hope many, an
opportunity to feel the thrill of owning
an interest in the new Agnes Scott, as you
have already in the old Agnes Scott.

What do you think? Let's hear from
you.

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson.

NEW ALLISON-JAMES BUILDING

The Allison building of the Allison-
James School, of which Mrs. Frank Howald
(Loulie Hurst, '95) is dean, was recently
dedicated in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It
is placed in a scenic setting at the foot
of the Cross of the Martyrs, and from the
upstairs windows may be seen the Arroyo
de Mascaros, the snow-capped mountains
and Santa Fe. Mrs. Howald had personal
charge of the interior decorating of the
building and the selection of the furniture
and draperies. On the first floor are offices,
reception rooms, kitchen, dining room, liv-
ing room and hospital ward. The living
room, a large room with a fireplace at one
end, is finished in blue and at the windows
are hung linen draperies; the furniture is
of Spanish design. To add color to the
room, some lovely old Indian blankets have
been used for decoration. One of these is
especially interesting, because 40 years ago
a girl paid her tuition with this blanket.
The dining hall, which will seat 200 girls,
is furnished with long Spanish tables and
benches. The building is fireproof and cost
$75,000.

THE PRESENT DAY

Remember how we used to wish we knew
how to use the typewriter when papers
piled up and writer's cramp seized us?
This generation not only wished it knew
but it proceeded to make its wishes known
and as a result ever so often during the
week a teacher arrives from Atlanta and
as an extra course, the embryo stenograph-
ers gather and the typewriters click under
expert watching. We've heard it rumored
that several of the faculty have enrolled.

And then this generation decided that it
did not care to go into the class-room and
ascend the platform of teacher for the first
time next September but that it preferred
a little practice ahead of time; so as a re-
sult of this, the most interested bunch of
next-year teachers grab a sandwich three
times a week and hurry to Atlanta to
visit model classes and soon to try their
hand at actual teaching all of this is un-
der the supervision of Emma Wesley, '99,

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who is our own alumna expert in normal
training in the Atlanta system of schools.
Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes have arranged
a schedule with Miss Wesley, who is in-
terested in this experiment, not only from
the viewpoint of the girls but also in
behalf of the Atlanta school system which
is concerned with obtaining culturally edu-
cated and practically experienced teachers.
Thirty-five of our seniors meet one hour
for instruction and spend three hours in
observation each week, winning two hours
credit on the degree. The class is now
observing methods in the lower grades but
actual practice teaching will later be done
in the higher grades and in the Junior
High Schools of Atlanta.

And we used to think we did not have
time for all we had to do in college work
plus a little walking and tennis!

GIFTS TO THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIA-
TION

Two most acceptable gifts were made to
us this month. Miss Elizabeth Jackson,
professor in the history department, gave
to the Anna Young Alumnae House a half
dozen bouillon spoons of the pattern of sil-
ver which we already have. We wish to
thank her for this generous gift and for
the interest which prompted it.

One of our own alumnae evidently read
the pathetic appeal which went out in the
November Quarterly for more caps and
gowns, which are rented to the seniors each
year and furnish us a nice income but
more than that meet a real need for the
caps and gowns among the seniors who do
not wish to put so much into the buying
of them. Mary (Burnett) Thorington, '20,
bundled up her cap, gown and, Allah be
praised! her Agnes Scott hood and sent it
in. We were considering squandering a
few of our precious shekels on a hood, so
that our president might look correct when
she walked in the commencement parade,
when Mary's arrived and is being carefully
treasured, all tucked away in moth balls
against that day in May.

ADD PHI BETA BOYS IN THE
REVOLUTION

What is believed to be the oldest fratern-
ity pin in America was recently ploughed
up in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where
Washington maneuvered Howe and where
Lafayette was wounded. The pin is a Phi
Beta Kappa key. On one side is the name,
John Graham, and the year of the found-
ing of the fraternity, 1776. The pin was
presented by William and Mary College,
Virginia, where records show that John
Graham attended, was graduated, and left
to join the Revolution.

NECROLOGY

Miss Pattie B. Watkins. Miss Pattie B.
Watkins, former instructor at Agnes Scott
and for many years dean of women at
Flora McDonald College, died at her home
in Farmville, Va., January 30th. Miss
Watkins will be remembered by many In-
stitute girls who will regret to hear of her
death. She is an aunt of Miss McKinney.

Miss Mildred K. McCain. Miss Mildred
McCain, sister of Dr. McCain, died at
Wesley Memorial Hospital after an illness
of several months. Miss McCain was pro-
fessor of English at Chjcora College, Co-
lumbia, S. C. Funeral services were held
at the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs.
J. I. McCain at Due West, S. C. The sympa-
thy of the alumnae is extended to Dr.
and Mrs. McCain and their family in their
loss.

Mr. Malcolm Hendee. Mr. Hendee, who
was one of the pupils in the first class of
Agnes Scott history and whom we have
always claimed as our alumnus, died sud-
denly, March the fifth, at his home in Au-
gusta. Mr. Hendee was the brother of Mr.
Armand Hendee, of Decatur, where he also
formerly made his home.

"LOST SISTERS"

(Again we ask your help in locating
these girls from whose last address mail
has been returned without a forwarding
address.)

Academy

Cynthie Farie, 48 W. 84th St., N. Y. C.

Barbara Reynolds, 900 19t"h St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Mary Ruskin (Mrs. G. D. Halsey), Wash-
ington, D. C.

Institute

Mary Duncan (Mrs. George Howe),
Washington, D. C.

Annie Judith Virgin (Mrs. H. V. Hall),
1954 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C.

Walter Cassels (Mrs. Raymond Voigt).
540 Audubon Ave., N. Y. C.

College

Mattie Pauline Brown, ex '19, Conserva-
tory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Grace Etheredge, ex '27, 914 Heard Ave.,
N. Y. C.

Olive Graves, '28, 1908 A Broad, Nash-
ville, Tenn.

Margaret McLean (Mrs. R. T. Mc-
Laurin), ex '23, 1107 W. Franklin, Rich-
mond, Va.

Mary Junkin, ex '28, 1 Houston, Lexing-
ton, Va.

Jessie Watts (Mrs. J. W. Ruskin), 15
13th St., Washington, D. C.

Mary Virginia Yancev (Mrs. J. H. Fahy),
2807 Ontario Road, N. W., Washington,
D. C.

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Concerning Ourselves

1889-1906

To Emily (Divver) Moorer, we are again
indebted for an interesting glimpse back
into her diary:

A Week at Agnes Scott in 1892:

Saturday, October 1, 1892 The Mne-
mosynean meeting tonight was very in-
teresting. Le Vancia Davidson gave a
humorous recitation. I wore my new yel-
low organdie dress. After the meeting,
Miss Hopkins called the girls into the li-
brary and gave us a talk on the poor taste
as well as the rule breaking side of notic-
ing the boys who parade up and down
the dummy track. Some of the girls wave
back at the boys who wave handkerchiefs.
I don't see any fun in flirting with a man
whom we would probably never give a sec-
ond look at thru an opera glass. On the
dummy coming out from Atlanta, the close
range temptation might be tantalizing.
We are permitted a "Good morning, Mr.
Ramspeck" or "Howd'ye do, Mr. Montgom-
ery," and that ends it.

Sunday, Oct. 2nd. We had a man to
dinner today! Sho'nuff, we did! He is
Allie Watlington's brother and he didn't
lack nerve; he was the only man in up-
ward of a hundred females. Twenty-one
girls crowded into Miss Patty Watkins'
room this afternoon; Miss Patty chatted
with us about religious things that puz-
zle and confuse us and somehow we always
come out of her room feeling that we aren't
such awful sinners after all. Miss Patty
actually laughs at and with us.

Tuesday, October 4. Miss Field is keep-
ing study hall this week; she is terribly
strict; she started off by bringing to the
front the girls she thought would misbe-
have; of course, I was among those who
were promoted (?). A beautiful bronze
fountain was put on the lawn today; it
looks so pretty when the water begins to
spout high and the spray to spill into white
foam in the basin.

Wednesday, October 5. Kittie is mad
with me and I'm so miserable.

Thursday, October 6. It was a glorious
day; Kittie told me that she was not mad
with me. We planted pansy seed in our
sunshiny window sill box and I hope we
will enjoy the pansies in the early spring.

Friday, October 7. Anne Watson joined
theMnemosynean Society tonight. My quo-
tation was:

"More, much more the heart may feel
Than the pen may write or the lips re-
veal."

True, isn't it, Diary?

And to bring you back with a bang to
1930, Emily (Divver) Moorer adds that
Eunice (Dean) Major, '22, is her sister's
daughter and that the Major twins and
Hal, Jr., are her grand niece and nephews,
and measure up to "true Agnes Scott speci-
fications."

Marie Schley Brown, from way across
the country in Burlingame, San Mateo
Co., California, sent a telegram to the
Alumnae Association offering to light the
Michigan fir which was her gift to the
House for Christmas; owing to the closing
of the College, her wire was not received
until too late to do this, but the idea was
a lovely one and will be a thought for
next year. Marie has resigned from the
hospital staff at Ishpeming, Michigan, and
after four delightful months in France,
England and Switzerland. She is now see-
ing some of the beauties of California, and
after May 1st will be at 131 Fairfield, St.
Albans, Vermont, with Mrs. M. M. Duncan.

Thyrza Askew, president of North Ave.
School in Atlanta, was a delegate to Lex-
ington, Kentucky, where the Southern As-
sociation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools met.

Alberta (Burress) Trotter is reference
librarian in the Institute of Musical Art
of the Juilliard School of Music in New
York City, at 120 Claremont Avenue. John
Erskine is president of this institute and
Frank Damrosch is the dean. Her daughter,
Katherine Trotter, a most attractive and
beautiful girl, is visiting her aunt, Kittie
(Burress) Martin, in Anderson, S. C.

Daisy (Caldwell) McGinty has had her
daughter home for a visit in Atlanta. She
is Mrs. Edward Bickel, of Louisville, Ky.

Eliza (Candler) Earthman, with her
mother and her sister, Nell, spent a part
of the winter in Clearwater, Fla.

Annie Jean Gash is in Pisgah Forest,
North Carolina, taking care of her bro-
ther's home and little son, Bob.

Caro Gray is Mrs. Elden Bagley and
is now living in Cleveland, Ohio.

Louise (Hurst) Howald was one of our
farthest "listeners-in" on Founder's Day,
and says that when the program faded out,
"I picked up my January Alumnae Quar-
terly and read again the interesting news
of other days taken from Emily (Divver)
Moorer's diary. Emily's mention of Lottie
Kefauver reminded me that Lottie was
quite impressed with a few lines I wrote

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once about Lake Como in class and called it
a 'bijou' (we were studying French from
Miss Massee then); later, we went from
Switzerland to Italy by the St. Gotthard
Tunnel, and when we came to beautiful
Como, the little verse in my old school
book came back to me. It is indeed a
jewel, and so were my days at Agnes
Scott. How I wish I might live them over
again!"

Louise (Inglis) Love has a daughter,
Sara May, who has graduated from high
school in Quincy, Fla. this January, and
will be a student at Agnes Scott this fall.
Louise is herself chairman of the direc-
torate of the Library Association in her
town and has just finished a most success-
ful drive for members and books to in-
crease the efficiency of this library.

Rosa Belle Knox, who is now a visitor
in the Alumnae House while working on
her new book, is an author of note, and
we are proud to claim her as one of our
alumnae. One of the newest additions to
our collection for a future museum in
the Alumnae House is the Last Will and
Testament of her class which she has given
us. Item six says, "We give, bequeath
and advise to the care of Evelyn Ram-
speck and Margie Booth, Emma Wesley's
and Lucile Alexander's baby sisters, Rusha
Wesley and Ethel Alexander. Said in-
fants are rather timid, but give promise
of great precocity." One part of item
10 gave to the Junior class the right
to elect "a president who will serve as
faithfully as ours, Annie Jean Gash."

Nan Bagby Stephens continues to add
to her list of noteworthy accomplishments;
she is the organizer of the Drama Work-
shop in Atlanta, and recently a group
of one-act plays written by members of
this work shop was presented.

Daisy Strong is doing expert work in
wood carving and weaving at her home
in Greensboro, N. C. Cora is on the
faculty of North Carolina State College
for Women there.

1907

(This is your reunion year, '30! Wont
you come back and see the new and enjoy
the old?)

Clyde Pettus is one of the contributors
to the article on library work in this issue
and although she is too modest to say
what we have heard about her being in-
valuable in her work, you can tell some-
thing about what has been keeping her
busy since you last saw her.

Elizabeth (Curry) Winn was one of the
signers of the telegram from Greenville,
S. C.| on Founder's Day program.

Alice Greene, ex '07, has been ill in
the hospital, but is much better and is now
recuperating at her home on Barksdale

Drive, in Atlanta. A card from the of-
fice asking for news reached her in the
hospital and this was her response: "Your
questions do not fit my case, not even the
one about a new hat, the mention of which
touches me deeply. The big question with
me is when I will be able to go home and
when I will be able to get back to work
again."

Grace E. (Barstow) Murphy, ex '07,
has an author daughter whose book, "Ev-
ery Which Way in Ireland, By a Girl
Scout" (Putnam's), Alison Barstow Mur-
phy, is just off the press. She is fifteen
years old, and her book is the first girl's
book in the famous David Book Series.
Her brother, Robert C. Murphy, Jr., had
an article about the Boy Scout Jamboree
in the November St. Nicholas magazine,
which was written when he was fourteen.
Mr. Murphy is Curator of Oceanic Birds
in the American Museum of Natural His-
tory, while the Agnes Scott member of
this family is herself treasurer of the
Society of Women Telegraphers, and a
son, Amos, aged eleven is, as Grace puts
it, "coming on."

Cleveland Zahner, ex '07, has undertaken
the follow-up work among the outside pa-
tients treated by the Scottish Rite Crippled
Children's Home.

1908

(Your next reunion, 1930. Do you re-
member that brave Sophomore Class of
long ago? Come back and defend it
against its old time enemies in the race
for the attendance cup.)

Elva (Drake) Drabe's address is 2025
Fairview Road, Raleigh, N. C.

Lizzabel Saxon is a rather frequent visi-
tor on the campus, and cheers the office
by stopping in to see us occasionally.

Queenie (Jones) Shepherd, ex '08, also
answers to the office's request for news
of anything new by saying, "A new hat?
Lots better than that an entire new out-
fit, brown like it used to be in old Agnes
Scott days. I'm also president of the
Methodist Missionary Society for the third
year. Our pastor is a cousin of the pres-
ident of Wesleyan one of the Quillians.
Lots of love."

Bessie (Sentelle) Martin, ex '08, is in
Bunkie, Louisiana for a visit.
1909

(And you were the Freshmen of this
group; as gay a freshman class as ever
came to A. S. C, and many are the tales
that still are passed around about Adelaide
falling thru the ceiling of Rebekah while
touring the attic above, and the stories
gathered around Tommie Davidson are
campus lore. Reunion, 1930.)

Louise Davidson wrote Miss McKinney
that the old days at A. S. C. now quite

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far away as time is counted, seem always
near to her, especially since she has Mary
Knight, '22, on her paper (the American
Woman's Club House's paper). "Mary
Knight tells me that her aunt, Adelaide
Nelson, no less is coming to visit her.
It will be grand to see Adelaide again;
I never can forget the time she fell thru
the ceiling of Rebekah. I have been
working with the A. W. Club House for
five years; started with them in the be-
ginning of their campaign to sell stock
to build this clubhouse, which is a real
achievement. Margaret McCallie and her
friend, Mamie Bright, came from Chat-
tanooga this fall, and Margaret and I
got together again after nineteen years.
I expect soon to go in for free lance ad-
vertising and publicity work, having re-
signed my work here."

Mattie (Newton) Traylor is a busy wife
and mother and also holds down a respon-
sible position on the faculty of LaGrange
Woman's College.

Susan (Dowdell) Spencer, ex '09, "I am
leading a full and interesting life, but not
doing a thing exciting. A busy husband
and two lively boys, together with church
and organization work, keep one busy and
happy."

Annette (McDonald) Suarez, ex '09, sent
in Susie (Gunn) Allen's new address and
still pleaded "busy" about that story of
her visit to Spain last summer.
1910

(Next reunion, 1931).

Isabel (Nunnally) Knight, ex '10, will
soon have a daughter (whose name is Isa-
belle) in Agnes Scott, according to
Clara Knox Nunnally (Allie (Felker) Nun-
nally's daughter, who is a Junior this
year).

Lutie (Powell) Burckhardt, ex '10, in-
sists that she has done nothing startling,
but when hard pressed for news reported
a delightful birthday party given in honor
of the fourth birthday of her little daugh-
ter, Anne, with twenty-five little girls as
guests. Lutie is at 83 Brighton Road,
Atlanta, Ga.

Eva (Towers) Hendee, ex '10, and her
family, including husband, Frances and
Armand, Jr., had a wonderful trip to Tex-
as, when Mr. Hendee went to a meeting
of the contact committees of Freight Rate
Associations. They stopped en route at
various points of interest, including Hot
Springs, Houston, San Antonio and New
Orleans.

1911

(Next reunion, 1931).

Eleanor (Coleman) Burchard has moved
from Washington, D. C, to Clarendon, Va.

Mary Wallace Kirk and Gladys (Lee)
Kelly, although in different spots, were

both listening in to the radio program
and wired Miss Hopkins.

Julia (Thompson) Gibson is such a short
distance from the college with her home
in Covington, Ga., that the college ought
to see her often, but one day in March
is the first time this year, and to that we
lay the blame for all the erroneous state-
ments we made about her husband's posi-
tion in the November issue. Hearsay is
never as good as visiting with alumnae, and
we will say things even if we have to make
them up. Mr. Gibson is head of the de-
partment of geology at Georgia Tech, and
commutes back and forth each day to Cov-
ington, for he and Julia are agreed that
that is the place to rear two such fine
sons and the little three year old daugh-
ter.

Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson and
Lula (White) Potter did their "bit" the
other week in having a large benefit bridge
party for the Atlanta Club which has
pledged a large sum to the campaign fund.

Allie (Felker) Nunnally, ex '11, and her
daughter and two other alumnae, of Mon-
roe, gathered some of the high school girls
at Allie's to hear the radio program, and
are planning to bring some of them to the
college for a week-end.
1912

(Next reunion, 1931).

Cornelia Cooper listened in from Jud-
son College on the February 22nd program,
and wired Miss Hopkins.

Ruth (Slack) Smith is having a great
time reading furniture catalogues and out-
fitting some of the new quarters of Duke
University, where she is dean of women.
Evidently she and Louise Slack have been
visiting together, for a letter from Louise
spoke of their pleasure in Helen (Scanlon)
Wright's home in Durham.

Susie (Gunn) Allen's, ex '12, address
in Macon, Ga., is 102 DeSoto Place.

Susette (Joerg) Flournoy, ex '12, has the
sympathies of her friends in the recent
loss of her husband, Mr. Gordon Flournoy.

Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex '12, has
had her mother as a visitor for several
weeks this winter, and Julia Pratt was
hostess at a lovely luncheon in honor of her
mother, Mrs. McQueen Smith, of Prattville,
Ala., and also as a compliment to Georgi-
anna (White) Miller's mother, Mrs. White,
of Griffin.

Margaret (Tissington) Curl, ex '12, has
four fine children, from thirteen years of
age to five: George, Jr., Arthur, Charles,
and Caroline. Margaret's address is 920
W. 19th St., Oklahoma City, Okla.
1913

(Next reunion, 1931).

Mary (Enzor) Bynum was an interested
hearer of the radio program, in Troy, Ala.

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Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann's daugh-
ter, Adele, according to reports, now has
the necessary "fifteen points" entrance re-
quirements for, in addition to her eight
teeth, the other day at one fell swoop she
cut seven more. She is a round, rosy baby
and will be at commencement this year we
are sure.

Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes, after doing
much work in West Virginia on the Foun-
der's Day groups was the moving spirit
in the meeting at Charleston, W. Va., where
one prospective Agnes Scotter was with
the alumnae for the program. This is a
new branch of the association and is plan-
ning great things as soon as Eleanor and
her husband, Major Stokes, return from
an army inspection tour in Ohio in March.

Ruth (Brown) Moore, ex '13, after a
struggle with flu is now feeling fine, and
busy as all mothers are.
1914

(Next reunion, 1932).

Ruth (Blue) Barnes has moved to Gor-
donston, Savannah, Georgia.

Lottie May (Blair) Lawton wrote the
secretary a note of good wishes to her in
the new "job," and also said that the
Greenville girls are having such pleasant
get-together meetings. They enjoyed a talk
by Sara Townsend, '30, who was home for
the Christmas holidays.

Florence Brinkley, who is studying this
year at Johns Hopkins, will be teaching
this summer at Peabody and then back at
Goucher this fall.

Mary (Brown) Florence says that "just
the taste I had last commencement of
being back at A. S. C. made me realize
what we, who live away and don't get
back often, were really missing. But the
Alumnae Quarterly is a big help in keep-
ing us in touch and also a joy to read."
Mary's address is Magnolia, Arkansas.

Sarah (Hansell) Cousar was to have
been a member of the Charleston, W. Va.
group on Founder's Day, but got sick and
was unable to get there. She is to be a
member of the new club, tho.

Charlotte (Jackson) Mitchell rose nobly
to the occasion when called upon for news
and announced a new member of the fam-
ily, Alethea Wardlaw Mitchell, "a little
daughter, who can go to Agnes Scott some
of these days. She is named for my moth-
er and is very like her father in appear-
ance, a little young to have his military
bearing. I think Colonel Mitchell would
have liked very much to send her to West
Point to keep up the army traditions of
his family. I think, however, she is most
fortunate to be able to look forward to
A. S. C. Best wishes."

Kathleen Kennedy and Louise Ash, who
are doing, from all reports, a wonderful

work at the Pritchard School, are also
close to Charleston and have promised to
become members of that chapter. How their
sixteen children grouped around to hear
the radio program is told under Founder's
Day news.

Marguerite (Wells) Bishop says, "The
last four weeks have been busy ones; I
have had my mother and Mr. Bishop's
mother with me and we've had a round
of gaiety. Now I am back to the usual
routine again and have just had both chil-
dren sick in bed with tonsilitis. Dorothy
is back in school again but Bob, Jr., being
so frail, is still in bed, tho better now.
I was so disappointed not to hear the
broadcast on February 22nd, but even
with our powerful radio, we can't get sta-
tions far away early in the afternoon.
I wish I could meet some of the girls liv-
ing up this way, even tho I wouldn't have
time to see much of them."

Beth Duncan, ex '14, is now teaching
piano, voice and public school music, at
Moorefield, W. Va. She had a group meet-
ing on the 22nd with several prospective
A. S. C. students, and heard the program
splendidly.

Elizabeth Hill, ex '14, is Mrs. Max Aber-
nathy, 304 Forrest Road, Raleigh, N. C.

1915

(Next reunion, 1932).

Martha (Brenner) Shryock, the secre-
tary of this class, has the most interesting
news to tell, so we'll let her do the talking,
except to say that the office received the
sweetest little card announcing the arri-
val of Mary Harrison Shryock, on Janu-
ary 9th, and because the January Quar-
terly had already gone to the printer for
the last time, the news is late getting to
you, but we know you will rejoice with
Martha in it. On Founder's Day, at the
Chicago meeting, Martha, as did all those
present at that luncheon, sent in a little
note of news, for which they win our un-
dying affection. Martha said, "All I can
talk about and think about is my six weeks
old daughter, Mary Harrison, the future
Agnes Scotter. She is just prec-
ious, gains daily, now weighs 11 lbs, 9
ozs. She has slept from 10 p. m. until
6 a. m. since she has been four weeks old.
Now that we have a daughter who has
to have the sun rays, we have decided
to give up apartment life and take up
our abode in a house; we have an eigh-
teen months lease on one which belongs
to friends who are going on a world cruise,
so please change my address after May
first, to 803 Clinton Place, Evanston, 111."

Mary (Kelly) Coleman's picture ap-
peared recently in the paper when she was
elected to the state chairmanship of the
Division of Public Instruction of Federation

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of Women's Clubs of Georgia. She has
been a leader in all circles of the city,
county and state, has served as secretary
of the Woman's Club one term, and at
present is second vice-president of the
club; she was formerly president of the
Three Arts Club for six years, she has
been secretary of the Carnegie Library
Board for six years, and has held many
other club offices.

Mary Helen (Schneider) Head is be-
coming, from all reports, a wonderful golf
player, and is swinging a constant club
over the golf courses of Atlanta.

Frances West had a buffet supper for
all alumnae in and near St. Petersburg,
and they had a splendid time listening
to the radio program.

Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott and her fam-
ily had a nice trip to Clearwater, Florida,
this winter.

Mary (West) Thatcher is now at 27 N.
E. 49th Street, Miami, Florida, until some-
time in the spring, when she will return
to her home in Atlanta. Owing to our
"hearsay" report about Mary's little son's
ability to tell all makes of cars from any
picture in any magazine, we got the age
wrong, and instead of four he is only now
two and a half, and has been able to do
this since he was eighteen months, which
makes our story of real news value, for
that is a remarkable thing.

1916

(Next reunion, 1932).

Charis (Hood) Barwick brings us this in-
formation: "Did I write of the honor that
has come to my better half? He has been
elected one of the 150 official delegates to
the International Council of Congregational
Churches in Bournemouth, England, this
summer. The church has given him an
extra month's vacation, raised his salary
again, and provided a secretary to relieve
him of some of the multitudinous details.
He plans to be gone two months, taking in
Oberamagau, and side trips to England,
Scotland, France, and Italy. I'll be on
deck here (1321 Prairie Avenue, Des
Plaines, Illinois), to keep things running
as smoothly as possible."

Louise Hutcheson is teaching in Kansas
City, Missouri, and living at 321 Ward
Parkway, and says that "two of the Seniors
I teach in the Sunset Hill School here are
very much interested in Agnes Scott."
This is evidently good publicity on Louise's
part.

Helen (Allison) Brown, ex '16, died very
suddenly at their country home about six
miles west of Pine Bluff, Wyoming, on No-
vember 1st. She had been ill for only a short
time, her death resulting from her fail-
ure to rally after an operation which was
performed Wednesday evening. We wish to

extend our deepest sympathy to her hus-
band, four children, and many friends, to
whom her death will mean such a great
loss.

Genevieve McMillan, ex '16, is now
Alumnae Secretary of Flora McDonald Col-
lege of North Carolina.

1917

(Next reunion, 1932).

Amelia (Alexander) Greenawalt is a
supply teacher at the Decatur High School
this year in addition to her numerous other
duties and interests, and says that she has
taught every subject except shorthand. She
has two young daughters: Amelia, whose
ambition runs to aviation, and Myra, who is
a talented dancer.

Louise Ash and Kathleen Kennedy have
been shut in with their sixteen children
since December on account of muddy roads.
It was quite exciting when they had
four mules to pull them through the mud
to the highway in order to get into Hunt-
ington, where their five youngest gave a
program. We deeply sympathize with
Louise in the death of her father.

Mary (Eakes) Rumble writes with her
usual enthusiasm from Athens. She says
her youngest son, Frank Eakes, is the most
fun the Rumbles have ever had, and she is
looking for something new in the field of
psychology to cope with his modern tenden-
cies. Besides her "home work" with her
family of four, Mary's job includes acting
as superintendent of the Primary Depart-
ment of the Sunday School. She sees lots
of Agnes Scott girls in Athens. She says:
"Martha Comer teaches in the High School
here and she is the same lovely, sweet
Martha Comer. Ruth Cofer lives here too.
Her husband is quite a fine doctor here
and everybody likes him so much. My great
thrill was seeing Llewellyn Wilburn. She
taught in the University summer school
last summer, heading the Physical Educa-
tion Department, and she will be here again
this summer. She spent the week-end with
me not long ago representing Agnes Scott
at the dedication of the new girls' gymnas-
ium here." Mary's address in Athens is
325 Lumpkin Street.

Jane (Harwell) Rutland and her chil-
dren spent January and February in Flor-
ida before joining her husband in Balti-
more. Her husband is the manager of the
Baltimore branch for the H. J. Baker Co.
of New York.

Lack of a typewriter and the fascination
of Paris have reduced Janet Newton's cor-
respondence to an occasional postcard. She
says that even her family suffers, but she
is having a wonderful time and wishes she
had some others from the class to enjoy it
with her. Jan's address is: 132 Bd. Mont-
parnasse, Paris, France.

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Louise (Roach) Fuller and her five-year-
old daughter, Jean, visited Mary (Eakes)
Rumble in Athens just before Christmas.
The Fullers have recently completed a
lovely home in Hazard, Ky., and are enjoy-
ing it thoroughly.

Having luncheon with eight other Agnes
Scott girls in Chicago calls to mind the good
old days and inspires May (Smith) Parsons
to break a long silence and send news of
herself to the rest of us. May is keeping
house, teaching psychology and chemistry
at the Chicago Normal College and visiting
in the elementary schools, continuing, you
see, her customary practice of doing twice
as much as anybody else.

1918

(Next reunion, 1933).

Lois (Grier) Moore and Nannie Graham
Sanders wired in a Founder's Day message
from Wytheville, Va., where they were
listening in.

Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal writes of being
very busy with a new house and a new
baby, but has promised to work hard for
the new Winston-Salem club, which met
with her on Founder's Day. Her new home
is on Warwick Road, Winston-Salem.

Fan (Oliver) Pitman has changed her
address to 157 Ponce de Leon Court, De-
catur.

Katherine Seay's present address is 524
West 24th Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Samille (Lowe) Skeen is now to be lo-
cated in care of the Public Service Co.,
Grand Junction, Colorado. She has an-
nounced the arrival of Celeste Skeen on
November the eighth. About Samille, Jr.,
Lulu (Smith) Westcott says, "Samille, Jr.,
age about three and a half, is a darling
child. I could hardly keep from kidnaping
her on my visit to them this past sum-
mer."

1919

(Next reunion, 1933).

Blanche (Copeland) Gifford has at last
revealed her whereabouts and given a very
interesting account of herself. The follow-
ing is an excerpt from her letter to the
secretary: "I have been living in Tampa
since last April and I regret to say that I
am the laziest of Floridians. Really it is
quite a pleasure to be lazy in this most
delightful climate. Do not be alarmed!
I'm not selling real estate. Suffice it to
say that I have a big home here and have
been running a free hotel for all my less
fortunate "snow-bound" friends. Really,
a good Samaritan in disguise and loads of
fun for me. Elizabeth (Dimmick) Blood-
worth from Atlanta is lunching with me
tomorrow. You ask me for News and I
rave about Florida. Well anyway all I can
think of now is that I am going to Cuba

March 15th and I am so excited I can't
think beyond that. We sail direct from
Tampa on the S. S. Cuba. My present ad-
dress is 712 South Edison Avenue, Tampa,
Fla. And I appreciate any bit of news
from Agnes Scott and am quite eager to
do my share in any work or plans you
may have."

Dorothy (Thigpen) Shea writes of plan-
ning to spend a part of the early spring in
Alabama, and adds, "If events shape them-
selves properly, perhaps I can persuade
Lucy Durr to visit Agnes Scott with me.
It's rather hard traveling with or without
small children though."

Julia Lake Skinner was married on the
third of February to Dr. Eugene Roland
Kellersberger at the home of her brother,
Mr. O. C. Skinner, dean of the Berry
Schools, Rome, Georgia. They spent their
honeymoon on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Until June they will be at home at 5287
Westminster, St. Louis, when they will sail
for a tour of Europe before returning to
Africa in September to continue mission
work in the Belgian Congo. As to her hus-
band, Julia sends an apt description: "Down
in Texas I found a new adjective to add to
my vocabulary. It gives me pleasure to
announce that I have recently acquired the
LARAPINEST JIGGEREST HUSBAND
that any Agnes Scott girl ever had. He is
so modest himself that I'll have to sing
his praises for him. I've always expected
to marry a minister or a doctor and he is
BOTH. He is a graduate of two big Amer-
ican Universities and also of the School
of Tropical Medicine in London and has re-
cently been decorated by the Belgian gov-
ernment for signal service in the Congo
for the past ten years. 25,000 different
people have come for treatment to his little
hospital in the heart of Africa in the last
four years, where he is the only doctor
with one American nurse to help. During
that time he has cured 6,000 cases of sleep-
ing sickness. After the first of September
we will be at home to any Agnes Scott
girls who call at American Presbyterian
Congo Mission, Bibanga, Kabinda, Dt. du
Lomami, Congo Beige, Central Africa."

Lulu (Smith) Westcott says that she
spent the week-end of the 22nd of Febru-
ary in Monroe, and "Drove through the
campus of A. S. C. Saturday afternoon to
pay my respects to dear old Alma Mater
but did not have time to stop." Please do
stop next time!

Elizabeth (Dimmick) Bloodworth, ex '19,
writes from Florida that she has been to
the Bok Tower, Winter Haven, Clearwater,
Tarpon Springs, St. Petersburg, Sarasota,
and Bradenton, and "has enjoyed it all so
much. The weather is perfect now."

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Dorothy (Mitchell) Ellis, ex '19, reports
that "A house to look after and a very live-
ly 17-months-old son keep me busy. I
wouldn't miss the Quarterly for anything
I read nearly every word in it, even about
the girls I don't know! New York City is no
place for a youngster, so we are in the
suburbs across the Hudson, at Morningside
Lane, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey."

1920

(Next reunion, 1933).

"A word to the wise" is said to be suffi-
cient. We shall have a chance to see just
how wise 1920 girls are after ten years
absence from their Alma Mater. This is
also a word of warning, too. Margaret
Bland gave me a glorious idea. Even
though in love, Margaret could still do
this "I hasten to send you news for the
Bulletin before you publish astounding
lies," is the way a letter the class secre-
tary received early in January began. All
you silent sisters look out; if authentic
news is not forthcoming in the near futui'e,
then do not appear shocked at "astounding
lies" about your silent self.

Margaret continues, "I did not go to Yale
to study for a doctor's degree, but to be
in the School of Drama, which does not
even count toward degrees. I stayed only
one term because I am going to be mar-
ried on March 1st to Frank Anderson
Sewell, of Atlanta, Georgia. To everybody's
immense surprise, I am going to marry a
man who is not a professor. I think we'll
live in Decatur."

The following is an account of the wed-
ding, as it appeared in the Charlotte
papers: "Of cordial interest throughout the
south was the wedding of Miss Margaret
Clarkson Bland and Mr. Frank Anderson
Sewell, of Atlanta, which was solemnized
Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at the home
of the bride's mother. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. John Moore Walker,
rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church,
and the Rev. Thomas Simons Clark-
son, a cousin of the bride. The bride
was given in marriage by her brother,
Mortimer Bland. The wedding was attend-
ed by relatives and a few intimate friends,
being followed by an informal reception
after which they left for a trip to New
Orleans to attend Mardi Gras, and after-
wards for Havana."

"Am still at the same old game bring-
ing up the youth of Birmingham in the way
they should go. I always insist they do
as I say and not as I do," writes Louise
Abney. Last summer Louise was in New
York for quite a while and is planning to
return this summer.

Tip (Holtzelaw) Blanks and Marian (Mc-
Camy) Sims motored to Richmond to see
"Strange Interlude" that was being pre-

sented by the New York Theatre Guild.
They gave the secretary some surprises,
but as she had seen the play, she joined
them during the intermission. There was
much conversation along with the con-
sumption of food, but the general con-
sensus of opinion at that stage of the game
seemed to be, it is just as well that we
mortals do not think out loud all the time.

Marian (McCamy) Sims is moving from
Dalton, Ga. Her new address will be 603
Simpson Street, Greensboro, N. C.

From Emilie Keyes, of the Palm Beach
Post, comes a card: "The most interesting
thing I can think of at the moment is see-
ing Rebecca Dick, ex '24, who has been
in and out of Palm Beach helping through
the N. Y. Advertising Company she is with,
to manage the Rollins College endowment
fund. It has been delightful to renew ac-
quaintance with the famous author of
"Pelankey" and though both busy, we have
gossiped at dinner and tea. I am dashing
madly around in Palm Beach this winter.
I hate covering society, but adore meeting
interesting people down here. Dorothy Gish
is the most attractive person I've yet in-
terviewed."

Margery (Moore) McAulay, of Greenville,
S. C, deserves more than a D. S. C. and
all the other decorations. There has been
much struggle going on in some parts to
get ads for the Bulletin. It was thought
this would be a splendid service for local
clubs to undertake. So far Margery and
her Greenville Club hold the prize for
securing the first ad. Hooray!

"Time just slips by" and "housekeeping
is so absorbing I don't seem to find place
for much else," Anne (Houston) Shires
wrote on the back of a Christmas greeting.

Elizabeth (Reid) LeBey is quite proud of
a new nephew, Roxie (Reid) Gill's (ex '22)
son.

"Nothing stirring enough to call news,"
Laura Stockton (Malloy) Dowling begins a
card that she just crammed full of choice
items such as: She and her young son spent
most of last summer in a farm house near
Cold Spring-on-Hudson, where the head
of the family came on week-ends. In Oc-
tober all three of them visited the Head
family in Alabama. Since coming back, she
has seen Annie (White) Marshall, '18; Eliz-
abeth Malloy, '23, and Elizabeth (Somer-
ville) Woodbridge, ex '21.

Margaret (Shives) Bellingrath will soon
be a member of the Richmond A. S. C. fam-
ily. Her husband is the new pastor at West-
minster Presbyterian Church, of Richmond,
Virginia.

"Thrilled A. S. C. fashion" is how Eliz-
abeth Marsh felt when she was in Chat-
tanooga the time the New World Anthol-
ogy came from the press containing some

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of Sarah Stansell's ('21) poetry. "I am
still at North Avenue Presbyterian School
and love it dearly. Mrs. Askew has leave
of absence this year, and I am taking her
work as Head of Junior High and Bible
teacher. I have been overwhelmed with
the thought of little me trying to do any-
thing Mrs. Askew has done."

Crip Slack is still attempting a little
work to keep out of mischief editing,
teaching, and traveling. So far this year
she has been to Wilmington, N. C; Wash-
ington, D. C; Lexington and Louisville,
Ky., and is off as soon as this gets writ-
ten to catch a train for Durham, N. C, to
spend the week-end with her sister. Inci-
dentally, she will soon get a tin cup, some
dark glasses, and take her place by the
blind man begging on the street. She has
squandered most of her substance and all
her disposition begging for news out of a
silent set who once composed a peppy
class that "whooped 'em up for 1920!"

Elizabeth (Moss) Harris is now at 626
Hill Street, Athens, Ga.

Marian McPhail writes the following
from Hood College, Frederick, Md.: "I am
still trying to teach French. It seems like
a life-size job in itself, if not always thrill-
ing. I am keeping house, too, with a fel-
low member of the faculty. Together we
have quite an establishment and attempt
three meals a day, only one of which is
elaborate enough to merit our strict at-
tention."

Mary (Burnett) Thorington writes, "I
have been moved to the country with my
three wild Westerners and am becoming the
very domesticated farmer's wife. I had a
visit from Julia Lake Skinner this fall as
she was passing through on a trip to Pres-
Mex. At that time she was all bursting
with romance and with prospects of the
Belgian Congo." And then too, Mary sent
a cap, gown, and hood to the Alumnae
House for use, for which we owe many
thanks.

Gertrude (Manly) McFarland and Mary
(McClellan) Mc Williams have adorable
little daughters, who are named for their
mothers. The picture of these two little
girls with two other cousins appeared in a
recent issue of an Atlanta Sunday paper.

Elizabeth (Cass) Bailey, ex '20, says
most encouragingly, "If my two-year-old
son were a little girl I am sm - e he would
already be registered in the Agnes Scott
class of 1949. As it is I guess he will have
to go to Georgia Tech and be a close neigh-
bor of Agnes Scott. I want to add my
congratulations on the wonderful develop-
ment Agnes Scott has made. I am sure in
the future none will surpass the 'Greater
Agnes Scott.' "

Olivia Russell, ex '20, is in Raleigh,
North Carolina, and was with the group
listening in from Raleigh recently.
1921

(Next reunion, 1933).

Dear Class of '21:

You can't imagine (or perhaps you can!)
what it means to a secretary whose nose
and eyes have just emerged from a sea of
exams and who says to herself, "Let's see.
In about a month I'll have to be sending
again some solemn entreaties for news,"
and then rubs her eyes and glances at the
calendar to find less than ten days in which
to get notices off and answers back, you
can't imagine (or perhaps you can, and
that's why you're so kind) what it means
to have some good, fat letters come with
the postman's whistle. So here's to you
folks below!

Lucile (Smith) Bishop writes from Or-
lando, Fla.: "We have just given two per-
formances of 'Pinafore,' in which I played
Josephine, and are starting on Victor
Herbert's 'Red Mill.' We do these things
in quite professional style, and really, the
people hereabouts were amazed at the per-
formance. It's loads of fun and I adore it,
but it keeps me busy, with everything else."

Eleanor Gordon (Mrs. H. B. Elliott): "I
don't blame you in the least if you are ter-
ribly peeved with me but really I had my
reasons! Each time you gave such short
notice that I didn't write, thinking that if
I wrote after the date specified my informa-
tion would be of no value. The first time I
was away from home and the second sick
in the hospital so wont you please for-
give my seeming inexcusable negligence?"
(I'm not including this introductory re-
mark just to fill up space but so that all
the rest of you with as good alibis or not
may know that your news is EVER wel-
come.) "My life history will sound rather
ordinary but to me some rather important
things have happened since I walked from
those portals for the last time as a stu-
dent. I started as most of us did teach-
ing because there wasn't anything else to
do. I must say that I thoroughly despised
my three and a half years and was just
thinking of changing to tea room work
when young Lochinvar came riding out of
the west. I have been married six years
this last December 28 and I haven't filed
any proceedings for divorce yet. My hus-
band is short and fat, bald-headed and
wears glasses, but my so sweet! Davidson
is just a small town but I don't think any-
one could ever accuse it of being dull
what with bridge club, American Legion
Auxiliary, Literary Club, church work and
Civic League, one can be kept pretty busy.
We like living here so well that we haven't
moved to Charlotte (twenty miles distant),

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although my husband is connected with the
American Trust Company as manager of
the fire insurance department. I have two
babies a young son 'most two years old
and a Boston terrier dog, the biggest baby
of the two. The baby and the dog are
so rambunctious that my house is con-
tinually in a state of upheaval. I hope
some day that I may get down your way
and see the 'Greater Agnes Scott'!" (And
then follow some personal remarks which I
like and am tempted to repeat, but our
Alumnae Secretary said once she knew
after our life histories were published '21
didn't have a secret thought of its own
so we'll keep this to prove the point or
disprove it.)

Eugenia (Johnston) Griffin visited her
mother recently in Atlanta.

Helen (Hall) Hopkins has a very young
son, Jimmy, and Catherine (Nash) Goff
sends in an enthusiastic report of him. She
writes: "The baby will be three weeks old
Saturday night (February 22nd). He is a
precious little bit and a source of great
pride and amusement. Helen is looking
fine." Helen wrote a propos to her address,
"It seems that we move so often (really
one would think we never paid the rent!)
that I am sending our permanent address
at least it's as permanent as any we ever
have. Any mail sent to it will reach me.
It is 420 Call Building, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia."

Sarah Harrison. (Sarah's mother is good
enough to write for her, because Sarah is
still very busy.) "I'm sure I can't give you
all the information you desire, nor in the
way you would like to hear it, but can
give you a few facts. This will be four
years Sarah has been teaching in Miami,
Florida. She is teaching history in the
Shenandoah High School. She loves Miami,
and all Florida, and likes the school sys-
tem very much. She spent two weeks at
home Christmas, and reveled in the snow
which had fallen the day and night be-
fore."

Anne Hart (Mrs. Murdock Equen). "It's
impossible to write my life's history since
leaving Agnes Scott in 1921! You see I've
lived fast and furiously, for being the wife
of a doctor is in itself a life's work. Oh,
phone calls, emergencies, playing detective
and locating an elusive surgeon at the most
unexpected hours and places has turned my
bonny brown curls gray prematurely! Then,
too, I have two perfectly adorable and ter-
ribly spoiled daughters who have to be
dressed and carried to many parties, danc-
ing school, Sunday School, to say nothing
of everyday school. Anne Hart, Jr., at-
tends Spring Street School and is being
promoted to "high first" ere long (I hope!).
She is real smart, even if she is my own,

and has inherited her father's mentality!
She must never hear of my Agnes Scott
record! It would be hard to explain my
nickname of 'Bluff.' " (That's all right
I've been impressed with her mother's men-
tality ever since she came into our class
at the Seminary and could read Latin at
sight!) "My second daughter made her
entree on Christmas day three years ago.
Hence the name of Carol. It was just like
me to do the sensational thing and have a
daughter on Christmas. I do hope the girls
will inherit my ability to do advanced
Latin prose and chuckle over 'De Senectute'
and 'Phormio.' Then, too, they must be
serious-minded and thirsty for knowledge
like their mother! Then, too, they must
like interpretive dancing and try out for
Blackfriars! Aside from my very precious
family, interests are few. I try to do my
duty as a loyal member of the Junior
League, then I still have a weakness for so-
cial activities being a very genial soul in
whom the gregarious instinct has ever been
paramount. My besetting sin at present
is contract bridge. Aviation interests me.
It seems queer that a conservative soul like
myself should enjoy a spin in an aeroplane
but I do and quite often steal out to Can-
dler Field with Dr. Equen and we go for
a ride. This is my life history in a nut-
shell. Strange how sedate and settled Anne
Hart has become. You never would have
imagined it back in '21."

Marion Lindsay (Mrs. Leon Noble). "The
term 'life history' recalls Miss MacDougal
which is pleasant and Biology I which is
not. I can still smell the dope they pre-
served the frogs in! We which includes
my fifteen-months-old son, Billy, motored
to Burnsville, N. C, the last of May and
took a house there for three months which
was glorious in respect to climate and
scenery. The first of September we drove
to Chicago and spent the fall months visit-
ing our numerous relatives in Wisconsin
and Iowa. Visiting is fine but it's grand to
be home and banish the trunks. (I don't
refer to bathing suits, though from ap-
pearances at the beaches I imagine they
will be the next step.) Incidentally I find
my house is a mess as a result of our last
tropical disturbance. Floors and walls to
be refinished and a thousand and one
things to think of not to mention Christ-
mas. No doubt by the first of the year I'll
feel as though I've lived a complete life
history in one month. They say Marion
Conklin has given up her practice in At-
lanta and is practicing here again. I haven't
seen her yet but no doubt she will know all
the latest from A. S. C. I'm awfully sorry
I've been so inaccessible and consequently
have had to appear indifferent which I'm
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other way." (Certainly all you have to do
is to send us all the news Marion Conklin
knows and what you gather from time to
time in some more good letters like this
one!)

Margaret McLaughlin (Mrs. W. F. Hogs-
head). Margaret says, "There isn't any
'news' to add except that my address is
changed to Middlebrook, Va. We are back
on the farm. This is my life history. For
two winters after leaving Agnes Scott I
taught Bible at Lewisburg Seminary. In
the fall of '23 I married Fulton Hogshead
at Natural Bridge. We have three chil-
dren: Nell, who is five; Dicky, four, and
Cora Fan, nearly two. We think they are
charming. They are all the chubby sort
with dark blue eyes and soft curls and bear
no resemblance to me. Not having a new
baby to report I feel like things are very
humdrum! I would surely love to see you,
but my life is so busy that I see no chance
of getting a vacation. Christmas I took
the babies to Richmond to visit mamma and
while there I heard Mary Cunningham sing
in a Ginter Park Church cantata. She did
it beautifully. At Christmas, too, I saw
Margaret Wade, who has grown lovelier
with the years, and whom I hear is con-
sidering deserting the ranks of the unmar-
ried. I sometimes see Margaret (Bell)
Hanna, who leads a busy, active life with
her family and church. I heard someone
say of her recently, 'She hasn't a lazy bone
in her body.' "

Charlotte Newton is teaching in a library
school in the University of Illinois. Her ad-
dress is 1107 West Oregon Street, Urbana,
Illinois.

Lina Parry: "Eight and a half years is
too long a time to cover in much detail,
even if I could actually remember every-
thing that has happened in that time
which I most certainly can't so I'll just
hit on a few of the high spots. As to work
I took a business course the winter after
I finished school, and have been a stenog-
rapher ever since. I have a nice job and
like it very much indeed. My father is a
court reporter, you know, and I guess I
take my love of stenography from him.
And as to pleasure trips, etc. I suppose my
trip to Europe last fall is the most im-
portant. My dear, I actually went by my-
self. Can you imagine it? My goodness,
I'd never been any farther than Decatur
by myself before and I don't know how I
ever worked up enough courage to set out
across the ocean alone. It was a wonderful
trip and I made many interesting friends. I
now have on my correspondence list the
following: a girl from Holland, a doctor
from Holland, a German girl, a Danish girl,
a boy from Kobe, Japan, and a boy from
Santiago, Chile. It's lots of fun to hear

from them. Every summer except last
summer I have spent at least a part of
my vacation at Camp Parrydise. It is, of
course, the gi - andest place in the world.
Mother Maude has had several Agnes Scott
girls up there as counselors. Right now
I've just come back from a little visit to
Chattanooga, next month I'm going to Au-
gusta to see Minnie Lee (Clarke) Cordlefor
a few days, and in March Elvie (Wilson)
Wiley is going to pay me a visit. She sent
me a cute picture of her little boy and he's
a dear. I think we'll go out and spend a
night at the Alumnae House while she's
here. Next summer I'm going either to
California or Alaska on my vacation. I've
developed the wanderlust, you see. Now,
Betty, I know you can't put all this letter
in the Quarterly so please don't try. Just
say that I'm still alive and kicking and
hope the others are the same."

Frances (Markley) Roberts writes, "I
have been doing a good bit of the news-
paper publicity in connection with the cele-
bration of the fiftieth anniversary of St.
John's University in Shanghai-
Venice (Mayson) Fry, ex '21, sends in
an account that makes us all eager to
go to the Philippines, if this sort of thing
is a fair sample of the interesting things
one might see there. Here it is: "Anti-
polo, a small town in the Philippines, has
a church that houses 'the Black Virgin.'
It was once a figurehead on a ship that
after making thirty voyages was wrecked
ashore, and of course it had te be Manila!
The natives immediately decided that there
was something unusual in anything being
washed ashore, so they put the figure in
a church. Then during the battle of Man-
ila it was removed to Antipolo, and there
has the most important place in the church
on the altar. It stands on a revolving
pedestal, the figure being about three feet
high, and quite dressed up. It is the
color of a native, hence the name, and has
long black, flowing hair. During the fiesta
many jewels are hung on the figure, and
a crown put on the wavy hair. The most
honest family in the town, if they can
find one, is appointed to look after the
figui-e and jewels at this time."

Margaret McMillan, ex '21, has been
ill at Dr. Noble's Sanitarium in Atlanta,
which we all regret very much and hope
that she will be better soon.

Ida (Brittain) Milner, ex '21, has a son,
born on February 3, at Wesley Memorial
Hospital. He has been called Spann Whit-
ner, Jr.

Helen (Scanlon) Wright, ex '21, has a
beautiful new home that is patterned af-
ter Mt. Vernon. Louise Slack, '20, wrote
that she and her sister had paid Helen
a visit, and adds: "It certainly is a peach

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of a place. Helen looked so well and her
two little girls are quite attractive."
1922

(Next reunion, 1934).

Elizabeth Brown is doing Social Service
Work in Albany, Georgia, and says of her
many duties: "You just can't realize what
the responsibility of Christmas for about
seventy-five families means and I have all
of that on me besides extra heavy work.
Then too, the Georgia Conference of Social
Workers meets here in the middle of Feb-
ruary, and that, of course, entails much
preliminary work."

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson has again
been elected State Vice-President of the
North Carolina A. A. U. W. Maurine Bled-
soe, '27, writes the following with regard
to the meeting, "The opening social fea-
ture was a tea at her lovely colonial home
in Myers Park. Mary (Keesler) Dalton
'25, and Marie Eose, also '25, were assist-
ing, although they almost deserted their
duties while I was there, for we talked
Agnes Scott so hard. Julia (Hagood)
Cuthbertson, '20, was the 'power behind
the throne' or at least the queen of the
pantry, and Mary slipped me back to chat
with her awhile. I met Irene Lowrance, '28,
at the luncheon the next day."

Helen (Barton) Claytor has a daughter
who seems to be well on her way to be-
coming one of the belles of the younger
generation, according to this clipping:
"Little Miss Helen Claytor was hostess
to a number of her little friends Tuesday
afternoon, the occasion being her fourth
birthday."

Frances Harper continues to be a very
busy person in Baton Rouge: her address
is 305 St. Charles Street.

Frances (Oliver) York now resides at
43 Laurel Ave., Wellesley Hills, Mass.,
and Frances says she feels very far away
from A. S. C, but that hers is just another
case of "Absence makes the heart grow
fonder," so she is doing her bit toward
advertising A. S. C. to her friends there.
She finds life very interesting and full
in Wellesley Hills with its native Woman's
Club, which has "many meetings, classed
and plays" and with its live community
club which combines social and intellec-
tual activities. Frances and Mr. York
have just had the thrill of furnishing their
own home, and she is now planning to pur-
sue her love of the dramatic arts by going
into Boston for a course at the Curry
School of Expression.

Althea Stephens has changed her ad-
dress to 1034 Cherokee Road, Louisville,
Kentucky.

Lucy (Wooten) Wiegand apologizes with,
"I feel almost guilty for not having been
up sooner. Polly used to put me up so

often, but I just have not gotten to it."

Wilmer Eliot (Daniel) Bishop is now
at the Amherst Apartments, Orlando, Flo-
rida. Wilmer is one of the ex '22's.

Blanche (Ryan) Brim, ex '22, sent in this
account of herself and her small daughter:
"I am living in Chicago. My little girl,
Petite, is eight years old and holds out
more promise for scholastic glory than
her mother ever did. Her report cards
abash me!"

Anne (Rowland) Heitkamp, ex '22, is
in Augusta with her two children for a
two months' visit.

Margaret (Leavitt) Turner, ex '22, has
called attention to her change of address
from Memphis to 2242 Arlington Avenue,
Birmingham, Alabama.
1923

(Next reunion, 1934).

Hilda (McConnell Adams, not content
with being merely President of the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association, has gotten
another position. This time it is with
the Public School System in Atlanta. Hil-
da goes around testing the ability of the
children to hear, and giving tests to show
the I. Q. of the children in these schools.
All that we can hope is that Hilda will
not get confused at any time, and start
testing the mental capacities of the Alum-
nae. The results might prove disastrous.

Eva (Wassum) Cunningham spent a
while with the R. B. Cunningham, Srs.,
in Decatur recently. Eva, her husband,
and their small daughter, Martha, are
making their home in Columbia, S. C.

Elizabeth (Ransom) Hahn's husband,
Hub Hahn, was elected president of the
Birmingham Chapter of the National Aero-
nautic Association by a unanimous deci-
sion, at a meeting held recently at the
Thomas Jefferson Hotel in Birmingham.

Beth (McClure) McGeachy is now at
The Manse, 746 Erin Avenue, S. W., At-
lanta, Georgia, and sends in "all good
wishes for 1930."

Margaret McColgan, ex '23, can be lo-
cated, between September and June, at
540 West 122nd Street, Apartment 4-C,
New York City, where she teaches in a
nursery.

Frances Stuart, ex '23, is now Mrs.
Clyde W. Kay, of Knoxville, Tenn., and
has a baby girl named Charlotte, who was
born on November 12th, 1929. We are
indebted to Eugenia (Pou) Harris, also
an ex '23, for this news.

Betty (Dickson) Steele, ex '23, is now
living in Brentwood, Tennessee, where her
husband is the preacher, with another
Agnes Scotter in the congregation, Ella
(Smith) Hayes, '25.

Frances (Arant) Wilmer, ex '23, is now
living at 1251 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.

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Margaret Yeager, ex '23, has had flu
recently, which we all regret to hear.

1924

(Next reunion in May, 1934).

Mary (Mann) Boon went to Florida
the first part of March, to join her par-
ents for a three weeks' trip.

Janice Brown is working in the library
in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Beulah Davidson is secretary of the Wo-
man's Club, which is bringing interesting
speakers to Tate, Georgia. These speakers
will discuss civic subjects.

Cora Frazer (Morton) Durrett has been
home nursing her mother, who, we regret
to learn, has been ill.

Louise Hendrix is at 112 Callis
Street, Charleston, W. Va., from where
she writes: "I've been teaching here for
two years, but have seen only two Agnes
Scott girls since I've been here, Edith
Kerns and May Reece, but have not seen
them this school year. I did notice in
today's paper that Charleston has an Ag-
nes Scott Club, so of course I shall find
out more about it."

Catherine (Nash) Goff is at 2451 Le
Conte Avenue, Berkeley, California. Cath-
erine gives an account of herself in this
way: "Since the latter part of June, '29,
we have been living here, having come out
immediately after my husband received
his Ph.D. in Washington. I am house-
keeping for the first time and like it a
great deal. We are very near the univer-
sity campus, so get plenty of college at-
mosphere, especially when one of the
numerous fraternities, our only neighbors,
gives an all night dance. We are plan-
ning a trip to Yosemite during May. Some
friends are going to take us in their car."

Josephine Havis writes from the Atlanta
Y. W. C. A., "I spent ten months in New
York with my sister Dorothy, who is mar-
ried and living on Long Island in a new
co-operative apartment they have just
bought. While I was there I was Assist-
ant Personnel Manager in a large publish-
ing house, and found the work most in-
teresting. I came back to Atlanta last
July, when my mother and dad returned
after a visit to New York. Since Septem-
ber I have been working at the Y. W. C. A.
in Atlanta, and am still here. First I was
Information Secretary and Secretary to
Miss Clara Nolen, General Secretary of
the Atlanta Y. W. C. A. In January I was
made Membership Secretary: My time is
divided between Membership department
and Office Secretary. I like the work and
have come in contact with quite a few
Agnes Scott girls down here."

Emma Kate Higgs has changed her ad-
dress to Varsity Apartments, Tucson, Ari-
zona, and says: "This year I am teaching
high school in a little place, Marana, which
is about five miles north of Tucson. My
subjects are all the Math, Gregg Short-
hand and Typing. My chief pastime is
trying to learn to ride horseback. I'm
having even more trouble than I did in
college trying to jump that horse in gym.
Every time I go I rub the skin off me.
As soon as that place heals up I go again.
I'm planning on returning East for the
summer. This will be the first time I
have been east of Tucson since I arrived
here five years ago this coming Septem-
ber. The most of my time will be spent
at Columbia University, when I plan to
live with my sisters, Bell and Charlotte,
in New York City."

Martha (Eakes) Matthews wrote re-
cently: "I'm still in Chicago. My husband
is on the surgical staff at Billing's, the
University hospital, and is doing research
work. I am keeping house in a small
apartment but am having a grand time
even planning three meals a day. Please,
any of you who come to Chicago, at least
call and come out to see me. I would be
so thrilled."

Rebecca (Bivings) Rogers has answered
the request of the class secretary for news
of her for the Quarterly with the follow-
ing: "I was married at home on Decem-
ber the twenty-eighth, 1929, to Mr. Wal-
ter McDowell Rogers. Our honeymoon
trip was to various points of interest in
Florida, including the Singing Tower. We
now have an apartment at 1161 Ponce de
Leon, Atlanta. I find housekeeping for
two very interesting and lots of fun."

Daisy Frances Smith spent Christmas
in New York with relatives. She is teach-
ing at Peace Institute this year in Raleigh,
North Carolina.

Polly Stone (or shouldn't we say just
"Polly"?) wrote to the office recently.
"Some news for the Quarterly! After loaf-
ing for seven months, I am now again a use-
ful person: am working in the Yale li-
brary, and love it." It is good to know
that Polly is happy at work again, for
it is hard to think of her as anything but
busy.

Margaret (Griffin) Williams sent in some
news under pressure as it were, but it
is more than welcome at that. Here it is:
"I have no news, but am merely writing
in order that you may know I am at the
same address. I am still busy with my
house, my flowers, and most of all my
boy who will be three in April. I am
anxious to see the improvements on the
campus as well as the familiar faces of

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Miss Hopkins, Dr McCain, and all the
others."

Helen Wright was operated on recently
for appendicitis, and we are all very sorry
to hear that. Helen appointed Elizabeth
Henry to take over the news-gathering
for this issue, and you will all have to
agree that they have made a successful
team between them.

Alice (Carr) McCaskill, ex '24, has
changed her address to Box 42, Monroe,
Louisiana.

Reba Vinnedge, ex '24, writes the fol-
lowing: "Nine of the Agnes Scott girls
here in Chicago got together for luncheon
on Founder's Day. It certainly seemed
nice to see some of the girls, as there are
so few of the girls up here. We all en-
joyed talking over old times and hearing
of the big progress you all are making
down there. I hope that we can keep in
close touch with each other."

Alma Lee (Parker) Rowe is now at Ga-.
lata, Istanbul, Turkey, in care of Box 338.
Alma Lee was a special student in '24.
1925

(Our reunion is in May! Time to come
back and show all these peppy Agnes
Scotters what real pep is, just as we
used to have it not so long ago!)

Frances Bitzer and Sallie Horton are
now at 2930 Clairmont Avenue, Nannette
Apartments, Birmingham.

Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie is in Carthage,
North Carolina, where her husband, Wil-
bur, is mayor. They have an adorable
little daughter, Mary Elizabeth Currie, who
has at this early date had enough discre-
tion to make application to enter with the
class of '49.

Agatha Deaver is now at 845 Newport
Avenue, Tampa, Florida.

Lucile Gause, writes that she is hoping to
get up for her class reunion this time.

Eugenia (Perkins) Harlow is teaching
history in the Quincy High School in Quin-
cy, Florida. Eugenia is a good advertise-
ment for the college, as she writes, "I am
kept so busy that I could never keep up
with all the Agnes Scott graduates if I
didn't have the Quarterly to bring me the
news. I was in Atlanta just after Christ-
mas and Cora (Morton) Durrett took me
and two other old Agnes Scott girls out
to the Alumnae House for tea. I enjoyed
seeing all the familiar spots and the un-
familiar ones more than anything I have
done in ages."

Mary Ann McKinney is studying medi-
cine at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Lillian Middlebrooks' address is 604 Jef-
ferson Avenue, East Point, Georgia, where
she has bought a pretty two-story home.

Floy Sadler is planning a trip to Europe
this summer.

Eunice (Kell) Simmons' address is now
Winnfield, Louisiana.

Emily Spivey is spending the winter in
Shelby, North Carolina, where she is teach-
ing school.

Rebekah (Harmon) Lindsey, ex '25, was
married recently to Mr. Elliot Marshall
Stewart at the home of the bride's mother,
Mrs. Charles E. Harmon, on Ponce de Leon
Avenue, in Druid Hills. Their present ad-
dress is 790 Penn Avenue, Atlanta.

Eva Moore, ex '25 is at the Kappa Del-
ta House, 1815 N. W. H. Street, Wash-
ington, D. C, and writes the following
interesting news of herself: "I have a job
now in the Red Cross building, and it is
awfully interesting work, and I am en-
joying it all thoroughly. It is very ex-
citing living in Washington, tho I do miss
everybody at home. I am especially en-
joying the plays. Just this week I saw
Ethel Barrymore in the 'Love Duel.' It
was the first time I have ever seen her,
and I think she is simply divine. Also
went to a dance this week where the im-
mortal Rudy Vallee and his orchestra
played, and of course I got a big thrill
out of that."

Elise Spooner is now Mrs. J. B. Avera,
of Brunswick, Georgia, where Dr. Avera
is doing general practice.

1926

(Hurry up with those last minute plans
to be among those back for the reunion
from May 30 to June 3! Ella promises
you all one of those big bear hugs
to say nothing of the many other warm
welcomes the other campus celebrities have
in store for you, so do come!)

Edythe Coleman left on the 11th of
February for Miami, to visit Helena Her-
mance.

Juanita Greer is now at 3007 North Cal-
vert Street, Baltimore, Md.

Helen (Bates) Law writes this: "Busy?
I have my church job, my lessons, prac-
tice, two music clubs and two bridge
clubs!" which might be an answer to any
question we might ask about Helen.

Nan Lingle sent in the following news
of herself: "I'm still at the University of
Chicago struggling for this elusive M. A.
My family and friends can't understand
why I don't have a Ph.D. by this time. It
may encourage them to know that I have
finished my courses. The thesis is what
is holding up the game now. The main
reason it is not finished is because I al-
ways seem to be able to find something
more interesting to do than work on it.
I have moved into an apartment with two
other girls and we are greatly enjoying
life. We have a guest book which is fast
filling up. (Some of the names are quite
imposing!) But unfortunately they don't

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grant degrees for cooking in the Divinity
School. However, you never can tell. I
may surprise people and finish yet. Cer-
tainly I hope I can do it before time for
our class reunion, for I'm counting on
coming."

Sarah (Smith) Merry has returned to
Augusta after she and "B" spent a while in
Atlanta with Sarah's parents.

Louise (Pfeiffer) Ringel has an adora-
ble small son, Fred Morton, Jr. They are
living in Brunswick, Georgia, and Louise
writes of having heard the Founder's Day
program and adds: "I am trying to get
back for the reunion and wouldn't think
of leaving Fred home. Please reserve a
room for me in the Alumnae House. Am
just aching to get back and see all the
new buildings and all the old ones, all the
new faces and all the not old but famil-
iar classmates and teachers."

Frances Spratling is teaching in Law-
renceville, Georgia this year.

Evelyn Sprinkle was married to Mr. John
Archer Carter on Wednesday, the twenty-
fifth of December, in Marion, Virginia.

Fannie Brown, ex '26, is teaching the
kindergarten of the Seventh Presbyterian
Church, of which she now has charge.
Recently Fannie was elected one of the di-
rectors of the Board of the Kindergarten
Schools in Cincinnati, where she took a
two-year course on play and pre-school
work.

Sarah Will (Cowan) Dean was enter-
tained recently by Mrs. L. 0. Freeman and
Mary (Freeman) Curtis, at the home of
Mrs. Freeman in College Park.

1927

(Next reunion in May, 1930! And you
had better plan to come back at this time,
for what with a system of dial tubes, the
junior class giving a prom with real men,
and two new buildings, you will need to
come back to familiarize yourself with this
new Alma Mater!)

Eleanor Albright, who is in Woodmere,
N. Y., is much too busy teaching basket-
ball to send us any further news of her-
self, according to Liz Lynn's report.

Louise (Capen) Baker has a young son,
about whom Dorothy Chamberlain sends
in glowing reports.

Ewin Baldwin, after visiting friends in
Nashville last fall, has been spending the
winter in Montgomery.

Maurine Bledsoe attended the state con-
ference of the A. A. U. W. in Charlotte,
February the seventh and eighth, and had
the honor of being elected state treasurer,
so the "name and fame of Agnes Scott"
were not slighted.

Marion (Daniel) Blue is now keeping
house in the cutest little cottage on the

Blue farm, about five miles from her old
home in Charlottesville.

Reba (Bayless) Boyer announces the ar-
rival of "the sweetest little girl you ever
saw," Sara Ann Boyer, on January 9th.
We are glad to know, too, that the young
lady is destined for Agnes Scott.

Josephine Bridgman is still "holding
down things" in Gastonia in Rachel's ab-
sence, and practically has the field to her-
self in upholding the Alma Mater in the
town. Rachel recently spent a week-end in
Salisbury with her sister, Virginia, who is
teaching there.

Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow's telegram
was read over the radio on the twenty-
second, and we did hear that much of her.
However, we would like not to have our
news limited to a WSB report.

Frances Buchanan seems to be another
of these "silent sisters," and we are begin-
ning to believe with Middy Morrow that
Frances must be off on a world tour.

Grace (Carr) Clark writes that she has
no news other than that she is "busy
housekeeping."

Annette (Carter) Colwell sends this news
from Chicago: "We are writing from our
Founder's Day luncheon and have agreed
that we weren't properly trained while in
Agnes Scott because we can't think of any-
thing brilliant to say. Pamp finishes in
June, but as yet we don't know where we
will be next year. I hope to be in Decatur
in June to meet all of you."

Mary Ferguson was married on Friday,
February 7, 1930, to Mr. John Day. They
motored to California on their honeymoon,
and will be at home at Apartment 208, 446
South Rampart Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Frances Freeborn's play, "The Poor
Farm," was among the one-act plays re-
cently produced by the Drama Workshop
under the direction of Miss Nan Bagby
Stephens. Appearing at the same time
was Emily Ramage's (ex '28) "Moonshine,"
and among those in the cast were Belle
Ward Stowe, '30; Mary Louise Thames, '30;
Janet Shaw, '31, and Frances Free-
born. We are certainly proud of all this
histrionic talent.

Louisa (White) Gosnell was a delegate
to the "Cause and Cm - e of War" Confer-
ence recently held in Macon. Louisa was a
delegate from the League of Women Vot-
ers and conducted a round table discussion
at the meeting. She was elected assistant
secretary of the Georgia Committee.

Marcia Green has the love and sympa-
thy of the class, who regret to learn of her
father's death on February 11, as the
result of a sudden heart attack.

Elsa Jacobsen visited her roommate in
Evansville during her Christmas vacation
of one week, and since then has been busy

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again with her Girl Eeserve work in In-
dianapolis. Elsa recently attended a G. R.
conference in Terre Haute, and was plan-
ning for the state conference in Elkhart a
few weeks later. Elsa says the weather
has not been to her liking this winter, with
the ground covered with snow most of the
time, and 15 below zero one time. We
think Elsa prefers the "sunny South" to
that. Elaine is teaching in Cuthbert, Ga.

Elizabeth Lynn makes us think we still
have a lot to learn about higher educa-
tion, for she writes from Madison: "I've
really started researching. So far I've
dusted, painted a box black, and planed a
board, but then that's a start! Our im-
agination deserts us, and what we want
to know is, a start towards what? It sounds
like the combination of a cross word puzzle
and a believe-it-or-not." But Liz is very
fond of both her work and Madison.

Ruth McDonald writes, "I am still doing
nothing at all. To people who have famil-
ies or jobs that must sound very dull, but
I really haven't found it so. I have time
to see people and read new books and waste
time in glorious ways. That is not very
ambitious, I know, but you'd be surprised
to find how entertaining it can be. To be
sure I'll be at the reunion in May and I
trust that I will be one of a great number."

Cleo McLaurine was married to Mr. John
Duke Baldridge recently at the Myers Park
Methodist Church in Charlotte, N. C. Alice
Glenn and Julia Mulliss, both of the class
of 1929, were bridesmaids, while Anne Mc-
Laurine was her sister's maid of honor.
They will make their home in Columbia,
S. C.

Mae Erskine Irvine is to be married on
the eleventh of April to Mr. Alexander
Daniel Fowler. Her wedding, according to
all reports will be the loveliest one any
one could wish for. The wedding party is
to be 100 per cent Agnes Scotters, with
Polly as her sister's maid of honor, Lib
(Clark) Young as matron of honor, and
Marcia Green, Carolina McCall, Margaret
Rice and Mary Colyer Johnson as brides-
maids. It will be a home wedding, before
which the bridal party will be entertained
at a house party. The maid and matron of
honor will wear yellow organdie and the
bridesmaids green organdie. The bride's
gown will be of white satin made on prin-
cess lines, with a lace bertha that was worn
by her great-grandmother. The bride will
also wear a pin that belonged to her great-
grandmother. The veil is of real Brussell's
lace, coming from the very same shop from
which Princess Astrid got hers.

Catherine Mitchell spent the Christmas
holidays with Ewin Baldwin in Montgom-
ery. Catherine is very busy just now di-
recting the Junior plan of the Kissimee
High School.

Kenneth Maner's address is now 217
North Second Street, Pottsville, Pa. After
getting her M. A. at Columbia last year,
Kenneth is teaching in Pottsville this year.

Mitchell Moore is teaching again in Rocky
Mount, N. C, this year. Last summer she
was at Columbia, working toward her M. A.
along with other ambitious alumnae: Maria
Rose, Susan Rose, and Leila Bell.

Sarah (Shields) Pfeiffer demonstrates
the advisability of early training by taking
some "moving pictures of young son Jack."
We wish more of the class would follow her
example. What a treat it would be to have
the films at our reunion! "Seeing is believ-
ing."

Mary (Heath) Phillips has moved from
Chapel Hill, N. C, to Pikeville, N. C, and
writes that she hasn't any startling news
of herself except that she has "learned to
make butterscotch pies and drive a Ford
since Christmas." Two very worthy ac-
complishments we think.

Stella Pittman was married to Mr. Wil-
liam Thomas Dunkin last July 13, 1929.
The announcement was made recently by
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Pittman. They are
making their home in Newark, N. J.

Miriam Preston went to Raleigh, N. C,
for the Christmas holidays, which she spent
with her brother from Davidson and Shan-
non, '30. Miriam also sends in the news
that her sister, Florence, who is in Korea
this year will be a freshman at Agnes
Scott next year.

Mildred (Morrow) Ruen's address is For-
est Hill Towers, Forest Hill, Long Island.
Middy very kindly sent us news of some
of the class, but didn't contribute any
about herself.

Marguerite Russell's address is 1446
Harvard St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Marguerite is playing lady and living at
home this winter. Allene Ramage visited
her in the late fall. The last report was
that Marguerite was contemplating some
graduate work at George Washington Uni-
versity this spring.

Elizabeth Sanders is slowly recuperating
in Laredo, Texas, after her very serious
illness. Her husky little nephew keeps her
both pepped up and worn out, she says.

Virginia Sevier sends in some news of her-
self from far away Sydney, Australia. Vir-
ginia says: "I really can't quite believe it all
myself! For of course there was the glor-
ious trip across the continent first; then
Honolulu, where I stayed almost a month;
and then the South Sea Islands! You
have no idea how it changes one to live
in Australia I am now referring to my
Alma Mater as my 'University.' I hope
Agnes Scott won't mind, for it would be
pure slander to speak of it as a college
here! Colleges mean dormitories, and even
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college." Virginia's mother attended the
alumnae dinner in Hendersonville on the
22nd of February and assured everyone
that Virginia was thoroughly enjoying her
stay. Virginia also promises to "rush by
Atlanta on iny way home sometime next
spring and be at Aggie promptly on ar-
rival."

Elizabeth (Clark) Young continues to
place more stars in her alumna crown by
sending in a great deal of news on time.
In addition to writing letters for us and
taking care of her lovely new home, Lib
is planning to be in Atlanta the first week
in March and then visit Carolina McCall
in Opelika with perhaps a detour by Mae
Erskine's on the way home.

Virginia Baird, ex '27, announced her
engagement to Mr. Thomas Clarke Ravenel
of Atlanta recently. Virginia is planning
a spring wedding, and will make her future
home in Charlotte.

Martha Chapin, ex '27, was married to
Mr. Charles Michie Adamson at her home
in Newport News on the eighteenth of De-
cember. They are now living in Roanoke,
Virginia.

Margaret Edmondson, ex '27, writes from
Five Points, Ala., that she is only twenty-
five miles from LaGrange, and but ten
miles from LaFayette where Margaret Rice
is teaching. Margaret is teaching English
and French in the Senior High School and
seems to enjoy it.

1928

(First formal reunion, 1930, this May.
Start making your plans accordingly, so as
not to miss seeing everyone back at college
this spring.)

Hello, everybody! In case there was no
great amount of static coming in over
your radio the night of the 22nd you may
have heard enough from the members of
1928 to make this news to a large extent
stale. However, the elements are so un-
certain that we are passing along the news
anyhow, regardless of its age.

Miriam Anderson writes that ever
since she graduated she has intended writ-
ing to say how much she enjoyed reading
the Quarterly and that every time it
comes out she stops everything and reads
all the news. "For the past two years, I
have been studying at the Assembly
Training School in Richmond and am a
senior this year and will soon begin my
work. Sally McFadyen, '28, Rachel Mad-
dox, ex '23, and Margaret Mitchell, ex '25,
are here too and we often speak of the good
old days at A. S. C. Sally and I decided
long ago that we would be back for com-
mencement this year, if we had to hike
down. Sally saw Ditto Worth, '29, the
other day and she says she is coming back
for commencement,"

Mary Ray Dobyns, writes that she and
Martha Riley Selman, '29, are so excited
over their spring holidays because, though
one teaches in a private and one in a pub-
lic school they have just found out that
both have the same spring holiday and
that they can come over to A. S. C. for the
whole week-end of April 10th.

Carolyn Essig is with the advertising
department of Burdine's Department Store
in Miami, Fla. Aside from that, Carolyn
can be located at 1309 Brickill Avenue,
Miami.

Margaret Gerig has been traveling with
her father. They included New York on
their most recent itinerary, and while there
saw Betty Gash, '29.

Sarah Glenn can still be traced, thanks
to her having a sister here on the campus.
At present Susan reports that Sarah is
teaching in Hickory, North Carolina. The
Glenns have recently moved from Gas-
tonia to Lincolnton.

Lucy Grier's new address is 179 H.
Washington Avenue, New York City.

Frances Hargis, according to all indi-
cations is still well on her way to the Hall
of Fame. It seems to be a mere ques-
tion of time now. When Frances' play,
"Hero Worship," was produced by the
Town Theater of Savannah the leading
role, that of a Confederate veteran, was
played by Ole W. Burroughs, head of the
Bethesda Orphanage. Just before the
Christmas holidays Frances went down to
Savannah, where she visited the Burroughs
at Bethesda, and where she had the pleas-
ure and privilege of being present at the
Christmas exercises conducted by the or-
phans. Frances' latest enterprise then will
be to describe these Christmas festivites
from observation. This is to be illustrated
by Chris Murphy, of Savannah, widely
known for his sketches and etchings. Our
best congratulations, Frances!

Alice Hunter is teaching math, science,
and ancient history at Woodberry Hall in
Atlanta.

Margaret Keith, or rather "Bee," writes,
"I'm changing my address from 503 East
Washington Street to Northgate Heights
or preferably to P. O. Box 1347, Keith's,
Inc. I like to use my business address as
it gives one an important feeling. I'm
looking forward to commencement and our
class reunion. And do hurry up another
Quarterly, for I simply devour them."

Martha Overton is no doubt having a gay
time. She says, "Keeping Atlanta's tele-
phone service 0. K. is no easy job. I am
in the commercial department of the old
Southern Bell, and I certainly enjoy my
work immensely. There are eight or ten
A. S. girls up there so we are thinking of
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could keep more in touch with our dear old
college and our classmates. I'm certainly
looking forward to the reunion of the class
of '28 this year and I hope to see most of
my classmates and many others then."

Janet MacDonald has changed her Chi-
cago address to 6027 Woodlawn, Apart-
ment 2. It evidently is to Martha Eakes
that we are indebted for the information
Janet sends of herself, for as Janet puts it,
"This is the most speechless experiment I
have ever tried Martha having thrust a
blank sheet of paper at me and command-
ed, 'Write something about yourself.' The
main part is a still determined but frenzied
struggle for an M. A. degree, in pursuance
of which I am now struggling with the
Turks and their escapades in the World
War! I regret not getting back for the
reunion in June."

Mary Riviere sent in a card which reads
very much like a telegram, although we
must admit it is more than the conventional
ten words. Her address is Hotel Great
Northern, 118 West 57th Street, New York
City. And her message to the class is as
follows: "Studying voice with Signor
Rosati, teacher of Gigli. Have heard from
Jack Anderson and Miss Eagleson. Saw
Miss Edler last month en route to Wash-
ington for research work."

Edith (Brown) Rodriguez, ex '28, is liv-
ing at 415 Park Avenue, Monroe, La.

Nannie Graham Sanders, another ex '28,
writes from Max Meadows, Va., that she
looks forward to the Quarterlies with great
eagerness.

Martha (Riley) Stephenson, also an ex
'28, announces the arrival of Morris Holt
Stephenson, Jr., on January 5, 1930.

Betty (Fuller) Veltre is housekeeping
at Central Baragua, Baragua, Camaguey
Province, Cuba, where her husband, Mr. F.
E. Veltre, is now located.

1929

(Next reunion for 1929 in May! And if
you want to know the kind of a reunion we
are going to have read Helen Ridley's glow-
ing account of the Thanksgiving reunion,
and then multiply that by two or three!)

If there is one thing that can thrill the
soul of an alumnae secretary more than
merely getting a newsy letter from some
member of the class or than running across
an engagement or a wedding, it is getting
letters from those members of the class
from whom nothing or practically nothing
had been heard. And having had any
number of these sorts of tid-bits this time,
the secretary finds herself perfectly happy
or comparatively so at least.

Esther (Nisbet) Anderson is doing
Woman's Work in the church there in
Louisville. Esther's husband, N. T., has
had two poems published in the Christian

Index and the Western Recorder. And of
interest to us all is this additional bit
of news that Esther and N. T. hope to come
back to a Georgia town after his gradua-
tion in May.

Therese Barksdale was married very
quietly on January the fifteenth in
Jackson, Miss., to Mr. George Vinsonhaler.
They are now making their home in Little
Rock. Therese's father's illness this past
winter prevented her having as large a
wedding as she had originally planned.

Hazel Brown has been truly noble in
sending us news of herself and Helon.
About herself, "I tried out substitute teach-
ing for the seventh grade home room teach-
er recently, teaching both seventh and
eighth grade subjects. Everything happen-
ed that week an air circus flew over on
its way to Shreveport, and you know what
happened to my class then! The last three
days of my week we had our first big snow
of the winter, which made teaching almost
impossible even for the old and experien-
ced!"

Helon Brown was married to Mr. William
Hood Williams of Little Rock at six o'clock
the evening of January 1, 1930, in the
First Presbyterian Church of Stamps,
Ark. Her wedding gown was of white
moire made on princess lines and embroid-
ered with seed pearls in a simple design.
Her veil was of lace. Among the wedding
party were Hazel Brown as maid of honor,
Addys Brown as junior bridesmaid, and
Jean Lamont as one of the bridesmaids.
According to Hazel, "the wedding was love-
ly and Helon lovelier." And, "she and Bill
went on their honeymoon to Dallas, San
Antonio, Eagle Pass (and from there over
into Mexico), Houston and other places in
Texas, which was certainly the most per-
fect honeymoon anyone ever had!" Hazel
said that she had to do the writing, "for
Helon is way up in Little Rock worrying
over the amount of baking powder to put
in the biscuits." However that may have
been, Helon wrote the following note to the
class, which I am publishing in full, think-
ing that is the best way to have every one
see it:

Dearest Class of 1929:

You can't kno"w just how happy it made
me to receive a wedding present from you.
And what you sent! I couldn't even be-
gin to tell you how very, very much I like
those exquisitely dainty boudoir lamps.
They are too lovely for words, sitting there
on the beautiful dressing table Hazel gave
us. (She gave us a whole suite of furni-
ture in walnut for a wedding present,
wasn't that lovely?) If you'll come to see
us you can sleep right in there with all the
"pretties." So do come.

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Thank you ever and ever so much
Bill says so, too.

Lovingly,

Helon Brown Williams.

Virginia Cameron visited her cousin,
Helen (Sisson) Morrison, in Atlanta re-
cently, and was widely entertained during
her visit. Among those entertaining for
her was Lillian LeConte.

Sara Carter is working with the South-
ern Bell Telephone Company in Atlanta.

Mary Ellis writes, "Though I live in At-
lanta, Agnes Scott seems very far away.
I am hoping some day to get back out to
see everyone again."

Ethel Freeland says, "How you would
laugh to see and hear me teaching these
34 little Frenchmen of mine! This is a
rough community (Morse, La.), and some
of my little boys just naturally have to be
beaten up now and then, and 'Miss Free-
land' has to do it! I have three bad boys.
Today was glorious two of the three were
absent!"

Betty Gash sends in newsy letters that
are a joy to receive and publish. There-
fore, "I am enjoying my work this winter.
I've discovered a long lost Cincinnati friend
a very good friend in the 'old days.' As
she is doing absolutely nothing now it
makes it very nice. I have one day off
each week, besides Sunday, so we usually
lunch together and go to a show. She lives
in Pelham, just outside the city, so I go
out there for week-ends occasionally. How-
ever, I've not gotten too cosmopolitan for
any one, and besides I haven't grown so
enamoured with the north that I've de-
cided to quit the south."

Elizabeth Hatchett lost her father on
Monday night, March 10th, after a long
illness. The entire class will regret to
hear of this sorrow that has come to Lib.
We join in sending our love and sympathy
to her and the rest of the family.

Hazel Hood complains of finding "teach-
ing the most time-absorbing occupation."
Hazel Hood certainly has a great deal of
the philosopher about her when she can
so nonchalantly describe her bank's failure,
"Now I'm thankful for every penny I
spent."

Charlotte Hunter is still most enthusias-
tic about teaching in Winston-Salem. From
all indications, she does more than just
teach, however. She tells of having seen
Lib (Norfleet) Miller a few weeks before
Christmas, and reports that Lib has "a
darling baby, house, and husband." Char-
lotte also got over to see Lib Lilly at Salem
College, and says that Lib "crept out from
behind a regular barricade of exam books"
to greet her.

Mary Lanier turns on us with the follow-
ing: "Busy? Say, I thought that Agnes

Scott kept you busy, but I had no
idea that teaching involved so many out-
side activities such as coaching the bas-
ketball team, being captain of a troop of
Girl Scouts, coaching plays, etc. I have
four classes in English and a course in his-
tory that's a humdinger. It's called "World
History from the Stone Ages to 1921." It
includes every history course I have ever
had in high school or college except In-
ternational Relations, and I have even used
that for a current history course once a
week. Think of a tenth grade mind com-
prehending all that history in one year!
I can't!"

Edith McGranahan comes along with a
refreshing slant on teaching, "Who said
teaching school was colorless, prosaic?
Not I! From the first day I set my foot
down hard (and many of us will wonder
if Edith knew whether it was right or
left, even after Miss Gooch's long struggle
with her) I've had experiences funny, sad
and every kind. But with it all I've had the
best time I've ever had just being a high
school student again. I'm teaching history,
English, and biology and can you imagine
teaching that with one lone microscope ?
I'm always planting seed and looking for
frogs. I now can handle insects to my
satisfaction! I've acquired more knowledge
than ever before.

Louise (Thomas) McKee, who had been
called one of the rank and file about whom
a poor secretary can merely wring her
hands and tear her hair, writes at last,
"I've been taking some graduate work this
semester at the University of Maine in
Orono (where Louise's husband, Dick, is
military instructor this year), but my en-
thusiasm and energy are both dwindling,
and I'm considering being just a 'house
body' the rest of the year. We'll be in
Georgia next year probably."

Aileen Courtney Moore was married to
Mr. Donald Gordon Topping in Morristown,
Tenn., on Thursday, December 5th. Their
home will be in Kingsport for the present,
where Aileen's husband is in business.

Elinore Morgan is now at 146 Dearing
Street, Athens, Georgia.

Julia Mulliss is another whose letter was
a novel and delightful experience for the
secretary. Her report is, "I'm going to
business school and doing substitute teach-
ing in Martinsburg occasionally, which is
enough to keep me from being too home-
sick for school."

And Mary Prim another. Says Mary,
"Goodness, so much has happened since
last May! Right after graduation, Martha
Tower and I went to New York by boat
from Savannah, and I visited her at her
home in Arlington, N. J., for about a month
and had a most marvelous time. Then I

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39

came back home by train and stopped over
in Philadelphia and Washington and visit-
ed friends. I also stopped over in Char-
lotte and visited Olive Spencer for a
few days. Then, after resting about a
month after I got home, I took a business
course at a private school with the promise
of this job when I got through. Since No-
vember 1st I've been secretary to Dr. W.
O. Martin, and I'm just delighted with the
work. Dr. Martin was associated with Dr.
Phinizy Calhoun until November, but since
then has had his own office in the Medical
Arts Building."

Helen Ridley has lived up to her reputa-
tion as a K. U. B. reporter, and is now
one of the editors in the society department
of the Birmingham Post. As she expressed
it: "I have become a society sleuth; I call
up all my friends and beg them to have
parties, babies or visitors so that I may put
it in the paper. Last week a man called and
asked me to settle a point of etiquette for
him. I was flabbergasted! Imagine me as
an Emily Post! But I finally came to and
got him told a la Dorothy Dix."

Augusta Roberts, last year's president
of Y. W. C. A., gave a lovely dinner in
honor of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet and its
advisers at her home on Adams Street
recently. Augusta was one of the visitors
on the campus one Saturday night recent-
ly, and saw among the audience at a Black-
friars' production Rosa White, Mabel Mar-
shall, and Dade Warfield.

Lois Smith is going to business school
in Atlanta, and reports seeing "quite a few
Hottentots rushing around."

Olive Spencer is a good booster for our
last and for our future reunion. She writes,
"No one hated leaving our reunion more
than I did, and I'll confess I left a little
brine as a souvenir. Hope the next visit
will hurry up and come."

Mary Elizabeth Warren had the "flu" at
Christmas time, and adds, "I guess the
reason I've always been so healthy before
was that I didn't have time to be sick."
From all reports she is all right now, hav-
ing gone down to New Orleans for Mardi
Gras.

Frances Welsh is another lucky soul to
have landed a heavenly trip to Long Is-
land to visit her aunt and uncle at Fort
Totten. And then if you think she is lucky,
read this and weep that we were not all
born equally fortunate: "I am working in
the evangelical department in the National
Presbyterian Church Building in New York.
It was the only job I applied for, and all
that I did was write a letter in answer to
an ad. The man said he liked the way I
talked. Everyone here thinks it is a mir-
acle, for jobs are so scarce and there are
so many experienced ones out of work. I'll
be here (Room 431 National Presbyterian
Church Building, 156 Fifth Avenue) un-
til the family comes up and drags me home
by the hair of my head."

Helen Ward Thompson, ex '29, was mar-
ried on September 28th to Mr. Arthur
Middleton Hill of Hammond, La., in the
chapel of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The
ceremony was held in the presence of the
immediate family and a few intimate
friends. Since her marriage she has been
continuing her studies at Tulane Universi-
ty.

Isabel Footman Wilson, ex '29, was mar-
ried to Dr. Archer Avary, Jr., on Saturday
the twenty-eighth of December, at 8 o'clock
at the First Presbyterian Church in De-
catur. They are making their home in
Boston this year, where Dr. Avary is as-
sociated with the Boston City Hospital, be-
fore returning to Atlanta permanently next
fall.

Lorine Williams, ex '29, was graduated
from the University of Kentucky in June
and was married to Dr. W. E. Foree in
August and is now living in Athens, Tenn.

Evelyn Wood, ex '29, is now Mrs. Shef-
field Owen and lives in Birmingham. Eve-
lyn has recently compiled a volume of
camp songs suited to boys and girls.

Mary Willie Gause, ex '29, was married
on January 3rd to Mr. T. E. French, Jr.,
at that time of Atmore, Ala. They are now
living at 2156 Tenth Court S., Birmingham,
Ala.

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Program of Events

FOR

April and May

APRIL:

March 28th-April 3rd Spring holidays.

April 4th Play Day for high schools of Atlanta.

April Jth Freshman Night.

April 11th Debate.

April 19th B'ackfriars.

MAY:

May 1, 2, 3 Grand Opera.

May 10th May Day in afternoon; Senior Opera in evening.

May 2 9th- June 3rd Commencement events.

COMMENCEMENT

May 29th, Thursday Executive Board Meeting of the Alumnae As-
sociation, 2:30 p. m.
Council Meeting of Alumnae Association, 3:30 p. m.

May 30th, Friday Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees, 10:00 a. m.
Alumnae Swimming Demonstration, 10:30 a. m.
Laying of Cornerstone of Buttrick Hall, 2:30 p. m.

May 31st, Saturday Annual Meeting of Alumnae Association, 11:30

a. m.
Trustees' Luncheon to Alumnae, Seniors and Faculty, 1:30

p. m.
Concert by the Glee Club, 8:30 p. m.

June 1st, Sunday Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. Daniel A. Poling, D.
D., of New York City, 11:00 a. m.
Alumnae Vespers, 5:00 p. m.

June 2nd, Monday Luncheons for reunion classes, 12:30 p. m.
Class Day Exercises, 4:00 p. m.
Blackfriars, 8:30 p. m.

June 3rd, Tuesday Address to the Senior Class by Dean W. D. Hooper,
LL.D., University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Conferring of Degrees.

ALUMNAE OFFICE

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JULY
1930

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THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF AGNES SCOTT

COLLEGE

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President Secretary

Hilda McConnell Adams (Mrs. Brain- Cora Frazer Morton Durrett (Mrs. J.

ard R.), '23 F.), '24

2040 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Ga. 1109 W. Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.

First Vice President Treasurer

Marian McCamy Sims (Mrs. F. K., Mary Palmer Caldwell McFarland

Jr.), '20 (Mrs. Robert M.), '25,

Greensboro, N. C. 1935 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta

Second Vice President Executive Secretary

Theodosia Willingham Anderson (Mrs. Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson (Mrs.

W. W.), '11 D. B.), '12

63 Avery Drive Alumnae House, Agnes Scott College

Atlanta, Ga. Decatur, Ga.

CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES

Publicity Louise Slack, '20

Preparatory Schools Mary Lloyd Davis, '27

Alumnae House and Tea Room Frances Gilliland Stukes (Mrs. S. G.), '24

Local Clubs Mary Lamar Knight, '22

Beautifying Grounds Louise Brown Hastings (Mrs. Donald), '23

Entertainment Lois Maclntyre Beall (Mrs. Frank), '20

Class Organizations and Records Elizabeth Hoke, '23

Student Loan Ethel Alexander Gaines (Mrs. Lewis), '00

Constitutional Mary West Thatcher (Mrs. S. E.), '15

STATE PRESIDENTS

Alabama Marion (Black) Cantelou (Mrs. A. L.), Montgomery

California Louise Shipp Chick, Los Angeles

Florida Frances West, St. Petersburg

Georgia Sarah Slaughter, Atlanta

Kentucky Nancy Evans, Richmond

Louisiana Ethel Freeman, Crowley

Massachusetts India (Hunt) Balch, Jr. (Mrs. F. G.), Jamaica Plain

Mississippi Annie Tait Jenkins, Crystal Springs

New York Helen (Bates) Law (Mrs. F. B.), Schenectady

New Jersey Jane Hays Brown, Box 288, May's Landing

North Carolina Maurine Bledsoe, Asheville

South Carolina Eva (Wassum) Cunningham (Mrs. R. B., Jr.), Columbia

Tennessee Margaret (Rowe) Jones (Mrs. Carrington), Memphis

Texas Gladys Gaines, Austin

Virginia Mary Spottswood Payne, Lynchburg

West Virginia Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes (Mrs. C. A.) Charleston

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.

Mrs. Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. J. Sam), '13.

COUNCILLORS AT LARGE

Mrs. Ida Lee Hill Irvin (Mrs. I. T., Jr.), '06 Washington, Ga.

Mrs. Anne Waddell Bethea (Mrs. Horace F.), '09.3611 Oak St., Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. Louise Buchanan Proctor (Mrs. T. F., Jr.), '25,

2101 Highland Ave., Birmingham, Ala.
Miss Helena Hermance, '26__3535 Fairview St., E., Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla.

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Published in Nov., Jan., April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Vol. VIII JULY, 1930 No. 4

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Buttrick Hall v Frontispiece

Commencement 3

Dorothy Hutton, '29

Reunion of '06, '07, '08, '09 4

Reunion of 1907 5

Reunion of 1925 5

Reunion of 1926 6

Reunion of 1927 7

Commencement Snapshots 1 1

Reunion of 1928 13

Reunion of 1929 14

Westward Ho! 1 5

Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12

Officers Elected for 1930-1931 17

Answering Roll Call at Commencement 18

Reunion Loving Cup Awarded to 1929 19

Hopkins Jewel Award . 19

Phi Beta Kappa New Members 19

Quenelle Harrold Scholarship Award 19

May Day Pageant 20

Alumnae House Remembered 20

Athletic Conference 20

Debaters Win and Lose 20

Proud of Our Poets! 20

Faculty News 20

Annual Reports of Alumnae Association 21

Concerning Ourselves 29

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COMMENCEMENT

DOROTHY HUTTON, '29

Alumnae of all types and varieties started pouring back to the college on Thursday,
May 29th, in preparation for the big week-end planned for them. And those coming
back so early scarcely knew whether to count themselves among the fortunate or the
unfortunate, for people with nothing or practically nothing to do were very much in
demand over the campus and in the Alumnae House. Alumnae of the reunion classes
responded to all calls for aid, and were soon busily employed blowing up balloons, tying
on string, and otherwise helping with the last minute plans for the Baby Party or the
other events of the week-end.

On Friday morning at ten-thirty o'clock Llewellyn Wilburn directed a very
successful swimming meet, in which alumnae and near-alumnae participated. The spec-
tators felt at times like exclaiming over some aquatic alumna, "There's life in the old
girl yet!" for nothing daunted by the records of Gertrude Ederle or any of the other
noted champions of the day, they turned out in fine form to show that even old-timers
can keep up with the most modern of strokes.

Friday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock quite an assembly of alumnae, faculty, and
students gathered to witness the laying of the cornerstone of the magnificent new build-
ing, Buttrick Hall. This was an impressive ceremony, and one which was a novel ex-
perience for many of us. Mr. J. K. Orr, as Chairman of the Trustees, was called upon to
explain what is meant by the laying of a corner-stone, after which he introduced Mr.
Murphey Candler. Mr. Candler, as the oldest (in point of service) member of the Board
of Trustees, gave a very inspirational survey of the history of the College, tracing for his
audience the remarkable material and educational progress which has marked the de-
velopment of the college. Beautiful tributes were paid to Dr. Gaines, Dr. McCain, Miss
Hopkins, and others of the administration who have, with the generous financial aid of
the great friends of Agnes Scott, made possible this growth. Dr. McCain was then called
upon to lay the cornerstone of the new building. This honor he deferred to Miss Hop-
kins, whom he thought most fitted to perform this ceremony. Into the cornerstone
were laid innumerable documents and valuables. The sermonette of Mr. Orr was put
in, with the history of the college, publications of the campus, tributes to benefactors
of the college, and other things of interest. After the cornerstone had been cemented into
the new building, the audience joined in singing the Alma Mater.

At four- thirty Friday afternoon the Decatur Club members were hostesses to all
children of alumnae at a very delightful Baby Party. Mrs. John I. Scott (Marie Mac-
Intyre) and Mrs. C. M. Dieckmann (Emma Pope Moss) had charge, and the party was
pronounced a success by young and old alike. The babies were labeled, thereby helping
alumnae to recognize friends' children, who bore no remarkable hereditary resemblances
to their mothers. The features of the afternoon were the giving out of balloons to
each of the children, the grab bag which was crammed full of attractive favors, and
the rides afforded by two ponies who tirelessly rode children from the Alumnae House
to Inman and back again.

Saturday morning alumnae enjoyed a dip in the swimming pool before going to
the meeting of the Alumnae Association at eleven-thirty o'clock. At one-thirty faculty,
trustees, alumnae and members of the graduating class were royally entertained at the
annual Trustees' luncheon. The long tables in Rebekah Scott dining room were beauti-
fully decorated with a profusion of summer flowers. The luncheon went off with its
usual good-natured interplay of jokes between Mr. Orr, the toastmaster of the occasion,
and any victim he chose to pick. Miss Hopkins, Dr. McCain, Mrs. B. R. Adams (Hilda
McConnell), Llewellyn Wilburn, Mrs. D. B. Donaldson (Fannie G. Mayson), Ruth
Pirkle, Frances Messer, and Sarah Townsend added spice to the occasion by giving delight-
ful and very clever talks. The reunion classes were introduced, and seemed to have
weathered the years of life since becoming alumnae remarkably well. A few of these

4 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

pulled off clever stunts when introduced. Following the luncheon, the reunion classes
were given distinctive favors, and passed in parade before the reviewing stand of in-
terested spectators gathered on the verandah of Rebekah Scott.

Saturday night Blackfriars, under the able direction of Miss Gooch, presented three
plays of interest to alumnae. "No Good," the prize-winning play of this year's play-
writing class, written by Jean Alexander, 1930, was presented. Of further interest to
alumnae was the play, "Thinking Makes It So," written by Caroline (Pierce) Dillard, and
having almost an entirely alumnae cast, with Caroline McKinney, Miss Gooch, and
Ruth Pirkle taking the leading women's parts.

Sunday morning the alumnae felt that they were given a rare privilege in hearing
the Reverend Daniel A. Poling of New York City. Then after dinner the alumnae
had coffee with Miss Hopkins, the members of the faculty, and the students, in Rebekah
Scott lobby. That afternoon the alumnae were urged to call at the homes of the faculty
to visit with them, and many of them took advantage of this opportunity to renew faculty
acquaintances. Sunday afternoon at five o'clock in the Chapel the alumnae held their
vesper-memorial services. Mary Ray Dobyns had charge of the lovely services. Janie
McGaughey made a beautiful talk in which she impressed it on the alumnae that we
could consider Agnes Scott as the center of the map of the world, from which will always
radiate alumnae who go out into the world to serve and to serve in such a way as to
make our alma mater proud of us. Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller and Mary Ray Dobyns
played organ selections, Leila Anderson read the list of those alumnae who had died re-
cently or those members of the reunion classes who had died since their last reunion, and
Miss Hopkins led in a beautiful prayer. After the Senior Vespers on the lawn by Gaines
Cottage Sunday night, alumnae and seniors and faculty called at the Alumnae House,
where the officers of the Association and officers of the reunion classes acted as hostesses,
and where the alumnae had an opportunity to meet in an informal way other alumnae.

On Monday the reunion classes held their reunion luncheon and dinners, com-
bining business and pleasure. The classes of '2 5 and '27 and '29 had their entertain-
ments in the Alumnae House Tea Room, '28 had a luncheon at the Atlanta Athletic
Club, '26 held its meeting at the Hotel Candler, and the classes of '06, '07, '08, and '09
were entertained at the home of Mrs. John J. Eagan (Susan Young). All reported a
successful and delightful time. Monday night the Glee Club, under the direction of
Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, gave a splendid program, a novel feature of which was the
rendition of numbers by the following alumnae, Mary Ruth Rountree, ex '31; Mabel W.
Daniel, '27; Hortense (Elton) Garver, '29, and Helen (Bates) Law, '26.

The commencement program was very interesting, with Dr. W. D. Hooper of the
University of Georgia Latin Department as speaker, and brought to a close another suc-
cessful reunion as well as another successful commencement.

REUNION OF '06, '07, '08, AND '09

The 1930 Agnes Scott reunion classes were the girls of '06, '07, '08, and '09 and the
feature of their reunion was the luncheon given in their honor by Susan (Young) Eagan,
'06 at her home, 902 Oakdale Road, Atlanta. With Miss Hopkins as special guest, Mrs.
Eagan entertained the following: Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin and Annie Graham King of the
class of '06, Ethel Reid, Jeannette Shapard, Alice Green and Juanita (Wylie) Cald-
well of '07, Katharine (Dean) Stewart, Estelle (Zellars) Blalock, and Rose Wood of
'08, and Mec (Maclntyre) McAfee of '09. Around the beautifully appointed tables
the girls of these classes lunched and chattered, recalling many incidents of their college
days, showing kodak pictures and reading letters from members of their class, who while
absent from the reunion wanted to be a part of it. The centerpiece was a beautiful
pattern of "the purple and the white," while the place cards of white silhouettes against a
purple background further carried out the color scheme, as did the refreshments in several
courses.

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REUNION OF 1907

One lone member of '07 came back for the reunion. That was Jeannette Shapard,
who arrived a week ahead of time in order to rest from the bus trip from Montgomery
before the festivities began. She even went in swimming every day to try to be re-
juvenated by the time the others came. It was a little lonely at the Alumnae House with
so many young 29ers until Annie King of '06 got there. They talked and giggled so
much that I am sure the young girls thought "foolish forties" was the only way to
describe them.

At the Trustees' luncheon several others appeared. Clyde Pettus, who now has an
M. A. and is teaching at the Library School in Atlanta, was there. Also Alice Green
and Juanita Wylie, who didn't know exactly where they belonged so we took them in.
Alice is secretary to her brother and Juanita is quite busy with an interesting husband,
two lovely daughters and the League of Women Voters to take most of her time. Ethel
Reid, who has classes in shorthand and typewriting at Agnes Scott, was at the class lunch-
eon. Lill Phillips could not be here, but we called on her charming daughter who is a
Sophomore at Agnes Scott. We have heard that Elizabeth Carry's daughter is to enter
Agnes Scott next fall, so we did not expect her at this time.

Girls of '07, you would be green with envy if you knew what a good time we had.
Miss Hopkins, Miss Lewis and Mary Cox actually remembered us. At the Alumnae House
everything was done for our pleasure and comfort.

Save your money! Lay aside your troubles, and let's all come back next time even
if we don't have grand-daughters in the graduating class.

REUNION OF 1925

Five years away from college can bring about any number of changes in one's life,
and take one a long way from the days spent in college. But the members of 192 5 took
the timely advice of all who had ever been back for reunions, and returned in good
measure for their week-end reunion this year. And as it was generally conceded, no one
seemed a day older or a mite different, and to hear the chatter one would know that they
were all able to take up conversation and contacts just where they were left at the last
reunion. It was indeed gratifying to see the number of married women who checked
their babies, and left home and husband for good times back at the college.

All the girls staying on the campus and quite a number of the Decatur and Atlanta
girls came out for the Trustees' Luncheon, and felt quite at home once more in the
Rebekah dining room, with familiar faces around them.

On Monday the class had its reunion luncheon in the Alumnae House Tea Room.
Martha Lin Manly was back to preside, and Frances (Tennent) Ellis had charge of the
decorating for the luncheon. The table, in the shape of an L, was beautifully decorated
with summer flowers, and each place was marked by an individual place card. Many of
the members of 1925 who could not come back for any of the festivities sent in greetings
to the class. These letters and telegrams were read during the luncheon, and after lunch
the class held a brief business meeting in the living room of the Alumnae House.

Nor was all the visiting and chatting confined to these luncheons, for many talked
far, far into the night of old times and the fun of being back for reunions. All in all,
1925 agreed that the 1930 reunion was well worth saving hard-earned school-teachers'
or stenographers' pennies, in order to make it possible.

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REUNION OF 1926

Terminal station! The graduate of '26 scrutinized herself for a final time in the
inadequate train mirror making sure that neither of her gray hairs protruded and that
cosmetics had done their best to conceal the ravages of time and school teaching. Then
giving a final yank to the skirt which threatened to fall short of the standards of Vogue,
she left the train.

She was rather vague as to the reception which awaited her at the head of the
Terminal steps but she felt sure that it would be one befitting the return of one of "the
band of daughters" who had roamed to a far country. Had she not notified Miss
Hopkins that she was coming that the Alumnae luncheon was to be graced by her
presence?

Having heard that Miss Hopkins and Miss Smith had both acquired automobiles in
her absence, she could not completely suppress a hope that she might drive up the new
driveway (which she had read about in the Bulletin) amid the admiring and envious
gazes of many college students and alumnae. But she told herself she must try to con-
tent herself with less than this.

However, even her most modest expectations were baffled. Impossible as it might
seem, not one familiar face could she discover in the station. A great fear surged up
in her heart. She had sometimes wondered, her first year out of school, how long the
college could survive without her. Could it be that Agnes Scott had ceased to exist?
Perhaps she had better telephone before proceeding further. With a sinking heart, she
called up Agnes Scott and asked for a Freshman of her acquaintance in Rebekah Scott.
The answer came back, there was now a phone in Rebekah Scott and she must call that
number. Careful search failing to reveal another nickel, she gave up the telephoning idea
and set out for the college.

During the forty-five minute ride, she found the thought occurring again and again
"a telephone in Rebekah Scott!" Imagine that! She wondered whether they had in-
stalled elevators and electric fans and radios there! She trembled to think of the stu-
dents turned out from such an environment of luxury. Surely they could not be as
sturdy and substantial as the specimens of '26.

After waiting half an hour on the wrong side of the street at Haverty's, she had
the temerity to inquire if the Decatur car stopped there. She was given directions as to
where to stand. In an instant it all came back to her. She even remembered not to pay
her fare when she got on the car. (Surprising how good her memory was! Age had
not impaired her faculties.)

Her spirits rose as each turn of the car line brought her nearer her Alma Mater.
But as she crossed the campus, there was another sinking spell. Still no familiar face!
What should she do? She might have turned back had she not in rapid succession run
across Ella and Dick. She decided on the spot that these two should be released from all
other duties so as to devote their entire time to welcoming alumnae. Mental note was
made of this to be added to the list of chairs to be endowed when she became wealthy
from teaching school.

Then things began to happen so fast that all sense of loneliness was forgotten. There
was the alumnae meeting with Hilda McConnell presiding. (Vivid memories of Fresh-
man days!) A ballot was handed to her and she went through it voting for any people
she might know. Where two strange names were presented in candidacy for the same
office, there was some difficulty. The best solution of the riddle seemed to be to elim-
inate the name less pleasing to the ear. The meeting proved to be a severe strain on the
neck, for the back door was constantly opening, and even the most polite (which she
did not claim to be) could not resist craning to see who entered.

Next came the Alumnae Luncheon enough like the one she attended in '26 to be
its twin the dining room beautifully decorated, Lib Norfleet at the piano, same food,
Mr. Orr still joking, Agnes Scott girls still getting married and engaged, everyone sing-

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ing the first verse of the Alma Mater lustily and unassisted, then scrambling for the
mimeographed copy on the second and third. How natural it all seemed! Yet there
were some differences. There were faces missing. Then, too, the Seniors at this luncheon
seemed decidedly more juvenile than those at the luncheon in '26. Strange! Not even
their trailing skirts could lessen this impression.

Saturday night Blackfriars gave their usual commencement performance. But
here was something new under the sun Miss Gooch, in wig and make-up actually prov-
ing as good in the role of actress as director!

Sunday morning seemed most natural the boisterous bell, waffles for breakfast,
girls carrying up wieners and toast to their less ambitious room-mates, her name still not
on the Special list. Except for the fact that she had lost her old speed in dressing, she
might have felt that she had never been away.

One of the high lights of the reunion was the class luncheon on Monday. Time
would fail to mention all the 3 5 or 40 present. Sarah Smith, unchastened by matrimony,
presided in her same old way. Margaret Tufts and Ellen Fain looked as if school teach-
ing had sat lightly upon them. Mrs. William Crowe III showed unappreciable change
from the Catherine Graeber of '26. (After all, Catherine was of just the caliber to be-
come a preacher's wife. Perhaps she is best remembered by Agnes Scotters because of
her philanthropic crusade against the mosquitoes.) K. P.'s experience in attending to
photographs for the "Silhouette" seemed to have been put to further use. She appeared
with a picture of her young daughter which would have done credit to any photographer's
show window.

This '26er swelled with pride for Betty Little and Lois Bolles who were so shortly to
do their bit to raise the percentage of Agnes Scott marriages to still dizzier heights.
(Edythe Coleman brave girl had even relinquished the joy of attending this reunion
for this worthy cause.)

She sighed with envy at the sight of Frisky Cooper all the way from New York.
Was it the Statue of Liberty or the Liberty Bell she must ask her about?

Miss Hale and Miss Gaylord proved the benefit of a morning spent in studying an
old catalog by their agility in connecting names and faces.

Besides those present in the flesh, it seemed that there were many more present in
the spirit. Many letters to that effect were passed around. It gave one the satisfying
feeling that a sort of collective Banquo's ghost might be occupying the one vacant chair
at the table.

After lunch, the class draped itself on the front steps of the Hotel Candler while
Helena scaled her roadster (in which she still flits from Miami to Canada) and endeavor-
ed to smile at "Old Sol" while Helena took a picture.

With this touching scene ended all official gatherings of alumnae. Thoughts began
to turn to waiting husbands and wailing babies, to trips to Europe and what not. There
was some agonizing over railroad schedules puzzles complicated still further by central,
eastern and daylight saving time.

Then it was all over! The 26er realized she was rolling out of the Terminal station,
and though she had never had Glee Club aspirations, she found herself softly humming
the Alma Mater.

CLASS OF 1927

The class of '27 came back for its second reunion to divide its admiration for the
changes at Agnes Scott with the accomplishments of its illustrious members. There were
32 at the reunion luncheon held Monday at the Tea House, including our friends and
faculty members, Mrs. Sydenstricker, and Mr. and Mrs. Holt. Mrs. Sydenstricker almost
embarrassed us by remembering some of our past sins in her classes. We have evidently
staged a complete reform and outgrown our childish ways, for the roll call revealed
nothing except items appropriate to the good side of our ledger.

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We really have a great deal to show for our three years out of college. A reunion
"census" disclosed the fact that we have no less than 39 new members besides the 103
we graduated. This 39 includes 31 husbands, 4 sons, and 4 daughters. During the
three years 5 5 have at some time or other taught school, 24 have been "poor working
girls," 18 have done graduate work, and only 7 have led a life of complete leisure. The
3 1 married members wish it distinctly understood that though they didn't get classified
as "working," they defy either their husbands or their classmates to say they don't do
a great deal of very real work.

The class is now scattered in 22 states, the District of Columbia, Great Britain and
Denmark. Ruth McDonald was elected Secretary until the next reunion in 193 5. And
now for our 1930 roll call:

Eleanor Albright could not come back for reunion because her school work in
New York was not over. Eleanor achieved a Masters at Columbia last year in Physical
Education.

Evelyn Albright is teaching in a business college in Atlanta and could leave her
pupils for the reunion luncheon.

Ewin Baldwin is at home in Montgomery, Alabama.
Louise Bansley wrote from New York, "Heaven knows I'd give almost anything to
go back to Commencement this year but the Brooklyn Public Library doesn't know
Agnes Scott as it should and doesn't fully appreciate her, so I can't quite make it. I'll
be thinking of all the classmates and wishing I were where I can't be. Greetings to every-
one."

Reba (Bayless) Boyer found her young daughter sufficient reason for not being
back, and we were sorry we couldn't see both of them.

Leila Bell has been teaching in High Point, N. C, this year and her school work was
not over in time for her to get to the reunion.

Emma Bernhardt came out to the Trustees' luncheon on Saturday but couldn't get
back for class meeting. Emma is busy in Atlanta with her usual library work.

Blanch Berry is now Mrs. G. B. Sheehan, and having traveled about a bit is now
located in London with her husband for the summer. Jo Bridgman read a most inter-
esting letter from Blanch concerning her new environment and her personal observa-
tions of "those things we read about."

Maurine Bledsoe was back for Commencement and a visit with Louisa White Gosnell.
Maurine is in business with her father and very glad to be relieved as Secretary of '27,
enjoyable as that task has been.

Josephine Bridgman and Rachel Henderlite were back and too interested in a pro-
posed expedition to New York for the summer to tell us much about the lives of school
teachers when it is not vacation time.

Frances Buchanan has taught in Macon this year and did not get back for the
reunion.

Charlotte Buckland has been teaching in Jacksonville, Florida, and could not come
to Commencement because her school was not yet through for the year.

Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow was at the reunion and wouldn't confess to half of
the many things she does. Georgia Mae did substitute teaching during the winter.

Louise (Capen) Baker will be busily engaged for some time to come with her lab
work at the Columbia Medical Center, assisting a neurologist who is doing research work
on the brain.

Annette (Carter) Colwell was back for reunion and told us of the trip to Europe
that she and her husband will have this summer. Annette says it is to be a real vacation
for her, they are leaving the baby here. The Colwells will be back at Chicago in the
fall where "Dr." Colwell will be assistant professor in the New Testament Department.

Ruth Casey has had charge of the Opportunity School in Savannah during the
winter, but is back in Atlanta now.

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Dorothy Chamberlain was back for Commencement and told us of her work as
Librarian for a large bank in New York, and of what variety such a position affords.

Grace (Carr) Clark wrote from Ocala, Florida: "We lived in Atlanta a whole year
and then moved just in time to miss the Agnes Scott Commencement. We left too re-
cently for me to go back the last of this month, but I am already looking forward to
being there next year."

Cephise Cartwright has been teaching this year in Savannah and did not get back
for Reunion.

Frances (Chambers) Wing could not leave her husband, home and baby to come
back to Agnes Scott.

Elizabeth (Clark) Young was another "young matron" who preferred the new
house to Reunion. Lib is now living in West Point, Miss.

Susan (Clayton) Fuller regretted that her husband's vacation did not occur until
July and that she could not be with us.

Mildred Cowan has been teaching Biology, Latin and French the past year.

Wilie Mae (Coleman) Duncan came to the luncheon and reported that her young
son kept her sufficiently employed.

Lillian Clement was also at the luncheon, having persuaded the Southern Bell Tele-
phone Co. to grant her that time off. In her spare time Lillian keeps up her pipe organ.

Martha Crowe was always being out of pocket when one looked for her and then it
would come out she had been at a "faculty meeting" or finishing up her exam papers, or
something like that. Martha was of much help in looking after the local arrangements
for the luncheon and reunion for us.

Marion (Daniel) Blue is happily married and living in Charlottesville, Va., and
did not get back for our reunion.

Emily Daughtry has been at home in Jackson, Ga., during the winter doing some
substitute teaching.

Louise Davis was present at both luncheons and reported her activities to be the
teaching of Algebra and Latin in Junior High School.

Mary Lloyd Davis's summer in Europe and her past year's work of teaching so
nearly overlapped that she missed Commencement entirely.

Frances Dobbs could not be with us because of the very serious illness of her mother.

Eugenia Dozier had to quit our luncheon before her name was called in order to get
back to her dancing classes in Atlanta.

Mable (Dumas) Crenshaw was only very recently back in Atlanta for a visit, and
could not come again for Commencement.

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strassburger came up for the Reunion and to see Anne graduate,
and reported on her interesting work with the Little Theatre in Columbus, Ga.

Mary (Ferguson) Day wrote to say that a newly-acquired husband and the distance
from Los Angeles to Decatur prevented her return, but she did have hopes of attending
one reunion during her lifetime. Her letter closed: "Tell all the bunch that are lucky
enough to be back 'hello,' and if they are ever out here to look me up. We're here perma-
nently, and our phone is in the book." The address is Mrs. Alfred Day, 393 5 Boyce
Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.

We are still pursuing unsuccessfully the new name and address of Valerie Folts.

Frances Freeborn was married on May 24 to William C. Pauley of Decatur. It was
agreed at the reunion that the wedding trip was the best of reasons for Frances' absence.

Katherine Gilliland has been teaching again this year and could not get back for
Commencement. We understand she will seek other fields to conquer next year.

Venie Bell Grant is technician at Henry Grady Hospital in Atlanta and could not
be at the luncheon.

Marcia Green was another who has been teaching and could not get back.

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Mary (Heath) Phillips wrote that a trip already planned to Missouri in July made it
impossible for her to get away for the Reunion, too.

Elizabeth Henderson has been teaching at Brunswick, Ga., and could not come for
Commencement.

Mary Hedrick evidently had a similar reason. She has been teaching at Bristol,
Tenn., during the winter.

Anne Heys was another who let her home town provide reasons for absence.

Virginia Hollingsworth also could not persuade her school authorities in Greensboro,
N. C., to let her off in time to join us.

Marcia (Horton) Speir was just too busy to come to our luncheon.

Katherine Houston couldn't desert Virginia in order to be with us, either.

Mae Erskine Irwin was married in April to Alex S. Fowler and is now living in New
York. The address is 195 Broadway, care American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

Anne George Irwin came to the Reunion and told us of the lab research she has been
doing, and the important work on malaria she is busy with now.

Maude Jackson has been teaching in Lawrenceville, Ga.

Elsa Jacobsen sent a telegram of greeting to the class which was read at the luncheon.
Elsa is still in Indianapolis with her Girl Reserve work.

Martha Johnston has been teaching voice and music this winter. Her engagement
to Eugene Wilson has been announced, the wedding to be this summer and the future
home in New Jersey.

Lelia (Joiner) Cooper could not come all the way from Seattle for the reunion, and
so sent a long letter to the class instead. She said in part: "June 15th we go to San
Diego to live. We are going to have duty on the "Argonne," which is a submarine
tender to the U-boats 1, 2, 3, and 4. San Diego is lovely and we are looking forward
to a glorious tour of duty there and mother is coming out to see us too, which will be
grand."

Pearl Kunnes had to give up her work in New York because of eye trouble, and is
now at home again in Thompson, Ga. Pearl was unable to get back for the reunion.

Louise Leonard was still busy with the school system of Spartanburg and had to miss
the reunion, too.

Helen Lewis has been teaching in Frankfort, West Virginia, the past winter and
that is the only reason we know for her absence at Commencement.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn, like Mary Davis, couldn't sandwich Agnes Scott between
school and Europe. Ellen Douglass is going to Germany with her brother James for the
summer. She plans to teach in Buffalo again next year.

Elizabeth Lilly reported at the luncheon that she very much liked being on the
faculty at Salem College and that she will again teach English there next year. We
understand Lib has made quite a name for herself and for Agnes Scott. Lib Norfleet
Miller told us that the faculty at Salem had very successfully given our Senior Opera,
"Polly's Archie," with Lib Lilly as director and Lib Norfleet the pianist.

Ethel (Littlefield) Williamson is now residing at Fort Myers, Florida, and could
not come back to Agnes Scott in June as she plans to visit her family later in the sum-
mer.

Louise Lovejoy will be married on the 19th of June to Dr. James H. Jackson, who is
to be resident physician at the hospital in Farmville, Virginia.

Lamar Lowe found herself too busy to attend the reunion luncheon.

Elizabeth Lynn wrote from Madison, Wisconsin, that electron chasing prevented her
return, and that it would take the summer to complete her research work and the writing
of her thesis for her Master's. Liz sends a plea for some of '27 to please come to see
her this summer.

Carolina McCall sufficiently recovered her health to get back to the reunion
luncheon, and looked so well it was hard to believe all the tales of invalidism we have
been hearing.

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COMMENCEMENT SNAPSHOTS

The second generation
at Agnes Scott enjoying
the Children's Party,
given to children of
alumnae by the Decatur
Agnes Scott Club on
Friday afternoon, May
30th.

The class of '29 revert-
ing to undergraduate
days and tvays, as they
paraded after the Trus-
tees' Luncheon.

Another glimpse of
alumnae on parade!

And here are the girls of
the classes of '06, '07,
'08 and '09 just a sec-
tion caught as the line
passed by.

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Elizabeth McCallie has been teaching at North Avenue this winter.

Ruth McDonald was elected as the new secretary for '27, so she can not longer
claim to lead a life of leisure. Please do let's everybody stand ready to help Ruth all
we can. Her address is 698 Piedmont Ave., N. E., Atlanta.

Carolina McKinney attended both reunion luncheons, having nice people to work
for at the Southern Bell who permit such necessary things to interrupt their business.

Cleo (McLaurine) Baldridge evidently finds housekeeping too fascinating to let our
reunion interfere. Cleo is living in Columbia, S. C, 2132 Divine Street.

We learned at Commencement that Polly McLeod is now Mrs. Hanchey Logue and
is at home in Luverne, Ala.

Ruth (McMillan) Jones we understood to be expected in Atlanta about the time of
the reunion, but our luncheon lacked evidence of her arrival.

Hulda McNeel ran true to form and maintained a perfect silence so we don't know
why she was not at Commencement.

Kenneth Maner couldn't be separated from her teaching in Pennsylvania in time
to be back with us.

Catherine Mitchell has been teaching in Kissimmee, Florida, and we presume shared
the same fate as the others who teach in that state, and couldn't get away.

Mitchell Moore has been teaching in Rocky Mount, N. C, and was likewise pre-
vented from returning.

Mildred (Morrow) Renn must have found a husband and home in New York, two
good reasons for her absence.

Margaret Neel didn't send any word about herself with regard to the reunion, but
we know she has been in Huntington, W. Va., the past winter.

Emily Nelson we found was now Mrs. Hubert Bradley, and much concerned with
her husband and her house.

Lucia Nimmons has been indulging in a little needed rest at home in Seneca, S. C,
and didn't get back for the reunion.

Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, our good president, was back to insure the success of
our reunion, proving that she did survive the writing of all those nice invitations she
sent us. We were hoping to see the young son, but had to be satisfied with some cute
snapshots of him.

Stella (Pitman) Dunkin (Mrs. William T.), we regret to report as "Lost." Her last
address was Newark, N. J. Will someone please help us?

Louise Plumb was back and says that she will teach in Lawrenceville again next year.

Evalyn Powell has been teaching the seventh grade in Little Rock this winter, and
couldn't come to the reunion because her school wasn't out yet.

Miriam Preston we were glad to have with us again. She managed to finish her
work at Yale in time to get to our reunion luncheon. Miriam plans to continue her work
at Yale next year.

Frances Rainey has been pursuing her M.A. at Emory this winter, and was of course
at both luncheons.

Douglass Rankin was still busy with her work at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and
couldn't be with us.

Margeurite Russell was back and reported herself as having once more attained good
health, and being now in search of some sort of a position.

Elizabeth Sanders wrote from Baptist Memorial Hospital at Memphis, Tenn., where
she has been the past two months, that her illness kept her from Commencement. We
were glad to hear that Elizabeth is able to sit up in a wheel chair after her operation,
which followed a series of rather lengthy stays in a number of hospitals. Elizabeth writes
that she hopes another year will find her entirely recovered.

Evelyn Satterwaite was another who found herself too busy to get to our reunion
luncheon.

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Virginia Sevier returned from Australia in April and appeared to have found her
winter there added zest to life. We expected her for reunion, but her duties connected
with Fassifern and Greystone evidently made it impossible. Virginia will be at Camp
Greystone, Tuxedo, N. C., for the summer.

Mamie Shaw wrote that her medical work did not permit her to be at the reunion.
Mamie has been making a fine record at Johns Hopkins.

Sarah (Shields) Pheiffer having been recently in Atlanta for a brief visit could
not again desert her young son, and had to miss Commencement.

Willie White Smith was due to leave Denmark the early part of the summer and
begin her journey home. She plans to continue her work at the New York University
next winter.

Emily Stead, though eager to relate of the "full lives" led by our Atanta and Decatur
class mates, was not nearly so fluent about her various endeavors. Emily added many
items of interest to the roll call at the reunion luncheon.

Sarah Stillman now has a position with the Holeproof Hosiery and was unable to
attend the luncheon. Would that she had come and brought us souvenirs!

Edith Strickland could not be with us because her school in New Jersey was not
over.

Margie Wakefield still likes the variety to be found working with the Presbyterian
"church fathers." Margie was at the reunion.

Elizabeth Vary has a position in Atlanta and could be present for our luncheon.

Mary Weems also could not arrange to be with us.

Alice Weichselbaum could not leave her work in New York to come back in time
for our reunion.

Louisa (White) Gosnell has decided she has sufficiently mastered the gentle art of
housekeeping and cooking to allow her to make profitable use of her spare time. Louisa
plans to start work on her M.A. this summer at Emory.

Courtney Wilkinson has been teaching at Lynchburg and could not get to the
reunion.

Roberta Winter was still busy at Yale, and also unable to attend.

Grace (Zachry) McCreery sent in all sorts of good wishes for the success of the
reunion and regretted that the time did not coincide with her husband's vacation. Grace
has a new street address in Detroit, 113^0 Hessler Road.

We were so very glad to have Nancy Lou (Knight) Narmore, a most loyal "ex,"
with us at our reunion luncheon. Nancy Lou has an attractive young son some of us
who lingered a little after the luncheon enjoyed seeing.

And now let's all start a Reunion Savings Account as Grace proposes and plan to
be back at Agnes Scott for an even "bigger and better reunion" in 193 5.

REUNION OF CLASS OF 1928

Forty-four members of the class of 192 8 met at the Athletic Club in Atlanta for
our reunion luncheon Monday, June 2nd. We sat down to a beautifully appointed table
promptly, out of consideration for the many girls in our class who are working in At-
lanta and had a limited time to stay.

Our conversation was not, as it might have been expected, reminiscent at all, but
was filled with "my work," "my trip abroad," "my husband," and "my baby." Prob-
ably we exhausted our memories at the Alumnae luncheon Saturday in Rebekah Scott.

Two letters from absent classmates were read, one from Miriam Anderson, who has
graduated from the Assembly's Training School and has taken a position in Banner Elk,
N. C, and the other from Elizabeth Grier, who is going back to China in the fall to
teach physical education.

Our only business was to elect Mary Ray Dobyns, secretary for the next three
years. We asked everybody to give her vocation or avocation on the list of names being

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made for the Quarterly and we were amazed at our versatility. We seem to have invaded
every field of human endeavor. Maybe at some future date we may be referred to as
that famous class of 192 8.

We are all indebted to Elizabeth Cole for the arrangement of the luncheon and are
agreed that three years is too long to wait for our next reunion luncheon.

REUNION OF 1929

A casual passerby during the week-end of May the thirtieth to June the third may
have inquired as to the shrieks of delight which pierced the air, and may have been told
that neither the rodent Freshmen, nor the wise-fool Sophomores, the scholarly Juniors, or
the dignified Seniors were capable of emitting such yells. Further inquiries would have
led him to the clue of the mystery, and he would have been told that 1929 had returned
full-blast for its first and most glorious reunion. He might have been told that Mary
Nel and Martha Riley and Helen Ridley, but recently arrived from Birmingham, were
greeting with open arms and more open mouths the new Mrs. Williams and the still more
newly married Mrs. Ricks, alias the Brown twins of 1929 fame, with Ethel Freeland
and Violet Weeks coming in on the chorus of welcomes.

At any rate, fifty-two of the loyal band gathered together on Saturday at the
Trustees' luncheon to do full justice to the ample wit of the well-loved Mr. J. K. Orr and
to the ample fare provided by the Trustees, who seem to understand so well that "the way
to a man's heart" is also true of a girl's heart too. Helon (Brown) Williams, with her
usual capability, had provided an adorable stunt for the class to pull. After singing
"Happy Birthday, '29" to the diminutive cake boasting of one lone yellow candle, the
class en masse recited the following:

"We're one-year old alumnae, and we can't talk very plain,
But there really is just one thing that we surely must explain
We have a baby sister, whose name they say is "Thirty";
She's mighty cute, but just the same we think they did us dirty
Our nose is out of joint!!!"

Nor did they find themselves with the dignity of which they used to boast, but
entered the parade carrying yellow balloons, and skipping along with glee.

1929 held its reunion dinner in the Alumnae Tea Room on Monday night. The
table was beautifully decorated with yellow roses and snap-dragons, and with yellow
tapers. Each place was marked by a small pot of yellow tulips with a place card at-
tached to it. These lovely decorations were given by Helon (Brown) Williams and Hazel
(Brown) Ricks. During the course of the dinner some one told on Margaret Garretson,
and she responded by being a good sport and announcing her engagement, and the class
had the thrill of singing "Happy Engagement to You." The class also had a telegram
from Nancy Nisbet Anderson, our first class daughter, wishing us all sorts of a good
time. We were delighted to have this message for it is gratifying to us old-timers to
have the next generation attentive and thoughtful. The dinner finally degenerated into
an old type of meeting of the genus "bull-session," and it was agreed that only those
present were safe.

The class turned out in full force on Tuesday morning to do honor to the Class of
193 and to shed for them the tears which they were either too sensible or too phlegmatic
to shed for "those bright college scenes from the past," which they are leaving behind
them. But we can unanimously say that the compensations of being alumnae and the
fun of a reunion more than offset the woes of the cold and cruel world when "far
from the reach of the sheltering arms" of our Alma Mater.

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Ruth and "Crip"

WESTWARD HO!

RUTH (SLACK) SMITH, '12

Deciding on how and where to spend a vacation is a difficult problem, for there are
so many factors to be considered one's family, finances, preferences, time. Sooner or
later Europe must be included, for you simply do not rate in certain circles unless you

can casually mention "the last time I was in Europe" or

"when I was over."

But if school teaching hasn't been sufficiently
profitable, or if the family has been expanding at an ex-
pensively rpid rate, and Europe cannot be considered, let
me tell you of a trip where you get the most possible
for the money.

The traveling companions of this remarkable jour-
ney were two of my fellow laborers at "dere ole Dooke"
Jerry, the Physical Director for Women, and Sal, the
Dietitian and our mode of travel, a Chevrolet sedan.
Early in January we began discussing plans for the
summer, and Germany, the Northern States, the "White
Mountains were discarded in favor of Yellowstone Park.
Our first step was to join the A. A. A. and get dozens
of road maps and begin working out routes and ap-
proximate time.

We decided we would take a Sterno outfit, some
crackers, soup, and a few other canned things, so if we
wanted to save time and money we could stop along the road and fix our lunch, so Sal
packed the "kitchen" and we were grateful more than once for having it. Another piece
of equipment which was most convenient was a brown linen shoe bag which was fastened
to the back of the front seat and in which we kept our dark glasses, string, scissors, and
other accessories. (I've intended sending this idea to Good Housekeeping.)

We started out with a baggage rack, but after one rain experience we expressed one
extra suitcase and were able to pack what we needed on the back seat. For a trip of
this kind so few clothes are necessary a coat, a sweater or sweater suit, a tailored silk
dress for emergency, and a dress for real wear, which can be discarded at the end of the
journey. Sal's "Fifth Avenue Model," my "Venus Creation," and Jerry's "Blue Beauty"
were our faithful friends for many a mile!

On the morning of June 8 we started forth, Randolph-Macon (Sal's Alma Mater)
being our first stop, and Lexington and Mary Champe our destination for the night. It
was fun to see Mary and Bill, the home and three babies, and talk of Agnes Scott days,
and Lexington itself is a beautiful sight in early June. The next morning we started west
on the Midland Trail, having lunch at Lewisburg and spending the night in a tourist
home in Huntington, W. Va. Our general schedule was to start after breakfast and drive
on two-hour shifts until lunch. Jerry and I did all the driving, and Sal directed from
the back seat. Late in the afternoon we would begin looking for a place to stop, usually
selecting a house which had flowers in the yard. We found tourist homes very satis-
factory, with every third night in a hotel where we could be sure of plenty of hot water.
It was an ideal time to be traveling, for it was too early in June for many school teachers
and other vacationists, so we had the road to ourselves, and it was late enough for the
spring rains to be over, so we missed the Kansas mud of which we had heard so much.
The roads were remarkably good everywhere and we were able to make about 240 miles
a day, for we never hurried, but stopped to see whatever seemed of interest.

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From Huntington, W. Va., we drove through the beautiful Kentucky bluegrass
section to Louisville. We had not planned to stop longer than overnight, but Jerry broke
a rilling during dinner, so while she was having that repaired next morning, I called at
Dr. Sweets' office, and Sal caught up on sleep. That night we spent in Vincennes,
Indiana, and the next in a charming farm house near Williamsburg, Mo. Janie Mc-
Gaughey was off at some conference, so I did not see her when we passed through St.
Louis. We drove around the University as we passed through Columbia, and in Lawrence
saw the University of Kansas, which has one of the most beautiful and commanding
sites imaginable. Before the summer ended, I think I visited more than seventy-five
colleges and universities.

Topeka, Kansas, where we spent the night, was a charming place so many beautiful
trees, especially around the capitol grounds. The next day we passed through miles and
miles of green wheat fields. Then as we went farther west, there were fewer trees and
beyond Oakley, where we spent the sixth night, the wheat fields were replaced by cattle
ranches.

We reached Colorado Springs just one week after leaving Durham 1,948 miles.
We spent two nights in Manitou, visiting the Garden of the Gods, going up Pike's Peak,
and a wonderful drive up the Corley Mountain Highway to Cripple Creek and the
Petrified Forest. From Manitou we drove by Denver to Boulder. Jerry had taught there
one summer and was happy to be back on familiar ground and have us drive up Flag-
staff after supper and over the Canyon road. The next day we drove through the St.
Vraine Pass to Hewes-Kirkwood Inn at the foot of Long's Peak. It is difficult to imagine
anything more beautiful than the full moon in that clear mountain air shining on the
snow-covered peaks, and it was so much fun to have a little cabin of our own with a
cozy fire burning. We rode horseback over the mountain trails and the next morning
climbed a craggy spur of no mean altitude and were loathe to leave after lunch for
Laramie, Wyoming.

For an Easterner accustomed to a reasonably well populated country, the drive from
Laramie to Lander was a novel experience. Two hundred and fifty miles of desolate
waste, two small towns, and about four acres under cultivation. Miles after mile and no
sign of human habitation. Lander is a western cowboy town, somewhat like one sees
in the movies, and we were quite intrigued by the placards displayed in the post office and
store windows announcing the Fourth of July rodeo at which there were to be "plenty of
wild horses and wild women." We were eager to stay over for it if there had had only
been time!

Somebody told us that the southern entrance to Yellowstone was most beautiful,
that you passed the jagged, picturesque Teton Mountains rising above Jackson Lake and
drove through the wild section which was the last rendezvous of Jesse James and cattle
thieves and outlaws. It sounded so interesting and romantic that we developed a regular
mind-set for going in the Park that way. It seemed foolish to miss all this and go in
by the Cody entrance and come out the same way. Everyone to whom we talked tried
to discourage us, for we had to cross the Continental Divide and there had been eight
inches of snow earlier in the week. The first bus to the Park ran the day we reached
Lander, but we could not hear whether it went through safely. Nothing daunted, we
bought chains and started forth, crossing the Shoshone Indian Reservation, then climbing
up to almost 10,000 feet among snow-covered peaks. Picturesque Brooks Lake was
partially frozen over and snow was banked along the road at times eight feet high. We
kept in the deep ruts and luckily met only four cars in more than sixty miles, for there
were few people as foolish as we. But the thrill of the drive and the beauty of the
scenery made it seem well worth the risk, and I recommend it to any stout-hearted
traveler.

We spent the night in Moran and the next morning drove into the Park. Canyon,
Mammoth, and Old Faithful marked our progress there. It is impossible to tell of all the

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interesting things to be seen and done, and a guide book so inadequately describes the
beauty and the marvel of it all. The others laughed at my economy at lunch time
one day when I insisted on utilizing the heat of a sulphur spring to warm the beans!

From the Park to Cody, Wyoming, a day on a real ranch, Greybull, Gillette, cactus,
prairie dogs, the Pearl Hotel in Kadoka, South Dakota, Sioux Falls, fertile farming coun-
try with the biggest barns I have ever seen, West Union, Iowa, then Madison, Wisconsin,
where Sal left Jerry and me to six weeks of summer school. (Beautiful place with its
many lakes. Could look from my window out on Lake Mendota.) Had classes each
morning from 7:30-12:30. Took a trip to Lake Geneva and Yerkes Observatory, another
to the Dells. Had tea with Miss Howson Miss Gooch, Miss Davis, and four other
Agnes Scotters were there.

Summer school over, we crossed Lake Michigan by boat from Milwaukee to
Muskegon, stopped at Ann Arbor to see The University; then Detroit, Packard Motor
plant across into Canada to Hamilton, Toronto, and Ottawa. Louise Slack joined us
at Montreal and we took the drive up that quaint and ancient road to Quebec and St.
Anne de Beaupre. We were so amused at the children, who dressed themselves and their
dogs in a picturesque manner to attract the attention of tourists.

Lennoxville was our next stop in Canada, then back into the States through the
White Mountains. We were most fortunate in having a fair day to climb Mt. Washing-
ton, for the view was magnificent. It was quite thrilling to see the Presidential Range
and to be in the Whittier and Hawthorne country. The Flume, Franconia Notch, the
Great Stone Face, Chocorua, a night at a Girls' Camp on Lake Winnepesaukee.

In Boston we left Jerry at her home and Mother and Father joined us. We made
some interesting visits to a few of the historic places in that neighborhood Lexington,
Concord, Wayside Inn, then to Amherst, Mt. Holyoke and Smith, westward through
the Berkshires to Albany, then the Catskills, down the Storm King Highway, through
Bear Mountain Park, the Delaware Water Gap, then Baltimore. Louise left us there, and
after several days' visit to the family, we started out once more. Gettysburg was our
first stop, and Father had a grand time looking at monuments and markers and reading
inscriptions! Harper's Ferry, down the Valley of Virginia, Endless Caverns, Staunton,
Lexington, Charlottesville, Monticello, Sweetbrier, Lynchburg, Greensboro, North Caro-
lina, Greenville, South Carolina, Decatur with Julia Pratt and the little Slacks, then a
few days in LaGrange, and back to Durham on September 10. Three months' vacation,
six weeks' summer school, twenty-three states and Canada, 9,987 miles all for three
hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-nine cents! Can you beat that?

OFFICERS ELECTED FOR 1930-1931

The following officers were elected at the May meeting:

President: Llewellyn Wilburn, '19.

First Vice President: Ethel (Alexander) Gaines, '00.

Second Vice President: Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, '27.

Secretary: Martha Crowe, '27.

Treasurer: Evangeline Papageorge, '2 8.

Chairmen of Standing Committees:

Publicity: Louise Slack, '20.

Preparatory Schools: Mary Ray Dobyns, '28.

Curriculum: Adelaide Cunningham, '11.

House and Tea Room: Mary (Knox) Happoldt, '26.

Local Clubs: Virginia Norris, '28.

Beautifying House and Grounds: Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23.

Entertainment: Mary Warren, '29.

Student Loan: Caroline McKinney, '27.

Constitution and By-Laws Committee: Janet McDonald, '2 8.

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ANSWERING ROLL CALL AT COMMENCEMENT!

Out of town alumnae guests on the campus during the commencement week-end

included:

Annie Kirk (Dowdell) Turner, '02, New-
nan, Ga.

Hattie (Blackford) Williams, '03, Rich-
mond, Va.

Annie Graham King, '06, Selma, Ala.

Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin, Jr., '06, Washington,
Ga.

Jeannette Shapard, '07, Wetumpka, Ala.

Katherine (Dean) Stewart, '08, Opelika,
Ala.

Mattie (Newton) Traylor, '09, LaGrange,
Ga.

Lucy (Reagan) Redwine, '09, Fayetteville,
Ga.

Geraldine (Hood) Burns, '11, Maysville, Ga.

Mary Wallace Kirk, '11, Tuscumbia, Ala.

Hazel (Murphy) Elder, '12, Marietta, Ga.

Marie (Maclntyre) Scott, Scottdale, Ga.

Cornelia Cooper, '12, Judson, Ala.

Gertrude (Briesnick) Ross, '15, Jackson-
ville, Fla.

Marian (Black) Cantelou, '15, Montgom-
ery, Ala.

Malinda Roberts, '16, Canton, Ga.

Julie (Maclntyre) Gates, '16, Syracuse,
N. Y.

Anne (McClure) Simpson, '16, Norcross,
Ga.

Regina Pickston, '17, Greenville, Ga.

Anna (Harrell) Bullard, '19, Gadsden, Ala.

Nelle Aycock, '20, Carrollton, Ga.

Lucy (Wooten) Wiegand, '22, Covington,
Ga.

Valeria (Posey) Brown, '23, Fort Valley,
Ga.

Mary White Caldwell, '23, Scottdale, Ga.

Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23, Lovejoy, Ga.

Annie Wilson Terry, '24, Millbrook, Ala.

Sallie Horton, '25, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Frances Bitzer, '25, Hollv Springs, Miss.

Mary (Keesler) Dalton, '25, Charlotte, N. C.

Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie, '25, Carthage,
N. C.

Emily Spivey, '25, Eatonton, Ga.

Alice (Greenlea) Grollman, '25, Los An-
geles, Cal.

Lucile (Phippen) Shingler, '25, Andrews,
S. C.

Lucile Gause, '25, Stockton, Ala.

Maria Rose, '25, Charlotte, N. C.

Josephine Schuessler, '25, Columbus, Ga.

Edith (Camp) McLellan, '25, Birmingham,
Ala.

Ellen Walker, '25, Summerville, S. C.
Martha Lin Manly, '25, Dalton, Ga.
Sarah Tate, '25, Fairmount, Ga.
Mary Bess Bowdoin, '25, Adairsville, Ga.
Lillian Middlebrooks, '25, East Point, Ga.
Sarah (Smith) Merry, '26, Augusta, Ga.
Elizabeth (Chapman) Pirkle, '26, Norcross,
Ga.

Helen (Bates) Law, '26, Schenectadv, N. Y.

Ladie Sue Wallace, '26, Rutledge, Ga.

Nan Lingle, '26, Davidson, N. C.

Edith Gilchrist, '26, Courtland, Ala.

Eleanor Gresham, '26, Russellville, Ala.

Margaret Tufts, '26, Banner Elk, N. C.

Allene Ramage, '26, Durham, N. C.

Catherine (Graeber) Crowe, '26, Talladega,
Ala.

Kathrine (Pitman) Brown, '26, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.

Frances Cooper, '26, New York City.

Edyth (Carpenter) Shuey, '26, Miami, Fla.

Helena Hermance, '26, East Coconut Grove,
Fla.

Olivia Swann, '26, Ensley, Ala.

Ellen Fain, '26, Hendersonville, N. C.

Annetta (Carter) Colwell, '27, Chicago, 111.

Marguerite Russell, '27, Washington, D. C.

Rosalie (Wootten) Deck, '27, College Park,
Ga.

Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow, '27, Bay
Minette, Ala.

Dorothy Chamberlain, '27, Maplewood,
N. J.

Frances (Chambers) Wing, '27, Roswell,
Ga.

Elizabeth Lilly, '27, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger, '27, Colum-
bus, Ga.

Louise Plumb, '27, Augusta, Ga.

Rachel Henderlite, '27, Gastonia, N. C.

Josephine Bridgman, '27, Charlottesville,
Va.

Frances Dobbs, '27, Gadsden, Ala.

Anne George Irwin, '27, Montgomery, Ala.

Maurine Bledsoe, '27, Asheville, N. C.

Mildred Cowan, '27, Doraville, Ga.

Carolina McCall, '27, Opelika, Ala.

Carolyn Essig, '28, Miami, Fla.

Miriam Preston, '27, Yale University.

Sara Stillman, '27, College Park, Ga.

Frances Rainey, '27, Norcross, Ga.

Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, '27, Winston-
Salem, N. C.

Maude Jackson, '27, Lawrenceville, Ga.

Dorothy (Harper) Nix, '28, Albany, Ga.

Mary Bell McConkey, '28, St. Louis, Mo.

Lucy Mai Cook, '28, Ida, La.

Josephine Houston, '28, Charlotte, N. C.

Mildred Phippen, '28. Macon, Ga.

Harriet Alexander, '28, Augusta, Ga.

Emily Cope, '28, Savannah, Ga.

Margaret Gerig, '28, Ocala, Fla.

Josephine Walker, '28, Summerville, S. C.

Sallie Abernethv, '28, Winter Haven, Fla.

Nell Hillhouse, '28, Waynesboro, Ga.

Muriel Gritfin, '28, Covington, Ga.

Mary Perkinson, '28, Woodstock, Ga.

Margaret Keith, '28, Greenville, S. C.

Virginia Mae Love, '28, Gastonia, N. C.

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Elizabeth McEntire, '28, Calhoun, Ga.
Mary Ray Dobyns, '28, Birmingham, Ala.
Jack Anderson, '28, Berkeley, Calif.
Ellott Mae McLellon, '28, Philadelphia,

Penn.
Olive Graves, '28, Nashville, Tenn.
Irene Lowrance, '28, Charlotte, N. C.
Helen Ridley, '29, Birmingham, Ala.
Letty Pope, '29, Washington, Ga.
Martha Riley Selman, '29, Birmingham,

Ala.
Mary Nelson Logan, '29, Tokushima,

Japan.
Helon (Brown) Williams, '29, Little Rock,

Ark.
Eleanor Lee Norris, '29, Greenville, S. C.
Hazel (Brown) Ricks, '29, Stamps, Ark.
Julia McLendon, '29, Cairo, W. Va.
Elizabeth Hatchett, '29, Glasgow, Ky.
La Rue Berry, '29, East Point, Ga.
Susanne Stone, '29, Oxford, Ga.
Josephine Wachtel, '29, Savannah, Ga.
Sarah Johnston, '29, Macon, Ga.
Elizabeth Merritt, '29, Americus, Ga.
Jane Grey, '29, Bedford, Va.
Virginia Cameron, '29, Winona, Miss.
Esther Rice, '29, Kingsville, Tex.
Ruth Worth, '29, Charlottesville, Va.
Ethel Freeland, '29, Crowley, La.
Violet Weeks, '29, New Iberia, La.
Gladys Austin, '29, Dunwoody, Ga.
Betty Gash, '29, New York City.
Lenore Gardner, '29, Camilla, Ga.
Katherine Pasco, '29, Pensacola, Fla.
Mary Lanier, '29, Langsdale, Ala.
Sally Cothran, '29, Charlotte, N. C.
Elinore Morgan, '29, Athens, Ga.

This does not include any Atlanta or
Decatur alumnae, as space does not per-
mit the publishing of the entire list as we
should like to do; there may be some omis-
sions from the out-of-town list if the alum-
nae did not register in the Alumnae Office.

REUNION LOVING CUP GOES TO 1929

Some years ago, the reunion loving cup
was given by the Alumnae Association to
be awarded each year to the class with the
largest per cent back for reunion, based
on the graduate list of each class. This
cup is kept in the Alumnae House and the
class numerals are engraved on it as each
winning class is determined.

This year, with one of the hottest races
on record, the class of 1929 won this honor
with a percent of 47, with the class of 1928
close on its heels, and then the class of
1906; after these, came in this manner.
1925, 1926, 1927, 1908, 1907 and 1909.

HOPKINS JEWEL AWARD

For the second time, the Hopkins Jewel
Award was made; this award is made by
the class of 1922 in honor of Miss Hopkins
and is given to the member of the senior
class who most nearly meets the ideals
for Agnes Scott girls which Miss Hopkins
has established during her years here, in-
cluding scholarship, character, poise,
health, personality, and the spirit of serv-
ice. This beautiful jewel, an amethyst
pendant on a white gold chain, carrying
out the purple and white of Agnes Scott,
was awarded at commencement exercises
to Elizabeth Flinn of Atlanta, Ga., who is
the daughter of one of the trustees of
Agnes Scott, Dr. Flinn of the North Ave-
nue Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.

PHI BETA KAPPA NEW MEMBERS

The following members of the class of
1915 were elected to membership in Phi
Beta Kappa chapter at the March meet-
ing and were initiated into the society
at its meeting in May: Marian (Black)
Cantelou, Gertrude (Briesenick) Ross,
Catherine Parker, Mary Helen (Schneider)
Head and Mary (West) Thatcher. The
members of the class of 1930 who were
received at this time were: Margaret
Armstrong, Louise Baker, Clarene Dorsey,
Sally Peake and Shannon Preston. Of this
class, four were received into membership
in February: Lois Combs, Alice Jernigan,
Dorothy Smith and Martha Stackhouse.

QUENELLE HARROLD SCHOLARSHIP
AWARD

This scholarship given in honor of her
daughter, Quenelle, by Mrs. Thomas Har-
rold of Americus, Ga., is eagerly sought
each year by members of the graduating
class and alumnae who wish to do graduate
work. This year it was awarded to Miss
Lois Combs of the class of '30, one of the
members of that class elected to Phi Beta
at the end of the first semester of this year
and a most excellent student. Lois lives in
Decatur, Ga.

Other Agnes Scott girls who have held this
scholarship in the past years are Miriam
Preston, studying at Yale, Mamie Shaw,
'27, at Johns Hopkins, and Frances Brown,
'28, at Johns Hopkins, also.

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MAY DAY PAGEANT

May Day this year was the occasion of
commemorating the 2,000th anniversary
of Vergil and the scenario written by Lil-
lian Thomas, '30, "Vergil, The Immortal
Bard," was presented, with Venus, por-
trayed by Helen Hendricks, '30, in the
place of the usual May Queen and her
court was comprised of the nine Muses.
There was the innovation of a few spoken
lines, as well as singing, which added a
very pleasant variation to the dance pro-
gram. The costumes were very faithfully
done under the supervision of the Latin
and Greek department teachers and Miss
Lewis; Vergil's fifteen yards of white
woolen material had each fold and crease
authoritatively laid and was a thing of
beauty.

ALUMNAE HOUSE REMEMBERED

One of the loveliest gifts received by the
Alumnae House this year, and as useful
as beautiful, was the gift of five dozen
towels which came through Miss McKinney
from Jean (Ramspeck) Harper, of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, one of the Institute
girls, who no matter at what distance has
never lost her love and interest in Agnes
Scott and again proved it this year by her
present to the House. Nothing could be
more appreciated than new linens as they
have an even worse habit of wearing out
here than in your own homes.

ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OF
GEORGIA WOMEN

On March 22nd, a group of ten students
from five colleges in Georgia met at Agnes
Scott; this conference was an experiment
which was being tried for the two-fold
purpose of uniting the colleges of the state
and also for the solving of mutual prob-
lems. The University of Georgia, Shorter,
Wesleyan, LaGrange, G. S. C. W. and A.
S. C. were the colleges represented and the
representatives held their meetings out at
the camp at Stone Mountain. The confer-
ence will be held annually, the next meet-
ing being at the University of Georgia.

DEBATERS WIN AND LOSE THIS
YEAR

With Louisa (White) Gosnell, '27, presid-
ing over the debate at Agnes Scott, alum-
nae interest was represented at the debate
held against Hampden-Sydney College,
when Martha Stackhouse and Anne Hop-
kins defeated the two debaters from Hamp-
den-Sydney. Later, the team, composed of
Frances Messer and Mildred McCalip,
went to Knoxville, Tenn., where they had
the misfortune of losing, but only after a
noble struggle.

PROUD OF OUR POETS!

Again Agnes Scott has its place in the
forefront of the southern poets through its
alumnae and students. At the last meeting
of the Poetry Society of Georgia, Janef
Preston, '21, won the sonnet prize for the
best single sonnet, this prize being offered
by Mrs. Grace Hoffman White of New
York. Janef's poem was called "The
Young Resurgent Claims the Earth." Two
students at Agnes Scott won the Barrow
prize, their poems being pronounced of
equal merit by the judge and the prize
was divided between the two. Alice Jerni-
gan, '30, with her poem, "Exile," and Mary
Katherine Williamson, '31, with her poem,
"Death Comes Too Soon," were the two
successful contestants.

FACULTY NEWS

Something very unusual happened in
April that set the campus all a chatter
Miss Daugherty, herself, succumbed to the
state of being a patient, when she broke
her right arm, still managing, however,
while it was healing, to rule the "House of
Pills" with a left hand.

Miss Florence Edler, a former member
of the Agnes Scott History Department,
was accorded a very great honor recently
when she was offered the work of editing
and translating the Medici Journals pre-
sented to Harvard by Mr. Gordon Self-
ridge; the work will take about five years
for completion.

Miss Gaylord is among the faculty Euro-
pean travellers this summer; she and Geor-
gia Watson, '28, are having a delightful
tour together.

Miss Frances Gooch was elected second
vice president of the Southern Association
of Teachers of Spoken English at a meet-
ing held in Birmingham, Ala., in May and
she has charge of contests of various kinds
connected with this department of study all
over the southeast.

Miss McKinney and Dr. Sweet travelled
to Europe with Miss Alexander and Miss
Phythian; there they separated, Miss Mc-
Kinney and Dr. Sweet touring Italy and
Germany, etc., and Misses Alexander and
Phythian spending their two months in
France, entirely.

Miss Lillian Smith is spending the sum-
mer with her niece in Syracuse, N. Y.

Miss Annie May Christie is having a de-
lightful summer traveling with friends in
England, later sailing for home from
France.

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ANNUAL REPORTS OF ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COM-
MITTEE OF THE AGNES SCOTT
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
MAY 29. 1930

The Executive Committee was called to
order by the President, Mrs. Hilda (Mc-
Connell) Adams, in the Alumnae House at
two-thirty o'clock. Minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.

The Alumnae General Secretary, Mrs.
Donaldson, submitted a report, which was
approved. The Secretary being absent,
Mrs. Donaldson read this for her.

Mrs. Donaldson, in the absence of the
Treasurer read the Treasurer's report, and
the general suggestion was made that the
fiscal year be made to run from Septem-
ber to June of the current year. Follow-
ing the report, which was approved, the
following suggestions were made: That at-
tention be called to the increased sum from
room rent, and the decreased sum from
dues. Mrs. Thatcher also suggested that
the following idea be taken into consider-
ation: that money from the Life Member-
ship Fund, approximately $1,500, be loan-
ed to the college at 6 per cent interest.

Mrs. Armand Hendee, in the absence of
Mrs. S. G. Stukes, read the report of the
House and Tea Room Commttee. This was
approved. Attention was called to Mrs.
Nisbet's success as hostess, the increased
use of the rooms in the Alumnae House,
the gifts of linen, lamps, anl pictures which
had been made to the house, and the need
of new linoleum and a refrigerator for the
Tea Room. The committee also asked that
the keen competition from the local hotel
and new tea rooms in Decatur be taken into
consideration when the small profits were
realized. Mrs. Thatcher suggested that
her mother, Mrs. West, be asked about a
refrigerator. Other suggestions for this
need were that the Junior League Tea
Room be asked about their refrigerator, or
that Mrs. McRea, an alumna be asked to
donate one of her husband's refrigerators
to the Campaign Fund. Dr. McCain voiced
this suggestion through the president and
it was considered best to try this scheme
before acting on either of the other two. A
special meeting of the Executive Commit-
tee in summer or early fall may be called
to discuss this vital matter.

Mrs. Donaldson, General Secretary, made
a brief report summarizing the work of the
office in the past year, in editing four
quarterlies, keeping up with the daily cor-
respondence, filing, making contacts with
the present seniors, and carrying forward
elaborate plans for commencement re-
unions. The work on the new Alumnae
Directory, by Dorothy Hutton, Assistant

Secretary, was also reported upon. At-
tention was called to the fact that new
files are needed in the office, as the files
are to be re-worked, and all alumnae elig-
ibles are to be put into one master file.
Mrs. Thatcher also stated that she con-
sidered it advisable to have some acknowl-
edgement for receipt of dues, the expen-
liture being a necessary one. The idea of
a seminar or reading list for the continua-
tion of adult education was considered a
good one, especially for the girls in small
nearby towns. Spring seemed to be the
best season for this and spring vacation
time was suggested as an advisable one.
Dr. Anderson and Dr. Hoppe, as baby spe-
cialists, and Mr. Stukes and Dr. White,
as psychologists, were proposed as possible
lecturers.

Mrs. Donald Hastings, Chairman of the
Beautifying of House and Grounds Com-
mittee, submitted a very interesting report
about the plans to have a landscape archi-
tect submit blueprints and oversee the lay-
ing out of the campus free of charge and
the generous offer of two nurseries to
give $1,000 worth of shrubs each, provid-
ed that the college will employ an expert
gardner. Approved.

Attention was called to the lack of funds
for the use of this committee, and the cry-
ing need of the campus for expert super-
vision. The plans were considered excel-
lent.

There being no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
CORA MORTON DURRETT,

Secretary.
(Dorothy Hutton, Acting Secretary.)

MINUTES OF THE AGNES SCOTT

ALUMNAE COUNCIL MEETING

MAY 29, 1930

The Council was called to order by the
President of the Association, Mrs. Hilda
(McConnell) Adams. In the absence of the
Secretary, the minutes of the last meet-
ing were read by Dorothy Hutton. These
were approved without correction.

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk was called on
to say a few words to the Council, and re-
ported that she found the college more ma-
ture, progressive, and beautiful than ever
before.

Martha Stackhouse, President of Student
Government, was called upon, and ac-
knowledged with appreciation that the
Quarterlies had been placed in the library
for student reference, as formerly request-
. ed. She also stated that the students de-
sire more alumnae contacts, and made the
suggestion that Agnes Scott consider an

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alumnae day, such as Wellesley has. Or it
was asked that some opportunity during
Commencement be given the students to
make the acquaintance of the alumnae.
Mrs. Donaldson called attention to the
Alumnae Open House which will be given
on Sunday evening of the reunion time this
year. May Day, Thanksgiving, the birth-
day of Greater Agnes Scott were offered as
suggestions for this day. Martha further
suggested an alumnae committee to work
with a student group.

Miss Hopkins, Dean of the College, made
a report on activities as follows:

1. In addition to Health Week this year,
Good Speech Week, and Vocational
Guidance Week with Miss Florence
Jackson were launched.

2. The College has entertained the fol-
lowing groups:

a. Executive Committee of the Gen-
eral Academy of Science, of which
Miss MaeDougall is president.

b. Girl Scouts.

c. State Federation of Student Vol-
unteers.

d. American Chemical Society.

e. Reunion at Commencement.

f. Poor Children at Christmas.

g. Play Day Group of Atlanta High
Schools.

3. New building and its changes in
Main:

a. 12 and 13 furnished as Day Stu-
dent rest rooms.

b. Mr. Stukes', stenographers', Miss
Smith's rooms to be changed to
date parlors.

c. Main Hall to have rubber floor-
ing.

4. Wires of Campus to be put under-
ground.

5. Road to new building to be cut
through.

6. Student Government Committee
especially efficient; orientation of
freshmen to be considered in next
year's program.

7. Freshmen to be urged to attend Dr.
McCain's Bible class.

Elizabeth Hamilton, president of Day
Students, reported the enthusiasm of her
group over the prospects of new quarters
next year.

Mrs. Thatcher, President of the Commit-
tee on Constitution and By-Laws, submit-
ted a revision of the Constitution for the
Alumnae Council. This was accepted as a
By-Laws, with the following changes from
the old Constitution:

1. Membership to include President of
the College and Secretaries of the
alumnae classes.

2. Council to be given power to create
committees as needed.

3. Councillors for the local clubs to be
according to the paid membership in
that club at the end of the year pre-
ceding.

A suggestion to make the State Presi-
dents members of the Council was voted
down.

Another change which was proposed was
to have the Council meeting at a time when
more alumnae would be back.

Mrs. Donaldson, General Secretary, made
a brief report on the proposed Adult Edu-
cation scheme.

As there was no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
CORA MORTON DURRETT,

Secretary.
(Dorothy Hutton, Acting Secretary.)

MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING OF

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION,

MAY 31, 1930

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
held its annual meeting in the chapel on
May 31st, with the president, Hilda Mc-
Connell Adams, presiding. Minutes of the
last meeting were read and approved.

Reports of the president, general secre-
tary and treasurer read and approved.

Motion to adopt as a whole reports from
all committees made and passed, followed
by the reading of reports from the follow-
ing committees: Publicity, Secondary
Schools, House and Tea Room, Local Clubs,
Beautifying Grounds, Entertainment, Stu-
dent Loan, Constitution and By-Laws.

Report from play writing class by Miss
Nan Bagby Stephens was read with inter-
est.

Mrs. Guy, as alumnae trustee, reported
increased gift to the association for next
year of 250 dollars, making their contribu-
tion to the association $750 for 1931; also
that plans were presented to the trustees
for landscaping the campus.

Mrs. Ross of the Jacksonville, Fla., Club
spoke on arousing more interest in local
clubs and many suggestions were made to
that end.

On motion of Miss Mary Wallace Kirk,
Mrs. Hilda McConnell Adams 'election to
the Board of Trustees for a term of two
years was ratified by the association.

Proposed budget for 1930-1931 read and
approved.

After the balloting for officers for the
coming term, it was announced that Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn was elected to the
presidency.

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There being no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
CORA MORTON DURRETT,

Secretary.
(Frances G. Stukes, Acting Secretary.)

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

The year 1929-1930 began with a new
secretary in the alumnae office as well as
a new Alumnae House hostess and tea
room manager. These two officers took
hold of their respective duties in a man-
ner which has been of much benefit to the
association. A great deal of credit is due
Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson for the
smooth running and progress of our organ-
ization, as she has efficiently kept its af-
fairs in order.

One of the outstanding improvements in
the way of effective organization, we be-
lieve, has been the appointment of state
presidents among the alumnae. Their work
has been an attempt to keep in touch with
Agnes Scott girls in their particular states
and to keep these alumnae informed of and
interested in the college and the associa-
tion. We believe there is a wide field of
work for the state presidents and that they
will give invaluable help.

The alumnae contributions to the build-
ing campaign, that is, for the Gaines Me-
morial Chapel, have come in slowly but
since it did not appear to be the proper
time for intensive campaigning, our efforts
have awaited a more suitable time.

The work of certain committees of the
association has been particularly worth-
while, but the reports of the chairmen will
reveal the efforts expended and the good
results accomplished.

We hope and feel that during the past
two years, the association has grown in
strength of organization and worth to the
alumnae and service to the college. For
all the efforts of those who have helped in
the alumnae work, officers, committees,
and voluntary workers, we are greatly ap-
preciative, and we are confident that, with
the loyal working together of the new of-
ficers, the association will grow finer in
every way.

Respectfully submitted,
HILDA McCONNELL ADAMS,
President.

TREASURER'S REPORT
Proposed budget for 1930-1931:
Receipts

Tea Room Profits $ 300.00

Tea Room Rent 400.00

Room Rent 350.00

Dues 1,500.00

Gifts 750.00

Miscellaneous 75.00

Total $3,375.00

Expenditures

Secretary $ 900.00

Office Supplies, Postage, Print-
ing, etc. 1,400.00

Furnishing and Upkeep 547.50

Maid 160.00

Traveling Expenses 100.00

Dues J 32.50

Entertainment 100.00

Play Prize Money 35.00

Miscellaneous 100.00

Total $3,375.00

June 1, 1929-June 23, 1930:
Receipts

Room Rent $ 412.30

Dues 1,255.60

Gift for Miss Hopkins 12.00

Gift for Miss Stone 5.00

Miscellaneous 100.57

Tea Room Profits 324.01

Tea Room Rent 400.00

Alumnae House Gift 60.00

Gifts from Trustees and Others- 504.00

Interest on Life Membei-ship Fund 44.18

Cash in bank, June 1, 1929_

3,134.66
485.31

$3,619.97
Disbursements

Secretary $ 900.00

Furnishings and Upkeep 353.47

Maid 160.00

Gift for Miss Hopkins 298.93

Miscellaneous 22.25

Postage, Printing, etc 961.27

Dues 32.50

Prizes 35.00

Gift for Alumnae House 60.00

Entertainment 50.85

Traveling Expenses 35.00

$2,909.27
Return of Loan from Life Mem-
bership Fund, made during
1927-28 330.95

$3,240.22
Balance in Decatur Bank & Trust

Co., June 23, 1930 379.75

$3,619.97
During this period $150 has been receiv-
ed for Life Membership. The balance to
the credit of this fund is $1,495.24, which
is in a savings account in the Decatur
Bank & Trust Co.

Respectfully submitted,
Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland,

Treasurer.

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REPORT OF THE GENERAL
SECRETARY

Beginning the year as the successor of
Polly Stone was enough to make a braver
man weaken and truly we did tremble at
our own boldness, but such has been the
interest and the kindness of the alumnae
everywhere that the year has been one
of great pleasure to the alumnae secre-
tary.

There is almost a regular schedule in
the Alumnae Office, with dues slips the
first thing in September, the filing of the
senior class just graduated in the various
files, then planning for the Thanksgiving
reunion of that class as well as for the
Home Coming Week of the alumnae at
that time, following Christmas, comes the
work of notifying alumnae all over the
country about the Founder's Day program
and arranging group meetings, immediate-
ly succeeded by work among the senior
class members in the senior teas during
April, then the planning and correspond-
ence incident to a successful reunion time.
During this time, three quarterlies have
been issued, with the July one to be print-
ed, and correspondence is always delight-
fully heavy and our files are like the poor,
"always with us." This is an outline of
the year's work.

In January of this year, state presidents
were secured in states where there were
sufficient alumnae to warrant it and we
feel that this is such an important step
and one that already has been worth so
much to the organization and to the col-
lege that it is worthy of appearing in
several reports. The work of the state
presidents in the planning for the Found-
er's Day meetings in their states was of
the greatest help to the alumnae office
and added much to the efficiency of the
planning and to the number of those who
have, up to now, been notified of this pro-
gram. Much has been done by the presi-
dents also in helping organize new clubs in
their states, as well as in correcting ad-
dresses of their alumnae, a valuable con-
tribution in itself.

The question of the best possible manner
of presenting the Alumnae Association to
the senior class was a much discussed one
at the Alumnae Secretaries Conference,
which your secretary attended in January
in Charleston and a report of which was
given in the April quarterly. The general
opinion seemed to be that the small group
gatherings have many advantages and so
this year we have tried this means of in-
teresting the seniors. During the month
of April, eight small teas were given in
the Alumnae House to groups of ten or
more seniors, divided by a class member

into groups of friends, and at this time the
secretary and the assistant secretary pre-
sented the purpose of the organization, the
desire to have them as members and also
secured the needed information from each
senior for their card in the master file
next year, eliminating much correspond-
ence next fall. Then followed the informal
tea time. These teas were in place of the
one large tea, which has been held up to
now and which it has been felt in late years
was not well attended nor did it give any
opportunity to talk with the girls about the
association.

One of the most delightful events of the
year was the securing of an assistant
alumnae secretary through the generosity
of the college; the work -in our alumnae
office while very pleasant is also very
plentiful and it has been felt for some
time that there should be some relief for
the secretary from so much routine work
that she might have time to really plan
for something new and to work out worth
while ideas in alumnae work without the
feeling that getting time to accomplish
anything more than the present schedule
would be practically impossible, and there
are so many interesting new plans in alum-
nae work to be considered; also, the work
on a new directory is an item of every few
years which cannot be accomplished in the
regular hours of the secretary. Consider-
ing all these things, Dr. McCain, in his
considerate way, made possible the choos-
ing of an assistant and Dorothy Hutton,
class secretary of 1929 class, came to the
Alumnae Office the first of March and is
to continue her work on the directory
through the summer. She brings to her
position business training as well as a real
vision of what can be accomplished through
alumnae work for Agnes Scott and is
already far along on the tremendous task
of publishing the alumnae directory.

Through the alumnae club in Greenville,
S. C, with Virginia Norris, as president,
and Margery (Moore) McAulay, as chair-
man of the ad committee, we were able to
realize our year-long ambition of ads as an
aid in the expense of publishing the quart-
erly; Augusta Skeen of the Decatur
group, aided in this work in the July
quarterly and it is hoped that in the fol-
lowing issues other groups will lend a help-
ing hand in this plan.

The Alumnae Office has many am-
bitions for next year, such as an intensive
campaign for members, among those of the
alumnae who have never belonged or have
lapsed for several years, probably intend-
ing each year to renew membership; an-
other dream is about some form of after
college courses for our alumnae, what

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many colleges call now Adult Education
in the form of book lists, or if the idea de-
velops, in a week-end of lectures when the
alumnae can come back and go to school
again, courses being offered along the lines
of our interests; as usual, we plan to have
the files in perfect order by the end of
next year, always a wonderful dream;
bigger and better quarterlies, if possible
with ads to help finance; more personal
correspondence with alumnae, made pos-
sible with two secretaries in the office and
other plans.

The year has passed very quickly for
your secretary and the work, which can be
done by the association presents itself in
many attractive forms as understanding of
the value of the alumnae work to the
alumnae and to the college is impressed
upon me; my report closes with best wishes
to each alumna and my appreciation of
your kind letters and your willingness to
serve whenever asked, no matter how much
time and effort it costs you.

Respectfully submitted,
FANNIE G. MAYSON DONALDSON,

General Secretary.

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

The Committee of Publicity for the
Alumnae Association found that the duties
of the Committee were nowhere set down
and at first did not know just what was
expected. Through the co-operation of the
Alumnae Secretary, some suggestions of
activity for the Committee were received.
The 1929-30 work of the Committee has
been limited almost entirely to an endeavor
to secure advertisements for the Alumnae
Quarterly. In interest of this the Chair-
man of the Committee has written a hun-
dred and fifty-seven letters. Many individ-
ual members of the Alumnae Association,
the local club presidents, and the state
presidents have been asked to help in this
particular undertaking. The April and July
copies of the Quarterly show what the re-
sults so far have been. The Chairman of
the Committee, in submitting this report,
wishes to make these suggestions, that
during 1930 and 1931 each member of the
Alumnae Association feels that she is part
of the Publicity Committee; whenever and
wherever possible to use news items about
Agnes Scott or members of the Associa-
tion; that she will see that appropriate
write-ups are put in the papers and then
further co-operate with the Alumnae Sec-

retary by sending clippings of any such
notices to the Secretary to be used in the
Scrap Book. From time to time something
of the enlargement program of Agnes Scott
would make interesting news features to be
used locally by the papers. Any sugges-
tions from various members of the Alum-
nae Association for other activities would
certainly be appreciated. One which has
been used by the Committee was to make
posters using kodak pictures and pages
from old Scrap Books and Annuals and
place these in various preparatozy schools
and high schools at mid-term exam period,
showing the atractive side of college life.
This aroused much interest and helped to
increase the enrollment of the Freshman
class.

Respectfully submitted,

LOUISE SLACK,

Chairman.

COMMITTEE ON BEAUTIFYING
HOUSE AND GROUNDS

The Committee has made an effort this
year to form some definite plans by which
we may work in the future and when com-
pleted we will have a campus cared for
and landscaped as a unit and not in pieces.

We are asking to have:

1. A gardner who will keep the campus
neat and clean and who will care for the
plants and shrubs. The petition goes be-
fore the Board of Trustees at their meet-
ing.

2. The campus landscaped as a unit by
a graduate landscape architect, so that
each year a portion can be planted and
when the whole campus is finished we will
have a beautifully landscaped campus, done
as a complete unit. This includes a formal
garden, etc.

These plans can be carried out at very
little cost. The services of a professional
landscape architect has been offered free of
charge. He will make all blue prints and
assist in all the plantings entirely free.
Then two prominent nurserymen have of-
fered to give to the College $1,000 (one
thousand) dollars worth of shrubbery and
plants free, if we have our plans in blue
print and if we have a man to look after
them.

Respectfully submitted,

LOUISE B. HASTINGS.
(Mrs. Donald Hastings)

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COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION AND
BY-LAWS

The Committee on Constitution and By-
Laws for the Alumnae Association has this
year drawn up new by-laws for the
Alumnae Council, which were adopted by
the Council at its meeting on May 29th.
The most important change made at this
time was the addition to the membership in
the Council of the President of Agnes Scott
College and the secretaries of classes grad-
uated from Agnes Scott. Since the College
Council has been abolished, the representa-
tives of the student body on the Alumnae
Council were made ex-officio the President
of Student Government, the President of
the Y. W. C. A., and the President of Day
Students. These additions to the Alumnae
Council have necessitated a few changes in
the by-laws of the Alumnae Association, so
this Committee is this morning submitting
to you the following proposed amendment:

That Article VII, Section 1, of the by-
laws of the Alumnae Association be chang-
ed to read "Section 1. Membership: The
Alumnae Council shall be composed of the
following members:

1. The President of Agnes Scott College.

2. The Dean of Agnes Scott College.

3. The Executive Committee of the
Alumnae Association.

4. The General Secretary of the Alum-
nae Association.

5. Alumnae Trustees of Agnes Scott
(active and retired).

6. One Councillor for each local club
with one Councillor for every ad-
ditional twenty-five over the five re-
quired to form a branch.

7. Four Councillors-at-large, appointed
by the Executive Committee.

8. The secretaries of the classes grad-
uated from Agnes Scott College.

9. Three representatives from the stu-
dent Body, who shall be the President
of Student Government, the Presi-
dent of the Y. W. C. A., and the
President of the Day Students."

Respectfully submitted,
MARY (WEST) THATCHER,

Chairman.

COMMITTEE ON ENTERTAINMENT

The Alumnae Association has done more
entertaining this year than heretofore. In
November, the annual birthday party,
honoring Miss Anna Young's birthday, was
given and proved quite a successful one,
about one hundred and twenty-five alum-
nae and faculty calling. The cost of invita-
tions, decorations, and refreshments was
$27.55. In December a tea was given to
the Granddaughter's Club which according
to the granddaughters was most delightful.
This cost us $5.00. Mrs. Donaldson worked

out a most successful idea for entertain-
ing the seniors. Instead of one large tea
which we have given before, small groups
of seniors were invited to the Alumnae
House at different times. Mrs. Donaldson
proved a most gracious hostess, explain-
ing to them the Association, and asking
them to join. There were eight teas given
and all of them were well attended. These
cost us $13.90.

The Committee is responsible for the
decorations at the Trustees' luncheon and
for the refreshments to be served at our
Open House on Sunday night.
Respectfully submitted,
LOIS (MACINTYRE) BEALL,

Chairman.
ELIZA (CANDLER) EARTHMAN,
MEC (MACINTYRE) McAFEE,
CLARE LOUISE (SCOTT) BEALL,
MARIE (MACINTYRE) SCOTT.

LOCAL CLUBS COMMITTEE

The work of establishing new local clubs
and of keeping in touch with those already
in existence has been one of the definite
aims of the association. The office has
sent out each month to the clubs a newsy
letter, seeking to give the touch of college
atmosphere which is the need at these
meetings; also a program arranged by
months has been mailed to each club presi-
dent to be used, if it was the wish of the
club, or to serve as a guide in arranging
programs. In the fall, much correspond-
ence was done with certain towns which
seemed to justify the existence of a club
because of the large number of alumnae,
and, in many cases, when the corrected
lists were returned to the office from some
interested alumnae of these towns, it was
found that the list was entirely changed
and that the number, through the removal
of many alumnae, was not sufficient for a
very active club. In many cases, the de-
sire was expressed that the places be al-
lowed to hold a few meetings a year, at
least one on February 22nd of each year,
and not be considered an established club,
yet having an organization which could be
called together occasionally. This was
thought a good plan and agreed to by the
committee.

We are happv to announce the Green-
ville, S. C; Winston-Salem, N. C; Charles-
ton, W. Va., and Lynchburg, Va., Clubs as
additions of this year and to call your at-
tention to the work of the Greenville group
which secured the advertisements which
helped to finance very materially the April
issue of the Alumnae Quarterly, and to the
unusual piece of work done by the Colum-
bus, Ga., Club, established last year, in
sending a group of students from their
high schools to spend a week-end at Agnes
Scott and see the school in operation.

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Splendid work in interesting high school
students of Birmingham, Ala., was done by
this club in making it possible for talks
to be made in their four high schools by
Agnes Scott representatives. The Atlanta,
Ga., Club has made a very generous pledge
of $2,500 to the building campaign, to be
paid in five years, of which the first pay-
ment was made this year. Jacksonville,
Fla.; Charlotte, N. C; Richmond, Va.;
Montgomery, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn.,
are among the other splendid organiza-
tions. The Decatur Club has just reor-
ganized, and expects to have many things
to report in another year. The Korean
Club sent a wonderful gift to the Anna
Young Alumnae House in May of last year
a pair of brass candlesticks, of the
butterfly design.

This committee would like to thank the
alumnae in these places who have given so
liberally of their time and effort in the
work of these clubs this year and in the
past years, and we wish we had space to
mention each of the officers of these clubs
and their work.

Respectfully submitted,
MARY LAMAR KNIGHT,

Chairman.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS COMMITTEE

Realizing that girls more readily become
interested in Agnes Scott through direct
association with our graduates, the Pre-
paratory Schools Committee has, this year,
attempted to make such a contact possible.
Outstanding representatives living in im-
portant cities or towns in Georgia, Ala-
bama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten-
nessee, Florida, and Virginia have been
selected, and these representatives have
pointed out to prospective college students
those high intellectual, religious, and social
standards which have always been upheld
by Agnes Scott. In this way, the atten-
tion of the most desirable type of girl has
been centered upon our school.

This work has been directed by the chair-
man through their sub-committees who
have concentrated their efforts upon high
school seniors. The plans have varied ac-
cording to local conditions, but in most
cases, group meetings, letters or teas have
been considered advisable.

Although at times our attempts have
partially failed, we believe that our plans
have the potentialities of success, and we
are assured that the committee will in the
future accomplish more and more for
Agnes Scott.

Respectfully submitted,
MARY LLOYD DAVIS,

Chairman.

STUDENT LOAN FUND COMMITTEE

The work of the Student Loan Fund has
been quite limited this year on account of
lack of funds. For the first time in several
years we have been able to grant only one
loan, although the demands for funds from
girls already in College have been much
greater than ever before.

It is difficult to turn a deaf ear to ap-
peals for aid from girls whom we know
are good college material, eager and
anxious for the opportunities offered at
Agnes Scott for preparation for life work.
We trust that this need for more funds
will be a challenge to the Alumnae of our
College and lead to a rallying to the sup-
port of the Student Loan Fund.

Respectfully submitted,

MRS. LEWIS GAINES,

Chairman.

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE STU-
DENT LOAN FUND COMMITTEE

Balance carried forward $84.42

Loan this year 70.00

Balance brought forward $14.42

In addition to the loan this year, the fol-
lowing amount is owed to the Student Loan
Fund by girls who have left school:
$575.00; and $370.00 by girls who are now
in college. This makes a total of $1,005
out on loans at the present time.
Respectfully submitted,

CARRIE SCANDRETT,

Treasurer.

REPORT OF PLAYWRITING CLASS
1929-30

Inasmuch as the Playwriting Class owes
its existence to the Alumnae Association,
I hope that an annual report to the Alum-
nae may be of interest.

A few years ago Mary Wallace Kirk and
Mary H. Kirkpatrick in New York were
responsible for the idea that in Agnes
Scott there might be unusual talent in
playwriting. They appealed to Miss Mc-
Kinney, who agreed with them. Then they
sought Dr. McCain, who also agreed with
them and promised his sanction provided
some way of financing the class could be
found. His idea was to try out the class
as an experiment for one year, then, if it
proved a success to incorporate it into the
curriculum as a regular class in the Eng-
lish Department. The Alumnae Associa-
tion volunteered to support the class that
first year and gave five hundred dollars
as salary to the instructor. This was the
beginning of a work which has grown far
beyond the college and developed into the
Drama Workshop of Atlanta, Georgia, a
group of alumnae and others who have in

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their first year of existence produced four
playbills of original one-act plays which
have won favorable reviews from the
critics.

In addition to the first year's support the
Alumnae Association offers annually a
prize of twenty-five dollars for the best
long play and ten dollars for the best
short play written by an alumna of the
playwriting class. This contest closed Sep-
tember 15, 1929. The winners were Mar-
garet Bland's long play, "Lighted Candles,"
and Audrea Gray's short play, "Columbus
Day in New Mexico." Mrs. Gray is not an
alumna of Agnes Scott College, but your
Board made an exception in her favor this
year with the understanding that hereafter
the prizes are to be given only to Agnes
Scott graduates. It is with much pleasure
that I announce that in the Drama League
of America's recent contest for short and
long plays Margaret Bland's "Lighted
Candles" was judged the best play in the
state contest, and later on was listed
among the best ten in the national con-
test. If it wins as the best of the final ten
it will be given production by the New
York Theatre Guild. Mrs. Gray's "Rus-
sian Antiques" was sent in as the best
short Christmas play in the state and in
the national it was listed as one of the
best eight short plays. If it wins the final
judgment it will be produced in Evanston,
Illinois, at the theatre directed by the
Drama League President, Mrs. A. Starr
Best.

Another honor for the playwriters is the
production at the Columbus, Georgia, Little
Theatre of Emilie Erlich Strasburger's
historical play, "Whig to Excess," and
Nan Bagby Stephens' one-act comedy,
"Floodbound." The former play deals with
Georgia's two signers of the Declaration of
Independence, Button Gwinnett and Ly-
man Hall. Mrs. Strasburger directed the
performance and from all accounts highly
deserved the praise awarded her as direc-
tor and author.

Other productions were Frances Free-
born's two plays at the Decatur Junior
High School, Audrea Gray's play at St.
Philip's Cathedral, and the aforesaid play-
bills of the Drama Workshop in which one-
act plays by Frances Freeborn, Mary Ram-
age, Emily Ramage, Louise Goldthox-pe,
Elizabeth de Ovies, Carolyn Pierce Dillard,
and others were produced. Miss Gooch,
Frances Freeborn, Mary Ben Wright and
Catherine Crawley were the directors re-
sponsible for the Workshop plays

The Curriculum Committee of Agnes
Scott College has this year voted the play-
writing class four hours credit, a fact
which will be valuable to the course, in
that it will be a complete course with

sufficient credit to make it possible to the
student who must have full credit for it.
Up to this time the class has had each
year several of its best students taking the
course without credit. It is hoped now to
include such talent under definite enroll-
ment.

The contest for the best long play and
the best short play will be held again this
year, closing September the fifteenth. Any
alumnae having plays to submit will please
send them to Nan Bagby Stephens, 789
Briarcliff Road, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia,
before the date mentioned. Again we thank
the Alumnae Association for their gener-
ous interest and prizes for this contest.

A resume of past achievements includes
the hundred dollar prize of the Savannah
Little Theatre, won by Frances Hargis
with her play, "Hero Worship"; the two
prizes of two hundred dollars each in the
Belasco Cup Tournament won by Mar-
garet Bland Sewell with her play, "Pink
and Patches," and by Frances Hargis with
her play, "Hero-Worship"; credit as one
of the three best plays of the Augusta
Little Theatre, with production, won by
Pernette Adams Carter with her play,
"Violets"; Drama League state awards for
long and short plays by Margaret Bland
and Audrea Gray; publication in the
Journal of Expression, Boston, of Carolyn
Pierce Dillard's short plav, "Achilles'
Heel."

Several of our playwriting group are
continuing their study at Yale; Emily
Kingsbury Ferrara, Roberta Winter, Mar-
garet Bland Sewell, Polly Stone have stud-
ied there. Others, Louisa Duls, Margaret
Bland Sewell, Roberta Winter have studied
further at the University of North Caro-
lina. Margaret Bland Sewell, perhaps our
most distinguished member, has had pro-
ductions by the Carolina Players, but we
take much pleasure in remembering that
the Belasco Cup Tournament prize and the
Dama League Award came to her from
plays which she wrote and designed in the
Playwriting Class at Agnes Scott.

For the first time the Commencement
Plays this year were products of the Play-
writing Class and the Drama Workshop.
"No Good," a play by Jean Alexander, of
this year's class, and "Thinking Makes It
So," by Carolyn Pierce Dillard, of last
year's class, now of the Drama Workshop,
were produced for you by Blackfriars, un-
der the direction of Miss Gooch. We ac-
knowledged with deep gratitude the unfail-
ing support and interest we have had from
Blackfriars and from Miss Gooch.

NAN BAGBY STEPHENS,

Director Playwriting.

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Concerning Ourselves

ACADEMY

Martha Eugenia (Bitting) Hill sent in a
new address with the request that she
wanted the Quarterly sent to this place,
for she would hate to miss a single copy;
her changed address is 451 Sherman St.,
Decatur, Ala.

Marguerite (Bratton) Joerg is living in
Columbus, Ga., and has four children,
Frank, Jr., John B., Mary and George,
twelve, nine, eight and six, respectively.
Marguerite is an enthusiastic member of
the Columbus Club.

Helen (Camp) Richardson wrote in to
the office, "I am enrolled in the Atlanta
Public School Teaching list, but am taking
the rest cure on Monte Sano, near Hunts-
ville, Ala."

Dr. Conrad, who attended the Academy,
is a physchiatrist, living now in Washing-
ton, D. C, and met Dr. Sweet in Vienna
this summer when they were both study-
ing abroad.

Josephine Erwin is secretary to the
president of Coker College in South Caro-
lina.

Katherine (Hill) Brooks' address is 1251
Peachtree Street, Atlanta Ga. Her hus-
band is the head of this field of the Travel-
ers Insurance Company.

Mary (Hubbard) Teter's ward, Char-
lotte Reid, is entering Agnes Scott this fall.

A picture of Laura Mays appeared in
"Prominent Women of Georgia," a recently
compiled book, edited by the National
Biographical Publishers, Mr. J. B. Nevin,
editor. Laura Mays' profession is costume
designing in which she has acquired in-
ternational reputation. Besides a vast
amount of work for private individuals she
is well known in metropolitan business cir-
cles, as a designer of costumes for musical
comedy and - moving picture productions.
She has displayed designs with such well
known designers as Chanel, Patou and emi-
nent American artists and has the unusual
distinction of being the only woman out-
side of New York to be given conspicuous
credit for dresses and lingerie used in
famous New York theatrical productions.
Laura Mays lives in Marietta, Ga.

Helen and Margaret Sandusky are two
loyal alumnae sisters sending in best
wishes for the work of the Alumnae As-
sociation.

Marie (Shippen) Hoppe was director of
a marvelously successful garden exhibit in

Atlanta this fall and also winner of the
first prize garden.

Elizabeth (Tuller) Nicolson was one of
the creators of the puppets in a presenta-
tion of the Marionettes held by the Junior
League of Atlanta.

1889-1906

Kittie (Burress) Martin, inspired by
Emily (Divver) Moorer's diary in recent
issues remembered an article which she
had written and laid away ten years ago
and has allowed us to publish it in this
column.

"In the Agonistic of January 24th, 1920,
one who styled herself, 'The Veteran of the
Cracker Box' (Em Jones) wrote most in-
terestingly of 'Agnes Scott Now and Then.'
Listen, veteran, with all due respect to
your hoary tale of long ago days, it sound-
ed like modern history or jazz to an old
girl of the Institute Days, '92-'93. There
still survives one who antedates this writer
(Kate Logan Good, of Acworth, Ga.), who
could tell you of the days when it was
Agnes Scott Seminary and Miss Hopkins
in charge of everything and everybody,
though a mere girl herself. In 1892, we
were in what we considered a most impos-
ing building in the center of a lovely
campus. To the left was the pump; over
the pump house was beginning to climb
the Lady Bankera rose. During the ses-
sions of 1892-'93 only one man was caught
drinking water from our pump.

That fall, we celebrated the election of
Grover Cleveland to a second term as
President; well armed with teachers to the
left and right of us, we went to Atlanta
to see the torchlight parade. We came
home drunk (with victory), climbed the
tower into the belfry, rang the bell and
yelled until we spoke softly for a week.
After the lights, we dragged from her
lair (under the bed) the only Republican
in school and made a good Democrat of
her before morning. This may be news
to Miss Hopkins but not to some of us.

The graduating class was small but the
senior literature class was large and with
all modesty I feel I must tell you girls of
late years that Miss McKinney for years
afterwards said that the class of '92-'93
was the most brilliant she ever had. One
requirement for our class was that we
make an outline of Dr. Gaines' sermon
and hand it in at the Monday recitation.
He was then pastor of the Presbyterian

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Church in Decatur and Miss Hopkins was
head of the Institute, styling herself Nan-
nette Hopkins, Principal. We thanked our
stars that his outlines were so clear that
we could rush home and get it on paper
before the dinner bell rang. I kept them
for years and was really offended when my
preacher husband seemed indifferent about
the help I might give him in the way of
sermon skeletons.

The Dummy (girls, the Dummy was our
street car, so to speak) usually had a
few boys hanging out from the rear who
received smiles and waves of hands from
Main windows if Mr. Davis wasn't in sight.
He was the night watchman but we didn't
believe he stopped with night watching; in
fact, when anybody squealed on us, we
nodded and said, "Mr. Davis was watch-
ing."

Dear old Colonel Scott, the first grape-
fruit I ever saw was from crates that Col.
Scott sent us from Florida. We were his
girls and all of us knew and loved him.

Oh, Veteran, you set me thinking me of
those old days and there are so many
things that peep at me from my house of
memory that there is a temptation to be
too long, so I'll stop before some Aggie
of recent years says, 'Poor old dear, she
is real childish, in her dotage no doubt.' "

Kittie (Burress) Martin and Kate
(Logan) Good came back last commence-
ment, again roomed together and wander-
ed over the sacred ground. Kittie is still
organist of the First Baptist Church in
Anderson, S. C, which position she has
held for seventeen years continuously ex-
cept for two years when she had the same
position in Greenville, S. C.

Emma Askew, now Mrs. H. N. Clark of
Fairfax, Va., wrote recently: "Our twins,
now five years old Dwight and Augusta
are the joy of our lives, and are worth a
trip to Virginia to see. I used to want
five, and now that I have lively twins, I
sometimes think I have five. Occasionally
I see Mrs. Roberts (Florence Light). She
is as fine and capable and energetic as ever.
She is a great help in this community."

Lottie Kefauver has been traveling in
Africa, and the last card her brother had
from her was postmarked from Barcelona,
Spain. If anyone runs across her in
Kalamazoo we would appreciate having a
list of her tentative addresses.

Mary (Alford) Morgan is soon to have
a daughter in our Granddaughters Club at
A. S. C. for her daughter enters college in
the fall of '32.

Octavia (Aubrey) Howard is in the in-
surance office of Hurt and Quinn in At-
lanta.

Willie (Barton) Smith's daughter is
planning to come to her mother's college in
1933.

Rena (Brandon) Lawson says that it
was worth many times the two dollars dues
to have found Lillian Baker Griggs through
the Alumnae Quarterly article by her.

Nell (Battle) Booker's husband is pro-
fessor of English at the University of
North Carolina and the other members of
this family are two daughters, seven and
eleven years of age.

Jeanette (Craig) Woods writes, "Enjoy-
ed Founder's Day program; became en-
thusiastic over attempting to attend my
class reunion this May; have a daughter
who is a sophomore at Vassar, Carol
Maynard."

Walter Cassels, now Mrs. W. C. Voight,
is living at 568 Audubon Avenue in New
York City. A recent issue of the New
York Times had a flattering account of
Walter's being president of as large a
concern as the Radio Matsit Corporation of
New York. Hats off to our alumna! And
as though that were not excitement enough
for one household, we hear that Walter's
young daughter, Evaline Voight, is pre-
paring to enter Mount Holvoke this next
fall.

Le Vancia Davidson is secretary to the
chairman of the Board of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Atlanta and an interested
Agnes Scotter.

Emily (Diwer) Moorer accomplishes
more than most folks though she has been
handicapped this year by rather poor
health which kept her from coming back
to Agnes Scott for commencement, and
worse for her than that even, from going
to her son's graduation at Citadel and
being among the "proud mothers." This
is her latest accomplishment and one which
deserves more than this notice about it.
As South Carolina State Better Films
Chairman, with some sixty local chairmen
under her, Emily made such a creditable
report that she won the highest award for
D. A. R. better films work of any state
chairman in the national organization and
Douglas Fairbanks presented her with the
whip a most formidable "weepon," ac-
cording to her which he used as Petruchio
throughout this picturization of "The Tam-
ing of the Shrew"; this whip is to be kept
in the D. A. R. museum in Columbia, after
its exhibition in Greenwood, S. C. Hurrah
for the class of '92!

Matilda (Fleming) O'Donald is one of
our newspaper women, being woman's edi-
tor of the Florida Times-Union in Jackson-
ville, Fla.

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Anna Jean Gash has a motor accident
and tonsilectomy both well over to re-
port and also says she and Julia Deaver en-
joyed the Founder's broadcast together.

Laura (Haygood) Roberts has three bits
of news, one married daughter, a grandson
and a daughter graduating from the St.
Augustine High School this June.

Lottie (Kefauver) Johnes has returned
from living abroad. Her husband, an
Episcopal clergyman, died several years
ago.

Marian (Haynes) King makes use of her
situation in the Florida orange country to
put up delicious orange marmalade for her
"pin money."

Clifford Hunter is not teaching at pres-
ent but is housekeeping for her sister's
children in Fort Valley.

Susie (Hunter) Mead can now boast of
a young grandson; she and Louise Shipp
Chick revised Agnes Scott memories when
Louise spent Easter Sunday with her.

Mary (Kelly) Van de Erve has our
sympathy in the recent critical illness of
her youngest boy, who we are glad to
learn is now well on the way to recovery,
after having had pneumonia. Mary sent
in an adorable snap-shot of her young
daughter, Janet, about whom she says:
"Janet, three and a half years old, says
she is going to Agnes Scott College. The
night after listening in on the Founder's
Day program just as she finished her pray-
ers, she yelled out, 'I'm a Hottentot from
Agnes Scott.' You see, I'm trying to train
her up in the way she should go."

Louise (Inglis) Love, presented by her
club in Quincy, Fla., for the office of vice
president at large in the Florida Feder-
ation of Women's Clubs and endorsed by
the twelve sections, was elected to this of-
fice March 28th, at Winter Haven. Quot-
ing from the account of her election, "Mrs.
Love is an executive of notable power, a
woman whose high ideals and lofty stand-
ards of character mark her as well suited
as a leader of other women." Louise's
daughter is entering Agnes Scott this Sep-
tember.

Adaline (Jones) Cunningham's daugh-
ter, Cornelia, is an artist of note, her son,
Edward, graduated from Georgia Tech.

Belle (Jones) Horton is the fourth In-
stitute girl to be mentioned with a daugh-
ter coming in the next year or two to
Agens Scott good record, Institute! Isa-
belle Horton plans to come this fall.

Stella (McClelland) Clotfelter, who at-
tended A. S. C. in 1890-91, was one of the
number who laid a brick in the new build-
ing, Main.

Florence (McCormick) Waller's son is
now an interne at Hillman Hospital and
her daughter is home with her.

Leonore (Owsley) Herman, after leav-
ing Agnes Scott, pursued her studies in
painting in France under Simon and
Hellen, for a few years exhibited every-
where and then devoted herself to mural
decoration, being a mural painter of note
in this country now.

Rosebud (Robinson) Word is an alumna
of whom to boast with her nine children,
six boys and three girls; she sent her love
to Miss Hopkins and Miss Lula McKin-
ney.

Catherine (Spinks) Baker's daughter,
Catherine, is now a high and mighty Soph
at the college.

Pearle Trogdon holds the positions of
housemother temporarily and teacher at
Palmer College, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.

Edith (Schlesinger) Rule has two daugh-
ters, one married, the other coming to
Agnes Scott soon. Edith has been quite
ill for several years but is some better
now.

Annie Judith Virgin, now Mrs. H. V.
Hall, has a new address at 1841 Columbia
Road, Apartment 816, Washington, D. C.

1907

Class Secretary, Sarah (Boals) Spinks
(Mrs. J. D.), 302 Gloria Ave., Winston-
Salem, N. C.

Sarah (Boals) Spinks wrote that "four
children, a house, a garden, not to speak of
the husband and a thousand other things
wouldn't let me off to come to reunion.
Distressed!"

Elizabeth (Curry) Winn wrote that all
the plans for reunion sounded so alluring
that she could scarcely bring herself to
put it down in black and white that she
could not come back, for just at that time,
she was seeing her little daughter through
the intricacies of the High School gradua-
tion. Through another alumna in her
town, we found out that Elizabeth is on
the board of directors of the Y. W. C. A.
in Greenville, S. C, as vice president, and
that she is immediate past president of the
Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian
Church.

Clyde Pettus says that the' library
school in Atlanta where she teaches is a
sort of house by the side of the road where
sooner or later one is very sure to meet
everybody else and she has been able to
keep up much better with the recent Agnes
Scotters as so many of them are coming to
this work, three in this year's class, Ray
Knight, Geraldine LeMay and Sarah White.
She was one of the class of '07 back for
reunion.

Jeannette Shapard, ex '07, and Annie
Graham King, '06, came back together to
their classes' reunion and spent a wonder-
ful time rooming together in true school
girl style.

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Hattie Lee (West) Candler, ex '07, had
Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin, '06, as her house
guest when their two classes held reunions
this year.

1908

Class Secretary, Louise Shipp Chick,
Avon Apts., 1201 W. 5th St., Los Angeles,
California.

Jeannette Hayes Brown, alias Jane H.
Brown, as she puts it, regretted not get-
ting back for her reunion, but reports that
she has been "spinning on my eyebrows."
And then goes in to more detail on this
novel sport, "I was supposed to break in
a new department head the first of May,
but the poor girl was almost killed in an
accident, and I have been doing her work
and trying to find her successor. How does
it feel to be a county librarian? Very
much like the minister of a very large
parish. I have five hundred and forty
square miles to cover every month. I'm
getting pretty well up on births, deaths,
funerals, marriages, and new houses. And
the book car is apt to come home with any-
thing in the back from chickens to antique
furniture. This year I deliberately set
aside one border in the garden to hold all
the pink and magenta gifts that swear at
my blues and yellows. The buds on the
ramblers this evening bring back to me
that class breakfast long ago, when we
decorated the tables with our class flower.
This is the longest I have stayed in one
place since I left Agnes Scott. I have
been here four years, so you can see what
a wanderer I have been. I suspect I am
the rolling stone of the class. Next week
I'm going up to the Pennsylvania moun-
tains and I'm going to 'jes set,' though I'll
probably do it with a paint brush in my
hand. A sketch pad is like a fishing pole
a perfectly good excuse for doing noth-
ing."

Louise Shipp Chick reports having had
a pleasant Easter, having gone up to
Riverside for the week-end. While there
she visited Mission Inn, attended her first
sunrise service, and went to an Easter con-
cert. "But," she adds, "the best part of
the trip was luncheon with Susie (Hunter)
Mead. I enjoyed every minute of it. She
has a lovely home and a charming family
of two girls and two boys. I fell in love
with the entire family. Susie has changed
very little. She's just as pleasing as ever,
always thinking of the other fellow's pleas-
ure. I sincerely wish Riverside were not
so far in order that I might see them
oftener." Chick also reports that her class
is not very responsive, or not at all re-
ponsive that is, for none of them had an-
swered her letters with regard to reunion-
ing. However, we are proud to report that

they did the work, for the class had a
grand old get-together.

Farris Davis, ex '08, sent in a nice check
which her magazine, Woman, printed by
Southern Club Woman Publishing Com-
pany, gave as a percentage on each sub-
scription received from an alumna.

Juanita (Wylie) Caldwell came out to
Miss Hopkins' luncheon for the representa-
tives of the reunion classes who were mak-
ing plans for their classes' entertainment.

1909

Class Secretary, Margaret McCallie, 830
Fort Wood St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Anne (Waddell) Bethea had thought
she would get here for commencement, but
at the last minute she reports the family
were too eager to have her leave, and she
feared getting "shoved out of the nest."
About reunions and such she writes, "My
father goes to the University, of Georgia
the middle of June to attend his class re-
union sixty years. Doesn't that make you
feel young in spite of yourself?" Which
we may unanimously add, "It does."

Margaret McCallie, in addition to closing
school, was building a log cabin on Look-
out Mountain in May and said it was such
a monopolizer of time and money that
she had at first decided not to come to re-
union and then changed her mind and was
writing Louise Davidson to visit her and
the two come on down to Agnes Scott.

Jean (Powel) McCroskey, ex '09, did
what so few of our alumnae will take the
time to do, and what we are forever beg-
ging all of our alumnae to do. She wrote a
splendid newsy letter in to the office, and
so interesting did we find it, that we are
sending on to you some excerpts from it:
"Now for the daughter-mine, I mean.
Ailsie is going to the University of Ten-
nessee which is in this town (Knoxville).
It really is a splendid university and I am
very proud of it, but it is not Agnes Scott,
and I don't think I shall ever get over
being disappointed that she is not going
there. But she and her Dad fixed it up
between them, and of course next winter I
am going to enjoy having her at home.
And then Commencement! I have thought
of every scheme to come, but none of them
worked. I couldn't get there before Sun-
day afternoon, and then it would be almost
time to come home and I just don't have
the money! If you don't know what that
means it is because you haven't a son in
college and a daughter having to have
various and sundry raiment. Charlotte
Gunby Rule (who lives near me and went
to A. S. C.) and I talked of driving down
Sunday, but she can't make the trip. And
as for the sad, sweet story of my life
since I left Agnes Scott there isn't any or

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at least it could all be told in three senten-
ces. I taught for two years. Married.
Acquired two children. We moved to Knox-
ville ten years ago and like it very much.
That's all. But as for reminiscences for
years the children's favorite bed-time story
began "When Mother went to Agnes
Scott."

Mattie (Newton) Traylor says that the
business of looking after three children,
two in grammar school, one in high school,
isn't properly regarded as an occupation
but she assures census takers, alumnae
secretaries, and the like, that it is, not to
mention teaching six hours a week at La-
Grange College.

Marie (Lederle) Myers, ex '09, is now
making her home in Tampa, Fla.

Annette (McDonald) Suarez, ex '09,
holds the position of a director of the De-
partment of Public Welfare in Georgia.

Martha (Miller) Hull, ex '09, writes, "I
expect to send my daughter to A. S. C. in
1932."

1910

Class secretary, Agnes (Nicolassen)
Wharton (Mrs. f. J.) 1612 Sixth Ave.,
Bessemer, Ala.

Eleanor Frierson has a three-fold occu-
pation of housekeeping, church and club
work in Columbia, Tenn.

Clyde (McDaniel) Jackson writes of her
life, "Just plain housekeeping and taking
care of three children."

Lucy (Reagin) Redwine's daughter,
Martha, who is to be a student at the col-
lege in the fall of 1931, has been in the
district meet in debate and later a dele-
gate to the state meet in Athens, Ga.

Tommie Dora Barker, ex '10, has resign-
ed as head librarian of the Atlanta Library,
to become regional field agent in the south
for the American Library Association; this
appointment comes as a result of unanim-
ous nomination of the Southeastern
Library Association; the post is a new one,
created because of rapid library progress
in this section, and is financed by a grant
from the Carnegie Corporation. Tommie
Dora has served as president of the Geor-
gia and Southeastern Library Association
and as a member of the national associa-
tion and is now a member of the Georgia
Library Commission, so she is imminently
fitted for this new responsibility.

Sarah (Brockenbrough) Payne, ex '10,
is doing work in interior decoration.

Cornelia Fields (Mrs. Kent K. Cross),
ex '10, died on March 4, 1930; her class-
mates will learn this sad news with deep
regret.

Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, ex '10, is presi-
dent of the DeKalb League of Women
Voters, vice president of the State League,

as well as on the executive board of the
Atlanta Presbyterial.

Corinne (McCombs) Hardy, ex '10, has
the sympathies of her Agens Scott friends
in the recent death of her husband, who
was one of the prominent leaders of his
state.

Camilla (Mandeville) Newell, ex '10, is
now a proud grandmother, with the an-ival
of her daughter's little son, H. R. Cannon,
III, in April.

Edith (O'Keefe) Susong, ex '10, pub-
lishes the daily newspaper, the Greenville
Democrat-Sun, in Greenville, Tenn.

Marguerite (Stringfellow) Pyle, ex '10,
is teacher of English at the Mary Institute
in St. Louis, Mo.

1911

Class Secretary, Theodosia (Willingham)
Anderson (Mrs. W. W.), 63 Avery Drive,
Atlanta, Ga.

Mary Wallace Kirk was back for com-
mencement this year for the first time in
a long time, arriving a day or so in ad-
vance to see everybody.

Julia (Thompson) Gibson's husband is
studying at the Colorado School of Mines
this summer and the family is spending
the entire summer in Colorado.

Louise (Wells) Parsons's new address in
Chattanooga is 305 Brookfield Ave. Louise
explained that she did not move but the
town of Belvoir did! So she is no longer
a R. F. D. but a Chattanoogan.

Fannie (Bachman) Sumners, ex '11, is
"thrilled to get any word from my dear old
Alma Mater and am so proud of her
achievements."

Lida (Caldwell) Wilson, ex '11, promises
a visit to Agnes Scott soon for the first
time in many years; her mayor husband is
traveling and has "invited her to tag
along."

Kate McDougald, ex '11, graduated from
Atlanta Law School in '26 and is now sec-
retary to the vice president of the Florida
East Coast Railway Company.

Anne (Parry) Blanchard writes, "Hav-
ing studied and played around in New York
for a number of years, I have settled
down to raise a family."

Rebe (Standifer) Strickland, ex '11, will
be moved to Atlanta when Captain Strick-
land's new assignment takes him to Geor-
gia Tech School in August.

1912

Class secretary, Marie (Maclntyre)
Scott (Mrs. John), Scottdale, Ga.

Marie (Maclntyre) Scott is the newly-
elected president of the Decatur Agnes
Scott Club and great things are expected
under her leadership this next year.

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Jeannette (Newton) Hart spoke from the
heart when asked for remarks on her re-
turn card, saying, "It would call for an
address before the U. S. Senate on Farm
Relief."

Ruth (Slack) Smith wrote that she wish-
ed she could see May Day and be at the
college for commencement, that there are
times when a job is most inconvenient!

Carol (Stearns) Wey has just returned
from a visit to her sister in Chicago to pick
up her job as president of the Home for
the Friendless Orphanage.

Catherine (McKay) Ramsay, ex '12, is
now living in Gallatin, Texas.

Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, ex '12, is plan-
ning to study in New York this summer.

Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex '12, had
Maryellen (Harvey) Newton, '16, and her
family as guests for a brief visit in May.

1913

Class Secretary, Allie (Candler) Guy
(Mrs. J. Sam), N. Decatur Road, Atlanta,
Ga.

Janie McGaughey was the inspirational
speaker at the beautiful Alumnae Vespers
on the Sunday of commencement week.

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann's little
Adele and Maryellen (Harvey) Newton's
young daughter had their first glimpse of
their roommates, according to their moth-
ers, when they met each other for the first
time on Maryellen's visit to Julia Pratt
in May.

Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes has broken
the heart of the alumnae secretary by hav-
ing to cease being the state president of
West Virginia, owing to Major Stokes' new
assignment to the Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, begin-
ning August 20th.

Rebie (Harwell) Hill, ex '13, received her
degree in May from Oglethorpe Universi-
ty; Rebie is a teacher in the Atlanta Public
School system.

1914

Class Secretary, Martha (Rogers) Noble
(Mrs. Henry), 169 Avery Dr., Atlanta, Ga.

Bertha Adams has entered the insurance
field in Pineapple, Ala.

Lottie May (Blair) Lawton spent most
of her card to us telling news of Eliz-
abeth (Curry) Winn, just barely mention-
ing that she was a director of the Y. W. C.
A. in Greenville, S. C.

Ruth (Blue) Barnes was the speaker on
"Consolidated High Schools in Georgia"
at an A. A. U. W. meeting, held in Savan-
nah recently.

Annie Tait Jenkins is in Girl Reserve
Work carried on by the Mississippi District
Y. W. C. A. and has been doing some
traveling in this interest.

Kathleen Kennedy and Louise Ash, '17,
are always good subjects for news for they
are doing so many interesting things at
the orphanage which was planned for a
million dollar one by a very generous man,
who plans later to build a hotel in con-
nection and use the marvelous plant and
dairy for both institutions.

Linda (Miller) Summer says that her
occupation is four future Agnes Scotters
and that in just three more years Hulda
will be ready for college at the age of six-
teen.

Anna (Colquitt) Hunter, ex '14, is a re-
porter on the Savannah Press and is also
book reviewer for this newspaper.

Sarah (Adams) Whip, ex '14, has gotten
her M.A. at Columbia University since
leaving here.

Margaret (Brown) Bachman, ex '14, is
living in Florida again and is trying to re-
gain her health after several years' ill
health.

Beth Duncan, ex '14, has been doing
many interesting things in summer travel
while teaching in the winter, having been
on a lovely western tour through Canada
and California and the western states and
spending the summer of 1928 in Europe."
One of the pleasantest experiences was
going over on the boat with Miss Thyrza
Askew and being with her all summer.
"Remember me to Miss Hopkins and tell
her how pleased I was to hear her voice
over the radio. When I am in Atlanta
again, I hope to run out and see Agnes
Scott as it is today."

Louise Van Dyke, ex '14, has been visit-
ing her parents in Chattanooga on a trip
back from her work in Paris, France.

1915

Class Secretary, Martha (Brenner)
Shryock (Mrs. J. N.), 803 Clinton Place,
Evanston, 111.

Margaret (Anderson) Scott made a visit
back to the college in the late spring when
her husband came up for a conference; he
is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
and has been at several of the student sum-
mer meetings at Agnes Scott. Their three
children are Neal Anderson, Legh and
Margaret, ten, seven and four years, re-
spectively. She and Alvie (Myatt) Sharpe,
ex '16, who had been visiting Rosa (Hill)
Strickland in Valdosta, spent the night in
the Alumnae House and visited with Miss
Hopkins about old times.

Elizabeth (Bulgin) Hamilton's little five-
year-old Adelaide is already talking about
"when I go to Agnes Scott."

Lucy (Naive) Swain, after a year's resi-
dence in Atlanta, has moved to 303 W.
Watanga Ave., Johnson City, Tenn., where
her husband's business takes him.

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Lois Cunningham, ex '15, teaches Eng-
lish in the Beaumont Senior High School
in Beaumont, Texas; Lois was elected to
membership in the Phi Beta Kappa chapter
at the University of Texas in 1929.

Margaret (Houser) Woodruff, ex '15,
says her occupation now is raising two
girls who are full of pep.

LaNelle (Moon) Bradford, ex '15, has
a little son, Harry Bell, Jr., seventeen
months old.

Isabel Norwood, ex '15, from her work
in New York sent best wishes for the
Alumnae Association in all its ambitions
and wished she could be back for com-
mencement, saying she would certainly be
with us in spirit but that her time is not
her own.

Margaret (Phillips) Boyd, ex '15, and
her husband have just had a wonderful
trip when Dr. Boyd attended the Inter-
national Urological Society meeting in
Madrid; they landed in England, and after-
wards motored through France, Italy and
Switzerland, then to Spain.

1916

Class Secretary, Louise Hutcheson, 321
Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Mo.

Charis (Hood) Barwick sends in news of
a most exciting trip abroad, writing, "I
have decided to accompany my husband to
Scotland and England. We sail on the
Adriatic from New York on June 14th, and
land in Glasgow. We shall devote a week
to sight-seeing in Scotland, and another to
England, before arriving at Bournemouth,
where we shall attend the International
Council of Congregational Churches the
first week in July. This meeting is only
once in ten years, and once in twenty out-
side the U. S. My husband is one of a
hundred and fifty official delegates from
the U. S. We know a great many people
who are going, so are anticipating a very
pleasant trip. After the Council, we shall
give a few days to London, before I re-
turn on the Baltic, but Mr. Barwick will
go over on the Continent for a month.

Elizabeth (Burke) Burdett writes back
from Brussels, "You don't know how much
the Quarterly means to me over here."

Laura (Cooper) Christopher's two sons
are Kent and John Frederic.

Grace Geohegan writes it is "gratifying
to learn of continued recognition of A. S.
C. by educational organizations and en-
dowment funds."

Ora (Glenn) Roberts continues to in-
trigue a stay-at-home secretary with her
reports of her home in the Virgin Is-
lands. "My family and I have greatly en-
joyed the delightful year almost completed
on this island (St. Croix). Our young son,
Thomas Glenn, is thriving and is doing

everything a 16-months-old man should
and should not do, except talk an under-
standable language. The busy life of
teaching music, continued through the first
seven years I was married, has been suc-
ceeded by the more fascinating job of
home-making in the true sense.

Maryellen (Harvey) Newton is now liv-
ing in Louisville, Ga.

Margaret Phythian is traveling with Miss
Alexander through France for two months
this summer on a most delightfully leisure-
ly tour of provinces.

Alice (Weatherly) Inzer has three chil-
dren, Alice, James, Jr., and Martha.

1917

Class Secretary, Regina Pinkston, Green-
ville, Ga.

Gjertrud (Amundsen) Siqueland re-
ports spring days full of work and happi-
ness with her fine son, who will soon be
five months old and is to be graduated to
porridge in recognition of his excellent
record.

Martha Dennison's new address is 627
Moreland Ave., Atlanta.

Agnes Scott Donaldson writes that she
is deep in the last few months of toil for
an A.M. in sociology, working meanwhile
at her job, as case supervisor for the As-
sociated Charities in Colorado Springs, but
is looking forward to a trip through New
England in June. We are sorry to tell of
the death of her father in March of this
year.

Gladys Gaines heard every word Miss
Hopkins said and had to pinch herself to
realize that it was really Austin, Texas,
and not Decatur, Ga. She is often at the
University of Texas and writes of its
wealth and its wonderful building, ending
with this statement, "The money they have
is the only way they surpass or even come
up to Agnes Scott." Spoken like a Hot-
tentot!

Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis says the
Alumnae Quarterlies are big events in her
life down in Brazil and that her big daugh-
ter's great ambition is to go to A. S. C.
Her new address is Varginia, Es de Minas,
Brazil, S. A.

Jane (Harwell) Rutland's new address is
Boyce Ave., Ruxton, Md. Jane says Balti-
more is a very interesting city with much
to do and see but that it still seems a long
way from home and friends; she had a de-
lightful winter in Florida and enjoyed see-
ing Josie (Jones) Paine, '16, in West Palm
Beach and Mary (West) Thatcher, '15, in
Miami.

Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter had
a most delightful winter in California.

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Katherine (Lindamond) Catlett reports
"1929 not monotonous! But no oil well
nor ships coming in on our horizons yet
and all 57 varieties of illness."

Jan Newton's long promised letter is
still a postcard; she "postals" from Rome:
"Easter in Rome has been intensely in-
teresting. We go on to Naples, then
through Florence and Venice and the
lakes."

Ellen (Ramsay) Phillips teaches music
in a mission girls' normal school in Mex-
ico City while taking lessons herself from
the famous Carrillo, originator of the 13th
Sound System.

Vallie Young (White) Archibald pro-
claims that when the Quarterly arrives she
is just no good until she has read every
word, including the cover pages. Vallie
Young expects to spend a well-earned va-
cation from teaching English on the coast
with her little daughter; "little daughter,"
by the way, must be growing up by leaps
and bounds sines she has recently been pro-
moted to Senior Third grade and is not so
far away from entering Agnes Scott in
the class of '42.

Regina Pinkston promises to get her
typewriter in good repair to act as secre-
tary of this class next fall when she as-
sures us she will have a double column of
news.

Frances (Anderson) Forsbeck, ex '17, is
moving to New York City, September 1st,
where Dr. Forsbeck is connected with the
Rockefeller Institute.

Mary Lee (Askew) Adams, ex '17, has
a daughter, Virginia, eleven years old.

Effie (Doe) Batten, ex '17, says being
married into the Army Air Corps means a
"never-very-permanent" address, Rock-
well Field, Coronado, California, being as
permanent as any.

Katherine (DuBose) Davis, ex '17, con-
fesses that one child, Katherine, aged three
keeps her busy.

1918

Class Secretary, Belle Cooper, 1143 St.
Charles Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Katherine Holtzclaw, ex '18, is planning
to go to Europe this summer.

Rose (Harwood) Taylor enjoyed a re-
cent visit from Mary Catherine (McKin-
ney) Barker, '22, when she was en route to
Hot Springs and "we talked A. S. C."

Mary Rogers (Lyle) Phillips writes,
"Our fifth child, Robert, arrived December
first and you alumnae mothers will under-
stand when I say I do not have any leis-
ure time."

Helen Moore, ex '18, has sold poems to
Good Housekeeping and St. Nicholas re-
cently and is in a London Anthology; she
has also published "My Thoughts and I,"

a book of her poems, and is now a mem-
ber of the National League of American
Pen Women.

Marie (Stone) Florence, ex '18, received
her degree this June from the University
of Georgia, which she has attended this
winter in addition to housekeeping and
"doing" parties.

Maymie (Callaway) Bird, ex '18, was
one of the graduating students in a recent
concert of the University of Chattanooga
in Patton Chapel.

Lois (Grier) Moore has been supplying
in the Wytheville High School for one of
the math teachers.

1919

Class Secretary, Lulu (Smith) Westcott
(Mrs. G. L.), 38 S. Thornton, Dalton, Ga.

The marriage of Lucy Durr to William
Ransom Johnson Dunn of Birmingham,
Ala., was celebrated on April 30th at twi-
light at Grasslea, the home of her par-
ents in Montgomery. The ceremony was
performed in the rose gardens of the home,
the bridal party entering through long
grassy walks which are its formal arrange-
ments and which are bordered with del-
phiniums, moss roses and many lilies. A
sentiment attached to the fact that the
flowers in Lucy's bridal bouquet, which
were valley lilies and pittoxporum, made in
shower, were from her mother's garden
and that bits of sweet myrtle combined in
it were from the old Judkins family home
in Wetumpka. Dorothy (Thigpen) Shea,
'19, also was the bride's only attendant.

Lois Eve is at work on her MA. in Eng-
lish at Columbia, University.

Mary Brock Mallard has moved to
Gi'eensboro, N. C, where she has been
offered a splendid position as Advertising
Manager of the Myers Department Store.
Mary Brock has been with Davison-Paxon's
for the last three years.

Frances (Sledd) Blake has a son, John,
Jr., aged six, and a daughter, Julia, two
years old, "both healthy and abundantly
able to keep me busy."

Margaret Barry, ex '19, was married to
Mr. Julian Lee Owen of Shelby, Mass., in
June; they will make their home in Shelby
where her husband is engaged in planting.

Clema (Wooten) Talley, ex '19, is one
of the directors of Atalnta Girl Scouts,
Inc., and attends lots of college activities,
in fact, is still a student here, in voice,
now.

Elizabeth Lawrence, ex '19, writes of en-
joying the Agnes Scott Club in Jackson-
ville, this being her second year there
where she has an apartment with her sister
and brother. Elizabeth is a performer on
the radio station WJAX.

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Pauline Smather, ex '19, teaches physical
education, having received her M.A. at
Columbia in 1929.

1920

Class Secretary, Louise Slack, 1620
Monument Ave., Richmond, Va.

Louise Abney writes, "You came to a
poor place for news. I haven't anything
new, but I did have a trip to New York
at Christmas just for fun and am teach-
ing in Birmingham at present.

Margaret Bland's postal in answer to a
quest for news follows: "1 Just returned
a short time ago from a trip to New Or-
leans at carnival time. 2 haven't fallen
in love since last fall, just continued in
love. 3 Have not gotten a raise. 4
Nor been fired, but just resigned for a new
job. 5 Blood pressure normal when there's
a cook in the house but low when there
isn't. 6 Acquired a new home with seven
oak trees, two pink dogwood and a Japan-
ese cherry. 6 Have acquired two half
grown daughters. 7 I have no new hats
since March, but many new recipes and
need more." In justice to Margaret's his-
tory, we will say that we sent her a list
of questions to answer and this is the
result. Again, Margaret is doing the class
proud, for her play, "Lighted Candles," is
one of ten chosen from ten from each
state of the union, the winning one of this
group to be produced later; we are wish-
ing you all luck, Margaret.

Cormelia (Hutton) Hazlehurst, living
now in Kingstree, S. C, told of "doing"
Charleston and the Magnolia Gardens this
spring.

Julia (Reasoner) Hastings announces
the arrival of a little daughter, Sarah,
who came on March 28th; "perhaps she
and her 'big sister,' Eunice, now almost
three, will attend A. S. C."

Margaret (Sanders) Brannon writes
she wishes we could see her two boys,
Robert Bruce, Jr., three in April and
John, ten months old, "Both are large,
strong, well, and happy, and, so, of course,
am I. Tell everybody studying language
to dig, for one of them may come in very
handy; we sure do use Spanish down here
in Laredo, Texas!"

Alice Cooper is in advertising. "Every
day so full, every minute accounted for,
it reminds me of the way we crowded our
days the last few months before com-
mencement. But this summer I'll take
half day off for three months. I'm thrilled
at the idea of having afternoons to be out-
doors, see friends, read or just do nothing!"

Sarah (Davis) Murphy taught math in
Junior High in Jacksonville the first term
of last year but gave it up to look after a
husband and two sons.

Margaret (Shive) Bellingrath's husband
is pastor of Westminster Presbyterian
Church in Richmond, Va., and she chron-
icles the happenings of the last few
months, as a move, an accident, in which
she turned over a truck, injuring the
driver, his truck and his watch, and reduc-
ing her finances considerably, a three-year-
old daughter with the whooping cough, in-
cluding all the grewsome features, sams
daughter falling and losing two front teeth,
husband's Ph.D. monogram coming off the
Columbia University Press, finally an
operation herself, which will furnish her
with conversational material for time to
come!

Eugenia (Peed) Erwin adds John Mans-
field Erwin, born January 19th, to the roll
of class babies.

Margaret (Ben-yhill) Reece, ex '20, has
her B.S. degree from the State Teachers'
College at Hattiesburg, awarded this
spring.

Margery (Moore) McAulay, the success-
ful collector of the Greenville ads, said
just this about their work, "I can't un-
derstand why some of the others don't go
after ads, and if so, why they do not suc-
ceed. Whenever I asked for one, I showed
the list of Greenville Alumnae and said
they were typical. Every name on our list
is well-known. For instance, the Presi-
dents of the Rotary Club and the Kiwanis
Club are Agnes Scott College Alumnae
husbands, so the hotel manager where they
have their regular luncheons were helping
their patrons." Louise Slack sent in this
information, and adds, "Perhaps that
might give some of the other girls an idea
or a little piece of encouargement. Margery
said she might come back to commence-
ment, and if she does, please show her as
Exhibit A."

"Crip" Slack, that most faithful of class
secretaries, had to take a leave of absence
this quarter, for she has had a mastoid
operation at Johns Hopkins and had quite
a serious time of it; but we are glad to
report that she is again back on the job
with more and better ideas for another
year. In addition to the class reporting,
Louise has spent a great deal of time and
effort in the matter of securing ads for
the Quarterly this spring.

Ruby (Stanley) Martin, ex '20, has one
son, William Plunkett (Billy) and while
her husband, who is a singer in evangelis-
tic work, is traveling, they make their
home in LaFayette, Ala.

Marion Conklin, ex '20, moved her office
back to Miami, admitting that she prefer-
red Florida sunshine; her address is 501
Olympia Building.

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Margaret (Lyle) Cooper, ex '20, has a
little son, Ernest Brown, born March 16th.

Reva DuPree, ex '20, is secretary at the
Central Baptist Church in Americus, Ga.

1921

Class Secretary, Elizabeth Floding, 854
Myrtle St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Following are the faithful members of
'21 present at our "mail reunion" to which
you were everyone invited with the excep-
tion of Frances Charlotte. (I herewith
publicly extend my profoundest apologies
to this eminent member of '21 who is
farthest away, who is living under the
most interesting circumstances, and from
whom we should like to hear from best
of all because not once this year when I've
dashed off last minute pleas to the rest of
you have I started in time to get a message
to and from China. You see, that good
news from Frances Charlotte in the Quar-
terly this spring was due to Mrs. Donald-
son and Frances herself and not to your
remiss secretary. Apologies to be continued
in private.)

Marguerite Cousins. "These are the
cold, hard facts. 1921-22 Fellowship in
Spoken English at A. S. C, 1922-23, Hous-
ton, Texas. 1923-27 Woman's College, Due
West, S. C. 1927-28 LaGrange College,
LaGrange, Ga. 1928-30, Tubman High
School, Augusta, Ga. I've studied three
summers at Columbia University, one at
Emory and one at the University of Wis-
consin. Besides teaching English I help
direct the Tubman Dramatic Club, have
a private class in Expression, and do
some Little Theater work. There are so
many A. S.-ites on the faculty that I've
felt most 'at home' since I've been in Au-
gusta. I had a most interesting time last
summer working on an M. A. in Speech
at the University of Wisconsin. We had so
much laboratory work that I decided that
field is becoming as 'scientific' as it is
'artistic' The list of -ologies that one
must know is most overwhelming. I have
the summary listed in some notes that
would look very impressive as a quotation
but it can't be found at present writing.
I hope to continue that work this summer
if a rather bothersome appendix behaves
itself the next two months. I do enjoy
hearing from the other "21-ers' so much."

Marion Cawthon. (Bless her heart! She
sent hers special delivery "in order to in-
sure 1-17 of your reputation as a class sec-
retary." I hope the consciences of the
other fourteen to whom that same plea
was sent will smite them into immediate
action!) "I was under the impression that
my East-of-the-Mississippi-wide trip of a
year and a half ago appeared in the

bulletin once, and hesitated about writing
of it again. Anyway, I'll make it brief."
(I'm sure the rest of you will agree that
it beai-s repetition.) "Another teacher and
I traveled in a new Ford sport coupe for
more than 10,000 miles over territory in
the United States and Canada. We visited
every large city, every point of interest
about which we had ever heard. Our most
enjoyable visits were made in Washing-
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Plymouth,
Lake Champlain, The Thousand Islands
and Montreal. The drive up the 'rock
bound coast' of New England and across
the Green and White Mountains filled us
with admiration for the beauty of it all.
This past Christmas we travelled north and
drove through hundreds of miles of ice and
s.iow a lovely sight. The Ford has gone
33,000 miles during this year and ten
months and it is hoping to go many more.
I've taught in the St. Augustine High
School for the past five years." (While
Marion doesn't go any farther into the
past than that I can testify that for at
least a year after leaving A. S. C. she
proved a very successful writer of insur-
ance I was one of her willing victims!)

Louise Fluker lives in Tate, Ga., w r here
she is a teacher of history and French.

Jean McAllister and Marion (McCamy)
Sims spent Sunday, May 18th, in Durham,
N. C, with Louise Slack and Ruth Slack.

Pearl Lowe Hamner. (Mrs. Robert
Barkiey Betts, Columbus, Ga.) (Pearl
Lowe's mother writes for her as my cai'd
went to her mother instead of Pearl Lowe.)
"I think Pearl Lowe hasn't written that
she married nearly two years ago. She
taught Biology in the Columbus High
School for several years and met this
splendid man whose home was in Rome,
Ga., and they have been married nearly
two years and are very congenial and
happy. Pearl Lowe is doing lots of work
in the Agnes Scott Club in Columbus."

Another Atlanta chapter to Genie
(Johnston) Griffin's "life history" has
opened as I learned at a party of Helen
(Wayt) Cocks's the other day. The party
was given for the bride, Margaret Bland,
'20, who is no longer Margaret Bland but
Mrs. Frank Sewell of Decatur. I thought
perhaps Genie had come from Chattanooga
for the occasion, but she said no, that her
husband is now connected with Georgia
Tech. Other Agnes Scotters present at
Helen's nice party were: Thelma Brown,
Clare Louise (Scott) Beall, ex '21, Lois
(Mclntyre) Beall, '20, Louise (Felker)
Mizell, '19, Mary Floding, '22, Marion
(Hull) Morris, '22, Margaret (McDowell)
MacDougall, Florence Perkins, '26,
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Scott Club, Coma (McCaskill) Rankin, ex
'22, who is visiting Marion (Hull) Morris,
and Alice (Whipple) Lyons, '22.

Lucile (Smith) Bishop had the Orlando
girls at her house for Founder's Day, with
Grace Bargeron, '24; Sarah Tate, '25;
Floy Sadler, '25; Faustelle (Williams)
Kennedy, ex '22, and herself present and
also Rebecca Dick, ex '23, who just hap-
pened to be in Winter Park, doing some
publicity for Rollins College.

My old roommate, Clotile Spence, wrote
me of another bridge party in Miami this
month. "I wish you" (I'm sure she would
say that to us all.) "could have been here
yesterday for my bridge tea honoring three
Tennessee visitors. Sara Harrison was
here and we talked about all of our gener-
ation at school. This is the fourth year
that Sara has taught here. She lives only
about eighteen blocks from us. One other
Agnes Scotter that I see often is Marie
Lane who was Marie Bennett (ex '21).
Sara says that Marion Lindsay is substi-
tuting at her school now. I have not seen
her since I have been in Miami. Miriam
Dean (ex '20) used to live here but she left
about a year ago and is back on a visit
now. I suppose you know that Rom
(Romola Davis, '20) is married and living
in Tennessee. Also Ruth (Tillie's sister,
ex '24) has a young daughter almost three
months old now, whose name is Ruth
Jenelle. We are so anxious to see our new
baby and if nothing happens Ruth is plan-
ning a trip home in May and then we hope
to have a family reunion. Jim (Tillie's
baby) is getting to be such a big baby
now that we don't feel that we have any
baby any longer. My letter cannot be full
of interesting things for my duties and
pleasures consist mostly of the usual wife-
ly tasks of keeping my house, my husband
and baby, a few parties, shows, etc., and
church circle and auxiliary meetings, Sun-
day School, etc. I've been recuperating,
mostly, since last August when I was oper-
ated on. They all call me a fat lady now,
though 103 pounds isn't so terrible is it?
I do feel so much better since my oper-
ation too." Tillie was ever the best of
news gatherers. Of course, I know that
letter even part of it wasn't meant for
publication, but then I don't suppose Mme.
de Sevigny's (shades of French I!) let-
ters were either, and you know how famous
they made her!

Mary Louise Green (Mrs. Thomas
Greene Morrow). "I lost your letter be-
fore I could answer it. My maid misplaced
it. I hope I can remember what was in
it. I have absolutely no news for you
this time I am so sorry. I've decided
definitely to stop teaching. That may be

news to you. It takes lots of will power.
Betty, I've been trying to write you for
a long time to tell you that my father died
in February." (Please know, Mary Lou,
that we all sympathize with you in your
loss.) "He died very suddenly with a
heart attack. It was the second one that
he had ever had and it surely did come
as a shock to us but we were so thankful
that he didn't have to suffer a long time."
(Marion Cawthon wrote also this winter
about the death of her father, and I'm
sure your sympathy is with her, too.) "If
I ever have a chance to go to Atlanta I
surely am going to see you and Helen.
I simply can't realize that Helen is mar-
ried. Is she a good housekeeper? I bet
she is."

Helen Hall (Mrs. Hopkins). "I'd really
love to write a long, newsy letter, such as
you asked for, but if I ever have that
much time again I'll probably go out and
try swimming the Golden Gate. Anyway,
though, I'll be with the old gang in spirit
during commencement, even if in reality
I'll probably be hanging out the baby's
wash! The newsiest news I can write is
that Jimmy (age three and a half months)
is extremely fond of orange and prune
juice, equally not fond of cod liver oil,
and has such wonderful sun-tanned bow
legs that everybody thinks he is not Amer-
ican, that is, until they see his blue eyes
and pink cheeks. Hop who happen to be
my husband says that if Jimmy were
down south he would have to ride in the
Jim Crow cars. I need not remark that
he is a most unusual child and is prosper-
ing in spite of his mother's utter ignorance
anl sheer dumbness. Falling out of the
scales, though, is the worst thing that
has happened to him so far. I simply can't
write now much as I would like to, but I
have fifteen unanswered letter staring me
in the face right now. If Hop weren't
staying late at the office tonight and hav-
ing his dinner in the city, I wouldn't have
had this time, I fear. What on earth did
I use to do, I wonder!"

Genie Johnston (Mrs. George Clayton
Griffin). "Like the walrus in Alice, 'I
deeply sympathize' with your great effort
to get news from the members of '21. And
yet nothing about yourself ever sounds like
news. We moved back to Atlanta in March
and 'tis needless to say I am happy to be
back after five years' absence. George is
at Tech but is not coaching. He is a
'Personnel Man' or something like that.
As long as we are here with mamma I feel
as if I am visiting and can't realize that
we have come here to live. We will be at
'Blythewood' all summer and then get our
own place September 1st. I'll be glad to

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get settled. Clayton and Page are fine.
Clayton says he is 'still four' and Page is
nearly sixteen months. I enjoyed seeing
Charlotte and her four lovely boys a few
weeks ago."

(When such a tiny note came from
Martha Laing. (I wondered what could be
of sufficient importance to be said so
briefly. You shall see!) Martha Laing
(Mrs. Charles W. Dorsey) "I am happy
to send this bit of alumnae news. Dr.
and Mrs. Charles Dorsey (Martha Spence
Laing, '21) announce the birth of a son,
Charles Laing Dorsey, on April 26th, 1930,
at Denver, Colorado."

Anna Marie Landress (Mrs. Wm. R.
Cato). "How I wish we could have a re-
union in person this spring. But since I
can be there only in spirit, I will write
this little note. However, if it is as topsy-
tui'vy as my house, which is in the throes
of spring cleaning, painting and papering,
you really won't be able to decipher it.
How one ever survives that painty smell,
the paper-covered floors, and the disorder
of painting and papering I hardly know.
The three children occupy much of my
time and thought, but of course are worth
their trouble a thousand times over. Like
all other fond parents, we think they are
unusually fine. Betty Bruce is walking
everywhere and getting into everything,
which is what you would expect of a curly-
haired, mischievous, brown-eyed little lady
of fourteen and a half months. Although I
have very little time for purely intellectual
pursuits, I try to keep up with the trend
of events, and occasionally do something
to prove that this busy homemaker hasn't
forgotten quite all the principles of speak-
ing and reviewing books, etc., so laborious-
ly instilled into her during her college
days. I really enjoyed reading and review-
ing Marquis James' "Raven" this spring,
and hope to read some more biogi*aphy this
summer. Everything except churches and
schools closes in Nashville in the summer.
There are no club meetings at all. So
after my housecleaning upheaval, I hope
to settle down to a long peaceful summer
here at home, since Will can't get away
(you know how it is with doctors). The
children and I will spend two or three
months in Chattanooga, however, and we
may be able to drag Will away from his
practice, which he loves, long enough to
drive us down, then come back and get
us. I do hope that Genie Johnston Griffin
will be there this time. She is always in
Atlanta when I am in Chattanooga. Now,
Betty, please don't put all this rambling
letter in the Quarterly, but select from it
any items of interest and put them in your
own words." (My apologies to Anna
Marie if she thinks them due, but what

is the use of a letter that doesn't ramble a
little? And the more it rambles on and
on the better in my opinion so I've given
you the letter in toto.)

Mary Anne Justice (Mrs. Clarence
Miracle, and, according to my custom, I
give her new address, 115 Wilson Ave.,
Maryville, Tenn.). "May always brings
back memories of spring and early sum-
mer on the Agnes Scott campus wistaria
and robins and long walks in the woods
especially the pine woods on the old South
Decatur car line. It does not seem nine
years since we worked and talked and play-
ed tennis, does it? Some experiences
mean so much to us that they never real-
ly belong to the past but are a mysterious
present that underlies the material routine
of our days. So it is with some places
and contacts of college life especially
with relationships formed at that time.
Oh, but youth is a lovely thing with its
faith, ideals, illusions of beauty and love!
There can never be anything else in life
just like the awakening period of the teens
and early twenties and that's why one
never forgets college days and the friends
with whom one worked and talked Gra-
cious! I don't know why I have so un-
burdened my thoughts to you who are so
far away I had no intention of doing so
when I started and I'm sure this isn't
what you want for your reunion. I believe,
though, you'll understand my mood. I'll
give you the news on another page as
these pages are too personal." (Yet at the
risk of never having any more news and
that's the worst calamity I can think of
I'm publishing all this good philosophizing
about life and youth. I like it it's almost
as good as having a 'bull session' together
again when you write like this, '21.) "So
long as the first baby is an only child one
measures and dates all things in relation
to the new member of the family. Just
now we are engrossed in listening to
Justice's ever-increasing conversation. His
vocabulary is most amusing and certainly
highly original as an outsider needs a
poney for translation! According to psy-
chology there should be some basis of
similarity, contrast, etc., to account for the
names he gives to various objects. Up to
date, though, we have failed in all en-
deavors to trace out the origins of his vo-
cabulary. So much for the theories ad-
vanced in the books on child training! The
other facts of our existence are very much
like those of any young couple who strive
to establish a home and build up a pro-
fession. As Mike is a civil engineer, we
move often four states in five years."
(Do you remember Bonnie Nesbit, ex '22?
She also married a civil engineer from
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Seminary days when we went to play
basketball against Gainesville High.
Wasn't that romantic ? She travels in
much the same fashion though always in
Georgia has just moved from Lawrence-
ville to Royston.) "At present, it's Ten-
nessee near the Smoky Mountain Park
in the small town of Maryville where
Maryville College is the center of all things
intellectual and athletic and the alum-
inum mill of all things financial a very
nice town in which to live. Justice is two
now. He is so sorry he can't belong to that
exclusive group of babies who are register-
ed and enrolled as future students of
Agnes Scott."

Charlotte Newton. "Your note came to-
day, and before I get a thousand other
things on my mind I am writing. Don't
expect me to thrill over my work just now.
I had an examination this afternoon and
the papers are all waiting for me, and
there is to be another tomorrow morning.
All my students are graduate students
half of them older than I and all intent
on learning everything possible for the
human mind to encompass. Some of thsm
were in classes with me last year. One
of them, in fact, was my roommate, and
another was in the hospital with me hav-
ing mumps all sociably together. You can
imagine how I've had to hustle to get my
work organized at all. They are a fine
group of students quite a cosmopolitan
group. I have a Wellesley girl and a
Cornell Phi Beta Kappa and a little old
lady from Kansas and a Presbyterian
preacher from Bagdad. The faculty here
is interesting. You can see a celebrity
without really looking almost any hour of
the day. I've been visiting a class of Pro-
fessor Garner's this spring. He is a fasci-
nating lecturer. Plans for the summer are
still up in the air. I've thought of Denver
and of New Orleans, and of just going
home and being busy resting. Perhaps I
shall have made up my mind by the end of
the week. What fun it would be to come
back for the A. S. C. commencement! I've
never done that. Perhaps some day I shall
have a position that allows a vacation
at this particular time of the year. Now,
Betty, as you can see, this letter is not for
publication." (Just like Mary Anne. And
what I found out at the A. S. commence-
ment was that some were afraid to write
me anything for fear I would publish
everything. Really, Charlotte, you said
lots more that I almost published but
didn't. And I know that other folks be-
sides myself are interested in this.) "Give
the class my greetings and tell them that
right now I am too busy with the present
to bother with a history of the past. Still,
I guess I did suggest that." (Well, bless

her heart! What a nice surprise when I
was just forgiving her for refusing.) "Here
are the facts:

'Teacher of English, Lewisburg Sem-
inary, Lewisburg, W. Va., 1921-24 (dur-
ing this time married off M. McLaughlin
and M. Bell).

"Year of study, University of Illinois
Library School, 1924-25.

"Head of Catalog Department, Universi-
ty of Florida, 1925-28.

"Second year of study leading to M.A.
Library School, University of Illinois,
1928-29. (No unusual dullness on my
part; it takes two years in Library Science
to get an M.A.)

"Instructor in reference and in govern-
ment publications, University of Illinois,
Library School, 1929-30."

Lina Parry. "You certainly are a glut-
ton for news. I no sooner get one long let-
ter off to you than you start asking for
another. Well, please give me ten points
extra for promptness (it's given in my
esteem!) I only received your note to-
night when I got home from work. Yes,
ma'am, I am going to California this sum-
mer. I sort of like to travel, you see. This
time it isn't going to be a self-conducted
tour, though. I'm going on a Canadian
Pacific house party tour. First, I'm going
way down to San Diego, California (with
a side trip to Tia Juana and Agne Calinte,
Mexico), and then on up the west coast to
Seattle, and on to Alaska. Doesn't that
sound nice? You'd better plan to go with
me. And the people I'm going to see, my
dear! I'm only going to be in Chicago a
couple of hours, but I'm going to write
Martha Eakes ('24) to go down to the sta-
tion if she has time, and wave me off. Then
when I get to Los Angeles I'll see Alice
Greenlee (Grollman) ('25). She's lived
there for several years now and is going
to show me all the sights. Helen Hall
(Hopkins) lives in San Francisco, and I'll
be the first to see her new baby. I also
have a nice cousin in San Francisco whom
I haven't seen in a long time. Finally, I
met a charming woman coming home on
the boat last summer, and she lives in
Seattle. I'm only sorry I won't get to
stay a long time in Seattle to pay her the
visit she asked me to make. So much for
my trip. I expect to take lots of snap-
shots. I especially want one of my climb-
ing a glacier that's always been my high-
est ambition." (What a nice picture for
our scrap book!) "My latest accomplish-
ment is learning to play a harmonica or
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that dh'ection here's hoping I'll learn!"
"P. S. Rosa Wilkins Kerr (Mrs. Robert,
ex '22) has a baby girl named Shirley.
She's about two months old."

Sarah Stansell. "Your promise to let
me rest with a satisfied conscience, provid-
ed I give you some news here and now,
is really irresistible, so here goes. Per-
haps the most exciting thing that has hap-
pened to me lately, was having four of my
poems accepted for "The New World An-
thology of Poetry," by the Helicon Publish-
ing Company of New York City. You can
imagine that was a thrilling thing to me,
who am so used to rejection slips. Our
Writers' Club is certainly a working club,
for every once in a while we have to write
poetry for some special occasion, and some-
times we feel very much as one of our
members did when she remarked^ 'My
Pegasus is a hack horse.' I'm still teaching
English at G. P. S. We were very much
interested when a group of Agnes Scott
girls came up for a brief visit and had a
real booster Agnes Scott program at
chapel one morning. I don't believe our
students have been quite so enthusiastic
over any other such program, as they were
about this one. A group of Girls' Prepara-
tory School teachers plan to drive to Agnes
Scott next Saturday for the May Day and
the cleverly named opera, 'II Flows the
Gore.' It makes me proud to think of the
interesting things they will see at Agnes
Scott and all that is her's."

Now I know that a letter at any time is
an undertaking and to you who left exams
waiting or paused in the midst of paper-
hanging disorder, etc. I am as the walrus
might say again, "deedy" grateful. If any
other members of '21 would like the satis-
faction of one easy conscience after duties
well performed you might send in a letter
without waiting for a notice from me any
time between now and September 1st.
(Incidentally, it would make me think the
millenium had arrived.)

I myself know a little more news that
you told me but wouldn't write down for
me. Aimee D. Glover Little has a son
and Carolina a baby brother weighing
eight pounds, born April 12th. Helen Wayt
Cocks, who gave me that news says he's
"a beautiful baby and a fitting brother to
Caroline." Needless to say, all '21 is proud
of its two new babies announced today.
Helen herself had a large share in manag-
ing a benefit bridge for the Atlanta Agnes
Scott Club this winter which cleared over
fifty dollars. And coming home from a
party given for Helen not long ago some-
one remarked to me, "Helen just loves
people and she reacts to them beautifully."
Through being chairman of our Business

Women's Circle at Central I've come in
touch again with Elizabeth Lovett (ex '21),
who holds the same office in her church
in West End, and hers is one of the best
organizations of that kind in the city. Now
I must tell you a bit about the Trustees'
luncheon which is a kind of yearly reunion
to those of us so lucky as to be near
enough to pause a few hours in the midst
of exam papers and office work and dash
out to dear old Dec. I don't see how the
trustees manage to take such beautiful
care of their family which increases so
rapidly. This year two tables of alumnae
overflowed into the lobby of Rebekah
Scott. We found place cards for nine of
'21 Myrtle Blackmon, Thelma Bi-own,
Sarah Fulton, Genie Johnston Griffin, Lina
Parry, Janef Preston, Martha Stansfield,
Helen Wayt Cocks, and me. We don't know
pointed not to have her with us after all.
what happened to Myrtle and were disap-
But the rest of us had a joyous time
you can read about many of our thrills in
other parts of this reunion number of the
Quarterly so I won't duplicate here. The
most exciting private news I heard was
that Janef has again covered herself with
glory (and all her classmates with reflect-
ed glory) by winning another poetry prize
and against such competitors as Agnes
Kendrick Gray who won second place.
(We of '21 salute our two poets Janef
and Sarah.) Janef 's poem was written up
in the Atlanta papers but being superbusy
with exams I missed it. However, I under-
stand that Mrs. Donaldson has a copy of the
poem and I'm sure knows the particulars
which I wasn't very successful in extract-
ing from Janef, so I'll let you look for
that elsewhere, too. One thing you may
not find in any write-up is that that in-
describably lovely word in our most beauti-
ful of Alma Maters at the end of the
line "The love of our girlhood is thine"
found this alumna dissolved in tears at the
sheer loveliness of it and maybe also be-
cause she was thinking of some of you
who weren't there. '21 never has had a
reunion big in numbers. Of course, we say
we're "scattered," but when you read of
the numbers present in some classes you
know multitudes of them must be scatter-
ed, too. (And some our most scattered ones
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be we didn't get in the habit of reuning in
large numbers at the beginning. Can't we
begin planning now for 1933 along with
the classes of 1918, 1919, and 1920? And
meanwhile thank you again for making
possible this reunion by mail.

Ellen Wilson is director of religious edu-
cation at the Second Presbyterian Church
in Houston, Texas.

Edith Roark, ex '21, expects to receive
her M.A. this summer at the University of
Michigan.

Marie Belle (Edgerton) Grubb, ex '21,
lost her father and mother in January just
two weeks apart. Marie and her husband,
who is assistant manager of the New Eng-
land Industrial Sales of DuPont Company,
and her little girl, Marie, are living temp-
orarily at the Continental Hotel in Cam-
bridge, Mass.

1922

Class Secretary, Ruth Pirkle, Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Ga.

Gena (Callaway) Merry's little Ellen
Callaway Merry arrived on February 19th,
just too late for the last Quarterly but
here is the announcement headlining this
column of news.

Cama (Burgess) Clarkston has a new
member of the family to report, little
Francis Osborne Clarkson, Jr.

Sue Cureton has one sister graduating
and another to enter Agnes Scott this
September, so she assures us that "it will
be hard to lose me"; wish we had a sister
or two for every Agnes Scotter to cut down
on the "lost sisters."

Eunice (Dean) Major regretted not being
back for commencement but promised to
be at Agnes Scott for her reunion year.
She is busy in church work, both in the
Auxiliary and in the Sunday School, with
plenty of home work in the form of sewing
little clothes for the three who outgrow
them faster than they can be made.

Otto (Gilbert) Williams says, "Number
three arrived December 15th, Mary Myrtle;
all happy in the land of plenty on the Del-
mar-va peninsula."

Ivylyn Girardeau is in her third year of
Medicine at Tulane University.

Ruth (Hall) Bryant announces her new
son, John Thomas Bryant; we guess we
can call him new, for he is only six months
old, born in December, 1929.

Mary Knight: "New York is great and I
hope to find Europe even greater this
summer. At present I am conducting two
columns twice a week in the New York
American newspaper called "About New
York With Peggy" selling and writing
and editing my own advertising. I find
that traveling a la ankle express, subway,

elevated, bus, surface car and taxi con-
sumes more than the regulation twenty-
four hours a day and when the gentle shad-
ows fall, I am totally nul and void. It is
a great life, but there are times when
I feel that complete extermination would
have its good features."

Helene Norwood was awarded her M.S.
in June from Emory University.

Frances (Oliver) York is living in Wel-
lesley Hills, Mass., which she admits has
a drawback, it being too far from Geor-
gia and A. S. C. but otherwise an ideal
spot.

Emma Julia (Thomas) Johnston ought
to make the headlines for she is one
alumna who says that she is a lady of
leisure, but she does add that she did
child welfare work till September.

Isabel Bennett, ex '22, sailed from New
York in January for a world cruise on the
Traconia, arriving home in June. Isabel,
after her Agnes Scott days, got her A.B.
at the U. of Kentucky.

Louise (McCorkle) Kloor, ex '22, is
still spending her time with the excep-
tion of a month or two, in Chapparra,
Cuba, where her husband is employed in
an administrative capacity, and his work
keeps them there the entire year. She
sends best wishes always to Agnes Scott.

Roxie (Reid) Gill, ex '22, has two chil-
dren, Mickie, five years, and Charles Sloan,
five months.

Lucy (Wooten) Wiegand is working on
her masters at the University of Virginia
this summer.

Catherine (Smith) Edgar, ex '22, 1738
Wood Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado,
is one of our flying alumnae, her husband
being head of a flying school and Cather-
ine having passed her tests and being
an aviatrix in her own right now.

Ladelle (Sherman) Ligon, ex '22, wrote
a letter back for her class reunion saying
her absence was due to a new daughter,
Caralou, eight months old, and that it was
her hope that this daughter would choose
what her mother refused, a degree at A.
S. C. Ladelle received hers later at Arkan-
sas University.

Rosa (Wilkins) Kerr, ex '22, wrote into
the office, "I want to announce the birth
of our little daughter, Shirley, on April
12, 1930. Maybe some day she will be an
Agnes Scotter' Who knows?"

Mary Remer, better known as "Dinah,"
(Roberts) Parramore, ex '22, reports the
following in a letter to the office: "Due to
the arrival of a future Agnes Scott Pros-
pect, Mary Remer Parramore, on De-
cember 30, 1929, I have been busy as any-
thing. Sorry I couldn't come to Com-
mencement, but the two babies keep me
at home."

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1923

Class Secretary, Emily Guille, 127 Ala-
bama Street, Spartanburg, S. C.

Clara Mae Allen left June 25th for a
meeting of the American Library Associa-
tion in Los Angeles, and will then spend
six weeks at the University of California,
in further study of library work. Ruth
Pirkle, '22, and she will travel through
California together and then Clara Mae
will come back via the Canadian Rockies
and Canada.

Louise (Brown) Hastings recently en-
tertained in honor of the fourth birthday
of her little daughter, Mary Louise Hast-
ings, and some of the little guests' names
had a most familiar sound, rather like
their alumnae mothers.'

Margaret (Brenner) Awtry writes that
she is still "librarying occasionally."

Nannie Campbell represented the college
at the recent A. A. U. W. meeting in Wil-
liamsburg, Va.

Minnie Lee (Clarke) Cordle's husband is
teacher of history and German in the
Richmond Academy and Junior College in
Augusta, Ga. Minnie Lee's five-year-old
son celebrated his birthday in February
with a real party with Lina Parry, '21, all
the way down from Atlanta to help him
celebrate.

Philippa Gilchrist has been offered a fel-
lowship in chemistry by the University of
Wisconsin. This is the first time the
award has been made to a woman and
there were about one hundred candidates
for the fellowship.

Anna Meade went to the National Junior
League Conference in New York as a dele-
gate from Birmingham, where she is vice
president of the League.

Martha (Mcintosh) Nail began work at
the Albany Herald last May as a temp-
orary occupation for a few months and
is still continuing the fascinating news-
paper work; her little daughter, Alice, is
three years old.

Elizabeth Molloy is in New York City
working in Sacks and enjoying Gotham
to the fullest.

Fredeva Ogletree is in Valdosta, Ga.,
where she teaches history in the High
School.

Margaret (Ransom) Sheffield visited
back in Atlanta this spring and was en-
tertained by all her old friends; she is
now making her home in Montgomery, Ala.

Lucy Timmerman is church secretary in
the First Baptist Church in Florence, S. C.

Frances (Arant) Wilmer, ex '23, after
being very carefully placed in the last
Quarterly in Atlanta has now moved to
Selma, Ala.

Mary George (Kincannon) Howorth's
(ex '23) husband is orthopoedic surgeon at
the New York Orthopoedic Hospital; her
one child, Richard Beckett, is seven and
they live in Sunnyside Gardens, Long Is-
land.

Betty (Dickson) Steele, ex '23, is now
living in Brentwood, Tenn., after an event-
ful life in China. Ella (Smith) Hayes, '25,
wrote that Betty's husband was now her
pastor.

Margaret (McLean) McLaurin, ex '23, is
living temporarily in Laurel, Miss.; her
husband is house surgeon at South Missis-
sippi Charity Hospital there.

Janet (Maultsby) Waller, ex '23, has
three little bovs, six, four and two years
old.

Jessie (Watts) Rustin, ex '23, is at 903
N. Division St., Salisbury, Md.

Margaret Yeager, ex '23, was in New
York this spring but has returned to Knox-
ville, Tenn.

1924

Class Secretary, Helen Wright, 2718 Lee
Street, Columbia, S. C.

Attie Alford is taking summer work at
Columbia University, working toward her
M.A.

Lilian (McAlpine) Butner has announced
the arrival of Lilian Mav Butner on March
15, 1930.

Nell Dukes has spent the past winter
as head of the Home Economics Depart-
ment of Martha Washington College,
Abingdon, Va.

Virginia (Burt) Evans has a young
daughter, Florence Bedell, born on April
5th.

Catherine (Nash) Goff writes, "The
greatest news which I now know is that
we are moving back to the South. I shall
feel like an exile coming home, even
though I have enjoyed being out here. No
place can ever be as enchanting to me as
the South. My husband has accepted a posi-
tion at Auburn. I have never been to
Alabama, but Auburn will seem like
heaven, being only 120 miles from home.
I am so impatient to get started eastward
I am daily tempted to begin packing. We
can't leave here until August 8, so I try
to make the best of it. I shall be in At-
lanta a great part of September trying to
buy furniture in a hurry."

Emmie (Ficklin) Harper's little daughter,
Celeste, died on May 10th in Jubbulpore,
India, according to cable news sent to her
family; the sympathies of her friends here
are with Emmie in this great sorrow.

Marion Louise Hendrix announced her
engagement to Mr. Thad Buchanan of
Tate, Ga., on Sunday morning, May 25th.

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Kate Higgs is as busy as usual, writing
that she has been teaching at the Uni-
versity of Arizona in Marana, Ariz., all
winter.

Dick Scandrett, Martha Crowe, '27; Miss
Hollingsworth, Miss Harn, Sue Hill from
Gainesville, Fla., and Chopin Hudson's
sister, Maude Hudson, are planning to
study and keep house together in New
York in July and August.

Polly Stone, the same old Polly, sends
in some much wanted news of herself in
her old familiar whimsical strain, "Well,
I'm still in the Yale library in the New
Books department. And Roberta Winter
and Miriam Preston and I are still living
together in a band-box apartment, across
from the Yale College freshman dormi-
tories, where we get the full benefit of all
the freshman victrolas, yodeling, shouting,
howling, and fights with ice men! I have
been promoted from my original job of
cook for the Winter-Preston establishmsnt,
and now enjoy the privilege of living with
them almost as an equal, cooking supper
only every third night, and calling them
by their first names. Please be sure this
gets in the Quarterly, for ever since they
published the fact that I was a hired-girl,
all my former classmates have written me
insulting letters asking for ways to use
left-over meat, and how to take grease
spots out of the carpet. Before spring
came, we went to New York every week-
end that we had railroad fare. We saw a
number of good shows; "Green Pastures,"
for instance, at which Roberta and I pro-
duced a little additional entertainment for
the audience by sobbing aloud from sheer
homesickness. That negro chorus remind-
ed me of the concerts Big Bethel used to
give in the Dec courthouse. Ro and I
spent a delightful week-end with Margaret
(Powell) Gay in Hartford in April. New
Haven is a nice place to be, and I like it
more and more all the time."

Frances Gilliland) Stukes has adopted
her sister's adorable little daughter, and
she was one of the most admired of the
babies at the Alumnae Baby Party, spon-
sored by the Decatur Club this year.

Annie Will Terry sent in a letter of
varied types of news, some of which we
will be sad to know and other parts of
which will make us happy but all of
which we will enjoy and find interesting.
"Another year of school teaching has been
added to my calendar, but with it there
has been a year of housekeeping or, at
least, of managing the house with a cook
of keeping, Hewey, my fifteen year-old
brother, mended, and of doing other tasks
innumerable. Our precious mother left us

lonely last summer, and with the heart-
ache and emptiness it is well that I have
had the busyness that it takes to keep
home going." Mary, Annie Will's younger-
sister, graduated with the class of 1930,
and as Annie Will put it, she was "on
hand."

Margaret (Griffin) Williams entertained
Dick Scandrett and Virginia Peeler, when
they were in Birmingham the end of
March.

Elvie (Wilson) Wiley, ex '24, has chang-
ed her address. She is now to be located
at 185 Pine Street, Memphis, Tenn.

Louise (Adams) Wright, ex '24, tells of
a chubby six months' old daughter, who
demands all her spare time and most of
her thoughts.

1925

Class Secretary, Belle Walker, 558 Green
Street, Augusta, Georgia.

Mary Phlegar Brown, when asked to
give an account of herself, and her pei'e-
grinations, wrote the following: "As for
myself, there is nothing to say, except
that I'm still enjoying teaching Biology;
General Science, and Physics in this hospit-
able little town of Scotch farmers, mostly.
Wouldn't some of my former A. S. C.
teachers hoot at the idea of my coaching
plays and teaching Physics! It makes me
believe that one can do most anything
when necessary!" Unfortunately, com-
mencement in Rowland, N. C, conflicted
with the reunion dates at Agnes Scott, so
1925 lost another enthusiastic booster at
its class reunion.

Idelle Bryant has been a teacher and
secretary for two years now at the Miller
Institute, 1485 Broadway, New York City.
As though being one of those two were
not work enough for one poor soul!

Elizabeth Cheatham was married on
June 24th to Mr. Archie Maclnnes Palmer,
of White Plains, New York, and of Milford,
Conn.

Pocahontas (Wight) Edmunds has really
burst into print in a big way. She was
one of the authors of the recently pub-
lished biography of Rutherford B. Hayes.
Congratulations, Pocahontas!

Margaret (Hines) Gallaher has returned
from the Philippines, after a two years'
stay, and is now stationed with her hus-
band at a camp near Boston, after having
spent a short while visiting Margaret's
parents in Rowland, North Carolina this
spring.

Frances Gardner, after teaching in
north Alabama all winter, gave up her
work on May first to be "at home" until

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the latter part of the summer when, as
Frances aptly puts it, "I expect to cease
my state of old-maidenhood, and take
upon myself the vows of the wedlock. The
gentleman in question is none other than
the honorable Dr. Felix Burwell Welton,
of Richmond, Va., graduate of both Hamp-
ton-Sidney and Virginia Medical College,
and now completing his third year interne-
ship in surgery at the New York Poly-
clinic Medical School and Hospital." They
expect to sail for Yencheng, Ku, China in
the fall.

Ruth Harrison is now Mrs. Robert Mc-
Kay of 205 Belvedere Street, Macon, Ga.
Ruth married Anne McKay's brother.

Martha (Jackson) Logan has a new ad-
dress, 125 South Broad Street, Winston-
Salem, N. C.

Elizabeth Griffin has given us all the
slip, and as Mrs. A. M. Henderson writes,
"Recently acquired husbands and houses
do have a way of taking up all of one's
spare time. As this post office pen runs
true to form, I shall not go into a eulogy
on aforementioned reasons for staying in
Monroe, N. C, much as I'm tempted to do
so!" Elizabeth's new address is 700 South
Hayne Street, Monroe.

Frances (Lincoln) Moss writes, "I have
the prettiest little blue-eyed daughter in
the world!" Her name is Ann Carolyn
Moss.

Mary Walker Perry, whom we know as
Mrs. Gilson E. Hart these days, has moved
to Lexington, Kentucky, to live.

Emmie Saxon is working with the New
York Public Library in the St. Agnes
Branch in the children's department.

Elizabeth Shaw has the deepest sympa-
thy of the class in the loss of her father
on Sunday, May 4th.

Louise (Buchanan) Proctor announced
the arrival of Jeannette Proctor on March
13th in Birmingham.

Margery Speake has been head of the
English Department of the Pape School in
Savannah, Ga., again this winter.

Mary Ben Wright directed the three one-
act plays given recently by the Drama
Work Shop in Atlanta, two of which were
written by Agnes Scotters and in which
were many alumnae actors.

Edith (Camp) McLennan, ex '25, has a
new address, 1605 41st St., Belview Hts.,
Birmingham, Ala.

Rosaline (Janes) Williams has been
broadcasting over WSB about styles, and
from all reports her lectures have been
more than well attended.

Sarah (Dunlap) Bobbitt, ex '25, reports
a busy life, "rearing children and raising
flowers."

Rosamonde (Neisler) Clarke, ex '25, has
been spending the past winter at George
Washington University, where she has
been assistant librarian.

Romana (Galloway) Machie, ex '25, is a
graduate of the University of North Caro-
lina, where she was a member of the local
Chi Omega chapter, and where she had
the distinction of being elected a member
of Phi Beta Kappa.

Laura Margaret Mitchell, ex '25, has
been spending the winter in Richmond,
Va., where she was one of the senior
students in the Assembly's Training
School.

Sarah Morehouse, ex '25, had the follow-
ing write-up concerning her and hers in
the Savannah Press society column re-
cently: "The awards for the youngest long
distance traveler of the season should by
all means go to the very new little Louis
Marcel LeHardy, III, for he is sailing with
Sarah and Marcel on the 10th of June
for China, where Marcel has just been
ordered. They will be two months en route,
stopping at various tropical ports. And I
might add that the really romantic touch
to the tip is that they are going on the
very same boat that Sarah and Marcel
took when they sailed away on their honey-
moon!"

Louise Powell, ex '25, has charge of the
post office in Macon, Ga.

Olivia (Liebheit) Ure, ex '25, has been
teaching in a nursery school in South
Bend, Ind.

Katherine Towles Wharton, ex '25, was
married early in the spring to Mr. Carl
Frederick Carlson. They went to Florida
and Bahama on their honeymoon, and are
now making their home in New York City,
where Mr. Carlson is prominently connect-
ed with the export office of the Vick
Chemical Company.

1926

Class Secretary, Ellen Fain, Henderson-
ville, N. C.

Lois Bolles was married to Mr. John
Knox of Nashville, Tenn., in June.
The wedding was a very quiet affair, tak-
ing place at the home of the bride's par-
ents on Rosedale Drive, in the presence of
members of the families only. They will
spend several months in Europe this sum-
mer, before moving to Nashville.

Evelyn (Sprinkle) Carter is now liv-
ing in New York City, making her home
at 242 West 11th Street.

Edythe Coleman was married on Wed-
nesday afternoon. May 28, at 5<30 o'clock
at the First Baptist Church to Mr. Ralph
Paris. Helena Hermance was her maid
of honor, and Margaret Stovall, ex '26, was
one of the five bridesmaids.

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Ellen Colyer is planning to spend part
of the summer with Dorothy Chamberlain.

Frances Cooper, rather "Frisky," arrived
on Friday, May thirtieth, to spend two
weeks with her parents at their home on
Piedmont Avenue.

Agnes Dinwiddie reports that she has
not been so well this past winter, and
that she has been forced to take a rest
temporarily. We regret to hear this, and
trust that she will soon be all right again.

Juanita Greer was on the campus when
there was a conference of chemists in At-
lanta in April. And most thrilling of all
is the news that Juanita is to be head of
the Chemistry Department of Mary Bald-
win next winter.

Helena Hermance and Edith (Carpen-
ter) Shuey have had a gift shop in Miami
this past winter. The shop was located
very near the beach, and one of them was
always in swimming while the other was
keeping the shop. All in all, they report
a very satisfactory winter, and we would
recommend these business tactics for other
salesmen.

Charlotte Higgs has a new address,
being now located at 309 West 109th
Street, New York City.

Catherine (Mock) Hodgin announces the
arrival of a son, John Nolan Hodgin on
March 8th.

Sterling Johnson sent in an interesting
letter, from which we quote the following
excerpt: "After three years in Philadel-
phia, I am leaving in June, when I shall
complete my second year of teaching at the
Upper Darby High School. So far as I
now know, I shall be domiciled in Balti-
more next year, to continue studying; my
credits from the University of Pennsyl-
vania are being transferred to Johns Hop-
kins, where I shall work toward a Doc-
tor's degree in European History." Sterling
also added that although she couldn't make
it back for the reunion, she was "with
all of the Agnes Scotters in the spirit."

Elizabeth Little was married to Mr.
Charles Albert Meriwether on Wednesday
afternoon, June the fourth at the first
Baptist Church. They will make their
home in Atlanta.

Mary Ella (Hammond) McDowell
writes, "I am housekeeping and going with
Emmett on trips all over south Georgia
and Florida. Evelyn Kennedy spent Janu-
ary with me. I have been having great
fun learning to cook this past winter."

Margaret (Debele) Maner is busy keep-
ing house, but has not found it so all-time-
absorbing that she couldn't continue her
work as organist at Wesley Monumental
Church in Savannah.

Helen Clark Martin was another of the
members of 1926 who wrote that teach-
ing school prevented her coming back for
her class reunion, but was with her class
in "spirit."

Hazel (Huff) Monaghan has a young
son, born the latter part of April.

Ethel (Redding) Niblack has announced
the arrival of Emmett, Jr., in March.

Virginia Peeler has been visiting her
brother in Birmingham, and after an ex-
tensive visit there is returning to Cali-
fornia. The week-end of March the twenty-
sixth Dick Scandrett went over to join
"Jinks," and reported all sorts of good
times that they had together.

Florence Perkins and her mother are in
Miss Gooch's party which is on an Euro-
pean tour this summer.

Elizabeth (Chapman) Pirkle writes of a
busy existence as "housewife, nurse, cook,
painter, ad infinitum," and we well imagine
that she is doing all of these things very
capably, too.

Susan Rose, after teaching school for
two years in Rocky Mount, N. C, spent
this past winter in Chapel Hill with her
mother.

Gene (Dumas) Vickers says that she
has a precious baby girl, who was born on
the second of February.

Susan (Shadbum) Watkins has been
teaching in the Decatur High School this
last year, and reports that she has actual-
ly enjoyed it.

Mary Ella (Zellar) Davidson, Jr.'s, little
son, Thomas Zellars, was born May 10th.

Fannie Virginia Brown, ex '26, received
her degree of B.S. in Kindergarten work
from the University of Cincinnati in June.
She has been leading a hectic life, which
you will readily understand from the fol-
lowing: "You will readily understand why
I am not coming for the reunion when I
tell you that on June the sixth I leave
for Toronto. My school is not out until
that day, and on June 28th I have to be
in Washington, D. C, for a meeting. My
summer job begins July 1st. In between
times, by special permission, my degree
will be awarded in the Dean's office, in-
stead of my waiting here for graduation.
So such is life in this whirl!"

Elizabeth (Riviere) Hudson, ex '26, has
two children who keep her amused as well
as quite busy. Their names are Hallie
Elizabeth, and Charles F. Hudson, Jr.

Olive (Hall) Shadgett, ex '26, is manag-
ing editor of The Civitan, and even with
that much of a responsibility finds time to
do all of her own housekeeping, too.

Margaret Stovall, ex '26, has a splendid
position as secretary to the president of
Oglethorpe University.

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1927

Class Secretary, Maurine Bledsoe, Lake-
view Park, Asheville, N. C.

Virginia Baird was married on April
26th to Mr. Thomas Clark Ravenel, and
will make her home in Charlotte, N. C.

Louise (Capen) Baker is working in a
medical center as assistant neurologist.

Louise Bansley's correct address is 124
Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Annette (Carter) ColwelPs husband has
been unusually honored in being appointed
as assistant professor in New Testament
Greek at the University of Chicago and
his appointment was made even before
his graduation from the University in
June! And that is only the beginning
of the story; with the baby safely at her
grandmother's in Decatur for the summer,
Annette and "Pomp" will sail from
Montreal about July the second for a sum-
mer in Europe, spending most of the time
in Paris where he will be working on some
manuscripts in the "Bibliotheque Na-
tional," then visiting in Germany and Eng-
land, where Annette has relatives.

Dorothy Chamberlain is assistant in the
library of the Irving Trust Company.

Mabel (Dumas) Crenshaw has a "most
adorable one-year-old daughter. After
visiting her mother here in Atlanta this
past spring, she has returned to her home
in Clinton, Tenn.

Frances Freeborn was married at the
home of her father, William Wallace
Freeborn, on Clairmont Avenue in Decatur
on the twenty-fourth of May to Mr. Wil-
liam Crooks Pauley.

Frances Hargis has announced her en-
gagement to Mr. Joseph Young McCrory,
the wedding to be sometime in September.

Mae Erskine Irvine is now Mrs. Alex D.
Fowler, and may be reached through the
American Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany, 195 Broadway, New York City.

Martha Johnston was married on the
evening of June 24th to Reverend Eugene
T. Wilson, of Clinton, S. C, and Elizabeth
N. J., the marriage being solemnized in
the Presbyterian Chui-ch at Jefferson, Ga.
They will live in Elizabeth, where Martha's
husband is assistant pastor to the First
Presbyterian Church until September,
when they both hope to be back in the
south. Dr. Wilson is a graduate of "P. C."
and of Columbia Seminary in '28 and after
a year's service in Asheville, N. C, has
this year been doing post graduate work in
the Biblical Seminary in New York until
his call to the church in Elizabeth.

Louise Lovejoy is a laboratory technician
at the Grady Hospital.

Lamar Lowe is working in the First
National Bank in Atlanta, after attending

the American Institute of Banking, and
coaching Latin.

Elizabeth Lynn was offered the assist-
antship in the Department of Physics at
the University of Wisconsin.

Elizabeth McCallie is secretary of the
Civic Theater in Atlanta.

Grace (Zachry) McCreery reports her
occupation as "running a house and hus-
band." And she adds, "The day the last
Quarterly came was another one given
over to it exclusively. It's fun to read
about what the others expect to do."

Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller came back
for Commencement, although she admitted
that it was a struggle to tear herself away
from the two Jacks, and the charming pic-
ture she had of them both makes us real-
ize the struggle must have been a hard
one.

Emily Nelson is now Mrs. Hubert Brad-
ley, having been married on the twenty-
seventh of November, 1929.

Mary (Heath) Phillips reports, "We
were sent to Pikeville last November. The
great anticipation a Methodist preacher's
wife has is her first glimpse at the parson-
age. I had had visions of a big, rambling
affair, as I have frequently seen such, but
my somewhat dreaded hopes were ill
founded. My first glimpse at our new
home showed a small five-room bungalow
with attractive, modern furniture. That
word "modern" can't be applied too gener-
ously to furniture in many Methodist
parsonages. I'll be quite reluctant to move
again for I feel so much at home here."

Frances Rainey received her M.A. from
Emory University in June and will be in
the chemistry department at Agnes Scott
this fall.

Blanche (Berry) Sheehan is spending
some time in Ireland. Her address is
"Carndonagh," Cobb, County Cork, Ireland.

Sarah Stillman was the only attendant
in the wedding of her sister, Mary Lowe,
to Mr. Edward Woodham Hightower on
the twelfth of April.

Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger is editor
of the school page for the newspaper in
Columbus, Ga., and in addition to all that,
has found time to direct three plays which
were produced in Columbus this spring.
One of the plays was "Whig to Excess,"
an original production which won the alum-
nae prize. Another of these plays was
Miss Nan Bagby Stephens' "Floodbound."

Isabelle Louise Breitenbucher, ex '27,
was married to Mr. William Lamar Fulg-
hum of Atlanta at the First Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta on the seventh of May.

Grace Etheridge, ex '27, can now be
located at 622 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey
Citv. New Jersey.

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Celia Hirsch, ex '27, has spent the win-
ter in Boston, Mass., studying at Boston
University.

Nancy Treadway Jones, ex '27, was mar-
ried on the fifteenth of March to Mr.
Albert Phillipson in Chatham, Va.

Roberta (Thomas) McKeel's (ex '27)
children, Margaret Lay, two years old, and
the new baby, Barbara, born on May 28th,
are claimed as an ample business in them-
selves.

1928

Class Secretary, Huda Dement, 1302
West Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.

Miriam Anderson represented the Alum-
nae Association at the A. A. U. W. Con-
ference in Williamsburg, Va., in April.

Myrtle Bledsoe is working in the Adver-
tising Department in Rich's in Atlanta, Ga.

Elizabeth Cole and Sarah Glenn defied
all rules of luck and sailed for a wonderful
European tour on Friday, the thirteenth of
June, to be away about two months.

Mary Ray Dobyns drove over for May
Day and Senior Opera. And then she
came back for Commencement, having had
charge of Alumnae Vespers on Sunday
afternoon, June 1st.

Lochie Grace (Fountain) Doyal has an-
nounced the arrival of Lorenzo Doyal, II,
on January 17, 1930.

Hortense (King) Fowler has a young
son, Erasmus Grier, who was born on
April 18th, 1930. The only grudge we
have against this young man is that his
mother used him as an alibi for her not
being able to come back for the reunion.

Elizabeth Grier (or shouldn't we say
"Pete"?) wrote in to the office: "I hope
to sail for China in the early fall as a
missionary. I will probably be in Peking
for a year, studying the language."

Nell Hillhouse spent the week-end of
April 5th on the campus, having come to
get a brief respite from teaching in Way-
nesboro.

Mildred Jennings sent in a very com-
plimentary message for the college, by
saying, "Oh, to be back at Agnes Scott
My Red Ford and the Gang! No days like
A. S. C. ones, even if I did not realize it
then, I do now!" And all that we wonder
is that Mildred has time to think of such
things, for she seems unusually busy, writ-
ing, "I am teaching school, directing two
clubs, and at the present time helping my
children get subscriptions for three mag-
azines. If we can get 138, the Curtis Pub-
lishing Company will give us a radio. This
will be a big addition to the school in a
noisy way, for surrounding the school
building on all sides are mills. You know
what machinery does to a radio, so you

know we will enjoy it. All in all, I am
working, and hard at that! If my trip
to Canada this summer materializes, I will
write it up for the Quarterly."

Mary and Emily Ramage each had a
play produced in Atlanta in May under
the direction of Miss Nan Stephens and
the Drama Workshop.

Mary Waller Shepherd drove to Denver,
Colorado by what she calls "a very circuit-
ous route," starting from Sewanee on
April 21, and going through Alabama,
down to the Gulf Coast, across to New Or-
leans, then to Beaumont, Houston, Dallas,
Fort Worth, into Oklahoma and Kansas,
and finally to Denver. Mary will be in the
West for the rest of this year, her address
being: 532 Equitable Building, Denver.

Florence Smith, now Mrs. John H.
Wright, writes the following: "Mr. Wright
and I take great pride and pleasure in
telling you that a fine eleven-pound boy
was born to us on April the twenty-fifth.
Of course he is John, Jr., and is something
of which we are very proud. We would
like all of our Agnes Scott friends to know
about it. I'm sorry that he can't go to
Agnes Scott, but maybe he can marry a
Hottentot as his daddy did!"

Mary Shewmaker is president of the
Memphis Agnes Scott Club, doing inval-
uable work with the club there, and help-
ing the office by checking up on the
Memphis girls. Mary is also temporarily
assistant to the Alumni Secretary at
Southwestern College of the Mississippi
Valley.

Ann Todd is doing secretarial work with
the Camp Fire Girls, and says that the
work is very interesting and even fascinat-
ing.

Betty (Fuller) Veltre wrote from Cuba
that she regretted missing the reunion, ad-
ding "When you once land on a sugar
mill you cannot always leave when you
want to. We are not coming up until
August, so it will be impossible."

Georgia Watson came up at the time
Dr. McLaughlin lectured at the college.
Georgia studied under him at the Uni-
versity of Chicago last winter when she
got her M.A. in history there. This sum-
mer Georgia is touring Europe with Miss
Gaylord.

Ruth Barnett, ex '28, sent in a pleasing
diversion from the humdrum question-
naires the office has been sending out. The
card was quite European, and boasted of
an entrancing stamp. Ruth sent back
"heartiest greetings to everyone there at
\. S. C. from a chronic European."

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Nannie Graham Sanders, ex '28, regret-
ted that she could not be back for her
class reunion but was busy going to sum-
mer school; she was at Radford State
Teachers' College for both terms and next
fall will see her as the sole teacher of a one-
room school in the mountains under a new
plan of teaching that is being tried out in
Virginia; Nannie Graham has just return-
ed from a visit to Marion (Daniel) Blue,
'27, and says that her home is a darling
and Marion a fine housekeeper. While
there, she saw "Dit" Worth, '29, who was
full of plans about going back to reunion
with a car full of alumnae, and writes that
"Dit" will be technician in the University
of Virginia hospital next year.

Mary (Toya) Junkin, ex '28, is now
designing cretonnes for the F. A. Foster
Company in Boston, Mass., makers of the
Puritan and Doulton. Mary has asked all
of her friends to refrain from buying
laundry bags, as she'll give them around
plentifully at Christmas time. Mary's ad-
dress is Wellesley Farms, Mass., Box 301.

Margaret Mixon, ex '28, is now working
with the Atlantic Coast Line in Dunnellon,
Fla.

1929

Class Secretary, Dorothy Hutton, Anna
Young Alumnae House, Agnes Scott Col-
lege, Decatur.

Pernette Adams, after arguing for four
years volubly and otherwise, "Do I love
Louis?" finally agreed with everyone
else, gave up the debate, and became Mrs.
J. Louis Carter on June 18th. Myra Jer-
vey, 1931, and Louise Garibaldi of Char-
lotte who visited Pernette at college in
1929 were her only attendants. The wed-
ding, from all reports, was a lovely one.
Pernette wore her mother's wedding dress,
and made a very beautiful bride. They will
be at home the first of July at 604 Clement
Avenue, where they have taken a furnished
apartment, and where Pernette reports
that she is honestly learning to cook, with
an expert for a teacher.

The wedding bells may not have rung as
yet for Catherine Allen, but they have
rung near enough to her for her to have
gotten some of the thrills. Catherine's
sister was married recently, and Cather-
ine was one of her attendants.

Esther (Nisbet) Anderson has an-
nounced the arrival of Nancy Nisbet An-
derson on Easter Sunday, April 20th. This
is the first of our class daughters, and
we wish to extend to the mother and
daughter the best wishes from 1929. The
baby is reported to be a darling, and even
at this early date has shown the ac-
tual influences of heredity, by evincing
unusual propensities for debating.

Therese Barksdale, now Mrs. George
Vinsonhaler, is making her home at 851 Mz
Jefferson Street, Jackson, Mississippi.
Therese has had a very serious illness re-
sulting in a mastoid operation from which
we are glad to report that she is recuper-
ating nicely now.

Martha Bradford has a secretarial posi-
tion in Columbus, and is reported as being
kept so busy that she can't even take
time out to go to the meetings of the
Columbus Club.

Miriam Broach and Alice Glenn dropped
by the Alumnae House sometime in the
early spring, looking very much like the
proverbial Mrs. Gott Rocks, and Alice
drove around in a few minutes in a brand
new Ford roadster, that boasts of a horn
that would actually make you leave home.
They may rave about the arduous duties
of librarians, but neither has shown any
evidences of having been under any par-
ticular strain, nor have the ravages of
time made any of its inroads on these
two.

Hazel Brown was married very quietly
on Easter Sunday evening in the living
room of the Browns' home in Stamps to
Mr. Earl Thornton Ricks. The wedding
took place in the presence of only the
immediate families, and a few very inti-
mate friends. Helon writes that Hazel
is quite happy, and that she (Helon) is
looking forward with a great deal of pleas-
ure to having a Lindbergh in the family,
for Earl is an aviator, and a very promis-
ing one at that.

Sara Carter has a position with the
Southern Bell Telephone Company in At-
lanta. She became quite indignant when
the secretary, in one of her frequent
weak moments, asked her if she were an-
other one of these "hello girls," and
promptly added to the contrary that she
was one of the schedule department. Now,
you ask her what that means, for I haven't
the nerve to be squelched another time!

Dorothy Cheek wrote from Eatonton
some time in March that "Teaching is
quite a revelation, but heaps of fun and I
love it! The wonderful spring weather
makes me quite homesick for Agnes Scott."

Sara Darrington is taking care of her
father and keeping house for him, and says
that it does keep her pretty busy.

Mary Ellis is still very enthusiastic
about her library work at North Avenue.
She came out for the Hoasc announce-
ments, and did credit to the class of 1929
as its representative.

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Mary (Ficklen) Barnett and Susanne
Stone came up for the week-end of May
Day, to talk over all the good old times
when they were roommates. Mary says
that housekeeping keeps hsr pretty busy.

Louise Fowler wrote from the Universi-
ty of Georgia that "Physical Education
may sound like a crip course, but I can't
think of many things harder."

Ethel Freeland and Violet Weeks came
here for Commencement, having driven up
from Louisiana with Ethel's brother. After
leaving here they drove on up to New
York, sailing from there to visit in Pales-
tine and the Holy Land, later going to
Europe in time for the Passion Play in
Oberammagau.

Lenore Gardner spent the week-end of
April 19 on the campus. Lenore is plan-
ning to go to Hawaii to teach. And if she
had had time to see Mary Nelson Logan,
we would surely think that she had taken
in all that Mary Nel said about "Hono-
lulu is to be recommended for all young
girls in search of romance."

Betty Gash is staying in New York to
go on with her library work next winter.
Which makes us think that "Little
Mary" Ellis didn't make false inferences
after all. Betty is going to spend her sum-
mer vacation in New Orleans with her
family.

Marion Green took time out from teach-
ing in Asheville the week-end of Easter,
and went to Charleston to see the Mag-
nolia Gardens. While in Saint Philip's
Cathedral Saturday she met Ruth Mallory,
who was also spending the week-end there.

Elizabeth Hatchett came down for Com-
mencement, and later went to Langdale
to visit Mary Lanier.

Cara Hinman has a brand new nephew,
of whom she is quite proud. And accord-
ing to Marguerite Gerard, 1931, he is well
worth being proud of.

Marion Hodges was married very quiet-
ly on Wedensday afternoon, April 2, at 3
o'clock at the home of Reverend and Mrs.
Nath Thompson of Marietta, Ga. Reverend
Thompson, a relative of the bride, per-
formed the ceremony. So now Marion is
to be addressed as the very new "Mrs.
Joseph L. Anthony." Their address is
319 Church Street, Decatur, Ga.

Hazel Hood spent the week-end of May
3rd in the Alumnae House with Dorothy
Hutton. School teaching had created such
a fog around Hazel, that she came a whole
week-end ahead of time for May Day.

Katherine Hunter says that not the "first
hundred years" are the hardest with a
school teacher, but the first semester. For
Kitty has been finding things comparative-
ly easy this second term, and all sorts of

nice reports have come back about the
way she handles the younger generation.
Sara Johnston was up here for several
week-ends this spring, but always more or
less in a rush.

Mary Alice Juhan came by the college
on her way home from a winter of strenu-
ous teaching in Crabbottom, Va., May 3rd.
And while she was here, she saw Rosa
White, who was also back for the week-
end.

Mary Lanier is going to Europe this
summer. We feel almost tempted to ap-
proach Mary on the subject of financeer-
ing, after that.

Mary Nelson Logan sailed from Japan
on March 16, landing in San Francisco
on April 2nd. After visiting in Monroe,
Mich.; Omaha, Nebr., and Appalachia, Va.,
Mary Nel came here to visit Martha the
last week-end in April. Then Mary Nel
went to Birmingham to visit Martha Riley
Selman for a while. She soon will be a
qualified chaperon for any number of in-
teresting tours.

Katherine Lott spent the last part of the
winter teaching in Waycross.

Mabel Marshall was working on her
thesis, as she is to get her M.A. in Latin
from the University of Kentucky this sum-
mer. Consequently, she was too tied down
to get back for the reunion.

Aileen Moore, now Mrs. Donald G. Top-
ping, is now living in Skyland, N. C.

Elinore Morgan is going to Georgia
summer school, continuing her work in
the Zoology Laboratory with Dr. Boyd,
and doing work toward her Master's de-
gree.

Elizabeth Moss, who has been teaching
the fourth grade in the E. Rivers School
on Peachtree Road, says that there is
nothing wrong with teaching as far as she
can see. When Elizabeth had her last
birthday, they brought her a birthday cake,
fruit, and flowers, so that we don't won-
der that she- had no complaint to make
about her pupils.

Alice McDonald has been taking prac-
tice teaching with the girls in the class of
1930. Alice is tihnking seriously about
teaching next year. She says that she
simply has to get to Europe, for she is a
conversational failure now that every one
that she knows has been.

Mary Prim went to Richmond, Va., in
April to be in the wedding party of Miss
Margaret Wade and Floyd Edward Adams.

Esther Rice came all the way from
Kingsville, Texas, for our reunion. Esther
says that she has been having some in-
teresting experiences teaching Mexicans,
and half-breeds this past winter at the
Tex-Mex School for Boys.

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Helen Ridley spent the week-end of May
Day in the Alumnae House with Dorothy
Hutton. She is still writing for the Bir-
mingham Post, and trying to be the Dor-
othy Dix of her home town, bringing the
present generation along as they should be.

Augusta Roberts came over to the
Vesper Services one Sunday night, and told
many interesting anecdotes in connection
with her work in the Atlanta Social Serv-
ice.

Rowena Runnete has been working in the
Financial Library of the National City
Bank in New York City this past winter.
She writes, "I have seen a good many
Agnes Scotters, including Emily Kings-
berry, Miss Bland, Miriam Preston,
Blanche Berry, Elaine Exton, Miss Edler,
and Lila Porcher." Rowena's New York
address is 35 East 37th Street.

Martha Riley Selman was operated on
for appendictis the end of March, thereby
interfering perceptibly with the plans she
and Mary Ray Dobyns had made for plan-
ning to spend the spring holidays at Agnes
Scott. However, she made a rapid recuper-
ation, and showed up for May Day look-
ing as fit as ever.

Mary Elizabeth Warren has been up to
her old tricks of gadding and that infinite-
ly! After all the heavenly times she had
at Mardi Gras, and visiting in Birmingham,
she went off to Nashville for a while, and
had no sooner come back from there be-
fore she was off to Florida and then up
to Annapolis. Whew! When asked where
she would go next, her prompt rejoinder
was that she might go anywhere but Eu-
rope, which does help in trying to keep
her located!

Violet Weeks spent Thursday, April 10,
and Friday, April 11, here with her two
sisters, Margaret and Olive. She may
have been busy this past wfnter teaching
in Canoe, but few will be able to compete
with the utterly fascinating yarns she can
tell of riding horseback, etc.

Helon (Brown) Williams and Hazel
(Brown) Ricks have the love of the entire
class of 1929, who sympathize with them
in the loss of their mother in Houston,
Texas, on March 30. Mrs. Brown was
loved by many of us here who had had
the pleasure fo knowing her while the
twins were here in college and we regret
to hear of her death.

Hazel Wolfe. And who said that a
woman can't keep a secret? Hazel had
been sporting a beautiful engagement ring
for sometime, and had been evading the
subject of "When are you going to get
married?" for perfect aeons, when the At-
lanta Constitution bowled the curious over
with the news that she had been mar-
ried on March 23rd to Mr. Don Williams
Frakes. They left on May 26th on their
honeymoon to points of interest in Europe.

Julia Efird, ex '29, was married on June
14th to Mr. Graham Pinson Dozier, Jr.

Pauline Brown, ex '29, has been teaching
in the public schools in Bristol, Va., this
past winter. She has been teaching
music, and singing over the radio, at
church, and in a sextette between teaching
hours. Her address there is 705 Bart
Street, Bristol, Va.

Catherine Louise Guller, ex '29, is now
Mrs. Gordon Stanley Bullock of 4613 North
A Street, Tampania, Tampa, Fla.

Ella Mae Hollingsworth, ex '29. has re-
signed from the advertising department in
Rich's to accept a position as private
secretary to the superintendent of the
American Railway Express Company, and
incidentally, we have heard rumors to the
effect that she mastered the art of short-
hand in a week!

Evelyn Josephs, ex '29, is doing all in
her power to keep up the reputation, and
let any one who has any doubts thereto,
read the following: Evelyn was married
the early part of May to Mr. Williams
Everette Phifer, Jr. Congratulations and
best wishes from us all!

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