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

Vol. XV NOVEMBER, 1936 No. 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frontispiece 2

Leone (Bowers) Hamilton

Our Library 3

President J. R. McCain

Alumnae Groups Taken in the Alumnae Garden in May 4

May Time and Reunions 5

Etching 6

Elena Greenfield, '32 /% , s - .: j >> ,

"We Think ' . \ J * T

Dell (Bernhardt) Wilson, '24 ;'** ''*

Daughters of the Institute "9'

Just Married .; ;10,'

Is It True What They Say About Aggie? 11

Four Weeks 12

"There Is a Little Wisdom to be Won" 12

Janef Preston, '21

Annual Reports 13

Through the College Gates 23

Office Notes 27

Concerning Ourselves 31

In Memoriam 61

Alumnae Week-End 62

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13

Reunions in June 63

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Our Library

The greatest achievement of Agnes Scott for the session 1935-1936 has been the erec-
tion and equipping of a new library building. We have long needed this. Our old build-
ing was adequate for many years and is still a very attractive feature of our campus. We
have long outgrown it, however, and the work of the College would have been handi-
capped without the erection of the new structure.

While it is not the most costly college library building that has been erected, the
total cost being about $230,000, it is one of the most nearly perfect buildings for the
purpose that has yet been erected on any campus. Miss Edna Hanley, our Librarian,
wrote her dissertation for the Master's degree on library buildings and made a careful
study of all existing buildings that have been regarded as outstanding in any features.

In making plans for our own building, we not only had the advantage of her careful
study and good judgment, but we have had expert advice and suggestions from leading
architects and librarians throughout the country.

Our building will be named in honor of Andrew Carnegie in recognition of his gen-
erosity in giving the first library building for the College and further recognition of the
many gifts made by the Carnegie Corporation to Agnes Scott.

Lack of space will not permit the enumeration of all the interesting features of our
new building. It is fireproof, sound-proof, and air-conditioned according to the latest
engineering ideas in these various fields. It is large enough so that we may be able to
accommodate with comfortable seats at one time all the faculty and students of the Col-
lege.

The main reading room will be equipped with davenports and easy chairs upholstered
in bright red and blue colors, with floor lamps, occasional tables, a fireplace, and other
features to invite comfortable and pleasant reading. Books and magazines will be in evi-
dence everywhere.

On the first floor there is a reading room of equal size which will be equipped with
orthodox table and chairs for study, note taking, and other serious pursuits.

An outdoor reading terrace, facing the southeast, will provide for a large number of
readers who will be accommodated with outdoor furniture, umbrellas, awnings, and other
devices to make outdoor reading or study quite satisfactory.

There are six stories of stacks, but only three are being equipped at this time. In
these stacks there are quite a number of carrels where faculty or students may gather
books for special study or research without having to take them out of the building and
without being disturbed in the regular reading room. Also on the third floor there will
be conference rooms where groups can get together for the discussion of matters of com-
mon interest. A lecture room, a moving picture room, another where students or faculty
may bring their typewriters for use in the building, a staff or reception room, and an
excellent museum room for art exhibits or for other similar purposes, are included in the
building. It is a satisfaction to us that the building is fully paid for, and that it is so
designed that it may be almost indefinitely enlarged if there should be need for such in
the future.

We hope that every alumna will visit the College and will help us to enjoy the new
building. J. R. McCain, President.

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Alumnae Groups Taken in the Alumnae Garden in May

Theodosia (Willingham)
Anderson wore one of her
commencement dresses of
1911 and was the hit of the
reunion luncheons.

Some of the Class of 1911
on the Monday afternoon of
commencement time.

1914 had the distinction of
bringing the mother of one
alumna and two daughters of
ilumnae members to its lunch-
eon.

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May Time and Reunions

Now with zippy breezes and crisp fall sunshine, it may seem a far cry back to May,
1936, but whenever memories of good times can be evoked, alumnae count neither the
season nor the manner, so this furnishes only the outline for every alumnae to hang there-
upon her own particular memories of those happy spring days when all the world was
young again and duties of the outside world rolled off our shoulders like so much water!

When the Friday of commencement week-end dawned, alumnae began to appear from
the four corners and you, who have been back, remember the shrieks and wild dashes, the
exclamation marks that dot the conversations of alumnae all over the campus: "Just the
same old Jane!" "How's the new job?" "Did you bring the picture of that daughter or
son?" "It's the same old Aggie, isn't it?" We wouldn't have to say any more for you to
know that you were right back in the midst of reunions and alumnae.

The alumnae program was the usual full one, with the children's party, given for
alumnae children, and one of the prettiest sights imaginable by the Decatur Agnes
Scott Club, with a marionette show which thrilled the youngsters with Jack and the
Bean Stalk, opening festivities. Saturday was one mad whirl from the time when all met
to have that late breakfast in the Tea House to the Trustees' luncheon, to the meeting
of the General Alumnae Association following, to Phi Beta banquet that night, followed
by Blackfriars' performance. Of course, Sunday was baccalaureate, with Dr. Frank Mor-
gan as the speaker, later Seniors vespers, then Open House given by the Alumnae Asso-
ciation to alumnae, seniors, their visitors, and faculty, which under the able management
of Augusta (Skeen) Cooper and her committee was a lovely occasion, taking place in
the Alumnae Garden just as the shadows of the late summer sun were falling over Inman.
Monday was the time especially reserved for the reunion classes, when the Institute girls,
with Miss Hopkins and Miss McKinney as their guests, the girls of the classes of '11, '12,
'13 and '14 held their luncheons in the Tea House, and the grads of '30, '31, '32, '33,
and '3 5 held their dinners in the evening. So much talk and so much laughter filled the
house that even as we try to write about it, we stop to enjoy the pleasure of it again our-
selves. Class day and a concert closed that day, and before alumnae could catch their
breath, it was Tuesday and time to snatch breakfast and dash over to see the processional,
to hear "Ancient of Days" pealing forth from the auditorium, to revel in the colorful
robes and caps of our august faculty, to live again our own day in the black-robed girls
who filed a little triumphantly and tremulously into the hall between lines of sopho-
mores and under the loving eyes of parents and friends. Then, it was over! With many
a promise to write and to come again next reunion, alumnae followed students in the
exodus and those of us left behind collapsed in chairs and talked it all over.

For lack of space, the list of returning alumnae printed below is limited to those who

were in the Alumnae House for their reunion luncheons and dinners, but there were

many, many other "daughters" back for Trustees' luncheon and other special events

whom Agnes Scott welcomed with open arms and to whom she always says:

"Come in the evening! Come in the morning!

Come when called! Come without warning!

"Come!"

ALUMNAE PRESENT AT REUNION LUNCHEONS AND DINNERS

Institute Allie (Watlington) Barnett, '95, Atlanta.

Mary (Crenshaw) Palmour, '97, College Alice (Brumby) Stickney, '94, Atlanta.

Park, Ga. Louise (Reese) Inman, '96, Atlanta.

Anna (Hannah) Booth, '99, Atlanta. Margaret Louise (Cannon) Howell, '97,

Estele (Brown) Gardner, '95, Atlanta. Atlanta.

Mamie (Mayson) Smith, '95, Decatur. Mary (McPherson) Alston, ex-'94, Atlanta.

Helen (Meade) Caffey, '93, Atlanta. Katie (Steele) Vickers, '97, Atlanta.

Nanna May Baker, '95, Atlanta. Grace Hannah Booth, '99, Atlanta.

Claude (Candler) McKinney, '96, Decatur. Bessie (Harwell) Dennis, '95, Atlanta.

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Bessie (Young) Brown, '98, Atlanta.

Annie (Emery) Plinn, '97, Atlanta.

Florence (McCormick) Waller, '95, Besse-
mer, Ala.

Estelle (Pattillo) Boynton, ex-'98, Atlanta.

Ruth (Hollyman) Pattillo, ex-'94, Atlanta.

Lula B. (Wright) Sturgeon, ex-'95, At-
lanta.

Mary (Neel) Kendrick, 94, Atlanta.

Lucy (Durham) Goss, ex- '95, Decatur.

Roba (Goss) Ansley, ex-1900, Decatur.
'11, '12, '13, '14 Classes

Mary Wallace Kirk, '11, Tuscumbia, Ala.

Carol (Stearns) Wey, '12, Atlanta.

Martha (Rogers) Noble, '14, Atlanta.

Lott (Blair) Lawton, '14, Washington,
D. C.

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13, De-
catur.

Essie (Roberts) Dupre, '14, Atlanta.

Mrs. W. T. DuPre, mother of Essie (Rob-
erts) Dupre, Atlanta.

Anne Dupre, daughter of Essie (Roberts)
Dupre, Atlanta.

Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson, '11,
Atlanta.

Hazel (Murphy) Elder, '22, Marietta, Ga.

Adelaide Cunningham, '11, Atlanta

Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, '12, Decatur.

Allie (Candler) Guy, '13, Atlanta.

Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes, '13, Greenville.

Jamie W. MeGaughey, '13, Atlanta.

Cornelia Cooper, '12, Atlanta.

Marie (Maclntyre) Alexander, '12, At-
lanta.

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, '12, At-
lanta.

Mary Noble, daughter of Martha (Rogers)
Noble, Atlanta.

'30, '31, '32, '33, '35 Classes

Lois (Combs) Kropa, '30, Montclair, N. J.

Charley Will Candle, '30, Stone Mountain,
Ga.

Frances Messer, '30, Atlanta.

Crystal Hope (Wellborn) Gregg, '30, Mc-
Clellanville, S. C.

Catherine (Crawford) Adams, '30, Atlanta.

Anne McCallie, '31, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Cornelia (Taylor) Stubbs, '31, Atlanta.

Louise (Ware) Venable, '31, Atlanta.

Elizabeth Simpson, '31, Atlanta.

Margaret G. Week, '31, New Iberia, La.

Shirley (McPhaul) Whitfield, '31, Atlanta.

Margaret Maness, '32, Atlanta.
Miriam Thompson, '32, Atlanta.
Mildred Hall, '31, Decatur.
Sara (Berry) West, '32, Atlanta.
Rosemary (Honiker) Rickman, '32, Paris,

Ky.
Catherine (Baker) Matthews, '32, Atlanta.
Sara Lane Smith, '32, Decatur.
Louise Stakely, '32, Atlanta.
Olive Weeks, '32, Atlanta.
Penelope (Brown) Barnett, '32, Atlanta.
Mary (Miller) Brown, '32, Atlanta.
Mimi O'Beirne, '32.
Sara Wilson, '33, Anniston, Ala.
Jewell Coxwell, '33, Decatur.
Marie Moss, '33, Decatur.
Grace (Fincher) Trimble, '33, Atlanta.
Jura Taffar, '33, Decatur.
Ora Craig, '33, Decatur.
Katherine (Woltz) Green, '33, Atlanta.
Margaret (Belote) Morse, '33, Atlanta.
Margaret Bell, '33, Shelbyville, Ky.
Gail Nelson, '33, Atlanta.
Louella (Dearing) Hunter, '33, Atlanta.
Helen (Etheredge) Griffin, '33, Quincy,

Fla.
Mary Clarke, '33, Atlanta.
Eugenia Norris, '33, Atlanta.
Kathleen (Hope) Fling, '33, Atlanta.
Evelyn Campbell, '33, Atlanta.
Margaret Ridley, '33, Decatur.
Bobbie Kilpatrick, '33, Atlanta.
Willie Florence Eubanks, '35, Atlanta.
Clara Morrison, '35, Atlanta.
Katherine Hertzka, '35, Atlanta.
Ida Lois McDaniel, '35, Atlanta.
Carol Griffin, '35, East Granby, Conn.
Mary Summers, '35, Atlanta.
Virginia Byers, '35, Atlanta.
Helen Derrick, '35, Augusta, Ga.
Betty Lou (Houck) Smith, '35, Atlanta.
Elizabeth Alexander, '35, Atlanta.
Caroline Dickson, '35, Anderson, S. C.
Mary Green, '35, Decatur.
Elizabeth Thrasher, '35, Decatur.
Marie (Simpson) Rutland, '35, Decatur.
Vella Marie Behm, '35, Decatur.
Anne Scott Harman, '35, Atlanta.
Dorothea Blackshear, '35, Atlanta.
Jule McClatchey, '35, Atlanta.
Virginia Wood, '35, Atlanta.
Frances (Cassels) Stevens, ex- '35, New

York City.

ETCHING

Each day seems to be an etching,

That Time, creator bent,

Worked on with an artist's patience

And to some client sent

To hang in the golden chapel

'Neath the arch of memory.

Elena Greenfield, '32.

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(It is the hope of the Quarterly editors that this column may continue in each issue
of this year with contributions from our alumnae on interesting and important questions
of the day. If you have something to contribute for the next Quarterly, please send it into
the Alumnae Office by December 1st. We are very grateful to Dell (Bernhardt) Wilson,
'24, for allowing ns to publish the following article as our opening discussion. It would be
interesting to have some "for and against" answers to the questions she raises!)

"Wisdom was never learned at any
knee," says Edwin Arlington Robinson in
"Tristam" and, indeed, if I announce that
I am about to preach the evils of wasted
opportunity, it is probable I shall lose the
attention of most readers immediately.
Ears become dulled to this repetitious
theme long before they are out of high
school.

But perhaps I shall regain the interest
of a few alumnae if I state that what I
shall have to say is concerned with the
problems of children and education and
money problems close, I know, to most of
us who, as wives or sisters or aunts, are
now receiving and endeavoring to disburse
salaries to the best interests of family
economic units. It has been only since I
have been faced with this necessity of dis-
bursing wisely my twelve years since I
left college that I have acquired any-
thing like a sense of values; and it is also
during this twelve-year period that there
has been growing on me the conviction
that I did not get value received out of
the rather sizeable sum spent for my col-
lege education.

Twelve years is not a long time for one
of my equable temperament and habits of
thought to reach a conclusion. This sum-
mer, however, I came to the point of voic-
ing my skepticism to one of the few pro-
fessors with whom I still maintain contact.
Her sympathetic interest provided the
final stimulus necessary to cause me to of-
fer these reflections to the Quarterly.
Though I realize the unfairness of draw-
ing conclusions from a college experience
like mine, which was neither regular nor
typical, I am going to set them down in
the hope that others who have the educa-
tion of a future generation to consider
may be stimulated by my specific and hor-
rid example to think on these things.

I would like at the outset to absolve the
college, in the sense of its personnel and
curriculum, from any blame for my failure
to become educated. The more I reflect
upon it, the more certain I become that the
proper scholastic ideals and opportunities
were there for my improvement, and my
regret becomes more poignant, my grovel-
ing more abject, as my appreciation of the
college's standard increases. I have, on
occasion, paid out my money to hear a
symphony and had, after it was over, the
same sense of wasted privilege. The per-
formance was there, technically and
aesthetically perfect, for me to hear, but
due to certain inadequacies within me and
certain distractions without, most of the
music was lost somewhere between the
rostrum and my ear. Perhaps my college
education and that of students more and
less like me failed to take full effect for
the same reasons: first, because of my im-
maturities and second, because of outside
distractions. Without unduly absolving
myself, I feel I must say that these two
factors are not entirely the fault of nor
in the control of the undergraduate. They
should be the concern first, of parents, and
second, of the college.

I shall not take up here the question of
parental responsibility. One notes gladly,
however, that modern educational facilities
are producing more and more college-bred
parents who comprehend college problems
and are sending to their alma maters sur-
prisingly well-poised offspring. Such was
not entirely the case even in my day.

To what extent is the immaturity of the
college student recognized by the college?
I am too far removed at present to say.
I know Agnes Scott's standing, and I know
that, besides the entrance requirements,
certain other factors are taken into con-
sideration in the selection of candidates so

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that a high type of student may be assur-
ed. I recall a statement of Dr. McCain's
on this subject which seemed rather
strange to me at the time but which has
clarified itself in my mind since. "We
want girls," he said, "whose parents can
just barely afford to keep them here." I
understand now the qualities of character
likely to be formed by a home environment
not too luxurious or indulgent. Undoubt-
edly a selection of girls who had by neces-
sity been forced to live close to reality
would make for a mature. student body.

Perhaps the real gauge of the maturity
of an incoming class is not to be found on
their entrance cards. I have seen it accur-
ately measured in the eyes of the faculty
committees who, tongue in cheek, receive
those cards: "How young they are! how
lovely! how young!" And we have seen
it in each other's eyes, have we not, O re-
turning sisters seen it with shame and
a sense of the years: "Was I ever as young
as that? How young they are! how lovely!
how young!"

How is this immaturity, less or more,
met by the college ? I can recall only im-
perfectly, but my impression is that it is
loftily ignored. From the outset, save for
certain shadowy guardians mentioned as
faculty advisors and upperclass sisters, the
incoming student is thrown on her own.
She is treated not merely as a college but
as a university "woman." Early in the
year she is, or used to be, assigned New-
man's "Idea of a University" to read and
follow. I believe in all this. It has been
my observation in my small family that
high example and inspiration are the best
of good discipline. But they call for a de-
gree of perception and maturity in the
disciplinee.

Distractions as I knew them were of
two kinds the purely social ones occur-
ing mostly outside the campus; and those
within the walls, the extra-curricular ac-
tivities of the student body. Of the two,
the former were probably less harmful as
they were purely pleasurable and did not
involve the back-breaking work often at-
tendant upon those instigated by the stu-
dents themselves.

It happened, unfoi'tunately for me, that
I had a smattering of small abilities I
cannot call them talents which found
ready expression in extra-curricular activ-
ities. I recall it was customary to give
the Freshman class cards on which they
might list their outside interests and their
aptitudes, if any. I was delighted with
this, and checked everything, later modest-
ly erasing one aptitude lest I appear too
boastful. Had I read as I ran, I would
have heard Newman warn "Recreations
are not education; accomplishments are
not education." But pleasanter vistas than

English I were being opened to me, fasci-
nating occupations invented by student in-
genuity or bequeathed by college tradi-
tion. Few indeed became the classes to
which I gave undivided attention. I man-
aged not to flunk much but my grades
were always poor, and as for the diges-
tion of what I learned, the discussion and
contemplation urged by Newman as the
means by which knowledge is converted to
culture well, that was something out of
a book.

It is my observation that boarding stu-
dents fall loosely into three groups: first,
the campus leaders, holders of the best
student offices, exceptional girls and there-
fore fair students; second, the "bones," the
bookworms, universally despised; third is
the group of the merely average, the gen-
ial and the willing. The first group is pro-
tected from too great dissipation of energ-
ies by its own maturity and by the point
system; the second is ignored; but it is
the third that bears the trivial burdens of
campus life. Theirs not to reason why,
theirs but to make posters, serve on com-
mittees, decorate the chapel and be the
audience. I know, for it was to this group
I belonged and for them I make my plea.

The arguments for extra-curricular ac-
tivities are perfectly familiar to me. They
formed my creed during four years of
college life. Even Newman avers that
there is much to be said for such. Only,
when one speaks of extra-curricular activ-
ities, how much does the term have to
cover? how much per girl? and which
girls? It seems to me that when I left
college, campus activities were becoming
pretty much like my Christmas lists of
today: many items are added, but no
names are ever dropped.

Perhaps, as I say, it is unwise of me,
out of my own imperfect experience, to
generalize or offer advice. I have given
the matter a good deal of thought, how-
ever, and though it is too late to do much
about me, I have certain definite aims in
regard to my offspring which I will offer
for what they are worth.

The more I see of the strain and compe-
tition of modern life, the more I believe in
the idea of training for living, as well as
for making a living. This is the old tra-
ditional, liberal arts, Agnes Scott idea. If
such privileges are financially possible, I
shall wish to send my children to such a
college, but I realize that I shall have to
have them well-prepared and mature be-
fore they are ready to comprehend the
university spirit. I would like to choose a
school where learning is made to seem im-
portant, attractive and inspiring. I believe
one way of doing this would be to make
much of the professor-pupil relationship,
"an alma mater, knowing her children one

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by one." I would not object to a little
oversight and discipline, individually ad-
justed, if this is not presupposing a posi-
tively celestial faculty. I still think with
delight of the Lecture Association at
Agnes Scott, and hope that it has been
continued. The inspirational value of per-
sonal contact with great people is inestim-
able, and I want my children to remember
their college years as being full of good
talk, good music and good art. And, by
the way, I shall insist that they never
sell a text book. They may not always
have access to a good library, and more

things may be wrought by an old syllabus
than Sophomores dream of.

Campus interests they should have, cer-
tainly; I should like them to know a sensi-
ble neglect of books. But I want their out-
side activities to be relaxing, healthy and
pleasurable rather than in the nature of
more work. And how much better those
less arduous sports like tennis, golf and
swimming, which may be carried over into
later life, than hockey and basket-ball.

Mine are boys, of course husky ones,
and already I am getting my anti-football
data in hand.

Dell (Bernhardt) Wilson, '24.

Daughters of the Institute Back for Reunion in May

At the reunion luncheon of the reunion classes of the Institute days of Agnes Scott
held in the Alumnae House, twenty-four former students were present, Miss Louise Mc-
Kinney, loved teacher from Institute days, and "Principal" Nannette Hopkins being
delighted guests of these girls. Lucy (Durham) Goss was in charge of reunion plans for
these years and such a job as she did! In fact such a job that every one said the reunion
was to be an annual one and phooey to any Alumnae Association which said such things
can't be!

So many were the tales told of midnight boxes, of feasts after lights, of serenades by
Decatur boys out on the dummy tracks on moonlight nights, of candy lifted up by means
of sheets from the serenaders, that the students of toda} r may well cogitate as to whether
so much freedom hasn't taken a little something of the zest out of college!

It was a grand party, that reunion luncheon. And if you who weren't there want to
know who was, look under the article headed "May Time and Reunions" and you will
find them listed. And at the next one in May, they are planning to have the boys! Boys?
Yes, there were six that first year Agnes Scott opened, Dr. Lewis Gaines and Mr. Don
Donaldson being the present local alumni. None of them came back for the second year
but according to Lucy (Durham) Goss they are all proud of their Alma Mater and will
be among those present another year.

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ALEXANDER-PARKER: Mary Charles
Alexander, '33, to Benjamin Funderburk
Parker in June.

AUSTIN-MANN: Gladys Ruth Austin,
'29, to William Ellis Mann, in June.

BARRON-LEITCH: Aloe Risse Barron,
'34, to James John Leitch, in July.

BELOTE-MORSE: Margaret Alice Bel-
ote, '33, to Frank Regan Morse, on Aug-
ust 11.

BRIGGS-BELLAMY: Leonora Briggs,
'29, to Lester Bellamy, in June.

BROWN-LOGAN: Laura Brown, '32, to
Dr. Charles Logan, on May 31.

BROWN-HAMRICK: Janice Brown, ex-
'35, to James Nathaniel Hamrick, on
July 14.

CANNON-PERRY: Gwynne Cannon, '24,
to John McDonald Perry.

CASSEL-FRAZER: Dorothy Cassel, '34,
to Dr. Havelock Frank Frazer, on June 3.

COMBS-KROPA: Lois Combs, '30, to
Edward Lewis Kropa, on July 11.

COX-HOUSE: Mary Elizabeth Cox, ex-
'39, to Oscar Carl House on August 4.

CUNNINGHAM-CAYCE: Mary Eliz-
abeth Cunningham, ex-'28, to Eldred Cayce,
on September 12.

DAVIS -WALTERS: Ellen Cornelia
Davis, '36, to James Durham Walters, on
August 1.

DAVIS-GARY: Elsie Bischoff Davis,
'28, to Paul Turner Gary, on May 2.

DONNELLY-MEEHAM: Mary E. Don-
nelly, ex-'lO, to Lieut. Col. John William
Meeham, U. S. A., on September 16.

EVANS -LEICHFIELD: Mary Jane
Evans, '35, to James Leichfield, in June.

GAINES - WILBURN: Mary Eloise
Gaines, '28, to Clifton Benjamin Wilbum,
on September 29.

GERATY-SNOWDEN: Mary Adelia
Geraty, ex- '33, to Barnard Elliott Baker
Snowden, in the fall.

GLASS -WOMELDORF: Margaret
Downton Glass, '33, to John Andrew
Womeldorf, in June.

GOODRICH-GREEN: Mary Jane Good-
rich, '30, to Wilson Payne Green, on Aug-
ust 8.

GRIER-EDMUNDS: Elizabeth Grier,
'28, to Leland Edmunds, on August 26.

HARRIS-SASNETT: Mrs. Ruth B. Har-
ris, ex-'30, to William Burke Sasnett, on
June 26.

HENDERSON-VAN DE ERVE: Julia
Dowd Henderson, ex-'35, to Mark Robert
Van de Erve, on September 12.

HILLHOUSE - BALDWIN: Nell Hill-
house, '28, to John Charles Baldwin, on
September 5.

HOKE-McGEHEE: Laura Hoke, ex-'33,
to Charles Burman McGehee, on May 16.

HUDSON -DANKINS: Anne Chapin
Hudson, '32, to Frank Dankins, on May 23.

HUMBER- LITTLE: Anna Stallings
Humber, '35, to Winston Woodward Little,
in August.

HUTTON-MOUNT: Dorothy Winifred
Hutton, '29, to James Edward Mount, on
June 10.

HUTCHINSON-JACKSON: Mary Eliz-
abeth Hutchinson, '35, to James Gibson
Jackson, on April 2.

JOHNSON-THOMPSON: Elizabeth
Johnson, '34, to Leonard Marbrey Thomp-
son, on July 7.

KUMP-ROBERTS: Margaret Kump,
'34, to Donald Russell Roberts, on Septem-
ber 9.

LEWIS-CHANDLER: Jane Elizabeth
Lewis, '36, to John Lidelle Chandler, on
July 29.

MATHIS-HOLT: Betty Mathis, ex-'38,
to Thad G. Holt, on October 5.

MATHIS-HOLLAND: Hettie Mathis,
'32, to Marvin Holland, on September 1.

McCAIN-BOYCE: Louise Irene McCain,
'34, to Eugene Maxwell Boyce, on Aug-
ust 14.

McMURRY-ROLLESTON: Hester Mc-
Murry, '16, to Moreton S. Rolleston, Sr.

McWHORTER-JORDAN: Adelaide Mc-
Whorter, '30, to Richard Lawton Jordan,
on June 20.

MERRIT-CAVENAUGH: Marian John-
son Merritt, '24, to Harold Rupert Caven-
augh, on June 13.

MORRIS-MITCHELL: Mildred Morris,
'30, to Lane Mitchell, in June.

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PARKS-ACTON: Nevelyn Parks, ex-
'36, to Herbert R. Acton, Jr., on July 16.

PAYNE-BAUGH: Carolyn Payne, ex-'
30, to James Franklin Berry Baugh, on
June 10.

ROBERTSON-JARMAN: Evelyn Rob-
ertson, '36, to Martin Jarman, on June 24.

SKEEN-DAWSEY: Mary Elizabeth
Skeen, '32, to Thomas Wiley Dawsey, in
July.

SPIVEY-MASSEY: Laura Jarman
Spivey, '33, to William Kenney Massie,
Jr., on September 6.

SYDNOR-McCORMICK: Louise Ley-
burn Sydnor, '28, to Hugh Holmes Mc-
Cormick, Jr., on June 6.

THRASHER-BALDWIN: Elizabeth
Thrasher, '35, to Asbury Quillian Baldwin,
in October.

TUCKER-STURTE VANT: Norma
Tucker, '26, to Julian Flad Sturtevant, on
September 11.

VINES-WRIGHT: Mary Henderson
Vines, '36, to Charles Corley Wright, on
October 1.

W AID-TAYLOR: Frances Thurber
Waid, special '35, to George Otis Taylor,
Jr., on September 14.

WALKER-WELLS: Jane Walker, ex- '20,
to John Edward Wells, on August 29.

WESLEY - ROBINSON: Louise Eliz-
abeth Wesley, '33, to Nelson Robinson, on
May 9.

WILLIAMS-LESLEY: Kathryn Wil-
liams, ex-'36, to H. G. Lesley, on June 16.

YOUNG-BELL: Martha Hall Young,
ex-'36, to Reginald Bell, on June 26.

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YES!!!

THE NEW LIBRARY does have a terrace with tables and striped umbrellas that
smack of Paris and Palm Beach!

BOYD, the ex-private domain of the quiet-loving faculty, has been changed to regu-
lar bedlam since the Freshmen and Giddy were turned loose in it. A few stray cats that
had to move from Science Hall add to the social life of the place. The cats and a fine
bull frog in the Alumnae Garden lily pool broadcast nightly over ASC.

REBEKAH LOBBY does have gorgeous new furniture, and gold draperies to boot,
and it is now the place on the campus for dates!

THE LIBRARY STAFF has a cute little kitchenette, completely equipped with a
GE refrigerator and electric stove, hidden away up in the west corner in their lounge, and
when they get fed up on the students and too many books, they seek nourishment of a
different order in the seclusion of their private domain. (Note: The profit on imported
tea has increased by leaps and bounds in this region due to the tremendous demands from
the Agnes Scott library staff.)

THE SILHOUETTE TEA ROOM, under the management of Mrs. Kerrison, is open
all day long, and the ten-to-ten-thirty hour is especially dedicated to the freshmen. A
radio has been placed in the tea room and dancing before bedtime is allowed and even
encouraged!

THE AGNES SCOTT RADIO PROGRAM has been radically changed and will
present a series of episodes in the lives of three college girls over the weekly broadcast.
The prom-trotter, the bookworm, and the tom-boy athlete compose the cast. The first
installments are plenty good!

THE RED LEATHER COUCHES in the library are the last word in sumptuousness.
They turn one's thought to cozy fires and the person instead of to Freud and the latest
dirt on the chromosones! If they would put those couches in the date parlors, me thinks
the sixty-six per cent would increase by leaps and bounds.

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The Four Weeks That Don't Make a Month!

Left to right: Violet, '29, Margaret, '31,
Olive, '32, and Lilly Weeks, '36, four sisters
who have graduated from Agnes Scott Col-
lege.

"There is a Little Wisdom to be Won.

There is a little wisdom to be won
From Time, the ruthless runner in the dark,
Who takes our treasured days beneath the sun
And leaves us nothing but a cryptic mark
To ponder on the ground. His giant word
The pigmy mind must battle to construe,
And though it never can be plainly said,
Its meaning splits the narrow heart in two.
Love, if it be love, will wake from sleep,
As winter trees, untroubled yet by spring,
Have for uncounted Aprils felt the deep
Compulsion of the earth's awakening.
Love, if it be love, is like the earth,
That comes unnumbered seasons to re-birth.

Janef Newman Preston, '21.

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13

Annual Reports

MINUTES OF THE GENERAL
ALUMNAE MEETING

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
met on Saturday, May 30, at 3:30 o'clock
in Mr. Johnson's studio. The change m
time and place for the meeting proved
very satisfactory as many alumnae re-
mained after the Trustees' luncheon for
the meeting.

Mrs. Prances (Craighead) Dwyer pre-
sided over the meeting. The minutes of
the last meeting were read and approved.
The report of the treasurer was accepted.

The message from the president brought
the splendid news of a gift of $400.00
voted the Association by the Trustees.

Report of the former general secretary,
Dorothy Hutton, was read.

Mrs. Crawford Barnett, chairman of the
nominating committee, gave the following
report:

President: Daisy Frances Smith, '24.

First vice-president: Janice Stewart
Brown, '24.

Second vice-president: Nannie Camp-
bell, '23.

Secretary: Helene (Norwood) Lam-
mers, '22.

Treasurer: Margaret Ridley, '33.

Committee chairmen are:

Radio Publicity: Ruth Moore, '34.

Newspaper Publicity: Letitia (Rock-
more) Lange, '33.

Curriculum: Emma Pope (Moss) Dieck-
mann, '13.

Tea Room: Martha Stansfield, '21.

Local Clubs: Sara Slaughter, '26.

Grounds: Eloise (Gay) Brawley, '16.

Entertainment: Betty Lou (Houck)
Smith, '35.

Student Loan: Kenneth Maner, '27.

Constitution and By-Laws: Mary (Cren-
shaw) Palmour, Institute.

Reports of the following standing com-
mittees were given: entertainment, pre-
paratory schools, local clubs, house and
tea room, house decorations, publicity,
student loan. The constitution was pre-
sented for revision as recommended by
Patricia Collins, chairman of Committee
on By-Laws and Constitution. The revis-
ion was accepted.

Announcement was made that Frances
(Craighead) Dwyer, retiring president of
the Association, was appointed Alumnae
Trustee.

The meeting was adjourned, there being
no other business.

Respectfully submitted,
Louise (Brown) Hastings,

Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE AGNES SCOTT
ALUMNAE COUNCIL MEETING

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Council met
an the Anna Young Alumnae House on
May 28, 1936, at 4 o'clock. Twenty-five
members of the Council were present.
Frances (Craighead) Dwyer presided.

The meeting was opened with the read-
5ng of the minutes.

Mrs. Dwyer discussed the obligations
of alumnae to the college, and Miss Nan-
ette Hopkins talked on the advancements
and improvements in the relations between
the students and the college. More liberal
social privileges have brought about con-
tentment and happiness, and noticeably
pleasant relationships exist between the
faculty and students. The new library
gives an opportunity for more quiet study
and concentration.

The largest senior class in the history
of Agnes Scott was graduated this year,
with 107 degrees awarded.

Adelaide Stevens, president of Student
Government reported:

1. Check on executive, judiciary, and
legislative branch of administration.

2. Parliamentary class conducted by
Miss Florence Smith.

3. Suggestion that a member of Mortar
Board be placed on Council.

4. Mortar Board wishes a committee of
three appointed to decorate the day stu-
dent rooms.

Sarah Spencer, president of Y. W. C. A.,
reported:

1. Theme of programs for the year was
"Realizing Christ."

2. The Y. W. C. A. had sponsored a
series of vocational guidance courses.

3. The Social Service Group worked
with the Syrian Mission in Atlanta.

Mary Snow, President of Day Students,
reported:

1. Mortar Board built mail boxes in day
student room in basement of Main Build-
ing.

2. Requests for tea room sandwiches at
price of drug store ones.

Dr. J. R. McCain reported:

1. Extensive new pavements as part of
elaborate building plan.

2. New library.

3. Plans for Faculty House.

4. Improvement of May Day grounds.
As there was no further business, the

meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Louise (Brown) Hastings.

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SECRETARY'S REPORT OF THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The Executive Committee of the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association met at the
Alumnae House, May 11, at 2 o'clock, the
president, Frances (Craighead) Dwyer,
presiding.

Following the new policy of this body,
no regular reports, except that of the Gen-
eral Secretary, Dorothy Hutton, were read.
The committees presented only the prob-
lems and situations which had developed
during their year's work, or suggestions
for next year's work.

The committee unanimously and heart-
ily voted that a wedding present be sent
to Dorothy Hutton, it being the sense of
the meeting that any such present would
only be a small representation of the af-
fection in which she is held by the alum-
nae.

Following the report of the treasurer
and the presentation of the proposed bud-
get, Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansell of-
fered the suggestion of an endowment
plan for insuring the future of the Alum-
nae House, which plan was enthusiastical-
ly referred to the attention of the incom-
ing Board.

A change in the personnel of the tea
room management was presented by Dick
Scandrett, chairman of the Tea Room
Committee. Eight applicants had been in-
terviewed with no satisfactory results and
many problems had been considered by this
committee. There was a discussion of a
return to the former policy of alumnae
management of the tea room with a paid
tea room manager. After much consider-
ation, the matter was left for final de-
cision in the hands of a special commit-
tee appointed by the president, consisting
of these people: Dick Scandrett, Cora
Frazer (Morton) Durrett, Fannie G. (May-
son) Donaldson.

Alberta Palmour, field alumnae secre-
tary, expressed the need for closer contact
with alumnae office in her work, feeling
that much more could be accomplished if
preparatory correspondence were carried
on by the alumnae office.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers, vice chair-
man of the House Decorations Committee,
told of the plans and hopes for the re-
decoration of the Alumnae House, follow-
ing the plan of Mary Miller, a local dec-
orator.

The president suggested a plan for an-
other year: that the Seniors be guests of
honor at the Open House during com-
mencement week-end and that the regular
Senior party of the Alumnae program be
changed to one in honor of the Junior
class, thus giving the Alumnae Associa-

tion an early contact with the student
body.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23,

Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE
BOARD MEETING

A special meeting of the Executive
Board was called at the Alumnae House
on May 28 at 3 o'clock.

Recommendations from the former sec-
retary were submitted, asking that the of-
fice of the Alumnae Association be moved
to Buttrick Hall, and explanatory reasons
were presented.

Augusta (Skeen) Cooper moved that
this recommendation not be considered
since it would destroy the tie between the
student body and the Alumnae House.

Frances (Craighead) Dwyer presented
a revised Constitution, recommended by
Patricia Collins, chairman of the Constitu-
tion and By-Laws Committee of the Ex-
ecutive Board. This revision was accepted.

The meeting adjourned as there was no
further business.

Respectfully submitted,

Louise (Brown) Hastings.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

Advancement was hardly the keynote of
the Alumnae Association's activities for
1935-36. We have been able, however, to
carry on the usual routine, the maintain-
ing of the Alumnae House and office, the
publication of three creditable quarterlies
and the upkeep of the files.

The secretary's salary was reinstated;
this was one of our objectives for the year.
The other objective was to increase sub-
stantially the number of alumnae mem-
berships; this we did not achieve.

The administration has recommended
that we have two alumnae secretaries, one
to carry on the office work; the other to
represent the Association at local club
meetings and to make an effort to inter-
est additional alumnae in Association
work. Through the co-operation of the
college this has been made possible for
next year; Mrs. D. B. Donaldson will di-
rect the work of the Association and Miss
Nell Chamlee will be in charge of the
office work.

This administration also realized that
the work of the Association is handicapped
by its present budget and that we are
not able to do all for the college that we
could accomplish with an increased bud-
get. This situation was outlined to the
Board of Trustees on May 29, 1936; they

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15

voted to give the Association $1,200.00 for
1936 which is an increase of $400.00 over
the previous gift.

Committees and individuals have co-
operated with the Executive Committee to
carry on the Association's work this year
and in completing my two-year office, let
me thank all of you for your support. Let
me express my enjoyment in serving as
our president; it was a position of honor
and I sincerely appreciate your having
chosen me for this office.

Respectfully submitted,
Frances (Craighead) Dwyer,

President.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL
SECRETARY

With the help of seven students now in
College on student loan, the Alumnae Sec-
retary has carried on the routine work
incidental to the Alumnae Office and
Alumnae House.

With the hope that an Alumnae Direc-
tory might be published this spring, par-
ticular attention was given throughout the
session to file correction. A request was
mailed early in the year to class secre-
taries and to local club presidents, ask-
ing them to bring the information sub-
mitted up to date. With the additional
help of the Field Alumnae Secretary, in
her extensive contacts with alumnae, as
well as high school students, many further
corrections were made possible for the
files. Frequent inquiries from local
branches of the A. A. U. W. for a list of
those eligible to membership in that locale
led to our recording on the geographic
file, Ithe additional infott'/mation of the
class of each alumna. As an experiment
this session, one dues-notice took the form
of an appeal which was accompanied by
a sample sheet or sheets from the
Quarterly with news of the class of the
particular alumna who had dropped mem-
bership with the Association. So gratify-
ing was the response to this, that the pres-
ent Secretary is passing on to her succes-
sor the suggestion that this type of ap-
peal be used in the fall for the entire list
of former alumnae members. The informa-
tion of classification had also to be added
to these cards. These details, while dry,
will account for many hours of tedious
work.

The Alumnae Quarterly has been pub-
lished three times. The fourth issue was
eliminated because of next year's set-up
and its requirement of $100 more for
salaries. It is hoped that an increased
membership and sound financial program
next session will make possible a full
schedule of this publication. In looking
ahead, the Secretary hopes that the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Quarterly can adopt the

advertising used by similar publications,
thereby increasing the revenue for its
publication.

Regular monthly contacts have been
maintained with the Atlanta Club, the De-
catur Club, the Atlanta Business Girls'
Club, and the local branch of the A. A. U.
W. In February the Alumnae Secretary,
accompanied by the Field Alumnae Secre-
tary, made a trip to Rock Hill, S. C, to
attend the regional conference of District
Three of the American Alumni Council.
The Secretary gave a paper on "Training
the Undergraduate for Alumnae-hood."

In January the Secretary made a trip to
Columbus, Ga., and to Birmingham, Ala.,
with the Field Alumnae Secretary. In this
way she met with two out-of-town alumnae
groups.

Three informal meetings of the Grand-
daughters have been arranged and attend-
ed by the Secretary. Many expressions of
the appreciation of this group have come
to the office.

At the suggestion of the Secretary, local
high school students were entertained dur-
ing this session at parties for their in-
dividual schools. The Association should
be very grateful to Alberta Palmour for
the original and capable way in which she
has taken charge of this project. The
Secretary helped with only two of these
during her absence from the campus.

In November a reunion of the class of
'35 was promoted. Reunions this spring
have been covered by form letters from
the Secretary to those in the classes of
'93, '94, '95, '11, '12, '13, '14, '30, '31, '32,
'33, and '35.

In connection with radio publicity, the
office worked with a committee in pre-
paring the Founder's Day program. Its
success should be attributed to Polly
Vaughan, Mary Ben (Wright) Erwin,
Margaret Belote, Betty Lou (Houck)
Smith, and Janef Preston and to the per-
formers themselves Miss Hopkins, Dr.
McCain, Miss Torrance, Mary Evelyn
Wall, Mr. Julius Scott, and Mr. Luther
Carroll. The Secretary tried to send to
alumnae, through the daily correspond-
ence, up-to-date information of the radio
programs to be sponsored each Wednes-
day, and to follow through by having some
one local alumna listen in each week and
pass on some comment to the chairman
and the participants.

Never before has the Alumnae House
had such regular boarders. The session has
brought many guests to us for a longer
than usual period of time and while their
presence in the House created additional
expenses, the income has been remarkably
good and has warranted our exceeding the
budget allotment for maintenance and up-
keep and furnishing. The addition of

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furniture to the living room by the At-
lanta Club has evoked many compliments.
On the exterior, we feel that the House
has been greatly improved by the walk
and shrubs which have been made possible
by the college and the Grounds Commit-
tee.

Taking our cue from other up-and-com-
ing associations, it seems advisable to an-
ticipate that day when our office will be
with the others in the Administration
Building. Many valuable personal con-
tacts with students and faculty are being
lost through the many present necessary
trips across the campus. In the office it-
self, the filing of old annual cuts in a
systematic and practical way in Buttrick
Hall, in space formerly utilized by the
Library, should be worked toward, as
should the practice of keeping for each
alumna an individual folder in which will
be filed all correspondence with her and
a complete record of her activities as a
student and as an alumna. I have the very
definite feeling, too, that the office in the
future when sufficient personnel will war-
rant it, should beg the privilege of han-
dling placement, as this will give the
alumnae a sense of gratitude for this serv-
ice and a closer tie to the association.

Perhaps my successors in office will look
back over the years 1932-1936 as barren
of outstanding achievement. Such is the
feeling of the Secretary from the present
outlook. So high a standard for our As-
sociation was set by my predecessor, that
it has been all we could do to carry on the
work outlined by her and her committees.
It is with a sense of gratitude that the of-
fice is turned back over to her, and with
a feeling of assurance that through her
capable hands we will be guided into
broader channels than those achieved by
her successor and predecessor.

The friendships made among many
alumnae and the diversified experiences of
Alumnae Secretary are keenly appreciat-
ed. The one regret of the out-going sec-
retary is that the privilege of such a posi-
tion cannot be extended to all of our
alumnae, some seven thousand to date!
Respectfully submitted,

Dorothy Hutton,
Alumnae Secretary.

REPORT OF THE HOUSE AND TEA
ROOM COMMITTEE

Since the arrangement for the Tea Room
management is on a commercial basis and
since part of the former responsibility of
the Committee has been taken over by the
House Decorations Committee, the activi-
ties of the Tea Room Committee for this
year have not been extensive, its primary
function necessarily having been to put
the Tea Room and its services before its

possible patrons, and to make suggestions
to the manager.

There was one meeting of the commit-
tee in the Fall. At this time the Faculty
representative and the student representa-
tives made definite suggestions to be pre-
sented to the Tea Room manager, as to
needed improvements in service and menu,
etc. The manager received the sugges-
tions and complied with some of them.

At the suggestion of the House Dec-
orations Committee a letter, in the name
of the Tea Room Committee, was sent
from the office to each of the local Agnes
Scott Clubs asking that if convenient and
agreeable they have as part of their April
meeting a linen shower to help meet the
needs of the Alumnae House. The response
to this letter is given in the House Dec-
orations Committee report. $10.95 was
turned over to the Tea Room Committee
by the Alumnae Secretary. This has been
used to replace the broken pieces of china
in the set of eight used in the private din-
ing room. The order has been placed with
Mr. Harry Dobbs and the china will be
available for use next session.

The chairman of the committee has been
working in cooperation with the Alumnae
Secretary in trying to make the best ar-
rangements for the Tea Room for the com-
ing year. The present manager has re-
signed. In view of the present financial
status it has been thought wise to con-
tinue the management of the Tea Room
on the present basis, at least for the com-
ing session. A contract has been offered
to Mrs. Ethel Kerrison for the session
1936-1937.

Respectfully submitted,

Carrie Scandrett,

Chairman.

REPORT OF LOCAL CLUBS
COMMITTEE

In making the report for the Local Clubs
Committee for 1935-1936, the chairman
wishes to emphasize the fact that, as the
burden of the work is necessarily carried
by the General Secretary and the Field
Secretary, to them should go the credit
for the achievements listed below

A club bulletin has been sent from time
to time to the Local Clubs from the Gen-
eral Secretary, and the committee chair-
man has endeavored to keep in touch with
all the groups by correspondence through-
out the year.

The following clubs have entertained a
visitor from the Campus during the year:
The Atlanta, Atlanta Business Girls', and
the Decatur Clubs have been regularly vis-
ited by the General Secretary and by the
Field Secretary when in town. The Bir-
mingham Club entertained seniors in high
schools there in January and was visited

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by the General Secretary and the Field
Secretary. The Charlotte Club was visit-
ed by the Field Secretary and the Presi-
dent in October and had an additional
campus contact with the visit of Dr. G. P.
Hayes on Founder's Day. The Columbia
Club was reorganized in February and
visited by the Field Secretary at that
time. The Columbus Club was visited by
the General Secretary and the Field Sec-
retary in January. The Jacksonville Club
and the Tampa Club were visited in April
by Carrie Scandrett, '24, Assistant Dean
and Assistant Registrar, and by the Field
Secretary.

The Tampa Club was formed on Found-
er's Day, largely due to the efforts of the
President, who visited Tampa in January.

A list of other clubs reporting Founder's
Day meetings follows: Atlanta, Atlanta
Business Girls', Decatur, Charlotte, Chat-
tanooga, Chicago, Memphis, Mississippi,
Nashville, New York City, and Winston-
Salem.

The following clubs in addition have
been visited by the Field Secretary: New
Orleans, in November; Little Rock and
Memphis, in December; Savannah in
March, and Augusta in April. Meetings
were also held in Austin, Texas, and Lake
Charles, La., during the Field Secretary's
stay in these cities.

The following local clubs have sent
gifts: from the Mississippi Club, $10.00 to
replace the broken pieces of the private
dining room china; from the Charlotte
Club, $8.00 for linens; from the Atlanta
Club, linens, two consoles, and a love seat
for the living room; from the Atlanta
Business Girls' Club, linen to the house;
from the Decatur Club, linens and this
group will make a gift of money or furni-
ture to the house by commencement; from
the Knoxville Club, linen dish towels for
the kitchen; from the New Orleans Club,
linen cloths and napkins for the Tea Room;
from the Tampa Club, linens.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Waller Shepherd,

Chairman.
Committee:

Dorothy Hutton,

iElinor (Hamilton) Hightower,

Alberta Palmour,

Emily (Spivey) Simmons,

Mary N. Barton.

REPORT OF THE FINANCE
COMMITTEE
OPEN ACCOUNT
Receipts Jnne 1, 1935-May 30, 1936

Proposed

Esti- Budget

Actual mated Total 1936-37

Tea Room Rent $350.00 $50.00 $400.00 $400.00

Room Rent 251.51 25.00 276.51 150.00

Dues (less ex. $1.60) 812.50 20.00 832.50 900.00

Rent from Caps,

Gowns and Hoods__ 149.00 149.00 135.00

Gift from College 800.00 800.00 800.00

Miscellaneous 53.48 53.48

Interest on

Sav. Acct $25.99 25.99 23.85
Sale of Quarter-
lies 3.00

Phone Tolls 25.49

Totals $2417.49 95.00 2512.49 2415.85

Balance, June 1, 1935 217.68

Total 2635.17

Less disbursements 2518.56

(Iternized Below)
Deposited June 2, 1936 88.25
Disbursed June 2, 1936 1.00
Bal. on Acct.,

June 2, 1936 $203.86

Disbursements June 1, 1935-May 30, 1936

Secretary $900.00 $900.00 1000.00

Dues 32.50 32.50 32.50

Office Supplies, Print-
ing and Postage 936.83 936.83 800.00
Alumnae House

Operating Expense _ 151.93 12.00 163.93 170.00

Furnish. & Upkeep 147.33 147.33 119.00

Maid 108.00 108.00 102.00

Insurance 76.50

Alumnae Garden 35.00 35.00 36.00

Entertainment 65.00 65.00 66.00

Traveling Expense 31.09 31.09

Miscellaneous 110.88 110.88 15.85

Photographs _$ 1.50

Alumnae

Week-End . 37.99

Wedding Gift 25.00

Telegrams __ 2.29

N.S.F.A. Tea. .50

Audit of Books 5.00

Refund on

Senior Gown 1.00

Agonistic Ad_ .75

Petty Cash 12.00

Phone Tolls. 24.85

Totals $2518.56 12.00 2530.56 2415.85

SAVINGS ACCOUNT

Balance, June 1, 1935 $1538.22

Interest, June 30, 1935 14.35

Interest, December 31, 1935 11.64

Partial Repayment on Pergola Loan 2.00

One Life Membership 50.00

Total $1616.21

Less Interest Credited to Open Account 25.99

Balance, May 30, 1936 1590.22

Balance Due on Garden Loan 58.02

Deposited June 2, 1936 (On Garden Loan) 10.00

Balance on Account June 2, 1936 1600.22

Balance Due on Garden Loan 43.02

Respectfully submitted,

Philippa Gilchrist, Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
PREPARATORY SCHOOLS

As ex-officio chairman of the Commit-
tee on Preparatory Schools, the Field Sec-
retary of the Agnes Scott College Alum-
nae Association wishes to make the fol-

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lowing report of the work for the year
1935-36. From October 13 through April
24, 8 trips ranging from 2 days to six
weeks were made in the fall in Dr. Mc-
Cain's Chrysler, after Christmas in the
new college Plymouth at a total cost of
$432.66. 116 cities in 10 states were visit-
ed; talks made in 107 schools; principals
contacted in 34 others; and movies of the
college shown in 91. Teas for prospective
students were had in three cities. Through
group meetings, visits, or telephone calls,
approximately 237 alumnae were contact-
ed, outside of Atlanta and Decatur.

The Field Secretary wishes to thank the
following people for acting as traveling
companions and for helping so materially
with the work: Mrs. Francis Dwyer, '28,
on the Charlotte trip; Dorothy Hutton, '29,
Columbus and Birmingham; Miss Carrie
Scandrett, '24, Florida; Jacqueline Wool-
folk, '35, Texas; Alice McCallie, '36, Chat-
tanooga; Eugenia Symms, Mary Hull,
Catherine Bishop, Katherine Liepold, and
Carolyn White, '36, Augusta. Meriel Bull,
'36, represented the college at the college
day exercises at both Winston-Salem and
Greensboro, N. C.

An innovation in the field work this
year was a trip to Texas in the fall, in-
cluding the cities of Dallas, Fort Worth,
Houston, and San Antonio. Observations
made on this trip are: (1) That the col-
lege is very slightly known so far west;
(2) that although Texas schools are
splendidly equipped and offer excellent
courses, in few instances do students from
these schools have sufficient units in
Latin to enter Agnes Scott; (3) That the
scarcity of alumnae in Texas, and the at-
tendant increase in expenses, make it
doubtful whether this trip will be under-
taken again within the next several years.
A trip to the East contacting private
schools was not made this year as it is
thought that such a trip every other year
will keep the college in touch with the
eastern preparatory schools.

At the suggestion of Dorothy Hutton a
new plan of entertainment for the local
high school girls has been tried this year.
Eight separate parties have been had for
the individual schools, throughout the
year. The entertainment has consisted of
hockey games, swimming meets, a dance
recital, wiener roast, a Blackfriar play,
dinners in the dining room, and after-din-
ner coffees. It is hoped that because of
more individual attention, local girls will
become more interested in Agnes Scott.

Other duties while on the campus have
been: (1) Sending out notices about com-
petitive examination, as a result of which
130 girls took the examination in March;
(2) Planning future trips and following
up those already made; (3) Writing per-

sonal letters to prospects with which cor-
respondence Mortar Board helped; (4) As-
sisting Mr. Stukes in taking new movies;
(5) Entertaining on the campus prospect-
ive students from out of the city.

Next year it is hoped that the work of
the alumnae office and that of the field
secretary may be more closely connected,
delegating more and more to the alumnae
office the writing of letters to the alumnae
in regard to the Field Secretary's visiting
the various localities.

As Field Secretary, I wish to express my
deep appreciation to all the alumnae who
have so graciously entertained me in their
homes and who have so ably assisted me in
assembling groups of alumnae and in mak-
ing arrangements at the high schools.
Respectfully submitted,

Alberta Palmour.

REPORT OF THE CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE

Since the project of the Curriculum
Committee the sponsoring of the Alum-
nae Week-End involves many details, its
purpose seems best accomplished by small
sub-committees working independently and
submitting plans to the general committee
for ratification. The following are the
committee chairmen with their commit-
tees who planned and carried out the pro-
gram for the Alumnae Week-End in 1936:
Program for Feb. 21, Catherine Torrance,
Louise Lewis, Martha Crowe; Program for
Feb. 22, Florence Smith, Carrie Scandrett,
Ellen Douglas Leyburn; Luncheon for
Alumnae, Eloise (Gay) Brawley, Florence
(Perkins) Ferry; Exhibit of Colonial Rel-
ics, Helene (Norwood) Lammers; Lunch-
eon for Alumnae and Children, Louise Gir-
ardeau, Hilda (McConnell) Adams, Sarah
(Carter) Massee, Kenneth Maner; Chil-
dren's Program, Llewellyn Wilburn; Ra-
dio Program for Founder's Day, Janef
Preston, Polly Vaughn; Local Club's Din-
ner, Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansell, Fran-
ces (Craighead) Dwyer; Registration, Kit-
ty (Woltz) Green, Nelle Chamlee; Public-
ity, Dorothy Hutton, Frances (Craighead)
Dwyer, Nelle Chamlee.

The theme for the lectures of the first
day was: Present Day Trends in Music
and Art. Miss Martha Gait spoke on
Music; Mrs. Harold Bush-Brown on Paint-
ing and Sculpture, and Mr. Hal Hentz on
Architecture.

In carrying out the theme of the sec-
ond morning, "National Affairs in George
Washington's Day and Our Own," Dr. Ar-
thur Raper of Agnes Scott discussed so-
cial and economic conditions in the two
periods; Dr. Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., of
Brenau, made a comparison of ideas con-
cerning the Constitution; and Dr. Fletcher
M. Green of Emory discussed foreign af-

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fairs. All the lectures were well attended
and enthusiastically received.

A unique and most enjoyable feature of
the week-end was the exhibit of Early
American Relics as arranged by Mrs. Lam-
mers.

Miss Wilburn of the Physical Education
Department of Agnes Scott delighted the
young sons and daughters of the Alumnae
with a morning of recreation in the gym-
nasium on Saturday. The Saturday lunch-
eon was held in the Silhouette Tea Room
and featured a Washington's Birthday
program under the direction of Polly
Vaughn.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to
all who worked on the committees and to
Dorothy Hutton, Alumnae Secretary.

While many details can and will, I am
sure, be improved from year to year, your
chairman feels that the Alumnae Week-
End for 1936 has gone far toward accom-
plishing its two-fold purpose: a strength-
ening of the ties between alumnae and
college, and a giving to the alumnae a
brief opportunity for "college after col-
lege."

Respectfully submitted,

Clara (Whips) Dunn, '16.

REPORT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE

The Entertainment Committee of the
Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott Col-
lege for the term 1934-1936 wishes to
make the following report of its activi-
ties for the year 1935-1936.

At the suggestion of the president, Mrs.
Dwyer, and of the general secretary, Miss
Hutton, the committee has planned and
given, up to the time of this writing, three
large parties in the name of the Alumnae
Association. They are, in order, a tea for
all new students (two hundred and sixty
invited guests) on Friday, October 4, at
4:30 P. M. in the Alumnae House; a series
of three teas for the group of students on
the campus known as sponsors (seventy
guests), taking place in the Alumnae
House on October 21, 22, and 23; a tea for
the Seniors at the home of Mrs. J. Sam
Guy on April 14 (125 invited).

In addition to these, the Alumnae As-
sociation has provided refreshment for the
meetings of the Granddaughters' Club
throughout the year. The Association will
also be "at home" in the Alumnae Garden
on Sunday afternoon, May 31, to alumnae,
faculty, Seniors, and any other friends of
the college who happen to drift in. You
are reminded that it is the duty and pleas-
ure of the Entertainment Committee also
to plan, provide, and arrange flowers on
the tables in the dining room on the oc-
casion of the trustees' luncheon, given this
year on Saturday, May 30.

The Finance Committee of the Associa-
tion in making its allotments for the cur-
rent year designated the amount of $65.00
for the expenses of this committee. Be-
cause of the feeling on the part of the
last administration that the phase of the
alumnae program which needed most
strengthening had been its limited enter-
tainment facilities, and because it was the
sincere desire of this Committee that
everything in its power be done to assist
in making the present administration a
definite success, strenuous efforts have
been made to remedy this condition. For
such an accomplishment it has been abso-
lutely essential that the committee exceed
the $65.00 in its expenditures. While the
plans for each "party" have been simple
and carried out as economically as possi-
ble, the amount spent has been brought
up to a total of $141.24 for the year.

Since it is only fair to the incoming
committee that some explanation be made
as to the source of the extra money spent,
it should be stated that your chairman
and your past president, Mrs. Durrett,
have felt it their special privilege to make
such donations from time to time as they
thought were needed. No other alumna has
been asked or allowed to contribute any-
thing in the form of funds or materials.
One exception will occur on Sunday when
twelve alumnae at large (not on the com-
mittee or on the executive board), Mrs.
Dwyer, and Mrs. Donaldson, will each
bring, upon the committee's request, three
dozen cookies to the Alumnae House and
when Mrs. George Erwin will make a vol-
untary donation of 500 cheese wafers.

The committee wishes to express public-
ly its appreciation to Mrs. Donald Hast-
ings for her generous and frequent gifts
of flowers throughout the two years of
its existence these have most helpfully
supplemented those purchased by the com-
mittee.

As anyone knows, the real outcome of
the work that naturally falls within the
sphere of the duties of the entertainment
committee of any organization is not limit-
ed to the money at its command but de-
pends for the most important part upon
the interest and untiring efforts of each
person asked to participate in its func-
tioning. There is little exaggeration in the
statement that a finer spirit of cooper-
ation could not be conceived than has ex-
isted among the members of the commit-
tee, the executive board, and every other
alumna who has given her time, her gaso-
line for transportation, her hours at the
telephone, her enthusiastic and encourag-
ing compliments for everything that the
committee has tried to do for the associa-
tion, etc. Though the committee alone has
entirely shouldered the responsibility of

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these affairs and has made no demands on
the alumnae, it has made a definite at-
tempt to have present on each occasion a
igreat number of the members who were
not directly connected with the association
as officer or committeeman. The commit-
tee has felt it necessary that the alumnae
be given every opportunity of making
more contacts with the students, faculty
and each other.

It is always well for an out-going com-
mittee as it turns over its tasks to an-
other group, to recommend changes or ad-
ditions relative to its undertakings, to out-
line some system of escape from, previous
mistakes, and to mention some goal that
it would like to reach if it were to stay
intact and function for a longer time. Much
thought has been given to this matter by
your retiring Entertainment Committee.
It has recommended that the executive
board take action to have stricken from
the constitution the requirement that the
manager of the Tea Room be considered a
member of the committee. Such a request
is simply a step toward making binding a
custom which has been followed for some
time without constitutional sanction. Other
than this, the Entertainment Committee
has nothing further to suggest the fac-
tors of personnel and personality, of avail-
able money, of immediate needs have too
great and too varied an influence on the
scope of its field. Each two years will
have to work out its own salvation.

In conclusion, your chairman desires to
add that she has found that any position
on the Entertainment Committee which an
alumna is fortunate enough to be asked to
hold is one of the best means of learning
of the alumnae organization, of recogniz-
ing its many fine points, and of contribut-
ing of one's substance and strength to her
alma mater. She is deeply grateful, per-
sonally and as representative of the as-
sociation, to every member of the commit-
tee for long hours of service, for never-
failing help and understanding, for con-
structive ideas, for the suppression of un-
favorable criticism, and, finally, for the
stronger bonds of friendship which have
resulted from her cherished experience as
chairman.

Itemized account of expenditures:

Tea for new students $36.93

Tea for sponsors 23.40

Granddaughters' meetings 7.00

Tea for Seniors 22.56

Flowers for Trustees luncheon 22.95

Tea on Commencement Sunday 28.40

Total expenditures $141.24

Respectfully submitted,
Augusta (Skeen) Cooper,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE HOUSE DECORA-
TIONS COMMITTEE

The following report for the year 1935-
36 is submitted to the General Alumnae
Association by the House Decorations
Committee.

In view of the scarcity of fund's and the
many crying needs in the Anna Young
Alumnae House, the House Decorations
Committee has been at a great disad-
vantage in carrying out the plans submit-
ted by Mrs. Mary Miller, decorator, who
has been chosen, because of her experi-
ence, reputation as a most tasteful, far-
sighted and well considered person. The
comprehensive and pleasing plans submit-
ted by her for the house are to be car-
ried out from time to time, transforming
the Alumnae House into a home of which
we can be justly proud. A beautiful white
marble lamp of exquisite lines and design
was Mrs. Miller's gift to the Alumnae
House.

Early in the fall the worn rugs in the
upper and lower halls were removed, with
the anticipation of replacing them as soon
as possible.

Mrs. Asa Warren Candler's group of the
Atlanta Alumnae Club gave money for the
two lovely consoles placed beneath the side
windows in the Alumnae House parlor.
Flower containers will be given by the
same group to be placed upon them.

Money received in gifts from the Char-
lotte Alumnae Club, from Dr. Mary Sweet
and Miss Louise McKinney of the faculty
and from Helon Brown Williams, '39, was
used in the purchase of linens (especial
prices being secured), delivered to the
house March 15, as follows: 1 dozen sheets,
at $11.75; 2 dozen pillow cases, at $2.75; 1
dozen bath towels, at $3.50; 1 dozen hand
towels, at $1.75; totaling $22.50, less dis-
count, $22.05. The amount remaining,
$10.95 was turned over to the Tea Room
Committee to replace the broken china in
the private dining room.

April showers of linen for the house
came in from the Charlotte, Atlanta, De-
catur, Tampa and Jacksonville Clubs.

At the February meeting of the board,
Mrs. Frances Craighead Dwyer, president,
asked Helene Norwood Lammers to call a
meeting of the House Decorations Com-
mittee to replace the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mrs. Allie Candler Guy,
as member and chairman of the commit-
tee, and to consider, with view to recom-
mendations, the constitution, in so far as
the House Decorations committee was
concerned.

At this meeting, held in March, Mrs.
Fannie Mayson Donaldson was made
chairman and Mrs. Helene Norwood Lam-
mers co-chairman. It was recommended
that the committee be composed of seven

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members instead of five, the new members
to represent a wider field of alumnae, i. e.,
one from Atlanta, one from Decatur and
one from the faculty.

The next consideration of the House
Decorations committee will be the addi-
tion of seating space in the living room
of the Alumnae House, which is far from
adequate, the addition of color and the
improving of the dining room. The gift
of the lovely and comfortable love seat, re-
cently by the Atlanta club in part fills this
need. The Decatur Alumnae Club has
made a gift of $25.00 which will be used
by the committee during the summer
months to make some needed additions.
Respectfully submitted,
Helene Norwood Lammers,

Acting Chairman.

REPORT OF PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

The chairman of the Publicity Commit-
tee carried on the radio publicity from
May, 1935, to January, 1936. During this
time the weekly programs were planned
and arranged for by the chairman; they
were announced during the summer
months by Miss Margaret Belote and dur-
ing the fall and winter months by Miss
Polly Vaughan. These regular broadcasts
were varied in theme, and were presented
by alumnae, members of the faculty, and
students of the college.

The chairman of the publicity commit-
tee for 1934-1936 regretted very much
that she was compelled to resign before
the expiration of her term of office.

Janef Preston.

Your present chairman of publicity has
continued the work since Miss Preston's
resignation in January. With the agree-
ment of the executive board the work was
divided into newspaper and radio. Miss
Nelle Chamlee was appointed to carry on
the newspaper work and I have directed
the radio activities. The following report
from Miss Chamlee covers her work.

"For the Founder's Day week-end there
were nine articles about the alumnae pro-
gram in the three Sunday papers, two in
the DeKalb New Era, and seven during
the week of the program in the daily edi-
tions. That means we started with stories
three Sundays before the date of the week-
end. The only other publicity that I have
been asked to handle was that regarding
the tea given by the association, for the
Seniors, at the home of Mrs. Sam Guy.
There were four stories about that, one
in each of the Atlanta papers, and one in
the DeKalb New Era.

"Respectfully submitted,

"Nelle Chamlee."

In the sphere of radio we varied our
procedure a little. A program carefully

planned to present in continuity form a
specific theme was carried on from Janu-
ary through May. The theme was: "The
Place of the Liberal Arts College in the
World of Today." Dividing the college or-
ganization into the five groups which com-
pose our working body we presented four
members from the Board of Trustees, in
January; three members of the adminis-
tration and one local minister, in Febru-
ary, four members of the faculty in March,
five representatives of the Alumnae As-
sociation in April, and in May four stu-
dent speakers representing each of the
four classes. The program as planned was
carried through with one single exception.
One of our trustees was unable to speak
and Miss Laney, of the English Depart-
ment, kindly substituted in this emergency
with a discussion of Thornton Wilder, who
was appearing at the college that week
under the auspices of the Lecture Associa-
tion. Appended to this report is a copy
of the program with subjects and speakers
named. On each program we presented
beside this seven-minute speech, seven min-
utes of music. I wish to express here my
gratitude for the cooperation given this
committee by Mr. Dieckmann and Mr.
Johnson, and by the girls who so gracious-
ly gave their time and talent.

We would like to suggest to the Associa-
tion that the work of this committee
might be greatly encouraged and stimulat-
ed by their expressed response to the
Agnes Scott radio program. A card, or a
phone call to WSB might be of real value
to the college and the association in our
contact with the studio, and would cer-
tainly help the chairman.
Sincerely,

Polly Vaughan.

GROUNDS COMMITTEE

The Garden Committee humbly begs
that when you look at the Alumnae Garden
this spring you think of the weather for
this past year, and let your judgment be
with compassion. There was a dry, burn-
ing fall, then torrents of rain, freezes, and
ice storm, sleet, floods of rain again, and
then no rain! We would certainly be super-
gardeners who could produce a "thing of
beauty" under such conditions.

Our most important addition this year
has been three dozen flame colored azaleas
small, of course, with our limited budget,
but they bloomed valiantly in March. We
are taking great care of them and expect
them to be twice their present size by next
spring. We also put in four dozen peren-
nial candytuft plants and when these were
blooming along with the azaleas, the blue
phlox, and the pansies, the garden was a
picture which brought forth much admir-
ing comment from the college community.

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We are greatly indebted to Mrs. Scott
Candler, and to Mr. Rivers, for gifts of
new water lilies for the lily pool. We also
have the promise of several shrubs from
Louise Brown Hastings. Because of the
dry weather the placing of these has been
postponed until fall.

Your committee has attempted to im-
prove the grounds in front of the Alum-
nae House this year. We asked the col-
lege to lay a brick walk from the front
around the south side of the house to the
back, which was done very promptly. We
bordered the front and side walks with
boxwood which of course we rooted our-
selves and on each side set three large
azaleas, the gift of Augusta Skeen Cooper.

To make a detailed report of the dis-
bursing of the $35 allowed the commit-
tee by the budget would be too tedious for
this report, but you may rest assured that
every penny was spent painstakingly.
Respectfuly submitted,

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes,
Eloise (Gay) Brawley,
Esther (Davis) Holt.

REPORT OF THE STUDENT LOAN
COMMITTEE

Balance Jan. 1, 1936 $ 14.35

Loans returned, Feb., 1936 8.00

Loans returned, Feb., 1936 10.00

Loans returned, Feb., 1936 30.00

Interest .03

Loans returned, April, 1936 30.00

Loans returned, April, 1936 7.00

Loans returned, May, 1936 10.00

Amount in bank account May 23,

1936 $109.38

Loans made in 1935 and amount col-
lected on same in 1935-36:

Date of loan Amount of loan Repaid

Jan. 7, 1935 $ 30.00 $ 10.00

Sept. 12, 1935 100.00 10.00

Sept. 17, 1935 75.00 40.00*

Dec. 1, 1935 30.00 30.00

$235.00 $ 90.00
*$10 in 1935, $30 in 1936.
Amount collected on old loans in 1936:
Date Amt. of collection

February, 1936 $ 8.00

April, 1936 7.00

$15.00
Respectfully submitted,

Ladie Sue (Wallace) Nolan.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

At the outset, your committee on Con-
stitution and By-Laws wishes to thank the
membership of the Association for their
generous response to the request for sug-
gestions for revision. Countless letters
were received and each one was carefully
studied. The authors of some of these let-
ters will recognize their ideas in many of
the proposed changes. Every suggestion
was tabulated and discussed by the com-
mittee and by Dorothy Hutton, whose as-
sistance has been invaluable, and a copy
of the conclusions on each suggestion is
on file in the Alumnae office. Where a
proposed change was not acted upon, it
was felt that the best interests were served
for all concerned by maintaining the pres-
ent status at least for the present. Our
Constitution and By-Laws are not perfect
as yet, but they may be changed with
facility when occasion demands.

(This committee's report of necessary changes
in the Constitution and By-laws of the Associa-
tion was accepted at the General Meeting in
May and since it involves so many changes that
it would be impossible to understand without
the publishing of the Constittuion itself, the
approved and revised Constitution is being filed
in the Alumnae Office and with the kind ap-
proval of this committee, the actual report of
this committee will not be published due to lack
of space in this issue. It is the hope of the
Quarterly that the revised Constitution may be
published in a later issue).

To the incoming committee it is sug-
gested that the Constitution and By-Laws
and the Constitution of the Council be re-
vised in accordance with the changes
adopted at the regular meeting of this
year, so that all loose ends may be prop-
erly codified in a complete and useful
document.

This committee has enjoyed its four
years of service and a debt to the Alum-
nae office for complete cooperation is here
acknowledged.

Respectfully submitted,

Patricia H. Collins,
Chairman.

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"When June days come to Georgia
I see my daughters leave,
And through the three long summer

months
My lonely towers grieve.
But soon the great oaks scatter
Their scarlet leaves o'er Main,
The gates are wide, when autumn comes,
To welcome you again."

So Daisy Frances Smith closed her very
impressive talk as one of the speakers on
that first morning of the new term, Sep-
tember 23rd, and as we looked out over
the chapel packed with new students and
old, with parents and friends, with alum-
nae, we felt once again the thrill of being
one of those "daughters" among the ever
increasing numbers of new daughters. Al-
most as much as for commencement, we
wish we could have many alumnae back
for that glimpse of opening day. You re-
member the welcomes from many inter-
ested friends to the new students; you re-
member that Mr. J. K. Orr always is one
of the speakers on this occasion. You can
almost hear the first strains of music that
roll through the chapel for this new year.
But what you would love, even as we do,
is the chance to see that sea of girls,
girls such as all the generations behind
them, eager, fresh, full of first college
day plans; so much talking, so much
laughing, and when the music begins, so
much singing, that even the oldest "old
girl" is lifted 'way out of ordinary living
and thankful to have this chance to share
in a second-hand way the newest Agnes
Scotter's day!

* * * *

Six of the one hundred eighty-nine new
students at school this year are from for-
eign countries, two from France, one from
England, one from Japan, and two from
China. Renee Gerard, of Mexico City, but
formerly of Paris, France, is a sister of
Marguerite Gerard, '32, first exchange stu-
dent to come to Agnes Scott, and winner of
the Hopkins Jewel Award her senior year
here. Renee is registered as a regular
freshman. Suzanne Andrain, also of Paris,
is a graduate of the Sorbonne, and came
to America for graduate work. She is

taking German, Spanish, and English and
American history. Suzanne has also at-
tended school in England. Tamiko Oka-
mura, of Tokio, is the first Japanese stu-
dent to attend this college. She graduated
from the Presbyterian Mission College at
Kin Jo, and was awarded an exchange
scholarship by the faculty of Kin Jo. She
is studying Bible, English literature and
English. Margaret Eberhardt, of Bedford,
England, is a neice of Adelaide Eberhardt,
prominent Decatur artist, and Adelaide
Cunningham, '11, and although born in
America, has been educated entirely in
England and Switzerland. She is taking
a regular freshman course. Sophie Mont-
gomery, of Hwaian, China, is entering Ag-
nes Scott as a freshman, having been edu-
cated in a Korean Mission School and in
China. Martha Moffett, of Kiangyin, en-
ters as a freshman also, and is from the
Shanghai American School.

* =h * *

New additions to the faculty for this
year include: Dr. Ernest Runyan, Mrs.
Runyan and their three children. Dr. Run-
yan will serve as assistant professor of
botany. Miss Linda Vardell, who was head
of the biology department at Flora Mc-
Donald College, will teach biology. Miss
Frances McCalla, '35, is assistant in this
department. Miss Narka Nelson, formerly
of Smith College, is teaching Greek and
Latin. Miss Helen Carlson, who is taking
her Ph.D. at Columbia, replaces Miss Mar-
garet Phythian in the French department.
Miss Lucy Goss, '34, is an instructor in
the chemistry department. Miss Carrie
Phinney Latimer, '35, is assistant in the
Spoken English department. Miss Jose-
phine Nunally of William and Mary Col-
lege will serve as assistant librarian.

* * * *

The Murphey Candler Student Activities
Building is dedicated to the memory of
Mr. Murphey Candler, whose death on Aug-
ust 7, 1935, removed from the Board of
Trustees one of its oldest and most val-
uable members. Mr. Candler was a mem-
ber of the original Board of Trustees, and
was a member of the committee appointed
to draft the charter and by-laws of the
school in 1889. He drafted every change

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made in the charter for the forty-six
years between his election to the Board
and the time of his death. Mr. Candler
served as chairman of the Building and
Grounds Committee for over fifteen years,
and during his years of service over $1,-
500,000 was spent in improvements. He
was responsible for the award of scholar-
ships to the students and was very active
in the school campaigns for funds, having
served as treasurer for the 1909 campaign.
The Murphey Candler Building will house
the following student organizations: K. U.
B., Poetry Club, Lecture Association,
French Club, German Club, Spanish Club,
Phi Alpha Pi, Current History Forum,
Silhouette, Aurora, B. O. Z., Granddaugh-
ters' Club, Freshmen Y. W. C. A. Cabinet,
Pen and Brush Club, Mission Interest
Group, and Bible Club. The lower floor
of the building is being used for a game
room, with ping pong and shuffleboard
equipment. The main lounge is for after-
dinner coffees and group meetings and
will also be used for the Cotillion Club

dances.

* * * *

The Belgian Memorial Library Commis-
sion is studying the plans of the new Ag-
nes Scott library for the memorial library
to be erected by the Belgian people as a
tribute to the late King Albert. In mak-
ing plans for their building, a committee
of Belgians wrote the Carnegie Founda-
tion in New York asking for plans and
details of what they considered the most
modern and up-to-date library in this
country and the plans of the Agnes Scott
library were the first selected to send to
them. Their reaction is not yet known,
but it is thought that some of the fea-
tures of Agnes Scott college library will

be directly traceable in their building.

* * * *

The Hopkins Jewel Award was awarded
to Alice McCallie, '35, of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, at Commencement. Alice was
especially prominent in her work with
Student Government. The idea of recog-
nizing the student who most nearly meets
Miss Hopkins' ideals for an Agnes Scott
girl was conceived by the Class of 1922,
during the 1928-29 session. Alice is the
eighth Agnes Scott girl to be awarded
this honor, the others being: Helon
(Brown) Williams, '29; Elizabeth (Flinn)
Eckert, '30; Marguerite Gerard, '31; An-
drewena Robinson, '32; Margaret Ridley,
'33; Nelle Chamlee, '34; and Frances Espy,
'35.

* * * *

The Quenelle Harrold Fellowship for

this session was awarded to Lita Goss, '36,
of Atlanta, with Mary Virginia Allen, '35,
as alternate. Lita was planning to study
at Radcliffe in Cambridge, but was un-

able to go this year, so Mary Virginia is
using the fellowship. Mary Virginia left
for the University of Toulouse, at Tou-
louse, France, the middle of September,
and will do graduate work there for a
year. Mary Virginia was prominent in
French Club, and on the staff of the Au-
rora. She spent last year at the Univer-
sity of Virginia working on her Masters.

* * * *

Phi Beta Kappa elections for the 1935-
36 session included: Shirley Christian, of
Chattanooga; Elizabeth Forman, of Bir-
mingham'; Lita Goss, Ethelyn Johnson,
Edith Merlin, Sarah Nichols, Mary Snow,
of Atlanta, elected in February, and Lena
Armstrong, of Montreat; Janet Gray, of
Winston-Salem, Augusta King, Agnes Mc-
Koy, Marie Townsend, and Mary Walker
of Atlanta, elected in May. Among the
alumnae elected were Janef Preston, '21,
Martha Stansfield, '21, and Phillipa Gil-
christ, '23, of the Agnes Scott faculty;
Sarah Fulton, '21, of Atlanta Girls' High
School faculty; Frances (Markley) Rob-
erts, '21, of Shanghai; Marion (Lindsay)
Noble, '21, of Miami; Anna (Landress)
Cate, '21, of Nashville.

* * * *

Three alumnae of the college are study-
ing in France this winter. In addition to
Mary Virginia Allen, who is studying at
the University of Toulouse, are Margaret
Phythian, '16, and Janet Gray, '36. Mar-
garet is on leave of absence for two
years, provided the foreign situations don't
get too exciting, and will study at the
University of Grenoble under the famous
geographer, M. Raul Blanchard. She is
working on her Ph.D. Janet Gray, of
Winston-Salem, is teaching English Con-
versation at the Ecole Normale d'lnstiti-
trices at La Rochelle, France, and is work-
ing on her Masters at the same time.
Janet sailed for France September 17, and
spent two weeks just seeing Paris before

going to La Rochelle.

* * * *

FACULTY NEWS

Dr. J. R. McCain attended the Harvard
tercentennial in Boston the middle of Sep-
tember.

Miss Nanette Hopkins spent her vaca-
tion with relatives in Staunton and Hot
Springs, Va.

Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Stukes, and Mar-
jorie, spent much of their vacation driv-
ing to the mountains. Mrs. Stukes and
Marjorie spent part of the summer at
Myrtle Beach, S. C.

Miss Carrie Scandrett, Miss Leslie Gay-
lord, and Miss Blanche Miller spent two
months in Europe. They visited England,
Scotland, France, Italy, Switzerland in
company with a party from Agnes Scott
College. Miss Scandrett delivered the com-

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mencement address at the Girls' Prepara-
tory School in Chattanooga in June.

Miss Melissa Cilley taught comparative
literatures in the University of Coimbra,
the national university of Portugal, from
July 20 to August 30. She was accom-
panied by her mother, with whom she
traveled through Gibraltar, Algiers, Sicily,
Naples, Athens, Turkey, Syria, Palestine,
and Cairo.

Miss Mary Stuart MacDougall spent
June and July at the biological laboratory
at Mountain Lake, Virginia, and August at
the laboratory at Wood's Hole, Massachu-
setts. She also attended the Harvard ter-
centennial.

Miss Emma May Laney, Miss Florence
Smith, and Mr. George P. Hayes were on
the faculty of Hunter College, New York.

Miss Louise Hale and Mrs. Hale visited
in New York.

Miss Martha Crowe and Mrs. Crowe
motored up the east coast to New York
and the New England States.

Miss Elizabeth F. Jackson spent the
summer at her home in Massachusetts and
visiting in New York and Virginia.

Mr. Lewis Johnson carried a party of
Agnes Scott Glee Club girls to Chatauqua,
New York, to see a performance of the
Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Gondo-
liers," which the Glee Club will present at
the college this year. Mrs. Johnson spent
several weeks in New York City.

Mr. Phillip Davidson was a member of
the faculty of University of North Caro-
lina during the summer session.

Miss Lillian Smith visited relatives in
Syracuse, New York, and then spent the
rest of the summer at the beach.

Miss Hariette Haynes spent part of the
summer visiting in Marietta.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whittaker visited
in Winchester, Va., before going to San
Diego, Cal., where Mr. Whittaker will be
a professor at the University of Califor-
nia.

Miss Helen Mar Miller was married to
Donald Paul Costello on June 20.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robinson, and Anne
and Henry, Jr., spent the summer at Hen-
dersonville, N. C, at their summer home.

Miss Margaret Phythian left August 6
for her year of study at the University of
Grenoble. Before going to Grenoble, Miss
Phythian spent some time in the Alps.

Miss Lucille Alexander spent the sum-
mer with her family in Asheville, N. C.

Dr. Mary Sweet and Miss Louise Mc-
Kinney spent their vacation in the moun-
tains of North Carolina.

Mr. J. C. Tart was in New York City
making a study of business investments
during the month of August. Mrs. Tart
spent the summer visiting relatives in
South Georgia.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn was counselor
at Rock Brook Camp, Brevard, North Caro-
lina.

Miss Elizabeth Mitchell was also coun-
selor at Nakanawa, at Maryland, Tenn. _

Miss Alberta Palmour attended the Uni-
versity of Virginia Summer School, and
drove through Virginia with her mother
and sister.

Miss Martha Stansfield spent the sum-
mer in Tampa, Florida, with her mother.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Holt went to
High Hampton, N. C, in August.

Miss Margaret Bell visited in Washing-
ton, D. C, during July.

Miss Laura Colvin toured Europe dur-
ing the summer, and returned on the
Queen Mary.

Miss Annie M. Christie spent part of
the summer in Miami.

Miss Linda Vardell spent the summer at
the biological laboratory at Mountain
Lake, Va., where she worked with Miss
MacDougall.

Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker had as her
guests this summer her son and daughter,
Professor and Mrs. Vivian Sydenstricker.

Miss Phillippa Gilchrist spent the sum-
mer studying at the University of Michi-
gan. She and Miss Edna Hanley motored
through Ohio and Illinois on their way to
the University. Miss Hanley spent most
of the summer visiting relatives in Ohio.

Miss Katherine Omwake worked in
Washington, D. C, for several months.

Miss Janef Preston spent the month of
August in Little Switzerland N. C.

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Office Notes

To Every Alumna, Greeting :

The responsibility you put on my shoulders when you made me President is one I feel
very deeply. Your confidence in me I appreciate, but your active, earnest help is neces-
sary if anything worthwhile is to be accomplished.

The Association needs you in many ways. Without
your $2.00 annual membership dues there would be no
Alumnae office with its gathering of information about
our girls, no quarterly or other means of knowing about
the college, no Alumnae House or Garden to be enjoyed
by local as well as distant alumnae, none of the countless
services which many of us have come to take for granted.

Without your ideas we cannot make the progress we
should. Can you suggest ways of increasing the attrac-
tiveness of the quarterly? Of finding and interesting
alumnae who have lost contact with us? Of getting more
people to tune in on our radio program and enjoy it
(WSB, Wednesdays, 5:00)? Of persuading more alumnae
to become, in fact and in spirit, members of their Asso-
ciation?

Without your spirited interest and renewed loyalties, we cannot have the vision and
the courage to move forward. I am counting on every Agnes Scotter.
Yours, always, for our Alma Mater.

Daisy Frances Smith, '24.

Nell Chamlee

The Alumnae Office Personnel has been
changed by matrimony. When Dorothy
Hutton, the popular and efficient secretary
of the Association since
1932, decided to become
Mrs. Edward Mount and
move her residence to
New York City, it was
decided to enlarge the
force in the office, giving
to the general secretary
the actual planning and
supervision of the whole
program of the Associa-
tion, with the long cher-
ished hope that, relieved of so much of the
actual office detail work, she may have
time and enthusiasm to catch a "long
look" at the alumnae work, try out new
ideas which may interest alumnae; in
other words that she may have time to
have ideas and not be afraid to suggest
them to the Association for fear of the
overwhelming work piled on top of what
is more than one person can keep up with
already. Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson,
'12, is serving as General Secretary; she
was in the alumnae office for several win-
ters a few years ago and is enjoying every

minute of renewed contact with old friends
of those years, and in making acquain-
tances among the alumnae of the last four
years.

Nelle Chamlee, '34, is the assistant sec-
retary and will have charge of office files,
office routine matters, much of the cor-
respondence, and is also living in the
Alumnae House and overseeing the com-
fort of alumnae guests. The Association
is exceedingly fortunate in having Nelle in
this capacity; she was the winner of the
Hopkins Jewel Award in her senior year
and last year was in the Book Shop on
the campus. She brings to this new po-
sition office ability, and a very deep and
loyal love for Agnes Scott.

The office is indebted to the alumnae
scattered over the globe for their con-
tinual support, many kind letters of en-
couragement, and for all the services
which they render the Association and the
college, year in and year out. In this new
year, we ask again your interest and
your loyalty that together we may make
this 1936-'37 a banner year of alumnae
achievement and of real enjoyment for all
concerned.

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ATLANTA CLUB

The raison d'etre of the Atlanta Agnes
Scott Club for the past year might be vis-
ualized as a four-pointed star, (if there is
such a thing?) because the four phases of
the year's activity seem of equal impor-
tance: social (the pleasure of each other's
company during the tea hour which is a
part of every meeting); intellectual, (also
for ourselves, and provided religiously each
month in the form of programs); finan-
cial (achieved by means of special money-
raising projects, and spent on the Alum-
nae House); cooperative, (sponsoring proj-
ects of our own college and those of other
colleges who ask our help, such as Glee
Club Concerts of Agnes Scott and David-
son.)

By means of a series of lectures by out-
standing specialists on architecture, in-
terior decoration, old silver and porce-
lains, the club cleared well over one hun-
dred dollars which went into a new love
seat and lamp for the living room of the
Alumnae House. In addition, a linen show-
er during April brought a flock of neces-
sities for the same purpose.

The officers for the past year were:
Sarah Belle (Broadnax) Hansell, '23, pres-
ident; Katherine (DuBois) Davis, ex-'17,
vice-president; Mary (Warren) Read, '29,
vice-president; Maybeth (Carnes) Robin-
son, ex-'23, vice-president; Ruth (McMil-
lan) Jones, '27, secretary; Susan (Young)
Eagan, Institute, corresponding secretary;
Katherine (Woltz) Green, '33, treasurer.

The treasurer's statement for the year
showed a total of $340.64.

The prospects for the coming year are
very bright indeed with Penelope (Brown)
Barnett, '32, as president, and Mary
(Crenshaw) McCullough, '28, Maybeth
(Carnes) Robinson, ex-'23, Grace (Finch-
er) Trimble, '32, Lutie (Powell) Burk-
hardt, ex-'lO, Minelle (Blue) Grove, ex-
'17, as the new corps of officers.

Sara Belle (Broadnax) Hansell, '23,
President.

* * * *

DECATUR CLUB

The officers, executive board, and mem-
bers of the Decatur Club send their greet-
ings to the other clubs throughout the
country. We, as the home club, feel we
have a very enviable position because of
our nearness to the campus and our abil-
ity to follow closely the activities and
growth of the college, which, with the
hand of Dr. McCain at the helm, is ever
being steered to her destiny. It is our
privilege to meet each month in the Alum-
nae House, and to have with us our secre-
tary, Mrs. Donaldson, her assistant, Nelle
Chamlee, and the field secretary, Alberta
Palmour.

In February the Decatur Club spon-
sored the exhibit of Colonial Relics in But-
trick Hall, which was a part of the pro-
gram for the Alumnae Week-End. Over
375 objects were entered in the exhibit,
the gun which fired the first shot in the
American Revolution being one of them.
In April the club contributed a linen show-
er to the house.

Several small projects were carried out
by the Finance Committee during the
year to raise funds. In April a benefit
bridge was given at the Southern Dairies
Club Rooms, and bulbs were given for
prizes. Mrs. Fred Walker was chairman
of arrangements. Our annual party for
the children of alumnae opened the com-
mencement program on Friday afternoon,
May 29. Mrs. James Gillespie, chairman
of the Entertainment Committee, arranged
a marionette show which enchanted all
beholders, young and old. About 70 chil-
dren were present.

Our gift to the Alumnae House this
year was the money to help with the
dyeing of the living room and dining room
rugs. The rugs have now been transformed
from a drab taupe to a luscious wine,
transforming the entire appearance of the
rooms.

This year opened with Dr. McCain as
speaker at our first meeting, and a most
enjoyable trip through the new library.
Tea was served on the library terrace
after the meeting.

The new officers of the Decatur Club
are: Helene (Norwood) Lammers, presi-
dent; Annie (Johnston) Sylvester, vice-
president; Olivia (Ferell) Taylor, secre-
tary-treasurer. The executive board in-
cludes: Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann,
Advisory; Mrs. James T. Gillespie, Enter-
tainment; Hallie (Smith) Walker, Finance;
Mrs. Robert B. Holt, and Frances (Gilli-
land) Stukes, Garden; Eva (Towers) Hen-
dee, Publicity; Leone (Bowers) Hamilton,
Telephone; Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, and
Mary Olive (Gunn) Howard, Hostesses;
Annie (Johnson) Sylvester, and Gladys
(McDaniel) Hastings, Program.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers, ex-'22.

BUSINESS GIRLS' CLUB

The first fall meeting of this club was
held in September at the Daffodil Tea
Room, in Atlanta. A large number of De-
catur and Atlanta alumnae who are mem-
bers of the business group heard Mis&
Dick Scandrett tell of the many changes
and improvements on the campus, and
Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson speak from
the alumnae office viewpoint of news.
Plans were made for a new series of lec-
tures to be given this group and Clyde
Passmore was named as chairman of this
project. It is hoped that the membership

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of this club can be greatly enlarged this
year, as there is a vast field to draw from.

Lillian (Clement) Adams. '27.

* * * *

WASHINGTON, D. C, CLUB

This club had a dinner meeting on April
27th, with ten alumnae present and, as a
result, the Alumnae office received a very
correct list of alumnae and their addresses
a valuable service. The new officers are
Virginia McLaughlin, president; Willie
Wellborn, vice president, and Frances
Welch, secretary. According to a letter
received by the ofice, "we expect to have

fewer and better meetings this year!"

* * * *

CHARLOTTE, N. C, CLUB

The Charlotte Alumnae, under Irene
Lowrance as president, opened their new
fall program with a wonderful meeting
held in honor of Dick Scandrett and Al-
berta Palmour, field alumnae secretary, on
October 29th, when these two were in
Charlotte presenting Agnes Scott to the
schools there. Louisa Duls gave invaluable
aid in planning for the school program.

This club has a membership of seventy-
four alumnae, divided into groups of ten
or twelve, with a "key" person responsible
for each group. The interesting accom-
plishment of last year was the bringing
of thirteen high school girls to the col-
lege for the week-end of May Day, accom-
panied by seven alumnae a service which
cannot be measured. It is hoped that this
can be repeated during the coming year.

In addition to Irene Lowrance, presi-
dent, the officers are Cama (Burgess)
Clarkson, vice president, and Sarah (Dun-
lap) Bobbitt, secretary and treasurer.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., CLUB

This club also served its college by
bringing to May Day two prospective stu-
dents, one, the daughter of Frances
(Thatcher) Moses, who is a freshman at
A. S. C. this fall. Two alumnae came with

the girls.

* * * *

LYNCHBURG, VA., CLUB

Courtney Wilkinson has been elected

president of this organization.

* * * *

NEW ORLEANS, LA., CLUB

The members of this club, under the
leadership of Grace (Carr) Clark, made a
muchly appreciated gift to the Alumnae
House of six luncheon sets. This group is
small in number, but great in accomplish-
ments and enthusiasm.

* * * *

WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, CLUB

The alumnae, under the able leadership
of Diana Dyer, had the pleasure of hav-
ing at the first fall meeting as guest

speakers, Dick Scandrett and Alberta
Palmour, who were speaking at the schools
in this city on October 30th.

* * * *

JACKSONVILLE, FLA., CLUB

Marjorie Simmons, as president of this
club, aided the office immensely when she
presented its call for linens in such a man-
ner that a wonderful donation was made
by the Jacksonville alumnae and arrived
just in time to save the day in the Alum-
nae House at reunion time in May. This
club had a visit from Dick Scandrett and
Aiberta Palmour last spring and is plan-
ning for another one this year.

* * * *

TAMPA, FLA., CLUB

Blanche (Copeland) Gifford reported in
person for this group when she was a
visitor at the Alumnae House and prom-
ised that the members in Tampa would do
something about the rapidly disappearing
linens in the Alumnae linen closets!

Thanksgiving Reunion is the especial
privilege of the last year's seniors, the six
months old alumnae of the class of 1936!
The whole week-end is yours, to do all the
visiting and talking you want to, and the
only planned feature of that time will be
the reunion dinner in the Alumnae House,
details of which will soon be sent to you
in a letter. All we ask now is for every
1936-er to put a ring around that whole
week-end and be here for all events on the
campus. More anon!

Your hotel the Alumnae House. Why

not plan to spend the next shopping trip
visit at the Alumnae House? Your wel-
come is heartier here than it could possibly
be elsewhere; the accommodations are
fine; prices are low. They are: for one
night for alumnae, seventy-five cents; for
other guests or for alumnae not on the
paid list, $1.25. The rate by the week is
$5.00 and for the month, $15.00 for alum-
nae and $20.00 for other guests. Come
for the day, the week, the month or the

year!

* * * *

A real surprise gift for the Alumnae
Association! Many lovely kindnesses are
always being done by thoughtful alumnae
but the Association very deeply and grate-
fully accepts the gift of a year's member-
ship in the A. A. U. W. Atlanta Branch
given by Augusta (Skeen) Cooper for

the use of the General Alumnae Secretary.

* * * *

Libraries of the South, by Tommie Dora
Barker, one of the outstanding librarians
of the country, is now the possession of
the Alumnae Association and has been
placed with our other alumnae volumes.

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Tommie Dora, now serving as dean of the
Emory University Library School, and
formerly head librarian of the Atlanta
Public Library, was chosen by the Car-
negie Corporation of New York to make
a five year study of library conditions
throughout the south, and this very inter-
esting book is the result of her surveys

made during those years.
* * * *

Radio Time every Wednesday after-
noon from 5:00 to 5:15 o'clock.

Station WSB, Atlanta, Ga. Program a
brand new one under the direction of Ruth
Moore, '34, called "Three Girls in a Room,"
and intended to make a more general ap-
peal to the radio public by presenting a
light, entertaining skit picturing the daily
occurrences in the lives of girls in a dormi-
tory at a modern college. It is not staged
at Agnes Scott. Ruth Moore has written
and directed the program, and the alumnae
who are giving their time and voices to the
performance are: Betty Lou (Houck)
Smith, Carrie Phinney Latimer, Mary
(Sayward) Rogers, Frances James, Mary

(Freeman) Curtis, and Ida Lois McDaniel.

* * * *

Your Cap and Gown, Please! Speaking
of services, here comes a request. As you
know, the Alumnae Association rents
twenty-four gowns and about three dozen
caps to seniors each year at one dollar
each. It adds a not-to-be-sneezed-at sum
to the treasury and also is a great service
to the seniors, many of whom find it diffi-
cult to add the purchase of a cap and gown
to the expenses of senior year. If you
could have seen the mad rush over to the
Alumnae Office when the notice of this
rental went up on the Senior Bulletin
Board, you would rejoice over your gift
(if you have already given us your cap
and gown); and granting you are not sav-
ing that cap and gown for the daughter
or some friend, we are sure you will hasten
to shake out the moth balls and wrap it
up to send it along to the Alumnae Office.
Then when you come back at Commence-
ment time, you can watch your cap and
gown go by once more on parade at
A. S. C!

* * * *

Mrs. Ethel Kerrison is the new manager
of the tea room in the Alumnae House;
Mrs. Kerrison has had valuable experience
in managing coffee shops and dining
rooms in Boston and Atlanta and is well
trained for her work. She was private sec-
retary at the Adams House in Boston
when the late President Coolidge and Mrs.
Coolidge stayed there during his term as

governor of Massachusetts. The tea room
is open all day and until 10:30 at night
and the campus community is making it
headquarters. Mrs. Kerrison is particu-
larly anxious to have the alumnae, both
local and visiting, enjoy the tea room.
Special luncheons, dinners and teas are
yours for the asking. Just drop in any
time.

* * * *

Daisy Frances Smith, '24, newly elected
president of the Alumnae Association, and
Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, executive
secretary, entertained the members of the
Executive Board of the Association at
tea on September 23. Among the members
attending were Helene (Norwood) Lam-
mers, '22; Margaret Ridley, '33; Emma
Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13; Martha
Stansfield, '21; Sarah Slaughter, '26;
Eloise (Gay) Brawley, '16; Kenneth Maner,
'27; Mary (Crenshaw) Palmour, Institute;
Penelope (Brown) Barnett, '32; Nelle
Chamlee, '34, Alberta Palmour, '35.
*t * * *

Among the students working in the
Alumnae office this year are Eloisa Alex-
ander, niece of Miss Lucille Alexander, of
the Agnes Scott Faculty; Mildred Davis,
'38, winner of the Rich prize for excel-
lent work her freshman year, and of the
collegiate scholarship for the best record
in the Freshman, Sophomore and Junior
classes during the 1935-36 session; Char-
lotte French, '39; Jessie Williams, '37; and
Ora Muse, '37, daughter of Eliza (McDon-
ald) Muse, academy, and Barbara Hol-
land, '40.

a|e $ a|t

Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, '26, has been
so kind to the Alumnae Office that grate-
ful acknowledgement is here made of her
beautiful frontispiece in this issue of the
Quarterly and also of her many clever
headings for the various columns in this
issue.

* * * *

Alumnae artists are to have a garret
room of their own! The college has very
generously agreed to allow the use of some
space on the top floor of Buttrick to the
many alumnae interested in continuing
their work in art. The studio has a north
exposure and will be an ideal place for
our artists to work. Any alumnae inter-
ested should make application to Dr. Mc-
Cain and for further details please call the
Alumnae Office or Leone Bowers (Mrs.
C. W. Hamilton), 133 Ponce de Leon
Court, Decatur, Ga., as she is the efficient
chairman of this new project which is
sponsored by the Decatur Club.

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WHAT EXCHANGE STUDENTS THINK OF US

Two letters are published below which are of great interest to any Agnes Scotter. The
first one is from Lucie Hess, the German exchange student of last year, and the second
from Lillian Grimson of South America.

Huttgart, O, Haudhausste 88
July 5, 1936
Deal- Dr. McCain:

A month ago I left Agnes Scott College
in such a rush that I did not even get to
see you. Yet I feel now in a better posi-
tion to thank you very heartily for what
you have done toward helping me obtain
the scholarship which I owe to your gen-
erosity.

It has been a wonderful year and a very
rich experience. I am grateful to what-
ever fates have guided me that I was sent
to Agnes Scott.

I am grateful to each one of the pro-
fessors with whom I was privileged to
work. The academic training at Agnes
Scott College is excellent. I did not only
get a great deal out of the courses, but
I also enjoyed them thoroughly.

Yet the most wonderful experience this
year was to meet and to know all these
fine people. On coming over to America
we Europeans are full of prejudices
against the new world of which we have
very vague conceptions, confining them-
selves to sky-scrapers, kidnappers, gang-
sters and cowboys. As soon as we are in
the states we do away with our superior-
ity complex, and gradually we realize how
much we can learn of Americans. You
know more about the art of living than
we do, because you know more about what
is essential in life. Somehow or other you
live closer to God and I think that is
why we cannot help taking so deep a lik-
ing for you and your country. Perhaps
America is really "God's own country,"
not only because of its wealth and the
richness of its natural resources, not only
because of the beauty of its landscape, but
in a deeper sense because of its people.
To live a whole year in a thoroughly spirit-
ual atmosphere I do not think that you
can ever perceive how much this means
to a German of these times. There are so
few real Christians in Germany. We do
not see them and so many ceased to be-
lieve that there is anything like real
Christianity on earth. But you and so
many others vouched for it. That's why
I am so deeply grateful to you. I believe
I am going to study theology in order to
do church work in later years.

In a few days I am leaving home to do
my labor service for four months. I know
that very often while putting up hay, or
harvesting, or milking cows, my thoughts
will slip away and fly over the ocean
and then I shall walk again over the well-

known places, I shall hear the bell, and
perhaps the organ playing, and I shall
snuff in the air to breathe in the sweet
odor of the pine trees . . . Yes, there is
not a day that I do not think of Agnes
Scott College and of you, Dr. McCain, and
there is always a little longing mixed up
with the passing thought.

Yet I know that I can be a good Agnes
Scotter and loyal to the beloved Alma Ma-
ter even when in another country and very
"far from the reach of her sheltering
arms."

I am, very devotedly yours,

Lucie Hess.

Buenos Aires, Sept. 4, 1936.
Dear Dr. McCain:

I was very sorry to leave Decatur with-
out having the opportunity of saying
goodbye to you. I wanted to have a chance
to tell you how much those two years at
Agnes Scott meant to me. It was a real
education in every way, and I shall be al-
ways grateful for the wonderful privilege
of living on that campus for two years.
I know that I did not do as much as I
should have to prove this, and that the
profit is all on my side.

It was wonderful to live among Ameri-
can girls and learn from them many things
that life among my own people would
never have taught me. American students
know how to enjoy their work and be
happy while they go about their duties.
The girls at Agnes Scott are very good
comrades and know how to make life
pleasant for the foreign students who are
lucky enough to have a place in their
midst.

I am also grateful to the faculty for
their willingness to guide and help all
along and for making it possible for me
to feel perfectly at home on the Agnes
Scott campus.

Above everything else, Dr. McCain, I
want to thank you for making it possible
for me to stay a second year and obtain
my degree. I will always count the past
two years among the happiest of my life,
and will try to apply what I have learned
there in my life at home. I am not think-
ing particularly about the knowledge of
class rooms and books, but of those other
lessons which are taken in every day life,
by way of contacts with individuals, and
the example of those who are more experi-
enced than ourselves.

Sincerely,

Lillian Grimson, '36.

%, 5. T>. ?. Be/ore ^our
In^itatiorLj

Alumnae Week-End is coming again this year, a little
later in the spring, the dates, March 5 and 6, and of
course you are coming too, on the same dates. The next
Quarterly will discuss all the plans fully and carry your
real invitation. At present the Alumnae Office and the
Curriculum Committee are busy gathering suggestions and
we need your R. S. V. P. right away. What would you like
most to hear about, think about, see, or do, on this next
program? We don't mind telling you that we have two or
three ideas that we think are grand, if they just work out
right. But what are yours?

We should like to have the alumnae of Agnes Scott al-
ways feel that Alumnae Week-End is a special time
planned for their interest and enjoyment, as they come
back to a beloved and familiar atmosphere for a bit of in-
spiration. A card bearing a suggestion, sent to the Alum-
nae Office or to Emma Pope Dieckmann, chairman of the
committee, will be of the greatest assistance. There are
seven thousand alumnae. We should have at least six thou-
sand suggestions to aid us in our planning. Thank you.

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13.

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Published in November, January, April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

Vol. XV. JANUARY, 1937 No. 2

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Our Sixth Alumnae Week-End 2

The Presidents' Page 3

Dr. J. R. McCain
Daisy Frances Smith, '24

American Women and Peace 4

R. Florence Brinkley, '14

The Club Woman of Tomorrow 6

Mrs. H. B. Ritchie

Glimpses of Poland and the Cracow Conference 9

Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12

Books 12

Elena Greenfield, '3 2

And Have You Read ? 13

Page Ackerman, '3 3
Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27

We Think 16

Lulu Daniel Ames, '3 6

Through the Open Gates 19

Office Notes 21

Concerning Ourselves 24

Founder's Day Broadcast 49

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Our Sixth cAlumnae IsOeek-end

General Theme

THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1937

9:30-10:30 "Recent Developments in the Field of Science,"
Professor Robert B. Holt, Agnes Scott Col-
lege.

10:30-11:30 "Etchings;' Mary Wallace Kirk, '11.

(The last half hour of this discussion will be used in ob-
servation of some of Mary Wallace Kirk's etchings, also
some of the work of Miss Louise Lewis, head of the Agnes
Scott Art Department, and of that of some of her students.)

11:30-12:30 "The Modern Novel" Dr. William Giemer
Perry, Georgia School of Technology.

12:30 Luncheon in Rebekah Scott dining room; alum-
nae are guests of the college.
Speaker: Dr. J. R. McCain

1:30 Dedication of the Armistead Memorial Room
and of the Hearon Memorial Room in the Agnes
Scott Library.

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937

10:00-10:30 Agnes Scott String Ensemble under the direc-
tion of Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, Agnes Scott Col-
lege, illustrating the close contact of music with
student interests.

10:30-11:30 "The Treaty of Versailles in Retrospect," Dr.
Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., of Emory University.

11:30-12:30 "Trends in Modern Legislation," Dr. Harmon
Caldwell, President of the University of
Georgia.

12:30 Luncheon in Anna Young Alumnae House.

WELCOME HOME!

As this is the last issue of the Quarterly before our Alumnae Week-End, I am re-
questing the editor to permit me to have a brief personal word to our former students.
We hope that you will come back to your Alma Mater for this particular week-end. We
are always glad to have you visit us. However, for this occasion, we are to have an
unusual program, and we believe that many will come not only to hear the speakers but
to enjoy reunions with friends of college days.

Sometimes the reunions are held at periods when faculty and officers are unusually
busy. We hope to be relatively free at the time of the Alumnae Week-End so that we
may share in some of the activities of that occasion.

Agnes Scott is enjoying a fine session, and we are very happy indeed at the large num-
ber of visitors who have come to the campus, partly to see our new library and partly
also to secure suggestions about many phases of college life. We are always happy to
share with fellow workers in the field of education any of our experiences that may be
possible.

Wishing for each alumna all possible blessings, I am,

Cordially,

J. R. McCain, President.

Dear Alumnae:

It is my happy privilege to extend to all of you a most cordial invitation to come
home March 5 th and 6th to your special week-end.

The program planned this year is very attractive, as an examination of the first page
of the Quarterly will indicate. Time has been left free for any social gatherings you
may desire. You must not miss the joy of renewing old associations, and at the same
time, of "going back to school" under the pleasantest sort of circumstances.

We have always had a fine representation from Atlanta and Decatur, and we hope
for that again. But it would be splendid, if in addition, the Alumnae House were filled
with a big crowd from out of town.

For many it is impossible to come at other stated occasions, such as Feb. 22nd and
at Commencement, whereas a week-end away in the spring could be managed. Plan for
it, and don't let anything interfere.

Put on your calendar, too, the Feb. 22nd broadcast over WSB. When Founder's Day
has passed into history again, remember that Alumnae week-end is only ten days ahead!

I am counting on you

Sincerely,

Daisy Frances Smith, '24

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AMERICAN WOMEN AND PEACE

R. Florence Brinkley, '14

In spite of the fact that ninety-five per cent of the people in Europe do not want
war and that the majority of Americans desire peace, we are involved in a world which is
tense with fear and busy with war preparations. In England the idle textile mills of Lan-
cashire are employed in making gas masks and devices to protect baby carriages from
poison gas, while the English newspapers carry directions for gas-proofing one room in
each home although five people could live in such a room only twelve hours. As Lind-
bergh pointed out in his address before the German Air Ministry in Berlin this summer,
airplanes have "stripped the armor of every nation." He pleaded for "a security which
rests in intelligence," but the United States, turning a deaf ear to her leader in aviation,
has launched a program calling for the construction of two planes a day, sixty a month.
Indeed, the United States is leading the world in its expenditures upon army, navy, air
forces, new air bases, and other preparations for war. At the present time three million
dollars a day goes for its armed forces, although we are still paying eight million dollars
a day for the World War. The plan of our nation for developing seaplane harbors on the
islands of the Pacific has made Japan, according to reports from Tokyo, "extremely ner-
vous." The army and navy are at work on plans for air bases which are definitely mili-
tary for Wake and Midway islands and have plans on paper for "six such stations between
Hawaii and Midway." The excuse offered is that "a good offensive is the best defense";
yet must the United States carry war to Japan in order to defend itself at home? The
militarists and navalists of Japan have continually used our Pacific activities to increase
funds for developing their own army and navy. Thus the vicious circle grows, and the
war against which the American War Department claims that preparation is being made
becomes more likely through the preparations themselves. Sir William Robertson, Chief
of the British General Staff during the World War, stated after the war was over: "In-
stead of preventing war, we know that preparations are apt to precipitate it. Never in
history were preparations so complete or so widespread as during the fifty or sixty years
previous to 1914, and yet never were wars so frequent as in that period." Preparation,
then, is not the way out. It was the prepared nations, the ones most heavily armed, which
were dragged into the last war. It was the unprepared nations like Denmark, Norway,
and Sweden that kept out of it.

Meanwhile what is the responsibility of the American woman, and how can she help
to create a warless world? First of all, she must reach an informed position on war, com-
ing to personal conviction on the subject in times of peace. When war hysteria is sweep-
ing a country it is too late to form a sane, balanced conclusion as to what one will or
will not do about war. This fact was well illustrated in the war hysteria at the time of
the World War. The Christian religion of "Peace on earth" and "Thou shalt not kill" is
diametrically opposed to war and is now so recognized by the pronouncements of most of
the leading denominations and by the statement of the Federated Council of Churches of
America that "the whole war system of the nations is unnecessary and unchristian"; yet
at the time of the World War, ministers not only took up arms themselves but also went
up and down the country urging the finest American young men to go out to kill. Their
revulsion of feeling in calmer times is expressed in such a pledge as that of Harry Emer-
son Fosdick in his Armistice Day address, "The Unknown Soldier": "I renounce war, and
never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another! O Unknown Sol-
dier, in penitent reparation I make you that pledge."

Personal conviction and wishful waiting are not, however, enough. It is the respon-
sibility of every citizen to try intelligently to promote peace. As a starting point, we
should band together in peace organizations. Not even the most patriotic soldier would
shoulder a gun and march off to war alone! Nor can the most firm-minded lover of

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peace accomplish the victories of peace alone. We need to be united so that our efforts
will be concentrated along the most effective lines and so that our opinions will be re-
spected by those that speak for us in the government. Furthermore, we need to build up
strong peace organizations so that our individual morale would be sustained and the peace
measures of the government be upheld in case war hysteria should again sweep the coun-
try. There are at least thirty-four such organizations.

One myth that should be brought to light and done away with once and for all is
that peace organizations are cooperating with Communists. Only the uninformed or
those with Fascist sympathies suggest such a fictitious idea. Only fear drives groups or
individuals to extremes; peace organizations are unafraid and therefore have no cause to
be extremists. Theirs is a middle ground. They cannot side with Communism, which is
the hostile camp to Fascism and is willing to employ force to carry out its ideas; neither
can they side with Fascism, which is a movement based on force and is contemptuous of
all peace groups. They cannot, by the very nature of their beliefs and program, have a
part in anything which will help to divide America into the two hostile camps which
have brought about the Continental struggle: their aim is the improvement of democratic
institutions. The National Council of Prevention of War in its annual meeting in Octo-
ber adopted unanimously a resolution which expresses the general attitude of peace
groups:

On the unanimous recommendation of the staff and the Executive Board, the
National Council for Prevention of War votes to continue its policy of non-coop-
eration with the Communists or Fascists.

The national group with which it is logical for women to unite is the Women's Inter-
national League for Peace, with national headquarters in Washington and international
headquarters in Geneva. Founded by Jane Addams in the hope of uniting all women
everywhere to prevent war, it has already been far-reaching in its work to promote peace
and is worthy of Raymond Fosdick's comment that it "does more effective work on a
small amount of money than any other peace organization of which I know."

In addition to supporting organized efforts for peace, all women interested in peace
should see to it that there are study groups on peace in their local communities and that
peace programs are given in schools, churches, clubs, and other organizations.

In the third place, we should speak out for the political measures which will make
against war. We can take a stand against the unreasonable and ever-increasing approp-
riations for the army and navy. We can use our influence in favor of measures to secure
greater economic justice and so help in uprooting war. We can through our Representa-
tives and Senators support all efforts to secure the cooperation of other nations for the
peaceful settlement of difficulties. The most important measure coming up this winter
is that of stronger neutrality legislation legislation which will insure an embargo on all
war supplies, commodities as well as munitions, which will place an embargo on loans
and credits, and which will provide that American citizens traveling in time of war will
do so at their own risk. Such a measure deserves our steadfast and intelligent support.
Finally, we should lend our assistance to passing measures which will take the profits out
of war so that never again can American munitions makers stir up international conflicts
for their private gain.

Lethargy is an insidious disease; it dulls the sense of personal responsibility, it develops
procrastination, and it magnifies the willingness to "let the other fellow do it." "War
lies down-stream: we drift into it. Peace lies up-stream: we have to swim for it." May
the New Year find Agnes Scotters ready to head up-stream!

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THE CLUB WOMAN OF TOMORROW

Mrs. H. B. Ritchie
State Director for Georgia, General Federation of Women's Clubs

In order to understand the club woman of today or to prophesy as to the club woman
of tomorrow it is necessary to bring to mind by a few bold strokes a picture of the club
woman of yesterday. Intelligent discussion demands that we briefly recount the story of
her origin, her hopes, her meed of success, the scope of her disappointments, the extent of
her satisfactions and compensations.

We can look back easily to the time when it was held that a woman became unwo-
manly when she evidenced any concern with matters outside her home and allowed her
interest to be engaged with others than her family. So earnestly was this stated that ex-
cept for a few venturesome souls the women themselves held to this opinion. But there
came a time when it seemed that again there had been issued the command, "Let there be
light." Certainly there came to the world a light concerning human relationships and
woman saw a world in which she was to take a part, in which she was to be forced to
take a part, commensurate with her potentialities and meeting fully her opportunities and
responsibilities. For long years she struggled to find the answer to two pertinent ques-
tions: how may I, as the mother of the race and thus the creator of the future, how may
I use the powers given to me to best advantage? And how may I meet my responsibilities
with greatest efficiency?

Through individual effort she sought the answer. Then there came another great real-
ization. It was this: that no matter how earnestly and prayerfully an individual might
endeavor to make of her sons and daughters that true, fine type of humanity which God
intended them to be and no matter how devotedly she attempted to make of her home a
fit place for such a type to flourish, working alone she could not hope to be successful.

Because this new insight was vision and not mirage and was therefore a progressive
thing, her conception of the extent of her responsibility widened. She saw her child the
product, not alone of the home which she provided and the homes provided for especially
selected playmates, but equally the product of the home and of the school which the com-
munity provided, and of the home and the school of the street which nobody seemed to be
exercising intelligence in providing. From the confines of her home with her own family
as the beneficiary of her efforts she realized that her duty embraced the community and
all children within the reach of her benefactions. Thus was the club woman of yesterday
born.

All seemed fairly simple for a time. Then science through discovery and invention,
progressing more swiftly than men could adjust to change, proceeded to turn that com-
parative simplicity into an extreme complexity for today's club woman. Influences
which came into the lives of children had been subject to control because they existed al-
most wholly within the community and were more or less moulded by the community's
opinion. Suddenly, distance was conquered, time became negligible, the ideas of youth
concerning manners and morals were being formed in Hollywood through motion pic-
tures, and character was being built by the magic voice of radio. To give these added
force science and the modern cry for efficiency have removed from the child's world the
small tasks which were his contribution to family happiness and welfare and thereby re-
moved one of the strongest ties into family life. Truly, there seemed left little of unity,
of isolation for the family, or of individual choice as to life and living.

But this was not yet the end. Each family once proudly boasting of financial inde-
pendence suddenly discovered there is no such thing that we can all be engulfed in a
maelstrom of economic difficulties that a wave of depression whose cause was a closed
book to most of us could yet leave a world struggling with unemployment, poverty, and
despair. As a consequence of all these things, because she realizes that unseen forces and

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far distant circumstances vitally affect her home and family, it is not only to home and
community but to state and nation and even to the world itself, that woman acknowledges
her duty and is assuming the tasks which that duty suggests. Today's club woman is a
part of a highly organized womanhood seeking to relate the women in the home to all
women in all homes.

The club ideal is based on this desire for effective cooperative service on the part of
women who have been forced to extend efforts out of the home, paradoxically enough,
because they loved home so well. In it each woman who has a desire to participate in the
greatest of all businesses, service to society, may find a place where her contribution, big
or little, is needed.

The time has come for stock taking and self examination. How much of accomplish-
ment has rewarded our efforts? How faithful have we been to the dream? What is the
present situation? What faults have been allowed to retard our plans? We must evaluate
the situation which faces today's club woman because in her problems lies the challenge
to the club woman of tomorrow. Grave and many are the problems which confront us.

Our first concern is still the home where our touch with the child is most intimate
and where our greatest success should be expected. We proudly acclaim that club women
have had a large part in the increase of knowledge as to the physical care of home and its
inmates. Housekeeping has taken its place among the admitted professions requiring in-
telligence and training of a high order. We know more today about making home a beau-
tiful, tasteful, sanitary place in which to live. Unquestionably, the physical home is far
better than ever before. Yet on every hand and from every side we hear accusations that
the home has broken down. The strain and struggle, the tension and travail of the past
few years have worked tremendous damage to the home and its spiritual life. The regula-
tion of size of families by the standard of ability to render proper care, the safeguarding
of the mental and moral fitness of the coming generation; the economic security of the
family; the building of a higher standard of well being, and character training of a posi-
tive type must all be seriously sought by those who dream of a satisfactory national pat-
tern for home life.

Next to home the interest of organized women has been naturally enough in educa-
tion. What part can laymen and civic organizations have in this vital matter? The school
is, has always been, and will always be, what and only what the community demands of
it. Each community achieves its school and has the school it really desires and deserves.
School officials are held bound by the ignorance, the prejudices of those who support the
school. They can travel on the road toward an ideal system only so far as community de-
sires that they shall go. The task is largely that of organized womanhood to evaluate the
schools, to determine what is necessary for proper living, to demand that the obsolete be
thrown out and replaced by that which meets a definite need. It is ours too, to prove to
our communities and state that monies spent in wise education for youth is an invest-
ment, an insurance against destruction.

As we are working toward the abolition of child labor it is a duty and a matter of
self protection to seek to place a type of training in the grammar grades which will chal-
lenge the interest of over-age but educationally retarded boys and girls who will be thrown
on the streets by the passage of such laws if the schools in industrial centers are not re-
organized to hold them. Only by such a precaution can their freedom from labor become
a constructive force rather than a source of great danger to self and community. The
cost of such reorganization will be small compared to that entailed by long hours spent
unguided and uncontrolled. Prevention of evil has always been cheaper than are reforma-
tories and detention institutions.

Education for leisure hours is assuming new importance as work days and work weeks
continue to decrease. The arts are rapidly advancing as a factor in business, an impor-
tant point in competition. The place they are about to assume in meeting social prob-

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lems is equally noteworthy. A mind equipped with a capacity to appreciate good music,
good books, good pictures and a soul deeply desiring to create one or another of these
coupled with the training necessary to gratify that desire will not use precious leisure
hours in a mad race for thrills and in the daring pastime of law breaking.

We as women have not presented the solid front for righteousness in government
which was the battle cry for suffrage. Let us admit that and ask ourselves if the time
has not come when we shall be vital factors in a campaign for a citizenship which is con-
scientious, determined to cast a reasoned ballot, loyal and true to the ideals which made
this nation great, and willing to share in the task of creating a law respecting people and
a legal system worthy of the respect of that people.

Women have always been deeply interested in social service. We must begin to display
a new intelligent response to the problems of brother-keeping and devise a plan whereby
relief, child welfare work and care of the indigent aged may be carried on in a humane
fashion and yet bring about no new problems even graver than the ones for which they
are the remedy.

The problems of today with their modern angle to the age-old problems of living, liv-
ing with, and living for people serve as a challenge to the club woman of tomorrow. In
order to meet that challenge we should outline a statement of policy.

We believe that a great common purpose in the hearts of women to build a new stand-
ard for home is not impossible. A magnificent woman movement for homes which are
economically sound, mechanically convenient, physically sound, and spiritually stimulat-
ing would result in sending into the world men and women to whom life is a joy and its
responsibilities an honor to be willingly assumed.

We believe that it is possible to have an educational system which will give to every
boy and girl full opportunity to attain to the best of which each is capable, which places
no restraints nor handicaps upon urban or rural situation, which is open to rich and poor
alike, which recognizes that children differ in needs and capacity, and which fits each
for the life which in all probability lies ahead.

We believe that democracy is a never-finished philosophy and that with due regard
for the demands made upon it by changing standards and changing values it yet must
hold tenaciously to the doctrine that individual freedom must be as great as possible and
yet be able to maintain an interdependent society. We believe that democracy can be and
must be a workable political philosophy.

We believe that there is possible of accomplishment an active friendship among na-
tions and the peaceful settlement of international difficulties through sympathetic under-
standing between the peoples of the earth. It is not unreasonable to demand that all the
forces of our best thought be untiringly expended to this end.

We believe that women must have a large part in bringing these things to pass and
that to do so we must come to grips with reality, undertake tasks which cry to be done,
fearlessly go about the business of securing a social justice worthy of the name, hold true
to the demand for a culture which shall be worthy of our nation and its ideals, discard
the unworthy motives, the selfishness sometimes displayed, and the spirit which shirks
responsibility and go seriously about the work which we have long discussed, cooperating
with others whose purposes are similar, coordinating plans and efforts for the greater suc-
cess of all.

The power and prestige of organized womanhood is a trust. Yesterday's club women
built them at a great cost and they pray to us not to betray that trust. Future genera-
tions who look to us for opportunity pray that we not betray that trust. The club woman
of today must herself pray most earnestly of all that she may not betray that trust, but
that she may hand to the club woman of tomorrow not only problems and difficulties
but a splendid, effective, intelligent institution with which to fight the good fight and
to keep the faith.

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GLIMPSES OF POLAND AND THE CRACOW

CONFERENCE

Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12

(Preface: Agnes Scoff is indirectly responsible for a very delightful trip which 1 had
last summer. Since Agnes Scott graduates are eligible to membership in the American
Association of University Women and I had paid my dues to that august organization I
was entitled to attend the conference of the International Federation of University
Women in Cracow, Poland, and this gave me a good excuse for a summer trip. As long
as I -was going to Poland I could not miss the opportunity of visiting the Scandinavian
countries and Russia and a few other places like England and Scotland, so, first and last,
I had a remarkably interesting trip. This is not an official report of the conference. Any-
one interested in such a report will find an excellent record in the October Journal of the
A. A. U. W. I am only giving a few personal impressions of the conference and glimpses
of Poland which the editor thinks may be of interest to some of you. R. S. S. )

I entered Poland from the east after ten days in Russia, and crossing that strip of
neutral territory some fifty miles wide which lies between the two countries made me
realize as nothing else the fear and distrust which is driving Europe to a mad armaments
race and makes war seem so inevitable. On both sides of this No Man's Land fortifica-
tions were being erected, soldiers were quite in evidence and one had the feeling that keen
eyes were watching as the passengers went through customs. The small group of fellow
educators with whom I was traveling seemed harmless enough and we were treated with
the greatest courtesy both by Russian and Polish officials. All pictures were carefully
scrutinized, newspapers were confiscated, and one Polish inspector spent ten minutes try-
ing to see if there was anything seditious in a copy of Lloyd Douglas' "Green Light" be-
longing to one of the party.

In Lemberg, the capital of the Polish Ukraine, we were entertained by a group of
Ukrainian women who guided us over the city all day and in the evening served us a din-
ner of characteristic dishes. We saw a rare collection of icons in the Art Museum, visited
the Greek Catholic Cathedral and several old churches which showed the influence of
Byzantine architecture, saw modern peasant handcraft in a little cooperative shop, visited
some schools and the park, and ate bourse, baked goose, beets and other delicious things.
As pleasant as all these were, the thing which interested me most was the insight which I
got in conversations with these women of how a dissatisfied minority group feels. That
particular section of the country has been the battlefield of many a war and has been sub-
ject to several rulers. Prior to 1918 it was Eastern Galicia, a province of Austria-Hun-
gary, and the Ukrainians thought they would be granted autonomy by the Treaty of
Versailles, but Poland has never allowed this and they are terribly unhappy about it. They
feel that they are discriminated against in holding public offices, in educational oppor-
tunities, in having their language dropped from most of the schools, and even the I. F.
U. W. no longer recognizes their Association of University Women as a separate organi-
zation but insists that they combine with the Polish University women. As I heard their
grievances I felt most sympathetic but could not see how they hoped to gain by the war
which they seemed to think inevitable.

The journey from Lemberg to Cracow was most picturesque, well-tilled farms,
thatched-roofed houses, flowers, flocks of geese and many cows. I saw the goose-girl of
my childhood fairy story, and such a remarkable assortment of cowherds! There seemed
to be no fences and all the geese and all the cows had to have personal attendants to keep
them in their proper places. There were old peasant women wrapped in plaid shawls, old
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this peaceful landscape the sight of many grass-covered trenches and new fortifications
was like a spectre at the feast reminding one of the bloodshed and suffering which had
been and which might be repeated.

Cracow, with its ancient walls and gates, its castle on the hill, its cobble stone streets,
its colorful market place and many churches, seemed like a medieval town and not a 20th
century reality. Every morning while there I heard the trumpeter in the tower of
Santa Maria blow his trumpet at six o'clock which I took as a call for an early morning
walk. At that time of day it was particularly interesting to see the peasants coming to
market in their funny long wagons, or more often walking with huge bundles tied on
their backs. The market place in the Rynek was fascinating with its wide assortment of
wares from crocheted mats and hand woven linen to plums and blackberries. I have never
seen so many mushrooms little ones, big ones, white ones, brown ones, dried ones, fresh
ones, loose ones spread out on large trays, long strings of them hung from sticks or
looped around their owners' necks.

There are said to be fifty-two churches in Cracow, and in my early morning walks I
visited twelve of them and regretted that I had to leave before seeing them all. If attend-
ing church is a mark of sanctity then there must be many saints in the population of that
city for always there were throngs of people in the churches. A long-to-be-remembered
experience for me was a 7 o'clock mass in the church of Santa Maria with that marvelous
high altar open, candles lighted, the priest in gorgeous vestments chanting the service,
the organ playing, and the devout worshippers kneeling on the stone floor. Later I saw
the altar nearer, a 15th century masterpiece of wood carving by Wit Stowosz, richly
polichromed and gilded, depicting scenes from the Death of the Virgin, and I could appre-
ciate more the marvelous workmanship but I liked it better as I had seen it that first
morning. The Wawel Cathedral with its tombs and exquisite little chapels is called the
Westminster of Poland and is visited by groups of pilgrims every day. As we were going
in we saw a dozen peasant girls in the colorful holiday costumes of their district resting
on the steps before going further, inside we saw a party of school boys under the leader-
ship of a young priest, and later I saw a group of middle aged peasant women in their
Sunday best being directed by their village priest. Poland, like other European countries,
is trying to develop a strong spirit of national pride and loyalty and these pilgrimages are
encouraged by Church and State.

One afternoon during my stay I went with Miss Campbell-Smith, a delightful Scots-
woman and fellow delegate, to visit Kazimierz, a section of the city inhabited almost en-
tirely by Jews orthodox Polish Jews who wear black hats, long black coats and side
curls. Another trip which I took was to Wieliczka to see the salt mines which have been
mined for a thousand years and still produce five hundred tons a day. We were taken
through some of the ancient shafts and shown three or four chapels with figures cut from
salt and chandeliers of glittering salt crystal, all done by miners with some artistic talent
and a desire to express it.

The Jagellonian University, one of the oldest in Europe, founded at the request of
Queen Jadwiga, seemed a fitting place for the I. F. U. W. to hold its sessions. When I
went to register I was impressed by the dignity and beauty of its exterior and interior,
and almost as profoundly impressed by the enormous manilla envelope bearing my name
which was presented to me. In addition to the usual program, badge, etc., this contained
mimeographed information about conference business and much Polish tourist literature.
Walking into one of the court yards of the older University buildings to get a closer view
of a statute of Copernicus who had been a student there, I saw a group of college boys
who were speaking English, and learned that they were some of the American swimmers
who had been to the Olympics and were traveling about before returning home.

The Franchuski Hotel where we were staying seemed to be headquarters for the con-
ference and it was quite pleasant to breakfast with a woman from New Zealand, lunch

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with delegates from Sweden, and chat with others in the corridors. The outstanding
social event of the conference was the mayor's reception which was to have been a garden
party but because of threatening rain was held in a hunting club. Miss Martha Brown,
of Boston, and I went together riding from the hotel in a funny little drosky which made
us feel in the proper spirit for the occasion which seemed as if it belonged to another age
as well as to another people. Arriving at the entrance gate we were received by men in
medieval livery and directed through a garden to the door of the Club House where pic-
turesque men in livery were on guard, and our Polish hostesses welcomed us. We were
taken into a large ante room and introduced to many men and women whose names I
certainly could not understand so never did know whether I met the mayor or not for
all the men were in formal afternoon attire and looked equally distinguished.

From there we went into a large banqueting hall with a long table down the center
and many small tables on either side, all ladened with cakes, sandwiches and fruit. There
seemed to be hundreds of beautifully decorated cakes on stands and innumerable small
cakes of many varieties. Two women from Warsaw were hostesses at the table where we
sat and I talked with the one who could speak English and Miss Brown talked French
with the other and I attempted an occasional word. An international gathering like that
made me realize more than ever how much of the French and German Miss Colton and
Miss Trebein tried to teach me I have forgotten, because we in America, in the South
particularly, have so little opportunity to use any foreign language. Luckily, the other
guests who happened to sit at our table were from Australia and England so conversation
was quite easy.

After most of the guests had gathered the president of the Hunting Club welcomed
us in a short speech which was a real gem, so courteous and so appropriate. Then a group
of girls from a country school, in peasant costume, sang and danced for us, and after
they had finished the president of the Club invited Miss Westerdyk, president of the I. F.
U. W., to dance with him. I thought she was an awfully good sport to accept for she
is a rather plump Dutch professor of pathology approaching middle years, but she went
through the dance with ease and grace.

The theme of the conference was: "How can the I. F. U. W. most usefully con-
tribute to training the coming generation in international cooperation?" French and Eng-
lish were the official languages, all addresses given in one or the other and all business
given in both. Two sessions and several women are outstanding in my memory. One of
these women was Professor Johanna Westerdyk, mentioned above. Another was the Eng-
lish woman who served as interpreter for the business sessions, a very clever woman and
a remarkable linguist who could translate technical terms from one language to the other
with speed and accuracy. The other two women who seemed to me outstanding were Dr.
Meta Glass, president of the A. A. U. W., who was the best dressed, most distinguished
looking woman at the conference, and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve who was honored by
being elected president of the International Federation for the second time. While in
Copenhagen I met a very active university woman who said the Danish women had been
discussing candidates for the presidency and were agreed that, although a French woman
should logically be next, Dean Gildersleeve was the one person qualified for the office.
After seeing her preside at a business session and being impressed by the quickness of her
mind, her ability to summarize and express a question so clearly and accurately, I did
not wonder that she was selected as leader.

The business session which I attended was the one in which the Budapest Resolution
was discussed. I was interested in seeing how business was transacted, how expert the
interpreter was, the feeling with which some of the women spoke, particularly those of
the Swiss delegation, and how the vote was taken. All members of the conference were
provided with identification badges of different colors the hostesses had yellow, the

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non-voting delegates light blue and the voting delegates dark blue. When a vote was
called those eligible to vote raised their dark blue badges and these were counted.

The general session which I enjoyed most was the morning when Dr. M. Patkamiow-
ska talked on "Present Day Women Novelists in Poland," and Miss K. Illahowicz gave a
semi-humorous, whimsical talk on "Nothing At All." In the midst of discussions of
grave international problems and deep intellectual questions she made a plea for "sanity,
serenity and peace," saying that the more information we have the more we want and
thus we are caught in an endless treadmill, that we need to slow down, "to enjoy the
beauty of a birch, the serenity of a pine and the peace of clouds and mountains reflected
in a blue lake." There was profound truth in what she had to say and it was quite fitting
to have some humor introduced into the conference for Dean Margaret Corbin had said
at a previous session that "there is a drought of humor in Europe today."

A slight damper was cast over the whole conference by the unfortunate incident of
Mrs. Atkinson's arrest. The American newspapers carried full accounts of how Mrs. F.
G. Atkinson of Minneapolis, national chairman of the committee on Fellowship Endow-
ment of the A. A. U. W., and a voting delegate to the Cracow conference had been ar-
rested at the Polish border because, through some misunderstanding, she had failed to de-
clare her money. It was difficult to get accurate reports in Cracow and there were many
rumors concerning Mrs. Atkinson's imprisonment in Warsaw and her difficulties in get-
ting released, which made other delegates a bit uneasy and our hostesses quite embarrassed
that such a thing could have happened. I learned later that she had had car trouble and
in going to the garage to which she was directed had crossed and recrossed the border
without the required money declarations, and the officer who arrested her was merely
doing what he considered his duty, and it was not until the American Consul made many
explanations that she was released, and she did not arrive in Cracow until the last day of
the conference. This incident made me realize more acutely the suspicion and distrust
which I had felt in crossing into Poland, and how thankful we in America should be that
our neighbors are peaceful and friendly. I do dislike the Pharisaical, better-than-thou
attitude which makes most Americans returning from Europe so obnoxious, and I hate
to end on that note, but as picturesque and charming as many spots in Europe are, I am
frank to say that just now America is a more pleasant place to be.

BOOKS

Books are like old friends that wait
In a deep arm chair by an open grate
To weave a romance or, with a sigh,
Recall the stories of days gone by;
To tell us of people they know and draw
A study of Dickens, Gray, or Shaw,
A pattern of science or of art.
Their tales can ever reach my heart!
And, when I'm lonely and somehow see
The need to sit at a patient knee,
I'm rather glad for friends that wait
In a deep armchair by an open grate.

Elena Greenfield, '32.

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"AND HAVE YOU READ ?"

THE PEOPLE, YES by Carl Sandburg
Reviewed by Page Ackerman, '3 3
The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg is a set of poetic variations on the single theme
announced in the title. Just as Walt Whitman sang The Song of Myself in an age when
the importance of the individual was unchallenged, so at a time when the individual as
such has almost disappeared from the face of the earth, Carl Sandburg sings the song of
the people. And as Whitman found the material of his song in the sensations of his body,
the workings of his mind, and the mysterious wisdom of his own soul, so Sandburg is
concerned with the minds, bodies, and spirits of the millions of individuals from the be-
ginning of time to the present and beyond, from Maine to New Mexico, who are,

"The people of the earth, the family of man,"

"Born with bones and heart fused in deep and violent secrets
Mixed from a bowl of sky blue dreams and sea slime facts
A seething of sailors and sinners, toilers, loafers, oxen, apes
In a womb of superstition, faith, genius, crime, sacrifice
The one and only source of armies, navies, work-gangs,
The living flowing breath of the history of nations,
Of the little Family of Man hugging the little ball of Earth,"

But this is more than a book about the people, it contains the people; they walk
through its pages telling tall tales, wisecracking, suffering, wondering, asking, and hop-
ing. They speak here for themselves with the wisdom of innocence, the wisdom of strug-
gle, and the wisdom of hope. There is the little child who says, after hearing what sol-
diers are for, "Some day they'll give a war and nobody will come." There is the mongrel
who says, "I don't know who my ancestors were, but we've been descending for a long
time," and thousands of others, the people, saying, "Fine words butter no parsnips. Moon-
light dries no mittens." "He who burns himself must sit on his blisters." "You're either
a thoroughbred, a scrub, or an inbetween." "I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my
way." There is the "early Chicago poet" writing,

" 'I am credulous about the destiny of man,
and I believe more than I can ever prove
of the future of the human race
and the importance of illusions,
the value of great expectations.' "
And if the "early Chicago poet" is not Carl Sandburg, he is his spiritual kinsman,
for he has written the burden of Sandburg's song. The People, Yes is, in short, a confes-
sion of faith. The people are battered; they are sold out; they are lied to, deceived, and
corrupted. They do not know the answers; they build up only to tear down again; they
are too occupied with the mere business of living, but,

"The people is a lighted believer and hoper and is this to be held against them?"
They will go on.

"In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march:
"Where to? what next?' "

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QUACK, QUACK by Leonard Woolf
Reviewed by Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27

Mr. Woolf gives his indictment of modern quackery, political and intellectual, the
significant title, Quack, Quack. He sees in the world of the present a reversion to action
based on jungle instincts and emotions after centuries of slow toil toward dispassionate
and intellectual judgment. Consequently, the book is written with the despairing inten-
sity of one who bewails a lost cause, but who still retains the energy of the fighter.

The principal medicine men who have bewitched the peoples of Europe are, of course,
Mussolini and Hitler. Through an account of their appeal to the populace in Italy and in
Germany, the author makes clear his conception of what modern quackery consists in:
the playing upon emotions, especially that of fear, and the glorification, almost the deifi-
cation, of the quack. In Germany the quackery has the added primeval element of the
scapegoat to whom all blame is attached. The bamboozling of the public in Germany
seems to him altogether more sinister than that in Italy. The comparison of the hocus-
pocus and its effects in the two countries is sharply drawn, for Mr. Woolf has the power
to combine scientific analysis of causes with dramatic setting forth to concrete evidence.
The large assertions, which he is not afraid to make, are nearly always supported by
actual demonstration. To show, for instance, how the cult of Hitler worship is fostered
by the same means as that of savage magicmakers, he uses his own experiences at a Ger-
man patriotic celebration. If he can point the implications of the phenomena he observes,
he can also give convincing records of the grounds from which those implications arise.
While his study of quackery is naturally more detailed in connection with those countries
where its sway has been more nearly complete, he gives pregnant hints of the "quack
quacking" in his own country of Great Britain.

Clear and suggestive as his comment is, his whole contention that the peoples of the
earth are being captivated by powers of primitive emotion is brought into discredit by
his own emotionalism. The fervor of his conviction leads him to over-emphasis; and in
his missionary zeal he falls into the pattern of melodramatic wizardry used by the despised
quacks (who, as he is careful to admit, are often convinced by their own quacking). On
parallel pages he gives pictures of Hitler and Mussolini in characteristic public poses and
of two heathen sacred figures. The resemblance is startling enough and the caricature
plain. But Mr. Woolf points the moral and tells us to look at the fear betrayed in the
eyes of the dictators even while they strike awe inspiring attitudes. His grim chant,
"Look at the eyes! Look at the eyes!" stirs up the emotion of the reader by a device as
primitive as any used by the quacks.

In spite of his own excitement in condemning excitement, the fundamental sound-
ness of his view of political dictatorship seems inescapable. But in his condemnation of
intellectual quackery, he makes more devastating charges and adduces less convincing
proof. He sees the real destruction of our modern world in the yielding to the tempta-
tions of quackery on the part of the true intellectuals, men capable of unemotional
thought. He consigns to the limbo of quackery anything that is metaphysical and be-
yond proof. Accordingly, he must condemn a noble array of philosophers. His align-
ment of the thinkers of the world into opposing camps of quackery and sound thought
is based on arbitrary and personal opinion; and his proof of their belonging where he has
put them is specious.

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STORIES OF THREE DECADES by Thomas Mann
Reviewed by Page Ackerman, '3 3

Stories of Three Decades "contains everything written by Thomas Mann with the
exception of his novels and essays. He has, moreover, contributed a valuable and inform-
ing preface." "Many of these stories have not heretofore appeared in English, and some
have been published in less felicitious versions than the masterly renderings of Mrs. Lowe,"
who is now responsible for the entire English text. Beginning with "Little Herr Friede-
mann," written in 1896, and ending with "Mario and the Magician," written in 1929,
the collection is significant in its revelation of the development of a great literary artist
who speaks for himself in the preface. "Every piece of work is in fact a realization piece-
meal if you like, but each complete in itself of our own nature; they are stones on that
harsh road which we must learn to walk of ourselves." The volume is no less significant
in its reflections of the spirit of the crowded, troubled years between 1896 and 1929.

In most of the stories, no matter how widely they vary in point of view and method
of treatment, the author is concerned with the problem of the artist and his twofold rela-
tion to nature and to society. The first five stories deal with rather specialized instances
of spiritual isolation as their titles, "Disillusionment" and "The Dillettante," show. How-
ever it is the dillettante who announces the problem in general terms when he says, "It
comes to the same thing: if you take care not to be a man of action, if you seek peace in
solitude, you will find that life's vicissitudes fall upon you from within and it is upon
that stage you must prove yourself a hero or a fool." Although "Tonio Kroger" is a
novelette rather than a short story, it is fitting that it should be included in this volume
since it has come to be considered a symbol of the attitude of a generation of artists. In it
Thomas Mann combines lyric beauty with the high seriousness that underlies his concep-
tion of art and the true function of the artist. It is in essence a story of youth dedicated
to art and the tragedy of knowledge, but stirred by an intense longing for "the blonde
and the blue-eyed, the fair and living, the happy, lovely, and commonplace." With
"Tonio Kroger" belongs "Death in Venice," also a novelette, and according to Clifton
Fadiman "surely the most beautiful long, short story ever written." The strange, sweet,
musical prose of the story of Gustave von Aschenbach seems born of the plague-ridden
breath of the Mediterranean sirocco; and as "Tonio Kroger" is a story of youth, so it is
the tragedy of art and an artist no longer young.

"Disorder and Early Sorrow" and "Mario and the Magician" are both concerned with
post-war Europe. The former deals with the years of the German inflation when eggs
cost six thousand marks and the manners of a gentleman had ceased to exist. The latter
speaks no word of politics or controversy, and is apparently a simple tale of a conjuror's
visit to an Italian seaside resort; yet it contrives to be "the most searching indictment of
current domination ideals penned in our time."

Although it is not the most pretentious story in the book, "A Man and his Dog" is
one of the most delightful bits of idyllic prose that has been written in our day. This
quiet account of the adventures of the impulsive Bashan and his master is as refreshing
as a walk in the woods or along the river banks where they spent many pleasant hours.
For a time at least the complications of civilized society cease to exist and it is enough
to watch in sympathy while Bashan, the hunter, breaks his heart over a clever rabbit or
chases a frantic field mouse to her burrow. It is easy to agree with Thomas Mann when
he exults, "So now, breathing the morning air, you stoutly believe that you are virtuous
and free; while you ought to know and at bottom do know that the world is spread-
ing its snares round your feet . . . Never mind. Today you, a sober character, an early
riser, you are the right master for that stout hunter who has just cleared the railings again
out of sheer joy in the fact that today you apparently belong to him alone and not to the
world."

juje

THinK

[Dell {Bernhardt) Wilsonh article in the November issue on extra-curricular activi-
ties aroused intense interest among alumnae everywhere; the following article on the
other side of the question was written by Lulu Ames, '}6, and the editors believe the
alumnae will in turn enjoy this presentation."]

Since I decided to take issue with Dell Wilson, '24, thereby helping her in "chopping
into small pieces the already slashed and slain," I have asked four or five other alumnae
what they regret in their four years at Agnes Scott. Invariably they regret something.
A graduate of two years back told me she wished she had done more extra-curricular
work; another girl in the same class said she feels "so bad" because she didn't study more.
It's fashionable, I suppose, to be sorry about one or more things that you did or didn't
do when you were still a student; and always, of course, to be sorry about the things you
left practically untouched. All of which leads me to believe that supervision of college
students is necessary if the student is to have a balanced four years; at that price, how-
ever, I think balance is not essential.

This business of feeling bad about college upset me somewhat. I have one well-shaped
regret that I can get worked up over if I'm in a particularly weak moment; but that
single regret of mine is not in the same class with regrets of others. Instead of being sorry
that I didn't study more, I regret that my grades were not higher. And that represents
the crop of regrets for me!

Like Dell Wilson I am perhaps not a typical case but also like Dell Wilson I'll have to
discuss this business from my peculiar point of view.

When I entered Agnes Scott I didn't have much self-confidence and my sense of in-
adequacy was fully developed. To cure if possible these two things is part of why I
went to college at all, I reckon. I had no high ideals of the perfect scholar I would make
and I had no idea what courses I wanted. But I knew why I went to college and I knew
what I wanted out of my four years: a more developed personality and a little deeper
mind. I was amazed by the long list of courses that I saw opened to me during college;
the wide field of subjects in which I could major and the almost bargain variety of
courses in any chosen major fascinated me. I determined on my major when I was still
a freshman and I never changed my mind, despite the protests of the professor and the
warnings of other students. Even with my major settled so early, I found that my four
years were a grand conglomeration out of which I got pieces of knowledge and left other
pieces which were, to me, uninteresting. Such a pick-and-choose manner of study didn't
produce edifying grades. I saw my record the other day and I know. But I can't believe
those grades indicate what I got out of my classes.

For example, of the countless term papers I wrote, I enjoyed most the one I made the
lowest mark on. It was in Shakespeare and I was moved with an irresistible desire to ex-
plain away the hideous actions of Richard III in a more or less psychological fashion. I
can't say I was encouraged at all in my desire by the professor. He said frankly that he
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attempt the thing. Therefore I went my way and wrote the paper almost to my own
satisfaction; it was his right not to like my treatment. The grade was low and I've often
regretted the grade but never the paper.

In other courses I did equally foolish things. Essential points that failed to warm me
I memorized but with questionable results. Several times once that I recall with ease
I got lost on by-paths and always after such pleasant excursions I came back to the main
road to find that I had missed the point altogether and had got a low merit, sometimes
worse. Again I regretted the grades but not the by-paths. During my last two years
when I was doing more extra-curricular than class-room work, I had to take my study-
ing when I found time for it. Some courses I did regularly because grades were given
regularly; other courses I did all in a batch soon before examination. The latter method
I wouldn't advise for a person who wants high grades; occasionally, I found, apparently
harmless professors kept daily grades that turned out to mean a lot.

I have said that I can't believe grades, as such, are indicative of what I learned at
Agnes Scott. That may sound as though I believe I am a potential Phi Bete whose realiza-
tion as such was denied by hard-hearted professors, successful in keeping my light under
a cloud permanently. I don't mean that. My grades clearly show the quality of my work
but neither the quality nor the quantity of my new stores of information or knowledge.
I realize that the quality of my work could have been improved. But, except for the fact
that long rows of A's and B's would be prettier to my alumna-eye than long rows of C's
and D's, I don't regret even my grades unless, of course, I am in a weak moment.

I was reasonably sure I couldn't help my lack of self-confidence and my sense of in-
adequacy with other people by sitting in a class-room. Naturally I turned to extra-cur-
ricular activities.

I am a strong believer in extra-curricular activities which carry a modicum of impor-
tance and which require effort, thought, and work. I confess that I was much happier
when I was working on the paper, or planning the next issue, or reading proof than I was
when I was reading German, or analyzing one of Shakespeare's plays, or figuring out a
chemical formula. Writing term papers and working in lab were the only academic
things I did that I enjoyed as much as The Agonistic and that was because there, too,
I was responsible for what I did, I was practically directing my own work, and I was
fairly independent. Small committee jobs and big jobs both taught me a lot. I had first
to take orders on committees so that if and when I became a head myself I'd be a better
director. "To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing" explains, for me, the
main purpose of small jobs beside the fact, of course, that the work must be done. What-
ever of poise, confidence, self-reliance, ability to get along with other people, I got from
my work on the campus with, under and over students, certainly did not come from sit-
ting in class-rooms listening to lectures and sometimes answering a question correctly.

Although Dell Wilson's classification of students still holds for the most part, her
idea of the Agnes Scott freshman is not altogether accurate any more. They're still lovely
when they come but I didn't murmur "How young!" Instead I found myself thinking
when I looked over the new crop, "My! How these children do grow up!" The fresh-
men, when I was a senior, took to college life with a greater facility than I had; they
were well into things by the time their official orientation classes were finished; soon they
were calling cheerful "heys" across the quadrangle with as much ease as we who had been
at Agnes Scott long enough to think we owned part of the buildings and most of the
grounds did. I don't doubt that they did unexpected things as we had before them but
their youthful behavior didn't disturb the calm, sober atmosphere. Perhaps, as seniors,
we were too far away to know about everything; keeping all the freshmen in one building
does have its advantages. The Agnes Scott freshman today has read more, she is more

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mature, she is less dependent on other people and she assuredly, in most cases, knows why
she came to college. She still studies the aims of the liberal college in freshman composi-
tion and she is not likely to be able to forget altogether Newman's essay and the ideals he
sets forth in it.

It is because of the greater maturity of the current student in general that I don't
agree with Dell Wilson's desire that the faculty mix a little supervision and discipline into
the over-discussed (on the campus, at least) "faculty-student relations." In her capacity
of advisor, the professor can handle "problems" and "questions" and most freshmen don't
need or want any more. But the matter of easy relations between faculty and students
out of the class-room can stand a lot of hard working on. A few upperclassmen discover
that a professor is also a person; the freshmen and sophomores and the rest of the upper-
classmen still regard social intercourse between faculty and student as something made
up mainly of murky motives for the scholastic advancement of the student.

During my last two years at Agnes Scott I was fortunate enough to attend three press
conventions, one of them sectional, the other two national. I met all sorts of students
from over the United States and I got the feel of how students today are moving out and
away from the traditional pattern of the college student. They are now concerned with
problems beyond their own campus; they know what is happening to other students and
they know what is going on in the world. Moreover they are interested. Most student
governments and college papers belong to national collegiate organizations and they de-
pend on their fellow-members throughout the country for support. Students today are
aware that they can be powerful if they work together toward common, worthy objec-
tives; in the past they have erred in trying to defend every side-issue that went wrong
and, in other ways, they have done crazy things. The longer they exist, however the
stronger they will become and the less likely they will be to make dangerous mistakes.
The students who go to these conventions are not vitally concerned with whether they
are studying enough, or making high enough grades, or wasting their years in college;
they are engrossed with the business of finding out about social and economic conditions,
they are interested in learning how to become worthwhile citizens. College is to them a
place for creating wide-awake, intelligent citizens who will help to mold and crystallize
public opinion. When they return to the campus from a national convention they are
more often than not imbued with a desire to sponsor and assist in campus reforms; they
feel as though they are pioneers and, if they bring a torch back with them, they are not
necessarily ridiculous. They are earnest and they are sincere and the college is better for
having such students.

Obviously I defend extra-curricular activities as a most important part of college life.
Later on, perhaps, I'll climb over the fence and sit down with those who think they see
rightly the dangers and worthlessness of extra-curricular; I don't think I will. I have had
only six months, however, in which to reflect on my four years at Agnes Scott and since
what I have written here is essentially what I believed when I graduated I can't honestly
call it the fruit of meditation. Of academic or of extra-curricular Milton very well may
have said:

" So little knows

Any . ... to value right

The good before him, but perverts best things

To worst abuse, or to their meanest use."

Lulu Ames, '36.

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The Carnegie Building, Agnes Scott's
new library, was dedicated with an im-
pressive ceremony Saturday afternoon,
December 12, when the architects gave the
keys of a beautifully complete edifice to
Miss Edna Hanley, head librarian. The
speakers for the occasion were Dr. W. W.
Bishop, librarian and head of the Library
School of the University of Michigan, (the
school which Miss Hanley and Miss Laura
Colvin, assistant librarian, attended), who
spoke on "The College Library and Teach-
ing"; and Dr. T. W. Koch, of the North-
western University, who spoke on "The
Student and the Library." W. J. Sayward,
of the firm of architects who designed
the building, presented the keys to Miss
Hanley; Dr. H. W. Cox, president of Em-
ory University, offered a dedicatory
prayer. The Agnes Scott Glee Club sang
a group of Christmas carols. The members
of Mortar Board were hosts at an in-
formal tea in the Murphy Candler Build-
ing immediately following the ceremony.

The library was completed the first of
October, but was dedicated in December
on this particular date because of the co-
operative movement of Emory University
and Agnes Scott to make Atlanta a great
University Center, Emoiy being in the
midst of a centennial celebration at the
time.

The Agnes Scott library is named the
Carnegie Building in honor of Andrew
Carnegie. A beautiful portrait of Mr.
Carnegie has been placed in the main
reading room of the library bearing a
placque with these woi'ds inscribed: "This
building named in honor of Andrew Car-
negie, the donor of the first library
building at Agnes Scott College."

Book Week was observed November 24-
29 and an interesting exhibit of all types
of books was arranged around the fire-
place in the main reading room of the
library. This year only new books were on
display, since the library plans to feature
old books throughout the year, and to ex-
hibit them in a showcase in the main read-
ing room. New volumes of poetry, drama,
fiction, current problems, children's books,
and some cheap editions of classics were

presented. Miss Louise McKinney, of the
English department, and Misses Edna
Hanley and Laura Colvin, of the library
staff, arranged the exhibition. The books
were supplied by Rich's, Davison's, Mil-
ler's and MacMillan's.

The Music and Dance Department Fac-
ulties presented a lovely musicale Novem-
ber 18. Nell Hemphill, '37, opened the
program with Liszt's "Liebestraume."
Eugenie Dozier, '27, instructor of dancing,
gave her interpretation of Nimura's "Ja-
panese Fans," and Consino's "Sevilla."
Harriette Haynes, also of the physical
education department, did Beethoven's
"Walking," "Two Preludes," by Chopin,
and "Roses of the South," by Strauss.
Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24, sang a
group of German leider, and a group of
songs by modern composers. Agnes
(Adams) Stokes, '22, played Kriesler's
"Rosmarin" and "Liebesfreud," and De-
bussy's "En Bateau." Mrs. Stukes sang
Schubert's "Ave Maria" with Mrs. Stokes
playing the violin obligato, as the final
number. Nell Hemphill, Isabelle Bryan,
Sarah Hamilton, and Professor C. W.
Dieckmann were accompanists.

The Georgia Piano Ensemble at the
Erlanger Theater in Atlanta on November
12 featured a group of Agnes Scott pian-
ists, under the direction of Professor C.
W. Dieckmann, playing Chopin's "Rondo,
Opus 13." The students were: Nell Hemp-
hill, Jean Kirkpatrick, Alice Hannah,
Mary Ernest Perry, Carolyn Myers,
Tommv Ruth Blackmon, Marie Merritt,
Mamie Lee Ratliff, Mary Ruth Murphy,
and Julia Thiemonge. Other colleges send-
ing groups were Brenau, Wesleyan, La-
Grange, and Georgia State College for
Women.

Blackfriars presented Elizabeth McFad-
den's mystery play, "The Double Door,"
as their Thanksgiving performance. The
play featm-ed trick lighting and some
novel stage effects, and the play produc-
tion class under the direction of Carrie
Phinney Latimer, '36, assistant in the
Spoken English depai'tment, built a new
stage set with a double paneled door
especially for this play. The cast was

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headed by Kathryn (Bowen) Wall, '37,
and Gilbert Maxwell, Atlanta poet and
stock player of note.

The English Debate was held on No-
vember 17, and Nellie Margaret Gilroy
and Brooks Spivey debated Asher Shein-
field, of the Universities of Wales and Bir-
mingham, and G. R. Young, of the London
School of Economics, on the question: Re-
solved: that the League of Nations is a
less effective agency for peace than na-
tional pacts for the peaceful settlement
of disputes. The visiting debaters are rep-
resentatives of the National Union of Stu-
dents of England.

Miss Leslie Gaylord, professor of mathe-
matics at Agnes Scott, delivered the ad-
dress at Investiture Nov. 7. Ruth Runyan,
three year old daughter of Dr. Ernest
Hocking Runyan, acting associated pro-
fessor of biology, was class mascot, and
led the procession. Dean Hopkins capped
eighty-four seniors.

A Civil War Relic in the shape of a
huge oak log, pierced with a bayonet and
three differenet kinds of shell, now stands
in the fireplace in the east wing of the
Murphey Candler Building. Mr. J. K. Orr
and ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown are re-
sponsible for the gift. After the Civil
War the log was found at Chickamauga
with a bayonet and thi-ee different kinds
of shell embedded in the wood and Gov-
ernor Brown gave it to Mr. Orr who has
kept it in his office for over forty years.

A Petition for a Cut System, signed by
members of the National Student Feder-
ation of America discussion group and the
executive committee of Student Govern-
ment, was presented to the administrative
committee early in December, and will be
submitted to the faculty committee on
cuts for immediate consideration.
FACULTY NEWS

Dr. James R. McCain spoke on "The
Progress of Higher Education" at the con-
ference on higher education on the Emoi-y
Centennial program, Monday, Dec.
7. As president of the Association of
American Colleges, Dr. McCain attended
three regional conferences of the Associa-
tion, held in the southern, mid-western,
and Rocky Mountain areas in October.
The general theme of the meetings was
"Trends in Curriculum Changes," and Dr.
McCain spoke on "College Cooperation,"
illustrating his talk with the cooperative
system existing between Agnes Scott and
Emory. In November he attended a meet-
ing of the executive committee of the A.
A. C. in New York City.

Miss Edna Hanley represented Agnes
Scott at the Southeastern Library Asso-
ciation held at Grove Park Inn, Asheville,
the last of October. Miss Hanley has been

appointed a member of the committee on
Library Architecture and Building As-
sociation of the American Library Asso-
ciation for 1936-37.

Dr. Philip Davidson spoke on "Jonathan
Boucher, Loyalist," at the Southern His-
torical Association conference held in
Nashville, in November. Dr. Davidson is
a member of the executive council of the
association, and is chairman of the com-
mittee on nominations.

Miss Elizabeth Jackson attended a na-
tional executive board meeting of the
American Association of University Wo-
men in Washington in October. Miss Jack-
son is director of the South Atlantic sec-
tion of the Association.

Dr. Arthur Raper discussed "The Prob-
lems of Farm Tenantry" at the November
meeting of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club.
Dr. Raper spoke at the Alpha Kappa Psi
commercial fraternity at Emory Universi-
ty on the same subject in December.

Margaret Phythian, '16, left America in
August and made a tour of Germany be-
fore taking up her studies at the Uni-
versity of Grenoble. While in Germany
she visited Lucie Hess, exchange student
last year, and reports that she found the
German people "prosperous, cordial and
happy."

Miss Melissa Cilley has published a
series of articles written about the sum-
mer course at the University of Coimbra,
where she taught this summer, national
holidays in Portugal, and regional affairs
and customs. The articles appeared in
Hispania, Modern Language Journal, and
South Atlantic Bulletin.

Dick Scandrett, '24, and Alberta Pal-
mour, '35, have made two trips this fall,
one through North Carolina in November,
and one through South Georgia in Decem-
ber, speaking to alumnae and high school
groups.

Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall fractured
her arm in a fall in November but has re-
covered now.

Dr. Emma May Laney's sister, Dean
Corrine Laney, of Berry School, was killed
when her automobile crashed into a tree
on the Berry campus November 25. The
deep sympathy of Miss Laney's many
friends among the alumnae is expressed to
her.

Miss Harriette Haynes, Llewellyn Wil-
burn, '19, and Blanche Miller,'30, drove to
Brevard, N. C, for the first week-end in
November. They visited at Camp Rock-
brook, where they had all been counsellors,
and at Pisgah National Forest.

Miss Emily Dexter took a mountain
trip with friends in November, and motor-
ed to Clayton, Ga., and Bryson City, Tenn.

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Professor C. W. Dieckmann's unison
anthem, a setting for John Bunyan's "He
Who Would Valiant Be," was given for
the first time on the Organ Vespers pro-
gram of Joseph Ragan, organist and
choirmaster of All Saints Church, in Oc-
tober. The anthem is dedicated to Mr.
Ragan and the choir of All Saints.

Janef Preston, '21, has been ill for some
weeks at her home in Decatur but is much

improved and will soon be back at her
classes.

Mrs. de Roover, formerly Florence Ed-
ler of the Agnes Scott faculty, is living in
Cambridge, Mass., at Whittier Hall 55,
1200 Massachusetts Avenue.

Miss Mary Westall, formerly professor
of biology here, attended the Asheville
Agnes Scott Club meeting in November
and sent greetings back to all her friends
on the campus by Dick Scandrett and Bert
Palmour.

OFFICE NOTES

Thanks to our Contributors!

We acknowledge our indebtedness to
Mrs. H. B. Ritchie, Georgia Director for
the General Federation of Women's Clubs,
for the intensely thoughtful and v.'tal dis-
cussion on "The Clubwoman of Tomor-
row." Mrs. Ritchie made a talk on this
subject before the Atlanta branch of the
A. A. U. W. and was persuaded to allow
the Quarterly the printing of it. Mrs. Rit-
chie speaks indeed with authority as she
is the immediate past president of the
Georgia Women's Clubs, is now on the
National Board, and has been an active
club woman for many years. Her ability
and her graciousness make her a most
popular figure both in state and national
club affairs and the Agnes Scott alumnae
appreciate this opportunity of studying
with her the problems which concern each
of us.

To Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12, dean of
of women at Duke University, go the sin-
cere thanks of the editors for her enter-
taining story of "Poland and the Cracow
Conference." Alumnae will enjoy this in-
formal, readable article of the summer
conference of the International Federa-
tion of University Women, with its inti-
mate details of the lands and sights, with
its impressions of war-threatened peoples,
and with its 'bright bits from the assem-
bly of university women of all countries.

Florence Brinkley, '14, author of the ar-
ticle on the peace movement which ap-
pears in this issue, and associate profes-
sor of English at Goucher College, has re-
cently published her third book, "English
Poetry of the Seventeenth Century." This
book was issued by W. W. Norton & Com-
pany, and immediately upon publication
received much praise, being reviewed in
the New York Times and the Herald Tri-
bune, as well as other noted reviewers' col-
umns. In addition to the extreme worthi-
ness of the material and its clever presen-
tation, the book boasts a very attractive

binding, and readers will find this new
poetry criticism a decided addition to their
bookshelves.

Lulu Ames, '36, one of our newest alum-
nae, makes a bright and, at the same time,
thoughtful study of the other side of the
extra-curricular question which under Dell
(Bernhardt) Wilson's pen in the last issue
made a deep impression on alumnae every-
where.

Lulu is especially fitted to take the side
of these activities as she was active in
many organizations during her years here,
having served as editor of the Agonistic,
one of the founders of the Aggie Key, be-
ing a member of Mortar Board, Eta Sigma
Phi, B. 0. Z., K. U. B., Y. W. C. A. Cabi-
net, Spanish Club and the German Club.

And to Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27, and
Page Ackerman, '33, the Quarterly owes
the scholarly criticisms on three recent
publications. The poem on "Books" which
follows their ai'ticle is also the work of
an alumnae, Ellen Greenfield, '32.

First Reunion of Class of '36
The Class of 1936 came back practically
"in toto" for their first reunion on Fri-
day, November 27, in the Alumnae House.
Forty-eight members of the largest grad-
uating class in the history of the schoool
were on the campus for the reunion din-
ner. Lulu Ames, class secretary and gen-
eral chairman of the reunion, was toast-
master, and introduced Elizabeth Forman,
life president of '36, who welcomed the
"youngest" alumnae back to the campus.
A Thanksgiving dinner was served in the
tea room, which was beautifully decorated
with pumpkins, colored leaves and ivy, and
yellow tapers in bronze candelebra. Be-
tween courses telegrams and messages
from the absent members were read by
Lib Forman, and all the members of the
class there were asked to tell what their
work was, and where they are located.

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Ruby Hutton and Shirley Christian led
the class in an old fashioned "sing," and
the four dozen excited voices made the
house ring out once again with the notes
of "I'm a Hottentot from Agnes Scott," "I
Ain't Got No Money," and the song of
the Class of '36. The strains of the Alma
Mater brought the reunion to a close with
many a promise to be back again in June.

The members of the class who were at
the reunion include:

Elaine Ahles, Lulu Ames, Elizabeth
Baethke, Jane Blick, Sarah Brosnan, Mer-
iel Bull, Floyd Butler, Alice Chamlee, Shir-
ley Chi'istian, Mildred Clark, Bazalyn
Coley, Margaret Cooper, Naomi Cooper,
Mary Cornely, Martha Crenshaw, Maxine
Crisler, Kitty Cunningham, Virginia
Coons, Sarah Frances Estes, Elizabeth
Forman, Virginia Gaines, Lita Goss, Celia
Hoffman, Mary Hull, Ruby Hutton, Ellen
Johnson, OriSue Jones, Louise Jordan,
Carrie Phinney Latimer, Sarah Lawrence,
Gertrude Lozier, Alice McCallie, Lenna
Sue McClure, Sarah Frances McDonald,
Dean McKoin, Sarah Nichols, Myra
O'Neal, Emily Rowe, Mary Snow, Lavinia
Scott, Mary Margaret Stowe, Elizabeth
Strickland, Eugenia Symms, Miriam Tal-
madge, Marie Townsend, Irene Wilson,
Sarah Catherine (Wood) Marshall and
Anna Lillian Berry, ex-'36.

A recent attempt to complete the office
file of Alumnae Quarterlies shows the fol-
lowing issues missing. Any alumnae that
have copies of these issues will earn the
eternal gratitude of the office force if
they will send them in to us. Those need-
ed are Jan. '24, Jan. '26, Nov. '29, Jan. '30,
Nov. '30, Jan. '31, July '32, Jan. '33, Nov.
'33, and Jan. '34. The office gave some of
their "last" copies to the library to be
bound and permanently recorded in their
files, but is anxious to replace as many
of these as possible in the office file.

The Alumnae Association was hostess to
a tea for the new students on November
20 in the Anna Young Alumnae House.
The receiving line included: Miss Nannette
Hopkins, Carrie Scandrett, '24, Daisy
Frances Smith, '24, Irene (Ha vis) Bag-
gett, '17, and Fannie G. (Mayson) Donald-
son, '12. The members of the social com-
mittee present included: Carrie Phinney
Latimer, '36, Augusta OSkeen) Cooper, '17,
Elizabeth (Dimmock) Bloodworth, ex-'19,
Maryellen (Harvey) Newton, '16, Irene
(Ingram) Sage, Institute, Theodosia (Wil-
lingham) Anderson, '11. The members of
the executive board of the Association as-
sisted the social committee in entertain-
ing.

The Agnes Scott broadcast over WSB
has been the subject of much comment.

The Atlanta Journal printed a picture of
the cast of "Three Girls in a Room" with
a very favorable comment the first of No-
vember. Max Hall, radio editor of the At-
lanta Georgian, wrote: "The Agnes Scott
program is a snappy show, somewhat dif-
ferent from the average college broadcast.
Three clever girls dramatize the adven-
tures of 'Peg, Pudge and Marge' at col-
lege." Ruth Moore, '34, is both the origi-
nator of the idea and also the writer of
the clever skits presented each Wednesday
afternoon at 5:00 o'clock, central standard
time.

CLUB NEWS
Atlanta, Ga. Club

The Atlanta Club, under the leadership
of Penelope (Brown) Barnett, has been
working intensively on a membership
drive and is endeavoring to interest the
many alumnae in Atlanta who have not
already joined with the alumnae group in
Atlanta. Plans are also being made for
several money-raising projects to be un-
dertaken in the spring, and it is the hope
of this club that it may make a substan-
tial donation toward the refurnishing of
the Alumnae House.

Atlanta, Ga. Business Girls' Club
The Business Girls' Club had their No-
vember meeting at Black's Coffee Shop,
and Congressman Robert Ramspeck was
the speaker. Lillian (Clement) Adams, '27,
president of the club, announced plans for
a class in contemporary literature which
will be held once a week on the campus
with Miss Emma May Laney, of the col-
lege English faculty, as lecturer. Twenty-
five alumnae have signed up for the
course. The president and Marjorie Tin-
dall, '34, are in the midst of a membership
drive that is bringing splendid results.

Augusta, Ga. Club

The youngest club in the Association
held its fall meeting at the home of Eu-
genia Symms, '36, on November 30th. Dick
Scandrett and Alberta Palmour were pres-
ent and Dick spoke to the alumnae on
campus changes and additions. The alum-
nae who enjoyed this occasion were: Dor-
othy (Mustin) Buttolph, Elizabeth Baeth-
ke, Lucy Beman, Ann Braddy, Maude Gary,
Harriet (Houston) Kerr, Carolyn Howell,
Marie Lowe, Ruth McAuliffe, Minnie Lee
(Clarke) Cordle, Fannie Mae (Morris)
Stephens, Janet Newton, Eugenia Symms,
and Carolyn White. The new president
of the Augusta Club is Eugenia Symms.

Decatur, Ga. Club

The Decatur Agnes Scott Club had as
guest speaker at the October meeting Dr.
Raymond R. Paty, dean of men at Emory

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University, who spoke on the effects of
the National Youth Administration. In
November Dr. Hermon Martin, of the psy-
chology department at Emory, talked on
some "Aspects of Genetic Psychology."
The Club sponsored a review of Margaret
Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," by Em-
ma Garrett Morris, on December 11. The
Finance Committee under the leadership
of Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, ex-'ll, ar-
ranged a sale of wicker baskets in the
Alumnae House during the first two weeks
of December.

Savannah, Ga. Club
The Savannah alumnae held a most
enjoyable afternoon meeting on December
1st at the home of Ruth (Blue) Barnes in
Gordonston. Those present were: Ruth
(Blue) Barnes, Eva Constantine, Mary
Cope, Betty Peeples, Georgia Russell,
Dorothy Smith, and Edith Lucille West.
Dick Scandrett and Alberta Palmour from
the college were the honor guests on this
occasion and the alumnae present listened
with great interest to Dick Scandrett's talk
on the changes at Agnes Scott. After the
meeting, a most delightful social hour was
enjoyed. Eva Constantine was named as
the incoming chairman of this group.

Waycross, Ga. Club
Harriet Dimmock, '35, gathered the
alumnae of Waycross and one from Black-
shear, Ga., at a luncheon meeting on the
occasion of Dick Scandrett's and Alberta
Palmour's visit to Waycross on December
3rd. Those present were: Clyde (Lott)
Hereford, Edith (Lott) Dimmock, Wini-
fred Quarterman of Waycross, Har-
riotte Brantley of Blackshear, and Harriet
Dimmock. Much pleasure was expressed
in having these two visitors from the cam-
pus to bring them news of Agnes Scott.

Asheville, N. C. Club
The Asheville Club met Nov. 2, 1936 at
Maurine (Bledsoe) Bramlett's home, and
had as guests Dick Scandrett, assistant
dean of Agnes Scott, Alberta Palmour,
field alumnae secretary, and Miss Mary
Westall, former professor of botany at Ag-
nes Scott. The alumnae present included:
Virginia (Baird) Ravenel, Marion (Green)
Johnson, Marian (Hodges) Anthony, Eliz-
abeth (Moss) Harris, Elizabeth Sanders,
Margaret (Smith) Kingdon, and Cather-
ine (Carrier) Robinson. The club is mak-
ing plans for a "covered dish dinner" on
Founder's Day.

Charlotte, N. C. Club
The Charlotte Club met Oct. 28 at the
home of Sarah (Dunlap) Bobbitt, and had
as guest speakers Dick Scandrett, '24, as-
sistant dean of Agnes Scott, and Alberta
Palmour, '35, field alumnae secretary.
Miss Scandrett gave an interesting talk

on campus changes and improvements,
and Miss Palmour showed a motion pic-
ture film of various campus scenes and
activities. Irene Lowrance, president of
the club, was in charge of the meeting.
The alumnae attending included: Pernette
(Adams) Carter, Cama (Burgess) Clark-
son, Susan (Clayton) Fuller, Elizabeth
(Fore) Crawford, Kathlene Ward Gray,
Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson, Josephine
Houston, Harriett (Howard) Wolf, Char-
lotte Hunter, Mary (Keesler) Dalton, Anne
(Kyle) McLaughlin, Margaret (Ladd)
May, Irene Lowrance, Marian (McCamy)
Sims, Janie (McClintock) Cole, Jane Mc-
Laughlin, Frances (Medlin) Walker, Fran-
ces Miller, Maria Rose, Ruth Gaines
(Smith) Lucas, Lib (Sutton) Gray,
Mary Margaret Stowe of Belmont, and
Martha (Young) Bell.

Hendersonville, N. C. Club

The Hendersonville Club opened the
year with a splendid meeting at the home
of Winona Ewbank on November 3.
Among the guests at this meeting were
Alberta Palmour, '35, field alumnae secre-
tary, and Dick Scandrett, '24, assistant
dean of Agnes Scott, Esther Love Hill-
house and Mary Scott Wilds of Fassifern
School, prospective Agnes Scotters, Mrs.
Brazeale, Mrs. F. A. Ewbank, and the fol-
lowing alumnae: Margaret Bull, Laura
(Candler) Wilds, Lydia (Sherard) Brack-
ett, and Winona Ewbank, who was hos-
tess

Raleigh, N. C. Club

The alumnae in Raleigh had a delight-
ful meeting with Alberta Palmour in Oc-
tober at Sarah (Boals) Spinks' home.
Those present were: Sarah (Boals) Spinks,
Mae (Bryan) Syme, Gussie Rose (Riddle)
List, Claire (Scott) Johnson, Mary Lib
(Squires) Doughman, and Marie (Whit-
tle) Welleslager. Mrs. Boals, Sarah's
mother, was also present.

Winston-Salem, N. C. Club

Lila Norfleet was hostess to the Win-
ston-Salem Club on Friday evening, Oct.
30, at a very interesting meeting. Dick
Scandrett, '24, assistant dean at Agnes
Scott, and Alberta Palmour, '35, field
alumnae secretary, were the speakers.
Among the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. M.
W. Norfleet, Mrs. Harry Hermance, Bun-
ny Martsinger, Mary Creech, and the fol-
lowing alumnae: Jeanette (Archer) Neal,
Meriel Bull, Diana Dyer, Eleanor (Gor-
don) Elliott, Helena Hermance, Martha
Cobb (Jackson) Logan, Lib (Lilly) Swe-
denberg, May (McAlphine) Butner, Cleo
(McLaurine) Baldridge, Carolyn Nash,
Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, and Rachel
(Paxon) Hays. Elizabeth (Norfleet) Mil-
ler honored Dick Scandrett at a tea the
afternoon of Oct. 30, and many of the
Winston-Salem alumnae attended.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Vol. XV.

SPRING ISSUE, 1937

No. 3

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

DECATUR GEORGIA

REUNION TIME!

AGNES SCOTT!

JUNE 4th -JUNE 8th!

SOFT breezes blowing through the lovely old trees, summer sunlight making shadows on the grass,
that unmistakable stir of commencement times, gay laughter, happy faces in short, June days on
your college campus!

Wouldn't you enjoy walking arm in arm with that old friend of yours down the shaded paths, talking
over the days of auld lang syne? Isn't it the best of all vacations from the every-day routine of home,
office, store, or library? This is the very special time for Agnes Scott's "old girls" to come back, when
every day is filled with pleasurable events, when there are so many girls of your day here that there
cannot be that "alone" feeling of visits back at other times, when on every side there are familiar faces,
and familiar voices call across the campus to you as in days of yore.

There'll be a great crowd of alumnae back this year: '96, '97, '99, '15, '16, '17, '18, '34, '35, '36,
and alumnae of the class-at-large. This may be the year that suits you best, or you may be too anxious
to see that wonderful new Library Building to wait another year or so, or perhaps you have never had
a ride in Buttrick's elevator and feel that should be remedied immediately whatever your reason and
whatever your class, be sure a hearty welcome awaits you! We'd like the Alumnae House filled to the
last cot, with many, many more alumnae in the special college rooms which are reserved for our use at
that time. And remember that, in spite of many changes, there are plenty of familiar faces among the
faculty, there are still the old halls of Main, Inman, and Rebekah, or perhaps it was one of the cottages
that was your "hang-out." You'll be called by your first name, no stately titles, or Mrs., by Miss Hop-
kins and given that very special hug; Ella will add a Miss to that first name and smile from ear to ear
when you walk into her little room; the rest of the "home-folks" will be standing by to add their hand-
shakes you'll wonder why in the world you have waited so long to come back!

It is too early to give you the names of the speakers on the commencement program, but vou can
be assured they will be speakers of note and of interest to alumnae as well as to the college community. As
for that week-end program, here are some of the items:

June 4th: Alumnae Children's Party, given annually by the Decatur Agnes Scott Club.

June 5 th: Trustees' Luncheon for alumnae, seniors and faculty, in Rebekah Scott dining room
1:30 p. m.

Annual meeting of Alumnae Association, 3:30 p. m.

(Reports of committees are to be condensed into one general report given by the president
to insure a short session.)
Phi Beta Kappa Initiation, 6:3 p. m., followed by banquet in the Alumnae House.

June 6th: Baccalaureate Services, Bucher Scott Auditorium, 11:00 a. m.
Seniors' Vespers, 6:00 p. m.

Open House in the Alumnae House and Garden, 6:30 p. m.

(This reception is held in honor of alumnae, seniors, their friends and relatives, and the
faculty.)

June 7th: Alumnae Day. Reunion class luncheons in the Alumnae House, 1:00 o'clock.
Class Day Exercises, 4:00 P. M.

June Sfh: Commencement Exercises in Bucher Scott Auditorium, 10:00 o'clock.

(There will also be a play given by Blackfriars and a Concert by the Department of Music,
dates not yet stated. )

AGNES SCOTT WANTS YOU BACK!

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Main Building showing the tower familiar to all friends
of Agnes Scott and loved by both alumnae and students.

The Colonnade connects Main

Building with Rebekah Scott

Hall.

Most of the first floor of Main

Building is devoted to parlors

and reception rooms.

The door to the President's office is

always open, and he is never too

busy to see students.

esides class rooms and administra-
ve offices, Buttrick Hall contains
le student post office, the book
ore, and the Student Council room.

Faculty offices are on the third floor

of Buttrick Hall, and here frequent

individual conferences are held with

students.

The Agnes Scott Library, completed in
the fall of 1936, with its beautiful in-
terior, its comfortable desks and chairs,
its indirect lighting, and its scientific
system of ventilation and air condi-
tioning, offers every advantage to the
student.

The mild climate makes the use of the sunny
Reading Terrace possible the year round.

Inman Hall has come to be known as the Freshman Dormitory. A senior House Presi-
dent, with her group of upperclassmen friends, and the Assistant Dean, live here too.

A Freshman room. Double or single rooms are available.

rhe Junior Banquet.

Most of the upperclassmcn
live in Rebekah Scott Hall.
The three wings of the first
floor are given over to
music and dramatics
studios, the dining room,
and the chapel, where the
college community meets
voluntarily each morning
in a short devotional
program.

White House is the oldest
building on the campus.
Agnes Scott, then called
Decatur Female Seminary,
was organized in this
building in 1889.

The Anna Young Alumnae House sei
many useful purposes on the campus
guest house for mothers or friends of !
dents, a tea room for day students, a pi
for informal entertaining, and a substit
for the dining room if one is late for me

The Alumnae Garden, adjoining

the House, is a lovely setting for

outdoor teas and parties.

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The Bucher Scott Gymnasium, with its
spacious auditorium and modern well
equipped swimming pool, and with its
surrounding tennis courts, athletic
field, and May Day Dell, gives an op-
portunity for a wide variety of sports.
The wooded portions of the campus

furnish ideal spots for outdoor suppers
and informal gatherings.

Indoor sports swimming, diving,
water polo, basket ball, dancing (nat-
ural, tap, and folk varieties), and re-
creational games, complete a very in-
teresting athletic program.

Because of the long fall and early spring

archery, hockey, golf, tennis, horsebacl

riding, and other outdoor sports are avail

able during most of the year.

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makes it possible to have excellent horses
for the popular sport of riding. The golf
classes meet on the nearby Forest Hills
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The Murphey Candler Student Building is the center

of recreation on the campus, providing offices for the

publications and meeting places for the various

organizations.

The comfortable lounge is an
enviable student retreat.

The Cotillion Club entertains
in this building with its regu-
lar tea dances, and coffee is
served here after formal Wed-
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The May Day program, written and presented

by the students, is the most beautiful and

widely known of Agnes Scott traditions.

The May Queen and the Maid of Honor

Gay Little Girl Day precedes the solemn Inves-
titure Service a unique tradition at Agnes Scott
at which each senior is capped by the Dean
and given the full privileges of her seniority.

Founders' Day the birthday of Colonel

George Washington Scott is February

twenty-second.

Self-expression as well as interpretation is en-
couraged in the artistic fields.

Music students, in addition to able instruction
in piano, voice, organ, and violin, have the extra
experience and pleasure of ensemble work. The
performances of both teachers and pupils receive
wide recognition in Atlanta.

Blackfriars, the dramatics club, puts into prac-
tice the theory taught in the Speech Department
and presents several plays throughout the year.

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"First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear'

THE history of the Alumnae Association of
Agnes Scott College is a story of achievement.
From the college archives and the files of the
Alumnae Office I have gathered facts that tell this
story, for the Alumnae Association has grown and
developed with the college for which it exists.

Though a relatively young college, Agnes Scott
dates back to the days of Hart's Rhetoric and
Haven's Mental Philosophy; to the days of calis-
thenics (I quote from the first catalog) "now con-
sidered an important auxiliary of female education";
to the days when our Dean was "lady principal"
firmly solicitous that each student (again I quote
the catalog) "be provided with gossamer, umbrella,
rubber shoes," and that she avoid such imprudences
as "thin low shoes in cold weather," "promenading
out of doors with the head uncovered," "the too
early removal of flannels or any neglect to put them
on at the approach of cold weather." It is a far
cry from the quaint simplicity of those early days,
from the Decatur Female Seminary chartered in
1889 to the modern Agnes Scott College, enlarged,
endowed, recognized. Our association has grown
with the college, has worked shoulder to shoulder
and at times has had the joy of sowing the seed of
ideas that have been fruitful. We have had the
good fortune to have as presidents alumnae who
have made themselves felt in civic affairs and in
social betterment in their home communities.

Six years after the founding of Agnes Scott a
small group met in the parlors of Main Building to
organize an Alumnae Association. The list of po-
tential alumnae was small; there were no graduates
for four years; the first senior class numbered two;
the second, one; the third, six. The first gradu-
ate, Mary Barnett (now Mrs. Venable Martin of
Clinton, S. C), daughter of one of Atlanta's best
loved pastors, was elected president. There was
little this small band could do; without the guidance
and warm interest of Dr. Gaines, Miss Hopkins,
Miss McKinney, Miss Shepherd, they would have
grown discouraged. They formed a reading circle,
they devised small schemes for raising money, they
planned, they worked, they dreamed dreams, they
formulated the ideal of loyalty and service that is
ours today; and we are what we are today because
we stand on their shoulders. The graduates of those
early days are still towers of strength in the Alum-
nae Association; their loyalty which has been tested
by time and distance, their wisdom which has been
enriched by experience, have inspired the newer
generation to emulation.

Ten years of effort resulted in raising one thou-
sand dollars for endowing a scholarship, the nucleus
of the present Mary D. Shepherd Memorial Fund.
In 1914 the Alumnae Aid League was formed for
the purpose of making loans without interest to
students who had proved their worth but who
needed financial aid. The campaign of 1919 grew
out of alumnae effort to raise thirty thousand dol-
lars for the college. This fired the enthusiasm of
the Board of Trustees; they took over the plan and
set the goal at five hundred thousand.

The minutes of the annual meeting of the Alum-
nae Association in 1915 record the suggestion of an
alumna of one year's standing that we undertake to

build an Alumnae House on the campus. Her dar-
ing young optimism caused excited consternation;
but the seed was sown and six years later, alumnae
effort, backed by the sympathetic interest of Dr.
Gaines and the generous grant by the Board of
Trustees of fifteen thousand dollars, built our Anna
Young Alumnae House, one of the first houses of
its kind on any college campus. The gracious hos-
pitality of this home is enjoyed by returning alum-
nae, college faculty, and students and their friends,
and distinguished guests from home and abroad.
The vital interest in the Alumnae House is con-
stantly attested by beautiful and timely gifts from
members of the college faculty, from college classes,
from alumnae individually and in clubs.

1919 marks a crisis. Futile efforts had been made
to establish branches, but the Association continued
to be composed of those who lived in the shadow
of the college walls. In 1919 Mary Wallace Kirk,
'11, was elected president. With a genius for organi-
zation and some experience in executive work, she
submitted a revised constitution, got it adopted and
printed, and so transformed a local into a general
association, the work of which is accomplished by
an Executive Committee composed of the officers
of the Association and the chairmen of standing
committees and by an Alumnae Council which,
through its members representing branches, college
faculty and students, integrates the interests and
coordinates the efforts of all concerned. The work
of the alumnae office is done by the General Secre-
tary; she is also editor of the Quarterly which
began as a modest Annual Register, the protege of
the Publicity Committee. The Quarterly is an
excellent magazine and a welcome messenger to dis-
tant alumnae. For the past four years we have been
blest with a full-time Field Secretary, always a
recent graduate of dynamic personality, who com-
mends Agnes Scott to high school seniors through-
out the nation.

There are many delectable fruits of the quickened
and enlarged interest stimulated by the general
organization. The Alumnae Garden, begun in 1931
and grown into a thing of beauty, receives from
time to time from classes, clubs, and individuals,
gifts to beautify it. Alumnae Week-End which
arranges interesting and scholarly lectures on timely
themes for returning Alumnae, is an intellectual
joy. Our weekly radio programs and Founder's Day
broadcast contribute largely to that feeling of one-
ness so essential to every organization.

In our forty years of existence we have grown
from a local club of fourteen members to a general
association with a potential membership of 6,000
and an active membership of 1,000 with 32 branches
that reach as far as New York, Miami and Los
Angeles. Through our affiliation with the American
Association of University Women and our member-
ship in the American Alumni Council, we find the
stimulus that comes from discussing common prob-
lems with those who share our ideals, and the inspira-
tion born of the consciousness of having a share in
work that in its scope is national and international.
LUCILE ALEXANDER,
President of Alumnae Association.
(1899-1901, 1906-1907)

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Published in November, January, April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

Vol. XV.

JULY, 1937

No. 4

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Alumnae Garden Frontispiece 2

Drawn by Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, '26

Commencement, 1937 3

May Queen and Hfr Court Picture 5

Caught at Commencement 6

"Enshrined in Our Hearts" 7

In Memoriam 9

Changed Addresses 10

Annual Reports 13

Club Notes 27

Concerning Ourselves 3

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Commencement, 1937

The shouting and the tumult have died away and in the stillness of the "morning
after" Agnes Scott sits like Rachel mourning her children! For from Thursday when
the first alumna arrived there has been a steady flow of "daughters" back home and the
campus and the Alumnae House have rung with shrieks and chatter and laughter until
the quiet of Wednesday morning is appalling!

Beginning with the Children's Party given by the Decatur Club on Friday, which
featured a magician and balloons and prizes and ice cream, not to mention the loveliest
children possible, of course, commencement hit its stride, through Saturday's Trustees'
Luncheon, annual meeting of Alumnae Association immediately following, Phi Beta
dinner that evening and Glee Club's opera, "The Gondoliers." Merrily we raced through
Sunday and Monday with Baccalaureate sermon preached by Dr. W. M. Elliott, Jr., of
Atlanta, Miss Hopkins' after-dinner coffee in Murphey Candler (old library to us), then
the Open House given by the Alumnae Association to alumnae, their escorts, seniors, their
families and escorts, and faculty, which had the lovely setting of our Alumnae Garden
on a perfect June afternoon, and when some three hundred were gathered together for
a Sunday night supper with good fellowship and happy reminiscences as appetizers.
Then dawned Monday, Alumnae Reunion Classes Day, and some forty-five gathered
for lunch from the classes of '15, '16, '17, '18 and Institute; and ninety-four filled the
Tea House that evening for dinner, coming from the classes of '34, '35, and '36. Class
Day and the Mortar Board Tea were sandwiched in between luncheons and dinners and
Blackfriars closed the day with a new feature, choral readings given in the auditorium.
Tuesday brought again "Ancient of Days," the long processional, fond mothers and
fathers, half-tearful seniors. Dr. J. J. Tigert, president of the University of Florida, was
the commencement speaker, his theme being taken from Sheridan's lines, "Love gilds the
scene and women guide the plot." Dr. Tigert is the father of one of the seniors, Mary
Jane Tigert.

But that's only the skeleton of commencement festivities! If we had pages to allot
to the all-evening talks wherever alumnae were gathered, to the stories told of the past,
present, and future, to the pictures of families proudly shown, to little informal break-
fasts where everything, even Wallie and Edward, came in for discussion and complete
settlement, to glad reunions with friends at Agnes Scott and others not seen for some
time, if we had pages for these, we could equal at least in material "Gone With
the Wind!"

May we say to one and all, it was great to have you back? May we tell you what a
real joy it gives us here to see each returning alumna and that each year makes you
nearer and dearer to us!

It is difficult to get a correct list of all alumna returning, for some came for one
feature and some for all, so the list published below is composed of those who were at
Monday luncheons and dinners of reunion classes and a few others who were distant
alumnae and stayed on the campus. The vast number of local alumnae who were here
for Trustees' Luncheon and other occasions will go unhonored and unsung, but they
probably had such a good time that they will forgive the omission, due to lack of space
in this very heavy and business-like issue of the Quarterly.

Institute 1911

Claude (Candler) McKinney Mary Wallace Kirk

Roba (Goss) Ansley 1912

Mrs. Milton Candler Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust

Mary (Neel) Kendnck

Laura (Candler) Wilds 1922

Mary Frances (Winship) Walters Eunice (Dean) Major

Lula Kingsberry Sarah (Till) Davis

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1931

Ruth Dunwoody

1919

Mary (Ford) Kennerly

Reunion Classes

1915

Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott
Martha (Brenner) Shryock
Grace Reid
Henrietta (Lambdin) Turner

1916

Maryellen (Harvey) Newton
Hallie (Smith) Walker
Florence (Day) Ellis
Charis (Hood) Barwick
Nell (Frye) Johnston
Mary (Bryan) Winn
Eloise (Gay) Brawley
Laura (Cooper) Christopher

1917

Mary (Eakes) Rumble

Isabel Dew

Vallie Young (White) Archibald

Frances (Thatcher) Moses

Katharine Simpson

Grace (Coffin) Armstrong

Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter

Amelie (Alexander) Greenawalt

Mary (Mclver) Luster

Sarah Webster

Regina Pinkston

Jane (Harwell) Rutland

Martha Dennison

Augusta (Skeen) Cooper

Annie (Lee) Barker

Janet Newton

1918

Belle Cooper

Eva Maie (Willingham) Park

Caroline Larendon

Hallie (Alexander) Turner

E. Katherine Anderson

1934

Rosa (Day) Shuey

Eleanor (Williams) Knox

Martha England

Mary Sloan

Elaine (Heckle) Carmichael

Mary Winterbotton

Virginia Fisher

Edith Kendrick

Ruth Moore

Helen (Bashinski) Milledge

Lillian Herring

Flora (Young) Mobley

Eleanor Johnson

Mary McDonald

Florence Preston

Rudene Taffar

Gussie Rose (Riddle) List

Virginia Prettyman

Carolyn Russell

C'Lena McMullen

Mary Ames

Dorothy (Walker) Palmer

Aloe (Barron) Leitch

Marjorie (Tindall) Clark

Marguerite G. Jones

Isabel Lowrance

Nelle Chamlee

1935

Marie Adams

Elizabeth Alexander

Dorothea Blackshear

Betty (Fountain) Edwards

Anne Scott Harman

Betty Lou (Houck) Smith

Frances McCalla

Clara McConnell

Ida Lois McDaniel

Alberta Palmour

Nell (Pattillo) Kendall

Grace (Robinson) Wynn

Marie (Simpson) Rutland

Elizabeth (Thrasher) Baldwin

Elizabeth Young

Virginia Wood

Alice Dunbar

Margaret Robins

Marian (Calhoun) Murray

Mary Jane (Evans) Lichliter

Elizabeth Heaton

Martha Redwine

Willie Florence Eubanks

Clara Morrison

Vera Frances Pruett

1936

Dean McKoin

Helen Phillips

Frances McCully

Sarah Frances McDonald

Mary (Vines) Wright

Sallie McRee

Lavinia Scott

Sarah Brosnan

Jane Blick

Catherine Cunningham

Lena Armstrong

Lilly B. Weeks

Sarah Catherine (Wood) Marshall

Myra O'Neal

Eugenia Symms

Carrie Phinney Latimer

Ruby Hutton

Alice McCallie

Frances James

Helen Ford

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Mary Henderson
Elizabeth Fornian
Lenna Sue McClure
Louise Jordan
Ori Sue Jones
Sarah (Nichols) Judge
Jean Hicks
Mary Snow
Sarah Turner
Ethlyn Johnson
Lulu Ames
Lita Goss

Marie Townsend

Sara Lawrence

Ann Martin

Dorothy Lyons

Elaine Ahles

Virginia Coons

Gertrude (Lozier) Hutchinson

Floyd Butler

Sara Frances Estes

Mary Alice Shelton

Mildred Clark

Alice Chamlee

The May Day Queen and Her Court

(Names Will Be Found On Page 26)

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Caught At Commencement!

Alumnae children at the Chil-
dren's Party, June 4, given by the
Decatur Club.

Martha (Brenner) Shryock,
Grace Reid, and Annie Pope
(Bryan) Scott of the Class of
'15.

Reunion Class of '17 seated
on the bench which it gave this
commencement to the Alumnae
Garden. The Reunion Class of
'16, which also gave a bench to
the garden, had its picture taken
at the same time but something
happened to the photographer
and we'll have to publish it later.
The picture of the Class of ' 1 8
also failed the Quarterly, due to
the only rain we had during
commencement.

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"Enshrined In Our Hearts"

The resignations of Miss Louise McKinney and Dr. Mary Sweet which were an-
nounced at commencement this year brought sorrow to all alumnae. Miss McKinney
has been a member of the English faculty at Agnes Scott for forty-six years and Dr.
Sweet has watched over the health of Agnes Scott for thirty-two years. To all "old
girls" the familiar sight of these two friends on the campus is one we can hardly vision
Agnes Scott as lacking and it is with pleasure that we learn that they will continue to
live in their home on the campus and will be on hand to welcome back alumnae as
always.

The Alumnae Association, wishing to honor these two loved members of the fac-
ulty, presented them with a silver coffee pot inscribed on one side:
"We'll tak' a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne."
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association.
June 5, 1937.

And on the other side was engraved:

Mary Louise McKinney.
Mary Frances Sweet.

No more fitting tribute could have been paid them than that given by Mary Wal-
lace Kirk, who made the presentation speech at the Trustees' Luncheon on Saturday of
commencement week, and the Quarterly is printing it below for the benefit of all alum-
nae who could not be with us at that time:

With due regard to the importance of the graduating class I am compelled to say
that to all alumnae this Trustees' Luncheon is the high water on the commencement
program. It is not only the occasion of festivity in and of itself but it is a time of
renewal, renewal of old ties, old friendships, old loyalties. It is a time when we alumnae
realize anew how glad we are to have had the privilege of years at college and particu-
larly Agnes Scott College.

Because we are some years removed we feel that we are better qualified to appraise
the value of those years and the friendships, personalities, and influences that gave them
color, meaning, and direction. We have reached that time in life so well thought of at
the present moment, for the accent has shifted from youth and fallen heavily on ma-
turity. Two years from now Agnes Scott itself will be celebrating not its Majority
but its Maturity. That's a good place to be, a kind of half-way ground where one can
stand and look two ways, forward and back. We are old enough to take stock and
young enough to lay ambitious plans for the days ahead.

As we look back we are proud of the record and the standing of Agnes Scott. No
educational system can go far wrong when based on the three principles once enunciated
by Ruskin: Health of body; education in gentleness and justice; education for life's
work.

Health of body is mentioned first because it is basic. Without it there can be little
permanent development. Second, there is training in character such as fits one for life
in a social order, and this is caught, not taught, from those who make up a college's
teaching personnel. Third, there is the wise training for living and working in the
world. These three Agnes Scott has followed and they have made her a great institu-
tion. But wherever you find a great educational institution, you find great teachers.
Taine, in his history of English Literature, tells us that whenever we find a shell on the
seashore, we may know that behind it there was once an animal; that whenever we take
a book from our reading table, we know that behind it there was once a man. So when-
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we know that behind it there are warm, living personalities. For it is not abstract prin-
ciples, nor the cold loftiness of an institution's ideal, but human beings, teachers of
ardent temper and generous sympathies that call forth our highest loyalties. We can
look down through history and see behind every great achievement in science, art, reli-
gion, philosophy the lives and minds of the teachers.

It was Socrates, that great teacher, who transformed the life of Plato and started
him on his course. Plato enumerated his blessings, saying: "I thank God that I was
born a Greek and not a barbarian, a freeman not a slave, a man not a woman; but above
all that I was born in the age of Socrates."

I know I voice the sentiment of every alumna when I paraphrase those words of
Plato and say: "Thank God we came to Agnes Scott in the age of Miss McKinney and
Dr. Sweet!"

And why did Socrates' pupils so reverence him? First, because he was a man, he was
human, as well as a teacher and a philosopher, and because of his spirit of kindness, of
justice, of modesty. These same qualities are present in those whom we honor today.
Since they have seen fit to leave us to embark on a new adventure, that much publicized
enterprise of the Enjoyment of Leisure, we want to bid them "bon voyage" and present
them with what in the vernacular of Agnes Scott is known as a "PG." May this parting
gift be useful and inspiring and we want them to know that the love and appreciation
it contains is "good to the last drop."

Janef Preston's clever little verse which was used at a dinner given by the English
department to Miss McKinney gives such a vivid picture of Miss McKinney we bor-
rowed it to give to you:

To Miss McKinney

You have so many gifts already

That my verses grow unsteady

Trying just to say anew

All that Fortune showers on you.

Wish my hair were a crown of glory!

Wish 1 could tell a charming story

Spiced like yours! Wish / could be

Clever like you at repartee!

Wish Doctor Sweet were mine and maybe

That starry, elfish niece, "the Baby"!

Wish 1 were greeted like a queen

By "old girls" coming back again!

Wish . . . oh, I just wish a lot

Of blessings mine that you have got!

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Jn memmiam

Bessie (Scott) Harman

Bessie (Scott) Harman, daughter of the founder of Agnes Scott College and
herself a trustee of the college, passed away in Decatur, Ga., on January 21st,
1937. She was survived by two daughters, Rebekah (Harman) Stewart, ex-'2S,
and Anne Scott Harman, '3 5, and a son, Charles E. Harman, Jr.

Mrs. Harman was the daughter of Rebekah Booker and George Washington
Scott and was born in Savannah, Ga. She was educated at Agnes Scott in the
Institute days, later marrying and moving to Atlanta. Her husband was for
many years general passenger agent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.

She was a member of North Avenue Presbyterian Church, the D. A. R., the
Colonial Dames, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was always
a loyal member of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association and served Agnes Scott
in many capacities and with a most loyal and faithful willingness.

Both the College and the Alumnae Association have suffered a great loss in
her going and will ever hold dear the memory of Bessie (Scott) Harman.

Dr. Lewis McFarland Gaines

Dr. Lewis McFarland Gaines died on Monday, May 24th, 1937, after a very
brief illness. Dr. Gaines was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank H. Gaines, the hus-
band of Ethel (Alexander) Gaines, '00. His two daughters were Eloise (Gaines)
Wilburn, '28, and Virginia Gaines, '36. He was also survived by a son, Alexander
P. Gaines.

Dr. Gaines was one of the five boys who attended Agnes Scott the first year
of its opening and the Alumnae Association has always treasured the names of
these five men as our alumni. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in
1898 and took post-graduate work at the University of Virginia, later receiving
his degree of doctor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. After teaching at Wake For-
est College as professor of anatomy and physiology for three years, he came to
Atlanta and served as professor of neurology in the Atlanta School of Medicine
until 1912. When that institution became the medical department of Emory he
served on that staff until 1926, also being on the staffs of the Georgia Baptist
and Wesley Memorial Hospitals. Dr. Gaines was recognized as one of the South's
most prominent neurologists.

The sympathies of the members of the Alumnae Association are extended to
his mother, Mrs. Gaines, and to his wife and children. We feel that our college
has lost a true friend and a loyal supporter.

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Annual Reports

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting: of the alumnae as-
sociation was held in the chapel Saturday,
June 5, at three-thirty o'clock.

The meeting was called to order by the
president, and the accepted minutes of
the Executive Board Meeting; held May
26, 1937, were read.

The treasurer read the financial report
for the year which was accepted by the
association. The budget for the coming;
year was read and accepted as presented
by the finance committee.

The president gave a combined report
of all committee chairmen's reports pre-
viously presented to the Executive Board
and subsequently to appear in the Quar-
terly in full. It was moved and seconded
that the president's report be accepted as
a report from the various committees.

The Finance Committee proposed to the
Executive Board that any committee
wishing; to raise funds consult the Fi-
nance Committee before anv action be
taken. A motion was made and seconded
that the recommendation of the Board in
this regard be accepted. This was referred
to the Constitution Committee for incorp-
oration as a duty of the Finance Com-
mittee.

A motion was made, seconded, and car-
ried that the name of the Curriculum
Committee be changed. This was also re-
ferred to the Constitution Committee.

Mary Wallace Kirk, retiring; alumnae
trustee of the college, presented the nomi-
nation of Mary Frances (Winship') Wal-
ters, of Atlanta, by the trustees, as alum-
nae trustee of the college, for ratification
by the Association. The action was unani-
mous that the nomination be ratified.
Mary Wallace Kirk expressed the pride
and pleasure of the Alumnae Association
in the new representative on the Board of
Trustees.

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, general
alumnae secretary, announced the Alum-
nae Open House to be held in the Alum-
nae Garden Sunday evening;, June 6. The
placing; of two garden benches and simple
dedication exercises by the reuning
classes of 1916 and 1917 following; the
business meeting; was announced b" the
secretary and an invitation to all to at-
tend extended.

A motion for adjournment was invited
and passed.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers,
Secretary.

MEETING OF THE ALUMNAE
COUNCIL

May 12, 1937

The Alumnae Council held its regular
meeting in the Anna Young Alumnae
House May 12, 1937, at four o'clock.

The meeting was called to order by
Daisy Frances Smith, the president, who
stated the three-fold purpose of the meet-
ing: the mutual consideration of the prob-
lems of the alumnae, administration and
students to gain thereby better co-ordina-
tion of all phases.

Dr. J. R. McCain brought to the general
attention the great numbers of visitors
who have come to the campus this year
and who have carried afar a new idea of
Agnes Scott. News of the fellowship
award to Miss Margaret Phythian for a
year's study on her doctorate at Grenoble
is a matter for congratulation. Sugges-
tions for the college's centennial celebra-
tion two years hence will be welcomed by
the president. Summing up 1937 Dr. Mc-
Cain expressed himself as greatly pleased
with alumnae, students, and faculty.

Miss Hopkins spoke especially of the
improvement in the dormitories this year
due to the library facilities for study and
recreational facilities afforded by the
Murphey Candler Building. The installa-
tion of the quarter system and the cut
system have proved successful and have
all added their bit "in making the months
fly" and the year very successful.

Student Government president, Alice
Hannah, spoke of the new open forum
devised by the Student Government Asso-
ciation to gain greater spokesmanship
from the student body. Honor in social
as well as academic life has been stressed.
The Student Government constitution has
been revised and regulations made more
uniform. The year was summed up as an
enjoyable one with few problems of dis-
cipline.

Isabel McCain, president of Y. M. C. A.
said the Association's keynote for the
year had been "Christ, the Challenge."
Miss Osborne, the charm expert, was
brought to the campus and "Stewardship
of Personality" was stressed. Dr. Long,
president of Union Theological Seminary,
in Richmond, was brought to the campus
for a week, speaking at chapel each morn-
ing and holding individual conferences
with the girls. A Sophomore cabinet was
organized during the year. Other activi-

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ties included morning watch in the May
Day Dell, encouragement of church affil-
iations, vespers, and vocational guidance
tests. Tuesday morning chapel exercises
had been arranged by the Y. W. C. A. and
a Christmas tree was provided for the
poor children.

Fannie B. Harris, president of Mortar
Board, stated that this organization had
focused attention on the furnishing of the
new Student Activities building, and with
the gracious and able assistance of Au-
gusta (Skeen) Cooper and Cora (Morton)
Durrett of the Alumnae Association had
bought it to its present attractiveness.
Freshmen and transfer students have
been entertained and several affairs re-
main on the calendar for commencement.
On the cultural side Mortar Board has as-
sisted in Book Week, Music Week, Stu-
dent Art Exhibits, aided in securing Miss
Osborne, and arranged a week for stress-
ing "etiquette."

Summing up the work of tke Dav Stu-
dents, Lucile Dennison, president, re-
ported the growth of the "feeling of one-
ness" now existing between boarders and
day students. The day student president,
now elected by the entire student bod-,
states that the feeling of distinction is
passing and there is greater affiliation
with campus activities. The Day Students
keep the "spend the night rooms" signed
up all the time.

In the absence of Ruth Moore, radio
committee chairman, Betty Lou (Houck)
Smith presented the problems of the com-
mittee. Ruth Moore, director and writer
of the skits presented every Wednesday
afternoon over WSB on the Agnes Scott
program, and her associates desire to pro-
duce something to advertise the college
and to give something of interest. They
ask for criticism and suggestions. The
question of some slight remuneration for
Ruth Moore for her efforts was brought
to the attention of the Council. It was de-
cided to discontinue the programs durinsr
the summer months if the time allotted to
the college would not be endangered. Ef-
forts to have a transcription of the Alma
Mater made by the Glee Club will be un-
dertaken.

Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, represent-
ing the Tea Room Committee, commended
the splendid co-operation of Mrs. Kerri-
son of the Tea Room during the year, in
being not only a gracious hostess, but also
for the splendid variety of menus pro-
vided. Outside trade, teas, and parties
are to be stressed in the future.

Eloise (Gay) Brawley, chairman of the

Grounds Committee, thanked the many
donors for the transformations made in
the Garden through their generosity this
year. A heavier evergreen background is
gradually being added and the smaller
beds, easier to care for, are to be made
full of continuous bloom.

Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, of the House
Decorations Committee, made note of the
additions to the Alumnae House this year.
The dyeing of the living room and dining
room rugs to a rich wine color by the At-
lanta and Decatur Clubs; the love seat, a
gift of the Atlanta Club; recovering of
the sofa and gold chairs by the Atlanta
Club; recovering of the Prince Feather
chairs by the Decatur Club; the gift of
two new dining room chairs by the Deca-
tur and Charlotte Clubs and the releasing
of the Prince Feather chairs to be end
chairs in the dining room, these being re-
placed by an occasional chair by the At-
lanta Club.

Time did not permit reports from the
treasurer, local clubs committee and other
chairmen.

The class presidents and secretaries
were recognired. Fannie G. (Mayson)
Donaldson spoke of the pictorial spring
Quarterly sent to the sixty-five hundred
alumnae through the generosity of the
college.

The meeting was adjourned.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers,

Secretary.
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MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE
BOARD MEETING

May 26, 1937

The Executive Board met Wednesday,
May 26, in the Alumnae House. Daisy
Frances Smith, president, called the meet-
ing to order, and the minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.

Margaret Ridley gave the treasurer's
report and read the budget proposed for
the year 1937-38 by the Finance Commit-
tee. She also read a recommendation of
the committee to the effect that each
committee desiring to raise funds consult
the finance committee before taking any
action or making any definite plans with
this aim, the Finance Committee to act as
a clearing house for all projects. The Ex-
ecutive Board will recommend this pro-
posal to the general meeting, June 5, for
adoption.

The Publicity Committee reported a con-
centrated drive for Alumnae Week-End
publicity, and several articles for the so-
cials given by the Entertainment Commit-
tee in the name of the Association.

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Radio Committee reported a series of
"Little Success Stories" as programs dur-
ing the summer months. In the fall the
committee began a connected skit written
and directed by the chairman and acted
by alumnae and students. It was sug-
gested that the chairman get someone
with a definite connection with the col-
lege to help her write the skits. The
opinion of the Board was that the pro-
gram was not as good as it might be but
that it was an improvement over the
former type and that it had not been
given a fair chance this year.

Reports from the Atlanta, the Atlanta
Business Girls', and the Decatur Clubs
were read, these clubs reporting a num-
ber of projects successfully carried
through.

The Committee on Local Clubs reported
the addition of an Augusta Club to the
list of local clubs in the state.

The Preparatory Schools committee re-
ported contacts with high schools directed
in southern states, and especially Geor-
gia; alumnae work with more satisfact-
ory results because of the co-operation of
the alumnae office in securing places to
stay, and because of the alumnae who ac-
companied the field secretary on the
trips; campus activities including work
with competitive exams, plans for the
new view book, entertaining high schools,
etc. The field secretary recommends that
all the local high schools be invited to
visit the campus on one day, as she feels
this a better plan than the individual day
program which has been used this year.

The Student Loan Committee reported
loans amounting to $176.00 repaid during
this year, and loans to $210.00 paid out to
students. Letters were written to all the
alumnae whose loans made during the
period 1915-1936 are still outstanding.

Curriculum Committee reported the
Alumnae Week-End program. The chair-
man requested that the matter of another
name for this committee be considered,
since the original part of the committee's
work, the curriculum revision for the col-
lege, is no longer part of its duties and
the name is now a misnoma.

The Constitution Committee reported
no changes desired since the constitution
was so thoroughly revised last year.

The Entertainment chairman reported
a tea for the new students, three teas for
the Granddaughters Club, a tea for the
Alumnae Week-End publicity committee,
two senior teas, decorations planned for
the Trustees Luncheon on June 5, and
definite plans under way for the "Open
House" for the seniors and alumnae on

June 6. The committee has made a def-
inite effort to limit expenditures to the
allotment by the Association, and recom-
mends that all expenditures come out of
the budget allowance, since no person will
be willing to undertake the chairmanship
of this committee if the job is to involve
financial aid.

The House and Tea Room Committees
reported the increase in room rates which
was adopted by the committee and the
Finance Committee at a joint meeting in
September. The matter of purchasing a
refrigerator was discussed and Mrs.
Dieckman moved that the Tea Room and
Finance Committees purchase a refriger-
ator if they could see enough funds ahead
to carry the purchase. Mrs. Brawley sec-
onded this motion. The committee was
authorised by the Board to make ar-
rangements for an electric refrigerator
since the committee has arranged with
the college to pay the alumnae house light
bill through the college and at a lower
rate, and since the consequent saving to
the Association can be put on the pur-
chase of the refrigerator. The saving,
which amounts to forty dollars a year,
was computed for the next three years,
and a sum of one hundred and twenty
dollars turned over to the Tea Room Com-
mittee. Mrs. Kerrison had agreed to pay
the sum of $3.75 per month on the pur-
chase of same since she would save that
much money by not having to purchase
ice for the refrigerator, and it was
thought that this amount would cover the
monthly payments after all the available
funds were in now for the first payment.

The House Decorations Committee re-
ported the reupholstering of the sofa and
four chairs in the living room, and the
purchase of two new chairs for the dining
room.

The Grounds Committee reported the
change in the Alumnae Garden and work
done on the grounds surrounding the
Alumnae House, and Lupton. The box-
wood hedge around Lupton has been
worked and the banks in front of the
House and Lupton graded and planted
with ivy. Approximately three hundred
dollars, spent on the garden this spring,
has been raised by the committee, and at
this time the debt outstanding is ten dol-
lars.

The matter of a suitable recognition for
Miss McKinney and Dr. Sweet at the
Trustees' Luncheon was discussed, in view
of their resignations effective next year.
The President was authorized to appoint
a committee to purchase a gift, and Mrs.
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pointed. Sarah Slaughter moved that the
price of the purchase not exceed $25.00
and this was seconded and approved by
the Board.

The Board expressed their thanks to
Mrs. Kerrison for the delightful refresh-
ments which she served them directly
after the meeting.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers,

Secretary.
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PRESIDENT'S REPORT

Compilation of All Committee Reports at
Annual Meeting, June 5, 1937

It falls to my duty this year to sum-
marize for you the reports of all Alumnae
Committees, which have previously been
presented to the Executive Board and
which will subsequently be published in
the July Quarterly. This new policy is
instituted in the hope that thereby the ef-
fectiveness of this meeting will be in-
creased, since one concise report covering
all phases of alumnae activity should give
the annual meeting a unified view of our
work, and yet enable us to keep the length
of this meeting within reasonable bounds.

As far as administrative policy is con-
cerned, it has centered on reaching as
many alumnae as possible, stirring deeper
interest in alumnae activities and there-
fore, in the college. Sending the spring
issue of the Quarterly to all 6500 alumnae
instead of to paid members only and get-
ting out a fourth issue of the Quarterly
to appear in July, both made possible
through the financial assistance of Dr.
McCain and the Board, are evidence of at
least some progress toward this goal. The
Alumnae Office, opening September 1,
1936, has valiantly maintained the same
policy. Nearly seven hundred personal
letters and nearly six thousand mimeo-
graphed letters have gone out in the usual
routine contact work of the association;
in seeking paid memberships; in getting
correct addresses; in gathering news for
the Quarterly; in assisting with activities
of organized groups; in fostering special
projects like the Founder's Day meetings
and broadcast, Alumnae Week-End, and
Commencement reunions. Editing the
Quarterlies, improving the files, acting
as hostesses in the Alumnae House, co-
operating with the various committees
these are duties which also have been ef-
fectively handled.

The Local Clubs Committee was in com-
plete harmony with the general policy of
reaching as many alumnae as possible. In
conjunction with the Alumnae Office and
the Preparatory Schools Committee, it has

had widespread contacts. Georgia was
given somewhat more attention than here-
tofore as "the percentage of organized
clubs . . . was exceptionally low as com-
pared to the total alumnae in the state."
What promises to be an active group was
organized in Augusta. Evidence of vital-
ity in the various clubs is found in the val-
uable help which has been given to com-
mittees, such as the Tea Room, the House
Decorations, and the Garden Committees.

The Preparatory Schools Committee,
under the chairmanship of Alberta Pal-
mour as Alumnae Field Secretary, has also
paid especial attention to Georgia. During
twelve weeks seventy-four schools in six
states were visited, the Agnes Scott mov-
ing pictures being shown fifty-two times.
Thirty-six large groups and thirty-one
small groups of alumnae were reached, be-
sides many individual contacts. Competi-
tive examinations, the new view book, en-
tertaining Atlanta High School girls, and
similar matters have further occupied the
Field Secretary.

Not only have alumnae been contacted
through the Alumnae Office, the Commit-
tee on Local Clubs, and the Field Secre-
tary, but they have been brought directly
to the campus by the Curriculum Commit-
tee, which arranged a splendid two-day
program of valuable meetings March 5
and 6. A hundred and fifty actually regis-
tered and many more attended without
that formality.

The work of the Entertainment Commit-
tee has touched varied groups, and that
always effectively: on November 20, a
hundred and ninety new students were en-
tertained; on April 21 and 22, the seniors;
and three times during the year, the
Granddaughter's Club. The decorations
for the Trustees Luncheon and Open
House Sunday evening, June 6, in the
alumnae garden constitute other obliga-
tions ably handled by this committee. The
careful management of the chairman has
kept expenditures within the $100 budget
allotment.

Entertainments have been increased in
attractiveness by the work of the House
Decorations Committee and of the Grounds
Committee. The former, through gifts es-
pecially through the Atlanta Club, the De-
catur Club, and the Charlotte Club, has
achieved the reupholstering of all original
living room furniture, the dyeing of two
rugs, and the purchase of three new
chairs. This committee has the expert ad-
vice of Mary Miller, an Atlanta decorator
of note. The Grounds Committee has had
the assistance of the Monroe Landscaping
Company in its recent improvements in the
Alumnae Gardens. Over three hundred
dollars has been raised and invested there,
half from individuals' donations and the
other half from Atlanta and Decatur

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Clubs, the College, and the regular appro-
priation from the Alumnae Budget. Some
3,000 boxwood have been rooted and suit-
ably located.

The Tea Room Committee has cooper-
ated with Mrs. Ethel Kerrison in every
way possible and is pleased to announce
her agreement to return another year. It
has had to rely largely on gifts from
groups and individuals for necessary linen,
etc., and has used carefully the small
amount the General Association was able
to allot. In cooperation with the College
and the Finance Committee it has arranged
for the purchase of a much needed refrig-
erator.

The Student Loan Committee reports
$110 collected and $210 disbursed in three
loans.

The Committee on Constitution and By-
Laws withheld suggestions this year, as
there was an extensive revision in 1935-
36.

The Radio Committee from June to Sep-
tember, 1936, offered programs of music,
talks by alumnae, or something of a simi-
lar character. From September to June,
1937, a dramatic skit about college life
has been presented from 5 to 5:15 P. M.
each Wednesday in time given the Alum-
nae Association by WSB. The radio pro-
gram will be discontinued for the summer.

The Publicity Committee has assisted
the Alumnae Office in its activities, es-
pecially working for Founder's Day and
Alumnae Week-end. The chairman plans
to keep next year a scrapbook of articles.

It seems to the president that the work
of the Association has been easily and suc-
cessfully handled. Such effectiveness is
possible only through the cooperation
cheerful, patient, and unfailing of all in-
dividuals concerned. Allow me to thank
you for your loyalty and to express the
hope that next year may be one about
which we can be even happier.

Respectfully submitted,
Daisy Frances Smith, '24,

President.

REPORT OF THE ALUMNAE
SECRETARIES

This report of the Alumnae Office is a
combined report of the two alumnae sec-
retaries who have been carrying out the
alumnae program under the new set-up
for the year 1936-37. The alumnae secre-
tary was appointed on a part time basis
(three days a week) to direct and super-
vise the work of the Association and its
office. The assistant secretary has had
charge of the routine office matters and
has served as hostess of the Alumnae
House, making her home in the House and
working on a full-time basis. Whatever
may have been the results, we of the of-

fice force feel that it has been a delightful
arrangement and have found that the divi-
sion of duties has enabled the office to
function in a much more adequate manner.

This report will not touch on matters
reported on by committee chairmen, al-
though one of the most important and en-
joyable duties of the secretaries is to co-
operate in every way and at all times with
the committees in their plans, since they
are ex-officio members of committees.

The office opened September 1, 1936,
and immediately began on the correspond-
ence which had accumulated during the
summer, the first dues notices, and the
contacting of committee chairmen and of-
ficers who were beginning their first year
of office, the club presidents, the class
secretaries, and the preparation of ma-
terial for the first Quarterly, the plans
for the Thanksgiving reunion for the Class
of '36, as well as work on the Alumnae
Week-End program.

After Christmas vacation, work began
immediately on Founder's Day and the ra-
dio program. Having secured a broadcast
period on WSB, an intensive correspond-
ence was carried on with all the clubs,
with many smaller groups which get to-
gether at this time each year for an an-
nual meeting, and with many individuals
who are always interested in knowing the
time of this broadcast, and by personal
contact with the three local clubs which
combined at an annual dinner in Atlanta.
The office considers this event one of the
most important and distinctive features of
our program and is making a definite ef-
fort to establish it as a national Agnes
Scott Day as far as possible, growing in
reach each year.

Our work for the last of the session has
been centered in correspondence and plans
for the reunions at commencement. Hav-
ing secured the assistance of the class
presidents and a local committee for each
class, the alumnae secretaries followed the
personal letters of the class representa-
tives with a letter of invitation, including
the commencement program and a reser-
vation slip for the room accommodations
and the luncheons and dinners for the re-
union. The Alumnae House was filled at
an early date and other guests were placed
in nearby cottages through the courtesy
of the college.

One feature of the work which is dis-
tinctly ours to report is the editing of the
Quarterly. During this year one Quarter-
ly was sent out in November, one in Jan-
uary, and one in April. The last issue will
go out in July. This report will concern
itself especially with the April issue of
our magazine, for instead of a regular
Quarterly, we were able to send to each
of the 6,500 alumnae a beautifully illus-
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added pages of alumnae matter. Our
thanks for this unusual Quarterly is due
Dr. McCain and the college, which most
generously furnished the Quarterlies and
envelopes, the Association paying postage.
In addition to the pleasure of alumnae
everywhere in this issue, the other benefit
was that of the corrected addresses which
we received and the definite cataloguing
of our lost alumnae. Approximately 800
of this issue came back to us, 300 with
changed addresses, and 500 lost. We be-
lieve it is the first time that a Quarterly
has been sent to every alumna, our issues
usually going only to paid members of the
Association due to lack of funds for pub-
lishing and mailing such large numbers.

The office is gratified to report the es-
tablishing of a graduate file, with names,
classes, professions, and degrees attained
for all alumnae who have done graduate
work.

Annual cuts for each member of the
classes of 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1936 have
been filed alphabetically, each cut being
labeled with full name of person; cuts of
campus views, faculty, and such occasions
as May Day, Founder's Day, Investiture,
etc., have also been filed for use of fu-
ture Quarterly editors.

A correspondence totaling 695 personal
letters to alumnae and various clubs in
the interests of the Association has been
carried on. Five thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five mimeographed letters
have been sent out during the year, these
done by the assistant secretary on the
college mimeograph machine. In the mem-
bership drive 2,430 letters were sent to a
mailing list including the Agnes Scott
faculty, last year's senior class, the active
members of the Association, and those
who have been members at some time since
1929. In the last three months 450 letters
have been sent to the seniors and to their
parents in a campaign for association
memberships. The work for commence-
ment reunions included 1,145 letters and
950 commencement programs and reser-
vation slips. The regular office routine
entailed 650 letters, these being Board and
Council notices, letters to class secretar-
ies, club presidents, and committee chair-
men. Two hundred fifty handwritten in-
vitations have been sent out for the en-
tertainment committee.

The addition of new files and extra
storage space through shelves in an of-
fice closet has made possible a rearrange-
ment of the files that makes efficient
work much easier. The scholarship girls
provided by the college have been helpful,
and we are grateful to the administration
for this additional help. The girls who
have worked in the office this year are:
Eloise Alexander, '37, Ora Muse, '37, Jes-

sie Williams, '37, Mildred Davis, '38, Char-
lotte French, '39, and Barbara Holland,
'40, these totalling twenty-two hours a
week.

As regards the work with the student
body, it may be summarized in two phases:
our teas for the Granddaughters' Club,
held three times during the year, the of-
fice also helping with the club's banquet
held in the Alumnae House in March; and
in the teas held for small groups of the
senior class when the program and aims
of the Association as well as ideas for
class organization for alumnae work were
presented to them. The class was divided
into six groups by the class president, each
group composed of congenial girls, the
leader of these groups to keep in touch
with her girls through the years and write
in class news about them, and then to
work with them for reunions.

The Alumnae House has drawn an un-
usually large number of overnight visitors
as well as many alumnae who have come
in for a brief call. During the year our
house guests have numbered eighty-one.
Some of the most distinguished were: Carl
Sandburg, Sir Herbert Ames, Theodore
Koch, Elizabeth Osborne, Homero Seris,
William Bishop, Stuart Chase, and Mme.
Aline Caro-Delvaille. The House has had
more mothers of students as guests than
ever before and their enjoyment of the
house has been enthusiastic.

The secretaries would like to devote a
large part of this report to an expression
of their gratitude to the officers of the
Association, the chairmen of committees,
and the individual members of the Asso-
ciation for the most loyal and whole-
hearted cooperation in all efforts attempt-
ed by the office and at all times when we
have asked for assistance. To Dr. McCain,
Miss Hopkins and other members of the
administration and faculty, we cannot ex-
press adequately our appreciation of their
unfailing kindness to us when we needed
advice and support. We are grateful, also,
for the help of the student body at times
when alumnae affairs have been held on
the campus.

We, in conjunction with the chairmen
and officers, are entering our second year
and with the experience and understand-
ing of the year's program, are looking for-
ward to a year of accomplishment and of
pleasure in working together for an even
greater Agnes Scott and an Association
alive to its responsibilities and its past
achievements.

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, '12,

Executive Secretary.
Nelle Chamlee, '34,

Assistant Secretary.

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REPORT OF THE FINANCE
COMMITTEE

OPEN ACCOUNT

Receipts Sept. 1, 1936-May 26, 1937

Proposed

Esti- Budget

Actual mated Total 1937-38

Tea Room Rent $350.00 $50.00 $400.00 $400.00

Room Rent 203.40 20.00 223.40 182.50

Dues (less ex. $3.50) 855.20 44.80 900.00 900.00
Rent from Caps,

Gowns and Hoods__ 60.00 80.00 140.00 140.00
(on hoods)

Gift from College 1200.00 1200.00 1200.00

Gift from Atlanta &

Decatur Clubs 37.50 37.50

(for dyeing rugs)

Miscellaneous 36.22 32.00 68.22

Interest on

Savings ___$24.04 64.00
Phone Tolls 6.30
Sale of Quar-
terlies 1.00

Commission on

Etchings _ 2.88
Postage 2.00

Totals $2742.32 226.80 2969.12 2886.50

Balance. Sept. 1, 1936 204.24

Total 2946.56

Less Disbursements** 2444.16

Balance on Account

May 26, 1937 $502.40

"Disbursements Sept. 1, 1936-May 26, 1937

Secretaries $1000.00 1000.00 1000.00

Dues 32.50 32.50 32.50

Office Supplies, Post-
age, Printing 815.11 815.11 1200.00

Alumnae House

Operating Expense 152.69 6.00 158.69 170.00

Furnish. & Upkeep 101.45 101.45 120.00

($37.50 for rugs)

Maid's Salary 109.80 109.80 110.00

Insurance 76.50 76.50 25.00

Alumnae Garden 50.00 50.00 50.00

Entertainment 54.04 45.96 100.00 100.00

Tea Room & House

Upkeep 30.00

Traveling 30.00

Miscellaneous 52.07 197.07 19.00

Phone Tolls__$ 9.07

Petty Cash 15.00

Tea Room

Upkeep . 10.00

Refund on Cap
& Gown 2.00

Audit of Books 7.50

Florist 6.50

Radio Prog. _ 2.00

Elec. Refrigerator 120.00

McKinney-Sweet

Gift 25.00

Totals $2444.16 196.96 2641.12 2886.50

Balance Due on Garden Loan $43.02

*Savings account of $1600 transferred to stock in
Decatur Building and Loan Company at advice of
auditor, and interest increased to $64.00 a year.
Margaret Ridley, Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE PUBLICITY
COMMITTEE

Forgetting that the day of reckoning
always comes and blissfully unmindful of
this executive board meeting, the public-
ity chairman has no tangible record of
the work done during the past year.

As each occasion arose, however, and
upon each request for publicity from the

alumnae office, there were news stories in
each of the three Atlanta papers, with a
contact, at the time of Alumnae Week-
End, with the society editor of the De-
Kalb New Era.

Alumnae Week-End was the occasion
for the most concentrated publicity drive.
Mrs. Donaldson and I had a conference
three or four weeks before the actual date
of the event, and planned the program
of news releases at that time. These re-
leases began Sunday two weeks before
the Friday that the program started, with
a general news story in each of the three
Atlanta papers. The following Sunday
the program was given in each paper in
detail, and several short stories were dis-
tributed among them during the remain-
ing time.

The radio editor of each paper was also
contacted, and each carried a storv on the
day of the Founders' Day broadcast. One
lengthy story dealing with only the social
phases of the week-end was sent to the
society department of each paper.

It is the suggestion of the publicity
chairman, to herself first and to whom-
ever succeeds her at the conclusion of her
term, that hereafter she keep a scrap
book which shall be submitted as the an-
nual report and thereupon turned over to
the alumnae office to be used at their dis-
cretion.

Letitia (Rockmore) Lange, Jr.,

Publicity Chairman.

REPORT OF RADIO COMMITTEE

For the summer of 1936, June to Sep-
tember, we carried on the same type of
program which had been used for several
years, namely: having some member of
the faculty or alumnae body give a musi-
cal program or make a little talk. As
much as possible for that period, we tried
to carry out the idea of what the alum-
nae are doing. They might have been
called little "success stories" because
alumnae who are accomplishing some-
thing outstanding were invited to make a
little talk on the radio program about
what they are doing and how their years
at Agnes Scott were most helpful to them.

Beginning in September, we tried a new
idea for our fifteen minute radio program.
We decided to have a dramatic skit each
week using the same characters and to
show as much as possible many phases of
college life through these characters. We
called the program or show, "Three Girls
in a Room," and the characters were,
mainly, Peg and Pudge, Ginger and
Marge. We introduced the program each

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week with a record of "Believe Me if All
Those Endearing Young Charms," which
is the melody for the Agnes Scott College
song.

This program continued for thirty-
three (thirty-one up to date) consecutive
weeks. There has been no way to defi-
nitely check the response to the program.

Those taking part regularly were:
Betty Lou (Houck) Smith as Peg, Frances
James as Ginger, Mary Freeman Curtis
as Pudge, and Carrie Phinney Latimer as
Marge. The show was written and di-
rected by the chairman. All possible co-
operation was given by the radio station
WSB, who has given us this time 5:00 to
5:15 P. M. each Wednesday for quite a
few years now.

Ruth Moore,
Radio Chairman.

REPORT OF THE CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE

The Curriculum Committee of the
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association sub-
mits the following report for the year
1936-37: The work of this committee now
consists of the planning and carrying out
of the program for the Alumnae Week-
End at Agnes Scott. The report relates
to the Week-End held March fifth and
sixth of this year.

Two meetings of this committee were
held, one in the fall, at which suggestions
for the program were submitted, the sub-
ject "Arts and Sciences" chosen, and a
tentative schedule arranged. The next
meeting was in February, held jointly
with representatives of local alumnae or-
ganizations.

The college and the alumnae office
graciously took charge of the correspond-
ence involved, for which the committee
thanks them most sincerely. We are
greatly indebted, of course, to those who
so generously took part on our program,
and would express especial appreciation
to them. Because of their ability and will-
ingness of spirit the following program
was given:

Friday: "Recent Developments in the
Field of Science," by Professor Robert B.
Holt; "Etchings," by Mary Wallace
Kirk, '11; "The Modern Novel," Professor
W. G. Perry; luncheon for the alumnae in
Rebekah Scott Dining Room. Following
the luncheon the alumnae gathered in the
new library building for the purpose of
dedicating two seminar rooms as mem-
orials to Dr. J. D. M. Armistead and
Miss Cleo Hearon, former beloved faculty
members at Agnes Scott. Miss Edna

Hanley, librarian, who had a great part
in the plans for dedicating these rooms
to take the place of those similarly set
apart in the old library, represented the
college in the dedication. After these ex-
ercises the alumnae were invited to the
exhibition room of the library where Miss
Louise Lewis, Art Director at Agnes
Scott, had arranged a beautiful exhibit of
her paintings as a part of the Week-End
program. To her, also, special thanks are
due. Three alumnae, Annie Lloyd Liggin,
Hallie (Smith) Walker, and Leone
(Bowers) Hamilton, assisted as hostesses
for the exhibit.

Saturday: Music program in the Cha-
pel, Professor C. W. Dieckmann, conduct-
ing; "The Treaty of Versailles in Retros-
pect," by Professor Haywood J. Pearce,
Jr.; "Legal Trends in Modern Legisla-
tion," by President Harmon Caldwell.

The Alumnae Week-End of 1937
brought back to the college one hundred
and fifty alumnae and guests who ac-
tually registered, and it is the opinion of
many that there were many others who
did not reach the books to register.

The Curriculum Committee would like
to express its thanks to all who responded
so beautifully to our requests, and con-
tributed to the success of our plans.
Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13.

Chairman.
Committee:

Hilda (McConnell) Adams,

Betty /Fountain) Edwards,

Martha (Eakes) Matthews,

Eva (Tower) Hendee,

Essie (Roberts) DuPre,

Katherine (DuBose) Davis,

Mary (Prim) Fowler,

Julia (Napier) North,

Frances (Wimbish) Seaborn,

Vella Marie Behm,

Lulu Ames,

Louise Girardeau,

Alice McDonald,

Kenneth Maner,
Faculty
Advisors

Carrie Scandrett,

Lucile Alexander,

Miss Florence Smith.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
HOUSE DECORATIONS

The Committee on House Decorations
is deeply grateful to the clubs and other
friends who have made its work so suc-
cessful this year. The Atlanta and Deca-
tur Agnes Scott Clubs made possible the
dyeing of the two rugs for the living

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room and the dining room, which made
the lower floor of the Alumnae House
much warmer and richer in tone. Later,
the Decatur Cluh had the two arm chairs
in the living room re-upholstered and
gave one side chair which is to be used
with these chairs as the nucleus for the
set of eight desired for the dining room.
The Charlotte Club also donated a dining
room chair. The Atlanta Club re-up-
holstered the two remaining living room
chairs and the davenport, and gave an ad-
ditional occasional chair to be used in the
place occupied by the two Hepplewhite
chairs which have been moved into the
dining room.

This committee is working under the
expert advice and planning of Mary Mil-
ler, a decorator of note in Atlanta. Ac-
cording to her plan, it is hoped that the
remaining four chairs for the dining
room may be secured during the next
year.

The one attempt to raise funds spon-
sored by the committee was the presenta-
tion of the Davidson Symphonic Band in
concert at Agnes Ccott College in April.
This concert was sponsored by the three
local clubs in the interests of the commit-
tee.

We do solicit the hearty cooperation of
the local clubs of the Association as well
as the individuals who are particularly in-
terested in maintaining the Alumnae
House as a worthy house for its many
social uses. The committee can use dona-
tions of any size, or supply the items
which the plan adopted calls for, provided
the purchasing of the additional four
chairs does not appeal to you.

Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansell,

Chairman.
Committee:

Carol (Stearns) Wey, '12,

Lucile Alexander, '11,

Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, ex-'ll,

Susan (Young) Eagan, Institute,

Penelope (Brown) Barnett, '32,

Helene (Norwood) Lammers, ex-'22.

REPORT OF THE HOUSE AND TEA
ROOM COMMITTEE

June 1, 1937

At a joint meeting of the Tea Room and
Finance Committees on September 30,
1936, it was agreed to raise the rate
charged for rooms in the Alumnae House
as follows: The single night rate charged
for non-alumnae was raised twenty-five
cents to make it $1.00 with two people in
a room, and $1.25 with only one. Alumnae
shall pay 75 cents per night and there

shall be two in a room if the Alumnae
Office sees fit to make this arrangement.
Non-alumnae shall pay $20.00 monthly
rent and alumnae shall pay $15.00 per
month or $5.00 per week.

Ten dollars voted the committee by the
Alumnae Executive Board was used to
purchase curtains for the little office,
locks for the tea room, and glassware
needed in the kitchen.

The committee gratefully acknowledges
the following gifts to the Alumnae
House: bath mats, wash cloths, and towels
from the Tampa Club; towels from the
New York Club; dish towels from the
Knoxville Club; linens for the tea room
from Miss Louise McKinney and Martha
(Eakes) Matthews, '24; a doormat from
Miss Emma May Laney; two Japanese
prints from Laura (Brown) Logan, '31;
and five dollars from the Miami Club
which was used to purchase materials for
making draperies for the alumnae office.

The committee wishes to express ap-
appreciation to Mrs. Ethel Kerrison for
her management of the tea room and is
pleased to announce that she has agreed
to keep the tea room for another year.
Martha Stansfield, '21,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE LOCAL CLUBS
COMMITTEE

During 1936-37 the local clubs commit-
tee has had this aim: to secure more ac-
tive alumnae groups by establishing
newly organized alumnae clubs, particu-
larly in Georgia. A report from the Alum-
nae Office showing that the percentage
of organized clubs in Georgia was excep-
tionally low compared to the total num-
ber of alumnae in the state was the foun-
dation for our general program. By thus
temporarily limiting the field of activity
we hoped, by concentrated effort, to pro-
duce more effective results. Having fallen
far short of all we had hoped to accom-
plish, we humbly present the following
record.

The organization of an alumnae group
in Augusta, Georgia, stands out as the
one new club set up during the year.
Some attempt was made to stir other
groups to action but with no definite suc-
cess. In addition to those in Augusta,
alumnae in Savannah, Columbus, Albany,
Waycross, and other places in Georgia
have been visited by Dick Scandrett, '24,
and Alberta Palmour, '35, field secretary.
The most active clubs in the state have
been the Atlanta, the Atlanta Business
Girls, and the Decatur Clubs. These

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groups held regular monthly meetings
with specially planned programs which
included announcements of alumnae and
college news by the Alumnae Secretary,
by her assistant, or by some other person
representing the campus.

While efforts have been directed to
work in Georgia in particularly, other
sections have not been entirely neglected.
A number of groups have been personally
visited by the Field Secretary or other
representatives from the alumnae or the
college. In October, Alberta Palmiour and
Dick Scandrett met with the Charlotte
Club and also with the Winston-Salem
Club. On other occasions the field secre-
tary visited alumnae in Florida, South
Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi.

The list of gifts reported by the Tea
Room Committee indicates that splendid
alumnae groups do exist and continue to
maintain an interest in the general or-
ganization. The gifts to the house and
the contributions to the garden are a
pledge of loyalty to the Association.

The foregoing report is largely possible
because of the efforts of the general sec-
retary, the assistant secretary, and the
field secretary for, as you know, the real
work of establishing and maintaining con-
tact with various alumnae groups is car-
ried on in and through the alumnae office.
Sarah Slaughter,

Chairman.
Committee:

Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow,

Florence (Perkins) Ferry,

Alberta Palmour,

Eugenia Symms,

Marjorie (Tindall) Clark,

Margaret Tufts.

REPORT OF THE GROUNDS
COMMITTEE

The Grounds Committee for the past
three years has been composed of Frances
(Gilliland) Stukes, Mrs. Robert B. Holt,
and Eloise (Gay) Brawley. It has been
our aim to co-operate with the college in
fostering beauty on the campus. We
started three years ago rooting old Eng-
lish boxwood and have rooted 3000,
enough for the walk in front of the
Alumnae House and the borders of the
flower beds in the Alumnae Garden, at
no cost whatsoever to the college, or the
Alumnae Association.

We consider the project a permanent
addition to the beauty of the college
grounds. We have at the present time
rooted a thousand box a year for three
years. Parties in the Alumnae Garden

are daily affairs in the fall and spring.
We found after two years of experience
that we needed more space for full enjoy-
ment in the Garden space for strolling
and enjoying our refreshments. We did
not change the lines of the original plant-
ing. With the expert supervision of the
Monroe Landscaping Company and the
co-operation of the college and many
friends we added eighty new boxwood
along the sides of the rose trellis and ten
large boxwood as a background for
benches which the reunion classes of 1916
and 1917 plan to place this year. We have
enjoyed the work and hope that you who
have helped so generously will feel that
we can move forward with the help of
others to add beauty of a permanent kind
to our beloved campus.

We wish to thank Dr. McCain for his
untiring interest, encouragement, and fi-
nancial backing in laying the new walks.
There is still room for improvement.
Funds large or small will be gratefully
received by the committee chairman.

This year for the first time we had
winter grass. With Mr. Cunningham's
permission we took out some dead shrubs
and antiquated rose bushes at the side of
the Alumnae House, had the banks along
South Candler Street regraded in front
of the houses. We hope to move down
South Candler with the help of the col-
lege, planting ivy and periwinkle along
the banks.

The boxwood hedge next to the alumnae
house was treated by Monroe Landscap-
ing Company this year. The elm roots
were sapping all strength from the
ground around them.

I wish to place before the Alumnae
Board the fact that we now have a per-
manent investment of over $300.00 in our
garden. This investment needs regular
care. Shrubs need cutting back, fertilizing
and working around. It would mean a
simplified alumnae grounds program for
the future if we of the grounds committee
would be supplied with one man for one
day a week for use in keeping up the
grounds around the Alumnae House. The
grounds committee does not mind work,
but we need more adequate and regular
campus labor. We need a definite day for
work set aside by the college for that pur-
pose to really make our investment a real
addition to the college grounds. The
grounds committee will supervise the la-
bor and try to bring worth while results
in the beautification of the campus
grounds surrounding the alumnae house.
This is our hope for next year, and we lay

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it before the Executive Board so that you
may feel our need in this matter.

Eloise (Gay) Brawley, '17,

Chairman.
Committee :

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes,
Mrs. Robert B. Holt.

REPORT OF GROUNDS COMMITTEE

Amount raised:
Appropriated by Alumnae Asso-
ciation $ 50.00

Donated by Atlanta Club 25.00

Donated by friends, alumnae, and

faculty for garden planting 158.00

Given by college for bricks and

walks in garden 50.00

Donated by Decatur Club 36.00

Total amount raised $319.49

Disbursements :

Paid out to Lewis Seed Store for:

80 boxwood $ 81.20

pansies 8.00

Paid out to DeKalb Supply for

bricks and gravel 27.28

Paid out during year 1936-37 for
trimming trellis, fertilizer, grass
seed, etc 37.35

Common labor for laying brick and

walks for garden 33.50

Paid out to Monroe for garden
planning and skilled labor for
laying bricks and walks 92.16

Paid for 10 four-foot boxwood 40.00

Total disbursements $319.49

LIST OF DONORS TO GARDEN FUND

Donald Hastings (shrubs to fill in orig-
inal planting)
Mr. Lewis, of Lewis Seed Co.
Mr. Bond, of DeKalb Supply Co.
Mr. J. K. Orr
Mr. Amsler
Mr. Scott Candler
Mr. Guy Rutland
Mrs. Samuel Inman
Miss Hopkins

Mrs. William Nichols (January jasmine)
Mrs. Claude McKinney
Miss Edna Hanley
Miss Louise Lewis
Miss Florence Smith
Dr. Mary Sweet
Lucile Alexander
Allie (Candler) Guy
Nelle Chamlee
Elaine Exton
Mary Wallace Kirk
Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson
Miss Louise McKinney

Clara Belle (Rushton) King
Martha (Schaefer) Tribble
Augusta (Skeen) Cooper
Llewellyn Wilburn
Susan (Young) Eagan
Atlanta Apron Club
Atlanta Club
Decatur Club
Reunion Classes of '16 and '17

REPORT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE

The Entertainment Committee of the
Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott Col-
lege submits the following report of its
activities for the year 1936-37.

It is customary for the Alumnae Asso-
ciation to entertain at three large parties
during the year: namely, a tea for the
new students, a tea for the seniors, and
an "open house" after senior vespers on
Baccalaureate Sunday. In addition to
these, the Association provides refresh-
ments for the meetings of the Grand-
daughters Club, and for a tea prior to
Alumnae Week-End. It is the duty and
pleasure of this committee to plan, pro-
vide, and arrange the flowers in the din-
ing room for the Trustees Luncheon dur-
ing' Commencement.

On Friday, November 20, the committee
invited 190 new students, the executive
board, Miss Hopkins, and Dr. McCain, and
thirty alumnae to tea at the alumnae
house. The students were welcomed to
the campus and extended the privileges of
the Alumnae House.

During the year the Granddaughters'
Club had three meetings at which the
committee served refreshments. An in-
formal tea followed the meeting of the
Alumnae Week-End publicity committee
just before Alumnae Week-End with
forty-five guests present.

The entertainment for the seniors this
year was in the form of a series of teas,
on Thursday and Friday afternoons, April
21 and 22. The guests numbered 120.

The committee is now planning for and
working on the decorations for the lunch-
eon Saturday, June 5, and the Open
House, June 6. The finance committee in-
creased the allotment for the entertain-
ment committee this year to $100 and an
earnest effort has been made to keep
within the budget. The committee chair-
man feels that it is unfair to the members
of her committee to ask for financial help
when so much time and work is demanded
in connection with the various entertain-
ments. The chairman also feels that un-
less the expenditures are kept within the
allotment, there will be difficulty in per-

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suading some one who would make an ex-
cellent chairman to accept the responsi-
bility, because of the financial inability to
meet the demands. With the exceptions of
the mints donated by Maryellen (Harvey)
Newton, flowers for the table at the tea
for the new students donated by Augusta
(Skeen) Cooper, and nuts and candles do-
nated by the chairman, the expenditures
have all come out of the budget allotment.
I wish to thank Nelle Chamlee and Fan-
nie G. (Mayson) Donaldson for their
many suggestions and untiring efforts in
so many ways. To the members of the
committee I am deeply grateful for the
time, work, the use of their personal pos-
sessions such as trays, linens, and glass-
ware, and above all for the whole-hearted
co-operation which has been so evident.
List of expenditures:

Tea for new students $ 27.25

Teas for Granddaughters 7.24

Tea for Alumnae Week-End Pub-
licity Committee 5.10

Teas for Seniors 14.45

Total expenditure $ 54.04

Balance $ 45.96

This leaves a balance of $45.96 to be
used for flowers for the Trustees' Lunch-
eon and for refreshments at the Open
House on June 6.

Irene (Havis) Baggett,

Chairman.

Committee:
Augusta (Skeen) Cooper,
Elizabeth (Dimmock) Bloodworth,
Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson,
Maryellen (Harvey) Newton,
Irene (Ingram) Sage,
Marjorie Carmichael,
Carrie Phinney Latimer.

REPORT OF THE STUDENT LOAN
COMMITTEE

Balance from June, 1936_$239.53

Interest on Loan 9.00

Interest on Savings Ac-
count .11

Loans Repaid 212.00

Cash handled during-

1936-37 460.64 460.64

Disbursements :

Loan of $ 85.00

Loan 25.00

Loan 100.00

$210.00
Exchange on check .10 210.10

Balance as of May 20, _

1937 $250.54

Letters were written to the twelve
alumnae whose loans, made during the
years 1915-35, are still outstanding.

Three loans were made in the fall of
1936 and one of these has already been re-
paid.

The total amount of unpaid loans to
date is $964.00.

Kenneth Maner,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

Due to an extensive study of the Con-
stitution resulting in a very thorough re-
vision in 1935-36, this committee makes
no recommendations for further revision
this year.

Mary (Crenshaw) Palmour, Institute,

Chairman.

Committee :
Katie (Vickers) Vickers, Institute,
Kittie (Huie) Aberhold, Institute.

REPORT OF THE PREPARATORY
SCHOOLS COMMITTEE

As chairman of the Preparatory Schools
Committee of the Agnes Scott College
Alumnae Association, I submit the follow-
ing report:

The work of the Alumnae Field Secre-
tary for the year 1936-37 may be discussed
under three heads: (1) Contacts with the
high schools; (2) Contacts with alumnae;
(3) Activities directly on the campus.
I. High Schools

A. The Territory covered this year con-
sisted of neighboring southern
states, as it seems that the schools
in these states prepare more di-
rectly for Agnes Scott than more
distant states such as Texas and
New York, which have been visited
in preceding years. We have been
particularly interested this year in
schools which prepare well within
the state of Georgia.

B. Contacts with high schools other
than by the Field Secretary have
been made at several "College
Day" programs : Winston-Salem
and Greensboro, N. C, Diana Dyer,
'32; Charlotte, N. C, Jean Barry
Adams, '38; Jacksonville, Fla., Ade-
laide Benson, '39. A tea was given
by the Birmingham Alumnae Club
for prospective students.

C. Statistical Survey

States 6

Cities 73

Schools 74

Groups (large) 36

Groups (small) 31

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Times Movies Shown 52

Cost $430

Number of Weeks Travelled 12

II. Alumnae

A. The work with the alumnae has
seemed vastly more satisfactory
this year than last because of:

1. The cooperation of the General
Secretary in writing alumnae in
regard to group meetings and to
hospitality in their homes.

2. The willingness of Carrie Scan-
drett, '24, and Llewellyn Wil-
burn, '19, to accompany the Field
Secretary on four trips. These
alumnae, because of their broad
acquaintanceship and popularity,
and because of their positions at
the college, were enthusiastical-
ly welcomed everywhere.

B. At twelve group meetings (Raleigh,
Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Ashe-
ville, Hendersonville, N. C; Augus-
ta, Savannah, Waycross, Ga.; Bir-
mingham, Anniston, Tuscumbia-
Sheffield-Florence, Ala.; Jackson,
Miss.), 90 alumnae were seen; while
177 others were contacted by visits
or by telephone.

III. Campus Activities

A. The first work of the year was to
address the 3300 envelopes for the
announcement of the annual Com-
petitive Examination.

B. Quite a bit of time was spent dur-
ing the fall in planning a new View
Book to be sent to prospective stu-
dents. In this bulletin we have
tried to give a comprehensive idea
of the campus the various activi-
ties and the interiors as well as the
exteriors of buildings.

C. On three successive Fridays in the
spring three different groups of
Atlanta High School Girls were en-
tertained on the campus. Having
the girls out in smaller groups has
not accomplished what we hoped it
would in the way of encouraging
greater numbers to come and in the
way of making individual attention
to the girls possible; hence it is the
recommendation of the field secre-
tary that next year we go back to
the old plan of inviting all the
schools on one day.

D. While on the campus the Field Sec-
retary has had such miscellaneous
duties as:

1. Corresponding with high school
principals in regard to proposed
visits.

2. Keeping a day by day account of
the trips taken.

3. Seeing that personal letters were
written to certain prospects.
(These letters have been the
work of Virginia Watson, '38.)

4. Assisting Mr. Stukes in taking
new movies.

5. Working with Nelle Chamlee on
the Agnes Scott booth at the
Southeastern Fair.

6. Assisting in a minor degree in
the Registrar's office.

The Field Secretary wishes to express
her very deep and sincere appreciation to
all of the alumnae who have made the
field work possible through offering hos-
pitality in their homes, through organiz-
ing group meetings, and through sugges-
tions regarding prospective students; to
Diana Dyer, Jean Barry Adams, and Ade-
laide Benson for representing Agnes
Scott at the "College Day" programs; to
Miss Scandrett, Miss Wilburn, Margaret
Bell, '33, Sarah Spencer, '36, and Eunice
Knox, '39, for accompanying the secretary
on various trips; to Elizabeth Mitchell of
the Physical Education Department for
taking a group of Agnes Scott people to
Birmingham for the tea for high school
girls; to Agnes Scott students who assist-
ed in entertaining the high school girls on
the campus; and to the alumnae office
for its cooperation in every possible way.
Alberta Palmour, '35,
Field Alumnae Secretary.

In a simple program, consisting of an
address, music, and prayer, the Murphey
Candler Building for student activities
was formally dedicated on Monday after-
noon, April 19, at four o'clock. The main
feature of the program for the occasion
was an address, "Hon. Charles Murphey
Candler" by Mr. William D. Thomason.
Following the speech, the college choir
gave a brief musical program, and a
dedication prayer by the Rev. Mr. Richard
Orme Flinn closed the exercises.

Murphey Candler, for whom this build-
ing was named, died about two years ago,
having served on the Board of Trustees
of this college for more than forty-six

years.

* * * *

Pattie Patterson, 419 Clement Ave.,
Charlotte, N. C, a senior in Central High
School of that city, is winner of first
place in the competitive examination for
this year which was held on Mai'ch 5th;
Sabine Brumby, 1101 St. Charles Place,
Atlanta, Georgia, senior at North Avenue
Presbyterian School, won second place.
In awarding the scholarships, which are
$700 and $500 respectively, seventy-five

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percent of weight was attached to the
grades of the examinations and twenty-
five percent to personal qualities, activi-
ties in school and community, and the
like. Two hundred and twenty-three ap-
plicants from schools in twenty-four
states took the competitive examination.

Comprising one of the largest groups
ever to be elected at Agnes Scott, thirteen
juniors received their Mortar Board
scrolls when Fannie B. Harris, who pre-
sided over the exercises held in the chapel
Saturday, April 17, announced the 1937-
38 chapter of the national honorary so-
ciety.

The girls who received the honor are:

Jean Barry Adams, Elizabeth Blackshear,

Jean Chalmers, Laura Coit, Mildred

Davis, Mary Lillian Fairly, Ann Worthy

Johnson, Hortense Jones, Winifred Kel-

lersberger, Eliza King, Mary Primrose

Noble, Anne Thompson, and Virginia

Watson.

* * * &

Largest registration for Agnes Scott
College since 1925, when 550 were enrolled,
is indicated for the 1937-38 session from
volume of applications with an unusually
large enrollment of old students for this
time of the year reported.

So far, registration totals 229, or 52
more than in May, 1936; all rooms in the
main sophomore dormitory and all but one
in the main senior and junior dormitories
have been engaged. Enrollment was 490
last year; so far, 2,300 applicants have
communicated with authorities. Selections
will be based principally upon records.
Registration more than a year in advance
now is forbidden.

Agnes Scott received a share in the es-
tate of the late Mr. George Harrison, pub-
lisher of law books in Atlanta; Mr. Har-
rison, after giving certain personal be-
quests, directed that his estate be divided
among Agnes Scott, Georgia Tech, and the
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

Mr. Harrison's interest in this college
began years ago when he and his father
gave a scholarship loan fund of $1,000 for
his sister, a Vassar graduate.

Phi Beta Kappa elected six members of
the class of '37 in January: Frances Cary,
Lucile Dennison, Isabel McCain, Rachel
Shamos, Mildred Tilly, and Frances Wil-
son. These girls were initiated at the semi-

annual banquet held on January 30th.
Five alumnae and five seniors were chos-
en for this honor at the end of this term.
The alumnae were: Mary Barton, Ruth
Scandrett, Sarah (Till) Davis, and Ethel
Ware of the class of '22 and Edyth
(Clarke) Alexander of the class of '21;
the seniors were: Elizabeth Espy, June
Matthews, Enid Middleton, Julia Thing,
Kathryn Bowen Wall. Sarah (Till) Davis
and Ethel Ware were the only alumnae
who were able to be present for initiation
on June 5th, so the ceremony for the other
three alumnae will have to be held at an-
other time. Following the initiation, the
members of the Agnes Scott chapter en-
tertained at dinner in the Alumnae House
for the new members of Phi Beta Kappa.

Lucile Dennison was elected May Queen;
in her court were Frances Steele, Rachel
Kennedy, Mary Reins, Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, Aileen Shortley, Eloisa Alexander,
Nancy Moorer, Myrl Chafin, Grace Taze-
well, Alice Taylor, Mary Malone, Kay
Toole, Susan Bryan and Martha Marshall.
Frances Wilson was chosen maid of honor.

Many gifts have been made to the Alum-
nae Garden this year but none has been
more needed nor appreciated than the two
stone benches, the gifts of '16 and '17.
These benches have been placed before a
grouping of large boxwood plants on each
side of the garden. Immediately follow-
ing the annual meeting of the Alumnae
Association on June 5th, a simple presen-
tation service was held in the garden when
these benches were presented to the gar-
den chairman, Eloise (Gay) Brawley, by
Mary (Eakes) Rumble, '17, and Maryellen
(Harvey) Newton, '16. Printed below is
Maryellen's little presentation verse which
was the sentiment of both classes:
"Because we love Agnes Scott

Because we think this a beautiful spot

We bring a gift today.

Because we always want to be

A part of this garden, you see

We bring a gift today.

Because we're loyal and true

Nineteen sixteen begs you

To accept this gift today."

News was received just before the Quar-
terly went to press of the death of Janet
Gray of the class of '36, who was killed
near La Rochelle in France in an automo-
bile accident on June 5th. Janet had been
conducting classes in conversational Eng-
lish at a French school, L'Ecole Normale
d'Institutrices, at La Rochelle.

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Club Notes

Anniston, Ala., Group

Alumnae in Anniston met for dinner in
April on the occasion of Dick Scandrett's
and Alberta Palmour's visit there. Those
present were: Weenona (Peck) Booth,
Caroline (Agee) Rowan, Linda Mae
(Compton) Dunston, Sallie (Broome)
Clarke, Virginia Ordway, Mildred Good-
rich, and Katherine DeHart.

* * * *

Birmingham, Ala., Club

This group entertained representatives
of the local high schools at a tea on April
4th. This delightful occasion was at the
home of Mrs. Dupont Thompson on Glen
Iris Circle.

Frances Bitzer has been elected presi-
dent of this club for the coming year and
the alumnae here are planning a very ac-
tive program. * * * *

Montgomery, Ala., Group

This organization comprises alumnae
from several nearby towns, and although
not meeting regularly, has enjoyed an oc-
casional get-together. One of the most de-
lightful this year was a weiner roast out
in the woods this spring. Of course, the
Founder's Day program was another time
for the alumnae in this district to listen
in; although there was no general meet-
ing they report several groups meeting in
Montgomery, Millbrook, etc. Marion
(Black) Cantelou and Annie Wilson Terry
help with this group.

* * * *

Berkeley, Calif.

This group held a tea on February 26th,
including Leila Anderson, Evelyn (Becker)
McCune, Frances Harper, Clara May (Al-
len) Reinero, and Helen (Hall) Hopkins,
who was the hostess on this occasion.

4d * + *

Santa Monica, Calif.
Four far-away alumnae gathered at
Frances (Ansley) Moon's home in Febru-
ary and had a very pleasant meeting to-
gether. They were: Louise Shipp Chick,
Elizabeth (Thompson) Brennan, Alice
(Greenlee) Grollman and Frances (Ans-
ley) Moon. Several others would have
been able to come except for illness, so
there is quite a good sized group there.

Washington, D. C, Club

This club meets once a month, usually
for lunch unless one of the members en-
tertains us in her home. The highlight of
the season was when Dr. McCain and Mr.
Stukes met with us at the Mayflower in
January and told us all the latest develop-
ments at the college.

Mary Edith (Donnelly) Meehan enter-
tained the Agnes Scott Club at a tea at

her home, Sunday afternoon, February
28th. There were fifteen members pres-
ent, including several new members and
it was a very enthusiastic meeting. Vir-
ginia McLaughlin, the present president,
read some letters she had received from
Miss Hopkins and members of the faculty
and passed around clippings concerning
various new activities at the college. The
following were present: Janice Stewart
Brown, Sara Corbin, Martha Elliott, Eu-
genia Edwards, Isabel Ferguson, Esther
(Disnrukes) MeCormick, Virginia Mc-
Laughlin, Mary Edith (Donnelly) Meehan,
Cornelia (Hope) Sandifer, Ellen Louise
(Warfield) Tull, and Frances Welsh.

The next meeting will be held on Sat-
urday, April 24th.

Frances Welsh, Secretary.
* * * *

Tampa, Fla.

The Tampa alumnae held a meeting at
the home of Blanche (Copeland) Gifford
in February and enjoyed the program
from WSB very much. At this time, Greg-
ory (Rowlett) Weidman was elected presi-
dent. Those present were: Rosalind
(Wurm) Council, Nellie (Blackburn)
Airth, Helen (Smith) Taylor, Margery
(Moore) Macaulay, Margaret Louise Dea-
ver, Gregory (Rowlett) Weidman, Nell
(Frye) Johnston, and Blanche (Copeland)
Gifford. This club sent a splendid gift of
linen to the Alumnae House.

Athens, Ga.

The alumnae at Athens gathered for a
supper meeting in February to enjoy the
broadcast. Charlotte Newton, Catherine
(Pratt) Secrest and Mary Louise (Schu-
man) Simpson and Martha Comer were in
charge of the meeting.

$ :{e % +

Augusta, Ga.

Members of the "baby" alumnae club,
just organized this year, met for the first
time on November 29. Eugenia Symms
was elected president and plans were
made for the February meeting as the
next group meeting. The club met on Feb-
ruary 22nd for dinner and after hearing
the broadcast spent a most pleasant eve-
ning. Those present were: Lollie Isabelle
(Johnson) Maxwell, Marion Matthews,
Jane Cassels of Ellenton, S. C, Ruth Mc-
Auliffe, Lois Eve, Essie Marie (Baker)
Etheredge, Mathilde (Brenner) Gercke,
Fannie Mae (Morris) Stephens, Janet
Newton, Dorothy Kethley, Carolyn White,
Ann Braddy, Sara Fullbright, Mary Hull,
Effie Brewer, Walker Miller, Virginia
(Burum) Cumming, Dorothy (Mustin)
Buttolph, Maude Gray, Sally (Carrere)
Bussey, Margaret Jones, Eugenia Symms,

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Minnie Lee (Clark) Cordele, and Rhetta

(Pund) Stelling.

* * * *

Agnes Scott Business Woman's Club

The activities of the Business Woman's
Club have been centered in the monthly
meetings at which very interesting and in-
structive speakers were heard. Among
them were: Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin,
of the State Legislature; Congressman
Robert Ramspeck; and Dean De Ovies and
Rabbi Marx.

The March meeting took the form, of a
bridge party for the benefit of a contribu-
tion to the new chairs for the dining room
in the Alumnae House. The party was
held in the attractive lounge room of the
Southern Dairies Ice Cream plant, the use
of the room and the ice cream and prizes
being donated by friends.

A series of lectures on Monday evenings
by Miss Emma May Laney was another
of the club projects; the subject was "Con-
temporary Poetry," and- it was interest-
ingly presented.

The club worked with the Atlanta and
Decatur Clubs in putting over the Found-
er's Day Banquet, and the Davidson Sym-
phonic Band concert. The last meeting of
the year was held in the Alumnae House.
New officers will be elected in June.

Lillian (Clement) Adams, '27,

* * * * President.

Atlanta, Ga., Agnes Scott Club

The Atlanta Agnes Scott Club has had
a two-fold policy for the year 1936-37: to
try to increase the membership; and to
promote friendship among the members.
There are 232 members who are notified
either by card before each meeting or by
phone several times during the year. All
have been called at least once. Of these,
136 have attended at least one of the eight
meetings so far this year, and 62 have
paid dues. There has been an average at-
tendance of fifty at each meeting, includ-
ing the Founder's Day banquet.

To promote friendship, name tags are
worn each time, giving maiden and mar-
ried names and class. The club is divided
into eleven hostess groups each being re-
sponsible for place of meeting and enter-
tainment for one monthly meeting. Meet-
ings have been held in the Alumnae House,
the homes of alumnae, and the Capital
City Club.

The programs, in charge of a very effi-
cient program chairman, have been varied
and most instructive. From the campus,
Mr. S. G. Stukes, Carrie Scandrett, '24,
and the foreign exchange students, the
alumnae secretaries and several profes-
sors: Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker, Dr. Ar-
thur Raper, and Dr. Philip Davidson, have
brought not only college news but literary,
political, and sociological discussions and
thoughts. Other talks have included an

address by the superintendent of public
schools in Atlanta; a talk on Russia by an
alumna; and a talk on the origin of words.

The club has successfully carried out
the following projects: a benefit bridge
in January; the February Founder's Day
banquet, (in connection with the Decatur
and Business Girls' Club); and the spon-
soring of the Davidson Symphonic Band
on the campus in April. The selling of
vanilla and aprons made by one of the
groups has brought added revenue.

A scrap book of publicity notices has
been kept as an aid to judge the extent
of information given members by way of
newspapers.

Penelope (Brown) Barnett, '32,

* * * * President.

Decatur, Ga., Alumnae Club

A survey of the past year's activities of
the Decatur Club reveals an unusually
varied and interesting program. Last Sep-
tember, at the first meeting of the year,
at which Dr. J. R. McCain was the speak-
er, the alumnae were shown through the
new library and were served tea on the
library terrace. It was at this meeting
also that the Decatur alumnae were
shown the dining room rug which their
club had had dyed. The chief project in
October was a rummage sale sponsored by
the club, and in November, the sale of
lovely hand-made baskets. On November
30, Dr. Herman Weekes Martin addressed
the club. December 11, under the club's
sponsorship, Emma Garrett Morris spoke
in the college chapel, giving a review of
"Gone With the Wind." Margaret Mitchell
sent her regrets at being unable to at-
tend. Activities for January consisted of
selling tickets for "Human Adventure," a
movie presented in the DeKalb Theater by
the A. A. U. W. and of a regular meet-
ing, at which Alberta Palmour presented
movies of campus activities and gave her
field address. At this January meeting
too, three exchange students, Renee Ger-
rard, Suzie Audrain, and Tamiko Oka-
mura, were introduced and gave short
talks. February 22 brought the Founder's
Day Banquet, held at the Capital City
Club, with the Atlanta Club and the Busi-
ness Girls' Club. In addition to the regu-
lar meeting, at which Dr. Woolford B.
Baker was the speaker, March happenings
included a benefit bridge party in the
Alumnae House. On April 26, Dr. Philip
Davidson spoke to the club, and on April
27 came the Davidson College Symphonic
Band Concert, tickets for which were sold
by the Decatur Club in connection with
the House Decorations Committee. The
May program included another rummage,
sale, and a regular meeting with a pro-
gram by Mrs. Cecil Self, a talented dra-
matic reader. On June 4, the annual chil-
dren's party, given on the campus by the

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Decatur Club, brought the year to a suc-
cessful close.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers,

President.

* # * *i

Mississippi Club

This Club has only one meeting a year.
But what fun that one meeting is! It is
held on Founder's Day and is usually in
the form of a luncheon in an attractive
tea room in Jackson, the place most ac-
cessible to the fifty-one Mississippi Agnes
Scott towns. Friends and strangers meet
on the common ground of pleasant mem-
ories and present pride. The college col-
ors are used in appropriate ways; the
business meeting is brief but the enthusi-
asm interrupts at times the parliamentary
procedure. The program is also brief. A
small gift to the Alumnae House and a
telegram to Miss Hopkins are arranged
for. Before the members leave, plans are
made for hearing the Founder's Day
broadcast. Usually one of the Jackson
homes is opened and an informal and pleas-
ant hour ends the day. This year the fa-
vors were tiny diplomas, duplicates of de-
grees conferred by Agnes Scott, tied in
purple and white. The recipients ranged
from '08 to '39. The program, in addition
to the eagerly heard college news, includ-
ed an examination complete with an op-
tional and the pledge in spelling. The op-
tional was paraffin!

The following officers were elected:
Sarah (Till) Davis, president; Ruth Vir-
den, secretary- treasurer; Shirley (Fairly)
Hendrick as vice president. The treasurer
reported a gift of $5.50 for the Alumnae
House to be used as needed. The secre-
tary, Elizabeth (Watkins) Hulen, was
thanked for her service.

In preparation for this year's luncheon,
invitations were sent to all Mississippi
alumnae, also to mothers of students now
at Agnes Scott and to girls who may be
going to college there. News articles an-
nouncing the meeting with the addition of
current news from the college are sent to
Mississippi dailies. The Jackson press has
been particularly generous. Tentative
plans are being considered next year, a
dinner with our husbands, fathers, broth-
ers or best beaux, and the broadcast.
Plans are being made to have an attrac-
tive Agnes Scott bulletin board at Central
High School in Jackson next year with a
contest based on it open to one hundred
and forty senior girls and a small award
to the winner.

Our hope is that, widely scattered as we
are, we may repay our debt and profit
ourselves by having at a Founder's Day
luncheon every one of the one hundred and
thirty Agnes Scott alumnae in Mississippi.
Sarah (Till) Davis,

President.

New York City Club

The New York Club had two delightful
meetings during this year, one in Febru-
ary and the other a tea given by Dorothy
(Hutton) Mount in May. On February
18th, eighteen alumnae met for dinner.
The alumnae present were: Grace Hardie,
Dorothy Owen, Ellen McCallie, Mary
Richardson, Mary Ramage, Elizabeth
Mack, Elizabeth McColgan, Lilly Weeks,
Adelaide Stevens, Mary Lamar Knight,
Polly Gordon, Mary Catherine Williamson,
Betty Gash, Elizabeth Hatchett, Dorothy
Chamberlain, Lois (Combs) Kropa, Mar-
garet (Goins) Wagner and Dorothy (Hut-
ton) Mount.

Mary Lamar Knight spoke and Dorothy
(Hutton) Mount also told many interest-
ing bits of news about alumnae and col-
lege. Elizabeth Hatchett told the club
about the gift of flowers from Elaine Ex-
ton, who sent them as her contribution to
the dinner. A wonderful box of linens for
the Alumnae House was sent by the club.

Officers elected for next year are: Pol-
ly Gordon, president; Mary Catherines
Williamson as vice president and Lilly
Weeks as secretary-treasurer. Dorothy
(Hutton) Mount sent out the cleverest in-
vitations to alumnae in New York and
nearby towns to tea at her home on May
16th, which was attended by Peggy Lou
Armstrong, Catherine Happoldt, Ruth
Barnett, Caroline Wilburn, Polly Gordon,
Dorothy Chamberlain, Agnes Dolvin, Eliza-
beth Mack, Mary Catherine Williamson,
Betty Gash, Elizabeth Hatchett, Mae Ers-
kine (Irvine) Fowler, Lilly Weeks, Mary
Richardson.

Charlotte, N. C.

The Charlotte Club had its usual meet-
ing on Founder's Day evening with Cama
(Burgess) Clarkson, vice president, in
charge of the program. The bank account
of the club was swelled by the proceeds
from the movie (Dodsworth), so "we are
thrilled to announce that our treasurer,
Sarah (Dunlap) Bobbitt, has been author-
ized to send the Alumnae Association a
check for another chair for the dining
room!" (So writes Irene Lowrance, the
president for this year.)

Louisa Duls brought six high school
girls down for the May Day week-end,
one of them being the winner of the Ag-
nes Scott scholarship, Pattie Patterson.

The year closed with a garden party in
honor of the new officers and high school
girls which was held May 25th. The offi-
cers for next year will be: Cama (Bur-
gess) Clarkson, president; Charlotte Hun-
ter, vice president; Frances (Medlin)
Walker, secretary-treasurer.

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